Sparks College - Yearbook (Shelbyville, IL)

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Sixth Five Years: 1934-1938, Mr. Lawson Killam, Chairman. MR. HORTENSTINE MR. STILGEBAUER MRS. RHEA Miss Audrey Dannenbarger is a secretary in the office of the Carter Oil Company in Mattoon. For several years, she reported the annual meetings of the company in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Miss Marguerite Robertson is at the top in Federal Civil Service in Decatur. Mr. Joe Sibbett is a personnel director in the Stenographic Division of the Signal Depot in Decatur. Miss Dorene Bennett and Miss Irene Edwards both came from Windsor. Dorene married Mr. Carl Edwards, brother of Irene. Irene is now Mrs. Smith. Both families live on farms near Windsor. Both these girls found shorthand an exacting science that made good thinkers of them. Mr. Crouch . . Tallman is now working as a reporter with The Municipal Court, Los Angeles Judicial District. Sparks training made it possible for him to keep going during the discouraging days of the depression. Mr. DeWitt Brown is second in authority in the Illinois Farm Supply Company office in Chicago. His wife, who was Helen Taylor, is also a graduate. Mr. Gordon G. Longenbach is bookkeeper and insurance head of the R. W. Tipson Agency, Inc., in Bloomington. Miss Gwendolyn McCallister is secretary to the president of the Goss Printing Manufacturing Company in Chicago. She has an extended vacation each year with pay, too. Mr. William E. Burrows is secretary-treasurer with Bailey Himes, Champaign, also secretary- treasurer for Counsel Finance Corporation, Champaign, secretary-treasurer for Leavitt Bleacher Corporation in Urbana, having recently been named director of the last-named business. William says, My training made it possible for me to start in the world of finance and business, to impress my employer and secure the positions I needed for success, and improve as opportunities presented themselves. Miss Lera Waddington worked for Sta-Rite in Shelbyville, and later for Jarvis Oil Company in Decatur, where she became office manager. Upon the death of Mr. Jarvis, she was employed as a financial secretary, looking after Mrs. Jarvis ' financial interests. Mr. Glen Lichtenwalter has a good Federal Civil Service position in New Orleans, Louisiana. Mr. Ed Hortenstine is a farmer near Gays, operating 240 acres in such a manner that he is prospering, and at the same time plans to leave the farm in better condition for the next generation. He was always a loyal friend of his .Alma Mater. He honored the memory of Mrs. Sparks by fine music by his daughter and himself over the Mattoon Radio Station. His wonderful words of commendation for Mrs. Sparks spoke volumes. John and Paul, brothers of Ed, are also Sparks graduates. Mr. Glen Stilgebauer, as always, is very active, providing bookkeeping and income-tax service. He lives in Mattoon. Reverend Carl Lee is the Free Methodist minister in Tuscola. Mr. Dorwin Richardson is an accountant in the First National Bank of Pana. Miss Emmajane Wright, soon after graduation, married Mr. Noble Rhea, who is a funeral director in Findlay. Mrs. Rhea finds her Stenotype very handy in connection with service offered by the funeral home. Mrs. Joy Seymour, Mrs. Jean Bible, and Mrs. Mary June Smith, all of Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Carnes ' s children, found Sparks College to their liking. All are housewives at present. Mr. George Lacharite came to Sparks for a short summer course, only to stay on and finish the Ac- counting Course. He is now a lawyer in Pana. Mrs. Mary Catherine Bartscht Udendorf is private secretary to the hospital administrator of Indian River Memorial Hospital at Vero Beach, Florida, about 150 miles north of Miami. It is a 60-bed hospital, and being enlarged to 100 beds at the present time. Miss Marybel Eversole has had a wonderful life of service in the State Department of the United States. She has been stationed in South America, the I ' hilippine Isl.inds, and Europe. She is now in Washington, D. C. Mr. Robert King is the manager of the International Harvester Comp;iny in Tuscola. Ronald King was a casualty of World War U. He simply did not come back. Great boy - God rest his soul.

