My diary - December 14-16, 1972
- Susan Fisch Good
- Nov 14
- 2 min read
December 14, 1972 Thurs.
Dear Flowers:
History test hard. I’m out of English & Science Semester. I worked in little library. Now all I have to hope for is to get out of all the test. Stayed after for Drama. I got a part as boy 3 actually girl 3. I went with Mom to foot doctor. I read Teen mag. & newspaper. Watched T.V.
BYE!!
Note: My goal was always to be exempt from semester tests.
I was a girl 3 robot for the upcoming drama presentation.
It was always a good day when I had a new magazine to read.
Bessie Grafft was the best librarian!
December 15, 1972 Fri.
Dear Flowers:
I’m exempt from all my test!!! WOOPEE! I stayed after for Drama. We practiced with the Glee Club. Seehafers took me to the C.C. Sat around pool. Watched T.V. Read on Young Miss. I’m bushed.
Thanks for everything!
BYE!!!!
Note: So grateful to get out of semester tests. If you were exempt you didn’t have to go to school on the testing days!
I love my creative spelling of Woopee!
Dear Flowers:
I got up at 9:30 at breakfast & then went back to sleep. Seehafers were over. I’m going to cut my hair on Fri. Becky will to. Dave & Beck helped me make my robot costum. Played a bit of jacks. Went to church. Watched T.V. Good show is the “Bobby Sherman Show.” I’m going to read on “Regency Buck.” Wrote Missy a letter.
BYE!!!
Note: Fun times making my robot costume with my siblings. I am grateful that they were willing to help.
I loved playing jacks. It was a big deal in my Colombian elementary school. Every recess we would play jacks and jump rope.
Bobby Sherman was a big heartthrob at this time. I read that he later became a paramedic and left the show business.
Having a high enough grade during the semester to be able to get out of the end of semester comprehensive tests was a HUGE deal!
Eric M.
Good picture of Bessie Graftt - she was a fun librarian arriving at ANS on what looked like a covered motorcycle. It was much smaller than a volks-wagon bug.
To answer Rich's question in Mexico we called jump rope 'brincar la reata" I do not remember what it was called in Nicaragua...
We arrived in Managua when I was 12 years old and came from rural Mexico. There found the ANS American girls sooo dressed up, wearing pump heels, make up ++++ we were still in shorts playing with dolls! So "Seventeen Magazine" to the rescue - we Coverston girs had to get up to speed ASAP! Yes, Doña Mercedes could duplicate any dress we found in a magazine includ…
Ya know we talked about Jacks, I wonder what they called "Jumping rope"? "Saltando cuerda" sounds too literal; they must have had a catchy name for it.
And qué dichosa that you could skip exams! I don't think we ever had that option in our schools. Certainly not in the Colegio Inglaterra where things were run like a boot camp (Ok, slight exaggeration)😑 But at least weekly, the Headmistress walked the line during the singing of the national anthem, to check uniforms. When she appeared, you'd see guys cinching up their ties, and girls tugging their skirts lower. She sure didn't suffer fools gladly, and ran a tight ship. Methinks y'all had it made in the shade at ANS.
I was a fan of teen magazines, too. By the way, Bobby Sherman died this past summer from kidney cancer at the age of 80.
Tracy S
I don’t think I’d ever have remembered Bobby Sherman without your blog. He was tremendously popular and an obsession among many of my school friends; her provided a subject for an endless number lunch table conversations before he faded away. Once again, the same thing was happening where you were…..