Glenville High School
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Glenville High School |
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Established | 1919 (moved in 1966 to present campus) |
Type | Public High School |
Grades | 9-12 |
Location | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) |
Colors | Black and Red |
Glenville High School is a public high school in the Glenville neighborhood on the East Side of Cleveland, Ohio. The schools athletic teams are called The Tarblooders. The school's original campus, founded in 1919, was located at Everton and Parkwood. Its current campus, which opened in 1966, is located at E. 113th and E. St. Clair.) The demographic of the high school, as well as the Glenville neighborhood on a whole, has changed considerably since WWII. Until the 1940's Glenville was predominantly Jewish. Since then, however, there has been a shift and today Glenville is predominantly African-American. The school has a distinguished list of culturally significant alumni from decades gone by, and it has remained in the spotlight more recently as a producer of athletic talent, particularly its football team, coached by Ted Ginn, Sr.
[edit] Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships
- Boys Track -1959, 1960, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1975, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
[edit] See also
[edit] Notable Alumni
- Benny Friedman, NFL coach and football player
- Willie Gilbert, playwright
- Ted Ginn Jr., College Football player for the Ohio State Buckeyes
- Steve Harvey, actor & comedian
- Wilson Hirschfeld, journalist
- Jerome Lawrence, playwright
- Hal Lebowitz, sports journalist/editor (most notably for the The Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, creators of the comic book hero Superman
- Troy Smith, 2006 Heisman Trophy Award winner, and Quarterback for the Ohio State Buckeyes football team.
- Donte Whitner, NFL player for the Buffalo Bills
- Michael R. White, former Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio.
- Pierre Woods, NFL player for the New England Patriots
- Ricky Palmer, NFL video assistant Cleveland Browns