Ann Ludwig Special Education School in Woodbridge has been selected as the School of the Year in the county school division’s annual housekeeping awards program.  The School of the Year Good Housekeeping Award was presented to Building Manager Mitch Webster by Chris Bohne, supervisor of  plant operations for the school division, at the annual Custodial Awards Banquet. 

The School of the Year Award is given to a school for outstanding custodial performance, management and cleanliness and for maintaining the highest average score on monthly evaluations throughout the school year.  Ann Ludwig received the highest number of points of all the county’s sixty-eight schools and administration buildings during the 1999-2000 school year. More than 320 custodians maintain about 5,984,000 square feet of building space, Bohne said.
Housekeeping cleanliness awards are given annually to the schools and administrative facilities that attain the highest average scores on periodic evaluations.  The sanitation evaluations cover all areas of a facility, from the parking lots and landscaping, classrooms, gymnasiums, custodial closets and equipment and everything in between, said Bohne.  The categories in which schools earn awards include special, high school and middle school and, for elementary schools, each of the three school-based management areas.

In addition to Ann Ludwig, first-place recipients of the 2000 Housekeeping Cleanliness Awards and their custodial managers are: Leesylvania Elementary, Lisa Welch; Bennett Elementary, Sue Helton; King Elementary, Christen Matthews; Lake Ridge Middle, 
Lloyd Harlow; and Gar-Field High, Anthony Lovelace.

Second place awards went to Woodbine, Vicky Speaks; Lake Ridge Elementary, Joseph Miranda; Vaughn Elementary, Suzanne Blais; Montclair Elementary, Lindalva Thorpe; Beville Middle, Dorothea Brown; and Stonewall Jackson High, Pearl Hale.

Third place winners were Pace West, Gary Minor; Antietam Elementary, Vickey Posey; West Ridge Elementary, Betty Kokoski; Loch Lomond Elementary, Gydean Tweed; Fred Lynn Middle, Frank Hughes; and Hylton High, James Campbell.

Thirty-two school facilities, their custodial managers and custodians were honored for maintaining average evaluation scores for the year of 94 and above on the 100-point scale: Ann Ludwig, Mitch Webster; Antietam Elementary, Vickey Posey; Bennett Elementary, Sue Helton; Beville Middle, Dorothea Brown; Bristow Run Elementary, Ray Pitner; Enterprise Elementary, Ross Schrecengost; Featherstone Elementary, James Anderson; Fred Lynn Middle, Frank Hughes; Gar-Field High, Anthony Lovelace; King Elementary, Christine Matthews; Lake Ridge Elementary, Joseph Miranda; Lake Ridge Middle, Lloyd Harlow; Leesylvania Elementary, Lisa Welch; and Loch Lomond Elementary, Gydean Tweed.

Also receiving the Ninety-Four Club award were:  Marsteller Middle, Rodney Jamerson; McAuliffe Elementary, Louis Dennis; Montclair Elementary, Lindalva Thorp; New Dominion, Beverly Burner; Nokesville Elementary, Dave Herman; Old Bridge Elementary, James Clark; Parkside Elementary, Karen Barr; Pace East, Bernice Clay; Pace West, Gary Minor; Sinclair

Elementary, Randy Chavers; Stonewall Jackson High, Pearl Hail; Sudley Elementary, Manda Fortney; Vaughn Elementary, Suzanne Blais; Washington Reid Elementary, Karen Parker; West Gate Elementary, Raymond Berry; West Ridge Elementary, Betty Kokoski; Woodbine Preschool, Vickey Speaks; and Yorkshire Elementary, Darlene Denver.