Memorials Thread/RIP :sad:
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British Mom
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Oh Yes, Ian, dont know how he died, but I think he died after Wendy, who I believe died of cancer (I was well out of Scn then) Adam died first, I believe he had tried to kill himself before, but survive. I feel sorry for Clare Hebblewhite, lost her whole family in a matter of years.
MarkWI
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Art Coulter, M.D.
Maybe you don't know him, he was a Dianeticist in the early '50, and founder of one of the first 'squirrel' groups trying to create a real 'science' of the mind and human cooperation, to ban war and create a better future: Synergetics. An evil "SP" by "church" standards.
Interesting some of his articles appeared on The Aberree, one of which I quote in full because it's worth reading:
Maybe you don't know him, he was a Dianeticist in the early '50, and founder of one of the first 'squirrel' groups trying to create a real 'science' of the mind and human cooperation, to ban war and create a better future: Synergetics. An evil "SP" by "church" standards.
Interesting some of his articles appeared on The Aberree, one of which I quote in full because it's worth reading:
Synergetically Yours
THE PURPOSE of this article is to tell the true story of Don Purcell and his valiant effort to place Dianetics on an ethical responsible basis. Much of the story is known to "old-timers", but the full story is known to few - and since his death, Don has been subjected to a resumption of the un-fair and unkind attacks that characterized the period 1952-1954. Don and I became very close friends during this period, and he confided to me many things that were never made public, so I was acutely aware of the unjust treatment he received.
Nowadays, Scientologists are full of talk about "overts", "withholds", and "confrontations". Their words and actions would be more credible if it were not for the many overts and withholds that were committed against Don Purcell - and which have recently been resumed. In the face of so monstrous an injustice, they stand convicted of rank hypocrisy.
Don's outstanding trait, to me, was his sincerity. He was deeply devoted to the betterment of man, and Dianetics was to him a cause to which he gave freely and without stint. His motivation in working for Dianetics was deeply idealistic and altruistic. When he first went into Dianetics he was a moderately wealthy man; to it he gave most of that wealth in an effort to keep Dianetics going. When these efforts met only vituperation and abuse, and he realized that unity could not otherwise be achieved, he gave the Dianetic Foundation back to its founder, with no strings attached.
But let us tell the story from the beginning.
The Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, after an auspicious start, ran into serious trouble in late 1950 and 1951. Perhaps owing to over- enthusiasm, the Foundation found itself deeply in debt - I believe in excess of $100,000. These were business obligations - bills due for goods and services rendered - not a diabolical plot by criminals and Communists. Then, on April 24,1951, the United Press broke the story of Sara Hubbard's divorce action, in which she charged that "competent medical advisers" had found her husband "hopelessly insane", and in need of psychiatric observation. These charges were not true, but the bad publicity was a damaging blow to the Dianetic cause - nor was it helped by the fact that previously there had been a rumor to the effect that Sara was a "clear".
Added to this was a considerable amount of internal dissension, culminating in the withdrawal of five of the seven original members of the Board of Directors. These included John W. Campbell Jr., and Dr. J. A. Winter, whose enthusiastic endorsements had played a major role in the great interest Dianetics attracted.
Don Purcell was at his best when the going was tough; and he proved it on this occasion. In a letter sent to friends dated May 21, 1952 , he tells of it in his own words:
"We have received a great many letters lately requesting us to answer the accusations that have been made by L.Ron Hubbard and James Elliott against myself and the rest of the Foundation personnel. This letter is an answer to these accusations..
"In July of 1950, I took the professional course in Elizabeth, N.J. By the time I had finished the course, I knew that Dianetics offered a greater understanding of mind than any other field of investigation in existence. Mind had been a subject of prime interest and study to me for about 20 years.
"While at Elizabeth, I determined to do all I could to assist the advance of Dianetics. This was a strong postulate. Just before I left Elizabeth I asked Ron how I could best serve Dianetics.... He told me to go home to Kansas for the time being and develop as much local interest as possible....
"When things got rough within the Foundation late in 1950, we offered assistance. Our offer was accepted and the Foundation moved to Wichita (in the Spring of 1951.--A.C.).
"Ron was in Havana, Cuba, at the time. He was in bad physical condition and quite sure that he didn't have a friend in the world except me. He had left Los Angeles and gone to Havana because he had been told that psychiatrists had been hired who would examine him and adjudge him insane and have him committed to an institution.
"I finally convinced Ron that I could protect him as a guest in our home until June. He arrived here on April 14. We gave Ron good present-time and helped restore his confidence in people. Ron, Margaret (Mrs. Purcell), and I would sit up until 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, discussing Dianetics. When Ron's mind is working on this subject, he has no equal.
