Palaski College No. 8 in Passaic NJ, in early 60’s was a different time. You must be at least in the 4th grade and our ranks had 18 Patrol Children, two Sgt, one Lt, One Capt and a Key, who manned the sides of urban Passaic in water, snow, sleet, hail. The Officers, Primary, Leader, Lieutenant and Sergeants had orange belts to distinguish them and needed to be 5th graders (the highest rank within our school) and their work was to check most of the other threads to ensure we are there and doing our job. We also had a Quartermaster who took care of the apparatus, rain equipment, banners, etc. He’d the standard typical tasks and had a silver Patrolman badge BUT he wore an orange Officers belt and was consider an official
I don’t know if this is special to NJ, but we’d a “Chief” as well as the other officers and whomever was Primary ensured one other officers did their job. It had been a REAL cycle of order! We use to be on trips particularly for the patrol boys.The different Passaic school badges we met on the visits had Patrol kids and THEY also had a Chief. The Patrol Children were huge back then, also the Catholic Colleges had Patrol Boys. Though we could have, we didn’t have women back then and I can’t recall if our badges said “School Safety Patrol” or “College Boy Patrol” but we called ourselves “Patrol Boys” ;.
On bad temperature times we came in early and got the yellow raincoats and caps and went out to our specified corners (up to 9-10 prevents away) very nearly up to the old Passaic Large School. The raincoats and caps advised me of the old sailors raingear. A “Maggie May” cap which was like a down made Sailor hat and the raincoart was long and bulky. Would you imagine nowadays? A fourth grader standing in the center of the streets in Passaic, with their right back turned to traffic and ending vehicles!! No signals, number uniform only a white gear across your chest gave you the authority to control traffic and people compensated attention. We were the first ones up and prepared and the last to get house after school. By the end of the shift once the college bell phoned each day, the Patrol Boy closest to the school yelled down the block, “DISMISSED” and each place could exchange and shout it down to the next until it reached the furthest corner. Several years later while operating home from the revenue call I seen the “DISMISSED” being yelled out and it produced a smile to my face. When I bothered to appear about, I saw these small kids with lemon (ours were white) devices with badges making their assigned posts. I believed, were WE that small to own this type of obligation? I couldn’t think we did that at therefore young an age. I recall being the biggest kid around!!!!!
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