Mary,

To meet your goals, you should have been in my wife's typing/business class. 
It was in the small northern town of Burns Lake, BC where half the 
population was Native Indian and the white half of the town was employed. 
Poverty was rampant, and even though few ever graduated, many of the Native 
youth attended high school during the winter simply because it was warmer 
than at home.   Fern, a well trained primary teacher, was assigned to teach 
typing/business in the high school because she had once worked in an office 
before going to university to get her teaching degree.   No previous 
typing/business teacher had ever stayed for more than one year and the job 
was open when she left university to begin her career.   The class was 
filled with big husky 16 and 17 year old Native boys who could legally still 
attend school (warmer than at home) but who had no interest at all in the 
classes of any subject.   They were simply assigned seats in classes where 
they might cause the least diversion, and since the school had no "shop", 
typing/business was the administration's favourite spot for them rather than 
academic classes.   To pass time during the long winter days, the young men 
applied their natural boyish love of mechanics to the typewriters.   The 
daily game they played was to see how many pieces of the typewriters could 
be removed by hand.   Every night Fern had to put them back together as best 
she could, learning a lot about fine machinery in the process, complaining 
bitterly about the pieces ripped off instead of unscrewed.   Through her 
persistence, she established a rapport with the youth, ending up staying as 
teacher for several years and seeing one of the clever young men take an 
interest in learning and go on to become the local Chief at a very young 
age.

As a naive yout of your earlier era, "boring" was the very last word I would 
ever have applied to the conical style.

cp in bc


> Our typing teacher resembled the front end of some of the cars that  were 
> in vogue-- huge conical frontality-- and it was boring, 

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