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

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ADVISORY COMMITTEE, HIGH SCHOOL OF COMMERCE APPOINTED BY THE BOARD OF EDUCATION ON MARCH 16, 1914. S. Halle ......... ......................... T he Halle Bros. Elliott H. Whitlock ....... The National Carbon Warren S. Hayden . .............. Hayden, Miller 85 C. J. Neal ......... Richard Feiss .... Geo. W. Kinney . . . .The Neal Fireproof Storage ..The Joseph Sz Feiss .The Kinney 8a Levan F. F. Prentiss .... .............. . ........... R etired C. A. Vogt ......... .... T he American Steel 85 Wire Co. Lyman H. Treadway .. .......... Stowe, Peck 8: Wilcox Co. H. Austin Aikens .... .... T he Western Reserve University Evan H. Hopkins .. . ............................ Lawyer Chas. S. Howe ....... ........... C ase School of Applied Science C. W . Luetkemeyer .... .... T he Lockwood-Luetkemeyer-Henry Co. Edward B. Greene .............. The Cleveland Trust Co. Rev. Dan F. Bradley . .. .... Pilgrim Congregational Church THE SENIORS' OATH, HIGH SCHOOL OF COMMERCE. fF0LmcZecl on the Athenian Oatlw W E will never perpetrate, by any act of disloyalty, dishonesty or cowardice, a misdemeanor, which will reflect upon our school, we will strive to practice to nearest perfection the teachings so forcefully and comprehensively expounded by our teachers, we will assist to the extent of our powers the expeditious fulfillment of the plan to secure for Commerce the much-needed, new, up-to-date and spacious building, we will uphold the ideals, the dignity, the leadership and the popularity of this institution, and inculcate in the minds of the new students the bene- ficial advantages and manly necessity of school-spirit and school-duty, we will endeavor to our utmost to instigate respect, obedience and rever- ence for our superiors. Thus in all these ways we will transmit the High School of Commerce, a greater, better and more beautiful institution than it was transmitted to us. Recognizing that we are deeply indebted for the culture and enlightenment we have here received, we are in duty bound to exert our sincerest efforts to advance the prospect of our school and set the gold and white banner as a standard of a progressing institu- tion in whose footsteps other institutions with our purpose, will follow. MAX NEWBERGER, '14. ll

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suffer for lack of opportunity, or have its development arrested by lack of adequate housing or equipment. Our needs are too obvious, our claims are too just to need any cam- paign of education to convince the general public or the educational authorities of the justice of our cause 3 nor is it necessary to resort to any cheap political tactics to impress upon those in authority the need of early action. But great as is our need, and however unfortunate the neglect in providing relief may be, it is far better, in our judgment, to endure dis- appointment and deprivation than for us as teachers, pupils or parents to resort to any clamorous and un-American methods of arousing public indignation against the regularly constituted authorities, because they have not promptly granted our request for immediate action. If the erection of a new building for the High School of Commerce is depend- ent upon public agitation of this sort, inspired and directed by the prin- cipal and teachers of this school through its patrons, we will go without a new building. Obedience and loyalty to constituted authority is of more value to a community than imposing piles of brick and mortar. Happily I do not believe that resort to any unusual or extreme meth- ods is necessary, or will in any degree advance our prospects for a new building. I have too much faith in the saving sense of the good people of this prosperous city to believe that they will not support any reasonable measures to provide revenues necessary for the erection of a new build- ing for the High School of Commerce, to the end that the patrons of this school may be provided with facilities for their work equal to those en- joyed by the other Technical and Academic schools of the city. We ask for no advantages not enjoyed in like degree by the patrons of the other high schools. We believe the Board of Education stands ready to take the necessary action when ways and means can be found to make such action possible. We put our trust in the justice of our cause and we wait in faith the coming of the better day. S. WEIMER. lil

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