The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-07-22
RING DOWN CURTAIN
College of Commerce to
Have Its Last Valedictory
Next Friday Evening.
OF SERVICE TO COMMUNITY
College Which Has Been Leased to the
City School System Has Graduated
More Than 700 and Has Been School
ing Place for 5000 Boys and Girls.


The annual commencement exercises
of the College of Commerce will be
held on Friday evening of this week
and when the valedictory of the class
of 1915 has been delivered the curtain
will be rung down on the college as a
private enterprise Within a few
weeks the building which has for
years been used as the stCollege of
Commerce will become a free com
mercial school under the management
of the public school system. The com
mencement on Friday night is going
to be- in the nature of a reunion and
farewell. The old time graduates have
been invited to come around with their
wives and their children and it is go
ing to be family affair. It is expect
ed that several hundred of the gradu-
ates, former students and students will
be present at the final commencement
of the school.
The College of Commerce was opened
in Kenosha twenty years ago and it
has been one of the most popular edu-
cational institutions in this section of
the state and Prof. O. u. Trenary, who
has been director Of it for more than
a score of years, has been one of the
best known of the commercial teach
ers of the state and Of this section
of the country.
1T can t say exactly how many
boys and girls We have graduated in
Che more than twenty years, - said
Prof. Trenary this morning. TT think
that the number of graduates will run
well over the seven hundred mark and
the number of boys and girls who have
attended the school would be over five
thousand. Tt has been q pleasant
twenty years for us here and we have
been happy in contributing something
to the city of Kenosha. I have not
made any plans for the future, but
have several things under considera-
tion and these plans will be announced
in due time
The announcement that the College
of Commerce is to go out of business
will be matter of regret to many
people in the city. The school has won
high place and manufacturers in Ke-
nosha have been accustomed to secure
their office help from the list of grad
yates and students of the school.
Hundreds of men and women who have
made good in Kenosha and other cities
got their education at the college and
it has gone long ways toward solving
the problem of "ofice help in Keno
sha. The leasing of the building by
the board of education is one of the big
developments of the public school sys-
TEN. For years leaders in the educa-
tional world have felt the need of the
development of public schools for the
teaching of business methods and
Kenosha will be one Of the first cities
in the state to have building which
is to be given entirely to commercial
branches.
With the taking over of the College
of Commerce it is certain that the pub
lie school course for commercial stu
dents will be greatly extended and it
will be made the equal Of that which
has been offered by commercial schools |
in the former days. Members Of the
board Of education feel that the time
will come when the Kenosha CONNER
eial courses will be even more popular |
than the high school courses and dur
ing the coming year efforts will be |
made to bring this department of the
city schools up to a high standard |
The lease of the college will extend
for period of four years AS vet
the formal announcement of the teach
ers to be in charge of the school has
not been made, but it is expected
that for the coming year the building |
will be given over for the use of the |
large number of boys and girls entered |
for the one year commercial course. |
John B. Maloney, formerly a teacher
at the College of Commerce, is to have
charge of this course and he will prob |
ably be in charge of the new building. |
The board Of education takes over the
entire equipment which has been used
in the College Of Commerce and this
will be a great aid in providing the
proper facilities for the education of |
the boys and girls of Kenosha along
commercial lines. The board of educa-
ton plans to make the commercial
courses Of the high school the equal
Of those which have been offered in