Commerce High School - Commerce Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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Sfjr Kxirmatn “0, be my friend and teach me to be thine.” SUCH is the underlying basis on which the girls of Commerce High build their characters. To so live that one can say, ‘‘I have no enemies,” is no longer to be considered as wonderful as formerly, consequently, we have organizations springing up all over the country similar to the Kormaw. The purpose of the club is three-fold: First: To promote friendship. Second: To establish a high standard of morals throughout the entire student body. Third: To WORK. Pleasure might be added as a fourth, but that follows work as naturally as the night the day. We have had our successes and our failures. Among the former may be numbered all our programs and the dances we arranged for the boys. The one big failure we encountered was the method of initiation, in which the new arrivals were made the victims of considerable rudeness and much peppery water. This old style has been displaced by one much more dignified and attractive; one that inspires the new comer with earnestness and a desire to begin life properly by preparing to work; to work hard, not only for the amusement of her associates, but also for her own betterment. The Society pin has also undergone a change. It is now of Roman gold, bearing a letter K, so arranged as to harmoniously balance the beautiful daisy, whose graceful petals droop over the upper right hand corner, symbolic of innocence and constancy. 77

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We are not members during our school career only, but as members of the Alumnae, we may demand admittance to any of the meetings without fearing in the least the sergeant-at-arms. Miss Amidon is “One of the Girls,” as well as helper and adviser and as she will probably help the succeeding members over the stiles which we have successfully left behind, the Kormaw Girls pledge her to “let the good work go on.” Our society has so brilliant a future that in the years to come, when sweet remembrances softly steal into our drowsy thoughts, we shall know that others have been welcomed to its embrace and have gone out better and wiser into the hard, busy world. FRIEDA LUCHT, 1912. GMfirmi of tlje ICxtrmam ortetg SPRING TERM. President...........................Florence Lunte Vice-President ...........Christine Eglcston Secretary ..........................Florence Reilley Treasurer.............................Esther Crowe Sergeant-at-Arras.....................Bertha Kramer FALL TERM. President........ Vice-President .. Secretary ....... Treasurer........ Sergeant-at-Arms .....Tillie Weiss ......Eva Smill ..Caroline Jarus ..Sophie Charvat Florence Ilcupel WINTER TERM. President..................Amanda Ileimberger Vice-President ...............Frieda Lucht Secretary.....................Sarah Yoelson Treasurer.....................Pearl Delahunt Sergeant-at-Arms ...........Ethel Rosenberg SPRING TERM. President .....................Helen Meyers Vice-President...................Goldie Thow Secretary......................Margret Grosser Treasurer .....................Emma Appleby Sergeant-at-Arms ..............Ruth Osborne 78