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The original documents are located in Box 45, folder "Ford, Susan - "Seventeen" Column" of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. Copyright Notice The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Gerald Ford donated to the United States of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections. Works prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public domain. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to remain with them. If you think any of the information displayed in the PDF is subject to a valid copyright claim, please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. Digitized from Box 45 of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library seventeen 320 PARK AVENUE NEW YORK, N.Y. 10022 (212) 759-8100 March 10, 1975 Msd Sheila Weidenfeld c/o The White House Washington, D. C. Dear Sheila: I am enclosing five advance copies of the April issue of Seventeen, featuring Susan on the cover and inside. I hope to drop in one you one of these days for a chat. As ever, Tay Managing Editor Pay Ray Robinson RR:ds enc; SEAL FIBRARY Some items in this folder were not digitized because it contains copyrighted materials. Please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library for access to these materials. YOUNG AMERICA'S FAVORITE MAGAZINE APRIL 1975 75 CENTS seventeen GO NATURAL! down-to-earth clothes muslin make-its plants to live with THE PRETTIEST PROM DRESSES at pricesy ou'll like KEEP COOL & LOOK GREAT AT TENNIS GIRLS SOUND OFF ABOUT BOYS WHY WOMEN'S COLLEGES ARE BETTER MARRIAGE: THE KIND OF MEN TO AVOID INTRODUCING MINI-MAG an exclusive monthly column a great new section! SUSAN FORD'S WHITE HOUSE DIARY Executive Editor: RUBYE GRAHAM Managing Editor: RAY ROBINSON Associate Editor: ROBERTA SCHEER Art Director: PAMELA HOFFMAN Associate: BARBARA CHAPMAN Assistant Designer: NINA TANTILLO seventeen Assistant: LINDA DEMILT APRIL 1975 Fashion Director: NANCY MARCANTONIO Fashion Editors: NANCY LIPTON, Published by Triangle Communications Inc. GWENDOLYN JENKINS, MUFFIN WECHSLER Fabrics Editor: ADRIANNE GRAYSON FASHION Assistants: SANDE ROSS, ELAINE GROSS Beauty Editor: SUZANNE KENNEDY FLYNN 50 SPRING FORMALS Associate: DOROTHY SCHEFER 100 WRIST BITS General Features Editor: ANNETTE GRANT 111-115 PROM-GOING: Light, airy, feminine dresses for your special night Teen Features Editor: ELEANOR FAIRCLOUGH Associates: ANNETTE CAPONE, JUDSEN CULBRETH 120-125 SUPER NATURAL SPRING Assistants: PAT CORCORAN, ELIZABETH ROSENSTIEL Down-to-earth clothes and accessories-prices to match! Fiction Editor: BABETTE ROSMOND 126-129 MUSLIN MAKES IT: Four crafty ways to add pow to fashions you sew Associate: KATHLEEN GOUBEAUD Entertainment Editor: EDWIN MILLER 142 SURE HITS: Cool cotton winners-tennis gear for any-wear! Assistant: MARY HORNER 144-147 SWIM! Start suiting yourself Home Editor: ANN PARDUE SONET Assistants: CAROLE HORII, ROWANN GILMAN BEAUTY Food Editor: OLGA RIGSBY 16 DEAR BEAUTY EDITOR: Problem-solving answers to the questions you ask Associate: SUZANNE CHECCHIA Copy Chief/Travel Editor: BUNNY BROWER 28 LIMBER UP! Warm-up exercises for tennis Staff Writer: JANET WHRITNER 138-141 CENTER COURT GROOMING: Teen tennis buffs tell how to Assistant: MARILYN SIMON The News Makers. look fresh and pretty on and off the courts Copy Editor: SHEA SMITH (continued) Relating: ABIGAIL WOOD HOME The knit news IS cotton comfort with easy Consultant: E. J. HORNICK, M.D. Shopwise Editor: JEANNE TAYLOR 130-133 INDOOR GARDENS: Turn any room into a greenhouse care. Junior fashions and junior prices by Production Manager: MARIA HOPKINS 162 PLANT CARE GUIDE: Green-thumb tips Pandora. The bottoms are new NATURAL Art Production: HORACE ERAMO BLEND™ knits (85% cotton 15% polyester) for Assistant: MICKEY SURASKY FOOD comfort and extra performance. Bottoms (5-15) Assistant to Executive Editor: JANE LISTER 134 THE NATURAL ROUTE in white, natural, lilac. lime, peach. Shorts. $11. Readers' Letters: JUDITH O'MALLEY Sprout seeds and beans for delicious earth-food specialties Pants, $19. Assistant: ANN WISER 136 BROWN-THUMB GUIDE TO BREAD-BAKING by Jody Shields Tops of 100% cotton knit (S-M-L) as shown. Merchandising Director: