Classes started at Shades Cahaba High School on September 19, 1920 and the school has continuously served students in Homewood for the past 100 years. This project was started to record the memories of those that attended and worked at Shades Cahaba and those that just have a great story to tell.
The Book
To celebrate the centennial of Shades Cahaba, I produced 23 podcast episodes and various blog posts covering the history of the school, the community and Homewood creating it’s own school system, all of which are in this website. I used these stories and interviews to write the book Shades Cahaba: The First 100 Years which is on sale now. Hardback, paperback and Kindle versions are available at Amazon.com. A paperback version is available at Bookshop.org and an electronic version at Apple Books.
If you are a bookstore and would like to place this book in your store, it is now available to order through IngramSpark.
Episodes
Listen to the stories told by those who went to Shades Cahaba. Teachers, students, staff and parents. The school means something a little different to each person. Visit the Episodes Page for more content.
Show Host
My name is Shawn Wright and I attend Shades Cahaba Elementary from 1970 through 1974. My first year was in Mrs. Lemmon’s 2nd grade class. Both of my children have attend Shades Cahaba and my youngest “graduated” during Shades Cahaba’s 100th year. You can find out more about me at ShawnWright.net.
Blog Posts
1926 & 1927 Baseball Teams
Every year a baseball team was chosen, they had not started the season due to the time it took to get the yearbook printed and bound to be distributed by the end of the school year. In the 1926 book it said that the team was the division champions and the whole team...
1923 Girls Basketball Team
In the previous post we showed the boy's basketball team so we can't leave out the girl's team. Here is a photo of the 1923. Unfortunately I did not capture the write-up in the yearbook. I do know that one of the girls in this photo is Helen Cockrell. Sue Grogan spoke...
1923 Boys Basketball Team
Or Basket Ball as it was spelled in the Owl yearbook. Here is Coach Sump Clarke and his only basketball team, during his only year to coach at Shades Cahaba. From the yearbook: “Great interest in basket ball was shown this year. We are glad to report that there was...
The Underpass
I shot this video around 2010 with my new iPhone 4. The video was terrific back then. I shared it on the Facebook page “I went to Shades Cahaba when the main entrance was on Hollywood Blvd.” There was a tremendous response from Shades Cahaba alumni. I thought you might like to see the Underpass.