| date | Mike | other events | family | work | outside |
1962 Jan |
[LaPorte HS grade 12] | [Wiley Jr High 8th grade; 13y] 2) orthodontist, dentist |
1) tablecloth for supper. Ma moved gold lamp into our room. |
9) Mr Smith broke a flag over his head |
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| Feb | 10) went to Doreen's 11) movies with Cheryl: Bachelor in Paradise, Wonders of Aladdin. 13) got 2 fillings 16) had Cheryl, Margie, Jo-Anne, Doreen over after school to play board games 22) "psychoanalysis party" at Cheryl's. 28) analyzed Mike LInk's handwriting -- Myron Fersky likes me |
3) Dad sent Shar to bed as punishment 10) silent movies at art museum with family 18) Shar went to movie 24) went to Sea Around Us at art museum with family |
2) at honors assembly, almost didn't get certificate because principal saw me talking in audience 16) Mrs Rashkis made me a paperback book salesman for new pb section in library; also Mike Link; we stamp books. 26) kids don't obey me in library 27) went to Student Council |
2) "Predicted world would end today. It didn't." (alignment of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) | |
| Mar | 3) reading Don Quixote 14) Cheryl Olkes & Doreen Sapir are feuding; Mike Link going steady with Barbara K 16) went to Doreen's 17) ballerina fell out of clock 18) saw Flower Drum Song 24) went to Doreen's 25) saw Ben Hur 26) Kathy Yuhas' aunt died; Jo-Anne cut her hair 31) went to Doreen's, ate there; made green yarn octopus |
3) Mom & Shar got noses cauterized; saw Day the Earth Stood Still on TV 11) saw Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court on TV 12) Dad started us using evaporated milk due to fallout (St-90) 13-15) Dad>Detroit 20) Mom found rotten sock 21) Dad's friend Charlie comes to house 26-31) Dad away |
12) Adrian Arian new girl in class 13) detention in Math for messing up board 20) initiated into Honor Society during an assembly 30) Mrs Cowan (Soc Studies) gave us "poison" candy with liqueur |
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| Apr | 2) JAT & Cheryl come over 7) saw Sail a Crooked Ship at movies; went to Cheryl's, who has new bedroom set 9) Faith's birthday; we all got her stuff 11) Mike Link tells Cheryl "Hey, y'ho, Cheryl, you're pretty smart. Almost as smart as me'n Lida!" 16) saw Thriller 17) went to PJ party at Jo-Anne's, stayed up til 3am 20) made Dayna an octopus; reading Esperanto 24) Cheryl running for secretary of something. Won't sit with me, says "I want to be NORMAL" &"I can't go with you if I want to be secretary" 25) Marlene trying to break up Mike & Barbi |
1) saw One Two Three with family; made Shar an octopus 3) Shar's friends Kathy & Cindy visit 8) big fight w Dad 15) Dad threw our toys off the toy chest 16) Daddy has headache, didn't eat; Shar still sick 21-22) > Detroit with family .21) visited at Aunt Eva's; met Alberta's kids Debby & Mark; visited at Grandma's, played in park; Shirley remodelled bathroom in pink .22) Hank talked about current events Shirley is pregnant; saw 11-car accident |
2-3) dissecting cow's eye 4) chosen to be a helper in French (along with KathyYuhas, Cheryl, & Mike Link) 6) went to Mother Daughter Tea; Mrs Elconin sad b/c no one went with her 12) Mr Bray's VW was on the stage for assembly 27) Chorus photos taken on risers 30) got 2 in attitude in English |
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| May | 19) saw Margie Weiss act in Wiley Children's Theater in Wise Fools of Gotham, with Shar & Jo-Anne; shoved fingernail up tooth 22) went to MD for checkup; I'm 5 feet tall 25) had Sabin oral polio vaccine at school |
7-8) Dad away 8) rearraged room; heads of beds on W wall, toy chest in front of W window; my bed to N 20) Dad nauseous; saw Moby Dick on TV with family 24) Mom & Dad went to show 26) Shar & Miriam went to Cedar Center 27) got 2nd Sabin vaccine with family at Wiley (Sun) |
10) sang in Chorus concert; Mom & Shar attended 11,14) sang in Chorus in assembly |
24) Scott Carpenter orbits earth | |
