PrimoDonna
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June 2006
My College Graduation
Friday, 30 June 2006 6:04 A GMT-06
During the last nine weeks of college, I did my practice teaching in a town near where my parents and sister lived and about 2 hours from the C of O. I taught middle school (seventh through ninth grade) girls’ physical education classes. I don't
Category: The Past
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College Photos
Wednesday, 28 June 2006 12:00 A GMT-06
Below are two photos of me taken during college. Don't they look like those used in online ads for Classmates.com?
Category: The Past
Questions You Could Ask Your Family
Monday, 26 June 2006 12:00 A GMT-06
I was cleaning out my purse the other day and found a list of ten questions that I saved from a magazine several years ago. They are supposed to help a family get closer by finding out about each other. Ask your family the questions at the dinner
Category: Miscellaneous
78 and 45 Vinyl Records
Friday, 23 June 2006 12:00 A GMT-06
Not all of you will be familar with vinyl or phonograph records. They were replaced with 8-track tapes, then cassette tapes, CDs, MP3 players, iPods, and who knows what else. When I was growing up, records were the thing to have.
Category: The Past
Two More Memories of Working With the Ozarks Area Mission
Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:00 A GMT-06
One week I was a counselor at Dwight Mission, a Presbyterian camp, conference, and retreat center in Oklahoma. I think the kids were in junior high. They were great kids and a lot of fun. At that time, we would walk down to the creek to go swimming
Category: The Past
Two Memories of Working With the Ozarks Area Mission
Monday, 19 June 2006 12:00 A GMT-06
When I worked with the Ozarks Area Mission, I spent a week with kids from the Arkansas Children’s Colony, who were mentally retarded (intellectually disabled) or had other disabilities. For one week during summer, most of the kids went home to the
Category: The Past
Ozarks Area Mission
Friday, 16 June 2006 12:00 A GMT-06
For two summers during college, I worked with a program sponsored by C of O called Ozarks Area Mission. The following statement was in one of my yearbooks: “The Ozarks Area Mission affords numerous opportunities for Christian witness to students
Category: The Past
Teachers and Classes That Stand Out in My Mind
Wednesday, 14 June 2006 12:00 A GMT-06
I remember moments in many classes, like seeing slides of paintings by famous artists in art appreciation class, listening to fellow students give speeches, sitting through some boring classes, enjoying Mrs. Q who was the women's physical counselor,
Category: The Past
Island
Monday, 12 June 2006 12:00 A GMT-06
My older granddaughter will be in the first grade in the fall. She loves to read. While visiting her and her family recently, I was listening to her read things. She reads whatever she sees—words on cereal boxes, newspaper headlines, signs, anythi
Category: The Past The Present
Engagement
Friday, 9 June 2006 12:00 A GMT-06
Toward the end of my sophomore year, I became engaged to a guy from
Katy, Texas. He was a great dancer and had a very deep, infectious laugh. He was older than most college students because he had been in the Navy for four years. He was ready to g
Category: The Past
Summer of '65
Wednesday, 7 June 2006 12:00 A GMT-06
The summer after my freshman year, I stayed with my sister Dottie in
Houston. (Our parents and sister were still in Japan.) She was working there as a keypunch operator. She worked in the evenings. She lived in a one-bedroom apartment. That summe
Category: The Past
Dress Code
Monday, 5 June 2006 12:00 A GMT-06
We had a dress code at C of O. Girls couldn’t wear shorts or slacks outside the dorm except on Saturdays. Even then, we couldn’t go off campus wearing them. We were required to wear a dress or skirt and blouse. When I had physical education c
Category: The Past
Prochein Amy Tagged Me!
Saturday, 3 June 2006 6:32 P GMT-06
Prochein Amy tagged me for the other 5s meme. She was tagged by CalTechGirl, but I'm not tagging anyone. The meme stops here. 5 things in my frig: - Salsa by Pace and Mrs. Renfro’s. They are important food items. - Cheeses--American sandwich
Category: The Present
Cafeteria Food
Friday, 2 June 2006 12:00 A GMT-06
Usually the food in the cafeteria food tasted just fine. However, two meals each week were very, very good--breakfast on Friday and the lunch on Sunday. Breakfast on Friday wasn’t the usual eggs, bacon, toast, and things like that--it was delicou
Category: The Past