Vera Doane Christen (cont)

Talking with Vera's niece and husband, Carol and Burt Basney, they said that Vera and Harvey were very involved as a team with their church, the Rose Bowl Pasadena activities and numerous organizations. Burt wrote the Christen's were active with:

"the Salvation Army, Kawanis (district director) and director of the western states for the Boy Scouts of America." Burt was also told that after WWII, the company didn't want married couples to both work for the company.
He also told another great Social Security story:

"When Social Security was enacted the gov't people came to the plant to sign up new employees. Vera and Harvey were in line together and therefore assigned sequential numbers so Vera and Harvey's social security numbers were only one number apart."