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Jan's college tradition: Master burgers on a new plate
Anna Ribble
Staff Writer
Dorothy shakes her head and chuckles,
staring out the window.
"We've only been robbed once in 25
years. It was with a toy gun, and the guy
didn'teven rob Jan's House, he justrobbed
the customers."
Dorothy Smith has been working at
Jan's House restaurant for 13 years. She
says it's the huge plate glass windows
lining the front of the store that keep the
place safe from burglars. She's a little
worried about moving to a place with no
windows.
That's right, Jan's House is moving.
Troy Blythe, the owner of Jan's House, is
being forced to move because Your House
TT HIS WEEK AT GUILFORD
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6
8 a.m.- 5 p.m. Micro Financial Aid Workshop Gallery
3:00-5:30 p.m. Off Campus Studies Meeting Boren Lounge
8:45-10:15 p.m. Fellowship of Christian Athletes Meeting Boien Lounge
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7
8 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. Micro Financial Aid Workshop Gallery
1:00-4:00 p.m. I.D.s Made in Security Office Frazier 18
5:15-6:00 p.m. Episcopal Holy Eucharist Moon Room
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8
9 a.m.-7:00 p.m. S.A.P.B. Write-A-Thon Founders Lobby
10 a.m.-2 p.m. National Education Week Founders Lobby
2:30-4:00 p.m. Faculty Meeting Gallery
2:30-4:00 p.m. Senate Meeting Boren Lounge
4:00-5:00 p.m. Paris Semester Meeting Dana Lounge
4:30-5:30 p.m. S.R.C. Meeting Boren Lounge
6:30-8:30 p.m. German Club Meeting Boren Lounge
7:30-8:30 p.m. Psychology Club Meeting Dana Lounge
8:30 p.m. Homelessness and Hunger Issues Concerns Hildebrandt
8:30 p.m. Friendly Homes Volunteers Meeting Dana Lounge
8:30-9:30 p.m. Women's Awareness Meeting Commons
8:30-10:00 p.m. Guilford College Christian Fellowship Meetingßoren Lounge
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10
9:30-10:30 a.m. Communications Seminar Boren Lounge
10 a.m.-2:00 p.m. National Education Week Founders Lobby
10a.m.-4:00p.m. Guilford Today #l4 Gallery, Commons
Noon-1:00 p.m. Images of Women Meeting Gallery
1:00-4:00 p.m. IDs Made in Security Office Frazier 18
4:00-6:00 p.m. Guilford Today #l4 Boren Lounge
4:00-5:00 p.m. Quality of Life Task Force Meeting Dana Lounge
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11
8 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Admissions Open House Founders & Dana Auditorium
8 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Real Estate Class Leak Room
9:00-11:00 a.m. Fall Visitation Day Boren Lounge
3:00-6:00 p.m. Inter-Delegation Debate Gallery
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12
8 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Real Estate Class Leak Room
9 a.m.-Noon Christ the King Church Moon Room
12:30-4:30 p.m. International Fair Ragan Brown Field House
7:00-8:00 p.m. Catholic Mass Boren Lounge
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13
11 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Josten's Ring Sale Founders Lobby
3:00-4:00 p.m. Off Campus Studies Committee Meeting Boren Lounge
bought out the property last spring.
Jack Robinson had originally bought
the property 30 years ago in order to build
Jack'§ J? ouse - Five years later he sold the
business, but not the property, to Troy
Blythe who renamed it Jan's House in
honor of his new baby daughter. Blythe
has been leasing the building from the
Robinsons ever since. InJanuary.Blythe's
latest five-year lease will run out, and the
Robinsons, instead of renewing the lease,
decided to sell. Last spring when the Jan's
House property went up for sale, Blythe
tried to buy it, but the owners of Your
House overbid him, and the property was
sold.
So Jan's House is moving. Right down
the street next to Foster Drugs in the
Market Plaza shopping center. Blythe
plans to open the new restaurant Decem
ber 15.
Dorothy is looking forward to getting
all-new equipment. "There's always
something breaking down; the repair bills
on this place are outrageous."
Due to the original conditions of the
lease, when Bly the hands the place over to
Your House in January, it has to have
exacdy what was in it 30 years ago when
he first leased it. Everything except the
red lights that line the counter. They are
taking the lights with them because Jan's
House just wouldn' tbe Jan' s House with
out those red lights.
Jan's House wouldr.'t be the same with
out the employees either. Dorothy's two
oldest children also work at Jan's. Julie,
22, has been working there since she was
12, and Amy, now 18, began by washing
dishes when she was 14. They are the
newest employees.
"Every one of us has left at some time or
6:00-8:00 p.m. Talk on Graduate Schools Boren Lounge
7:30-9:00 p.m. Discussion on Intermarriage Gallery
7:30-9:00 p.m. Talk on Homophobia Dana Lounge
8:45-10:15 p.m. Fellowship of Christian Athletes Meeting Boren Lounge
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PSY 250 RELATIONSHIPS: A psychological and literary exploration of
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in close consideration of several anticipated topics: family, friendship, love, sexu
ality, marriage, intimacy, peer grouping, social roles, interpersonal power, solitude
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active, changing processes, that no one avoids relationships, and that the alternative
to continuing connecting is stasis and ultimately non-being. Resources include
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THE NORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY OF ACCOUNTANTS announces its
scholarship program that provides financial assistance to deserving students who
indicate firm intentions to continue their education in the profession of public
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two years. The number of scholarships awarded depends upon the availability of
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Applications must be submitted by April 15,1990. Contact the accounting dept. or
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THE GUILFORD IAN November 6, 1989
another," said Dorothy seriously, "and
we've all come back to Jan's House
everybody has. It's home."
That's why even though Your House is
asking all of the employees to stay on with
them, Dorothy is confident that they'll all
go down the block with Jan's.
Dorothy said she isn't worried about
taking their customers with them when
they move. She thinks the college kids
will keep coming back to Jan's House
because it feels like home to them.
"Every year we have to break the fresh
men in," she said. "Once we get them
trained to know that they're going to have
to behave themselves when they come in,
we have no trouble with them. It takes
about a month, month and a half."
The old Jan's House will be empty and
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