Thomas A Edison High School - Talon Yearbook (Fairfax County, VA)

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MRS. BERNICE JANES Reading, Penn. Financial Secretary MRS. EMILY BUSCHER Washington, D. C. Front Office Secretary MRS. EVELYN SPINK Knoxville, Tenn. Mr. Robinson ' s Secretary Office Secretaries and Helpers Assist Administration and Students The student locater in the office proves to be a great help to office helper Kathy Kelley. Much of Edison ' s efficiency is due to the efforts of the Of¬ fice Secretaries. Mrs. Buscher, the Front Office Secretary, answers phones, channels calls, checks attendance, and keeps close watch on the comings and goings of students by issuing admittance passes and checking out early dismissals. She is aided in these responsibilities by student office assistants. Financial Secretary Mrs. Janes handles all of Edison ' s mone¬ tary transactions, as well as those of all school organizations, which she keeps on file in her off ice. Mindful of the imp ortance of promptness, neatness, and de¬ pendability, Mrs. Spink spends many busy hours diligently working as Mr. Robinson ' s secretary. She handles all adminis¬ trative matters and the correspondence of the principals. The Office Secretaries have many responsibilities and full schedules, and the result of their efforts is exemplified in the smooth functioning of Edison High School. One of the daily tasks that Joyce Elder performs is to check the validity of excuses. 18

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PSAT, and College Boards to Student Body GUIDANCE HELPERS First Row: Penny Forehand, Cindy Fowler, Virginia Pardue. Second Row: Maureen Fogarty, Ann McKinney, Rick Hudson, Sandra Lokey, Mrs. Atkins, Elizabeth McHaffa, Jo Ann Casey. One of the many tasks which the guidance workers perform is putting up the college information on the bulletin board across from the office. Here Rick Hudson and Sandra Lokey put up the display on Alabama University. MRS. JOSEPHINE MATNEY Grundy, Va. B.S., Radford College M.S.S., Smith College Visiting Teacher MR. HERMAN VAN LUNEN Ann Arbor, Mich. B.S., U. of Mich. Tenth and Eleventh Grade Counselor

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Edison’s School Bank Instills Value of Dollar in Students Nearly five hundred students at Edison are members of the school ' s convenient and ef¬ ficient banking system, which is a branch of the Virginia Savings and Loan Association in Springfield. The Thrifty Eagle ' s Nest operates on the same system as a regular savings bank, and it pays four per cent divi¬ dends guarterly. Eleven student bank tellers, supervised by faculty sponsors Mrs. Riley and Mrs. Thomp¬ son, keep bank records in order, make finan¬ cial reports, and take care of all deposits and withdrawals. The school bank has proved to be an ex¬ cellent means by which students may develop the habits of saving and budgeting money for future years and purposes. I wonder where he got that much money to deposit, thinks student teller Judy Leight. IBM Proves to Be Definite Asset to School At report card time, the IBM room is the teachers ' best friend. It performs an invaluable service to the school by making out the report cards, schedules, rolls, attendance lists, student permanent records, and the honor roll. The work that used to consume so much of the teachers ' limited time is now being done by the IBM machines, giving the teachers more free time. There are three machines—one punches holes, one sorts, and the other prints. All three machines are rented by the school. This type of installation will not work without complete co-op¬ eration from everyone con¬ cerned. Although the IBM system Is still in the experimental stage for use in the school in a few years the system will have be¬ come nearly infallible. MRS. ROBERTA GESSERT Menomonee Falls, Wis. IBM Secretary IBM HELPERS Donna Hess, Susan Herzer, Sterling Beck, Millie Nuckols, Sharon Moore. 19