Sparks College - Yearbook (Shelbyville, IL)

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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

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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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' -f t ' ? MR. KEPP MRS. TIPPETT MISS SHUPE Mr. John W. Newlin is treasurer and office manager for John Deere Plow Company in Syracuse, New York. Miss Clara Thomas is in Phoenix, Arizona, where the knowledge of accountancy produces. Mr Carl C Kull is manager and partner of Kull Brothers Hardware Appliances in Strasburg. Miss Naomi Barkhurst is withthe First National Bank in Springfield. She left a good position in Decatur to go to Springfield. , ,, . Mr. Robert O. Watson, Jr., is field personnel officer with the Civil Service System at the University of Illinois in Urbana. Mr. Warren Kepp is office manager for Central Wholesale Supply Company in Mattoon. He employed, recently, Samuel Ochs of this year ' s class. Mr. Curtis Henderson is branch manager for E. Blankenship and Company of Effingham. He does sales work and accounting. , , i, ■ Mr Garland Strohl, except during the time he was in the Army, has been in the lumber business, first as a bookkeeper, later as a manager, and now as partner and manager in Tuscola. He was not yet eighteen years of age when he graduated from Sparks. Miss Bernice Ulmer is tax consultant in the District of Columbia government. Mr. Ernest F. Grabowski is accountant for Murphey, TurnbuU, and Jones in Decatur. Mrs. Mary Stiarwalt Maxfield holds a very exacting position in Federal Civil Service in Washington, D C Mr. Gerald W. Blankenship is a budget analyst for Vickers, a subsidiary of Sperry-Rand. He lives in Detroit, Michigan. Mrs. Viola Whittington Fuller is secretary to the Assistant Chief Attorney of the Veterans Administration Regional Office in Chicago. She supervises twenty-two employees. I use my Stenotype everyday, says Viola. Mrs. Rosemary Prosser Sanner, after graduating from Sparks, took nurses training in Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. She was an active nurse for some time. She is now secretary one-half day and nurse one-half day for Dr. Doyle. Mrs Virginia Hartman started in Sparks College Just before World War 11. She wanted to help keep the home fires burning. She did. Later she was employed by Judge F. R. Dove. After the war, her husband trained for and went into public-health work. He was recently sent to Seoul, Korea, and Virginia and her Stenograph went, too. Virginia has been working, reporting meetings, etc., practically the whole time she has been there. , j. Mrs. Betty Hill Wooters lives in Assumption, ha s two girls and a boy, and plans for her girls to get Sparks training. Mrs. Muriel Croy Tippett is private secretary to Theodore O. Cutright, Attorney at Law in Toledo. She has been working for him for the past seven years. She has held several other positions, but feels that her work as legal secretary is most fascinating. Mr. Herbert Lloyd is office manager of Bond County Service Company of Greenville. Mrs. Ottie Ballard Small is the manager of the locker plant in Ramsey. Miss Kathryn.E. Shupe is a secretary in the ASC offices in Toledo. She has held this Important position several years. Her grandfather and Mr. Henry Sparks ' s mother were brother and sister.