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Irish-born Teacher John Gregg had no alternative but to carry out the father's wishes: the boy happened to be his first and only pupil. Six months later, he was also the first full-fledged graduate-a master of the new Gregg system of shorthand...
...time, there were other graduates, and the school soon outgrew its one classroom. Gregg added courses in bookkeeping, typing, and business English. He started a summer school, correspondence courses, began publishing his own shorthand manuals. By 1912 he had thousands of pupils around the world...
...system have ranged from Billy Rose (200 words a minute) to Cuba's General Batista (175-200 words). There were businessmen and bankers, soldiers and statesmen, and legions of just plain Kitty Foyles. Of all the Americans who were to learn shorthand, 90% learned it from Gregg.* By the time he died in 1948, his loops and squiggles had recorded most of the business of the century...
...Inspector will be Albert Pariow '54. Other players are Gregg as Mr. Birling, Sarah K. Levy '54 as Mrs. Birling. Danielle G. Holmgren '55 as their daughter, William White GS as their son, and Robert A. Munro '53 as Gerald Croft...
...play, a psychological drama concerning the effects of the industrial revolution, will be produced by John M. Gregg '54 and directed by Marshall S. Spiller...