Commerce High School - Commerce Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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THE GLEE CLUB DANCE. DURING the usual confusion which results from the relating of thrilling holiday experiences, invitations were issued for the Glee Club Dance. This event proved that our fun was not at an end as some had supposed. After a week of mingled anxiety and suspense, punctuated by whispered confidences concerning “Thursday,” the afternoon of January eight arrived. Those young gentlemen who were the fortunate possessors of invitations, together with several members of the faculty, were received by the girls, introduced in a jolly informal manner, and urged to join in the fun. To begin the afternoon’s frolic, the members of the club chose partners for the Grand March. Our president, Miss Evylene Young, with her partner, led about thirty-five couples through many interesting maneuvers. A programme which included only the old dances followed this excellent beginning. We were fortunate in obtaining the services of Mr. Courtney Turney, a graduate of Commerce, who, with his splendid rendering of dance music, made the evening a success. Appropriately, at five o’clock, refreshments, consisting of ice cream with Five O’clock Teas, were served. After another half-hour of general merry-making, the strains of “Home, Sweet Home,” warned us that our good time was at a close. NELLE PALMER, ’14. THE KORMAW INFORMAL PARTY. THURSDAY, December eleven, nineteen hundred thirteen, was a red-letter day in the calendar of the Ecremmoc Club. On that day the members of the Kormaw Society were their hostesses at an informal afternoon party in our “gym.” The party was attended by more boys than usual, because everybody wanted to get some additional practice in dancing before the Senior Formal Dance. The first few couples that danced, wanted a One-Step, but the floor was very slippery, and one couple seemed so bent on sitting down in unexpected places rather suddenly that this caused the other people to return to the old-fashioned dances, and these, everybody enjoyed. The Executive Committee served refreshments so admirably that they were pronounced most capable experts in the catering line. They were assisted by Ralph Mullen, and as the girls saw him break all records (by eating four pieces of ice cream and twenty-nine crackers while helping [?]), they congratulated one another that they had only one outside helper. Everybody had an agreeable and delightful time. When, however, the boys insisted upon finding out how many dances the Kormaw Society could give in a month, they were sadly disappointed with the knowledge that Kormaw dances are limited. FLORA BRATBURD. ’14. 03

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is so desirable that this beginning should be the foundation of a permanent boys' musical organization for high class vocal training. Many compliments were expressed for the grace and skill with which Miss Hoover swung the Indian Clubs. This is a species of physical training which is in no way detrimental to girls, but quite beneficial in adding to grace and health. Ye Menne Syngers’ Quartette has been on our concert program three times and received a hearty welcome, responding to several encores. Nothing on the program was given more interested attention nor more hearty applause than the whistling solo of Miss Morton. Her pleasing personality and her excellence of skill entitle her to a place among the first whistlers on the public platform. The rendition of the orchestral numbers surpassed all previous efforts of that organization and set a new record for future emulation. From the ragtime of “Too Much Mustard,” voted by the school, to the climax of the evening in the “SemiVamide Overture,” there was a swing and snap seldom equalled by amateur players. The “Hungarian Dance” showed careful training in the response to the baton, as did also the Andante from the “Surprise Symphony.” It is not much of an exaggeration to say that during the playing of the overture no member of the orchestra and very few in the audience retained any consciousness of things mundane. We “rode on the clouds of harmony and drank deep draughts of the nectar of melody.” THE HIGH SCHOOL OF COMMERCE ORCHESTRA. Director—S. R. Hoover. First Violin. Erwin Sauernheimer John Weizer Lulu Heuer Isadore Samuels Betty Chlad Hazel Stevens Vladimir Tuma Marguerite Clarke Second Violins. Helen Mulac Abraham Schochtovitz Herbert Warnsman Benjamin Kasner Frank Pavilonis Violoncello. G. R. Montgomery Blanche Caldwell Dorothy Kindler Mandolin. Olive Howie Bass. Edith Caldwell First Clarinet. R. L. White Second Clarinet. Kenneth Whiteley Charles Schulman First Flute. F. R. Witte Second Flute. Roy Pelton First Comet. H. T. McMyler Fred Bergold 02 Second Comet Lawrence Brennan Ferdinand Meier Trombone. H. C. Ditmer 0. F. Baughman Bells. Helen Stuhlberger Drums and Traps. Arthur Haas Harry Edelstein Piano. Florence McCorkindale Ruth Chesses

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THE JUNIOR CANDY SALE. THE Junior Candy Sale did not begin with either the making or eating of candy. It began with a glorious Rally. Representatives from each Home Room gave a short talk, Mr. Ditmer, with his jolly remarks, kept the ball rolling, and Mr. Weimer waxed so enthusiastic that he promised the Juniors a good time some afternoon after school if they could beat the Seniors at their own game—candy-making. Miss Hadlow, as usual, inspired the pupils to such an extent that they saw themselves victors from the start. Then the unheard-of happened—the donations of candy were so great that all could not be sold in one day. Imagine the joy of the Juniors on that second night when they counted their earnings and found that they had not only beaten the Seniors by a good margin, but had doubled last year’s Junior record—in fact they had netted $46.50. But such a glorious result was not achieved by magic. The words, forty-six dollars and fifty cents, give no hint of burnt fingers, hot cheeks and much-tried patience. Girls who have never known failure at candymaking, tried again and yet again before the fudge, creams or sea-foam was fit—in their estimation—for their Junior Sale. As for the boys— they shelled out nickels, dimes and quarters as though they knew of no other use for money. But all the burnt fingers, tried patience and sacrifices were forgotten when the Juniors knew to what an extent their efforts would swell the “Annual” fund. GIZELLA GOODMAN, T5. SOPHOMORE CANDY SALE. ON the morning of March twenty-six, the lower halls blossomed forth in the festal decorations of “Candy Sale Day.” This was the day on which the Sophomores were to compete with all others for the supremacy in candy-making and selling. They were expected to excel the high record made by the upper classes. During the whole week previous the Candy Sale had been advertised extensively. Announcements appeared on the blackboards, and posters, the best the art classes had ever made, were pasted everywhere in the halls. In the candy booths on the eventful morning, pretty girls were trying to look grave and business-like in spite of the fact that each pretty white cap was generally on one ear. The candy, in quantity, was more than was expected, and in quality, irreproachable. There was so much, however, that the sale continued until noon the next day. The net returns were such that the Sophomores helped to make this a record year in the candy-selling history. 04 HELEN EICHHORN, ’16.