Wow, just saw this thread!!!
I knew all these people, I was at Gary's bachelor party when he was getting married to Kate. Both of us, the young Aussie kids, were goaded into competing to get the worm in the bottle of Mescal, I actually got alcohol poisoning, I think he did too, but for the next week or so I didn't care about any other living beings.
Gary was a decent guy, but the post and the position had the tenancy to dehumanize people. I only knew Kate and Lisa as kids but never had any issues from them. I feel from grace in RTC with DMs takeover, off the Int Base a few months later. I remember with fond memories Jesse Prince doing his kind and supportive thing that he did to all us virgin messengers in RTC ... wanting to make sure we knew what to do on our wedding night. My instructional occurred privately in his office, Gary's occurred in a room of drunken men, mostly messengers, all of whom had some version of the hots for Kate, quite the number in the mid 80's as a fresh young lady! Lisa was really down to earth, someone of a tom boy, Kate seemed to consider her a bit higher class, but again I had no issues with her.
I remember Elaine mainly as a kid in Melbourne, she was tough but not evil. Later I remember Trish from Sydney, the earlier comment on her was unnecessarily unkind, though she was a wild character. I remember her, in some sort of ethics trouble, wearing high heel shoes, standing outside the window on a small ledge of the Sydney org, 3rd floor, cleaning windows with news paper. I just remember her as crazy wild, and super hot.