[AnnieBL]

Just a rather OT footnote to my previous post which might possibly be of interest to your friend. At the boys boarding school in Sussex, England, which tried so hard to inculcate me with proper masculine values, there was a de Chastelain who I think must have been the same General John de Chastelain who after emigrating rose to be Chief of Defense Staff in Canada. In a 1948 school photograph in which I was already tall enough to be placed in the back row with much older boys, I am standing next but one to him, but in line with my gift for getting things wrong (and having been told not to look directly into the camera), I am facing in a different direction from everyone else. In fact I believe that the recent demolition of that school may have been a symbolic factor in releasing me, Annie, from my male shell.