Shorthand typist, decorated war veteran, wife, mother, grandmother. Born Sept. 6, 1919, in Ilford, England, died March 20, 2012, in Calgary of old age, at 92. Joan Ferriman was born to Arthur and ...

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 ...

In 1939 at 16 years old, I was the youngest shorthand typist working in the Education Department in Chester (Cheshire County Council). Staff were taken to Runcorn to type the lists for all the ...

<span class=author>MOHAN LAL MAGO</span><br />The debate whether machine can replace shorthand in this age of Information Technology has its own significance as this ...

Irmgard Furchner, 97, was a teenage shorthand typist at Stutthof concentration camp in Northern Poland from 1943 to 1945 A former secretary and typist who worked for the commander of a Nazi ...