Sparks College - Yearbook (Shelbyville, IL)

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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

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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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.XK MR. LAWSON KILLAM 1934-1938 MRS. JEAN CARNES BIBLE 1939-1943 MR. OLAN HURST 1944-1948 Mr. Lawson Killam graduated from the Bookkeeping Department in 1936. For the next five years, he was employed by the Shelby Loan and Trust Company. After that, he began work for the Ann Arbor Machine Company, then owned and operated by the H. M. Tallman family. In 1943, the Ann . ' rbor Machine Company was acquired by the Oliver Corporation. Lawson was in inventory control for quite some time. In 1946, he became purchasing agent. Six years later, Mr. Rogers, plant manager, was transferred. Mr. C. L. Heckert, then general works manager, now president of the corporation, came to the Shelbyville office and asked Lawson whether he would like to take a little ride with him. On this trip, Mr. Heckert told Lawson that the Oliver Corporation had decided to appoint a new plant manager from the Shelbjrville office. He then said, You, Mr. Killam, are the man selected by the Oliver Corporation. Of course, Lawson was surprised, but accepted the job. On December 17, 1952, he was appointed plant manager, which position he still holds. Oliver Corporation is more than doubling its capacity at the present time. Mrs. Killam was formerly Josephine Broverman, Class of 1937. Miss Jean Carnes graduated from the Stenographic Department in 1940. For the next year and a half, she was a secretary for the Oliver Corporation. For eight years following, she was a stenographer for Honorable George Barrett, Attorney General, in the Supreme Court Building in the State Capital. In 1944, she marled Mr. Eugene Bible. They now live in Shelbyville. Mr. Olan Hurst graduated from the Bookkeeping Department in 1949. Since that time, he has been a bookkeeper for Shelby County Marketing Association except during the time he was in military service. Mr. Warren Rubin graduated from the Bookkeeping Department in 1950. After graduation, he assisted his father in connection with the Rubin Dairy. In 1957, he became an investment salesman for Diversified Services. Miss Joan Bolinger graduated from the Bookkeeping and Stenographic Departments in 1954. She worked in Chicago for some time after graduation. Later she was employed by Sta-Rite Ginnie Lou, Inc. She married Mr. Andrew Craig. They now live on a farm south of Shelbyville. MR. WARREN RUBIN 1949-1953 MRS. JOAN BOLINGER CRAIG 1954-1958