By Doug Berg
Mini-School would like to feature a new student to the program this quarter, Garrett Kirchenwitz. All we can say is that we wish he’d gotten into Mini-School two years ago, it’s such a pleasure to work with him. Garrett will graduate at semester time.
First of all, Garrett was the top point getter in Mini-School first quarter. His attendance was perfect and he was highly involved in most of his classes. Second, Garrett has not one job, but three. His main job is at Country Kitchen in Excelsior where he is a cook and general all around worker-at-large. His work reports are excellent. Also, he is a Minneapolis Star and Tribune carrier and gets up at 5:30 every morning to do this job (this is after he works until 1:00 or 2:00 a.m. at Country Kitchen). On weekends he works for a cleaning service which cleans offices etc.
Around school Garrett is always busy, always friendly. First thing in the morning he delivers the newspapers to Mini-School, the social studies department and the faculty lounge. He even inserts the “Variety” section into all the papers before he delivers them. During lunch hour Garrett eats with all the handicapped kids at MHS, reads the funny papers to them, gets them laughing and just generally brightens their day. Garrett has many outstanding characteristics, but kindness, sensitivity and honesty are certainly near the top of the list.
For recreation, Garrett enjoys playing touch football – he organizes games on weekends – and skiing. He plans to take a ski trip to Aspen during Christmas vacation and spend some of his savings from all his jobs.
Again, it is really a pleasure to work with Garrett. One last scenario will illustrate – a week or two ago, Garrett found a wallet in the Country Kitchen parking lot which contained over $100 in cash. What do you think he did? Naturally, he contacted the owner and returned the wallet and cash. The owner had to practically force a $20 reward on him. Garrett’s response was, “If I ever lose my wallet, I hope someone returns it to me.”
When I was writing this feature, Shannen Sather, a co-worker and class mate, looked over my shoulder and said “Good choice!” Dave Macfarlane, another classmate, said “You don’t have enough paper to write all the good things that could be said about Garrett.”
Keep up the good work, Garrett. Mini-School couldn’t be more pleased with you.
note: We have just discovered that Garrett has had perfect attendance in school since kindergarten.