At age 18, I wrote the following article for the Oak Leaves, published early in June, 1954. Sounds a bit stilted, but that was the way social items appeared.
Fete John W. Kelloggs' 25th Anniversary
"The 25th anniversary of Mr. & Mrs. John W. Kellogg was recently celebrated with an open house at their 1210 North Euclid home. More than 70 villagers and friends from neighboring suburbs conspired to make the occasion a memorable one.
Of the Kelloggs' two children, their daughter Diane, a senior at high school, was present to take part in the celebration. Kenneth, their son, a graduate of Northwestern University, is serving in the army, and is presently at Ft. Hood, Texas."
Earlier that day, May 31, I came back from a 3-day First Baptist Church teen outing at a cottage near Sheboygan WI. Here's a little of the page in my diary from that day. "Picked up hors d'oeuvres. Di really beat. There were about 70 at the Open-House for parents 25th wedding anniversary. Was a mad house. Received belle cadeaux. Bonnie and Di helped me engineer food. Morey too. He came home at 7. Big surprise!"
"Di" was Diane Karis, my best friend. We met in our alphabetically-arranged home room as freshmen (Kellogg and Karis). "Belle cadeaux" means beautiful gifts for my parents. "Bonnie" is the daughter of long-time friends, the Ballentines, who were guests. Morey McDavid was my boyfriend toward the end of high school & had been out of town. Ken was fulfilling his two-year military obligation after college. He later went to Univ. of Illinois at Champaign for an MBA. That's where I went for my Journalism degree.
This was not in Pieces of a Life nor was the picture.
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