Actually I don't remember all the names, mostly because I worked in the factory and they were in the home. But although the GB is not on their several Board of Directors and legal officers, the ones that ARE on there will tell you for the most part. :-))
There's more than one reason the GB was left off the officers in the Borg. :-))
Barb Anderson could tell you the names. I'm not good at remembering names, but I remember all their faces. They have been there for ages. I might get some of it wrong, so I avoid conjecture. I just knew most of the heavies in the factory.
But Don Adams (I think he's president now), and a lot of the office old timers. Look at the list of the Boards of Directors. Or just ask Barb ANDERSON, SHE KNEW THEM ALL IN THE 80S. Or ask Tom Cabeen, the Kuilans, Cris and Norma Sanchez, Ed Dunlap (deceased), etc.
I'm not good at remembering names, nor did I know many of them personally. I DID know Knorr, both Franzs, and a few of the old GB (mostly puppets). I knew a few on the Service Dept. as well. But I was in the factory and knew the heads therte, butr they had no real power, not even Max Larson (for several reasons). But rather than give wrong or inaccurate names (I remember all their faces), I'll leave it to someone who worked in Brooklyn offices during the 70s and 80s. A few are still there, and quite in control.
Harley Miller lived 5 feet from my door, and I knew him - quite powerful and gave much different advice on judicial committee stuff when the elders would call him, the expert and chief. His word carried FAR more weight than any WT policy. WT was too cheap to put a phone in his room in the 107 building, so he was always out in the hallway right next to my door answering tough questions and telling elders and committees what to do. Virtually none of his advice was from the "elders manuals." Typical cutthroat corporation, disguised as a religion. People are expendable, the Borg is NOT.
But you wouldn't necessarily even know this as a Bethel elder... you actually had to be around them a lot (or know those who were, like the Cabeens) and watch and listen. Profiling! :-))
I'm the type of person who watches... body language, facial expressions, etc., which rarely lie. But people lie with their tongues, so I gave less credit to what people said than what I clearly observed.
By the way, few who worked there for years AND KNEW THE HEAVIES would disagree with me on this stuff. I'm not trying to tease you or think I was somehow special. I just watch and listen a lot. It really was not that big of a deal to me, as I always considered them the same as secular organization corporate leaders. I was warned about this by a former Bethel elder before I even got there in 1974... didn't faze me.
I know it sounds odd... but most Bethelites pay no attention to these "hidden" facts nor do they really care. Once you live there a year, you know they're almost all corrupt or playing the corporate game. Then you can't wait to leave! It wasn't really that interesting to most Bethelites... they expected it because they saw so much of this duplicity anyway. Before I went to Bethel I was warned about the racism, fights, smoking, homosexuality, etc. but most of it you learned from listening to the GB at the breakfast table. It was really quite obvious, as shocking as it may seem. We just took it for granted!
Randy
