Deming High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Deming, NM)

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ay ilrieu ' 5c. He ' burger, iglmck :y really Ross May ' s busses carry 970 students a day. The School Board purchased five new 65-passenger school buses before the school year began. Ross May, bus contractor, took over Eddie Marcak ' s busses when Marcak, who had operated busses for 21 years, resigned as school bus contractor. The busses travel a little more than 1,900 miles a day and 343,080 miles during the year, transporting about 970 stu- dents a day. A number of local bus drivers attended the New Mexico Bus Drivers Institute in Silver City before the school year began. Their busses are inspected twice a year, before the school year begins and about in the middle of the school year, to check if everything is working prop- erly. The busses are also used and drivers put to work to transport students and athletes to out-of-town games and activities. Ross May I, First row: Marsha Borovina. Lucy Brdecko, Cathy Hervol. Bemie Hobbs. Second row: Domi Jones. Barbara May. Joe Anne McGee, Barbara Means. Third row: Barbara Penny, Thelma Phay, Dolores Sapien. Lynda Snow. Fourth row: Bonnie Stmson. Kenny Treadwell. Pat Wilson, Vickie Wood. 2. Busses wating for the students to get on after school is familiar scene ever dav at DHS. 197

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Grill prepares more than 300 lunches a day At 1 1 :35 when the bell rings to go to lunch, about 300 hungry DHS students rush to the grill for a nutritious lunch. For the past years there have been only four grill workers, but in the spring of the year the grill hired a new worker. Pauline Grelle. Mrs. Grelle joined Pearlie Collins, manager, Jamalee Kimler, Eugenia Lucero, and Rosa Tinney in preparing the lunches. Each worker arrives at 7:30 in the morning and leaves at 2:30, except for Mrs. Col- lins who arrives at 7:00. The workers prepare more than 300 lunches everyday. They make 35 to 40 pounds of fries a day and try to prepare enough food so that everybody has the same choice. It isn ' t always possible for the students to have the same choice because the number of students who eat at the grill varies from day to day. Students can purchase their choice of hamburgers, cheeseburgers, burritos, and other goodies, plus French fries, a milk shake or milk, for only 75C. The most popular food is the cheeseburger. The workers enjoy preparing lunch for the Wildcats, but what they really like about their job is the contact with the students. I J t l l irfl I. Pearlie Collins washes the utensils used in pre- paring the lunches. 2. Pauline Grelle wipes off counter in the cafeteria. 3. Jamalee Kimler cleans off grill after the lunches have been prepared. 4. Eugenia Lucero is busy frying French fries. 5. Rosa Tinney is busy wiping off the grill. [ 196

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Custodians needed at DHS? - are! You bet they 1 1. Don Pittman, 2. Jerry Gardner, 3. Joe Chavez. 4. Socorro Beltran, 5. Lee Hol- guin. It might be hard to imagine what DHS might look like without the work of the custodians. Suppose no one swept the halls or class rooms, emptied the waste baskets or came when emergencies arose such as clogged toilets or someone getting sick in a room. Custodians are often called over the PA system to handle such situations. But people probably see the custo- dian as a person with one job — clean- ing — but there ' s more to their job than that. They do plumbing work and elec- trical repairs, are called upon as paint- ers and are available for other chores. Lee Holguin, who was previously employed with the highway depart- ment before joining the staff at DHS, was tlie one successful candidate for the custodian job out of 100 applicants. He replaced Joe Chavez who was transferred to Smith School. When more time was required to do electrical repairs or plumbing work, the DHS custodians called in workers from the maintenance office. %. its m l k Rex Acker Angel Chavez Cruz Chavez Manuel Chavez Benny Herrera Bob Keehng Julian Vega Joseph Willey Angel Zuniga Q 198 ih)