Square dancing

(1949 December 5)

Last night, Friday, Ann Rose and friends had a Square Dance Party above old Penny store. Helen Dixon baby sat and off we went, about nine. The dance school master taught about 50 or so of us. It was fun but very tiresome standing for instruction. We learned a lot tho. In our square was a young man, very nice, Mr. Kelley, who is the radio announcer. It was curious to see how people we haven't seen for a long time have aged - like ZZ. Suppose they were thinking the same of me too. Refreshments were cider and donuts on a Xmas decorated table. I was tired before I went, having gone to the clinic in the morning and scrubbed and waxed kitchen floor in the p.m.

[Lorin Kay saw things differently, on December 1:] I am in misery. This noon Mother announced that Anne Rose and a number of others are throwing a Square Dance party in the old Cosmos club tomorrow night, Friday, and we are invited. Mary Margaret is enthusiastic, and wish I could figure out some way of sending her as my substitute, but I suppose it will wind up with me going.

[Next semester, Skip would take compulsory Square Dancing in gym class.]