Gl La Ton er i 3 An edition of 100 of which this is Pe 22°F No. to / This volume is a combination of a series of booklets oublished by the First National Bank at Pittsburgh, in exposition of our city’s progress in business and culture. It is fitting that this record be dedicated to the memory of the late beloved president of the First National Bank, Mr. Lawrence E. Sands, whose vision and work has made a very deep impression upon the general welfare of this community. May we hope that this volume will be worthy of a place in your library, not only for your own pleasure and information, but also for any inspiration it may furnish for a future generation to maintain and enhance the fine traditions of the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK AT PrrrssurcH, PITTSBURGH. Pa. er The Story of PITTSBURGH Volume One Number Fifteen Wb Education Part Two First National Bank at Pittsburgh April, 1928 winks conven PISA SEAN otter REI EOVLTBOOOCT ONDER ERE nO OOT INNO SOOO 1 This booklet, prepared and published by the First National Bank at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is one of a series issued, from time to time, since August, 1919, portraying the various industries of the Pittsburgh district, with the intention of emphazing the importance of Pittsburgh as a commercial and financial metroplis. A large number of its many industries have been described in the booklets, of which fifteen have been published, to date. The following is a list of the subjects discussed. with the date of issue: Vol. 1, No. 1—Introductory Booklet... ...August, 1919 Vol. 1, No. 2—Iron and Steel.... .......September,1919 Vol. 1, No. 3—Iron and Steel (Part 2)... January, 1920 Vol. 1, No. 4—Coal and Coke. ......... June, 1820 Vol. 1, No. 5—Glass...... «.....December, 1920 Vol. 1, No. 6—Electrical Appliances. .....March, 1921 Vol. 1, No. 7—Radium. . .. ......August, 1921 Vol. 1, No. 8—Cement and Concrete. . . . . December, 1921 Vol. 1, No. 9—Clay Products. ...........December, 1922 Vol. 1, No. 10— Petroleum and Natural Gas. ... Vol. 1, No. 11—Petroleum and Natural Gas (Part 2)........December, 1924 Vol. 1, No. 12—Food Products... .........December, 1925 Vol. 1, No. 18—Diversified Products. ...... April, 1927 Vol. 1, No. 14—Eduecation.. ...........April, 1928 Vol. 1, No. 15—Education (Part 2)........April, 1928 . December, 1923 The Story of Pittsburgh Education PART TWO CI {TTSBURGH contains so many educational institutions of importance that it is impossible to enumerate them all in one booklet. It has therefore been found necessary to issue Part Two on the subject of Education. Everything which may be taught in a great city may be studied and learned in Pittsburgh, from the fundamentals to the higher researches of education, including art, music, anguage and business in its various departments. Outside of Pittsburgh proper and within the limits of Allegheny County there are many municipalities which maintain grade and high schools of the very highest type, but it is impossible to enumerate all of these institutions, although they are strictly within the Pittsburgh community, and are supported by Pittsburghers to a very large extent— men and women whose business interests are located in the city proper, but who have made their homes in the outlying and suburban towns. In this booklet many of Pittsburgh’s educational instisutions are detailed, but there are many others, among which may be mentioned American Institute of Banking, Pittsburgh Chapter, Alexander Hamilton School, American School, Artists’ League, Artzberger Art School, Association Automotive Schools, Auto School, B’Nai Israel Hebrew Institute, Boyd Business College, Byron (Mary E.) School, Catholic Boys’ School, Christensen School of Music, Christian Brothers’ School, Community School, Comptometer School, Conley Business School, Convent of Mercy School, Curry College, Divine Providence Academy, East Liberty Business School, Flambard School of French, French Institute of Languages, Greer Business College, Hebrew Institute of Pittsburgh, the J. B. Hench School, International Correspondence Schools, Iron City College, Italian Institute of Languages, Keller Dressmaking School, Keystone Automobile Driving School, King’s School of Oratory, Konner Private School, Lamb School for Stammerers, La Salle Extension University, Liberty School of Business, Mrs. Grace Thomas Martin's School, Martin School, Martin’s Grace Secretarial School, Montes Spanish School, John P. Morris, (aviation) Morton School, Mount Immaculate Alpha School, National Salesmen’s Training Association, North Side Business School, Pace Accountancy Courses, Pennsylvania State College, Pennsylvania Business College, Pittsburgh Academic and Business College, Pittsburgh Bible Institute, Pittsburgh College of Pharmacy, Pittsburgh League for Hard of Hearing, Pittsburgh Mechanical Dental School, Pittsburgh School of Accountancy, Pittsburgh School of Auto Engineering, Pittsburgh School of Lip Reading, Pittsburgh School of Speech, Pittsburgh Trade School, Radio Corporation of Pennsylvania, Reno Hall, Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary, St. Augustine’s School, St. Bede’s School, St. Canice’s School, St. George’s Convent, St. Mary’s High School, St. Paul’s Monastery, St. Peter’s School, St. Philomena’s School, Slone School of Popular Music, South Hills School of Music, Spanish Institute of Languages, Universal Chiropractic College, University School, Ursuline Academy, Ursuline Young Ladies’ Academy, Virgil Piano School, Wallace Schools, Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, Edw. A. Woods School, and the various schools conducted by the Young Men’s Christian Association and the Young Women’s Christian Association. THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY “My heart is in the work,” the motto on the seal of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, expresses Andrew Carnegie’s attitude toward its founding. As he had himself experienced the struggles of a poor but ambitious young man to advance himself, he was inspired to make it easier