by Gerry Furgason | Aug 17, 2023 | EARLY WORKING YEARS, Uncategorized
Although it would help me in later years, when Lisa saw me reach for a pencil and my yellow legal pad, her lips pursed and she said, “We don’t do it like that.” Since I looked puzzled, she continued, “We type as we write. You will get used to...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 17, 2023 | EARLY WORKING YEARS, Uncategorized
It wasn’t until later years that I realized how much the small salary I brought home every two weeks as a teenager was needed to pay family bills. Following high school classes at Presentation Academy’s Fourth and Breckenridge building, I would...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 17, 2023 | EARLY WORKING YEARS, Uncategorized
The summer after I graduated from the Eighth Grade at Holy Family School, I worked selling tickets for the Louisville, Kentucky’s Iroquois Amphitheater’s summer musical productions. The ticket office was located on Broadway in the Baldwin Piano Company near Third...