In Muscatine on Tuesday, May 19, 1953, Dale wrote, “Dalene and Mary went to a high school operetta.” Mary was a friend. The operetta was The Fortune Teller by Victor Herbert, the spring musical comedy by the high school chorus, under the direction of Max Collins. I was a sophomore, in the chorus of Hussars with Jim Davis, John Evans, Richard Herlein, Jerry Hufford, Glen Minor, David Pace, and David Schmarje.