I did. I use typing every day, although my secretaries tell me if a turtle could type, it would type faster than me. In my typing class it was me, one other guy, and twenty beautiful girls, I didn’t mind that at all, who could type like lightning. Came in handy in college where I beat out term papers on an old manual. The same manual served me well when I prepared a case note, with endless revisions, for the Illinois Bar Journal. Computers as word processors have eliminated a lot of drudgery, not to mention copious amounts of white out and yellow out.
With my propensity towards typos, there isn’t enough white out to remedy that problem.
Same experience except I was the only guy. I took the class on my mother’s advice who was finishing her masters degree when I was in high school. Being a beneficiary of the rumored extra 5 points for typed papers and exams when you could still submit handwrittened papers and exams was also helpful.
Pretty much the same story for me, except that it was on the recommendation of my Dad, a college professor with completely illegible handwriting, who always typed his class presentation notes and the blocking for the many plays he directed. He told me I would never regret taking touch typing, and he was right. The fact that two dozen cute girls were in the class, along with two other guys and me, was just a bonus. 😁
Required class for all of us, so the split was 50-50.
Twenty-eight years later, the father of my old typing teacher moved into the independent living center where my mother was residing; she’d been there less than a year at that point. (Her father was more vigorous than my mother, but he didn’t last long). I’d run into her and her brother in the hallway and on the elevator and she’d peer at me quizzically, but never asked where and when we’d met.
Working as an engineer in my mid 30s and dealing with a lot of email and documents, I made the decision to learn how to type. A computer application “Mavis Beacon teaches typing” taught me to type. You can find this application software for free today. Because the computer application knows your mistakes, how you make them, speed, plus form -it can provide exercises for you to learn to type better on your own.
(there’s no excuse today to not know how to type.. 🙂 )
I have no idea how many females were in my high school typing class. I only noticed one. I spent the longest four months of my life noticing her and her not noticing me. I eventually noticed another girl in the class, but unfortunately a friend also noticed her….
At my all-male Catholic prep school, typing was mandatory Sophomore year. It was taught by Brother N, who for all the world looked and sounded like a blue-skinned, rail-thin rural English village Episcopal vicar.
Until you made him mad. I saw him drag one of the offensive lineman out of the class and slam him up against the lockers once. Everybody’s typing skills improved dramatically that day. The kid whose locker it was had to have it reassigned after the custodians pried it open with a crowbar.
Faint heart never won fair Lady Pinky. I was quite shy in high school, but that ended in College where I had no trouble meeting and greeting the fairer sex.
Don’t mess with the Brothers.
High school was a long time ago. That was still the most classic love-at-first-sight experience of my life though, and I think she was my first excuse for getting drunk.
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Drafted into the army in 1969 and being sent to Germany because at the moment there was no need for canon cockers (artillery) in Vietnam. So I would now spend 2 years in the motor pool working on the artillery. Arriving at the base for job placement they asked if anyone could type. I said i took it in high school , they needed a clerk, so I spent my time as a training clerk, had my own jeep to drive an officer around. God’s hand was in all of this. I never wanted to take typing . Yet it has been so important in my life
A friend of mine was pulled off four troop calls for Korea during the Korean War because a Colonel he worked for admired what a good typist he was.