While I was on the Excalibur's RPF, summer of 1974, I was C/Sed by Judy Fuller, who was married to James Fuller at the time. She had told me she was a Class 12. Every day, 7 days a week, we (RPF members) did hard TR0, sometimes 5 hours straight. Judy knew this yet I continued to get audited on major actions, mostly drug rundown stuff and some Evil Purps.
Doug Nopson was our course supervisor at the time, one of the best bull baiters I was ever paired with. One day Doug was bull baiting me and nothing that he threw at me phased me in the least bit. He kept this up for a good ten minutes or more. I knew this time I had his pass well in hand, something that was extremely difficult to get. I could tell that Doug was about to say pass when I spotted my auditor, Peeter Alvet, coming into the galley to get me for session. I lost it, my eyes starting tearing up, at which point Doug flunked me. Peeter and I went into session and he gave me another great session with his smooth TR's.
When Judy was pulled off the RPF I became the C/S and I had our RPF members doing hard TR's and still doing major actions in session. Had there been issues with this practice I would have changed things, but our PC's had wins.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
Howard Dickman
RPF graduate, February 1975