| Jun | 2) Doreen visits 3) visited Jo-Anne; her dad drove me home in convertible 9) visited Jo-Anne 10) bought autograph book 12) visited "Maisie" 15) Mike LInk broke up with Barbi; visited Doreen 16) got 1000 piece puzzle; sick again 21) sick; vag 23) my doll's bangs fell out when I washed and curled its hair; glued it back 24) finished puzzle 26) visited JAT 28) read Sears Catalog 30) doing handwriting analysis |
3) Shar went to birthday party 4-6) Dad >Washington 10) Shar & Dad went to Uncle Bill's 17) Brian Lonnerstater born 24) Dad painted our window shades alumninum; Miriam visited Shar; Dad found cockroach on back porch; not allowed to see TV movie b/c I didn't have milk on time 26) Mom mad b/c I leaned on dirtyrug; Dad madb/cIsaidI hated boys more than Christ 27) string bean fight with Shar, squashed some on her chair, Dad sat on some, got mad, Shar lied 28) Dad ripped up puzzle |
8) Cheryl climbed out window in French 11) Honor Society picnic; someone fell in creek 12) got Mr Berlin going-away cake 13) Honor Roll; took autograph book around for signing 15) Mr Berlin kissed JAT & me 19) got on Wigwam |
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| Jul | 3) Cheryl & JAT visit 5) started Russian 6) doing chem, math too 10) Doreen, Margie, Maisie visit; Maisie told Margie to make an excuse & they left but D stayed 11) bowling w/ Shar, Doreen, Jo-Anne 16) stopped doing chem 23) making family trees 28) wart on foot; dermatologist nuked it 29) Sabin vaccine #3 |
1) family got Sabin oral polio vaccine type 3 3) Mom bashed in the back of the garage 6) Shar's friend Joanne visits 4) Dad fixed funny chair 8) played horses with Shar 9) Dad's Art visits 10) Miriam visits 20) Shar spies on Denkers |
9) US set off H bomb in Van Allen Radiation belt | ||
| Aug | Freshman at UM | 2) got mechanical pencil at May Co 3) broadbent says I need 2 teeth pulled 5) cicada lands on porch screen 6) NASA Open House 7-12) > Detroit with Family .9) Grandma's .11) >Ann Arbor museum w/ family .12) Grandma's 14) last 2 baby teeth pulled by Dr Bembroke 18) boiled H2O [?!] 26) PJ party at KathyYuhas' house; Cheryl & Maisie fight; JAT "not atheist any more" |
5) Dad goes to NASA to work on exhibits 7) Shirley has remodeled den, put in lavatory, different closet 8) Jerry & Esther visit @ Shirley's 9) we drove Aunt Eva home 10) took Grandma to shoe store for orthopedics 11) Esther & Jerry @ Shirley's 12) Alberta & her family @ Grandma's - Esther & Jerry. 22) Dad wants us to get Hush Puppies 23) Shar got allergy tests & pills 24) got private, unlimited phone |
9) Joe Orlando loses at Concentration 21) storm 110 mph winds |
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| Sep | 1) smallpox vaccination 4) orthodontist xrayed my head 5) grade 9; Carolyn from 2 doors down is new girl 17) Mike Link offers to fix my sliderule [I am extatic] 19) making Pogo drawings 26-28) first period. |
12-) Dad > Washington 13) big storm; went to basement 15) lots of trees were blown down |
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| Oct | 24) got pet mice, Mitkey & Frisky. 30) Girls' Cabinet meeting 31) gave out Great Pumpkin cards |
22-28) Cuban Missile Crisis | |||
| Nov | 29) 19y | 1) WileyPow-Wow;won leis. Read Somethng Wicked This Way Comes. 2) need new glasses, per eye MD 3) orthodontist: I need braces for 2 yrs 9) mice fight; new cage for Frisky 10) saw Bye Bye Birdie with Jo-Anne Tannenbaum 13) new brown glasses 14) open house; lady fainted 16) saw Carousel 19) 14y; got Uncle Wiggly game (!) 21) started in Chess Club 23) xxx 29) overjoyed because mike link walked thru hall with me, marlene said "uh-oh! lida allen & mike link!" & he didn't object ... Shermy Hirsch likes me (who?) |
24) Uncle Max died: 24-26) Dad > Detroit 29) got Dad a scarf |
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| Dec | 2) "Maisie" had party & invited Deltons, who wrecked her house 12) read Rebecca 15) Shaker Library 25) got little gold ID bracelet for Channukah 27) almost fainted; nauseous, dizzy, saw green sponges 29) dentist; xray |
14) archway over dinette leaking 24) got Etch-a-Sketch 25) saw Music Man with family 28) moved our beds together with heads at N wall 30) Shar & I taped ourselves singing |
4) Mr Rozanc announces resignation as of January 7) Snow day |
28) Miriam Brotman's mother died |
*info largely from blue "Daily Doings" diary