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Ho hum, another
routine day!
£ even a.m. — 3:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. usually done and no one seems to
W — 11:00 p.m. 11:00 p.m. — 7:00 notice it. People just seem to take it
a.m. Three shifts someone is bound for granted.
to get at one time or another. Junk food seems to be a major
They’re cleaning classrooms, portion of students’ and some facul
vacuuming, doing windows, empty ties’ daily diet. Pop, chips, candy,
ing trash, shoveling snow and just french fries, cookies, gum, ice
plain straightening up the school cream, etc. may be “ yummy for the
before, during and after it’s open. tummy,” but may not be for the
This was part of a daily routine for teeth, bones, muscles, and body.
many men and women seen in gray Some of this food is served as a
or blue uniforms around the school. nutritious part of a lunch in the cafe
Seven-fifteen a.m. and kitchen teria. Whether they be on the tray
work begins. Meal preparation for itself or in the extra line, they usually
the day and next week, reception were one of the first things to be
plans for any banquets after school ordered or eaten up.
and any other special requests are Custodians were often seen
begun before school begins until cleaning up junk food wrappers,
around 3:30 p.m. for women seen in cooks often served cookies, ice
white uniforms. cream and french fries, and stu
These are the custodians’ and dents were often susceptible to the
cooks’ main duties around school, “ munchies.” But all in all, everyone
plus many others for which they are seemed to be doing or eating what
seldom given credit. But the work is they wanted by their own choice.
One of many in a long lunch line with hunger pangs, sopho
more Larry Wieneke waits.
24 Lunch, Cooks, Custodians
