Gem City Business College - Yearbook (Quincy, IL)

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OEM CITY BUSINESS COLLEGE, QUINCY, ILLINOIS p 5 PRESENT OFFICERS CONTINUE POLICIES I OF FOUNDER D. L. MUSSELMAN V. G. MUSSELMAN DR. T. E. MUSSELMAN President Vice President and Treasurer Secretary Managed by members of the same family whose father founded the institution, Gem City Business College today operates under the supervision of the three Musselman brothers. D. L. Musselman is the president of the institu- tion. He has had a long and successful civic and business career. During the World War I, he was chairman of the Adams County Red Cross, and, at the present time, he is president of the Woodland Home for Orphans and F riendless. His past activities include nine-years as a member of the Quincy Board of Education. He has also been vice-president of the Chaddock Boys' School, trustee of Illinois Wesleyan University of Bloomington, president of the National Commercial Teachers Association, vice-president of the Quincy Chamber of Commerce, and for more than twenty years he was director of a large national bank. He is listed in Who's Who in Illinois. V. G. Musselman, the vice-president and treasurer of the institution, for a great many years was the secretary of the Board of Trustees of Blessing Hospital of this city. He is also president of the Woodland Cemetery Association, a cemetery do- nated to the city of Quincy by Governor Wood of Illinois, in 1831. He is the Treasurer of the Quincy Housing and Planning Council, the Quincy Safety Commission and is secretary of the Quincy Board of Underwriters. In addition to this, he has been a director of the Dads Association of the University of Illinois. He was formerly the secretary of the Board of Directors of the Quincy Y.M.C.A., an officer and director of the Quincy Chamber of Commerce, and he has been associated with many other civic activi- ties. During the World War I, he had charge of the business district in the Liberty Loan and other War Drives, and during World War II was one of the executives in charge of the War Bond Sales. Dr. T. E. Musselman, the secretary of the insti- tution, is now a member of the Board of Trustees of the Anna Brown Home for the Aged, a counselor of the Inland Bird Banding Association, and, for Ia number of years, was secretary of the Boy Scouts Council. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Illinois, and, in 1934, was granted an honorary Doctor of Science degree, by Carthage College. In 1909, in collabora- tion with Dr. William Bagley, now Professor of Education Emeritus, Columbia University and Dr. J . Herbert Kelly, of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, he founded the first chapter of the national honorary educational fraternity, Kappa Delta Pi. He was honored by being elected its first president. He is a well known platform lecturer, his specialty being ornithology and nature subjects. He is listed in Who's Who in America.

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