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Broadway has solid link to Little Falls class, and she says the area was a great place Denise Gregorka grew up to grow up in. “You never in Oppenheim, and her felt like you were a little father was a technician nobody in the great and an incredible scheme of things because mechanic. One of his you were in a much loves was vintage cars, smaller environment.” and there were plenty of those around for her to Gregorka was involved fall in love with. in every school sport and the typical art things “He instilled that same and wasn’t interested in love in his kids for vintage cameras because of the things, which spilled into high equipment cost and what I love now, which is the film. vintage things. I used to help him paint his cars, “We didn’t have much in and I helped him paint the way of plays or shows my first car,” she said. that many schools put on because of our size,” she There were only 32 stated. graduates in her senior by Dave Warner
She couldn’t find anything that she was that interested in going to college for, but she wanted to be a State Trooper. “I put that in the back of my mind and didn’t pursue anything heavy-duty.” However, when she was twenty, she got a job at Coleco Industries as a quality control inspector. “I was so good at the job that I would shut down huge production lines. They were putting out thousands of things a day. At the time, it was the Colecovision video games.”
“They loved me because I found the flaw, and the game wouldn’t have worked properly if I hadn’t found it. It was a love/ hate thing,” Gregorka said. She moved up to a supervisor position where she had more than 150
employees working for her. “It was high-volume production of 80,000 video games per day.” Gregorka did that for several years, moving around to other job positions within the Please See LINK Page 3
United Nations ‘International Year of Glass’ has roots in Little Falls by Dave Warner
David Pye in his workshop at Spruce Lake, choosing his next piece of glass to work with.
Denise Gregorka stands before a sketch by Carrie Robbins from Irving Berlin’s White Christmas.
You may not know it, but this year is the International Year of Glass, and the story behind how that happened, begins at Spruce Lake, which is technically Salisbury, but
which has a Little Falls mailing address.
On May 18, 2021, the United Nations General Assembly formally approved a resolution declaring the year 2022 “The International Year of Glass.” This is a
seminal and celebratory moment for the global glass community. It is noteworthy that this is the first time that the United Nations has accorded such recognition to a specific material and represents an Please See GLASS Page 2
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