Collecting My Thoughts

If you had said to me, “Remember the time you lived at the farm and the well was dry?” I would have responded, “I remember the farm, but do...

When I was a freshman at Manchester College in North Manchester, Indiana (now university), I recall there were two “older” women students; o...

I don’t have a scan of the photo, but I would be able to see it if I went to Manchester University (formerly Manchester College) in North Ma...

Sometimes I ask Google just any thought that comes to mind. She's better at this than most librarians in response time. Today it was ...

2013-14 Tuition, Fees, and Housing Costs for Manchester University (college) where I attended in 1957-58 for about $1,000.    Tuition: $27,0...

I don't know what generates the ads on the right side of my screen on Facebook, but this morning noticed one for yearbooks. I have my fo...

Congratulations to Manchester College in North Manchester, Indiana, where I attended one year, as did both my sisters, and many of my friend...

even at sporting events. Goshen College, where my sister attended in the 1950s, is about 50 miles from Manchester, a Church of the Brethren...

The clothing and hair shapes and styles of the late fifties were harbingers of the changes we would see in the early 60s--blousy and bouffan...

1951 four door Packard This morning I heard a story on TV about parents leaving their children off at college, and how long it would be befo...

How do they find these sob stories? My parents weren't wealthy, but they also didn't borrow money to send their children to college...

Monday Memories--How we saved energy in our dorm room JoElla and I told each other in elementary school that we would room together in coll...

Almost a Friday Family Photo When I was a little girl, this major league pitcher for 14 years lived on our block, and played with the Phil...

3835 Making the pledge Apparently there is a push (from somewhere left of center) for college graduates to take "the pledge." I ...

Friday Family Photo--another cousin This is a photo of my cousin Gayle when she was the queen of May at Manchester College in North Manchest...

Monday Memories: the college laundry Last week I noticed an article in a Toledo paper that reported some Ohio colleges were offering ameniti...