Resident friend of court designate

Editor’s note: By a vote of 99-0, the U.S. Senate Monday confirmed appointment of Sandra Day O’Connor to the Supreme Court. She will be administered the oath of office Friday , thus becoming the first woman on the high court .

To most people, Sandra Day O’Connor, who will be sworn in Friday as the nation ‘s first woman Supreme Court justice, is a picture on the cover of Time magazine. But those aren’t the pictures Medford real estate agent Calista Handwerg thinks of. As one of Mrs. O’Connor’s close college friends, Mrs. Handwerg has a photo album that shows other sides of the woman who will make the first feminine inroad into the 192-year-old institution. The album shows pictures of Mrs. O’Connor as a young Stanford University Law School student playing in the snow with her girlfriends at Crater Lake. There are pictures of a newly wed Mrs. O’Connor walking along the Applegate River with her husband, Bill. In the early 1950s, while at Stanford University, Mrs. Handwerg was a member of a clique of four friends, including Mrs. O’Connor. They met as housemates at a graduate woman student’s cooperative on campus. Mrs. Handwerg and another member of the Stanford group will attend the swearing in for Mrs. O’Connor in Washington, D.C., Friday . In recalling her college years, Mrs. Handwerg says she was attracted to Mrs. O’Connor because “she was a different person, not like anyone I ever knew before. ” She describes Mrs. O’Connor as having a keen intellect and an ability to cut to the