Dobie Yearbooks' Lunch Ladies and Custodians ('68-'88)

On Facebook this week, I shared a one of the photos below asking which lunch was everyone's favorite. (For the record, the right answer is Wednesday's giant smothered burritoes.)

Then I got curious about how often the lunch ladies of Dobie actually got recognized within its yearbooks' pages. 

Let's face it. These ladies had the nearly thankless job of preparing, serving, and cleaning up after 1000+ teenagers each day. They should've had their own page every year with their photos, names and gold stars all around them. 

Sadly, they, and the custodians, who had the even more thankless (there is no way to phrase that right, I'm afraid) job of cleaning up behind everyone in the building every day, were the unsung, largely un-named heroes of the campus year after year. 

Here is all I could gather from 20 years of pages, typically without names:

1969

1970

Completely shut out of 1971 and 1972, the 1973 book had a single photo, with a little dark lunch lady humor for the caption:

Nothing in 1974

1975:

Nothing in 1976

1977, with names of both lunch ladies and custodians. Yay!

Nothing in 1978

1979, with the mysterious "black out" and candles:

Nothing in 1980, 1981, 1982, or 1983

1984 featured a two-page spread specifically on the custodians:

Nothing in 1985, 1986, 1987

and, at the end of two decades, 1988:

caption to the side: Mrs. Norma Johnson

Mrs. Nancy Vance

Not nearly enough.

Any and all Dobie lunch ladies in action photographs welcomed.