Lakewood High School - Cinema Yearbook (Lakewood, OH)

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Page N . , ,Q palship of Mr. William Lippert, who also taught all the classes. He tells some interesting sidelights of the life of young Lakewood. There is no model for Lakewood's early days. Scarcely any home was equipped with electric lights, and there were no sidewalks or paved streets. Almost every activity group of today was not even known sixty years ago. But we did have nutting expeditions and masking parties which the girls enjoyed. However, the greatest event occurred when Mary Hutchins was the first to finish her high school course of study. The student body of 1882 attned in their finery, pose for a class photograph

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Ill Q FEI Iii! The first high school was housed on the second iioor of this building. Headmaster was Mr. Will Lippert. needs of the growing community. The seat of learning was therefore moved to the red brick building which is now the Board of Education. Over the entrance may still be seen the inscription, East Rockport Central School, 187 9. In addition to reading, spelling, and writing, no scholar was required to study more than two of the following subjects: geography, arithmetic, and grammar. The marks ranged from one to five, and if Johnny went home with a grade of one, he saw the inside of the family woodshed. In 1882 the first high school was instituted in the same building under the princi- Page 11

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