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Published December 01, 2008 05:22 pm -
Child center celebrates owner’s 10th
For Camille Allen, being an employee at Jack and Jill Learning Center has never felt like a job. It’s a family.
Allen and the rest of the staff, former employees, parents and students helped owners Carolyn Downs and Jennifer Schuler celebrate the 10th anniversary of their ownership of the center recently. Employees honored them with a reception at the First Assembly of God.
Schuler, Downs’ daughter, was only 23 when they bought the business from Betty Stephens, who attended the celebration. She opened and operated the center seven years before selling it. Schuler had worked there some while she was in college. Sandy Rogers, a former teacher of the 2-year-olds, said she wondered why Schuler wasn’t in school herself, she looked so young.
Schuler said after her daughter, Haley, was born, she prayed about finding a place to work where she could still be with her child.
“The Lord opened the door,” Downs said. “It’s a wonderful partnership to spend every day with my daughter and time with my two granddaughters.”
The mother and daughter team have poured their hearts into the center, they said.
“Carolyn and Jennifer treat you like family,” Rogers said. “They are loyal to employees. They are like a sister or friends. Some bosses are strictly business. They aren’t.”
Jaxon Dwyer, 6, now a first-grader at Gore, came to say hi to his former teachers and give a few hugs. He attended Jack and Jill for three years and liked the games there best.
Heidi Morgan, an employee for about a year, said she wanted to work at the center after seeing how much her daughter, Amaya, now 5, learned at 2.
“She learned social skills, learned to share and her ABCs,” Morgan said. “She became more independent.”
Mom Angela Boydston said her daughter, Kayleigh, 4, learns things every day at Jack and Jill. Kayleigh’s been there since she was 2.
Allen, who teaches Kayleigh’s class of 4-year-olds, said it’s the kids that have kept her there for 15 years. She’s worked for both owners.
“It makes me feel good when parents come back and say how well their kids did,” Allen said. “I just love kids.”
Misti Morgan, another employee, said she likes how family oriented the center is, too. Taylor Boswell, who watches the babies at the center, said she only has good things to say about the owners.
To Tracy Harris, teacher of the 3-year-olds, Downs and Schuler are “a blessing.”
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