Category: Trella Diaries

Thursday, December 12, 1991
MCHS
David 1 ½ hrs
Trella 1 ½ hrs
Brick certificates.
David at my computer at 6:30 AM working on TerraPro update for Springfield client. After bfst I cleaned garage & burned trash. About 10:30 started working on changes to Brick cert file with him. David left at 11:45 for FoxPro seminar in Cols at Compuserve bldg in Dublin. I left about 12:05 after getting check cashed at Caledonia bank.
Presenter had been Ashton-Tate employee using dBase until Oct when Ashton-Tate was bought out. He has lots to learn about Foxpro. David (& others) helped him out. Home in rain after trying to find the Map Store at Kerrick Square.

Wednesday, December 11, 1991
Royce cleaned.
After she left started a data base of my address book.
David came in about 10:30. Fed him pizza & chicken sandwiches. Had been to Dayton & Springfield.
Mary out AM with grapefruit & back in PM with a new (14,500 miles) Cadillac deVille – white, dark blue leather interior. Her 1986 model had 115,000 miles. Cost her $24,000 – down from $34,000 as car rental turns them in before 15,000 miles. $5,000 trade in.

Tuesday, December 10, 1991
29/42 – foggy
MCHS 6 ½ hrs
Wrote up Nov 19 Board Meeting from Ann Bush notes & Annual Meeting from my notes. Also found draft of letter to go with brick appreciation certificates. In to Marion at 1:00 for Perm at Le Salon of Style (Changed from The Styling Salon!) $35
Me Eula at HH at 3:15 & we worked on setting up committee chair – still not heat in building. The new $2,500 electrical system on boiler shorted out. At 4:15 Exec Comm meeting.
Hurried them thru agenda so I could ge to Garden Club of Marion C’mas Dinner at Ramada Inn (formerly Harding Inn- Holiday House, etc) Sat between Jim Mautz & Tom Quilter. Both interested in Prairie. River Valley Singerss gave propgram – reminding me of when Dave Decker was with that group.
Home by 9:15 – fire in fireplace to burn the oak logs so can put new grate in. One in it is too shallow & puts smoke into the room.
Called Dave & Dee at 10:00 but no one home.. Guess Dave is at sea & Dee working.

Slept until 9:40 – to Marion at 1:00 to go to Palace for Travel Program – Sightseers France – Phil sat with group from FOrest. Talked to Linda Baker Klehm & Dorothy Strawser Klehm (my 8th grade teacher at Oak Street School) during intermission. Linda is descended from Will Baker, daddy’s uncle. Has children Heather & Stephen, age 25. Heather is teaching English in Paris after studying at Sorbonne.
Stopped for Famous Recipe Chicken on way home.Got the C’mas tree decorated & consolidated things so won’t take as much room when I put them away.
Took Howard to grocery.

Sunday, December 8, 1991
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Saturday, December 7, 1991
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Friday, December 6, 1991
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Thursday, December 5, 1991
MCHS 3 hrs
To Baker Middle School for Marion Education Association Community Leaders Day. Served school lunch of chili, cornbread & apple Betty – good. Felt out of my league when we went to Pearl Street School and Punch Walker of Fairfield Engineering & Mr. Sims – both top executives. Carol Cameron’’s 5th grade had done an oral history interview project & had a printed copy to give me.

Wednesday, December 4, 1991
MCHS Brick Certif 5 hrs
Cleaned up addresses in Brick data base so can use address field as criteria to print labels to send certificates.
Rec’d copy of grant application from Rob Rupp to produce another video from the Harding campaign remembrances of it. Neededmy signature. So to Marion & mailed it to Ohio Humanities Council. Met Mary at Rax for a sandwich.
Watching Pearl on TV – a 4 part mini-series – 50th anniversary Sat of attack on Pearl Harbor next Sat.

Tuesday, December 3, 1991
54 early – 31 night
MCHS 8 hrs
Met Robert Boger at HH at 9:30 with the labels to change pg 290 of 1979 MC History from Dorothy & Ralph Boger to Dorothy & Robert Boger – Had 108 books yet & took us about 2 hrs to get it done. Lots of lifting.
Made copies of story on Aunt Ruth & Uncle Allen’s 75th wedding anniversary. Helen sent it from the Orange Co (Calf) Register.
At 12:30 picked up Willis and Wanda Nye & to Ponderosa on Rt. 95 for lunch – their treat. The Salad Bar was very good – Lots of hot dishes too. Then at 2:00 to Mary Evelyn Priors. She had called me saying she would give her furniture & other items top the MCHS & wanted me to comek see what we wanted. I only know her through articles she wrote to the Star editor for years – very outspoken, but not radical. Enjoyed meeting her, but I was still woozy from being sick. She served me tea at 4:00 PM but kept talking until nearly 7:00. I asked her if she would help me with research. She seemed hungry to talk. She has 4 cats. Luies. Corner of Lake & Waples.
Message from David when I got home. He had brick certificate program ready to send up by modem. Took about 45 minutes. I printed out a sample & it looks good.