A TimeLine of T.C. from 1970 to 1996

1970... T.C. Fry, with half-Cherokee, humble beginnings and with an 11th grade education, at age 44, on Thanksgiving Day, picks up and reads Superior Nutrition that had been sitting on his bookshelf for 16 years. He foregoes the turkey dinner, becomes an Hygienist overnight; and within a few years, and with a small staff, single-handedly writes and self-publishes many free and low-cost leaflets, booklets, and books, popularizing Natural Hygiene for The Suffering Masses under the name of “Life Science.” He reaches The People primarily through The Bulk Mail and as non-profit establishments during his 4 companies and their subsequent bankruptcies, seizures, and/or closures. He mails, literally to millions. Not demanding huge returns, he is pleased with a 2% response to a simple flyer or letter. Once the responders send in just a few dollars for basic literature, they are provided with his full and ever-expanding line of offerings.

“The Fry Rhetoric” is well-received because the materials are not only low-cost, but they are written on a simple level, and they are short and highly sensationalized! They promise panaceas with an abundance of exclamation marks! This is in contrast to Dr. Shelton’s formidable and somewhat scientific and technical books of small print and straight copy and sophisticated vocabulary and complex sentence structure, wherein Dr. Shelton’s rhetoric teaches the possibility of “superior health with strict Hygienic living” through “The Message & Promise of Natural Hygiene,” and wherein Dr. Shelton avoids Fry-like sensationalizing and panacean promises. The Fry books are also well-received because he has picked up The Torch of Revolution against the medicine men and SAD food profiteers and has written his works in an exciting, incendiary spirit that calls for the high ideals of “self-education, self-mastery, and self-healing!” The Fry works, therefore, speak to the simple hearts of countless sick and desperate and frightened Americans throughout The Land who are in need of not only “The Truth” — but who long for inspiration to take “The Hygienic Road Less Travelled,” and who want to travel that road with a leader who is within their humble, grassroots grasp. T.C. Fry and his publications thus serve to prime The Health Seeker for the more formidable Shelton books and for those of their many off-spring writers.

Late 1970s to 1994... T.C. starts in Yorktown, Texas, in a big, old, broken-down, former hospital built in the 1930s. He starts with “non-profit” status under the auspices of The Church of Human Life Science. He sells the old building to Cinque and moves to Austin to create Better Life Journal, Healthful Living, and subsequent, short-lived newsletters. In the late 1970s, T.C. puts out his first publication, Total Well-Being, which soon folds. In 1980, T.C. starts up The Health Crusader periodical, which soon folds. Then he starts up Better Life Journal, which also soon folds. In 1982, T.C. Fry founds the Life Science Institute. It folds in 1991 to rise from the rubble as Health Excellence, which puts out 2 ephemeral newsletters. For 6 years, Mr. Fry had sporadically published Healthful Living, by far his most long-lived and impressive publication. This magazine offered many useful articles plus self-styled education through The Life Science Library of over 100 worthy, Hygienic and near-Hygienic materials and goods. This magazine enjoyed a circulation of 30,000 and was published only as funds allowed, although it was advertised to the public as “a monthly.” Finally, with the 3rd bankruptcy and the establishment of Health Excellence, T.C. turned to sporadically publishing 2 less costly newsletters, The Health Scene Newsletter and The Healthway Advisor, and to a much smaller circulation and for but a brief period of several months.

As all you GetWell Friends know, T.C. Fry also masterminded a course for those who wanted to become “students” of Natural Hygiene. T.C. promoted this course as being all one needed to become “an Hygienic practitioner” and to prepare oneself for a “Career in Health.” The Life Science Health System is a 2,200 page, 106-lesson, $1475.oo, correspondence course with some 4,000 students enrolled as of today, end of 2000. Controversy about The Life Science Health System always has prevailed. This is because all Hygienic practitioners and many paraprofessionals, myself included, vehemently maintain that no such home-study course could ever adequately prepare a student to become “an Hygienic practitioner” in the professional sense, that it could not take the place of the rigors of Chiropractic, Naturopathic, or Medical degrees followed by the 6 month internships under a member of The International Association of Natural Hygiene Practitioners. My stance on “The Big Course,” having corrected the tests for 2 years, is this: “It is not only thee only cumulative and comprehensive course on Natural Hygiene — it is EXCELLENT — to become self-educated or to prepare the student to become a teacher of Natural Hygiene!”

1994 to 1999 (or so???)... Bob Szucs and associates take over “The Big Course” under the name of “Feeling Fit for Life” and continue to make the course available under that name. Mr. Szucs had many and big plans to bring the basic teachings of Natural Hygiene to Health Seekers across The Nation and around the world. They, however, collect a lot of money for franchises and start offering all kinds of decidedly non-Hygienic goods and services (including liposuction, I was told!) before they fold and pass “The Big Course” to some Canada People (with whom — to date — I have had only 1 phone call with the secretary) who reported that they are... “thriving.”

A Summary & 1995 on... After 4 bankruptcies and/or government closures for refusal to pay taxes ... after 4 magazines and many newsletter births and deaths... after 4 Hygienic retreat openings and closures, 1 in Yorktown, 2 near Austin, and 1 in Missouri... after seemingly countless misadventures with potatoes, pecans, persimmons, organic food networks, paradise communi- ties, colleges, (You name it!)... after 3 marriages and 1 remarriage and divorce... after 7 children ... after numerous romantic liaisons and 1 long, drawn-out, fatal affair... after literally millions of dollars lost to thousands of investors... and after many millions more Health Seekers around the world profiting from their practice of T.C. Fry’s efforts and the teachings, writings, and materials produced and promoted by his students, including Fit for Life and The Health Seekers’ YearBook... and after the successful completion of “The Big Course” and all the countless case histories of good at the grassroots level that his Big Course inspired in students who would pass their knowledge on to friends who would then pass it on to other friends... “T.C. Fry, The Great,” runs out of Nerve Energy, contacts, resources, and wherewithal to maintain an office, a staff, and a headquarters . He accepts the good graces of John Maye, his “benefactor,” his “philanthropist,” his “humanitarian for Hygiene,” his “bill payer.” He moves from Austin, Texas, to Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, and puts out a few issues of a newsletter, The Wellness Messenger, to a few thousand.

