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STENOMAX

TRADITION, REPUTATION, AND SUCCESS

The StenoMax Institute was incorporated in January 2000 to continue the home study program formerly provided by the Home Study Division of the Stenotype Institute of Jacksonville, Inc.

The Stenotype Institute was founded as a resident court reporting school in 1940 by Thyra D. Ellis. Ms. Ellis, herself a graduate of the Lasalle Institute (the original accredited home study program in the U.S.), was a pioneer in the field of machine reporting. She was responsible for many of the standards now required for certification as an RPR (Registered Professional Reporter). A Merit Reporter, she indeed may have been the best-known reporter worldwide because of her many years of work in court and at meetings and conventions for hundreds of national and international corporate clients.

The StenoMax Institute was created in order to provide a distinct identity and a more tightly focused concentration on home study education. StenoMax employs selected instructors from the Stenotype Institute on a part-time basis as faculty for the home study program.

The StenoMax Institute will continue to maintain skill requirements a cut above the minimum standards set by the NCRA. The requirement of a transcript accuracy rate of 97.5 percent on literary, jury charge, and two-voice testimony should make it easier to pass the NCRA-administered RPR (Registered Professional Reporter) exam, which requires an accuracy level of 95 percent.

GRADUATES

Since 1967, the Home Study Division of the Stenotype Institute and, since June 2000, the StenoMax Institute have had dozens of court reporting graduates. Below is a list of graduates since 1994:

Carolyn White*, RPR	Texas	1994
Catherine Hoffman**	Florida	1995
Laurie Brinkman	Montana	1996
David Greene	Florida	1996
Elizabeth Handy	Nevada	1996
Mary Mielke	Texas	1996
Mona Payne	Nevada	1996
Karen Chambers	Florida	1997
Helen Stanley	Virgin Islands	1997
Dyan Waltmann	Georgia	1997
Pam Mizell, RPR	Georgia	1998
Sandy Terrill, RPR	Idaho	1999
Christine Griffin*, RPR	Hawaii	2001
Nancy Leonard, CRI	Florida	2001
Maleana Mann	Florida	2001
Mary Beck, CRI	Florida	2002
Patricia Martinez	Minnesota	2002
Harris Reservitz	Florida	2002
Kelly Savarese***	California	2002
Brooke Toft	Florida	2002
Lynda Lunseth	Florida	2003
Vanessa Wilen	Texas	2003
Rhodora James	Florida	2004
Gigi Simcox, RPR	Ohio	2004
Michelle Olson	Minnesota	2005
Kayla Watson	Kansas	2005
Jacqueline Maltby	Florida	2006
Melinda McKenna	Florida	2006
Withheld Name	Withheld State	2009
Dan Thompson	Florida	2009
Araceli Zambrano	Florida	2009


*	Contributors of articles published in the NCRA's "Journal for the Reporting and Captioning Professions" (formerly the "Journal of Court Reporting")

**	Received Student of the Year award from DETC (Distance Education and Training Council)

***	Received a $500 award as a recipient of the NCRA Student Member Tuition Program (July 2001)

Others started in the Home Study Division and later switched to and graduated from the resident program at the Stenotype Institute of Jacksonville, Inc.:

Karen Adair	Florida	1995
Sondra Elmore	Florida	1995
Angela Mathis, RPR	Florida	1995
Janice Morgan	Georgia	1997
Donna Boehmer	Tennessee	1998
James Moyer, CSR	Pennsylvania	1999
Denice Taylor	Florida	1999
Cat Thompson, CRI	Florida	2000
Tracy Verzwyvelt	Georgia	2000

Immediately after graduation, all of these home study/resident graduates successfully launched their careers as working court reporters. While this placement success since 1995 cannot be predictive of future results, it is clearly a mark of teaching excellence and placement assistance, as well as a tribute to the dedication and self-discipline of our students.

Note: These are all court reporting graduates and are not a combined, undifferentiated list of medical transcriptionists, scopists, court reporting assistants, and court reporters.