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September 6, 1987 Mr. E. Lee Gilbert, pres. The Adelphi Organization P.O. Box 472381 Garland, TX 75047 Dear Lee, Pursuant to your letter of
ultimatum dated September 3, 1987, I wish to point out that there was no
letter of resignation submitted by me to the directors of The Adelphi
Organization on August 19, 1986. That was the date of a directors’ meeting at
which I verbally explained that I would have to resign my offices and
membership in The Adelphi Organization because I expected to have to move from
Texas for about three years based on my supposition that I was legally bound
to do so due to an earlier letter I sent to Malcolm Carnahan agreeing to
undertake counseling with Dr. Mech, who in August recommended that I move
from Texas. The August 19, 1986, meeting of the TAO directors was general
discussion of the effects my resignation would have and resulted in
identifying several points to be considered which would have to be addressed
before my anticipated departure on September 30, 1986. Except for scheduling
the election procedure to elect a replacement director, there were no
finalized decisions or letters of agreement arrived at on that meeting date.
When Mssrs. Carnahan and Machiz both stated at a subsequent joint meeting of
TSG/TAO members that I was not legally bound or obligated to undertake
counseling with Dr. Mech or John Rierson, I thereupon decided not to move
from my home in the Dallas area or take the Radix training arranged for me by
Dr. Mech. Since I no longer needed to move away from the Dallas area, it was
not necessary for me to surrender my membership in TAO; and I so stated my
intention to remain a member. I had tendered my resignations entirely upon my
erroneous expectation that I was being legally obligated to move out of
Texas and so would not meet the residence requirement for membership in TAO. On October 6, 1986, I signed a letter surrendering my
offices and membership in TAO. That letter said I would sever my relationship
with TAO with the exception that I shall remain trustee of the Adelphi Land
Trust. I arranged immediately to have Mr. Richard Stanford become co-trustee
with me, but the president of TAO never signed the approved documents that
would have accepted Mr. Stanford in that role. According to specific terms of the
land trust, it is not necessary that I be a member of TAO in order to
administer the trust and preserve the intended purpose of the Adelphi lands.
There was never at any time an agreement by me to resign
as trustee of the Adelphi Land Trust, and there is no moral or legal reason
for me to do so. I don’t know what you are referring to when you claim I
refused to honor some agreement. I remember your statement to me: “I see my role as taking
over where you left off;” and you voiced essentially the same statement to
the membership at a TAO business meeting. To use TAO funds to promote your
personal ambitions to replace me is a frivolous waste. Your fiduciary
responsibility as director and chief officer is to preserve the assets of the
corporation, just as my responsibility as land trustee is to preserve the
assets entrusted to me and see that they are used for their proper purposes.
It has become openly and commonly noised about among TAO members that you
intend to sell the land if you can get it away from me. The land is
intimately bound to the tax-exempt purposes of TAO, and The Adelphi
Organization would be meaningless without the Adelphi lands. The members and
postulants of TAO asked that I be trustee in order to guard against the very
kind of actions you are now contemplating. Legal actions against the trust
can only be ultimately destructive to the entire organization. Your official
proposal to sell all the Adelphi land to me personally indicates that you do
not respect the mission of TAO and are leading the members in directions
inimical to Christ’s design for the organization. I will not yield to your
ultimatum. I shall continue to properly administer the Adelphi Land Trust and
defend it with vigor. Sincerely, Richard Kieninger |
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