FEBRUARY, 1957 Vol. 1, No. 5

THE LADDER

Published

monthly by the Daughters of Bilitis, Inc., a non · profit corporation, 693 Mission Street, Rm. 308 San Francisco 5, California

OFFICERS:

President Helen Sanders

Vice President Del Martin Secretary Jean Peterson Treasurer Pat Hamilton

Publications Director

STAFF:

Editor

Phyllis Lyon

Assistant

Del Martin

Phyllis Lyon

Circulation Bobbi Deming Production Helen Sanders Art bob

WE'RE NOW A CORPORATION!

Daughters of Bilitis is now a full-fledged non-profit corporation under the laws of the State of California.

This incorporation is something for which we have been striving since the inception of the group 16 months ago. It was delayed only by a certain lask of funds in the early stages of our growth. As soon as that lack was remedied we took steps to incorporate.

For those who doubted our legality or our permanency we can only say "See, we're incorporated and we're here to stay." Those of us who have been with the Daughters since its first floundering beginnings feel a pardonable pride in this step up. Hard on the heels of news of our incorporation came the word that we now have an office. No longer will our editorial and business projects be spread from one end of the City to the other. For those of us who wasted much time and energy hunting for the latter we wanted to answer, only to find it was