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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