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Translating for D. W. Onan and Sons
I did part time work while at Mac as a translator for D. W. Onan and Sons in Minneapolis in ’55 and ’56. Besides doing Training Manuals from English to Spanish, I translated order letters in various languages from European countries. Dr. Mousolite, Chair of the Spanish Department, gave me four credits of “A” in Spanish after taking one examination, which I passed easily.
Samuel Baez
My first job at Yellowstone
I wish that I could once more personally meet up with Judy Chalberg ’56, one of my dorm mates at Bigelow Hall, and thank her for influencing me to get my first job at Yellowstone. It led me to three summers of wonderful experiences, meeting and making friends with people from all over the world, learning a good work ethic and meeting my first husband who was from Kentucky.
Alice Presbey Heath Williamson
Working for the Alumni Office
Fifty years ago, only two people ran the Alumni Office—Alumni Director A. Phillips Beedon, who also taught Journalism, and his secretary Maren Newell. All the chump work was delegated to students like me who had work contracts to fulfill. The office was located in a suite of two small rooms across the hall from the stage area of the Student Union. Obviously we didn’t do as much then as the staff today does! Since we didn’t have computers then, all of the addresses of graduates were kept in a wooden card file similar to the library’s. My usual tasks involved updating these cards and then going into a dungeon room beneath the main office in Old Main and making the changes on the ancient Addressograph machine kept there. Each address was embossed on a metal plate similar to a dog tag, which I could then run through a printing process to stamp on envelopes. Really low-tech but better than handwriting each one! By the time my four years were finished, I was familiar with the names of all of Mac’s graduates.
Carol Smythe McClellan
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