Hawken History On Display for Community

Unveiling in succession, the Decade Displays are being carefully crafted in collaboration with alumna Ann Conkle ’78, Executive Vice President of Communication Exhibits, Inc. in Canal Fulton. Each display contains memorabilia, photographs, and other historical treasures from one of Hawken's decades. Included is an ipad that digitally displays photos, videos, yearbooks and other historical artifacts. This digital content can also be viewed online at hawken.edu/history.

The display cases will first be on view at the Lyndhurst campus. Students, teachers and visitors can view 1915-1919 in Bolton Hall, 1920-1929 in the Link, 1930-1939 in Hurwitz Hall, and 1940-1949 in Lincoln Lobby.  The displays will move to Gates Mills for viewing at the Alumni Winter Luncheon on December 20, and the entire collection will be presented at the Party of the Century at the Cleveland Convention Center on May 16, 2015.  Ultimately, the 11 displays will become part of Hawken’s permanent archive collection on the Gates Mills campus.

In addition to providing teachers and students opportunities for discussion and curricular integration, the decade displays offer this takeaway: Hawken is no ordinary school. The School's founders were pioneers, innovators, and visionaries, and its generous benefactors and leaders through the years have sustained an unwavering and passionate commitment to the original guiding principles. Those principles, combined with the School’s willingness to take the lead carefully and deliberately and to experiment and innovate thoughtfully and intentionally, have been described as “the lifeblood of the institution.”