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Re: Contact Info for Debbie Cook?
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When I arrived at FSO in Sept 87, Debbie Cook wasn't on any post at FSO at that point, she was in the throes of "graduating" from the RPF.
She'd been declared a "tiger" and never to hold an executive post again, under any circumstances. Even after graduating the RPF.
She replaced Shawn Quirino as Snr Interne Sup in the next few months and held that post very well. She was respected and even loved by many of the internes as she genuinely cared for us and worked hard to get us through our interneships and home again - as some had been ALMOST 5 YEARS on a Class IV interneship, it was a big button.
She never lost "altitude" but was always someone an interne could talk to.
I had access to various Mission reports that went back uplines when I was there (because I got access to them and I was already a seasoned staff member who made sure I knew what was going on around me AND I was auditing some CMO staffers and also cramming crew members) and reports into what Debbie was doing were glowing. She had a "talent" for getting the best out of people that had nothing to do with selling them something or yelling at them.
Ron Norton was CO at the time and the FSO was making a lot of money - I think it had the first ever $1 or $2 million GI week when I was first there and there was a big staff/student muster to celebrate.
Later, Ron was moved off and Debbie taken from the Interneship and put onto CO. A CMO Msn Report I later saw (after she'd been on the post a few months) said that she, out of all the senior exec structure at FSO, was doing well. The rest all had "problems."
Now I don't have dox with me (I wish I did) but it was clear to me then (an OOT doing auditing/crammo training) that Debbie wasn't just another SO exec but someone who still had a spark of humanity and could inspire people to work. That she apparently became a tyrant after that is unsurprising, given the environment she was in.
I retain fond memories of her and Wayne (I knew him quite well at FSO and then he later was sent to Sydney as FSC where his then-wife left him for a Sydney public and the poor guy was incredibly distraught about it all) and I wish them well in what they're going through right now. I personally have no doubt that they've planned this well in advance and are doing it out of a sense of remorse for their part in the monster call Co$ Inc.. I have no dox for this, just what I know of them both through my interactions with them back then.
My two cents worth.
Such personal interaction is worth a million opinions
) but it was clear to me then (an OOT doing auditing/crammo training) that Debbie wasn't just another SO exec but someone who still had a spark of humanity and could inspire people to work. That she apparently became a tyrant after that is unsurprising, given the environment she was in.






