Sterling Management Systems & Scientology

Critical information on Sterling Management Systems, its license with World Institute of Scientology Enterprises (WISE) and Sterling Management Systems' ties with the Church of Scientology.

WISE is an integral part of Scientology and WISE licensed consultants like Sterling Management Systems get money for every new Scientology recruit they are urged to make. To maximize the number of recruits does WISE distributes a 300 page "Consultant's Guide to Bridge Dissemination" manual. Bridge = Scientology speak for "Scientology path". The manual contains an entire section of sample waivers and legal forms so you will have a hard time sueing them in the case you get defrauded by Scientology.

Sterling Management Systems

Company information

• Sterling Management Systems is WISE affiliate. Chairman and owner of Sterling Management Systems is scientologist Kevin Wilson. The Sterling Management Systems site mentions Scientology and Hubbard. Corporate information on J. Chase Wilson Corporation, Sterling Management Systems Inc. and Emery Wilson Corporation, all based in Glendale, California.

  In sofar I have figured out, Sterling was the old dba (doing business as) of Emery Wilson Corporation. and then at one point Sterling changed to being the dba of J. Chase Wilson Corporation. That last corporation owns currently (June 2004) the trademark on the typed form "Sterling Management Systems" (image).

Company Service Marks

From the US Patents & Trademarks Office www.uspto.gov
Typed Drawing
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Word Mark STERLING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS 
Goods and Services (ABANDONED) IC 035. US 100 101 102. G & S: Consulting
services, namely in the field of business management. 
Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING 
Serial Number 78069813 
Filing Date June 19, 2001 
Current Filing Basis 1B 
Original Filing Basis 1B 
Owner (APPLICANT) Kerl, Thomas W. INDIVIDUAL UNITED STATES 23141 La Cadena
Dr., Ste R Laguna Hills CALIFORNIA 926531423 
Type of Mark SERVICE MARK 
Register PRINCIPAL 
Live/Dead Indicator DEAD 
Abandonment Date March 13, 2002 

Typed Drawing
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Word Mark STERLING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS 
Goods and Services (CANCELLED) IC 035. US 101. G & S: CONSULTING SERVICES,
NAMELY IN THE FIELD OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT. FIRST USE: 19830331. FIRST USE
IN COMMERCE: 19830630
(CANCELLED) IC 041. US 107. G & S: EDUCATIONAL SERVICES, NAMELY CONDUCTING
CLASSES AND SEMINARS IN THE FIELD OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT. FIRST USE:
19830331. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19830630
Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING 
Serial Number 73776276 
Filing Date January 23, 1989 
Current Filing Basis 1A 
Original Filing Basis 1A 
Published for Opposition December 4, 1990 
Registration Number 1636270 
Registration Date February 26, 1991 
Owner (REGISTRANT) J. CHASE WILSON CORPORATION, THE DBA STERLING
MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS CORPORATION CALIFORNIA 520 N. CENTRAL AVE. GLENDALE
CALIFORNIA 91203 
Attorney of Record RICHARD J. GREENSTONE 
Disclaimer NO CLAIM IS MADE TO THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE "MANAGEMENT
SYSTEMS" APART FROM THE MARK AS SHOWN 
Type of Mark SERVICE MARK 
Register PRINCIPAL 
Live/Dead Indicator DEAD 
Cancellation Date September 1, 1997 

[STERLING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS printed letters]
Word Mark STERLING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS 
Goods and Services IC 035. US 100 101 102. G & S: Consulting services
namely in the field of business management. FIRST USE: 19830331. FIRST USE
IN COMMERCE: 19830630
IC 041. US 100 101 107. G & S: Educational services, namely conducting
classes and seminars in the field of business management. FIRST USE:
19830330. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19830630
Mark Drawing Code (5) WORDS, LETTERS, AND/OR NUMBERS IN STYLIZED FORM 
Serial Number 76499273 
Filing Date February 28, 2003 
Current Filing Basis 1A;1B 
Original Filing Basis 1A;1B 
Owner (APPLICANT) J. Chase Wilson Corporation CORPORATION CALIFORNIA 316
W. Wilson Avenue Glendale CALIFORNIA 91203 
Disclaimer NO CLAIM IS MADE TO THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE MANAGEMENT
SYSTEMS APART FROM THE MARK AS SHOWN 
Type of Mark SERVICE MARK 
Register PRINCIPAL 
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE

Critical information

• Robert Vaugh Young wrote an extraordinary declaration on the workings of World Institute of Scientology Enterprises (WISE) and an examination of the licensing agreement with Sterling Management. Did you know that Scientology stated to the IRS that WISE "was formed to accomplish several objectives with respect to expanding the religion" of Scientology?
• Declaration of dentist Alexander Turbyne III. Turbyne explains how WISE company Sterling Management Systems lured him into Scientology.

