Middletown High School - Cavalier Yearbook (Middletown, DE)

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 about MHS Summer Clean-up? Contractors and students did their parts. Over the summer there were two “cleanup” operations that went on: one was the removal of asbestos from the shop wing, and the other was the work done by the Summer Work Program. When asbestos was found in the school during an inspection in 1984, it was removed from vital contact areas during Christmas break. In 1986 the school was ready to have contractors remove the asbestos in the shop wing, the boiler rooms, and the gym, however the company reneged on its contract and the removal was put off until the summer of '87. The asbestos was gone by the first week of school, but the shop wing didn't reopen right away because it now needed new floors, ceilings, pipe insulation and a paint job. The students in the Summer Work Program did a lot of work to brighten up MHS. With the help of their supervisor, Mr. Riblett, they painted all the metal doors in the school blue, made new picnic tables for under the trees near the breezeway, and rebuilt or refinished a lot of other things around MHS. 12

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about the 1988 dedicatee? Mrs. Yearsley adds spirit and spice! Every year the yearbook staff gets together in a small office to brainstorm about the person to whom we feel the yearbook should be dedicated. In keeping with this year’s theme, we were looking for someone who was very active at MHS, but who is usually so discreet about it that people tend to take his or her contribution for granted. Therefore we are proud to dedicate the 1988 Cavalier to Mrs. Betty Yearsley for her outstanding role as Cafeteria Manager and spirited citizen of MHS. Mrs. Yearsley has worked here for the last sixteen years and is now Cafeteria Manager Mrs.Yearsley oversees the ordering of food and the preparing of nutritional meals for the entire high school. Under Mrs. Yearsley's leadership, the cafeteria is always decorated for the holidays and every senior has a cap hung up in honor of the fact he or she is graduating. Mrs. Yearsley has always gone the extra mile for the people here at M.H.S. Therefore, Mrs. Yearsley, for your love and dedication, this one’s in honor of you. 14