European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 21, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Troubles Spring up for life Spring by Lisa Levitt associated press dump your lifes laundry on John Hanks and hell Wash it in the multimillion Dollar Fountain of human awareness he Calls Lif Spring exactly what happens depends on who telling the ask the survivors of Gail Renick and a tie and  say Lif Spring killed their daughter and ask most of the people who have gone through the training since 1973 clouding members of the san Jose police military personnel at Vandyn Borg air i orc base and inmates at prisons from Maryland to Oregon and  say it Lias broadened their Given them new Sel Confidence and More productive and says founder has put the life in we want to make it of for people to come and Lake a look at what works for them and what Doest work for we want to assist people in taking the Lemons in their lives and making lemonade out of he said in a Telephone inter View from the groups Plush Headquarters in san they do it through guided lec role playing and other encounter games that help participants in Lif Spring training sessions explore concepts of self responsibility for their actions and control Over their the guts of the training is asking peo ple what their Choice is about says a 33yearold former elevator Salesman turned not what somebody else told them to but what in fact their Choice some charge that the Choice has been extensive divorce and the result has been Legal declining enrolments and subsequent drops in profit for troubles no doubt accentuated by a damning and Hanley inaccurate on the company done by Abc tvs 2020 news Magazine last life Spring filed a libel suit against the network 13 seek ing million in in life Spring closed two of its 10 in and san operations Hanley described As marginal for the last two and the company held a major meeting to Dis cuss changes in the problems plaguing life Spring have become skip new gents Delight and Rich Ard stanislaws bread and a Seattle attorney who went through the rigorous 55hour Basic training on a now spends much of his time developing lawsuits against the he is he by his Success in the Case of Gail who died after an asthma attack on the final Day of a life Spring training session last the brought by Renicks Bill Newgent of port alleged that life Spring trainers brainwashed his daughter to believe it was no longer necessary for her to take her asthma medi cation and that the asthma she was suffer ing from was she was gasping for air on the and they the Only reason youre doing this is because you want it this says skip Gails Hanley tells a different this Young lady told us that she needed to go Home and get a Pill she took once a year or and we Are you going to be All right and she in going to be i wait to get Back to and she walked out the door and was life Spring disavowed any responsibility in her but in the Corpora Tion agreed to a out court set provided Newgent would put Down the Antilis Spring Campaign he took up after his daughter the Hanley was a costly we should have gone through the due process of the we should have gone to we should have fought it All the because now it looks like we think we did something wrong and feel guilty about he i suspect that Stanislaw and other attorneys Are a a weve got a live lets get it for All its Stanislaw is involved in three other actions a wrongful death suit on behalf of David who leaped to his death from a parking garage 15 hours after completing Basic life Spring the suit claims the training plunged Priddle into a severe depression which precipitated his a million suit brought by the fam ily of Artie Alleg ing that Barnett drowned after trying to swim the Willamette River As part of a life Spring training who nearly drowned at age had been afraid of swimming since that Hanley has been quoted As saying that life Spring personnel had arranged to meet bar Nett for the but that Barnett failed to meet them and tried the swim on v a lawsuit filed by a Washington state Constance and John who say they suffered physical and mental in personal humiliation and damage to their marital relationship after their advanced life Spring training in life Spring also faces a million Federal court suit brought by Paula an woman who said she suffered serious and severe physical and emotional injury after her life Spring she spent 17 Days in the Hospital the suit what seems to be True about life apr ing is True about most and that is when somethings it needs to be Hanley Well just have to see How we since its inception in life Spring has fared Well by anyone Blos soming from a dream to a Mil lion reality in Hanley s self awareness Empire grew from his disillusionment with William Penn Patricks mind which purported to teach people How to expand their Alpha brain How to practice self Healing and How to think More it was a lightweight and Pat Rick was getting bombarded with Law Hanley has noting that mind dynamics was sued by the state of Cali fornia for practising Medicine without a in its first life Spring trained people and has run More than through in the past six Hanley another Are expected to pay each for the Basic training in the next 12 and Many graduates Are Paul was going through a divorce when he took up life Spring at its now defunct san Diego he hated it the first eight months he had nothing but As i went through the processes and started really looking at i came away with an incredibly euphoric he adding that he Rode the High straight into the second level of inner personal that one was pure you really look at yourself and your Lawrence he left his Job As a systems analyst to become a computer graphics Salesman after life Spring showed me what i could life Spring shows you that of you want it badly and Are will ing to work hard you can do any thing you this potential life springers will have a better idea of what there getting and what they might get out of life Spring has published a description of the which All potential participants will be required to read and sign before they Hanley that will phase out the requirement that participants keep the training our intention in keeping the training secret was to give a sense of support and Confidence to those people who do the training so that they can