FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE N.R. #6, 7/20/98

Date: July 20, 1998

Contact: Irene Cromer

703/791-8720

WOODBINE WINS SCHOOL OF THE YEAR AWARD

Woodbine Preschool Center in Manassas has been selected as the School of the Year in the school division's annual housekeeping awards program. The School of the Year Good Housekeeping Award was presented to Building Manager Vicki Speakes by Fred Singleton, supervisor of operations for the school division, at the annual Custodial Awards Banquet earlier this month.

The School of the Year Award is given to a school for outstanding custodial performance, management and cleanliness and for maintaining the highest score on monthly evaluations throughout the school year. Woodbine received the highest number of points of all the county's sixty-six schools and administration buildings during the school year 1997-98. More than 300 custodians maintain a total of more than 5,400,000 square feet of building space.

Housekeeping cleanliness awards are given annually to the schools and administrative facilities which attain the highest average scores on monthly evaluations. The evaluations cover all areas of a building, from the parking lots and landscaping, classrooms, gymnasiums, custodial closets and equipment and everything in between, Singleton says. Awards are given in special, high school and middle school divisions and, for elementary schools, in each of the three school-based management areas.

In addition to Woodbine, first-place recipients of the 1998 Housekeeping Cleanliness Awards and their custodial managers are: McAuliffe Elementary (Area I), Louis Dennis; Yorkshire Elementary (Area II), Darlene Denver; Bennett Elementary (Area II), Mildred Helton; Vaughan Elementary (Area II), Suzanne Blais; Old Bridge Elementary (Area III), Tena Etwe; Lake Ridge Middle School, Lloyd Harlow; and Gar-Field High, Jennifer Morrow.

Second place awards went to PACE East, Bernice Clay; Henderson Elementary (Area I), Essie Woodyard; Westridge Elementary (Area II), Betty Kokski; Potomac View Elementary (Area III), Jin Ja Kang; Saunders Middle, Harriette Taylor; Stonewall High, Pearl Hale, and Hylton High, Jim Campbell.

Third place winners were: Ann Ludwig School, John Childers; Washington-Reid Elementary (Area I), Karen Parker; Minnieville Elementary (Area II), Patricia Johnson; Triangle Elementary (Area III), Betty Martin; Leesylvania Elementary (Area III), Lisa Welch; Marsteller Middle, Rodnie Jamerson; and Potomac High, Alvin Howard.

Fifty school facilities, their custodial managers and custodians were honored for maintaining average evaluation scores for the year of 94 and above on a scale of 100: Ann Ludwig School, John Childers; Antietam Elementary, Vickey Posey; Bel Air Elementary, Annie Bates; Belmont Elementary, Roberta Merbach; Bennett Elementary, Mildred Helton; Beville Middle, Dorthea Brown; Dale City Elementary, Gary Minor; Dumfries Elementary, Jessie Aliff; Enterprise Elementary, Ross Schrecengost; Featherstone Elementary, James Anderson; Gar-Field High, Jennifer Morrow; Graham Park Middle, Luther Campbell; Henderson Elementary, Essie Woodyard; Hylton High, James Campbell; Independent Hill Annex, Nancy Ritenour; Lake Ridge Elementary, William Lipscomb; Lake Ridge Middle, Lloyd Harlow; Leesylvania Elementary, Lisa Welch; Loch Lomond Elementary, Gydean Tweed; Fred Lynn Middle, Frank Hughes; Marsteller Middle, Rodney Jamerson; Marumsco Hills Elementary, Gary Harris; McAuliffe Elementary, Louis Dennis, Minnieville Elementary, Patricia Johnson; and Montclair Elementary, Evelyn Hopkins.

Also receiving the Ninety-Four Club award were: Mountain View Elementary, Brenda Stringfellow; Mullen Elementary, Eric Owens; Neabsco Elementary, Ruth Spruill; New Dominion, Beverly Burner; Nokesville Elementary, Dave Herman; Old Bridge Elementary, Tena Etwe ,PACE, East, Bernice Clay; Pattie Elementary, Curtis Stewart; Pennington High, Oware Adofo; Potomac High, Alvin Howard; Potomac View Elementary, Jin Ja Kang; Rippon Middle, Fran Johnson; River Oaks Elementary, Tim O'Rourke; Saunders Middle, Harriette Taylor; Sinclair Elementary, Randy Chavers; Stonewall Jackson High, Pearl Hale; Transportation, Donald Burke; Vaughan Elementary, Suzanne Blais; Washington-Reid Elementary, Karen Parker; West Gate Elementary, Raymond Berry; Westridge Elementary, Betty Kokoski; Woodbine, Vicki Speakes; Woodbridge High, Casper Whetzel; Woodbridge Middle, Horace Jefferson; and Yorkshire Elementary, Darlene Denver.

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