Blair County PA Archives News.....Mary Lindsey Gets Vail Award June 6, 1929
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The Patton Courier: (Patton, Cambria Co., Pa.) June 6, 1929
In recognition of her heroism in entering a burning central office business at
Altoona on February 9, 1928, to assure herself that no telephone operators remained
at the switchboard, and to save the office records, Mary Elizabeth Lindsay, operator
in charge of the Hollidaysburg exchange of the Bell Telephone Company of
Pennsylvania, on Thursday night of last week, was awarded the Theodore N. Vail
bronze medal. The presentation was made by John P. Harris, vice president of the
company, at a dinner attended by leading citizens of Hollidaysburg and Altoona, and
prominent telephone officials. Two members of the company’s plant department,
William E. Grimm, of Altoona, and Roy W. Grassmyer, of Hollidaysburg, were awarded
certificates of honorable mention for the part they played in maintaining telephone
service in the exchange during the fire. 

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