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DEC 1 1981 Mr. Al Rasche’s personal evaluation of
the condition of The Stelle Group, which he gave at my last Open House, gave
rise to the question of whether I would agree to coordinate and focus Stelle
participants’ efforts to fulfill the Brotherhoods’ plan for Stelle. I have
decided I would do the best job I can on a full-time basis provided that at
least three-quarters of the members vote for me to take on that role. It has been my expectation that the
group would have long since unified itself to accomplish the goals of the
group through self-inspiration and cooperation, but I am becoming concerned
by the short time remaining to get under way. Mr. Rasche may well be correct
in his analysis that too many people here will not yield to the direction of
someone chosen out of their own numbers and that the members put their
energies elsewhere because of their lack of a cooperative spirit. If it turns
out that the Stelle members can rally around me, then I’m obliged to do what
I can to unify the group’s energies and help end the frustration being
experienced by the paucity of progress. However, I will not take the
responsibilities of members onto my shoulders and do your job. I will
do my job conscientiously and with energy and expect the same of everyone
else. I’ve striven too hard to encourage self-responsibility on the part of
the group to do anything other than have you solve your problems as a group
and direct your own fate while having you accept the karma of your decisions.
You must democratically rule yourselves, and I insist on you doing just that. I expect it is my responsibility to
build morale and insist on principles of fairness which distribute the
responsibility for and the efforts to achieve the Brotherhoods’ Plan
equitably among all participants of Stelle. Over the past several years,
most Stelle members, as well as myself, have settled into comfortable ruts
and relatively low-priority activity traps which will have to be re-evaluated
in order to overcome inertia to undertaking the renewed expansion of Stelle.
One could expect that there would be a surge of new enthusiasm implied by
asking me to work at your side to focalize and inspire active pursuit of
Stelle’s part in the Great Plan; and if so, we should then be able to build
rapidly and successfully upon our already-established foundations and
balanced social programs. Thereby your dreams and ideas for a finer
environment and real prosperity can be facilitated. All but one of the Stelle
members (I included) signed a petition last year declaring that we already
have the skills and willingness necessary to to make Stelle grow, and we
respectfully demanded of the Brotherhoods more finances and new members be
sent to Stelle. It seems likely that your determination to work your side of
that demand can energize it. Respectfully submitted, Richard
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