for other young people to get an education along technical lines. In a letter to the mayor, dated November 15, 1900, Mr. Carnegie tendered to the City of Pittsburgh the money to establish a technical institution upon the condition that the city would provide a suitable location of ample size for future extensions. On November 26 the mayor transmitted the communication from Carnegie to the members of the Select and Common Councils of the city. On December 15, Mr. Carnegie placed the technical schools under the direction of the board of trustees of the Carnegie Institute, and on January 28, 1901, :he City of Pittsburgh accepted Carnegie’s gift. The work of organizing the Institute of Technology was :ommitted to the care of Dr. Arthur A. Hamerschlag, who was appointed director. In 1918 his title was changed to president and he continued in this office until 1922, when he resigned. The rapid progress and expansion of the institute was due largely to his energy and foresight. In the course of the year 1902 a site was selected, and in February, 1903, the trustees, meeting with a committee of Councils, approved a tract of 32 acres of land adjoining Schenley Park, near the Carnegie Institute building, as the home of the new institute. This was acquired by the city in September of the same year and tendered to the Carnegie Technical Schools. Mr. Carnegie then agreed to place at the disposal of the trustees of Carnegie Institute a sufficient fund with which to erect the necessary buildings. In April, 1905, ground was broken and in October of that year the building now occupied by the college of industries spened its doors to students. As new structures were made ready for occupancy additional departments were inaugurated. In 1906 machinery hall of the College of Engineering was erected; in 1907 the building of the women’s college, the Margaret Morrison Carnegie College; in 1908 the science yuilding; in 1912 the College of Fine Arts, and in 1914 the central (administration) building. The Langley Laboratory of Aeronautics was erected for war-time instruction, and in 1924 the new gymnasium. Since the original grant the campus has been extended to include 52 acres and various buildings have been added, including dormitories for men and women, a library, inn, elc. f FIRST GRADUATION IN 1908 In June, 1908, the institute awarded its first diplomas, graduating students in chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical and metallurgical engineering from the College of Engineering, and students in architecture from the College of Fine Arts. On April 20, 1912, the name Carnegie Technical Schools was changed officially to the Carnegie Institute of Technology, and the institution received from the State of Pennsylvania a charter of incorporation with the power to confer degrees. The first degrees were given at the fifth commencement, in June, 1912. The College of Engineering gives courses leading to the bachelor of science degree in chemical, civil, commercial, electrical, mechanical and mining engineering, and in chemistry, physics, and mathematics. A limited number of fellowships for a year’s graduate work in mining and metallurgy are granted each year, for which the master of science degree is conferred. These fellows work in cooperation with the United States Bureau of Mines on research problems, and the results of their investigations, which are published, are recognized by the mining profession throughout the world as of great value. A bureau of metallurgical research was established a few years ago, and it has already justified its creation. Many of the problems of the steel industry are brought to it for solution. An international conference on Bituminous Coal was held at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in November, 1926, which was attended by over 1,700 delegates from all sections of the United States, Canada, Mexico, England, France, Germany, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Czechoslovakia and Japan, representing states, cities, universities, learned societies, business and industry. A second International Conference on Bituminous Coal will be held under the auspices of the Institute in November of 1928. The College of Industries, which is a pioneer in its field, gives the bachelor of science degree for four-year courses in building construction, works management, printing and industrial education. The aim of these courses is to furnish to Margaret Morrison Carnegie College Carnegie Institute of Technology industry salesmen, executives and administrative officers, and the student specializes in the underlying science and technique of production, sales and management: Unusually complete shop equipment, combined with frequent visits to the industrial plants of the Pittsburgh district, are great aids in realizing the aims of the instruction. FINE ARTS CO-EDUCATIONAL The College of Fine Arts, which is co-educational, offers courses leading to the bachelor of arts degree in architecture, painting and decoration, music, drama and sculpture. The college is equipped with a library of the fine arts, a theatre, rehearsal, practice, exhibition, lecture, and drafting rooms, studios, collections of objects of art, etc. Frequent recitals and concerts by the orchestra are given by the students of the department of music. The department of drama gives about 100 performances of plays a season, which are attended by about 30,000 people. Scenery, costumes, lighting, as well as the acting, and in some cases the plays, are the work of the department. The students and graduates of the department of architecture have brought distinction to the institute by winning important fellowships and prizes in National competitions, and faculty and students in the department of painting and decoration contribute largely to the annual exhibition of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. An important conference on the drama was held at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in November, 1925, which was attended by delegates from colleges, universities, the