Author: Trella Hemmerly Haldeman Romine

Wednesday, August 8, 1990
Copied tape for Warren Robert’s Estate Sale to large format according to Kathi’s help on phone & using my instruction book. Easy!
Royce cleaning.
Mary out at 2 & we entered more bricks on brick.dbf
August 9, 1990
Mother’s 100th Birthday [died 1983]
59-81
Bricks 6 hrs
Huber NL 2 hrs
Mary & I had dinner together at Turroff’s courtesy of Mother (229 E Fairground rental fund) in honor of her birthday.
Worked on brick data base & Huber Newsletter all morning – mowed front lawn with push mower – Martha Neville sent sugar cookies.
In about 2:30 & picked up July & Aug checks from Hemmerly – also payments on $5,000 note – to HH & Ginny telfer stopped when driving by – Jack had viral pneumonia settle in his heart causing fibrillation. Can’t leave hospital until get it stopped.
Mary came to HH at 3:30 to help me. I had successfully changed data base fields & merged both files. Felt proud of figuring it out.
Grocery shopped – Browsed Brick.dbf for errors before printing out.
Called David to tell him I had sent Huber Newsletter for converting to Ventura Publisher.
Iraq has accessed Kuwait. @50,000 US troops headed to defend Saudi Arabia.

Tuesday, August 7, 1990
MCHS – 8
Bricks 4
LRP 2
Misc 2
Copied my Warren Roberts sale tape for Ruth Foos.
Took Howard to grocery & then drive past Claridon Prairie- denoted species blooming. Mailed slides & letter to Charlie King about silene regia . Copied to Tommy Hemmerly. Answered letter from Glenn Patten about PO & CDM*.
To HH at 2:00 to meet Cindi Noyes with her poster concepts for Fall Fair. A couple of them possibilities – her chg would be $30 for camera ready.
Worked with Mary H re-entering Brick data base through 690. After she left at 3:30 found a disk with entries through 680 – all we thought we had lost that far.
Took car to Tuffy Service catty-cornered from HH – they said only needed oil change – $16.00 – Handy
Met with Helen Kaufman at 4:15 for 2 hrs. Laid out committee assignments under the 4 function plan – Education – Membership – Operating & Finance – Added Legal affairs.
Stopped at Wendy’s for supper & then to OSUM Prairie for Marion Nature Society Tour led by Tabor Allison & he’s good. Dick & Mary Cooper there. Concerned for Dave with Iraq crisis. Told them about plans for Terradise with ODN & OSUM. Grocery shopped at Big Bear – Home at 10.

[*Columbus, Delaware & Marion Interurban line]

Monday, August 6, 1990
63-75
Bricks 4
MCHS corres 2 = 6 hrs
Did 2 loads clothes. Letters to Dorothy Isaly & George thanking for support on book by paying extra $2 for their hardbounds. In to HH where Mary met me & we worked on brick.dbf until 5:00. Then she started to my house to cook sweet corn while I copied map for Biological Survey & King letter. When I left building I forgot my purse – Had to call Dick West from Tuffy’s Car Service across street to come back to let me in. Had to wait while he ate supper. So Mary wondering why it took me 45 minutes to get home.
Had corn, Wendy’s baconburger & bean salad. Then we worked on bricks.dbf for about an hour.
Watched – Hiroshima-Out of the Ashes on TV – From Japanese perspective – chilling.

Sunday, August 5, 1990
Bricks 4
Huber 2
Pat (Hattie) Rice, granddaughter of Elizabeth Berry, granddaughter of Alex Berry stopped in for genealogy help. I was in garden picking cucumbers, tomatoes, Blue Lake green beans & zucchini. 9 hrs at computer on bricks & Huber newsletter.

Saturday, August 4, 1990
Bricks 5
Reconstruction [of damaged file] 6
Started to update Brick file & found garbage after record 254 – even on my bak up files so don’t klnow when it happened. So will have to reconstruct it. Spent about 4 hrs. Cleaning up files, sorting disks, etc.

Friday, August 3, 1990
Woke to radio news telling of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait – not good news.
Helen Kaufman called to tell me Jack Telfer is in hospital – took 4 pts for fluid.
Also said Jack had referred my note to her about having a potluck to honor retiring officers & trustees. She suggested September 11 – 2nd Tues. New officers take over Sept 1.

Thursday, August 2, 1990
[No entry]

Wednesday, August 1, 1990
Back to Dr. Lowe – All blood tests ok including thyroid – cholesterol 210 – set up a physical for Nov 15. Weight 172.
To Heritage Hall to install Photo Archivist – computer still blowing a circuit breaker. Saw Jack for only a minute as he was in & out. He will ask electrician to fix it. Brought Photo Archivist home.

Tuesday, July 31, 1990
Mary & I to Akron. Visited Doris & Stu & then they took us to lunch at ChiChi’s. Had chimichanga.
Then to the Bookseller on Exchange St. Mary sold $35 books to them & $75 to dealer in old school across street. Fantasy story paperbacks.
Then to Seiberling Park to see the herb garden – Large beds. Labelled rocks (glacier remnants). He’s been p[ark employer for 21 yrs & finally found his niche.
Home about 5:30 & had supper here.

Monday, July 30, 1990
65-86 Rain .6”
Mchs 6 hrs (3 to Cols – 3 cleaning up files)
Wrote letters to Jack Telfer & Sandy Davies about lobby changes at Heritage Hall that would move pediments that are over stamp windows. Also made copies of other letters to M. Meseke, WIlbert Snyder to Jack. Updated list of officers & trustees of MCHS & wrote to Jack about retiring officers & trustees leaving us chance to have a “Swan Song” since he cancelled the August Board Meeting.
Supper with Mary at Perkins – Then she accompanied me to Heritage Hall to re-install the computer. Started up fine- but blew fuse after about 3 minutes. Bought sweet corn on way home for supper tomorrow.