Sparks College - Yearbook (Shelbyville, IL)

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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.

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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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Eighth Five Years: 1944-1948, Mr. Olan Hurst, Chairman MRS. COLE MR, GERALD BEGAN MR. WALDEN Mr. Raymond Low didn ' t allow a handicap t o stop him. He holds a permanent accounting position in the Nation ' s Capital. Mrs. Mary Lou Wortman Cole is, of course, married, but still works part time. She thinks of Sparks training as a Way of Life. Messrs. Gerald and Joseph Began are both accountants in their home town. Effingham, Gerald for Bracket Motor Company, and Joseph for Laue Motor Company. Mr. Max Waltrip is the manager of the Farm Supply Company in Salem. Miss Mary Robson is in the Accounting Department of the Norge Company in Effingham. Her sister Roma is married, and lives in Mattoon. Messrs. Joseph Case. Leo Zacha, Lewis Locke, and Edgar Runkel are all accountants in the office of the Carter Oil Company in St. Elmo. Mr. Edward Helm, who was in the same office for quite some time, has been transferred to the Mattoon office. Messrs. Robert Byham and Kenneth Crocket hold similar positions with the same company in Carmi. Mr. Arnold Walden is an accountant for the Norge Company in Effingham Mr. Albert E. Paul is the secretary and manager of the Columbian Building and Loan Association in Charleston. Mr. Robert Poland, after completing the Machine- shorthand Course, went to Knox College, Galesburg, where he received an A. B. degree. He went on to the University of Hlinois, where he finished the library course. He has worked as a librarian for Notre Dame University, University of Texas, and Dallas Public Library. Sparks training in the back- ground all the time was of constant help. Mr. Max Galbreath lives in Batavia. He has found his training in accounting worth while. He holds a good accounting position. His wife, the former Doris Trullinger, has a secretarial position. Mlt. GALBREATH Ninth Five Years: 1949-1953, Mr. Warren Rubin, Chairman MRS. GALBREATH Mr. Don Rippetoe is in the store business as manager for the Benedict store in Tuscola. Mr. Richard Carruthers is making accounting a ladder. He is in Decatur, employed by the Mueller Company. Mrs. Nancy Stewardson Messmore is the secretary in the Findlay High School. Mrs Jean Alexander Buchko is the office secretary in the Kinmundy High School. Mr. Lloyd Daugherty is co-owner of the Chevrolet Agency in Arthur. Mrs. Norma Brown, after completing the Bookkeeping and Stenographic Courses, attended Eastern Illinois University, graduating with distinction Mr. Wayne Reel finished the Accounting Course, and secured employment in Decatur. He took time out for military training. When he came back, his job was waiting for him. Mrs. Mary Lou Sain is a stenographer with the Macon County Highway Department in Decatur. Mr. Don Bishop is in the Accounting Department of the Norge Manufacturing Company in Effingham. Mr. Floyd Neimeyer was the bookkeeper for the Chevrolet Agency in St. Elmo for several years. He has just returned from military service. Mr. Kenneth Von Behren is just finishing his course in the University of Illinois. His Sparks training has served him well. He already has a position.