Monday, February 23, 2009

Creative Dartmouth grad

I was flipping through the March issue of Reader's Digest and discovered an article about a Dartmouth grad. Apparently, at his reunion in 2007, Jeff Deck realized he wasn't doing anything beneficial with his life. He started the Typo Eradication Advancement League and now travels around the country fixing typos on signs. He was recently sued and fined by the National Park Service for changing a sign at the Grand Canyon, but he has been dubbed the Indiana Jones of typos. That's pretty cool.
I thought it was a creative way to make use of a major in creative writing.
(I tried to find a link to it on the Reader's Digest site, but my computer didn't like it.) The article is called "Righting Wrong Writing" and it's on page 22, if you want to look it up.

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