Commerce High School - Commerce Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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JULY. 1. “Smore” base ball games with Juniors. Otto Bartunek returns to school. 5. First Senior meeting. 13. Some of Senior class go to Edgewater park for a swim. 14. Asst. Supt. W. E. Hicks gave an interesting talk. 17. Several teachers begin their summer vacation, among them Miss Amidon. 19. Seniors have to wait until the sixth hour for lunch. 21. Haviland Boys’ Orchestra gave several good numbers. 25. Seniors beat Juniors in game of base ball. 26. Kormaw entertains Ecremmoc at Edgewater Park. They serve a lunch “Hull Swell.” 27. Those melancholy days. Rain and more rain. 28. Charles and Sylvia Ludinsky entertain at rhetoricals. Mr. W. F. Eirick talked on New High Level Bridge. 31. Report cards again doled out. AUGUST. 2. Much debating in Senior meeting on proposed picnic. 4. Mr. Hyre talks on “West Side Expo.” 9. Francis Bett and Arthur Thacker make mysterious visits to gym 9th hour. Ecremmoc Club entertains Kormaw Club. 11. Miss Makepeace talked on art of elocution. 18. Typewriting contest. Miss Billenstein wins by narrow margin. 22-23. Exams. 23. Ecremmoc pins chosen. 25. Senior picnic. A cold and rainy day. Eight persons attend. Olive eating race between Roy Curry and Otto Bartunek. FRANCIS BETT. 1911. CALENDAR—FALL TERM. SEPTEMBER. 5. School opens for the new year. And then the verdant Freshman, swaggering Soph; The haughty Junior and the Senior wise, With faltering step, and shining morning face Crept like the snail, unwillingly to school. 6. Books on sale at the office. 7. Same as the Sixth. 10. Because of Saturday and Sunday intermission, several Freshmen were lost. 148

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g 8 (Calpnbor— ummpr Ernn JUNE. 5. Summer School begins. Pupils energetic. 0. Flats everywhere. 9. Introduction to Commercial Law. 14. Juniors beat Seniors in base ball game. Meeting of Ecremraoc and Kormaw Clubs for first time. . Commercial Law again. Seniors consider themselves near lawyers. . Surprise in store for us. Report cards given out. 30. Miss Boltey, a former graduate of the High School of Commerce, sang. 147

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13. First meetings of the Ecremmoc and Kormaw Societies. 14. Victims of initiation appear in red ties and different colored socks. The girls wear tissue paper ribbons. 16. Rally for the foot ball candidates. 18. Merle Yesberger arrives. 20. Senior meeting. Annual Board elected. 21. Mr. Curry has a cold. 22. It’s worse. 26-27-28. Exams. 29. Rhetoricals. Latest hits by Mr. Hoover’s talking machine. Election of officers of Athletic Association. Rally for the game. 30. Foot ball season opens. South 35, Commerce 0. (They played their hardest and then only beat us by 35. OCTOBER. 3. Reports go home. 4. Another Senior meeting. 5. Mr. Ileald has a substitute. 6. She’s still alive. Rhetoricals, Haviland orchestra. 7. Lincoln 44, Commerce 0. 9. The Juniors invade the Senior’s sanctum. Why? (Answer: They have become Seniors.) 10. The Kormaw girls make a great deal of noise. (Practicing for a dialogue.'' 12. Spooks in full play. East 116, Commerce 0. (We aim to please.) 17. Ten deep voiced men were out for the Debating Team. Papa Gehring makes a real, live joke in Spanish. 18. Dance talk in Senior meeting. 20. Rhetoricals. Back to the soil for forty-five minutes. 21. Cleveland Heights 5, Commerce 21. As seen in Room 13.—We 1. 23. The Glee Club sang.—All alone. 24. One of Mr. Gordon’s written lessons. 27. The teachers have a convention, and so do the pupils. 28. West 19, Commerce 5. “Tt might be worse. 31. The Gym. aids entertain. 149