A 1957 Newsweek cover story looked at the trend of—gasp—ladies on college campuses! But fear not; these beauties manage to stay fetching and marriage-oriented, even with all that fancy college learnin’. Here’s Newsweek’s take on two of them:
Nanci Browning is 18 and a member of this fall’s sophomore class at Santa Barbara College of the University of California. Born in Santa Barbara and graduated from its high school, she quite naturally chose the local liberal arts college. Also, Nanci’s father is a professor of music at UCSB.
Nanci (“You’ll die about how it’s spelled—our family is a bunch of individualists”) is a psychology major. Even in high school, she recalls, “girls came to me with their problems about boys. Believe me, the mind is a fascinating thing.”
Poised and adult for her age, Nanci has no boy problems herself. She has been engaged for nine months to Ron Robertson, 18, who will enter either UCLA or UCSB this fall.
A member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, Nanci’s “favorite pastime” is eating—chocolate sundaes and milkshakes, and banana splits; 5-foot-2, she weighs only 94 pounds.
Nanci’s ambition: To help delinquent children and marry Ron.
Carol Ceithaml (it’s pronounced SIGHT-ham-ell) at 20 has worked out quite a career at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. A senior this year, she is involved in so many activities that she has to tote an appointment book to keep on schedule. Nevertheless, Carol maintains a B average in the School of Speech, where she specializes in speech correction and audiology.
Of Czech descent, Carol graduated from Calumet High School in Chicago. Her father is a vice president of Stanford Rate and Data Service, Inc. By choice, she lives with her family in Wilmette. She worries about her weight—150—although she stands 5 feet 10 inches—and sees as many beaus as she can sandwich into her 8 a.m.-to-midnight days.
Carol never considered anything other than a co-ed school: “I’ve gone to school all my life with boys; I don’t see any reason to change. After all, you have to live with men all your life.”
Carol’s ambition: To marry by 25, maybe get a master’s degree.
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