The Educator (Volume 45) - IAMPETH

THE EDUCATOR
Many years ago, in a Michigan city,
There lived a boy. Oh what a pity
To grow near the mills and the railroad
tracks
In homes so poor they were only
shacks.
One day he wandered to the city
dumps
Where the timber was cut, there
among the stumps
He found in the refuse, near a milk
separator,
A discarded copy of "The Business
Educator".
On a stump he sat. What a restful
chair!
As the pages he turned, wonder filled
the air.
Such beautiful writing, he thought,
never existed.
His writing was crude and terribly
twisted.
At home he practiced in a room quite
damp.
Lit by an old-fashioned kerosene
lamp.
He worked and saved, and to increase
his knowledge
He enrolled in the local business
college.
His writing improved and his education,
As he studied in schools in parts of
this nation.
Should he follow law or perhaps be
a preacher?
But instead he became a commercial
teacher.
Thirty years have passed since his
first position,
Pen work banished strained financial
condition.
The lad of the shacks is not sad or
alone.
His family now lives in a house of
stone.
I hope you, too, will join the tribe
Headed for prosperity and will subscribe
To the paper found by the old separator
Which now is called "The Educator".
M. C. Leipholz,
Baltimore, Md.
NEW POST
Adjutant F. O. Anderson of the
Salvation Army who has been for the
past three years stationed in Fergus
Falls, Minnesota, is now in Hibbing,
Minnesota, in charge of the Salvation
Army there. Mr. Anderson is a very
skillful penman and does considerable
pen work.
SEND $1.00 For £om( of the
h'ln
mental Capitals. Plain Hii Writin
Ornamental Letter.
AUSTIN JONES
Brantloy-Draughon College Ft Worth Texas
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The above was received from W. Anthony of P.O. Box
3146, Washington, D. C.
Bangor Maine School of Commerce
Performing Good Service
The Bangor, Maine School of Commerce
will this year include in its
graduating class eleven students who
are completing the Teacher-Training
Course. Completion of this course at
this school entitles the graduate to
receive a Special Teachers' Certificate
for commercial subjects issued by the
State Department of Education.
Realizing for some time the great
need for more extensive training in
penmanship in the high schools of
Maine, this progressive business
school has this year added to its curriculum
a half-semester class in penmanship
teaching methods.
The following students will be fully
accredited teachers of the Zaner system
of penmanship upon graduating:
Bernard L. Deering, LaRoy A. Derby,
Barbara Burns, Hazel E. Benn, Margaret
M. Gillis, Ruth A. Gillis, A.
Estelle Phillips, Frances M. Steeves,
Ruby A. Thibeau, Frances Rogers,
Hazel Howard.
"STRAHIW" Oblique Penholders for sale; none
better—try them and be convinced. Circulars free
together with samples of your name written in fancy
handwriting. Address. F. L. Tower, 601 West
Pleasant Street, Hammonton, New Jersey.
This class has been in charge of
Alton R. Covell, teacher of penmanship
and accounting at M.S.C. for
the past ten years. Mr. Covell began
commercial teaching in 1921 and has
been identified with the Zaner system
of handwriting since that time.
All students enrolled in regular
courses offered at this school receive
thorough training in penmanship.
The number of certificates for proficiency
in penmanship awarded to
students at M.S.C. by the Zaner-
Bloser Company has steadily increased
for the past ten years.
C. W. JONES
As we were going to press we
learned of the death of Mr. C. W.
Jones, of Randolph, Mass., who conducted
the Brockton Business College.
Mr. Jones was a very prominent
commei'cial educator and fine penman.
He very generously from time to
time loaned The Educator many of
his fine penmanship plates written by
master penmen.