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'RETIREMENT' IS NEVER DULL

VIRGINIA IN THE LIFE OF VIRGINIA PRINCE

Hi everybody! This is just a short piece to let you all know that I am still alive and kicking and give you an update on what has been happening.

Things have gone along rather well since I returned from Africa and Fantasia Fair last fall. I always seem to have so much to do that even when I cut something out of the schedule (which should allow me more free time), it immediately gets filled up again. It's kind of like time-quicksand. I have been spending a lot of time in the Biomed Library at UCLA ferreting out material for my planned book on 'The Origins of Human- ness' or 'How Did We Get Here From There?' There are several articles for professional journals that need attention, too. There is so much to learn, organize and integrate that it seems that I will never be able to sit down and say 'this is it.' But I have had several interested comments from anthropologists and Psychologists, so I suppose that I have something.

Then, too, I have taken a number of extension courses at UCLA on China and Cosmology, on the Negev Desert in Israel, on Evolution and anthropology as well as Current Ten- sion Areas of the World....So you can see my interest is spread over a lot of territory.

I also took a weeks extension trip to Baja, Calif., We then flew to La Paz and boarded some boats called pongas which are something like a large rowboat with a powerful outboard and took off up the Penninsula to a large island called Es- piritu Santos, where we dumped things out on the beach for several days of swimming, hiking, snorkeling, etc. Then we loaded up and visited another island and stayed at two different camps there. Each time the first thing I did when I got ashore

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