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By LISA G. CURRIE
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
The long corridors are empty of eager footsteps, colliding voices and clanging lockers.
Summer days have brought silence to the schools in Rappahannock County.
While teachers and students alike relish their vacation days, the summer days for school secretaries are busy.
“There’s a lot of work around here,” Rappahannock High School secretary Kelly Jo Settle said, sitting at her desk.
Her vacation is limited to seven days — three this year are spent at cheerleading camp in Gainesville.
The rest of her days are busy in the public high school.
When the buses take the final load of teens away the first part of June, Mrs. Settle gets down to work.
“I start the summer by packing up all the robes from graduation and sending them back to the rental company,” she said, her need for organization and structure detailing itself in her consecutive anaylsis of summer work.
“Then we start the work of inventory of school books,” she said, adding this takes several days to complete before new orders are placed, and a few weeks before books arrive.
In the meantime, “the books are done. We use a double entry accounting system,” she explained, adding it takes times and patience to make “everything come out exact to the penny.”
“Then, it’s time to set up new books,” she said, adding at this point texts arrive occupying her time for days before the master schedule is available.
“Then, teachers are notified of their class sizes and number of classes before inventory is completed on supplies for both teachers and school store supplies.
“Then, it’s time to clean-up and organize for the new teachers’ arrival,” she said with a sigh, adding new teachers this year arrive on Aug. 22 with returning teachers arriving on Aug. 26.
Teachers arrive at Wakefield School Aug. 26, also.
“It’s almost busier in the summer,” Mrs. Martine Yowell said of her office managment work at the Huntly private school.
“You have all the things that office work encompasses, like the mail and the phone and filing and ordering,” she said.
After nine years at the school, five of which have been in the office, Mrs. Yowell said many of the duties of summer become “easier due to repetition.”
But each year the job entails more with new forms, new demands and new students.
“We have to correspond the tutored with the teachers,” she said of August work, adding this work is involved due to the crossing of channels between student,, teacher and school.
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