But now, the building -- a five-story structure with no elevator -- is in need of extensive repairs, and the residents, including Austra Root, who taught typing and clerical skills to women in Uganda in the 1950's for the Y.W.C.A., and who just turned 83, are preparing to pack up and leave.
Rider started teaching typing in 1883, and in 1885 it became a department.
If it's been a while since you actually "played" Mavis Beacon teaches typing, you should try nostalgia tripping on it for a while.
From 1957 she taught bookkeeping, typing, shorthand, and business law at Monroe County Training School.
She held part-time jobs on campus, worked as a sales clerk in Bullock's-Wilshire department store, taught typing and shorthand at a high school, and supplemented her income by working as an extra in the film industry.
Nominees were invited by email and letter to complete an online questionnaire quantifying topics taught, type of teaching and assessment undertaken, and the amount of time spent on teaching.
She taught herself to type by typing out his stories.
In her teens, she taught herself to type and play the sitar; she tried painting, wrote poetry, got into amateur theatricals, and, inevitably, became an outstanding student.
She taught me to touch type, I don't know how many words per minute, but it's quite high and it's come in really handy.
But from age 13 to 31 she taught dance (we all know the type of seediness that permeates certain dance circles), and for the past seven years she's been a personal trainer (gyms are notorious criminal hotbeds).
