Sparks College - Yearbook (Shelbyville, IL)

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Mrs. Janice Hunter I.ash used her Stenograph in helping her husband attend the University of Illinois. Miss Carol Compton is secretary-bookkeeper for Mr. Robert W. Sleeper, who heads a firm of CPA ' s in Decatur. Misses Margie Esker and Norma Spencer went to St. Louis the same day. Both of these girls secured positions and have enjoyed several promotions. Mr. Charles Hayden is office manager for the Service Company in Sullivan. Miss Joyce Darlene Campbell is using Sparks training as an aid to attending Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. Mrs. June Traylor, who has been the county reporter for Montgomery County, came to Sparks about a year ago and attended the school for one day a week. She made good progress. She wants to do her reporting on the machine instead of with a pencil. She is succeeding, too. Miss Rebecca Bartimus is a secretary for the Young Radiator Company in Mattoon. Miss Donna Waymire married Richard Inyart. They live in Springfield, where both are employed. Miss Dorothea Hood, now Mrs. J. C. VVillard, finished the Shorthand Course in 1926. She came back to Sparks and took the Machine-shorthand Course in 1955. She is a free-lance reporter, and is a busy woman. Miss Janet Ripley married Michael Hartman. He is in mil itary service, and is located in California. Mr. James Preston Hunter is in the Navy. MISS BARTIMUS MRS. TRAYLOR MISS CAMPBELL S0 MRS. LASH MISS COMPTON MISS spf:nckr MR. HAVIJI ' .N

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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

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In order to facilitate matters in checking the fifty years of attendance of Sparks College, the former students were divided into ten groups, each with a director. The following pictures are of the ten directors in order: mM MRS. VERA RICE COOK 1909-1913 MRS. EDNA HERRON MERRELL 1914-1918 MRS. FERN Mcdonald scheer 1919-1923 Miss Vera Rice graduated fromthe Stenographic Department in 1910. She worked locally for some time as a secretary. She marriedMr. FredCook, and they lived in Shelbyville. Since the passing of Mr. Cook, she and her mother live together. She is retired. Miss Edna Herron graduated from the Stenographic Department in 1918. Her father, Mr. E. N. Herron, was one of the building committee for Sparks College. Soon after her graduation, her father became sole owner of the store on the northeast corner of Main Street and Broadway. Edna found herself busy helping conduct the store. With the passing of Mr. E. N. Herron, Edna became manager of the Herron Department Store, which position she still holds. She is married to Dr. W. R. Merrell. Miss Fern McDonald graduated from the Bookkeeping and Shorthand Departments in 1924. For eight years, she was secretaryforthelate Judge A. J. Steidley. Following this, she was secretary for the late Dr. C. H. Hulick for a period of twelve years. In the meantime, she married Mr. Ruble Scheer. She resigned from her work with Dr. Hulick in 1944 to join her husband in promoting the Scheer Floral Company. She is still active in that capacity. Mr. Maynard Wagner graduated from the Bookkeeping Department in 1926. He worked as a bookkeeper for five years for Mr. Harve Tull, Windsor Ford dealer. He went to work in September, 1933, for the M. J. Wilson Automobile Company, Ford dealer in Stewardson. In May, 1934,theM. J. Wilson Automobile Company bought the Shelbyville Ford dealership, and Maynard moved to Shelbyville. He is now the office manager for this company. He has worked for Ford dealers for thirty years. Mr, Clarence Weakly graduated from the Bookkeeping Department in 1930. Not long after his graduation, he and his brother ' Leverett, another Sparks student, bought the Golden Cream Dairy, which they operated until 1946. .After selling his interest in the dairy, Clarence took up insurance. He is now the general agent for both Kansas City Life Insurance Company and Interstate Assurance. MR MAYNARD WAGNER 1924-1928 MR. CLARENCE WEAKLY 1929-1933