During this time in Pennsylvania, John Maye and T.C. build on paper, with a 36 page promotion, the Shelton College, complete with the “Shelton College of Health Sciences Catalog and Curriculum.” They advertise that the Shelton College is being prepared “somewhere” in a tropical, perpetually spring paradise,” reportedly, “somewhere in the Caribbean.” They further state: “We regret, but it would be unwise at this point to name the country or the location.” Then, they state the costs for the course of study, degrees conferred, allude to room and board costs, and start collecting funds from students and investors. (You can piece together “the rest of the story” from 1994 to 1996 from the foregoing Anna-Inez Matus’ account and Dr. Vetrano’s statement and from my following “RECOLLECTIONS.”)

The Shelton College existed on paper only and not in the world of molecules. In the 36 page promotion T.C. put out in 1995, he had a short article in which he continued to make synonymous the term “Natural Hygiene” and “Life Science.”

An 8-Point Summary of The Sad Devolution of T.C. Fry

Dear GetWell Friends, While this short synopsis cannot have nearly the impact, poignancy, and continuity of the entire book, you will at least learn why T.C. Fry succumbed so early in life; and Victoria and I will have fulfilled out promise to tell you Common Health Sense Friends what happened to T.C. Fry. My new book was a search for truth, and it reads like “An Adventure!” Indeed, it was an adventure, a puzzle to solve, and a demonstration of the truths of Natural Hygiene as I traveled through the processes of the devolution of a living human being. While satisfying your curiosity, this summary cannot excite you like diving in and swimming with me through the entire oceanic puzzle of my full book.

Now, for... “The BIG Question!” — “Why did T.C. Fry, one of the most prolific writers and promoters of Natural Hygiene in world history, succumb to pathology at such an early age? Exactly what pathological process or processes killed him?” What “Essentials of Health” was T.C. Fry lacking? What hereditary tendencies did he have? These and many other questions were asked. I will not attempt to guess. I will find the answers from scrutinizing all the reports — laboratory, radiology, and autopsy. The Underlying Reasons Why Mr. Fry Died Are the Following:

• #1 — Emotional Stresses
• #2 — Errors in His Thought
• #3 — An Inadequate Understanding of Natural Hygiene
• #4 — A Loss of Faith in Natural Hygiene
• #5 — A Lack of Patience
• #6 — A Failure to Carry Out an Hygienic Lifestyle
• #7 — Hereditary Tendencies
• #8 —Two Serious Injuries from accidents plus further serious injuries from fighting in WWII.

First let us get an overall view of Mr. Fry’s physical condition. Let us review the symptoms that drove him to the hospital and those discovered at the autopsy. He had edema (swelling) of both legs. This was apparent many years ago, and you will soon learn the cause. His posture was stooped (kyphosis). He had many lesions in his lungs supporting Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD); and he was having such a difficult time breathing, he was forced to go to the hospital. His biopsy revealed lesions in the lungs, including emphysema. Part of this pathology can be attributed to the 17 “Ozone Treatments” he had about a year before his death. He was severely anemic and had been for several years. When at his worst, he had no energy reserve, whatsoever. He had an alkaline pH of his blood the last few days of his life. The reasons are discussed in detail in my book, Errors in Hygiene?!!? He was not osteoporotic, but he was kyphotic (stooped) from sitting at his computer for many hours of the day and night. He had chronic gastritis, gingivitis, and very bad teeth all his life. When he died, he had no teeth. There was no evidence of coronary embolism or cardiac failure. He did not have multiple thrombi due to atherosclerosis in his lower legs.

Let me try to elucidate the events so the downfall will be more comprehensible. First, Mr. Fry led an enervating lifestyle. This led to extreme Enervation and Toxemia. The Toxemia and abuse of his stomach caused the development of chronic gastritis, which he had before he ever became an Hygienist. Chronically lacking good digestion, he was malnourished. Because of chronic gastro-en- teritis, inflammation of the stomach and intestines, he could not properly digest, absorb, or assimilate what he ate. To top that off, he did not believe in eating concentrated protein foods.

The Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease, in conjunction with anemia, was double jeopardy. He suffered with both these problems for at least five years. It takes many years of wrong living before such degenerative symptoms manifest. Becoming discouraged and coaxed into “doing something,” he had multiple Ozone Treatments several different times. By supersaturating himself with an excess of ozone, he thought he was getting what he needed.

Ozone has to be broken down into oxygen, then combined with hemoglobin and carried to the cell before it can be used. However, much of the Ozone becomes toxic free-radicals. His anemic organism was not strong enough to carry out its ordinary, physiological functions, much less to take care of any extra work. As a result, Mr. Fry was left in worse condition than before taking the Ozone Treatments. The three conditions he had, increased the tendency to cellular death all over his body. Hypoxia (from lung disease), Ozone poisoning (from Ozone Treatments), and anemia (from too few red blood cells) destroy cell membranes. You need to understand that cell membrane damage is a “cen- tral factor in the pathogenesis of irreversible cell injury,” which then proceeds to cellular autolysis (self-digestion), and finally, to death of the cells.

Consequently, the factors which led to Mr. Fry’s premature demise were all there. The anemia was bad enough and the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; but with the added Ozone Treat- ments, one can see that the results were catastrophic! All evidence found in the lab reports and the autopsy clearly delineates the evolution of the various stages of his pathological degeneration (the “devolution”), including the autolysis (“self digestion”) of his stomach and kidneys.

Let us try to put all the events leading up to Mr. Fry’s death in chronological order. On Septem ber 4, 1996, Mr. Fry was gasping for air; therefore, his friend and business associate, Mr. John Maye, took him to the hospital. On September 4th and 5th, blood tests were done. At 5:50 P.M., the 6th of September, the physician wanted to inject Coumadin, an anticoagulant; but Mr. Fry refused. Forty-five minutes later, at 6:35 P.M., the 6th of September, 1996, Mr. Fry passed away at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. The blood modifier, Coumadin, which Mr. Fry refused, was advised because the physicians thought Mr. Fry was suffering from a pulmonary embolism; and they assumed that he had venous thrombosis somewhere in his lower legs. The autopsy negated thrombosis in his legs. For many reasons, which I will explain, the autopsy, in conjunction with his case history, proves that the so-called “embolus” was, in the final analysis, a thrombus that had formed right in his pulmonary artery. Injecting Coumadin on the 6th of September at 5:50 P.M. would not have saved Mr. Fry. The gross (“visible to the naked eye”) examination of the heart revealed that it was not diseased enough to have contributed significantly, or at all, to his early death.