BARBARA DOLJACK What you should know about getting into dough Tube S6 Sleeved, $8. Associate: NAN PANDJIRIS The News Stand Senior Coordinators: DEBRA RUSSELL, JO ANN WOLF ARTICLES Coordinators: LINDA ABRAMSON, STACEY BROOKS, Alabama 90 HOW NOT TO BUY A LEMON by Peggy Hutchinson, 19 Birmingham Pizitz MARY LONCHARICH, KAREN YOUNG California Merchandising Copywriter: ANGELA TURNER Buying a used car? Don't get taken for a ride! (Southern) Miller's Outpost Education Coordinator: DEBORAH HUGHES 96 NEW FACTS ABOUT MARIJUANA by Harvey Aronson Connecticut Credits Coordinator: SUSAN LASKEY New Haven Edward Malley Co. West Coast Coordinator: LINN JOSLYN Pot may not be the "wonder drug" some insist it is Florida Orlando, Tampo 111 OUR NEW LOOK: Introducing fresh features in a streamlined SEVENTEEN Promotion Services Director: AARON COHEN St. Petersburg Robinson's Promotion Manager: ROBERT BETHENCOURT 116 GIRLS SOUND OFF ABOUT BOYS: Special panel report Georgia Atlanta. Davison's Research Manager: JOY DUNBAUGH 118 WHY ALL-WOMEN'S COLLEGES ARE BETTER! by Josiah Bunting Illinois Public Relations Director: LOLA CHERSON Chicago. Wieboldt's. CAROL KLEPPER, CAROLYN MONTALTO 150 FACE TO FACE WITH BARBARA WALTERS by Edwin Miller Louisiana Business Manager: JOHN T. LARKIN Co-host of Today, star of Not for Women Only, she's an extraordinary person New Orleans D. H. Holmes Maine Magazine Printing Director: RAY McCLOSKEY Augusta. The Village Shop Advertising Production Manager: DOROTHY MEDVIN FICTION Portland Porteous Mitchell & Brown Co. The News Makers. 148 A PARTICULAR GOD by Joel Gross Maryland Miss Harper Advertising Director: ROBERT S. BUNGE Massachusetts Advertising Manager: 1RA GAREY Laurie had worshiped Larry from afar. Now she ran into him again Boston Filene's EASTERN OFFICE Mississippi REGULAR FEATURES Jackson McRoe's NATURAL BLEND™knits. Manager: VINCENT SHALLOW 320 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10022 New Jersey NEW ENGLAND OFFICE 6 YOUR LETTERS Fair Hoven Tops 'N Bottoms Nework Manager: ROBERT W. BARON 31 SUSAN FORD'S WHITE HOUSE DIARY and branches Hohne Co. Natural Cotton. Statler Building, Boston, Massachusetts 02116 WESTERN OFFICE The President's daughter writes her first monthly column New Mexico Albuquerque. Kistler-Collister Manager: JAMES L. LEE 41-48 MINI-MAG: A zippy magazine-within-a-magazine. Carlsbad Cindy's 400 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60611 New York Soft comfort you wash. PACIFIC COAST OFFICE 52 RELATING by Abigail Wood Brooklyn Abraham Straus Manager: RICHARD T. COYNE, JR. 5900 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90036 I Feel Trapped! New York City Bloomingdale's Ohio SOUTHERN OFFICE 58 FREE FOR ALL: A grab bag of your ideas and impressions Akron O'Neil's Advertising Sales/South, Inc., President, Morgan Pirnie, Oklahoma By Pandora. Naturally. Suite 216, 180 Allen Road, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30328 62 WHAT'S NEW: Catch up on the latest products and ideas Oklahoma City. Kathryn Lipe's EDITORIAL OFFICES 67 CLOSE-UP: Movies, records, personalities Tulsa The Village Bug 320 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10022 Virginia & 75 ONE PLUS ONE-MARRIAGE: THE KIND OF MEN TO AVOID Washington, D.C Miss Harper FRANK G. WOLF, Publisher MERRILL PANITT, Editorial Director by Lester David NATURAL BLEND a Cotton Incorporated trademark 86 IN MY OPINION by Betty Taylor, 18 describing blends containing 60% or more cotton. Fabrics shown are from Marcrest Knitting Mills. 220 Introverts Deserve Equal Time! PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY TRIANGLE COMMUNICATIONS INC 320 PARK AVENUE NEW 104 TRAVEL: THE CRAFTS CAPER by Patricia Doherty YORK NEW YORK 10022. PLEASE ADDRESS ALL EDITORIAL AND EASTERN ADVERTISING MAIL TO SEVENTEEN 320 PARK AVENUE NEW YORK NEW YORK 10022 SEND STAMPED SELF ADDRESSED ENVELOPE WITH MANUSCRIPTS. SEVENTEEN WILL NOT How a cash-conscious student helped pay for her travels BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MANUSCRIPTS IN ITS OFFICES OR IN TRANSIT SUBSCRIPTIONS UNITED STATES ONE YEAR CANADA AND MEXICO ONE YEAR $9.00 ALL OTHER 106 LEAD CONTEST: Winners of the 1974 competition COUNTRIES ONE YEAR $14 REMIT BY CHECK OR POSTAL MONEY ORDER