Archive for May, 2008

Telos Solid Plastic School Furniture by Virco

For decades, schools across America chose earlier generations of classroom furniture with hard plastic seats, backrests and work surfaces because of their remarkably colorfast, stain-resistant and chip-resistant qualities. Unfortunately, the durability benefits of hard plastic chairs were offset by widespread seating comfort issues and universally poor stacking.

Until now.

Telos Classroom Stack Chair             Telos Combo Desk

Conceived by award-winning designers Peter Glass and Bob Mills, Telos continues the Virco tradition of product durability while incorporating important ergonomic benefits to set a new standard of comfort and support for mid-priced hard plastic seating. All Telos models are certified according to the stringent GREENGUARD(r) for Children and Schools Program for indoor air quality.

The seats, backs and work surfaces in Telos products are made from Virco’s proprietary Fortified Recycled Wood(tm) hard plastic. Furniture made with Fortified Recycled Wood is highly sustainable due to its long service life. And when ultimately withdrawn from service, Fortified Recycled Wood components are fully recyclable through Virco’s pioneering Take-Back Program that helps schools recycle out-of-service furniture. Even more significantly, Virco can process Take-Back items and other post-consumer materials in its own factory for the Fortified Recycled Wood used in Telos products. By extending the useful life of out-of-service furniture materials that would otherwise go to a landfill, Fortified Recycled Wood and Take-Back make a unique contribution to "closing the recycling loop" in the classroom furniture industry.

Telos is the first hard plastic furniture collection to include 4-leg chairs that form a 10-high truly vertical stack. Moreover, model N318 4-leg chairs can be stacked 10-high and moved on Virco’s model HCT789 and HCT4 chair trucks. The Telos product line includes: 4-leg chairs with four seat heights; a selection of 4-leg combo units with two work surface sizes, an optional bookrack and an optional backpack hanger; two adjustable task chairs, one of which has a reduced shell size and a shorter adjustment range for smaller users; and an adjustable lab stool.

All of the quality products manufacturer by Virco can be purchased through their authorized dealer, Worthington Direct at http://www.worthingtondirect.com.

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National School Nurses Day

Give honor to all of the hard working school nurses today on National School Nurses Day.  With any luck you haven’t had to visit their office lately, but perhaps they could use some new school furniture for their nurses office.  Worthington Direct offers institutional furniture such as First Aid Couches, all-purpose Utility Carts or heathly living Anti-Microbial Reception Seating.  Visit www.worthingtondirect.com today and keep your school nurse happy and your school body healthy.

First Aid Couch

National School Nurse Day is a time to celebrate the nursing profession and the specialty of school nursing. On May 7, 2008, the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) will recognize the contributions that school nurses have made over the past year. This year’s theme, “School Nurses in Action: Transforming School Communities,” is reflective of the global impact school nurses have on the health and well-being of students.

In the U.S. alone, over 50,000 school nurses are actively transforming school communities in limitless ways as they care for our nation’s children. The multiple roles of school nurses and the many services they provide makes them a valuable school and community resource. “In this 40th Anniversary of our national association, National School Nurse Day reinforces the need to share the vital work of school nurses in serving school communities and beyond.

Anti-Microbial Reception Seating

The nurses support the physical, mental, emotional, and social health of students,” said Donna Mazyck, NASN Board President. She further stated that, “National School Nurse Day provides an opportunity for school nurses to articulate what they do to remove or minimize health related barriers to student success. We are school nurses; we support student success!”

Annually, NASN announces national school nurse awardees that have exhibited exceptional work throughout the year. The 2008 National School Nurse of the Year is Carol Cochran of Oregon and the 2008 National School Nurse Administrator of the Year is Rhoda Shepherd of Iowa. Schools and communities are encouraged to join with their school nurses in celebrating what they do on a daily basis to keep kids healthy and ready to learn. Most states have also identified a “School Nurse of the Year” and a “School Nurse Administrator of the Year” award winner who have made a significant impact on students, staff, and the community. For more information Continue reading


Exceptional Service

I wanted to share with you the exceptional service I received recently from one of your employees.  She was extremely helpful, not only assisting me in choosing products from your website that met my needs, but also in contacting the manufacturers themselves to assure me that these products would arrive by my deadline.

I look forward to doing business with your company in the future, as well as recommending it to friends and business associates.

Sincerely,

J. Harris


Class Act

Thank you for your help! Your company has been a class act from beginning to end!

P. Bailey


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