Suffield High School - Sagitta / Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Suffield, CT)

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D E D 1 C A T I O N To Mr. “C” ond Stas, for their kindness, understanding, and guidance, we gratefully dedicate the 1979 Sagitta. We Love Yu! Custodian Collects Honors From High School Students Sufffold B JOANNE BALL SI’FT I ELD — Although to lives ia Chi cop Mm Stanley SUs J Lachura considers Itimself u tom-ary Suffieid (DM Lachtara, 17, has been one of the custo¬ dian at Suffieid Hi|h School off anO on for eight yean During that time to has been named an honorary member of the school ' s Vocational Agricultural Center and the school band Most recently the Cato of 1 71 named him it honorary class adviser Lachtara attributes these honors not to himself but to the good bunch of people and luds here Lachlara started working on the high school custodial staff in I Ml He stayed there three yean until to was reassigned to Me A lister Middle School to said Lachtara said to dida t want to leave the high school but to was needed at Mr Aiister He stayed at the middle school for not quite one year to said and after that landed a yob with the athletic department at American International College ia The yob in Spti field was good to said, but when Assistant School Superintendent Howard Brown offered bun a position bach at the high school. Lachtara jumped at the ' opportunity He stayed at the college in Spru field for to weeks, to said and returned to Suf field High School in 1171 This time to became head custodian for the school it s on account of the kids and the people that I ' m heatoday Lachtara said Lachlara said to doeso t see hn yob as just dealing with custodial duties He said be has helped with programs at the Vo-Ag Center and accompanied the band to New Yorh this past spring I help out in every way I can to said He applied that motto to his worh with this year ' s junior elm Lachtara assisted the elm with dances fund-raising event and other activities As a result the elm showed ns appre ciation last month in the form of a plaque to said The plaque joins a trophy Lachtara re¬ ceived from the high school tuff in 1972 just before to was transferred to the mid die school and another plaque he got from the Vo-Ag Corner It a really good to worh tore to said I really enjoy my job Springfield