Category: Trella Diaries

February 16th incredible day
MCHS Board voted 10 to 4 to proceed immediately with planning and installing elevator as planned since 1990.
9:00 To “Something Good” with three other class of 33 members and their wives Ardess Risch, Bob Keller, Francis Roush- shared George Sifritt’s letter with them.
10:00 To Jack Telfer’s office- Shared my paper on elevator study- He agreed that it should go ahead with money given for it and he and George would raise money for further expansion.
11:00 To Dr. Cloran for teeth cleaning $37.50 stopped by hemmerly’s shop.
12:00 To Le Saon styling for perm $42.50 left car at car wash and vacuum.
2:40 Home- made report and labels for 1907 history distribution sold 54 of 100 ordered.
6:20 Back to Heritage Hall for board meeting- Code of Ethics (reduced and revised) passed- Jack urged immediate start of elevator project.
9:30 Home- Relaxed- opened box of chocolates Mary gave me- Valentine from “Guess Who?”- Letter from Keith Lamb my basket of silk rose scented December 15th just arrived!

Monday February 15th
Put Board Pride letters in envelopes to mail. In to Heritage Hall at 11 a.m. to check charter member list- stuff with invitations to 30th anniversary events- Also life and honorary members about 125 letters to mail- 1907 Jacoby history reprint arrived from Windmill by UPS- Brought orders home to create database for distributing them.
e-mails from Dave got book package but hadn’t opened because he flew in 10 minutes
-from Gary Rivers webmaster Marion site he wants to he wants DBY stories.
Kathy called about Don Baker repairing their typewriter.
Rick Steves in Turkey cave City of Cappadocia!-

Sunday February 14th – 46 years ago today Ray and I were married.
Spent most of day rewriting elevator history material and reproducing it for board meeting.
Mary out about 3 with Valentine heart box of candy for me. I gave her a crossword puzzle solver (electronic) but she had found hers was battery operated so she didn’t need it and gave it to me. Made salmon cakes and baked potatoes for our supper.

Saturday February 13th
When I got home at 6 p.m. call on answering machine from George Brown to call him- did – He had call from Dick Carey asking him to serve on Long Range Planning for building expansion and asked Carey him to ask me to serve. I agreed- but told him my stand on elevator project- “It should not be put on hold.” and he agreed!- So I asked him to call Jack Telfer and tell him of our objections on it being put on hold- He will!– So?

To HH at 1 p.m. after taking news release on Brad Lepper and 1907 history to Star- Ferguson girl to resource center to do research on Harding Hotel- no luck finding story on Dillinger (gangster) in 1930’s Star- Told her of Hotel involvement of oil boom in Morrow County. Copied from directories information on who were tenants. Marvin LaRue contributed story of couple in late ‘20s who picked up man whose car was disabled on Kenton Pike coming to Marion hunting Joe Sansotta (Marion’s bootlegger & connection to Chicago’s underworld) When Eula Rhoads heard story she told me of “drive-up window” at back of saloon to serve “customers”- Her dad got a call from Joe complaining of dogs barking and scaring away her customers. This revealed her dad was Marion County’s first dog warden and I started gathering material.
Supper with Mary at Bob Evans- my usual catfish meal

Friday February 12th
Worked on more material to persuade board members to go ahead with elevator project & entered income tax info into a file. In to Heritage Hall to show stuff to Jane and check charter member file. Took “Famous Chicken” dinners to Mary’s apartment for our supper. Call from Laddie Warren 1907 history will arrive Monday by UPS

Thursday August 11th [sic should be February 11]
Royce cleaned- $40. At computer all day- compiled info on elevator fund from financial reports and Prudential reports. Wrote letter for board members explaining history and one to Jack Telfer on “my position”.

Wednesday February 10th
All day at computer trying to reconcile checks and info in Quicken- finally decided to sort my checks manually by category. Watched Mark Russell comment on Clinton impeachment trial. Birded for an hour between 9 and 10 a.m. and got 13 species a Cooper’s hawk obligingly flew across the front window.
Wrote letters to board members 1. Please participate 2. Thanks for participating

Tuesday February 9th
Mary out again and read the rest of my checks to me to enter. Stayed for supper of scrambled eggs and tiny link sausage.

Monday February 8th
Bird-feeding, breakfast, did load of laundry, unloaded dishwasher, took garbage to compost bin, checked e-mail- one from David- forwarded a bunch of unbelievably stupid actions of real people- 1 from Kathi in response to the Friday call (on answering machine from Jim Croners- (Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum) wanting permission to cite DBY stories on underground railroad). Sent letter to him- also wrote to Brad Standard? of Hazleton, Pennsylvania paper- He had visited Claridon Prairie in August and wrote a charming article.

Clinton impeachment proceedings winding down in U.S. Senate- I watched public TV when investigators gave their final plea (believable) for removal based on lying under oath and obstructing justice.- Then in CBS NBC and ABC newscasts they only showed the White House (Clinton) defense attorney’s platitudes about national security (Clinton and four other US presidents are in Jordan attending King Hussein’s funeral)- Time and again newscasts have shown White House defense declaring as fact statements that are untrue and very little coverage on prosecution!
Rick Steves in Naples and Sorrento brings back memories of visit there with Kathy in 1973 and Marcella Haldeman and Martha Koshubader[?].
Received Parks seeds and packet from project feederwatch from Cornell lab.

Sunday February 7th
Mary out again (third time) “What do I need to take to tax preparer?” So I showed her the folder again, but also listed her income and deductions in a file and printed it out for her. She helped me list half of my 1998 checks in Quicken. Had leftover pizza for supper.