X-Message-Number: 17498
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 08:33:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: Alcor AGM

At the Alcor AGM on Sunday, Saul Kent and Carlos Mondragon were elected to
the Alcor board, filling vacancies that were created by the resignation of
Fred Chamberlain and Gary Meade. Two others had made it known that they
were available as candidates: Steve Harris MD of Critical Care Research,
and Michael West, the founder of Advanced Cell Technology. However,
neither of them received any nominations. (Nominations can only come from
existing directors). They were subsequently proposed and appointed as
advisors to the Alcor board.

The meeting was very capably run by Dr. Jerry Lemler, who provided a list
of preliminary actions which he will take as Alcor's new president. Among
those actions will be discontinuation of the totally automated phone
system at Alcor, which has made it virtually impossible for new callers to
reach a human being. In the future, a real person will answer the phone
during office hours.

Dr. Lemler also stated that the Alcor Phoenix, or some version of it, will
be revived by a collaboration of myself with Hugh Hixon. I am rejoining
Alcor, and will be glad of the opportunity to produce a monthly cryonics
newsletter that will provide space for all important and relevant cryonics
news. In addition, I have been told that the column which I used to write
for Alcor's quarterly magazine (formerly CRYONICS magazine) will be
reinstated.

Please note that the above is just a brief personal report based on my
attendance at the meeting; it is not in any sense an official version and
has not been fact-checked by Alcor, although I believe it is correct.

There were many other interesting items at the Alcor AGM (which was
entirely open to the public), but I lack the time to go into them in any
detail right now.

--Charles Platt

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