CURRENCY SENT SUBSCRIBER RISK SEND NO STAMPS SUBSCRIPTIONS WILL START WITHIN SIX TY DAYS AFTER RECEIPT OF ORDER SEND RIPTION CORRE SPONDENCE TO SEVEN 109 SEVENTEEN'S ANNUAL SHORT STORY, ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY The more cotton the better TEEN SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMEN RADNOR PENNSYLVANIA 19088 NOTIFY SUBSCRIP TION DEPARTMENT OF CHANGE OF ADDRESS AT LEAST SIX WEEKS ADVANCE PLEASE CONTESTS: $2,900 IN PRIZES YOU COULD WIN INCLUDE NAME NEW ADDRESS ABEL FROM MOST RECENT ISSUE SINGLE cotton COPY IN THE UNITED STATES OR CANADA 75 CENTS SEVENTEEN TRADEMARK REGIS STATES PATENT OFFICE VOLUME 34 NUMBER ISSUED MONTHLY SECOND 164 SHOPWISE CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT NEW YORK NEW YORK AND ADDITIONAL COTTON INCORPORATED AUTHORIZED SECONDC MAIL POST DEPARTMENT TORONTO CANADA Prices quoted on editorial pages are necessarily approximate; most are slightly higher west of the Rockies and in Canada COPYRIGHT 1975 TRIANGLE COMMUNICATIONS INC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED NOTH 1370 AVE. OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10019 ING APPEARING IN SEVENTEEN MAY BE REPRINTED EITHER WHOLLY OR IN PART WITH The More Cotton The Better. LOS ANGELES RALEIGH DALLAS OUT PERMISSION PRINTED BY GRAVURE IN THE U.S.A. Cover photograph by Steen Svensson. For more information on our cover see page 189 2 Seventeen-April 1975 Seventeen-April 1975 3 SUSAN FORD'S WHITE HOUSE DIARY STEEN SVENSSON The President's seventeen-year-old daughter in the Grand Hall. The final picture writes her first monthly column was of her lying on the bed they wheeled her away in: the smile, kiss hen we moved into the We were just getting nicely set- and last whispered 'I love you.' W White House, I didn't think tled into the White House, when a In the beginning I resented the I'd like it. It all had hap- crisis struck. Everyone knows about fact that reporters were always pened so suddenly, there my mother's operation for cancer. standing there when we went in or wasn't time to prepare myself. This was a terrible time for all of us, out of the hospital. I felt they were It was more formal than we were but we stuck in there. I wanted to invading my family's privacy, and used to, for one thing. When I got spend every minute with my moth- there was no way to avoid them. home from school-driven by a er at the hospital, but she wouldn't But later I realized that the publicity Secret Service agent-a butler hear of it. So I kept up with school- about my mother was very good, be- opened the door, took my bookbag, work and other necessary things. cause it has helped other women raced to the elevator and pushed I was really scared the evening and saved so many other lives. the Up button for me. When I said, my mother went to the hospital. But Things are pretty much back to "Second, please," where my par- I felt better later that night after my "normal" for us now, although my ents' room is, he said, "Thank you, oldest brother, Mike (twenty-five), mother still has to take it easy. Her Miss Susan, I will take your things his wife, Gayle, and Rev. Billy Zioli, doctor says she is coming along very up to your room" (which is on the a friend of the family's, flew in. Mike well, and we're all so grateful. third floor). and I have always been very close. Right now, I'm busy with arrange- Now that we've lived here for He is studying to be a minister. ments for the senior prom at Holton half a year or so, it's more relaxed. After they talked to me, I felt bet- Arms, the private girls' school I at- The White House staff is absolute- ter-sort of peaceful and accepting. tend in Bethesda, Maryland. The ly the greatest! But we had to work In my English class at school, we proms are usually held at a country on them-to loosen them up. It have to make daily entries in a jour- club or hotel, but this year my par- seems they weren't used to an in- nal each of us keeps. What I wrote ents invited the class to hold it in formal family like ours. We really the day of Mother's cancer opera- the White House. The whole senior wanted to talk to them about them- tion expresses how I felt better than class of '75 is helping plan it. selves, and treat them like