X-Message-Number: 2489 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 13:20:58 -0800 From: Subject: CRYONET ACS call for Board candidates In message #2488, Edgar Swank writes: > I'm posting the following information in the hopes of > attracting some of you, especially members of other Cryonics > societies, especially any of you who live in or near the San > Francisco Bay Area, to join ACS and run for one of the seven > positions on the ACS Board of Governors. > At least one current Governor will not be able to serve next > year for health reasons. Two or three other governors have > been unable or unwilling to attend monthly board meetings with > any consistency. So there are definitely openings for persons > willing to serve. > If you would like to participate in the leadership of a > dynamic cryonics organization, and if you have been unable to > break into the ruling clique of your present organization, ACS > needs you, and perhaps you need ACS. This is a REMARKABLE letter! Edgar was present at the ACS Board meeting on 12/10/93. At that meeting, ACS terminated the memberships of Art Quaife and Jack Zinn. Carmen Brewer was dismissed from as ACS Secretary. Jack's crimes? He is president of the International Cryonics Foundation, and he is an ornery cuss. My crimes: I am president of Trans Time, and I am an ornery cuss. Carmen's crime: she is affiliated with me. The main crime of all of us: They were afraid that we might run for the ACS Board of Governors! I have been a member of ACS for 24 years, and served on the Board for 10 years. Jack Zinn is also a long-time member, and served as President of ACS for several years. Carmen Brewer has been on the Board and served as Secretary for the last few years. She has been one of the few Board members willing to regularly attend meetings during that time. ACS is trying to attract "members of other Cryonics societies" as candidates? How does Ed Swank write that and keep from biting his tongue off? Or does he mean they will welcome members of other organizations who will drop all their other affiliations and swear to kiss the nether parts of Jim Yount? I was explicitly told by Mr. Yount that they would let me renew my membership if I would agree NOT to run for the Board. Ed Swank voted right down the line to terminate Jack, me, and Carmen. They also wanted to throw Carmen off the Board, until it was pointed out that would be even more illegal than the other actions they were taking. One ironic note: According to their July 1993 financial statement (the last I have), ACS has a NEGATIVE net worth of -757.89. The three of us were waving membership dues checks totalling $778.00 at them. If ACS had accepted our checks, they would have been out of the hole. Another ironic-tragic note: The meeting was held at the home of Jerry White, who is very ill from AIDS. A few months ago, Trans Time completed construction of an operating room so that we could safely suspend AIDS patients here. Also some of our suspension personnel who had previously expressed reluctance to participate in a neuro-AIDS suspension now stated they would participate in the neurosuspension of Jerry. Yet here were Jerry's "friends" busy blocking all cooperation with Trans Time. (I have no knowledge that Jerry had anything to do with the decisions to throw us out.) A third ironic note: Carmen is "tainted" by her close relationship with me. Yet until her recent resignation, Annie Yount was serving on the Trans Time Board of Directors. I would have thought she had a close relationship with her husband Jim Yount, but perhaps I am wrong. As the Friday Night Massacre proceeded, could one hear the thuds of goose steps as the few remaining cult members burrowed down deeper into their bunker? Art Quaife Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=2489