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Graduated 1969, I sure do remember
ReplyDeleteWith donated IBM Selectric typewriters.
ReplyDeleteI took typing class because there were plenty of good looking girls in the class.
ReplyDeleteOne of the most useful courses I have ever taken !
ReplyDeleteBennett middle 1988
ReplyDeleteGot a certificate for typing the most words per minute on a manual - 52.
ReplyDeleteWith electric I have been clocked at 140 wpm. Not bragging though :)
Teachers couldn't read my long hand so I HAD to take typing.
ReplyDeleteI took it twice in High School, because I couldn't get my bloody typing speed over 25 wpm. A year after College, I was issued my first computer at work. Within a month or so, I was typing 70wpm. Still do 40 years later, as far as I know.
ReplyDeleteIt was all because I stopped worrying about making and having to correct mistakes and just started typing.
Mrs days class. WiHi 1973. Very tall lady. Kept telling me to stop looking at the keys.
ReplyDeleteI took typing in HS because that where the girls were, I was inducted into the Army during the Korean War. After basic I had my orders for Korea in my hand in the morning, in the afternoon I was reassigned to Germany as a supply clerk because I could type.
ReplyDeleteBest choice a dumb kid ever made
I remember it, Pocomoke High School. There were only a few electric typewriters and the rest were manual. I also took the class because of the girls. We also had to take Home Ed while the girls took shop.
ReplyDeleteSummer school 1967, along with driver's ed.
ReplyDelete1:07 Bingo, we have a winner.
ReplyDeleteI also graduated Pocomoke High, in 1969. I took typing because of the girls in the class, as well. Charlene Matthews was the teacher and we had only one or two electrics, the rest were manual. I caught on pretty quickly and could do the assigned exercises in about 20 minutes. The rest of the time Suzanne Duncan and I spent typing up pornographic stories. We never turned those in to the teacher, though.
ReplyDeleteThink ours were manuals.
ReplyDeleteWhen I took typing I don't think that there were electric typewriters.
ReplyDeleteI remember it well. I admit I didn't like typing, but I stuck it out and I'm glad I did. The teacher would walk up and down the rows watching us as we typed. She always carried a ruler with her. She would yell if we were looking at the keys instead of the book. If she caught you, she would hit the book with the ruler, tell you to close the book and turn your work in now. Boy what stress! That year my parents give me a typewriter for Christmas and what a blessing.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite time in that class was when we had timed sessions and we typed to music. Now that I did enjoy. I still don't like to type, but it did develop my love of music even more.
11 wpm. I HATED it! Had to take it to make up some credit somewhere in summer school. Met Cindy Frederica there!
ReplyDeleteThe only way I passed is the teach gave us 2 tries at 22 wpm.
I left the paper in the typewriter and just waved a blank over it when we were supposed to be changing sheets.
God let me pass that one!
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4:28 and 4:55 it must have been a PHS thing I did the 1:07 comment and I went to Pocomoke.
ReplyDeleteYeah. Pocomoke had 2 typing teachers at that time, both named Miss Matthews. Mary Emily Matthews was like 4,000 years old, never married and really strict. Charlene Matthews was 22 years old, blonde, not married and a real hoot. Everybody fought to be in Charlene's class instead of Mary Emily's.
ReplyDeleteI think I was out sick the day we learned which fingers to use for each number. I still have to look at the numbers!
ReplyDeleteStarted typing class in 7th grade and kept it up until 12th grade. Loved it from the get go. Did not attend school around here and it was a trial thing they started when I was in 7th grade. Also, did not have electric typewriters either, but we could sure bang the heck out of the old standard ones. Still have the typewriter I learned on at home, which happened to be my Mother's. I am now 70 years old.
ReplyDeleteBy 1969 (I think) Delmar HS had electric typewriters.That was a huge improvement.I graduated in 1970.
ReplyDelete"Who Remembers?" Come on Joe, it hasn't been that many years! Who are you trying to kid?
ReplyDeleteI went to Pocomoke High from 74 to 78 and I can't remember the name of the teacher. I am a male and I do know I was one of the best typers in class because I was the first one moved up to an electric typewriter. I am glad I took the class for the girls, but I never knew it would help me typing resumes and using the internet. I used erasers instead of whiteout, but seemed to always put a hole on the letter.
ReplyDeleteA huge improvement from the hammer and chisel we used when I was a kid.Rocks were heavy.
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