professional theatre, little or community theaters. From the interchange of views much information of value was secured. The Margaret Morrison Carnegie College provides for the education of women for occupations in the home, teaching and the business world. It offers courses leading to the bachelor of science degree in household and costume economics, secretarial studies, general science, library and social work. The following motto of the college, written by the beloved Lucien Scaife, a former trustee of the institute, adorns the entrance to the building: “To make and inspire the home: to lessen suffering and increase happiness; to aid mankind in its upward struggles; to ennoble and adorn life’s work, however humble, these are woman’s high prerogaives.”” Instruction in this college is in many subjects modi-Ged from the traditional methods, in order to emphasize laboratory, studio and field work and to combine the trainng of mind and hand: Extensive laboratory equipment is provided for this purpose and frequent use is made of the opportunities offered by the city environment for bringing the students in contact with large scale operations, industrial or professional. The division of general studies gives instruction in the academic branches in all the colleges. In none of the phases of activity of this group of colleges is there ever absent a constant stimulating reaction from the Pittsburgh district as a dynamic background. Each year a large number of leading scientists, engineers, specialists, and executives from Pittsburgh companies give lectures in the class-rooms of the various colleges. As a part of its contribution to the community the Carnegie Institute of Technology shares with the people of Pittsburgh the lecture courses by eminent physicists, chemists and other scholars which are arranged yearly for its faculty and students, and members of the faculty act as consultants and work out problems for the industrial plants in the institute laboratories. MR. CARNEGIE INTERESTED IN NIGHT SCHOOL The night school, a phase of education in which Mr. Carnegie was deeply interested, has an enrollment of over 3800. Most of these students work during the day in the ndustrial plants of Pittsburgh, over 1,200 firms being represented this year. The day school has become international in its appeal, students being registered this year from China, Japan, Egypt, South Africa, India, Palestine, Canada, South America and many of the countries of Europe. The enrollment exceeds 2.400, which, with the night and part-time students, gives a total of 6,757. Each year in April the Carnegie Institute of Technology has a night “at home,” when the people of Pittsburgh are invited to visit the college, where students are at work in all departments and special programs and exhibitions are arranged. The endowment of the Carnegie Institute of Technology at the present time amounts to about $15,000,000. An Machinery Hall Carnegie Institute of Technology arrangement has been made between the trustees of the Institute of Technology and the Carnegie Corporation of New York by which the sum of $8,000,000 will be added to the endowment provided $4,000,000 is contributed by the friends of the Institute of Technology. In other words, for every dollar that is subscribed the Institute of Technology will receive $2 from the Carnegie Corporation. One-third of this amount may be in buildings; the other two-thirds must be applied to the endowment. This fund must be secured by 1946. The authorities of the institute are not looking forward to » policy of expansion. It is not expected that the enrollment will be permitted to grow much beyond the present number except in the evening classes, in which the students will be accepted up to the capacity of the shops, laboratories, and class-rooms. This number has already been reached in many departments. In the field of research, the Carnegie Institute of Technology is devoting itself especially to metallurgy and coal. It is in these branches that it feels it can do most for the Pittsburgh district. At present it is approaching the study of these subjects partly from a theoretical point of view, but what is an abstraction today may be of great importance in a oractical sense tomorrow. The Institute of Technology enjoys noteworthy advantages through having as a background the city and district of Pittsburgh, the industrial production of which annually exceeds in its tonnage that of any other city in the world. The diversity and perfection of technological practice involved in this production and at the range of industries coniributing to it are distinctive assets. The City of Pittsburgh has reached its great importance as an industrial center largely through the application of scientific principles. It is, therefore, essential that its educational institution do all that is possible to advance the cause of science. The advantages that come to an industrial community through the presence of a great school of engineering are obvious. The necessity of encouraging work in the field »f abstract research may not be so clear, but progress in technology in the long run can be achieved only through advancement in the fundamental sciences. ARNOLD SCHOOL Arnold School, a college preparatory school for boys, because of its beautiful location on a seven acre site within the city limits, justly may be termed “A Country Day School in the City”. The school had its inception in the old George H. Thurston School which was founded in 1908, which was situated on the corner of Shady avenue and Aurelia street in the East Liberty district. Charles W. Wilder, Boston University A.B. and Harvard A.M., head of the school from 1915 to 1919, in the latter year, acquired proprietary rights to the school and renamed it Arnold School in honor of Rugby’s most famous headmaster, Thomas Arnold, whose dominating personality not only revolutionized that famous school and changed the whole emphasis in the education of boys in England, but has been the inspiration as well of many headmasters and prinsipals of successful boys’ schools of