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Detail from Zaner's 1896 article: The Line of Direction in Writing [3] A major factor contributing to the development of the Zaner-Bloser teaching script was Zaner's study of the body movements required to create the form of cursive letters when using the 'muscular arm method' of handwriting – such as the Palmer Method – which was prevalent in the United States from the late 19th century.
Since 1946, the magazine has received over two million letters. [26] In 2021, for the 75th anniversary of Highlights for Children, the company published Dear Highlights: What Adults Can Learn from 75 Years of Letters and Conversations with Kids, a collection of 300 pages of Dear Highlights letters and the answers that were sent back. [18] [26]
Zaner was born near Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.He attended G. W. Michael's Pen Art Hall course in penmanship in Oberlin, Ohio, in 1882. By 1888, Zaner had been a teacher of penmanship at two Ohio colleges, and after the second had closed, he decided to open his own college where he could teach the art.
In 1889, fellow penman Lloyd Kelchner became a partner with Zaner. Two years later, Elmer Ward Bloser—a former classmate and fellow penman—joined the partnership. That same year, Kelchner left the business arrangement, leading Zaner and Bloser to become equal partners in what had then become the Zaner & Bloser Company.
Florey, Kitty Burns (January 20, 2009). Script and Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting (First ed.). Melville House. ISBN 978-1933633671.; The Palmer Method of Business Writing: A Series of Self-teaching Lessons in Rapid, Plain, Unshaded, Coarse-pen, Muscular Movement Writing for the Home Learner, Where an Easy and Legible Hand-writing is Sought.
Letters Live takes the format of a series of readings of letters, typically performed by famous actors. Some actors have a preference for letters they would like to read. The letters are sometimes accompanied by music. [2] Performers are generally onstage alone, at a lectern, and are usually not known to the audience in advance. [3] [4]
Zaner-Bloser may refer to: Zaner-Bloser (company), an American publisher of handwriting and literacy instruction materials; Zaner-Bloser (teaching script), an ...
Its lowercase letters are key in separating Spencerian script from its predecessor, Copperplate script, otherwise known as English roundhand, as Spencerian lowercase letters tend to look more delicate and less shaded than those of Copperplate (shading entirely absent from 'i', vertical ascender of 't' and 'd' and the descender stem of 'p'). [10]