“SHORTLY after I started to learn shorthand, in my first examination, I got almost 100% with about one error. When the teacher read out my mark, the rest of the class applauded. This was a big boost to me as I was the only boy in my class and the first ever boy to learn shorthand at Stevenston High School.”
John Dawson is a member of St Columba’s in London, and has attended Crown Church of Scotland in Covent Garden since 1985. Every week when he goes to the services, he carries a Bible – but it’s one that not everyone can read. It’s in Pitman’s Shorthand .