There is no doubt from all the findings, that T.C. Fry had Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. There was also definite evidence of emphysema. The gross examination of the lungs is interesting, because they found a great deal of longstanding pathology. Not only did Mr. Fry have longstanding disease of the lungs, that is, extensive Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, there was evidence of recent acute bronchitis, localized areas of bronchopneumonia, and localized pulmonary interstitial thickening. Therefore, his lungs were already very damaged. And it is understandable that he had breathing difficulties because of the recent development of acute bronchitis and bronchopneumonia, on top of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and thickening of the tissues. His lungs were, indeed, scarred, diseased, and physiologically malfunctioning. Some of the other pathology was caused by a serious automobile accident and by smoke and other pollutants; however, most of his lung tissues were probably destroyed by Ozone Therapy. It is a known fact that Ozone damage can happen relatively quickly; and it mimics the look of chronic, long-term pathology. His previous smoking habit, city life, and the automobile accident undoubtedly caused much of the lung damage. But the writer sincerely believes that the Ozone Therapy was the coup de grace that killed him. The final diseases, such as the acute bronchitis, the pneumonia, and the pulmonary thrombus, in my opinion, were all a result of the Ozone Therapy. This is substantiated by many detailed findings, which are delineated in my new book, Errors in Hygiene?!!?

The lung tissue damage discussed above led to the development of a thrombus that blocked the flow of air into his lungs. The doctors said that it was an “embolus,” but the microscopic examination and the Dopplar exam both proved that it did not arise in his legs.

Ozone-related free-radicals can injure the lining of veins and arteries, which is the first step in the formation of a thrombus. The Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease caused hypertension in the lungs, slowing down the blood flow. Thrombi can occur when the blood flow is sluggish, especially when there are irritants in the blood, such as Ozonerelated free-radicals, as in this case. So you can readily understand how a thrombus could very well have developed. The thrombus was formed because of irritation to the walls of the pulmonary arteries by the free-radicals arising out of the Ozone Therapy. Most of the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease was probably caused by the Ozonerelated free-radicals because Mr. Fry showed no signs of impaired breathing for years after his automobile accident.

Mr. Fry’s Primary, Pathological, End Times Symptoms Were as Follows:

• #1 Edema of the legs so bad that he could not walk
• #2 Breathing difficulty
• #3 Lack of energy
• #4 An aged, weary, lack-luster appearance (I was told he looked 90 years old when he gave his final lecture in August and that he was not clear-headed and that his speech sounded like a broken record.)
• #5 Loss of weight (His normal weight was around 146. By February, 1996, he was down to 121 pounds. And by April, 1996, he was 111 pounds.)
• #6 Ashen-grey skin color (This was indicative of anemia, later confirmed by laboratory reports.)
• #7 A sensation of being cold and requiring many layers of undergear (He suffered tremendously in cold weather.)
• #8 Extreme weakness (He had no energy to even crawl up stairs.)
• #9 Low-grade fever
• #10 An abnormal pH of the blood as shown by his laboratory report
• #11 Mental symptoms (These derangements were typical of pernicious anemia.)

Mr. Fry’s Past Pathological Conditions

Mr. Fry had been a robust man around 1972, weighing in the neighborhood of 155 to 160. After discovering Natural Hygiene and living Hygienically for awhile, his weight stabilized at around 145 pounds. Even though robust and so strong you could feel his strength when shaking his hand, he had very poor teeth. He was very malnourished as a youth. His mother had died when he was 6; and his father sent him away to live with his brother, Mr. Fry’s uncle. Young Terry was not allowed to eat at his Uncle’s table and had to feed himself on a minuscule salary. Instead of treating young, little Fry like a beloved, child nephew, his Uncle treated him like a poorly respected, adult, hired hand. In 1974, T.C. Fry was informed by an Hygienic Dentist that he needed to care for his teeth or he would soon be in trouble and probably lose them. He had gum disease, multiple abscesses, and bone degeneration. Mr. Fry never really did anything about his teeth. Then, around 1978, he began having more serious problems with his teeth. He began having throbbing tooth aches, accompanied with very high fevers. The pain was so severe, he could not eat; and the fevers so high, he was sometimes delirious. You should know that Chronic, unremitting pain can completely exhaust a person. Subsequently, a dentist in Austin found that he had 6 or 7 very bad abscesses. This dentist proclaimed that the abscesses were “seeding” his body with toxic, bacterial, waste products and then diagnosed his fever was because of the bacterial toxins. In other words, he had “septicemia” (blood poisoning) as a result of the bacterial waste products. Despite the continual agony and septic fevers, he refused to have his dental problem corrected until early 1990.

For twelve years, he dealt with the abscesses inadequately. Consequently, he suffered with recurring septicemia from 1975, or earlier, until after 1990. This is a very long time to suffer, when he could have quit working, rested, and fasted long enough to recover. Or he could have chosen the dental route of having the teeth taken are of. Even if the dental work had been done, however, the job would not have been finished. The cause or causes should have been found and eliminated, so that he would never again develop that problem. Doing “none of the above” caused chronic and needless stress of the immune system and a waste of Mr. Fry’s vitality. This, in itself, shortened his life.

Now, it is obvious that Mr. Fry had been suffering for many years. The abscesses and rotting teeth taxed his immune system. The 12 year span of nightly pain and high fever from septicemia squandered his Nerve Energy. Chronic problems such as these are prodigiously devitalizing. I do not think he ever realized what a serious condition he was in.

In addition, he had very serious nutritional deficiencies. He had trouble digesting high protein foods because of a non-specific gastritis discovered by microscopic examination at autopsy. Not only did he have impaired digestion, but he did not eat enough protein for his lifestyle and for his physiological needs. Even with gastritis, there are ways to secure more protein; but Mr. Fry did not believe in eating a seriously healthful amount of nuts, seeds, or vegetables, especially leafy greens, on a regular basis and as main staples of his diet.

