Testimonial letter from Belle C. Gendler
This letter is one of a remarkable series of over 2650 letters amassed in 1983 to support Osho's attempt to get permanent resident status in the US at the time of the Oregon ranch. The image is reproduced here with the kind permission of The Oregon Historical Society. Information about their collection of these letters and other supporting material -- the "Jeffrey Noles Rajneesh Collection", named for Osho's immigration lawyer Jeffrey Noles, who compiled them in 1983 and donated them to the OHS -- can be found at this page. The wiki is grateful to the OHS for making access available for these documents. For more information and links to all the letters, see Testimonial letters.
This letter is from Belle C. Gendler. It is "Exhibit A-1116" in the Noles collection.
The text version below has been created by optical character recognition (OCR), from the images supplied by OHS. It has not been checked for errors but this process usually results in over 99% correct transcription. Most apparent "errors" are correct transcriptions of typos already in the original. The image on the right in the text box links to a pdf file of the original letter, it has one page.
 July 18th, 1983 To Whom it May Concern: I am an educator having worked with students from birth, preschool and 80 year old college students. I am a grandmother and am presently working with a mental health organization funded through H.R.S., Health and Rehabilitative Services in the Homestead, Florida area. Here, again my expertise as an educator, has proven valuable in helping others gain parenting skills which, not having experienced those as children, were unable to provide this important knowledge to their own children. My work, I feel benefits the future parents of our community. I have had the priviledge of hearing and getting to know Rajneech, a man of exceptional qualities, through his poetry, prose, video tapes, books and most importantly through the people truly involved with him. The honesty, integrity, peace loving beauty of Rajneech, permeated all of these peoples lives and their children which also benefits greatly the future of our society. Rajneech is truly a man of exceptional abilities in Science and art. More people like Rajneech would without a doubt, make this beautiful America of ours a more peaceful environment for us and our children. Sincerely, |
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