  Sterling Management is good at what it does, namely, introducing people to the ideas of Scientology. The only problem is that what it does is quite different from what it says it does. If I had known this, at the introductory Seminar or through the mailings, I would have kept my money and signed up with a dental management firm and not a Scientology Recruiting Firm....

• Declaration of dentist Robert G.. Bob and his wife were recruited into Scientology via Sterling Management Systems.

  The way the courses were structured at Sterling Management systems, I would arrive at the offices at 8:00 in the morning and although they were scheduled to last only until 5:00 in the evening, they would generally stretch out until 10:00 or 11:00 at night. This went on all seven days. On one evening we received lecture from a representative from the Orange County organization of the Church of Scientology...

• How a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) was lured into Scientology via Sterling Management and lost $34,000 and her marriage of 20+ years.

  About two years ago, in May of 1996, I received some literature from a management company by the name of Sterling Management in Glendale, California. Their "pitch" was to CPAs and they promised to assist them to be more profitable by showing them a way to operate their firms in a more efficient manner. I sent for the "free" video and listened to a two hour sales speech over the phone and it sounded real good. It cost $14,000 but, by using the technology of Scientology (of which I was totally unaware of at that time) , they convinced me that I had to do this or my business was in jeopardy. I signed on for a 10 day course in Glendale.

• The Emery Wilson Corp (dba Sterling Management Systems vs Cult Awareness Network, Cynthia Kisser and Priscilla Coates. Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, January 31, 1995:

  4. Plaintiff is prohibited from presenting evidence at trial to support the claim that plaintiff has not done business as a branch office of the World Institute of Scientology Enterprises.

• Press-release by Cult Awareness Network after Sterling Management lost the case.




• "Scientology III" by L. J. West, M.D.
  Originally printed in "The Southern California Psychiatrist," October 1991, pp. 13-15.

  Sterling was founded in 1983 by a Scientologist Gregory K. Hughes, a dentist in Vacaville, California. Dr. Hughes presents himself at "Winning With Dentistry" seminars as an example of how well the Hubbard method works. He doesn't discuss the fact that a number of lawsuits have been brought against him and his dental associates by former patients charging them with negligence and malpractice, or that he has been under investigation by the California Board of Dental Examiners.

• Cherokee County Herald, Centre, 12 Dec 1990
  "Management Seminar" Harrowing Experience

  Dee Rowe, wife of local dentist Glover Rowe D.M.D., described their recent harrowing experience in what was supposed to be a "management seminar" in California. Dr. and Mrs. Rowe said they were held against their will by a religious cult and were forced to endure brainwashing attempts.

• Dee ROWE, et al ,, Petitioners, v. The SUPERIOR COURT of Los Angeles County, Respondent; Church of Scientology of Orange County, etc., et al., Real Parties in Interest. No. B070406. Court of Appeal, Second District, Division 3, California. May 25, 1993.

  The allegations arose out of a relationship which began with a management and consulting contract between Rowe and a company known as Sterling Management Systems ("Sterling") which Rowe claims was a Scientology "front group." This contract related to Rowe's Alabama dental practice. Subsequently, Rowe alleges, Sterling recruited Rowe to enroll and participate in counseling programs at Scientology's Orange County facility located in Tustin, California.

• Akron Beacon Journal, 21 Jan 1990
  A tale of capture and brainwashing
  

  The G.s say their involvement with Scientology began when Bob G. attended a three-hour Sterling seminar in May 1988 at the Cleveland Marriott hotel. After the seminar, G. said, he was given a personality profile and told he needed further seminars to improve his practice.

• Time Magazine, 6 May 1991
  Scientology: The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power  (em Portugues -- in Italiano -- en Français en Nederlands )
  

  The firm offers seminars and courses that typically cost $10,OOO. But Sterling's true aim is to hook customers for Scientology. "The church has a rotten product, so they package it as something else," says Peter Georgiades, a Pittsburgh attorney who represents Sterling victims. "It's a kind of bait and switch."

• The Better Business Bureau, September, 1991
  Exposes Sterling Management and other Scientology fronts
  

  b The Sutherlands' experience with Sterling Management Systems is, with slight variations, typical of what others (usually professional men and women -- doctors, dentists, veterinarians) report to the Better Business Bureau. The innocuous-looking card most of them receive in the mail, inviting them to Sterling's introductory seminar, is the first step down a financial and emotional toll-road that will quickly detour them to Scientology.

