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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.
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A Group of Public School Teachers in Attendance at Gem City Business College, January 30, 1911 s PAY OF PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS TATE SUPERINTENDENT BLAIR has given out some figures regarding the compensation of teachers in Illinois. The. average pay for male teachers in ungraded schools is $47.47 per month, while the women receive an average of $39.62 in the ungraded schools. However, adds the Burlington Hawk-Eye, this showing is neither just nor true. The school vear ranges from seven to ten months. But the teacher draws pay only for the time when school is open. However, he or she has to subsist during the vacation time which may be as much as five months in the year. The average for women teachers in the ungraded schools is probably but very little over $300 per annum, or about $25 per month, upon which they have to live and dress themselves and take in teachers ' conventions and keep up on educational progress, read and pay for educational journals and pay fees of various sorts. There is a summer school of some two weeks which again calls for extra expenditures. It is a wonder that there are teachers to be found for many of these schools. And the teachers who do good work under these conditions are surely worthy of the highest respect. Public school teachers are each year appreciating the advantages gained by taking a commercial education, preparing them either for commercial work or for commercial teaching in high schools and business colleges. In this way they are enabled to double and in many cases to quadruple the salaries they formerly received. PREPARE FOR COMMERCIAL TEACHING MORE THAN three hundred business colleges, normal s chools, high schools, and commercial departments have called upon us during the past year for commercial teachers. Hundreds of our students are now teaching the commercial branches in schools and colleges throughout the country. Every student who has prepared for commercial teaching in the Gem City Business College has secured a satisfactory position. At all times we have had more applications from other schools for teachers than we could fill. In preparing for commercial teaching, one should take either the penmanship and bookkeeping combination course or the shorthand and bookkeeping combination, because the majority of the calls for teachers are for one or the other of these combinations. We also have a great many calls for those who can teach shorthand only. Usually when a school asks for a teacher of bookkeeping branches, it also desires one who can teach penmanship as well. Any one who completes either of the above described courses, is thoroughly prepared for high-grade commercial teaching, as well as for any office work. Salaries range from $60 to $100 a month at the start.
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