European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 21, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Anita Gosch staff writer usie Carter is looking for a few Good men. She especially wants single military Quot a us u f a Carter is publisher of alas amen Usa an Anchorage based Magazine de a signed to help single women of All Ages find or right. The bimonthly publication presents profiles and photographs a along with addresses a of bachelors interested in meeting eligible women around the for the Issue scheduled to hit Newsstands in the United states in Early july Carter plans a special feature called a the men of desert she a asking s who deployed to the persian Gull a and even those who did no to to Send photos and information about themselves for the feature. Yet a is a a we la take anybody a desert storm or not a Carter said in a Telephone interview. A anybody in who wants to take Carter stresses that men who write to the mag Zinc must be single and unattached. A we done to want to break up any relationships a Sec said. And they must be fully clothed in the photographs. The 48-year-old Mother of nine says gis should not think that alas amen Usa is an offshoot of playgirl. A they have to remember that the Magazine is put out by a Mother so i make sure that even my own children can read it.�?�. Carter a former military wife who lived in Berlin and Frankfurt Germany 24 years ago says she got the idea to profile military men through her readers a a lot of women contacted us asking if we knew How they could write to the Guys in desert storm a she said. A a they re just impressed with All the things the military has gone through and they want to take part in it All a correspond with the Guys be their pen pals be their sweethearts. A some just even want to for Carter w to moved to Alaska from Oregon with her husband in. 1982, says alas amen Usa started out As a Lark. As an operator of a Day care Center in Anchorage she found that she was meeting More and More single fathers who asked her to introduce them to women. So she set herself up As a matchmaker offering women she knew a used men for in 1987, Carter took her husbands $30,000 retirement account and put out the first Issue of the Magazine which she aimed at women in the lower48 states. The project took off in a big Way. Carter began receiving As Many As 2,000 letters a week from. Women As far away As Ireland Guam and the West indies. A i realized my gosh the women really want this a she said. Alas amen Usa went from a quarterly to a i monthly publication a Carter Hopes to make it a monthly soon a and the circulation shot up to he a Kef a it Ltd a try. 4,.�>r i w a a for. A a a a a a. A a in sup a my a j ___itui1 a a Ivi. In ill Ltd in a a a a a a uti m m f h we tour Tel a a i has a. It in a a \. Koltl it 0�� s=.r.x�?ojs a a St. Sot. A in Way Al us j0�nsn�� 1 Iteld to a. Only Dale. One a Inove. So can Pony. A Al Loiti Leo t a a a slip r a Ai. A it it it i a ,0 1 _ it Quot k it o ,�?z4l a a Quot a at in a. , a. In i Quot a Vrr More than 100,000. S about a year and a half ago she began to expand the magazines Range by profiling men outside Alaska. The May 1991 Issue for example spotlights the men of Moscow. Carter is now planning on launching a new Magazine women Usa a for All women who want men to write to them,.�?T�?T she invites women in the military to Send in their biographies and photos for a special feature in the first Issue. Carter still seems amazed at her Success Here i was just a housewife now in a a publish or. But the magazines Success in Matching men and women no longer surprises her. A a we be gotten two to three invitations to weddings a week a she said. V a Quot a v still Carter takes each hew potential match personally. A i Tell them not to jump into things a she said �?�1 tend to be a Little Motherly i give advice freely. I just want to see t hem Happy a men interested in sending their biographies and photos to alas amen Usa usually fill out an. Application form. But in the Case of is Carter Saidl they can just write letters a Quot about what they re doing their role in desert storm or in the military in general what they re looking Lor in a a they should also give their address and phone number birth Date and place a list of their hobbies and goals a description of their personality and t heir philosophy of life. A Quot photos should be color if possible preferably head and shoulder shots,.and the gis should be in Urt lorm either formal or casual. A but they can be in to licit Grubbes playing football too Quot Carter said. Group photos of about five or six men a All single and unattached a can also be sent a most important Carter said g is need to give signed permission for the Magazine to run their stories and photographs. From the responses Carter will choose one photo As a cover shot and another As a Een tenfold. If the response is huge Shell add More pages to the Magazine or spread the feature Over. Two issues. Interested can Send their information and photos to alas amen Usa. 201 Danner St., suite 100, Anchorage a 99518 Telephone 907 522-1402. A i Yvo Jtb it ramp Yssis. It Susie Carter is the Force behind alas amen which provides bios and pictures for women to Check out. April 21, 1991 sunday. B Page 5
