Classified employees work directly with all children. They are the school personnel responsible for the transportation and nutrition of our children, the maintenance of school property, and they are the clerical workers and educational assistants. Under the leadership of the Oregon School Employees Association, classified employees, with their diverse talents, have created the necessary environment essential to educating our youth. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to the understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom.
Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon.
You must do the thing you think you cannot do. It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. This is to have succeeded.