My Mother's Thesis Will Be Basis for Article in Arithmetic Teacher - Wednesday, February 21, 1962

Tonight I have written home and done my French. Now I better try to finish The Sound of Roland before I'm sunk. Mom has been asked by the editor of Arithmetic Teacher to write an article for the October issue. The editor, from the State College of Iowa, was in Washington County as a mathematics consultant. I got a B- on my French test, the worst I've ever done on a French test. I got 71, about average, on the anatomy test.

Col. John Glenn Completes Three Orbits of the Earth - Tuesday, February 20, 1962

This has been a day to remember. Colonel John Glenn orbited the Earth three times today in the United States' first orbital space flight. The J. R. was full of people watching television when the rocket ship lifted smoothly off the pad at Cape Canaveral about 8:45 this morning. Tonight I was privileged to hear "one of the best vocal organizations in the whole wide world," the Robert Shaw Chorale as they presented Bach's "The Passion According to St. John" at the Kansas City Music Hall.

Most Thought Anatomy Test Was Bad - Monday, February 19, 1962

Everybody's tired. And it's only Monday. Why don't I do all my way-behind work? Why don't I make the dean's list this semester? I wrote a letter to Mary Brown. My Valentine to Jerolyn was returned. Evidently she is no longer at her apartment in Iowa City. Most kids thought the anatomy test was pretty bad. I didn't think it was too bad. Tomorrow is a French test. I think I'll look over the lessons and go to bed a little earlier than usual. Just so I don't get back into my old habit of going to bed without enough work ahead done.

Nine of Us Attend Universal Day of Prayer for Students Service - Sunday, February 18, 1962

Today's studying time was spent in preparation for tomorrow's anatomy test. It was cold today. At 6:00 this morning Marge and I went to the Universal Day of Prayer for Students service in the chapel. Only about nine showed up. I wrote a letter to Phyllis. Jim spoke to me at supper - concerning the "hopeless" ketchup bottles. I hadn't even realized he was standing beside me. I played Hearts on the new round card table in the lounge with Marge, Judy and Carolyn.

President Finds Us Peeking at Dancing - Saturday, February 17, 1962

I got my photo reprints and a letter from Pat in the mail. The reprints are the best so far from the three companies I've tried. I wrote another  round robin letter to send to Mary Ellen. Vivien and I went down to peek through the lounge door window at the dancing tonight and who should catch us in the act but the president of the college! Quite a few of us didn't go to the party. I did French at the library this afternoon while Marge read her anthropology. Flo trimmed my hair some tonight.

Chimes Have Been Playing Park's "Alma Mater" - Friday, February 16, 1962

This has been a fast week. Here it is another weekend so soon and I must study, study, study. Some of us went swimming tonight. It was colder again today. The chimes have been playing more often recently. We've even had Park's "Alma Mater" played. Vivien is practicing some of her apparatus class exercises. I should do them, too. I thought about asking Jim Peeke to the Valentine dance tomorrow night but for some reason I didn't. Maybe by the St. Patrick's Day dance I'll have more nerve.

Lowell-Lucerne Club Initiation was Held Tonight - Thursday, February 15, 1962

After chapel I went downtown to see if my pictures were back. They were. I entered two of the black and white  snow scenes along with the colored pictures of the chapel and our room in the public affairs office contest for view book pictures. Dr. Hill [last semester's speech professor] drove me back up to campus. The LLCs initiation was tonight. It was a very impressive ceremony. We had to kneel before the table and repeat our oath. Then we signed our names with all the other Parkites who have belonged to Lowells or Lucernes.