Don’t they need money? A “lost” $100,000 check (top) confirms the leadership vacuum at JBS headquarters in Appleton. When the check, a gift from an estate, arrived at the JBS mailroom, apparently no one knew what to do with it.
So it sat in an inbox for several days, until incredibly it was misrouted to RWU. RWU promptly returned the check to the embarrassed, but ecstatic head of JBS accounting. Apparently, he was unaware the check had even arrived.
As revealing as this “oversight” is, the administrative vacuum at headquarters is not nearly so dangerous to the future of the Society as the lack of full-time, on-the-scene Birch leadership.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and strong personalities at headquarters will fill the vacuum. But will they have any understanding or commitment to Robert Welch’s vision of the Society’s role?
Will they be committed to providing leadership to a well-organized nationwide force of Americanists involved in effective, concerted-action campaigns? Not likely, if those personalities have never joined the Society, have never participated in a local Chapter, or if they have little understanding of the unique organization Mr. Welch established.
Experience shows that a home-office team, isolated from the field organization they are supposed to be supporting, will focus on its own self-interests. Home office bureaucrats will seek to keep the computers running, pay the bills, respond to complaints, and mindlessly continue established services that may be missing the mark by a mile of what the field and the mission need for success.
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