Amanda Ambrose 4/18/25-10/26/07

vegan3

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Her Ebony Awakenings facebook page must have been taken over by someone else, although the last post was 2018.



In the '60s, Ambrose volunteered at her child's school. One day, she heard a noise in the bathroom, Hamilton said - on the floor, an 11-year-old boy writhed with a needle in his arm.

"She picked him up and started to run with him," Hamilton said. "He looked up and said, 'Please help me,' and he died in her arms."

Soon after, she became interested the Church of Scientology, and how it could improve African-American social standing, education and literacy.

Ms. Ambrose became one of the first black Scientologists.

Sick recently with colon cancer, she stayed heavily involved in Ebony Awakenings. And she dearly wanted to see her 18-year-old grandson's rock band perform live.

The night before she died, the band came over and serenaded her with an acoustic set.

On Oct. 26, she died. She was 82.

BIOGRAPHY

Amanda Ambrose

Born: April 18, 1925.

Died: Oct. 26, 2007.

Services: Celebration of life at 1 p.m. today at Glorious Church of God in Christ, 4701 E Hanna Ave., Tampa.

posted in old site: https://forum.exscn.net/threads/rip-amanda-ambrose.2498/
 
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vegan3

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some amazing posts about amanda on the old site. where did those posters go? other than alonzo, not sure any are still around.

here is her daughter's facebook page:

janis said her son passed after he got out of prison.
 

I M Dex

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I remember experiencing her sweet, warm presence at the NY org on W. 74th Street, prior to the January 1980 move to the building on W 46 St.
 

Type4_PTS

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I met her back around 1987-88 when I was on staff at Social Coordination International. She did some kind of interview with me. I had the impression it was something she needed to do as part of a course she was on. It was the only time I ever saw her there in the year I was there.
 

vegan3

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Ambrose was born on April 18, 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri. As a child she took dance and piano lessons, and sang in her church. She began singing at local nightclubs at the age of 18, eventually making her way to Hollywood where she worked her way up to performing at the Florentine Gardens.Jan 18, 2021

i didn't know about this other child terry. i think it was tony that died in florida. that facebook page is not all in english. kinda odd. so she had three kids? he must have deleted that "about" part.

Terry Strawn

Facebook
https://m.facebook.com › terry.strawn.7 › about


We moved a lot because my Mom (Amanda Ambrose) was a child prodigy, an entertainer, performer, actor and a bit of a Gypsy. My father John (Buffy) Strawn was ...
 

vegan3

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The son that went to prison had been sent (as a teen?) to the Apollo by his mother. He was arrested in Florida years later for molesting his step-kids. Apparently he did that on the Apollo as well but his "punishment" was getting offloaded to Clearwater. His ex-wife was posting all over the Masterson trial talking about her ex and his crap. Amanda was there at the start of NOI. Her daughter would know.
 
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vegan3

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the legend we heard in the 70's was how she cried for a month when she realized she was born black. think i knew all of five black people in at that time (70's) bob goodwin, michael guttman, lamont johnson, colwell garth, colwell's ex-girlfriend carol. don't think i met amanda but she was definitely a legend at CC then.
 

mimsey borogrove

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the legend we heard in the 70's was how she cried for a month when she realized she was born black. think i knew all of five black people in at that time (70's) bob goodwin, michael guttman, lamont johnson, colwell garth, colwell's ex-girlfriend carol. don't think i met amanda but she was definitely a legend at CC then.
What ever happened to colwell and lamont? I thought Colwell was in the SO at Pac? I think for a while he was working at Loftcraft in NYC, and the next time I saw him, he was on staff at PAC.
Mimsey
 

I M Dex

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What ever happened to colwell and lamont? I thought Colwell was in the SO at Pac? I think for a while he was working at Loftcraft in NYC, and the next time I saw him, he was on staff at PAC.
Mimsey
I remember meeting Colwell at a party of independents, in Pasedena around 2011. We talked a little bit about him running David Mayo through that running around a pole thing, it was damaging punishment for Mayo, but Colwell seemed to believe that it was appropriate and good for him, and that he was doing a good thing.
 

