Mary's Extensive Career Resume

  • Soda Jerk at 14 years old for Dad's Sandwich Shop at Third and Southern Parkway.
  • Waitress at 16 years old for Sears Restaurant downtown at Ninth and Broadway.
  • Clerk at Newberry's 10-cent store.
  • Worked the counter, cashier, office help, and "floor lady" for Woolworth's 10-cent store on Fourth Street, where she once found a $5 bill left at the bra counter.
  • Filing clerk at Federal Land Bank.
  • Delivered telephone books.
  • Census taker.
  • Hung wallpaper for Grandpa Mack (Great granny's second husband).
  • Refereed basketball.
  • Republican party precint captain.
  • Newspaper work for National Youth Administration (NYA) at Gibbs Inman Building at Tenth and Broadway. She went all over Kentucky.
  • Assembly line work during WWII at Curtiss-Wright Aircraft. The airplanes were used in bombing missions overseas (B-52). Announced over loudspeaker that President Roosevelt had died when she was working third shift - 11pm to 7am.
  • Assembly line worker at Seagram's Distillery. Worked there when they first opened.
  • Assembly line worker for Brown-Forman Distillery.
  • Playground director for city's recreation department at Harrison and Oleanda Park near Earl Avenue.
  • Worked presses, autotype and punched holes in orders for AB Dick Printing Co.
  • Substitute teacher while working at AB Dick.
  • Graded papers for teachers.
  • Her first teaching assignment was fourth grade at Tingley Elementary. Her following assignments were Finzer, Breckinridge, Schaffner and Hazelwood. She taught mostly 5th, sometimes 4th grade. Last nine years, 1-5 math. (Total 25+ years)