Commerce High School - Commerce Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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suffer for lack of opportunity, or have its development arrested by lack of adequate housing or equipment. Our needs are too obvious, our claims are too just to need any campaign of education to convince the general public or the educational authorities of the justice of our cause; nor is it necessary to resort to any cheap political tactics to impress upon those in authority the need of early action. But great as is our need, and however unfortunate the neglect in providing relief may be, it is far better, in our judgment, to endure disappointment and deprivation than for us as teachers, pupils or parents to resort to any clamorous and un-American methods of arousing public indignation against the regularly constituted authorities, because they have not promptly granted our request for immediate action. If the erection of a new building for the High School of Commerce is dependent upon public agitation of this sort, inspired and directed by the principal and teachers of this school through its patrons, we will go without a new building. Obedience and loyalty to constituted authority is of more value to a community than imposing piles of brick and mortar. Happily I do not believe that resort to any unusual or extreme methods is necessary, or will in any degree advance our prospects for a new building. I have too much faith in the saving sense of the good people of this prosperous city to believe that they will not support any reasonable measures to provide revenues necessary for the erection of a new building for the High School of Commerce, to the end that the patrons of this school may be provided with facilities for their work equal to those enjoyed by the other Technical and Academic schools of the city. We ask for no advantages not enjoyed in like degree by the patrons of the other high schools. We believe the Board of Education stands ready to take the necessary action when ways and means can be found to make such action possible. We put our trust in the justice of our cause and we wait in faith the coming of the better day. S. WEIMER. 10

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“THE ANNUAL MESSAGE.” When school days we have left behind, And serious thoughts on work have bent. Memories clear shall flash to mind Of four years’ time at school well spent. Then, in this book a record true, Of our successful Senior year We’ll find. Our acts we’ll scan anew, And live them o'er with smile or tear. LELAND WISEMAN. FIVE YEARS OLD. THE HIGH SCHOOL OF COMMERCE closes the fifth year of its existence with the end of the present term. During these five years the number of students has been nearly doubled. We now have OVER EIGHT HUNDRED enrolled in the two schools, despite the fact that our facilities for properly taking care of these increasing numbers are grossly inadequate. Notwithstanding the lack of proper equipment and sufficient room for carrying on our work, we believe that progress has been made and that the year just closing has been the most satisfactory year of our existence. As teachers and pupils we are, alike, coming to have a better understanding and a better appreciation of our work. Then too, there are indications that relief will be provided ere long which encourages us to our best efforts. Recently at our suggestion the Board of Education appointed an Advisory Committee similar to the Committee that aided in the establishment of this school. We are pleased to see upon this new Committee the names of several gentlemen who rendered such excellent service in the organization of the High School of Commerce. We welcome with these the new members who, we feel assured, will interest themselves in the welfare of our school. We are looking to this Committee for valuable assistance along several lines among which may be mentioned, (1) In connecting the work of the school more closely with the business needs of the city; (2) In planning a way by which part time employment while attending school may be made more effective; and (3) In devising some way by which the necessary funds can be obtained to make possible the erection of a new building which will adequately care for our needs. We cannot allow ourselves to believe that an institution so admirably conceived to meet the business needs of Cleveland and which is so successfully carrying out the intentions of its founders will be permitted to o

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ADVISORY COMMITTEE, HIGH SCHOOL OF COMMERCE, APPOINTED BY THE BOARD OF EDUCATION ON MARCH 16, 1914. S. H. Halle........................................The Halle Bros. Co. Elliott H. Whitlock ........................The National Carbon Co. Warren S. Hayden ................................Hayden, Miller Co. C. J. Neal .........................The Neal Fireproof Storage Co. Richard Feiss ..............................The Joseph Feiss Co. Geo. W. Kinney .............................The Kinney Levan Co. F. F. Prentiss .................................................Retired C. A. Vogt .........................The American Steel Wire Co. Lyman H. Treadway ........................Stowe, Peck Wilcox Co. H. Austin Aikens....................The Western Reserve University Evan H. Hopkins .. ..............................................Lawyer Chas. S. Howe.......................Case School of Applied Science C. W. Luetkemeyer .............The Lockwood-Luetkemeyer-Henry Co. Edward B. Greene ...........................The Cleveland Trust Co. Rev. Dan F. Bradley.................Pilgrim Congregational Church THE SENIORS’ OATH, HIGH SCHOOL OF COMMERCE. (Founded on the Athenian Oath.) WE will never perpetrate, by any act of disloyalty, dishonesty or cowardice, a misdemeanor, which will reflect upon our school; we will strive to practice to nearest perfection the teachings so forcefully and comprehensively expounded by our teachers; we will assist to the extent of our powers the expeditious fulfillment of the plan to secure for Commerce the much-needed, new, up-to-date and spacious building; we will uphold the ideals, the dignity, the leadership and the popularity of this institution, and inculcate in the minds of the new students the beneficial advantages and manly necessity of school-spirit and school-duty; we will endeavor to our utmost to instigate respect, obedience and reverence for our superiors. Thus in all these ways we will transmit the High School of Commerce, a greater, better and more beautiful institution than it was transmitted to us. Recognizing that we are deeply indebted for the culture and enlightenment we have here received, we are in duty bound to e ert our sincerest efforts to advance the prospect of our school and set the gold and white banner as a standard of a progressing institution in whose footsteps other institutions with our purpose, will follow. MAX NEWBERGER, ’14. n