Lakewood High School - Cinema Yearbook (Lakewood, OH)

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l CINE A 1 A History of Our Schools IFTY years ago, twenty-seven electors of this section of the county met to vote on the question of joining the three school districts of Rockport Town- ship into one. After these men had voted and their votes were counted, it was found that they were unanimously in favor of bringing about this union. .Xs a result of their decision these three sub-districts became known as l.akewood. At .this time there were three schools in Lakewood. They were called liast School, Middle School, and 1Vest School, all single room buildings. The cur- riculum, devised by the Board of Education, included Reading, XYriting, and Spelling as required subjects, and Geography, Arithmetic, and Grammar as electives. S. H. Herriman was made the first Superintendent of the Lakewood Schools. From the date of lVlr. llC1'I'lll1Zlll,S election to the present, the history of the Lake- wood schools is a history of progress and advancement: of the construction ol' new buildingsg the fitting out of them with up-to-date equipment, and of increased interest in education and educational opportunities. In all this progress the various superintendents have had no small part: in short it may be said that the histories of these improvements have been the his- tories of these men, and the histories of our schools have been virtually mirrors of the lives of our superintendents. The life of our present superintendent, Mr. C. P. Lynch, is no exception to this, and from it a nost accurate account of the recent history of our lligh School and of Lakewood's mnnerous grammar and junior High Schools may be drawn. Mr. Lynch graduated from Allegheny College with the degree of .-X. ll. in 1886. llere he was made a member of the l'hi lleta Kappa honorary fraternity. lle received his lVlaster's degree in 189-l and his Ph. D. degree in 1896. From college he went to VVarren, Ohio, where he taught in the high school for five years. ln 1891 he came to the Cleveland Schools as head of the Latin Depart- ment. After his term at Central High he became Assistant Superintendent of the Cleveland Schools, and for five years held this office, after which he filled the position of Principal at West High School for five years. In 1911 Mr. Lynch came to Lakewood to accept the position of Superintendent of Lake- wood's schools. When Mr. Lynch came to take up his duties in Lakewood, thirteen years ago, there were but seventy-seven teachers in all of Lakewood and only nineteen of these were in the High School. During his stay as our superintendent there have been many new buildings completed and a very extensive program carried out until now Lakewood's schools are indeed on the highest plane. Mr. Lynch has always been interested in trying to get Lakewood to change from the 8-4 plan of schooling, that is eight years of elementary schooling and four years of high school to the 6-3-3 plan which provides for six years of ele- mentary work, three of junior high and three of senior high. He has also been Qcllilfillttflli on page 180j 12

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