Bedford Junior High School - Transition Yearbook (Temperance, MI)

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Yuck! I Dorft Want To Do The Dishes! Household Chores Provide Allowances But Are Time Consuming If you ever had to dust the living room or pick up the moldy socks under your bed unwillingly, then you were a victim of a kind of slavery - the forcing of labor upon children or young adults by parents or guardians: chores! Of course not everyone was FORCED to perform their household chores or duties. Many students worked to earn money, others liked a cleanly atmosphere, and some en- joyed pleasing their parents who were exhausted after a hard day's work. ii1 do chores to keep the house clean, said 8th grader Angie Wojcik. ttl'd be embarrassed if anyone came into the house if it was messy? Dusting, vacuming, cleaning the bedroom, washing the dishes, feeding the pets, mowing the grass, and taking out the garbage kept many students busy every day of the year. When did all of this hard work pay off? Mostly on the Brian Zink Joe Stetler weekends when mom and dad paid allowances. The amount of these allowances varied. Some received as little as $3.00 a week when others got as much as $10.00 a week. A lot of the allowances went into piggy banks or were spent on material items. iiI like to save some of my money and also buy gifts for my parents and two younger brothers? stated Rich Fisher. Besides keeping the house in order, helping the parents and getting money, chores meant responsibility. Confided Marcie Bihn, iiNow I do jobs Pm supposed to do without having to be toldf' Throughout the year, chores allowed students to buy the things they yearned to own. They taught them a lesson and made their homes a prettier place to live in. Cheryl Webber Julie Webster Amy Weirhouch Lisa Wells Ruth Werner Amy Wesolowski Kimberly Whaley Chad White Mary White Joshua Whiteman Robert Wilkins Amy Wilson Robert Wingate i Michael Wisniewski Clark Wittenberg Darrin Wodarski Tara Wodarski Gail Wojciechowski Angela Wojcik Chad Wolniewicz Heather Workman Beth W ckhouse Elizabe Wymer Ga W er An rea oung Rachel Young Becky Zakrzewski Jennifer Zent 61

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Kristy Stevens Bn'an Stininger Starr Stockton Stacey Stollar Matthew Sugg Lea Sulewski Leonard Swanson Erika Swope Jeffre Taylor Veronica anasiu Robert Thom son Penny Jo T om Kathleen Tlminey Alissa Tonjes Troy Travis Susan Uliczny Michael Uller Thomas Utz Christopher Valinski Kellie Van Voorhies Erin Vandergrift Robin Vamey Christopher Vauthy Michael Wagenhauser Richard Wa oner Natalie Wa dron Darrei Walentowski Wendy Walentowski Brian Ward Jennifer Ward Sonya Ward En'c Wardinski Jennifer Ware Mark Warner Lisa Wasnich f AL , 60 Qgh! Dish-pan hands! Washing the dinner dishes is just one of eighth grader Heather Craven,s household chores.

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Cynthia Adams Jonathan Allen Melissa Allen Matthew Alvaro Misty Alvaro Kathryn Anderson Sheila Anderson Michael Ansted Sean Aukland Eric Bagrowski Michael Bait Tania Balazs Stacy Ballinger Tara Barker Jamie Barnes Stephanie Bamhizer Jessica Bateson Brian Beard Nathan Beard Andrew Beck Jennifer Beck En'c Beddoes Jennifer Benedick Page Bemath Benjamin Berry Benjamin Biglow Tracy Blakeman Victor Blanton Michelle Blessing Amy Bohland Daniel Bond Michael Bonnar David Bowser Annette Bovee John Brace Came Braden Matthew Brandman James Brescol David Bridge Jennifer Bringman Julie Bringman Heather Brown Rush! Rush! Rush! Seventh graders Leslie Shapiro and Veronica Locimlzy hurry to make finishing touches after gym and rush to their nex c asses. 62