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Delderfield in memoriam

By Antony Phillips

Today the 16th of November 2019 I received the following email (from Stupa Pupa ):

"If this e-mail address is still good for you, it will inform you that Ken Delderfield has passed way recently.
We are having a Memorial Service for him at Flag this weekend.
Please REPLY if you get this.
"Tak."

As I have left the church of Scientology it is probably not possible for me to obtain from them the date of his death. Here are accounts of two periods when I had contact with him.

'''St Hill in the Sixties'''

In approximately 1966 I worked at St Hill, had been disgraced with a Committee of Evidence because as Personnel Director I had not recruited enough new staff for the expanding org. I was placed in Mimeo (stencil duplicating). At that time the only way to get hold of any Policy Letter or Bulletin was to go to mimeo and get a duplicated copy. Whoever it was who had held the post before me had not bothered to file stencils after they had been used. There were probably a thousand issues and some of them were more than one page so there were perhaps 2000 stencils. And I was alone on the post.

The St Hill Special Briefing Course which consisted partly of study of Bulletins was in danger of breaking down. People were being passed "graduated" with the incomplete check sheets where items were marked off as "Unavailable".

The problem was in the Tech division (Division IV) where the Briefing Course was. The cause of the problem was in Mimeo which was in Division II. Apart from I suppose Ron himself the LRH Communicator was the only person who had authority over the whole Org. Ken Delderfield was the LRH communicator for St Hill. He worked to get the problem handled, declaring both Tech Services and Mimeo in danger. He was diligent in getting the problem handled.

'''Copenhagen in the Seventies – The Green Volumes.'''

I had been moved as a staff member from Edinburgh to Copenhagen but had left staff. Ken Delderfield and his wife Rosemary were in full action at Pubs Org organising a printing as book volumes of Policy Letters and Bulletins. I had got a job which turned out to be not a good one, so I went to Ken and asked him if he had a temporary job for me until a good job which I was expecting came along. He accepted me with joy. Rosemary Delderfield was busy typing in Policy Letters on tape to be printed out an IBM (golfball) composing machine and I was both proofreaders reader and composed (typeset ) each finished Policy Letter after corrections had been put in. I finally got a good job but kept in touch with them. Ken did a prodigious amount of work in sorting the various Policy Letters into divisions and sections of the Org Board, organising finance, and getting them printed.

The finished set of volumes were sent up to Ron who gave a commendation. I imagine that it was Ron who started the project and assigned it to Ken Delderfield but I have never heard how it actually was born. With his commendation Ron said that the bulletin should have been done first (Bulletins were printed in red ink on white paper and it has always been Ron's motto that red on white has the highest priority). With his commendation he also stated that the bulletin should come out strictly in date order.

Ken looked after his staff. On the back of the title page of volume VII (a bumper 700 page volume) there is an acknowledgement naming the staff members who helped, including my name though I was not there for that long.

To use an English colloquial phrase Ken worked himself to a frazzle. When I saw him he normally looked tired.

'''The Red Volumes.'''

I did not have much to do with a Red Volumes except in the end they needed volunteers for compiling an index and I volunteered for that spare time activity. Two people, Scott Leland and Ole Blem Jensen went through each volume marking off the words which were to appear in the index. There were 6 to 8 other people working on this and I was among. Our job was to put the words and the page they were on on a sheet of paper which had wax on the back. Nowadays this sort of job would go on a computer which would alphabetisize them. However we wrote these on the small slips of paper and manually alphabetisized them.

When Ken got us to work at this project he promised us that in due course we would get for free a full set of the red volumes. Ken had great difficulty getting this executed. More than once someone involved in it pointed to a Policy Letter which said books were not to be given as rewards (or something similar). However Ken fought hard to get the books and after great delay we all duly got our set of the Red Volumes for free.

