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ROANOKE NATIONAL BUSINESS COLLEGE

The Roanoke National Business College was established
in 1889, and its successful experience during
the more than two decades of its existence in preparing
young men and

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women for business
positions has given
the institution a
most enviable
reputation.

The complete commercial
course
taught in this school,
is designed to make
not only good bookkeepers
and efficient
office help, but successful
business men
and high grade accountants,
stenographers,
amanuenses, private secretaries, etc.

The commercial course embraces the following:
bookkeeping, business practice, banking, penmanship,
arithmetic, rapid calculation, grammar, spelling, punctuation,
correspondence, commercial law, lectures on
advertising, salesmanship, credits and collections, and
business science. The commercial course is divided
into four departments: the introductory commercial
department; the advanced commercial department;
the actual business, auditing and accounting department;
and the banking department.

The college secures positions for its graduates, and
in three months after graduation a student can earn
enough to get back every cent expended in taking a
business course. Students can enter at any time.
The school is larger than any two like institutions
in the state, the enrollment being over six hundred
students annually.

The personnel of the officers and directors of the
Roanoke National Business College is a guarantee of
its standing in the educational world. The officers
are as follows: E. M. Coulter, President; M. A.
Smythe, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer. The
advisory board consists of the following well-known
gentlemen: E. M. Coulter, E. T. Burnett, Hon. H. S.
Trout, M. A. Smythe, Edward L. Stone, G. H. Artlip,
Hon. James P. Woods, Ballard P. Huff, Rev.
W. C. Campbell, Rev. W. F. Powell, James D.
Johnston, Jr., F. H. LaBaume, Hon. R. H. Angell,
and Hon. Waller R. Staples. The advisory board
for girls consists of Mrs. E. M. Coulter, Chairman,
Mrs. F. H. LaBaume, M. D., Mrs. M. M. Caldwell.

The faculty is composed of the following well-known
educators: E. M. Coulter, President; M. A. Smythe,
Principal advanced departments; E. E. West, Principal
English department; Miss Olive M. Baugh, Instructor
in shorthand; G. H. Artlip, Principal of shorthand
department; Mrs. E. M. Coulter, Associate
Director of courses of study; Mary V. Parrish, Instructor
in shorthand and orthography; Clara M.
Coulter, Principal typewriting department; J. K.
Salmons, Instructor in bookkeeping; Gertrude Bell,
Office Stenographer and Bookkeeper.

During the past year, the college issued a new and
handsome catalogue which is not only a work of art
descriptive of the school, but a most creditable work
showing the many advantages of Roanoke, both as
a place of business and a place to obtain a first class
business education. These catalogues will be sent to
prospective students on application.