A Nice Talk with Bonnie - Saturday, February 9, 1963

Boy, I have caught myself a cold! I'm putting it to bed early tonight. After supper I had a nice talk with Bonnie. It did us both good. She got one less vote than I did for club queen and she said she was so happy for me, that she was really sort of glad she didn't get it because she didn't like dances that well. She said she thought in many ways we're a lot alike and I think she's right. Bonnie's eyes are really getting bad. She thinks she may have to learn Braille or get a reader. Carey said I got the most applause of anyone last night.

Chosen as Lowell-Lucerne Queen - Friday, February 8, 1963

This is really hard to believe. I was the Lowell-Lucerne Club queen! Dave Kennedy is our king. I'm sure I really know how to perform the role of a beauty queen! I received a tiara and a dozen long stemmed red roses. The others were - ACC, John Garrett and Karen Haenisch; OAC - John Ramirez and Karen Garner; PCC - Tom Gale and Peggy Peck; and LEC - Don Dancik and Kay Donnelly. Tom Darch and Kathy Gillespie announced their engagement. Jim Hunter and I went to the dance with them - all four of us in the back seat - so I thought that was a privilege. Jim Peeke announced Mary Anne Higginbotham and Mark Fisher's engagement. I had my hair fixed this afternoon in Parkville. Margie's boyfriend Bob is down from Chicago. Oh, what an evening! They once said McDowells weren't meant to be beauty queens.

Nancy is IRC Representative - Thursday, February 7, 1963

We had an ed psych test tonight. Some of the kids left after the test so he let the rest of us go. It was nice to get an earlier start on homework for one Thursday night. I persuaded Nancy to go to the house meeting tonight - the sophomores haven't gone to a lot of them. She was elected interdorm council representative. Strange, I can't think of anything else to write - and procrastinating isn't getting history read. Carol didn't use my assembly attendance article. I heard several kids say, "Let's see how the assembly attendance was," so it is read! Mr. Reynolds stopped me to talk about the Stylus. He said he heard I had ambitions - editor type ambitions. The only person I ever mentioned even the possibility of that to was Carol Greene.

Socialized with Sinan in the J.R. - Wednesday, February 6, 1963

Pat Frost and I read proof tonight and Carol worked on layout. Then Pat bought me a Coke in the J. R. and we sat at John Van Horn, Sinan Kunt, and Robert Kindrick's table and talked mostly nonsensical, like, "Let's declare this National Hate All Turks Week," etc. That Sinan is one good guy - also about the smartest American History student and from Turkey at that. We had a WRA Council meeting at 4:45 and a rules meeting for individual sports at 5:00. We had a French test today. Dr. Hampl was back.

Studied on Blanket on the Front Lawn - Tuesday, February 5, 1963

I read history and political science in the library and was finished with both by 9:30. Now other things have kept me from getting back to summarizing the poli sci and studying for the French test tomorrow. Diane Porter was over to copy some of my French notes. The noise here caused her to ask me how I could stand it. Sometimes I wish I knew! I just blew my stack at my roommate in an argument stemming from Ed Staniec's kicking my ball away from me (all in fun!) in an elementary physical education game today. I should control my temper, but I've taken enough long enough. This was a beautiful day. I studied for a while on a blanket on the front lawn.

Dr. Hampl's Apartment for French Class - Monday, February 4, 1963

Dr. Hampl had our French class go out to her house a few miles out of Parkville for class this afternoon since she still wasn't well enough to come to school. She has a real nice apartment out by Melody Farms. My bad luck day - tipped over some Coke on my car coat when I laid it on the table for lunch and flunked my fist history quiz (didn't even do that last semester). Pat Frost is going to be a good reporter. She, George and I ought to really be able to swing things now - it's about time. A second February 4th in a row was a beautiful spring day. On that day last year some of us hiked to Falling Springs in Bermudas.

Lucerne Rose Tea Was This Afternoon - Sunday, February 3, 1963

Dee and I went down to Dyer's open house tonight. Tom Gale, Ron Bowman, Ron Knight, Bruce Scott, Randy Fehr and Bob Grinnell live there this year as "service" guys who run errands for the college. They have a nice layout. Their theme was the White House. I listened to the First Family comedy record which I hadn't heard all the way through yet. The Lucerne Rose Tea was this afternoon. It was very nice, except only one senior girl, Peggy Rabe, really showed up. It was interesting visiting with the faculty wives though. History is dull this time, but I guess I better get it read. We have a picture of Chestnut with our toilet seats that Kathy's taking reprint orders for.