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July 27, 2015 Published by: David Esrati Posted in: Heights High News

Cleveland Heights High School Caldron supplemental 1979

I took a lot of the pictures in this- including the front page one on Senior Crazy Day with Mr. Galley? Pointing at me to leave- and not to take photos.

I’ve scanned it- and made a pdf for you to look through.

1979 Caldron Supplement PDF

You’re welcome Gita Sullivan.

 

August 15, 2010 Published by: David Esrati Posted in: Heights High News

Rick Porrello, Class of 1980- and now Hollywood

Cheech and Chong did a bit about Santa Claus- as a musician- “yeah, I played with that dude”- well, many of us in the Class of 1980 played with Rick Porrello- who was the superstar drummer- and now is the Lyndhurst police Chief- and the writer behind the coming movie “The Irishman”

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer:

The film stars Irish actor Ray Stevenson as Greene, Vincent D’Onofrio as Nardi, Paul Sorvino as mob boss Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno, Val Kilmer as a Cleveland detective, and in a stroke of inspired casting, Oscar-winner Christopher Walken playing Birns.

it is based on the book “To Kill the Irishman: The War that Crippled the Mafia” by Lyndhurst Police Chief Rick Porrello. A new edition of the book will also hit stores next March….

Porrello, who grew up in Cleveland Heights, had his own colorful past. He toured the world as a drummer for Sammy Davis Jr., and later became an author with the book “The Rise and Fall of the Cleveland Mafia,” which featured his own grandfather and great-uncles as players in the bootleg wars of the 1920s and 1930s.

But Porrello was also a kid who longed to be a cop, ever since his parents gave him a police scanner for Christmas when he was 10. His day job for the past 22 years has been on the Lyndhurst police force.”

As Reid pitched his movie dreams in Los Angeles, Porrello waited. And waited.

“There were times when I was on the road on the midnight shift, I’d go sit on that spot where Danny was killed and have coffee and I’d wonder, ‘Will that movie ever get made? Will they be filming right here in this parking lot?’ ”

via Cleveland gangster Danny Greene’s explosive life captured in ‘The Irishman’ and two docs | cleveland.com.

December 17, 2008 Published by: David Esrati Posted in: Heights High News

The clocktower needs a few more hands

Just trying to keep our tigers informed: The clock tower is in need of a facelift- and the alumni foundation is looking for donations- click the link to read more:

From several blocks away, the clock tower atop Cleveland Heights High School seems frozen in 1926, when builders raised it 92 feet above the farm fields and new subdivisions of one of Cleveland’s outermost suburbs.

The landmark is forever young, too, in the simple and graceful line drawing of the logo that graces the letterhead, Web pages and other officialdom of the Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District.

Get closer, though, and you will see the face is aged, and the venerable is vulnerable.

via Cleveland Heights alumni try to save school clock tower – Cleveland.com.

If anyone from the Cleveland Heights High School class of 1980 is donating or working on this- please comment below and fill us all in.

Me, I still remember when it had Mickey on the main face- and the time someone added a third leg to him for Senior Crazy Day.

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