The short staff member was probably Joe Sweeney. Lived about half a mile from campus up the hill. He was part of the school before. Before it was RMA. Some kind of lumberjack program, and they figured since they were going to have us chopping wood all the time, they needed someone who had played with long-handled objects before.
Joe was definitely a few ants shy of a full picnic. And for that matter, a few inches shy of five feet tall.
Brian Master Bates. Creep Extraordinaire. Every hug from this guy was like being molested. And he stank. Breath, body and all. I have really only found two things in my life to be scary. The movie Jaws and Brian Bates.