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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