Vivian Ann Royal does nothing average, including how long she works for one company.
The average American employee works no more than five years for one company and changes employers about 12 times in their lifetime, according to the 2019 Bureau of Labor Statistics. Royal stomped on that average working at Nippon Electric Glass, formerly Pittsburgh Plate Glass, for 48 1/2 years before retiring March 1.
At the urging of her sister, Mary Lee Reid, the Lexington native applied and was hired to work at the fiberglass manufacturer in August 1972. She was only 17 when she began, not turning 18 until September.
Royal had dreamed of going to college and becoming a math teacher. Her reality was she had two young daughters, Toni and Tina Royal, to raise she said, and she needed a new car. The pay at other jobs in the area couldn t compete with the then $2.97 per hour PPG would pay her, and she quickly got a raise to $3.02 per hour. Royal s salary was approximately $25 per hour when
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Eleanor “Sandy” Torrey West, once owner and always champion of Ossabaw Island, died Sunday in the early hours of her 108th birthday.
Her grandson and a member of the Ossabaw Island Foundation board, Beryl Gilothwest, confirmed her death Sunday as did Elizabeth DuBose, executive director of the Ossabaw Island Foundation. It is hard to imagine that the death of someone at age 108 is surprising, but we are in shock over the loss of our visionary and friend, DuBose wrote in a prepared statement. Ossabaw Island as we know it exists because of Mrs. West, and Georgia is a better place because of her life’s work.
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A Very Short History of Pittsburgh
For Pittsburgh, geography and geology have been destiny. August 25, 2008
Geography comes first. Close upon the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, one gets a sense of westward flowing waters, but a map of Western Pennsylvania shows the Allegheny flowing south and the Monongahela north, almost at right angles to the Ohio.
A fourth river, the Potomac, comes into play by bringing the coast of Virginia close to the Monongahela and allowing for some tough navigation to connect Pittsburgh with the Atlantic Ocean. Lastly the mountains. The western slope of the Alleghenies lies some 40 miles from the Point. From there, it’s a straight 1,500-mile shot to the Rockies. Pittsburgh not only faces but opens the great heartland of America. Before the canals and railroads, the Ohio and Mississippi river systems were the interstate highways of their day.