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Back in the 1970s there was a school called McMahon College of Court Reporting. The owner absconded to South America with half a million dollars in student loan money. The students filed a class action suit against the government to get their money. A lot of the students took a so-called aptitude test and a lot of the students had no business doing court reporting. They weren't good typists, first of all, and didn't have excellent English skills and concentration skills.

These people had no place to go. Houston Community College started a court reporting program. They gave the ladies who taught typing and shorthand the machine shorthand textbooks and told them to start teaching. They started teaching in 1975. I did not go to McMahon but I was the first person to graduate from the HCC Court Reporting program in 1977.