Commerce High School - Reveille Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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Class Song I The golden day is at an end The hours roll swiftly by Which break the silv'ry cords of day We spent at Commerce High. How heavy is each throbbing heart With feelings none can tell, Each shining face but hides a tear For we must say farewell. II ln fondest dreams we'll wander back, Adrift on memory's sea, Beholding all those cherished days That long have ceased to be. More honors for you, dear old school. And for thy fame we'll strive. We'll pledge our hearts anew to thee. The class of Twenty-five! CHORUS: Commerce High? Commerce Highf To thee we sing our praise. What joys may come, none can compare With those of high school days. Tho' far we roam away from home. Our thoughts will quickly fly To treasured friends of days gone by, And dear old Commerce High. GRACE M. SANFORD Page .se t e

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CLASS POEM I Our number have chosen to be a Senior band, That has served the Master, Duty, and learned command O'er the arts and systems planned for youthful mind. And learned to welcome sinews in character-kind: Our past can show that we have kept a pace With time as the ancient starter of the race. II Tomorrow, our teachers will not lead the way, Nor explain the hardships and struggles, each ensuing day Initiative, ability, and veracity ' In applying the principles will be given certainty: We'll tread new paths and experience new ways: Cur hopes will never dim, despite all affrays! III With eyes fixed steadily and securely on a star, With no futile nor fearful thought of despair to mar: We'll win success! Oh, high and higher success! There'll be no lagging, shirking nor idleness- The laurels that we hope to leave behind May be symbols of our consecrated heart and mind. IV Vlith all certainty of past surviving the fray, We face the future, always mindful of Nature's way, When a landslide moving slowly, quietly to the sea. Where the green and hungry waters welcome it in glee. As they heave vast pyramids--then break and roar Their eerie challenge to the crumbling shore. V With tomorrow bright before us like a gleaming flame, With yesterday a night-gone dream, a sundown name, And dawn today, our opportunities shall unfold To heap new glories, on Commerce's shrine, untold: For here our tasks are complete, our honors won- But out in the world, our work is yet undone, Composed by INEZ CAVANAUGH LAIVIENT OF THE SENIOR ' 'Twas yesterday we came, all eager, unafraid, Unto this fortress famed for learning: So strange was all at first, so full of mystery! We knew so little and we thought we knew so much: With youth's bright eyes we bridged the gulf of years And heard the summons to power and honorable fame But did not sight the struggle, sorrow, of losing iight: And we, poor fools, thought wisdom confined to books alone But that-was yesterday! Franklin Johns Written for The Admetus Club, Page sixleen

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Gflicers of January Class President SAUL LEVINE Keep smiling at trouble, for troubles are bubbles, and bub- bles, they soon go away. Debating Team, '23 and '24 President Senior Class, Jan., '25 Varsity Basketball, '23, '24, '25 Reserve Basketball, '22 Capt. Senior Basketball, '24 Senior Play, '24 Operetta, '24 Cilee Club, '23 Bus. Mgr. of Audit, '23 Chairman Literary Club and So- cial Committee Pin Committee Declamation Contest, '24 Vice-President HAROLD ROSS A smiling countenance is a sil- ent recommendation Vice-President of Jan., '25, Class Literary Club Secretary HELEN HARSHBARGER When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. Student Council, '24 Literary Club Editor-in-Chief, Audit, Staff, '24 Motto Committee Secretary, Jan. '25, Class Exchange Editor of Annual, '24 Treasurer BESSIE D. EELDSTEIN 'Tis not what we seem but what we are that counts. Secy.-Treas. of Admetus Club Treas. of January, '25, Class Literary Club Chairman of Color Committee Student Council '23 and '24