Author: Trella Hemmerly Haldeman Romine

Monday, January 23, 1995
MCHS 8+5+2 EHMA 6+2+6
Shoveled a little more at driveway but couldn’t get out. got car stuck at road. Finished editing Hallmarks and did the layout. Called Mary to come to my driveway at the road and she took me to Heritage Hall about 3:00. Ran 400 copies- ran out of toner- Office Systems brought cartridge over. Helen Kaufman in at 5:30 and started folding. Finished running at 6:00 and then brought me home in a snowstorm and another 2 in snow fell

Sunday, January 22, 1995
Shoveled path to mailbox through 12-in snow. Filled bird feeders. No mail yesterday or Star today. Temperature 21 to 25°. Worked on Hallmarks most of day. Printed out labels for membership notices and for newsletter. Karen called asking me to see if Rita would like to come to David’s party with me. Willis Thomas called to thank me for mentioning him in Huber story for Star as a fundraiser. Mary called got her snow blower going after getting it warm. She putting together 3D Neuschwanstein jigsaw puzzle. Paper white narcissus blooming and odor permeates the house!

Saturday, January 21, 1995
Snowed all day- piled up 11 inches on railings by dark. Package from Penny Deibert and copies of her submission to Campus Matrius for recognition of our ancestors Benoni and Phoebe Hurlbut. Included a handwritten letter from J Matheson written October 5th 1791, a week after Benoni was scalped. Transcribed it and called Penny with my thanks. Wrote to Chuck Hemmerly. Started newsletter. Called Sandra Kellogg. She will be social chairman. Snow clinging even with wind. Birds fed all day. Didn’t even get out to mailbox.

Friday, January 20, 1995
Tried to call for Mary B funeral home door locked at 9:30 to Smith Clinic at 10:00 to be with Mary for her first appointment with Dr Debra had to wait an hour he knew just how to turn Mary’s leg to cause pain. none of the x-rays she had were of her back so he ordered them. to Plaza National City Bank and signed power of attorney on Mary’s safe deposit box. took bird count story to Star. grocery shopped at Meijer. slept for 3 hours!
Cooked the chicken thighs and made noodle casserole.

Thursday, January 19, 1995
Royce cleaning. At 3:00 to River Valley Middle School to talk to 7th graders Explorers on local local history. Told Irey Halt’s Claridon in early 1900s and Mary Brocklesby education in Claridon Township. She died Tuesday. I’ll miss her. Home for a rest. In at 6:00 to First Nazarene Church to talk on the Ed Huber Association and Machinery Museum. Talked with Trudy Dietsh Galloway lives on site of Dietsh Farm in Chateau Ridge. and Mrs. Luke (Don Braden’s mother) and Virginia Starner White, Girl Scout in my Greenwood Street Troop in 1939. She married Richard- Fred White’s son. Got home too late to go to funeral home to call on Mary Brocklesby (Mary B as she always identified herself)

Wednesday, January 18, 1995
Call from Jack that Star needs info on Atrium ceiling and Museum cleaning closing and asking me to write it from what he had given me for Hallmarks- (it was eight pages of unusable material!) So spent morning writing it and story on Huber annual meeting. Took brick orders to Glen Gary, stories to Star. Ran into and talked to Mary Lawrence, managing editor. She gave slicks of Huber groundbreaking stories. Picked up Museum fund report from Mark Bauer and took final budget and print out of Star story to Heritage Hall. Took sandwiches to Mary for supper.

Tuesday, January 17, 1995
Printed out membership list after updating it from list I picked up at Cottrell’s after breakfast with class of 33 at Islay’s. Teeth cleaned by Mike Clorea. X-rayed but no cavity. Talked about his Alaska trip. Home by 12:00 entered brick records and printed it out -1,494 records now. Ate with Mary at Wendy’s at 6:00. Board meeting went well told them I felt like a girl who had her first date with a boy she’d known most of her life. Jan Augenstein new trustee complimented me on making her feel so welcome and conducting such an interesting meeting. Voted to start atrium ceiling and lighting and close museums for 2 months.

Monday, January 16, 1995
MCHS 6+8+6
Sorting, compiling my MCHS notebook. In at 3:30 for Budget committee. Eula called me and said she had heard there would be a meeting and that I had asked her to serve, but she wasn’t notified couldn’t figure that one out until she brought up transformation budget deficiencies- we were working on the operating budget only! To Huber annual meeting at Gateway Smorgasbord. Mr and Mrs Fred Reid my guests. Don Braden gave history of EnFab and Huber Maintainer.

Sunday, January 15, 1995
Called Haldeman’s- David at clients cinching a sale that Kim has dallied with for weeks. gave Karen a chance to invite Mary and me to David’s 50th surprise birthday party on January 28th weather permitting! more computer catch up on reports and getting ready for MCH board meeting- got agenda ready- committee and function chairman and yearly calendar of activities.

Saturday, January 14, 1995
Sorted out recyclables accumulated in the garage for 3 months and also cleaned floor. burned papers. Sorting boxes of MCHS- Huber- Day Before Yesterday and correspondence. Took it to St Mary’s for recycling. Picked up bird count report at Ed Lux. Shopped at Meijer. Called Helen Roesner- all okay Uncle Allen will be 99 on February 9th