Newport High School - Blunita Yearbook (Newport, PA)

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 tVj JI.UZ AITD 713 'IE 2 typing V ill the class of 33 ever forget thc.t memorable day in September ‘ 'on vc tc-rcd 'the typing room to receive ouf first lesson in the art of typing? I do not think they trill At first it seemed like c terrible nightmare, our fingers just wouldn't stay on the guide keys, and they erc too stiff with fright to acquire the coxTect positions. But that .rasn - the worst; to our horror and amazement t:c discovered that there uorc no keys on the keyboard. but blank spaces instead- And from then on we knww it would be a case of 'hit' or 'miss' and it was usually ■che latter for us. J rhen vro ucnt through some exercises which when completed (even though t?c wore all told the srmo) it was found that very feu if any ■ere alike. So I think this proves my statement mentioned in the paragraph before that it was usually miss, because it was not that we c:°udd j? hoar dorrcctly, but that our lingers just wouldn't go in the right direction. e At the end of one of the longest hours that re have over known, ned some one looked into that typing room you would have seen the ’ pupixs looking very relieved and most of us very subdued to the Fate lucn was before us for the next nine months of school. Ti.at was the first day, but each day it scans to be getting cr.si-C.£ r Perhaps we arc getting to be better operators of the machines, v.hatovor it may be, we all like it and look forward with joy to that Helen IT Campbell -0-0—0-0-0-0—0-0-0-0-0- Typir.g Award s k. c rtc-ir during the month Miss Reese gives speed tests, tests arc of fifteen minutes duration. To reeleve an award tho ■ivr1millif]EvJ? S ■''-t icest twenty-five words a minute with not more than .i mistakes on tnc paper. At the present there arc quite few £.cr :fJyc. Trord minute speed pins in the high school. There are : c of higner value. Mildred Hallman, Virginia Bhado. and Doioely ..dams have forty word a minute pins. Jean 7olf has a forty, fifty a H£nutG r ut -rds- These pins are given by tho VJood.s Lock lent in typing Cy ar° an inccntivo for the pupil to become pro- -0-0. 0-0-0-0-0 -0-0-0-0-Odc To My Typewriter Betty Milligan ly typewriter »tis of thee vcot music to speediness 'f thee I chant. spent many a period ry nerves all w rccked indeed, ut through tiresome toil and pccdincss was my aim Bat through all the school term You were my joy of typing. To win the goal. I often was oppressed .Bier, the wrong key was pressed, pain,In trying to make ninety-five per minute, In a ten minute test. Mildred Freeland

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