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This is a bit off-topic, but this is a clip of a news channel reporting a Synanon fundraising event in 1969 in the Oakland facility. I wasn't there (before my time), but I was able to spot my ex-husband (now deceased) in the crowd of guys. It's not very clear, but it will at least give you a...

Yep. "Squares" were people who came around Synanon for the game (called the "game club") and to socialize, but who didn't actually live there. Some Squares ended up moving in and became "Lifestylers". Synanon had an entire lexicon, but there were generally "Dopefiends" and "Squares"...

Yes, Delancey Street is a spinoff of Synanon founded by John Maher, who was from Synanon. To my recollection, it wasn't in existence yet in 1972, though I could be wrong. The place young people went (also Synanon offshoot) was called CEDU.

I started hanging around the Santa Monica facility when my parents got involved as "Squares" in 1969. Moved into Oakland as a "Lifestyler" in 1974 when I was 17 and stayed for 11 years. Left at 28, in 1985 -- after the community had lost all appeal for me. I was a hippie kid who missed...

Thank you, Valmont1905. I've posted again on the Synanon.org website and also on the Synanon Facebook page, asking if anyone might remember her. I was able to locate Ruth on the .org website -- she had signed in there, so I was able to search for a "Ruth" that was there in 1972 that I did not...

Yes, it was harsh. But it was also the truth, judging by her letters and her discussion of her behavior leading up to being placed in Synanon. Everyone was told that, and you know what? It was true! Drug addicts, juvenile delinquents, alcoholics -- they tend to burn a lot of bridges. Yes, I...

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I don't believe it was Synanon's policy to report runaways to the police. But I was not involved in that aspect of the community. For juveniles, it is possible that her running away would have been reported to the agency that sent her there? Thousands of people came through Synanon -- I don't...

Have been reading about Rose Cole for a number of years now... through the Synanon website and elsewhere. I was a young person at Synanon (Santa Monica) from 1969-1974 and then moved in through the Oakland facility in 1974. I did not know Rose Cole, but I can tell you that during that time...