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Howard Dickman: /* Life after Scientology */

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 Tom was my friend and I miss him.  We were there together when the Church of Scientology of San Diego came into being.  He came back and placed the Church on the map.  I credit Tom as being the father of the San Diego Org.  Years ago, a person who knew Tom when he was on the Excalibur had this to say about him, which I consider apropos for the end of this memorial for Thomas Joseph Mallan -
-[[file:MallanP1|thumb|left]]
+[[file:MallanP1.jpg|thumb|left]]
 '''''“Sounds just like Tom to decide to RPF someone.  Were you already SO in SD when he was ED?  If so, that is probably how he CSW'd and did it.  As an ED, he really didn't have the authority - but he had a way of just assuming an altitude, look you in the face and get ready to charge hell with a bucket of water and no ice.”'''''

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 Tom was my friend and I miss him.  We were there together when the Church of Scientology of San Diego came into being.  He came back and placed the Church on the map.  I credit Tom as being the father of the San Diego Org.  Years ago, a person who knew Tom when he was on the Excalibur had this to say about him, which I consider apropos for the end of this memorial for Thomas Joseph Mallan -
+[[file:MallanP1|thumb|left]]
 '''''“Sounds just like Tom to decide to RPF someone.  Were you already SO in SD when he was ED?  If so, that is probably how he CSW'd and did it.  As an ED, he really didn't have the authority - but he had a way of just assuming an altitude, look you in the face and get ready to charge hell with a bucket of water and no ice.”'''''

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 As part of my Staff Status 0 training I was required to copy the Church’s Org Board.  These were the postings during March of 1973.  Tom was posted in Division Two, under Dee Johnson and I in Division Six, under Sue Gallagher.  On April 6, 1973 the San Diego Org published a list of staff with Tom still listed in Division Two. During this time period a picture was taken of the staff of the San Diego Org.  I was on Base, still in the Navy at this time.
-Tom had some issues with the San Diego Org so somehow he managed to get himself transferred as staff on the [[Excalibur]].  Part of Tom's Sea Org training consisted on the Product Zero course, which introduced him to the Sea Org.  At one time he held the MAA post, where he did 10 August’s on crew which were sick or messing up on post, (See the 10 August HCOB below).  Bill Yaude, the [[Excalibur]]’s C/S, took a look at Tom’s 10 August write-ups and issued him a cramming order with thirty-three mistakes noted.  Tom went to Maxine Cockran in the course room and asked for all the clay that she had.  He spent three full days clay demoing everything on the HCOB.  After that he got so good at doing 10 Augusts that both AOLA and AO sent them their tough cases.  In the spring of 1972 the San Diego Org rented a larger location at 926 C Street and abandoned the location on 10th Avenue.
+Tom had some issues with the San Diego Org so somehow he managed to get himself transferred as staff on the [[Excalibur]].  Part of Tom's Sea Org training consisted on the Product Zero course, which introduced him to the Sea Org.  At one time he held the MAA post, where he did 10 August’s on crew which were sick or messing up on post, (see the 10 August HCOB below).  Bill Yaude, the [[Excalibur]]’s C/S, took a look at Tom’s 10 August write-ups and issued him a cramming order with thirty-three mistakes noted.  Tom went to Maxine Cockran in the course room and asked for all the clay that she had.  He spent three full days clay demoing everything on the HCOB.  After that he got so good at doing 10 Augusts that both AOLA and AO sent them their tough cases.  In the spring of 1972 the San Diego Org rented a larger location at 926 C Street and abandoned the location on 10th Avenue.
 Don Crom, one of Tom’s former shipmates, and part of the “Squid Org”, was discharged from the Navy in November of 1973 and after a brief visit home, he reported to the San Diego Org as staff.  Even though he was in the Navy, he was still listed as staff on that April, 1973, staff list.  Meanwhile Tom, still on the [[Excalibur]], had decided that he was going to marry Dee Johnson, staff at the San Diego Org.  Tom, again, somehow managed to arrange a trade, Don Crom to replace Tom on the ship and Tom to become staff at the San Diego Org.

