Author: Trella Hemmerly Haldeman Romine

Saturday, March 7, 1987 70° sunny
Made chicken casserole and meatloaf for Howard while Mary and I are in Pennsylvania. Told him this morning I would be gone 4 days. He took it pretty well. Took him shopping at Reece’s while I picked up Bicentennial posters at P.O.. Mary out and waited while I got news release ready for 10 surrounding newspapers. She will copy and mail for me. Dave popped in unexpectedly. “So nice, I came home to go canoeing.” – Took walk in woods – some daffs up & one lone winter aconite blooming.

To Waldo at 5:30 with Alexander Berry’s will & Eber Bakier’s plat for Marion County First Family Banquet, Pat Winn, chairman.

Friday, March 6, 1987 Spring cancer moths on window temperature 65 sunny.
Steve White called with the bad news book cannot be ready until Friday April 3rd. He will bring key line proofs next Friday for our OK.

Wrote news release on March 15th recognition with new info on book release. Compiled program for March 15th meeting and pasted up dummy. Met Ellen Pratt at shop at 5:00 with a list of names for her to calligraphy on the certificates that Mary picked up for us at Quick Print. She also got the frames from Meijer and had them there for Ellen. Supper at Ike’s and chatted with Whitmans. Then to Moshers with the news & to get their okay on new plans. Home about 9:00.

Thursday, March 5, 1987
To Oak Street School to talk to remedial reading second and third graders on how to make a book. Used seven of Ray’s poems for children- Contents, Title and Index Pages- cut up and made the dummy- Donna Lawrence will duplicate and let each make their own book.
To Dr. Cloran for teeth cleaning. Home at noon and worked on list of landowners and their heirs that will be at March 15th recognition meeting.
Slept 3 hours- still fighting this cold-or is it an allergy arising from stress- Don’t see how book can be ready by March 15th.

Wednesday, March 4, 1987
Called Steve at 7:30 and got him in person. Said he had just picked up the appendix. Told him he’d have the index tomorrow. He said they are working overtime at Glanz. Made index for appendix and found why page numbers weren’t right my files were more than one page so after 55 records it forced the next page numbers. Lucille Fullerton called saying they had sold their land before Scioto Ordinance Plant but that jogged my mind that the USA sales back needed index. In at 4:30 to mail it and also $2,000 check.

Tuesday, March 3, 1987
Finished compiling index- not as big a job as I had feared. When it came to sorting it I had to call David and he talked me through it. Too long for sorter command had to go into dBaseII to handle it. Then back to Wordstar in non-document mode to clean it up. A 20-page printout. 1,200 names. Finished about 1:30 a.m.

Monday, March 2, 1987
Worked on appendix and got it in the mail by 2:30. Then wrote Day Before Yesterday column on displacement and designed the certificate for the displaced families. Into Marion and left certificates at QuickPrint and Day Before Yesterday at Star.

Sandwich at Rax’s and home and sorted Prairie slides to give talk to Marion Mixers Garden Club on Claridon and Campus Prairie.

Called at Bud Hurst’s wake. Parking lot and room jammed.

Sunday, March 1, 1987
Index files to put in appendix.

Saturday, February 28, 1987
Woke up to find a stranger in Dave’s bed and him on the davenport. Ken Clark from Alabama also AEF at Great Lakes- nice kid but I was too busy pasting up chapter 4 through 23 to even talk. Met Mary at Michael’s at 6:00 with Dave, Oleta and Ken. They went to Columbus but couldn’t find their kind of action. (mild type!)
To shop to copy my paste-up. Mary helping and she will mail it tomorrow a.m. Steve sent the appendix back for me to rework it.

Friday, February 27, 1987
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Thursday, February 26, 1987
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