Holding Atlanta City Government Accountable

Press release issued today: December 15, 2008 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ATLANTA ARBORIST FILES WHISTLEBLOWER CLAIM Former City of Atlanta Senior Arborist Tom Coffin today filed an “intent to sue” letter with the city for wrongful dismissal under the State of Georgia's Whistleblower Act.” Dr. Coffin asserts that he was fired for raising concerns about failure to enforce Atlanta's tree preservation laws while serving as field supervisor of the Arborist Division in Atlanta's Bureau of Buildings. Field arborists are hired as degreed professionals explicitly to implement and enforce Atlanta’s Tree Protection Ordinance. In the weeks prior to his abrupt dismissal in July Dr. Coffin was pressing his supervisor, Arboricultural Manager Ainsley Caldwell, to accept disciplinary charges he was making against two subordinate field arborists for official decisions they had made that violated the Code of Conduct of the city and the Standard Operating Procedures of the division. On July 14, ...

The Department of Planning and Community Development (DPCD) announced today that it is planning to switch to a four day work week to save on expenses. This shortened work week is expected to increase the time it takes to get a permit by 10% (which already makes me question how it is that hours worked will be cut by 20% but actual production will suffer only 10%.... hmm). The shortened work week will also make it more inconvenient for you to get a permit to do general work on your home. It probably won’t help the trees too much, though. Sounds like the Arborist Department is perfectly happy with nothing more than “photos showing the structural failure” of your tree to allow you to remove it “immediately”. Anyone with a copy of Photoshop should be able to make the most robust tree look like it’s about to fall down. Below is the letter issued today from James E. Shelby , Commissioner of the Department of Planning and Community Development: December 5, 2008 Dear DPCD Stakeholder, Due to...

In anticipation of the numerous depositions alone that will be required as a result of the lawsuit Tom Coffin intends to file against the City of Atlanta, Coffin is hoping to establish a legal offense committee to help with his legal expenses. He would like to structure the committee in a way that would allow continued and broadened scrutiny of practices in the Arborist Division as well as be expandable to include other city departments and other issues of accountability, transparency, efficiency, etc. People with experience in fundraising and/or hosting benefits to raise money are particularly needed for his effort, even if all you can do is offer advice. However, those with no experience are needed as well, so please don't hesitate to get involved. (Getting the word out is the most important thing you can do.) If you would like to volunteer for this effort or want more information, please contact Tom Coffin or me directly, that is, if you know how. I'm not posting our persona...

I'm not sure that City Council has even begun their audit, but Tom Coffin already has all the evidence he needs just by the charts below . The City's attempt to portray Coffin as an overbearing but ineffective employee because he didn't use kinder, gentler methods of enforcing the Tree Ordinance is belied by the data Coffin recently received via Open Records. Yesterday, in an email to his supporters, Tom stated that: I will soon be filing suit against the City under the State "Whistleblower" statute (O.C.G.A. 45-1-4 (2008). Up until last year, the state's whistleblower law didn't even apply to city and county employees, but due to a recently passed bill by State Representative Rich Golick of Smyrna, Coffin can now file suit under this stature.

By Tom Coffin, Ph.D. Many people protested my July 29 firing at the first meeting of the City Council in August. There were also a few detractors, among them my former colleague and subordinate, Janell Bazile. Rank-and-file employees of the Bureau of Buildings are prohibited from speaking in public without the consent of management. Ms. Bazile was speaking for Arboricultural Manager Ainsley Caldwell, Bureau of Buildings Director Ibrahim Maslamani, Department of Planning Commissioner Steven Cover, and perhaps even Chief Operating Officer Greg Giornelli. Ms. Bazile assured the council that my published evidence of “near total abdication of enforcement of the tree protection ordinance” was inaccurate. She argued that there were other important enforcement measures short of citations that can be used under the ordinance. She implied, without evidence, that such activities were the actual mainstay of all the field arborists but me. This collaboration theory was accepted whole in the post-fi...

