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HAPPINESS IS "DREAM”

By Marilyn WA-8-I

Until about four years ago Webster assumed that the word "dream" had been nicely identified as to all possible meanings. But that was before "DREAM”; yes, spelled with all capital letters!

Transvestites across this land, in Canada, indeed in many other parts of the world, then were introduced to another meaning -- one much more important and surely a lot more fun for them. What was it? Well, in the "Peanuts" vein but with reverse emphasis... HAPPI- NESS IS "DREAM." Let me be more explicit.

We turn the clock back to February, 1971, and look in on a Portland, Oregon, banquet of Lambda Sigma, the northwestern U.S. and the British Columbia chapter of Phi Pi Epsilon. The guest of honor was the director of Portland's finest finishing, fashion and modeling school. She spoke that evening on the subject of the Art of Femininity and her audience was spellbound for almost an hour with her enthusiastic and very exciting message.

The words she spoke planted the seeds which were to grow and in time be harvested in the "DREAM" programs. For it only takes a feminine word or two to set TV minds to "dreaming"... Why not, we "dreamed, a four-day program featuring several hours of professional instruction just like that we had heard only a few minutes before? Why not do it at a private, comfortable-maybe even luxurious-resort on the beautiful Oregon Coast? Why not have catered banquets, an ocean cruise, a fashion show everything that real girls (GGs)

might do at a convention of their own? Yes, and why not include those GGs in the various activities, just the same as ourselves? BUT - and

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