There was a time - I would have been 5th or 6th grade - when there were two age groups in what was then Mim's girls club. The Seniors were 7th & 8th - mostly 8th, as I recall. All the rest of us were Juniors.
Mim gloried in the fun of those older girls. They were are remarkably creative, interesting, life expansive group; in many ways, on many levels, the high water mark of Mim's club. It was a perfect storm of creative leaders, creative girls & the mid-'60s, the start of an usual & unusually creative time.
So many wonderful experiences grew out of the synergy of Mim & that circle of girls. Still think of them as her version of "Brodie girls." The 4th of July parade where the club went as the March of Dimes - literally bright shiny dimes marching, huge round coins carried sandwich-board style, held in place by dowels. The first of what would be incredibly fun annual Christmas bazaars. And the legendary Peanuts boy-girl party.
I didn't go to the party - Seniors only - but got to see the decorations being made. Oversized cutouts of Charlie Brown & Lucy, Sally & Shermy, Pig-Pen & Schroeder - all drawn & carefully cut out from heavy card stock.
That party took on mythic stature in my mind. Mim was so happy with how it all turned out. The girls who made it all happen, who clicked Mim's best creative buttons just as she clicked theirs, are now grandmothers. But I bet they remember that time out of time when they got to be Charles Schultz & decorate a room with the Peanuts gang & entertained their own.
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