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Hello! I'm wondering if any of you have any information on Donna Randall. I'm closely related to her, and I have always heard about The Way growing up (I was never involved with it, nor was my immediate family), but it's just now in my adulthood that I've started to investigate what the group really was and what role she played. For what it's worth, I have always had a bad relationship with her and we have not spoken in years, so feel free to be as brutally honest as you'd like. I read the book Cultish, which talks a little bit about TWI, and that's what started me on this journey. Any information you can share would be appreciated!

Remember those Bibles with leather covers and gold edged pages that were so popular? We could gather up a bunch of them, burn the pages to extract the gold, fashion it into tokens and use the covers to make attractive little carrying cases. Of course, we would first need to perfect a method of removing all the dust from the covers.

Hi Junebug120, I knew Donna Randall. I was in the second Way Corps training program (1971-1973) and she and Gene, her husband, lived at HQ at that time in the trailer near the ones for the Corps. In my memoir, Undertow (see the thread here about that) she appears, although I did not use her real name. She was Wierwille's "research" secretary beginning before he even filmed the PFAL class. She taught the Way Corps a class on biblical research keys. The woman who taught me Aramaic, Bernit* Jess, is also noted in my book but by her real name because she was already deceased when I published it in 2017. She was Donna's friend. My story covers the years of my involvement, 1970 - 1987. Donna was still around when I left, but not prominent. For more history on The Way, I suggest you try and find a copy of The Way Living in Love by Elena Scott Whiteside. Donna is written about in that story. You can also send me a private message here, and I'll try to answer any questions you might want to ask me. Cheers, Charlene Lamy Edge