Northeast High School - Valhalla Yearbook (Macon, GA)

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Students look over the food offered daily and make their selections eS, = fo. . amt What’s cooking? Imagine adding 400 more to your guest list daily Fixing 400 more lunches isn't that takes 230 Ibs. of chicken to feed this crowd in first and said Mrs. Robbie lunchroom much different. ‘‘It second half lunches,” Bridges, Lasseter manager. She prepares 475 to 500 sack lunches when fixed. Between 450 to 475 students eat in the lunchroom on the average. They spend in the thousands on an 16 Lunchroom average basis in a year for food. There are eight employees Bridges preparing food. The menu is planned by the central office and is sent to Northeast once a month and Mrs. Bridges adjusts it to suit the needs of her students. Does Mrs. Robbie Bridges enjoy work: ing here with us at Northeast? She said, including Mrs. ‘Oh, gosh yes! I've been working here for eight S he added there was nothing easy about preparing meals, but the toughest thing about it is preparing the menu. When asked what would she do if there was only one lunchroom, she said, ‘‘l would probably work 12 hours a day.”’ years.”

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Excuses, excuses! Student alibis don’t fool anyone any more Excuses at school are about as old as the students use excuses every day whether they are about not doing homework, being tardy to school, or classes, or about not staying for detention. Favorites for being late to school in- clude: ‘‘My car wouldn't start; ’ ““My alarm didn't go off;’’ or the real classic, “‘l got busleft.”’ For being schools themselves. Northeast late for class, stubborn lockers, crowded bathrooms, and escort: ing sweethearts to class are the most fre quent culprits. “| had is an increasingly popular line for not doing one’s homework, but student creativity is working overtime on some of these: “‘It blew out the car win- to work” dow on my way to school;” “It was in my jeans pocket and Mom washed ‘em; ‘‘The dog ate it; and ‘‘The baby puked on it.” To the complaint that they did't know a test was com ing, Mrs. Jeanetta Echols tells her class, “I’m sorry, you know that studying your notes is a daily assignment.” Student Excuses 15

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Mrs. Alice Williams and Mrs. Martha Mathews organize ingredients for the salad bar at Lasseter Mrs. Robbie Bridges, Lasseter lunchroom manager goes over lunchroom records with the auditors Pam Cabiness, junior, helps herself to the variety of Mrs. Laura Griffies chops fresh vegetables vegetables offered daily Lunchroom 17