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 The Church had grown so much that a building at 926 C Street, right around the corner from the 10th Avenue site, was leased.  It was much larger, with a second story towards the rear of the building and an unused basement full of junk.  I was discharged from the Navy on May 18, 1973 and went to work full time at the San Diego Org.  As staff pay was a pittance I had to enroll onto California's unemployment rolls in order to pay my rent and living expenses.   On June 3, 1973, the Church put on an event at the 10th Avenue location.  Our guest entertainer was Marilyn Ellis, from Celebrity Centre.  I was at my desk, still working as a test grader/evaluator when she entered the building.  She stopped to talk to me and helped me fold some papers.  That small gesture prompted me to write a poem to her, I wonder if she still remembers it.
-That June I was sent to the [[Excalibur]], based in San Pedro, for the Sea Org training course, Product Zero.  While on the [[Excalibur]] I met Pat Maroshek (the person on the left, in the picture below) of Back Pocket who was also doing Product Zero.  In 1973 a lot of San Diego staff lived in a house known locally as the Manor.  This house was located at the southwest corner of C and 27th Street, about 1.3 miles away from the Church.  After graduating from the Product Zero course I returned to San Diego and moved into the downstairs portion of the house.  At one time we had seven Scientologists living in the first level of the house; the only rooms not used as bedrooms were the kitchen and the bathroom.  One of my roommates was Mario Robles, an ASHO trained Class VI, who was solo auditing on the Clearing Course in our room.  In the room next to ours was Larry Brancato, another ASHO trained Class VI, who was also solo auditing on the Clearing Course.  Larry was in charge of the household.  We paid him rent and he took care of all of the bills, which included making sure we had food in the house.  One day I came home early and turned on some music in my room while Larry was in the next room auditing.  I immediately got a strong mental message from him that the music was too loud, to which I turned down the volume.  Both of them went Clear while living with me in the Manor (see list of Clears in the picture gallery).
+That June I was sent to the [[Excalibur]], based in San Pedro, for the Sea Org training course, Product Zero.  While on the [[Excalibur]] I met Pat Maroshek (the person on the left, in the picture below) of Back Pocket who was also doing Product Zero.  In 1973 a lot of San Diego staff lived in a house known locally as the Manor.  This house was located at the southeast corner of C and 27th Street, about 1.3 miles away from the Church.  After graduating from the Product Zero course I returned to San Diego and moved into the downstairs portion of the house.  At one time we had seven Scientologists living in the first level of the house; the only rooms not used as bedrooms were the kitchen and the bathroom.  One of my roommates was Mario Robles, an ASHO trained Class VI, who was solo auditing on the Clearing Course in our room.  In the room next to ours was Larry Brancato, another ASHO trained Class VI, who was also solo auditing on the Clearing Course.  Larry was in charge of the household.  We paid him rent and he took care of all of the bills, which included making sure we had food in the house.  One day I came home early and turned on some music in my room while Larry was in the next room auditing.  I immediately got a strong mental message from him that the music was too loud, to which I turned down the volume.  Both of them went Clear while living with me in the Manor (see list of Clears in the picture gallery).
 [[File:CStreet1.jpg|thumb|left|San Diego Org, 1973]]The San Diego Org moved all of its operations into the C street building.  To the left is my picture of the Org in the summer of 1973.  I painted the lion and helped build the bookshelves.  On August 15, 1973 five members of the San Diego Org were awarded Staff Status II.  This meant that we were permanent staff members with all the benefits.  The following people were awarded that status;

