the Bryant and Stratton Business College of Baltimore in 
1901, to take charge of the commercial department. Mr. 
Rowan was the last of the original organizers to retire. He 
sold his interest to Mr. Hughes in 1909. 
While Park Institute as a business school is not the 
oldest in the city, it is an outgrowth of a whole century of 
uninterrupted educational work. The changes in the per- 
sonnel of the instructors have been very few. It seems to be a 
place where once one is placed he wants to stay. Leo C. 
Mueller, assistant manager, and Miss C. Minerva Brumbach, 
as secretary, have been rendering invaluable support and 
assistance in maintaining the high quality of the school 
since 1915. 
The whole purpose of Park Institute is to give young 
men and women a superior training for the profession of 
Business, the most highly paid and fascinating of all pro- 
fessions. The result of these years of careful work in pre- 
paratory education fully justifies the efforts. In the city are 
hundreds of professional men, mostly lawyers and physicians, 
who took their college preparatory work in Park Institute a 
quarter of a century or more ago; but the number of successful 
business men and executives who owe their start in life to the 
lessons learned at Park Institute is much greater, for there 
has been a continual stream of young people of both sexes 
turned out every year from the school that has been “forty 
years on North avenue.” 
PITTSBURGH ACADEMY 
Pittsburgh Academy owes its inception to J. Warren Lytle, 
1854-1914, a pioneer in the field of secondary education in 
Pennsylvania. In 1882, then at the age of 28, Mr. Lytle per- 
ceived the need of a first-class college preparatory and busi- 
ness school that would combine educational and cultural 
advantages with efficient business training. 
The first home of the Pittsburgh Academy was in a 
building known as Neville Hall, located at Fourth and 
Liberty avenues, in the “golden triangle” of Pittsburgh. 
Here a faculty of four capable and earnest instructors laid 
the foundation for the future greatness of the Pittsburgh