case

history

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Miss S. first contacted ONE's of fices by letter. Several of these came along, each typed with impeccable neatness. Staff members endeavored to answer the many questions she asked as well as they could. However, it was their impression that, having discovered ONE, Miss S. was overestimating, not its desire to be helpful, but the resources and capacities of its limited staff. Later on she came to realize that, instead of having busy secretaries and consultants, ONE's Social Services were performed by the same handful of people who were publishing a magazine, a quarterly, conducting classes and doing many other tasks.

It was with great interest that we finally met Miss S. at the time when she made a special trip to Los Angeles to visit ONE's offices. She is from a small mid-western town and, to her

one

knowledge, knows of no homosexuals

there. What made her effort especially noteworthy is that Miss S. possesses very limited vision and must walk with a red-tipped cane.

Her courage in undertaking a trip cross country by bus under such circumstances and on an extremely modest budget quite put to shame the timidities of those who fear this and fear that and circumscribe their lives thereby.

Since returning to her home she has written to tell how much it meant to her to meet the members of the staff and to talk over with them the many questions she had. Her case illustrates the breadth and the diversity of the work presented to ONE's Social Service Division.

Here in her own words is her "case history."

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