Has dinner at Betty Coombs’s house and stays overnight with Julia Conn, Nancy Stickells, Ruth Bollinger, and Edith McKibben. Mentions Vic. Mentions that she’ll never smoke a cigarette again. Sees the movie Piccadilly Jim with Robert Montgomery and Frank Morgan. Describes her conversation with Be [Byron English], who says that she’s changed and that he wants her as she was before. While walking near the Fontbonne College campus with her friend Ursula, she is catcalled by a man in a passing car (“one of those pick up men that asks girls to go for a ride”), and she describes in detail how mortified she was and how awful it made her feel. Mentions the friends she sees on the streetcar on the way to school: Emily Ann Dimmitt, Mary Lou Tussey, Ruth Zwilling, Buddy Meyers, Erky, and Beverly. Mentions that Julia Conn and Boy Yaeger are dating. Lists recent deaths: Bill Lidikay who died of appendicitis; Mr. Moffett; Ilse Kolb’s mother; Ada Jane Council’s mother; and Tom Seymour, brother of Marge Illig [Margaret Illig]. Mentions that Jane De Grave Conrad had a baby girl and 17-year-old Lester Frailey lost both legs hopping a freight train. Mentions Bill Kelley. Briefly discusses that Don Ellinger and Phil Monypenny lost their scholarships at Washington University because they circulated a letter to freshmen warning them not to join the R.O.T.C. Mentions Edith Ellinger, Nelson Eddy, Jeannette McDonald, Russ, Wallace, Hope Davis, Monroe Linde, Marian Ellis, and Ted Gisburne. Describes her classes and teachers including Father Steck, Mr. Clemens, Miss Scott, Sister Sylvia Marie, Sister Marie de Lourdes, and Lottie Olivieri. (printed dates on diary pages: September 10-21), [1936 Oct 10-14?]

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The diary of Lois Eileen Kelley primarily describes her social life, dating, and student life at Fontbonne College. Also includes several accounts of attending events at Washington University and socializing with friends who are Washington University students. In the front of the diary is a card announcing the marriage of Lois Eileen Kelley and Russell Vincent Ellinger on March 30, 1940. The diary entries are written in a preprinted five-year diary that includes one page for each day of the year. The first entries in the diary were recorded in August 1936. The dates of the entries in the diary do not correspond with the dates at the top of the preprinted pages. At the end of the diary entry summaries in this finding aid, the date(s) at the top of the preprinted diary have been provided at the end of each summary to facilitate locating a particular entry in the diary.