Augusta College - White Columns Yearbook (Augusta, GA)

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calvin billman thomas ramage 11. jeff stovall 13. edward tarver senior sophomore 12. gayla spooner 14. Charles b valder sophomore junior e-philosophyhistory-politiGalscience-philosophyhistory.-

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A george chen edward cashin 6. marian k jordon 9. dempsey b smith senior senior 7. cliff keesee io. roy smith sophomore junior 8. robert may senior history-p liticalscience-philosophyhistory-political

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CAROL FUCHS As one looks at this sightly aged photograph, one wonders where have I seen that face before? The girl in the picture, with her long brown frosted hair, thickly coated eyelashes, pale lipstick, small gold hoops and cashmere sweater is so familiar and oh so early sixties. Carol Fuchs with her mass of tree brown curls, her clear make-up free face, and her eclectic style of clothing laughs spasmodically when you shake your head in exasperation non-recognition. That was me, she says. Can you believe if? Yes is the answer. Yes, because Carol is the product of a middle class Long Island family; yes, because Carol ' s mom is a handsome woman of impeccable taste; yes, because Carol ' s younger sister is, up-to-the-minute in her stylish clothes and way of life; yes. because you yourself know it ' s so. Were not all of us who are products of the sixties caught up in looking good, dressing well, and doing well back then? Aren ' t we back there now, here in the late seventies? But Carol no longer identifies with the Long Island set of principles with which she grew up. Mascara and the theater on Monday, the opera on Tuesday, etc., no longer are me, she says. Now I live my life as I feel I should and I let others live theirs as they wish. And it ' s great! Carol ' s energy level is so high, her list of goals so long, that she feels almost unquestionably that she will never settle down, never marry. I have made so many commitments to myself that I will need a full life, perhaps more, to fulfill them. And the kind of life style I lead would be unfair to a husband and children. Although, she adds, I really would like to have children. Carol ' s view is that to truly learn, one must sample a little of everything. That is precisely what she has done and what she most likely will continue to do. At seventeen Carol enrolled in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but dropped out. I wasn ' t ready for a serious commitment to college then, she explains. It was during the anti-Viet Nam-Abbie Hoffman-hippies-and let ' s go cross country era. With the country going through such a tremendous transition, and myself going through a personal transition, college at that time was not the right place for me. So Carol did other things. She spent four months in the Virgin Islands, taught scuba diving in Florida, and managed a restaurant in Maryland. With her savings she embarked on a trip that in many ways is responsible for the unique and individualistic person she has become today. With $2,000 she purchased passage on a ship and headed for Europe. For two years Carol hitchhiked and Eurail-passed through the European countries. And in Europe she was decidedly more original than most other traveling young Americans. She worked on a farm in Norway, picked grapes in France, worked in a macrobiotics restaurant in Paris, and drove across the Sahara with an Englishman, a Frenchman, and an American. When Carol returned to the U.S. she found readjustment difficult, but not unconquerable. In New York, she said, I found things unchanged, but different; so I followed my family to Augusta. After a while I began to get used to It here and came to like it. Now, she continued, I live alone out in the country, without a telephone, and devote myself almost full time to my studies. An English major and an extremely fine student, Carol decided, one quarter before graduation, to change her major to Pre-med. She said, Recently, through a personal experience, I realized how important good doctors are to the well-being of this country, and I believe I could be a fine doctor. So this is Carol ' s new goal. Eventually, she says, I hope to join the Peace Corps and of course, whatever I do, I will continue to travel. It is apparent that Carol plans to be something more than the girl next door, or the wife or mother of so and so. She expects to give her already full life quality and meaning. It is not difficult to believe a woman with the abilities and determination of Carol Fuchs will accomplish just that.