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Black Elders of Portsmouth
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Written by Valerie Cunningham
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Page 6 of 6
ROSARY COOPER ( 1913 -- 1997 )
I worked as the children's nurse for a family that owned hotels in Florida, Arizona
and Maine...traveled with them...cared for their four children. The maids and
cooks had their own cottage but I lived in the main house because I had to be
near the children. I had a nice bedroom with a sitting room. At Oqunquit, I would
take the children on picnics and to the beach. There were a lot of celebrities
around there. Bette Davis would come by-- she liked to play with the children
and make sand houses.
When I first went to the shipyard, I was a file clerk. And then they were training
the women on the cranes...you had to climb all those catwalks...l'm not going
to say I wasn't afraid, I was. But I wasn't going to give [the men] the benefit
of the doubt of knowing it. They had the wall cranes but they didn't pay as much
money as the 20 tons, so that's what I wanted. You...had three months to qualify
and...six months to make your first rating. So I kept going up until I got to
be a first mate's crane operator on the 20 ton crane. That's the one that lays
the keels for the submarines, the cradle, and the engines, torpedo tubes, anything
like that. I worked on those 110 feet in the air. So I did that during wartime.
I went to beauty school in Boston and when I finished there I worked at [a] beauty
parlor for one year. I opened my own shop and after my husband died I kept working
at that and in the house, with my tenants and everything. I had my house cut up
into apartments and two rooms over the beauty shop for single guys, but most of
them were couples from the air base and navy. At the same time, I was going to
night school, Maclntosh Business College, when they had a branch here up on State
Street. I took shorthand and typing and I got a certificate from there. I was
always taking something.
(c) Valerie Cunningham
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