Tap, tap, tap

There’s an unfamiliar sound wafting through the offices at the Freedom Forum. It’s the tap, tap, tapping of the keys on John Quinn’s 1935 Underwood No. 5 typewriter. Any Scholar who’s ever gotten a note from Mr. Quinn knows that Mr. Quinn writes his prose using a typewriter. Today he is in his Freedom Forum office, preparing for tonight’s start of orientation. He is among those who will welcome the group at a reception and dinner. He will share the 15-year history of the Chips Quinn Scholars Program and talk about his son, the late newspaper editor Chips Quinn. And he will recite “John C. Quinn’s Ten Commandments,” which include being on time, paying attention and taking notes and working seriously but never taking oneself too seriously.

-- Kate Kennedy, Freedom Forum