(*Portrait
used with permission from Michael Sull’s Spencerian Script and Ornamental Penmanship,
Volume I.)
CE Doner
(1875-1955)
Obituary
Comments taken from The Educator 1955
Again we
mourn the passing of a dear friend and coworker, Charles E. Doner. He was born
in 1875 on a farm in Cumberland Co., Penn. In 1893, he entered the Zanerian College,
Columbus, Ohio, and did outstanding work. It was here that he did his first
teaching. By persistent study and intelligent practice he improved steadily and
became one of America's leading penmen and educators. He taught in Spencerian
Commercial College, Cleveland; Heffley School of Commerce, New York City;
Y.M.C.A. evening classes, New York. He supervised handwriting in Beverly,
Mass., grade schools, and directed the teaching of handwriting in the Mass.
State Normal Schools. He also was a special instructor in handwriting and
methods at several Zanerian College summer school terms. His business and
ornamental penmanship was unexcelled by any penman. He was an industrious, methodical
student, an efficient instructor, and, at all times, a refined, lovable
gentleman. C. E. Doner will long be remembered.
