You must add a |reason= parameter to this Cleanup template – replace it with {{Cleanup|January 2007|reason=<Fill reason here>}}, or remove the Cleanup template.

Werner Hans Erhard ^[1] (born John “Jack” Paul Rosenberg on September 5, 1935),is best known for the self-improvement programs he established, the “est Training” (1971 – 1983) and the “Forum” (1984 – 1991). Erhard produced "transformational" models and applications for individuals, groups, and organizations. ^[2] Organizations that offered and offer programs based on Werner Erhard's work to the public include:

• Erhard Seminars Training Inc. (1971 - 1975)
• EST an educational corporation (1975 - 1981)
• Werner Erhard and Associates (1981 – 1991)
• Landmark Education (1991 - present)

In 1991, Erhard sold his intellectual properties to Landmark Education, retired and left the United States.

Erhard, along with John Denver, Robert W. Fuller, and others, founded The Hunger Project in 1977.

Name-Changes

• John Paul "Jack" Rosenberg, birth name ^[3]
• "Jack Frost", used as a tradename while selling cars in Philadelphia^[3]
• "Curt Wilhelm VonSavage", name used on marriage license^[4] for Rosenberg's bigamous marriage to June Bryde on March 29, 1960
• Werner Erhard, based on^[5] the names of Werner Heisenberg and of Ludwig Erhard as they appeared in Esquire Magazine, May 1960
• Werner Spits, used while living^[6] in the Cayman Islands, with Gonneke Spits.

Early Life (1935-1960)

John Paul Rosenberg graduated from Norristown High School, Norristown, Pennsylvania in June 1953, along with his future wife Patricia Fry. ^[3] Rosenberg married Patricia Fry on 26 September 1953 ^[7] and they had four ^[8] children together. He adopted the name "Jack Frost" while selling cars in Philadelphia. ^[9]

From Philadelphia to California: Jack Rosenberg Becomes Werner Erhard (1960 - 1971)

In 1960 Rosenberg left his first wife and family in Philadelphia and traveled west with a woman he met and married in Philadelphia, June Bryde. He changed his name to Werner Hans Erhard and his new wife changed hers to Ellen Virginia Erhard. Erhard chose the last name "Erhard" almost at random, selecting it from an Esquire magazine article he happened to read about then-West German economics minister Ludwig Erhard^[10]. The newly-renamed Erhards moved to St. Louis, where Werner Erhard sold used cars.

The next year, he sold correspondence courses in the Midwest, then drove to California to ask for a better territory. He was assigned to Spokane, Washington. After a few months, he switched to Encyclopædia Britannica's Great Books Program, and was quickly promoted to the area training manager. In January 1962, he switched to the Parent's Magazine Cultural Institute, a child development materials division of Parents Magazine. In late summer of 1962, he was promoted to the position of Territorial Manager for California, Nevada, and Arizona, and moved to San Francisco; and in the spring of 1963 to Los Angeles. Werner and Ellen's first child, Celeste, arrived on August 2, 1963.^[11]

In January, 1964, Parents promoted Erhard and transferred him to Arlington, Virginia to be the Southeast Region Zone Manager. In August, 1964, Erhard resigned over a dispute with the President of Parents, returning to his previous position in San Francisco.^[12] The couple moved into an apartment in Sausalito and had a second daughter, Adair, on December 27, 1964; and Erhard began a close friendship with Alan Watts. In the next few years, Erhard brought on staff at Parents many people who would be important in est, including Elaine Cronin, Gonneke Spits and Laurel Scheaf. In 1967 he was promoted to Vice President of Parents.^[13]

Early Influences

In California in the 1960s Erhard engaged in a wide variety of spiritual, New Age and transformative activities including Zen Buddhism, Dianetics and Scientology. Erhard also explored Dale Carnegie courses, Maxwell Maltz's Psycho-Cybernetics, Fritz Perls' Gestalt Therapy, Abraham Maslow's Transpersonal psychology, and Subud, among other psychological and spiritual methods.

