Sylvan Hills High School - Bruin Yearbook (Sherwood, AR)

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Counselors Help Prepare Students A high school counselor's job is much more than helping students select their classes and arranging their schedules at registration. They help prepare seniors for college or vocational schools by giving them information and having people from these schools come and talk to interested students. The counselors also give out the ACT and PSAT tests and help college bound students with their eligibility for schol- arships. In addition to this they also help coun- sel troubled students about personal and social matters. Mr. Robert Burney has been at Sylvan Hills for 10 years and is in charge of taking care of the new college computer which helps stu- dents find out what they’d like to major in by their interests and hobbies. Mrs. Jeanette Hyatt has been here for nine years, and Mrs. Marietta Hurley is just bepn- ning counseling here, but has taught in the dis- trict for 16 years. Before coming to Svlvan Hills, she was a counselor at Oak Crove for 12 years. She says that she likes the excellent advisory staff, the cooperative faculty, but overall I like the students and the contact with them.” RECORD KEEPING - Counselor Robert Bumey goes over some student's files and information as part of his daily job. TEST RESULTS — Counselor Jeanette Hyatt explaias ACT scores to a senior. ANOTHER SCHEDULE CHANGE — Counselor Marietta Hurley examines a stu- dent's schedule. COMPUTERS - One of the duties of the counselor's secretary is programming the computer which gives students information about requirements for jobs. Counselors 113

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Office Hums With Activity It's 8 a.m.! The office is humming with teachers and students buzzing around, phones ringing, par- ents waiting for conferences, substitutes waiting for assignments, coffee perking, machines running, and among all this activity three people arc getting ready to start another day. Ms. Linda Johnston, secretary to the principals; Ms. Martha Gresham, registrar; and office secre- tary Ms. Mariam Mack arc at their desks trying to get everything in order. Ms. Johnston has worked here for eight years and does about everything including checking absentees and finding substitute teachers. Regist- rar Ms. Gresham has been at Sylvan Hills for six years but has worked a total ot nine years in the district. One of Ms. Mack's main jobs is compiling and distributing the announcements each day. AU the secretaries nave to deal with a constantly ring- ing phone which usually involves student absen- tees and parents checking students out. HEADACHE TIME - During arena scheduling Ms. Gresham and Ms. Johnston had their hands full receiving and filing schedule cards. ANOTHER CALX. — Ms. Linda Johnston constantly has to deal with all sorts of requests. NEWCOMER - Ms. Mariam Mack just joined the office staff this year and works until noon each day. SHE'S THE REGISTRAR - Students can't enroll or withdraw from school with- out consulting with Ms. Martha Gresham. Ms. Linda Johnston 112 Secretaries

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Bookkeeper’s Job a Busy One If you had the job of doing all financial work for the school, coordi- nating the free lunch program, selling lunch tickets, typing all purchase orders and requisitions, would you consider your life to be a madhouse? That is only part of the job of Ms. Ferry Engstrom, the secretary book- keeper who has worked here for the last eight years. She works 12 months out of the year and nearly 15 hours a day checking the teachers’ deposits, preparing financial reports, and tak- ing inventory. As Ms. Engstrom puts it, “I know how much goes where and to whom.” Media Center Offers Choices The Media Director’s duty is not as easy as one may think. She has the job of secretary, teacher, and bookkeeper all rolled into one-not to mention the job of sorting books and seeing that there are cards for each book in the card catalog. Ms. Oleta Shepard, the Media Director has been here for sixteen years. When asked about how the students behaved in the library, she answered, “The majority of the stu- dents act all right. Most understand that it’s a privelege to come here and this is probably why they act good. They also know that their teacher will revoke the privelege from them, if they don’t behave.” The job also consists of ordering and processing all print and nonprint material for buying and processing all the equipment, making sure that it’s in good repair, or as Ms. Shepard sums it up, “Getting the right mate- rial to the right people at the right time.” Ms. Patsy Brown, the Media Cen- ter Clerk, has been here for four years and does the clerical work for the library. When asked what she thought about the students, she answered, I think that the students — as a whole — are all right.” Oleta Shepard 114 Focvlty