Commerce High School - Commerce Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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(Elaas of 1913 T last we have attained the third step in the course offered by the High School of Commerce and there now remains only one more before us. That final step we will tackle in the same way we have the others, in a way for which the Juniors have become noted. Only after the hardest kind of work are we able to proudly call ourselves Juniors. However, we are able to say that all the effort we have put into our work has been amply repaid by the results we have obtained. The fact that we are at last Juniors gives us additional courage and strength and, as a result, we hope that a mark will be established by us that we will be proud of in the future. Our labor in one direction has borne fruit in the shape of great development in athletics and this in turn has made us a big surprise among the older schools. Ours is also the honor of having helped the championship debating team to victory. Our great Debating Team had two members of our class ready and able to devote their time to argument. They held up our standard along these lines, bringing fame to the school and themselves by the manly way in which they accomplished their task. As the boys are expected back again next year the greatest of success is wished them and it is the hope of the school to be again at the head of the race and that we will soon have another cup as a reward for the efforts of the boys. The basket ball team was composed wholly of Juniors and they toiled manfully to turn out the best work that the school has ever known and as a result the team was feared by all the other schools and it finished second in the race for the city championship. As an additional honor the captain was picked for the all-scholastic team. The fact that the team was composed of Juniors is inspiring for they have done so well at the first attempt that it is safe to say they will do better at the second trial. The captain of the foot ball team and most of his men are from the class of 1913 and they will try to return their team a victor. The athletics of the school has been cornered by our class and we are glad to know that it is of so good a quality. The Junior Girls come in for their share of renown, for one of them holds the Typewriting Championship of Cleveland, and it appears as if it will be held by her for some time to come. Their smiling faces attracted many pennies and nickles during the Junior candy sale and helped to swell the amount of profit materially. Several clubs were formed among the girls and they were the means of affording them a little pleasure after the day’s work was finished. Of course the Juniors had to have a dance and it was held in the Gymnasium after school on the 22nd of March. The teachers were invited and with the aid of the boys and girls they had as good a time as any one of us. All forgot school for the time and danced to their heart’s content and after the dance was over every one was able to say that he had had a good time. The mysteries of Shorthand and Chemistry were from the start very enticing and it was not long until we were working away with might and main 103

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to conquer them. But although they were difficult to master, in chemistry class, the first thing that was asked of Mr. Harsh mornings was. “Are we going to have laboratory work, today? We have adopted as our insignia or badge a large Shorthand Book as a background with a pail of 11,0 placed slightly in front of it. The Class has endeavored to establish a record of themselves that will long be remembered and that will cause people to speak of them as a class that tried. They have given the best that was in their power to the school enterprises and it is their wish that other classes may derive pleasure in sharing the victories our class has been so instrumental in gaining. As this Annual goes to print we call ourselves no longer Juniors, but the Class of 1913. LIONEL RUSSON, 1913. Sumurfl—(fllaaa nf 1913 Adelman, Rose Albertson, Isabelle Almassy, Arthur A. Amundsen, Walter Apathy, Elsie Apfel, Bertha Aults, Elenore Barry, Helen Bernstein, Jacob Bender, William Bett, Elwood Bisig, William Bittle, Marie Block, Andrew Bomstein, Fanny Bowles, Edith Brooks, Clara Broz, Eugene Brunner, Elmer C. Burch, Harold J. Bushman. Harold Caine, Howard Camingcovitch, Lena Cole, Catherine Coll. Yetta Colvin, Vilas Crossmeyer, Ida Cullen, Frank Day, Edwin Decker. Dorothy Doak, Vernice Dolezal, Anthony Don berg, Marguerite Donnelly, James Dunbar, Helen Eckstein, Mildred Ewing, Olive Fix, Herbert J. Floodstrand, Thomas Fomason, Martha Frankel, Frieda Friedman, Mildred Froelich, Florence Gairing, Helma Gaiser, Eleanore Gedeon, Helen Oiberman, Himan H. Gilbert, Frank Goldberg, Edward Goldmau. Helen Goldstein, Samuel Gommel, Hilda Gordon, Anna Greenberg, Hyman L. Griffiths, Myron Haag, Walter Haas, Arthur Ilarbaugh. William Hemmerlin, Ruth Herbst, Belle 104