High School of Commerce - Caduceus Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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“CeASD GU Cen lus: + r The Meaning of Caduceus 7 d Lee yearbook of the High School of Commerce, written and financed by the senior classes, contains the work and history of our school. Yet very few of its readers are aware of the real meaning of the title, Caduceus. Caduceus, a winged staff, is generally associated with Mercury, or Hermes, as he was called by the Greeks. Mercury had been given the staff by Apollo in consideration of his resigning to him the honor of inventing the lyre. With this staff he controlled the living and the dead, so that he could go unmolested where he wished. He carried it especially when he escorted the dead to the world below. In its earliest form this Caduceus, or staff, was composed of three branches, one, forming the handle, and the other two intertwining. Later, a male and female snake displaced the intertwined branches; still later, wings were added to the staff. The wand was then said to represent power; the serpents, wisdom; and the two wings, diligence and activity. Several different fables were invented by a later Greek writer to account for the serpents. One story relates that as Mercury entered Arcadia with his wand in his hand, he saw two serpents fighting. He threw the staff between them. Immediately they wound themselves around it in friendly union; thus, the serpents were used as an emblem of peace. As Mercury was the presiding divinity of Commerce, Caduceus is used as an em- blem of commerce among modern people. The serpents now represent industry and integrity; thus, the word Caduceus is a fitting title for the year book of a High School of Commerce which bears the motto, ‘‘Industry and Integrity’. Contributed by an English I Class a Page Sixteen

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ee ADU Gabe WS ar: r The Editorial Staff 7 JANUARY CLASS SECTION Editor-in-Chief, Epirn Caste Assistants, Bernice Woop, JEANNETTE SLADOWSKY Photograph Editor, Dorotuy ALEXANDER Feature Editor, Ruru Izenstein Athletic Editors, Mary Sawicka, Isrart Mecnixorr Business Managers, Eve-yny Wacter, ANNET CurtTo JUNE GLASS SECTORS Editor-in-Chief, Frrepa Kater Assistants, Frep Greco, Dororny WrITzMAN Photograph Editor, Coarcorte BrioweLv Feature Editor, ErizaBpetH Laprowi1tz Athletic Editors, Harovp James, Friepa Lepovetsky Business Managers, Donatp Hopeson, JoseeH D1 Frorio Raymonp Tartro, Illustrator Faculty Advisers Mr. G. Donatp MELVILLE Muss Frances M. Bromrietp Muss Epity F. Marspen Page Fifteen

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