Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!gateway From: draughn@iitmax.iit.EDU (Mark Draughn) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Name Change Upon Marriage? Keywords: marriage names Message-ID: <4146@iitmax.IIT.EDU> Date: 23 Aug 90 17:46:10 GMT References: <1157@tahoma.UUCP> <6407@milton.u.washington.edu> <15382@know.pws.bull.com> Reply-To: Mark Draughn Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology Lines: 36 Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: alexandre-dumas.ics.uci.edu In article <15382@know.pws.bull.com> hars@pws.bull.com (Adele Hars) writes: >A few observations: [...] >2. If it makes him feel better, make dinner reservations in his name. Since my wife-to-be and I both have names that are tricky to spell and/or pronounce, we have been making reservations for years using the name "Gibson." It's only a restaurant, and I'm tired of having to spell my name to people over and over and over... In fact, we've been joking about changing both our names to something easier to spell. Or maybe to something more prestigious like Rockefeller or Vanderbilt. [...] >4. Be prepared to explain your name is X and his name is Y to everyone >from the Sears repair person to people at cocktail parties Yeah. My fiance isn't planning to change her name (I think mostly because of all the paperwork: bank accounts, school records, credit cards...) and we know we're going to run into this. I don't get upset when people call me Mister Dougherty, so I don't suppose she gets upset when people call her Mrs Draughn. But maybe, as with having to spell our names to people, it will begin to get on our nerves after the first 1000 times it happens. >A question -- what do you name your kids? I favor hypenation, but in a few >generations, that could get a little long... any thoughts? Maybe they'll >just work it out. If we have kids, maybe we'll let them have the easy-to-spell name... -- Mark Draughn | or on BITNET ----------------+ Academic Computing Center, Illinois Institute of Technology +1 312 567 5962 | 10 W. 31st Street, Chicago, Illinois 60616