Meet Joan Stewart, 23

She Is A Claims Representative for the Social Security Administration She Likes to Paint She Can Read 2500 Words a minute.

Watching Joan's hand fly over the pages (her hand acts as a pacer) you can't believe that she's actually reading. She must be skimming.

But she's not.

The first time Joan read "War and Peace," it took weeks. The second time, one night. At work, she feels that she has gained half an hour for each hour's reading.

Moreover, she can comprehend and recall what she's read--right down to the particulars.

Joan is not unusual. Nor does she naturally read so fast. She learned this revolutionary technique of rapid reading at the Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics Institute . . . along with more than 6,000 other persons in the Boston and Providence Area.

She was one of our better students. She started the course at about 570 words a minute, and increased her rate in some material 20 times. Our average student begins at about 300 words a minute and finishes at speeds over 1200 words a minute.

You can do this, too.

Reading Dynamics students often say that reading dynamically has made them want to read so much more. One has no sense of reading words. In Joan's words, "It's fantastic. You can hardly believe what your mind can do until you prove it to yourself. I think everyone should take this course."

You may not learn to read quite as fast as Joan (and then again you might!), but the nationally known Reading Dynamics Institute guarantees that you will receive a full tuition refund if you do not at least triple your reading efficiency with good comprehension.

Just to show you that Joan is not unique, here are typical samples of progress in words per minute by Reading Dynamics graduates in the Boston and Providence Area.

Utah schoolteacher discovers technique of dynamic reading.

Evelyn Wood first observed dynamic reading 18 years ago when a professor at the University of Utah read her term paper at an amazing 6000 words a minute. Mrs. Wood's curiosity caused her to look for other exceptional readers, and over the next few years she found 50 people who could read faster than 1500 words per minute with fine comprehension, outstanding recall and great reading satisfaction.

She was now sure it was possible to read faster than anyone had thought, but the question of how was not yet answered. It took 8 years of toil and research, working with naturally fast readers before she began to find the answers. Eventually she developed a technique whereby the average student was able to learn to read 3 to 10 times faster.

She taught her method at the University of Utah for three years, refining it even more. Further studies were conducted at the University of Delaware, and the first Reading Dynamics Institute was opened in Washington, D.C., in September, 1959. Since that time, institutes have been opened in 61 cities throughout the country, and national enrollment for the course has topped 400,000.

Comprehension is stressed.

At a recent teacher training conference, Mrs. Wood emphasized that dynamic reading is nothing like the skimming techniques commonly used in speed reading courses. She said, "Skipping words is dangerous, as you don't know whether or not you have skipped a word which could change the whole meaning of the sentence."

"You read five times faster," she pointed out, "not by reading every fifth word, but by reading five times as many words in the same amount of time." Mrs. Wood emphasized that using her technique of rapid reading, every word on the page is noted.

No mechanical pacers.

She was also critical of reading courses that use a mechanical pacer, as students tend to revert to previous reading speeds once the pacer is not there to help them. When reading dynamically, the reader's hand is used as a pacer. Improvement by typical graduates In words per minute.** BOSTON AND PROVIDENCE Name Occupation  Easy Beg.  Easy End.  Dif. Beg.  Dif. End. Ackley, Frederick, Minister  467  1491  317  1112 Barry, Louise, Housewife  406  1392  433  1240 Bellin, Steven, Student  404  1015  406  2112 Cagle, Ralph, Graduate Student  672  1500  464  1584 Cembrola, Joe, Student  336  1120  257  900 Demers, Paula, Student  384  1015  320  960 Entwistle, Joan, Teacher  365  1160  290  1680 Fournier, Eva, Housewife  600  1305  310  960 Furman, Ruth, Student  358  1228  276  1440 Garant, Simone, Reg. Rep.  336  3120  290  912 Gilbane, Richard, Student  384  1500  363  1486 Gomez, Richard, Student  384  1160  293  1050 Powell, Steve, Student  400  816  292  1450 Rudd, Herbert, Constructor wkr.  316  864  252  1740 Schwartz, Stuart, Staff eng.  464  1152  290  638 Smith, Ellen, Cashier  284  1680  156  1450 Stewart, Robert, Student  293  880  208  769 Tracey, William, Self-employed  336  1760  285  1044 Viens, Dean, Student  317  1760  290  1044 Bergman, David, Student  545  1824  522  1856 Burrowes, Susan, Social worker  600  1250  522  1015 Babb, Joane, Teacher  317  1790  252  2021 Bowler, William, Student  268  1240  232  1000 Clark, Joyce, Student  341  2260  275  2000 Casey, Virginia, Typist  365  720  319  870-

**These are test rates only. The average student reads 1 1/2 to 3 times faster than his ending test rates

**These are test rates only. The average student reads 1 1/2 to 3 times faster than his ending test rates