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(This is only a brief outline and any further suggestions you may have are welcome).

You may be more successful if you use several of the methods mentioned by working them into a well thought out plan. It is worth all your efforts to gain accept- tance and understanding.

I would like to emphasize that it is almost a neces- sity that you have come to accept yourself before you can expect to elicit much acceptance from others. If you still feel guilty, shamefaced and fearful it will show through in your manner of telling and the other party thus will fail to accept you because they feel that you should not be encouraged......

Virginia

The following is excerpted from the; monthly newsletter of the Theta Chapter of FPE. It is print- ed here to show what can be done by a dedicated 1 leader like Fran (49-C-1FPE) and with an interested and active group like the Theta girls.... Ed.

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The September meeting of the Theta Chapter will have to be classed as one of the most successful gathe- rings that we have ever had at Theta. There is one main reason for this success and that was because four very wonderful wives joined with us and certainly contributed their understanding and loveliness to our meeting. All the girls, FPs and GGs included, looked very pretty in their new fall dresses so the meeting was colorful in many ways. I thought that it would be interesting to get the reactions of some of the wives and ask them to write about how they felt in attending their first Theta meeting. Here are some of the comments from Judy's new bride Bette:

"I attended my first wives' meeting in September and I had a most enjoyable time. It helps tremendously to be able to meet with other FPS and wives and also to know that we're sharing the same hopes and problems.

I know from experience that meeting with others is

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