Commerce High School - Commerce Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

Page 12 text:

10

Page 11 text:

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

Page 13 text:

FACULTY OF THE HIGH SCHOOL OF COMMERCE. Mr. Solomon Weimer, Principal. Mr. S. R. Hoover, Assistant Principal. Baldwin University. B. A.. M. A. Miss Nellie M. Amidon, Assistant Principal. Geneva Normal School. Belmont College, B. A.. M. A. Mr. James S. Curry, Upshur Academy and Normal School. Spencerian Business School. Department of Shorthand. Mr. E. Wilbur Harrison, Pernln Business College. Michigan State Normal School, Shorthand and Typewriting. Mr. Harvey C. Ditmer, Oberlin Business College. Department of Bookkeeping. Mr. J. 0. Gordon, Ashland University. B. K., Penmanship and Business Forms. Mr. J. L. Heald, Indiana State Normal School, Cleveland Law School, Northwestern University, Department of English. Mrs. Lillian R. Pardee, Buchtel College, Boston School of Oratory, English. Mr. Anton Fx. Gehring. Western Reserve University, Ph. B.. Department of Modern Languages. Mr. Joseph M. Johnston, Indiana State Normal School, Indiana University. Department of History of Commerce. Miss Jean Corser, Minneapolis School of Fine Arts, Teachers' College. Columbia University, Department of Applied Arts. Miss Alice Constance Hagan, College for Women. W. R. U.. A. I .. English and Penmanship. Mr. H. T. McMyler, A. B. Western Reserve University, University of Wisconsin. Department of Mathematics. Mr. D. M. Evans, Ohio Wesleyan University. Department of Mathematics and Faculty Coach. Mr. Charles F. Dutton, Jr., Oberlin College. A. B.. Department of Physics and Commercial Geography. Miss Olive Pittis, Valparaiso University, B. S.. Harvard. Western Reserve, and Cornell Universities, English, and Commercial Geography. Mr. John M. Harsh, Ohio State University, A. B., Graduate School, Western Reserve University, A. M.. Department of Chemistry. Miss Mabel D. Ely, Western Maryland College, Westminster. Maryland. Maryland Institute School of Art. Graduate Normal Art and Manual Training Course, Pratt Institute. N. V.. Applied Arts. Mr. Orson E. Warfield, B. P. E., International Y. M. C. A. Training School, Starling. Ohio. Medical School. Department of Hygiene and Physical Culture. Miss Alice Bandeen, Cushing Academy, New Haven Normal School of Gymnastics Department of Physical Culture. Mr. John W. Creig, Rochester University, Vorlea Business College, Penmanship. Mr. Manville, Private Tutors in Music, Music Department Dr. Minna Mary Roliu, Michigan State Normal College. University of Michigan, Department of Biology. Miss Lillian M. Hildreth, Mansfield Normal School. Business course with private tutors. Nine years’ practical business experience. Penmanship. Bookkeeping and Shorthand. Miss Etta Frcedlander, College for Women, W. R. U.. A. B.. University of Chicago. Teachers' College, Columbia University. Mathematics and Commercial Geography. Miss Florence A. Heal, Syracuse University, Teachers' College, Columbia University. New York City. Department of Applied Arts. .Miss S. Gertrude Hadlow, College for Women. Ph. B., Post Graduate Chicago University. English and Mathematics. Mr. Earl Sydney Weber, University of Wisconsin. Department of History and Civics. Miss E. Laura Satava. Secretary. Miss Sophie M. Charvat, Stenographer and Typist. Frederick C. Donberg, Custodian.