(This is an entry from the journal entitled Mexico Summer written by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago.  Click here to read more)

Had an assembly today at 1:00. The Portales Junior College Glee Clubs gave us a good program – particularly the male quartet. I found out that a girl who talked to me before the program, and whom I couldn’t place, was the Miss Hodge who tutored the Marshall Children (Alyce Claire’s friends).  She knew Diantha at Cruces – Mrs. Wilmot called.

Here’s what else was happening 80-years-ago today:

Supreme court justice Oliver Wendell Homes Jr. dies.

President Roosevelt leads the nation in prayer.

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