Choose One:
Sheepskin or Ring
Ky JANET GOKTZK
Kdltor'n Note: Jam-1 Goeltr Ik
a former Emerald Managing Edi
tor.
In there u .senior’ll women's
"panic," or is it the dement of
the imagination of a confused
male sociologist?
One of the most persistent of
myths circulating through stay
college campus is that all any co
ed wants is a husband, and if
she hasn’t nailed one down by
the time that she's a senior she
enters that traumatic period
known as "Senior Panic.”
According to this myth, the
worried coed does everything pos
sible to become married or at
the least engaged before t h c
June sheepskin sends her into
the world alone
The myth characterizes senior
women as pursuing every social
occasion for a likely mate, and
creating a few of their own social
occasions when the pickings be
come slim.
Hut as graduate study, foreign
travel, and career opportunities
became more attractive for worn
en. the myth will probably be
come fully recognized as nothing
more than that “Senior Panic”
like the raccoon coat, will be
come something for the genera
tions maturing 30 years hence to
chuckle over.
Since World War II, career op
portunities for women have be
come more numerous and lucra
tive Graduate study, even for the
girl who may do nothing more
illustrious in her life than teach
a high school English course, is
coming evermore necessary in
today's world. Foreign travel
has become next to commonplace
in the lives of college students,
and the Peace Corps has been in
strumental in combining the pos
sibilties of gaining experience for
future career and seeing a new
part of the world
With something more than just
home and children to look for
ward to in life, the young worn
an about to receive her college
degree is less likely to In-come
gripped with "The Panic.” Mar
riage is not ruled out of the life
of today's graduating woman, but
it no longer is the (Inal end of her
existence.
There are flaws in this pic
tore, however.
Mother doesn’t always under
stand. Overcome with excitement
at the sight of her first gray hairs,
mother will sometimes decide that
it is time she became Grand
mother. Or at least mother in
law She may become panicky for
her daughter. She may contact a
caterer and casually hum snatch
es of Lohengrin about the house.
This does not make her daugh
ter feel easy, especially if she
has made her own plans for her
future.
Other relatives aren't much
better.
"Well, dear, I suppose you'll
be getting married soon a n d
won't that be nice?" Aunt Jenny
coos, pushing a dishtowcl into the
near graduate's hand. "Have you
picked out your sterling pattern
yet?"
This line of talk may tend to
cause waves of panic in the un
committed girl, but the panic is
not caused by the fear of loneli
ness so much as the fear of close
ness—of prying mothers and
other well-meaning relatives.
Women of the elder generation
often don't understand the delay
ed idea that their younger daugh
ters have embraced.
The mass media constantly tell
Americans that their high rati
of marriage occurs at a much
lower age than that of most oth
er countries of the world What
these mass consumption statistics
fail to point out is that many of
the marriages are between peo
ple who never attend college.
However, there is no denying
that more people attending col
leges anil universities in the Uni
ted Stales are married than were
-before World War II Hut there
is no compulsion about it. Those
who want a husband or wife be
fore they earn their degree lind
one Those who aren’t ready for
marriage. Or don't want to be
ready, shove it off as a future
plan.
If mother doesn't understand
this, she will probably suffer in
her panic alone. The senior
daughter will probably be too
busy sifting through bids to grad
uate schools or making plans for
her first permanent job to calm
down her mother.
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Church, the important symbolic
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VANCE WEI.TY. a graduate tn journalism, and Merilee Somncr, a senior in art education, are
shown here resting from the rigors of a day of modeling clothes for the Emerald Bridal Edition.
Merilee is wearing a pale yellow, double-breasted coat. Vance is wearing a dark blue summer
weight wool suit
Bride's Family Can Buy Bouquet
As the costs of weddings
soar— and soar they do as most
fathers of brides will agree — the
question of who pays for what
gets more and more fuzzy, espec
ially when the flowers arc dis
cussed.
This is probably one of the
reasons why more and more
often the bride's family is now
paying for her bouquet, since it
is actually a part of the over all
decorative effect of the wedding
and since she must order it
However, corsages are another
matter. The groom is expected
to Rive the mothers and grand
mothers, if any, the corsages they
will wear on the day of the cer
emony.
He, too. may wear a carnation
or a sprig from the bride's bou
quet.
For the fathers, a gardenia or
a carnation is customary.
The first flowers his wife re
ceives will naturally be the
groom's going-away corsage.
Flowers for the church and the
reception are considered to be
the responsibility of the bride's
family.
Brides Always Ask
The bride's mother is the first
to select her gown. She should
shop promptly and tell the
mother of the groom the color
fabric and style of the dress
she has chosen.
At a formal daytime wedding,
both mothers may wear either
long or short cocktail dresses,
j Only after 6 p.m.—the arbitrary
I hour set for formal evening cere
monies—should they wear tradi
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I should, of course, be covered at
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