From the 10/20/08 Fulton County Taxpayers Foundation E-letter: Dear Members and Supporters, On October 29th, the same day that we planned our next luncheon, City Council will be meeting at 1:00 to discuss, among other items, the $850,000 expenditure for a redundant turnaround plan. We feel this meeting is so important that we have canceled the luncheon so we may attend this meeting. In addition, we will be submitting a proposal calling for a full audit of the City, as we are concerned that many more inconsistencies exist, including the under funded Pension Funds. We urge you to attend this meeting! If you can not attend, please email City Council, urging them to take action on a full city audit as well as rethinking a $850,000 expenditure we can not afford! Sincerely, Barbara Payne Executive Director

Updated October 20, 2008: Please note, this luncheon has been cancelled . From the 10/16/08 Fulton County Taxpayers Foundation E-Letter: Dear Members and Supporters, The City of Atlanta needs a front overhaul! One way to demand accountability from all City employees is to implement performance metrics! While Georgia is a Right To Work state, this should not mean that City employees escape the need for reviews and being held to a higher standard of job performance! Tickets are on sale for our October luncheon with Tom Coffin, who will be discussing the need for performance metrics and telling his story of his experience as a City employee. Unlike our last luncheon, we will NOT be allowing walk-up, so get your tickets early! Sincerely, John S. Sherman, President Barbara Payne, Executive Director Click here to reserve your ticket(s).

Attachment to a broadcast email from Tom Coffin: Citation Abuse In his September 29, 2008 letter justifying my firing as Senior Arborist for the City of Atlanta, HR Investigator Al Elder castigates me for supposed overuse of citations to enforce the Tree Protection Ordinance. He states that “Your supervisor and subordinates considered this approach extreme and elected to work with citizens in a more collaborative/non-confrontational manner.” He does not explain how these measures, which he identifies as “stop work orders, imposition of tree protection fencing, posting of corrective notices, prescriptions for silvicultural treatments, [and] requirements for 5-year survivability reports,” apply to trees removed or destroyed without a permit. He is perhaps correct, however, as the following chart may indicate. The data is official, provided me as part of an Open Records request: Another month has gone by since my dismissal on July 29. Quite miraculously all illegal tree removal and destru...

From The Buckhead Reporter... "We find it curious that our neighbor, who works for the government, could just make a few calls and have the decisions overturned — especially since he has had many trees removed in the past two years that were perfectly healthy." -- says Jim Kercher, Atlanta resident, who was served an arrest citation for failing to remove a perfectly healthy tree after Ainsley Caldwell, head of the city's Arborist Division, changed the inspection report of arborist Stanley Domengeaux to approve a previously determined "healthy" tree as "healthy but hazardous". So, is this the kind of "team environment" that Tom Coffin was fired for not upholding? I can't help but to wonder if when Mr. Coffin "failed to satisfactorily respond to the constructive criticism of supervisors", as Alfred Elder accused him of doing in his September 29 letter , was it because Coffin refused to let Caldwell change his reports? Here is an ...

From: Linda Trower Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 19:13:36 Dear Mayor Franklin -- your HR investigator committed to and then reneged on investigating the Cover, Maslamani, Borrero "plan" and interviewing Luz Borrero. At that point the investigation became a mayoral controlled sham. Tom Coffin was promoted to a nonclassified position where he could be and was fired without cause or recourse. That was the "plan," the end result being the weakening of the Tree Ordinance and a rejoicing by developers. Hopefully, Atlanta's next Mayor will be "green" and the Council's investigation and the Coffin lawsuit will get Tom rehired. Atlanta's status as a "green" city does not come from roof top gardens and city employees not using styrofoam cups, it comes from Atlanta's preservation of its precious tree canopy. I only hope that canopy can survive until the next Mayor is elected and the Tree Ordinance is once again enforced. Linda Trower, Concerned Ci...

Email response from Mayor Franklin in response to Shel Schlegman's October 2 email claiming that "Mayor (Franklin) and her cronies are just doing business as usual, padding their pockets." From: "Franklin, Shirley" SFranklin@AtlantaGa.Gov Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 07:04:32 Sheldon, The revew was independently and professionally conducted. While you might disagree with the conclusions you should acknowledge this. Additionally you have no evidence to lead you to the conclusion that I have "cronies" or that I, the Council or the city's staff have acted impromperly. In fact when it comes to the investment in sustainability and the environment whether parks, trees, air or water there has been no more committed admiinistration or Mayor in decades. Your allegations are unfounded. It is is one thing to disagree and another to lie. S Franklin

