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

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FACULTY OF THE HIGH SCHOOL OF COMMERCE. Mr. Solomon Weimer, Principal. Mr. S. R. Hoover, Assistant Principal. Miss Nellie M. Amidon, Assistant Principal. Miss Alice Bandeen, Department of Physical Culture. Mr. William M. Bolton, Mathematics and Bookkeeping. Miss Jean Corser, Applied Arts. Mr. John W. Greig, Penmanship. Bookkeeping and Short- hand. Mr. James S. Curry, Department of Shorthand. Mr. Harvey C. Ditmer, Department of Bookkeeping. Mr. Charles F. Dutton, Jr., Department of Geography. Miss Mabel D. Ely, Department of Applied Arts. Mr. D. M. Evans, Mathematics and Faculty Coach. Miss Etta Freedlander, Mathematics and Commercial Geography. Mr. Anton Fx. Gehring, Department of Modern Languages. Mr. J. O. Gordon, Department of Penmanship and Book- keeping. Physics and Commercial Miss S. Gertrude Hadlow, English and Mathematics. Miss Alice Constance Hagan, English and Penmanship. Mr. John M. Harsh, Department of Chemistry. Mr. E. Wilbur Harrison, Shorthand and Typewriting. Mr. J. L. Heald, Department of English. Miss Lillian M. Hildreth, Penmanship, Bookkeeping and Shorthand. Mr. Joseph M. Johnston, Department of History of Commerce. Mr. H. T. McMyler, Department of lvlathematics. Mr. Glen R. Montgomery, Department of Music. Mrs. Lillian R. Pardee, English. Miss Seville Radcliffe, English and Mathematics. Dr. Minna M. Rohn, Department of Biology. Miss Zell C. Stanford, Applied Arts. Mr. Orson E. Warfield, Department of Hygiene and Physical Culture. Mr. Earl Sidney Weber, Department of Civics. Connnercial Law and Economics. Mr. Samuel Zechar, English and Commercial Geography. Miss E. Laura Satava, Secretary. Miss Albina Geiger, Miss Beatrix Rayner, Stenographers and Typists. Mr. Fredrick C. Donberg, Custodian.

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HISTORY CLASS OF 1914. B EFORE our class leaves the High School of Commerce forever, fate gives us a fleeting view of the four preceding years. We see our- selves as we entered the high school fresh from grammar school, proud and happy, not knowing the pitfalls which lay before us as flats. Flats we were, and everybody called us that. We were not fresh as the term freshman may imply, if we had been, the freshness would soon have been taken out of us by the Sophs, who considered themselves our betters. Lessons kept us busy, for each teacher seemed to make it a point to impress upon us the fact that a high school course is no cinch. We came here with the do or die spirit, however, and we were determined that we would succeed in our school work. Many of our class were so filled with this spirit, and worked so hard that they received E's as their reward and had their names placed upon the honor roll. How proud we were when these reports were sent back to the schools from which we came! The class of '14 was going to be some class, it needed no prophet to predict our glorious future. The boys played basket-ball upon the various color teams and indicated, even at that early period, that Commerce's future basket-ball teams were to be the good ones they have since turned out to be. The big event of our first year was a general good time for visitors and pupils. It was labelled Edaudivid. We were most prominent at this time as we laboriously assisted in making posters to advertise the com- ing event. A good time was enjoyed by every one present, we didn't think high school life was so bad after all. Upon returning the next fall we could look down upon the entering pupils with scorn, for we were now Sophomores. We treated them kindly, however, and only impressed upon them very gently the fact that we were Sophomores, and they were only flats We met our classmates and were immediately ready for school work, refreshed by the long vaca- tion. A call for football candidates brought out several of our class, who proudly secured places on the team. The majority of the Rooters' Club, led by Ross Baxter, was composed that year of Sophomores. Although we may have been a little meek in our classes we were able to yell when the occasion arose. The girls were also heard in the Glee Club and helped to make that year's concert a success. In fact we were becoming of some importance in the school. We were the noise producers of the High School of Commerce. The year soon came to a close, and our second happy period at Commerce had ended. We were now Juniors and endeavored to capture the secrets of short- hand and the mechanism of a typewriter. We went into society and enjoyed several jollifications in the gym, we thought we were some pumpkins when the Seniors, on the day of these parties showed envy of our position, for the good times every one had at these parties was equal to, if it did not surpass, those at the Seniors? parties. About the middle of this year our school was thrown open to our parents and visi- tors who might wish to inspect the school. The Juniors had an import- 16