  (Note that the name, logo and phone# of Cult Awareness Network are now owned by a Scientologist. Do not contact them for help! )

• Ex-scientologist dentist John Finucane sued the cult and Sterling.
  • NBC News Nightline, 14 February 1992
    A conversation with David Miscavige ( Realvideo )
    

    They tried to milk every penny they could out of any asset that I have, whether it's a credit card, whether it's my home, whether it's from a friend, whether it's from family - if I can get ahold of money anywhere, they would like to have that money.
    
    

• Excerpts from Church of Scientology IRS 1023 Tax Exempt Application

  The lawsuit was filed in LA Superior Court on December 26, 1991 by Finucane, Miller, and Turbyne, who reside, respectively, in Aiken, South Carolina, Sacramento, California, and Sohigan, Maine, against Sterling and the Orange County Church. The complaint contains causes of action for deceptive trade practices, fraud, and injunctive relief. . .

• Akron Beacon Journal, 2 Sept 1992
  Dental assistants say firing result of their rejection of Scientology

  Two former assistants of a Canton dentist -- one a Catholic, the other a Protestant -- charge they were wrongfully fired because of their religious beliefs. . . The suit charges that the three women 'were continually, against their will, subjected to religious recruitment, proselytizing and brainwashing by defendants in fervent attempts to convert them to the Scientology cult.'

• The Cult Observer Vol 11 #1, 1994
  Pressure in the Workplace (quoted below is the entire article)

  Christina M. Goudeau, of Baton Rouge, LA, filed suit against her former employers, Landmark Dental Care, in June, claiming religious discrimination. She said they fired her because she refused to go along with them in joining the Church of Scientology and using Scientology practices and terminology in the office. She says the dentists pressured her to join after they attended meetings and seminars by Sterling Management Systems, the Dianetics Foundation, and the Church of Scientology. (From "Suit blames Scientology for firing" by Fred Kalmbach, The Advocate [Baton Rouge], 6/16/93)

• The Ridgefield [NY] Press, 28 July 1994
  Fired for Refusing Scientology-based Course

  Two women who worked for a veterinarian in the Westchester County [NY] town of South Salem complained to the New York State Department of Human Rights that they were dismissed from their jobs because they refused to take classes promoted by the Church of Scientology. The classes were contracted by veterinarian Martin Goldstein from the World Institute of Scientology Enterprises, known as WISE, to improve efficiency and morale

• Orlando Sentinel, 16 July 1995
  Couple files $542,000 suit against church

  Williams' first contact with the church was through the Sterling Management Co., a Tampa firm that promised to boost clientele at Williams' optometry business. Tests done in May 1986 to determine problem areas at the business led to the discovery of "personality defects or emotional problems" in Williams that would need further treatment.

• An excerpt from the book Cults In Our Midst
  

  A promotional brochure asserts that in a single quarter 109 Sterling Management clients "went Clear at Orange County Org" (group jargon that indicates they went through Scientology courses). And a review of a dozen brochures, mailings, and flyers put out by Sterling shows a clear link to Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, but none makes mention of the Church of Scientology. Sterling representatives assert that the training is nonreligious.

• Compilation of "Vet quits 1 crusade and joins another," and "Struggle between cults and critics grinds on," by Michael Lopez, Times Union [Albany, NY], 6/13/93, H1, H5
  

  "After having taken or agreed to some kind of business consultation with Sterling Management Systems, representations were made that the business management (techniques) would not work if they [the professionals] didn't resolve their personal problems." The resolution inevitably involves the Church of Scientology.

The text version reads: What's happening with some of our star players The book you sell today could save someone's life tomorrow Sterling Management Systems in Glendale, one of the top consulting groups on the planet, just recently won Bridge Publications booksales competition, being the top bookselling WISE-licensed group throughout the United States. This is the 4th time that they have won this award. CEO Kevin Wilson is particularly proud of winning this award as it is his company's best indicator of how much LRH tech they are getting into society:         "LRH lays out the importance of selling books in many policy letters; I realized this in a new unit of time recently when I heard about one of our clients who had been off our lines for many years. He was in real bad shape physically.         "Now, we had sold him LRH books in his original package and so he pulled them out and started to read them. Next thing, he got himself connected up to an [Scientology] org and now he is doing great, is moving up The Bridge and is disseminating like mad to others. That's powerful!" -- Kevin Wilson, CEO Sterling Management Systems.

As has been previously noted at the top of this page, scientologists refer to "the bridge" as an term for scientology path. So what we have here is a scientologist CEO of a company which supposedly is using secularized Hubbard material and which will deny having any ties with Scientology, to be glad of having steered a client towards Scientology.

World Institute of Scientology Enterprises = Recruitment Vehicle for Scientology

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