June Parks:  

I was born in Kittery Maine and raised in South Portland until my family moved to Tucson, AZ in 1977. I lived at 30 Pillsbury St. Next to the SPFD and attended Dora L Small School. From there to Mahoney Jr.High. I added my profile to SPHS because there was no listing for Mahoney. Although I didn't attend, I remembered so many friends I grew up with, and have always considered South Portland my true home, and miss it dearly to this day. Funny thing though, I stayed here when the rest of my family shortly moved back to Maine and Massachusetts. Only my brother Arthur and I remained. I was in love, and he lived on our couch for 6 months. After moving to Tucson I attended Flowing Wells High School. I continued to play basketball there until junior year when family circumstances made me leave. From there I got my GED and received an associate degree from Pima Community College. Loved learning so much, I became a "professional student" for many years while working full time. I worked for a local veterinarian for awhile, then worked as a car-hop and cook at the infamous Frontier Drive-In here in Tucson. Home of the root beer float....( No roller skates! Thank god) Next job was at University Medical Center in the Patient Nutrition Dept. Next up, I began my long career working for the City of Tucson as a custodian at CIty Hall for Mayor and Council. After 9 years I transferred to water meter reading for 6 years. Great exercise, lots of wildlife encounters (even rattle snakes, scorpians, killer bees and tarantulas!, to name the less favorable ones) The desert sun is killer here. Especially for this East Coast girl! Next up I applied to City Court in the records section, and then promoted to calendaring the judges and country's . From there I became a Supervisor in Judicial Section which entailed training and assigning bailiffs to cover all types of judicial proceedings from arraignment to jury trials. Developed procedures, wrote evaluati...Expand for more