Maybe my mind is just dirty... but I can’t help but wonder if the flame between these two still smoldered... and there was a little monkey business going on in chambers.
And now Justice O’Conner has announced she has Alzheimer’s. Her husband, while in a nursing facility with Alzheimer’s, fell in love with another woman in the facility and didn’t remember Sandra. I wish her all the best. Her later years can’t have been easy on her.
...”multiple men proposed to my mom when she was in college and law school...
I’m 50.
So I don’t know 1950.
But I assume if you wanted action from the average girl you had to marry her.
It wasn’t a bad deal. Trading sex for a lifetime of love and commitment from a man,
Now it’s traded for a shot of JD.
A more exact title would be:
O'Connor, Rehnquist And A Supreme College Proposal
Back when justices came from more than just the same Ivy League schools and prep schools.
Great story.
Study relationships in high school and college for my siblings and me (not together) often became the core/starter for many long term and interesting relationships.
My high school, junior year, 4 guys and I became not only good friends but study buddies. After hs graduation, two went to a different university, and 3 of us ended up in the same university and later as business school students.
We added two more guys from the business school, my junior college year. It worked. We were graduated with honors and in 4 years. Before and after graduation, we helped each other get jobs and get promoted.
Later, if we had bad bosses, our long time friends would tell us to find a new job and help us. Or they would say “Suck it up get your act together!”
One guy, became my best man a year+ later at my wedding.
Another guy has been my best longtime friend going back to high school. We are now about 1500+ miles apart and still talk a lot on the phone. We were room mates our senior year in college. We did a lot of studying with our business group in our basement apartment.
My first two years in college, I, also, ended up in a coed study group for the liberal arts stuff. That was some interesting and good times. A home town male friend in one of the first study groups married a gal in that study group, and they still are married 60 years later.
A sister’s best friend in high school and later some of their sorority gals became study buddies in study groups for 4+ years in college. They are still good friends and live within an or hour or so from each other. A couple of gals from their study groups married guys, who had joined the study groups. Two of those guys had sisters in that study group.
Besides better grades, having people of the same age with similar interests to talk about problems and opportunities was a great thing.
In our business study group, we got to the point, where we could predict basically what our professors would quiz us on. That was an extra re what did our future bosses expect from us. We learned what the value of good intel and knowing your market was.