Am Ready to Teach the Class All Day Tomorrow - Monday, November 16, 1964

We had a student council meeting tonight. Then I took Evelyn home so she could get the cupcakes for Kay's birthday and we had the party tonight. Even though I'm going to teach all day tomorrow I've done all there is to do and have finished sooner than usual. I won't have time for a lot of the Indian unit tomorrow, so since we'll just finish what we had for today, I didn't have any worksheets to make. Then my reading plans were done sooner than usual, too. I didn't get my bulletin board up since the rain kept the class in for recess and phys ed.

Will Try a Different Approach With Worksheets - Sunday, November 15, 1964

I worked on Tuesday's reading lessons this afternoon and this evening. I made five worksheets, four of them original. I'm going to try a little different approach with the Indian unit tomorrow and not have so much detailed information on ditto copies. I'll try "telling it" to them as they do worksheets with less detail. I worked on a new bulletin board - questions and pictures for five groups of Indians. I treated Evelyn at the ACC Hamburg Castle.

Hearing Messiah Choir for the Second Time - Saturday, November 14, 1964

Tonight I went with Evelyn, Mrs. Gatton, Kathy and Elizabeth to hear the Independence Messiah Choir again. It didn't seem to take as long this year. I didn't think it was quite as good as last year, but then I probably wasn't so critical in my first impression. Evelyn went with me to the Kwiki Car Wash in Riverside from 1:00 - 2:00 this afternoon while I washed my car. Mom wrote that Daddy had washed the two at home, so I decided to do likewise.

Philosophy Class Had Coffee at Dr. Myers' House - Friday, November 13, 1964

I finally got a chance to write a birthday thank you letter to Grandma Kay and Schwartzes and Grandma and Grandpa. Jean, Flo and I went to Dr. Myers' house tonight for coffee along with others in the philosophy class. It was a very enjoyable evening. What a week of student teaching! Things went wrong again when Carol had an accident because I didn't let her go to the restroom. I'm glad I inquired of Miss Dyer as to why she was crying so that I was able to explain that Carol was the fourth in a row to ask to go to the restroom and I only let the first one go.

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.