TURNER, ALBERTA (1919 - 2003) was born in 1919 in Pleasantville, New York. Alberta Tucker attended Hunter College, earning her master's and Ph.D. at Wellesley College and Ohio State University. At OSU she met and married Arthur Turner, graduate student who wore leg braces as a result of polio. In 1947, Arthur began teaching English at Oberlin College.
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The UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION (UAA) is an Athletic Conference that hosts 20 sports, 10 men's and 10 women's, and competes in the NCAA’s Division III. The men compete in baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, swimming and diving, tennis, wrestling, and indoor and outdoor track and field. The women compete in all of the same sports, excluding wrestling and baseball but adding volleyball and softball.
UNIVERSITY CIRCLE is a Cleveland neighborhood whose formal and colloquial boundaries are quite different. As a Statistical Planning Area (SPA) identified by the Cleveland Planning Commission, “University” (not University Circle) is bounded by Wade Park and Ashbury Aves. on the north, E. 105th St. on the west, Overlook Rd. and E. 123rd St. on the east, and Quincy and Mt. Overlook Aves. on the south.
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL, a private college preparatory school for boys, was founded in 1890. Founder Newton M. Anderson, dissatisfied with the prevailing classical education, believed that young men who would become leaders of industry needed firsthand experience with machines. In addition to traditional classrooms, Univ. School contained a machine shop, forge shop, carpenter shop, swimming pool, and gymnasium.
VAN TASSEL, DAVID D. (29 March 1928 -3 June 2000) was the founder of HISTORY DAY and senior editor of The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Van Tassel was born in Binghamton, New York, to Etta May Strathie Van Tassel and Dr. Walter Raymond Van Tassel. He studied at Cherry Lawn School in Darien, Connecticut, and received his B.A. in 1950 from Dartmouth.
WAETJEN, WALTER BERNHARD (16 Oct. 1920 - 16 Aug. 1997) was a university president, professor and author, and an accomplished athlete. He was born in Philadelphia, PA, to Marguerite Dettman, a homemaker, and Walter E. Waetjen, a tool and die maker and industrial arts teacher. He was national Golden Gloves light heavyweight boxing champion in 1939. In 1942 he earned his B.S.
WCPN traces its beginnings from WBOE, the radio station of the CLEVELAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Broadcasting from Lafayette School on Abell Ave., it went on the air as an AM station on 21 Nov. 1938. Two months later it moved to the sixth floor of the Board of Education Bldg. on E. 6th St.
WEST HIGH SCHOOL was Cleveland's second public high school, originating as a branch of CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL in the 3rd floor of a grammar school on W. 45th St. in 1852. It moved to locations on Clinton Ave. and Bridge Ave.
WESTERN RESERVE UNIV. See CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIV.
WILLIAMS, ARTHUR BALDWIN (11 Apr. 1874-18 Aug. 1951) was an ecologist, Curator of Education for the CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, park naturalist for the Cleveland Metropolitan Park District and author of many writings on nature subjects.
WILLIAMS, EDWARD CHRISTOPHER (11 Feb. 1871-24 Dec.
WVIZ (Channel 25) was inaugurated on 7 Feb. 1965 to bring noncommercial, educational television to the last major city in the U.S. without it. It materialized through the efforts of a committee of civic and educational leaders appointed by Mayor ANTHONY J.
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER. See CLEVELAND BOYS' SCHOOL.
ZELMAN V. SIMMONS-HARRIS was a landmark Supreme Court case upholding, in a 5-4 decision announced on June 27, 2002, the constitutionality of an Ohio law providing vouchers to Cleveland students to attend the public or private, including parochial, schools of their choice.