Calvin Jefferies

Born on farm in Whitesville, North Carolina, Calvin came to Trenton in the 1940s where he still resides with Maggie, his wife of 57 years.

On working in the flat shop as a new employee: Well, when I went to work there during the war, I was very new; I had never worked in a large plant before. It was very strange. I was able to do whatever I was assigned to do with no problems. I found no difficulty whatsoever. If there was something that needed to be done, we were asked to do it and we did it.

On after work activities: During the week when you weren't working, sometimes you'd have a swing shift, you could always go to church, for consolation, to hear the good news. That's always been a strength to me.

On the end of WW II: I was home one day and I heard all this noise out in the street. Everybody was running and they said the war had ceased. You couldn't get downtown there were so many people. And after that, I came on back to Roebling and I started working. About a week and a half later, they called a lot of the employees and said since the war had ceased they would not be needing the younger employees any more. So I was one of those that had to go. And I tell you, I almost cried when I left Roebling because it was a nice place to work. A pretty nice place to work.