Mrs.+Cudney

Bella Farkas March 6, 2016 “Mrs. Cudney” Mod 3

I recently sat down with Mrs. Cudney, our new library assistant, to talk a little bit about herself, as well as the kinds of things she does at our school. Mrs. Cudney was born in New Jersey, but she’s also lived in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maine, Illinois, and Vermont. She told me that she has “actually lived most of [her] life in Vermont, even though [she] know[s] no one's ever going to give her credit for being from Vermont,” since she wasn’t born here. I asked Ms. Cudney if she’s ever worked in a school before working here. She told me that she “worked in Pittsford, Vermont at a school named Lothrop and in Essex Junction at Summit Street Elementary, before getting a job as a library assistant at the Integrated Arts Academy in Burlington.”

Here at Hunt, Mrs. Cudney helps students find books that they’re going to be “excited to read,” and helps Mr. Debritz make book displays that go with an event taking place in our school, such as International Week. Currently, she said, they’re working on a book display with fiction books that are set in Vermont for Vermont’s 253rd birthday. She also puts books away and gets books ready for other schools in our district when they request them.

When Mrs. Cudney is not at Hunt, she enjoys riding her bike, which she rides to school every day, rock climbing, skiing, singing and writing plays. She told me that she’s actually written three plays and that the third one is currently being rehearsed at the Integrated Art Academy for an upcoming performance.

When asked if she’s enjoying her time at Hunt so far, she told me that she is “loving it!” She said that originally she was “a little nervous because all of [her] teaching time had been with elementary school,” so she “wasn’t quite sure what we’d be like,” but she she told me that she’s “actually finding that Middle Schoolers are pretty entertaining and interesting and...taller than [her],” but that that’s okay.