"As Ron's self-confidence returned, he began to develop more and more ambitious schemes to rapidly advance Dianetics. In fact, he wanted to advance it more rapidly than the society would accept it. I was chided when I tried to inject conservatism in these plans.
"The old creditors -from New Jersey were hounding us with lawsuits.... I suggested we put the old Foundation in bankruptcy so we would have an opportunity to rebuild without the pressure of litigation. Ron would not agree to such strategy. He preferred to have me pay these creditors off as the occasion arose.
"Finally I arrived at the conclusion that we just had to adjust our spending to our income. My available cashsurplus was about gone. After informing Ron of this fact, things were not the same between us. He apparently did not believe there was an end to my cash and that I was just plowing his schemes under by refusing to finance them.
"Ron decided acute measures were called for to raise cash and initiated his Allied Scientists of the World scheme. It was a money-raising scheme launched independently by Ron from Denver, Colo. Ron solicited funds thru the mails from many scientists. including scientists working on secret Government projects. The Department of Justice became very much interested in his activities and took a dim view of the whole thing. Ardent work on the part of the Foundation staff and particularly on the part of Jean Moore finally got the mess straightened out.
"Our creditors were still pressing hard and finally threatened a liquidating receivership for the Foundation. To escape this litigation, Ron quit the Foundation. He released all his interest in the Foundation, implied and contractual, gave all his stock back to the Foundation. and resigned. Ron did this to set up a screen between himself and the creditors. From his subsequent actions, it seems that his reasons were more deeply seated than he would have us believe.
"We prepared to file in bankruptcy and Jean Moore sent Ron immediate notice of the fact ... I received a telegram from Ron informing me that he was suing me for one million dollars ...
"I am not trying to destroy Dianetics or Ron Hubbard. I am not prepared to spend $500,000 for this purpose. All my liquid assets have already been spent during the past year trying to build the Foundation, in spite of Ron Hubbard's talent for spending money on wild schemes. I paid the court approximately $6,000 for the Foundation and all its assets, copyrights, etc., in order to protect the investment of cash and work that had been previously put into these things. I did not receive $500,000 from the American Medical Association to put the Foundation into bankruptcy as Ron claims I did. None of the other accusations made by Ron or Jim Elliott are true. Ron told me in a recent telephone conversation he made these accusations only for the purpose of enlisting public opinion on his side ......
For the next two years, Don worked long and hard on behalf of the Foundation, supporting its activities at a
loss, doing everything he could to build it up into a reputable and socially acceptable institution. On advice of his lawyers, he filed counter suit against Mr. Hubbard; but this was purely defensive and he several times assured me he would gladly have dropped his suit had Mr.Hubbard done the same. Again and again he tried to persuade Mr. Hubbard to rejoin the Foundation.
One can question Don's judgment in this matter, and I, for one, did. on several occasions I suggested that he try to terminate the struggle and let Mr. Hubbard have the Foundation back again. But Don believed in Dianetics, and he continued to hope that some day he could induce Mr. Hubbard to return.
As time went on, it became increasingly clear that this was not going to happen. Finally, in August. 1954, Don gave the Foundation and all its assets back to Mr. Hubbard after having spent over $100,000 on its behalf .
Don died of cancer in June, 1959. In Hubbard's REALITY (December, 1959), there appeared a statement, alleging:"A millionaire in the U.S. once tried to seize all of Dianetics, but the effort failed. And, sad to tell, the millionaire died the other day."
The students in Scientology aren't the only ones with "overts" that should be "run out".
Art Coulter
NOVEMBER, 1961
Lynn Fountain Campbell
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George Machado, public, last onlines at AOLA I think, passed away last summer. He was the founder of Machado Environmental/Air Duct Cleaning Company in Glendale.
Lynn
Lynn
grundy
Gold Meritorious Patron
This was a friend of mine as well.
sorry to hear about this. Didn't he have a beautiful daughter named Katherine?
I'm still reeling from the news on Griffee....
Lynn Fountain Campbell
Silver Meritorious Patron
Yes, and grandkids too. Twin girls, I think.
Lynn
Lynn
Lulu Belle
Moonbat
Lynn Fountain Campbell
Silver Meritorious Patron
Me too. Does anybody know what she died of?
Lynn
Lynn
jenna miscavaige said on ocmb that she basically died of alcoholism, and that her son's death had heavily weighed on her. she had blown a few years ago from the s.o. as snr c/s, replaced by maggie butterworth. I knew she blew after seeing her husband's face when I asked where she was (another person there then told me later). He just said she went to visit family. That of course is impossible for her post to go do with any kind of authorization. Hell, I wasn't even allowed to take an LOA at Flag to go try to fix my marriage with marriage counselling back home.
