Saturday, January 6, 2018

1974 LEWES FIREGIRL ETHEL PRIDE.



21 YEAR OLD ETHEL PRIDE
1974 LEWES FIREGIRL



Ethel Pride, age 21, is the only woman in the 54 member Lewes Volunteer Fire Company and says
“it's just something that I have always wanted o do and has nothing to do with woman's liberation
movement. “ She has proven herself to the other members that she can handle the task assigned
her. A long time family friend, Scott Pierce, was her sponsor. In her family, her father, George
Pride, an uncle and his son, the Henry Baymun's, are members of long standing. Her younger
brother, Bily, now in the Army, was a junior member while in high school.

June 16th she passed her Firemanship I and II courses that are required and fully learn “the ropes”.
She does not pay attention to the men's language while in the midst of a fire, they apologize later.

Since she joined last September she has attended 73 fires, that's better that 80 % attendance.

Miss Pride is a manager of the Lewes Diary Market and lived only a few doors from the fire house
and sually is 'on time' when the call comes.

Ether is also a qualified ambulance driver by the stare of Delaware, however, works mostly as an
attendant.




Abstract from Salisbury Daily Times, 14 July 1974, by Harrison H. January 6, 2018.   

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