 The environment in the school in the 1950s was described in the novel "Going All The Way" by Shortridge High alumnus Dan Wakefield (published in 1970 and adapted to film in 1997).In 1957, a "Time Magazine" article named Shortridge High as one of the top 38 high schools in the United States.At the same time, however, the school began to lose students to other schools, notably the newly opened North Central High School on the city's far-north side.