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

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year in fifth form at Central Com- merce, he entered Varsity last fall. Looking back, Sheen recalled the shinny games played when in room 201. With 18 or so on a side, tins and sticks to play with, and the ice-rink the scene of battle, the games are most poignant in Sheen's memory. Sheen was editor of the 4G Shush, humor editor of the Echo, and a fluent debater. He is now in a course with 80 others, uses shorthand to take notes of lectures and gives the fol- lowing message to us: I appreciate what Eastern Com- merce has done for me and I hope to see more Eastern graduates enter the Commerce and Finance course soon. if t 'A' Wilson Ross Woodrow, co-student with Sheen at the University and also a participant in the shinny games of halycon '31 days, has the distinc- tion of having pitched against the teachers' team here, and beaten them badly. At Commerce Coot , as he was popularly known, had a reputation of being somewhat of a gay Lothario, and we cannot help admiring such a refreshing personality. He is a member of the Y and in his spare time indulges in ping-pong and hockey, his favorite sports. At Eastern, Woodrow says, he en- joyed accountancy best, while now at Varsity, economics is his weakness. In conclusion, we'1l tell you that Woodrow swims and plays basketball at Hart House, thinks the professors are the best feature of Varsity, and likes reading the Echo. -YE EDITOR. EASTERN COMMERCE ALUMNI EXECUTIVE, l932-33 Back Row: J. Patterson, W. Allport, E. Mahatty, J. Kerr, R. Sanderson, E. Taylor. Front Row: D. Godbold, Treas.g P. Howe, Rec. Sec.: M. Hamilton, Pres.: R. Robertson, Sec.: A. Harrison, Vice-Pres. Sixteen EASTERN ECHO

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EASTERN COMMERCENSUS MANY of last year's fourth form students returned for the fifth year. A number of others have not yet found positions. Hence the list is much smaller than usual. RODERIOK CHALYKOFF- Rod has taken for his motto GO north, young man, and is at present working for a lumbering concern at Hearst, Ontario. CECIL HARDING-IS putting his commerce training to good use in the ofiices of A. E. Wilson 8: Co., Insur- ance Brokers. ALBERT JOYCE- Ab is doing his bit in the accounting Oflice of Loblaw Groceterias. CHARLES WOOLLEY- Chuck is helping out the firm of E. Provan. CHARLES BAILEY- Chuck is learn- ing the sign-painting business with his Dad. WESLEY BAILEY- Wes is devot- ing his valuable services to the Dept. of Works at the City Hall. JIM KERR-Is slaving f?l away in the Policy Department of the Excel- sior Life Insurance Co. OLIVE BEEDHAM-IS doing general and stenographic work at the Munden Cork Sz Insulation Co. ELEANOR EDGSON--IS using her bookkeeping training to advantage at the Toronto branch of McCormick- Perrin, Ltd. BERYL FRISE-IS ledger-keeper at the London Guarantee gl Accident Co., Ltd., and on good authority we hear that she is getting first-shot trial balances. ROSE PASSAFIUME-IS doing gen- eral work and some bookkeeping for her Dad. IYIURIEL VVARNER-RQDOFLS that she is temporarily working in a store. DOROTHY HUBBARD-IS helping to establish that Commerce reputation at the City Hall. If you want to know the time, ask Dorothyg she has quite a clock. NAN GAIR-Is stenographer at the Bank of MOntreal's head office. What about the banking situation, Nan? Is our money safe with you? DOROTHY QUARRINGTON-Is steno- grapher at F. O'Hearn's, stockbrokers. Any pointers these days, Dorothy? DOROTHY DEACON-Is stenographer in the executive department of the London Guarantee 8: Accident Co., Ltd. EILEEN BIRD-Is a salesgirl at Simpson's twice a week. The rest of the time she works at home. EDNA KELCEY'-IS doing steno- graphic work for F. O'Hearn SL Co. STELLA VVHEELER-IS a steno- grapher for the Map Specialty CO. ir 'A' i' OUR BOYS IN COMMERCE AND FINANCE WHATEVER it is I'm against it! Such was the jocular greeting of Ronald Ed, Sheen, Eastern graduate and future Bachelor of Commerce and Finance, to the Echrfs query for an interview. Sheen is 18. Tall, clean-cut, with an amiable smile.- He is an outstanding student. Even at an early age, at Williamson Road EASTERN ECHO School, he led his class time and again. Following this he came to Eastern Commerce, entered the 4-year account- ancy course, subsequently graduating with an honor diploma. Prior to graduation, Sheen had contemplated training for a chartered accountant. but when the matriculation course was announced it immediately ap- pealed to him, and after spending a Fifteen

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VALEDICTORY ADDRESS, 1932 JAMES KERR TO-NIGHT we say our formal fare- well to the building we have learned to love and to the teachers whom we have come to number among our friends. It is they, upon whose daily guidance we have relied so much. The realities of yesterday when we, as students, strolled along the halls of Commerce, will by to-morrow be transformed into memories which we JAMES KERR shall always remember with that vividness which, we understand, is peculiar to memories concerning youth. t The school has undergone many changes since we enrolled. We shall remember it both as we saw it first and as we leave it to-night. Since our enrolment, the swimming-pool. the gymnasia, the cafeteria, several new rooms and this beautiful audit- orium have been added. We have been fortunate in having the use of these facilities in The first were not so plished the EASTERN ECHO our senior years. students of the school fortunate. They accom- same amount of work that we have accomplished, but with- out the diversions we enjoyedg they did not have periods in the swimming- pool and in the gymnasia. To these young men and women, a number of whom are present to-night, we ex- press our admiration for their persev- erance and our congratulations on their success. These pioneers over- came the difficulties of inadequate equipment and insufficient room to carry out their activities. They went out into the business world and made the name of Eastern Commerce heard. Year by year more students enrolled until this school is now one of the largest commercial schools in Canada. Our first month was the worst- certainly not from our point of view, but from that of our teachers whose duty it was to subdue us into some- thing approximating respectability as high-school students. Who of us can ever forget those brush-fights in the basements at noon-hour, those riots in the portables and the inevitable deten- tions which followed? These deten- tions were accepted by us as a matter of course. But eventually we became discip- lined and began to work in earnestg at the end of the year we passed- became lordly second-formers. This we found had its advantages: we could, for one thing, vote in the stu- dent elections. True, we did not know anyone who was running, but nevertheless we voted. It is thus democracy extends its privileges. The following year we became mem- bers of the senior school-third- formers! We felt our pride was justified. Then in our final year we were the top of the student portion of the school. There was, however, an undercurrent of regret: this was our last year. We had not thought that four years of associations so pleasant Seventeen