Shaker Heights High School - Gristmill Yearbook (Shaker Heights, OH)

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Homeroom — a special chair for Sissy Cohen. Shakerites Went ' III ■!!■■■ Ill HI ! niH The afternoon race to the parking lot. ?%- Snack Bar — How about an orange soda, Anita? B ' rf Student Activity Office — Uncle Bus Thrailkill reigns supreme. The precious few minutes between classes. 11

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A little-used door and a much-used study hall. Main Office — Bill Linkow checks a few room numbers. Auditorium — the lost few minutes before an assembly. Places SAT — Kahn, Koriovec and Matey check room assignments. 10 Fire drill — walk don ' t run to the nearest exit.

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OPEN DOOR OF SHAKER For nearly every shakerite there were some places in the Shaker building that were more special than any others. Here we lustily cheered a sports team to show our approval and hope; here we sat, talked with friends, and slowly relaxed; here we listened, studied, and learned. The places are unforgettable be- cause they are associated with unforgettable emotions: hope, and despair; complacence, and indignation; disillusion, and revelation. The places are memorable because in them moved memorable people who aroused those emotions and shared in them. The stadium was connected with defeat, and the boys who over- came it: here Shaker fans of great endurance sat through the cold afternoons, almost too numb to cheer except by their pres- ence. The stadium was connected with victory and the boys who achieved it: here Ippolito roused the football team to a supreme effort against Lakewood with his artful passing; here Mr. Rupp announced that the Shaker boys at Dartmouth had won the Dartmouth plaque for our school. These were the noisy emotions, the exuberant ones. The emo- tions of the classroom were more quiet and less obvious, but they made an impression that may last longer. Class room ex- periences were not universal; because of the large number of students, it was impossible for everyone to study under any one teacher. Yet no one who knew Mr. Bristol can ever for- get the amazing accuracy with which he fired spent chalk into File 13— the wastebasket! Mr. Harbourt ' s delightful alphabet soup will remain with us so that we cannot forget the value of id. sig. in a DTQ— identification and significance in a Deep Thought Question. Such teachers endeared themselves to us by their original approaches to teaching. Their highly individual expressions of their passion for teaching inspired us, educated us, and helped to make the years at Shaker unforgettable.