The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, October 14, 1960, Page Page Four, Image 4
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BY COOKIE CRUM
Another week at Carolina and lots of new happenings
around the campus-new pins are quite the thing this
wcek and the political campaign seems to be getting its
share or Coi ersation, too!
Sorority Pledging
Sorority pledging on the porch of Sims Saturday after
noon was the scene of much screaming, hugging, and the
rCnewed spirit of sisterhood. Among the swarming millions
were Louise lIashid (ZTA), Robin Burns (ZTA), Patty
Gait:e (Chi 0), Carol Jones (Chi 0), Nancy Cooper (Chi
0), Josanne Verdery (ADPi), Patty Richardson (ADPi),
Gerda iAloorc (A DPi), Beverly 3arrett (Pi Phi), Lynn
Fishburne (i Phi), Ioney Harron (1)1)1)), and Joanna
Praetor (DD1).
Fraternity Rush
More rush parties for the boys were held all last week.
Wednesday night the Sigma Niu's danced the wax off the
floor of the Jefferson 1allroom. Among the crowd were
Ben Boyd and Caroline Johnson. Joe Witherspoon and
Beth Brasington, Jimmy Pressley and Harriet Morehead,
Al Smarr and Eleanor ,row.n, Cathy Michelsen and Russell
Shaw, Scott .ames and Jane liinant, Ned Self and Norah
Teague. Johnny Ilowen and Betty James, Ed 1 (Hood and
Bonnie Beale, and Bobby Mitchell and Tootsie Dennis.
ATO Party
ATO had a "rockin' t good time" at the Women's Club
Wednesday night. Dancing to the music of Tony Torre
were Dave \I loss and Carolyn Cliffton. Jerry Chambers and
E,l'ka Mairon. Ciharlie and Jane Jett. "Rock" Stone and
Eleanor Stevens, Rhett Steigner and Linda Carter, Jim
Brown and Blaine IIaskell, Bruce Aitcheson and Susie
Smith, Bobby McMahan and Sandy Yost. Visiting the
chapter and acting as chaperones were Dean and Mrs.
Cox from I)uke University where Dean Cox is now Dean
of Men.
Sigma Chi
Thursday night the Sigma Chi's really painted the town
"pini. They started at a Pink cihampagne Party at Jim
Edens tameld "Garden of Eden'" and then moved on to
(lance the night away at the Jefferson Hotel. Enjoying the
nmusic ot the Zodiacs were Jerry Jackson and Kaki Eccles,
Bob Hill and )ean Framptoii, Mike Quinn and Toots Tenni
son, Bill Singletoii and Martha 1)abbs, Albert Springs and
Carmeun Chery, Jim Herring and Eula Mezingo, Tommy
Pruitt and Phoebe Clamp, Pick Ellerbe and Sybil Beard,
and Ed Spears and Ilazel Ann Gramling.
Lambhda Chi
The Lambda Chi's had their rush party at the Jeffer
son Hotel Friday night. Seen dancing to the music of the
Hearts were Sonny Carter and Sara Gardner, Craig Fields
and Dianne Perry, Reginald Brown and Lynn Knoblock,
Roger Chastain and Ellen Boyd, George fand Betsy Hare,
John Orr and Harriet DeLoache, elley Jones and Janet
Roberson, Ronney lowey and Claudette Keiney. Also
Billy Rast and Barbara Masur and Ken Osborne and
Georgia Covington.
Kappa Sig
Kappa Sig had a dinier-dace Monday night at the
Jefferson Hotel with Saimmy Cook and the Keynotes.
Wining anld dining were Jim Baldwin andl Martini Tweet,
Bill Green and Joan H1ollinman, Larry and Phyliss Gregory,
Frankie Rollins and Beryl Kramer, Roy Lucas and Ellen
MacDiianiel, John Godbold aid Sylvia Foster, Mike and
Carolyn Ritchie, Bob layden an(d Joyce Adams, Bradley
(larkson and Joan Bennett, I).ma 'McLendon and Dodie
Wallace, Bob Bailey and Harriet Stoke, Wayne Munn and
Wills Hutchinson, Manning Sellers and "Kitten" Wilson,
Bob Sanders and Nancy Frye.
