Mavis Beacon is a successful, educated black woman who has taken her teaching career to another level. She&rsquo;s the star of Mindscapes&rsquo; popular software, &ldquo;<em>Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing</em>.&rdquo; Mavis has been teaching typing for eleven years. This African-American woman on the software box certainly attracts attention. She has her own web site as well as a philanthropic program called &ldquo;<em>Mavis Cares</em>&rdquo; that donates software to nonprofit organizations specializing in job-training skills. She also gets a lot of mail and requests for speaking engagements. People call her for interviews and ask where she&rsquo;s teaching these days. The only problem is... she&rsquo;s fictional. Mavis is purely a digital creation. Box promotions featured the United Negro College Fund slogan &ldquo;<em>The mind is a terrible thing to waste</em>.&rdquo;