European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 06, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday june 6, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 13turning 30 like stubbing a toe on a Milestone by Sharon Johnson new York times Ary Spletter. A California writer turned 30 recently and celebrated by cutting her Long dark hair and getting her ears pierced. I thought it was now or never she said softly. Turning 30 made me Stop and consider not Only How i look but who i am and where i m Mary splitter is not alone. In Detroit. Robert Harrington an accountant enrolled in a master s degree program because he found his Job Tallahassee. Ha., Julia e. Sullivan quit her Job with the state department of general services and set off on a six month Cross country tour that she had dreamed about for years. In Wakefield mass. Barbara and Walter Robinson decided to buy a House because they wanted to put Down roots. Although not All 30-year-Olds make such dramatic changes interviews with scores of 30 year Olds in 12 different regions of the country revealed that most people consider their 30th birthday a landmark. " for me. Turning 30 meant that i had reached the end of the beginning of my said Laurence Cantor a new York City marketing administrator who passed the landmark a year ago. I Felt that i had to Start living rather than preparing to unlike other birthdays that brought Legal rewards such As the right to drive drink or vote. 30lh-birthday celebrations seem to stress that the person is Over the when Mary memo a Counselor at the University of Rochester turned 30 last May her friends gave her a big birthday party with lots of joke gifts including a Corset a Jar of wrinkle Cream and Mickey mouse ears for her second childhood. Most people experience some kind of stress according to or. Andrew j. Dubrin. A professor of behave Oral science at the Rochester Institute of technology. Almost everybody has Concrete things they expected to accomplish by the age of 30, such As making a certain salary or getting married and they get very discouraged if life has t worked out As they had said Dubrin. For men and most career oriented women turning 30 can be traumatic because it Means that Vou Are not longer just a Nice kid with potential. Once you re 30, you can no longer rationalize a Lack of Success. In Many Fields you pretty much have to have made your Mark by personal lives also arc disrupted at age 30.couples who marry in their Early 20s frequently gel divorced because they realize that they made a mistake and want to find a new mute or at least Freedom while there is still time and n minimum of financial 21. Judy a los Angeles Art teacher married her College sweetheart and looked Forward to being the perfect wife of a Beverly Hills attorney. After nine years of marriage and two children however she divorced her husband and married an artist. "1 kept hoping that my first husband would learn to appreciate and share my interest in Art and music but he never said Judy. We became More like strangers every Day. I could t stand the thought of spending the rest of my life with him so i finally got a divorce."1 Don t think i would have looked twice at my present husband when i was in my 20s. Because he is the introspective Type but now 1 realize he is just the person i childless couples and singles Start having second thoughts. Lorraine Procida a Mother of two on reaching 30 i Don t look 22 any More and it bothers me my life is a Little out of control right said Clem Goldberger. Who is single and the creative director of a new Orleans advertising Agency "1 never really experienced the old maid panic but i be always known that ultimately a career would not be enough. Eventually i d like marriage probably children. I feel that by 301 should be settled on life s course. I feel i m a Little behind 30-year-old who agrees with Dubrin s analysis is Wesley Wilson the director of Delaware s office of minority business Enterprise. Wilson finds that his attitudes toward his Job have changed since he turned 30."turning 30 Means the death of boy said Wilson. Boy wonders Aren t 30 or 32. They re 26 or 27. Instead of saying i wanted to be the youngest. 1 started saying that i wanted to be the Best. Thirty is a critical stage in a person s career because it Means that you either stay in the same Field and build on what you have Learned or leave and find something else that will make better use of. Your talents the older you ret. The harder it is to Start of 30-year-Olds across the country have abandoned their initial careers. . Alan Elgar gave up his Job As an attorney in an accounting firm in order to Start a boutique i Cleveland de Wade slopped dreaming of becoming an olympic track Star because he realized that lie was too old. In new York barbra Sicgel. An artist considered going to graduate school to study theater. For activists of the 60s, turning 30 can be a harrowing experience because they grew up with the slogan never Trust anybody Over 30." we were the people who were going to Stop the government the schools everything until we had All the problems worked said Cantor who describes himself As a fringe intellectual ally of the 60s rebels. Now i m part of the establishment and it frightens the other and. Young people who spurn traditional careers in favor of less structured lives Are also having second thoughts. Turning 30 is much More upsetting today than it used to be because there arc Many More uncommitted Young said or Ira Ham b. Blaine or. Formerly chief of psychiatric services at Harvard those who dropped out and went to live in the Woods arc bored and have begun to accept the views of their parents they wonder if it is Loo late id be on the bandwagon which at 25. They feel it would be a cop out to the physical changes bother some 30-year Olds. I see a change in the said Lorraine Procida. An Oakdale. N. Housewife and Mother of my face seems older. My body seems different i Don t look 22 any More and it bothers people who Are very attractive in their youth seem to have the most trouble coming to grips with being 30, says Sharlotte Behre a new Orleans social worker who has counselled people making the transition. Culture says you re beginning to break Down at 30. We re taught that the aging process hits us All at the same time. It does t.". One 30-year-old who likes getting older u Michael Novak a new York actor. I find getting older he explained. There Are Many bonuses such As walking into a restaurant and getting respect from the waiter which would not have happened when i was 21 or 22. I find my parents treat me like a peer now and that i can talk to authority figures who would have ignored me years believes that the 30s May be the prime of Don t think anybody Over 30 is Over the Hill he said. Why. I Haven t even seen the Hill yet. The Hill keeps getting farther away every year because 1 am constantly finding new things to do and
