RANSVESTIA

100 ISSUES? – SEEMS LIKE 100 YEARS!

This is the 100th issue of Transvestia spread out over the last nearly 20 years. It is a good round figure and a good time to both do a recap of those years but also to change horses since we are not in midstream. So this is the last issue of Transvestia of which I will be the editor—but more of that at the end of this story. Some of you have known me per- sonally over the years but most of you have known me only as a name, as the editor of TVia or as someone you have read about or possibly caught on a TV show once. In retiring I thought it would be appro- priate to give you a picture of my life and times and particularly of the events of the past years. In that way newcomers to these pages and those yet to discover them, may gain some insight into the problems of the last 20 years and have a better appreciation of what has been in- volved in bringing you this magazine 100 times in the past, organizing and running FPE, helping to organize TV groups in many foreign countries (with Fran's help much of the time), publishing three serious books on the subject, doing professional research and publishing in professional journals, lecturing to professional societies and seminars, universities and many private groups, and giving over 100 radio and TV appearances and numerous magazine and newspaper interviews both here and abroad. If you wish to take the above as blowing my own horn or sounding immodest, be my guest and do so. But I mention these things as being matters of facts and as you read, "This Is Your Life, Virginia" you will, I hope, appreciate difficulties and problems of doing these things as well as the satisfactions of victory in sur- mounting them. In any case you will know "Virginia" better when you are through.

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