Mr. Curtis began his career with the Hingham Municipal Lighting Plant in 1941. He began his career as a grunt and digging pole holes. Despite his tedious and hard work; punishing New England weather and other adversities he was confronted with, he always pressed forward with stamina and determination. At some time after WW2, he became part of the line department. Starting out as an apprentice, he soon made his way to a first-class lineman. He had an adoration for historic artifacts related to the community as well as those of the Light Plant. His favorite was glass insulators. There was a great variety of "signal" styles upon the town's electrical system, many of them carried over from when the town purchased the entire electric plant from the Weymouth Light and Power Company in 1894. Among the interesting glass insulators used throughout the town were CD 134.4s, Diamond-Ps, CD 134, CD 162 and CD 164 Brookfields and others. By the teens porcelain "hat" style insulators were the rule, in the medium to deep wire groove varieties. Glass insulators still were used; but only for identifying series street lighting circuits. Other installations of (used) glass insulators within the system were during material shortage eras; notably the WW1, Great Depression, WW2 and Korean War years. These were mixed in with other porcelain pintype styles since whatever was on hand was saved, reclaimed and reused during those difficult and expensive years.

Mr. Curtis became General Manager of the Hingham Lighting Plant in 1957 and retired in 1981. He was a Registered Professional Engineer; old-school from head-to-toe and was a very proud man through every moment of his career for the town. He was a Hingham native and just about all of the old-timers knew him. He was genuine and adored with high respect by the Light Plant's customers from one end of town to the other.

This is a photo of Clyde proudly standing in front of the Light Plant's Garage and Operations Center at 308 Cushing Street, Hingham, MA, in 1971.