In William Bartley's biography, Werner Erhard: The Transformation of a Man, the Founding of est (1976), Erhard describes these explorations. Bartley quotes Erhard as acknowledging Zen as the essential contribution that "created the space for" est.^[14] Bartley also characterized Scientology as one of the "major steps" towards creating his "independent training", stating that "Werner encouraged his whole staff to take the Scientology communication course, and hired Peter Monk to help train them."^[14] Bartley details Erhard's connections with Zen beginning with his extensive studies with Alan Watts in the mid 60s. ^[15]Bartley quotes Erhard as acknowledging,

Of all the disciplines that I studied, practiced, learned, Zen was the essential one. It was not so much an influence on me, rather it created space. It allowed those things that were there to be there. It gave some form to my experience. And it built up in me the critical mass from which was kindled the experience that produced est.^[16]

Scientology

Steven Pressman details some of Erhard's connections with Scientology in the 1960s and subsequent periods, chronicling his purchase of Scientology books, and stating that he had reached the training grade of "Grade II", though Erhard claimed he was a "Grade IV"^[17]. Later, Erhard incorporated Scientological practices into Erhard Seminars Training. Pressman reports that: "all est consultants had received extensive training in the Scientology practice of confessional auditing sessions.."^[18] Erhard also stated that he benefited greatly from the practice of Auditing (Scientology), stating: "It was the fastest and deepest way to handle situations that I had yet encountered. I immediately wanted to learn to do it."^[14] From the 1987 work, L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman?, the author states that: "Werner Erhard, of EST fame, called L. Ron Hubbard the 'greatest philosopher of the twentieth Century.'"^[19]

The Church of Scientology later included "ERHARD, WERNER" ^[20] on a list of "suppressive persons" and "fair game"] (enemies) ^[21] dating from 1992. Harry Rosenberg called in to Larry King Live when his brother Werner Erhard appeared on the show on December 20, 1993. During the call, as "3rd Caller", he identified himself and alleged that another Larry King guest, Scientology President Heber Jentzsch, had utilized the Church of Scientology to threaten Erhard^[22].

New members of Scientology would often have to go through an "Est Repair Rundown" if they had previously participated in Erhard Seminars Training^[23]. This Est Repair Rundown was said to "repair the damage done to a person mentally and spiritually by the practice of est (Erhard Seminars Training)."^[23] The Scientology Missions International website also describes the "EST [sic] Repair Rundown," and encourages Scientologists to go through the Rundown procedure even if they had participated in an "offshoot" of Erhard Seminars Training, including The Forum^[24].

Other contacts and influences

In the 1970s Erhard maintained financial links with Jack Sarfatti and the Physics/Consciousness Research Group^[25]. Sarfatti stated in his autobiographical writings that "Werner then outlined his plan for me to set up a sort of Ghost Busters team of physicists to research psychic phenomena and in his words "the physics of consciousness". Werner said that he was very interested in physics and that he wanted me and Fred Wolf to tutor him and his "trainers"....Werner was as good as his word and promptly had his EST Foundation write me an initial $5,000 check (Autumn 1974)."^[25]

Erhard fostered links with Michael Murphy and the Esalen Institute, and allegedly contributed funds to the SRI remote viewing project. Erhard became an instructor of Mind Dynamics. ^[26]

est: Erhard Seminars Training (1971 - 1981)

Main article: Erhard Seminars Training

Erhard reported having had a revelation while driving across the Golden Gate Bridge on U.S. Route 101 in Marin County, California in 1971. He started to see the world as perfect "the way it is" and reported an insight that his attempts to change or modify either his physical circumstances or his mental outlook had their basis in a conception of the world (that it should differ from "the way it is") that precluded or at least limited one's experiential and creative appreciation of it. Erhard put together an intensive two–weekend course he called est. Erhard constructed the course in such a way as to attempt to bring its students into a conceptual place where they could experience a realization similar to his own Highway-101 revelation. This lengthy course (consisting sometimes of 18–hour days) became controversial and (to many people who went through the seminar) exciting.

Pressman characterizes the content-creation of the est training as: "the hours of materials [Erhard] had stitched together from Scientology and Mind Dynamics and Dale Carnegie and Maxwell Maltz and a variety of other sources." ^[27] Many est participants claimed to experience greatly increased vitality and better self-expression^{[citation needed]}. A weekly program of seminars, each concerned with various aspects of life (integrity, self-expression, sex and intimacy, money, commitment, etc. evolved. A more intensive six-day course originated as a communication workshop.

