My dad’s first job out of high school

My dad’s first job out of high school

My father graduated from Wilson High School in Long Beach, Califoria. I think he graduated in the class of 1932. The country was still mired in the Great Depression. Work was very hard to find, so he signed up for the crew of the Grace Line freighter, Santa Cecilia, bound from the west coast down through the Panama Canal and then up to New York. According to an entry in Wikipedia, the ship was built in 1913, the same year my dad was born. It was…