Tempe High School Class of 1969

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Tempe High School Class of 1969 - First Job

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Body:	<i>An early job - My brother Ray and I got into a Maricopa County summer work program, I think roughly around my freshman year. A bus would pick us up at various points beginning in Mesa, Tempe, and then into South Phoenix and central Phoenix picking up more guys till the bus was full, and then we headed north on I-17 to the (now) site of the Ben Avery Shooting facility near Lake Pleasant. At that time it was just desert. Our job was to clear the desert of boulders, brush, cactus, etc. to prepare for the building of the shooting range. June and July, so the heat required that we wear hat, kerchief, long-shirt and pants, sturdy boots, gloves, so as not to die of heat stroke. Very strict rules on getting water at least every 45 minutes or so. We used shovels, rakes, wheel barrows, etc. Still recall the sore muscles, blisters, sand in the eyes, etc. For five hours work a day (not including transportation time), we earned $4.38 per day (a number obviously seared into my memory). On the last day of the program, we all got to swim at a public pool in Phoenix. The supervisors called a few of us aside and asked if the next year we'd be interested in being 'straw bosses' to help supervise the next summer's workers. Uh-huh, I said. Mmm-hmmm, I thought. Motivated me to stay in school....</i> *
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