come in and behind any excess baggage Treyve carried around in their but in the Long the secrecy Issue has Hurt Hanley secrecy will go a Long Way to legitimizing the skip Newgent Doest see it that they Are doing a lot of harm to to and there doing a lot of harm to this said who has picked up the crusade against life apr ing that his father agreed to since his Sisters Newgent his family has been contacted by More than 100 people from around the people who were scared for their lives because they wanted to talk about their life Spring Newgent said life Spring participants Tell stories of guards blocking train ers threatening and harassing them when they tried to leave following them to their cars and calling them on the All of which Hanley when somebody comes into the life Spring they make an agreement to finish the Hanley if they Dori come Back to the training or if they we feel an obligation to find out Why they didst and offer them the Opportunity to come theres absolutely no no he i cant imagine people would life Spring made them do because whats True peo ple Are constantly reinforced with the notion of free but Newgent continues to collect bits and pieces of evidence he Hopes eventually will add up to criminal indictments against they killed my and in not going to forget the Miike on Broadway musical features Ellington songs by Mary Campbell associated press what do you present As the big num Ber in a musical that full of show Stop pers that the kind problem you have if youre bringing to Broadway sophisticated using songs by Duke he wrote More than of including mood in begin Ning to see the Satin i got it bad and that aint and prelude to a not to mention sophistical Ted Mercer Dukes Only child and music director of sophisticated says its a problem  solve before the new York previews opening night is 22 at the Lun Fontanne 1 like the Mercer its so by his tone of one knows he int talking about were working to make it so people come out of the show highly entertained and feeling Treyve been in the presence of Mercer Ellington is Felt to be it definitely int a biography to end a musical comedy with his passing away would be a bit sophisticated ladies started As a but lines have been Gregory who was nominated for a Tony for his dancing in is the As a composite Friend of the he talks about him and quotes Mercer he says things just the Way pop used to throw them Mercer thinks his father would particularly have liked that part of the Duke relished his own suave Felicity at putting words Duke also would have been pleased that almost All 21 musicians on stage in new York had worked with orchestra is going to be like some thing you dream Mercer he he has never worked making sure All Tempo and key changes Are just right for both singers and Judith Star of the Alvin Ailey american dance is called Frique in the a name from a drum is a a 1957 cd St play with music composed by Duke to Calls her which is jazz spelled that the name Ellington Biog a Stanley tactfully gave to All the adored ladies who inspired Duke to write mysteriously never named he never said who the Satin doll was and when his band played he dedicated it to the most Beautiful woman in the after a Showbiz Duke would add she knows who she who had played trumpet and been Road Man Ager for his fathers has led it since Dukes death in when the Broadway run hell do that now he that All i in conference with the who were getting music rights for a film biography of Mercer suggested they get Broadway to protect them with the successes of the shows aint mis Beha using fats Waller and All Eubie Blake they decided to do after current biography began its 1970 article on Ellington the sin Gle most impressive body of composition in american jazz is the Complex repertoire that Duke Ellington has produced in the last half Mercer says i gave the producers what i consid ered the 17 most popular tunes Ellington had written and suggested sophisticated lady As the they put the v probably thinking of i told them Kinda Duneish is Good to dance Mercer and College kids like ring dem Bells and stomp once i made my i stepped out and left the rest to Donald my Field is on night con ill make my suggestions and then cooperate with what the director thinks will make the show a Mckayle left the show As director and choreographer in the show had opened in mercers daughter Mercedes is assistant choreographer and a dancer in the his daughter Gaye is an artist and son named for the is a guitarist and works in a son named for the late Ellington band saxophonist Paul at age 2 talks to his danish Mother in danish and his father in Mercer Ellington with Lene daughter Gaye and aged English and Heads for the Drums when he attends a Duke Ellington beggars Holiday ran on Broadway in the 194647 starring Ricardo Montalban and Lena with Zero Duke rehearsed it and didst stay to Mercer was at that time leading a band of his Duke also wrote Broadway Type shows that didst play on chocolate kiddies ran from 1924 to 1926 in he and the band were in Flo Ziegfeld show in my people played the Cen Tury of negro Progress exhibition in Chicago in jump for Joy ran in Hollywood in 1941 with the Ellington band Mercer Sang in the i was a second the same part i Sang at the Julliard school in Assembly every Duke Ellington also wrote movie appeared in movies with his wrote such Sweet Thunder for the Stratford Shakespeare festival in wrote tone poems and a Ballet score at his was working on an asked if his father would have liked sophisticated Mercer says if he had the show to he would have fought off the i mentioned the idea to him when i first came out of the he thought that would be he thought he should do any Broad Way show from but i went when Mercedes was dancing in i like the fact the numbers in the show were i think Broadway audiences deserve to have Duke Ellington placed before them with his audiences will hear it dont mean a thing if it aint got that and Rockin in in Between those there will be two numbers from his sacred concerts and an excerpt from his Long the three so even if the audience Doest know Duke Ellington personally before the show  get a feeling for knowing  get a concept of pops scope and some different facets of the Way he worked Page 14 the stars and stripes february 1981 the stars and stripes Page 15