{"id":7281,"date":"2017-03-10T00:19:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T05:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/?p=7281"},"modified":"2017-03-10T00:19:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T05:19:22","slug":"about-that-student-who-toured-the-blast-furnace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2017\/03\/10\/about-that-student-who-toured-the-blast-furnace\/","title":{"rendered":"About that student who toured the blast furnace …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lucille <\/a>
Lucille in 1957. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Lucille <\/a>
Lucille in June 2013. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\nShortly after posting last week\u2019s story<\/a> about a high school student\u2019s tour of a local blast furnace in 1957, we received a note from John Schalcosky, founder of the popular Facebook page, “The Odd, Mysterious & Fascinating History of Pittsburgh<\/a>.” We had asked readers to help us locate the student, and John had some news for us.<\/p>\n

The student was a Stowe High School freshman named Lucille Keitz, and the post included some stunning pictures of her standing among the massive stoves of the Pittsburgh Coke and Chemical Co.\u2019s facilities on Neville Island.<\/p>\n

John had located Lucille\u2019s daughter, Karen Rogers Griffith, who lives in Massachusetts. So we reached out to Karen and sent her a link to the post so she could see the pictures of her mother.<\/p>\n

\u201cWOW?\u201d Karen responded via Facebook. \u201cWe always knew she was ahead of her times, but I had no idea this ever happened!\u201d<\/p>\n

Sadly, Lucille died suddenly and unexpectedly in December 2013, Karen wrote.<\/p>\n

Karen then told us a bit about her mother.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter graduating from Stowe High School, my mom went on to study at Penn State University. She worked various jobs after college, including testing ketchup at H.J. Heinz Co.
\nShe married our father (Paul Rogers) in 1969 and moved to the Boston suburbs. She had three children — a son and two daughters — and was a busy stay-at-home mom through the 70\u2019s and 80\u2019s. After putting all three of us through college, she then went back to work, as an office manager at an alcoholic beverage magazine in Boston.”<\/p>\n

Lucille maintained her connections to Pittsburgh, and the family often made summer visits to the city to visit Lucille’s father. \u201cWe loved traveling there and spending time exploring the incline and going to Pirates games at Three Rivers Stadium,” Karen wrote. “Although mom moved to ‘Patriots Nation,’ she stayed a Steelers fan at heart! It was always a fun time seeing her tease my dad during football season.\u201d<\/p>\n

Karen sent us a picture of her mother. It was shot at Karen’s wedding in June 2013. Lucille, Karen said, \u201cwas known for her laugh and her smile and her optimistic view on life. She was smart and curious about learning new things.\u201d
\n
\n— Steve Mellon<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A reader helped us find the young woman who took a stunning field trip in 1957.<\/p>\n

Look at the picturesAbout that student who toured the blast furnace …<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[946],"tags":[961,983,1034,1036],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Lucille.jpg?fit=1200%2C1030&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7265,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2017\/03\/03\/lucilles-big-day-at-a-blast-furnace\/","url_meta":{"origin":7281,"position":0},"title":"Lucille’s big day at a blast furnace","date":"March 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"A high school freshman got an amazing tour in 1957. 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