Commerce High School - Commerce Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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RUBY BOWMAN. A quiet girl, and bashful, too, Is this Ruby bright and true; Her work she does with all her might And never tires from morn till night. RUTH BURGER. Sunny bit of God’s creation, Fond of good for its own sake,— Vivid her imagination, Brightness, all her life she’ll make. RUTH HERSCHOWITZ. Though troubles falls from her like rain from a duck,” She’s often complaining about her hard luck. She's lucky all right, without any doubt; But simply wants something to talk about. HERBERT HENRICHS. He is a boy of sweet sixteen, A tall and stately lad. And by his ag , ’tis plainly seen, That school work is his fad. HELEN DUDASH. This little girl, so jolly and gay, With eyes that sparkle and shine, Believes in enjoying herself all the day And in making her friends feel fine. 18

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ant part in making this open house a success. We performed experiments in chemistry, aped Daniel Webster by debating in our English classes and helped in other lines of work. The Junior girls were in evidence that night, when the Seniors and the Juniors played a game of basket-ball. But the days grew into weeks, the weeks into months, and soon vacations arrived. We were now no longer common, ordinary Juniors but SENIORS. As we walked in the halls now, everybody had to give way to us; we were Seniors and had a great many weighty subjects on our mind; we could not demean ourselves by moving aside. We were so important that it was great favor to receive a look from us. One permanent effect of our new dignity was a general run on the hat stores in the vicinity of our school. Each boy had to invest in a larger hat, and each girl dressed her, hair in a more dignified manner, that is, farther skyward. These mysterious symptoms rapidly disappeared, as is always the case in a disease of this kind, that comes to every person in high school; but ours was only a mild case, we suffered no ill effects. We now' became social leaders; we had several parties and a formal dance. All who attended these affairs confessed in a very enthusiastic and convincing way that “this w’as the best time they ever had.” This seems to be a favorite expression with some people, but in this instance it really was the best time we ever had. Some of the teachers of our school called several dances at these affairs wrestling matches, but they were wrong, we were only taking our daily course in gymnastics as prescribed by A. Nut. (This gentleman is well known; he is most prominent in Newburg, Ohio, where he is now residing in a grand brick building with an elaborate iron fence around it.) But let us come back to earth and imagine ourselves in a Senior class meeting. No, let us not, it is too painful. Just imagine a chorus of voices ranging from high soprano to deep bass, all trying to talk at once, and you have an idea of the situation. Mr. Gehring has confessed, however, that we were the most businesslike class of any that he has been connected with. The wonder is what could the preceding classes have been like? We elected our class day speakers at one of these meetings, after much discussion as to their finer qualities and merits. After hearing them Class Night, we believe wfe did not make a mistake in our choice. Now comes the most important event of the year, in fact the most important of our whole school life. It will mean going from school out into the business world for most of us. It is commencement. It can rightly be called “commencement,” for it will be the commencement of our life struggle to win success. No'more will we have any teacher to guide us; we must strike out for ourselves; we must work out our own destiny. On that occasion we will receive a testimonial of our work for these four pleasant years. We shall no longer enjoy the spirit of school life; we may be scattered to every corner of the earth, but the memory of those years will always remain with us as the best part of our life. RALPH MULLEN. 17

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MARY TODD. A pleasure-hunter small and great, Surely you should see her skate! At all the boys she will not nod. But Harold has caught our Mary Todd. CARL GROTH. In baseball he ’most always shines, For he hits the ball at opportune times. As he scores in baseball with the mit, So with the girls he makes a hit. CELIA FRIEDMAN. Celia Friedman is a girl who does not talk much during recitation time. She works hard for what she knows and stores away everything for future use. EDNA SCHWARTZ. A quiet girl with eyes so blue, Who studies hard and long. Her blushes she cannot subdue, And, so, takes them along. MARGARET MROHALY. This brown-eyed girl of whom I speak, With smiling lips and rosy cheek, Is quite demure, so people say. But no she isn’t—for she is gay. 19