Gem City Business College - Yearbook (Quincy, IL)

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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

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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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MISS EDDITH MAICHEL Teacher Duluth, Minn., Oct. 27, 1910. Pres. P. L. Musselman, Quincy, 111. Dear Sir: Through your recommendation I se- cured the position as typewriting teacher in the .Central High School, Duluth, Minn., at a salary of $70 per month. I began my work here last Monday, October 24th, and am well pleased with conditions in every way I have found Mr. Carey all and even more than you recommended him to be, and he seems well pleased with my work. I desire to express my appreciation and thanks for all you have done in my behalf. With the -.best of good wishes for the continued success of: Gem City, ' ' I remain Yours sincerely, EDDITH MAICHEL. Miss Minnie Barnett has a position with the Uni- versity of North Dakota. Mr. C. T. Kent is with the Carter County Land and Fruit Company, Van Buren, Missouri. The following is a clipping from the Mem- phis, Missouri, Review, telling of the success of Mr. Clarence Edmondson, who took the Combination Course in the Gem City Business College about two years ago: Clarence Edmondson. a former Memphis boy, a son of Mr. and Mrs. D. V. Edmondson, east of Memphis, has a fine position as instructor in bookkeeping, pen- manship, etc., in the public schools at Chattaonoga, Tennessee, at a salary of $175 per month. He also has charge of a night school which nets him a neat salary. His friends congratulate him on his success. — Memphis (Mo.) Review. In a recent letter Mr. Edmondson says: I completed the Business Course with an M. A. degree in your school. I then got six months ' training in the Normal Penmanship department and a year ' s experience teaching in your great institution. I then accepted a position with the Metropolitan Business College, Chicago, and had a very successful year. The work was heavy, and quite difficult but I had no trouble in performing my duties satisfactorily. During the past year I have been located in Chat- tanooga, having charge of the commercial department of the high school and am supervisor of penmanship in the grammer schools. I have been reelected for another year at a good increase in salary and will receive more than four times as much a month as when teaching in the public schools before entering the G. C. B. C. PROF. C. W. EDMONDSON Chattanooga, Tenn. OTTO W. MALMGBEN Huston-Churchill Company Irrigated Lands Idaho Falls, Idaho, Jan. 15, 1911. Prof. D. L. Musselman, Quincy, III. Dear Professor: It is now a little over two years since I left your school, and I feel that I must thank you and your faculty for what success I have had in the business world. In the several localities in which I have held positions in the middle west and inter-mountain regions, I find the business man well acquainted with the reputation of the old G. C. B. C, and when in need of trained business help, they always favor her graduates. The thorough training received in this school enables the graduates to come up to the high standard of excellence which the employer expects. The more business colleges I come in contact with the more I appreciate the excellence of our Ge n City. My salary has been increased continually, and it is now 257 per cent of what I received in my first position. Thanking vou and vour faculty, I remain Yours very truly, OTTO W. MALMGREN.