I really liked Griffee as a tech terminal. Very smooth. I got good cramming interviews from her that had no roboticness to them whatsoever. And I can't think of one time we clashed, which is more common in C/S circles than you would think.
Lynn Fountain Campbell
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I'm missing a lot of data here. Who was her son, and when did he die?
Lynn
Lynn
I don't have all the data either. I believe her son died at the time she blew. She then went to take care of his children.
Lulu Belle
Moonbat
http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?p=348569&highlight=#348569
Griffee sadly died basically because she was so distraught over her son's death, that she was drinking too much. She was so upset that she couldn't save him with all that Scientology promised, that she couldn't process it in her mind anymore especially after being the Snr C/S AOLA. She thought she was saving people, but when she couldn't help him, she just went out the bottom. Even in her last days she was still trying to figure out how she could have helped him.
dexter gelfand
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5th Ave Mission, NY
That would be Helen Rhodes Hochman Regnier Dempsey, I knew her pretty well in the 1980's, when she married Todd Dempsey, a fellow staff member and buddy of mine in New York. Helen was a great person and a true OT. I was so sorry to hear about Helen's tragic bicycle accident.
Love, Dex
That would be Helen Rhodes Hochman Regnier Dempsey, I knew her pretty well in the 1980's, when she married Todd Dempsey, a fellow staff member and buddy of mine in New York. Helen was a great person and a true OT. I was so sorry to hear about Helen's tragic bicycle accident.
Love, Dex
RogerB
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Mark Jones
I looked closely, but I did not see Mark Jones on this thread.
Mark was beloved by many. Alan and I once had a discussion about states of case of folks we knew, and Mark was the one person we could agree merited recognition as as An Ascended Being.
Those who knew him, know what colossal integrity he had. What colossal commitment to truth he exhibited, and what colossal love for his fellows he had.
He, perhaps more than any other held the field together in the dark days after 1982 when the church began demonstrating just how mad it had become. It was Mark with the Free Spirit Magazine he created that kept the tech alive for many, and helped hold folks true to their belief they could optimize their condition and recover their true, full spirituality and innate powers.
I met Mark in London, in 1966, where he recruited me for staff with him and Ellen. He subsequently held high posts at GOWW, etc. Though most Americans will know him because of his work with Narconon.
Mark suffered from Alsheimers for many years, and during his final years had very poor memory.
He died about 18 months ago.
I don't know how old he was when he died, but he was well on in years.
He is a man worthy of much honor and to be listed on this Board.
Roger
I looked closely, but I did not see Mark Jones on this thread.
Mark was beloved by many. Alan and I once had a discussion about states of case of folks we knew, and Mark was the one person we could agree merited recognition as as An Ascended Being.
Those who knew him, know what colossal integrity he had. What colossal commitment to truth he exhibited, and what colossal love for his fellows he had.
He, perhaps more than any other held the field together in the dark days after 1982 when the church began demonstrating just how mad it had become. It was Mark with the Free Spirit Magazine he created that kept the tech alive for many, and helped hold folks true to their belief they could optimize their condition and recover their true, full spirituality and innate powers.
I met Mark in London, in 1966, where he recruited me for staff with him and Ellen. He subsequently held high posts at GOWW, etc. Though most Americans will know him because of his work with Narconon.
Mark suffered from Alsheimers for many years, and during his final years had very poor memory.
He died about 18 months ago.
I don't know how old he was when he died, but he was well on in years.
He is a man worthy of much honor and to be listed on this Board.
Roger
RogerB
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Helen Geltman
Helen passed onto her next game about 4 years ago.
Formerly Helen McKee of London, she was an SHSBC grad who came to the US, and with Frank Geltman, (also deceased some many years back) ran the "West Side Mission" in NYC.
Cause of death was probably her cigarette chain-smoking leading to emphysema and eventual cardiac arrest. Though, a broken heart due to the abuses and losses associated with her love of the tech and the purpose in life she pursued with it being betrayed by the actions of "upper management" cannot be ruled out.
Helen was into her seventies.
Roger
Helen passed onto her next game about 4 years ago.
Formerly Helen McKee of London, she was an SHSBC grad who came to the US, and with Frank Geltman, (also deceased some many years back) ran the "West Side Mission" in NYC.
Cause of death was probably her cigarette chain-smoking leading to emphysema and eventual cardiac arrest. Though, a broken heart due to the abuses and losses associated with her love of the tech and the purpose in life she pursued with it being betrayed by the actions of "upper management" cannot be ruled out.
Helen was into her seventies.
Roger
Wisened One
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Natasha Richardson
I know she was not a scn, but just wanted to say:
RIP, Natasha Richardson! A luminous presence who will be sadly missed!
I know she was not a scn, but just wanted to say:
RIP, Natasha Richardson! A luminous presence who will be sadly missed!
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