Lexington Herald-Leader from Lexington, Kentucky • 36

C12 LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER LEXINGTON KY SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 24 1988 I What's in a name? Plenty say authors of book on babies From Pagt CI are in vogue with the social elite and thus convey upward mobility such as Josephine' Rose Amos Patrick and other "names used fix-servants in 1930s movies about obscenely rich people" And they might also want to know which are And they unequivocally recommend that names of ex-girlfriends and ex-boyfriends be ruled out: "No matter how much you like die name Jill do not proceed with it if your husband had a long torrid affair with a Jill way back when Do not tell yourself you'll forget You wont and neither will he" Rosenkrantz and Satran said they had been fascinated by names sinqe childhood At birth Rosenkrantz was named Ruth Leila (pronounced LEE-lah) and called Leya or Laila (pronounced LAY-lah) by family members But her kindergarten teachers started calling her Ruth and she felt confused So her mother asked her whether she would like "to start all over and pick your own name?" She did: Linda Satran likes her name now "Growing up I really didn't like it I thought it was sort of prissy and soft I wanted to be Nancy or Suzy "Now that I'm a grown-up I like it 'Pamela Redmond' It kind of sounded sexy But alas even a person who has ruminated for years about the implications and images and subliminal messages of names -can have second thoughts when it comes to naming her own children Ronsenkrantz likes the name she and her husband gave her 13-year-old daughter Chloe but Satran wonders sometimes whether Rory was the right choice for their 5-year-oki daughter "She's been introducing herself as Rory R-O-R-Y since Bhe was 2" Satran said And in the 3- to 5-year-old Oedipal period when she was learning to identify herself as a female Satran said Rory did not like having a name a boy could also have Her mother sighed "She wanted to be named Jennifer" Aaron to Abner Jason to Jasper Nicholas to Colin Sam to Gus These substitutes "bear some relationship to their overexposed counterparts in sound feel or taste but their color is brighter and their texture a bit crisperjf write Rosenk-rantz and Satrait There's a list for every taste in Beyond Jennifer Jason but not a lot of firm rules to guide and reassure die nervous parent The authors do caution against unusual spellings such as Alisha for Alicia and Kristoffer for Christopher The repetitions and corrections that such twists constantly require of the so-named! Rosenkrantz and Satran lean away from using juniors even while presenting a list of very distinguished men who bore the names of their fathers (only one president though: James Earl Carter Jr) years) launch Amanda and Caitlin and Kristen and Nicole as well as Aaron and Darryl and Matthew and Zachary the next-wave boomers want names that are new and different but not too new or too different say the authors "A lot of people want a name that has some kind of style that reflects their own values" Satran said They want "some personal definition of style And when they name their kid Caitlin they don want to go into work and have everybody roll their eyes and say How boring how trendy how expected of you' To wit die authors tell us how to take the boring and trendy and expected and make it unboring unexpected and untrendy Ashley could become Avery they suggest Courtney could become Sydney Kelly Kelsey Tracy Grace For boys' the switch could be from spurned by parents But soon the authors say such names will be fashionable Having now been chosen by the royals Beatrice may become common faster than Minerva and Olive which fall in the same category in the bode (The judgments that relegate names to the "in" or "out" lists in their book or to the macho or "feminissima" or creative power or high-energy lists are highly subjective the authors concede They had read a lot about names and became conversant with some of the research on names but in die end they argued names off and onto lists largely by instinct and observation they said) Today's baby-boom parents trend-setters by their very numbers are interested in avoiding trendi-ness in selecting their children's names Satran said Having seen meir elders (elder by say five BIG SANE AS CASH rAYPBirrrLAn spiralmg downward with equal vigor such as Tiffany Bentley Crystal and other "names of ridiculously expensive stores or things" Beatrice the name finally awarded the infant daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York who are popularly known as Prince Andrew and Fergie is considered "upwardly mobile" not surprisingly Ro-senkrantz and Satran also list it among names that seem to signal "baby men and women" A decade ago these names belonged to rich great aunts and uncles and were KET giving futuristic look to learning From Page C1 "We can ensure that no child in the state is unable to get instruction in any course" he said enthusiastically "Whether the problem is that mere's no teacher or there aren't enough students in that school to warrant a class or whether if an exotic subject such as 17th-year physics we can make it available And we can make it available in an effective manner" The Kentucky General Assembly has provided money for die Star Channels building the satellite dishes and die satellite uplink Money for the key pads for additional teachers for most operat wm (6) fa 12 NOON 'TIL IV 8 PM JI II a "NX XX XX 7 ing expenses must still be found But Press has no doubts mat die project will roll along as planned "If so important that we are going to find die money one way or another" he said without hesitation "When Gov (Bert) Combs started KET in the early '60s he referred to educational television as die 'great equalizer' in education and I mink this development will probably make more of a contribution to that kind of equalizing than anything we've done" But as Press talks about equal- izing education on a grand scale others are talking about it in more personal terms For Virginia Fox president of the 60-member Southern Educational Communications Association KETs plans bring back memories of her own childhood "If real important to me" said Fox who was bom in Campbells-ville and grew up in Fleming Coun- ty "I did not have die option of Algebra III I did not even have the option of Algebra JL Somehow God did not put teachers with specific qualifications and kids all in die same place" For Graviss that kind of story has created die challenge he now faces as KETs first "super teacher" "This is a terrific opportunity to use new tools new techniques" said Graviss who has two college majors (math and French) two minors (history and physics) and a master's degree in math "My mind is working overtime If very fertile up there all sorts of ideas are germinating!" 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