Favorite/least favorite CO's (page 21)

TweetieBird

WOW! I can't believe this thread is still popping up. I started it back when I was going by the name OrangeBlossom.

"If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?"

Neon Madman said,
>>Anthony DeCinti - Subhuman...very judgmental and unloving, noted for ending every talk by putting his hand over his brow, and saying "Say, has anybody here seen brother or sister so-and-so?" Implying that that might be said about YOU right after Armageddon if you didn't get on the stick. Every time I heard one of his talks, I wanted to leave the Kingdom Hall and never come back.<<

When he first did this, the goosebumps ran up and down my back.....and by the end of his "term in office", it got so we'd poke each other in the ribs just as he would launch into this "bit". The novelty and the impact had worn itself out.

In the winter of '98 I worked all morning ALONE with "Tony", an icy upstate NY morning when very few showed up for Field Service (TOLDJA I was a loyal Jdub-LOL!) and I had brought him on a few of my Return Visits, only to have him totally embarrass me with his "approach".
It was quite an interesting morning! Shall we say that the word "tact" was definetely NOT in his vocabulary?

ONE house we called on in regular door-to-door, he knocked and pounded and knocked and banged some more, until an elderly woman finally came to the door. After his presentation, she said no thank you, and began to close the door...and he got really ornery and started spouting about the "END" and how she needed to listen to the message...(I'm DYIN' here) and she said NO, and she slammed the door....and he proceeded to shove the Watchtower under her door....which she was poking back at him through that crack..it was totally humiliating!

His wife, Maria, was ANOTHER joy to work with......let's just say they were well matched!(YIKES!)

Hugs,

Annie

Some days it's not worth gnawing through the straps.

closer2fine

LOL I completely forgot about DeCinti and his "has anyone seen......." ick! I was in PA when we had him. ahhhhhhh the memories.

closer

Solid stone is just sand and water, baby
Sand and water, and a million years gone by - beth nielsen chapman

KenUK

Sheesh,

Some memories here - Rodney Ketter, John Flack remember them well!

One guy - Ron Drage (American?? - or Don Rage as we called him) - seemed to be a DO(?) in NE England during late 70's. Once saw him quaffing drinks at the local hotel near Murrayfield (in Edinburgh) one lunchtime during the assembly! (shock horror).

Hellaby Hall - did my night wtachman stuff there during its build!!

Ken

SumnerSloan

Wow! Yes, it's a long thread, but I actually hate to see it end! It's fun reading about all the familiar names, and other people's impressions of them! Don't stop now!

lastcall

Favorites Steve Lett -- Awesome speaker, although very cartoon like ( no one could help but pay attention). He was a very positive and zealous person. I know his dad was also a co. I think they were from Alabama. Steve is now GB. Bro. Hendricks short, funny man; good speaker, nice to kidS. Charles Jackson was a do. He was a phenomenal speaker (blackman was correct) He also was fairly down to earth. Least Favorites: George Cook. He used to demand that the attendants "encourage" everyone to move toward the front at circuit assemblies. He made us feel like a-holes. He told me once that microwave ovens destroy ALL of the nutrients in food and that a pet owner who used to feed it's dog food heated in a microwave lost it's dog to, what the vet described as malnutrition. He was very in to alternative medicine. BTW "Cook" wasn't his real last name, he had shortened it from somthing Greek. Antoher Bro. Cook., this one less ethnic. He could be funny, but he was ultimately a very stearn society man.

ubdjudge

Any one know the whereabouts of Wasyl/Roxane Siolkowski? Their first CO assignment was in Redding CA.

Thanks

ubdjudge

jst2laws

Hello lastcall,

Welcome! Good to have new ones joining in.

I knew Steve Lett at Bethel, then worked with him off and on at district conventions. I was there when his Dad, Mark, hitched up and went into the Circuit Work. Mark was absolutely a genuine man, a Christian. He died just a couple years later. If he would have lived longer he would have left the organization because he was too real to stay with it.

I wonder if his son is a real person. Steve, if you are watching, e-mail me, we are old friends.

Jst2laws

Kismet

I would also love to know the whereabouts of Wasyl and Roxanne.

I knew them several years ago both when they were single and after they were married. Also was good friends with Wasyl's sister Twila.

Any updates on them??

Kismet

Sunspot

One CO (&wife) I particularly loathed, was Arthur Stevens, quite a bit older than most others I remember, must have had red hair at one time , tall, thin. very austere and uptight. I just could NOT warm up to him (them), which was not like me at all.

Wifey Stevens was pushy sourpuss (but how do I REALLY feel-LOL) and just HAD to dominate the conversation at EVERY door, no matter who said what or who's "turn" it was.

I remember that the article we were "pushing" (YEARS ago) was on the "wonders of the Fox" or some such scintillating topic, it was "my" door, and the householder had slid the conversation on to something else (which I was then addressing) and didn't Madam Stevens just step in (interrupting) and RE-DIRECT the conversation back to the "fox" (like I wasn't even THERE!!) and the householder kinda looked surprised at the RUDENESS of the lady standing next to me, and politely said she had LOTS of things to get to that morning, etc, etc.

I've had sisters step in and ADD to a conversation (NEVER bothered me) but to have someone just TAKE OVER, it left me with a VERY bad feeling, and I'm sure the householder wasn't impressed either.

I liked John and Ann Arbor a lot.....nice folks.

I WAS surprised at what was posted about Ray Guizdowski (sp?) I felt very comfortable going d-to-d with him, he was funny and engaging. He threw me for a loop, pulling Kibbles & Bits out of his pocket when we were rushed by a dog at one house!!! (BIG wink---MY secret, he said)

Was it "Bill?" and Elaine Humor....nice couple, we wrote back and forth for a while.......

And the LAST CO before I "departed" (he was here for coffee with the PO and was SO down-to-earth, I felt really drawn to his warmth) and then invited to lunch the next day with him and his wife, they were special (but I left anyway--lol!) They were Dan & Erica Wakelin....

I can't end without mentioning (Bro Joe) Scaglione, I thought he was terrific. I got a kick out of his warning to the young girls at assemblies....about the boys who'd attend for the sole purpose of attracting the young ladies.......and when the boys would suggest things not-so-proper, "TRUST ME" was a signal to RUN in the opposite direction! He had such a WAY with words!

I heard he died of Cancer somewhere in FL a few years ago....

Guess that's it for MY stroll down CO memory lane!

hugs,

Annie

Some days it's not worth gnawing through the straps.

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