High Honors for Vivien Putty at Gregg College

of af| | HIGH HONORS FOR VIVIEN PUTTY AT GREGG COLLEGE Miss Vivien R. Putty, daughter of Mrs. Kathryn Putty of Woodstock received high honors this week when she completed her course of study in the Court Reporting Department of Gregg College in Chicago. Miss Putty graduated from the Community high school with the class of '42 and immediately enrolled at Gregg. She graduated on Thursday, November 4, 1943, and was awarded the Reporting Diploma and the Diamond Medal. The Reporting Diploma has been issued to very few students, as d graduate must be able to write two hundred words per minute on testimony which is highly technical matter containing many new chemical terms which have not as yet appeared in the dictionary. The diploma covers 8 twenty-four month course which Miss Putty has successfully completed in thirteen months. She has also passed the Diamond Medal test which consist of Congressional Record material dictated at two hundreds words per minute. This medal is an award of Dr. Gregg, given for that acihevement. On Thursday morning, a demonstration of high speed writing was given by Miss Putty in the auditorium of the Community high school where Mr. H. G. Abraham introduced Mr. Paul Pair, Director of Gregg College, who in turn presented Miss Putty. Miss Irene Carlson of Olympia, Washington, a class mate and reporting student from Gregg, who has received • the same recognition and honors, as Miss Putty, and Mrs. Paul Pair accompanted MY' .Pair out from Chicago for the program. In speaking of Miss Putty, or Vivien as her many friends call her, Mr. Pair said she is one of the best students they graduated in the Court Reporting department and that much credit is due her stick-to-itness and the splendid back ground she received in her high school teaching. 'Miss Putty leaves this week for Detroit, Michigan, where there is a position waiting for her with the firm of Allied Reporters. This work will include convention as well as court reporting. Congratulations and best wishes from all of her friends go with her.

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High Honors for Vivien Putty at Gregg College

High Honors for Vivien Putty at Gregg College

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