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THE FIRST COLORED Professional, Clerical and Business DIRECTORY OF BALTIMORE CITY 33th Annual Edition, 1945-1946
Volume 523, Page 9   View pdf image (33K)
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WALTER T. DIXON, Dean of
Cortez Peters' Business School

"SPEED'S THE THING"

THE CORTEZ W. PETERS

SCHOOL OF SPEED TYPEWRITING AND SHORTHAND

Cortex W. Peters, Second Place, 1935, '36, '37, 41.
World's Professional Typewriting Championship

World's Portable Typewriting Championship - 1941

LAFAYETTE & DRUID HILL AVES.

Baltimore, Md. Telephone, Madison 0328

The school will prepare and train students in commercial
subjects including Typewriting, Shorthand, Filing and all
related subjects, as well as prepare you for Government
Civil Service Examinations.

We Assisi All Graduates in Securing Good Positions

Mr. Peters will personally supervise all work in typing

TUITION REASONABLE

AND PAYABLE WEEKLY
All Subjects taught by experts
OWN YOUR OWN TYPEWRITER
If you plan to purchase a Typewriter do not fail
to see those on display at the CORTEZ W.
PETERS SCHOOL. You may purchase one of
these machines for a modest sum at convenient
monthly terms as low as $1.00 a week.
IF YOU DO NOT TYPE YOUR CORRESPOND-
ENCE YOU ARE NOT KEEPING ABREAST
OF THE TIMES.

When you purchase a machine from us

... you are taught how to use it

PUBLIC TYPING

MIMEOGRAPHING

CLASSES FROM SEPTEMBER 10. 1945
Registration, September 1st

WALTER T. DIXON

Walter T. Dixon, Dean of the Cortez W. Peters Business School,
was formerly in charge of the total Junior College when that
Institution was begun under the Federal Government.

Mr. Dixon has been engaged in the field of education for a
number of years and nas served in the Public Schools of Wash-
ington, D. C., and on the faculty of the North Carolina College
for Negroes in Durham, N. C.

Columbia University has conferred both the Bachelor's and
Master's degrees upon Mr. Dixon, He is also a graduate of Bene-
dict College, Howard University, American School of Law, and
Central College of Chiropractic.

The local Business School, the only one of its kind in the State
for the training of Negro youth for Commercial activities, has
made remarkable progress and has placed a great number of its
graduates in lucrative positions.

Mr. Dixon is a member of the Governor's Commission on Problems
affecting the Negro Population, He will serve until the first Monday
in June, 1945.

Mr. Dixon is a 32nd Degree Mason, an Odd Fellow, and at the
present time is vice-president of the graduate Chapter of the Alpha
Phi Alpha Fraternity.

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