people I can express it now: There will be two bands-Outer with personalities and problems of " I walked the halls all morn- Space and the Sandcastle. The class their own. But they seemed used to ing; the walls began to move in- picked the first group, which is from being anonymous shadows-always ward, the carpet moved without me. Maine. I knew about the Sandcastle, there when called, but then sinking Mother was in the operating room; which I had heard at a party at silently into the woodwork. It didn't we were waiting to hear from the Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. take long to break through to them, doctor. Walking up and down the The prom will be from nine to though. And now we regard them hall I pictured my mother waving to twelve on Saturday night, May 31. as warm friends. the public, shaking hands, dancing We may (continued on page 32) Boventeen-April 1975 31 YOUNG AMERICA'S FAVORITE MAGAZINE MAY 1975 75 CENTS MAY 1975 seven n 75 CENTS CLOTHES FOR YOUR SPORTY SUMMER GREAT MAKE-ITS TO SEW, KNIT, EMBROIDER SAFE WAYS TO SUNTAN seventeen Young America Today: A Full, Happy Life in California A Teen Tells: "HOW PSYCHOTHERAPY HELPED ME" SUSAN FORD Takes a YOUR SPORTY SUMMER LIFE Loving Look at Her Mother WHAT YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT RAPE Summer Jobs: TIPS FOR HARD TIMES Wells. CHARMED CONNECTIONS AVAILABLE AT THESE AND STEEN SVENSSON MANY OTHER FINE STORES Alabama Birmingham - Rich's Arizona Scottsdale - Parkway Jlrs. California Burlingame - Levy's Foster City - Levy's SUSAN Half Moon Bay - Levy's Mountain View Emporium Palo Alto - Emporium Redwood City - Levy's San Bruno - Emporium San Francisco Emporium San Jose Emporium FORD'S San Mateo - Emporium - Levy's San Rafael - Emporium Santa Clara - Emporium Santa Rosa - Emporium Connecticut WHITE Groton Grader's Jtry. Middletown - Bernie Fields New London - London Luggage Norwich - Grader's Jiry. Georgia Atianta Rich's HOUSE Decatur - Rich's No. DeKalb Rich's So. DeKalb - Rich's Smyrna Rich's lowa Cedar Rapids - Armstrong's Dept. Store DIARY Des Moines - The Earring Shop Fort Dodge - Kirkberg Jirs. Mason City - Gordon's Jiry. Maryland Bel Air - - Talles Jirs. "I like to talk to Mom home) or maybe some friends. Massachusetts Canton - Strand Jlrs. about my boy friends. If Dad and Mother do talk to- Fall River - Mullen Jiry. Nebraska But Dad just teases gether about some of his big de- Columbus Brandeis cisions, they never do it in front of Grand Island - Brandeis - The Earring Shop me about them" me. Sometimes I've walked in on Lincoln - Brandeis Omaha - Brandeis conversations, and I knew 1 should Omaha - The Earring Shop Batavia Brenner's M y mother is a very special not be there. So I left. At those times New York person. We like to talk she lets him talk things through; Binghamton Fowler, Dick & Walker about things, share ideas, Brockport - Hitchcock Jirs. that helps him sort things out. Buffalo - Kay Jlrs. just have fun together. De Witt - Dey Brothers My mother really cares about Eastway - Sibley, Lindsay & Curr Both Mom and Dad have always people. She made a point of going Greece - Sibley, Lindsay & Curr Irondequoit - Sibley, Lindsay & Curr been willing to listen. We haven't down to the White House switch- Kingston - Britts Latham - Rogers Jlrs. always agreed, but it would be board room and personally meeting New Hartford - Harris Bros. Newark - Sibley, Lindsay & Curr pretty dull if we did. My parents en- all the operators. If one of their rel- Poughkeepsie De's Jewelry Store courage us to think for ourselves. Rochester - Rudolph's Jlrs. atives dies, she phones the operator - Sibley, Lindsay & Curr Mother is religious. She wanted and also sends flowers. Schenectady - Gordon Jlrs. Syracuse Dey Brothers all of us to go through Sunday school - Sibley, Lindsay & Curr I like to talk to her about my boy - Wilson's Leading Jirs. and be confirmed. The whole fam- friends. She always wants to know Victor - Sibley, Lindsay & Curr Watertown H.J. Wilson & Son ily went regularly to Immanuel-on- who called, how old he is, what he North Dakota the-Hill Episcopal Church in Alexan- does, where he goes to school. She Fargo - The Earring Shop dria, Virginia. It is important to Mom doesn't hesitate to