Wrote to President Mohler About the Cottage - Thursday, November 12, 1964

I just finished writing a letter on behalf of Stephens to President Mohler about the cottage. It never hurts to try. We had a pretty good house meeting tonight, too. At the LLC meeting I graded language papers. I've now spent two solid months on a packed and rigid schedule. But at least I'm organized to the point where I don't have to get up early very often. I decided to take on our remedial reading project rather than "the kindergarten" for my seminar paper and Dr. Pai agreed.

Tom-toms and "Song of the Medicine Man" - Wednesday, November 11, 1964

At 8:00 the house council talked to Dean Miller about getting the cottage back.  She doesn't think there's much hope since it will supposedly be torn down or moved to make room for the new student union addition. By the fall of 1966 Nickel, Dyer and Woodward are supposed to be gone, too, with new dorms taking their places. We went to the school at 10:00 to get in on the part of the day we miss. I worked in cooperation with the music supervisor for singing, dancing and beating tom-toms to "Song of the Medicine Man."

Feeling Great After Parents' Insights Tonight - Tuesday, November 10, 1964

I left Southeast twice today feeling defeated and once feeling elated. This morning I found out that I was supposed to have the middle reading group (in addition to the low) but had forgotten completely about it. I improvised and did fine, but still it made me feel stupid. Then when I went to pick up Evelyn who had gone back over to do some bulletin boards, I felt as if Miss Dyer didn't care at all about my going in the room to say "hello." But tonight at the open house I got so many insights from parents that it is great.

Notebooks Have a Total of 806 Worksheets - Monday, November 9, 1964

I gave my "weekly" contribution to Park College in the form of student council meeting attendance. Then Evelyn and I went out to her house so I could return the book Mrs. Gatton had brought me from the North Kansas City Library. The class made their "Indians of the Plains" notebook covers today and did quite well with them. It's nice to have all 806 worksheets graded and "out of the way." For mid-term grades I had S's in my education courses and an A in philosophy.

Three of Us Went to Meet Mom Reister's Flight - Sunday, November 8, 1964

Roger and Mom Hawkins needed a way in to the airport tonight at 9:30 to meet Mom Reister's flight, so I drove in. I guess it's about time I got to the Kansas City airport. Mom Reister has been in Baltimore. She left Park three years ago. I was stapling Indian unit notebooks this evening and in closing the stapler after refilling it, put the edge of a staple clear into my thumb. Nancy, Tommy, and I very calmly performed the necessary first aid (ehh!). We had a guest speaker, Rev. Kelmer, for chapel.

Heard the Philharmonic and Louis Armstrong - Saturday, November 7, 1964

Some of the LLCs went to the free Katz-sponsored Kansas City Philharmonic and Louis Armstrong jazz concert at the auditorium tonight. Flo and I had practically "front row" seats. It was really neat. Afterwards we went with Margaret, Bonnie, Becky, and Jayne to the Italian Gardens. I had pepperoni and sausage pizza (with Jayne) and red wine. This afternoon I graded Indian unit worksheets. I did a stupid thing (I had a feeling I was forgetting something today) - Nancy Ayres was going to be here this morning and I missed seeing her.

The Narva is Finally Here and is Quite Nice - Friday, November 6, 1964

The Narva Karen and I edited is finally here! It's quite nice, but there are a few things I don't like. Karen made some spelling errors and changed some of my pages "without my permission." DeClouds finished taking the student photos for it exactly a year ago (November 3-6). I bought Mom a copy of The Prophet for her birthday and mailed it this afternoon. I didn't get much done on a free Friday afternoon. I hardly knew what to do with myself. I had Holly for tutoring as usual. The Cardinal is a very good movie. I saw it with Winnie and Margie.

Went in to the Teachers Convention This Morning - Thursday, November 5, 1964

My 22nd birthday was nice. The package from home arrived - lots of food, the crepe blouse I wanted to go with the blue jumper I made, Avon soap, stationery, and a cute children's book about cut-outs. Judy gave her Stephens birthday party for me tonight. We had doughnuts in the lounge. Evelyn and I went in to the teachers convention this morning. There were so many preliminaries that we had to leave before the speech to get back for class. On the way back I missed getting a nickel into the automatic change box on the Broadway Bridge and had to get out of the car to pick it up.

Am a Woman and Must Admit It - Wednesday, November 4, 1964

Our Stephens proofs came today. I'm about "sold" on a straight profile - if I don't "chicken out" since mine will be the center one in the front row of photos since I'm president. I practiced my rote song, wrote home, and read art in Alumni tonight. I felt as if I didn't have much to do since we don' student teach tomorrow because of the teachers convention. These days just keep going, going, going and here I am going to be 22. In other words, I'm a woman and I must bring myself to admit it.

Johnson is Winning by Quite a Large Majority - Tuesday, November 3, 1964

I'm glad to report that Johnson is winning the election by quite a large majority. I guess Hughes won in Iowa - poor Hultman. I spent some time in the education library tonight. Mary Sue and Gary came down. Everyone who sees our department is very impressed. I finished typing a 29 - stencil paper for Dr. Pai and am now adding a few more pages to it. I went over to Dearing for a few minutes this evening, but not much was going on so I came back to watch the election returns here and work on a word chart.

Feel Much, Much Better About "Stephens Problems" - Monday, November 2, 1964

On this election eve I feel much, much better about "Stephens problems" and I hope everyone in the dorm does for having talked them over. Most do, I know. Evelyn and I may have "lost" if the whole thing were analyzed in terms of a debate, but at least some things were brought out in the open. It doesn't seem possible that it was four years ago tonight that Eisenhower spoke to the nation urging everyone to vote for Nixon. We started beating our third grade tom-tom rhythms.

Stephens Open House Was Very Successful - Sunday, November 1, 1964

Stephens open house was very successful (too successful?). I don't know about some of these girls up here. The law is going to be laid down at a house meeting (required) tomorrow night. We ran out of refreshments and kept having to get more 76 for the punch. Leslie is going to love us when we start turning in all the various bills. It took us all afternoon and evening to get things ready (it always does, of course), but it really did look nice. I guess I'll try to get things done from 6:00 on and go to bed now.