Glendale, California Biographies
Neva Veysey and Clara Sayre
The
Misses Neva Veysey and Clara Sayre are the proprietors
of the Glendale Commercial
School, an institution that has
been in existence for seven years. It
was founded by Miss Veysey, and she was joined by Miss Sayre in January
1920. The school consists of seven rooms
and occupies the second floor of the Press
Building at 224
South Brand Boulevard where it has been since the
completion of the building in April 1920.
Prior to that time it moved several times as the school grew and
required more space.
Miss
Veysey is a native of Ogdensburg, Wisconsin,
a graduate of Montesano High
School, Montesano,
Washington, and of the University
of California, at Berkeley,
where she took a general course in English.
Prior to coming to Glendale
she taught at Munson’s School of Secretaries
at San Francisco, Mrs. Bean’s Business
School for Girls and the Young
Women’s Christian Association in Los Angeles.
Miss
Sayre is a native of Joplin, Missouri. When she was two years old her parents moved
to Council Bluffs, Iowa,
where she graduated from high school.
She then went to Joplin, Missouri,
and graduated from Joplin Business
College. Since then she has taught at the Joplin
Business College;
Parsons Business College, Parsons, Kansas,
McCormac Business
College and Gregg
School, of Chicago,
and the Willis Woodbury
Business College,
of Los Angeles.
Both Miss
Veysey and Miss Sayre are charter members of the Business Women’s Clubs of
Glendale. Miss Veysey was the first
secretary of the club and Miss Sayre is the present secretary. They are members of the Chamber of
Commerce. Miss Veysey is treasurer of
the Glendale Chapter of the American Red Cross.
From “History of
Glendale and Vicinity”
by John Calvin Sherer. The Glendale Publishing Company, c. 1922 F. M. Broadbooks
and J. C. Sherer. Pg 431.
