PCHS Coach and Argo, Nick Volpe
    

Facts & Figures...
A new PCSS on Mineola Road East opens on May 13, 1963, with students walking up Hurontario from Forest Avenue in time to write their final exams. This move takes place with very little disturbance. Classes are dismissed an hour or so earlier than usual, enabling students to assist teachers with clearing files and packing up. The following morning, it's business as usual in the colourful new building.
The expansion of Port Credit to the present 3-story building means a tripling of the student body and diversity in the school curriculum. The new shop wing offers a rich choice of options including electricity, drafting, auto mechanics, sheet metal, welding, woodworking, building construction and machine shop. The Music Department adds new instrumental courses to its solid vocal program. Complete with a weight room, huge gyms provide a venue large enough to cram in the whole student body for pep rallies. Brand new electric typewriters and calculators creep from room to room along the commercial corridor. Port Credit's 700 seat auditorium is the only large hall in south Peel and for only a dollar students and the public can enjoy the Drama Society's yearly play. With 8 periods a day, 3 lunch hours are necessary to accommodate students' timetables. Kids love to congregate in the cafeteria, where the daily "hot plate special" sets them back 35 cents.
The core of the student body still comes from the town of Port Credit, even though the boundaries now reach the QEW. Craigie Orchards, the site of trees not townhouses, proves tempting to apple swipers during football games, so much so that Mr .Craigie himself becomes a familiar face in the front office after many a game. The Warriors have their ups and downs, but it is a rare year that at least one of the teams fails to make the finals. School spirit is directed by the Harry Flood Fan Club from its offices on the fourth floor! On occasion, the voice of Harry himself foretells of some shattering school event over the P A airwaves.
Although the sixties will come to be known as the hippie era, the dress code at Port Credit remains conservative. Girls still have to wear skirts or dresses. Jeans are frowned upon, and shorts are strictly forbidden- most of the time. The heat wave during the 1966 departmental exams puts an end to that!
Ron Harper, Moderns Department
Adapted from Port Credit Celebrates 70 Years of Excellence, 1990.