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PROFESSIONAL OPEN HOUSE TALK

by Virginia

NOTE: On May 4, 1974 the Alpha chapter of FPE had an open house to which we invited psychiatrists, psychologists, marriage counselors, "hot line” operators, ministers, and even an FBI agent. We had about 50 in attendance (plus 13 of us and 3 wives) and got a nice write-up in the Los Angeles Times entitled "The Sisters of Phi Pi Epsilon." The fol- lowing is the talk I delivered to this audience. It is reproduced for you in the hope that it might provide concise material for talks any of you might be giving to other groups; for any open houses of a similar nature that other chapters might wish to put on; or for a simple, concise way of explaining the field to those whom you wish to educate for personal reasons, such as parents, girl friends, wives or others. I hope it will prove helpful.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to our open house-an open house the like of which has not been held before anywhere at any time. This open house is a combination social and educational evening. We hope you will enjoy yourselves, particularly after my opening remarks when you can patronize our no-host bar and then meet, talk with, ques- tion, argue-anything but fight-with our members. We have invited you here to give you a chance to see a nuinber of our girls at the same time, to satisfy your intellectual curiosity and at the same time give us a chance to tell you some things that you won't find in textbooks, didn't learn in school and don't have much exposure to anywhere else. So relax your bodies, open your ears and your minds and let's get with it.

In the first place, you are the guests of PHI PI EPSILON – Alpha and founding chapter of an international sorority for males. A special kind of males, to be sure - males who have learned that they have a feminine as well as a masculine side to their total personality and who, through the

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