Thelma and Lowell's Diary: Nov. 26, 1943

They subscribe to an alumni magazine; FDR sees the pyramids

On what we think of as “Black Friday” but which wasn’t even a notion in 1943, Thelma and Lowell did some gift shopping and bought postage. There is also a listing in their expenses for “O.N.U. Magazine,” which I am betting is a subscription to the Ohio Northern University alumni magazine, Lowell’s alma mater.

ONU is a small private univesity founded in 1871 near Ada. Currently it has a little more than 3,000 students and is highly rated for its job placement of graduates. Here is a picture from the yearbook, with Lowell on the fourth row, far right, in the dark jacket. I found it on ancestry.com.

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