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My work at the Clean Air Council
By Lynda Appell
Must have done something right since I received the "Worker of the Year" award where I worked. It was the Clean Air Council. It was the late 70s. A few years earlier I moved from the Mainline suburbs to the Center City section of Philadelphia, PA. Brief basic background: For some years previously I've been keenly interested in the importance of the environment. I believed and still do that the air we breath, the water we drink, wash, swim etc, affects us all.
No matter if your rich or poor, what your ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender etc everyone of us are part of our ecology. Even the polluters are too. So with those thoughts in mind I applied for the Clean Air Council. I got the position to be an office assistent. My responsibilities were basically to help out the executives in their duties to fight pollution. It was basically office work such as reception duties, filing, information retrieval and more. The CAC is an organization whose main goal is clearly clean air. They help support this ideal with information.
They deal with making air cleaner for the general environmental surroundings, indoor and outdoor air, toxins, energy sources, transporation etc. For more information and the latest updates go to the link below. I still remember one blistery winter day I showed up, dressed for the weather. It was the beginning of a new day. Then a few minutes later, the then executive director entered. His first name was Joseph. Everybody called him Joe. He looks something like the Apple commercial (Microsoft), Daily Show regular, author John Hodges. I don't want to give his surname for privacy. Even though I don't believe I'm writing anything scandelous.
So beside his business suit and tie, he's wearing a rather thin windbreaker. So I question him. Don't recall the exact words They were something like "Arn't you cold with only a windbreaker. He responds by saying in a mock ultra dramatic way, "I'm wearing a windbreaker because that's the MANLY thing to do. Well I politely agreed and went on with my duties. Then when I got home I told one of my feminist women friends. Her response I'd wear a warm coat because that's the WOMANLY, Sensible thing to do. She sure showed him. By the way I never told him what she said. It was Jean and I little secret. I enjoyed my time with the Clean Air Council and I am pleased and proud I was a part of it. I felt my efforts made a difference helping the CAC promote clean air.
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