W.M.C.A.Convocation (spring '76)L to R (front row) Stanley Knowles, A.L. Dulmage, Mike Blanar, R. Miller, (background) Helen Riesberry, Peggy Sharpe, ?, Phil Constans, A Loveridge, A.C.C.
Photograph was taken at a recital given by graduates of Brandon College's Music Department at First Church United, Brandon, on the occasion of the retirement of Dr. W.L. Wright after forty years as Director of the Department of Music at Brandon College.
L to R: Peggy Sharpe; Dr. W.L. Wright; Esther Moore; Kathleen (Moffatt) Fairburn; Matilda Dallas; Edith (Gerrand) McKee; Adeline (Bailey) Evans; Mary (Henderson) Smart; Shirley (Riesberry) Dilley.
Wheat City Business College was established in 1904, when J.W. Beveridge and F.E. Werry resigned from the Commercial Department of Brandon College to establish the Wheat City Business College. It was located originally in the Commercial Building on 10th Street, owned by Hughes and Co. Wheat City Business College continued to operate until the later 1960s.
Custodial History
The photograph as donated to the McKee Archives by alumni of the Wheat City Business College sometime before 1997.
Scope and Content
Portraits of the students and staff of the Wheat City Business College.
