Help With Possible Novel?

[AGDAlum]

Originally Posted by FSUZeta

I had a book when I was in middle school entitled "The Real Thing: A Tobey Heydon Story." The author is Rosamond du Jardin. The main character graduates from HS and goes off to college. She makes new friends, goes thru rush, joins a sorority, makes good grades, has some dates, etc. It is set in the 1950's. The fraternities serenade the sororities, the sororities hold candlelight passes to announce lavaliering, pinning and engagements. I loved it! That might give you some inspiration.

There were a lot of YA novels with college/sorority settings in the late 50's/early 60's. Anne Emery wrote the Dinny Gordon series, taking Dinny from high school to college. I don't remember the name of Dinny's sorority, but Emery was an Alpha Phi at Northwestern. Also "Not an Iota," by Pauline Coleman (Alpha Chi Omega), and "One Heart, One Way," by Lillian Budd (Sigma Kappa).

"The Three Lives of Sharon Spence" by Elizabeth Corbett is for adults. Sharon's story is told from three different angles -- in the one where she chose to go to college, she joined "Gamma Delta." I read the book in high school and years later when I found out that Corbett was an Alpha Gam at Wisconsin I looked the book up again.

[carnation]

Originally Posted by AGDAlum

There were a lot of YA novels with college/sorority settings in the late 50's/early 60's. Anne Emery wrote the Dinny Gordon series, taking Dinny from high school to college. I don't remember the name of Dinny's sorority, but Emery was an Alpha Phi at Northwestern.

Didn't Anne Emery write "Sorority Girl"? One of her books is about a girl (not Dinny Gordon) who pledged a high school group and it didn't work out but another is about a girl who's a music major who's released from rush for dating a cool girl's boyfriend. I have both books and I'd go up and get them but I just shampooed the carpet up there.