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.

Rain, Shopping in Kansas City and an SNEA Sponsored Movie - Saturday, March 10, 1962

Oh, the beautiful pit-a-pat of rain! Against the window. I sing as I write this down. Margaret and I went to Kansas City this afternoon. I got a pair of tennis shoes, a pin bonnet, post cards, film and flash bulbs, hose and socks. Flo and I went to the SNEA sponsored movie, "At War With the Army," tonight at the Meetin' House, but it wasn't very good.

Tonight's Entertainment is Dancing the Twist at a Party in Upper Commons - Friday, March 9, 1962

Tonight's entertainment was a party in Upper Commons. The dance, the Twist, is quite the rage. I can't do it myself. I got my prize money this morning. They're going to be able to return the pictures after all. Maybe I could turn in a few more, as I was told they'd be glad to have them. It was nice to be able to sleep late since we didn't have anatomy class. Of course Vivien forgot and yelled did I oversleep even though I'd told her I could sleep late. Music class was dismissed early because the record player cut up during "A Mighty Fortress is Our God."

A $5.00 Prize in Photo Contest Religion Category - Thursday, March 8, 1962

I won a prize ($5.00) in the Public Relations Office photo contest. Sharon Fritts and one of the foreign students also won. My name was listed under category 4, so they must have used my chapel picture as the religious one. Sarita Penick was here tonight. She really had some funny experiences in France. The French test wasn't bad. Dr. Hilty didn't get there for world lit so that gave me an extra hour to study French. They've had snow on the the ground at home for 90 days - a record.