Susan Day, a 35-year-old sophomore at Carroll Community College, entered the college’s eighth annual typing-shorthand derby April 27 “just for fun.” She wound up winning the first-place plaque for the ...

Anyone know shorthand? Before computers, before typewriters, shorthand was the way to take dictation and notes for the business community. The word stenography, from the original Greek, where it was ...

T. Rae Lyons taught typing and business skills in Ossining for more than 30 years. Lyons, 94, died on July 20. She kept the secret of her first name from most people. "She was my friend – she was ...

Period office series always show women with small notebooks following and noting what their bosses are saying. This role was fulfilled by thousands of women from the early twentieth century until the ...

While a video of Premier Wen Jiabao was displayed on a big screen, a woman typed on a recording machine. As she typed, Wen's words appeared on the screen as subtitles. This was in last Friday's class ...