Glenville High School, located in 1940 at Everton and Parkwood streets in what was then one of the predominantly Jewish neighborhoods of Cleveland, Ohio, had a high concentration of Jewish students in the mid-twentieth century. Glenville High School was a major part of the Jewish community after the end of World War I, when the Jewish population in the Glenville neighborhood soared after a migration of Jewish Clevelanders from the Woodland neighborhood to points further east. Hinda Saul (b.1925?) and her husband Jack Saul (1923-2009) were members of the Glenville High School (est. 1892) Class of 1940 in Cleveland, Ohio. Jewish enrollment at Glenville High School dropped to zero by 1960 as the Jewish community of Cleveland had migrated to the eastern suburbs. Hinda Saul was heavily involved in the organization of a number of reunions for the class, and her papers relating to this are contained in this collection.
Glenville High School also has a number of notable alumni, both in the local and national sense, including Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster, co-creators of the Superman comics, several National Football League (NFL) players, and significant figures in the fields of diplomacy, law, medicine, and science.
The Glenville High School Class of 1940 Reunion Records, 1940-2006 and undated, consist of biographies, certificates, correspondence, flyers, invitations, lists, music scores, notes, pamphlets, programs, reports, tax records, and yearbooks.
This collection will be of value to those who are researching the history of Glenville High School in Cleveland, Ohio, and its students and alumni. Included in this collection are biographies of reunion attendees, certificates of attendance, correspondence on reunions, flyers for reunions, invitations for reunions, lists of attendees of reunions, programs for reunions, reports on reunions, tax records associated with reunions, a 1941 Glenville High School yearbook, and yearbooks from the reunions themselves. This collection may also be of interest to individuals who are researching the Jewish population of the Glenville neighborhood during this time, as it was the majority population in this neighborhood from after WWI to the end of the 1940s, with enrollment of Jewish students topping off at 90% at one point.
The collection is arranged alphabetically by document type and then chronologically.
Processed by M. Alexander Kaufmann in 2015.
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[Container __, Folder __ ] MS 5339 Glenville High School Class of 1940 Reunion Records, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio.
Gift of Hinda Saul in 2014.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.