Describes her visit to the Lorelei skating rink with Herbie, Yaeger, Dan Schrieber, Clare Monell[?], Julia Conn, and Alvin Larson. Afterward, they visit Candlelight and the Toll House, where they see Don Ellinger, Bernice [surname unclear], Richard Goodenough, Carol Hudler, Sis Yaeger, Ralph Johnson, Bob Weigel, Edgar Gordon, Jane McPherson, Sam Mosby, Betty Billings, and Pete Lodewyks. (printed dates on diary pages: September 26-29), [1936 Oct 17?]

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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.