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

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Jack Walsh in 1923 IF YOU WERE A STUDENT 1905 - YOU ATTENDED THE OLD SHAW HIGH SCHOOL. QThe old building had not yet been built.j At the turn of the century, the boys suffered in stiff collars, and dreamed of the day when they would sport a handle-bar mustache. If you were a girl in 1903, you pinned your hair in a pompadour and waited anxiously for the latest issue of The Godey's Ladies' Book. At Shaw, your eight teachers offered a variety of subjects including Greek and drawing. Your world was rather simple then. The United States had just acquired Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philip- pines as a result of the Spanish-American war, but that didn't bother you much. Neither did the talk about building a canal in some Central-American country called Panama. At Class Day you debated whether or not labor organizations were detrimental to the interests of the laboring man. 1918-WORLD WAR I, THE WAR TO END WARS, was the main thing on your mind in 1918. One hundred and sixty of your former classmates were in the army and more were leaving every day. Your yearbook featured pictures from camps and letters from the boys at Versailles. The world was delirious with joy on November 11th, and you vowed you'd never forget the years before. In the meantime, your 41 teachers kept you busy with subjects like botany and expression. Middies were not required yet, but the girls wore them anyhow because they were in style. The varsity basketball team played in knee socks, while the girls' tennis dresses daringly displayed the legs clear up to the calf. A young man by the name of Ralph A. Brown was assistant principal in your one-building Shaw High. 1923-YOU LIVED IN A GAY, CAREFREE WORLD IN the Roaring Twenties. You were a Beau Brummel in your striped jacket and straw hat, and of course you were the life of the party with your ukelele. On special occasions you took out your raccoon coat and wowed all the Happers. If you were a girl, you coaxed Mom and Dad for a beaded dress to wear to the Senior Prom. The greatest day in your life was the day you won the Charleston contest. Shaw stadium was built that year, the year in which the tight-lipped Calvin Coolidge became presi- dent, and the City Champion football team played such opponents as Astabula Harbor, Detroit Northern, and Canton McKinley. The world was a great big merry-go-round in 1923, and you were swept along with it. 2