give me her Ohio Cleveland - Schreibman Jlrs. that we understand how the spirit opinions about them, and usually I Dayton William Rife Jirs. Van Wert - Laudick's Jirs. of religion can give us guidance. take her advice. I sometimes talk to Oregon One of Mother's favorite pas- my dad about my boy friends too, Eugene - Elwood Jirs. sages is "Do unto others as you but not as often. Mostly he just Pennsylvania Coatesville - Leon's Jiry. would have others do unto you." My teases me about them. Exton - Leon's Jiry. Lancaster - Jewel Box mother lives by that. I was very upset when I went to York Jewel Box She is patient and takes time with visit Mother in the hospital three Rhode Island Barrington Ross Simon Jiry. everybody. Nothing else is so im- days after her cancer operation. I Providence - Ross Simon Jiry, portant that she can't take those Warwick - Green Airport Gift Shop didn't mention anything to her be- W. Warwick - Holmes Jlrs. extra few minutes to help someone. cause she was supposed to be rest- Washington Bremerton - Jorgan Nelson Sometimes when Daddy comes ing. But she sensed that I had a West Virginia upstairs at night you can see that he problem and said, "Look, come Fairmont - H. A. Dodge is tense. He tries to let his cares Morgantown H. A. Dodge here, sit down," pointing to the edge Princeton - Santon's slip away as soon as he steps off the of the bed. I sat there and we talked Wheeling - L.S. Good Wisconsin elevator. But he can't always man- for an hour and a half. You always Cedarburg - Armbruster Jlrs. age it. Then Mother-and I do it too Eau Claire - Lasker Jirs. need to have someone like that to Fond-Du-Lac Uffenbeck Jirs. -might suggest calling "the boys" Madison - Dunkin Jirs. talk to when things get rough. But Manitowoc - Boelters Jirs. (my three brothers, all away from Mother (continued on page 39) LIBRARY Milwaukee - Stellers Jirs. Wausau - Petran Jlrs. Seventeen-May 1975 37 sevent 0 + the new Chris 1215 Evert latest fashion: THE ORIENTAL LOOK YOUR EYES a guide to glasses, contacts, makeup do teens make good SEX COUNSELORS? BREAKDOWN! one l Wild Meadow "I get lots of letters- about everything from is violets and Secretariat to social jasmine from hidden security payments" valleys in the South of France. Rare SUSAN geranium and chamomile from FORD'S special gardens in North Africa. And WHITE roses, unforgettable Bulgarian roses. HOUSE Blended together to make a fragrance DIARY STEEN SVENSSON that's like no other. So every girl can W hen my dad was a con- proper for me to interfere. I wouldn't gressman, I used to be ask my father to either (even though have her own amazed at some of the one boy from California wrote that Wild Meadow things people would write him "it would be red-neck not to"). I did about. But now that he's President, ask about the Lennon case and of the mind.. I'm surprised at the things people found out it was going through the write me about! right channels at the Immigration I think I'm about the same per- Commission. son t was a year ago, before he was I send most of the mail dealing sworn in. But if you read my mail, with issues over to my father's office, Wild you'd think I was some kind of hot- though sometimes I send letters to shot with influence! Flattering, but the agency that handles the problem. Meadow unfortunately not true! I get a lot of advice and com- I get about two hundred letters a ments about my activities, all the COLOGNE SPRAY MIST week. They cover a lot of ground: way from "stay your own sweet self" from people's problems with the to "any jackass can take pictures." government to something they saw That one was on a postcard that had in the paper and liked or didn't like, a picture of a donkey; I received it ideas they want passed on to my after there were stories about my at- father and advice for me. tending a photo workshop out west. COLOGNE SPRAY MIST I've been asked to intercede, or Some people complained after get my father to intercede, to stop the papers ran pictures of the birth- deportation proceedings against day party for our golden retriever, John Lennon. I've been asked to use Liberty. One called it a "posh pooch my "influence" (their word!) to de- party." Others wanted to know how criminalize the use of marijuana. I