Joseph Odonnell:  

After graduating from Dougherty is 1963, I went to La Salle and graduated in 1967. I also got married in August of 1967. My first job was as a Math teacher at Cardinal Dougherty. Since my intial starting pay was $4,800 per year, I needed a second income. I started working for the Philadelphia Department of Recreation at Lawncrest at Rising Sun and Comly Avenues. Although my yearly salary at CD jumped to $5,200 my second year teaching, I still had to augment my income by working 40 hours a week a Felton Recreation Center at B and Wyoming Avenues. Since I was rarley home and my wife was pregnant with our second child, I decided that I needed a job that I could be home more often to try to understand how my wife kept getting pregnant. ( That was a joke ) I interviewed and was awarded a job as a management trainee at the Budd Company on Hunting Part Ave. During my 18 years there, we had our third child, I was " Mr.Little League", we raised the kids in the Huntington Valley area, I took up tennis ( since it became very difficult to get up a football game on Saturday or Sunday mornings) , I was married until 1981. I had sole custody of my three children for several months while my former wife " found herself ". After quite a few months, we stated sharing the kids. At first weekly then monthly. The arrangement worked out very well and gave me a shot at a second childhood at 37 years of age. The next couple years were great, between raising the kids, dating, and traveling during the months when I didn't have the kids...Expand for more