The laboratory reports clearly indicated that Mr. Fry had what medicine men name “pernicious anemia.” He was malnourished because of insufficient dietary protein of long-standing, and had long since used up his reserve, stored, easily usable proteins. He also had a significant degree of malabsorption, along with the lack of dietary protein. A lack of dietary protein, plus gastritis and malabsorption, in all probability, were the reasons for his severe anemia and shockingly low B-12 deficiency discovered at the Soldiers and Sailors Hospital.

In conclusion, Mr. Fry’s objective and subjective symptoms, analyzed in conjunction with all his laboratory reports, cause me to conclude that his primary condition in the beginning of his troubles was malnutrition brought about by chronic gastroenteritis and protein depletion. Added to that, he had the Ozone Treatments when he was so anemic and depleted of protein that he was unable to manufacture all the enzymes necessary to counteract and destroy the Ozone-generated free-radicals. The serious automobile accident left him with impaired lungs that, along with bronchitis and bronchopneumonia, culminated in his extreme air hunger, that is labeled “Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome.” He could not get any air into his lungs at all because of the bronchitis, bronchopneumonia, scar tissue, and Ozone damage and lastly, the pulmonary thrombus.

The immediate reason for Mr. Fry’s death was the pulmonary thrombus. But all the earlier conditions with which he suffered for years set the stage for this last blow to take place — which was the Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Giving him oxygen would not have saved him at this point. Unfortunately, this was the end, the culmination of a chain of pathological damage that finally took the life of the once indefatigable, goal-driven, seemingly indomitable, enthusiastic, effervescent... Mr. T.C. Fry!

“Good-bye, Mr. Fry!! A lot of people will miss you. Thank you for teaching us lessons — lessons we all need to learn.” Dr. V.V. Vetrano

“The LORD, by wisdom, hath founded the Earth: by understanding, hath HE established the heavens.” Proverbs 3:19

The T.C. I knew by Victoria BidWell

Dearest GetWell Friends & Friends of T.C. Fry — The following pages are in no way to be taken as... “A Full Biography.” I have not undertaken the exhaustive research of... “A Full Biography.” The following pages, rather, are... “MEMOIRS... MOMENTS... REMEMBRANCES... RECOLLECTIONS... & VIVID IMPRESSIONS...” drawn from my memory banks during “The Trying Times with... The T.C. I Knew!” Some of you may think the less of me less after reading these next, many pages! And perhaps, I should just stop here and not supply this article & the next! Still, I have spent many hours during exercise in the warm waters of Fairmont Hot Springs as I searched my memory banks & gathered my thoughts in preparation for these articles, asking THE HOLY SPIRIT to guide me in speaking The Truth of T.C. Fry... as I — & only I — could have known him. Before the “REMEMBRANCES,” I must give you some essential background:

“A TimeLine of T.C. Fry,” “T.C. — Marvelous Movie Material!” & “Victoria’s Spiritual TimeLine.”

And Now... A Lesson on the Literary Term: “Point of View”

There is a story in American Literature, the title of which eludes me at this moment, wherein 5 char- acters are questioned after being victims in and being witness to a hold-up. The plot is simply the interrogator asking each character, “What hap- pened?” Each character had such a completely different story of what happened from beginning to end that the stories were not recognizable, one to the other, as having anything in common except the time and the place! The stories were hopelessly and completely colored by each character’s value systems, senses of reality, cherished dreams, hid- den fantasies, goals and aspirations, propensities and proclivities and — well, JUST EVERYTHING!

One character thought the victims deserved what happened to them. Another felt the victims were treated ruthlessly. One harbored romantic fantasies about the perpetrator and described him as “charming and mysterious,” while another called him “lowdown and scum.” One character felt the crime was the will of GOD so the victims could learn lessons, while another saw Satan standing behind the gunman, laughing and directing the whole scene. One person saw the bright sun come out when their lives were spared, while another felt the chill from a blanket of ominous thunder clouds darkening the sky at the moment of the cowboy riding away, thus sparing their lives. Dear GetWell Friends, do you get the point I am trying

to make? Even if you had been there, you would not have the same remembrances of T.C. as have I! Let me put it another way. My Sister Catherine is “A Doting Grandmother.” So she keeps up with all the latest in children’s literature. Apparently, there is a recent story out, which I have not read, but which she summarized a bit for me. It is called: “The 3 Little Pigs, as Seen through The Eyes of The Wolf.” Cannot you just imagine how it goes? The Little Pigs were fat, lazy, worth- less member of society, living in a slum abode that should be torn down it was such an eyesore. The Pigs were always complaining and playing the roles of victims, while The Wolf went about trying to make things better for the less fortunate by trying to rid the community of riff-raff. And so on.

There is a literary term for the phenomena that make both the hold-up story and the rewrite of this fairytale so intriguing: it is “POINT OF VIEW.” It is determined by “in whose shoes you are standing.” In short, if you were to have been me, with all my life’s experiences, with my call- ing for bringing Natural Hygiene to The People, with my emotional and physical make-up, with my spiritual struggles and strengths, then and only then, would you know... “The T.C. I Knew.” Those years were, from my Point of View, in- deed, “TRYING TIMES.” Yet, they were the times that inspired me to keep going, too!

THE FOREWORD

When Victoria asked me to write a Common Health Sense “Eulogy” on T.C. Fry, I readily agreed. She had in mind a short statement on his contribution to Natural Hygiene, a request that she determined would take a few hours at the most. I did not send her the requested “Eulogy.” I decided to expand it into a book on why TC. Fry died so young. However, as I had not seen Mr. Fry for many years before he passed away, I did not want to guess at the reasons he passed away at such a young age. I had to seek permission from the family to secure all his laboratory tests, as well as the autopsy reports. After I received permission, it took over a year to wrest the reports from the hospital.

I fully realize that this book is not timely. People want to know immediately after something happens, why it happened. But, I persisted in writing this book because I thought it was necessary for Natural Hygiene, as well as for Mr. Fry. Perhaps, more importantly, it is necessary for people to know the truth. Thank You for Your Patience.

