These groups of TVs were are are now getting ready for the next level of development, that of a national organization. But this could never be accomplished as long as we remained a bunch of questionable odd-balls who just liked to dress up and parade around. in skirts. It could only be done if the organization was so arrang- ed that it could justify its existance to outside, non-TV people whether they be police, postal inspectors, parents, wives or what- ever. So, how to do it? What had to take place? Thinking mostly!

So Virginia began to give lectures to Service Clubs. This would appear to be unrelated to the problem, but it wasn't because to give lectures a good deal of thinking had to be done about what to say, how to say it, what answers to give to questions asked, and what position to take about the whole thing. More particularly it provided an opportunity to evaluate public reaction to the concep- tion of TV. To get material some statistics had to be at hand to point to, so the questionaire was a prerequisite to the lectures. As most of you know it was sent out and the results tabulated and reported in TVia #9. A coherent picture of TVism from the ground up was beginning to take shape. Part of this overall picture was set forth in my Virgin Views column in #7. The conceptions devel- oped there became the basic structure of the lectures and the sur- vey information filled it in and verified it. So the lectures were organized and given--about a dozen by now.

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What did they accomplish? Several things: Obviously they served to bring the subject to the attention of a lot of people who otherwise would never know about it. I hope that some of the en- lightenment so spread will be of benefit to some of our sisters who might otherwise be harried and worried as we all have been by non- understanding parents, wives and friends. he next thing it did was to give me some stage presence as Virginia. I have always been able to get on my feet as Charles and "let em have it". But this Virginia bit was something else again and you can bet I had a real large crop of abdominal butterflies that first time. There was the big question of whether I could talk in Virginia's voice natur- ally enough yet loudly enough to be heard and keep it up for an hour. It turned out that I could and did and that once I was on my feet everything flowed smoothly. A third product of the lecture series was the 4-page leaflet that was sent to all those who were subscribers at the time TVia #8 was issued. (Any who have joined us since who would like a copy of this to use with wives or families

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