Commerce High School - Commerce Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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“Class of 1914” 44T VO you think that the High School of Commerce could run without us?” l-J asked a 1914 boy of your Historian. “I don’t know” was the guarded reply, ‘‘I shall have to look up your record to answer that important question.” “Cause, you see,” continued the boy, “we are two hundred and seventy-nine strong and the biggest class in school.” Such questions as this are frequently heard among the “Flats,” as the other pupils call us. And these questions usually result in a review of our greatness, and thus they serve to bring to light honors that we have received. Perhaps the High School of Commerce could get along without “Flats,” that, however, is doubtful, but we could not get along with the High School. At the time of our entrance, we now realize that we were quite green, but we are constantly showing the other classes that we can do some stunts both in lessons and in conduct. As to our former importance in school matters, a review of our records will answer. We are well represented among the champions coming from the Grammar Schools. We had three basket ball players, six men on foot ball teams, and three fine base ball fellows. We have a member of the track team that, last year, won the championship of the West Side, and one boy who is proud of the fact that his school came in last. Among other honored classmates are two actors, who took the parts of Julius Caesar and Cinna in Shakespeare’s great drama, and one boy who was president of his class The girls, too, were famous in Grammar School, for one served as prophet of her class in the graduating exercises, while two were prominent figures in a German play. In domestic science all were taught to cook, not only for themselves, but also for invalids. In fact they were well taught housekeepers; but that is all now Ancient History. In modern times, that is in our High School work, we have one member of our class who has received from Mr. Creig an “E” in Penmanship, and the whole world knows it took good hard work to do that. This again goes to show that “Flats” can do some stunts. As for showing originality, and ability in the use of English, a few samples of Freshman sayings will suffice. We are adepts in the use of the following: “Haint you,” “’Taint me,” “I aint got none,” “I loaned a pencil off 'em him,” “I leave my lessons go, and “That’s all the further I got.” Although we realize that expressions like these given are strong, we are not too proud to learn, and acknowledge that we hope to improve even in English, as we will need that later on in our school, and also in our business life. Reviewing these records, the Historian is positive that the High School of Commerce could not run without our class, and hopes that the full number will return as 1911-1912 Sophomores. HOMER TWITCHELL, 1914. 83

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g opfjomores—Class of 1913 Palevsky, Frances Pannackel, Charlotte Peotrowicz, Stephen Pollner, Walter F. Porter, Viola Putnam, Irene Ravitch, Rose Reehorse, Raymond Reeve, Ralph W. Reich, Henry R. Reinberger, Clarence Renz, Harold Rosenstein, Jacob Ruch, Ethel Ruch, Irene Russell, Alvcrna Morrison Russon, Lionel Sacha, Yaro Sakcr, Ernest W. Sammon, Mollie F. Samuels, Isadore Satava, Laura E. Schilly, Steve Schroeder, Ella Sebek, Maybell Shepherd, Anna Simak, Ernest J. Simonds, Esther Sipher, Eunice Smolik, Joseph J. Snyder, Pearl Snyder, Ruth Spencer, Tracy Spidell, Kathryn Stanton, Edna Stark, Carl Stark, Emma C. Sunkel, Charles H. Sweeney, Lucile Szczytkowski, Lillian Thow, Goldie Trneny, Clara Trneny, Frank Thorkelson, Hazel Tunajstick, Joseph F. Weintraub, Jacob Wilcox, Estelle Wolfe, Florence Zak, Louis Zipser, Maurice Zoller, Royal J.

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—Class of 1914 Jfrcsljmen Abram, Dorothy Adelman, Rose Annable, Robert Apfel, Bertha Appleby, Margaret Assmus, Fred Aults, Eleanor Barry, Helen Barber, Clarence Bauer, Robert Baxter, Ross Bender, George Bender, William Bergold, Fred Berrenbaum, Lilly Berger, Wililam Bett, Elmer Beyer, Fred Bisig, William Blanchard, Grace Block, Andrew Bomstein, Fannie Bowlin, Truwery Bozuszkiewicz, John T. Brady, Mary Bratburd, Edwin Bratburd, Flora Brown, Louisa Brugge, Irvin Brunner, Otis Buch, Isadore Buehler, Flora Buesch, Lucy Caine, Howard Caldwell, Ruth Champlin, Marion Cohn, Joseph Coll, Yetta Colvin, Vilas Condon, William Crawford, Ora Curphey, Bertha Curtiss, Grace Darnbrook, Henry Delamater, Edward De Vere, Frances Dimendstein, Sam Eoak, Vernice Adelaide Dolezall, Anthony Donberg, Marguerite Dorsey, Florence Dunaysky, Charles Eckerman, Hazel Egleston, Doris Elsoffer, Arthur Euchre, Harvey Evans, Vera Faus, Mildred Fawcett, Hazel Fedcr, Frieda Field, Thos. W. Fischer, Henry Fitzgerald, John Francis Flandera, Frank Floodstrand, Thomas Fornason, Martha Forsberg, Arthur Frankel, Frieda Frash, Kenneth Freed, Jessie Friedman, Celia Froelich, Florence Gaiser, Eleanor Galloway, Hazel Gedecn, Helen Glyn, Thomas Gibbons, John Gibson, Clarence Gilliland, Robert Goldberg, Edward Goldman, Ben Goldman, Helen Goldstein, Samuel Gordon, Anna 84