Commerce High School - Commerce Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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No effort has been lost which can help in any way to make this Annual a credit to the school. A second feature of this year’s management is a Finance Committee composed of the Editor-in-chief, Business Manager and Mr. Gehring as faculty adviser. The work of this committee has been to pass on all receipts and payments of cash, and through the issuing of triple receipts, it has maintained a complete check on all transactions. The school, as a whole, has given hearty support in their ready subscriptions and copy, conditions foretell that this co-operation will make this Annual one second to none of its class, a record of which any student of the High School of Commerce may be proud, a register of the words and deeds of our schoolmates: those little remembrances which in after years will recall to our minds the past and happy days of our lives spent at the old school, The High School of Commerce. THOMAS V. MURPHY, Editor-in-chief. 01fr Ifrinripal’a ffinrfc THE appearance of this Annual marks the close of the third year of the High School of Commerce. Compared with the preceding years, it is the best of all. It has been a year of quiet and earnest work. Profiting by the experience of these years, we arc learning (both teachers and pupils) how best to economize our time and energy, and how best to pursue our studies in order to promote efficiency in our preparation for a business life. At the end of the first year of our existence a class of 35 seniors was graduated. These students had but one year in the High School of Commerce, having previously taken three years’ work in the commercial course of the academic high schools of the city. During the second year two classes were graduated, numbering 62. These boys and girls are now occupying responsible positions in various business houses of the city. Those graduating this year are more nearly the real product of our own school. By the latter part of August a considerable number of students who entered this school from the Grammar schools, three years ago, will finish the course. By attending the summer terms, they have been enabled to complete a Four years’ course in three years. Four classes, numbering 94 students, will have graduated within the present year, making a total of 191 since the organization of the school. With our cramped quarters, the graduation of this comparatively large number of students makes possible the admission of a larger number of entering pupils to take their places. Were it not for these frequent graduations and the all year round school, it would not have been possible to accommodate all who have sought admission. 10

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For the associate editors there are two Juniors, one Sophomore and one Freshman, who are elected by their respective classes on this board. These editors are counselled by several faculty advisers, whose help has gone far toward making our Annuals such successes. The Annual Board, elected by the class of nineteen hundred and ten, was directed by Edmund Kirby as Editor-in-chief, and Arthur J. Buzek as Business Manager. This board held regular meetings throughout the year at which all matters pertaining to the Annual were decided definitely. After several months of hard, patient work the first Annual went to the press on May the nineteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, and was ready for distributing a week before the vacation commenced. The total number of Annuals published was three hundred (300), the cost of which was entirely covered by the price of subscriptions and advertisements. This Annual proved such an attraction that the class of 1911 knuckled down to edit one that would far excel it in every possible way. As a start toward this goal, the second Annual Board met on November the ninth, nineteen hundred and ten ready for business. George Groman served as Editor-in-chief, and George Leopold as Business Manager. The plan of directing business was similar to that of the previous board, but the total sales of the Annual were increased to about three hundred and fifty (350) owing to the growth of the school. Subscriptions, advertisements and candy sales contributed toward off-setting the expenses of publication, and the second Annual was published without debt. The swift pace set by our predecessors has excited in the Class of 1912 a desire, and more than that, an assurance, that the Annual published by this class shall maintain the pace set by those of the past two years. The present staff under the leadership of Thomas V. Murphy as Editor-in-chief, and Mar-gret Grosser as Business Manager, has attempted several features unthought of by the former boards. The plan of this board is to run the Annual without advertisements, to have the picture of every student in the school appear in the Annual with his class-mates, and to establish payments for subscriptions on the installment plan. These innovations will tend to increase the sale of the book to a figure far exceeding those of former years. The good work accomplished by the two previous boards makes it plainly seen that to accomplish what wc desire will be a Herculean task. As the East Commerce, an overflow school of Commerce High, a school composed of over one hundred first and second year pupils, was opened this year, the present board decided to have that school represented on the Annual Board. A representative known as the Assistant Manager for East Commerce, was elected by the student body of that school and has been present at all of the Annual Board meetings. In this way East Commerce is kept well posted as to the progress of the Annual and is given a vote in all matters pertaining to this publication. 9

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As it is, the present building and its three portable buildings, have proved inadequate, and a branch school was opened on the East side where 130 first and second year pupils are enrolled. The new building, so obviously needed, and so long promised, has again been delayed ou account of the lack of funds for building purposes, owing, it is said, to the Smith one per cent law which arbitrarily limits the amount of money to be spent for all purposes, including public schools. Our immediate hope is the issuance of bonds to be voted upon by the people this month (May). It is earnestly hoped that the voters of Cleveland will understand and appreciate the necessity of this action and will put their seal of approval upon what seems to be the only method of relief for the present situation. In the meantime we shall keep on doing our work as efficiently as we know how, constantly looking forward to the time when we can be housed in a building specifically adapted to our work and sufficiently ample for all our needs. Aifttteonj (Committer Siijli rijool of (Comutrrrr, 1912 Mr. F. F. Prentiss, Chairman. Chas. E. Adams ........................................Cleveland Hardware Co. O. J. Fish ...........................Secretary, American Ship Building Co. E. W. Fisher....................................President, E. W. Fisher Co. n. E. Hackenberg ............................Treasurer, National Carbon Co. S. U. Halle.....................................President, Halle Brothers Co. Munson Havens .............................Secretary, Chamber of Commerce. W. S. Hayden ............................................Hayden, Miller Co. Chas. S. Howe .....................President, Case School of Applied Science. John G. Jennings ............................Treasurer, Lamson Sessions Co. George W. Kinney ...........................................Kinney Levan. W. G. Leopold...............Secretary-Treasurer, Henry Leopold Furniture Co. Bascom Little ........................................... Citizens’ Building. Malcolm L. McBride ..........................Treasurer, Root McBride Co. David E. McLean .............................President, Herrman-McLean Co. Harry New ..................Secretary-Treasurer, Landesman llirscheimer Co. Chas. A. Nesbit,-----Secretary, Commercial Travelers’ Life Accident Ass’n. Stephen L. Pierce .........................................S. L. Pierce Co. George A. Rudd ........................Secretary-Treasurer, Chandler Rudd Co. Lyman H. Treadway ......................Vice-President, Peck, Stow Wilcox Co. ll