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 As part of my Staff Status 0 training I was required to copy the Church’s Org Board.  These were the postings during March of 1973.  Tom was posted in Division Two, under Dee Johnson and I in Division Six, under Sue Gallagher.  On April 6, 1973 the San Diego Org published a list of staff with Tom still listed in Division Two. During this time period a picture was taken of the staff of the San Diego Org.  I was on Base, still in the Navy at this time.
-Tom had some issues with the San Diego Org so somehow he managed to get himself transferred as staff on the [[Excalibur]].  Part of Tom's Sea Org training consisted on the Product Zero course, which introduced him to the Sea Org.  At one time he held the MAA post, where he did 10 August’s on crew which were sick or messing up on post.  Bill Yaude, the [[Excalibur]]’s C/S, took a look at Tom’s 10 August write-ups and issued him a cramming order with thirty-three mistakes noted.  Tom went to Maxine Cockran in the course room and asked for all the clay that she had.  He spent three full days clay demoing everything on the HCOB.  After that he got so good at doing 10 Augusts that both AOLA and AO sent them their tough cases.  In the spring of 1972 the San Diego Org rented a larger location at 926 C Street and abandoned the location on 10th Avenue.
+Tom had some issues with the San Diego Org so somehow he managed to get himself transferred as staff on the [[Excalibur]].  Part of Tom's Sea Org training consisted on the Product Zero course, which introduced him to the Sea Org.  At one time he held the MAA post, where he did 10 August’s on crew which were sick or messing up on post, (See the 10 August HCOB below).  Bill Yaude, the [[Excalibur]]’s C/S, took a look at Tom’s 10 August write-ups and issued him a cramming order with thirty-three mistakes noted.  Tom went to Maxine Cockran in the course room and asked for all the clay that she had.  He spent three full days clay demoing everything on the HCOB.  After that he got so good at doing 10 Augusts that both AOLA and AO sent them their tough cases.  In the spring of 1972 the San Diego Org rented a larger location at 926 C Street and abandoned the location on 10th Avenue.
 Don Crom, one of Tom’s former shipmates, and part of the “Squid Org”, was discharged from the Navy in November of 1973 and after a brief visit home, he reported to the San Diego Org as staff.  Even though he was in the Navy, he was still listed as staff on that April, 1973, staff list.  Meanwhile Tom, still on the [[Excalibur]], had decided that he was going to marry Dee Johnson, staff at the San Diego Org.  Tom, again, somehow managed to arrange a trade, Don Crom to replace Tom on the ship and Tom to become staff at the San Diego Org.

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 Image:SanDiego3.jpg|San Diego Org's staff, spring, 1973
 Image:Prod0.jpg|Cover of the Sea Org's Product 0 Course
 Image:HHQS72.jpg|My HQS Cert signed by Tom's future wife
 Image:Piso3.jpg|Mark & Marilyn's wedding

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 = Related sites =
 [http://scientolipedia.org/info/Excalibur '''The Excalibur''']<br/>
-[http://scientolipedia.org/info/The_early_days_of_Scientology_in_San_Diego,_California '''The early days of Scientology in San Diego''']
+[http://scientolipedia.org/info/The_early_days_of_Scientology_in_San_Diego,_California '''The early days of Scientology in San Diego''']<br/>
 [[Howard Dickman]]'s Scientology story
 [[Category:Biographies]]