America. In 1923, the rapid growth and progress of the school made necessary a further reorganization and expansion. In the spring of that year, through the generous cooperation of a group of “incorporators” and “founders”, so-called, composed of enthusiastic parents and supporters of the school’s policies, the well-known Holmes estate, occupying an extensive tract between Braddock avenue and Richland lane was secured. Mr. Wilder's title to the school was assumed by a board of trustees, and on November 18, 1923, the school was established as a corporation of the first class, not operated for profit, to which corporation Mr. Wilder relinquished his financial control while remaining in charge of its adminstration. During the five years on its new site and in its reorganized ‘orm, the school has come to have a national reputation as a college preparatory day school for boys. During the past year, for example, fifty percent of its graduates of the previous year, were, at mid-years maintaining honor standing in their respective colleges, including not only local and nearby institutions, but such colleges as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dartmouth, and West Point. Its recent growth and progress have been one of the most note-worthy events in the educational developments of Pittsburgh and have contributed to -he process that is now making Pittsburgh a center of culture as well as steel. The school now covers all the range of instruction from the first grade to college. It has two departments: Junior and Senior, respectively, the former being under the personal charge of George F. Whitman, A.B. Harvard ’16. who has Arnold School South Braddock Avenue been actively associated with the headmaster, Mr. Wilder, in the administration of Arnold School and its predecessor since 1917. These administrators are supported by a faculty of eleven men and two women. The trustees of the school are: H. V. Blaxter, Arthur V. Davis, Joseph W. Kennedy, G. C. Kimball, W. B. Klee, Rt. Rev. Alexander Mann, D.D., John S. McCormick, T. E. McMurray, M.D., William L. Monro, J. W. Oliver, Cornelius D. Scully, J. Ramsey Speer, George R. Wallace, R. E. Withers, J. Merrill Wright. Officers of the Board of Trustees are: president, G. C. Kimball; vice-presidents, H. V. Blaxter and R. E. Withers; treasurer, J. Merrill Wright; secretary, George F. Whitman. Executive Committee—G. C. Kimball, president (Ex-officio), H. V. Blaxter; George F. Whitman, secretary (Ex-officio), W. B. Klee, J. Merrill Wright, J. S. McCormick, R. E. Withers. DUFFS-IRON CITY COLLEGE Duff’s College is the pioneer business training school in America. Few Pittsburghers realize the distinction that came with the establishment of this institution in 1839, when our fair city was about one-half square mile in area. The history of the growth of Pittsburgh and of Duff’s College over more than a four score of years testify to the propriety of the slogan, “Pittsburgh Promotes Progress”. Peter Duff, the founder of Duff’s College, was born in New Brunswick, Canada, in 1802. Early in life he became a prosperous merchant in St. Johns; but a conflagration in 1835 made him and many others bankrupt. After turning over all he had to his creditors, he set out in search of fortune anew in a strange land. On his way to New Orleans, he was detained at Pittsburgh because of low water. His finances likewise being at low tide, he tried to get work in the offices of the various business houses of the day. Bookkeeping was not then, as it is now, a system, but his knack for systemization so impressed the business men that he was induced to begin private instruction for themselves and their clerks. He thereupon abandoned his plans to proceed to New Orleans, and in 1839 the first business training school of America had its inception in Pittsburgh at the corner of what is now First avenue and Market street. His efforts were highly repaid by the interest and cooparation of enterprising merchants. and in the following vear. Duffs-Iron City College 424 Duquesne Wav 1840, the school was incorporated by the Legislature of the State as “Duff’s Mercantile College of Pennsylvania”. The school grew in popularity and size, and after nearly twenty years, it was removed to Fifth avenue, where it located in the Hussey building. In 1858, William H. Duff succeeded his father and became principal of the college. Under his direction, the institution attained the leading rank among pusiness colleges. Requiring larger quarters, the school re- moved to the Eichbaum building. Fifth avenue was the address"of the school for over forty years. In the latter location, another disastrous fire wiped out the school. However, Mr. Duff was not only a great educator, but an able financier. This combination of qualities, together with strict integrity and firmness of purpose, enabled him without delay to re-establish the college in its fourth location, in the Harper building at Liberty avenue and Eighth street. A year-book, a cloth-bound volume of eighty pages, issued by the college while at this location, gives the names and addresses of graduates from practically every state in the Union. In 1904, the school was moved to the Irish building, where it remained for ten years. Two years after its location at this address, Mr. Duff decided to retire from the educational field, and on June 1, 1906, P. S. Spangler became principal of the college. Mr. Spangler’s educational background fitted him peculiaTly well for the office for which he was selected. His entire life has been devoted to public and private school work. His education was received in the public and normal schools of Pennsylvania, Otterbein University and Iron City College, where he received his technical commercial training. He was a member of the faculty of Iron City College, and was superintendent of the Commercial Department, for eight years previous to his election as principal of Duff’s College. In 1908, Duff’s College secured control of the Iron City College, which was thereafter operated as a branch for specialized training in Gregg shorthand