Show Year Old Girl Subs on onT Telephone T Switchboard SCHENECTADY N. N Y E Eight Eight Eight- year old ld Nancy Na cy Jean Inn Cullings wont won't have to worry about getting a job when whan she grows up For more than a n year she he has I been keeping the wire humming for forthe forthe I the South Mariaville-South Schenectady Telephone company and its sub sub- subI I scribers I Not of full time of course but in the role of relief operator she I sometimes sits in for as much as an anI I hour or two a day I Her first chance to fill in at the board came quite by chance Her mother was busy elsewhere one day when the board buzzed and Nancy beat her to the connections While her mother looked on in surprise Nancy who was then only seven completed the call like a veteran Since then she's been on her own handling long-distance long as well as lo local lo- lo local local cal calls Her longest completed call of which she is extremely proud was one to Cleveland Nancy has a year old sister Joanne who is also an operator and a brother Clyde Jr JI 9 who not only operates the switchboard but has become a talented P pole le climber Clyde Jr learned his telephoning when a boy of five He palled around with his grandfather the late C C. C A A. A Cullings who founded the company company any |