Schurz Cook

For one school year, I was the principal, 7th & 8th Grade teacher, and sometime bus driver and custodian on The Walker River Piaute Indian Reservation.  The little town on the reservation was called Schurz, Nevada.  It was a pretty wild year.  I have described some of the goings-on in other posts.  One of the things I learned early on in my educational career was to make friends with the school cooks.  This was particularly true before the districts went to centralized kitchens and the lunches were actually prepared at your school.  (A couple of times I was lucky enough to be principal in a school where the central kitchen was located.  That worked!)  In Schurz, it was particularly good to know this woman. She was the cook at Schurz Elementary School.  On the Reservation, we got extra surplus food and supplies because we were a reservation.  My God, this woman could cook.  One of the surplus items was butter.  We had all the butter we wanted.  This made for cookies you would not believe.  My advice for new-comers, get to know the school cook.