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.
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