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Hang on, help,s on the way

W In case of a physical problem rather
as there ever a time when just some of the jobs done by the
your locker was jammed? counselors.
Were you ever starving to
death and those delicious school than a counseling related problem, the ..
lunches saved your life? Did you ever nurse was there to help. She kept her ~
need help with your schedule or from day busy doing things as keeping
tbe office? Did you ever feel as students' records, contacting parents.
though you were on the verge of to getting fingers unstuck from pop
death and just had to go home? bottles. Kathy Muehlich, school nurse.
There were always people around said. "If I started jotting things down, I
to help you. These people were the could write a book about all the things ......... .
t.a
I
custodians. cooks, counselors. aides. I have done."
secretaries, and the nurse. Everyday As you can plainly see the students
these people spent countless hours were not the only ones working in the
trying to make your day go better. school.
Making sure every inch of the Making It easier for students to keep up on
building was clean was the job of the college visits. custodians John Sprague. George
custodians. They did things ranging Osborne. and James Barton put up a bulletin
board by the 11-12 counseling center.
from unjamming lockers to vacuuming
the carpet. However, these were only
a few of fhe millions of jobs the
custodians had.
Nevertheless, the custodians were ..._
not the only ones with difficult duties.
On the average eight hundred
lunches a day were prepared by the
cooks. They also prepared an aver-
age of 270 lunches for Cottonwood
Elementary and 250 for Abbott
Elementary.
The cooks did not really notice
the number of students who did not
attend school lunches; hundreds of
absences were taken by the secretar-
ies and aides each day. They also
kept busy making out dittos, transpar-
encies, and laminations for the staff.
However, when problems arose,
helping students with their schedule,
personal problems, and deciding
future career or college plans were

Hundreds of calls for absent students were taken Helping out staff with such things as typing.
by the 9-10 secretaries Francene Watkins. Grace making dittos and transparencies was done by
Knowlton. Lorraine Chambers, and Marilyn Novak. aide Carol Solnosky , 11-12 secretary Jeri Ander-
son . and aide Jean Griencewic.

7 6 Supportive staff