Shaw High School - Shuttle Yearbook (East Cleveland, OH)

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CGNTENTS We Shololow Gur Students I Through School II At Work and Play IH In Shop and Store

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DEDICATION Miss Mary Penberthy N l9l0, the Shaw faculty added to its ranks a young woman who, after she had completed 28 years of teaching English in Shaw, retired from teaching this past lune. She spent 28 of these 28 years as head of the English depart- ment. Always energetic and thorough in all she did, Miss Mary Penberthy raised the standards ot the English department to such a high level that it gained national recognition as one ot the most etticient and valuable depart- ments ot high school English in the country. Under her leadership regular library instruction was instituted and recently or new course, Business English, was adopted to meet present-day needs. At the time of Miss Penberthy's resignation, Mr. Kirk, the late superin- tendent of schools, said oi her, Untiring energy, inspiring vitality, rare effi- ciency, a tine sense oi humorp all these describe Mary Penberthy during her 28 years in the English department of Shaw High School. When a personal- ity ot that kind retires from a school, we all feel a great sense of loss. As a tribute unworthy of so great a person, we dedicate this book to Miss Mary Penberthy.

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lN MEMCDRIAM HE pen that Wrote so busily for forty-seven years in the seldom-tiring hand of our late superintendent slipped from his unwilling fin- gers on the 29th day of November, l938. Mr. Kirk's great ambition, to serve the community for fifty years as superintendent of schools, he was not permitted to fulfill. lt has been said that Mr. Kirk's outstanding characteristics were simplicity and kindliness. Such qualities as these created respect and ad- miration, and endeared him to students and staff members alike. The development of educational facilities in East Cleveland is, in a large measure, due to his vision, his good judgment and his leader- ship. As the only superintendent of schools he guided the development of a small school with three teachers and a handful of pupils to its Mr. W. H. Kirk present size of 6000 pupils and a teaching staff numbering more than 300. He maintained con- stantly a fine program of education which gained recognition throughout the country. Not only Was Mr. Kirk a leading educator but he Was also the leading citizen in the com- munity. As an elder in the church, as an active member of fraternal and social organiza- tions he played an important part in the de- velopment of all that has to do with the social, educational and recreational Well-being of East Cleveland. The W. H. Kirk Iunior High School, a monu- ment erected to Mr. Kirk, is but a symbol of the real monument which he unwittingly erected to himself-a monument not of man-made mate- rial but one of which the cornerstone is char- acter and the material, service.