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

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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.

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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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BCDARD CDF EDUCATICDN Mrs. Rachael O. Yaw, assistant to Mr. Kirk since September 1929, was appointed acting-superintendent to serve until Mr. Kirk's successor is named. Mrs. Rachael O. Yaw Afitizlg-Szfjiwilzfclzdfllf Mr. C. W. Kimmel, vice president, will end his term Ianuary 1, 1940. 1-le Was ap- pointed on Ianuary 1, 1932. Mr. Ben B, Wickham, pres- ident, assumed his duties in November, 1929. His term will expire December 31, 1940. Mrs. Doris Iones Was ap- pointed December 30, 1938. Her term Wi11 expire Decem- ber 31, 1940. Mr. George N. Nelson be- came a member of the board lanuary 1, 1934, and his term will expire December 31, 1942. Mrs. Mariem Morqan, Whose term will expire De- cember 31, 1942, was ap- pointed Ianuary 1, 1934.