The Shuttle Yearbook Project
The East Cleveland Public Library was a major
influence in my life and I’m sure in the lives of all of who grew up in East
Cleveland. I’m here to tell you that the
library is alive and thriving under the leadership of Executive Director, Sheba
Marcus-Bey and her very capable staff.
The wonderful original Carnegie Library landmark building has been
expanded over the years to better serve the East Cleveland community. One way the community is served is through the
state of the art computer services they offer.
Those resources are also available to those of us who no longer live in
East Cleveland through the Library website www.ecpl.lib.oh.us.
An important resource for me in my research about
the history of East Cleveland has been the Shaw High School Yearbook (Shuttle). In preparation for writing this blog I visited
the library to review back issues of the Shuttle on file there. Unfortunately their collection was small at
the time. When I was President of the
Friends of the Beachwood Library, a box of Shuttles from the years 1978 – 1992 was
donated to our book sale. I immediately
removed them from the sale and contributed them to the East Cleveland Public
Library almost doubling the size of their collection. I recently discovered that the Library has
put complete copies of all their Shuttle yearbooks onto their website: http://www.ecpl.lib.oh.us/yearbook.html
. These copies can be read on line or printed out on your home printer.
Knowing how important Shuttles are to those of us
who lived in East Cleveland or are studying East Cleveland history, I contacted
Director Marcus-Bey with a proposal. My
proposal was that I would lend her copies of my Shuttle yearbooks, which were
not included on the Library website. I
further proposed that I would encourage everyone I know who owns Shuttle
yearbooks not on the Library website to also lend them to the Library for
copying to the website. Ms. Marcus-Bey
enthusiastically supported my proposal.
She has agreed to post any Shuttle lent to the Library on their website
and return it to the lender. The Library
will support the cost of copying and uploading any Shuttles lent to them for
that purpose. Our goal is to have a copy
of each Shuttle yearbook on the East Cleveland Public Library website. You can help with this project.
Anyone with a Shuttle for the following years is urged to contact the East Cleveland Public Library to support the Shuttle Yearbook Project.
Missing
years are: 1918, 1919
1920 through 1929
1934 through 1936
1942, 1945, 1946,
1949
1952, 1953, 1954,
1956, 1957, 1959
1960 through 1969
1970 through 1977
1983, 1986, 1987
1993 to the
present
If
you would like to help with this project, contact
Ms.
Sheba Marcus-Bey, Executive Director
216-541-4128
Ext. 232
