DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA Lehigh Sociologist Makes Survey Of Students’ Marriage Habits C “Students in an all-male institu- tion tend to look to marriage more as an. escape from loneliness than students at a co-educational col- lege”, Lehigh University sociologist iDr. Robert C. Williamson says in Breporting on a recent study explor- ing the relationship of personality ‘to dafgre and marital selection. a In i. Ah the self-ratings of % 530 students from six Philadelphia colleges on which the research based, Dr. Williamson, head of the Ly University department of social re- i "lations recently told members of the rons at their "annual meeting ~ Chicago, “Social setting and campus pressures influenced both the in- * dividual's self-rating of personality | marriage”. Some surprises were. found in the | traits which the 295 male students and the 235 female students at- tributed “to themselves. Self:confi- | dence was found more among. wo- men than among men as was cur- | iosity, ability of the individual to! identify with others, and precccup- | ation with health, Dr. Williamson gressiveness and leadership found more among men. “It is curious that moodiness was higher in men than in women’, the Lehigh sociologist added. ' The popular belief that most people have an ‘ideal mate” in mind, "however flexible each in. ne i iF R. Goss Dieg At Pleasant Valley noongasor Harold R. Goss, 69, who died his home in Pleasant Valley Thursday morning following a heart attack. Mr. Goss. son of the late John and Elizabeth Long Goss, was born at Bethel Hill. Fairmount. Town- ship. He attended Harveyville Meth- odist Church, at one time drove school bus for Fairmount Township Schools. and belonged to Hunting- ton Mills Fire Ccmpany. He worked for Wilkes-Barre Transit Corporstion and also a foreman at Harrington Foundry, Benton. : A veteran of World War I, Mr. Goss belonged to American Legion Post 495; Shickshinny. Mr. and Mrs. Goss, the former Margoret James, celebrated their 4338 wedding anniversary in March. a is survived by his widow and these children: Mrs. Melvin Rosen- ‘crag Shickshinny RD 3: Arthur Wiss, Wyncote; Mrs. Annabelle Peahota snd Loretta Goss, Philadel- phia; 12 grandchildren; sister, Mrs. Ia a:McDaniels, Benton RD; _broht- Paul, Berwick. i. oy Fred Hickock officiated at the funer-l at.Bronson’s Sweet Vel- ley. Burial was in Bethel Cemetery. SYMP ATHY , "EXTENDED ! Sympathy is extended to Earl Welch, Dallas, on the death Wednes- day of his brother, William 2. We Ich, Plymouth. i Tour Welcome Wagon \J + Firms of prestige la fhe business , an elvic lite of your community. a {SELINGO SIGNS | is: Society for the Study of Social Prob- | in’ traits and his reaction to dating and | pointed cut. On the other hand ag- | were | Services were held Tuesday after- [Sv gus) may be in the actual mar-! riage market place” is born out in a recent issue of Family Life Coordin- ator. Here the focus is on the role of such factors as social class and | religion in determining attitudes re-' garding marriage, “ideal mate”. including thé A mate with high intelligence and high education is more important to a woman than a man, women are more concerned with securing a husband who would be a good | parent, and are more insistent that the potential spouse have religious interests, Dr. Williamson seid in pointing out the fact that young people have definite lines of rejection and acceptance, on a questionnaire. The sociologist also found wo- men’s preferences in regard to fin-' | ancial management, ambition and | industriousness stronger. On the! { other hand statistics indicated that | jen are more conscious than wo- | i men of physical attractiveness of their partner and are more easily ! | upset by age differences. | Dr. Williamson characterizes wo- men as more conventional as to ‘ whom they would prefer to accent | or reject. For example the study ' indicated women students were | more. rejective of ‘the divorce and | le 3s tolerant of a religious non- believer. Men on the other hand were more easily repelled by any- o physical handicap. Rlbert F. Dendler Home From Service Albert F. Dendler, better to his friends as’ Bertie, has been recently separated from active duty with the U. S. Army. While serving in the Intelligence and Security Branch, Mr. Dendler saw service in Korea, Thailand, and | for the past eight months was as- signed to Vietnam. He has repeatedly said how fortunate we are to be Americans and how havny he.is to ba back in the beautiful, wonderful land of the United States. Bertie has accepted a position with Curtis Publishing Company of | Philadelphia and has been as ssigned | to their Albany, New York, office as a sales representative. He is a graduate of Westmoreland High School and the Saranac Lake X-ray Training School. ATTEND GRAHAM MOVIE A busload of Sweet Valley resi- dents attended the showing of the Billy Gresham.