Sue Grogan was principal at Shades Cahaba from 2000 until her retirement in 2013. She was the first person I met when my oldest son started Shades Cahaba in 2008, and she made a big impression on me and my family. Sue is probably best known for helping establish the...
Dr. Bill Cleveland is the Superintendent of the Homewood City School system, and he has been in this role since 2008. But more importantly, Bill is a homegrown student and was a Shades Cahaba student before moving on to middle school and high school, where he...
On this episode of the Shades Cahaba Oral History Project, I interview alumnus Don Harbor who attended elementary school at Shades Cahaba starting in 1948 in the second grade. He was in the last 8th-grade class at Shades Cahaba before they moved that grade to Homewood...
On this episode we talk with current Shades Cahaba PTO President Alexa McElroy. We talk about what the PTO is currently doing at Shades Cahaba. We also talk about how Shades Cahaba grew during it’s first decade in existence, the 1920s. Shades Cahaba would not have...
In this inaugural episode, we sit down with Shades Cahaba Elementary School Principal Dr. John Lowry. He lets us know what has been happening at Shade Cahaba. Then we take him to school and learn about the principals who served before him. We also talk about Shades...
