I entered junior high school in Southern California in 1969. At that time, all of the girls took home economics and all of the boys took shop classes: about eig

I entered junior high school in Southern California in 1969. At that time, all of the girls took home economics and all of the boys took shop classes: about eight weeks each for woodcraft, metalworking, electricity, drafting, and print shop. In print shop, we had to memorize the layout of the job cases and be able to sort the type back into the proper locations without referring to a chart. The final project was to set a few lines of type and print it on a small rotary press. I don’t remember the layout of those job cases anymore, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t this California job case. I don’t think the capital letters were laid out in alphabetical order.