Commerce High School - Commerce Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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FRIENDSHIP. t'RIENDSHIP is the most valued of all our possessions, one that we some-times give without thought, but which we work for, above all other things, and which we prize the most highly of all the world’s treasures. What is more valued than a good friend; one to whom we may go in time of need and find a helping hand and a loving smile? Be a friend to every one. for it costs you nothing, while you may be giving the recipient of your friendship a powerful and effective uplifting force that is greater and more to be sought for than all the riches in the world. True friendship does not consist of a smile and some false but high-sounding praise, nor does it consist of a handshake that is not given with a right goodwill. It consists of the greatest love and the greatest help that we can give our fellow beings. It consists of the most exemplary faithfulness, not the fickleness that is so often found in human beings, fickleness which causes them to forget the one who has helped them through countless hardships. A friend who will survive the test of having one whom he respects put through a crucial trial and still not waver in his support of him, is to be counted among one’s most precious possessions. Forget not that loving words cost but little and that they make the weak and weary stronger for this great battle of life. Think not that because they are easily uttered they are trities, for they are the backbone of many a person's success, and have been, and always will be, a lifting force that is badly needed by more than one discouraged person. A few words well chosen and spoken from the heart will help one farther onward in this great world than a handful of money. Friendship pays bigger dividends than the most opulent of trusts. Some may consider it a good thing to be rich, but it Is by far better to be the beloved of many and poor than to he rich and loved by few. It has often been said that friends are more to be desired than gold, and we will find in after life that this is the most true of all sayings. Be yourself of snch a disposition that people will seek you out to make you their friend. lie not spiteful, not arrogant; for you will sometime or other be badly in need of the friendship of the one whom you haughtily looked down upon. Be always willing to associate with the one who may uot be of your high rank and think of the time when you were where he is now. Riches are hut hollow possessions without happiness, and who ever attained happiness without having gained the friendship of his fellowmen? Be not so superior that you are in a class by yourself, for you will soon find that you are indeed in a class all by yourself and without a friend to whom you may go for counsel. For he, who is above all around him. will soon find that friends come not to him who has thoughts for no one but himself. It is friendship that we crave, friendship that makes this life worth while, so be cheery and have a smile for the down-trodden as well as for those who have attained life's pinnacle. LIONEL RUSSON. 8

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ANNUAL BOARD. 1913. Lionel Russon ... Sarah Milstein Henry Reich....... Albert Mendelson . Alice Merkt....... Dorothy Decker .. Frank Cullen...... William Hilberer . Elma Mantey....... Flora Bratburd ... John Norris....... Margaret Breen .. Charles Saunders . .............Editor-in-Chief ...........Assistant Editor ............Literary Editor ..........Business Manager Assistant Business Manager ......Advertising Manager ............Athletic Editor ................Joke Editor .................Art Editor ......Junior Representative ......Junior Representative ..Sophomore Representative .. .Freshman Representative Faculty Advisers: Miss Amidon Miss Corser Mr. Heald 7

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THE PRINCIPAL’S WORD. AGAIN the end of another year is at hand. Absorbed in our work the years pass as months, the seasons come and go with incredible swiftness. We are reminded that this year closes the fourth year of our existence as a school. In August, 1912, we graduated a class, most-of whom had completed our four year course in three years by attending with regularity the summer terms. Again in February, 1913, another small class was graduated, composed of those who had attended in part the summer terms, and thus completed the course in three and a half years. And now in June, there will be graduated the largest class in the history of the school, composed largely of those who entered in the fall of 1909 at the opening of the new School of Commerce, and attended the four full years. As we carry forward our work and send our graduates out into the business world, we are more and more impressed with the broadness of our task. We are preparing boys and girls for the widest passible usefulness in life. The lines of future activity are not few but many. The High School of Commerce prepares directly for all kinds of commercial occupations. Its courses are so planned and all subjects are so related as to contribute to this end. Its aim is to fit young men and women to become bookkeepers and accountants. stenographers and typists, bank clerks and office clerks, salesmen and saleswomen, secretaries and managers, commercial designers, advertisers, and purchasing agents. It prepares young women for the Normal School as well as for business, and enables young men to organize and conduct business enterprises on their own account. A short course in bookkeeping and stenography is no longer adequate preparation for business in these exacting times, and a guarantee of a “position” when such a course is completed is not as satisfactory as conscious ability to hold a good position when once obtained, and the consequent assurance of promotion because of thorough preparation for such work. If a pupil does not intend to go to college, he should have some special training which will give to his services a marketable value when he completes his high school course. If he enters business without sufficient preparation, he belongs to the class of unskilled labor, and when once so classed, it may require years of effort to overcome the handicap. A pupil may complete the four years' course in three years if he enters in June and goes four summer terms, or he may gain a half year by attending two summer terms. Besides training in technical business lines, the pupils receive a broad training in reasoning, exactness, alertness, practical investigation, culture, good citizenship, etc., through history, mathematics, science, art. and sociological subjects. While conscious of our progress along the lines originally mapped out in the organization of this school, we seek always to have an open mind, and welcome any criticism and suggestions looking towards improvement in the conduct of the school. S. WEIMER. 9