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 Tom then went to work at a Scientology mission in and around San Diego.  For two years Tom and Claudia tried and tried to have a baby.  Their dreams finally came through when their daughter, Corinne, was born on October 1, 1980, in San Diego.
-On Tom Mallan’s Facebook page (Sang Lee) he noted that his birthday was June 1, 1983.  I believe that was when Tom escaped from the clutches of Scientology.  By that time he had divorced Claudia, married a lady that he had met in 1974, Carol, and had given up working at the Scientology Mission.  This was also the last year he had any contact, for nearly twenty-eight years, with his only child.  He and Carol never had children together.
+On Tom Mallan’s Facebook page (Sang Lee) he noted that his birthday was June 1, 1983.  I believe that was when Tom escaped from the clutches of Scientology.  By that time he had divorced Claudia, whom he had been cheating on with a lady that he had met in 1974, Carol, and had given up working at the Scientology Mission.  This was also the last year he had any contact, for nearly twenty-eight years, with his only child.  Tom and Carol married but never had children together.
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 About that same time the neighborhood was having a problem with mail theft.  One day their water was shut off due to the bill not being paid.  This prompted them to consider moving to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_(island) '''big island'''] and getting off the grid, which they finally did in 2005.  Carol found an old four bedroom house on three acres which they named – “God’s Palm”.  It was just what they wanted, a home '''''“On the dark side of the moon”''''' as Tom put it.  Tom had to commute to Oahu for work at the plant.
-Unfortunately one of the downsides to living on the big island is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vog '''vog'''] (volcanic fog) which contains oxides of sulfur.  This can be deleterious to human health.  Carol eventually became sick due to living with vog.
+Unfortunately one of the downsides to living on the big island is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vog '''vog'''] (volcanic fog) which contains oxides of sulfur.  This can be deleterious to human health.  Carol eventually became sick due to living with the vog.
 In October of 2010 Tom’s daughter, Corrine, began in earnest to find her father, something she had tried to do since she was sixteen.  She spent the next six weeks on the Internet, morning and night, to no avail.  After searching for an additional three months she contacted her friend, Dan Locke, who after a week of searching finally found Tom.  Corinne and Tom first talked, after nearly twenty-eight years, on February 4, 2011.
-Carol passed away in June of 2011, eight days later Corinne and her daughter arrived in Hawaii for a visit with her father.  She found her father to be '''''“an odd man but has a good heart once you get past his weirdness”'''''.  After three months Corinne decided living in Hawaii was not for her and unsuspectingly fled home to California.
+Carol passed away in June of 2011, and eight days later Corinne and her daughter arrived in Hawaii for a visit with her father.  She found her father to be '''''“an odd man but has a good heart once you get past his weirdness”'''''.  After three months Corinne decided living in Hawaii was not for her and unsuspectingly fled home to California.
 [[file:TCC3.jpg|thumb|right|Tom and his daughter, summer, 2011]]
-Dan Locke also helped me get back in touch with Tom.  Tom and I e-mailed for the first time on November 22, 2011.  I informed him about my article of my time in Scientology and on November 29, 2011, this was his reply -
+Dan Locke also helped me get back in touch with Tom.  Tom and I e-mailed for the first time on November 22, 2011.  I had informed him of [http://scientolipedia.org/info/Howard_Dickman '''my article'''] about my time in Scientology and on November 29, 2011, this was his reply -
 '''''“Bravo Howard!  Sorry to have taken so long to respond.  I read every word of your article.  Bravo!  Your account was one of the truest I have read. Yes there were some rough times, but there were times of absolute grandeur!  The tech worked.  Period.  I am like a voice crying in the wilderness with a message of "No!" we were not mindless victims of brainwashing.  We weren't victims of anything. We rocked!  Thank you for telling the truth of those glory days.  I too still profit from what I learned in those days.  I run operations at a 650 megawatt power plant.  And I use all that I learned there so many years ago.  Thanks for the walk down memory lane.  I knew many of the folks you named. Peeter Alvett. Nate Hayes, so many... .  Thanks again Howard.  Glad you have done so well.  "WE COME BACK" –Tom”'''''
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 On March 30, 2016 I received the following message from a friend of Tom and mine –
-'''''“Hi Howard, Just got off the phone with Tom Mallen. You need to call him before 10am his time (Hawaii) which is 1pm your time in California. Last month he had a bad heart attack but aside from that he is very sick with terminal cancer and multiple sclerosis. I am not sure if he has the strength to talk more than a half hour or so. Call him in the am after he is rested. Dr says he only has 2 to 3 months to live now.”'''''
+'''''“Hi Howard, Just got off the phone with Tom Mallan. You need to call him before 10am his time (Hawaii) which is 1pm your time in California. Last month he had a bad heart attack but aside from that he is very sick with terminal cancer and multiple sclerosis. I am not sure if he has the strength to talk more than a half hour or so. Call him in the am after he is rested. Dr says he only has 2 to 3 months to live now.”'''''
 I called Tom on April 1, 2016.  We were on the phone for nearly an hour.  He told me that on February 25, 2016, he was outside of his CPA’s office and passed out.  When he came to he was throwing up.  He kept throwing up and was taken to a hospital where they determined that he had had a heart attack.  They found a mass in one of his lungs, even though he had quit smoking sixteen years ago.  They also found that his cancer has metastasized to his brain and he now had stage four brain cancer.  He told me he would be 65 on June 25, 2016.  He also said he would call me on his birthday, which he never did nor would he answer his phone.
-The news that Tom’s condition was terminal shook me to my very core.  I was put at ease when Tom told me, during our last conversation, that because of what he had learned in Scientology he knew he was a spiritual being and he was not dying, just his body was.
+The news that Tom’s condition was terminal shook me to my very core.  However, I was put at ease when Tom told me, during our last conversation, that because of what he had learned in Scientology he knew he was a spiritual being and he was not dying, just his body was.
 [[file:TCC4.jpg|thumb|left|Thomas Joseph Mallan]]
 Tom spent the last part of his life as a patient at the Oceanside Hawaii Assisted Living Center in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hau%CA%BBula,_Hawaii '''Hau’ula'''], Hawaii.  His daughter had Tom’s case worker read a letter from her and he actually smiled and said '''''“that’s nice”'''''.  On November 27, 2016, his daughter posted the following on her Facebook site –

