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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,
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" It was part of my in
dividual growth to be driving
a bus And yet, looking back
on it, I realize that I was still
taking people from one place
to another, and helping
them.
"Yet I was giving myself
time to heal, to find myself.
"So, I'm still in the
driver’s seat, only now I can
take my eyes off the road. I
can look people in the eye,
and I like that."
Perhaps thinking back to
her school bus driving days,
she added, "They don’t get
away with anything that
way, right?"
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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
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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. The in
tent is to leave the open
space in its natural state, not
pave it
Opponents of the project
charged th a t Alderwood
would increase the urbaniza
tion of the mountain, which
would increase the cost of
services for the entire area,
as well as impact the recrea
tional benefits of the area’s
natural setting
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