AN IMPORTANT

ANNOUNCEMENT TO ALL FPs!

NEW

Signs of the Times

About 15 years ago Phi Pi Epsilon, the first sorority for hetero- sexuals was founded. After the first year or two I asked a good friend and member known as Fran to become its executive director. She did a wonderful job in that capacity for about 10 years but eventually the needs of her own business demanded that she retire from that ef- fort. With the demands already on me from Transvestia and various personal responsibilities I simply couldn't carry FPE on the way Fran had done. I therefore fell back on the directory idea and had to leave the gathering of groups together in various places up to the members of those groups themselves. This has gone on for four years. Now however, a new day and a new group has dawned. For the last sev- eral years there has existed another group also for heterosexual cross dressers. FPE and myself were limited by my time for handling chap- ter matters. By the same time Mamselle, the other group, was handi. capped by the difficulties in contacting new members and growing.

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Under these circumstances Carol Beecroft, the founder and leader of Mamselle and myself, founder of FPE, got together and compared our problems. The outgrowth of this was the consolidation of the two former organizations into a new one to be known as The Society for the Second Self. The initials in Greek letters would be Sigma Sigma Sigma. We will refer to it briefly and affectionately as "Tri Sigma Sor- ority." The virtue and benefit of this combination is that it will pro- vide something new for members of both former organizations since Carol, whose interests and talents lean toward chapter activities, will be able to work on that phase of things. But she will have the combined membership of both organizations to work with as well as new members that we hope will gather and support the new group. Former FPE members will benefit not only by the new chapter activ-

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