Great to join this forum! – from a new student of GS, and the son of a GS court reporter

Hi, I am very happy to join the Gregg Shorthand community, and appreciate Carlos’ fine support of everyone here.  I am just now getting around to learning GS – but I grew up with it, in that my late father Morris Miller, was a GS OCS (Official Court Stenographer) at the NY State Supreme Court.  I grew up talking with Dad about his work there, learning about cases and a fair amount about what it was like to be a “Gregg Writer” (their terms for themselves, and the name of the magazine in which Dad was once on the cover).  Tidbit – court reporters always walked into the courtroom with 3 fully filled fountain pens.  That way, if a pen ran dry during a long trial, they just whipped out another one.  (It wasn’t like they could say “Your Honor, we need to stop the trial, so I can fill my fountain pen.”)  Let me know if you’d like to hear more about the life of the intense users of Gregg Shorthand, mid 20th century. Gregg Shorthand permitted my father (a winner of the Gregg Diamond Medal) to support me through medical school – I’m a pediatric rheumatologist at Chicago’s major children’s hospital.  I’m in the process of learning the Anniversary version – the one that Carlos confirms used by my father, based on plates of his notes in the GW Magazine.  Great to be here! Michael Miller