A Man for Marcy. Originally Published 1954. Author: Rosamond du Jardin. Marcy is left high and dry in high school when her steady date, Steve, departs for his freshman year at college. The boys in her senior class seem immature and hardly worth the trouble. Marcy and some friends in similar plight try to fill the emotional vacuum by forming the "Widow's Club." They pool their loneliness and keep the faith while they knit and gossip and speculate on the joy of reunion when their men come home for vacation. The "Widow's Club" is, of course, doomed to collapse by subsequent events which include the early defection of a few less faithful charter members and a quarrel between Marcy and Steve during his first vacation. Some sound advice from Marcy's brother, Ken, and some straightforward thinking by Marcy herself help her find a fresh new approach to the year of "widowhood."