mimsey borogrove

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I remember meeting Colwell at a party of independents, in Pasedena around 2011. We talked a little bit about him running David Mayo through that running around a pole thing, it was damaging punishment for Mayo, but Colwell seemed to believe that it was appropriate and good for him, and that he was doing a good thing.
Thanks - I liked him. There's so many of NYO staff I lost contact with. They were on staff when I was at the Martinique. Mimsey
 

I M Dex

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Thanks - I liked him. There's so many of NYO staff I lost contact with. They were on staff when I was at the Martinique. Mimsey
I heard so much about the days at the Martinique, I missed that time by maybe 3 years? I first came into the NY org in 1978.
 

vegan3

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What ever happened to colwell and lamont? I thought Colwell was in the SO at Pac? I think for a while he was working at Loftcraft in NYC, and the next time I saw him, he was on staff at PAC.
Mimsey
according to carmelo, lamont died of a heart attack in texas in his 50's (see RIP thread). which seems odd since he was (when i briefly knew him) very health conscious. he was a jogger though and texas is hot! i was trying to find the thread in the old forum where carmelo and i were talking about him. there is a lot more there that i see now that i haven't yet read. i dated lamont briefly around 1975 in LA. he already had two ex-wives by then. both blonde long-legged Germans. i posted about him in my vintage carmelo thread. and also in the fred hanna thread (MAA at CC that lived with my sister). early in the 80's i was out of the cult and living in mountain view. bought one of lamont's records at the store and decided to dial the phone number on the back. lamont answered. he ended up sending me a few cases of his records that i was supposed to get into record stores. sadly, i didn't do that. he also wanted to move in (think he was in chicago then) to my second floor apartment with his piano! no way would a piano have gotten up those stairs. according to carmelo this would have been just prior to his homeless era. i think he wanted to get back to encino, but somehow ended up in texas. the link to the old chats is below.


as to colwell, i had forgotten his name until marisa mentioned the indie 500 list. colwell is on it. he worked at an OT owned leather factory in downtown LA in the 70's, pre-sea org. which is also where mike leube worked. apparently colwell spent decades at golden era and bonded later with the indie bunch. the last time i saw him was in the 70's at the glendale galleria. the first thing out of his mouth was where was i on the bridge? when i said nowhere, he promptly pivoted and walked away. can you say "horse's ass?"


 
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vegan3

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this was a comment from carmelo about larry dahlkvist and lamont and joan biggs. larry was onlines both at santa clara and palo alto. i remember his dad's saw shop in palo alto from the 60's. knew larry and joan as well. joan also dated frank eaton that lives nearby. frank and larry were both schoolteachers pre-cult. i still haven't gotten the story out of frank about what happened to him or joan. you mention the "S" word to frank and he runs screaming.


Schlemiel story

Larry Dahlquist (s/b Dahlqvist - my correction) was on the briefing course. He took his laundry to a laundromat. He left it drying. When he came back, it had been stolen. Here he was, around thirty years old and on the bc. He called his mom to get him new underwear because he didn't know his sizes and she always bought his clothes for him.

response to a PM

Larry's father, Karl, had a saw sharpening lawn mower repair shop just north east of El Camino Real on Oregon Expressway (Page Mlll). His mother, Fran, was a sweet little old lady from the old country too. (Hungary maybe??). Karl died around 1970. Larry was a schoolteacher. I ran out the death on Larry. he went on to do the briefing course. To give you a look into WHO Larry Dahlquist was: he was doing his laundry in a laundromat in La, while on the bc. He left his clothes while they were spinning. He came back, and someone had stolen them. He phoned his mother, and asked her to buy him some new underwear. He didn't know how to do it for himself.

One more story: He and his girl friend, Joan Biggs were driving, he following her, in car. She was drunk and ran into something, and was in critical danger of dying. Larry drove on because it would not be good for a Church of Scientology minister to be found drunk at a car accident. She didn't die. Someone else called an ambulance.

He was a schlemiel.

Then, don't remember why, he went into a coma. He came back as Lawrence West, a real dynamo of the exe Sci stuff in about 1985. He took LaMont's wife away. He fought the Co$ in court. Then he died.

Kind of like Warren Beatty's "Heaven Can Wait"

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(correct spelling is "dahlqvist" although we did americanize the name and say dahlquist. martha dahlkvist - Ancestry.com)

not sure who larry stole from lamont but here he married martha gurney in 1976.


