Rosemary read few books but could read "Winnie-the-Pooh". Diaries written by her in the late 1930s, and published in the 1980s, reveal a young woman whose life was filled with outings to the opera, tea dances, dress fittings, and other social interests. Kennedy accompanied her family to the coronation of Pope Pius XII in Rome in 1939. She also visited the White House. Kennedy's parents told "Woman's Day" that she was "studying to be a kindergarten teacher," and "Parents" was told that while she had "an interest in social welfare work, she is said to harbor a secret longing to go on the stage." When "The Boston Globe" requested an interview with Rosemary, her father's assistant prepared a response which Rosemary copied out laboriously: