When-1961?
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1961
Jan |
[LaPorte HS grade 11] |
[Wiley Jr High 7th grade; 12y]
3) dermatologist for acne
22--) doing burlap embroidery
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20) Daddy made me eat something or somewhere; "hate"
22) Shar went to meeting;
ate hamburgers in living room watching Night of the Awk
26) got
miniature croquet set
27) Daddy wanted us to eat chicken that had had "BM" on it, in spite of Mama & us; "he hates us"
29) made the Weekly News with Shar
31--) Daddy > New York
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20) JFK inaugural broadcast during school
25) decided to try for Scholarship Cup
26) Honor Roll
30) tights are banned (Mrs Rashkis)
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20) JFK inaugural |
| Feb |
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--3) finished burlap embroidery
1) doing typing
2) sick again
found ladybug in soap tray; put it on plant
8) walked home different way from school
22) got phony phone call
27) Dr Kyman for ear infection |
--5) Daddy home from New York
4) rearranged bedroom: shar's bed on wall between door and closet, my bed other side of window, head on N wall; toychest under window
5) Shar went to meeting
12) Shar went to club Valentine party
19) Shar's Just Us Girls club met at our house; we taped them
22) apple pancakes with cinnamon
24) Shar & Dad went to Case movie (I was sick)
26--) Dad > San Francisco (actually Mountain View) |
20) explained math problem that no one else got, even teacher (Mr Bellin)
-- made & drank OJ for Home Ec |
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| Mar |
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1) sick again
11) won at poker with Hank
12) failed to fly kites
14) JAT came up with ID bracelet scam ("GLA=George Leonard Adelstein")
15) ID scam not working well; Lynn Phynick suspicious
17) stopped wearing bracelet, b/c Lynn guessed what was up
18) managed to fly kite
20) painted things
25) flew kite; Laurel came; visited Sarah Anne |
--1) Dad home from San Francisco
10-12) Shirley, Hank, & Dayna come to visit
.11) won at poker with Hank
.11) shirley taught us 15-solitaire
20) hit Shar in stomach
26) Dad scolded me for many things;
steak burned & made a lot of irritating smoke
31--) > Detroit with family; car sick
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8) got detentions for running in hall; Dad made me go back & explain that I was walking; got off
9) botched up cookies in home ec
10) first seat in Math
14) got into 8th Grade Chorus |
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| Apr |
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1-3) vomiting
4) still sick; saw MD
5) got bauled out for working on income tax
6) saw Portrait of Dorian Gray on TV
9) finally stomach better
18) visited Jo-Anne
21) read Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet x
22) got .30 instead of .25 change back from machine at art;
art model wants to draw me
27) Jo-Anne visits me (first time) |
--3) home from Detroit
.1) Shar & I sick (throwing up); MD came to house, gave us meds
.2,3) both still sick
5) Shar threw up again
10) Mom & Dad went to movie
14) Mom cut her finger real bad, got 2 stitches
15) Mom's finger swollen; MD removed bandage.
saw The Oxbow Incident on TV
22) building flying air car;
saw No Time for Sargeants, Auntie Mame with family
23) our ball rolled into a dead rabbit;
saw Hunchback of Notre Dame with family
24) Shar got slammed by garage door
30) argument w/Dad about project |
7) Mr Bellin called me at home b/c I had been out sick so long; "misses me"
8) registered for Saturday art class at Cooper
13) elected name for statistics group in math: Nillebites;
doing sewing machine
15) started art at Cooper with Ferrara, dont' like teacher.
17) saw HMS Pinafore at Wiley
18) I am head of Nillebites; setting up first poll;
started making apron in Home Ec
19) big fuss about my Venus rocket project
27) made announcement over PA system about poll; homeroom applauded
28) gave poll
29) Ferrara liked portrait I did |
12) Yuri Gagarin orbits earth; first man in space |
| May |
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1) played autobridge
3) Jack Kyman invited me to his bar mitzvah
12) sent home with eye infection
15) wore bra first time; tight
20) got mechanical pencil
27) went to Jack Kyman's bar mitzvah
28) Kathy & Cheryl visit |
2) Dad "blew up at me. Thinks I'm wasting my brain."
6) Dad yelled at us all day |
5) gave Mr Bellin a birthday party
. astronaut launch broadcast on PA
10) took over part of math class (polls part)
15) Marty Fromin initiated assigned seats at lunch
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5) Alan Shepard, Mercury astronaut, has successful sub-orbital flight
6) Carry Back wins Kentuck Derby
20) Carry Back wins Preakness
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| Jun |
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4) visited Cheryl
7) JAT visits;;
got briefcase back (!)
16) JAT visits
17) reading Auntie Mame;
getting free baseball tix (for A's) to sell
18) reading Tales of Terror & the Supernatural
19) practicing typing
20) visited JAT; played horses with Shar
21) reading Famous Science Fiction Stories
25) went to picnic at Temple on the Heights as guest of JAT; ran faster than all others.