I spent a great deal of time on this report in order to give a fair representation to Mr. Fry and also to Natural Hygiene. I wanted to be truthful and not biased in any direction. In other words, I tried to be objective throughout. I let the signs, objective and subjective symptoms, x-rays, various other diagnostic procedures, anatomy, pathology, and pathophysiology tell us what really happened. Presented was a man with subjective and objective symptoms, as well as with various laboratory tests. I have tried to put the man and the subjective and objective symptoms together to get the whole picture. I have had to take Mr. Fry’s character into consideration; and I have tried to show how his personality traits affected his illness, so that people will not blame Hygiene for his death, and indeed, so that they may learn many lessons from Mr. Fry’s demise.

In addition, I analyzed the laboratory reports in detail so people could see the following: (1) The same laboratory reports and findings can indicate many diseases, not only one. [Almost none of them are specific.] (2) Laboratory reports and findings must be used in conjunction with the case history and symptoms; otherwise, they are not valid. (3) Each laboratory has its own methods of testing, and their normals are slightly different. (4) Laboratory methods are challenging and are not always correct. [Numerous conditions, procedures, foods, and medications can cause errors; and many false positives and false negatives occur.] (5) Most of the time, laboratory tests are not necessary if the doctor takes a good case history and gives a good physical examination. But (6) with a good case history and physical examination, laboratory tests sometimes help confirm the diagnosis. And lastly, (7) laboratory tests may be able to tell us what is wrong in the blood and tissues; but they do not tell us how and why these changes began, nor how to get well. Furthermore, with Natural Hygiene, it is not necessary to know what is the exact diagnosis because Natural Hygienists do not “treat” disease. The physician must know the name of the disease because she or he must give a specific drug medication for a specific problem, or use a specific drug or drugs for the squelching of a particular symptom or symptoms.

Hygienists do not treat disease at all because to do so is to interfere with, despoil, and corrupt the healing powers of the organism itself, while at the same time, causing other and more formidable diseases by quashing symptoms with poisonous medications. First and foremost, Hygienists search for the real causes of disease. Second, a genuine attempt is made to eliminate all causes of disease. Third, we realize that health cannot be had without supplying all The Conditions of Health in keeping with the ability of the individual to utilize them at the time. To supply all The Conditions of Health is basic to Natural Hygiene.

By writing this book, I had another purpose, other than only to discover the reason — “Why?” I think it is important that individuals know how diagnoses are determined and how to look at their own laboratory reports and glean a little about what is wrong with their own bodies. They will then be better able to ask the physician questions and to understand the answers. They will be more adept at making wiser choices than to merely comply with the physician’s advise. To put your body under the care of someone else, especially one who knows only how to perform surgeries or how to prescribe poisonous, synthetic pharmaceuticals, thinking that she or he always knows best what to do for you, is too trusting. You and you alone are responsible for your own health, and you can take care of yourself much better than anyone else because you are with yourself everyday. No one else can eat for you, breathe for you, sleep for you, or exercise for you. No one else knows your inner thoughts and emotional habits better than you. No one else but you can avoid The Causes of Disease, and it is up to you to supply The Conditions of Health.

Those who have a garden soon realize if they don’t supply the correct conditions for the plants to grow, they won’t grow. In fact, if you withhold water from the plants too long, they wither and die! Like all life forms on this Earth, we were designed to require certain factors, influences, and substances in order to thrive in a healthy state. By supplying the things we need, we can thrive and live long, happy, healthy lives. By not supplying them and by accepting all The Causes of Disease in our lives, we sicken and suffer until we die. By not supplying the needs of a healthy life, we are destined to live in a life of uncertainty, fear, despair, and hopelessness.

It behooves us to learn a little more about health and disease and to know how to ask intelligent questions of our physicians and other caretakers. This is why, in this dissertation on the demise of T.C. Fry, I have described tests and have shown all the conditions that the tests could indicate and how to put it all together. I did it so you could use the book as a source to learn what some of the tests mean; so if you ever had an abnormal finding, at least you have a little knowledge about the test and will be able to decide more intelligently what you should do if you find yourself with a particular health problem.

This book should help you understand how important it is, at the very beginning of any health problems, to use Hygienic Care first! If you do not, and if you merely seek means to stifle a symptom or symptoms, then you’re constructing the conditions for the devolution into disease and death (“devolution” meaning “the opposite of evolution,” that is, “the breakdown or degeneration of something or someone”). The body is a unit. It functions as a unit. When one organ becomes impaired in function or structure, this impairment is felt by the entire body. For instance, if the digestive system is impaired, the entire system suffers because it cannot receive the nutrients it needs for a normal, healthy metabolism. If the heart is impaired, the entire body suffers because it can’t get rid of its garbage. We are a living, ecological system; and if one organ is not performing its tasks properly, all the other organs that make up the systems of the body suffer! Consequently, all the other organs and systems also partake of the impaired physiology because their needs are not being met. When their needs are not met, other organs suffer more or less; so now you can see that the organism devolves, that is “evolves in a backward direction, as a whole, slowly but inevitably.” WE CAN STOP THIS “ENTROPY,” BREAKING DOWN PROCESS, IN MOST ALL CASES WITH RIGHT THINKING, RIGHT PRINCIPLES, AND RIGHT ACTING.

You are worth the time and money you spend on this book, or any self-help book that educates and inspires you to truth, for that matter. Some individuals always read for entertainment. This is okay, and it usually does provide some education. But we need to be searchers of the truth, and the only way to find the truth is to read books that can teach us something valid and useful. Take time to learn something which is useful and which can save your life. Learn Natural Hygiene and how to care for yourself. The right to our own lives and bodies is being challenged at this very moment. It is urgent that you learn how to care for yourself so you won’t become a victim of any new “system” or fad that comes along. One might find it very enlightening to realize that germs, viruses, and other microorganisms do not cause disease.

It is necessary that you study, understand, and practice Natural Hygiene. There is more to life than food. Too many people think they will be Herculean merely because they change their eating habits; and when they do, they are content with the half-way route, rationalizing that other people have lived to be 105 years old eating haphazardly. They fail to see that these “other people” had different environments, different habits of emoting, a different genetic structure, and different life paradigms. Most long-lived individuals do not perceive life as a stressful thing. Remember, there is not only one Remote Cause of Disease that kills us most of the time, but multiple, enervating habits, factors, and influences that do us in.