Werner Erhard and Associates (1981 - 1991) and the Forum

Main article: Werner Erhard and Associates

In the 1980s Erhard worked with Fernando Flores ^[28] — philosopher, senator ^[29] of Chile and businessman — on aspects of language, setting up a body of work which makes a distinction between, on the one hand "speaking that describes being" with, on the other hand, "speaking that brings forth being". From 1982 to 1984 Erhard conducted a series of "Saturday Satellite Seminars" where he integrated into the est training the work he had undertaken with Flores. These seminars culminated in Erhard's announcement in 1984 of the retirement of the est training, after participation by 750,000 "graduates", and its replacement by a new program called the Forum, inaugurated in January 1985. The "work" co-created with Flores and incorporated as Hermenet had existed side-by-side with the est training and its programs^{[citation needed]}. The changes brought about by the Flores/Erhard partnership introduced participants and graduates of Erhard's programs to what Werner Erhard and Associates (WE&A) called a "Transformational Technology", based especially on the work of 20th-century philosophers of language: Martin Heidegger (especially the idea that "language is the house of being"), Ludwig Wittgenstein (the concept of "language games"), and John Austin (theory of "speech acts"^{[citation needed]}. Offerings such as the Action Workshop oriented participants towards developing facility in two types of conversations: "Conversations for Action" and "Conversations for Possibility." WE&A characterized "Conversations for Action" as: declarations, promises, requests, and assertions. It saw "Conversations for Possibility" as conversations that facilitate inquiry.^{[citation needed]}

Erhard intended this new "work" to acquire more mainstream respectability and to appeal to business and management markets. What est had called "space" or the "space of being" now became "the domain of possibility" or the "possibility of being for human beings". Where part of est's Day 4 had included a "three-circle talk" on "Being, Doing, and Having", the Forum now featured three distinctions of the domains of "Possibility, Presence, and Representation" ^[30] (A former associate of Erhard's, John Hanley, described very similar shifts he made in his Lifespring training, in his book Lifespring, 1990 rpt.)

The change in course-content accompanied a focus on a new type of clientele. Promotional literature began claiming that Werner Erhard and Associates delivered seminars to, and performed consulting work for, a number of multinational corporations.

After he retired the est training, Erhard inaugurated a presentation/workshop ("[a] guided dialogue between [...] instructor and participants" ^[31] ) which deployed the Socratic method of inquiry^{[citation needed]} and which he called "the Forum". As the corporate vehicle for delivering his latest offering, Erhard used Werner Erhard and Associates (WEA or WE&A), the corporate successor to the est Foundation. Presentations of the Forum continue to take place today in major cities in the USA and worldwide as the "Landmark Forum" under the auspices of WE&A's successor-organization Landmark Education.

1991 - Present

Since 1991, Erhard has kept a low profile, except for a few public appearances.

On December 8, 1993, Erhard appeared on Larry King Live in an episode titled "Whatever Happened to Werner Erhard?" via satellite from Moscow. The show also ran clips from that earlier episode when it interviewed Scientology president Heber Jentzsch on December 20, 1983 (transcript). Erhard's brother Harry Rosenberg, currently CEO and Director at Landmark Education, called into the December 20 show.

Gonneke Spits accompanied Werner Erhard to a May 11, 2004 event at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, entitled "From Thought to Action: Growing Leaders in a Changing World". The event took place in honor of a longtime friend, Warren Bennis, who had taken Erhard Seminars Training and then consulted for Werner Erhard and Associates. Publicity at the event noted that Spits had "worked with Erhard for the past 40 years." ^[32]

Currently, Erhard lives ^[33] with Gonneke Spits in Georgetown, Cayman Islands, and was reported to go by the name "Werner Spits"^[6]. On April 6, 2006, Art Schreiber wrote a letter to the Cayman Net News of the Cayman Islands in response to an article about Werner Erhard that claimed Erhard currently lives in Georgetown, Cayman Islands, in which Schreiber claimed the Cayman Net News: "mischaracterized Landmark Education and its program The Landmark Forum."^[34] On April 14, 2006, consultant Rick Ross responded with a letter of his own to Cayman Net News, stating: "Hopefully Schreiber and Landmark are not attempting to bully your news service as they have attempted to bully other news services in the past."^[35]

In 2006, Erhard appeared in the Robyn Symon documentary: Transformation: The Life and Legacy of Werner Erhard ^[36].