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 '''St Hill in the Sixties'''
-In approximately 1966 I worked at St Hill, had been disgraced with a Committee of Evidence because as Personnel Director I had not recruited enough new staff for the expanding org. I was placed in Mimeo (stencil duplicating). At that time the only way to get hold of any Policy Letter or Bulletin was to go to mimeo and get a duplicated copy. Whoever it was who had held the post before me had not bothered to file stencils after they had been used. There were probably a thousand issues and some of them were more than one page so there were perhaps 2000 stencils. And I was alone on the post.
+In approximately 1966 I worked at St Hill, having been disgraced with a Committee of Evidence because as Personnel Director I had not recruited enough new staff for the expanding org. I was placed in Mimeo (stencil duplicating). At that time the only way to get hold of any Policy Letter or Bulletin was to go to Mimeo and get a duplicated copy. Whoever held the post before me had not bothered to file stencils after they had been used. There were probably a thousand issues and some of them were more than one page so there were perhaps 2000 stencils. And I was alone on the post.
-The St Hill Special Briefing Course which consisted partly of study of  Bulletins was in danger of breaking down. People were being graduated with the incomplete check sheets where items were marked off as "Unavailable".
+The St Hill Special Briefing Course - which consisted partly of study of  Bulletins - was in danger of breaking down. People were  graduated with incomplete check sheetsː items were marked off as "Unavailable".
-The problem was in the Tech division (Division IV) where the Briefing Course was. The cause of the problem was in Mimeo which was in Division II. Apart from I suppose Ron himself the LRH Communicator was the only person who had authority over the whole Org. Ken Delderfield was the LRH communicator for St Hill. He worked to get the problem handled, declaring both Tech Services and Mimeo in danger. He was diligent in getting the problem handled.
+The problem manifested in the Tech division (Division IV) where the Briefing Course was. The cause of the problem was in Mimeo which was in Division II. Apart from I suppose Ron himself the LRH Communicator was the only person who had authority over the whole Org. Ken Delderfield was the LRH communicator for St Hill. He worked to get the problem handled, declaring both Tech Services and Mimeo in danger. He was diligent in getting the problem handled.
 '''Copenhagen in the Seventies – The Green Volumes.'''
-I had been moved as a staff member from Edinburgh to Copenhagen but had left staff. Ken Delderfield and his wife Rosemary were in full action at Pubs Org organising a printing as book volumes of Policy Letters and Bulletins. I had got a job which turned out to be not a good one, so I went to Ken and asked him if he had a temporary job for me until a good job which I was expecting came along. He accepted me with joy. Rosemary Delderfield was busy typing in Policy Letters on tape to be printed out on an IBM (golfball) composing machine and I was both proofreaders reader and composed (typeset ) each finished Policy Letter after corrections had been put in. I finally got a good job but kept in touch with them. Ken did a prodigious amount of work in sorting the various Policy Letters into divisions and sections of the Org Board, organising finance for printing the volumes, and getting them printed.
+I had been moved as a staff member from Edinburgh to Copenhagen but had left staff. Ken Delderfield and his wife Rosemary were in full action at Pubs Org organising the printing of book volumes of Policy Letters and Bulletins. I had found a job outside Scientology which turned out to be poor, so I went to Ken and asked him if he had a temporary job for me until a new good job which I was expecting came along. He accepted me with joy. Rosemary Delderfield was busy typing in Policy Letters on tape to be printed out on an IBM (golfball) composing machine and I was both proofreaders reader and composed (typeset) each finished Policy Letter after corrections had been put in. I finally got the good job but kept in touch with them. Ken did a prodigious amount of work sorting the various Policy Letters into divisions and sections of the Org Board, organising finance for printing the volumes, and getting them printed.
-The finished set of volumes were sent up to Ron who gave a commendation. I imagine that it was Ron who started the project and assigned it to Ken Delderfield but I have never heard how it actually was born. With his commendation Ron said that the bulletin should have been done first (Bulletins  were printed in red ink on white paper and it has always been Ron's motto that red on white has the highest priority). With his commendation he also stated that the bulletin should come out strictly in date order.
+The finished set of volumes were sent up to Ron who gave a commendation. I imagine that it was Ron who started the project and assigned it to Ken Delderfield but I never heard how it actually was born. With his commendation Ron said that the Bulletins should have been done first (Bulletins  were printed in red ink on white paper and it has always been Ron's motto that red on white has the highest priority). With his commendation he also stated that the Bulletins should come out strictly in date order.
 Ken looked after his staff. On the back of the title page of volume VII (a bumper 700 page volume) there is an acknowledgement naming the staff members who helped, including my name though I was not there for that long.
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 '''The Red Volumes.'''
-I did not have much to do with a Red Volumes except in the end they needed volunteers for compiling an index and I volunteered for that spare time activity. Two people went through each volume marking off the words which were to appear in the index. There were 6 to 8 people working on this and I was among them. Our job was to put the words and the page they were on on a sheet of paper which had wax on the back. Nowadays this sort of job would go on a computer which would alphabetisize them. However we wrote these on the small slips of paper and manually alphabetisized them.
+I did not have much to do with the Red Volumes except in the end they needed volunteers for compiling an index and I volunteered for that spare time activity. Two people went through each volume marking off words  to appear in the index. There were 6 to 8 people working on this and I was among them. Our job was to put the words and the page they were on on a sheet of paper which had wax on the back. Nowadays this sort of job would go on a computer which would alphabetisize them. However we wrote on the small slips of paper and manually alphabetisized them.
-When Ken got us to work at this project he promised us that in due course we would get for free a full set of the red volumes. Ken had great difficulty getting this executed. More than once someone involved in it pointed to a Policy Letter which said books were not to be given as rewards (or something similar). However Ken fought hard to get the books and after great delay we all duly got our set of the Red Volumes for free.
+When Ken got us to work on this project he promised us that in due course we would get a free full set of the red volumes. Ken had great difficulty getting this executed. More than once someone involved pointed to a Policy Letter which said books were not to be given as rewards (or something similar). However Ken fought hard to get the books and after great delay we all duly got our set of the Red Volumes for free.
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	When Ken got us to work at this project he promised us that in due course we would get for free a full set of the red volumes. Ken had great difficulty getting this executed. More than once someone involved in it pointed to a Policy Letter which said books were not to be given as rewards (or something similar). However Ken fought hard to get the books and after great delay we all duly got our set of the Red Volumes for free.		When Ken got us to work at this project he promised us that in due course we would get for free a full set of the red volumes. Ken had great difficulty getting this executed. More than once someone involved in it pointed to a Policy Letter which said books were not to be given as rewards (or something similar). However Ken fought hard to get the books and after great delay we all duly got our set of the Red Volumes for free.

