OK, now I know you for sure. Really nice to remake the connection. Always thought of you as a very smart guy and loved your Bob Dylan songs on grad nights.
Yes was sad about Steve U. Weirdly ironic is that just before he passed he had been selling graveyard plots as a salesman. He and Edwina had divorced and he moved to LA, so I'd see him once in a while. Edwina married Will S. and they have 2 kids. Edwina became the ED of the Hawaii Org I think, not positive about that.
I think you were on staff when I started as a student in Jan. '76. It was June of '76 that I joined staff and was immediately sent to Riverside for training. I was there about 4 or 5 months. Came back to Honolulu and moved in With Earl Rader in an apartment rented by Carl Oaks. a couple weeks later we got kicked out late one night because the rent hadn't been paid. Thus began the saga of life as a staff member. Back to Riverside. Don't know if you recall, but we lived together in that small rooftop room at the Riverside mission till I went back to Hawaii. I hated being in Riverside. I had a very nice Gibson ES350 that you liked to play, that I later sold to Bobby Mongiello.
My recollection of the final days there. I'd finished my NED internship at the Hawaii Org, and for some reason, decided to come back on staff at the Mission as a course supervisor, and later Qual Sec. You were, as you said, in charge of Div. 4. Then Jeff and Stephanie Youmans (both having finished the CL 6 course) took over the mission from Frank. Rene had left staff (much relief from all). Jeff's friend Pat and his girlfriend, a C/S from Stevens Creek Org came over to help Jeff. Pat became the Div 2 reg. His gf and and Stephanie started handling certain auditing in Div. 4, life repairs I think. A few months pass. Pat's gf went back to the Mainland. Pat stayed for a while (later died of an OD I heard from Steph) Flag sent out a dispatch that they needed volunteers to open Japan. Turns out, I was the only one who responded. At that time I was working at Employers Overload, (you may have been too? can't remember) along with Edwina and Marie. Marie had stopped being on staff (I heard later she remarried and had some kids with, horrors, a non-Scnist). My recall gets fuzzy around the time I left. I'd been at the Mission over 5 years, my contract was up, though I was still supping at the Mission at night. I had split from my wife, though we later got back together and had a child. We both did go to Flag. But upon separating from my wife (sometime in 1980), I moved in with the Makaloa group, Liza, Craig, Bill, Jim Ruff, and yourself. Really sorry if I showed any disrespect to you. I think, but not sure, I was still supping at night at the mission, but also trying to move back to the mainland, so very busy. I think, like a month before I left, I moved back in with my wife. I left Honolulu in Oct. 81, going straight to Flag. The Japan project didn't work out since it was something started under Diana H. with another SO member. Diana got in some trouble and the project stopped. I was sent to Pac Base in LA, but left, eventually paying of a FL debt and started the BC. I was on the BC internship when a new checksheet came out after a revamp of the materials. I finished the second time through the BC, up to the last level when the GAT stuff came out, and everyone had to start over. I redid a proTR crs, an upperendoc crs, and was about the start yet another pro-metering crs. By then, I was very tired of LA. I moved to Oregon.
Last time I was in Honolulu was 1986. I was on lines at Stevens Creek Org then having moved to San Jose with my wife and daughter. The Honolulu Mission was closed the day I went to check on it. I stopped by the Org which was in downtown then.
It's interesting that the Hawaii Org is in the building it is now on Kapiolani Blvd. Frank W. always told me that someday he wanted to buy that building and make is a big Mission.
I attested to Clear at the Hawaii Org. I never was told otherwise while receiving auditing in LA. In fact I was told I could just do the OT levels. But I wanted to do the grades, and made it through Gr 1. I audited others 1000's of hours while on the BC.
