Alma Kusnick, who was associated with the Holyoke Commercial Institute, opened the Holyoke Business College in February 1936, a month after the former school failed.
The school was relocated to the renovated Gallup (Clothier) Building at 291 High Street. The school followed a very similar curriculum to its predecessors and promoted its 37 years of successfully educating students and providing free job placement.
Courses were offered in stenography, secretarial, business administration, bookkeeping, and accounting. Fred Giehler continued as one of the instructors.
No information was found after 1940 for the Holyoke Business College, as there were no advertisements, news articles, or further discoveries in the Price & Lee City Directories. The address at 291 High Street, Room 211, was shown as vacant in 1941.
A new school had been formed in 1937 by William F. and Atty. John J. O'Connell called Holyoke Secretarial College. The school competed by overlapping much of its curriculum with the Holyoke Business College. The story of the long-operating Holyoke Secretarial School will be covered at a later date.
Remodeled Holyoke Business College classroom at 291 High Street
(Above latter-day Walgreens)
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