Sparks College - Yearbook (Shelbyville, IL)

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other Outstanding Accounting Graduates ir. r.ivin Bcccue Mr. Gene Bone Ir. Herman Beetle Mr. William Burrows Ir. Joseph Began Mr. Warren Call Ir. Gerald Blankenship Mr. Ernest Grabowski Miss Mabel Good Mr. Edward Helm Mr. Lewis Locke Mr. John R. Grubb Mr. C. E. Humphrey Mr. Raymond Low Mr. James Guyon Mr. Carl Jackson Mr. Roscoe Manning Mr. John Guin Mrs. Lucille Young Labbe Mr. . lbert E. Paul Mr. George Scheef Miss Clara Thomas Mr. Max Waltrip Miss JoAnn Ward

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Further Recognition It is reported that the Russian Government, soon after World War I, canceled a $3,000,000. war contract with the Stenotj pe Company of Indianapolis, Indiana. This cancellation caused the failure of the Stenotype Company. Indianapolis bankers held the patents for several years, when finally LaSalle Extension University of Chicago, Illinois, secured these patents and started manufacture and promotion of the machine. Miss Madge Sparks, then a young woman of seventeen years, was trained to teach the machine. Two of her pupils. Miss Edith Pitzer and Miss Marguerite Griffin, went all out to make a record. They wanted to be the first under the LaSalle regime to finish Stenotypy. Edith and Marguerite, with Madge ' s help, made the grade. They were the first graduates under LaSalle management of the Stenotype. The LaSalle Company rewarded these girls by sending them on a trip to Kansas City, Missouri, to attend the convention of the National Business Teachers ' Association, which was held during the Christmas holidays. MRS. EDITH PITZER LANE MRS. M. RGUERITE GRIFFIN IGO Miss Lovetta Beck, a Gregg Writer, receives the acclaim of the business world as a secretary. Miss Beck has worked for Judge I. H. Streeper in Alton, Illinois, since 1929. At present she is his personal secretary and office manager. She is the court reporter of the City Court of Alton. In 1954, Lovetta passed the twelve-hour examination for the title of Certified Professional Secretary. CPS is to the secretarial profession what CPA is to that of accounting. In 1956, Lovetta was named Secretary of the Year by the Alton Chapter, National Secretaries Association (International), and participated in the national contest. Mr. Roy E. Burke comes in for recognition as a CPA. He is the manager for Price-Waterhouse Company, a firm of CP. ' ' s in Houston, Texas - No picture available. There are many bankers, auditors, cost accountants. Civil Service workers, and general accountants, among whom the name of Richard Carruthers shows well. He is an accountant in Decatur. MISS LOVETTA BECK MR. RICHARD CARRUTHERS

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other Outstanding Stenographic Graduates Mrs. Jean Alexander Buchko Mrs. Helen Foote Bell Mr. Clyde Beals Mr. Lee Cosart Mrs. Joyce Kelley Burcham Miss Carol Melcher Miss Rosella Pfeiffer Mr. Harmon L. Ruff Mr. Arthur Hendrix Miss Elaine Heth Miss Sandra Lang Mr. Glenn Stettbacher Miss Marguerite Robertson Miss Donna Eversoie Miss Ruth Firnhaber Mrs. Charlene Bender Hunter Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Turney (Elizabeth Boys) Mr. Jack Ellis Miss Margie Esker Mrs. Viola Whittington Fuller Mrs. Dolores Weakley Hughes Mr. Crouch Tallman Miss Lera Waddington Mrs. Dorothea Hood Willard