Lakewood High School - Cinema Yearbook (Lakewood, OH)

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' gi ' ' ., DV Lakewood in those days was an unimportant suburb of Rockport, or Rocky River, as it is now known. Its name on the maps, if it appeared at all, was East Rockport. It was called this because it was always believed that the development would center about Rocky River township, rather than reach out from the small city of Cleveland. In 1888, three years after the graduation of Mary Hutchins, a new superintendent came to take charge of the school now belonging to Lakewood hamlet. The new superintendent, Mr. Charles J. Weeks, shortly after arriving in the hamlet, wooed and won Mary Hutchins, the first graduate of the school. From this time on the school increased steadily in size until agitation for a new school building was started. Despite much opposition, the bond issue was voted and bidding for the building was opened. This culminated in the board accepting a bid of 571,993.11 and work was started on the new school, which was to be an imposing edifice of yellow brick. , A new high school opened up a new era of prosperity and expansion for Lake4 wood hamlet, so that the more rustic 'fhamletu was dropped and the town was known as Lakewood. However, citizens will never become wholly inured to change, and so could not conceive of anything so stupendous as the new school building for their village. Mr. Kennedy was the new principal and so , .,, became the recipient of many an indignant letter from K MWA ,L f l citizens who denounced in no uncertain terms the ,UI I ' M-Im MH Lu spending of so large a sum on anything so monumentally M smm ,Mm ll foolish as the mammoth new school building. l yv ' ' People riding by the building in their rigs on Sun- ' ll I 1, 'lu llll day would pause and point the finger of scorn at the 1 I ' stately pile rising on the east side, of Warren road, and If 'ff I exclaim: Such nonsense! What will we ever do with such a big building? So they would exclaim, never considering that Lakewood would possibly grow to be a city of ninety thousand people. C What will we do with the building? Discard it in ten years and build one four times as large, costing fourteen times as much ll VVith the opening of the new building in 1905 came many new faces among the faculty, all familiar to us now: lVIr. Champion, Miss O'Neil, lVIr. Gates, and Mr. Collier. In the fall of 1906 it was Coach Collier who issued the call for football candidates. Football previous to lVIr. Collier's debut as coach had been rather a sporadic sport. There had been no coach, and the players had scheduled their own games, coached themselves, and played faithfully each Saturday. That fall the enrollment of the whole school was but two hundred and fifty pupils. Still, out of this small array the coach turned out a team that in 1907 was the champion of Cleveland. So this year's mastodons were not the first to wear the crown of championship. In those days Lakewood was a member of the Senate, and our worst foe was the East Tech team, which we defeated in the race for the city championship of 1907. Among the members of that great team were: Edgar Dahl, now a professor at Ohio State: Werner Smith, now a manufacturer of a famous core-oil which he orig- inated: Gordon Dixon, Roscoe Leach, C. Newcomb, and Earl English. lVIr. Collier continued in his dual role of coach and teacher until the arrival of Harry Clark, in the fall of 1909, who took over the coaching duties. Perhaps it is ,1 'lwurm WUIL mm-l' if Q - um, -Mfg 13 C 5 Q60 ' ll Q ,n M 2