Names Drive Them Off Graduation Tradition Under Scrutiny
A columnist argues many graduates skip ceremonies to avoid having their real names read aloud. Vivid examples like Vernon Valentine Turk and Beulah versus nicknames highlight embarrassment, peer reaction, and parental naming choices shaping graduation moments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vernon Valentine Turk
Vernon Valentine
Turk
Vernon-Valentine
van Dyke
Marion Michael Morrison
John Wayne
Vincent Damon Furnier
Alice Cooper
Cher
Chastity Bono
David Bowie
Bowie Bowie
Jerk husband and Abby advice column letters
A reader vents about a 30 year unequal marriage funding no personal purchases and chores while a second letter asks how to handle a son who concedes car keys during meals. Abby responds on fairness child behavior and marketing Abby booklets offerings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abby
Chile
Pakry
Brian
Modern Dance Roots Touch Indian Rites and Temples
Deborah Ducate discusses modern dance origins linking to American Indian and Isadora Duncan influences. She outlines four core elements motion shape time and space and contrasts modern dance with jazz and ballet while noting personal growth and motivation from her training and experiences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Hopeland Gardens
Deborah
Ducate
Ruth St. Denise
Ted Shawn
Deniseshawn
Martha Graham
Paul Taylor
Merce Cunningham
Alvin Ailey
Lester Horton
Aiken Standard May 17 1979 Page 5A
Local brief items appear on Page 5A with community notices and event listings. The fragment shows standard newspaper items typical of a midweek page from the Aiken publication.
Beauty queen sees pageant life as less glamorous
Sheila Anderson now Kelly Anderson discusses her string of titles Miss Beechmont Miss Northwood Miss World Series Miss Cincinnati Universe and her near term Miss Ohio Universe reign She says pageants foster career goals in broadcasting and show business and recounts meeting Danny Thomas Bob Hope and agents in New York she plans a national TV ad and a film with Donald Sutherland and Cliff Robertson
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Sheila Anderson
Ohio
Danny Thomas
Thomas
Bob Hope
New York
Kelly
Donald Sutherland
Cliff Robertson
Hopeland Gardens Concert Blends Dance Music and Drama
A Monday Hopeland Gardens event features professionals students and amateurs in a workshop production Women Dancing with music by Gwendolyn Watson and vocals by Isabel Vandervelde. Deborah Ducate directs student choreography and readings by Vandervelde Jim Moore and Peggy Blackburn. Also presented are The Rivals excerpt directed by Wendy Appleton and a string quartet performing Chanson Triste and Mandoline at 7 p.m. folding chairs encouraged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deborah Ducate
Hopeland Gardens
Jean Kierspe
Jim Moore
Isabel Vandervelde
Peggy Blackburn
Ducane Heating Co
Lynne Katonak
Betty Thorngate
Virginia Taylor
Rosa Harris
Mary Boone
Kirk Galloway
Gwendolyn Watson
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