Virgin Views

by Virginia

Well, the last week of April found Virginia gal- ivanting around the country again. As many of you know Gisele who was our lovely Cover Girl on #32 has returned state-side from her overseas duties and as she is to be the new Field Coordinator for Phi Pi Ep- silon and as Fran our Executive Secty. was to have a welcome home party for her, it seemed that it would be nice if the three of us got together to plan out some of the future activities of FPE and get our- selves reacquainted. So Fran suggested that Virginia come back to the occasion.

To begin with I arranged to fly to Minneapolis to have a visit with Dr. Hastings, head of the Psych- iatry Dept. at the Univ. of Minnesota where they are running a transexual clinic as they are at John Hop- kins. We had a very pleasant hour and a half or so together after he had invited me to come early for the staff conference luncheon. The subject was mam- moth obesity which was interesting but had little to do with TV, but by an amusing twist of fate the program chairman told a joke at the end which had some significance for us and which I pass on to you here.

It seems that two men were getting dressed in the locker room after a golf game and one observed the other trying to wriggle into a woman's girdle. He watched this for a few moments in puzzlement and then said to his friend-- "What's up John, are you having back trouble lately?" "Oh, no," said the friend as he continued to struggle with the garment, "my back is fine". The first fellow paused a moment having gotten nowhere with that approach and then said, "Well, you must be getting a little flabby

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