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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 2, 1982)
interest (vc learnt begi 11 ^ rs sai^ istrurfj inish. || - '^Fle# set” 1 m)r betl"': xpe' arnef .riea (( 1 ltd' ensi ve ‘ irnitu re ! rd "^ larn to ^ever.*"' sii* u* ( for s 0 ^ k. t'g ht S roirrams and^reduced duleJ lor this July and for July 1983. committee signaled its approval of Students cleaning up in cleaning business by Kathy Robinette Battalion Reporter Cleaning other people's homes may not appeal to you, but some students are polishing and waxing their way through college. “It’s a people business”, Nan cy Crouch, owner and manager of Home Care Services, a local cleaning business, said. Crouch employs students to clean homes and businesses by the hour. The former part-time w riting instructor at Texas A&M Uni versity once had her students read an assignment entitled, “Who Will Do the Dirty Work?” Crouch thought young people might be willing to do the dirty work since good domestic work ers were hard to find. With eight students and her partner’s encouragement, Home Care Services began operating in April 1977, Crouch said. There was a great need for a cleaning service in the com munity, she said. Ann Schultz and Debra Stengel, of Schultz’s We Clean, also agreed there was a need. As a single parent, she finds the hours fit well in her sche dule. Also, Schultz didn’t want to work a 40-hour job for some one else. Schultz’s services include vacuuming, dusting, doing laundry, washing dishes and other cleaning chores for a basic price of $25. Home Care Services also does basic cleaning tasks for $8 per person per hour, Crouch said. She said residential customers usually pay between $ 16-32 for a job. In addition to residential cleaning, Home Care also does commercial cleaning, Crouch said. After looking over the busi ness, a bid is given and if accepted, a monthly contract is drawn up. The services list among their customers working women, senior citizens and bachelors. Schultz finds bachelors who don’t want to clean up after their parties call her. She remembered a time when a disorganized bachelor called and said he couldn’t find anything till the middle of the week. Out of Home Care’s 35 em ployees, 15 are Texas A&M stu dents, Crouch said. Cleaning other people’s homes would be a good job for college students, she said, because she is very understanding about class sche dules. “They tell us when they want to work, not the other way around,” Crouch said. She feels students are responsible, intelli gent and in charge of what they do. Home Care’s Commercial Su pervisor Lura Pickett, an Texas A&M graduate who began on the cleaning crew, says good pay, flexible working hours and working with people your own age are good reasons for college students to work here. Images, The Battalion Tuesday, March 2, 1982 / Miller times Miller High Life Saw old story. Thesg ColiGge quus love uotc at'Tiiqfk and toss you 3ut in the morniny. / 3 ® 1981 Beer Brewed by Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, Wis