Green Mountain High School - Ramblings Yearbook (Lakewood, CO)

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62 - Academics A Marilyn Henderson addresses the faculity at the first of the year. George Colbert listens'l to a caller. if, 9 - . wwf I 'fm 1 The faculity eats donuts supplied by Senate before a meeting with the administration. Duane Paulson looks over some papers to program on the computer,

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r i W1 2, Counselors A And SERS Staff Many problems are settled with counselors. Academic, social, personal, and other such cases are handled with a counselor. At GMHS students are lucky enough to have a counselor somewhat of their own. Counselors are assigned to stu- dents in an alphabetical order. This enables each advisor to have approximately the same number of students, so that every student may have an equal amount of time to spend with his counselor. Matt Vuxinic, GMHS advisor. Every day is different. My job is not routine, new things happen every day,', ex- pressed Vuxinic. He also stated that counselors have the responsibility of scheduling, and informing students of high school and college programs. Peer counselors are another facet of the Counseling Department. They are students who spend one class period a day second semester doing the same thing as the regular counselors. This gives students a chance to talk to someone their own age, if they are leary of talking to adults. First semester, the peer counselors went through a class with Dr. Glenda Adams and Tom Towner in preparation. They also participated in several retreats to get to know one another. The peer counselors included Andy Alexander, Lynn Elliot, Larry Eden, Radene Peterson, Chuck Reid, Melea Monson, Joe VanDyke, Jenny Kroll, Troy Morley, Kim Harsch, DJ Ruder, and Christine Smaldone. 41 ,lmgq rg 'THU ,, f V Academics - 61

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Administration I like the hub-bub and the turmoil. The kids either like you or they hate you, there's no passiveness here. Dr. Marilyn Henderson, GMHS principal, pointed this out, re- fering to high school as compared to junior high and ele- mentary school levels. She added that this is why she would not like to be an administrator on any other level than high school. About being an adminstrator Henderson commented laughing it has its days. More seriously she added, it is the hardest and the worst and the best job. I'm probably the only principal I know who goes home to sleep for eight hours, waiting to come back to school. She really likes GMHS and added, I come up here KGMHSI a lot just because I like to. She pointed out the Ad. Building had her out of the school a lot with other things and she would rather be at school with the students. All of you are my family. Henderson expressed her concern for the different competition GMHS enters, the disappointment if they lose and the happiness if they win. She reinforced her ideas with, I'm just like your parents, because you are my family. Concluding the interview, Henderson discussed what she would like to be when she grows up. I'd like to stay here as long as I do a good job. She describes what would heppen if she stayed too long at GMHS, adding that when it becomes too much work to make things change, it's time to leave. You get lazy if you stay too long and then it's better to leave. Academics - 63