The Olympia Washington Kiwanis members and their friends have cost the Washington State taxpayers over $50 million dollars (so far), because of their willful ignorance of long term, merciless and well known, child abuse that occurred at the Olympia Kiwanis Boys Ranch.
October 2006 note: This Olympia Kiwanis stuff is old news. I've left this information on the web, because I like the thought that someone will say to one of these Kiwanis friends or members: "Grandma, (Grandpa), are you still friends with those Olympia Kiwanians?"
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These judges, lawyers, politicians, ect..., who caused, ignored and covered up the OKBR, are still in charge of Thurston
County government, the Kiwanis, DSHS, and much of Wa state government and
they are not remorseful. They blame the kids or the "system", not
themselves. Anyone I've listed who sends an e-mail, saying that "because of
the OKBR, I am not a friend of the Olympia Kiwanis ", I will
display it prominently HERE. I expect very few e-mails.
There were many obvious and long-term warnings about the 1970-94 OKBR.
Kiwanis admit seven more women
By Abby Haight
November 3, 1986
Olympian staff writer
Olympia Kiwanis Club leaders
will make a pitch for admitting women to their service organization
when they meet with their international president this weekend
in Portland. .
Although the meeting with
Kiwanis International President Frank DiNoto was arranged earlier,
it coincides with a decision this morning to admit seven more
women into the Olympia chapter. The Olympia Kiwanis Board of Directors
voted overwhelmingly to accept the women's applications,
said President Rex Derr.
The seven, including Thurston County District Court
Judge Sue Dubuisson, are among the first women in the service
organization.
Last summer, Lacey policewoman Loreli Thompson became
the first to break the menonly barrier.
What Olympia.Kiwanis leaders called a logical step
into modern times was greeted with threats from the Kiwanis International
that the chapter's charter would be pulled if women
were admitted.
Olympia Kiwanis officials say they are adamant about
admitting women.
Last September, the group sent a letter to the international
asking that Olympia's chapter be a model to see the effect of
women membership, Derr said today.
The international didn't respond, prompting Derr
to request the weekend meeting with DiNoto. The international
president is visiting Portland to meet with Pacific
Northwest Kiwanis groups.
Derr said ultimately he would like to
see the international drop its ban on women.
"We'd like to move ahead with this change in
concert with the international, rather than in conflict with it,"
he said. Olympia is one of about 20 chapters in nine states
that have admitted women.
But the fate of those clubs may depend on a New Jersey court case being appealed by Kiwanis International. The New Jersey club successfully sued to retain its charter
after the international tried to pull its membership
for admitting women.
The international is appealing the court decision.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed today to hear a similar
case involving a decision by Rotary international to oust a club
in California.
Derr said he had no idea whether DiNoto was sympathetic
to allowing women, although DiNoto was a member of the International
Board of Directors that recommended last
June that local clubs be given the prerogative of
deciding whether to add women. The overall member ship of the
international, however, voted against the proposal.
Past Olympia President C.L. "Kip" Stilz,
who will accompany Derr to Portland, said the two likely will
recommend the international drop its oldtime sexism and
welcome women as vital additions to Kiwanis.
"I think we're just going to say we want to
take the opportunity to be leaders and not followers and we feel
it's inevitable," he said.
Below is an e-mail I received from a former Olympia, Washington resident.
From: ~~~~~~~~@aol.com
From: louis a bloom manaco@whidbey.net
To: manaco@whidbey.net
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 11:34 AM
Subject: OKBR
Just came across your pages and felt the urge to respond... In the early
80's (81-83) I was at the OKBR frequently as a young kid walking to/from
school, I became friends with some of the boys. At one point a small boy
confided to
me that he was being raped by another boy in the home. The abusing boy
talked about it openly!
Days later I walked the victim to OPD where we both gave statements. Later that evening I began to receive these incredibly
threatening phone calls from a woman employee of the ranch who's name I
believe was Paulette at my home. She kept calling over and over screaming at
me calling me names. It was horrible. I thought I was helping someone.
Nothing came of it. Then all these years later, it all comes out ... one of
the boys that I had known there left as a young adult and still couldn't get
it together, he eventually killed himself. As an adult now I don't often
think back to those times but it still saddens me. All those boys that
needed a safe nurturing place to be, and how many of them were better off
for having been taken there? It's not about money. It cost these boys their
lives, their souls, their trust. Those people who knew, who didn't care,
they should feel such shame. Just my opinion.
To: ~~~~~~~@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: OKBR
thanks for your e-mail. from what i've read, dshs, the olympia police department, and other "authorities"
didn't consider child on child rape to be against the law. it was considered
"normal experimentation". The "paulette" you mention, may have been
Collette Queener who was an assistant director at the OKBR. Collette, OKBR
Director Tom Van Woerdan, and OKBR counselor Laura Rambo Russell were
ineptly charged by Wa. St. with "criminal mistreatment for failing to stop abuse". The
charges were dismissed by Thurston County Judge Daniel Berschauer on technicalities. The lawyer who
represented Collette Queener said, (Nov. 14, 1996 Olympian), that it was a
"witch hunt", and that " a more innocent person (than Queener) you could not
have for a client. She's an ex-nun ..... I don't see how you could view her
in an evil or negative light."
I congratulate you for doing the right thing, when all those adults looked
the other way. I repeat on most pages that the " OKBR has cost the
Washington State taxpayers over $35 million dollars (so far)", because I
think most people
don't care about the kids involved, but they may care that it has cost them
(taxpayers) money.
louis bloom