Ernest Seaholm High School - Piper Yearbook (Birmingham, MI)

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Cleaning, fixing, helping-custodians are needed With all the work done by the custodial staff. it is little wonder that they use a great deal of equipment, but the actual volumes are staggering. Three hundred gallons of wax and scrubbing soap, 60 wet and dry mops, and 300 pounds of rags are expended as the custodians perform their duties during the year. The staff of 22 men and one woman put resources to work with skill and care, keeping a school that stu- TT' dents and community can well be proud of. We salute TT' the custodians, the hard-working, behind-the-scenes crew, that keeps Seaholm sparkling. --4. 'P--.L Cleaning the miles of corridors in Seaholm is a tremendous job, requiring many hours of work. Beginning as soon as the halls are clear of students, the men work on into the night. Thomas Grigsby industriously takes care of the scrubbing, while Lloyd Dafoe vacuums away the water. p Taking a welcome break after discharging their lunch time duties, the day custodial staff members relax over steam- ing cups of coffee. Don Stone, Josephine Roberts, Homer Westerby, Jim Stone, Paul Winter, John Adams, and Walter Page are seated around a cafeteria table. 5 As any housewife will testify, dust quickly gathers on high, little-used shelves and ledges. This situation becomes intensi- fied in a school with so many people tracking in dust and stirring up air currents. Andrew Matusko takes a cloth to the locker tops. V ,.v,. . -.. N, , .xx w NX A!! 71

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may keep school sparkling Behmd the scenes of every successful play are many hard workers whose names never go up 1n llghts and whose accomphshments are unheralded It IS much the same m a school The halls of Seaholm are always clean the floors brrllrantly waxed the wmdows washed and the entxre bulldmg 1n good repanr All through the day and far mto the mght a corps of workers armed wlth mops scrubbers squeegees and hammers roams the school No speck of dust goes unturned as the staff labors no job IS too bug or too llttle, all are lmportant The day shlft sweeps walks cleans grates washes lunch dlshes and sllverware and cares for many mmor repalr jobs whxch arlse Most of the general cleanmg however, IS done by the mght staff whose members dust, wax and scrub from 3 30 to ll 30 p m 4 Wmdows wmdows wmdows almost endless panes of glass confront the determmed custodlans who begm the cleanlng Job None seem to know the exact number of wmdows ln the Emplre State Bulldmg a never endlng job Walter Page and John Adams tackle the job ROW I J W Meadows Claude Gibson Woodrow Burns Rudolph Polesnak ROW 2 Frank Kayga Willard Dlerolf Thomas Grlgsby Lloyd Dafoe Donald Andrews ROW 3 Roy Aldrrch Andrew Matusko Chester Lehman Fred Hatley C l 7 - l 7 l 3 I 5 7 7 . . L . ' . Y , 7 7 7 , I building, but they.agree that washing them- is like doing the ' 7 9 7 ' V 1 l.. V .f

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Administrators handle all of Seaholm s problems ADa1ly Mr Goodrich assistant principal takes care of teacher attendance finding a substitute for instructors who are absent The parking lot situation is always a matter of concern to Mrs Darling., dean of students Going over Ofiieer Malcolm Scotty Rosss report she is able to get a first hand briefing ofthe day s happenings Problems problems problems nothmn but prob lems Seaholm tdministrators find something new pop ping up every day to challenge their Solomon lrke wis dom and judgment Running a school has its own specitl trials for in what other job would a person be posed with the problems of what to do with a driver training car stalled in the ptrking lot at dis mrssal time an irate parent who refuses to listen to reason, and a flock of agitated students marked tardy because the cafeteria clock is slow Obscure as the problem may be the solution IS always found and the school continues to run smoothly in sprte of minor crises In addition to keeping track of 1900 students small Job in itself the administrators must take care of buildrng and maintaining good public relations with the community They listen with patience to every request or suggestron considering each carefully and Relations with colleges and other schools are strenath ened by exchanges of athletic visits and the employing of student teachers as well as in other ways Talks at community functions, before the board of education, and with individual citizens firmly cement the school s position as a vrtal, outstanding part of the community Letters announcements newspapers and many other items find their way into usually bulging teachers mailboxes Add ing the attendance list to the strangely empty pigeonholes Mrs Lawrence office receptionist starts off another day Y 0 0 I e, e, 1 . - ' Q ' . 1 ' ' ' ' - .Q . , . . , . . . . 2 . . - 7 7 I I v . . . , no . , . . 7 I making decisions which best benefit the entire school. . . g - , . ' 7 k ' . , ' 3 ' H . Ll. ' , ' I '. . ' ' . V . , ' 'N - 7 72