The South Rises Again

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HISTORY

Kay, Louisianna

On November 2, 1968, an historic event occurred. The Southern group had its long awaited and much anticipated meeting in Houston, Texas, on Saturday, November 2, 1968. The combination meeting and Halloween party would have to be called in the fullest sense of the word, a tremendous success. I truly doubt if any FPE meeting anywhere has ever equaled this

one.

In attendance at the meeting were Sally (Houston, Texas) our Councellor, Kay, Shreveport; Dee, Houston; Diana, Houston; Laurie, New Orleans and Heather, Florida.

Since our members here in the southern chapter are scattered and live, for the most part quite a few miles apart, our meetings do not occur often but what we lack in frequency we more than make up in enthusiastic contribution and participation.

At 2:00 o'clock in the afternoon of the big day, the boys had a business meeting. We discussed various items of interest to our chapter and to FPE in general. Of course I would have to say the most important item we discussed was ideas to be considered which might bring some of our "closet sisters" to a knowledge of the existence of FPE. Some very good suggestions were made and each suggestion was discussed thoroughly, each one present contributing their own view to the discussion, weighing the merit and potential of each suggestion. Some of the ideas we discussed are no doubt now being used already by some of our members, other we feel deserve considerations for

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