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That opening program was very successful and drew
a big audience. I pointed out the need to list and provide
for all their material possessions in the future-how, where,
and to whom they wished those possessions to go. I stressed
too the necessity to review a will at regular intervals
because time brings many changes in our relationships. It
could kill us again if we knew that the diamond ring we
planned to go to brother Bill ended up on a finger of his
new wife whom we simply can't stand. And what about our
cut glass and our Limoges china? Surely not to cousin Jane
after the way she has been acting lately. And our books-
those first editions of Hemingway-where will they be
really safe and properly valued? Or that original Cortez
rainswept Paris scene?
The ladies began to see that there is more to think
about than stocks and bonds, CDs, land and real estate.
There are also the deeply personal treasures which we
inherit and collect through a lifetime. Word got around
about the success of those programs in Lubbock, and the
Texas Bank and Trust in Dallas engaged me to present
several of them to an invited audience.
It was not long before I could and did make a
connection between those lectures and the novels emerg-
ing about women in the business world, such as Barbara
Bradford's Woman of Substance and its sequels.
Meanwhile, I was getting more and more inquiries
from many persons, mostly women but some men too,
about where they could learn about this new profession of
oral book reviewing. No college or university offered such65
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Oppenheimer, Evelyn, 1907-. A Book Lover in Texas, book, 1995; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28327/m1/78/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.