If we understand this, we will begin to search for all causes of disease, doom, and death in our lives and to cast each one out as if it were Pestilence Personified! It takes practice, perseverance, faith in our living organisms, and in GOD, to live correctly. It is a formidable task in this atmosphere of instant gratification and hedonistic living. You will be different. You will be “different” because of an inner knowledge that you can live in harmony with the way you are built! Therefore, take responsibility for your own health. You will be rewarded with Superlative Health not often found in the modern world. It is important to know without question, and from experience, that poisonous vaccines do not prevent disease and that destructive drugs cannot “cure” disease. The body alone heals itself, and you alone can cause it to do so.

July 20, 1999, V. Virginia Vetrano, D.C., hM.D.

History of life science

written by T.C. Fry in 1995

Life Science began as “Hygiene” in 1823 with Dr. Isaac Jennings of Fairfield, Connecticut. It was slowly elaborated as a philosophy of life by Drs. Jennings and Sylvester Graham. In the 1850s and 1860s, Dr. Russell Thacker Trall, a brilliant man, did much deep and original research and thinking that further developed "Hygiene." With the coming of Pasteur theory of disease causation by germs, Hygiene took a back seat and lost support as a health move- ment. Though it never died, its decline continued, despite such champions as Bernarr McFadden and other proponents. Modern medicine found a powerful ally in the drug trades; and with their growth, medicine used the drug trades’ power to develop what was, in effect, a monopoly on all the avenues of information and learning. In the 1920s, Dr. Herbert M. Shelton came on the scene as a giant in the movement. In 1948, Hygiene received an impetus with the founding of the American Natural Hygiene Society (which took “Natural Hygiene” out of its name in 2000). The word “Natural” was prefixed before “Hygiene” to demarcate it from popular miscon- ceptions inherent in the denotations and connotations of the word “hygiene.” Then, in the mid-1970s, the term “Life Science” was selected by T.C. Fry as a result of a survey in which a weighted voting system was employed to determine name preferences of people with health interests. “Life Science” headed the list of names that were surveyed. Among the names on the list were the following: “Natural Hygiene,” “Health Science,” “Science Humana,” “Natural Living,” “Scientific Living,” “Naturianism,” and several more. You’ll learn more about the history of the health movement called “Natu-ral Hygiene” or “Life Science” in the course of your studies.

The human ego has gotten in the way, time after time, with the continuance of “Natural Hygiene.” Right now, I personally know of a number of T.C. Fry graduates of “The Big Course” and devoted students themselves of Sheltonian Natural Hygiene who have offices and practices and who teach Natural Hygiene without ever once emphasizing “Natural Hygiene” in their self-prepared, self-selected literature! Nor do they avail themselves of the very best take-it-home, do-it-yourself handbook for The Health Seeker to pass along to their clients, clients who would be grateful to know of such a book! And in fact, these teachers tell me they make efforts to avoid the term “Natural Hygiene.” More often, there are health educators who want to rename “Natural Hygiene” and dilute the program or give it their “personalized stamp.” And so we have names like “Life Science” and “The Diamond Method” and “The Hallelujah Acres Diet.” A slogan during The American Revolution warned Colonists: “Join or Die!” Does it not make sense, as we wage The Great American Health Revolution, that we, likewise, unite under one banner?!!?

Along these same lines, I am grateful to the organizations that, for one reason and another, have decided to rename. The American Natural Hygiene Association and the Canadian are no more: they have renamed and redefined themselves as separate from “Natural Hygiene.” Let us get back to “The Basics of Life” and to Natural Hygiene, rooted and grounded in Scripture.

T.C. — Marvelous Movie Material!

Dear, Dear GetWell Friends, I could have stopped right at the end of Dr. Vetrano’s Statement. Surely, you would have never known the difference! Surely, you would have felt you had received enough information for your Common Health Sense #3 money! Surely, “In Memory of... T.C. Fry” on page 24 would have stood as “ENOUGH!” for my T.C. Fry statement. But, I could not stop. I know too much. And since I am sure no one in his family plans to do “A Full Biography” in the exhaustive sense, and I further doubt anyone in the movement will be so moved, this Common Health Sense Issue #3 will go down in history as... “The Eulogies & Remembrances of Thunder Cloud Fry.” He discovered Natural Hygiene, and the lightning from this Thunder Cloud sparked Dr. Shelton’s Torch of The Health Revolution! And after just 26 short years of holding out that Brilliant Torch of Truth across the world, that Torch has transformed into a Comet!” A Sentimental Comet that will light the skies and leave a trail behind for as long as the world shall live! A Comet that only you and I can see and appreciate, through our remembrances, now shared with others.

As I have made clear, further in this article, I give only “MEMOIRS... MOMENTS... REMEMBRANCES... RECOLLECTIONS... and VIVID IMPRESSIONS.” And of these, I have selected only a few of the most dramatic and most representative of... “The T.C. I Knew.” Some of you will not like to hear what I have to say, yet I believe each REMEMBRANCE adds to the total appre- ciation of this... “Colorful Character!” Certainly, he rates as a... “Most Unforgettable Character” in... The Readers’ Digest. Better yet, he is... “Marvelous Movie Material!”

He was... “The T.C. Fry” of each of the Eulogies. He was... “The T.C. Fry” of Anna-Inez Matus. He was... “The T.C. Fry of Dr. Vetrano.” And he was... “The T.C. Fry of The TimeLine” just presented. But he was, in a most real sense, also... “T.C. Fry, The Colorful & Many-Sided.” He had fronts he would consciously put up. And because I knew what was behind those staged fronts... from living with him and Marianne, day in and day out... with knowing Marianne intimately and hearing years and years of T.C. Fry stories... with listening to the T.C. Fry stories Cinque confided in me when we could have been called “unequally yoked friends...” with watching T.C. and his family... with knowing another of his wives intimately, hearing those first-hand stories... with listening to stories of girlfriends and prospective girlfriends... with watching how he ran his business and his attitudes towards money... with understanding his atheism, after having had a father like Victor Bidwell and with my dysfunctional, dark- spirited Bidwell background... and finally with being given spiritual strength, especially with being given the gift of discernment... believe me, “The T.C. I Knew” and and loved and am about to share — as light-heartedly as possible — with you, added to these other T.C. Fry sharings in this Common Health Sense #3, certainly does give a picture of “A Colorful & Many-Sided Character” suitable for — Marvelous Movie Material!!!

