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

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CADUCEUS ::H:s:s-r n G. O. AUDITING STAFF Fifth Row. Left to Right: Alfred Albano. Roland Isham. Irving Young. James McMastcr. Martin Lepovetsky. Walter Krol. Fourth Row: Mr. Guy D. Miller. Peter Kedas. Herbert Litchfield. Florence Peterson. Bertha Surdyka. Helen Krason. Bernard Belleville. Alex Thom. Third Row: Ruth Newcomb. Ruth Todd. Emma Bagnall. Constance Wright. Mary Jarosz. Phyllis Wheeler. Georgia Anastos. Helen Cahillane. Second Ro-w: Dorothy Butters. Jeannette Coe. Enes Lodi. Esther Creeger. Marion Lambert. Doris Ferris. Margaret Brennan. Josephine Acconcio. Genevieve Nahajlo. First Rou : Martha Piligian. Cecile Dutilly. Lena Martini. Helen Soja. Kathryn Huot. Pasquiena Cgolini. Theresa Baldarelli. Anita Ghiandoni. Lucille Coburn. Helen Oswianko. THE GENERAL ORGANIZATION The General Organization of the High School of Commerce was formed in 1931 under the guiding hand of Mr. Jerome Burtt, then principal. As cited in the original constitution, the purpose of the General Organiza- tion is to provide for its members a maximum of the activities of the school at the minimum expense. Membership in the G. O. includes admission to all home athletic contests, athletic dues, Commerce, class dues, refreshments at socials, reduction in price of Caduceus, reduced rental fee of senior caps and gowns, and admission to certain performances of the musical organizations, and to the G. O. Pop. Any regularly enrolled student in the High School of Commerce may become a member of the General Organization, while failure to pay all dues of any preceding year does not prevent a student from joining at the start of a new year and enjoying privileges of membership. Some pupils, however, pay class dues instead, amounting to $4.50 at the end of the senior year, and are eligible for regular class activities only. 6

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THE CLASSES OF 1937 Respectf ully Dedica te This Business Issue of Caduceus To the Following Officers of The General Organization In Appreciation of Their Faithful Service Belding F. Jackson Guv D. Miller Russell L. Williams Budget Director Auditor Treasurer Mr. Belding F. Jackson, budget director and vice-chairman of the General Organization Board, entered the High School of Commerce in 1926. Previous to teaching English here, Mr. Jackson taught at the Belehertown High School and at Massachusetts State College. He was graduated from Massachusetts State College, and earned his master's degree at Middleburv College. Mr. Guy I). Miller, auditor of General Organization accounts since its origin, and present director of the Auditing Stall, which handles all G. O. records and accounts, entered the High School of Commerce in 1916 from the Short- ridge High School in Indianapolis. He is a graduate of Ohio University and of the Harvard University School of Education. Mr. Russell L. Williams, treasurer of the General Organization for the last five years, has charge of collection and payment of accounts. He taught in Revere and Haverhill, Massachusetts, High Schools before coming in the fall of 1925 to the High School of Commerce, where he has taught bookkeeping ever since. He attended the Bryant and Stratton Business College, and received his master’s degree from Boston University.

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CADUCEUS G. O. HOME ROOM AGENTS Fifth Row. Left to Right: Ixniis Laino. Harold Vermes. Henry Desjarlais. Guy Lucia. William Moriartv. Edward Zdrojkowski. Gerald Landry. Melvin Kaloel. Fourth Row: Douglas Marvel, Robert Levine. Virginia Kern pic, Margaret Lynch. Edith Berg. Constance Wright. Phyllis Wheeler. Marian Liberman, Shirley Mae Atwood. Elsie Piligian, John Brega, James Sullivan. Third Row: Lillian Dorsey, Rose Matrango. Dorothy Duffus. Victoria Cairns, Gloria Hall, Marjorie Yahnig. Ruth Songini. Harriet Seibert. Pennina Bavicri. Margaret Farnsworth. Shirley La tow. Madeline De Filippo. Theresa Colapietro. Second Row: Arlene Bennett. Andreana Anastos. Irene Wapner. Rose Kwatowski. Eleanor Hendricks. Anna Pomerantz, Einra Abdala. Florence Peterson. Cecelia Roach. Alice Reed. Rena Libera. Marilyn Blake. Shirley Field. Arline Tetrault. First Row: Catherine DeCassio. Jean Siciliano. Ruth Johnson. Annette Ryan, June Stevens. Phyllis Hunter. Lena Martini. Genevieve Nahajlo. Jessie Grant. Rita Ilarrigan. June Meade, Mary Clarke, Jennie Malinowsky, Eleanor Nicholson. Ruth Hastings. G. O. dues of $3.50 a semester are collected in the home room by an agent appointed by the home room teacher. Home room agents promptly pay their collections to the Collector of Dues. The Collector of Dues pays all the money to the G. O. Treasurer for deposit and disbursement. In 1931, the first year of the organization’s existence, the position of G. O. Treasurer was held by Mr. Warren G. Potter, bookkeeping teacher, and from 1932 on by Mr. Russell L. Williams, also a bookkeeping teacher. Non-transferable tickets are issued under the direction of the Principal and the Treasurer of the Governing Board. They are collected at each game or other activity, and redistributed to the home rooms under the supervision of the Collector of Dues. Lost tickets are replaced by the Collector of Dues for a charge of ten cents. A budget for each organization in the G. O. is adopted by the Governing Board at an early fall meeting. Each organization is required to keep within this budget, unless allowed extra expenditures by a vote of the Governing Board. Mr. Burtt certainly did a wonderful job in beginning the organization, and Mr. Smith has done an equally good service in its continuance. — Mildred Vaughn