Re: [Rollei] Obsolete skills (was Why the 6-element lens for 3.5Fs)

["Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand]

My nephew & neice just finished "Handwriting Classes" during their
summer vacation..so it seems to be alive and kicking in South India at
least.
Cheers
Jayanand Govindaraj
Chennai, India
- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Ridings" <daniel.ridings  
To: <rollei  
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Rollei] Obsolete skills (was Why the 6-element lens for
3.5Fs)


> > The French were not alone.  US schools taught penmanship with ink
pens
> > and liquid ink well into the late forties and probably beyond.
>
> In 1962 I got the lowest grade ever ... in penmanship, a "D". At the
time,
> I hadn't decided if I liked letters slanting forward, straight
vertical or
> slanting backwards ... and tended to mix the styles in the same word
:)
>
> Daniel
> (class of '71)
>
>

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