Hazel Mountain Walker (January 16 1889-May 16 1980)

From Warren, Ohio,she was the daughter of Charles and Alice (Bronson) Mountain.Hazel

attended Cleveland Normal Training school and in 1909 earned a Bachelor's and Master's in education from Western Reserve University.During the summers,when she was not teaching.Hazel,workedtowards a law degree at Balswin-Wallace College.She earned her degree and passed in 1919;her motivvation was not to become a lawyer but rather prove that black women could become lawyers.She taught children who came from homes where no English was spoken and / or their families could not read at the Mayflower Elementary School from 1909-36.She also tutored Black children from the juvenile court system who were from the South and having trouble adjusting to Cleveland schools.Hazel married George Herbert Walker on June 28,1922;he died in 1956.She became principal at Rutherford B.Hayes Elementary School in 1936 and in 1954 became the principal at George Washington Carver Elementary unit she retired in 1958.She married Joseph R.Walker of Massachusetts in 1961.She did not have any children.Also in 1961 Hazel was elected to serve on the Ohio State Board of Education;she resigned in 1963 and then moved out of state.Hazel was one the first African-Americans to be part of the Women's City Club.She is attributed with naming Karanu House in 1924 where she was a member and actress.She was also a member of Cuyahoga County Republican Party executive commitee during the 1930s. Hazel died in Cleveland Ohio.