The Shades Cahaba Oral History Project will publish special edition episodes this year to celebrate other Homewood schools, the beginnings of the Homewood Board of Education, and other events. We still have other Shades Cahaba stories to tell. In this episode, we talk...
My Fourth Grade teacher was Mrs. Lois Harper. Mrs. Harper was a mousey small woman of average build of the type who slither through grocery stores wearing dowdy dresses. She had curly salt and pepper hair and wore glasses. She seemed to have a constant smirking smile...
If you have been a listener to the podcast, then you know this is the 100th Anniversary of Shades Cahaba as a school. The first day of school was September 19, 1920. There was a dedication held a few days before and it was on that day that the two large bronze plaques...
My Third Grade teacher was Miss Barbara Manor. Miss Manor was a tall, strikingly handsome woman with long jet black hair worn in either a pony tail or in a bun on the back of her head. Unlike the other teachers, Miss Manor dressed in stylish, though conservative,...
My Second Grade teacher was Mrs. Lurlie Franke. She was tall, matronly, slightly heavy.set with jet black hair that was very long. She wore it in a bun on top of her head. She still drove a Model A Ford that looked very old to me in 1949, though it was less than...
Don Harbor wrote his memories of his time at Shades Cahaba to share with family and friends. When I mentioned to him that I was going to produce a Shades Cahaba history podcast, he sent me a copy, which was my starting point for the Shades Cahaba Oral History Project....
I don’t want today, December 22, 2019, to pass by without recognizing this day in Homewood school history. It was on this day, 50 years ago, in 1969 that the Homewood City Council established the Homewood Board of Education, one of the first steps the city took...
Homewood High School has two elective classes to help students who may want to work in a restaurant one day or in the case of my son, just likes to bake. Those classes are Fundamentals of Culinary Arts and Baking and Pastry Arts. Back when I was at the High School it...
The Shades Cahaba Owl has had a very interesting life. It first appeared when Shades Cahaba High School was built in 1920. It stood watch over the front entrance as “a symbol of learning to all who enter here.” It stayed there until the end of high school in 1949 and...
