Evelyn Boyer
A familiar figure around M.H.S. [Mansfield High School] is Mrs. Evelyn Boyer, our head janitress. Mrs. Boyer will have been here thirteen years on December 4th. She is planning to retire at the end of December, so it will really seem strange without her after such a long time. In the years that Mrs. Boyer has been here, there have been a great many changes, but she thinks the biggest change is in the enrollment of the school. There were only about nine hundred students when she first came, and there are now over two thousand. She was the only woman custodian in the school until seven years ago. There are now four women working at night, besides Mrs. Boyer and Mrs. Vallie Mae Caldwell, who work during the day. There are a good many problems in Mrs. Boyer's job, but she says, "I just have such wonderful co-operation from the office, the faculty, and the students, that most of the problems get straightened out without too much trouble." Mrs. Boyer is a very charitable woman. She loves to give and do things for people. There have been quite a number of times when she has given clothes to girls here at M.H.S. She also has a green thumb because she does a very good job taking care of the teacher's plants over the holidays, which she likes to do very much. Mrs. Boyer moved to Mansfield in 1912 from Gallipolis, Ohio, and she now lives at ------ (Mansfield) ----, where she has lived for six years. Mrs. Boyer has four children, Mrs. Robert Rhoads, Los Angeles; Mrs. Betty Martin, Los Angeles; Mrs. Donna Berry, Mansfield; and Mr. John Boyer, Mansfield, all of whom attended M.H.S. She has nine grandchildren, who are "the joy of my life". She baby-sits and says that after her retirement, she will have time to enjoy her grandchildren. Last summer in the News-Journal there was an article and a picture of Mrs. Boyer with her collection of thirty-six pairs of glasses that she has found here at the school over the years. After people saw this article she was able to return four pairs to some who recognized their glasses from the pictures. She says that if you lose something here at the school, you should report it right away to either Mrs. Lowry or to her, and you will have a very good chance of getting it back. Mrs. Boyer says she will really miss the students and teachers here at M.H.S. after she retires, but that the work, especially the scrubbing, is getting too difficult for her now.
From The Hyphonerian: November 7, 1958, Vol. XXXV, No. 3