Commerce High School - Commerce Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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FRESHMEN CLASS OF 1916. Alliban, Marjorie Baker, Lucille Balukievitz, Adam Bennett, Blanche Billinghurst, George Bodnar, George Brock, Ruth Carlson, Minnie Cohen, Fanny Delaney, Helen Dodd, Elsie Engel. Richard Foote, James Foster, Gladys Graft, Edythe lloffman, Alverda James, Garnet Jennings, Ruth Jenkins Ethel Kinney, Ruth Elements, Mary Koch. Irma Kollie, Julian Kollie, Paul Korahek, Louise Kus, Ladimir Lefkowitz, Matilda Lewis, Gladys Lowe, Ellen McFarland, Doris McHugh. Thomas McIntosh. Eleanor Moore, Alma Nussel. Clements Olson, Helen Oster, Mildred Pauers, Anna Pavalonis, Frank Purina, Alfred R a mage. Bessie Riemer, Edith Rothenbecker, Wilma Runkle, Xadian Schaub, Dorothy Smith, Tom Smolic, Frank Springborn, Ruth Strong, Irene Swaffield, Raymond Teare, Winifred Temple, Wayne Thobaben, Anna Thomas, Celia Thompson, Edna Tobin, John Van de Motter, Josephine Weinberger, Esther White, Carl Wilson, Elbert Wilson, Helen Wolfe, James Wood, Alfred Wysong, Margaret Yahrous, Celia Zwick. Beatrice Zwick, Doris Zwick, Libbie The Kollie boys! Yes, there are two, To tell ’em apart, is a job for you. The teachers have a great time, too, Trying to figure out who’s who. 139

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CLASS HISTORIES CLASS OF 1915. WE entered the East High School of Commerce on September 6, 1911. We will admit we were not taken much with the beauty of our building, but we did not mind a little thing like that; nor did we mind being called “flats.” for “Ignorance is bliss.” During the first few, cold, winter days, our building could not be heated. It was probably because our old-fashioned furnace was rather taken aback by the up-to-date occupants of the building. After our summer vacation most of us came back to school as full-fledged sophomores. Of course, we looked down upon the pupils just entering as mere infants. As we were unable to embarrass these youngsters by showing them the wrong way to the elevator, we contented ourselves with calling them “flats.” After we were back again into the swing of the work, Geometry seemed a trifle more like English than Greek; and Benjamin Franklin a living man; but as for Bookkeeping, the longer we worked at it, the more blots we got on our books. We are becoming quite artistic from the hours we spend in Room Four; but when we are through making mechanical drawings, I think there will not be a sorry one among us. When our report cards are handed out, Oh, how we shudder! It is joy for some and gloom for others. When we get over the shock we have to wait patiently to see if we are on the Honor Roll. To do that, it takes people with two good qualities, good heads and the ability to mind their own business. We now have to borrow a gymnasium from another high school, as our poor, old building could not endure the hardships of having a gym in it another year. Both the boys and the girls have had some very exciting basket-ball games. The boys played a series of games, and you can imagine that they worked hard for the two winning teams were to have a wiener-wurst roast. The boys that won had wieners, milk, biscuits, and a few other delicacies, and then went to the Grand Theatre. Just think! The sophomore girls played a game with the West Glen-ville church, and of course we won. How else could it have been? The younger members of our class gave a play a few weeks ago, which was really very interesting. It was especially so when one boy—tfie only one in the play—forgot what earne next. We had a candy sale on Friday, February 28; and it was certainly a good thing that our Easter vacation followed it, for at the rate the candy was sold, I do not think there would have been many at school 140