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PEOPLE TALK Divorces Seminar slated for women in transition Judgments for dissolution of mar­ riage were granted recently in 19th Judicial Circuit Court, Woodstock, to: - > .* Jean R. Hennig and Randall R. Hennig; Peggy Iniquez and Joseph Iniquez; Joe R. Patterson and Wan­ da J. Patterson. Michael R. Clemons and Deborah M. Clemons; Ronald W. Zasada and Nancy A. Zasada; Lesley Putra and Roni Putra. Christine Paul and Wayne Paul; Cindy L. Davis and Joseph Davis; Donna J. Loss and Robert G. Loss. Chriltine Miller and Robert Miller; Daniel Smith and Patrice Smith; Pamela Young and Michael L. Young. Marie Lecuyer and Eric R. Le- cuyer; Leonard E. Lencioni and Carole W. Lencioni; Lyle Sternberg and Wanda Sternberg. Women in the midst of a difficult life transition are encouraged to at­ tend the seminar, "Success Skills for Women in Transition," to be held on Thursday mornings at McHenry County College. The eight-week seminar begins Sept. 12 and meets from 9:30-11:30 a.m. in Room 143 at the college. The seminar is for women who are changing lifestyles through divorce, death, or an "empty nest." They may be coming back to school or contemplating returning. The seminar is for women at the self-exploration stage. Participants will look at where they are now and where they want to be. Communica­ tion, assertiveness and self-confi­ dence building are all involved. The seminar will be led by MCC Counselor Mary Kay Messling. The fee is $10 in the MCC Regis­ tration Office, Room 140, of the Main hall Building. Office hours are: Monday through Thursday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. and 5:30-8:30 p.m.; Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Antiques show to benefit Easter Seals WOODSTOCK - Quality primitive and country antiques will be featured at the third an­ nual McHenry County Antiques Show benefiting the EaSter Seal Society, Sept. 14-15, at the McHenry County Fairgrounds, Woodstock. Antique collectors and en­ thusiasts will be able to view a wide variety of antiques presented by 38 screened dealers from a six- state area. ,v A quilt drawing will be held Sun­ day at 4:30 p.m. The patchwork quilt will feature scattered flower arrangements on a cream background, bordered by a steel- blue trim. Quilt tickets may be purchased for SI. Delicious food and refreshments will be served throughout the weekend. Admission to the show is S3 at the door and S2.50 with a coupon. Call Easter Seals at (312) 338-1707 for more information. INDEX/SECTION B Classified 6B43B , SB DearAbby 2B Opinion SB Regional IB,14B HIORTHWEST nEWSPAPERS Hard horror work Horror writer Stephen King is making his directorial debut this summer, adapting his short story "Overdrive," and doesn't particularly like the work. "Directing is very interesting and very hard," he said. "The only difference between this and working on a road gang is that the pay is ever so much better." "Overdrive" will be his last directorial effort -- for a while at least. "As a writer, you have a tremendous urge to dig yourself a rut and furnish it comfortably and never come out," King said. "That's why seven years ago I went back to teaching school. And seven years hence my youngest child will be 15 and my oldest will be maybe 22, and I'll be ready to try teaching again. And seven years after that maybe I'll want to direct another movie." "Overdrive" is being filmed at the Dixie Boy Truck Stop outside Leland, N.C., and will feature Emilio Estevez, Pat Hlngle and Laura .Harrington being terror­ ized by driver-less trucks. „ Sen. Grandma Sen. Paula Hawkins, R-Fla., has been chosen Grandparent of the Year. Hawkins, who has six grandchildren, was chosen for her work on the Special Committee on Aging and for setting up the National ('enter for Missing and Exploited Children. Mike Goldgar, 66, of Atlanta says it. is important to honor grandparents on Grandparents Day Sept. 8 because they provide a "stabilizing influence, like a rudder If you will, that keeps the country growing." He said grandparents don't want to be known only as "yesterday's mothers and fathers" but as individuals who make the family whole. "I don't want It to be just another department store day," said Goldgar, a grandparent who has had three heart operations performed by Dr. Michael Debakey and who Is head of a lobbying effort trying to get Congress to honor grandparents. "1 think families should go out together. If they have fun together, then you'll remember your grandparent." Softball foul-up Former President Jimmy Carter had a tough time on the basepaths at> his reunion Softball game for reporters and his former staff. "You may think this is for fun but this is a grudge match," said ABC's Sam Donaldson, who led the reporters' team. "In 1976 Jimmy Carter got the Secret Service on his team and they consistently beat the media but today he has just bums like us ." Still, the Carter team won the game, 9- 7, but Carter was hit twice by batted balls while running the bases in the first two innings. A big contribution came from the Carter team's ringer, DeAnn Young, 19, a Plains native and the star of the Georgia Southwestern College women's softball team, who hit a home run Young approached Carter for a donation last year so her amateur team could go to a national tournament The reporters won the rematch, 12-11. \ £ Glimpses Oleg Vldov, known as the "Robert Redford of Soviet cinema," has defected to Hollywood "I feel very much comfortable in Los Angeles because around me are my colleagues, cinema makers," he said "When I saw beautiful American films, they led me by theli example - to make me proud of my profession and happy that I'm a film actor" ... Alan Thlcke, star of the new sit com series "Growing Pains, says hype was what sunk his late-night variety show, "Thlcke of the Night." "There was too much hype, which offended people," he said "Nobody wants to hear that you're the best thing since birth control.... " TRENDS Saturday, September 7,1985 Section B Something new for the girl of Computer system to help MCC students By Mark Smith Herald staff writer and Leslie Goldberg San Francisco ExaminerX There are only 108 shopping days left to Christ­ mas. All right. All right. It may be a little early for shoppers to start thinking about Christmas, but toy manufacturers and store managers have been planning for the holiday buying season for months. Orders have been placed long ago, and the early shipments are arriving at the stores. In recent years, the toy industry has been seeing a series of