'ALWAYS THERE FOR HER KIDS' LONGTIME AIDE NOW ON BOARD.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer LANCASTER - Peggy Peggy may refer to:
be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" now that she's on the school board. Foster, 64, started out in the 1960s volunteering at her children's school, then became a noontime noon·time n. See noon. supervisor, drove a school bus, worked as an instructional aide, served as a school secretary and retired in 2000 as an executive secretary in the educational services department. ``She knows about busing; she knows a lot about special education, because that was her expertise when she was a secretary here,'' said Kathy Mafnas, secretary to the superintendent. ``She understood all of the state mandates. She made sure the district stayed in compliance.'' Foster and incumbent Janette Crawford were appointed to the Eastside Union School District board after no one else filed to run for the two seats up in the November election. She was sworn in at the Dec. 8 meeting. ``It was fine,'' Foster said. ``I was nervous, of course. It was very good.'' Foster said she wanted to be on the board to serve the students. ``I worked for them for 30 years; all four of my children went through the district,'' Foster said. ``I was very involved when the children were young. My heart's there, and I care about children. That's the bottom line. I ran for the children's sake.'' Foster moved to Lancaster from Arizona in 1966 after her husband took a job as a lineman Lineman or linesman may refer to:
She started volunteering in 1966 when there was one school, Eastside Elementary School elementary school: see school. , with 700 students in kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be through eighth grade. Three years later, she began working as a noontime supervisor, followed by stints as a bus driver, aide and school secretary. In 1990, as Eastside's enrollment grew with the construction of housing tracts in east Lancaster, she moved to the district office to become an executive secretary. Foster said she had no particular favorite job. ``I enjoyed them all,'' she said. ``Her heart is with Eastside, trust me,'' Superintendent Colleen col·leen n. An Irish girl. [Irish Gaelic cailín, diminutive of caile, girl, from Old Irish. Larson said. Mafnas began working for Eastside 28 years ago and remembers working with Foster. Mafnas was a part-time school secretary and part-time kindergarten instructional aide. Foster was a part-time bus driver and kindergarten aide as well. During Christmas break, the then-superintendent had the women work in a basement boiler room boiler room n. a telephone bank operation in which fast-talking telemarketers or campaigners attempt to sell stock, services, goods, or candidates and act as if they are calling from an established company or brokerage. called ``the dungeon'' to organize, catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. and box used books. ``We got to spend two weeks together in the boiler room,'' Mafnas said. ``She's a wonderful person, very generous. She loves kids. She was active in sports activities. She was always there for her kids.'' Karen Maeshiro, (661) 267-5744 karen.maeshiro(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Peggy Foster, a member of Eastside Union School District, says that the district is important to her. ``My heart's there, and I care about children.'' Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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