(1980 memoirs)
[Frankie took the Classical course at Ripon.] "I made a failure of it," she would tell me, feeling remorse and pain. "If only I could have been put in the other course! I always wanted to learn about animals and living things and about the world!" -- "But, Cousin Frankie, why didn't you change? You didn't have to take the Classical." -- "I didn't think I could change the way they do now. I took what they said and made a failure of it."
Polly Kay (1904-1997) vividly and with humor describes her life in Richland Center, Wisconsin, in excerpts from letters to her son Skip written after 1949, including her 5 last years in an old folks' home.
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- A lifelong Wisconsinite, Carolyn Parsons (1904-1997)got a B.A. in English at Ripon College, taught high school, and in 1930 married Lorin L. Kay, a lawyer first in Milwaukee and from 1938 on in Richland Center (he died in 1970). Their children: Mary Margaret and Richard/Skip, editor of this blog.
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