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University Daily Kansan, February 13, 1981
Housekeeper
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Her hands were blackened with soot, but by the time the Lawrence Fire Department arrived, the fire was considerably dammed.
"I think I embarrassed the grounds people and I didn't mean to do that." Boyle said. "But that's the way I am. Nothin' unss me."
Nothing, that is, except dirt.
"The one thing I don't like about this floor is that it's white." Boyle said, as she walked through the kitchen. "No stairs," she added. "I always shows some dirt I've raised."
NOT FAR FROM the kitchen on the pantry countertop lay a toothbrush, the standard dental pic type.
"I use that on the fixtures around
here," Boyle said. "I want them to sparkle."
The toothbrush was the sole cleaning utensil in evidence. But in spotless silence the house gave testimony to Boyle's work. Chrome surfaces denied the ability to brush out sand bounced through the sunroom windows, no dust rose to float lazily in the beams.
Looking as immaculate as the house, was Betty B, (as she calls herself) in this pendant uniform, with three earrings and a pair of earrings sparkling on her earlobes.
her light blight collure is at her hand's mercy. When she's bored, Bowie absent-minded curls a lock around a figeting forelinger.
ACCORDING TO Boyle, the house is cleaned daily—that means dusted, swept and vacuumed—from top to bottom. She also shops for the Shankens' personal groceries and the groceries for small dinner parties.
"My hours are 9 to 6, but it's hard to
pinpoint how long I need to spread," she
happens. "The days I spend more time
here, but I've worked hard all my life,
enjoy working."
Indeed, Boyle's education at Mount Saint Agnes School in Bermuda seemed to prepare her for her present job. There she learned everything from soap making to gourmet cooking in domestic science classes.
that she entered the job market and met her husband while waiting on him in a Bermuda department store. Today, she has been a teacher of five children and seven grandchildren.
IT WASN'T LONG after her schooling
Boyle worked while her children were growing and owned a restaurant in Lawrence called Duck-Seed before joining the KU housekeeping staff six years ago. She began as a cook for the housekeeping team, transferred to the chancellor's residence three years ago when the housekeeper needed help.
"When the old housekeeper left, they asked me to stay on until they found somebody," she said. "Well, they haven't found anybody yet."
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And for that, Boyle is glad because she enjoys working for Acting Chancellor D. Del Shankel, his wife Carol, and their two daughters, Kelly andill.
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"They're just two joes," she said. "I make up their beds and pick up behind them, but that's because they don't have the time now.
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"Sure, there's some who'll say they ought to do it themselves, but they will have time enough to learn when they move back into their own house."
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"I lived in one of those once, up on Crestline Drive. Finally sold it. Felt like a darn goldfish."
The housekeeper paused a moment and smiled indulgently. She likes the Shankel children so much that their pet mouse don't leave her, despite the constant struggle to keep the family mouse and the family cat apart.
"No, I wouldn't want to live here," she said vehemently. "This isn't a home; it's a showplace."
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But Boyle speaks with the assurance of someone who knows her job and knows she does it well. After all, age 60 is six years away for Betty B.
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IF THERE'S ONE thing the chancellor's housekeeper doesn't want, it is to live in the chancellor's house.
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Calling herself softhearted, the housekeeper said she would be sorry to see the Shankels leave after a new chancellor is selected.
ANYTHING BUT the Shankel's departure.
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"I'm not afraid of anything," Boyle claims, and then corrects herself. "Except snakes. Now, if they bring in a cat, we goes. But I can handle anything else."
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"People probably wouldn't like it, but I like it," she said.
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And Boyle does like him at the chancellor's, except for the loneliness emanating from being the sole housekeeping crew member.
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"I don't think I'd quit," she said, quashing any successor's hopes. "If I quit I don't know what I'd do. Probably go crazy."
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You've already heard a barrage of jokes about your taste in movies since the curtain came down. You'll go on with your friends, it'll go on for weeks.
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Löwenbräu.Here's to good friends.