The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-04
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STATE SCHOOL
FOR BANKERS
Already More Than 300 Stu
dents Have Been Enrolled.
1t Is Founded by the Kansas
Bankers Association.
W, W, BOWMAN Is IN CHARGE
Graduation Certificates Will Be
Issued to All Those
Who Complete the Course
That Is Laid Out.
W. W. BOWMAN is IN CHARGE
Graduation Certificates Will BE
Issued to All Those

Enter now the bank clerk, teller
cashier and even the president Win
his skull cap. into the ranks If the
Rah! Rah. boys. students in tlie
Kansas Bankers associations educa-
tional institute with headquarters u
Topeka, if you please.
Ior is it money making atIalr-
Merely a branch of the American IN
stitute of Banking courses of study
founded by the American Bankers as
ISOLATION. Its object is to make oanL-
ers better informed on banking meth-
DDS and as a result more than 800
Kansas bankers, ranging from ttlce
boy To president, have applled 10
courses IN the last week from W. w.
Bowman, secretary or the Ndhsis
bankers association. Topeka.
A committee OF banking education
has been appointed and it will employ
a regular counsellor and adviser lor
The 'students" The Kansas SAM
ers' association, through the commit
tee, will hold official examinations ana
issue official institute certificates
which in years to come, probably VIII
be the only means of a banker getting
a job, the same as sheepskin ls nee
essary for the lawyer and doctor OF
today.
Members of Committee.
The committee on banking edVca-
ton Includes Lapier Williams. Kansas
city: w. H. Burks, wellington; +. j.
Atwood. Concordia; E. W. Stillwel,
Emporia: r.. M Sawhill, Glasgow.
In suitable cities bank officers and
employees are organized in chapters
for educational work in accordance
with the class method of instruction.
Students outside of city chapters are
associated in the correspondence chap
ter and provided with instruction by
mail.
Suitable for Kansas.
Chapter orga nization and education
are thus made uniform and universal
Correspondence chapter instruction m
the institute study course is Paruc-
ularly adapted to conditions in Kan
sas and is therefore made the basis
Of educational work conducted by the
Kansas Bankers association
To qualify students for official eX-
aminations for institute certltlcat IS
which are termed final examinations,
the institute provides standard
course of study IN the form of @erial
text books with included exercises
which Will be supplied to students n
Kansas by the Kansas Bankers &sso-
ciation through Mr.. Bowman
Courses of Study.
Part ! of the course pertains 10
banking and such principles of eco
nomics as apply to banking business
and consists of a text book and in
cluded exercises entitled, Banks and
Banking" and a text book and III
cluded studies entitled Loans and
Discounts" A final examination on
these two books is then given.
Part of the institute course per-
tains to law with special reference TO
negotiable instruments and then
final examination is given. Passage
of both examinations calls for the Is
sdance of an institute certificate.
Class Method Here.
The correspondence method IF edu-
cation provides for the individual in
stf.uction of students by mail Where
ten or more students can conveniently
meet once week the class method of
instruction may be eNpedient and this
probably will he adopted il. Topeka,
Wichita, Atchison, Hutchinson, Sa-
lima, LeaVenworth, Kansas City, Kan,
and other cities of the state. The
counsellor will be appointed by the
committee in a short time. Meantime
W. w. Bowman can supply all The ia
formation desired by the students at
this time. Mr.. Bowman emphasizes
the fact that it is not d money max
ing scheme and much more none"
Will be spent by the American and
Kansas associations for the education
OF bankers than will be taken n.