3
"steward" to serve on the board of directors of petitioner at
such time as these are formed. Likewise, the authority of the
trustees will eventually be held by the "Advocate of the Tree"
who will be the church's chief executive and spiritual leader.
The Advocate of the Tree will be selected by a seminary of The
Church of the Living Tree. To date, there has apparently been no
establishment of any project community other than petitioner's
home address, nor has there been any election of a board of
directors, nor has there been any establishment of a seminary and
the election of an Advocate of the Tree. Thus, as far as this
record shows, the initial named trustees, of which John Stahl is
one, appear to be in charge of petitioner.
John Stahl has been a letterpress printer since 1970. He
later began to use handmade paper. Since 1971, he has been
principally involved in the publishing and papermaking business;
in 1988, he established a facility for making handmade paper on
his 66-acre property located in the mountains of Mendocino County
near Leggett, California (the Mendocino County property), making
500 sheets of handmade paper a week. He also has published
articles from time to time, and in 1971 he founded the Evanescent
Press in Montreal, Canada, which he operated as an unincorporated
sole proprietorship.
After petitioner's organization, the Evanescent Press was
deeded to petitioner by its owner, John Stahl. Nevertheless,
since the transfer to petitioner by John Stahl in 1993, the
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next
Last modified: May 25, 2011