Family

Werner Erhard's mother, Dorothy S. Clauson Rosenberg^[37], met her husband Joseph Rosenberg while working as a waitress in Germantown, Philadelphia. Erhard's parents married in August 1933. ^[38] They separated in 1934, but reconciled in early 1935, prior to Erhard's birth on September 5, 1935.

Erhard's brother, Harry Rosenberg, is Chief Executive Officer and Director of Landmark Education. Their sister Joan Rosenberg acts as the Vice President of the Centers Division for Landmark Education, LLC, and with brother Harry also serves as a member of the Board of Directors. Erhard also has another brother, Nathan Rosenberg — at one time associated with Landmark Education, now doing consulting and transformation independently. Werner Erhard has been married twice, to Patricia Fry and to June Bryde (aka Ellen Erhard). He has four children from the first marriage and three children from his second marriage.

Template:WernerErhardtree1

Legal Issues

Erhard later was involved in a dispute with the IRS and faced allegations that he had perpetrated domestic violence, and an allegation of sexual impropriety against one or more of his daughters.

Abuse Allegations

In Outrageous Betrayal, Steven Pressman recounts how incest allegations against Werner Erhard made on CBS television's 60 Minutes program in March 1991 came from Deborah Rosenberg, the youngest child from Erhard's first marriage. ^[39] Deborah Rosenberg's allegations of molestation and rape also appeared in print in an article ^[40] in the San Francisco Chronicle. Another daughter, Celeste Erhard, subsequently stated that third parties tricked her into exaggerating spicy details about her father's alleged behavior (she and another sister had made allegations of domestic violence against her father on 60 Minutes, not about incest or rape). Celeste Erhard said that the media had told her that the articles and her appearance on 60 Minutes aimed to get publicity for a book. ^[41]

Steven Pressman tells how Erhard filed but then withdrew a lawsuit alleging "false, misleading and defamatory statements" against CBS in the wake of the latter's 60 Minutes program. ^[42]

Art Schreiber of Landmark Education noted in a letter ^[43] of July 31 1998:

There have been allegations that Mr. Erhard was abusive to his family. However, those allegations were later recanted. I am enclosing a copy of the article in the July 16, 1992 edition of the San Jose Mercury News regarding the lawsuit brought by one of Mr. Erhard's daughters against a San Jose Mercury News reporter for fraudulently promising her payment as incentive for her to make such false allegation to the media.

Note however that the referenced article in the San Jose Mercury News quotes ^[41] Celeste Erhard speaking of "exaggerating spicy details about her father's life", not of recanting.

In the Stephanie Ney court case of 1992 (resulting from Ney's participation in "the Forum") a U.S. court in a default judgment ordered Werner Erhard (in absentia) to pay more than $500,000 in damages for "mental injuries". ^[44]

In the trial, the court did not find "the Forum" the cause of Stephanie Ney's injuries, but because Erhard never contested the suit, the court entered the default judgment against him.

IRS Disputes

In September 1996 Werner Erhard received $200,000 from the United States IRS ^[45] for wrongful disclosure of false information.

In another case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found Erhard did not have grounds for changing a previous tax decision February 8, 1995, in the case "Werner H. Erhard v. Commissioner Internal Revenue Service".

See Also

*Ellen Erhard v. IRS, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Public Record, June 20, 1996, for issues related to an IRS tax petition of his second wife, Ellen Erhard. The case decided as follows: "Ellen Erhard appeals the Tax Court's dismissal of her petition as untimely filed. We affirm."

Related Organizations

Template:Estwealandmark

The Hunger Project (1977 - )

Main article: The Hunger Project

Erhard formed the opinion that death by starvation occurred not because of lack of food to feed all those who suffered from chronic hunger. Instead he blamed the context in which people viewed and interacted with chronic hunger. That context, he said, consisted of a closely-held belief (or discourse, or conversation) that saw hunger as inevitable, a context of scarcity that governed all the interactions and fixes currently applied by those then attempting to fix the problem.

Along with John Denver and Oberlin College President Robert W. Fuller, Erhard co-founded The Hunger Project in 1977. The Project had the initial stated intention of making "The End of Starvation within 20 Years an 'Idea Whose Time Has Come.'" Erhard served on the Project's board from 1979 to 1990, after which he ceased contact with the organization.

