Lenore Fenton MacClain
| Lenore Fenton MacClain | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 31, 1912 |
| 💀Died | March 9, 2005 (aged 92)[1] Williamsburg, VirginiaMarch 9, 2005 (aged 92)[1] |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 💼 Occupation | |
Lenore Fenton MacClain (née Lenore Fenton) was a championship typist and typewriting educator. She won numerous international typewriting awards and international records in typing.[2]
Biography
In July 1937, MacClain won an award as the world's champion dictaphone operator.[3] She first appeared on the typewriting scene in a typewriting competition in Toronto on August 28, 1937, where she won the novice title with 87 words per minute.[4] She won again in 1938,[5] and in 1939 she broke her own transcription record and earned the title of "the world's greatest secretary".[6]
In 1944, she starred in United States Navy typewriting training videos,[2][7][8][9] where she demonstrated proper touch typing technique, useful typewriter tips and tricks (such as rapid envelope addressing[10]), and typing up to 180 words per minute on an electric typewriter with a QWERTY layout.
She became one of the students of August Dvorak and was reported to write 180 words per minute using a Dvorak Simplified Keyboard,[11] a number later admitted to be a typo instead of 108.[12][13] Earlier, she won the world championship on a Dvorak keyboard in Tenth Annual International Commercial Schools Contest in Chicago, June 19, 1946, by typing 131 net words per minute.[14] In another article in 1945, she is quoted to be able to type up to 182 words a minute on Dvorak.[15]
In the 1950s, along with J. Frank Dame, she co-authored a book Typewriting Techniques and Short Cuts, which saw a few editions.
She died on March 9, 2005[1] and was buried at the Arlington National Cemetery.[16] Her Electromatic typewriter with a Dvorak Simplified Keyboard layout is in the collection of the National Museum of American History.[17]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Lenore Fenton MacClain obituary". 20 March 2005. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
- ↑ "Armful of trophies for champ". Leader-Telegram. 1937-07-10. p. 7. Retrieved 2022-03-15.
- ↑ Robert Messenger. "Last Days of Speed Typing Glory". Retrieved 20 November 2017.
- ↑ "co-ed turned secretary cracks own record". The Sun and the Erie County Independent. 1938-07-07. p. 5. Retrieved 2022-03-15.
- ↑ "Still the world's greatest secretary". Rogers County News. 1939-07-18. p. 3. Retrieved 2022-03-15.
- ↑ Typewriter Training, Basic Typing: Machine Operation. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
- ↑ Typewriter Training, Advanced Typing: Shortcuts. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
- ↑ Typewriter Training, Advanced Typing: Duplicating and Manuscript. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
- ↑ Okay, Lenore Fenton is basically a superhero at this point. Look at this typing wizardry!. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
- ↑ "Navy Inventor Presses War for New Keyboard to Speed Typewriting". Wall Street Journal. 1948-01-28.
- ↑ "There is a better typewriter keyboard". National Business Education Quarterly. 1943-12-01.
- ↑ Arthur Toye Foulke (1961). "Dvorak Simplified Keyboard". Mr. Typewriter: A biography of Christopher Latham Sholes. p. 104. ASIN B0007DRUJY. Search this book on
- ↑ Arthur Toye Foulke (1961). "Typewriter no longer a curiosity". Mr. Typewriter: A biography of Christopher Latham Sholes. p. 45. ASIN B0007DRUJY. Search this book on
- ↑ "Reform in typewriting". The American Weekly. 1945-12-02.
- ↑ "Lenore Fenton MacClain". Retrieved 20 November 2017.
- ↑ "IBM Electromatic Typewriter". Retrieved 20 November 2017.
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