Eastern High School of Commerce - Eastern Echo Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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18 EASTERN ECHO LOLO RALPH has been working for XV. C. McLaughlin, Insurance Broker, but says she is another victim of the depression. LTESSIE RANKINE is chief stenographer for John Pezzack, Barrister. PHYLLIS SMALL can see no .depression in her business. She is a stenographer at the Bank of Nova Scotia. GRACE THQMPSQN is not working, another lady of leisure. DQROTHY VVORRELL is employed at present by the Citizens' Man-a- Blocli' Committee. Valedictory .UISS EILEEN RADFORD FTEN we have pined to be -out in this world making our way and seeing our dreams of future wealth, suc- cess, and -happiness fulfilled. We have seen ou-r friends, and their friends go forft'h and come 'back with a serious countenance and tell us of the wonderful suc-cess they have had, while others re- turn with tales off labour, drud- gery, and hardships endured. To- night will be the last time we will -gather here as students. VVhen we leave this hall we shall be saying farewell to our thaprpy-go-lucky days at the Eastern High School of Com- merce. Days in which we have learned to love and respect our teachers, to hon-our our school R X and to obey its rules, not only because 'we were doing right, but for the pleasure we attained in doing so-of couse, there was the odd rufle that seemed to be made to be -broken. No more s-hall we sit with a look -of assumed intelligence on our faces attempting to cover our neglected homewonk. But it was in vain. Sooner or later a confession was due. So 'bewarel To the new student we would say, Be sure your s-ins will find you out, as we are of the past and have come through the many trials and -temptations ourselves. Ever will we carry the memory of Eastern Commerce embedded in our hearts. No lmatter where we go we shall remember the faces of our teachers whose true worth we are now realizing as we say farewell to them to-night. No more shall we have the kindly consideration and help afforded by them when we experience some difficulty in solving a problem. We, have led a placid and sheltered life for three an-d f-our

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EASTERN ECHO I7 Five members of the class have not as yet attained that elusive thing, a position. They are: EILEEN SPECK. BENJAMIN ISACOFF, TACK HART, NORMAN McCONAGHY, and JAMES SOUTHAN. i WALTER CRAIG is busy working with the Luckett Loose Leaf Company. JOHN DUNCAN is employed with the Royal Exchange Assurance Com- pany. JOHN HOLDEN uses his accounting knowledge to advantage at the Accounting Department of Osgoode Hall. LOUIS MACHTINGER is with the Morris Dress Company. How about some tips on Spring Styles, Louis? HERBERT UIMMIED MURRAY is still with Rice's Dairy. LAWRENCE NEVVNHAM is being trained for his CA. at Gunn, Roberts 8: Co. NORMAN PARTICKA is with the Hancock Lumber Company. NORMAN SMITH still keeps good hours and gets home early! He donates his valuable time during the day to the Canada Packers Ltd. FLORENCE ELSON is using her Eastern Commerce knowledge in assist- ing the Government. She is at the Parliament Buildings. BEATRICE MERSON is looking after transportation difficulties in the T.T.C. Offices. 4S PEARL BARTHOLOMEVV is not working at present, but is looking for- ward to a position in the very near future. FRANCES CASTORIT and MARBIORIE .IOHNSTC JNE are members of the Merchandising Class at Eastern Commerce. They do part-time work downtown two days a week. MARGARET COLLYER is another Eastern Commerce trained stenog- rapher at the Imperial Life Assurance Co. MARGARET CREVY, the famous stenographer. is doing bookkeeping at the present time for the Sales and Purchasing Department of the Board of Education. EILEEN HILL is back at school this year keeping up her shorthand and typewriting, under the supervision of Mr. Frisby. BESSIE HOVVELL is working very hard for the Consumers' Gas Company, and is very interested in their badminton club. NORMA LITTLE. with several other E.H.S.C. girls, is working for the London Guarantee K Accident Co. Limited, typing policies and working - out premiums. EVELYN LOVVRY, LYDENA RlcGREGOR and ELEANC JR MUNDY are not working. but they are all back at Night School. RUTH LYNDON says she is a contented stcnographer for the City Dairy Company. NORINE MacDONALD is a co-worker with Miss Hill at the school. JEAN PATTERSON is buying books, doing all stenographic work, and being a general help QU around the Buying Offices of the Hudson's Bay Company. MADELIENE PATTERSON says she is working as hard as anyone doing work for the teachers at the school. EILEEN RADFORD, our first girl president, is nut working at present- except at home.

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EASTERN ECHO 19 years, while many of our friends struggled and strived to conquer Work. Then .farewell Commerce. Although we leave you smilingly, the parting is no less grievous. Now we must weather the storms of life without your protection, we must brave the blasts and enjoy the calms alike, while we are urged on by our ambitions and guided by the ideals that your thorough training has stirred in us. ' To our parents and to you, Commerce, do we owe our education which after all is just a part of our learning tio prepare us for the future. lt is this preparedness to face the world, to help understand its problems, that will make the distiny of our future Canada. For is it not this student generation who will answer the call for leaders? lt will be the student of to-day who will help form the destiny of the world to-morrow. Do we forget all we have ever learned when we leave our class- rooms? It sometimes seems that way. But sooner or later that knowledge comes to the fore to be used to cope with some problem, and to make 1ife's pathway smoother and surer. The wisdom and broader vision of the business world will help and is helping us to speak and think intelligently with others who have experienced the pitfalls and are now on the road to success. It is during our sojourn here that we have been brought to realize the suffering of to-day. We have just commemorated the Remem- brance Day which, for every person here to-nighit, will have a diifer- e-nt meaning and which to us portrays one side of the world's cruelty, pain-ting a picture more vividly and realistically to our parents and our teachers than to us. It is so we who are about to enter this business world may understand all this, and so pre-pare us for the many bumps and downfalls, that we are -given the advantage of this high school edu-cation. Thus by maintaining the high ide-als, and optimism of school life, alll petty grievances and prejudices are banished, giving us a more -broadened outlook on life suggesting pro- gress t'hrough peace. When First we entered Commerce, as unlearned and uncul-tured graduates from our many public schools, we marvelled at the self- possession of the noble seniors, and watched with growing interest and awe how they took everyfthiing as a matter of form, while we felt overwhelmingly s-mall and insignificant. Graduarlfly however, we gained our bearing. Although we did not take pant in many school activ-ities, We studied everything carefully and imagined ourselves in their places. Our interest in our school quickenedl We waited impatiently lu gain recognition from those over us. I-t came at the annual field day. Here we worked off the stored up energy of a year, with all the virility and vigour of youth, and when the day ended, we crept home tired but happy, wish-ing that every day could be a field day and only one day ifor school. Our final examinations! To our surprise we were requested to bring a stamp in order to have our results mailed to us. Then began the endless hours of waiting, the tense moment it tool: to scrutinize the newspaper. We started on our second year with a feeling of self-importance. be-cause we were the le-ar-ned second formers. The monotony of our