Landmark Education

Main article: Landmark Education

In 1991 Landmark Education leased the intellectual property of Werner Erhard and Associates and continued to offer the courses originally designed by Erhard. The Bay Area Reporter reported that when Erhard initially sold WE&A and left the United States, WE&A was "sold to employees and Erhard's brother, Nathan Rosenberg, the for-profit corporation was renamed Landmark Education Corporation."^[46] According to The Los Angeles Times' Robert W. Welkos: "[i]n the end, Erhard received so much notoriety, including a scathing segment on 60 Minutes last March [1991], that he sold his business ..."^[47] For whatever reason, Erhard sold up and left the United States, resurfacing later in El Salvador, the Soviet Union, Ireland and the Cayman Islands. A subsequent report implied that he feared physical harm in the United States due to Scientology's "Fair Game" policy.

Years after Erhard left the United States, Landmark Education set up the "Werner Erhard Biographical Website". Landmark Education registered the separate address "werner-erhard.com" at Network Solutions and provided the initial content of the new web-pages from its own site.

In 1998, Time Magazine ran an article about Landmark Education and its historical connection to Werner Erhard. The article stated: "In 1991, before he left the U.S., Erhard sold the 'technology' behind his seminars to his employees, who formed a new company called the Landmark Education Corp., with Erhard's brother Harry Rosenberg at the helm." Erhard's sister (Joan Rosenberg) acts as the Vice President of Landmark Education's Centers Division.

The prior president and registered agent of Werner Erhard and Associates^[48][49], (Art Schreiber), functions as Landmark Education's General Counsel and Chairman of the Landmark Education Board of Directors. ^[50] Art Schreiber was Werner Erhard's personal attorney^[51].

Landmark Education states that its programs have as their basis ideas originally developed by Erhard, but that Erhard has no financial interest, ownership, or management role in Landmark Education. ^[52] Arthur Schreiber's declaration of 3 May 2005 states: "Landmark Education has never paid Erhard under the license agreements (he assigned his rights to others)."^[53]

In Stephanie Ney v. Landmark Education Corporation (1994), ^[54] the courts determined that Landmark Education Corporation did not have successor-liability to Werner Erhard & Associates, the corporation whose assets Landmark Education purchased.

As of 1998, Erhard's financial ties to Landmark Education consisted of a licensing fee, and a license to Erhard's intellectual properties that would have reverted back to Erhard in 2009^[55]. The 1998 Metroactive article reported that: "..The Forum is in fact owned by Erhard, and is scheduled to revert to him in 2009. Erhard's 63 now and is assured 50 percent of Landmark's net pre-tax profit each quarter, not to exceed $15 million in the 18-year lifespan of the license. Furthermore, Erhard's brother, Harry Rosenberg, is currently Landmark's CEO, and sister Joan Rosenberg is listed as a director."^[55] Almost identical information appears in Pressman's Outrageous Betrayal, where Pressman writes: "Landmark Education further agreed to pay Erhard a long-term licensing fee for the material used in the Forum and other courses. Werner Erhard stood to earn up to $15 million over the next eighteen years."^[56]

As of 2001, Landmark Education was reported to have purchased Werner Erhard's license and his rights to Landmark Education intellectual properties^[6]. New York reported that Landmark Education CEO Harry Rosenberg: "says the company has bought outright Erhard's license and his rights to Japan and Mexico."^[6] From time to time Erhard consults with Landmark Education, ^[57] but (according to a Landmark Education statement) he has no ownership or management interest in that company.

Excellerated Business Schools

The website of Excellerated Business Schools (which offers "transformational, entrepreneurial education") lists "Werner Erhard" in the category of "Other Teachers, Masters and Mentors" on its "Acknowledgments" page. ^[58]

Awards

• The controversial Gandhi Humanitarian Award^[59], 1988, Gandhi Memorial International Foundation.
• "Humanitarian Of The Year", 2003, Youth At Risk, Roosevelt Hotel, New York City^[60]. Erhard was the founder of the Breakthrough Project, which later became Youth At Risk.

