SHAW HIGH SCHOOL - PART 2

SHAW HIGH SCHOOL – PART 2

The March 25, 2017 post related my experiences at Shaw High School from September 1955 until June 1958.  That post included the text of a Student Handbook, which all students received when entering Shaw High School.  That handbook is the best document I know of to describe life at Shaw.  Unfortunately I didn’t include the floor plans of the school in that post. They are included here along with several pictures of Shaw through years. 

The only picture I could find which included the entire school was the one on the title page of the 1941 Shuttle.  In this picture you can see the original building along with the Auditorium and Technical Building additions.

 

The floor plans for the old and new buildings are included below.  The land slopes from Terrace Road at the top of the picture to Euclid Avenue at the bottom.  This resulted in the fact that floor numbers in the old building did not match with those in the new building.  To accommodate that there was a system of tunnels to connect the buildings.  

In 1955 the new gymnasium had been built across Shaw Avenue behind Prospect School.  A floor plan for that building is also included.  The joke was that the two gyms in the Tech Building were for old boys and old girls.

Here are more pictures of Shaw through the years.  You can get an idea of the age of the pictures by looking at the cars.