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Outreach
The City Club provides numerous opportunities
for high school students in Northeast Ohio to learn more about
the world around them and to become involved in meaningful
dialogue about civic affairs.
Friday
Forum Student Program
Each week during the school year, high school students from
schools across Northeast Ohio are invited to participate in
City Club Friday Forums. Students are sent materials prior
to the program in order to learn more about the speaker or
issue. When they arrive at The City Club, member and volunteer
coordinator Joe Burke gives them a tour of the facility and
tells them about the importance of The City Club along the
way. The students then attend the Forum.
Following the Forum, the students have
the unique opportunity to meet with the speaker for a private
question-and-answer session. Often the questions posed by
students in this private session are just as relevant and
pointed as those posed by the adults in the Forum.
Over 25,000 students have participated
in the Student Program since it was instituted by former Executive
Director Alan Davis almost 30 years ago. The City Club is
thankful to Joe Burke for his time and to Mort Epstein and
Stanley Adelstein for their help in securing multiple year
funding for this program.
The following donors make the Student
Program possible:
- The Cleveland Clinic
- The Jeffrey David Epstein Memorial Student
Fund
- The Laub Foundation
- Pipeline Development Company
- The Fred E. Scholl Charitable Foundation,
Bernard L. Karr, Chairman
Youth
Forum
The City Club Youth Forum Committee plans and executes Forums
created by high school students for high school students.
The committee of 20 students from a number of area high schools
determines the topics, invites the speakers, handles logistics
and runs the programs. City Club member Joyce Wallace provides
guidance.
Over the years, the Youth Forum Series
has covered a number of important topics ranging from affirmative
action to international relations. The Forums are always timely
and invigorating. Speakers include Mayor Jane Campbell, Greenpeace
Executive Director John Passacantando and former Special Envoy
to Afghanistan Peter Tomsen.
The City Club is grateful to The Martha
Holden Jennings Foundation, The Thomas White Foundation, The Bruening Foundation and The Stocker
Foundations for their generous support of this important initiative.
 High
School Debate Championship
For over two decades, The City Club has hosted the annual
High School Debate Championships sponsored by the law firm
of Baker Hostetler, LLP. While most high school students
are watching basketball finals and preparing for spring break,
these enterprising students prepare for the High School Debate
Championships, as well as for state and national competitions.
The City Club gives them the opportunity to show off their
skills.
 Every
year, the top two area high school debaters square off in
a classic "Lincoln-Douglas" style debate at a Friday
Forum. This gives the debaters the opportunity to compete
not only for the judges and the audience in the room, but
also for our radio and television audiences. Debate teams
from across Northeast Ohio are invited to attend as guests
of The City Club and Baker Hostetler, LLP.
The High School Debate Championship is
sponsored by Baker Hostetler, LLP in memory of Patrick Jordon.
Mr. Jordon was a partner of the firm and an outstanding debater
in high school.
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