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 After I received my graduation certificate I had to wait around until someone with transportation was heading into Los Angeles.  I really hoped that I could join staff at Celebrity Centre and that was my destination.  Bill Yaude was heading into the city and I hitched a ride with him.  We arrived at staff berthing, 6724 Hollywood Boulevard, just in time for lunch.  What a roach infested dump that place was.  The lunch server protested that he did not know who I was, but Bill vouched for me.   My next stop was CC.  When I walked in I told the receptionist that I had just graduated from the RPF and wanted to route onto staff, but I still had my contract with the San Diego Org.  She politely informed me that I had to go to San Diego and properly route off of staff as my first action.  I really wished I had asked to see Yvonne, to whom I could have pleaded my case for being staff at CC.
 [[File:CCLA1.jpg|right|border|Celebrity Centre on 8th Street]]
-With what little money I had I bought a bus ticket, which only brought me as far as around [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encinitas,_California '''Encinitas'''].  I tried to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitch_hike '''hitchhike'''] to the San Diego Org on C Street (about 29 miles), but no one would stop for me.  After walking for hours, I finally arrived at the Org right around closing time, about 11:00 p.m.  As I had no place to go back to after being gone for a year I stayed at the Church that night.  When I had left the San Diego Org the basement on C Street was seldom used.  When I arrived back from the RPF the basement had been transformed with a nice Qual area, a C/S room, a D of P room and several auditing rooms complete with nice red carpeting.  My intention was to route off of staff the very next day.  As it was still fairly early, I couldn't help but look through the PC folders that the C/S, Len Romans, a Class IV, had finished with.  The very first session I looked over contained some errors that Len had failed to notate.  In the next PC folder some R3R had been done and the errors were plenty, yet the auditor had received a Very Well Done from Len.  I just could not help myself.  I took a piece of paper and started listing the errors, with the respective LRH references noted, and left the note in the folder.
+From CC I walked about three miles to the downtown Los Angeles bus station and with what little money I had I bought a bus ticket, which only brought me as far as around [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encinitas,_California '''Encinitas'''].  I tried to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitch_hike '''hitchhike'''] to the San Diego Org on C Street (about 29 miles), but no one would stop for me.  After walking for hours, I finally arrived at the Org right around closing time; about 11:00 p.m.  As I had no place to go back to after being gone for a year I stayed at the Church that night.  When I had left the San Diego Org the basement on C Street was seldom used.  When I arrived back from the RPF the basement had been transformed with a nice Qual area, a C/S room, a D of P room and several auditing rooms complete with nice red carpeting.  My intention was to route off of staff the very next day.  As it was still fairly early, I couldn't help but look through the PC folders that the C/S, Len Romans, a Class IV, had finished with.  The very first session I looked over contained some errors that Len had failed to notate.  In the next PC folder some R3R had been done and the errors were plenty, yet the auditor had received a Very Well Done from Len.  I just could not help myself.  I took a piece of paper and started listing the errors, with the respective LRH references noted, and left the note in the folder.
 I finally retired to one of the auditing rooms and spent the night sleeping on the floor.  I awoke to the hubbub that I had created by writing notes in several PC folders.  Auditors wanted to know why they had not been properly crammed and Len had decided that I would be a better C/S than himself.  I was immediately assigned to the post of C/S and Len was reassigned to Qual.  Never mind that I had no certs, just get to work.  Fortunately Larry Brancato had stored my possessions at the Manor and I was able to move back in there.  (During my time on the RPF I did send Larry what funds I had in exchange for storing my things.)

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 *[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Excalibur%27s_military_history Excalibur's military history]
 *[http://scientolipedia.org/info/The_early_days_of_Scientology_in_San_Diego,_California The early days of Scientology in San Diego, California]
-*[Tom Mallan]'s memorial page
+*[[Tom Mallan]]'s memorial page
 = References =

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 *[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Excalibur%27s_military_history Excalibur's military history]
 *[http://scientolipedia.org/info/The_early_days_of_Scientology_in_San_Diego,_California The early days of Scientology in San Diego, California]
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 Image: OrgBrdSD373.jpg|San Diego Org Board, March 1973.
 Image: SDStaff473.jpg|Staff list, San Diego Org, April 1973.
 Image: HPoem3.jpg|My poem to Marilyn Ellis.
 Image: Excal2.jpg|Sea Org ship, the Excalibur.
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 Image: Prod0c.jpg|Contents of the Product Zero course.
 Image: BPocket1.jpg|Back Pocket.
 Image: SDManor73.jpg|The Manor in San Diego (from Google Maps, 2012).
 Image: ClearList73.jpg|Partial list of Clears in the 70's.

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	In late December, 1973, an LRH ED came out that implemented a game for LRH's birthday the next year. Staff was expected to 5X (times) their December 27 stats. Can you imagine an auditor putting in forty hours of Well Done Auditing Hours per week, now having to produce two hundred hours! Despite this game I managed to stay sessionable and was able to complete a Method 1 auditing cycle. I cleaned up a lot of misunderstood words from my earlier schooling days. I completed that on December 31, 1973. My cert was signed by David Hamilton, Phillip Thomas and Jerry Pope.		In late December, 1973, an LRH ED came out that implemented a game for LRH's birthday the next year. Staff was expected to 5X (times) their December 27 stats. Can you imagine an auditor putting in forty hours of Well Done Auditing Hours per week, now having to produce two hundred hours! Despite this game I managed to stay sessionable and was able to complete a Method 1 auditing cycle. I cleaned up a lot of misunderstood words from my earlier schooling days. I completed that on December 31, 1973. My cert was signed by David Hamilton, Phillip Thomas and Jerry Pope.