From the October 2008 newsletter of the Fulton County Taxpayers Foundation: Atlanta’s Questionable HR Policies: A Need for Enforceable Performance Metrics By Tom Coffin, fired Sr. Arborist for the City of Atlanta Background On July 29, I was summoned to a noon meeting with Ibrahim Maslamani, Director of the Bureau of Buildings in the City of Atlanta. This was the first meeting we had had since Mr. Maslamani promoted me in October 2007 to a newly-created position of Senior Arborist in charge of field operations in the Arborist Division. It was also our last meeting. Without warning, without explanation, without cause, without a shred of due process, Mr. Maslamani fired me. News travels fast in the internet age. Within hours phone calls and email messages of concern, despair and outrage were piling up in the offices of the Mayor and City Council. Within a day Channels 2 and 11 presented on-air interviews with me and others. The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Creative Loafing, the Buck...

From: sheldon schlegman Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 6:26 AM To: tom wheatley; editor@reporternewspapers.net; Alan Judd; diana davis Subject: City follows greenbacks. loses trees It’s business as usual at City Hall. Developers 1 - Citizens 0. It looks like the development community has won another battle for the almighty dollar. As you notice more trees going down in your neighborhood, DON’T BE SURPRISED. The Mayor and her cronies are just doing business as usual, padding their pockets. Remember we have a CITY election coming up.Let’s all find a Mayor and Council who will care about our city and the environment we live in. Shel Schlegman Atlanta

A document sent by broadcast email earlier today: Cover’s Parting Shot? By Tom Coffin On September 29, after a five-week “investigation” and a three-week “executive review,” the Human Resources department upheld my firing as Sr. Arborist for the City of Atlanta. The decision itself is not a surprise. It was telegraphed weeks ago in an utterly inappropriate and prejudicial letter to the City Council by COO Gregory Giornelli. (A complete set of documents on my firing, including Mr. Giornelli’s letter, can be found at http://holdingcitygovernmentaccountable.blogspot.com/ .) The attached investigative report (Moderator's note: click here to get to the attached letter) by Alfred Elder, however, is disingenuous to the point of dishonesty. Rather than conducting an independent investigation and writing a comprehensive and nuanced report, Elder employs one-sided evidence and known inaccuracies to justify a pre-ordained conclusion. This practice is usually called a “rubber stamp.” As...

Sorry I didn't post this article earlier, but it was only brought to my attention today. I'm impressed that the AJC got this story out more quickly than it did the one on Steve Cover's unexpected resignation . From the Atlanta Journal Constitution... Atlanta Goes Ahead with Firing of Arborist Coffin says other city employees didn’t follow tree ordinance By ERIC STIRGUS The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Tuesday, September 30, 2008 Atlanta officials said Tuesday they were justified in firing a senior arborist in July, despite his claims that other city arborists were lax in following the city’s tree ordinance. City human resources officials – upon the request of Mayor Shirley Franklin – conducted an inquiry into Tom Coffin’s firing after receiving scores of telephone calls and e-mails from some tree preservationists, residents and City Hall critics who questioned why he was let go. On Monday, the city’s human resources director wrote a letter to Coffin that said he was fired b...

Below is a letter that I was just forwarded via email: it's from Alfred Elder, Human Resources Director of the City of Atlanta. Before anyone dashes off a seething reply to Mr. Elder's letter -- which at first seems to scold Tom Coffin for a curmudgeonly management style -- take a look at what his letter really says. Elder's letter admits that Mr. Coffin first started criticizing the city arborists' lack of enforcement practices on November 8, 2007, almost a year ago. He states that "the statistics you presented were fairly accurate and support the need for changes in the division's distribution of work." But if the enforcement inequity Coffin cited was simply a matter of needing to change work distribution, why was the work not redistributed so that Coffin would have been unable to run the report he did in July 2008 ? Elder also shows us what happens to a city employee who won't back down from doing the right thing. Even though Elder acknowledges tha...