and secretarial duties and functions. In Duff’s, Graham shorthand and typewriting had been introduced many years previous, but the growing popularity of the Gregg system made such a specialized school very desirable. In 1914, Duff’s College removed to the second and third floors of the Stanwix building, Penn avenue and Stanwix street. In 1921, control of the Martin Shorthand School was secured, and this was combined with the Iron City branch. The growth of the school became so phenomenal, that the combined quarters of the Iron City branch and Duff’s were wholly inadequate, and it became necessary to seek more extensive space. In 1922, therefore, a four-story building on Duquesne way was acquired, and the three schools were consolidated and housed under one roof. Few cities can pride themselves with a private school building so commodious, adequate and well arranged, as Pittsburgh can in the Duffs-Iron City College building. Nothing has been spared in making this building a model for business training. It contains 33,000 square feet of floor space, and is arranged in four wings, so that light is admitted to each classroom from three sides. On the first floor, in addition to the executive offices, are the library, a spacious foyer, an auditorium with capacity for 800 people, rest rooms, hospital, and cafeteria. The second. third and fourth floors are devoted to classrooms. Duff’s College, to-day, has an enrollment in excess of 1600 students annually, and a total registration of over 53,500 since its incorporation in 1840. The combined registration of Duff’s College, Iron City College, and the Martin Shorthand school is approximately 116,500 students, exclusive of the enrollment of a branch of the college operated in Beaver Falls, Pa. A faculty of twenty teachers is maintained under the direction of the following executive officers: P. S. Spangler, president and manager; M. S. Johnston, secretary and registrar; S. E. Bowman, treasurer and principal; J. Merle Baltzer, assistant principal; Karl M. Maukert, superintendent Bookkeeping and Accounting schools; J. Fred Gardner, superintendent Shorthand and Typewriting schools: M. E. Mattes, superintendent Finishing school. It is a noteworthy circumstance that in the eighty-nine years of Duff’s history, there have been only three men at the head of the college: the founder. his son. and the incumhent. Mr. Spangler has been active in commercial school education nationally, having served officially with the National Commercial Teachers’ Federation, National Association of Accredited Commercial Schools, and for a number of years was secretary of the Private School Managers’ Association. He has been honored by the Presidency of the Eastern Commercial Teachers’ Association, and is a past president of the Rotary Club of Pittsburgh. as well as a present member of the Committee on Education of the Chamber of Commerce. ELLIS SCHOOL, The Ellis School was opened at its present location, 1860 Ellsworth avenue, September, 1916, with an enrollment of only 40 pupils. The aim of the school primarily is to prepare girls for college, and to give those not going to college a thorough training in an elective course of study. The first class of three girls was graduated in June, 1918. Since that time 64 girls have been graduated from the school and 42 of these have entered college. The French Club composed of advanced French students, meets monthly, and in this way its members become more conversant with the French language. The children of the primary grades are interested in their work through projects, hand work and industrial art. There is also a successful Art club and the annual Art tea is one of the interesting social events of the school. The Geography club adds interest to that subject and the work planned and carried out by the children. This year the eighth-grade has published two issues of the Ellis Chronicle, and one issue of the Freshmen Flurries has also been published. These magazines add much interest to the English work. A large gymnasium and a study hall were added to the school building last summer, and have been of great value to the school work. Sara Frazer Ellis, head mistress, and Marie Elder Craighead, associate head mistress, are assisted by a teaching staff of 14 women. OUR LADY OF MERCY ACADEMY A four-story brick building on Penn street became in 1843 the Mother House of the Sisters of Mercy; and it was there, the next year that Mother Francis Warde furnished two of its rooms and opened a select school for girls. In this humble beginning was laid the foundation of the present Mount Mercy Academy. To a new structure. erected al The Ellis School 4860 Ellsworth Avenue Our Lady of Mercy Academy 2332 Fifth Avenue Webster avenue, the classes were transferred in 1850. As the student body increased from year to year, more spacious rooms and grounds were necessary. This necessity was satisfied in 1894, when the Academy found itself in the healthful and pleasant atmosphere of 3333 Fifth avenue. Here, for thirty years, the edifice, designed in French Renaissance, raised its towers and turrets far above the smoke and din of the city. But the night of October 24, 1924, witnessed the building aflame, and the grey dawn looked on its ruin. After this calamity, the convent library, study halls, and parlors accommodated the pupils; then on September 12, 1927, the classes were resumed in the new structure, designed in Collegiate Gothie. Our Lady of Mercy Academy is affiliated to the Catholic University of America, to the Department of Public Instruction at Harrisburg, and is in the Association of Secondary Schools of the Middle States and Maryland. Catalogues giving details may be had by applying to The Directress. PITTSBURGH MUSICAL INSTITUTE, Inc. What is perhaps not realized by many Pittsburghers is the fact that the Pittsburgh Musical Institute is one of the largest and most progressive music schools in the country. As a music school it has been conspicuously successful from its inception. It was incorporated in 1915 with about 150 students and a faculty of 18 