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...letters plus a hyphen, Sammataro-Hutchins is a bit much. Still, time has not been kind either to the Floyd-Bells, Church-Smiths and other conscientiously nonsexist, nonconformist couples who embraced hyphenation in the '70s as a banner of equality. The ubiquitous computer, for example, often seems incapable of recognizing hyphens. Says a Citibank spokesman: "This is not an insidious attack on our part. It's a program problem." Bureaucracies would rather set aside the mark altogether. In Bayside, N.Y., Dana Wissner- Levy, a graduate student at Hofstra University, had to take her battle to the school president before...
...Sammataro-Hutchinses would love to keep up with the Joneses. "Forms aren't long enough to accommodate my whole name," says Debra Sammataro- Hutchins, who owns a children's clothing store in Melrose, Mass. Says her husband Robert: "My credit cards have me as Sammataro Hut. When I try to sign a check, I run out of room." The family's insurance reimbursements are bogged down because records do not match. The couple have to maintain an extra listing in the phone book so their children's friends can find them under Hutchins. "Ten years ago, when I married...
...case, the Sammataro-Hutchinses have had it. They left the bar out on their youngest child's birth certificate. Even so, their eldest son Tynan, 8, wears the name with pride. "I'm the only one in class who has a hyphen." Perverse, perhaps, but some of us like it that...
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