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Alhambra, a Los Angeles suburb, is an ordinary U. S. town. Girl students in its high school, like those in many another, have to attend gymnasium classes and afterwards take a shower bath. Two months ago Alhambra's high-school girls moved into a new building, where they had to undress and shower in a big common shower room. This seemed all right to most of them. But not to tall, moon-faced Joan Aveline Lawrence, 16. After one horrid ordeal, Joan refused to shower again in public even if they flunked...
Last week Joan, backed by her father, an engineer, sued for an injunction to restrain the Board of Education from flunking her. Her complaint: the free-for-all shower room 1) is immoral, 2) violates a State law against disrobing in public, 3) encroaches on her Constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
...took off my gym suit and then went out for my shower, holding a towel before me. Some of the girls were in the community showers-they were naked-and some were quite bold. I went to one of the [five] private showers, but several other girls were in line for them and I had to stand there and wait my turn. The girl in front of me, I remember, turned and told me that my face was very red. I did feel quite hot. ... I was brought up not to undress in front of other kids and the Board...
Having arrived in Cambridge, she stalwartly refused to live in the Winthrop House shower of W. Russell Bowie '41, or in the Lampoon Building. It was only when introduced to the bathtub in Lampoon candidate Cleveland's room that she made herself at home and waited for rescue...
...outdone, Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp. announced that its "elastic Vinylite" (vinyl chloride and vinyl acetate resins) was being made into chemically inert beer pipes, men's shoes, babies' diapers, bedroom slippers, shower curtains, aprons, waterproof sheeting, women's hats, chair covers, card-table covers, insulation...