IN MEMORIAM: CLAIRE REPPEN
1933-2001
OT VIII Class XII Auditor
Like Jonathan Livingston
Seagull, Class XIIs are beings who are not satisfied with merely doing the
ordinary but are truly aspiring to greater heights for both themselves and
others.
Claire and I are the only two
Canadians to have ever trained to the level of Class XII.
I have neither read the
notice put out by the FSO, nor attended her Memorial service (held on August 11
2001 at the Sand Castle), so this Eulogy will remain inadequate.
Anyone who has information
they feel would be a worthy contribution to this Eulogy is welcome to submit it
at my address provided at the bottom of this page.
Claire joined the Sea Org in
the 1970s. Her friends described her to me as a "Gentle Soul".
She pursued the rest of her
Sea Org Career in Los Angeles, eventually becoming a Class VIII.
In 1980 She joined the Flag Service Org in Clearwater and
became a NOTS auditor. She eventually became a Class XII Auditor around 1984.
For a time Claire and I
worked in the same HGC, Claire was a very heavy smoker, going through two packs
in a day. Although today, it seemes to me like a petty argument, at the time,
as a non-smoker, it caused some friction between us.
In retrospect, the reason,
seems to have been her deep care toward her numerous pcs. Subjected, like all
other High Classed Flag Auditors to inhumane conditions, it was her way to deal
with the impossible levels of stress while continuing to deliver the best
possible auditing to her pcs.
In 1989 Claire completed Solo
NOTS and OT VIII and became one of 5 Auditors and C/Ses to deliver services to
OT VIII public.
The picture below was taken
in Clearwater on Sunday, December 6, 1998. One sees an emaciated Claire Reppen,
a "Star of the Team" and by then a "senior Citizen" being
made to do hard Labor on a Sunday.
One can, but ponder what kind
of organization makes the elderly do hard physical labor even on Sunday for
essentially no pay, so that it does not have to pay outside contractors to
build its Christmas lights and decorations
This is one of the last pictures
taken of Claire.
"A Class XII on Flag is
listened to by others with a hush even if he is only commenting on the weather.
These are the stars of the team". LRH (HCOB 25 August 1971 HOW TO GET
RESULTS IN AN HGC)