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Anna Burns
Special education, Special education, By Elaine Ayers
career assessment assistant frosh class aster than a speeding bul­
F words a minute, It’s a
center aide sponsor let, writing eight million
bird...It’s a plane...It’s an advanced
shorthand student!
Okay, so maybe they don’t write
eight million words a minute, but
the shorthand form of writing does
help you write faster. “Shorthand is
a method of writing faster. You
learn symbols for letters and words
i to increase your speed,” said Joyce
Roeschke, advanced shorthand
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Speech therapist teacher.
According to Roeschke, there are
two main advantages to taking
shorthand. One is that you learn the
skills necessary for a secretary, and
the second is it helps you with
grammar and notetaking.
Twelve people have taken shor­
thand this year, and Senior Teresa
Nickisch is one of them. Her main
reason was, “I was interested in

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Special Education, Home Economics, much about it.”
career deuelopment typing, assistant Nickisch also said she planned
on using shorthand after she
counselor sophomore class,
color guard sponsor graduates and becomes a secretary.
The class particpated in a pen­
pal project with a beginning shor­
thand class in Crete, Nebraska, in
which they wrote letters back and
forth in shorthand. Roeschke feels
the project was successful because
the students “really got to know
each other.”
Besides the project, Nickisch felt
the class as a whole was successful.
She said, “You learn more and
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have more fun with your peers.”
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