Favorite/least favorite CO's (page 32)

Seeker4

I only went back and reread the last couple of pages - did see a lot of familiar names.

If you are referring to CO Waid Paine (or Wade Payne??), yeah, he was one of the sorrier ones.

So many of those men were such spiritual bullies and little tyrants. There were some good guys I respected, but the quality of the traveling brothers was very, very, very uneven.

S4

DaCheech

seeker, the payne I was talking about was Afro-american (I'm sorry if not from Jamaica?), no accent though

sweet pea

Peter Howell was my all time favourite - a lovely caring man who gave the best talks.

Peter Nichols was the one that wound me up the most and the one I really couldn't stand, well I've forgotten his name!

minimus

Anybody know Sharpless?

The Missus

Anybody have Timothy Bland as CO? I've heard through the grapevine many years ago that he isn't a witness? Don't know if that's true or not. He was our CO when I was a teenager and I and the other kids really liked him but most of the adults . . . not so much.

My all time fave CO was brother Gillard (sp?). He was our CO when I was a little kid. They would cut the service meeting short on Thursday night and then all the little kids in the congo would take something up on stage that was bible related (kind of like show and tell) and talk about it. I remember the audience was always chuckling/laughing alot. It must have also been pretty entertaining for the adults too.

TM

daniel-p

Wow, what a great thread--I'm sorry i missed this one for the past three years.

Bro. St. Clair -- it seems he was the CO for the hall I was in a long time ago. I was very young, but I remember his last talk in our congregation before he was reassigned. He was on the stage thanking the congregation for this and that and everyone started crying. He started crying too, it was pretty weird.

The next CO we had--I believe-- was Bro Michaelson (forgot first name). Now this guy became very popular, I think due to his reasonableness and how down-to-earth he was. I think a few here (Mulan?) mentioned how nice his wife was. I remember her also. Anyway, last I heard, they had retired from the circuit work and were living near Mill Valley in northen CA (North Bay Area).

In another congo I was in, we had Bro. Palfi. Man, this guy was as dull as a sack of bricks. Every single time he came through, he did the exact same thing. Never deviated from his outlines, never said anything remotely interesting--except this one time. After a meeting, he and all the elders/MSs were standing around up front, chatting, when he started going off on how a brother should never say "Amen" into the microphone after giving the prayer. At the time, I ate it up, but a few years later (after maturing a little) I was like, who gives a good goddamn?

Then, there was Billy Kim Nichols, who, because I soon thereafter left for Bethel, I never got to know. All I know was that the old guys in our hall loved him because he came in wearing cowboy boots.

The most negative experience I ever had with a DO/CO was waaaayyyy back (I'm not quite as old as some of the posters on this board, so think early 80s), and the details are a little fuzzy. But it was the most amazing thing I've ever witnessed like this. The DO or CO (I don't remember his name) was giving a talk on the platform at the circuit assembly, and he was really getting worked up about something. He started to sort of huff and puff in a self-righteous manner, pontificating about some problem he thought the circuit had. Then, as a sister in the very back of the big hall got up to go to the bathroom, he stopped the talk, pointed this sister out in front of the entire auditorium, and said how he wouldn't continue until everyone was in their seat. I remember seeing the sister turn back around, holding her stomach, with tears in her eyes. She must have been so mortified. Anyway, later I think the guy got reprimanded or removed from his position for something--I vaguely think it was due to apostacy of some sort... I'm not sure which. I'd love to know if anyone else here was at that particular assembly (Northern CA; early eighties) and hear it from their perspective.

-dp

ldrnomo

Gotta mention these:

Nice DO bro Woodley

bad CO Bruce Smith (my wife and I call him "Bruce Almighty" Thinks he's someone special.

LD

SnakesInTheTower

dp:

The DO or CO (I don't remember his name) was giving a talk on the platform at the circuit assembly, and he was really getting worked up about something. He started to sort of huff and puff in a self-righteous manner, pontificating about some problem he thought the circuit had. Then, as a sister in the very back of the big hall got up to go to the bathroom, he stopped the talk, pointed this sister out in front of the entire auditorium, and said how he wouldn't continue until everyone was in their seat. I remember seeing the sister turn back around, holding her stomach, with tears in her eyes. She must have been so mortified

that sounds like something J C Howard would have done...and I do believe he did do when he got to St. Louis...

Snakes ()

Seeker4

DaCeech -

Must be different Bro. Paynes!

Some of these experiences are simply unbelievable, that anyone could think it OK to be that rude! I would have gone off on a CO who would humiliate an audience member like that.

S4

Dagney

(waves to Snakes...how ya doin?)

that sounds like something J C Howard would have done...and I do believe he did do when he got to St. Louis...

Oh now HE was somethin. Ol' J.C.

Does the word "grumpy old man" ring a bell?

I read through ALL the pages. It's amazing how I just don't remember many CO's, but there were a lot in my life.

Velorz, Kovalak (Uncle Nick), Weimereiner (or something like that...was a pilot), Dave Thomas, pretty good in recent memory.

Razor (OMG...the absolute worse), oh I can't even remember the names of the other bad ones...I think that is a good thing.

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