"Y" C'onvention
Carolina was w\ell represent ed last weekend at the
State "'Y" ('onvent ion at (amp L ong in Aiken. Having a
wond(erfutl time were Mart ha Schuler, Miriam Rhame,
Peggy Hr'yant, .Jetf Meadloweroft, Billy Woodls, Carl Mc
(lendon. H olbrook Platts, Qwen Saundeirs, Kay DJan tzler,
Eleanor (Crown, l trenida ('romler, JIerry Jackson, Scott
Jfames, anrd Reni lloyd. ( a rol inia lost t he traditional '"Caro
Ii na-C lem son" toot ba ll ga m, b' ut we cam nie oult ini the lead
with t wo o )f I he St ate offticers on1 our' side--niew~ State "'Y"
Pries identI is B illyv Woods and TIe d I edhen is t he new Dean
oft S. ('. St uden'it (h 'rist ian Associat iln.
Pinned
P~roudly wearing new IratI pins~ are Nitty McKenzie
to Franuikie .JetfordIs (Lambda ('hi). Ilrienda H awklins (Win
throp) to Robie Love ( Pi1K A ),. and I z W\allenburg to
.Jackl li ite(hard ( Maxey It rotIherih(oodI). Al so D )oi n ut ledge
(Sigma ('hi) andH( Sister IDottIerer' (KDI).
Seen giving the Toml Sawye tr' eatmrenit to thle fence
at Trinlit y Sat urdlay (betiwee n en k s) were pa init-splattereCd
Lauren Parr'ot t, Lilla Mlcuit chen, Sinky' Powell, Betsy
Ch11ilds, C rosbyv AdIamils. Marnhie La ng, (Chis Powvell, Marcia
Mdlini, .John ( rap)o, O rini A nderson, Eleanor' Spruill and
Scot 1. J1alles.
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Her Favoi
Elizabeth Coker
Editor's note: This is the
fourth in a series of articles by
women who have jobs in what
is considered a man's field. This
article is by Elizabeth Boat
wright Coker, the author of
"Daughter of Strangers," "The
Day of the Peacock," "India
Allan," "The Big Drum" and
"La Belle."
BY
ELIZABETH BOATWRIGHT
COKER
To begin with - I've always
had a feeling of destiny. I was
a woman who was born to Ful
fill Herself.
But how did I maintain my
woianness and still succeed in
a profession in which the com
petition is predominantly male?
Well, primarily, I am not a
housewife who suddenly blos
somed forth as a writer.
I began writing in Darlington
High School, continued at Con
verse College, did graduate work
in journalism at Middlebury Col
lege, worked in New York in the
"piuilps," so I consider myself a
writer who also happens to be
a wife and mother.
Now if I were my husband and
he me my books would have been
produced, protected by a secre
tary and various cooks and clean
ers and nurses. As it is, being
the female, my books have been
penneid between souffles, visit
ing VIP's, colicky babies, P. T. A.
meetings, gardening, weddings
and homnemaking in general.
I wrote "Big Drum" during a
serious illness of my husband's.
It turned out to be two tales in
one. The part before the opera
tion and the part after are two
cit ies that nev'er should have
wo)und up in one talc.
Of course it would have been
more sensib)le not to have triedl
to write at that particular time.
But then--there's never really
a right time to say I'm all wife
or' all writer. Not for me, any
way. Fortunate the wvoman (but
I'm not sure) who can retire to
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an ivory tower as men-writers
do.
My writing probably would be
better if I were a more single
minded introverted, alone indi
vidual. And I might be a more
satisfactory wife and mother if
I devoted my entire thought and
energy to homemaking. But I
don't think so.
I was born with a talent and
a homing instinct for putting
words down on paper. And I
was born with the desire to "live
happily ever after." Following
a star and making a home at
the same time h a v e been
practical and rewarding. I think
families blossom under a mother
whose achievement goes beyond
housekeeping.
A mother who reads poetry,
with love, aloud to a fretful child
can dispense w i t h paregoric.
Later on to be able to identify
the toy soldiers and tell true
stories of their origins gives
almost as shiny a halo to Mama
as Papa's battered football hel
ment does to him.
But there is no formula that
tells a woman how to find the
time to be all things to her
family and important to her
self; how to go out from the
snuggery of the home and enter,
competitively, a profession in
which the male always has the
o d d s overwhelmingly in his
favor.
