Navajo Nation Memories
I just read your article in the January 2025 issue, “IBEW Volunteers Light Up Navajo Nation.” (See accompanying photos from that article.)
It brought back memories. In 1962-1965 I was an inside wireman apprentice working for Reynolds Electrical & Engineering Co. out of Albuquerque, N.M., Local 611.
Reynolds had a line crew along with inside wiremen.
I think it was in 1963 that I was assigned to a line crew that installed pole line work on the Navajo Reservation outside Window Rock, Ariz. At that time, the reservation did not have any electricity. I am not sure what happened after we installed the electrical pole lines.
After completing my apprenticeship and becoming a journeyman electrician, I moved to San Diego in 1967, where I worked out of Local 569 until retiring.
Thanks for bringing back those memories.
Rich Bauer
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