Gem City Business College - Yearbook (Quincy, IL)

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Cowden, 111., Feb. 25, 1911. Dear Professor Musselman : It affords me great pleasure to speak a good word for Gem City. I completed the banking and business course and about hal f of the shorthand and typewriting course. I left school at this time to take up a position with the Illinois Traction System, at Peoria, 111., which position I held till I decided to go back to the farm. While I was in school, I had several good positions offered to me by the faculty; but these I declined in order to stay in school longer. For those desiring a thorough commercial educa- tion, I heartily and sincerely recommend Gem City to them. I can not. speak too highly of the faculty and teachers of the G. C. 3. C, also of the courteous treat- ment that the students receive. Wishing ' u success in your work, I am Verv truly yours, R. F. F No. 1. W. R. DAVIS. 5Uk A GENERAL EDUCATION For Farmer, Mechanic, or Business Man The branches of the business and shorthand courses constitute in themselves a good gen- era! education, no matter what the student expects to do after leaving school. Many young men take our courses of study who do not intend to become bookkeepers or stenographers, but who expect to remain on the farm or in the shop after they have finished at the G. C. B. C. A large number of our former graduates are successfully engaged in farming, stock raising, manufacturing, and other occupations, and they owe their success largely to the education received at the Gem City. K. TIDEMANN COMPANY Cotton Ft. Worth, Texas, Jan. 19, 1911. Dear Prof. Musselman: I came to this city in September and secured a position with K. Tidemann Co., cotton brokers. I have no trouble whatever in discharging my duties and I attribute this to the thorough instruction received while a student in the Gem City Business College. I shall continue to recom- mend your school to anyone thinking of attending business college. Very truly yours, ' W. V. BUELTEMAN. Hannibal Courier-Post Hannibal, Mo., Jan. 31, 1911. Dear Prof. Musselman: I finished my course in the University of Missouri last spring and have since been with the Hannibal Courier-Post. I have just been promoted to the position of advertising manager at a good salary. Both as a student in the University of Missouri School of Journalism, and in my newspaper work since leaving school I attribute my success largely to the instruction received in your school. Not only has the shorthand and typewriting I learned at the Gem City Business College been valuable to me in my work, but the greatest thing of all is that it has put me in constant touch with persons who are doing things. J. B. POWELL. Mr. Zeno Barber is conducting a farm with great success, at Brazeau, Mo. Mr. D. J. Rapp is U. S. postoffice inspector, with headquarters at Boston, Mass. Mr. E. R. Hawkins is manager of the North Mis- souri Lumber Company, at Shelbina. CARROLL P. POLAND Farm Manager Fillmore, 111., Feb. 17, 1911. The Gem City Business College, Quincy, 111. Gentlemen: I have never regretted that I attended the Gem City Business College, although I have not desired to take up bookkeeping as a profession, yet I find the knowledge I obtained while in your excellent school very beneficial to me in my every day work. I am at present managing my father ' s large farm of 320 acres, but I find that it takes quite a little business judgment to manage a farm successfully. We try to follow the latest improved methods of agricul- ture, in breeding, feeding, and also in soil building. I could not ask to do any better than I am at present, and I shall always be glad to recommend the old school when an opportunity is presented. Very truly yours, C. P. POLAND. Mr. S. H. Wilson is with the American Thread Company, and is located at Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Group of Missouri Students, from a Photograph tak en March, 1910 A large number of students from our neighboring State of Missouri attend the Gem City Business College every year. QUINCY, with its educational and business interests, is so closely related to our sister state that she is frequently quoted as belonging to Missouri. The Gem City is separated from Missouri by the Mississippi river only, and is, in reality, at least forty or fifty miles farther west than St. Louis. Many of Quincy ' s best business men came from good old Missouri, and thousands of prosperous young business men of Missouri got their start at the GEM CITY BUSINESS COLLEGE, where they were shown the way to a successful business career.

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Group Picture of Kansas and Iowa Students WE TAKE PRIDE in presenting the above group pictures of students from Kansas and Iowa. The number from these states is large each year, and it comprises an excellent class of young men and women. The above picture does not include all of the students in attendance from these states during the past year, but those only who were in attendance in March of 1910, A large number of young people from these states have attended the Gem City Business College during the past third of a century. Scores of whom are now successful business men and bankers, not only in their home states, but in other parts of the Union. We hope that many more young people from these r.vo great states may decide to secure a business or shorthand educti n in the Gem City Business College, and we assure them tint they srill meet with success as others from their states have done.