reached that Ruth would speak in the morning in a different room and that those who preferred to continue with the Community meeting would do so separately. All the foregoing, to the best of my recollection, is factual. How important my intervention, or Betty's, was in helping the group to reach agreement becomes a matter of opinion. The next morning Ruth congratulated me on having helped to break the stalemate. Ed, Ruth's strong right arm, said he felt promoted beyond what he deserved, and two other power designees said they disagreed in part with what I had said the previous evening. They didn't say what their disagreement was, but I assumed it to be that

they would deny having more power in PCA than anyone else. Ruth's presentation the next morning, by the way, was well attended and warmly received. Having written as much as I have about power and its distribution within PCA at this and prior Forums, I have the feeling that anything more I might write would be beating a dead horse. I have not yet met anyone who would deny that while Carl Rogers was alive he had the most power within the P-C movement, whether you called it personal power or traditional power. Since his death, his mantle did not fall on anyone's shoulders but many have taken risks and assumed leadership and by my