by OrangeBlossom 394 Replies latest members private
Hi Qwerty,
I'm in Halifax. Do you know me? My profile is genuine. Got nothing to hide. I worked on Hellaby too, just labouring. I don't think I actually know anyone from Hellaby cong. I take it thats the one attached to the assembly hall itself.
I just wanted to know why you thought the apostate CO, that Uncle Onion (who I know personally), was asking about was William Heath.
You can e-mail me if you dont want to post who you are.
Btw - in a big way........
Of all the CO's, and two DO's I've met - Maximus makes them pale in comparison.
Of course, if I'd known him in his previous jw life - I might be singing a different tune.........
waiting
Hi all UK posters
None of the names you guys are mentioning strike a chord with me.
Here are a few UK CO's and DO's that I knew
Peter Morgan - North East England early to mid 80's, Scotland late 80's. completely bald owing to some weird disease. His biggest claim to fame was that he kept going on about attendig the '58 convention in New York. Met Mad Freddie there apparently.
John Flack - Superb public speaker. He was in the Glasgow area early 80's.
Rodney Ketter. Scared the living shit out of me. Again Scotland in the Mid 70's when i was a small boy. No matter what he was talking about he used to SHOUT.
There was also a DO in Scotland in the late 80's David C.... , cant remember his surname correctly. Looked a bit like Robert Morely the large rotund actor of British comedy films from the 50's/60's. He used to think he was a bit of a stand up comic and had the audience at conventions/ CA's howling with laughter. He also used to ask direct questions of the audience at Circuit Assemblies as if he were in a KH. No one in the entire auditorium heard a word said by the audience member but he apparently had superhuman hearing.
Also here is one for you USA guys, sort of a UK/USA crossover.
Any you yanks remember/know a guy called Frank Willett.
He was a CO somewhere in the US in the 50's and his sister Mildred is married to Jack Barr of the Governing Body. He came back to the UK sometime in the 60's or 70's and was an elder in our local cong from about 1976, and our book study conductor from 77 to 80. He was always breaking with convention doing odd things like not reading the paragraphs at the book study, then whizzing through the material in 20 mins. After that we would all have coffee and a chat before doing something far more interesting. Us kids loved him. He also brought the idea back from the US that ICE CREAM might be quite a good idea on hot summer days during the convention intermissions. Obviously the stiff upper lip British Assembly organisers were mortified at the very idea. Too worldy. But in 1980 we got our breakthrough, and we got our ice cream.
Finally my absolute favourite CO was an ex-missionary from Brazil(?) called Alistair Campbell. Huge man with a grey moustache who will always be one of my most fav JW's for just one act. On the day of my wedding at the KH he alone after the ceremony ended came up to us and said. "I'd be delighted to accept your invitation to the reception, despite your wife having a disfellowhsipped sister. This is your day." This is after all the snotty nosed bastards of elders had turned an invitation down. One in the eye for them.
Well you guys any one remember these names.
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I am not a dub I am a free man.
Mulan, I can tell you're a California girl. I had all the same people. Loved the Gwaltney's. Renate seemed so tough but was a sweatheart in the end. He was awesome! They served us when I first started pioneering at 16. My best friend (who was 17) and I spent a lot of time w/ them.
Also remember Br. Holman. Yes he was an asshole! I'm trying to remember if it was him I pissed off at my pioneer school when I said that middle age was 35-40. He got all upset like I personally offended him. First of all I was only 17 so what did I know. Second of all I was going by the scripture in Psalms where it said a lifespan was 70-80 years. Half of that is 35-40! Made sense to me!
Hey, does anyone remember a SAM & LINDA ROBERSON? He was a young CO in California about 20 years ago. Was a family friend of my parents. My mom played the clarinet at the circuit & district assemblies w/ Linda in Fresno. Just wondered what happened to them. Sam had this great thing he did with the kids during his visit. He would get them to all come up and sit in front of the stage. Then one by one we would come up on stage and show a picture we drew from out of the Bible Stories book. I copied a pic of the paradise (I was probably 6). When Sam asked if I was there I said no and the entire audience started laughing. I didn't understand why! I copied the pic. I wasn't in the Bible Stories book so why would I be there. Now it's kinda all kinda funny to me.....do you think it was a self prophecy?!! haha
Shauna
I forgot to add another UK, CO who I didn't think much of - Anthony Irons. He was very popular when he was first assigned, and all the older single sisters were falling over themselves to get his attention, couldn't do enough for him. Wanted to work with him in the FS, cooked spectacular lunches and dinners for him.
I remember that even while he pretended that he wasn't affected by it, he loved all the attention he was getting (he was in his mid to late forties, unmarried, I thought he was pretty plain looking myself, but in the WTS, that's how it goes.....)
Anyway, a couple of years after he moved to his next assignment, he did the usual and got married to a pretty (slim, blond haired) sister who looked about 15 - 20 years younger than him. After that, the sisters in the cong. stopped giving him the time of day. Not sure what happened to him either.
Dear Waiting :
Yes Samuelson was some kinda DO. Very reclusive
Shauna, I loved Renate too. She was so great. Dallas was a "real" person, and he and my husband got to be good friends!! He loved to read, and would call us every now and then to see if we had any new books for him to borrow. My husband is an avid reader and buys books all the time, and Dallas knew he might have the ones he wanted to read, since they had the same taste in books, long, long, historical novels and modern biographies. If we didn't have them, Dave would go out and buy it for him to read, knowing he would like it too, later.
One time when they were with us, we were going to Hawaii the next week, and Renate was so excited you would think she was coming along. She called us the night before our flight and said we HAD to order a Mai Tai the first thing, when we got on the airplane. I reminded her that it was an 8:30 in the morning flight, and she said "all the better........do it!" So we did. They loved Hawaii, and had gone one time, and stayed in a KH apartment, but loved it anyway. She said she went out into the parking lot the first morning and twirled round and round, yelling, "I'm in Hawaii!!!" Then they went to the beach everyday, and read all day long. I miss them.
Marilyn (a.k.a. Mulan)
ANOTHER FAVORITE:
LESTER DUGAN (doogan)
When he served our area he was a DO. Saturday morning field service
was not complete unless we stopped for donuts and coffee. He was so nice to be around, no pressure, no arrogance, was of the anointed. He had a mysterious aura about him.
He was the first I recall in the late 60s to wear a pastel pink shirt
and a green tie at the circuit assembly.
sonoita
My Favorite CO was Lawrence Jarka.
Served in Michigan in the early to mid 80s.
He is out of the circuit work now I hear that he lives somewhere in Ohio.
Lowell's brother is Ron. They are from Chicago. I knew him in W TN back in the 70's. Ron was 28 going on 55, real PIONEER if you know what I mean.