teachers. It has grown so rapidly that in 1928 it has more than 2000 students and a faculty of 56 teachers, all specially trained for their work. For the first five years of its existence the Institute was located on Fifth avenue near the Masonic Temple, but in 1921 acquired its own building on its present location at 131-133 Bellefield avenue. Here are 36 teaching rooms and a recital hall with a fine three manual concert organ, and in another part of the building also a smaller organ for practice purposes. For the convenience of pupils living at a distance from headquarters the Institute maintains branch studios at Aliquippa, Ambridge, Bellevue, Butler, Canonsburg, Crafton (two studios), Dormont, Elizabeth, Monaca, Mount Lebanon, New Ken- sington, North Braddock, Pitcairn, Sewickley, Swissvale, Tarentum, and Wilkinsburg, where four studios are necessary to meet the growing response to well supervised music instruetion. Within the city proper there are, besides the main school, studios at Squirrel Hill, Homewood, two at East Liberty, and two on the North Side, making it possible for children in these sections of the city to have the highest type of music instruction without the loss of time or the inconvenience and danger of traveling about the crowded city. The Institute offers courses from the very beginning to the highest graded courses leading to graduation. Post graduate work is done here by many students from other schools. The aim of the Institute is to provide a complete musical education for its pupils, not merely instruction that leads to technical proficiency. To this end the Institute has two classes of students, regular and special. The former take the principal and all secondary studies with the required classes, while the special pupils take only one or more branches, such as piano, voice, violin or organ. An important feature is the supervision of the regular work of all pupils through special hearings by the directors or heads of the departments. For many years the directors have put special care and painstaking effort into developing better teaching and more rapid and thorough training for both children and adult beginners and those in the earlier grades and feel that they have been unusually successful in this department. Two of the outstanding developments sponsored by Pittsburgh Musical Institute in this field are the Visuola, or visual method for either private or class teaching, and the Helen Curtis class system, as used in the best music schools in this country and many of the public schools. Many opportunities are given students for public appearances and in addition there are many faculty recitals presenting unusual programs. These recitals will pass a total of 800 by the end of the school year 1927-28. Important features are the P. M. I. Chorus and Orchestra, both large organizations and free to the students. Some of the recent outstanding performances by the chorus are “The Gondoliers,” by Gilbert and Sullivan; “Martha”, by Flotow (which was repeated two weeks after the first performance to accom- Pittsburgh Musical Institute 131-133 Bellefield Ave. modate those not able to get into the auditorium at the first presentation); “The Chimes of Normandy,” by Planquette; and on May 2, 1928, the perennially popular “Mikado” by Gilbert and Sullivan, was given at Carnegie Music Hall. The orchestra is heard in several public performances each season in well selected programs featuring one or more wellknown soloists. All these choral and orchestra programs are free to the public. A notable feature the past season has been the series of five historical piano concerto recitals, which have been attended by large audiences. Each season also brings a series of illustrated program talks on the concerts given at the Mosque by the visiting orchestras, and the summer term of six weeks in June and July is featured by another series of six lecture recitals by the directors. In this connection it is interesting to know that P. M. I. was the first music school in the country to broadcast programs. An important feature is the arrangement with the University of Pittsburgh for the exchange of credits whereby students can make music the major subject and receive from the University the A. B. degree. : All the affairs of the Institute are managed by the three directors, Dallmeyer Russell, William H. Oetting and Charles N. Boyd. This board is further supported by an advisory board consisting of Mrs. D. M. Clemson, Dr. Charles Heinroth, of Carnegie Institute; John A. Bell and Frank Milton Hunter. THURSTON PREPARATORY SCHOOL The Thurston Preparatory School, the pioneer private preparatory school for girls in Pittsburgh, was organized in the late eighties by Miss Alice M. Thurston and sent its first graduate to college in 1894. The Thurston school has a high standing in Pittsburgh and is also well known in educational circles elsewhere. Many of its graduates have entered college and a number of these girls have won high honors in these higher institutions. For a number of years the school had its home on Penn avenue in East Liberty, but it soon outgrew its environment, and a specially planned fire-proof building was constructed for the school on Shady avenue. In later years a large additional wing was added for gvmmasium and class rooms. and Miss Alice M. Thurston, M.A., Principal Thurston Preparatory School 2580 Shady Avenue more recently a fine playground, adjacent to the school, has been acquired, where out-of-door recreation is possible for all classes. The school is organized systematically, from Montessori to college. The students of the Upper School have a choice of schedule between the regular preparatory work, which prepares for the College Board examination, and a general course which prepares the students to follow special lines of advanced study after graduation. It may be said that the keynote of the school, from the first, has been individual development, although pupils are grouped in small classes. It is believed that such grouping tends to the development of enthusiasm and at the