Commerce High School - Commerce Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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GOLDIE THOW “Oh, and her genius put t.o scorn The proudest in the purple born.” HELEN MEYERS “0, true and tried so well and long From very weakness she seemed strong.'' LESTER SMITH When reading back his shorthand notes, His eyes would quite give out, So with his pencil for a cane He’d feel his way about. LOUISE HOEWENER “Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And foresees things, not yet occurred. ROSE RAVITCH “For she was jes’ the quiet kin' Whose natures never vary. Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow hid in Jenooary. ” 30

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OLGA WLECKE So small that in the smallest nook You easily could wedge her— Yet, she quite easily could prove Her individual ledger. OTTO BAKTUNEK Who, when be made our game reports And put in all the capers, Was sorely disappointed ’Cause they knocked us in the papers. AMANDA HEIMBERGER President, the second term Of Kormaw Club was she, And swiftly did the office fill Her mede of dignity. WALTER PETUSKA In missing spelling words, this boy A lasting record made. So—when the “after-school” class met He with much pleasure stayed. FANNIE KLEIN “With eourage, patience and with skill, She carries out the thought ‘I will’.” 29

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EVA HORTON “It's wiser being good than bad— And she is always good. MARIE CASEY Somebody I know Hopes one day for reputation. ’ ’ JOSEPH TRINAJSTIC Morning, evening, noon and nigh!, They praise him, every one. LAURA SATAVA Blue were her eyes like the fairy flax Her cheeks like the'dawn of day. FRIEDA LUCHT The girl, who wrote these verses true, And ne’er complained a bit We hope at least she ’ll please a few, With all this real, fine wit. (The Editors.) 31