Gem City Business College - Yearbook (Quincy, IL)

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— v. — Normal Penmanship Department as All Graduates Hold Good Situations ON THE opposite page we present a picture of the Normal Pen manship department in session. This department is maintained in order to furnish high class facilities to those who desire to qualify themselves for teaching the art of penmanship in all its branches. The room is elegantly furnished with a commodious desk for each student. The walls are tastily decorated with many hne specimens of penmanship and a large blackboard space is provided for students ' practice. Professor Behrensmeyer, who is acknowledged as one of the best penmen in the world, devotes his whole time and talenfs to the Normal Penmanship department. The pen- manship students make rapid progress from the first. All the graduates of this department are sought out by commercial schools, as teachers of this beautiful art, and by the large insur- ance companies of the coun- try, to serve as policy writers and engrossers. We have more calls for graduates of the penmanship course than we can fill. The Gem City Business College is the only school in the west that has a Normal Penmanship department that is in charge of a noted and skilled penman, who has a national reputation, and who gives his whole time to teaching penmanship, lettering, engrossing, etc., and whose grad- uates are employed as soon as they are through their course of instruction. Highest Awards. The penmen of the Gem City Business College ' have been awarded the first premiums, diplomas, and medals on their display of penmanship wherever exhibited. A group picture of some of these medals is shown herewith. No accomplishment is so useful to a young person as penmanship. The students of this department are taught to write the plain rapid hand for business, and the beautiful copy hand for teaching. Those desiring to learn ornamental penmanship find the facilities unsurpassed for acquiring all branches of the beautiful art, such as flourishing, pen drawing, engrossing, lettering, card writing, specimen work for exhibition, blackboard writing, and best methods of teaching. 29 Graduates of the penmanship department make first class teachers who are a success from the beginning. The country is full of ordinary teachers of penmanship, but what young men and young women need is to get above the ordinary and their success is established. All graduates of this department hold good situations at from $85 to $150 a month. There are hundreds of graduates of our Normal Penman- ship department teaching in business colleges and normal schools all over the United States. You can scarcely name a college in Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Texas, or the entire western half of the United States, that does not have one or more of our students as teachers. There are also many of our gradu- ates located in the eastern and southern states. It is not too much, then, to say that we claim for this department and its students the greatest success ever achieved in this country by any similar institution. EMPLOYMENT Below we give a list of a few of the former students of the Normal Penmanship department who have taken high rank as teachers and as penmen and who have made great successes on account of their superior penmanship and abilities. H. W. Darr is principal of the commercial department of the High School at Minneapolis, Minnesota. Charlton V. Howe is a professional script writer and artist. He is policy writer for the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Philadelphia. George F. Bennett is policy writer for the Aetna Life Insurance Company, Hartford, Conn. E. A. Cepek does engrossing and is policy writer for an insurance com- pany in Chicago. C. W. Edmondson is supervisor of penmanship in the public schools at Chattanooga, Tenn. Claude Eyster is penman in the Yeatman High School, St. Lanis, Missouri. B. O. McAdams is proprietor of the Glenwood Business College, Glenwood, Iowa. H. E. Welbourne is teacher of penmanship in the public schools, Milwaukee, Wise. Geo. H. Walks is teacher of penmanship and bookkeeping in the Lockyear Business College, Evansville, Ind. Geo. Lauterbach is teacher of penmanship in the High School at St. Louis. Arthur Gill is teaching penmanship in Temple College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. John W. Kohlnng is penman in the Nebraska Business College, Lincoln, Nebr. A. R. Punke is located in the Cream City Business College at Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Normal Penmanship Department, Gem City Business College, Quincy, Illinois This department is presided over by Professor H. P. Behrensmeyer, who has no superior in this country as an artist penman, and who devotes his entire time and talents to this department. All graduates secure paying positions as teachers of the art of penmanship, or as policy writers in large insurance offices

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STATES GROUP Top row (left to right) — Oregon, Albert E. Barnes; Montana, Burnie A. Payne; Washington, D. C. Downen; Louisiana, Chas. B. Martin; Nebraska, Charles M. Rash. Second row — Mexico, Fernando J. Garcia ; Missouri, Lucile H. Bell; New Mexico, Myrtle E. Lyttle ; Iowa, Alma I. Lewman : Philippine I., H. Eugene Belden. Third row — Illinois, Laura Kich; Wisconsin, Lula March; Wyoming, Nellie M. Smith; N. Dakota, Mildred M. Heinz; Arkansas, Mary A. Holliday; Kansas, Eva Hildreth ; Oklahoma, Grace V. Chartier. Lower row — California, K. Marvin Browne; Minnesota, Franklin A. Dickman; Colorado, Earle R. Underbill; Mississippi, Robt. P. Stewart; Texas, G. B. Wilhelm; Indiana, Geo. E. Wells. Other states represented during the year but not in attendance when the photograph was taken — Tennessee, Dora Adams; N. Carolina, Gordon A. Sheppard; Utah, Chas. E. McBeth; Ariz., Wiley H. Jones; S. Dak., Paul L. Frease ; Kentucky, Walter Gray; Ohio, Cloyce J. Irwin; Idaho, James W. Robertson. 30