Rich Webber
I had the opportunity of working with Oscar during his time at the wireshop at Tacoma Power. He was well liked by everyone in the wireshop. He was a crew leadman. Journeymen and apprentices all wanted an assignment on his crew. With his experience everyone knew they would learn something if they were on his crew.
Oscar was a talented electrician and mechanic. Did you know he was also a skilled artist? Yes, he was a very good cartoonist as well. He made many cartoons depicting various people in the wireshop. The only thing was, no one wanted to be in them! They always showed a situation where an embarrassing event happened. His cartoons are probably still circulating the wireshop where they tell stories to the new hires. The characters may not work there anymore but the cartoons are a learning tool for the complacent.
No one could could match Oscar's artistic abilities so a tribute to Oscar by workers in the wireshop was to put the initials "O.D." in some whimsical, obscure places such as on the slab under a several ton station transformer or on an information tag somewhere in the vast reaches of Tacoma Power.