The main "odd," naturally, be
ing "time to write." But, if a
woman is clever and has genuine
understanding it can be done.
I've done it and still have a hus
band who isn't always minus a
button on his shirt and who en
joys my conversation.
Another problem besides time
is decisions-the kind of prob
lem male authors simply don't
have to face. My editor tele
phoned from New York concern
ing a book club contract for
"India Allan" at the exact in
stant my daughter walked in the
front door with a huge, utterly
strange young man and airily
announced, "Look, Ma - we're
engaged!"
Usually when I'm at the de
nouement of a novel one or the
other child breaks a leg or the
cook's mother-in-law gets cut
in Hop Town or my husband is
made head of this or that Cone
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"Boston Tea Party"
Mrs. Kent
BY LEVONA PAGE
Staff Writer
The 1960 presidential cam
paign is perhaps the only one in
history in which the women will
decide the votes. Also it is the
first one in which the women
have campaigned so heavily for
first lady of the White House.
One of the women most out
standing in this campaign has
been Mrs. Rose Kennedy, mother
of Senator John Kennedy.
The main "weapon" of the
Kennedy women in this campaign
has been a series of teas and re
ceptions given in various parts
of the country. As Mrs. Kennedy
explained at a reception in
Charleston recently, which four
members of "The Gamecock"
staff attended, when Jack was
campaigning for senator in Mas
sachusetts it was discovered that
there were more women voters
than men in the state.
Therefore, the women in the
family got busy and gave a
series of "Boston Tea Parties."
"Since they were successful in
that campaign;" said Mrs. Ken
nedy, "we have introduced the
same idea into t h i s election
fight."
As she held a press confer
ence in her suite in Charleston's
Fort Sumter Hotel, Mrs. Ken
nedy refused to talk to reporters
about politics. Instead she talked
about her family and Jack's
political background.
Mrs. Kennedy is a petite lady
who looks much younger than
her age. She was dressed in a
stylish black dress with lowered
waistline and bouffant skirt. She
wore a fuchsia hat with an Up
sweep that added to her height.
Two strands of pearls, matching
But that's the womanly life
I love and I wouldn't swap it for
anybody's. I love my nineteen
year-old son's friends who swarm
in and out of my house; my
daughter's endless beaux; my
husband's exciting conferees; the
A. A. U. W.; the hospital auxili
ary; the P. E. N. Club; my
church.
If I am able to divide myself
into all these parts it is because
I have never let my loyalty
swerve; writing is forever second
fiddle to my home and family.
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pearl earrings, and a white or
chid were her other accessories.
One of Mrs. Kennedy's acces
sories was a replica of a PT boat
used in World War II. Mrs. Ken
nedy explained t h a t Senator
Kennedy has served on such a
boat and it was torpedoed by
the Japanese. "Because Jack was
an excellent swimmer," said Mrs.
Kennedy, "he swan to safety."
Jack Kennedy showed no in
terest in politics while in high
school, Mrs. Kennedy said. He
was never a class officer, but he
seriously studied history.
Mrs. Kennedy said that she be
lieved that her talented daugh
ter-in-law, Jackie, would be a
big help to her husband if she
should become first lady. Because
Jackie has run two houses suc
cessfully for six years, one in
Washington and one in Hyannis
Port, she should be qualified to
accept the responsibilities of the
White H o u s e, Mrs. Kennedy
said.
After the press conference,
Mrs. Kennedy stood in a re
ceiving line for approximately
300 Charleston ladies. Though
she seemed tired and hurried in
her actions, she greeted everyone
with a big smile and firm hand
shake.
Others in the line with Mrs.
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Kennedy were Mrs. J. C. Long,
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After her f i f t e e n - minute
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more relaxed and greeted more
ladies.
When "The Gamecock" editor
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"Let's put a Gamecock in the
White House" slogan, Mrs. Ken
nedy pointed to the Gamecock
button on her shoulder and said,
"Yes, I know; you see I'm wear
ing that pin."
As she signed autographs for
the four members of the "Game
cock" staff attending the recep
tion, Mrs. Kennedy n e a t 1 y
printed her name. She explained
that when her children were in
school learning to print, she
often helped teach them. There
fore, she also got in the habit
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