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Peggy Stevens '81 died this week of a "heart ailment" while travelling to Spain on a Trustman scholarship...
...Trustman, who divorced his first wife and remarried, believes that the "passive acceptance of women's roles then was devastating. All of a sudden, a woman was supposed to maintain a house and a social life, bear and raise children and preserve herself as an attractive female for the rest of her life, to the exclusion of everything else. It was the source of suicidal depressions and huge explosions" among many of the couples Trustman knows...
...Brody doesn't recall any occasions when either he or any of his friends kept a woman in the dorm overnight. But, he says, "you could screw in the afternoon and that was happening a lot. We also had a car and so there was always the back seat." Trustman says his whole generation "learned to be sexually active between 6 and 8 p.m. The style was first to make love and then go out to dinner...
...Trustman says he has trouble understanding how today's coeducation can work. "The prior system was probably repressive and imperfect but I wonder what I would have been doing and thinking about if half my dorm were girls. I wouldn't have gotten any work done!" he muses. When he and his wife visited a student in the Quad last year, he found Cabot Hall "excruciating." He was amazed to greet an undergraduate in her slip and watch her stroll into a bathroom occupied by several men. "It was like seeing a woman walk into a men's room...
...House system was well-established by then, and stereotypes apparently haunted the various Houses then as much as now. Some characterizations changed in 25 years; others are remarkably persistent. Harding says Winthrop was known as a jock house; although Harding adds that he was not a jock. Trustman recollects that Lowell House was "significantly homosexual and History and Lit." Eliot House, as Brody remembers it, was the home of the "white shoes," which are roughly the equivalent of today's Lacoste T-shirts. He always felt Eliot was a place in which he didn't quite belong, finding the cocktail...