Grady High School - Encore Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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, , Y ++- 4- r ' Q f 5 5 by Donald Higgins lt was a bright December day as I and many other Grady workers alighted from the Sea Beach express on our way to work. Since we arrived at 8:30 A.lVl., a mere fifteen minutes late, we stayed around for a few minutes more before entering the factory. Then we started to go to our first of nine jobs. Everything ran smoothfy for us, but the supervisor had a little trouble getting his demonstration working. After struggling with it for many minutes, he finally admitted defeat in a few hundred words, saying, lVlany experiments don't work the first time but they lay the groundwork for future experiments. At the sound of the alarm, we reported to our next job. Here we saw a scholarly looking gentleman with glasses and a brief case rush into the room. He placed his brief case on the desk and rapped the desk three times. Immediately following these blasts, a sudden air of quiet blanketed the room and everyone was seated in his place with his mouth closed. The supervisor then opened his checkbook, at the same time uttering these immortal lines, 'tVllill anyone who is absent please stand? After a slight pause he added, l'm glad to see that all of you are wide awake and have your notebooks open. This job is our favorite, since our foreman constantly drops pearls 46 4P. f 55'

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' 1 iff e ' ' ff? rf ff' mf : 4 'll ll l of wisdom for us to absorb as we work. We often start talking about some current topic, but the supervisor stops this by saying, We could discuss this interesting topic all year but we must go on with our work. While proceeding to our fourth and fifth jobs, we electricians met a group of commercial artists. We love all our fellow workers, of course. Therefore it must be just an accident that every time our wires and their cans of paint meet face to face the result is insulation of turpentine all over the floor. By good clean living and a lot of luck, we survived a brief twenty-five minute talk by the supervisors. Then we started to work feverishly. Our job consisted of winding thin wire around a circular piece of metal with many slots and grooves in it. The workers were deeply engrossed in their task until the whistle blew for clean up. ln this process, four workers man one broom with a broken handle and a brush. With this equipment, they are supposed to clean 900 square feet. Mother's littie helpers, we electricians! From this job we went to lunch at loe's Cafeteria where the workers go to feed both their stomachs and the juke box. One-twenty crept up fast and it was time to report to our afternoon job, in a factory room commonly referred to as Draft Board 431. Here we planned our Annual Report and studied English and personality problems. All the workers unanimously agreed that one year's study of personality problems qualifies a worker for the position of moderator of the J. J. Anthony show or supervisor in charge of personnel. At the Grady plant the alarm ended this job promptly with the supervisor frantically pointing to the board and pleading with us to copy our extra-curricular job. A short time later the factory whistle blew and so did wel 47