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Wednesday December 31, 1969

By Marcie Bolton

   Administrative Professionals Day will celebrate its 60th anniversary on April 25, 2012.  Secretaries administrators, receptionists have remained the backbone of businesses, corporations, educational facilities, and so much more.   They are the gears of the operation, whose jobs demand accuracy, timeliness and perhaps most importantly an ability to deal with many different types of personalities.  The Valley Voice is proud to recognize the administrative professional’s around Addison County.    

    When I asked April Rule, secretary at Mary Hogan School, the K-6 elementary school in Middlebury, Vermont, how long she has been there she responded; “I’ve been here since August of 2010.  I came here after working at Ripton School for many years.  My favorite part of the job is the customer service aspect of it.  I am a very social person and I love the daily interactions with parents and community members. I love being that welcoming face when people enter the school.  I also love kids, so I really enjoy being around them and talking with them.

    I asked April about being in the public eye of 400 students and their families.  I asked April; you are in the public eye quite often, do you feel like a celebrity when you are in the grocery store and a student sees you? April responded, “It is so funny when kids see me out and about! They get so excited and make a big deal about it. They find it so amusing to see me someplace other than school.  I saw a first grader with his mom at the grocery store recently. I over heard him say to his mom, “look, it’s the principal!” The mom told him I wasn’t the principal, but he insisted.  He said, “But every time I get in trouble I always go to her office, the principal’s office.” Hearing them go back and forth, I finally approached them and said hi. I assured him that I was not the principal, only her assistant.  In which his mom asks, “Does he really get sent to the office a lot?” Oops…busted!”

    I spoke with Sue Kallen about her job as a secretary at Mary Hogan School and she replied, “How many stories can be told after working in an elementary school for 23 years?  Perhaps I should say, how many cannot be told?  This would probably be a more realistic question.  One cute story I can share, and will always hold fond in my memory, is the day a young student rushed into the office to see the Principal with some very important information that he could only share with the Principal.  When the Principal approached the child to gain the wealth of knowledge he had to share, the student informed the Principal that he needed to see the real principal, Mrs. Kallen.  Working at the Mary Hogan Elementary School has been a positive experience for me.  There is not one day that has passed that I have not been taught something new by a student….whether it be a math concept, a new computer program, the newest and coolest in the fashion world, or maybe a new word I have never heard before and don’t care to ever hear again.  There is so much knowledge to be gained each and every day I walk through the doors of the Mary Hogan School.”


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