My Dad became foreman of the letter carriers around this time. My Dad always smelled outdoorsy and his skin from constant exposure to the sun was well tanned and ruddy looking. He much preferred steady Government work to the better paying brick laying. He was a worrier, who was always afraid of being cast back to his impoverished childhood. He also worked as a janitor at Meadowbrook Elementary School. He would work a 6am to 3pm shift at the "PO", and then go to the school and work another 3 1/2 hours there. He did this 5 days a week, every week from 1954 till my Mom's death in 1966. The truth is, if he wasn't working, he was feeling guilty about not working. This successful strategy got him out of the orphanage and off the north-side streets during the Great Depression. This strategy also gave him ulcers, and shortened his life.
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