Myrtle Point High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Myrtle Point, OR)

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Cooks, Custodians Do Thankless Jobs Taken for granted they are! When a student came to school he just expected to find the floors waxed and polished, the drinking fountains clean, the paper hauled out and burned, the blackboards clean, and the trophy cases dusted. He expected a well prepared meal at lunch time, clean PE towels, and spotless uniforms for the Friday night football game against Coquille. These conditions don’t just happen - there were men and women working to keep things nice for the students. There were the cooks, Hannah Barklow, Flo Egel-hoff, and Nona Thrift. They planned the balanced meals for a week then came early every morning to bake bread, orange rolls, or cakes for the approximately 180 students who ate in the cafeteria every day. By 10:30 you could smell the tempting aroma of food drifting through the building and sometimes, if you were just too hungry to wait for lunch, they would slip you a hot roll or cookie. Walking into the laundry room any day of the week one could take a deep breath of very warm, moist air smelling of detergent. Looking around one saw clean clothes and towels, dirty towels, washers, dryers, a little table covered with odds and ends, a basket of knitting, a mirror and comb, a radio that is usually turned on, and Dixie Clement, the district 41 laundress. Generally alone in her own little part of MPHS, she says she really enjoys having company and reading the announcements and school paper. Mel Floyd, Pete Mast, and Lee Mitchell seemed to be the gnomes of the high school. Where there was a job to be done, whether it was to open someone’s jammed locker or fix a leaky place on the roof, they were there working to make MPHS a more comfortable and enjoyable place to attend. MIXING ORANGE ROLLS for the 250 hungry students that will soon CUSTODIAN LEE MITCHELL smiles as be pouring into the cafeteria is cook, Nona Thrift. he pushes his cart into the gym to begin cleaning. SECONDS AGAIN? Cook Flo Egelhoff shakes her head in amazement at the amount of food high school boys are able to eat. GIVING THE BOBCAT uniforms a quick check to make sure the stains are gone is Dixie Clement, district 41 laundress.

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New Staff Works With Students LEAFING THROUGH school files, Grace Stemmier, secretary, searches for a purchase order for a waiting student. DURING HER first year at MPHS, assistant secretary Jackie Hyde was assigned the job of preparing daily absentee lists. ART MOTZ, VICE PRINCIPAL, takes a pause as he studies material to be utilized in his counseling duties.

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 WITH ONE HAND propped on his broom handle, custodian Pete Mast takes time from his cleaning duties to chat with a student. ABOVE: HEAD COOK Hannah Barklow pauses a moment after checking the rolls. RIGHT: SQUINTING AGAINST the afternoon sun, custodian Mel Floyd lowers the Oregon State flag and Old Glory. 13