Statement of a former Trustee of the Urantia Foundation

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For a number of reasons, among which is the fact I am currently 
employed by Fifth Epochal Fellowship, I have refrained from
commenting on recent events between Fifth Epochal Fellowship and
Urantia Foundation.

F. S., H. S., and I resigned from the Board
of Trustees of Urantia Foundation in response to a crisis in
board management of critical magnitude. We were unanimous in
this evaluation. Each of us felt the crisis was severe enough
to prevent us from fulfilling our duty as a trustee if we
continued to serve under conditions as they existed.

We were divided only in our determinations concerning solutions
to the problem. This division has been interpreted to mean that
our resignations were personal and individual. It is true we
resigned individually. It is not true that the cause of our
resignations was personal and individual.

As a majority, we three had the numbers to bring about an
apparent change of management of the five-member board. Even
with a change of officers, however, it is my belief that--no
matter which trustee happened to serve as president--the board
would continue to be controlled by one particular trustee. And
that control was of a nature which each of us resigning trustees
felt prevented us from fulfilling our responsibilities. I
personally felt that the course on which the board was headed
was dangerous for the survival of the Foundation itself and was
detrimental to the fulfillment of the purposes of the Foundation
as stated in the Declaration of Trust. For me, "nonfulfillment
of my duty as a trustee" meant that it was impossible for me to
prevent the Foundation from pursuing what I believed to be a
self-destructive course.

We three did not have the numbers to bring about an effective
change in management--that is, removal of a trustee from the
board. Therefore, we would have had to seek legal recourse
outside the board to change the situation. We did not explore
this option together. I do not know how the two other resigning
trustees felt about this course of action.

This is a statement of my evaluation of a crisis on the board
which, in my opinion, was substantive at that time and now--with
serious consequences to the orderly, natural progression of this
revelation in the hearts of man.

G. H.
July 26, 1990