[LMB] OT: gender again

[Mark Allums]

CatMtn at aol.com wrote:

> Funny, in Texas in 1953 I was strongly encouraged (forced) to take typing,  
> "because I was going to college and would need to type research papers."   And 
> John F. Floberg, who was Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air during the  
> Eisenhower and Truman administrations, made part of his spending money  in law 
> school (Harvard) by typing papers for his professors . .  .
>  
> Mary

When I was in school, we didn't decide what to take, it was decided for 
us.  (Small school.)  I took typing.  There were a whole slew of us 
college-bounds that had apparently nothing better to do than type.  It 
was one of the most useful skills I ever learned, but if I had it to do 
over again, I'd have fought to take something else.

--Mark Allums