Category: Trella Diaries

Friday, October 19, 1990
Tours HH 8:00 – 11:30 3 ½ hrs.
In to HH at 7:45 – Social Committee functioning. Introduced Jack to the 60 Marion City School teachers who chose the Museum Tour for their In Service Day. Led 2 groups on tour. Finished getting Newsletters ready to mail & enlisted Dick West to take them to P.O. Picked up Mary J & met Mary H & Geneva Brewer at Terradise. Mary drove us for a Fall Color tour to Eastern Ohio. Lunch at Apple Valley. To Sandyville to pick up candy for Hemmerly’s – 5 cases $143 – Then to Walnut Creen& got Tiny Tender popcorn – my favorite. Home about 5:00. To bed at 7:00 – relaxed from memories of glorious color.

Thursday, October 18, 1990
12 ½ hrs – Hallmarks
Up at 8:00 & at the computer & finally got MCHS labels printed out using Fox Central. Called David & told him I would use the committees & activities WordStar file & not bother to change it in Ventura.
In to HH at 12:30 to copy 500 Newsletters on copier. Used volunteers to fold & Mary also came in to help. Mary &* I finished up about 6 (others left) – went to Wendy’s for chili & back to HH at 7:00 to lead Kappa tour. Gary & Denise Iams asked me to do it. Dorothy Strawser Klehm spoke on Marion Schools since 1828 – was my 5th grade teacher & there were 49 in the class. Home at 9:30 exhausted. Called Norm to tell him we needed $25 more at P.O. to cover mailing of Newsletters – and he objected! & I spent the whole afternoon running Hallmarks to save us $75-

Wednesday, October 17, 1990
78-54
9:30 to 6:30 – 1 hr – 8 hr Minutes & Hallmarks
Royce cleaning while I wrote up minutes for board meeting. Then updated brick & MCHS data bases so I could generate labels for mailing Hallmarks.
So nice out I dug a few more geraniums, impatiens & begonias for the greenhouse in between computing.

Tuesday, October 16, 1990
Hallmarks 5 hrs
Spent most of the day working ahead of window washers – getting storm windows out of closets off & on.
David & I back & forth on modem with Hallmarks. Much better than sending disks by mail.
In at 5:30 to meet Mary at Turoff’s for dinner. To HH by 6:30 & Jack there. Glada Bull & Gary Sims new trustees there for board meeting. I taped meeting including my last appeal to not put up walls at end of lobby & door thru facade – No response.

Monday, October 15, 1990
42-68 Sunny PM
Worked on Newsletter & planted daylilies that Dr. Ginn had discarded. Grass coming up in corner bed by mailbox. That’s what I get for letting Brenda (Ray Foertsch’s helper) finish planting it for me. Grass in areas where crabapples were removed is coming up nicely.
Mowed upper areas with push mower.

Sunday, October 14, 1990
Worked in garden – Kensel & Opal over – nice visit about Alaska & Prairies. He brought see canisters of 40 kinds of prairie seeds – Fantastic!

Saturday, October 13, 1990
42-57 misty, dreary
Just ready to work on Newsletter when Mary called wanting to go to Columbus to see Fantasia! – 50th anniversary revival. I had never seen it but remember Rocky’s appreciation of it. Music reproduction so true – Lost myself in the imagery – tongue-in-cheek interpretation of ballet – story of the geology of the earth – all accompanied by Bach, Beethoven & Stravinsky – Tchaikovsky etc.
Shopped for books – Thom’s “Panther in the Sky” (Tecumseh) & Geo Rogers Clark. Ate at Bob Evans. Stopped at Arnell Reins new home near Scioto River in new (expensive) area.
Stopped at Hemmerly’s & copied OAHSM Annual Meeting program to distribute to Board.
Dave called while I was gone.

Friday, October 12, 1990
Raining
10 hrs MCHS Exec Comm.
Eula called & talked 30 min on how can we stop spending. Wrote up Exec Com minutes. Made changes on Trustees & Committee chair as suggested yesterday and added infor on list of all trustees since 1969. Wrote proposal to stop irresponsible spending at HH.
2 Marys called off Color trip scheduled at 11:00 so I got above finished in time to meet Mary for supper at Turroff’s – Good lasagne & green beans. Picked up lattice at Mary’s that Ray Foertcsch cut in two & framed for compost pile.
To HH & copied pages of minutes from 1969 to 1971 to finished compilation of officers. Stopped at Helen’s with minutes & she doesn’t want proposals presented Tues. So do we just let Jack bleed us dry?
Bill in mail from McCoy – Brick walk & sand cost $3490. 23 hrs labor by greenhouse.
Left call for Stevbe Smith to see if he will fix rotted greenhouse sills.

12″ above normal rain for year – 42″ to date.

Thursday, October 11, 1990
1″ rain
4 hrs MCHS
1 Newsletter
3 Exec Comm.
1 worked back to cut brick to finish walk. Ran out of saw blades & needs 1 brick to finish. (Last day they worked – Bill $500)
Mary brought out 4 daylilies from Dr. Ginn’s collection – Got 1 planted on terrace along with one of Rocky’s seedlings & the Ladies Mantle that Harter’s gave me.
Dragged big pot of red geraniums & white begonia into rec room. Couldn’t manage the big hibiscus. Have decide to turn pool into flower bed as david suggested since the sand is within 12″ of top. Nice to have source of sand at hand. Will bury the tub in iot to made a home for the 3 remaining gold fish – 1 jumped out of tub.
Finished Function Committee input. Put Helen & Jack’s Hallmarks stories into computer.
In at 4 & left letters at Marys for Ray F. to pick up – Got 2 loaves of bread at Nickles – Then to Exec Committee Meeting. Helen not very forceful in maintaining order – Norm nit picking committee structure but finally came to agreement. Home for supper.

Wednesday, October 10, 1990
Worked on Newsletter till 10:30 – bath – David called from Boyd’s just as I was ready to leave for luncheon at OSUM for Dr. E. Gordon Gee, new President. Was provoked he [David] didn’t call me from Cincinnati since I had told him I had a luncheon on Wednesday – He could have come here first to pick up suitcase for Jed & apples & onions & pumpkins.
Wore new teal blue suit dress & paisley blouse. Only about 50 at luncheon. Citizen’s Council – Jack Telfer, Ted Michaels & Ralph Howard who raised the monty to start OSUM – Madge Guthery, Joan Radwin, John Keggan. Sat with Dr. Cloran. Madge asked me to be on her program Oct 20 on covered bridges with Mary.
Hurried home but David had been here & gone. Worked on Newsletter.

Mark & helper showed up at 8:00 AM to dig out walk by greenhouse & starting to lay bricks. Hauled excavated dirt to fill in along road. Told them to use extra sand to fill in pool.