Libbey High School Chalice - Harold E. Williams
Location 10
Date: 1930
Owner: Sue Terrill
In 2010, on the day of the final open house before the closing of the Edward Drummond Libbey High School, I was at Kinko's preparing a petition to be signed to keep the school open or to find a re-use. I was wearing the Libbey t-shirt I am wearing now at the Kinko's counter, when a man approached me and asked me if I know who Harold E. Williams was. Of course, I did since he was the principal at Libbey and served until he retired in 1946, after spending years in the hospital where LHS students took him a rose every day. His story is steeped in Toledo Public School (TPS) history. I have written and accumulated his biography. TPS did not want his lovely plaque from our lobby which said, “He Loved and formed His fellow man.” As it turned out this was his grandchild. I helped the family find an appropriate placement for his portrait and plaque. After a long effort to keep the school open, reused, and put on the National Register to prevent it from being demolished, in 2019 we had an historical marker placed there.