Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Troubled Teen Industry
Carlbrook
try another castle:
--- Quote from: "E Adams" ---Tell me what you want to know and I'll see what I can remember. I actually got to RMA before Tim Brace come to think of it.
--- End quote ---
I sent you a PM about stuff I didnt think was relevant to the boards proper.
I guess my big question is... since you were around Mel (and Im assuming Brigette), what did you think of him/her?
Also.. was there any mention of Synanon?
Did mel run any of your raps, propheets/workshops?
FYI, I knew patrick stambusky. He came back to work with the voyageurs shortly after I arrived.
He's running this school called Monarch now. Rookey was with him for a while until he started his own school. Strangely, patrick changed his last name to Mckenna. Nobody here is able to ascertain why.
E Adams:
I thought they were both a**heads. The same as everyone else.
Heard Synanon for the first time today.
E Adams:
Pat was there when I arrived. Didn't care much for him or hang out with him. Seemed sort of a dumb guy. The name change thing is weird.
Mel didn't run any raps or propheets while I was there. Never. Never even sat in one. He ate in the Dining Room some. He watched people work from the porch. He had a brother, Al Wasserman, who came and stayed at the school for about 6 mos. He was friendlier and interesting and he and Mel didn't seem to get on that well - possibly for those reasons. Everybody sucked up to Mel, he mainly tried to act like some shadowy mysterious figure. He was pretty rude. He would occasionally come up to you and just say really off the wall stuff. He did do several General Meetings and he spoke briefly about the way we were about to do a big building project. The staff would occasionally attempt to "interpret" his off the wall remarks for us. Mainly Dan Earle acted as his mouthpiece. He was not a very sociable cat. Big, fat, mustachioed. His wife was friendlier but if you were a kid you had the unmistakable impression that she was in some way defective for being married to that guy. She wore moo moo dresses and jewelry. It was odd to see jewelry then so it sticks with you. My impression was that he was not a very enlightened lifeform. This was the consensus among ALL of the students I spoke to.
Rookey was the kitchen guy. He worked in the kitchen. He started going through raps I think right before I left. He had a moustache too it seems like. That was sort of trendy look I guess.
E Adams:
I left July 85 - don;t remember Jackie or recognize the other names you mentioned.
Lot of attrition in my peergroup. By the time I "graduated" only 7 from the original 20 or so. There are certainly others who would know more about that stuff than I would. I think the school started late September 82 and they roughed it all winter. Didn't add many students until January 83 probably. I arrived in March. It was very primitive. Broke ground on the new lodge that summer.
If there's anything else you want to know just ask and I will check back.
Anonymous:
I'm not quoting the right
TAC, you have patience I do not. An organization is not going to toture everyone and leave one alone. An organization that has forcing people to participate in torture as its modality is not going to leave one person uninvolved.
So, when i read posts like this, I read "staff" doing damage control, a troll, or some majorly brainwashed cult member. The AARC and Straights has these cases. Accordingly, so will CEDU
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