27) visited JAT
28) making Sears Catalog scrapbook
29) reading Have Space Suit Will Travel x |
18) shower hose broke
19) playing 7-up with Shar; Mom thought new ball had blood on it
21) Dad wants to send me to Shaker
23) Dad mad at me for reading too much;
steak for supper
24) Shar got nail polish on dining room wall
29) tree in front yard is getting fuzzy fruit |
1) Niki Rabb kicked out of chorus for talking back
16) Honor Roll, onstage |
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| Jul |
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2) started Iliad again
5) visited Jo-Anne
6) Jo-Anne visited
10) saw Call of the Wild on TV;
scraped my shin
18) Dad throwing out wooden colts; I interfered, he hit my back; couldn't move legs
19) can move legs
30) Dad took us to Euclid Beach
31) hid in car after fight |
1) played ball with Shar in rec room
10-12) Dad > Pennsylvania
12) I made Shar octopus for birthday. Party. |
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9) new girl moved in in old lady's house, going to Hebrew School |
| Aug |
grade 12 |
1) depressed
4) intermittent electric outages
5-13) > Detroit w/ family
.5,6) visit Grandma & Grandpa
.9) Shirley got us birds on string that tweet when whirled
.10) Grandma & Grandpa visit us at Shirley's
.11) caught bugs for school
.12) visit Grandma's, nearby park
19) drew "Norval" Dr Seuss creature
- baby spiders hatched in Ma's room
24) Sredni Vashtar on TV
25) while folks out, man knocked at door!
26) broke glass
28) Parent Trap
30) made code wheel |
7-11) Dad goes home, leaves us in Detroit
8) Dayna trips; ma freaks about woman holding head up, but turned out to be nosebleed
13) Dad paints lawn mower
24) made Mom & Dad salt-crystal cards for Crysatl Anniversary (15) on 25th
25) ma & dad went to Grubers for anniversary |
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| Sep |
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2) watched slugs
3) dead butterfly in basement
6) grade 8. Paula Sachs new in Homeroom.
18) Cheryl Olkes goes to Jewish Family Service about her folks
25) got First Seat in math
29) Steffie put "kick me" sign on me
- on Nillebites (math club w/ Mr Bellin) |
5) Mom & Shar had warts frozen
8) Shar had bad nose bleed
11) Shar went to shul for Rosh Hashanah
12) Dad said he wanted a boy
13) navy saddle shoes
16) Mom & Dad saw movie
27-29) Dad> Chincoteague |
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| Oct |
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1) "Tied a belt around feet and hopped around"
3) took over math class for Mr Bellin
12) Mr Berlin showed movies backward in Social Studies
13) took over math, but too noisy; buzzed office, got yelled at
14) eye doctor; Jim's Steak House
17) flu shot; cast at orthodontist; paid me 20cts for teeth
24) on Statisticats committee
31) flu shots |
27) Mom throwing up (Fri)
31--) Dad > Boston |
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| Nov |
29) 18y |
3) readingFreud
5) saw Please Don't Eat the Daisies
6) doilng polls in math
9) Larry bit Mr Patti's tie in chorus
11) sick
12-15) sewing stuffed zebra/horses
13) read Witch of Blackbird Pond, Facts of Life
14) got 5" slide rule; broke slide
17) math class gave me birthday cards, song: mike link gave me notebook (?)
18) saw Demetrius & the Gladiator
19) 13y
21) mike link broke my slide rule; took it home w/him to fix it
22) mike link returned my (fixed & greased) slide rule
23) reading Tales of Terror & the Supernatural
23-26) >Detroit with family
.24) read Exodus
.25) at Grandma's, saw Alberta, 2nd cousin Marvin
27) math substitute; took advantage & left 15 min early for Nillebites
29) slipped to 2nd seat in math, after Myron Fersky; mike link commiserated with me
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--4) Dad home from Boston
29) gave Dad sweater |
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| Dec |
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5) forged John Hancock's signature
18) Marlene Wiederhorn going steady with Mike Link
26) had rum candy; awful
28) went to Kathy (Yuhas)'s house
29) dentist: 2 cavities; Jo-Anne (Tanenbaum) & Doreen (Sapir) came over |
4) we got Visible Horse for Channukah
10) big fights; dad almost left
15) saw Japanese movies at Case with family
23) Daddy sick
24) pillow fight with Shar
25) Germans came over w/baby girl; went to movie of Bolshoi Cinderella
27) pillow fight
28) Dad got us new 6" slide rule
30) fight with Shar over Chinese babies (on pincushions); she'd cut hers off & sewed them back on, & I wouldn't let her play with mine
31) Dad & Mom went to New Year's Eve party |
9) got caught doing Science in English
13) sang in Christmas concert at Wiley |
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