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Footnote
We are grateful for the financial support this project has received from the institutions and
individuals noted below. However, conclusions and opinions expressed in this report are not
necessarily endorsed by any of them, but represent our own point of view. Thanks are
extended to: Center for the Study of Youth Development at Stanford University The San
Francisco Foundation Center for the Study of New Religious Movements (Graduate
Theological Union, Berkeley, California) The Kaltenborn Foundation Jerome Kozlowski
Peter Cochran, and Fred Hartley.
In addition, the scope of this report involved many people whose cooperation and expert
assistance were essential to its successful completion. Among the school officials and
teachers to be singled out for special thanks are: Tom Sammons, Walter Denum, Jim
Peatry, Elaine Brody, Father Harriman and Sister Maureen of The Catholic Youth
Organization, and Sandy Gerson of Tochnit Katzir.
For guidance with developing our survey research design, data processing, statistical
analysis, and computer programming we relied upon the wisdom and efforts of: Chris
Bachen, Robert Somers, Lupe Cardoza, Bill Juarez, Pedro Hernandez-Ramas, Tom O‘Toole,
and Emily Hartley. Valuable conceptual input came freely from our colleagues, notably: Pat
Hunt, Margaret Singer, Jacob Needleman, Herb Simons, Everett Rogers, Gary Cronkite, Jo
Liska, Percy Tannenbaum, Lowell Streiker, Keith Harari, Flo Conway, Jim Siegelman, and
Clyde Rich.
A fuller account of this study is presented in Cynthia Hartley‘s Masters Thesis ―Predicting
Adolescent Affiliation with Religious Cults: Empirical Analysis Guided by Pre-Conversion
Theory‖ submitted to San Francisco State University, Department of Speech and
Communication Studies, June, 1983. Copies of the survey may be obtained by sending
$2.00 to the American Family Foundation, P.O. Box 336, Weston, MA 02193.
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