Gem City Business College - Yearbook (Quincy, IL)

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Js j s f JJ tea Royal Typewriter Company St. Louis, Mo. Dear Prof. Musselman : After I left the Gem City in 1902, I served for five years as cashier and hook- keeper for the Kremlin Grocer Company, St. Louis, Mo., the largest west of the Mississippi. I then re- signed to take my present position with the Royal Typewriter Company. I cannot speak too strongly of the merits of your institution. ff. a. WAGNER. private secretary to Dr. work takes her to all Miss Fern A. Brazelton is Scoville, the evangelist. Her parts of the United States. Mr. F. E. Cunningham is now in the real estate business .at Chenoa. Illinois. Mr. H. Ti. Cockrell is president of the State Sav- ings Bank, of Lea.veuworth, Kansas. Mr. C. II. ili ishaw is representative for the Rom- baur Coal Company at Novinger, Mo. UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITER CO. Dear Professor Musselman : For the last six months I have been in the employ of the Underwood Typewriter Company in Louisville, Kentucky. This branch office covers the state of Kentucky and South- ern Indiana. I desire to thank the faculty of the G. C. B. C. for the excellent instruction and training I received while there. I can now more fully appreciate the advantages that are derived from such a school as yours. I am also in a position to see and compare other schools with the Gem City Business College, and I desire to say that among the numerous schools I visit, none compares with the G. C. B. C. It is far superior in size, equipment, and methods of teaching to any that I have seen or heard of. and I congratulate myself on being a graduate from such a great school. Sincerely yours, H. C. LUTZ. H. C. LUTZ Salesman Mr. J. E. Barnes is assistant cashier for the Round Prairie Bank, Fillmore, Mo. Miss Mary E. Miller is in charge of the com- mercial department of the Stillwater (Minn.) High School. Miss Fern Albright lias charge of the commercial and shorthand department of the High School at Pawnee City, Nebraska. Before beginning this work she had a year ' s eperience in a bank and served two years as deputy county clerk. C. E. SPANGLER Washburn, 111., Feb. 14, 1911. Dear Professor Musselman : It affords me much pleasure to add my testimonial to the merits of your great -institution. I spent the winter of 1908-1909 in youv school. After completing my course I took a position in Peoria at an advance of $25 a month above what I had received before. This speaks well for the profitable side of the school, and as for the pleasurable side I can say that I never enjoyed a winter more than I did the one spent in Quincy. I can heartily endorse the thoroughness of your school, the efficiency of the instructors, and the splendid moral atmosphere which surrounds the student in your school. May a continued and an enlarged school be your portion. - Respectfully, H. E. SPANGL3R Mr. E. W. Beimfohr is head accountant and office manager of the Johnston Transfer Company, Aberdeen, Washington, at a salary of $150 a month.

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Penmanship Gold Medal Contest THE importance of good penmanship in business cannot be over estimated. Our students are given special attention in penmanship under the guidance of ex- perienced teachers, and much enthusiasm is shown by them in this part of the course. For a number of years past handsome gold medals have been offered by the management to those excelling in penmanship. Last fall an interesting contest between the Introduc- tory Bookkeeping and the Advanced Book- keeping departments was held. The contest extended over a period of several months, closing December 14th, with very satisfactory results. At the close of the contest three medals were awarded in each department, as follows: A gold medal to the best penman. A gold medal to the lady and another to the gentle- man making the greatest improvement in writing during the contest. A group picture of these medal winners is shown on the ooposite page and may be iden- tified by the following key: Advance! Bookkeeping Department — Best Penmanship A. A. Gregory No. 2 -„ . T ' I Bessie Huher No. 5 Best Improvement J H. E. Zimmerman No. 1 Introductory Department — ■ Best Penmanship... Upton Giles No. 3 Best Improvement $ lia Mansfield No. 6 I Henry Hoowell No. 4 Spelling Contest FOR a number of years past there has been much friendly rivalry between the Shorthand department and the Business department of the G. C. B. C. on the subject of spelling. A handsome banner has been presented by the school, to be contested for each year— the winner holding the banner and being entitle! to the championship honors until the following year, when it is again contested for. Each department has its own preliminary contest for the purpose of select- ing ten of the best spellers to represent it, and it is considered a great honor to make the spelling team. When the teams are selected and properly drilled, the entire school is called together and the team missing the fewest words during a period of two hours is awarded the cham- pionship banner. Although the contest this year was remark- ably close, the shorthand team won, and hence is entitled to the banner until next fall. A group picture of the winning team is shown on the opposite page. The following key will enable the different contestants to be identified: Back Row Left to Right — 1, A. M. Rinaman: 3, C. M. Rash; V. A. Penn; 6, H. E. Belden. Front Row Left to Right — 7, Dora Peters; 9, Annabel Rupert; H. Davisson ; J. C. Naylor; M. Browne; L. L. Turpin. | Typewriting Contest WE PRESENT herewith the portraits of the prize winners in the annual type- writing contest. The contest con- sisted in copying from plain copy for twenty minutes on absolutely new matter. There were five contestants on the Remington machine and five on the Underwood. Mr. G. W. Glover wrote 1069 words gross, with an average, after being penalized for errors, of 40.85 words per minute, and was awarded the Remington medal. Mr. H. H. Bartelt wrote 1007 words gross, with a net average, after being penalized, of 37.9 words per minute, and he was awarded the Underwood medal. Mr. Dunbar Williamson, of Quincy, Illinois, has gone to Yashington, D. C, to accept a position as stenographer in the War Department. He completed a course in stenography at the Gem City Business College and for a time was employed in the office of the Electric Wheel Works, Quincy, Illinois. Mr. Wil- liamson is a Quincy High School graduate and has many friends. H. P. MABERRY Recorder of Deeds, Lawrence County Mount Vernon, Mo., February 2, 1911. Mr. V. G. Musselman, Quincy, Illinois. Dear Professor: I completed the business course in your school about the middle of July, 1909, and since then I have been employed as deputy collector for Lawrence County, Missouri. It is with pleasure that I express the great esteem in which I hold the G. C. B. C. and its efficient and courteous officials. I can heartily recommend the G. C. B. C. as an institution of superior merit, excelled by none in the United States. Sincerely yours, H. P. MABERRY. Mr. C. P. Eresch is bookkeeper for the German National Bank at Beloit, Kansas. Mr. N. F. Costin is in the general mercantile busi- ness at Worth, Missouri. Mr. A. L. Alexander is operating two large shoe stores located at Hudson and Waterloo, Iowa.