Blackford High School - Reflections Yearbook (Hartford City, IN)

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Taking over position of IHead Custodian Mr. Bill Shatto shuts down the pumps for the air-condition- ing at the end of fall season. Feature writers Lynn Lefevre and Suzanne Rinker invite Mrs. Hornbaker for pizza while staying to see what goes on after school. Keeping warm and reading their copies of the week ' s BrulNformer are these bus drivers: (Left Side) Delores Paver, Dewayne Weatherholt, Al Fish- er, Ron Kemp, Reda Belle Nottingham, Glen Kilgore; (Right Side) Robert Schwarzkopf, Paul Hornbaker, John Shrader, Charles Daily, Neyla Forrester, Crover Gardner. Making change for diner Ron Wilson, Mrs. Whitesell celebrates Bicentennial in appropriate costume, as all cooks did. 178 Service Personnel

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A blue check-out card is inspected by new Assistant Librarian Mrs. Foust to see that it has been dated correctly by a customer. A world of forms, phones, finance Office secretaries started another nine months with typewriters clicking and telephones ringing in the new school year. The only new secretary was Mrs. Jackie Foust, who replaced Mrs. Shirley Frazier as assistant to Mrs. Dodds in the school library. Familiar secretarial faces seen each day were those of Mrs. Virginia Vin- cent, principal ' s secretary and registrar; Mrs. Francis Johnson, telechord opera- tor; Mrs. Gladys Sanders, Guidance sec- retary; Mrs. Judy Emerick, receptionist and athletic secretary; Mrs. Carole Jones, A-V manager; Mrs. Anna Cook, bookstore manager, and bookkeeper, and Mrs. Anita McCardie, teacher- aide. Secretaries supported all student activities. Proving secretaries get personal honors, tCK , Mrs. Sanders exhibits award for continuous lamily resi- dence on a Homestead farm. Secretaries 177

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Repair of a projector is a task for Mr. Dean Bryan, electronics tectinician. Projectors and tape players were kept working. During a Bicentennial year, these ladies helped cele- brate by ( (joking in ro-iiumes. Cooki are (Front Row) Evelyn Wilson, Thelma Garrison, Vila Williams, Alice htorton, Karen Helm; (Row 2) Marjorie Knox, Pat Vanderhur, Nina McCombs, Olive Gadbury, Jean Whitesell; (Row 3) Delia Yadon, Helen Bullen- barger, Doris Cline, and Letha Runyon. With 35 years ' driving, Mrs. Virginia Smith leaves her bus after final ride. Her service left memories for many passengers. 3 retirements shifted staff Familiar faces faded from a some- times unrecognized task of keeping BHS clean. Here since Blackford began, Head Custodian Mr. Albert Cortwright re- tired to be replaced by Mr. William Shatto, a former 3M employee. Finding time to retire twice in a lifetime, Mr. Henry Balie, a retired ambulance driv- er, also ended his services, lea ing nine fellow custodians. Keeping BHS under watch at all times, three custodians work shifts of 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.; 3 p.m. to 11:30 p.m., and 11 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. Thirty-five years of handliag kids from home to school then home again left pleasant memories for retired bus driver Mrs. Virginia Smith. Twent -four drivers bused Blackford students for their required education. Keeping up u ith all occasions, the 16 cafeteria workers greeted an average 800 students with type A lunches while wearing an thing from red, and black to a Bicentennial gown. Service Personnel 179