No Dogs Here, Just Turkeys, Gnats and Bathroom Humor.A Turkey of an Offer The week before Thanksgiving, many teachers in the Oswego City School District, located north of Syracuse, N.Y., found in their faculty mailslots a gracious message on Superintendent Gary Buehler's stationery. The letter indicated each would receive a turkey in "appreciation for your effort and achievement." The only problem was Buehler didn't craft the note. His building principals were left to undo the fictitious offer. The superintendent, bemused, took the high jinks high jinks or hi·jinks pl.n. Playful, often noisy and rowdy activity, usually involving mischievous pranks. Noun 1. high jinks - noisy and mischievous merrymaking high jinx, hijinks, jinks in stride Adv. 1. in stride - without losing equilibrium; "she took all his criticism in stride" in good spirits , noting, "Now if I only could figure out how to direct this creativity into the classrooms I think we'd be all set in terms of student achievement." Gnats Entertainment Jim Barney has been long removed from his days of drawing notice as a pretty decent soccer midfielder in high school and college. So Barney, who's now "Who's Now" was a daily series aired during SportsCenter throughout July 2007, in which viewers helped ESPN determine the ultimate sports star by considering both on-field success and off-field buzz. superintendent in Old Fort, Ohio Old Fort is a small unincorporated community located in northern Pleasant Township, Seneca County, Ohio, United States. Old Fort is named after Fort Seneca, which was a fort built during the War of 1812. , was feeling good about the attention he was receiving during a clinic he was conducting for soccer coaches and players last fall. About halfway through a skills demonstration, he heard a round of clapping. Barney felt pleased with himself until he turned around to discover the applause wasn't intended for him. Rather, the participants were busy swatting away mosquitoes that had come out that evening. A Restroom Marathon Rick Kaufman was working in a midsize school district in Wisconsin as the district's school public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most professional, a job that put him in regular contact with the news media. As he left his office one day, he told his administrative assistant he would return soon after a restroom break. Once at his destination, though, he ran into the superintendent and the two started a lengthy discussion about a pressing matter that continued in the latter's office for another 45 minutes. When Kaufman returned to his office, he was handed a stack of messages about phone calls to return, including one to a local newspaper reporter. He responded to several, then got to the reporter about 90 minutes after the reporter had called him. The reporter asked how Kaufman was feeling. "I'm OK, but why do you ask?" said Kaufman. "Well," the reporter explained, "I called over an hour ago and your secretary said you would be right back, that you had just run to the restroom. When you didn't return the call right away, I just wanted to make sure everything was OK!" Moral of the story for Kaufman, now executive director of communications Director of Communications is a position in the private and public sectors. The Director of Communications is responsible for managing and directing an organization's internal and external communications. services in Jefferson County Jefferson County is the name of 25 counties and one parish in the United States. The following are named for Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States:
A Superintendent With Spurs James Hook wears cowboy boots and maintains his office as a shrine to American cowboys, with a life-size cutout cut·out n. 1. Something cut out or intended to be cut out from something else. 2. Electricity A device that interrupts, bypasses, or disconnects a circuit or circuit element. 3. of Roy Rogers and John Wayne, snapshots of Gene Autry and Dale Evans, plastic cowboy figures, a saddle and a bullwhip bull·whip n. A long, plaited rawhide whip with a knotted end. tr.v. bull·whipped, bull·whip·ping, bull·whips To whip or beat with a bullwhip. . And he once rode a horse around the parking lot of his office, after the central-office secretaries in the Calvert County Schools in southern Maryland bought him riding lessons as a Christmas gift. It was his first ride on a horse. "Of course, I had to get on him and make a real big fool of myself," says Hook, the district superintendent. Hook says his 13-year-old collection of cowboy memorabilia, which he began while serving as Calvert County's director of personnel, is a guaranteed conversation starter among office visitors, even irate parents. "They usually get a real bang out of it," he says. A Striking Phenomenon It's deja vu all over again in the North Smithfield, R.I., schools. Bob Wallace rejoined the school district last fall as interim high school principal. Three years earlier, he spent five months as interim superintendent in the same district. One common thread unites his two stints in North Smithfield: Teachers went on strike both times he was on duty. Wallace considers it an odd coincidence. Ticker-Tape Truancy After New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Mayor Rudolph Guiliani stated it would be OK for children to skip school to attend the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Yankees' World Series victory parade last fall, schools Chancellor Harold Levy complained to City Hall that truancy would not be allowed. Guiliani seemed to delight in his disagreement over priorities, according to an account in The New York Times. "I didn't say anybody should play hooky Verb 1. play hooky - play truant from work or school; "The boy often plays hooky" bunk off jargon, lingo, patois, argot, vernacular, slang, cant - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" ," said the mayor, who called tickertape parades "mind-expanding" events. Red-Faced Moment At an adult education seminar titled "Getting Organized," the presenter introduced herself to the class and described her qualifications on this specialized topic. Then she reached for her lecture notes. Apparently, she was experiencing a bad organization day. She discovered she had brought along the wrong set of notes. (Source: The New York Times) |
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