She is strikingly beautiful as the sunlight catches the soft curls of her hair. Her blue eyes actually twinkle as she talks about her happy college days on the campus at Indiana State. She loved going to school at the college, she loved the campus and today she loves remembering.
She came up to Terre Haute to go to school all the way from the tiny hamlet of St. Meinrad not far from the Ohio River tucked in Perry County in southern Indiana. It was 1947 when she enrolled in college, which at that time was called Indiana State Teachers College.