could waste food like that while One man wrote to complain that people were starving. the famous racehorse Secretariat Actually, the party was no big Wild had been retired to a stud farm- deal. Liberty gets lonely, so I had her as if I could do anything about that! brothers and sisters come from near- Adults sometimes write urging by Virginia for her to play with. We Meadow me to express their views to my shaped her dog food into a cake and father on issues of war and peace. that was all there was to it! Sometimes they write when they are One person advised me against having problems with veterans' touch dancing. Another wanted to It's more thana fragrance, benefits or social security. help me "find Jesus," the way he felt I can't intercede in any of these he had done. it's a Wild Meadow of the mind. matters, of course. I love the Bea- I get a lot of letters from young Cologne, Cologne Spray Mist, Dusting Powder. tles' music, but it would be im- people. But I (continued on page 20) SHULTON Seventeen-September 1975 ten 4/75 SUSAN FORD'S WHITE HOUSE DIARY STEEN SVENSSON The President's seventeen-year-old daughter in the Grand Hall. The final picture writes her first monthly column was of her lying on the bed they wheeled her away in: the smile, kiss hen we moved into the We were just. getting nicely set- and last whispered "i love you.' W White House, I didn'tthink tled into the White House, when a In the beginning I resented the I'd like it. It all had hap- crisis struck. Everyone knows about fact that reporters were always pened so suddenly, there my mother's operation for cancer. standing there when we went in or wasn't time to prepare myself. This was a terrible time for all of us, out of the hospital. 1 felt they were It was more formal than we were but we stuck in there. I wanted to invading my family's privacy, and used to, for one thing. When I got spend every minute with my moth- there was no way to avoid them. home from school-driven by a er at the hospital, but she wouldn't But later I realized that the publicity Secret Service agent-a butler hear of it. So I kept up with school- about my mother was very good, be- opened the door, took my bookbag, work and other necessary things. cause it has helped other women raced to the elevator and pushed I was really scared the evening and saved so many other lives. the Up button for me. When I said, my mother went to the hospital. But Things are pretty much back to "Second, please," where my par- I felt better later that night after my "normal" for us now, although my ents' room is, he said, "Thank you, oldest brother, Mike (twenty-five), mother still has to take it easy. Her Miss Susan, I will take your things his wife, Gayle, and Rev. Billy Zioli, doctor says she is coming along very up to your room" (which is on the a friend of the family's, flew in. Mike well, and we're all so grateful. third floor). and I have always been very close. Right now, I'm busy with arrange- Now that we've lived here for He is studying to be a minister. ments for the senior prom at Holton half a year or so, it's more relaxed. After they talked to me, I felt bet- Arms, the private girls school I at- The White House staff is absolute- ter-sort of peaceful and accepting. tend in Bethesda, Maryland. The ly the greatest! But we had to work In my English class at school, we proms are usually held at a country on them-to loosen them up. It have to make daily entries in a jour- club or hotel, but this year my par- seems they weren't used to an in- nal each of us keeps. What I wrote ents invited the class to hold it in ueeze:it formal family like ours. We really the day of Mother's cancer opera- the White House. The whole senior It helps wanted to talk to them about them- tion expresses how I felt better than class of '75 is helping plan it. 1 excess selves, and treat them like people I can express it now: There will be two bands-Outer squeaky with personalities and problems of I walked the halls all morn- Space and the Sandcastle. The class their own. But they seemed used to ing; the walls began to move in- picked the first group, which is from being anonymous shadows-always ward, the carpet moved without me. Maine. I knew about the Sandcastle, tations? there when