Commerce High School - Commerce Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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Kepke, Esther Kerst, Verna Kireher, Elsie Kleiman, Marie Kobabe, Berenice Kohl. Edna Kulka, Steven Lane, Marie Layford, Elmer Lepole, Helen Levin, Kate Le Vere, Hazel Lipstein, Harry Lisy, Helen Mackey, Clare Maeeker, Minnie Mahnke, Malinda Mangan, Joseph Manheim, Florence McAleer. Margaret MeCardle, Charles McGrath, Edith McManamon, Joseph McLeod, Bacil Meese, Florence Meier, Florence Mendelson, Isadore Mercer, Clare Meyer, Albert Min to, Leon Mitchell, May Mizenko, Anna Monahon, John Morgenstern, Margarite Moritz, Reuben Morris, Sylvester Motto, Charles Murphy, Leonard Nabring, Edwin Namen, Jacob Nerad, Otto Newman, Gertrude Noderer, Esther O’Malley, Agnes Opper, Gussie Owen, Hattie Paige, Ralph Pellon, George Pesicka, Valerian Pesta, Jerry Plummer, Charles Reap, Thomas Schad, George Sehoenbeck, Herbert Schnittker, Myrtle Schultz, Florence Schuman, Edna Scott, Helen Sohechter, Arthur Simon, Frauces Strachovsky, Irene Smalheer, Martin Smith, Cornelius Smith, Dorothy Smith, Janett Spero, Rose Stanton, Mary Stark, William Stiefel, Donald Stiel, Leo Stockhaus, Lorenz Sturges. Harvey Summers, Helen Swogger, Ross Tractmaun, Anna Trcister, Elsie Thunhorst, Leonhard' Ilobkin, Morris Tomko, Frank Unger, Eva Wachs, Elizabeth Warshawsky, Jeannette Weber, Myrtle Weil, Leo Weiss, Ella Weiss, Malvina Werner, Emma Williams, Marie Wronna, Walter Zaehelmayer, Ottilie Zell, Blanche Zidd, Joe 112

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East Sjigli rljool tif (ftmttmme it TTELLO, there! Why. I haven’t seen you in a long time! Say, I’m going n to graduate next June, and I don't know what high school to go to. Where do you go? It’s that little one way out in the East End, isn’t it?” “Yes, it’s the East High School of Commerce, or the ‘little one way out in the East End,’ as you call it; but although it may be small, probably the smallest high school in the city, every student in it thinks it by far the best.” “Tell me all about your school, from the day you started, until now, will you? That may be the very school I want to go to, after all.” “This little frame building on Moulton Avenue, a rather muddy street on rainy days, was made into the East High School of Commerce on the fifth of September, nineteen hundred eleven. An iron fence surrounds the rather small yard, which has but little grass in it, and a narrow board walk leads up to the door of the school. The building has eight large, bright rooms, six of which are used as class rooms. One of the remaining two was transformed into a gymnasium, the other is our so-called assembly hall.” •“There are about one hundred and thirty boys and girls in the school, and nearly all know one another. There are five teachers, whom all know.” “During the cold winter months it was with great difficulty that our building was kept warm; the rooms would not or could not be heated; one or two days they let us go home. You know, we wouldn’t mind if those days would come quite often. For a while wc had a great deal of trouble with the bells. But they are fixed now so that we can hear them without difficulty. For a number of weeks after the opening of school, we had no lunch room, so every one had to carry his lunch and eat it in the school room. We now have a lunch room, however, where, if we wish, wc can buy our lunches, although it is in a separate building from the school.” “At Christmas time we had a short and successful program in our assembly hall. On the fourteenth of February we had a candy sale. We raised a fair sum of money, part of which we gave toward publishing the Annual, the balance we used for buying pictures for the class rooms. On Thursday, March twenty-eighth, we had another entertainment in Rosedale Auditorium, for the purpose of buying more pictures. One day, the West Commerce Orchestra came over to our school and played for us. They really have a very good orchestra, but it won’t be long before ours will be just as good.” “We all have happy days, and sad ones, days that go well and days that don’t, but we all like East Commerce very well, so well in fact, that one girl came near spending the night there.” “Well, I know where I’m going to school.” “Where?” To the best school in Cleveland.” “Good for you. Now he sure not to change your mind between now and September.” “I should say not. Nothing could change my mind about ‘the little school way out in the East End.’ ” ANNA McKEON, 1915, East Commerce. 114