There is a recent release video out in the stores right now called “Sweet and Low Down.” It is what I call a “historical documentary,” as it gives the true story of a real person whose life was more interesting than fiction. This movie is about a genius horn player from the 1930s who played with supreme talent, who had a great vision for his brand of music, who was as eccentric and crazy a character as they get without being locked up, who womanized to the hilt, and who was just too dysfunctional and undisciplined to stay on the music scene for any significant length of time. “Why make such a movie about such ‘a loser’?” you might justifiably ask. But Woody Allen, at the beginning of the movie answered that question. “Because, for the moment, he was GREAT, perhaps THE GREATEST OF HIS TIMES. And because he left his great mark on music.” I might add also, because, regardless of his dysfunction, he stepped out and tried and made a positive impact on the music scene and was appreciated.

“If you knew T.C. like I knew T.C. — Oh! Oh! Oh! What a guy!” We of the older generation will well remember that song — only it sang of “Susie,” not “T.C.” I discerned T.C.’s deep, spiritual darkness. I saw his world where he was his own god and made all his own rules as his dysfunctional and Hygienic needs, alike, were fed. And despite all of the dysfunction and darkness from which he operated, his Thunder Cloud was strong enough to strike a lightning bolt to Dr. Shelton’s Torch of Revolution and do untold good, among the bad and yes, even the ugly. What Satan meant for destruction, GOD used for good. What Marvelous Movie Material it would make!

The T.C. Fry real-life ending was decidedly neither riotously or serenely happy, like in the movies: living in that dark hole of a garage and receiving the intermittent and loving hospice of his new friend, while he collected funds to bring the Shelton College off paper into the world of molecules. But it holds a certain heroism and selflessness that, nevertheless, makes good copy for those who have so much and yet who share so little with The Suffering People! Still, the movie makers really do prefer only happy endings. So if the screen play writer were to research further the life of T.C. Fry and were to find the vast amount of good he did in the majority of the individual lives he touched, directly or indirectly, I believe “the happy ending” is already there! It is being celebrated daily, in millions of lives! And his Thunder Cloud continues to jolt the world through the people who today are benefiting from his efforts.

Victoria’s Memories... Moments... Remembrances... Recollections... & Vivid Impressions of... “The T.C. Fry I Knew”

Before I Meet T.C. Fry & End Up at the Life Science Office... Hygiene found me in 1976. I finished teaching English in 1977. I attended Chiropractic College in 1978. I fell apart in 1979. I started cocktailing in 1980, for 3 years. In 1981, Cinque told me about Arthur Andrews and his California Health Sanctuary in Hollister, hardly an hour’s drive away from my apartment in Sunnyvale. I used to spend 3 days a week there, getting back into Hygiene, and 4 days a week serving drinks. There, I began studying Hygiene again and reading all the magazines Arthur had for the guests. There, I was introduced to all that T.C. Fry was up to. It was impressive!

The calling I had received in the summer of 1976 at Dr. Shelton’s Health School was getting ahold of me again. But I have to tell you, it was never T.C. Fry who was my main source for Hygienic teachings. It was Dr. Shelton’s works. And even then, it was beyond Dr. Shelton, harkening back to our Christian Hygiene beginnings. Dr. Shelton would so often remind us that he stands on the shoulders of giants; and he would often devote whole, long articles around the teachings of The Pioneering Hygienists. I longed to be able to start studying them in depth, also. Quite frankly, because of my Dr. Shelton upbringing, early in my introduction to T.C. Fry, I became suspect of T.C.’s teachings, especially “The AllFruit Mentality” and his “Happy-Go-Lucky, Everybody Can Get Well of Everything Right Away” attitude.

What Had Me in Awe of T.C. Fry... It was not what he had accomplished that had me in utter awe of T.C. Fry. I, too, had the calling to bring Hygiene to The People. I, too, could write and speak with a certain rhetoric and flair. Such modes of self-expression were simply talents and skills virtually all who step forward as successful leaders are expected to have mastered and to exhibit, at least to some degree. What really amazed me about T.C. Fry and what will cause me to feel a debt of gratitude to him is what he was able to accomplish with so much in his soul working against him. Bless his heart. Dear T.C. Fry — his choices reflected a soul filled with turmoil and self-sabotage.

I must reiterate to you that I hold such a completely different Point of View of T.C. Fry than most. What he had accomplished was not only impressive — it was triply impressive in light of the fact that he harbored so many handicaps, weaknesses, and addictions eating away at his soul! What an inspiration! Still, the practices that grew out of these handicaps, weaknesses, and addictions and the people who were hurt along the way because of these handicaps, weaknesses, and addictions are not an inspiration, at all! The tragedies along the way hurt not only The People involved — but The Natural Hygiene Movement, as well. Still, I cannot help but tell you that the very fact that this man was so flawed and could still step forward with such a cheery disposition presented to the public, and could do so much good for so many for so long was, nevertheless, an inspiration, indeed, to my far, far, less-than- perfect character!

The biggest T.C. Fry inspiration to me was this 1 thought: “If he can run a worthwhile Hygienic outlet, with all his flaws, then so can I!” In other words, his apparent dysfunction gave me courage. And while I have struggled all these years to gain the wisdom and the strength to be a really good and a really useful person in The Natural Hygiene Movement, I could always look to T.C. for encouragement to persevere: “If he can step out there, flaws and all, and still be of use, so can I!” The Dr. Essers and The Dr. Vetrano’s — with all their Emotional Balance and perfection in Hygiene practices — may have seemed unattainable. But I could always look to T.C. Fry and say, “If he can still help others with all that soul damage, then so can I!” And in the meantime, I told myself, “I will continue to soulsearch and pray for strength to have the purity of heart and the discipline to become ever more useful.”

