honesty and integrity to those who do not for their own reasons wish to see it. But results count and I stand on them. TVia is starting its 11th year and FPE is going strong in this country and has 3 active and a couple of incipient foreign affiliates. So I survived that hassle

too.

In the fall of 1963 Joyce, who had dropped out of active partici- pation with Chevalier but who still did some typing for me at home, passed from among us. I had the misfortune to be the one to discover her one day when I went for some of the material she was to have typed for me. She did not answer and I got the landlady to bring her key and open the apartment door as the circumstances just didn't seem right. We went in and found her lying in a pool of blood in the bathroom with her head under the washstand. She had been ill, the doctor had prescribed some sedatives for her and she had evidently as so many do when taking barbiturate sedatives taken one - for- gotten that she had done so and took another, perhaps still another. She had passed out, hit her head on the washbasin and probably been knocked out and never regained consciousness. She was a girl who had many problems in her personal life but one who under- stood, helped and was very compassionate toward TVs in fact she had married two of them. Yet there were those who could not refrain from making untrue and unfair allegations about her personally and even about she and I together. It was a very sad discovery for me. I could not forget the sight of what I had seen for several years after- wards. Death was bad enough but being the one to find her was al- most worse.

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Well, after these travails things went pretty smoothly for several years. I continued to give talks to service clubs. I read a paper before the American Psychiatric Assoc. in Honolulu in 1966 and this led to my invitation to do an educational TV show in Honolulu which started me on that kick. As many of you have read I've probably done 100 radio and TV interviews by this time. Around 1965 or 66 the L.A. ordinance about cross dressing was declared unconstitutional so that I no longer had to use the lectures as my only excuse for going out in public. So I began to go into the Police Depts. of any cities or towns in which I lectured to give them the "Introduction of Trans- vestism" leaflet and to educate them a bit. During these years too my wife was very helpful to all the girls in the L.A. Chapter of FPE and used to operate Chevalier when I was sick, help me to mail out the orders, etc. The marriage was very happy for several years.

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