Public Perception

People characterize Werner Erhard in sharply different ways. Some see him as a leading edge thinker in the field of human performance and effectiveness.^[61] Some dismiss him as a "car salesman" or more generically as a "salesman". ^[62] Others emphasise his continuing commercial success and describe him as a "businessman". ^[63] Est-advocates in the heyday of that organization came to regard "Werner" as "Source". ^[64] Some detractors emphasize his background as an ex-Scientologist, ^[65] or labelled him a "guru" ^[66] or as a "cult leader". ^[67]

Evaluating Erhard within the context of the self-help movement, Steve Salerno in his book SHAM sees him as: "too flaky [...] to capture the popular imagination."^[68] Attempts such as that of McCarl et al ^[69] to associate the name of Werner Erhard with philosophy have not yet succeeded in making him part of the philosophical mainstream. His small body of written thought, such as the terse Aphorisms booklet (If God Had Meant Man to Fly, He Would Have Given Him Wings; or: Up to Your Ass in Aphorisms), once distributed to est-students, have had resonance mainly in New-Age circles.

See Also

Documentaries

The Century of the Self

Werner Erhard appeared in the 2002 British documentary by Adam Curtis, The Century of the Self. He appears in episode part 3 of 4. This segment of the video discusses the Est Training in great detail, and includes interviews with Est graduates John Denver, and Jerry Rubin.

Transformation: The Life and Legacy of Werner Erhard

In 2006, Erhard appeared alongside Landmark Forum Leader Laurel Scheaf (pictured) and Landmark Forum Leader Randy McNamara (pictured), in the Robyn Symon documentary: Transformation: The Life and Legacy of Werner Erhard ^[70].

Fictional depictions

• Semi-Tough - satirical movie spoofing Erhard Seminars Training

Biographies

• Bartley, III, William Warren (1978). Werner Erhard The transformation of a man: The founding of est. NY, NY, USA: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. ISBN 0-517-53502-5. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
• Self, Jane (1992) 60 Minutes and the Assassination of Werner Erhard: How America's Top Rated Television Show Was Used in an Attempt to Destroy a Man Who Was Making A Difference. Breakthru Publishing. ISBN 0-942540-23-9
• Pressman, Steven (1993) Outrageous Betrayal: The Dark Journey of Werner Erhard from est to Exile. New York, New York, USA. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-09296-2

Online References

• Werner H. Erhard v. Commissioner Internal Revenue Service, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Public Record, No. 93-70357 (9th.Cir. 02/08/1995)
• Ellen Erhard v. Werner Erhard, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Public Record, June 20, 1996, IRS tax issues related to divorce
• Werner Erhard page at Working Minds website
• Werner Erhard Biographical Website: favorable, with a section on controversy. (Site content likely authored by Landmark Education, which registered werner-erhard.com at Network Solutions and provided the initial content from their own site.) - Site no longer publicly accessible without telephone-based registration as of 4 June 2006: see instead the Internet Archive.
• Conversations For Transformation: Essays By Laurence Platt Inspired By The Ideas of Werner Erhard, And More - a friend of Werner Erhard sheds light on Erhard's work.
• Harry Rosenberg on Larry King Harry Rosenberg called in to Larry King Live, when Werner Erhard appeared on that show on December 20, 1993.
• Campaign Contributions, list of all political campaign contributions by Werner Erhard in the state of California, data provided by the Federal Election Commission, 9/11/2006.

Timeline - corporate history, incorporations, corporate name-changes

Additional Information, Landmark Education, est/Erhard Seminars Training

Source: Hesse-Nassau Evangelical Church website

• October 1971 - Werner Erhard delivers the first Erhard Seminars Training seminar in San Francisco, California
• 1973 - The Foundation for the Realization of Man - incorporated as a non-profit foundation in California
• 1975 - EST An Educational Corporation
• July 1976 - est Foundation - amendment to the articles of incorporation, California
• February 1981 - Werner Erhard and Associates set up
• January 16, 1991 - Breakthrough Technologies

* signed by attorney Donald R. Share

* Art Schreiber as initial agent

• January 23, 1991 - Transnational Education Corp. set up
• May 7, 1991 - Landmark Education Corporation set up

* Brian Regnier signed as President and Secretary of Transnational Education Corp

* Harry Rosenberg as director and treasurer

• June 5, 1991 - Werner Erhard and Associates International, Inc., now a subsidiary of Landmark Education Corporation

* Gilbert H. Judson, president

* Regina Tierney, secretary

• July 14, 1992 - Alexandria, VA — federal district judge rules Landmark Education Corporation did not have successor-liability, in the case brought by a Silver Spring, Maryland woman for emotional damages allegedly due to participation in the Forum under Werner Erhard and Associates.
• February 2003 - "Landmark Education Corporation" became "Landmark Education LLC"

Template:Estwealandmark

References

Template:LandmarkForum