After arriving in Hamden, Doris Parker gets a job in the same office with Bob Adams. Doris is interested in Bob, but he seems aloof. Then a company picnic brings them closer together. That's when Doris finds out that before she arrived in Hamden, Bob's previous fiance had suddenly married someone else.
Marsha and Frank are planning to marry a few months after his job starts. But four days after he starts his job in a chemical company, the plant blows up with no trace of Frank. Then one day Marsha thinks she sees Frank.
During their last year in college, Wayne proposes to Laurie. Wayne's family is very rich and Laurie's roommate, Betty, thinks she should accept. Instead Laurie marries David, who is going to graduate school to get a Master's degree, and Betty ends up marrying Wayne. As she is working to put her husband through graduate school, Laurie thinks of Betty and Wayne and wonders if she would choose differently if she had it to do over again.
Competing in a man's world, Hilda Marks learns to be hard to surpass men like Charles Rayne, her closest rival in the corporation. Then one day Hilda finds she can hide from her feelings for Charles no longer.
Patty had been "pals" with Greg since they were kids. If Greg wanted a partner for tennis, cycling or shooting baskets, he could always count on Patty. But with the senior class dance coming up, Patty hasn't been asked by any of the boys.