Editorial

EDITORIAL EMANATIONS

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by Virginia

I. TRI SIGMA & CHEVALIER: I have asked before but I have to ask again. If you are sending money to Chevalier for something and paying dues to Tri Sigma at the same time please do it in separate checks. Although I administer the finances of Tri Sigma and run Chevalier as my own business, the two operations are entirely separate. Their records are separate, they are kept in two different places, and their bank accounts are separate. Tri Sigma expenses will be accounted for in the Annual Report while Chevalier being a private business, will not be so reported. It saves me having to write checks from one account to the other, so please - 2 checks.

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II. TRI SIGMA SORORITY: New subscribers to Transvestia turn up daily and many of you are not aware of our social organization. It is the Society for the Second Self which, becuase of the three S's in its name is shortened to Tri Sigma. Requirements for membership are simple either having purchased 3 issues (any three) of Transvestia or the book Understanding Cross Dressing. When these have been read a request for application forms will bring them to you. Return of these and payment of the $20 annual dues will bring you the Direc- tory of Members and a subscription to our bimonthly newsletter the Femme Mirror. The $20 is budgeted as follows: $9 to the Directory and its Supplements (at least 2 during the year); $5 to the Femme Mirror, $2 to general administration expenses and $4 to advertising. We are about to initiate an advertising campaign now that we have accumulated $500-$600 in that fund from the 1976 dues payments. It took some time to accumulate this but we now have it and will be placing ads probably by the time this issue reaches you. There are thousands of our sisters "out there" who don't even know that there is an organization for them and we can't figure out any better way of

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