Transvestia

Things did not run quite so smoothly in Gene's next class, which was Latin. The instuctor, Mr. James, had been at Eastern Parkway for many years, and took a rather dim view of nursing as a male pro- fession. After the first few days he had already selected his favorite students and Gene was by no means included among them. He was in the habit of addressing his students as "my dear" and he mock- ingly included Gene in this form of address, and it was all that Gene could do to maintain his temper. Luckily for Gene his friend Betty Lou was also in Mr. James class and through her efforts the girls began a counter-attack by innocently addressing Mr. James as "my dear Mr. James" and he soon got the point and was careful to refer to Gene as "Mr. Ross" in a somewhat sarcastic but definitely less embar- rasing manner.

Part III

It was near the close of the first semester, right before the holiday vacation that Gene had his first chance to enter the social life of his class- mates, who by now had come to accept him as a student but not socially. It happened in connection with the annual Christmas party, and Betty Lou being on the Arrangements Committee had suggested that Gene be asked to play the part of Santa Claus and dis- tribute the gifts. There were some objections since this was to be a pajama party but Betty Lou overcame the objections and pointed out that Gene would make a better Santa Claus than any of the girls, but if they preferred she could ask Mr. James, and since he was most unpopular, this settled the question. Gene accepted the invitation only after quite a bit of urging from Betty Lou.

Since Betty Lou had talked Gene into taking part in the festivities, she had also volunteered to assist him with his make-up, so about an hour before the party began, a pale faced Santa Claus was led into one of the vacant class rooms off the

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