same time no child is lost sight of in his daily work. The aim of the school is not only to prepare its pupils for higher scholastic work, but to fit them for the responsibilities of home and civic life. A gratifying number of efficient women who are engaged in active work in the city, in business, in social, and in philanthropic effort, gained their early training in the Thurston School. The faculty consists of teachers of experience and special training. Regular work in gymnasium is provided for and there is a strong student government srganization which works in harmony with the faculty. Official Staff—Alice M. Thurston, M. A., Principal; Marv E. Kendrick, Secretary. THE WINCHESTER SCHOOL One of the best schools for girls in Western Pennsylvania, and which has had a most beneficial effect on the womanhood of Pittsburgh for over a quarter of a century, is the Winchester School, which is located in the residential portion of the city. in the Shadyside district. The Winchester School, the Misses Mitchell’s School, began its operations in 1902, with 40 pupils enrolled. Its first location was on Braddock avenue, in the East End of Pittsburgh, but its continued growth made a more central tocation advisable, and within a few years the school was moved to No. 4721 Fifth avenue, where a fine building was erected for its accommodation. A large playground and athletic field, extending to Clyde street, aids in the outdoor athletics of the students. Winchester School The Misses Mitchell School 4721 Fifth Avenue The ideals of the Winchester School were always of the highest levels, and the members of the faculty were ever chosen for their ability to measure up to the high ideals prevailing in the management of the school, as well as for their high standing in the world of education and in the departments they were chosen to teach. It was because of these ideals, and of the teachers chosen to inculcate them, that the school has prospered and expanded, until its present enrollment is between 250 and 300 girls. The course of study is thoroughly practical and complete, for it takes children through the Montessori and kindergarten grades, and proceeds upward, through college preparatory work, which has become exceptionally well known throughout the United States, and Winchester students are welcomed in the highest institutions of learning. By June of this year, when commencement exercises take place, 474 girls will have been graduated by the Winchester School. Many of these graduates have successfully passed the courses of the larger Eastern colleges for women, having received degrees from Vassar, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Wellesley and Bryn Mawr. A smaller number have graduated from universities and art schools. The Winchester is a private school, conducted by Miss M. A. Graham Mitchell. PARK INSTITUTE For a generation or two before 1889, the school that is now Park Institute was the preparatory department of the Western University of Pennsylvania. which later became the Univeristy of Pittsburgh. In 1889 Professors Levi Ludden, Charles R. Coffin and Wm. D. Rowan, bought the Preparatory School and changed the name to Park Institute. A commercial department with day and evening sessions was opened at once by Mr. Rowan. The school has functioned as a business school ever since, the preparatory department having been discontinued in 1903. There has been only one real change in the management of Park Institute in forty years. O. B. Hughes came from Park Institute 8 W. North Avenue 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 personnel 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 professions. The result of these years of careful work in preparatory 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 perceived the need of a first-class college preparatory and business 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 Mrs. J. W. Lytle “Mother”’ Pittshursh Academy Academy. That the academy filled a definite need in the life of the growing industrial center was evidenced by the steady and marked increase in the enrollment of the student body, a tribute to the foresight of Mr. Lytle and to the methods of instruction employed at the Academy. In 1896 Neville Hall was unable to accommodate the students who sought admission, and more spacious quarters became necessary. The buildings formerly occupied by the University of Pittsburgh, then known as the Western University of Pennsylvania, were secured and occupied until 1909, when this ground was taken for the new City-County building. The new and more centrally located May building then became the home of the Pittsburgh Academy. Here a period of growth and expansion began which in 1915 necessitated securing larger quarters to accommodate the constantly increasing student body. An ideal location was selected in the most refined section of down-town Pittsburgh, 581 Wood Street. The building was entirely remodeled to suit the needs of the school. That the ambitious dream of the founder has been more than realized is amply attested by the fact that over 11,000 men and women have been graduated from Pittsburgh Academy in the last 46 years, and today are successful ministers, lawyers, physicians, teachers, merchants, manufacturers, editors, bankers and men and women of affairs. The enrollment has twice doubled itself within the last five years, and the institution bids fair to witness a period of expansion and growth unexampled in its own history. Herbert G. Lytle, A. B., is president and director; Rhuel Hampton Merrill, B. S., B. D., D.D., is president emeritus, and Mrs. J. W. Lytle is secretary. A large faculty has charge of the many departments comprised in Pittsburgh Academy’s courses of instruction. Mothers of students regard Mrs. J. W. Lytle, wife of the founder and mother of the present president of the Pittsburgh Academy, with the warmest affection. She is known as “Mother Lytle”, and she never forgets a student or his school record. From her vast store of wisdom she advises graduates, encourages the students, and welcomes the