{"id":2947,"date":"2016-09-29T09:59:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T17:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/?p=2947"},"modified":"2016-09-29T09:59:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T17:59:15","slug":"in-her-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2016\/09\/29\/in-her-words\/","title":{"rendered":"In her words … | Pauline Mills, KPBSD secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pauline Mills, Tustumena Elementary School, 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Celebrating Pauline Mills,
\n<\/span>KPBSD 30+ year secretary, 1984 \u2013<\/span>
\n In her words\u2026<\/span><\/h3>\n

I started my first day of work on my birthday August 7, 1984, as a secretary for the Federal Programs<\/a>, bilingual, small schools, and russian villages. Then the district added Migrant Education to our office that year with the SERCC office (Alaska\u2019s Educational Resource Center) from Juneau. I stayed in this position for nine years before transferring to Tustumena Elementary School as a school secretary, where I am today!<\/p>\n

My first task #innovation<\/span><\/h3>\n

When I interviewed for my first position, I saw an Apple IIe sitting on a cart! I asked the interviewer if I happened to get the job \u2026 would that be my computer? He got very excited and said, \u201cDo you know how to use it?\u201d I said, \u201cYes\u201d and he said, \u201cYou have the job and that will be your computer!\u201d We further discussed that I would computerize the whole office.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have the job and that will be your computer!\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

 
\n\"pauline-graphic\"<\/a>\u201cWhen I started, my first task was to create a database with the students and then put everything else on the computer. I went to the Apple Store and after talking to a salesman we decided that Filemaker would be the software I needed. The Bilingual Program\u2019s Plan of Service was about 300 pages. They had so much white out on the document, I couldn\u2019t fathom how the secretary before me used the typewriter and white out to make changes each year. Migrant Education was new as well, so I computerized that program and went from school to school and sometimes to other districts to help get the program started. I traveled a lot to the small schools and Russian villages either to help with office procedures or computer set up.\u201d
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“After the first year \u2026 Happy to have this office computerized and organized! I love my job!”<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Tustumena Elementary #golden<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

I remember being very nervous about applying for the school secretary position at Tustumena School because their secretary, Mrs. Jackinsky, had been there since the school first started. She was somewhat of a legend! If I got the position, I would be the second secretary the school ever had and there was going to be some pretty big shoes to fill.
\nIt has been very nice to live and work in the community where your children were raised and went to school. It is amazing to see students return for a visit or come back with children of their own that will start attending the same school. They say, \u201cHey, Mrs. Mills, I can\u2019t believe you are still here.\u201d Makes me feel kind of old because I remember them from when they were in kindergarten.
\nThere are so many stories and memories, etc. that I could share, but what sums it all up is the students, staff, parents, and our PTO have made this job one of the best jobs ever \u2026 that is why I stayed so long \u2026 over thirty years!<\/p>\n

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The students, staff, parents, and our PTO have made this job one of the best jobs ever \u2026 that is why I stayed so long \u2026 over thirty years!<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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