In a world of instant messages, text messages and e-mail, the art of cursive writing is alive and well for Suzanne Herring Bartek ’66, an elementary special ed teacher who won the Fort Worth Star-Telegram cursive writing contest in June. She told the big daily that she had TCU to thank for her skilled penmanship.

“I did it just for fun, and it was very shocking to find out that I’d won,” said Bartek, who won a Waterman pen for her artistic efforts.

Bartek honed her cursive skills as an education major at TCU, specifically one course where they went through different state-adopted handwriting texts. “I found that I could copy the cursive that was in those texts and make mine look just like theirs,” she said. “Of course the more you practice, the better you get.”