MY MEMORIES

Charles Glenn Petersen

Edwinna Dee Lockhart

I was set up for a date with a friend of a frat brother’s girlfriend. In those days the first date was what was called a “coke date”. We were to meet in the Union to get acquainted and see if we wanted to go out on a real date. I learned that Winnie was a Senior and was graduating in Home Economics Education at the end of the Fall term. The meeting went well so I invited her to go with me to a Dave Brubeck Quartet concert. I got into jazz music during my years in the Air Force. Dave Brubeck was and still is my favorite jazz artist. I don’t think she knew anything about jazz nor who Dave Brubeck was, but she agreed to go anyway. It was a brave outing for her. In those days for a concert in the Union, one dressed up, guys in coat and tie and the gals wore dresses and heels and we did. I had a great time listening live to many of the songs I had heard many times before on my LP’s. (For those of you that might read this sometime in the future, an LP was a Long Play 33 rpm 12 inch vinyl stereo recording disk.)

Winnie must have thought I was okay and we started dating on a regular basis over the next few months before she graduated and went off to teacher somewhere. That somewhere turned out to be in a small school in southwest Minnesota that had a Home Ec. Teacher leave in mid-year. The frat brother’s girlfriend also graduated that term and took a job in northwest Iowa. During the Spring term Winnie and I met about once or twice a month. She and Dennis’ girlfriend would come to Ames for a weekend or Dennis and I would travel north to met ‘the girls’ for a weekend.

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