[djohnson(XLCmember)]

Hope I appreciate and agree with your advise on not doing the group judgment thing. As in my post you refer to I always try to leave room for exceptions because obviously they must exist e.g. James was the rule not the exception implies there must be some exceptions. But if I stop doing this and get into the group thing please feel free to call me on it.

You refer to Lee, Barber and Rapoport as the main leaders in the LCS. In America my impression is that Lee was the main leader and under him were John Ingalls, Bill Mallon and James Barber. And these three worked together to travel and give conferences usually in pairs. Later Rapoport was brought into a prominent role by Lee and his manifestation started with his joining the others in giving a conference in Anaheim replacing Lee who was sick at the time. Apparently the audience seemed to really appreciate Rapoport i.e his refreshing humor and ability to story tell.

Meanwhile there were regional leaders emerging: Benson Phillips, Bill Freeman and Titus Chu who more or less dominated their areas.

From this I get that under Lee as the papal figure there were more or less about 7 key leaders. Am I correct in this? And if so what roles did they play? Especially John Ingalls and Bill Mallon who were there from the beginning with Lee in L.A.