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

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AT SHAW IN . .. 1935 -IN THE MID-THIRTIES, THE GOLDEN LIGHTS of the past decade had faded and were slowly blinking out. The country was deep in a depression, and you were feeling the effects. Milk was six cents a quart, and you could buy a pound of butter for 18 cents. Instead of federal money, your parents used scrip printed by the county. There was no such thing as an after-school job for you, there wasn't enough work for the adults. Your friends found the same situation and, as a result, there was an unheard of total of 28 extra-curricular activities that kept you busy. If you could have afforded them, suits and coats were sell- ing at 314.50 to 31950, but you wore your old ones instead. 1944-WORLD WAR II WAS RAGING IN EUROPE AND Asia, and that year 12 boys left Shaw to enlist in the armed forces. You could tell their homes by the blue stars hung in the windows. You were pretty worried about the fellow you knew somewhere in Europe, and you wondered when he would be home again. You, in school, did your part by buying the war bonds and stamps sold by the National Honor society. You saved old rubber and tin cans, while Mom used ration books, and Dad tried to conserve gasoline. If you were a girl, you wore your hair long and your skirts short. You were learning a new style of dancing called jitterbug, and you practiced to the tune of Bell Bottom Trousers. 1953-IN 1953 YOU WATCHED SHAW'S NEW GYM receive its finishing touches. You saw the varsity basketball team beat Elyria, and you went to the canteen dances after the games. You had a job after school or on Saturdays, and that weekly pay check made you feel pretty independent. Dad let you have the family car over the week-ends, and Mom didn't seem to mind too much-as long as you picked up the dry cleaning. As the time came closer to graduation, you worried about Korea and the draft, and for the first time you realized how small a world it really was. You saw Eisenhower inaugurated as president, and you couldn't help but wonder what the next four years would bring. 3 Donna Haas in 1903

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