Bought Airmail and Five Cents Stamps - Monday, February 11, 1963

I spent most of the evening writing news. Carolyn Reed was here for a while. She and I are in charge of the ed psych class for Chapter 9 Wednesday night. We did our preliminary planning. I got a B on the ed psych test, one of the best grades. Even so, I got a lot of 0's. You'd think he could give a few points' credit for some of them. I made a trip to the post office after French class. The airmail stamps I got to mail Mrs. Cowan's valentine and the five cents stamps I bought were pretty. Mr. Hearson drove me back up from the stop sign.

Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Services - Sunday, February 10, 1963

Margie and Bob went to Wichita today to visit his aunt. They aren't back yet. I hope they hurry along. Today some of us in Religion 202 witnessed a Roman Catholic and a Greek Orthodox church service in Kansas City. Several of us had never been to a Catholic service or a Greek service before. Both of the services and the churches were very impressive. The Greek Orthodox had a lot of chants, singing and speaking, in Greek. Altar boys and communion at both. Ritual, incense at the Greek, bell ringing and wine pouring at the Catholic. Margaret and I, Vivien and Charlie went with Rev. Seamans. A cute girl [from South Dakota] has been Jim Peeke's guest this weekend. I guess that's the way the ball bounces.

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.