called, but then sinking Mother was in the operating room; which I had heard at a party at air rins silently into the woodwork. It didn't we were waiting to hear from the Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. cer's. take long to break through to them, doctor. Walking up and down the The prom will be from nine to though. And now we regard them kist hall 1 pictured my mother waving to twelve on Saturday night, May 31. as warm friends. the public, shaking hands, dancing We may (continued on page 32) 1975 CONNECTIONS E AT THESE AND HER FINE STORES 5/75 STEEN SVE Rich's Parkway Jirs. Levy's Levy's SUSAN - Levy's " Emporium reporium / Levy's Emporium o Emporium imporium FORD'S Emporium Levy's Emporium Emporium Emporium WHITE ader's Jiry. - Bernie Fields - London Luggage Grader's Jiry. ich's HOUSE Rich's - Rich's - Rich's Rich's ds - Armstrong's Dept. Store DIARY - The Earring Shop - Kirkberg Jirs. Gorden's Jiry. alles Jirs. "I like to talk to Mom home) or maybe some friends. Fetts If Dad and Mother do talk to- Strand lirs. - Mullen Jiry. about my boy friends. gether about some of his big de- But Dad just teases cisions, they never do it in front of - Brandeis nd Brandeis me about them" me. Sometimes I've walked in on - The Earring Shop Brandeis conversations, and I knew I should Brandeis The Earring Shop Brenner's M y mother is a very special not be there. So I left. At those times person. We like to talk she lets him talk things through; on - Fowler, Dick & Walker about things, share ideas, that helps him sort things out. - Hitchcock Jirs. Kay Jirs. just have fun together. My mother really cares about Dey Brothers - Sibley, Lindsay & Curr Both Mom and Dad have always people. She made a point of going Sibley, Lindsay & Curr bit - Sibley, Lindsay & Curr been willing to listen. We haven't down to the White House switch- - Britts always agreed, but it would be board room and personally meeting Rogers Jirs. Hord - Harris Bros. pretty dull if we did. My parents en- all the operators. If one of their rel- Sibley, Lindsay & Curr epsie - De's Jewelry Store courage us to think for ourselves. atives dies, she phones the operator - Rudolph's Jirs. - Sibley, Lindsay & Curr Mother is religious. She wanted and also sends flowers. tady - Gordon Jlrs. - Dey Brothers all of us to go through Sunday school I like to talk to her about my boy - Sibley, Lindsay & Curr - Wilson's Leading Jirs. and be confirmed. The whole fam- friends. She always wants to know Sibley, Lindsay & Curr Im - H. J. Wilson & Son ily went regularly to Immanuel-on- who called, how old he is, what he skota the-Hill Episcopal Church in Alexan- does, where he goes to school. She The Earring Shop dria, Virginia. It is important to Mom doesn't hesitate to give me her - Schreibman Jirs. that we understand how the spirit opinions about them, and usually I William Rife Jirs. of religion can give us guidance. take her advice. I sometimes talk to - Laudick's Jirs. One of Mother's favorite pas- my dad about my boy friends too, Elwood Jirs. sages is "Do unto others as you but not as often. Mostly he just sania ille Leon's Jiry. would have others do unto you." My teases me about them. BLeon's Jiry. ker Jewel Box mother lives by that. I was very upset when I went to Tewel Box She is patient and takes time with visit Mother in the hospital three stand everybody. Nothing else is so im- days after her cancer operation. I Jon Ross Simon Jiry. Ice - Ross Simon Jiry. portant that she can't take those didn't mention anything to her be- Green Airport Gift Shop ,mich Holmes Jirs. extra few minutes to help someone. cause she was supposed to be rest- iston Sometimes when Daddy comes ing. But she sensed that I had a (ton - Jorgan Nelson rginia upstairs at night you can see that he problem and said, "Look, come. at H.A. Dodge is tense. He tries to let his cares here, sit down," pointing to the edge down H.A. Dodge on Santon's slip away as soon as he steps off the of the bed. I sat there and we talked as L.S. Good sin elevator. But he can't always man- for an hour and a half. You always Norz - Armbruster Jirs. vise Lasker Jirs. age it. Then Mother-and I do it too need to have someone like that to ,V-Lac Uffenbeck Jirs. -might suggest calling "the