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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, March 7, 1974
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A Bride by Any Other Name Is Still the Girl You Wed
By TOM WEISHAAR
Kansan Staff Reporter
My wife's name is Kathy O'Connell and the first person who calls me O'Connell
On the other hand, Terry Benjamin of 538 Ohio, whose wife's name is Elaine Yarburgh, said he had been introduced as an instructor several times and it just made him laugh.
Claudia Flowers of 1339's Haskell, kept her name and she said she hadn't
It is unbelievably easy for Kansas women, to keep their own names when they marry. In fact, it is probably less trouble than taking their husband's name.
Birth and marriage certificates always ask for a woman's maiden name. Banks have always accepted joint accounts from people with different names. Likewise, cars can be registered jointly by people other than married couples.
KHRISTINE HALL, Lawrence law student who is a legal intern with the Legal Aid Society and whose husband's name is Jessica. The lawyer came to the society because an insurance agent said he couldn't sell insurance to a married couple that had different names. The woman was sent to the same insurance company who could.
"It probably makes me madden to be called Elaine Benjamin," Marborough said.
Hall encountered the most difficulty of any of the women talked to. Her name was
Eighteen junior and senior men have been elected to Sachem Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, the University of Kansas' senior men's honor society, Van Spake, Shawnee Mission senior and Sachem president, announced yesterday.
Del Shanker, executive vice chancellor,
was elected to honorary membership.
Sachem Circle Elects Eighteen To Membership
The 18 were selected from among more than 50 juniors and seniors nominated on the basis of leadership and excellence in scholarship; athletics; publications; speech, music and drama; or student government, social and religious affairs.
The newly elected members will be initiated in a special ceremony May 4 at the Rock Chalk Cairn, a Sachem shrine, north of the Carmelite.
Students elected are John H. Beisner, Salina junior; Randall C. Bell, Hutchinson senior; Mert F. Buckley, Wichita junior; John L. Eagleton, Prairie Village junior; John L. Gagnon, McKeesport junior; L. Gagnon, Zurich senior; Toby J. Hartong, Leewand junior; Thane R. Hodson, Lawrence junior; Todd A. Hunter, Oklahoma City junior; Thomas L. Kivisto, Overland Park junior; Overland Park junior; Richard B. McLaughlin, Dallas junior; Evan J. Oslon, Salina junior; Benedict T. Palen, South Haven junior; Charles Charles Olate the McKeesport Jeffrey S. Soutah, Wichita junior; and William L. Webster, Mo. junior;
Seniors' $2,000 For Landscape
The senior class of 1974 will contribute $2,000 for landscaping in the area east of Wescoe Hall and construction of a cement bench there as its gift to the University.
The gift was announced during the halftime of last night's basketball game. The landscaping will consist of 625 shrubs and 40 trees to be planted in the area near Wescue and Flint halls, two circular grasslands covered by a plaque mounted on a rock, according to Bob Holmes, chairman of the Senior Gift Committee.
Half of the money for the landscaping will come from funds collected by the seniors from class card sales and the other half will be supplied by the University.
Construction of the cement bench was to begin today. The bench will be located in front of the stairs on the east side of Wescoe. The plaque has been ordered. Plants have been purchased and will be placed as weather permits.
According to Holmes, gift suggestions were collected last September and voted on by the senior class. The bench and landmark gifts are selected five gift suggestions chosen by the voters.
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changed on her university records against her wishes, she said. But a woman in that office said names weren't changed in the records unless a student requested it, usually on the personal information form completed during registration.
LINDA SLEEFFEL, Lawrence law student whose husband's name is Dan Moore and who also is a legal intern with the Legal Aid Society, said she couldn't recall any serious difficulties reported to the society by women who had kept their own names. Even the Internal Revenue Service has issued a new HIPAA law that husband's were printed correctly and jointly on the label that came with their IRS forms, she said.
Sfeffel retained her name "the hard way." She changed to her husband's name when she married, then more than a year later, she went to court to have her name changed back.
retention involves consistently doing nothing. Just don't change it.
The most common method of name
"They should make sure they are consistent," said Louise Wheeler, associate professor in the Law School and local representative of the Center for a Woman's Rights group. "We have an international group which helps women who have trouble by retaining their own names."
JOHN MARTIN of the Office of the Kansas Attorney General said recently that the legal opinion of that office said she wanted her name if she wanted. One should simply continue to use one's own name and to try to correct any changes made by people unaware of personal information.
Martin said a bill to establish a more definite procedure had once been introduced by the committee, but the committees because the attorney general's office thought it was unnecessary.
state laws, a Kansas woman who has kept her own name must be careful after moving to a new state.
Because all laws concerning names are
The tradition of a woman taking her husband's name is common in most major world cultures except some parts of Asia in which a woman never has a family name but is simply known as the wife or daughter of someone.
HOWEVER, those who break the custom can be found in most countries. Nowhere is it more common than China. Perhaps the highest placed example in Ching Chiang, wife of Mao Tse-tung. Traditionally her name is Mao Tse-tung, but now her names come first in the Chinese system.
In Spanish speaking countries women keep their own names, but add their husband's name. Jane Smith of Jones could use James Jones, Jones being the name of the husband.
consist of given name, father's family name and mother's family name. Benjamin, the man who laughs about being called Yar-san, said he excused what name their children will have.
Names of children in the Spanish culture
O'Connell hinted that he might not have
completely purged himself of chauvinism if his children had his name.
On the other hand, O'Connell said, "I don't feel any great pressure to tack my name on someone else. I just want it for myself."
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