Sparks College - Yearbook (Shelbyville, IL)

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Mr. George Newlin is the office manager for the Jarvis Oil Company in Decatur. Mr. Alvin Wurl holds a secretarial position with the Detroit, Toledo fronton Railroad in Detroit, Michigan. Mr. George Mette, after completing his course, accepted a position with the Builders Supply Company in Effingham. Mrs. Marilyn Belser Lofland is a secretary for the Staley Manufacturing Company in Decatur. Mr. Richard Gillespie is the International Harvester Company dealer in Pana. His wife is the former Marjorie Branyan. MR. NEWLIN MR. WURL MR. METTE MRS. LOFLAND MR. GILLESPIE Tenth Five Years: 1954-1958, Mrs. Joan Bolinger Craig, Chairman. Miss Ruth Firnhaber is with P. R. Mallory Co., Inc., in Indianapolis, Indiana. She is secretary to one of the executives. Mr. Elvin Beccue lives in Pekin. He is an accountant for the Illinois Farm Supply Company. Mrs. Betty June Gatton Garner is assistant bookkeeper for the State Loan Finance Company in Washington, D. C. Mr. Gene Bone is an accountant with the Farm Supply Company in Vandalia. Mr. Cecil Paul Johnson, police magistrate and business counselor, now resides in Casey. Mrs. Joyce Rae Kelley Burcham is stenographer-clerk to the District Signal Engineer of the New York Central Railroad. Miss JoAnn Ward is an accountant for the Jarvis Oil Company in Decatur. Mr. Phillip Haslett is receiving and inspection clerk for the Caterpillar Tractor Company, His wife, the former Elaine Poland, is a secretary in the Credit Sales Department of Sears, Roebuck Company in Decatur. Mr. James Guyon is an auditor for the Illinois Farm Supply Company, and lives in Edwardsville. His wife, the former Phyllis Cox, is a legal secretary in Edwardsville. Miss Rosella Pfeiffer is a secretary to the Plant Manager and Personnel Director of Electronic- Timers Company, a division of the P. R. Mallory Co., Inc. Miss Carol Melcher is secretary to Woollen Byers, Attorneys at Law, in Decatur. Miss Donna Eversole is a secretary in the Pana Refinery office in Pana. Mrs. Betty Jean Foelsing Olshaskie is clerk-stenographer with the 2664th Air Reserve Center in Decatur. Miss Elaine Heth has a secretarial position in Federal Civil Service in Decatur. Miss Sandra Kay Lang is stenographer for the law firm of Massey, .Anderson, and Givson in Paris. Mr. B. D. Love is an accountant with the Felmly-Dickerson Company in Bloomington. His wife was Lulu Belle Garner. Mr. John R. Grubb is a bookkeeper for Black Hardware Company in Decatur. Mr. Richard Harrington is an accountant for C. E. Humphrey in Kewanee. His wife, formerly Clarice Goad, is employed as a secretary in Kewanee. Mr. Nelson O. Sarver has a secretarial position with the Wabash Railroad Company in Decatur. Mr. Charles T. Blancett is a bookkeeper in the Soya National Bank in Decatur. His wife, formerly Betty Gillmore, has a stenographic position in Decatur. Mrs. Eloise Havener is a bookkeeper in the Millikin National Bank, Decatur, Mr. Wallace Taylor is an accountant with the Caterpillar Company in Decatur. Miss Maxine Elbert is a bookkeeper for the Oak Park Arms Hotel in Oak Park. Mr. Dwain Storm is a bookkeeper for Morgan Sash Company in Decatur. Mrs. Storm, formerly Patricia Ragsdale, is a stenographer for Woollen Byers, Attorneys at Law. Mrs. Dolores Weakley Hughes is a general office worker for the Caterpillar Company in Decatur.

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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.

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MRS. KINZER Mrs. Carmen Mathewson Kinzer has used her Stenograph in helping her husband in the University of Indiana in Bloomington, Indiana. Mrs. Mary Earlene Schwab Jones was atechnical secretary for Central Illinois Public Service Company in Springfield before her marriage. Mrs. Charlene Bender Hunter is the secretary in the Pana High School. Miss Martha Ann Arnett is a stenographer with the Young Radiator Company in Mattoon. Miss Evadine Stuckemeyer holds a secretarial position with the George Bock Company in Mattoon. Miss Mary Ann Blauth went directly after graduation to the People ' s National Bank in Pana, where she is still employed. She has had several promotions. Misses Mary and Imogene Blondiau are both employed by the First National Bank in Assumption. Misses Carol and Hazel Ferguson were employed by the National Bank of Decatur and the Millikin Bank of Decatur until their marriages. Carol married LeRoy Keller and lives in Charleston. Hazel married Mr. Charles Whitten and lives in Assumption. Miss Phoebe Schock is attending Greenville College in Greenville. Mr. Troy Melvin is in military service. He is located in Africa. Mr. Thomas Moore is a bookkeeper in the Cowden State Bank. His wife is the former Rita Finfrock. MRS. HUNTER MISS ARNETT MISS STUCKEMEYER MISS BLAUTH MISS MARY BLONDIAU