Her handwritten yellow ledger sheet from 1984 lay flat between a pair of blue district folders.

Principal Vance took off his glasses, polished them on his tie, and laid them on his desk blotter.

“The county audit cleared at noon today,” Paul Vance said.

“There isn’t one delinquent balance left in any of the twenty-three elementary accounts.”

Marge Miller set a printed bank receipt on the table.

“The drive-through lane took in three thousand one hundred twenty dollars on Penny Saturday,” Marge said, her crisp voice steady as she tapped her ballpoint against the glass.

“We filled seven canvas deposit bags.”