1925 - Camp School

A Goodfellow Bros. camp for workers in 1925 near Ribbon Cliff, Washington

Many of the workers on the Swakane Road Project were Italian and Greek immigrants hoping to get citizenship papers, so Jim and his brothers ran a small night school to help them study for the test. This would continue on other jobs and reflected the early commitment Goodfellow Bros. had to their people. At one point, an employee came to Jim looking for another kind of support. In his Italian accent, he asked if Jim would write a love letter to his girlfriend in Chelan. After writing several such notes, Jim figured “they must have been good,” because the man asked for a couple of days off to get married. Jim was pleased to attend the wedding. Some years later, the couple’s son would be named “top orator” at Wenatchee High School, and Jim was in the audience to watch him graduate.

From day one, those were the kinds of relationships and moments that truly mattered to Jim and his brothers. Even though they still had a lot to learn in a very challenging business, they knew people were the bottom line.

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