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Mrs. Mamie Frances Hill Cleary is a reporter in San Francisco, California. She operates her own office. She is married, has two children, but the lure of reporting still holds. She visited her Alma Mater in November, 1958. Mr. John Gwin is the personnel director of Armour Laboratories. Just now he is doing some special work in Kankakee. Mrs. Helen Foote Bell is the official court reporter of the Fifth Judicial Circuit Court of Illinois, being employed by Circuit Judge Harry I. Hannah. MR. COVENTRY DR. CORDRAY MR. ALBIN Mr. Dean Coventry is with the General ' Electric Company in New Jersey. He has had several fine promotions. Mr. Maurice Melcher, after finishing his course in Sparks, went into the real -estate and insurance business. He has done well in his home town, Findlay. Mr. Robert Vest is an auditor for the Farm Supply Company and lives in Edwardsville. He is regarded as good on the job. Mrs. Orpha Guthrie Fairchild is teller and bookkeeper in the Fayette County Bank in St. Elmo. Orpha writes, We recently moved into a new modern building with a drive-in service. Having been left a widow very early in life, it has made it possible for me to be self-supporting, both me and my three children. Dr. Woodrow Cordray has aDoctor of Philosophy degree awarded to him by the University of California at Los Angeles. By his own efforts and a beacon light at the top, he struggled on and up. Congratulations. He has a fine teaching position in San Fernando, California. Others in his family and the Sparks College family are Mrs. Geneva Dailey, secretary to the manager, Oliver Corporation, Shelbyville; Mrs. Dorothy Barden, under State Civil Service, secretary to Mrs. Josephine Richardson, Director of Rehabilitation, Shelbyville; Mrs. Ruth Olimpio, a secretary for several years, now a housewife; Mr. and Mrs. Herschel Cordray, employed by the Oliver Corporation as a bookkeeper and stenographer respectively. Mr. Bernard C. Koeberlein is now assistant cost accountant with Norge Division, Borg Warner Corporation, Effingham. Says Bernard, Previously I worked ten years in the bank as assistant cashier, accounting technician in the hospital corps in the U. S. Navy, and have now been with Norge for 13 years. Miss Velma Ditzler holds a man ' s position with Montgomery Ward Company in Chicago. Why? Because of her ability and experience. She was promoted to a position formerly held by a member of the male sex. She is getting the job done. Mr. Lester W. Ramsey is buyer ' s assistant for International Harvester Company in Indianapolis. Mr. Glen Albin, in spite of polio, is giving a good account of himself. He is the manager of Walbern Laboratories, Decatur. Miss Lillian Spires is a trust officer in the Union National Bank in St. Louis, Missouri. Mrs. Mae Maloney Kirk, after graduating from Sparks, attended E. I. T. C. at Charleston. Taught school for a time. Taught in Sparks College. Married - housewife. Mrs. Blanche Maloney Rubenking is presently serving as secretary for the Quaker City Life Insurance Co., of Indianapolis. Blanche says, My ' red-letter day ' in Sparks was when I passed my 150 in shorthand. The fact that after twenty-one years as a housewife I could step into an office shows that Sparks training is thorough and most excellent. Mr. Norris Henry is head of the cost department of the John W. Hobbs Corporation, a division of Stewart-Warner in Springfield. During World War II, he was in the U„ S. Coast Guard, Intelligence Service, and was made a court reporter. Mrs. Wanoma Phelps Klauser is working as clerk-stenographer for the Kelly Air Force Base of San . ntonio, Texas. She feels that Our training in Sparks in wh ich we were made to get each day ' s lesson completed and be thorough in our work was the most valuable experience. I feel I could not have gone back into an office after being out ten years if we had not been taught in this manner.

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MR. McNEELY MH. GRAHAM Mrs. Geneva Ransom and Miss Luella Kull have secretarial positions witli Franldin Life Insurance Company in Springfield. Mr. Stanley McNeely went directly from Sparks College to Effingham, as an auditor for the Kingwood Oil Company. He now lives in Dayton, Ohio. Mrs. Juanita Kuhn Wolf was chosen by the city superintendent of schools of Charleston as a secretary, which job she held for several years until her marriage. Mr. Clarence E. Ditzler is manager of the Provision Sales Department of the Chicago plant of Armour Company, and has recently been named area sales manager on pork and provision items. His brother Harold was the first one of the three Ditzler children to enter Sparks College. His position in Chicago is really a good one. Mr. Albert E. Collier is accountant and off ice manager for Q, B ' Mitchell, Oil Producer, ICC Trucking Company, and Rotary Drilling Contractor. He has been with him for eight years. Messrs. Wayne and Gene Denton are partners in the Denton Motor Company, Chevrolet Sales and Service, in Ramsey. Mr. William A. Woodring now lives in Normal, and is auditor and treasurer of Felmley-Dickerson C ompany. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Turney are both graduates of the Shorthand Department. They have used Sparks training in getting more advanced training. Bruce is a state chemist, while his wife, the former Elizabeth Boys, is a secretary in Indianapolis, Indiana. Mr. Rexford Graham is in the Hardware Department of Sears, Roebuck Company in Mattoon, where he has been employed for fifteen years. .After supper, he may go to Lerna, Toledo, Neoga, Oakland, Windsor, or Shelbyville to look after an account. He likes to work because it pays. His grandfather, Mr. John E. Sparks, was Mr. Henry Sparks ' s brother. Seventh Five Years: 1939-1943, Mrs. Jean Carnes Bible, Chairman Mr. Olin Wirth is the secretary and ma nager for the Mattoon Federal Savings and Loan Association. Mr. Vincent Hanneken, soon after graduation, was inducted into the Army. After Army Service, he took the fire started in Sparks and again started to school. He is now an M. D,, practicing in Wabash, Indiana. Mr. Asel Ryan, Jr., is the business manager of the Beecher City Journal. He gets the work done. Recently he said, I well remember your assembly talks, Mr. Sparks, about morals and religion, and your personal words of advice to me, when I thought I couldn ' t get it done. For these great helps, I owe you and Sparks College a great debt of gratitude. Mr. Richard S. Boys is the office manager for the Garvey Drilling Company in Great Bend, Kansas. Mr. Garvey has an interest in 20 different businesses. One of the largest is farming. He received $250,000 from the soil bank - the largest such check issued by the government. . ? li •«- ►, 64 MR. WIRTH DR. HANNEKEN MR. RYAN