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

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In M Z. 0. Gfjinqm Za... We Have Tried to Be Worthy of E. C. 0ffinger's Long Service and Loyalty EDWARD C. OFFINGER was a one-man booster committee for Shaw High athletics. As head of the physical education depart- ment, he had trained thousands of boys. Offy is what these boys called him. Last year's track and tennis teams were un- der his direction. For more than thirty-five years Mr. Offinger, coach and adviser, was the inspira- tion of every athlete in the school. That is because this teacher of physical fitness sym- bolized sincerity and loyalty. Such men are on earth to guide and give courage. Truly wherever Edward C. Offin- ger's spirit now dwells, he has bequeathed a challenge to the school which he loved so faithfully. Shaw High must accept this chal- lenge by proving itself worthy of his unselfish service. ci' Y-Y -Y- ---4j- - - ,ll ... 3.-li ' ' ,,....l...-.......- ,,,.l.i. ...- 'Fax-- -....?x ......,... '?. 1.1-gr' --1r-f--r- - -- - . ll -f .,............ .3-we-,J .gg---f S, ' - . - ,.......l. . L.. - ,fl r...-4- . -?..... -,,.- ,, . ,gagxi -.gunna-I .,...- .-,..---- 1.-aw---I -z-,. --g.-1 .-., ?. .-'1' -- f- '. . ..,-. , r,,... . - . 'j. , W- . ,.. . -,..Q4- ,:::.Tll'. nf ,Z --I-'sE?' g -,., .,,...-.., --- ,f ,. -, .----L- W MR. EC. OFFINGER

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I, 1- f r i. ',il '.:-' -1 az- - lvl ti 31. 1 .,. f..,-V S-ffl -.2 -F: lei- i-?-1 'T-4 - 1 .T. ,MA -ill ...il-, ITE-igi' X l fx'- A x -.-.L .... Hi? 75-- XXX - x-. X 35- ,lgrri-sg-7 3 ai ?gf'1'fjb' 7- TQLQEYSL , .-if-gf K-if N .5 I-0 il fx -sax f. E- A . A sis ? ' Y -9- 5 xc 1 EX. N . 1 Sw N N 9:1114 i-- f. Z, 2.1- A -,-.-,.-- 1 -a...... ,,,.?.... ,.. 1 ,,,, - ' P- -., L.,...T ,? He was faculty manager of athletics for 20 years. Probably no one outside the school system can appreciate what the job meant: the pulling and haulings, the requests and demands, the occasional recriminations by others, the endless seeing to details that nobody else would see to. Yet in all those years, no man ever heard an unkind or pro- fane word pass his lips. .' :.-F. ln relations with his fellow teachers his career bears a sur- prising parallel to certain lines MR: E-sl GL' IN MEMORY OF A GENTLEMAN February l, l944 Earl Abbott was a true gentleman in a cynical between-wars age when the concept of a gentleman was held in derision, he was a true scholar in a practical, hard-headed era when a scholar was considered an expensive, time-wasting bore. He was an ungainly man, but so was Abraham Lincoln, and he had Lincoln's inborn courtliness of manner and genuine kindness of heart that made him more than a mere friend to his friends. In his teaching work he found no book suitable for his purposes, but neither did Socrates, and like Socrates he questioned his pupils, encouraging them to write their own books- and he himself worked on his own book for years. A gentleman who went out of his way to be a gentleman, a creative scholar who did much more than is expected of a mere teacher-such was Earl Abbott. of poetry familiar to all of us, the opening quatrain of Kipling's lllfll- ll If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs, and blaming it on you, lf you can keep your faith when all men doubt you, And make allowance for their doubting, too - - Kipling might well have used Earl Abbott as his model for these lines. lf, as we hope and believe, Heaven is the consummation of all our dreams, there is this morning somewhere in Heaven's halls a celestial classroom, peopled with a shining, soft-voiced throng of young seraphim. To them enters an angelic Monitor, accompanied by a bowing and smiling figure strange to them, As the newcomer climbs to the plat- form and prepares to address them on the social and political history of a tiny planet below called Earth, the Monitor turns to the youths in the room and says to them: Ladies and gentlemen, your new instruc- tor: Earl Gillespie Abbott. fa... ea,1q.,4Ma:z

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l N D E X where to find your club and activity pictures Football . . . Basketball . . Tennis . . . . Track . . . . Swimming... Baseball . . . .... . . .. Girls' Athletic Council , . Tarpon... ..... Girls' Lifesaving . , . Modern Dancing . . . Riding Club.. . ... S Letter Girls . . . Gym Leaders . . . Girls' Volleyball . . Girls' Basketball . . Aqua-dux . . . .. Student Council . . Observer . . . Dramatic Club . . . History Club . . . Sociology Club , . . ArtClub... Boys' Glee Club . . . Girls' Glee Club. . . Senior Friendship .... Sophomore Friendship . . . Honor Society . . . .... Whirlo Club . . . .. Stage Crew . . . Movie Crew . . . Band .... ..... Yearbook Staff . . . Hi-Y... ......... . Spanish Club. . . ........ . . .. Debate-Foreign Affairs Council Choir... ............... . . .52-55 . . .56-57 ....58 ....S9 ...6O-6l ....62 ....64 ....66 ....67 ....68 ....69 ....7O ....7l ....72 ....73 ....74 .76-79 ...8O-8l ....82 ....83 ....84 ....85 ....86 ......87 88, IO1 ....89 ....9O ....9l ....92 ....92 ....93 ......94 .. ...95-97 ....98 ....99 ...IOO