Thanks to reporters who have greatly helped me and other court reporters

[Bill Parsons]

Thanks to reporters who have greatly helped me and other court reporters.

I would like to extend thanks to court reporters who have greatly helped me and contributed to whatever success I had in a court reporting career.

I would like to thank the authors of the original Philadelphia Clinic Course without whose machine shorthand techniques I would have never been able to have been a successful court reporter.

I would like to thank Greg Adelson who on a court reporter forum told me about the Radio Shack personal amplifier which became a tool I use on every court reporter job.

I would like to thank Ann Bowline who shared the unknown court reporter patron saint, St. Cassian of Tangiers, with court reporters on court reporter forums.

Because of Greg Adelson's sharing of the Radio Shack amplifier with me, I was able to write many forum posts about that device and give details of all the parts necessary to use the system. Through those posts other illustrious court reporters learned of the device and further shared it with their colleagues.

Because of Ann Bowline's sharing of the unknown court reporting patron saint, I was able to pursue that and make that patron saint known to court reporters in the United States, Italy, England, Ireland and Australia and all over the world.

I would like to thank W. C. (Casey) Jones for writing an essay entitled "Who am I?" about the history of court reporter, from which I was able to develop several versions of The Court Reporter's Creed and The Professional Transcriber's Creed.

To learn the details of the Radio Shack personal amplifier, go to
http://www.courtreportersmuseum.info/amplifier.htm

To view and learn about St. Cassian of Tangiers and to view the holy card made in his honor, go to http://www.courtreportersmuseum.info/tangiers.htm

To view and learn of The Court Reporter's Creed and The Professional Transcribers's Creed , go to
http://www.courtreportersmuseum.info/creed.htm

I would like to thank legions of hard workers who worked so hard to form the National Court Reporters Association through which I first learned of the "Who Am I?" poem and through which I learned of the original Philadelphia Clinic techniques of court reporting.

Thanks to the Mike and Susan Miller for providing the DepoMan forum, a court reporter forum where very unpopular ideas could be openly shared with the court reporting profession.

I am thankful to be an American where each person can strive to achieve his or her goals and aspirations to the best of their ability.

Submitted by Bill Parsons

[Michael D. Chaney]

Dear Sir:
Thank you very much for this. My question: Any way I can see and/or view the "Who Am I" poem and the "Who Am I" essay? I'd appreciate it...thank you
Sincerely,
Michael D. Chaney, CSR

[Bill Parsons]

Michael,

Here's original "Who am I" essay.

Also, you may be very inspired to know that the patron saint of court reporting, Saint Cassian of Tangiers, is one of the Black saints from Africa.

#WHO AM I?
By W.C. (Casey) Jones

My profession stems from man's desire and his necessity to preserve the happenings of yesterday and tomorrow.

My profession was born with the rise of civilization in ancient Greece.
I was known as a scribe. I was in Judea, Persia and the Roman Empire before Christ.

I preserved the Ten Commandments for posterity.

I was with King Solomon while building the temple and recorded the origins of Masonry.

My hand labored upon the scroll that set forth the Bill of Rights wrested from the King of England at Runnymede.

I was with the founding fathers when the Declaration of Independence was drafted. I witnessed the signature of John Hancock.

I wrote the Dred Scott Decision for Justice Taney.

The immortal Abraham Lincoln entrusted me to record the Emancipation Proclamation.

I was commissioned to be with Roosevelt at Yalta.

I was with Eisenhower on D-Day; with MacArthur at Tokyo.

I have kept confidence reposed with me by those in high places as well as those in lowly places.

My profession protects the truthful witness, and I am a nemesis of the perjurer.

I am a party to the administration of justice under the law and the court I serve.

I discharge my duties with devotion and honor.

Perhaps I haven't made history, but I have preserved it through the ages for all mankind.

I AM THE REPORTER.

(This essay is a speech given by W.C. (Casey) Jones to the 1964 meeting of the Kansas Shorthand Reporters Association.)