The St. Patrick's Day House Party Tonight Was Fabulous - Saturday, March 17, 1962

The house party was simply fabulous. Roger was so nice. He brought me a corsage. It was a green colored orchid. He didn't need to do that. At present a few of us on the clean-up committee are in the midst of putting things back in order. Our rainbow out in front looked real nice as did the lounge decorations. I spent all day with house party preparations - as did almost everyone. Oh, it was all so sharp. I'm really glad I asked someone, especially a boy as nice as Roger.

Dr. Hilty's Play, a Party and Practicing Apparatus Stunts - Friday, March 16, 1962

Tonight I went to see Dr. Hilty's play, "Indian Campground," with Bonnie, Judy Jones and Patty. It was so good. I really liked it. It took place in a Missouri farm house and the theme evolved around some love letters written shortly after the Civil War. Then we went to the LLC St. Patrick's Day - Lowell volleyball victory party at the Meetin' House. It was real nice. This morning I got a hold of the spotlight for tomorrow night from Maintenance. After supper Viv and I did apparatus stunts on mattresses in the hall. I learned to do the dive -over two people, too.

Acting Silly Rather Than Studying - Thursday, March 15, 1962

The dorm just had a "Cape Canaveral" type "countdown" using the phone on each floor to coordinate it and on the final count and phone ring everyone slammed their doors. They had done it just on second last year and Mom Hawkins' pen went flying across her paper. This year she dropped a cup! The practical anatomy test on the bones had a few tricky ones that I got mixed up. Today was UN Model Assembly Day for high school students. I'm pooped - we just snake danced through the dorm and then put the counselors in the showers. I'm almost weak!

At Home We Get a New 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air - Wednesday, March 14, 1962

I have just spent exactly two hours on French. The trouble is, I didn't get started till five after 10:00. I wrote home tonight and then went to the anatomy lab for a while to study the bones. I had to go around to the side and yell at them through the window to come and let me in. We got a new car at home, gee! A green Chevrolet Bel Air 1962! Our last "new" car was the 1949 Dodge. Our others have been used cars.

Senate Candidate Crosby Kemper Spoke in Assembly - Tuesday, March 13, 1962

I asked Roger Rikkola to to the Hawley house party Saturday evening. Our assembly speaker this morning was Crosby Kemper, Republican candidate for US Senator from Missouri. If he becomes president some day I'll have seen him! That reminds me, I ought to see if I could see former President Truman at Independence. We went upstairs in the gym to have more mat space, barbells and equipment for apparatus class. It was like an attic on a rainy day. Phyllis, Virginia and Ann are having tumbling and apparatus, too.

Humor in Anatomy Class About the Skeleton Being a Girls Basketball Player - Monday, March 12, 1962

We had a house meeting tonight about bids for the WUS auction. The WUS entertainment sounds like it's really a lot of fun. I did French and anatomy at the library tonight. I thought maybe for once I was coming out on the long end of time but now I see it's the short end again. I about died laughing over Mr. Hearson's joke about the skeleton in the classroom being made from different people unless she was a girls basketball player and Doug Meng saying Mr. Hearson was going to wear shorts and put numbers on his legs so we could name the articulations.

LLCs Discuss a General Store and a "Dunk the Professor" Tank - Sunday, March 11, 1962

Three cheers for me! I have finished The Decameron. Now by the time I read my anatomy I can go to bed feeling justified that I've done a reasonable amount of homework for one evening, though maybe not for the weekend. The LLCs had a meeting this afternoon. As we hashed over whether to have a general store and/or a "dunk the professor" tank I kept thinking what a nice bunch these kids are. As part of the decorations committee for the house party Karen Lewis and I are in charge of making a rainbow.