the audience and after her talk shared a question and answer session with Dr. van den Haag.

The last speaker before the luncheon was Dr. Ralph Gundlach, Associate Director of Research at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health. He gave some of the preliminary results of the current research on Lesbian women in contrast with heterosexual women being conducted with the cooperation of the D.O.B. Dr. Gundlach and assistants spent a great deal of time over the convention weekend testing volunteers for a T.A.T.

For some reason, the clergy always seems to be relegated to the dining room, and so, at this 1964 D.O.B. Convention, the Reverend Robert Wood spoke at the luncheon served in the North Gallery. Author of Christ and the Homosexual, Reverend Wood is another good friend of the homophile organizations. It is difficult to judge a speech heard on a full stomach and after a tiring morning-but Reverend Wood's topic, "Lydia and Deborah" (two ladies from the Bible) told in the vernacular (practically) was paradoxically shocking and dull. This reporter finds a tendency in young clergymen (as borne out later by the banquet speaker, Reverend C. Edward Egan) to speak in what they probably believe is the language of the day. In some instances it is amusing, and undoubtedly easier to digest than something more ecclesiasticaland yet, even to this non-church-goer. a more reverent attitude seems desirable in a minister. But I wouldn't mind at all hearing the same thing from Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, or any of the professional iconoclasts!

First speaker of the afternoon session the ever-faithful Donald Webster Cory. And I think it might be remarked here that the predominance of male speakers at a convention held by a women's organization is to be

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deplored. Why are professional women so difficult to get?

Mr. Cory's subject was, "Whither the Homophile Movement?" a title no doubt chosen from the Luncheon speech of the same name delivered by Curtis Dewees at ONE's 1962 Midwinter Institute. At this point I'd had it . . . and I went upstairs to my room and took a nap. I missed Cory and the following item on the program which was a panel called "The Essence of Feminity." Jess Stearn was supposed to be there to moderate this panel... but he somehow wound up in Boston or someplace else instead. So . . . the panel consisted of Mrs. Lee Steiner, marriage counselor, author, etc. Adele Kenyon, author of Fourteen Days to a New Figure and How to Exercise without Really Trying, who, I heard later, had the audience on its feet doing exercises. and FlorI'm glad I wasn't there ence DeSantis, Fashion Editor for the Bell Syndicate.

Next speaker was Mr. Robert V. Sherwin, New York attorney and author of Sex and the Statutory Law. I was still in bed.

Next speaker was Dr. Mildred Weiss, assistant Professor and administrative officer of the Psychology Dept. of Western Reserve University.

I was having a drink with a charming lady author in the cocktail lounge during part of this talk. However, returned in time to catch the second half. Subject . . . alcoholism.

Next speaker: Dr. Gerald Sabath ... whose talk "Homosexuality and the Current Scene" seemed to arouse some dissention among the audience. However, I was sitting in the back chatting with the charming lady author and not paying any attention. Anyway... Dr. Sabath is a practicing psychoanalyst and lecturer, associated with The Postgraduate Center for Mental Health.

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