Central Normal College - Centralian Yearbook (Danville, IN)

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l 1'l 1 l l ,. l 1. 'v I ll li 1. I I 1 v l f I I , ,l l l Q i F l R l I l W I1 ef' in i f m il il up f ict kxkkx il tl' Y -3- m Commercial Department The first catalog issued by the College was published at Ladoga in the summer of 1877. In this catalog is noted a Commercial Department with courses in bookkeeping and penmanship. Whether these courses were given during the year 1876 or not, the writer has found no one able to say 5 but at any rate the Commercial Department is one of the oldest of the school. These courses were taught for nearly twenty years to which then was added a course in shorthand. ' In the beginning the personnel of the Department was masculine, but gradually as the women began to extend their fields of activity they came into the commercial work and at the present time there are more girls than boys enrolled. Long ago the Commercial Department was the department of misfitsf' If a student failed to make license after several attempts he was switched onto the commercial track. Sometimes a father and mother decided that they did not want their son, or daughter, to work as hard as they, so they brought him to school where he was started in a commercial course, and then felt that their son was well on the way to join the White Collar Brigade. Gradually people all over the world have awakened to the fact that commercial work is serious anc. practical., From this realization came a demand for specially equipped depagrtments in the high schools of the land with well trained teachers to head these departments. Central Normal College was one of the first to found a special department for the training of commercial teachers. In March 1921 this Department of C. N. C. was accredited by the State Board of Education for the training of commercial teachers. From this time there has been a steady increase in the number gradu- ating from the commercial course. Students of this Department will be found in every state of the Union. Many men and women have contributed their share to the upbuilding of the Commercial Department and all share a common hope that it will not only round out another half century, but like Tennyson's brook, Go on forever. Fifty-Six Jfmwmm N C' 3 l. , i 1 . iii ll 1 - ac l Fi-fly-Sf

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ro- IgG ea- 2ad rn. th- uc- ual .mg HTG ' of the ' to aw lege mity are ?ntS stu- ned has the art- ties glut uch I' so f-'UIU Members of Law Department' A. J. Stevenson, Head ofllaw Department X Lloyd O. Brown -, ,, Herbert T. Slaton 1 43 Harlan Hadley li t mu X' Stacy Miner Q 5 fig Paul Cockrill HW Grant Walls lf L 'f-Lil John Cooper W , Lawrence Hobbs Q25 P3 yy 1 0 fll' C l I Fifty-Five in .- I 7 ll Tlx! l l r H A .5 1 QQ ---nf, lgrgsf., a 'Q'

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the 'ith ven but ool. ded but une nan .S H ned hat iey len e!! hat 2 a md nal ing vas :ial lu- be ing not on Six Members of the Commercial Department Fifty-Seven Mrs. Laura C. Niswander, Head of Commercial Department G. Reeds Andrews Pansy Baker Ethel Busenbark Aleeta Byfield Russell Bratton Beryl Bosstick Grace Cox Thelma Cogan Helen Downey Harry Darnell Nadine Fisher Oakley Foley Lowell Fancher Eva G. Castino Helen Hall Frances Hiatt Helen Jack Mary B. Johnson Hazel Kennedy Stanley Lyon Carrie Zinn Audrey Martin Eva Maxwell Mrs. Marie Minter Mitchell Robert McMullen Ruth Masten X Elsie Leotta Moore Pauline Mackey Verne Moore I . Aubrey Miles 'EK Arthur Parr' ' Jill Xl VI , ' at f Myron Phillips -- ' Mrs. Nema Ramsey y 1 William H. Rodebeck we fr'g1 Geraldine Roberts PM A w Mary E. Shearer 93 My Mary Elizabeth Swisher K lj V. U e 1 Margaret Swinford Qglyl JW Dorothy Whicker alll if ,, Ernest Walker lgg,f '.1.ff7 9' 'I Mrs. Esther Young ff? lv Ag , i fizzlyv'