It took the Atlanta Journal Constitution (as well as its online counterpart, ajc.com ) two days longer than it took Creative Loafing to publish the following story. Today's edition of the AJC tells us of Steve Cover's resignation -- which happened two days ago -- while glossing over the "real" story in the line I have bolded below. Conversely, Creative Loafing didn't shy away from admitting that "Cover’s department has been at the center of an unlikely controversy... ". Anyone wonder why the AJC's subscription rates are down? Here's today's AJC article: "Atlanta Planning and Community Development Commissioner Steve Cover is leaving to work at a leading planning and design firm in the city. Cover will join the HOK Planning Group, where he will be a vice president and senior member of its global planning, urban design and landscape architecture practice. Cover, whose current annual salary is about $151,000, joined the city in January 2...

From the Atlanta Journal Constitution... "Atlanta ranked 19th on a list of sustainable cities by an environmental Web site, up from 38. SustainLane Media gave Atlanta credit for leading the Southeast in energy-efficient buildings and a “no net loss” policy for trees. ".... more Whoa, stop right there! Do environmental organizations like SustainLane Media now rank cities based on policies alone? Does it not matter that these policies are not enforced? Does it not matter that regardless of policy, we are suffering a net LOSS in trees every day in the city of Atlanta due to illegal tree cutting? Does it not matter that our City Arborist Division is not enforcing the Tree Ordinance? Or, is all that's needed to be GREEN is to have "green" policies? If so, let's light a fire under our city's policy writers so that we can be the #1 sustainable city next year! Sheldon Schlegman fired off this note to SustainLane Media this morning... From: sheldon schlegman To:...

From the 9/23/08 Fulton County Taxpayers Foundation E-Letter: "Dear Members and Supporters, Since the firing of Tom Coffin, there have been numerous reports of trees being removed all over Atlanta. It is unclear whether the permits are valid or if the companies that remove these trees are insured and bonded. If this is happening in your neighborhood, we urge you to contact City Council. Some of you have already done so and it is now on their radar. Which brings us to the issue of performance metrics for all City employees. How can any business function without performance evaluations for their employees? How could you determine if the work is being done up to standard? Why won't Mayor Franklin's office adopt performance metrics? Isn't the Mayor interested in who is doing what and how? WE ARE.... Our next luncheon will be held on October 29th at 103 West, noon to 1:30pm. Our keynote speaker will be Tom Coffin, former Senior Arborist for the City of Atlanta. He will be ...

From Creative Loafing... "City of Atlanta Planning Commissioner Steve Cover has resigned. According to a department spokeswoman, he submitted his written resignation this morning. He’ll officially leave the department on Oct. 3, after which he’ll join HOK Planning Group . Deputy Commissioner James Shelby will be acting commissioner. Cover’s department has been at the center of an unlikely controversy involving the firing of Tom Coffin, a senior field arborist with the city. City Hall’s kept mum as to why the arborist was dropped off the payroll — which in itself isn’t too strange, as commenting could lead to a lawsuit. Nonetheless, that silence has helped fuel speculation that Coffin was edged out to appease the development community."... more

This news just in from an email I received from Tom Coffin at 6:03PM this evening: "A short while ago I got a phone call from Frank Mobley saying that he had gotten an email at 5 min to 5 p.m. in which Planning Commissioner Steven Cover announced his resignation, apparently effectively immediately." I don't have any more information about this resignation. However, a rather testy email exchange occurred this afternoon between a couple of community advocates and Mayor Franklin, and she copied Steve Cover on her replies. So, as of this afternoon, I suppose he was still "in". Things happen fast. Stay tuned... I have to go cook dinner for the kids and other real life stuff right now, but I'll be back online tonight.

From Creative Loafing... The real-life Lorax sent word this morning that the city’s investigation into his termination is now complete: "I received word from HR investigator Al Elder that his investigation is complete and is now undergoing executive review. I assume that “executive review” means that the report is now on the mayor’s desk, though Mr. Elder declined to clarify who is doing the review. I have been given no time frame for a decision and don’t know if the review will take days or weeks or months.".... more

From the Buckhead Reporter... "The Community Development/Human Resources Committee of the Atlanta City Council added a dimension to the abrupt firing of the city's senior arborist, Tom Coffin, by approving unanimously Aug. 26 a resolution authorizing an independent audit of the Arborist Division of the Bureau of Buildings. That action took place amid an atmosphere in which the mayor's chief operating officer, Gregory Giornelli, and the top leadership of the Department of Planning and Development and its Bureau of Buildings maneuvered to try to stop the action by the committee." ... more

