1974-82 Miami Org @ Brickell Ave/early Giralda Ave/OP Z, anyone?

[Good twin]

MissJones: Which Laurie would you be referring to? Laurie Karnes or Laurie Thebom or...another Laurie altogether? I can give you some info on the ones I knew....

It's another Laurie, Michelle. From the old days when Troph was ED. Laurie and her husband lived with Susan Swander and her husband I believe. Both couples had babies around the same time. It would have been about 1980 or so.

[MissJones]

MissJones: Which Laurie would you be referring to? Laurie Karnes or Laurie Thebom or...another Laurie altogether? I can give you some info on the ones I knew....

I screwed up somehow....I was answering a post & they were looking for Laurie Fredel. How do you reply so you can tell whose msg you are answering without including their whole msg in the body of your post? I was just clicking on "quick reply".

[XenuEtrawls]

Hey Mayflower,

"...I remember the name Roberto Naya, but not who he was. I remember Cuch Figueroa (Acad Sup), and his (soon to be ex-)wife Lisa, who was the Lead C/S. ED Dave Trophe, Qual Sec Jed (JD) I think last name McCord, I remember the other C/S, a short, pretty girl who called me into the Ivory tower once or twice to advise her on CSing a case or 2 (which was quite an honor, as I was on the grad V auditor course at the time), I remember the SSO, the qual librarian, and others, but not immediately getting their names."

Dex

Roberto Naya was a Div 6 person. He was a div. 6 reg and a bookseller, among other things. He was of Cuban descent and was short and "chunky."
Cuch Figueroa was one of the academy sups but he wasn't married to Lisa. That was his brother, Fred Figueroa, who was the SSO, The other C/S you're talking about must be Maria McCord, whop was married to the Qual Sec, Jeff "JD" McCord. She and Lisa changed hands for the lead C/S post. Maria went to train under David Mayo for the WTH Rundown. That's when she became lead C/S but it didn;t last long. Lisa's been the Snr C/S in Miami for yrs and I believe she's still on staff. She was in 2005 when I left for good. Jeff took over as Qual Sec from Dave Tropf, who held that post under John Sexmith, before he took over as ED when John left. Dave was one of the 5 senior execs to get declared by the Int Finance police GESTAPO TACTICS. Unfortunately, I was on staff at the time. They (Dave, Gino Cocomir, Bob & Betsy Blair & Bob Bonnen) were thrown out like dogs. It was referred to as Miami's 3rd dynamic engram for quite some time. The Qual librarian's name was Gayle. She was a nice, reserved lady.

Btw, Cuch Figueroa became the President of CCHR in Florida but I hear he's out now - since about a yr or two ago. You can see Cuch in youtube videos. He also did a lot of tv in Clearwater with a fellow Scientologist who ran a local show. He spoke a lot about Psychiatric abuses, etc.

So many good people. Such a waste of time, good energy and good intentions. Oh, well, life goes on. Be well.

[XenuEtrawls]

Gail Smith was the librarian, I believe. Was the short, pretty C/S, Linda Hall?

Gail Smith, right.
I'm guessing the short, pretty C/S was Maria McCord, Jeff's wife who went to train under David Mayo.
Linda Hall was also a C/S for a while and was married to Rick Hall. Linda's parents had a catering service and a lot of the staff -including myself - used to moonlight there on the weekends. Rick was also Qual Sec for a while, too. And SSO. Fred Fig was STO, not SSO -though he might've held that post, as well, for a short time.

[OldAuditor]

I was on lines at Miami from 1977 to 1980. I used to drive down from Deerfield Beach every night after work to attend course. I trained up to Class IV and it was the best org experience of my Scn history.

Linda Hall was my C/S, Cuch was the academy Sup and I remember Leah Abady well.

There were a lot of auditors in training when I was there and there was no shortage of twins or pcs to audit. I did my OT III in 1979 and finally left for California in 1980 to do the Briefing Course.

I remember the OPZ fiasco and the earlier Past Lives Event. I came to every Flag Tour event and attended several weddings including John Sexsmith's wedding.

My fondest memories were of the occasional events that featured the band Cameron.

Incidently the last I heard from Laurie Fridell, she was on call-in at Flag and this was around 2005.

[PaulLuzerne]

I recognize many names from Miami Org - early to mid 70s. But, no mention of Janet and Bob Guilford, who I believe were orginal St. Hill staffers. Janet ran Miami - John Sexsmith just rode his motorcycle around looking cool.

I walked away one night after realizing that someone had overlooked the expiration of my contract and that I was a free man. I suspect that my paper-trail existance was filed away in the supressive section of the guardians office.