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

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HE institution which we today know as Shaw High School was established in the year 1838 as a boys' academy by the endow- ment of John Shaw, an Englishman, who with the help of five other men cleared away some of the woods of Cuyahoga County. In 1838, on two of the ninety acres specified by John Shaw, in his will, to be used for the advancement of education, the first building of the academy was constructed. This wooden, two-story building, a reproduction of which appears on the cover and main title-page of this book, was financed by subscriptions sccurcd at a mass meeting of the community and was constructed on Euclid Avenue, then known as Prospect Street. The first building of the academy was utterly ruined by the destructive activities of the older boys. Therefore, in 1850, with funds secured by interested citizens, a new brick building, a draw- ing of which appears on the opposite division page, was con- structed on the site occupied by the first building. Several years later, Shaw had deteriorated to a mere district school due to the severe contention and wrangling for the institution by two churches which differed on the slavery question.

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JANUARY 27, 1938 Presiding+MI'. IV. H. Kirk Superintendent of East Cleveland Schools I VVar March of the Priests ......................... .... I Mendelssohn SHAW' HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA. ltlilton G. Niergarth, Directing II fa, Don9t You VVeep No More, Mary ..... ..... A I. Dett fbj Songs of Praises ........................... .... G . J. Jones SHAW' A CAPPELLA CHOIR Florence Shaffer, Directing III Invocation.. .,,..................... REV. PAUL S. KERSHNER Minister of East Cleveland Congregational Church IV Duet. . . ...... Home To Our Mountains ...... . . . Verdi BE'r'rY DICKINSON - - - ELMER PESTA V Comlnencelnent Address- The Humanity of Learning .............. . .........................,... REV. OSCAR VTTHOMAS OLSON, D.D. Minister of Epworth-Euclid Methodist Episcopal Church VI faj Calm Be Thy Sleep ...... . . . . . .Noble Cain fb, Send Forth Thy Spirit ...................... . . .Schuefke SHAW' A CAPPELLA CHOIR Accompanist-Gordon Hoddinott VII Presentation of Class.. .... .......... B IARION C. DIETRICH Principal of Shaw High School Presentation of Diplomas ........................ MR. BEN B. VVICKHAM President, East Cleveland Board of Education Processional MarchAlNIarche Noble .......................... CHR. BACH