Eternal thanks, trust and gratitude

I would like to publicly thank a person who has served our community’s children and Snohomish School District for over 31 years. Thank you, Norma Clapp. You have been the steering wheel that has kept an ever-growing, ever-changing transportation system functioning effectively, courteously, and safely. Anyone who has ever called SSD Transportation with a complaint or the occasional compliment knows who you are. You know every address, intersection, lane, place, court and drive in this school district, in spite of the constant growth and development. I respect and admire your knowledge and ability to keep us all together, when we should have fallen apart. Anyone who did as much as you did, with as little as you had to do it with, would have burned out much sooner.

I have always believed that if you ever left transportation, it would take at least two people to do your job. Yours are tough shoes to fill, and I doubt that just two people will be able to fill them. Even those of us who, from time to time, fell from your favor, always trusted you, depended on you and loved you. Now, we will miss you for the rest of our careers as school bus drivers for Snohomish School District. All of us who worked for and with you are better bus drivers for it. As you start a new chapter in the book of your life, know that our eternal thanks, trust, gratitude and respect go with you.

Every parent of every child who takes a bus to school in Snohomish owes you those things too. Happy trails, Norma, and thanks for being our leader and one of us.

Snohomish

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