Besides planning for the usual goals that derive from our aims and purposes we will also add that of achieving some sort of federation between the various groups. The Mattachine Society, Inc. of New York is on record favoring such a formation.

We appreciate the opportunity you have given us of expressing our views on this important event. At the present time no lengthy exposition on this subject was felt necessary. We hope that your readers will aid us in furthering human rights to sexual deviates.

Fraternally yours,

Albert J. de Dion, Chairman

Mattachine Society Inc.

A Chartered Non-Profit Corporation in California

Mattachine Foundation Est. 1950-Mattachine Society Founded 1953

OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

693 Mission Street

San Francisco 5, California

On March 13, 1961, the Mattachine Society was faced with a serious problem in the form of a thirty-five hundred dollar debt which had not diminished since the time of the General Convention of September 1960. As the hotel bills for the Convention and the costs of having the entire Convention proceedings formally recorded for the sake of future reference had not begun to be paid, and the expenses of producing the Mattachine Review had been accruing since that time, plus the fact that the National Office had been served an eviction notice, the Society as an incorporated body was threatened with bankruptcy and subsequent extinction. It was in the hands of the Board of Directors of the Society as its only governing body between

General Conventions to decide what should be done.

Previous to the 1960 Convention the Corporation's debt had been more or less constant at around $1,300. The largest single item which had contributed to the increase in this debt had been the exorbitant costs of recording the proceedings of the 1960 Convention. This action had been deemed necessary at the time because the previous Conventions had become so drawn out and argumentative that few could remember what actually transpired during the proceedings. The Board of Directors, as the governing body between Conventions was, of course, responsible to the membership of the Society, to reach a decision concerning the matter. The Board of Directors, as the