Typewriters to Computers: Lorrine Skaff Winger at Southern Oregon College
Channel: Stories of Southern Oregon
Date: 2020-04-19

Lorrine Skaff-Winger started work at Southern Oregon College in 1967 teaching secretarial skills and earned a PhD in 1972. That female-focused profession evolved and was renamed over time, becoming a program focusing on executive assistants, office management and word processing. Women were more often named secretaries and learned how to type and the men were more likely to be business students and learned computers. Skaff knew the keyboard and taught them all. 

These are Lorrine Skaff-Winger's recollections of working at Southern Oregon College during a period of educational and social change.

Winger's oral history is part of the Stories of Southern Oregon at Southern Oregon University collection. The project is supported in part by the university and with a grant from the Oregon Heritage Commission to document the Rogue Valley Women's Movement and second wave feminism.

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