Name the CO's you can recall..... favorites? (page 10)

codeblue

hmmmmmmm...so far 3 of us know James Wells...interesting!

A few have been mentioned like Dennis Dutton and Michael Purbrick. I agree Dennis Dutton was a loud mouth and tactless too. On quite a few occasions I heard he had caused JW's to be very upset when they invited him for a meal usually cos of something he said when he'd been on the vino.

We also had Bob Oldrey - good speaker but quite full of himself. Peter Walker - Nice guy. I used to date his niece. Squire Egan and Alice - Squire died a few years back but Alice is still on the go in her 80's. They were left penniless after the circuit work and lived in a caravan in the middle of nowhere for years (and Alice still might live there still). Bro Gibbons - Dull as ditchwater.
We also had an Indian guy as CO at one time, can't recall his name though. I think he had been adopted by British parents when he was young.

Wasanelder Once

Don Auvinen (sp) bad heart, snoozer. Hope he's still kicking.

John Magnussun, nicest man to walk the earth, I respect this man's sincerity and his practical knowledge. He was a true "servent". Serves at Bethel now in some service dept. capacity.

Sam Roberson, big cheerleader, berater and generally impersonal and a real fire and brimstone witness. (ugh) wortheless and obnoxious.

The rest are a blur of mediocrity.

W.Once

lighthouse19something

Clifford Joseph- we still have nightmares about this guy' he used inside information from his position to buy real estate and property way below fair market valve( WAY BELOW). The pompous guy had a gold-plated Caddy, and would preach endlessly about being humble

Tony Rizzo- was a sweet humble man, we were saddened by his passing

Augie Wenzell- a great guy. he was burned many times by jws he hired

Phillip Stiles- very warm and personable, but ran the kh by the book

toreador

I remember Cirenko our DO giving talk the the circuit assembly in which he praised some parents for encougaging their child to get married at 9 yrs old which the child did. I think he or his wife was baptized at a very early age if i remember right.

Tor

nowisee

yeah....cantwell goes waaaaay back. i was a babe. no one remembers joe codespoti?? or dale boekel?? anyone know lauren insolmen (sp?)? or thurlo west??

becca1

Beech

George Arnold

Henry

Shropshire

John Mason

Dean

Brandt

Roberson DO

G Wells DO

Many others whose names I don't remember...

tnangel73

hmmmmmmm...so far 3 of us know James Wells...interesting!

Make that 4. Him and Brother Duke taught my Pioneer school class. I'd say that 1994ish. It was a difference of night and day. I liked Brother Wells a bit more. Did he remind any of ya'all of John Lithgow?

ValiantBoy

I never had Lynn Godfrey as CO, but he and Douglas Mercier were my pioneer school instructors. They were both nice, but Godfrey struck me as a bit uncomfortable being in a position of authority.

and since I see someone else who liked CR "Dick" Jones, I'll explain why I had a problem with him. Once, myself, Sister Jones and a local pioneer sister were in service in a rural area and had car problems. I am not at all mechanically inclined and I did not know how to fix the problem, so we had to call the pio sister's husband. He and Dick came to pick us up. Dick gave me a VERY hard time about not knowing how work on the car and referred to me as "sister". It really pissed me off and embarrassed me. So I never really cared for him after that. Also he liked to play basketball with some of the other young guys in the congregation. I was not very good at sports either so he gave me a really hard time about that. He also made it a point to let me know that he had seen "homos" in the organization before and they always got find out. I was sixteen at the time and a regular and trying my hardest to live in accordance with what I thought was the truth. To have someone pick up on the fact that I was perhaps struggling with that issue and then, instead of helpiing me or encouraging me, use it as a reason to ridicule me was just really crappy and mean spirited.

Poztate

Brother Lum (can't recall his first name) : He was a real "organization" man, I thought he was a cyborg.

His first name is Norman. His wife is Zinnete or Zonya (sp) if it is the same one I know.

Name the CO's you can recall..... favorites?