PURPOSE OF VIGNETTES: Vignettes included in "Bits and Pieces of Hither and Yon from Now and Then" using "real life" occurrences demonstrate that the values, attitudes, mores, and customs of older persons are accumulated throughout life, and communication is the means by which people have acquired the characteristics which serve them at any given time. Dr. Jurgen Ruesch in Communication; The Social Matrix of Psychiatry states that" ••• modern psychiatrists have come to the realization that theories are of little use because it is necessary to see the individual in the context of a social situation. He then states that "communication is the matrix" of human activity. Clearly, social administration, social organization, psychiatry and psychology depend on cross-disciplinary communication in order to perform their tasks.