Bylaw Revisions Statement on Direction Under the new bylaws there will be two key changes in the overall direction: 1. The Stelle Group would no longer be a membership organization but rather it will serve a religious - educational purpose with a board of trustees managing its affairs. It would provide a school of philosophy which would include a revised and expanded orientation program. 2. The Stelle Group will no longer be involved in activities which would be more appropriately performed by a municipally-oriented organization. Presently The Stelle Group is a member organization. A membership committee is elected to handle the area of membership. Members vote for Trustees and Mediators. Under the new draft there would be no categories of membership. An individual could align himself in various other ways such as being a correspondent or resident student, serve as a volunteer worker, tithe, or be an employee. The Trustees would establish and administer the various programs in which a person could become involved. Since an individual would not be a member, he would have no vote. There would consequently be no requirement for a membership committee. This approach would dramatically change the operating psychology of The Stelle Group. The idea is to structure a system of positive reinforcement which encourages people to study and apply the philosophy of the Brotherhoods as fast as the person can internalize it. Anyone can be a student who is willing to study the material and demonstrate his understanding of it. Anyone who does this becomes a graduate of the school. Anyone who becomes a graduate may become an affiliate of The Stelle Group who is willing to tithe to The Stelle Group and donate time to the development of The Stelle Group’s school of philosophy and the school’s related activities. Anyone who is presently a graduate of the Orientation Program would become an affiliate. (Is there some better term?) Persons who are affiliates may be invited to become members of the Adelphi Organization and work with The Stelle Group in Adelphi. (There might eventually be a campus in Stelle to which affiliates would be invited to live and work, if this were a desirable direction.) The above system corresponds more to the Brotherhood’s approach. It eliminates the present system of interviews and evaluations and allows each person to move at his own speed of internalization and application of the philosophy.
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