Miss Jacques' Typing Class (1978-1980)

February 26, 2023 | Self

[higgmeister]

transmitter distributor and reperforator

[PLMerite]

I was on the “receive only” side of the business, as a civilian with a Nameless Agency.

[Gaffer]

Know it well. No Such Agency.

[minnesota_bound]

“Typing class? That’s for girls who want to be secretaries,” he said with total disdain. “Why don’t you take something in the industrial arts like woodworking, machine tooling, or something like that”
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Do high schools even have shop classes or typing or Home Economics and Cooking Skills classes?
Are there still giggles of girls?
Do the girls see the guys as foxes in their little henhouse?

I type using 2 fingers and I correct misspellings along the way.
Gee.. I wish Free Republic had an edit button!! : )

Type while your eyes are blocked.
https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/a89agl/serious_typing_class_in_1960s_high_school/

[SamAdams76]

[firebrand]

Thanks. Maybe. I thought I remembered the little ball, though.

It’s been many years, but I also think I remember the word Selectric.

Anyway, it was worth it. My first job in book publishing and I stayed in the trade 40 years on staff and then did some freelance, where I was able to finally work on conservative books!

[SamAdams76]

This was a little closer to what it was like the first year - with the manual typewriters. Only a couple of boys in that class too!

[KC Burke]

In 1935 my Dad won the state typing championship in the state capital against 70 some odd girls. He used that skill later in the US Army in WWII and became a Bronze Star Master Sergeant in the Judge Advocates Corp in the Battle of the Bulge theater. When he was in his sixties he could still type faster on a manual or the old IBM Executive than I could or most other people could.