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-Delderfield in memoriam
-Today the 16th of November 2019 I received the following email (from Stupa Pupa ):
+Today the 16th of November 2019 I received the following email:
 "If this e-mail address is still good for you, it will inform you that Ken Delderfield has passed way recently.
-We are having a Memorial Service for him at Flag this weekend.
+We are having a Memorial Service for him at Flag this weekend."
-Please REPLY if you get this.
-"Tak."
-As I have left the church of Scientology it is probably not possible for me to obtain from them the date of his death. Here are accounts of two periods when I had contact with him.
+Here are accounts of two periods when I had contact with him.
 '''St Hill in the Sixties'''
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 '''The Red Volumes.'''
-I did not have much to do with a Red Volumes except in the end they needed volunteers for compiling an index and I volunteered for that spare time activity. Two people went through each volume marking off the words which were to appear in the index. There were 6 to 8 people working on this and I was among. Our job was to put the words and the page they were on on a sheet of paper which had wax on the back. Nowadays this sort of job would go on a computer which would alphabetisize them. However we wrote these on the small slips of paper and manually alphabetisized them.
+I did not have much to do with a Red Volumes except in the end they needed volunteers for compiling an index and I volunteered for that spare time activity. Two people went through each volume marking off the words which were to appear in the index. There were 6 to 8 people working on this and I was among them. Our job was to put the words and the page they were on on a sheet of paper which had wax on the back. Nowadays this sort of job would go on a computer which would alphabetisize them. However we wrote these on the small slips of paper and manually alphabetisized them.
 When Ken got us to work at this project he promised us that in due course we would get for free a full set of the red volumes. Ken had great difficulty getting this executed. More than once someone involved in it pointed to a Policy Letter which said books were not to be given as rewards (or something similar). However Ken fought hard to get the books and after great delay we all duly got our set of the Red Volumes for free.
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