D. C. Olsen, secretary; Virgil rady, treasurer, B. Vaerlen, research director; Hal Call, publica tions director: Ron Brockhart, public relations director, and D. Stewart Lucas, director of the legallegislative department. Administrative headquar-

ters will continue at Los Angeles. The next annual meeting will be hald in San Francisco in lay 1956. The plan of the Board of Directors to permit contributors to become associated with the Society as non-members, announced in February, was adopted by delegates, along with a revised method of thes payment by active members of chapters and areas. The new system provides for semi-annual payments of $10 to area council treasurers, due and payable each January 1 and July 1. Of this amount ($20 per year) the Board receives 40% or $8.

The meeting was actually the fifth general convention of the organization since it succeeded the latchine Foundation in lay 1953, and marked of operation as a society. But the two full years second year exceeded the previous period, with sigmificant accomplishment, reports from the chairman and directors indicated.

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Research projects involved cooperation of the Society in providing material and interviewees for psychologists, psychiatrists and doctors are under way or have been, accomplished in all three major areas of the organization. Additional projects are in the planning stage, and will be under taken, as soon as the qualified experts are prepared to go ahead, it was reported. However, the "proceed with caution" sign was shown, because it was pointed out that a great deal of difference existed between the "wishful thinking" kind of survey, or study which could be made in haste, without control, and by collecting inconclusive data, as opposed to soundly conceived, long-term projects which responsible scientists prefer to associate themselves with.

Reports were made on the progress of a biblio graphy project, and this too was more clearly de-

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Mattachine REVIEW

FOURTH ISSUE TABLE OF CONTENTS JULY-AUGUST 1955 FEATURE ARTICLES

HANDICAP OR A TALENT? Luther Allen... PLAY WITHOUT A STAGE Lyn Pedersen. WHY SO MUCH HYSTERIA? Wes Knight. ON THE BISEXUALITY OF MAN Ward Summer. MUST I BE DIFFERENT?, Mrs. A. B. Sherman. OSCAR WILDE'S CRIME REDEEMED Beverley Baxter. THE HOMOSEXUAL VETERAN Mackinneth Fingal SHORT FEATURES MATTACHINE SALUTES JUDGE LEARNED HAND.. THERE'S PLENTY OF HARD WORK AHAD. TWELVE MISTAKES IN LIFE..... AUSTRALIA FACES IT, TOO.

COMMENT ON SEXOLOGY'S SYMPOSIUM.

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