LRH

Question answered by escapee in Scientology

Anonymous asked this question on 10/3/2000:

Hi escapee, really like your answers. Since you were around in the beginning of Scientology could you give your impressions of LRH. What was he like in person? Thanks

escapee gave this response on 10/4/2000:

He was friendly, accessable, warm, interested, excellent with communication. He had a great sense of humor. He had a great memory for faces and names, and usually would set up some sort of games condition with a person. My favorite example of this was Ron Arnold, who was in Phoenix when he was only 17, and had admired Ron H. so much that he had died his hair red. A few years later he wrote a letter to LRH, and said, "I don't know if you remember me, but...etc." and LRH wrote back, "Of course I don't remember you. I particularly don't remember your bright red hair." A couple of years later Ron Arnold was in Wash. D.C. at the lectures LRH was giving. One day Ron Arnold confided in me, "I don't think Ron remembers me; he calls everyone else by name, but he just peers and says, yeesss, when I raise my hand." So I watched, and sure enough, that is what he did. Of course at graduation, he called him by name, and Ron Arnold said, "I guess he knows who I am after all.":) He was known to have a very quick temper, but also known to be able to stop in the middle of a tirade and say something gentle or pleasant to another, then turn back to the object of his tirade and continue. I didn't see that myself, but I had heard stories of that often enough. It wasn't until later years that he became unaccessable to public and friends.

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