Torrey Pines High School - Freeflight Yearbook (Del Mar, CA)

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ALI. LOCKED U P lleaning up dirty socks, muddy gym shorts, and grass stained lshirts, scouring filthy showers and sinks, and cleaning floors ted with mud and scattered h dirt and scraps of paper. Vhese are a few of the thank- s and grueling tasks that many sociate with motherhood. Debbie Elliot is exposed to se chores every working day and she's not even a mother. Elliot is the girls' locker room endantfcustodian at school, 1 not only is she responsible cleaning up alter p.e. classes :i athletes, but also for keeping :K of all athletic equipment and forms, supervising hundreds wild teenagers, working with idents and coaches, setting igs up for athletic events and 'ious other things that aren't an listed among her 'typical :iesf Elliofs job is filled with unplea- wtries and stresses common in is working with kids, and al- iugh it gets trying at times, she as more of the benefits than I disadvantages. I hate the mess and picking up after everyone, said Elliot. l'm everyones maid, and there's alot of stress in that, but I love the kids, and l'm able to develop alot of close relationships with them. My job is never the same two days in a row, Elliot added. That's another thing I like. I could never sit in an office doing the same work every day. With interruptions every other minute - kids and coaches con- stantly knocking on her door, there is never a dull moment for Elliot. Actively involved in sports herself, Elliot appreciates her sport related job all the more. I used to play volleyball, and now I play softball three nights a week. I also love to ski cross- countiy and downhill. I used to play basketball until I stopped growing and everyone else kept growing. During her free time at home, Elliot enjoys photography and cooking. - Lora Stowe l2f'ff . K . 1' ,ji l.. il don't like the real time- tsuming things, he said. The I is hard because as one sport ds, another one begins, and J have to keep track of all of it. iletes forget to get their things t of their lockers at the end of I season, and sometimes they h't turn their equipment in. 'Sometimes kids just say wats it and walk off after the ason's over, and don't take 'e of turning things in, and their kers, said Bogers. Despite the tedious tasks, gers finds his job rewarding. 'I like working with youth. l'm e to watch the ninth graders felop from gangly youngsters people who have developed se and a little more education. ee them round out into young Jlts. arried for 37 years, Bogers three adult children. He en- -biflt ..r ADDING UP, Bruce Bogers takes inven- tory on athletic equipment. joys sailing and collecting rocks. I'l'm a rock hound, he ex- plained. I like to look for various metals and semi-precious gems. Bogers also enjoys traveling and home repair. - Lora Stowe SPECIAL FEATURES 87

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'WN l .1 3. ii l LOCKED t would be possible to mistake Bri Bogers for a mathematician from look through his notes and records. Bogers is the boy's locker room att dantfcustodian at school, and is responsi for all the boy's athletic equipment. To give an idea of the numbers involi in this job, there are 1,025 lockers, ou which I have to keep track - 850 are F lockers and 122 are team lockers. Anot 122 are equipment aid lockers. During the football season alone, Bog is required to hand out a minimum of pieces of athletic equipment to each play The total number of pieces of football eqt ment is 2,940. And out of all the equipme Bogers is responsible for its safe return. I have to fill out inventory sheets by numbers on the uniforms, put the uniform particular cabinets, make student iss cards, and if uniforms are not turned in, out delinquent equipment forms, explair Bogers. Last year there was 32,200.00 outstanding equipment. Bogers' job is tedious and hard at tim

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