[GreenKeys] [External] Re: Typing Instruction

[Joe Duszyński]

I must have had more "Enlightened" typing classes and school.

Our school for freshman year 1st semester would have you rotate thru
ALL the elective classes.
That first semester you spent a few days in EVERY elective class to
help you decide which you would like to take for a full semester
Homemaking, Sewing, Woodshop, Metalshop, Printing, Photography the
list goes on there were like 20+
classes and Typing was one of them. It was heavily stressed in all
classes they were open to everyone.
All 7 of the ones I mentioned above I took as 1 semester electives
over the 4 years in High School.

Anyhow, the Typing class has served me well for over 45+ years.

JD

On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 7:07 PM Jones, Douglas W
<douglas-w-jones at uiowa.edu> wrote:
>
> From: [1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com] -- Tuesday, November 29, 2022 3:17 PM
>
> > In my day boys were not trained to touch type, considered girls work.  Ugh.
>
> In 1968 or so, I took typing at Ann Arbor High School.
>
> My typing teacher only grudgingly allowed boys in her class; she as much as said that every man that knew how to type was likely to deny a girl a secretarial job.  Count it as a somewhat warped bit of proto-feminism.  I persisted in the class because I was also taking "Computer Math", a new course that used a pair of Teletype 33ASR to access an early commercial timesharing system (the machine had a 24-bit word), and it was obvious that being able to touch type instead of hunt and peck would serve me well.
>
>         Doug Jones
>         jones at cs.uiowa.edu
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