From: Linda Trower Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 1:37 PM The council vote for the audit of the Arborist Division was unanimous 14-0. We owe our councilmembers, especially Mary Norwood, a big thank you. Any news from the HR (sham) investigation? Linda

From: Linda Trower Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:29:14 -0400 To: acaldwell@atlantaga.gov Cc: "Maslamani, Ibrahim", mnorwood , sheldon schlegman Subject: "no trees impacted" exception Dear Mr. Caldwell: On June 16, 2008 a building permit (#BB200802851) was issued to 125 Blackland Rd. for the construction of a fence. The application was streamlined using the "no trees impacted" exception. On or about July 18, 2008 this property was cited for the destruction of 14 trees. It appears the "no trees impacted" exception was not valid. Would you please explain how this happened? Thank you, Linda Trower Concerned Citizen

From a broadcast email sent by Mercy Wright on August 28, 2008: I came across an interesting announcement on City of Atlanta Online (the Official Website for the City of Atlanta) datelined August 19, 2008, but it is much older. I printed it, in case it gets taken down. I don't have a scanner, so I'll retype pertinent parts of the message titled NEW LEADERSHIP FORWARDS CHANGE IN CITY'S PERMITTING PROCESS: Last April, the City launched its Permitting Improvement Project to decrease the time it takes to issue a permit by 50 percent by 2007. Development opportunities in Atlanta are on an upswing, new residential permit applications have increased by 11 percent and new commercial applications have increased 95 percent in the past year. "With Atlanta's population expected to double in the next 25 years it is critical we meet the demand", says new BOB director Ibrahim Maslamani. The recent hire of four executive-level professionals in the Bureau of Buildings (BOB) an...

Email from Tom Coffin: August 28, 2008 Gregory J. Giornelli Chief Operating Officer City of Atlanta 55 Trinity Ave SW Atlanta, GA 30303 Dear Mr. Giornelli: I write in response to your August 26 letter to the City Council posted on the mayor’s website ( http://www.atlantaga.gov/ ). I do not know why you, as Chief Operating Officer of the city, feel compelled to speak for the Arborist Division and to deny its problems. Whatever the reason, your letter appears as an official communiqué from the mayor’s office. As such it prejudices the ongoing and supposedly independent investigation by the HR department into my still unexplained firing, compromising the investigation and reducing the possibility of an objective evaluation and judgment by the HR investigator. You complain of “misinformation circling that has obscured our track record,” one that makes the Arborist Division “one of the City’s bigger success stories.” I certainly do not deny the significant changes wrought by the Tree Protec...

From NeighborhoodNewspapers.com... "Because of the much-publicized firing last month of the city’s senior arborist, Tom Coffin, the arborist division may get scrutinized and some policies may be up for change." ...more

A broadcast email sent from Tom Coffin on August 26, 2008: The Community Development/Human Resources committee of the City Council today added a new dimension to the response to my firing as Sr. Arborist. In a unanimous vote the committee approved a resolution co-sponsored by Councilmembers Mary Norwood, Anne Fauver, C.T. Martin, Joyce M. Sheperd, Ivory L. Young, Jr., Cleta Winslow, Ceasar C. Mitchell and H. Lamar Willis to “request and authorize the City Auditor through the Audit Committee to conduct an independent audit of the Arborist Division of the Bureau of Buildings, Department of Planning and Community Development.” Not without a bit of farce, however. Ibrahim Maslamani, Director of the Bureau of Buildings, wrote the committee chair, Jim Maddox, saying “Due to the ongoing investigation by HR, we would like to postpone any public presentations on this issue until such investigation is completed.” Joyce Sheperd made the distinction between the “employment issue” of my firing befo...

