Leamington District Secondary School - Phoebus Yearbook (Leamington, Ontario Canada)

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The cafeteria In our new school is built to seat three hundred students. The meals are served in three shifts: Grade 9 at 11.21, grades 10, 12 and Special Commercial at 11.55 and grades 11 and 13 at 12.29. Those students, going home for lunch have 68 minutes and must not return until five minutes before their afternoon class. They then proceed to their lockers using the Cast stairs. Students may purchase tickets in the corridor by the cafeteria. The plate lunch, consisting of meat, potatoes, a vegetable, bread and butter, sells at 25c. There Is a choice between chocolate and white milk and sells at 5ct Ice cream or an¬ other dessert is also 5c extra. The washrooms on the first floor are available before and after the lunch period. Students are not allowed to leave the cafeteria until all are dismissed by the teacher in charge. Students buying the plate lunch will always line up in single file, those who are not buying are allowed to form a second line. After the student has finished his lunch he returns all dishes to the wicket, puts all paper and garbage in the containers provided and wipes all crumbs from the tray and places It back on the pile. For the remaining 34 minutes the students may go to a study room or may go outside if the weather is favourable unless they have an activity. —PAT WHITTLE

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PRINCIPAL ' S OFFICE: Mr. Hume ' s office opens off the main office, at the front of the school facing east. The furniture in this room is mahogany, with the leather upholstery of the chairs matching the green walls. VICE PRINCIPAL ' S OFFICE: The wails of Mr. Gleeson ' s office are a chocolate-brown colour. His walnut furniture is upholstered in red leather. This room is used as the boys ' counselling room. BOARD ROOM: The Board Room is also Mrs. Nicholson ' s office. Furniture of bleached wood is upholstered with wine leather. The walls are green and the floor is tiled the same as the other offices. This is the girls ' coun¬ selling room. MAIN OFFICE: This room is furnished in blonde wood. The office contains the Public Address and Intercommunica¬ tion system. The master clock which is connected to all the clocks and which regulates all the bells is also in this room. OFFICE STAFF The Office Staff of the school consists of two graduates of the Leamington District High School Com¬ mercial Department. Miss Muriel Rose, the Principal ' s Secretary, who is in charge of the Office. Her duties involve operation of the School ' s Telephone Switchboard and Inter communication system. Miss Mildred Ciliska, is in charge of the School supplies and answers the numerous requests of teach¬ ers and students. She is the Secretary for the two Counsellors of the school. Many and varied are the tasks required in a busy office and the efficiency of the school is in a large measure due to a well conducted office routine. —ANN STEIN

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F. BURLOW C. MALOTT B. DUNPHY J. ENGLEBRECHT GEO. SLANEY E. LAMB The caretaking and maintenance of the school is under die direction of Mr. George Slaney, who has held this position for the past ten years. This staff has five other members, F. Burlow, J. Engle- brecht, B. Dunphy, E. Lamb and C. Malott. There are 53 rooms in the new building requiring a cleaning schedule each day. The heating system and main¬ tenance adds considerable work during the year. The pleasing appearance of our building indicates a good caretaking staff. iDtcjanizaiion oj the Jd aniLncjton JdcfiooC iBui cz outei . . . The six school buses are owned and operated by Mr. C. A. Bailey of Leamington. With eight bus lines in use, two of the buses must make two runs daily. Over 400 students ride to and from school by bus, and the mileage travelled daily is over 700 miles. Buses arrive before or at 20 minutes to nine each morning and leave at 4:10 each day. The new parking area at the side of the new school is used for loading and unloading of the buses. olioo[ dfouxi. and ulatiom The length of each period is 34 minutes with the usual 3 minute warning bell before the end of each period. Classes begin at 9:05 and the school day is completed at 4:00. Instead of the former ten periods, we now have twelve, with the last period devoted to school activities. Each lunch hour is 34 minutes long and there are three lunch hours be¬ ginning at 11:25 and ending at 1:03. After lunch students have a 34 minute noon period; the reason for the long period is to permit those students living near the school to go home if they so wish. All students remaining at the school must eat lunch in the cafeteria but they may bring their own lunch if they desire to do so. When afternoon classes com¬ mence, there is no returning to a home room for books, as we all have lockers in the halls for our books, uniforms, and personal belongings. The same rule of walking in single file applies in the new building as it did in the old. —DON ANTOI.