High School of Commerce - Annual Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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Kormaw Society entertains the Ecremmoc Society. Debate with South High. Resolved, That cities should own and control all the public ,fran chises now conferred upon corporations. Affirmative: South, Negative: Commerce. Decision in favor of negative. Senior Class meeting. Excessive debate between Mr. DeForest and Mr. Madigan. Central 46, Commerce 7. First dancing lesson for Seniors. March Lincoln 47, Commerce 7. Lecture on Success by Mrs. Pardee. Mr, Hoover read to seventh hour Economic Class all hour. Mr. Curry tries to get a car. Mr. Hoover tells a real joke. Visit to blast furnace. Second dancing lesson. Clara Vietz wears her hair newlstyle. Irish Day. Oh! you green ties. Clyde Downing and Bessie Martin late as usual. Photo of Chemistry Class taken. No Homework. Bazaar. Great success. Debate with Technical High. Resolved, That the federal government should appropriate annually for the next ten years fifty million dollars for improving and constructing inland waterways. Affirmative, Technical. Negative, Commerce. Decision in favor of negative. Easter vacation. Zlpril Second term averages go home. Trip to steel mills. Harold Nichols loses his hat while 76 Constitutionality conceded on car.

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Thanksgiving rhetoricals. School closes four days to give pupils a chance to eat turkey. Completion of Chemistry Laboratory, Mr. Heald receives anonymous letter endangering his life. Edmund Kirby massages table on stage. Eenzemher Organization meeting of the Annual Board. Blackboard substituted for yellow wall in Mr. Gehringis room. Mr. Parker, of Rochester, N. Y., addresses the school. Senior Class selects class pin and colors. Presentation of Hag and picture by President of W. R. C. Mr. Weimer gives Ecremmoc Society a talk on expectations. Question for debate with South High received. Negative chosen Piano solo by Miss Sylvia Kirian. Piano solo by Miss Haidee Hoover. Battle of Gettysburg and War Stories by Mr. A. T. Brewer. 21. Midyear exams. Senior Informal. Piano solo by Miss Haidee Hoover. Vocal duet by Mr. J, Powell Jones and Mr. J. Olney Manville. Christmas Greeting by Rev. Father Moran. to Jan. 3. Christmas vacation. january First term averages go home. Received Class Pins. West 66, Commerce 17. Glenville 20, Commerce 10. East 26, Commerce 16. Dr. Hall, of Chicago, gives boys a talk. jfehruarp Lecture on Yellowstone Park by Mr. Hoover. Technical 46, Commerce 14. Kirby, Sinek, Nichols and Buzek on time to English Class. South 54, Commerce 3. Kirby, Sinek, Nichols and Buzek on time to English Class once more Debate with South High postponed to Feb. 17, 1910. Lecture on Europe by Mr. Weimer. Edmund Kirby came to school ten minutes early. 75

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Junior Informal to Seniors. Speakers for Commencement and Class Day chosen. Basket ball boys receive jersies. Many extemporaneous speeches. Talk on Consumers' League by Mrs. Brewer. Music by Lincoln High Girls' Glee Club. Received new piano. Dedication of new piano by Miss Haidee Hoover. Vocal solo by Miss Boltey. Accompanist, Miss Lampus. Address by Mrs. Hyre of the Board of Education. Boys' outdoor track meet. Harold Romanis makes speech. Senior Prom. O what blissf' MHP Annual goes to press. C jiiune Class Day. Orator-Fred Johnson. Pianist-Ethel Whipp. Poetess-Mabel Hummel. Historian-Edwin Krauss. Vocalist-Mildred Boltey, Prophets-Bessie Hafemis Commencement. Faculty Choice: Stella Beck Walter Madigan Pearl Maxwell Harold Nichols Leonhard Hadde Valeria Schacha Herbert Sinek Class Choice: Edmund Kirby Ora Lampus ter, ju 77 lia Creer, Nellie King, Pearl Morris