Commerce High School - Commerce Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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THE KORMAW SOCIETY. WE girls of the Senior Class have the largest and perhaps the most important club in the school. It is called the Kormaw Society. Any senior girl is privileged to join this club, and we find that none need urging; even though they are scared to death at the initiation, the novices have passed the ordeal with real American grit. Meetings are held every second Wednesday either in the auditorium of the Carnegie Library or in one of our school rooms, and these meetings are not altogether devoted to business. We have programs in which the girls are the entertainers, and, consequently, we have discoverd much musical and oratorical talent. At present our club has sixty-nine members, which include nearly all of the senior girls. The officers consist of a president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, and sergeant-at-arms, the latter expends all her efforts in preserving order. In addition to these officers we have an executive committee of five members, who have arranged interesting and varied programs, dances and entertainments. The members of this committee are the ones that must bear all the blame if anything goes wrong in the club. The past year has been one of the most successful in the club’s whole experience. Progressive measures for running the society have been adopted, and in every instance success has been the result. With her unfailing supply of suggestions and new ideas, our faculty adviser, Miss A mi don, has been of unlimited help to us. In the last semester, the value of selecting nominees by commission was most decidedly shown. The work of the society has never lagged, and whenever we have advanced we have been able to correlate the new with the old so readily that the union has been perfect. Our club, which was organized in 1909. at the time the school was first opened, has each year so increased in numbers and popularity that we anticipate for it a very bright future. DOROTHY DECKER. FALL TERM OFFICERS President...........................Anna Oberg Vice-President ................ Dorothy Decker Secretary ............................... Irene Putnam Treasurer ............................. Ethel Fenwick Sergeant-at-Arms............ Eleanor Matchett SPRING TERM OFFICERS President ................... Irene Putnam Vice-President............... Elsie Apathy Secretary.....................Helma Gairing Treasurer ................... Hazel Reilley Sergeant-at-Arms..........Mildred Friedmau EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. SPRING TERM Libbie Rivkin Sarah Milstein Dorothy Decker Ruth E. Smith 65

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THE ECREMMOC LITERARY SOCIETY. THE Ecremmoc literary Society was founded by the boys of the class of 1910. It is exclusively for senior boys. The first meeting of the society this year was held early in October. All the new members were initiated the latter part of that month and the club ran on smoothly until the basket-ball season started. Then, as most of the basketball players belonged to the Ecremmoc and, as a great deal of interest was centered in this sport, the boys could not regularly attend the meetings, consequently, the work of the Ecremmoc lagged for a time. However, after the basket ball season was over, the boys reorganized. On March sixth, new officers were elected, and they put their strength and will with the Ecremmoc; thus the club was put on a sound basis. To make up for the time that was lost during the basket-ball season and to discuss all the work of the club, meetings were held twice each week for the following three weeks. The club picture was taken on March sixteenth, and all but three of the boys showed up; this was very good considering the number belonging. On April ninth, another initiation was held so that the total number of members reached thirty-five. The club entertained the Kormaw Society, and the boys and girls certainly enjoyed themselves. To Mr. Gehring must go much of the credit for the success of the club, for he spent many hours weekly with the boys, trying his utmost to make the club a success. May the classes that follow us appreciate his efforts as much as we do and also uphold the pace set by the class of ’13. LOUIS ZAK. OFFICERS OF THE ECREMMOC SOCIETY. FALL TERM President ...... Vice-President .. Secretary....... Treasurer........ Sergeant-at-Arms . Harold Donberg ...... Carl Stark Raymond Reehorst .....Henry Reich Edward Kipfstuhl SPRING TERM President ...... Vice-President .. Secretary ) Treasurer ) Sergeant-at-Arms . Eugene Broz Frank Cullen --- Louis Zak Joseph Smolik EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Edwin Day William Hilberer William, McMillen