Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1948-02-01

university women ana --preSluenl
CT the Swedish Alliance of Bust
ness and Professional .Women's
Clubs which brings together most
of the various professional wom-
ems organizations with about 100.
900 members. During the war she
led big relief project among aca-
demic women in war-ridden Eu-
rope.
Due tc their education and the
shortage of manpower, the Swed
ish women keep their paid jobs
even when married and mothers,
to larger extent than the Amer
lean women do. And Miss Rocks
advice to girls is this: Do not hes
itate even to borrow money to get
the highest possible education or
even to change your mind if you
find another career more tempt
ing still, even if you get a nice
pension with the old one. T h e
best training pays in the long run.
Likes to Avoid Publicity
She married late herself. Her
husband is a well-known lawyer,
Hugo Lindberg, Swedish govern
ment representative at the Nu-
remberg Process and famous for
his lifelong professional habit or
hobby always to act as the defend
err of the worst criminals. The
couple have no children. But the
Kock -Lindberg f a m y has, like
many other Stockholders a cot
tage at the East coast where they
go for week ends. There they
put out their nets as real fisher
men do and Miss Kock is Won
derful fish cook, her friends say.
But she is a very difficult per-
son when it comes to publicity.
She has always evaded it Ii k e
Greta Carlo, except when it re-
fers to her work. No press photog
raphers have ever stepped over
her private threshold.
Still she is a charming woman
in private life. She comes from
a good middle-class family with
liberal and cultural interests. She
went to a co-educational school
which was rather unusual in Swe-
den so years ago and she loved
carpentry as much as she disliked
to sew. That private school was
famous for it's aim to put the pu-
pills in contact and making them
aware of different social aspects
of their times. Ellen Key was one
of the teAchers-and Karin kock
acknowledges now what it taught
her The first political party she
belonged to was also the liberal
party, the first to work for social
reforms in Sweden. Much later
she became a social democrat.
A few years ago Miss Kock
gave a piece of good advice to
women who want to get along in
the mems wcrld Take you hats
off before going into the commit
tee room. Never try to impose up
on men in business or politics
through a stunning new hat or
dress. They will just find you a
little ridiculous if you dc. When
you are in serious business with
men, dress very quietly and never
sit down with them with hat on,
which Immediately singles you out
as a woman, whatever you have
to say"
Prefers SUITS, Black or Gray
Miss Kock. whose gray hair is
very becoming to her sculptured
features, is rather tall and lean.
She usually wears little black or
gray suit the color of her hair,
for daytime and informal occa-
sions. and a white blouse with
soft, tied bow She wears no jewel
ry, except an antique diamond
brooch on the lapel.
She was dressed like that in
black and white last spring, when
she took her oath to the King, and
of course she was bareheaded On
her way to the Royal castle she
wore no fashionable French model.
but her Swedish doctors hat,
very serious pleated top hat, which
was easy to peg in the anteroom.
together with the other gentlemen
ministers hats.