what can only be described as "crazes." The most infamous was the hysteria that swept the country over Cabbage Patch Kids. But similar high demand, low supply problems have occurred with Masters of the Universe characters and the loveable Care Bears. Action figures, like Masters, and their accesso­ ries, have grown to dominate the market in toys for boys. Gobots and Transformers, vehicles that turn into robots, are also very big items. The great demand for these three toy lines have been helped by having their own cartoon programs on television. This buying season, however, promises to bring a revolution, of softs, in girls toys. The fby manufacturers and public relations peo­ ple don't want to use the words "women's move­ ment." But how else do you describe new dolls that have career aspirations, magical powers and good bjceps, who cavort about in knee-high gold , boots foiling evil plots and dastardly deeds? "I don't know if I'd want to say 'women's movement,'" said Sue Rosenbloom, a spokeswom­ an for Mattel, "Certainly women are doing things they never did before: having careers, going"up in space. Little girls are aware of that." Last spring Mattel introduced its Princess of Power line of dolls. Lewis Galoob Toys Inc. fol­ lowed with a similar line called Golden Girls. Wielding shields and swords, the Princesses of Power and the Golden Girls are not characters to be messed with. Advertising for the Golden Girls suggests a female who's "going places." In one of the com­ mercials, one little girl says, "I want to be an acrobat," another says, "I want to be in the Olympics" and a third says, "I want to be Golden Girl!" ; • To some extent, the upwardly mobile Golden Girls and the Princess of Power dolls are a takeoff on the Masters of the Universe. Masters are supermacho, muscle-bound "action figures." They were created for boys, but lo and behold, market researchers have discovered that little girls also are playing with them. "That started us thinking." said Rosenbloom, "These toys were satisfying some needs in girls. So we did some more research. We talked to little girls and learned that they were interested in participating in action or fantasy play, too." The key words for describing this new type of dolls are exactly that, action and fantasy. While girls have been fantasy playing "grown up" with Barbie dolls for decades, these new figures bring into play the added elements of science fiction and magic. Elke Widmark, supervisor of the toy and hobby department at the Crystal Lake K mart, describes Barbie as a "fashion" doll. By that she means the doll's appeal lies in the fact that girls can change her outfits and hairdos for different occasions. "When-my daughter got them (Princess of Power dolls) I thought she would play them against my son's Masters," Widmark said. "They played together at first, but now they play separately. My daughter treats th| dolls more like a Barbie doll. She combs their hair, undressess and re-dresses them..." "When girls play with dolls, the typical play patterns have been combing the hair and changing outfits a la Barbie or another fashion doll," agreed Robert Galoob of Lewis Galoob Toys Inc. "So what we did was combine the traditional aspects of a fashion doll with the more modern action doll." McHenry County College has com­ pleted installation of a new, state-of- the-art, IBM mainframe computer System to be used by the Instruction­ al wing of the college. It has twice the storage capacity and speed at a fraction of the size of the old model. "The new system gives our dents the opportunity to same type of equipment which is currently being used by many data processing installations," said Steve Mansfield, MCC coordinator of busi­ ness data processing. "MCC's Business Data Processing programming courses, other than BASIC, and a mathematics statis­ tics course are all using the new system this fall. There are plans to develop new courses which can be offered now that the new system is in place," he added. Mansfield has seen many changes in MCC's computer capabilities. "Five years ago," he recalled, "our students had to enter their pro­ grams on a keypunch machine. The$ sometimes had to wait in line for two or three hours to submit the cards to the computer. Today, stu­ dents enter their programs at a ter­ minal, press a couple of keys and the program is submitted to the computer." MCC President Bob Bartlett thinks the new computer "really speeds up processing." "Appreciation has to be extended to the college's staff, especially Mark Leon, BDP computer lab su­ pervisor, for finding us a computer at a price we could afford. He did all the leg work, made all the arrange­ ments. It is not very often that an institution can upgrade equipment while saving money." According to Bartlett, the com­ bined monthly lease and service payment for the new computer is less than the amount previously spent monthly just to maintain the old IBM. In addition, the new ma- cfiThfris more energy efficient. V, Mark Leon, computer tab instructional supervi­ sor at McHenry County College, operates the IBM 4341. The new instructional mainframe com­ puter offers students a chance to train on stateof- actkm are MCC President Bob Bartlett, right, and Steve Mansfield, MCC coordinator of txaft- data processing. Moms, tots group to meet Sept. 11 The Moms and Tots Discussion Group will meet on Wednesday, Sept. 11 at 10 a.m. The group is open to all mothers of toddlers. The topic of discussion will be "Language Development" and "Activities for Playgrounds." In addition, there will be an op­ portunity at every meeting to discuss any topics of concern tojn- dividual mothers. For Crystal Lake area residents contact G ail Jannusch at (815)459-2131 and for McHenry area residents contact Beth Jay at (815)344-4183 for more information about the group and the location of the meetings. The Moms and Tots Discussion group is a program offered by the Childbirth and Parenting Associa­ tion of McHenry County. C&PA of­ fers its members support and in­ formation to help with their im­ portant roles as parents. Persons nfeed not be a member of C&PA to attend the Moms and Tots Discus­ sion Group. Other services offered by C&PA include a bimonthly newsletter, discussion groups for moms of in­ fants, children's holiday parties, playgroups for pre-schoolers, and m e e t i n g s w h i c h f e a t u r e authorities speaking on subjects, of interest to parents. For more information about the Childbirth and Parenting Associa­ tion call Linda Marsh at (815M55- 5475. ACTION FIGURES- Page 14B