Commerce High School - Commerce Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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NOVEMBER. 2. Business Manager enlivens us all with speeches. 3. SPECIAL—Senior dance and lunch. Chicken. 4. Glenville 5, Commerce 0. “lie who laughs last, laughs best.” 6. The school needed fumigating. Where were you? 7. Election talk. 8. A foot ball game in the dark. St. Ignatius 18, Commerce 2. 10. Kormaw dance for the Ecremmoc and foot ball boys. 11. The Kormaw goes bankrupt 13. It dropped toward zero. Much fire. 16. A visit from the East Siders. The November graduates give an original play. ’Twas good. 21. The graduates received their diplomas. 22-23. Final Exams. 24. Holiday for the teachers. (They mark papers.) 27. A mix-up all ’round. Excused at 11:30. 29. Rhetoricals. Congressman Howland spoke on “Congress”. Foot ball boys make “little speeches” and receive their letters. The Senior class divided between Rooms 6 and 1. (Overcrowded.) 30. Thanksgiving vacation. DECEMBER. 4. Petition asking for the Reunion of the Seniors. (Refused.) 5. Try out for basket ball. 6. Music in the halls at noon forbidden. 7. Great commotion in Annual Board Meeting! (Messrs. Gehring and Grif- fith have a tongue-lashing.) 12. Divers changes made in lockers. 13. Kormaw initiated her new victims. 14. They appear bedecked with court plaster. (Rather cute.) 18. Foot ball boys invited to the Ecremmoc dance. 19. Seniors requested to pay their dues. 20. Motto decided upon. (Suspense ended at last.) 21. The Ecremmoc dance. 22. Heap much trouble. Excused at 11 -.50. And Christmas comes but once a year! 150

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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

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JANUARY. 4. Picture of the entire school taken. Mr. Hoover breaks a few lenses. 5. Basket ball season opens. Commerce 16, West 7. (First Victory this season.) 8. The Commerce smile becomes a grin. Faculty picture taken. More broken lenses. 9. Zero weather again. 10. Ecremmoc meeting. The Kormaw Club had Some music. 11. Mr. Hoover takes his class to Halle Bros. (It beat Mother Goose “all hollow.”) 12. Scotch Rhetoricals, with Dr. Meldrum as lecturer. Best ever. COMMERCE 24, Glenville 8. (Second V-I-C-T-O-R-Y). 15. Basket ball boys got their sweaters. (Girls wear them.) 16. Freshy caught in the attempt to wear out one of the Remington machines. 19. East 12, Commerce 25. DEBATE. Commerce 2, Glenville 1. (TWO in ONE day.) 20. Senior candy sale. 23. Another of Mr. Gordon’s written lessons. 25. Florence Lamb loses 17 cents and four car tickets. (Therefore let us weep.) 26. Commerce 11, South 9. Fifth victory. 31. Announcements decided upon for Commencement. Nutting told to stop talking. FEBRUARY. 5. Youngsters galore make their debut into High School life. 6. New Seniors object to our calling the Flats, youngsters. Henceforth— infants. 7. Two Seniors' places at lunch usurped by the new comers. 9. Mr. Evans makes a speech, first hour. Commerce 11, Central 5. (Sixth victory.) 12. The Junior candy sale. Great demand for the water boy. 20-21. Exams. 22. Nine rahs for Washington. 23. Mr. Gehring loses seven of the fifty-seven varieties. 26. Several Seniors clean their desks. 28. Mr. Curry has another cold, and little white pills. 29. Leap year party. 151