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PORT PERRY STAR -- Wed. August 8, 1984 -- 23 One minute they're reverently puffing dust off century old documents, handling the fragile papers with plastic gloves. The next .~ minute they're not-so- reverently cleaning house, chasing bats around the rafters and swabbing out antique church pews. They're the eight students who have been working at Scugog Shores Museum this summer, slogging it out from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each weekday, rain or shine. The kids are there thanks to a government summer experience grant and museum curator Len Green, who hired them all. Margaret Litt is the 22 year old project manager and she's generally the one who keeps everyone's nose at the grindstone. "Basically, we do everything', Margaret says about their work. 'Repair work, painting, Twenty-two year old Margaret Litt is the crew's project leader, a job she enjoys almost as much as history itself. office duties, the goun- ds. We even take out the garbage!" One of their main tasks has been straightening up the museum's basement, re-structuring the filing system and organizing a library of old books, which have been cross- catalogued three times for easy access. "It's fiddley work', Margaret admits', but wedoit". The students are also responsible for museum tours and have helped public school classes, weddings, family and class reunions. Tourists from as far away as Germany, Holland, Argentina and Swit- zerland have visited the museum, picking up tips from the kids who work there. "It's just incredible," Margaret says. They're even put to work assisting people with geneological research. But their | favourite part of the job "is the , people we work with". "We all have fun', says one student. And their least favourite part of the job? Being here at eight in . the morning"'. "All the flies and the "1 bats'. "Cleaning. Oh well, welcome to the real world. . J Talk about going above and beyond the ankle ---- but even that wasn't enough to call of duty! Poor Bruce McHugh had a spill. keep him from the job, which includes filing. while working at the museum and broke his oS oN eh L % Te i? £ ¥ Sei ie 0 TA 20 id Scooter, better know as Scott Boyd, gets a little elbow grease gets the job done in a down fo the basics in the Print Room, where hurry. oe Museum curator Len Green offers a little advice to a student as he cleans up some paperwork.