Sadly, Switken Packs Up, Leaves Broward Job She Loved  September
21, 1987|By SCOTT A. ZAMOST, Staff Writer  In her final moments
as Broward County`s tourism director, June Switken glanced
around her office. She had stuffed all her plaques and personal
items into cardboard boxes strewn on the floor.  Now it was time
to go.  Her desk emptied, the white walls around her bare, there
was no chance that she would change her mind.  Was she acting
too quickly? Why end a six-year career with the Tourist
Development Council, the last three as director, so abruptly?
It was shortly after 6 p.m. on Tuesday. More than an hour
before, Switken had called council staff member Rosetta Williams
to pick her up at her nearby home in Fort Lauderdale. She wanted
out, and quickly.  The two of them gathered Switken`s belongings
and loaded the sagging boxes into the back of a county car.
Several copies of the council`s pink and gray poster stuck out
the back. It pictured a sailboat amid waterfront homes. Switken
liked that poster; sh