strangers. FIRST NATIONAL BANK AT PITTSBURGH The facilities of the First National Bank at Pittsburgh are offered to those interested in education, whether as teachers or students, whether attending the greater institutions, or the public, private or parochial schools. The Bank conducts Checking and Saving Departments, and maintains a friendly and constructive attitude to all its clients, inviting them to consult its Officials on all matters of finance, including investments and the sending of money abroad. While the figures given below show that the Bank is gualified to handle with satisfaction the largest monetary transactions, small accounts are given the same painstaking care as those of the great corporations. Many of the Bank’s largest accounts have grown from beginnings of very modsrate proportions. Many Pittsburghers never travel without asking the experts of the First National Bank’s Tourist Department to arrange their programs. They can often suggest vacation plans which would not occur to the busy man or woman, and being agents for all Steamship companies, by Ocean or Lake, they are in a position to make selections of accommodations entirely in the interest of their clients. Their experience in this work guarantees satisfaction. All details of travel are arranged, including the procuring of passports, and the buying and selling of foreign money, as well as the issuance of Letters of Credit and Travelers’ Checks. ER Capital. . .. Surplus. . . Undivided Profits and Reserves. Deposits. Resources $6,000,000.00 6,000,000.00 1,817,054.35 84,701,389.76 '106,716,001.57 DIRECTORS RoBerT WaRrDROP, Chairman of the Board Frank F. BROOKS.....cooeeen ce. wweeVice-President E. M. BYERS... Chairman of the Board, A. M. Byers Co. Henry CHALFANT......... Chairman of the Board, Spang, Chalfant & Co., Inc. W. L. CLAUSE,....................Chairman of the Board, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. W.D. GEORGE... ceneceencmeeneee REE Estate J. H. HiLLMaN, JR.............Chatrman of the Board, Hillman Coal & Coke Co. A. L. HUMPHREY... President, Westinghouse Airbrake Co. D. T. Layman, Jroo oo. o veemenry Phipps Estate F.H. Lrovp........._.. reece CAPER SE A. M. MORELAND............. cover Capitalist P. W. MORGAN, ................. President, First National Bank, Wilmerding, Pa. GEORGE E. PAINTER.......ceoeeo cemraemeeemenemncasenannmesesassanmenneenn CAP ILATESE BE. W. PARGNY cocoon President, American Sheet 8 Tin Plate Co. Wu. A. RENSHAW... coe Foln A. Renshaw & Co., Pittsburgh A. C. RoBINSON..........ooooooo.... President, Peoples Savings € Trust Company Lawrence E. Sanps._....... ssn TES Sang Issac M. SCOTT... ee President, Wheeling Steel Corporation CLYDE C. TAYLOR occ Vice-President and Casiier Vernon F. Tavior...................... Banker and Oil Operator, Indiana, Pa. BENjaMIN THAW... ooo Capitalist and Trustee, Thaw Estate RoserT WaRrDROP. Director of Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and Vice-President. Peoples Savings && Trust Co. E. T. WHITER coercion oo cooenenmnennnVdc0-President Penna. R. R. Co. Joun M. WiLsoN............__ President. National Supply Co. Pittsbureh. Pa. OFFICERS Lawrence E. Sanps..... Frank F. Brooks... Crype C. TAYLOR....... J. HowaARrRD ARTHUR... WiLLiam H. FawcerT...... Tuomas B. HupsoN. ooo... Grier C. ORR ............ Joan DEM. WERTS. _ ...oocoooeeeee Oscar WiLsoN.. Wu. I. FRANK ........ ree President Vice-President Vice-President and Cashier Vice-President Assistant Cashier Assistant Cashier Assistant Cashier Aectctant Cashier Aesistant Cashier Manaver Foreion Department P. W. DAHINDEN ooo Assistant Manager Foreign Department [. Paul Forp...... CC Aecictant Manaver Foreign Department FIRST NATIONAL BANK AT PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA FIFTH AVENUE AND WOOD STREET CONVENIENT FOR YOU § ? 50 gs jw i=$3 55 i oO z N o NY “4 RS x [4,1] 4 > n | A £S lt 00 1 Ea Ty ! = - | i = Oo 0 oO LD Q Nd oo — 3 0 aN | oe) oir > -—] Q on Webster avenue, the classes were transferred in 1850. As the student body increased from year to year, more spacious rooms and grounds were necessary. This necessity was satisfied in 1894, when the Academy found itself in the healthful and pleasant atmosphere of 3333 Fifth avenue. Here, for thirty years, the edifice, designed in French Renaissance, raised its towers and turrets far above the smoke and din of the city. But the night of October 24, 1924, witnessed the building aflame, and the grey dawn looked on its ruin. After this calamity, the convent library, study halls, and parlors accommodated the pupils; then on September 12, 1927, the classes were resumed in the new structure. designed in Collegiate Gothic. Our Lady of Mercy Academy is affiliated to the Catholic University of America, to the Department of Public Instruction at Harrisburg, and is in the Association of Secondary Schools of the Middle States and Maryland. Catalogues giving details may be had by applying to The Directress. PITTSBURGH MUSICAL INSTITUTE, Inc. What is perhaps not realized by many Pittsburghers is the fact that the Pittsburgh Musical Institute is one of the largest and most progressive music schools in the country. As a music school it has been conspicuously successful from its inception. It was incorporated in 1915 with about 150 students and a faculty of 18 teachers. It has grown so rapidly that in 1928 it has more than 2000 students and a faculty of 56 teachers, all specially trained for their work. For the first five years of its existence the Institute was located on Fifth avenue near the Masonic Temple, but in 1921 acquired its own building on its present location at 131-133 Bellefield avenue. Here are 36 teaching rooms and a recital hall with a fine three manual concert organ, and in another part of the building also a smaller organ for practice purposes. For the convenience of pupils living at a distance from headquarters the Institute maintains branch studios at Aliquippa, Ambridge, Bellevue, Butler, Canonsburg, Crafton (two studios), Dormont. Elizabeth. Monaca. Mount Lebanon. New Ken-3 3 D A y PD —-— Q wow