I just found Nucky’s answer to the question I asked him this morning.
Woo! Took me a few pages to find it.
Sometimes this thread goes so fast, it’s nothing but a blur.
Anyway, finally found it and was happy to hear — er, read his answer, and that he really liked his English teacher and the class.
About high school typing class though — ug — nothing ever made a difference. No matter what I did, I could never get past 35 wpm. Can’t remember what a good wpm was. I just know it was not within my range of even a remote possibility.
It was nothing but miraculous though when later on while going to school, I met a fine man in one of my classses. He was going to school on the GI Bill. That man had an IBM Selectric typewriter. I could knock out papers, first draft, final copy — all-in-one. That man changed my life.