Come fights or high water, Jean Elmore has helped out with more than just information during 22 years at her booth. Elmore sat in the information booth near Larkins Hall directing traffic to and from campus. She retired Friday from Traffic and Parking Services.”Jean cares about people and goes out of her way to help them,” said Jeff Wallace, traffic control officer.Two years ago, a student’s car that was parked near Elmore’s booth was stuck in floodwater. “I ran out of my booth, tucked my skirt in my underwear and pushed her out of the water,” Elmore said. “Guys were standing around, laughing at us!”She was soaking wet, said Hortense Leftwich, an OSU officer who has worked with Elmore for almost 20 years. “After all she’s done, I’ll always consider this booth to be Jean’s booth,” Leftwich said.Elmore also came to the rescue when a professor and a younger man who ‘looked like a jock,’ fought over a parking space near Larkins. Elmore said the professor held up his fist and chased the man around the lot. “The younger man was running from the old man yelling, ‘I don’t want to fight you,'” she said. “I finally had to call the police because I knew someone would get hurt.”She said her job has allowed her to meet prominent people such as former presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, and several ambassadors. To honor Elmore, Transportation and Parking Services held a reception Friday in Bevis Hall.Elmore moved to Obetz, Ohio from Nottingham, England, 35 years ago. Elmore said she and her husband of 38 years plan to travel to Canada and to England, where she will visit her son and grandchild.