West Night High School - Echo Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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The Alumni Dance -;-e+e NE 0f the most auspicious celebrations of our social season was the dance tendered the Senior classes of the two Night High Schools by the Alumni Association, on Thursday evening, April 20, at Bottsl Dancing Academy. The cream of both schools poured out in large numbers to enjoy the hospitality of those who had gone before, and no one was disappointed. Addresses were made by Mr. Albert Schwartz, Principal of the East Night High: School; Mr. A. B. Warhlke, President of the Alumni, and August A. Siemon. President of the Senior class of the West School. The Ciceronian efforts of the various orators brought forth merited applause from all the merrymakers, especially the one of our worthy President, Mr. Siemon, which ran thus: Future Brethren Alumni and Fellow Gmduutes 0f I911: :lIt is with pleasure that I address you on this memorable occasion in the name of the Class of 1911 of the West Night High School; and, assuming for the moment the part of representative of our class, I desire to express our heartfelt thanks and sincere appreciation of the honor that our brethren alumni of the future do us hear graduates this evening. I feel reasonably certain that this most pleasant event will never be entirely effaced from our memory. HWe are assembled here this evening a body of graduates, and also near graduates of the Night High Schools of Cincinnati, who can justly point with pride to our respective Alma Matters that have made such enormous strides as educational institutions in the past eight years. This change in the efficiency of the curriculum of our Night High Schools is as from youth to maturity. They have become capable as never before of fulhlling their large and ever increasing duties to their students and through them. to the common- wealth and to the nation. HBut if perehanee all the students of the Night High Schools of Cincinnati be not worthy of their respective Alma Maters, if now and then some of them in after life do little credit to their teachings, this is but incident to the defects of human nature itself, and will allow no disreputable reflection to be cast on our Night High Schools. nIn our efforts to maintain the prestige of our Night High Schools that inevitable school spirit is bound to manifest itself and hence the pupils of both the East and West Night High Schools strive to make their 29

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said that the wedding will be a national affair, and that Otto Bosch will have charge of the culinary department on that day. Mise Hart has locked hearts with Cohen. Cohen is now the owner of a thriving five-cent show, and is making money rapidly. He is entertaining an offer to Operate a similar business for the Czar of Russia at Warsaw in that country. We always did feel that Cohen had some wonderful abilities locked in his manly bosom, and ltwould seem he is uncorking the same now. Madden, by his enterprising and catching ways, has just been promoted to the position as keeper of the polar bears, at the Bronx Zoo, in New York City Madden is such a cold proposition that ltis said he can keep the bears cold even- on the hottest day in the summer, by merely looking at them. Fortmueller, the HBeau Brummel of our class, has just negotiated one of the greatest deals of his career. He and Clara Smith are to join hands in the not distant future. We know this will be a happy couple, and we wish them God speed in their new enterprise. Burns, the greatest editor West Night ever knew, has just completed this third term as Senator from Ohio, and on March 1, 1940, will assume the duties of President of the United States of America. Nelson, one of the most distinguished lights in the legal hrmament, is now Prosecuting Attorney for the City of Jerusalem. We always were of the firm conviction that Mike would make his mark in the world somewhere, and Jerusalem is as good a place as any. Geode, whose aspirations while at school were to become a minister, is now President of the Tusca- loosa College at Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Since the demise of Booker T W'ashington in 1930, Goode has been hlling the shoes formerly occupied by that eminent patriot. Because of the fact that I have exhausted my supply of tobacco, and cannot produce any more ttdreams, I am unable, much to my regret, to predict a future for myself. I am of the confident belief, however. that when the members of the class of ill begin saying their farewells to this ephemeral life, the world will point to them with just pride, and say: K They made the world a better place? God grant that this may come true. Wigg Q3 W 28

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respective Alma Maters the more prominent and there exists to a greater or less degree a little prejudice on the part of the students of both schools. HBut to-nightt fellow graduates, we are invited to pm the Night High Sch001 Alumni, a society which shall eradicate all prejudice, if any exists, and which shall keep ever alive the clear friendships that have existed during our school days, and shall bring us together to meet new friends, friends that traveled and survived a common, lifticult path, although not without its joys and happinessest and after all, this is the medium which strengthens the tie that binds the two sister institutions; and we sincerely hope that the alumni will find in us, graduates of 1911, members who shall at all times take an active interest in its affairs and shall do everything that will conduce to the general welfare of the only Night High School Alumni in the United States. 30