A shorthand revival.(LETTERS)

The Washington Times | January 26, 2005 | Copyright

Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Your article "Shorthand rediscovered" (Metropolitan, Jan. 17) brought out what I already know: Gregg shorthand is a valuable skill at work and in life.

As a legal secretary in a large Manhattan law firm, I am one of just two secretaries who take shorthand. My skill is in demand; partners ask for someone who can take dictation, and associates will watch bemused as I draw the curlicues in my notebook. Is that shorthand? they ask. Younger attorneys have not encountered stenography in their careers.

In the late 1960s, ...

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