boys" talk to when things get rough. But in Dunkin Jirs. wroc Boelters Jirs. (my three brothers, all away from Mother (continued on page 391 skee Stellers Jirs. - Petron Jirs. Way 1975 37 "My three brothers like to check up on my grades-and my dates" SUSAN FORD'S WHITE HOUSE DIARY Steen Svensson here they were, Mom and Dad, dressing") while they "chatted" both Beach in Delaware for a week T just before I was born, with with him, to check him out. They without her. We all survived, even three boys under eight-driv- never went so far as to break off a with Dad doing most of the cooking ing Mom nuts. Mom decided a date, but if they got bad vibes, I'd -steaks, hamburgers, stuff like fourth boy would be more practical hear about it when I came home. that. We made our beds but we than a girl. I wasn't my brothers' first We've doubled a lot of times, and didn't sweep all week, and Dad choice, either-in fact they used to I tell them what I think of their washed the dishes. threaten to send me back. dates too. I can tell in just a few My brothers are good-looking and 26 Seventeen-June 1975 Wild Meadow "I get lots of letters- about everything from is violets and Secretariat to social jasmine from hidden security payments" valleys in the South of France. Rare SUSAN geranium and chamomile from FORD'S special gardens in North Africa. And WHITE roses, unforgettable Bulgarian roses. HOUSE Blended together to make a fragrance DIARY STEEM SVENSSON that's like no other. So every girl can proper for me to interfere. I wouldn't W hen my dad was a con- gressman, I used to be ask my father to either (even though have her own amazed at some of the one boy from California wrote that things people would write him "it would be red-neck not to"). I did Wild Meadow about. But now that he's President, ask about the Lennon case and of the mind.. I'm surprised at the things people found out it was going through the write me about! right channels at the Immigration I think I'm about the same per- Commission. son 1 was a year ago, before he was I send most of the mail dealing sworn in. But if you read my mail, with issues over to my father's office, you'd think I was some kind of hot- though sometimes I send letters to shot with influence! Flattering, but the agency that handles the problem. Meadow unfortunately not true! I get a lot of advice and com- I get about two hundred letters a ments about my activities, all the week. They cover a lot of ground: way from "stay your own sweet self" from people's problems with the to "any jackass can take pictures." government to something they saw That one was on a postcard that had Wild in the paper and liked or didn't like, a picture of a donkey; I received it ideas they want passed on to my after there were stories about my at- Meadow. father and advice for me. tending a photo workshop out west. I've been asked to intercede, or Some people complained after get my father to intercede, to stop the papers ran pictures of the birth- deportation proceedings against day party for our golden retriever, John Lennon. I've been asked to use Liberty. One called it a "posh pooch my "influence" (their word!) to de- party." Others wanted to know how criminalize the use of marijuana. I could waste food like that while One man wrote to complain that people were starving. the famous racehorse Secretariat Actually, the party was no big Wild had been retired to a stud farm- deal. Liberty gets lonely, so I had her as if I could do anything about that! brothers and sisters come from near- Adults sometimes write urging by Virginia for her to play with. We Meadow. me to express their views to my shaped her dog food into a cake and father on issues of war and peace. that was all there was to it! Sometimes they write when they are One person advised me against having problems with veterans' touch dancing. Another wanted-to benefits or social security. help me "find Jesus," the way he felt It'smore than a fragrance, I can't intercede in any of these he had done. it's a Wild Meadow of the mind. matters, of course. I love the Bea- I get a lot of letters from young Cologne Cologne Spray Mist, Dusting Powder. tles' music, but it would be im- people. But I (continued on page 20) SHULTON Seventeen-September 1975