Rosemary's Graduation, 1969
"Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth
- oh, never mind, you will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until
they have faded. But trust me, in 20 years you'll look back at photos of yourself
and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and
how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine. .."
[Extract purporting to be from Kurt Vonnegut's commencement address to a MIT Class of '99 to
‘Wear Sunscreen’, but actually written by Mary Schmich for the Chicago Tribune.]
This is a young Miss Rosemary Goddard with her mum, after graduation in June 1969.
My mum and I are wearing homemaid outfits created from the wonder fabric of the time
- crimplene. It was the heyday of the ‘mini’ skirt, perhaps not so suitable for my mum
who by then was in her 60s, but I fought long and hard for a ‘fashionable’ length to her
skirt, then made sure I cut the fabric before she had a chance to change
her mind... >:)
If the above link to ‘Wear sunscreen’ isn't working, here are two other
sites -
Mary Schmich's "Wear Sunscreen Speech", and
Wear sunscreen.
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[Created 27 Jul 2002. Last updated 14 Sep 2008 - 13:58 by Rosemary Lockie]
