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

Page 7 text:

. and the War So it is that group of people called Shaw high school that this book encompasses. These covers inclose one year of their collective lite. These pages cover a history that will never be quite the same for them or their school. lt the past has been lost or the future is un- known, this tiny part of their existence has been captured, encased in printed words and photographs, and herewith presented to them. lt is a record of a year in a school at war- in l942-3.

Page 6 text:

SHAW. SOMEONE once said, School is brick and school is dead. He painted a picture of a fog of knowledge: stuffy, mottled, and headache-producing. But he wasr1't quite right, in fact, he almost completely missed his mark. For any school, and this one in particular, is composed of the people who are in it- those who come to it, and those who run it. lts heartbeat is theirs, they breathe for it and put life into it. They make it what it is or is not.

Page 8 text:

IN MEMORY. Ol Those Who Serve AR came to Shaw high much as it did to other schools and other groups of Amer- icans. lt left its mark in rising prices and food scorcities in the cafeteriag it painted rationing signs on the West Technical en- trancej it thinned the ranks of senior classes. lt was greedyg and Shaw responded by feed- ing it a great many war stamps, several teachers, and an ever increasing number of young boys. The school became a mother again and sent long lists of its graduated sons into battle, as it had done in the last World wor. Victory courses were installed to pre- pare more names for the lists, names belong- ing to bodies belonging to the students who once comprised the school. This book is dedicated to those names and the people who own them.