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 Tom published his book on January 7, 2014.  This is what he posted on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle '''Kindle'''] site –
-''"Important Note: This book has NO vampires, nor is it in any way connected with the popular books/movies of that Name.  This is a true story.  It is a rather irreverent (and I hope humorous) retelling of events that took place between 1984 and the present.  It starts with two silly dogs, two real people and one wondrous baby bird.  It is a story of tears and laughter, drug addiction and Death, reincarnation, time travel and sewage treatment.  In retrospect, as I write this description, I am just beginning to realize that it is about Life... from the stinky, ugly parts to the most sublime.  It takes place in Hawaii.  The magical land I have been privileged to inhabit for the last thirty years.  I hope you can catch a glimpse of its beauty through my eyes and allow me to leave you with my greatest lesson learned, “If you can’t laugh at life, you’re doing it wrong.””''
+'''''"Important Note: This book has NO vampires, nor is it in any way connected with the popular books/movies of that Name.  This is a true story.  It is a rather irreverent (and I hope humorous) retelling of events that took place between 1984 and the present.  It starts with two silly dogs, two real people and one wondrous baby bird.  It is a story of tears and laughter, drug addiction and Death, reincarnation, time travel and sewage treatment.  In retrospect, as I write this description, I am just beginning to realize that it is about Life... from the stinky, ugly parts to the most sublime.  It takes place in Hawaii.  The magical land I have been privileged to inhabit for the last thirty years.  I hope you can catch a glimpse of its beauty through my eyes and allow me to leave you with my greatest lesson learned, “If you can’t laugh at life, you’re doing it wrong.””'''''
 [[file:Don1115b.jpg|thumb|right|Don Crom and myself]]
 In November of 2015, my wife and I took Don Crom, one of Tom's good friends and a former member of the "Squid Org", to dinner.  As we were leaving the restaurant I asked my wife to take a picture of Don and I saluting our friend, Tom Mallan.  The next day I posted the picture to Tom's Facebook page along with the message - '''''"Don and I salute you as we are your friends!"''''', to which he replied - '''''"Back at ya Guys! LOL! =T"'''''.