Journal #120 February 1976

Editor: Diane Colletto/ASHO

The Surest Route to OT
Dianetics in Canada
Does Clearing Cancel the Need for Training?
ASHO Trained Case Supervisor Tim Melchior OT IV, Class VI
Vikki Walker from Davis, California
Dini Petty, OT III, helicopter pilot in Toronto
The Flag Land Base
Artist Roy Kerswell
Engagement: Lary Dahlkvist and Martha Gurney to be married in Palo Alto on 4/4/76
marriage/divorce:
martha l gurney - Ancestry.com
martha dahlkvist - Ancestry.com
Graduate: Class VI Internship, Jim Rogers
Release Power: Mary Jane Rundberg
HSST Internship: Malcolm Cheminais
Mumfords (Jr./Sr.) opening Mission

 
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vegan3

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married to tony strawn, son of amanda. these were tony's step-kids, i believe.

“A Scientologist by the name of Donald Anthony Strawn, also known as Tony Strawn, was convicted in 1995 to thirty years in prison for sexually molesting two girls, ages 11 and 13. The children were in his custodial care at the time.

The reason that these documents are included in this Web site is because the Church of Scientology directed that the mother not report the incident to the proper authorities, because the church could "handle" Strawn's "aberration". This act is a federal crime in the United States of America.”

 
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I M Dex

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I remember meeting Colwell at a party of independents, in Pasedena around 2011. We talked a little bit about him running David Mayo through that running around a pole thing, it was damaging punishment for Mayo, but Colwell seemed to believe that it was appropriate and good for him, and that he was doing a good thing.
A little self-correction. By coincidence, I just came across a conversation I had in 2013 about this- the party was actually at my place, in Davis, CA, and while Colwell did indeed talk about people having "wins" on the weird running around a pole for hours "process", he actually did acknowledge that I wasn't wrong when I told him that it was clearly used to punish David Mayo. (Sorry, for my failing memory, it is what it is, as opposed to what it was :confused:).
 

vegan3

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okay mirriam is talking about someone completely different. wth.


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"convicted in 1995 to thirty years in prison"

different marriage:

Journal #101 July 1974
Marriage at Hollywood, CA - Amanda Ambrose to William Goens, Jr. on 6/19/74


divorce:

son terry strawn’s facebook:
We moved a lot because my Mom (Amanda Ambrose) was a child prodigy, an entertainer, performer, actor and a bit of a Gypsy. My father John (Buffy) Strawn was ...

So amanda had five kids:

Soon after, she became interested the Church of Scientology, and how it could improve African-American social standing, education and literacy.

Ms. Ambrose became one of the first black Scientologists.

"She was already famous," said the Rev. Charles Kennedy, pastor of the Glorious Church of God in Christ in Tampa. "She wanted something to help the African-American community. She embraced it fully."

Along with her daughter, Ms. Ambrose founded Ebony Awakenings, a group that has worked to honor African-Americans and create partnerships between Scientology and churches, including Kennedy's.

"It was a dream for her," Hamilton said.

so other kids stephanie and naomi?

Nov 11, 2007 — Ms. Ambrose astounded her children. "I couldn't believe this incredible music," said her daughter, Naomi Kaye. "Seeing the audience, the way ...

Soon after, she developed a vocal program for pop singers called Voicercise, which Kaye still teaches. And her family said Ms. Ambrose's own voice came back stronger than before.

"She kind of grew at a very rapid rate," said her daughter, Stephanie Hamilton. "She was always looking for answers."

okay here it is ...


Some final notes about musicians & others associated with the album. On the front cover, Annie Broeker is sitting on the left, then Dan Auerbach, & then Lord L.Ron. Tony Strawn is the other guy wearing a hat, back row right.
Annie Broeker is still a slave at the Int Base, the international headquarters of the Church of Scientology, standing on a 500-acre parcel of land in unincorporated Riverside County, California, outside of San Jacinto.
Dan Auerbach left the cult in 1982.
Tony was jailed for molesting a two pre-pubescent girls in Florida(Florida v. Strawn: Criminal Complaint).
Russ Meadows left the cult in 1983.
Neil Sarfati left the cult in 1978 & runs a large food distribution company.
Bill Potter died from AIDS in the late 1980's.
Kip Hansen left the cult in 1983.
Homer Schomer left the cult in 1982 & sued them.
Wayne Marple left the cult in 1982.
 
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