McKinley Junior High School - McKinleyan Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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'f FRIENDS ON GRAY CARPETS 1 M, A Diller, a Dollar, a Ten O'Clock Scholar It is eight o'clock. Miss Trowbridge is here ready for the absent people to come for admission cards. The helpers will be here in a few moments. Absent? Or tardy? Go in at this door, please. Esther is very busy at the door: Have your excuse ready. Glad you're back at school. Were you at home all day P Did you go on a pleasure trip P Ten demerits will have to stand against you. Anna Graner at the Demerit Box: Home Room, please F Now your record is clear. Try and keep it that way. Is that the tarcly bell? Five demerits for being late to Home Rooms. Come earlier next time. That isn't a good excuseg get an alarm clock. First period: we are as busy as bees arranging absence slips on the board. Then we look up addresses, so that we may investigate absences. T hat keeps two of us busy for a whole period. Here the boys come from the homes of the absent people. This girl is very illg these two have illness in the family. Now it is the sixth period. Imogene and Esther are the messengers to Home Rooms. Soon all the mistakes and misunderstandings are cleared. The boys have brought in more absence slips: these are being arranged on the hoard, and excuses are being Filed. Helen is writing ofhce summons for the pupils who have one period pink ' 1 - il is fa ,I I P 5 i e E l A , , Ja, D. .- , I

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FRIENDS ON GRAY CA-IQPETS The School's Secretary Miss Miller acts as Mr. Brown's secretary, and has proved herself very efficient. She is responsible for the school reports whic hare sent to the Super- intendent's office. Miss Miller solves the students' problems when she can do so, without referring to her principals. Our secretary loves animals, and it no longer surprises the oftice force to see her enter with a little stray dog which she found on the street, and is anxious to take care of. In Charge of State Text Books Miss Gamble has charge of the State text books and the covers for themg and a full sized job it is, to keep them in order and conditiong to assess fines for lost and damaged books, and to make the detailed requisitions and reports to the State Department. She is gracious in assisting the pupils who have lost books, and does her best to see that the books are found. Another very important work is done by Miss Gamble-the filing of the pupils' records. She makes a record of every mark given by the teachers for each pupil in the school, which record is kept in the office safe for years and years after the pupil has graduated. Every pupil knows Miss Gamble and recognizes her as his friend.-Rose Rirxrzlbrrg, A9, V- . A , L...

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V ' . 'f FRIENDS GN G-lie-:Y cARPETs slips, while Violet is watching the Demerit Box to see that each pupil has warning so that Demerits will not stand when report cards are given out. This is a glimpse of our busy life in the Attendance Olhce. VVC like our work, but we wish that every Mcliinleyite would co-operate in making it unneces- sary for us to have an Attendance Ofiice.-Imogene Tarvizz, A9. Othce Assistants The office girls are very busy persons, and their work seems never to be finished. There are always a great many envelopes to be addressed and mailed. and many telephone messages to give and calls to answer. They are often called upon to distribute notices around the school, and papers to be signed by the many teachers are given over to them. They supply information to new-comers, and to the boys and girls that come to the ofnce. Many boys and girls come to the oHice seeking lost articles or to turn in things that have been found lying about the grounds. The girls must file reports and programs, and keep the office in apple-pie order, picking up stray papers, and in general putting things to rights. The omce girl is supposed to be at all times polite to everyone she comes in Contact With, and set a good example for other children to follow. Their watch- word is Co-operationf'-Edna Taylor, A9. - L l