From: Linda Trower [mailto:lindat01@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 6:47 PM Subject: Meeting with Clair Muller All - Councilmember Clair Muller met with my neighborhood this afternoon. She is very upset with Tom's firing and feels there is a lot of explaining to do. She said she will speak personally with Jim Maddox (he wasn't at the August 18 council meeting) and pass on the injustice done to Tom, the sham investigation being done by the Mayor, the "plan," etc. I felt very encouraged. Shel Schlegman is back from Miami. Shel and I will be at the CD/HR meeting tomorrow. I don't think we can speak, but if we can we are ready. Hope others will be able to attend. Thank you, Linda Trower Concerned Citizen

From: Linda Trower To: mnorwood ; Clair Muller Cc: sheldon schlegman ; jmaddox@atlantaga.gov ; jsheperd@atlantaga.gov ; ccmitchell@atlantaga.gov ; hlwillis@atlantaga.gov ; ilyoung@atlantaga.gov Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:48 AM Dear CD/HR Committee Members: Tom Coffin's firing becomes more insidious by the day. As you can see by the enclosed article , the Mayor's office put a lid on things from the beginning. Tom requested and was billed for 577 pages of email and after the request was "sent upstairs" received only 134. Tom has a legal right to see all 577 pages. Mr. Elder, the HR Investigator, promised to look into the "plan" and include Luz Borrero in his interview schedule. A few minutes later he recalled the earlier message. He will do neither. The investigation will go nowhere as long as it is being handled by HR (the Mayor). I implore the council to do a thorough investigation of Tom Coffin's firing without cause or recourse, the "pl...

From the Buckhead Reporter: "During its first meeting back from recess Monday, Aug. 18, the Atlanta City Council overrode Mayor Shirley Franklin's veto of legislation that restores council oversight of city personnel matters such as promotions, firings and raises. The council overrode the veto by a vote of 13-1."... more

From the Buckhead Reporter... "Speakers lined up in the Atlanta City Council chambers Aug. 18 to offer their protests over the sudden and unexplained firing July 29 of the city's senior field arborist, Tom Coffin. Councilwoman Mary Norwood put forth a council resolution to request and authorize 'an independent audit of the arborist division of the Bureau of Buildings, Department of Planning and Community Development.' E-mail messages exchanged between Bureau of Buildings director Ibrahim Maslamani and his boss, Steven Cover, in which Cover directs Maslamani to 'stick with our plan' and 'give Luz (Borrero, deputy chief operating officer for the city) a heads up,' emerged as part of the drama surrounding Coffin's firing." ... more

A broadcast email sent from Tom Coffin on August 21, 2008: Thanks to all who attended and all who spoke at the city council meeting on Monday. The city needs to know that people are concerned and are watching. Mary Norwood did introduce her resolution to investigate my firing and the arborist division. I hope the investigation is extended to the Department of Planning where the problem originates. The council voted to give the issue to the human relations and community affairs committee, which meets on Tuesday, 8/26, I believe at 1 p.m. The final speaker at Monday’s council meeting was Janelle Bazile, my erstwhile colleague and subordinate. She spoke about how "sad" it was that her supervisor – me --was implying that she and the other field arborists were not doing their jobs. She submitted a document to the council that I assume was meant to counter that impression. I will attach her document here: DJ Anthony's note: Due to file format incompatibility, I am presently una...

From Creative Loafing... "Tom Coffin loves trees. And when we say he loves trees, he reaaally loves trees. The unfamiliar face – who was the city's senior arborist until he was fired July 29 – is the epicenter of the latest scandal to emanate from already embattled City Hall. The city's failure to specify why Coffin was fired (or who called for it) has led many to speculate about the cause – and jump to the conclusion that developers saw him as a threat. Even the New York Times took notice – and questioned whether Atlanta's development machine had chalked a win over the environmental community." ... more

An email sent from the Office of Howard Shook in response to my email correspondence of August 11, 2008 . Note that Howard Shook's office had sent it's first inquiry about this property eight days earlier and had received no response. From: Shook, Howard Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:35 AM To: 'deLille Anthony'; 'David Robertson'; Franklin, Shirley; Norwood, Mary; Caldwell, Ainsley; Cover, Steven; Bazile, Janell Cc: 'Clair Muller'; Muller, Clair Subject: RE: OPEN SEASON on Buckhead trees began this past weekend Ainsley, Can you give us an update on your findings regarding these properties? Thanks for your help. Denis Taylor Office of Councilperson Howard Shook 404-330-6050 Jannel Bazile responded immediately: From: Bazile, Janell [mailto:jbazile@AtlantaGa.Gov] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:48 AM To: Shook, Howard; deLille Anthony; David Robertson; Franklin, Shirley; Norwood, Mary; Caldwell, Ainsley; Cover, Steven Cc: Clair Muller; Muller, Clair S...