The Gregg Group was founded 22 May 2004, prompted by the lack of online shorthand resources. As the primary use for shorthand — business and legal recording — has waned in recent decades, we generally acclaim the skill as a hobby or personal tool. The purpose of the group is to promote the use of Gregg systems of shorthand by providing advice to beginners, support for students, and an association of users of this efficient, attractive, and enjoyable method of writing.
There are many results from this search. Here is the link. Here is one of the entries: Stenographers! Washington Needs You!. It is a drawing of a woman at an office desk, and a silhouette of a WWI soldier in front of her. Here is a photograph of Charles Swem, when he worked for President Wilson….
When I first attempted to write Gregg shorthand outlines, I realized I didn’t have the same longhand proportions and principles in my 1950s Zaner-Bloser cursive as the business longhand which gave the movement and form Dr. Gregg used in the outlines. In the book on penmanship which he wrote, with Mary Champion, Dr. Gregg states:…
I learned on this blog the basics of how Simplified was created and how Leslie was responsible. Here’s a snippet by way of summary by Carlos from a 8/11/2017 post: (…At the time of his death in 1948, he [J.R. Gregg] was working with Mr. Clyde Blanchard on a revised new manual, because he really…
This short story of loss, grief, and compassion is a popular Buddhist tale. I wrote for the blog in Centennial Gregg. Attachment: the-mustard-seed.pdf
Dr. Victor Francis Hess was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936 for his discovery of the cosmic rays, the high-energy radiation originating outside of the Solar System that strikes the Earth’s atmosphere. In this interesting essay written in 1946, Dr. Hess explains how his religious beliefs are in harmony with science. I wrote…
This entertaining story was adapted from the book The Cow-tail Switch: And Other West African Stories by American anthropologists and folklorists Harold Courlander and George Herzog, and was written by yours truly in Simplified Gregg for the blog. Attachment: talk-a-tale-from-africa.pdf
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This book (Intensive Exercises in Vocabulary Building by Charles Lee Swem) has been digitized as an online loan on Internet Archive. It contains practice for high-frequency words, and it includes a key at the end. You can’t download it as a .pdf, but if you have an Internet Archive account, you can read it for…
This is just a heads up. Someone on eBay is selling their Gregg dictation reel-to-reel tape set (Diamond Jubilee). Too bad I don’t have a reel-to-reel player, or a lot of money, but wow, what a find!
In this essay from her book Beyond the Solar System, Bertha Morris Parker discusses the astronomical event known as a nova (novae or novas in plural) and how they were discovered. I rewrote it in Centennial Gregg for the blog. Attachment: novae.pdf