EXECUTIVE SECRETARY Don Lucas is also business and circulation manager of Mattachine Review. He has been ac tively affiliated with the Society since June 1953 and was named Member of the Year in 1956. He held positions of treas. urer and chairman of the San Francisco Area Council, and during 1954-55 served as legal-legislative director for the Soc. ety. In 1956 Don was elected President of the national organization and also held the post of acting national chairman during most of that 1-year term.

Don's service to Mattachine has been instrumental in the growth of the organiza tion nationally and in the founding and growth of the magazine as well, since his administrative duties have been parallel in both since the magazine was originally planned and promoted beginning in the summer of 1954. Don's election to the post

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of executive secretary was in 1957, so that he holds two key positions in the or ganization.

Colorado is our subject's home state. Ho spent his first 16 years on a ranch near the Rocky Mountain foothills. At ten he took an Interest in the art of magic, propared for a theatrical career which he pursued in college while he minored in psychology, and ever since has been 'tom between the two," as he puts it.

For three years Don was technical advisor for the Tacoma Little Theater In Washington state. He became a profes. sional magician (his enterprise was named "Jus Fool Ling & Co.") and from 1946 to 1949 he played before thousands of servicemen on the military camp and hospital circuit in the Pacific Northwest. Don also has appeared in ducational films for Cor

onet Movies and had screen credits in "Sudden Fear" and "The Sniper" from Hollywood, plus many roles In West Coast stage productions. Last of these saw Don as the Christus in "The Life of Christ." He was a contributor to a theatrical text. book, "How to Produce Children's Pro grams," published by Eldridge Entertain ment House.

In the business field, Don's endeavors have been varied and successful. He was once a partner in a night club, later in a restaurant, and today is active with PanGraphic Press, San Francisco. In the last

named firm, he was one of the founding partners when it was organized in Novem ber 1954 for the principal purpose of printing the Mattachine Review.

As has been the case with other long. standing Mattachine officers and Review staffers, Don's service to the Society and to the magazine has long been a full time job In Itself. But this performance has always had to be accomplished in "spare time," "since Don is Assistant Claims Manager for a large group of Insurance companies. And that work requires a lot of extra desk time, too!

THE MISSING LINE OF TYPE

A limited number of reprints of the two-part article, "In Time We Must Accept," by Harry Benjamin, M. D., New York and San Francisco, which appeared in April and June issues of the Review, are available from the magazine. This complete article is one of tive important sexological papers read at the 4th annual convention of the Mattachine Society in San Francisco in 1957.

Correctly appearing in the reprints is a line missing from the 2nd installment (see bottom of page 12, June issue). The incomplete sentence should have read: "Likewise, the studies on the socalled chromosomal sex (as diagnosed from cell structure), that is to say, the glandular sex, indicates the possibility of a person's body belonging to the one, and the psyche belonging to another x. (Psychic hermaphroditism.)" The Review regrets that the bold faced portion printed above was omitted.

Price of the reprints (to cover cost of postage and handling) is 10¢ singly or Se each for 5 or more copies. This article is especially valuable for mailing to persons who have a limited knowledge of the possible causes of homosexualism, since Dr. Benjamin discussed the medical and endocrine factors. Please send orders for the reprints to the magazine's San Francisco office.

Mattachine Society's YELLOW BOOK of of general information, "MATTÁCHINE SOCIETY TODAY," is temporarily out of print, A larger edition, revised and brought up to date, is in preparation. All orders for the booklet are being held until the new edition is off the press. Price of the booklet is 25c per copy.

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