Page 120 - 1996.Milard.North
P. 120

School  Board


                                                                                                                    Keith  Lutz
                                                                                                                      Interim
                                                                                                                  Superintendent
                -       In honor of Red Ribbon Week,  the Dru g Free Team prov ided a breakfast for staff .
                Counselor Gene Moneke and Assistant Principal Lee Galloway ta ke time out of th eir day to
                enjoy  it.  photo by Linda Carey




                                                                                            ......_
                                                                                 Elai ne Lamberty
                                                                                    President                         Secretary
                                                                                                    Jay Matzke
                                                                                                   Vice  President






                                                                                    Cliff  Herd                   Kathleen Schmidt
                                                                                    Trea surer
                                                                                                 Mary Beth  Heavrin



                                 Along with ex-                             njoyable Job



                             periencing all of

                                                                        M any  students         Even with compli-  Vice  Principal  Dave
                                                                 didn't  understand  how   cated decisions  li ke  this  to   Fitzekam  said .
                                       the ups and  much  administrators  put            make every year, the admin-     But,  like  any job,
                                                                 into their jobs.  Most didn't   istrators  generally  enj oyed   it  had  its  downsides and
                                  downs of their                 get  to  look  behind the   th eir jobs.  Most agreed th at   frustrati ons.  "I hate seein g
                                                                                                                 kids getting in to trouble re-
                                                                 closed  doors  to  see what
                                                                                         the  students  were  the  best
                                                                 th ey th ought about and did.   part ofth e job. "I reall y like   peatedl y and not bein g able
                                                                        Among  all  of the
                                  jobs, adminis-                 demands  on  them,  admin-  bein g in  the school and ac-  to  do  anything  to  he lp
                                                                                         tually  working  with  the
                                                                                                                 th em,"  Bagley said.
                                                                 istrators were faced with at   kids," Bagley said .   Oth er administrators
                                                                 least one new challenge thi s   Principal  Ike  Pane  agreed.  " It  is very fr ustrat-
                                       trators took              year.  They  had  been  di s-  agreed.  "Kids woul d  defi-  in g  working with  kids that
                                                                 cussin g the possibility of an   nitely  have to  be  the  best   just aren't goin g to change,"
                                                                 eight period day.       part of the job. I love work-  Fitzekam said.
                                                 time to         siderati on  the  effects  the   the best kind of peopl e.  It's   to ease the  load on the  ad-
                                                                                         in g with people and kids are
                                                                                                                      One thing th at helped
                                                                      They  took into  con-
                                                                 pl an may  have on students   also great havin g gradu::ltes   ministrators was coopera-
                                             focus on            and  teachers.  "We  have   come back to visit and talk,"   ti on from  parents  and  stu-
                                                                                                                  dents.  "Many people seem
                                                                 been  meeting  with people
                                                                                         Pane said.
                                                                 and getting input from them   "It's  great  to  see th e   to think we get some resis-
                                                                 so that  we can  focus  on   kids  coming  around and   tance fro m  parents.  How-
                                     students and  what  is  best  fo r  Millard         making  a  lot  of progress,"  ever, I have actu all y gotten
                                                                 North 's students and teach-  "We  can focus     a  lot of cooperati on  from
                                                                 ers," Assistant Principal                        both  parents and  students."
                                            teachers.  Sandra Bagley  said .               on what is  best       Bagley said . •
                                                                                            for MN's stu-
                                                                                              dents and
                                                                                              teachers. "
                                                                                            by Trisha Coan &
                            Academics                                                         Liz Spargen
   115   116   117   118   119   120   121   122   123   124   125