Gem City Business College - Yearbook (Quincy, IL)

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FEED COKER Bookkeeper The Bunker-Culler Lumber Company CAPITAL $250,000 Bunker, Mo., Jan. 7, 1911. Gem City Business College, Quincy, Illinois. Dear Prof. Musselman: For the benefit of those who are trying to decide on a school in which to take a business course, I will say that the Gem City Business College is the one to select. I left the section work where I was getting $1.25 a day and entered the Gem City Business College. When I left I accepted a position as bookkeeper and assistant cashier in the Shannon County Bank. I am now assistant bookkeeper for the Bunker- Culler Lumber Company of this place. While I was attending your school I thought that the hardest thing would be to get a position, but I found this was not the case, as I was recommended to a position the next day after I left the G. C. B. C. I have been offered several good positions since that time, but am well satisfied with my present work. It seems that there is always a good position await- ing a Gem City stude .it. Very truly yours, FRED COKER. Mr. Kenneth D. Moore has a position with W. E. Wells, of Chicago, 111. Mr. Wm. Rockefellow is employed in a railroad office at Ogden, Utah. Mr. O. L. Scnaumburg is credit manager for the Johns-Manville Company of St. Louis, Missouri. Mr. C. E. Sipple is keeping books for the Pruden- tial Insurance Company at Milwaukee, Oregon. Miss Annabel Rupert has charge of the commercial department of the Stillwater (Minn.) High School. The Old National Bank of Spokane UNITED STATES DEPOSITARY Capital $1,000,000 Spokane, Wash., February 3, 1911. Prof. D. L. Musselman, Quincy, Illinois. Dear Professor Musselman: No doubt you will be surprised to learn that I am in Spokane. Upon my arrival I was fortunate in securing a position in the Old National Bank, one of the largest banks in the northwest. There are quite a number of G. C. B. C. students here in Spokane, all of whom are holding splendid positions. In my travels through the west it has been my pleasure to meet G. C. B. C. students in most every city. At this time I wish to thank you for the many courtesies shown me while in your school. I further wish to state that I am confident that any young man or young woman desiring a business education, will make no mistake by enrolling in your good school. Again thanking vou, I am Yours truly, E. G. CLEM. F. M. ROBERTSON Assistant Cashier Virginia, 111., April 19, 1911. My dear Mr. Musselman: I am always glad to say a good word for the Gem City. I took your excellent course several years ago and have been profit- ably employed ever since. I have just recently been appointed as Assistant Cashier of the Farmers ' Na- tional Bank. I am also interested in the bank as a shareholder. I am now going on my sixth year in the banking business, and I can truly say that my Gem City Business College training has helped me very materially in my advancement. Very respectfully, F. M. ROBERTSON. Mr. L. L. Turpin has an excellent position with the Rock Springs High School at Rock Springs, Wy- oming. Mr. C. M. Calvert is in the Treasury Department at Washington, D. C. He writes that there are lots of G. C. B. C. boys there. Miss Mary Schwab, who has been public strung rapher at the Hotel Newcomb, Quincy, Illinois, since she graduated from the Gem City Business College, left recently to accept her appointment as stenographer in the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, at a salary of $800 per year.

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A LEADER From the February 1911 Edition of the Phonographic World of New York City E. N. MINER, Editor The Great Gem City Business College at Quincy, 111., Stands in the Front Rank Among All Like Institutions in the World. OF NONE of her institutions of learning can the United States of America be more proud than of her commercial colleges and none of the thousands of these, located in every one of our states from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, can she be more justly proud than of the great Gem City Business College, located at Quincy, 111. North America was primarily and is essen- tially the home of business education. In no other country of the earth has commercial education taken such strides, or attained to such proportions in educational interests, as in the United States. And yet, only fifty years ago, the business school, as such, or the commercial department in coll ?es, universities and public schools was an unknown factor in even our work of educating the young. But as America began taking her place in the front rank of the commercial nations of the world she recognized the necessity for specially educating her soldiers for the battle for business, and about half a century ago there began springing up, here and there in different parts of the country, small schools whose proprietors and projectors declared themselves prepared to educate young men for commercial life. The beginnings of these schools were, however, always very modest — they never occupying at the start more than one room, and usually a small one at that, in or near the commercial district of a large city. Business men looked upon them with anything but favor, at first sneeringly, and later only with feelings of toleration, as the schools ' outputs began to prove their value. The writer of this article can very vividly remember the time (and this is only thirty-six years ago) when he was one of the assistant bookkeepers in a large department store in Kansas City (having himself been practically trained by a gray-haired bookkeeper of the old school) and when we of the bookkeeping force would sneer loud and long if we needed extra help and it was merely suggested by somebody that we try one from Spalding ' s commercial college, an institution which had opened its doors only a few years before in that city. But these brave pioneers of business edu- cation have held their own, until today the sneer of the business men for the college graduate has not only disappeared and toler- ance has long since taken its place, but this has in its turn ripened into admiration and perfect trust as the well-prepared product of the well-equipped commercial school has gone out into the business world and has proven himself not only capable and desirable, but indispensable. And where fifty years ago the commercial school graduate was positively an unknown quantity in supplying the needs of business men for trained office help, it is safe to say that today at least ninety-five per cent of the raw material finding its way into the business offices of this country comes direct from the once despised commercial college. Among the earliest of these old-time com mercial school pioneers was D. L. Musselman. the well known founder of the great Gem City Business College, at Quincy, 111. Mr. Mussel- man started in the work, we believe as a teacher of penmanship in one of the first schools of the Bryant, Stratton Bell chain, first teaching for them at Springfield and later at Quincy, where in 1870, forty years ago, he, founded the wonderful institution for business education which has since borne his name. During the year that has just passed the college experienced the most successful in its history, with an enrollment of about 1400 students, and including in its list representa- tives from a majority of the states and terri- tories of the Union. At the head of this great institution of learning now stand D. L. Musselman, presi- dent; W. E. White, vice-president; V. G. Musselman, secretary. These three highly capable, earnest, and conscientious gentlemen are assisted in the successful conduct and up building of the Gem City Business College by a faculty composed of twenty-one experienced teachers — practical educators, each being espe- cially qualified for the department over which he or she presides — who devote their entire time to the school and to the interests of its students. It must not be supposed for a moment that the Gem City Business College relies for its support, or even draws to any considerable degree its patronage, from Quincy, the com- paratively small city in which it is located. Very few, indeed, of its students are natives, or permanent citizens of the town — the college, with its world-wide reputation for good work, drawing its pupils to it every year not only from almost every state of the Union, but from almost every country of the civilized globe. The Gem City Business College is also well known as a graduating school for teachers, as well as for pupils. Upon the occasion of a recent visit to the college by the editor of the World we were shown by Mr. Musselman a great stack of letters from teachers recently placed in positions as such by this college, thanking him for his care in preparing them for their positions and his subsequent kindness in placing them; another pile of letters from teachers desiring positions and changes, and another pile, no less in size, from many of the foremost school proprietors, managers, and principals, asking for competent help in their instruction departments. No less than fifty-nine public school teach- ers were in attendance at the G. C. B. C. in March, 1910, qualifying themselves in the vari- ous courses offered by the school. 4s 49