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Woodland
Primary volunteers share
stories during the recent Volunteer Appreciation Event at A&B
Coffee &
Cake Company. According to Principal Andrea Townsend (second from
right)
Woodland wouldn’t exist without its volunteers.
Woodland
Primary Volunteers
“We can’t do it without them”
By Bob Robinson
GREENVILLE
– Woodland Primary
Principal Andrea Townsend made it clear that the school wouldn’t be
able to
function without its volunteers. She visited informally with more than
a dozen
volunteers recently during the school’s Volunteer Appreciation Event at
the
A&B Coffee & Cake Company in Greenville.
Townsend
said the school had 90
active volunteers who handled a variety of tasks from bookwork and
filing to
providing adult support in the classroom and lunchroom.
“Woodland
Primary could not exist
without our volunteers,” she said.
While
the ladies – and two
gentlemen – seemed ready for summer to begin, they also knew it
wouldn’t be
long before they would be ready for the new school year to begin.
“Six
more days,” said one. “The
longest six days ever,” said another.
“And
in a few weeks I’ll be
counting the days until school starts again,” said a third.
Assistant
Principal Lisa Maher
recalled one of her first experiences at the elementary level…
“The
fun started right away,” she
said. She saw a kindergartner running down the hallway with her shoe
laces
untied.
“Hey,
stop,” she yelled out to the
child. “Tie your shoes.”
The
girl stopped, looked at her and
said, “I can’t.”
Volunteers
moved in and out during
the two hours set aside for them. Some shared stories.
Two
of the events they talked about
were the Father-Daughter and the Mother-Son nights and the recent field
trip to
the Greenville Street Department.
The
dances? One was more formal
than the other. The girls swayed to the music while with the boys it
was more
like a tug-of-war.
The
street department?
“They
had to honk every horn out
there,” said one volunteer. “About 50 times,” she added.
Most
of the volunteers were
“K-Moms” or PTA members or both. Some of the volunteers there at the
time were
Mary Leemoore, Stacy Wilson, Moleta Mikesell, Laurie Hunt, Debbie
Brant, Shanna
Good, LeRoy Wilson, Kristina Madden and Missie Begoon.
Published
courtesy of the Early Bird
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