[CALIBK12] How track down a poem from a homemaker's mag in the early 60s?

[Craig Wilson]

Can someone point me to a library (in the east bay area, preferably)
where I can find a long shelf of 'Readers Guide to Periodicals' that
would cover 'Good Housekeeping' -type magazines from around the early
sixties?

I've been tasked with finding the text to an obscure poem (between
four and eight stanzas?) published back then. A close teacher friend
wants to feature it at her daughter's wedding, because it was
something her now-nearly-hundred-year-old mother used to read to her
to inspire her to find the right combination of magic in a person to
marry.

It may have been named "When Jonathan wiggled his ears," and it
featured the eponymous young schoolchild resolving every tense
situation with his charm, resourcefulness, and peculiar anatomical
skill. The poem ends with the admiring female narrator reflecting on
the durability of those qualities as they walk down the wedding aisle.

I doubt this is searchable electronically, at least in common
databases. I tried my nearby community college library databases, as
well as my public library database search specialist, and my own
school databases, but came up with nothing. The teacher remembers the
poem vividly, but not the publication name or exact year. So my
thought is I'll have to head for a long row of Readers Guides, and
then perhaps microfilms for the actual text.

Am I on the right track? Any recommendations?

Thanks from Fairfield!