Warrensville Heights High School - Tiger Spotlight Yearbook (Warrensville Heights, OH)

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Rf' Megs X WS WWF fi! I am the spurt of the earth Long before man appeared w rs I I rate seen more than hrstory records Yes I have seen the beologrc eras come and go the passrng of the redman and the forests the adtent or the proueer and home steader Many more thmgs I know Your comrng, I h rve seen also Dwell wrth me for awhrle and I wrll take you back rnto Illt, past for a look at the burldlng of your own communrty Come mth mt and I e wrll take a trrp rnto the long ago Look look closely through the mrst and ea rmrne the land that surround you Yes tt IS covered wrth forests and frllcd mth xsrld thrngs now possrbly foretgn to you It 15 1797 Mad Anthony W ryne has completed the Ireaty of Greenvtlle whrch opened the land of Ohro to settlers oener tl Moses C lc Ive land one of those proneers came soon after that treaty and under tht ruthorrtx of the Connectrcut Land Company founded a cnt tshreh now bears us name That crty lres to the north We now are rn the Ivtstern Reserte as you may have been aware To the east lre the forests and rnountarns of Pennsy Ivanra to the south the Tuscarauras Rtver and the seven Ranges wlule to the west are the frre lands The land on whrch you now are standtng has been clatmed rn the past by Great Brttam France Vtrglnra and Lonucctrcut Now rt rs part of the Northwest Terrrtory You say you don r recognrze rt 2 Why thrs rs the land upon whrch Warrensvrlle shall be burlt It rs now January ot 1810, and Ohro although now a state of the Untted States consrsts largely of unsettled land 'Io your left ls a man cuttrng trees Hrs name IS Damel Warren, and he ts rn the process of burldrng a cabrn for hrs wtfe and chrldren Townshtp seven rn whrch he lrves shall bear hrs name In the future th1s land shall become known as Warrenstrlle Townshrp and your communrty shall take tts name from tt Three vears from now Llrjah Russell and hrs famtly ofConnect1cut shall clear ltnd nearbt burld a home and plant corn Many such men as Russell and Asa Strle shall come from the East settle on thts land and rarse their famrlres SP4 years from now rownshrp government shall be establtshed In 1818 Leonard Case wrll offer land rn thrs area for cash flour whtskey wheat or rye In 1827 Wrllrarn S Ixerrursh one of Ohro s most dtsttngurshed trral lawyers shall be born here rn Warrenstrlle Ohro O yes and your populatton wrll grow m the years ahead but the land of the townshrp shall be parceled out to Cleveland Last C leveland Townshrp bed ford and Shaker Let us push further on through the years as I tell you of the trmes we pass Soon after the tum of the century an rnfrrmary was burlt on land located tn Warrensvtlle along wrth a home for the aged Other burldrngs followed and the establtshment known as Cooley Farms became one of the leadrug rnstrtu trons of tts ktnd rn Amertca A tuberculosrs sanrtarrum was completed rn 1906 and the House of Correctron was relocated there rn 1912 All thrs socral plannmg was made possrble by the forestght of Lathrop Looley a mrnrster who served m many Cleveland churches Thrs ourstandrug work whrch made nm a natronal ftgure was done whrle he was Charrtres Drrector under Mayor Iom Johnson of Cleveland These and other srghts are now qurte farrnlrar to the resrdents of your communrty O 1 4 fff . I 4 . 2 ' ' A s , awk, Q V Q nf 1 l xii . , . . L ,., rl Q JQU Q .I IQ ' sf' I s 3 f r Q , t - Q J Q Q. Q. , Q . ' ,. - sf - . .I 'y . ,, ,Q ' ' A 1 ll ' ' , , ' , f '. ,, zu . , afvklbl, ' , ' ' ' ' ' s. '.- 1 y - V ' fs , A x . . . ' v . , Q . V 1, '. . .- . Y Q . 2 , . v In A Q Q , . ,. . Q . , .Q Q D ,sd .s ,IH Et. . . , , . ,, I s . - . - . , . , , ,' '. ' , . ' 5 I Avs- 1 a 5 . 3 r ' I . s . . . I I - I I A... f '.l,..y ....,.s.1,.a..!, . ' E ' Q . .A .Q . Q . , . , I y . ' . . 1 . r I, t . . . . ,w f I ' .s?,,.Q.s Q. ft.':-- V if 98 X ,QQ , hw! ff or . . Ia.. 'Tr ,tt,t.I,,, . Q

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W F' 'film-V Spring rains brought a further postponement of activity on the campus's tennis and basketball courts. . . . and Still When one looks at WHHS one sees a large, well-planned campus, still growing and expanding. Construction of the high school began in May of 1948, classes being in session by 1949. When construction was completed, the high school, then John Dewey, contained nine classrooms with a total enrollment of 548. The passing of a 3135,000 bond issue in 1948 brought about the construction of a gym and two additional classrooms with others being added in 1952 and 1954, bringing the school to its present size. A football and track field constructed in 1956 and a baseball diamond constructed by the Kiwanis Club in 1952 have seen plenty of action. Since the summer of 5'7, the villagers have been able to beat the heat in an 80' x 42' swimming pool which was built from village donations. Construction of two basketball and tennis courts and an extension of the garage area were completed in the summer of 58. The School Board is adding 8 more rooms to the high school this year. nm- ..4l9'-4 Winter snow blanketed the student parking area. 6