He was a playground supervisor.

"The question is, should we be concerned as consumers," Mrs. Borello, a playground supervisor from Redondo Beach, Calif., said later.

In Portland, Ore., teachers with years of experience took jobs as playground supervisors in city parks - positions that traditionally went to college students.

A playground supervisor is a guardian while she is on duty, acting with authority, keeping an eye out for trouble, intervening before tears or blood are shed!

"It's too, too, too hot," said Deborah Robinson, 33, a playground supervisor at Thomas Jefferson Park in East Harlem.

The playground supervisors, young widows, most of them with a too bitter knowledge of war, were urging them on.

They met in 1931 when both were employed as playground supervisors for the Berkeley Recreation Deparatment.

Immediately the playground supervisor hurried over, gathered up the kid, and rushed him toward the nurse's office.

But it is time they called it something else, so as not to have it mixed up with playground supervisors.

Retired Marine Nick Szysznyk is a playground supervisor at a Washington DC community center.