Union College - Golden Cords Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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llollege Broomshop Produces Vanety Uf Products Superintendent of Lincoln Broom and Mop Works, Dan Olderbak, is reported to be a friendly and con- siderate boss and maintains the re- spect of his 40 Union College student employees. But the demands for Old- erbak's quality brooms has excelled the current output. Union College can't supply enough workers to fulfill Broomshop demands for help. Last year the Broomshop sold over 350,000 worth of brooms and shipped them into 23 states. So great is the popular- ity of the Broomshop products that the factory is able to offer a larger variety of brooms to place on the mar- ket. Examples include toy brooms, parlor brooms, house brooms, janitor brooms, an d rayon or cotton mop heads. One of the last steps in making a broom is placing the label on it before it's finally packaged. Jerald Gottfried com- pletes another of the many hundreds of brooms that pass through his hands each day. Mr. Olderbak is responsible for pro- ducing not only brooms but quite a va- riety of products. Here he displays one of the long-wearing rayon mop heads. Handling the broom stitcher requires both skill and speed. After the broomcorn is wound onto the handle Arthur Blood stitches the corn together, making the broom flat.

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if XE' Q. 3: 5 is at . we Bookstore Boosts Added Supplies In 10 years, V. F. Mayer, manager, has increased three times the yearly sales of the Bookstore, while main- taining the same square footage of sales space. During Mayer's first year at Union, '57-'58, sales totaled 838,000 Business progressed proportionately with the school year until 1961 when Mayer substituted the self-service for the clerk-service system. Comparing the ,61 sales with the '62 s a l e s reveals a significant improve- ment. In 1961, sales totaled 855,000 After the installation of the self-serv- ice d urin g the summer of '61, the school year '62-'63 witnessed a jump in sales to new heights-fi372,000. Since 1962, the yearly average increase has been 135k This year sales were push- ing 169? ahead of last year. In accounting for the progress and multiplied sales. Mayer points to the self-service substitution and to the ad- dition of school supplies, a variety of sweat shirts, and most recently the handling of personal drugstore sup- plies. C A S H FOR BOOKS! Srfnzester time finds many .signs an flze lzoolcstore rlaar- anrl the largest volume of lJ11sinr'.s'.s. Anne ,lab anticipates flzff coming onslaught. Ioan Bromme wonders how many let- ters sheill lie alile to write this .wrne.s'tcr with so mach to zla. Books are really in the foreground for the average Union College student.

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Checking the students' trays as they go through line requires knowing a lot of faces. Don Striclcer must recall each onels cafeteria Features Two Entrees Over 300 pounds of potatoes, 40 loaves of bread, and 2,500 half pints of milk, orange and chocolate drinks are consumed daily by Union College students and faculty members in the college cafeteria. Such a volume of food service makes it necessary for the Elsie Flemmer directs traffic at one of the lzusiest intersections on campus. nv' . name, total his meal, and mark it on his hill in less than thirty seconds. eafeteria to employ ten full-time help- ers, plus 80 part-time student helpers. The full-time employees cook and do the administrative work, While the stu- dents make salads, serve, hostess, cheek, prepare the Vegetables, clean the dining rooms, and do general cleaning and wash jobs. The cafeteria is equipped with two walk-in refrigerators and one freezer. There are five steam jacket kettles ranging in size from 10 quarts to 40 gallons. Potatoes, beans, and fresh ,N-4,-W . me if ew xl i t 1 - : - If - -5, Q 1- Z7 After the onslaught comes the clean- ing up before a fresh wave of people appear. Ben C hilson is the assistanit food man-- ager of the cafeteria. vegetables are cooked in a pressure steam cooker that has three eornpart- ments and cooks at six pounds pres- sure. Miss Ruth Whitfield, who has been Food Service Director at Union Col- ege since 1946, retires in June, turn- ing over the apron strings to a Union College alumnus, Bennett Chilson. Chilson spent a year C65-'GGJ intern- ing at Loma Linda, California. Cur- rently he is doing part-time graduate work at the University of Nebraska. ,i .-- rf is f if 0 fffi 0 f f-'f'f fg . f ,c f z i r , i. f at lil , sl lklfm, 1 ..ir 'xzsjvjgg 'If 1-f it , XXX 0 Vrllllll if 0 ru' fasts j ee is I .M N., C, 7 . ,,,.,, Behind the scenes, .scores of hours of preparation go into preparing each meal. John Koch slices up the jello for a Mon- day evening meal.