Looking at holiday observances and patterns of contact and interaction among kinsmen, this paper examines the values middle class people hold about both close and distant kinsmen and investigates how consistent their actual behavioral patterns are to these expressed values. A questionaire was constructed and administered to a class of predominantly undergraduate students. Thirty-nine students responded to the questionaire; 26 of the respondents were male, 13 were female. The ages ranged from 19 and 28, with the mean age being 22.4 years. Within this sample, the nuclear family continues to retain primacy. Also, extended family ties are maintained by a significant minority of the sample. Extended ties are not important in the context of daily activities, but are for holidays and special ceremonial occasions. A more restricted range of extended kin is also included in practices of gift exchange, telephone contact, and correspondence. Kin ties are maintained with approximately equal members of maternal and paternal kin. The sample was small and from a select population; what is needed now is to test these findings with a larger random sample drawn from the general population. (Author/JK)