17. Subsidence of the Legal Threat

Following the 1991 IPA Congress in Buenos Aires, planning resumed for the September meeting in New York between the IPA officials and those complaining about the claimed deficiencies in the IPA's implementation of the Settlement Agreement. On August 6, 1991, Clinton Fisher wrote to Joseph Sandler enclosing the plaintiffs' proposed agenda for the September 4 meeting that had been sent to him by Cliff Stromberg. The one proposed alteration in the agenda sequence was that now the complainants wanted Bryant Welch to lead off with a “brief summary” of the background of the litigation and the efforts since. Their six attendees would be Stromberg, Welch and Arnold Schneider of the original four plaintiffs, Jay Kwawer and Nathan Steekhamer of the White Institute, and Herbert Strean, representing NYCPT, the group reapplying after the cancelled site visit. The IPA representatives would likewise be six: Fisher, Sandler, Charles Hanly, Jackie Amati, the IPA Secretary, Arnold Cooper, the Associate Secretary for North America, and Owen Renik, the subchair under Hanly for New Groups in the United States.

Also in August, Hanly wrote several letters dealing with Site Visit Committee changes. On August 10, he Wrote to Charles Mangham (Seattle) thanking him for having successfully navigated the LAISPS site visiting process through to the group's acceptance as a new IPA Provisional Society at the Buenos Aires Congress, and accepting his resignation from the committee. On the same date, he wrote to Brian Robertson (Montreal) thanking him for his part in that site visit process and appointing him the new chair of the LAISPS Site Visit Committee. On August 12, 1991, he wrote to Herbert Strean, director of NYCPT, the group whose earlier site visit process had been terminated, notifying him of the appointment of a fresh Site Visit Committee for the renewed visiting process to be resumed shortly. The chair would be Ed Weinshel (San Francisco), the other members Helen Meyers (Columbia) and Ann