−	In January we worked hard at 5Xing our production. I still remember quite well trying to body route new people into the Org at 2:00 in the morning, I never met that target. The birthday game ended late January or early February, 1974. Shortly afterward International Management, happy over the success of the 5X game, issued a new game wherein we were now to 7X our stats. Pity the poor auditor who had just put in two hundred hours of Well Done Auditing Hours, now expected to put in fourteen hundred hours in a week! When news of the 7X game hit our Org I realized the futility of the target, I had had enough. I marched right into Tom Mallan's office, our ED, and told him in no uncertain terms that there was no way I was going to do the 7X program. He thought for a moment and replied that he would be sending me to the RPF on the [[Excalibur]]. He explained that I would get five hours a day in study or auditing as part of the program. As Org staff we were lucky to get even two and a half hours of study and very little staff auditing, I immediately jumped at the edict and off I went.	+	In January we worked hard at 5Xing our production. I still remember quite well trying to body route new people into the Org at 2:00 in the morning, I never met that target. The birthday game ended late January or early February, 1974. Shortly afterward International Management, happy over the success of the 5X game, issued a new game wherein we were now to 7X our stats. Pity the poor auditor who had just put in two hundred hours of Well Done Auditing Hours, now expected to put in fourteen hundred hours in a week! When news of the 7X game hit our Org I realized the futility of the target, I had had enough. I marched right into [[Tom Mallan]]'s office, our ED, and told him in no uncertain terms that there was no way I was going to do the 7X program. He thought for a moment and replied that he would be sending me to the RPF on the [[Excalibur]]. He explained that I would get five hours a day in study or auditing as part of the program. As Org staff we were lucky to get even two and a half hours of study and very little staff auditing, I immediately jumped at the edict and off I went.

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 Carl Barney's San Diego mission staff were given the choice of moving to Los Angeles, where his base of operations was located, or staying with the new church.  Most stayed as did I.  I know that Ed Marsh and Peggy Spurlock, the sister to Lyman Spurlock, did move to Los Angeles.  As part of our staff training in San Diego we had to make a copy of the Church’s organizing board.  In the picture gallery below is my March, 1973, copy of the board.  I had been assigned as "Testing in Charge" with Sue Gallagher as my senior.  On April 6, 1973 the Church of Scientology of San Diego published a list of all who were staff members.  They included the following people;
-Lindy Allen, Michael Bailey, Ray Beeson, Janet Blackburn, Blake Bowen, Larry Brancato, Daniel Brandis, Becky Burns, Teresa Christiansen, Dave Clark, Dorothy Crosby, Bob Crafton, Don Crom, Howard Dickman, Todd Fifield, Joe Fowles, Sue Gallagher, David Gillilan, Bill Griffith, David Hamilton, Tad Hammer, Dietz Harris, Bob Hill, Dee Johnson, Eric Johnson, Marilyn Johnson, Michael Karpinsky, Jerry Kirk, Jeff Kroth, Gary Lawrence, Janet Lawrence, John  Loftus, Fauna Lucas, Tom Mallan, Victor Martychenko, Nancy Maston, Eugene Miller, Donna Mulliner, Bob Pierce, Mark Pisani, Don Pelton, Edie Pope, Jerry Pope, Leonard Romans, Clint Seiter, Elaine Schuman, Doug Swanson, Craig Theis, Dave Thomas, Phillip Thomas, Dave Thompson, Glen Thompson, John Town, Clyde Trent, Steve Vasing, Jerry Walker, Tom Wallek and Gary Webber.
+Lindy Allen, Michael Bailey, Ray Beeson, Janet Blackburn, Blake Bowen, Larry Brancato, Daniel Brandis, Becky Burns, Teresa Christiansen, Dave Clark, Dorothy Crosby, Bob Crafton, Don Crom, Howard Dickman, Todd Fifield, Joe Fowles, Sue Gallagher, David Gillilan, Bill Griffith, David Hamilton, Tad Hammer, Dietz Harris, Bob Hill, Dee Johnson, Eric Johnson, Marilyn Johnson, Michael Karpinsky, Jerry Kirk, Jeff Kroth, Gary Lawrence, Janet Lawrence, John  Loftus, Fauna Lucas, [[Tom Mallan]], Victor Martychenko, Nancy Maston, Eugene Miller, Donna Mulliner, Bob Pierce, Mark Pisani, Don Pelton, Edie Pope, Jerry Pope, Leonard Romans, Clint Seiter, Elaine Schuman, Doug Swanson, Craig Theis, Dave Thomas, Phillip Thomas, Dave Thompson, Glen Thompson, John Town, Clyde Trent, Steve Vasing, Jerry Walker, Tom Wallek and Gary Webber.
 The Church had grown so much that a building at 926 C Street, right around the corner from the 10th Avenue site, was leased.  It was much larger, with a second story towards the rear of the building and an unused basement full of junk.  I was discharged from the Navy on May 18, 1973 and went to work full time at the San Diego Org.  As staff pay was a pittance I had to enroll onto California's unemployment rolls in order to pay my rent and living expenses.   On June 3, 1973, the Church put on an event at the 10th Avenue location.  Our guest entertainer was Marilyn Ellis, from Celebrity Centre.  I was at my desk, still working as a test grader/evaluator when she entered the building.  She stopped to talk to me and helped me fold some papers.  That small gesture prompted me to write a poem to her, I wonder if she still remembers it.