[GreenKeys] [External] Re: Typing Instruction

[scottjohnson1 at cox.net]

I was in High School 1978-1982 in Wyoming.  Typing was required for all
college prep students;  I had a devil of a time not looking at the keys.  
My football coach/typing instructor in desperation covered the keys of my
Selectric with masking tape so I couldn't see them, that worked!

Scott W7SVJ

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On Behalf Of Joe Duszynski
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2022 5:44 PM
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Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] [External] Re: Typing Instruction

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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