From The Collegiate School for Girls Magazine 1963
kindly supplied by
Stephanie Parker Form III b 19.10.1970
How was the image of the teenager created, and how is it maintained? For in this school, there must be 95% of that age group, who are normal charming girls, free from the peculiarities in dress and taste that are accepted today, as the hail mark of the teenage sheep. But there is the minority who blindly accept current peculiarities, as chronicled in their magazines, to show that they are "with it." In their hands, hair may rise to ridiculous heights and uniform suffer peculiar transformation.
Is this a symptom of a sense of inadequacy in work and life ~ Is it a determination to make the world take notice-even though amusement or distaste may follow the notice? Or is it merely lack of good taste? It is twenty-one years since I came to the Collegiate School and I have seen many girls grow to happiness and fulfilment. They were the individuals, those with the courage to be what they knew was right, and to seek to know those things that are worth knowing. They were critical and discriminating, and to be this, is to destroy "the image" and reach maturity.
R. F. ROBINSON.
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