April 5

1942: "To six o'clock Mass at St. John's. Donald (son) is trying a hand at carrying Sunday Journals. He helps Ed Steckbauer Jr. who is giving up his route. Harry, Agnes, Jackie and Mary Kujawa visit us this afternoon. After 7 hours of work I take the Weisheipls Joe Sr. and Annie to the Strand to see Mickey Rooney in The Courtship of Andy Hardy supported by Cecilia Parker, Ann Holden, Lewis Stone.  It rains a plenty tonite, after the show stop at George Buchanan's and Fritz Weisheipl's. Laurence and Dolores Kinateder stay here overnite." [from A. E. Potter's diaries]
1943: "Today we had our regular schedule. During music class (our last period) Dave Coy played some records of Tchaikovsky 6th Symphony which I enjoyed very much."  [from Donald Potter Sr.'s seminary diary] {Blogger's note: Tchaikovsky was the first composer introduced by Donald Sr. ("Pa" to me) to his children and the 6th Symphony is one of my favorites also.}