September 10, 1975

 

 

Ms. Gail A. Kieninger

Stelle, Illinois

Cabery P.O., 60919

 

Dear Gail:

 

When I took leave of Stelle on April 1, 1974, 1 left you to continue in the same function relative to admissions work that you had occupied under my direction. I did not then, or ever, convey to you any authority from the Brotherhoods giving you any sanctions of power in terms of a commissioned office of admissions. Indeed, I have never myself received any such directly expressed office or title from the Brotherhoods; so I cannot pass along what I haven’t been expressly assigned. I have not authorized or have I by inference passed along to any titles given to me.

 

A personnel acceptance function is an inherent part of every organization, and the members of The Stelle Group may choose to elect you and/or other persons to carry out that function. I had always subordinated the Admissions Committee to my office of president of The Stelle Group, and, as a matter of fact, I created the name, Admissions Committee, and conceived what it should do when, as president I wrote the first “Stelle, a City for Tomorrow” brochure in 1965.

 

For further clarification, I herewith relieve you of all offices, responsibility and authority which I may from time to time have expressly granted to you or I may seem to have inferred to you by allowing you to take upon yourself various functions. Hence­forth any duties you perform for The Stelle Group are to be clearly understood as jobs assigned by the elected officers of The Stelle Group or as jobs to which you are elected by the gen­eral membership. You have no authority in any capacity from the Brotherhoods through me or my commissions from Them, and I enjoin you henceforth from making any further claims of you having any delegated authority from me or somehow sharing my offices.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Richard G. Kieninger

 

cc M. Carnahan

 

 

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