This is a reprint and an amended post regarding my "First Probation Officer Badge."
I purchased it from H. Buchlien & Son in Newark, N.J. and I believe it cost me $12.00. Of course that was a long time ago - 1965 or 55 YEARS AGO.
I got it in late July 1965 following my appointment as a "County Probation Officer." That was just a few days after graduating from Bloomfield College.
During my college years I thought I would go into education. My father sure let me know "not to go near a police, or other, job in law enforcement." But the starting salary of $6200 was too much to turn down.
Thirty years after taking that job I found myself settled in as Chief PO, albeit in another County. Now that was something I could have never dreamed of, but luck shined on me. I hung on as Chief for five years.
Now holding that first badge brings me back, would you believe, fifty-five years. There sure are a ton of memories over that time, and they all seems like yesterday. That is Okay because Memories are what I am collecting, and Posting on this Blog.
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