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About Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1962)
Meet Miss Somebody from Wisconsin There are those who think today's teen-age girl spends more time im proving herself before the mirror than in acquiring the homemaking skills she'll need as a wife and mother. But you couldn't prove that by 18-year-old Roberta Driessen, the Miss Somebody I found in Appleton, Wis. Roberta is a blue-eyed, blonde beauty whose looks need little improving and who's a whiz at baking. I can personally vouch for her apple pie the best I ever tasted. Her accomplishments don't stop there. In high school, though she took part in many activ ities, Roberta or "Bert," as her friends like to call her, still became an honor student. She was also copresident of her senior class and art editor of the school magazine. Now a freshman at the University of Wiscon sin in Madison, Roberta is currently pledging a sorority, taking art lessons, and in her spare time is assisting a professor on a botany project studying the chemical similarities of molds. At home, Roberta is just as eagerly involved in activities. She lives with her parents, Robert and Margaret Driessen, and two brothers, Tony, 13, and Erik, 14, in a modern hillside house over looking the Fox River. There she can take a dip every morning but warns: "If you're not care ful, you can be turned into hydroelectricity in the dam just downstream." Mr. Driessen, who has built most of the Dfies- During vacations, Roberta doubles as sales girl and mode in a fashionable women's store. sen home himself, is production manager of a paper-converting mill and a registered engineer. One of his hobbies is surveying, and Roberta is his favorite "rodman." Summers find Roberta as jet-propelled as ever. When school lets out, Roberta enters the fashion world as a salesgirl-model in a chic Appleton women's shop. Manager Bob Schultz says that he lets Roberta spend most of her time modeling clothes for his customers be cause she's got the height (five feet, eight inches), the fresh good looks, and the right fig ure for women's sport clothes. THOUGH she's not interested in a theatrical career, Roberta is also active in a local theater group, where she can be found doing anything from reading lines to creating posters. Summer or winter, sport cars hold a special fascination for Roberta. "I can forgive a boy almost any fault if he drives a cute little car," she says with a laugh. What's in store for the future? Roberta ex pects to go into interior design before consid ering marriage and homemaking. She decided on interior design because of her growing love for color and form a love she has developed through art lessons and membership in the Apple ton Galleries of Art. But for the present, Roberta can be content in knowing that her beauty, talents, and dedi cation to any task she undertakes make her a fascinating Miss Somebody to know. Ilk J The Driessens at home: (from left) Roberta, her mother, brother Tony, father, and brother Erik. Roberta's a trouper whether she's reading lines or creating posters for a local theater group. Roberta Driessen of Appleton, Family Weekly's latest "unknown" cover girl, thrives on an amazing variety of activities and interests Photos and Text by OZZIE SWEET COVER: Thin blue-eyed charmer, photographed by Oizie Sweet, is Roberta Prienxen from Appleton, Winconnin. She's the ninth Minn Somebody to grace our cover. See above. Film lly WeokJy LEONARD S DAVIDOW TrraMrnt and PMithtr WAITER C. DREYFUS Virr rmidrnt PATRICK E. O'ROURKE Adrertiting Director MORTON FRANK Director of Publieher Rclntio Send all advertising communication! to Family Weekly. 150 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago I, III. Address all communications about editoriol feature! to Family Weekly, 60 E. 56th St., New York 22, N. Y. E 1W1, FAMILY WEEKLY MAGAZINE, INC., 133 N. January 21, 1962 Board of Editorl I ERNEST V. HEYN Editor-in-Chief BEN KARTMAN Era-mine t.d'lor ROBERT FITZOIBBON Mattooino Editor MARGARET BELL Failure Editor PHILLIP DYKSTRA Art Director MELANIE DE PROFT Food Editor Roialyn Abrevaya, John Hochmann, Jerry Klein, Hoi London, Jock Ryan; Peer J. Oppenheimer, Hollywood. Michigan Ave., Chicago 1, III. All right! reserved.
