The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California • Page 48

C.I 4 THE SUN-TELEGRAM March 19, 1978 From 'cancan to sewer lines Sm If I 'V 4 'lv I V. if s1" PLEASE CALL OR COME BY OUR LICENSED MEDICAL FACILITY 7 A.M. to 3 P.M. Pioneer Plasma Center 588 W. 6TH STREET SAN BERNARDINO 888-4174 she lacked the stamina for law school, and switched to business administration, with no particular career in mind.

A summer stint as a cancan dancer she still has the costume at Delta Village amusement park earned her extra money for college. She married her college sweetheart, Ray Forcier, after graduating from Tech and then set out to find a job. She heard there was a vacancy in Public Utilities, applied for the Job of federal grants coordinator and got it. Patsy studied every book and publication she could get her hands on to familiarize herself with federal programs and the water and sewer department. She attended classes and passed the exam to get her sludge license, qualifying her to run a sewer plant.

As federal grants coordinator, Patsy had to compete with other city departments for federal dollars. And in her soft-spoken way, she was very persuasive. "She's so disarming she's smart as she can be and pretty. The combination of brains, beauty and personality make her a per-son hard to compete against," commented Tom Bickham, administrative assistant to Mayor Calhoun Allen. Though Patsy has become most knowledgeable about the workings of city government she has no aspirations for an elective office.

"It would interfere with my home life, and I'm not willing to sacrifice my home life and the time Ray and I spend together," she said. The Forciers Ray is director of livestock and agriculture for the State Fair are "homebodies." "We enjoy each other's company Just being together," said Patsy. They do a lot of bike riding and camping. "We have a lot of fun together. We do most everything together except when I'm out with the cows she's not too partial to cows," said Ray.

And he paid his wife what could be considered the ultimate By BONNIE DAVIS Gannett Newt Service SHREVEPORT, La. Edgar Lancaster's little girl might have been a lawyer, politician or cancan dancer. Instead Patsy Forcier has a "Class 4 activated sludge license" and is up to her Farrah Fawcett-Majors hairdo with facts and figures on sewage. When it comes to talking sludge or interceptor lines or water rates, Patsy can hold her own with any of the guys in Shreveport's Public Utilities Depart-mant. At the age of 27, Patsy holds the highest position of any woman in the five departments at City Hall.

Her official title is comptroller of Public Utilities. She's also executive assistant to Commissioner Billy Guin. When Guin took over as commissioner last June, he to Patsy re-ponsiblity for all administrative and financial functions of the department. Patsy had already been tested. During some three months when Public Utilities was without a commissioner or general superintendent, she took over the day-to-day administrative duties.

As far as Guin was concerned, "she had proven her administrative ability." Patsy looks back on that period as a "growing up time for me." Scandals had shaken the department and the work load she subsequently was asked to bear "opened my eyes made me more aware of the realities of work." "I had in some ways been living in a dream world doing my Job (as federal grants coordinator), going home. There were no real pressures. I think I've matured a great deal during this year." Patsy is the middle child and only daughter of a successful lawyer and former politician. Her father served in the State House of Representatives for 16 years. As a child, Patsy often accompanied Lancaster to Baton Rouge, sitting at his side on the House floor.

She started out in pre-law at Louisiana Tech, decided Patsy Forcier complimate. "She's my best friend." The Forciers have no children. "Some day I'd like to have children when we're both ready for a child," she said. Patsy feels she has "the best of both worlds" in her career and marriage. And she remains close to her parents.

She laughed as she recalled her father's reaction to her sludge license. "That's Just what I've always wanted my daughter to be a sewer plant operator," was Lancaster's comment. "I told him it could have been worse," said Patsy. "He might have had a cancan dancer." news to use "120V-350W Japan." Persons with the Nevco pots can obtain a full refund by sending the pot to Nevco along with a statement of where it was purchased, how much it cost and, if possible, the box it came in and the sales slip. The address is Nevco, Page and Schuyler Avenues, Lyndhurst, N.J., 07071.

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