June 23, 2006
Dear Mr. & Mrs. Doe:
You haven’t heard from us in many months, so you may have wondered what is happening with Robert Welch University.
As you may be aware, RWU has been embroiled in a lawsuit over which faction should control RWU. While the lawsuit has made it difficult to move RWU ahead, valuable progress has been made, nonetheless. We would like to give you a report on that progress and ask for your support, not for the lawsuit, but for running and developing the University.
You may also be interested in what we have to report from the standpoint of your interest in the future of The John Birch Society.
You see, one faction in this lawsuit currently controls JBS, and the other currently controls RWU. As you can imagine, this lawsuit has been extremely time-consuming and wasteful of the resources urgently needed both for the freedom fight and for giving birth to RWU as a full-fledged university.
Origins of Lawsuit
How did this lawsuit come about? The origins go back to the turmoil last year at The John Birch Society. At that time, a few influential JBS employees decided the Society would be better off without G. Vance Smith as the leader, and they took it upon themselves to bring that about. While still on the payroll, they orchestrated a leftist-style smear campaign and insisted that Vance bow to their demands to step down.
When Vance tried to answer their attacks, they persuaded still others to add to the chorus of letters demanding his resignation, and they used their influence to win the sympathy of many members of the National Council.
But the orchestrators knew they would have a difficult time persuading the Executive Committee, whose members may not have been familiar with their individual grievances but who understood much more clearly than they the caliber of leadership Vance had provided the JBS. For more than 14 years, Vance and the Executive Committee had together rescued JBS from many difficult situations.
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