Dorothy M. Porter

I was most sorry to hear of the passing of Dorothy Porter. Dorothy and I were colleagues at Classical High School where I began my teaching career. She brought a sense of humor and practicality to the process of teaching while expecting high standards of her students. She offered new teachers encouragement and support as we struggled with the challenges of teaching. Dorothy and I continued to correspond for many years at Christmas. Her greetings and words were always enjoyed appreciated....

Please accept my sincere condolences to Dorothy's family. I was a student and later a colleague of hers at Classical. She is remembered in my mind as an effective task master in learning the keyboard and how practice and performance go hand in hand. There is not a day that goes by that her teaching has served me well. As a teacher and friend, she will be missed. I can still hear her say, "asdf space semi lkj space". That's how all of her students learned!!!

Like my mother and sisters, I owe my excellent typing skills to Miss Porter, who instructed me at Classical High School in 1978. She could type 110 wpm on a manual typewriter! What a coincidence later in my life to learn that she was a college friend of my mother-in-law. Miss Porter will be missed, but I feel her positive impact whenever I am at my keyboard. Doing my best to hit 110 wpm. :)

As she did for many others, Miss Porter taught me to type, and type well. She also taught me patience, perseverance and the wisdom of sometimes just doing what I'm told. Her teaching lives on in so many lives. My condolences to the family.

If I had not taken the course with Miss Porter, I would never had learned to type which served me well in college and graduate school and even more in my professional life as a fourth grade teacher. Reports, progress reports, etc would have been so difficult without her tutelage. My sincere thanks for her steadfastness in teaching high school kids who weren't really focused at the time and have appreciated her talents ever since.

I owe my typing and subsequent computer skills all to Miss Porter's teaching - on a manual typewriter, no less. She was patient and encouraging always. I'll miss her. My sincere sympathy to her family.