My diary - November 8-10, 1972
- Susan Fisch Good
- Aug 22
- 2 min read
November 8, 1972 Wed.
Dear Flowers:
No lab! Todays Becky’s birthday but we’re celebrating it when Dad comes back. Shes 12. I got a 100 on History test. Got Young Miss. Didn’t get to finish it all. Playing kickball in P.E. I caught a fly-ball & made an out believe it or not! We went with the Seehafers to see a Art museum. Something de Leon. Mas-o-menos. Got to study for History. Wish me luck. I rolled my hair in small curlers; we’ll see how it comes out.
BYE!
Note: I always enjoyed reading a new Young Miss magazine. It was small in size but packed with lots of information that I was eager to learn.
The museum we went to was El Museo - Galleria 904, founded by the artist Omar D’León in 1970 to showcase Nicaraguan art, from pre-Hispanic to Contemporary. Omar D’Leon was a prominent Nicaraguan painter and poet who got his original inspirations from the frescos of Pompeii. His museum was partially destroyed in the earthquake, later looted, and his artwork was stolen and dispersed. After the Sandinistas confiscated his farm and land, he moved to California, where he continued his work. His art is housed in many museums.
November 9, 1972 Thurs.
Dear Flowers:
Spanish, Mrs. Habed gave us 20 min. study hall so I studied with Julio. History was hard. English boring. Recess ALELUYA. Science Pat got gum in her hair & we went to the lab & cut it out. It was hilarious. Math gave us study hall so Mary, Chui, Simmone, Pat & I got together and talked. We went to the movies!! “Follow me” Mia Farrow & Togo. It was funny. Got to do homework. Dad comes home TOMOROW! Yeah!
BYE!!!
Note: Getting gum in your hair is tricky. When my boys got gum in their hair, peanut butter worked as a charm; however, at that time, we didn’t have access to peanut butter.
Follow Me was a British movie about a man who suspected his wife of cheating on him because she was gone for long periods. He hired a private detective to follow her, and she realized she was being followed while taking long walks. It became a game of cat and
mouse, with the husband eventually following the detective, who followed the wife.
November 10, 1972 Fri.
Dear Flowers:
School!!! Math test wasn’t too hard but you sure had to think. I made the Honor Roll!!! History A+, Spanish A-, Math B+ & P.E. B-. We went to the Country Club & played tennis. We went to the airport to meet Dad! Dad’s home!!!! Watched alittle T.V.
BYE!!!
Note: I made my goal of making the honor roll. Hurrah!
Excited to pick up my Dad from the airport! The Mercedes Airport had an upstairs open-air balcony where you could watch arrivals and departures. There weren't the stringent security measures that we have now. You could wave and holler down to the arriving or departing passengers.
I read with interest all the queries in the feminist quiz. Isn’t it amazing forty three years later that those same questions are still being asked—-and answered for us—-in some quarters.
If I had to pick a decade in my lifetime, that represented the highest rate of social change & upheaval
in the States, it would be 1964 to 1974, roughly coinciding with The Beatles arrival to America and our involvement in Vietnam. Living in Latin America I think provided a small "buffer" to these changes; it felt like we were always "late to the party" as social news filtered down through the then mainstream media (newspapers, magazines & TV), with "the latest" coming from the occasional new student from the States (if they were "with it").
The cover of the Young Miss magazine epitomizes the growing challenge young women must have faced as the Women's Lib movement evolved. The editors…
The upper level of Las Mercedes was great! When I returned back to Nicaragua from my 6 month stay in California in 1973, my parents, one of the nuns from El Teresiano, and my siblings were all waiting there. I miss Nicaragua from those days, minus the awful actions by Somoza. I knew his children, who didn’t seem to be “those” kinds of kids 😞
Love all this!! Interesting read on women’s lib!! Wow. -Amanda S