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« r W* » ♦ P > * Thor* Octobar 1 1981 (Sac 2) SANOY (O ra ) POST -J Teacher finds she’s still in the driver’s seat b> SCO TT N EW TO N A fter driving a bus for the Sandy I'nion School D istrict for two years, Jeanne Budd wasn't sure she was ready for her job in the classroom " I thought, ‘Oh no. can I take it . ’” She was pleasantly sur prised. however “ In the school I get real good v ib ra tio n s ,'' she said ‘ H a r monious. you know ” While the high schoolers may lx* a little rowdier on the bus than when they get in to school, there are still things that Budd misses about her old job She drove the Government Camp route, and likcni going up the mountain first thing in the morning, waiting for the sun to rise and the moon to set She liked observing the mountain's changes through the different seasons new job as a para prof es sional in the special educa tion department at the high school. Budd has been involved with recreation since she was 14, when she worked as a YWCA counselor She re c e iv e d her bachelor's degree in recrea tion, with an emphasis on th e ra p e u tic s , at Eresno State She received her m a ste r's degree at San Francisco State, where she s tu d ie d re c r e a tio n a d m inistration, with an em phasis on therapeutics But while going to school in the Bay Area, she was holding three jobs “ I think I just went " She slaps the table “ Stop ” While planning rest and relaxation for othrs, she found she was neglecting her own health “ I just burned out," she said At that same time, about four years ago. she came to Oregon for a vacation, and never left A lthough she’d always worked in recreation, she took a job in Tualatin cook ing in a M exican food restaurant Finding herself short of funds, she started driving a bus for the Oregon E p is c o p a l S chool in Portland She first started driving a bus w hile counseling in S ausalito A school ad m inistrator there told her that since she was taking the kids everywhere, she'd just as well have her school bus drivers license While in Tualatin, she got to thinking that if she was go mg to drive a bus, she'd just as well lx* a well paid bus driver So. she applied at Greyhound, and got the job About driving their buses, she said, " It's just great D riving one of those buses, you just can't believe. It's like driving a huge Cadillac, it's just so smooth and so easy " But after a year and a half, four days before Thanksgiv ing, they told her they were going to transfer her to Salt Lake City " I said, I don't think so."* She was living in a cabin near Eagle Creek at the time She moved to Sandy and got a job driving a school bus here She also worked at the Sandy Health House for about a year and a half Things were just falling in place for her, and they s till are She bought a house near Firwood about a year ago, and seems pleased with the job she now has Because recreation has been an interest all her life, it was natural that she get back to it A fter a lot of soul searching, and after looking into a number of oppor tunites, she came across a classified advertisment in The Post that told about the opening at SUHS She spends a lot of time now tutoring students one- on-one. teaching practical and vocational skills It may have something to do with metals, woodworking, d ra f tin g , fo r e s tr y , or agriculture, or it could be survival skills, such as per sonal hygiene, sewing on b u tto n s and a n s w e rin g telephones H ea d in g , w r itin g and arithm etic, of course, are considered survival skills also. Budd said the fact that she teaches practical skills may have a lot to do with why she likes her recently-acquired job About special, slow er- le a rn in g students, Budd said, " I t ’s not that they're dumb, or anything, it's just that we haven’t figured out the way to educate them ” She added. " I worked with handicapped and retarded people 10 years ago And at that time some of these students wouldn't even be mainstreamed into a high school, they'd still be in a foster home, in an institu tion, or in a school of only that type of person, SENIOR CITIZENS GOOD NEWS! Ma|Or changes have recently been made by sevetol insurance companies in their Medicare Supplement Policies. 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If you hove used Medicare, you probably have found »hot Medicare did ex tremely well on Part A (Hospital) charges. You may have also found how ever, that Medicare disallowed a substantial portion of Part B (Physician Surgical. Ambulance Outpatient, etc ) charges. Sometimes up to ’ > the total bill or more. There are also things she doesn't miss “ There was the time I knocked down a fence, too," Budd said, “ but we don't talk about th a t." Altough she doesn’t have to make turn arounds in nar row spaces anymore, there are a new set of respon sibilities that go with her "(Now» they're really try ing to integrate this (kin d o f) person into high school, into the mainstream of life " Budd feels this is not only a good thing, but in fact an obligation that a community has T h e re a re 89 sp e c ia l students enrolled in SUHS. "One of my favorite things to do is to be a catalyst for people getting what they w ant," Budd said And driving a bus, like helping youngsters that need special attention, is not unrelated in that desire to serve as a catalyst (Continued from Page I) Njust rebutted charges of the opposition's attorney, K e n n e th M K llio t o f P o rtla n d , th a t the land would be 70 percent paved, which would create large amounts of ru n o ff into the river, causing both erosion and pollution. He said that the development would be utilizing 22 out of 48 acres, and that only streets and sidewalks would lx* paved Erickson said that the whole site is wooded. 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