Mrs. Murdock: Finance Secretary at SJHS

Faculty and Staff Spotlight November 20th, 2009

MrsMurdock

Spencer Duncan
SJHS Staff Writer

Mrs. Janine Murdock is the finance secretary at Springville Junior High.  Mrs. Murdock’s job is to handle the school’s finances and to find substitutes for the teachers.  Mrs. Murdock’s busiest days are getting 900 students registered for school in the fall and collecting end of year fines in May so everyone can get their yearbooks.  Mrs. Brenda Bales, the attendance secretary at SJHS, said another way Mrs. Murdock helps the school is, “She’s a great friend to all the teachers, new and old.”

Mrs. Murdock started working here at SJHS in 1989.  She started as a skill building supervisor with Mrs. Joye Wimmer, tardy secretary at SJHS.  Mrs. Wimmer has been working with Mrs. Murdock for “many years.”  Mrs. Bales has been working with Mrs. Murdock for 15 years.  After working in skill building, Mrs. Murdock spent five years as the attendance secretary.  After she was the attendance secretary she was the counseling secretary for another five years before moving into the front office to handle the finances.  According to Mrs. Murdock, she has worked for five principals at SJHS since starting in 1989.

Mrs. Murdock said, “I actually attended Springville Junior High seventh through ninth grade, many years ago. Mr. Steve Robbins was one of my classmates.”  Mrs. Murdock also said, “Our lunchroom was downstairs in the area where the art room is.  Before the school was remodeled the front office was a large concrete staircase leading up to the front doors.”  Mrs. Murdock has a lot of history with SJHS.

“I love my job and the students and staff I am able to work with,” said Mrs. Murdock.  According to her, this is sometimes like her home away from home.

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Springville Junior High Recycles

School Activities September 19th, 2008

Springville Junior High’s journalism class recycles paper throughout the school.
Left to right: Kristi Hatch, Maddie Patten, Abi Santiago, Shayla Tanner, Maddi Dayton, Sarah Fawson and Brooke Caswell.

by Abi Santiago
SJHS Staff Writer

Recycling is a big step for us to help out with global warming. Recycling is taking a product you won’t use anymore and use it for something else. It’s very important for everyone to recycle. At Springville Junior High, each classroom has a recycling box. Teachers encourage their students to recycle all their old assignments.

“The attitude of people saying, ‘Just one can won’t make a difference’ is not true. It will make a difference,” the art teacher, Mr. Gillespie, said. Shayla Witney, a student at Springville Junior High said, “It’s important to recycle because if you don’t then everything just goes to waste.”

Students recycle anytime they can; they say it’s safe for the environment. “It’s important that we recycle everything we can so we can preserve our resources,” Mrs. Murdock, the finance secretary, said. She gets a check every month from recycling that helps support the journalism class. The money from recycling provides funds to buy equipment such as cameras and computers for the journalism students to use.

Recycling other products, like soda bottles saves energy when you use it to make new products. We can all prevent that if we just all put in the effort to recycle and not litter. We have a dumpster at the south side of the school, and everyone is invited to come and recycle your paper, like newspapers and old phone books. One person can make a difference.

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