In many ways, T.C. would have been a nightmare to conventional, conservative, responsible, Christian people, had they known T.C. like I knew T.C. (“Oh! Oh! Oh! What a guy!”) Had they such knowledge of this man as I, they most likely would have called the kettle “black,” in the kindest of terms, no doubt, but “black,” nevertheless; and they would, in all likelihood, have wisely steered clear. And this did happen, time and time again with T.C., in various, new relationships he formed. Many did back off, once they decided something was not quite right with him. But I came from a family background where dysfunction was the order of the day! And because of this soul-damaged background and all the interaction I had to endure with soul-damaged Family members, I understood T.C. Still, most people never got to know... “The T.C. I Knew.” What other people saw as cheerful and fun and funny, I saw as a manic façade or a clever-clown act, covering up his fears. I discerned a spirit of fear dripping off T.C., especially concerning his on-going financial wheelings and dealings. And because I knew so much in the world of his bad business practices and depleted bank accounts and never to be completed projects and broken promises for goods and services that confirmed this discernment, I found it difficult to buy into his light-hearted fronts that caused others such joyful laughter. Until he handled the vast amounts of money flowing through his hands with much more wisdom, I would be unable to join in the fun and laugh with the jovial man of whom so many have reported in this Common Health Sense Issue #3.

How Did I See T.C. Fry? This man was A DEVOUT ATHEIST (T.C. and Cinque ridiculed THE LORD so much they actually belonged to an atheist society!), A WOMAN SEEKER (T.C. went through 3 marriages and a remarriage and 4 divorces, and he always had a romantic liaison going when he was not married!), A BUSINESSMAN WITH A DEVIL-MAY-CARE ATTITUDE (T.C. spent money like it was an endless supply with little apparent concern for from whence it came.), AND A SELF-SABOTEUR. (T.C. put on a hugely “happy-go- lucky” front to cover up his exceedingly low self-esteem.) T.C.’s choices were riddled with irresponsibility when he had so much for which to be responsible ! None of this, however, discredits “T.C. Fry, The Great.” It just serves to help you appreciate the rounded-out reality.

Sometime in 1983... I Meet T.C... After Jock Royall offered me the test correcting job for The Big Course, I went home and spent the $10,000 I had saved cocktail waitressing, serving the alcoholics of America their drinks, and bought a 1978 motorhome to live in while I worked in Texas. I had walked 10 miles a night, 4 nights a week, for 3 years, carrying huge trays of drinks in probably the largest night club in California, and had gone from 220 to 125 pounds during that time. I always knew I would go back to Natural Hygiene as a calling. I just did not know how I would get a start. (What a sense of humor GOD has! The money given to me by the alcoholics of America was used to buy the motorhome I lived in while test correcting for Hygiene in Texas! Then, it was sold to put the first 2 GetWell books into print!)

I can honestly say that I do not remember my first meeting with T.C. Fry. He did not strike me as an awesome figure or as someone to whom I would get down on my knees in gratitude for what he had done for others. Many call T.C. “humble.” But I discerned an act of humility hiding behind a spirit of “low self-esteem.” (There is a huge difference between “humility in THE LORD” and “low self-esteem in the world.”) In your piecing together what has been reported of T.C.’s early days in this #3 Issue of Common Health Sense, it is certainly not difficult to ascertain how his low self- esteem was built. T.C.’s “esteem,” however, was decidedly not “low” when it came to his attitude toward the efficacy of Natural Hygiene when applied systematically to the life of The Health Seeker! Here, his genuine enthusiasm shined for all to see! And it was his “high esteem for Hygiene” that attracted so very many to T.C. throughout the years, along with his genuinely generous and kind-hearted nature.

Sometime in 1983... I Meet Marianne... Whereas I do not recall the moment I met T.C., I do remember meeting Marianne. And she would never let me forget it! As the years went by, we had a way of reminiscing certain events, telling the story as if it had just happened and as if neither of us had heard each others’ remembrances before — these moments were, therefore, filled with the original, emotional impact of the memoir of the moment! We had such sistership together! I hold vivid impressions of Marianne most dear for 2 such moments. The first was when I strolled into the office as “The New Test Corrector,” in tight, shiny, black pants and the long, blonde hair, and full of bold and wild energy! She looked up to Heaven and muttered under her breath, “Oh, Dear LORD, help this girl!” And she thought, “This one is going to be a handful!” But I knew my stuff. And quickly, I added writing articles for Healthful Living to my duties. In a short time, as Marianne kept talking about THE LORD, I took that full moon walk with the young minister and went through repentance and forgiveness for a lifetime of waste and took JESUS as my personal Savior. As time passed, Marianne took me under her wing. Her love was unconditional. She was true to Scriptural love. She perfectly filled Scott Peck’s definition of “a loving person,” as “someone who is willing to extend oneself through acts and deeds in such a way as to nurture another’s spiritual growth.” If Marianne Fry had not so extended herself, I would not be the Victoria BidWell you all know so well today. Sometimes, it takes just one person’s love to help another make huge changes for THE LORD. I am sure many of you have had that opportunity to so serve others. For the first time in my life, I opened myself up to a Christian person; and we formed a friendship based on mutual caring. I Thank GOD for Marianne Fry.

The Young Minister Visits the Life Science Office... It just so happened that the young minister who led me to JESUS that full moon night needed a ride to Austin. We ended up stopping at the Life Science Office before I took him to his destination. As he walked in and around the office and I took care of my errand there, he kept to himself. But as soon as we got outside, he was shivering with excitement: he told me he had received a gift of discernment while he was in there! He related the foreboding, dark cloud of financial despair that hung over the place, the spirit of poverty and want and need that pervaded the place. He declared that GOD was going to close the place down if the owner could not dedicate himself to doing HIS work. Then he proceeded with prophecy to tell me that I would one day change that situation with my efforts and that GOD had plans for me to lift up the work that was being done in the place to HIS glory. I was humbled. I knew I would work for The People as a Health Educator for as long as I was able. The plans could certainly get large. Keep in mind, this was 3 years before the founding of GetWell?StayWell, America! And 7 years before The YearBook. But I could already see that T.C.’s way of doing business, short of an endless, financial miracle flowing to him, would never lift that ominous, dark cloud of monetary need.

“If Only T.C. Would Find THE LORD!” Marianne Would Always Reminisce... The second item of conversation about which Marianne and I would always reminisce, at least once, each time we got together, was what it would be like if T.C. would find THE LORD. She would roll her eyes, look up to Heaven, smile with the innocence of a child, and use a tone of voice filled with love and awe! JUST THINK OF IT! If he could do all he is doing now — raising money time after time for project after project... if he could go through one bankruptcy after another and still have the wherewithal to come back for more... if he could crank out all this material filled with Mother Nature and the Goddess Hygea and “we come from a fertilized ovum” rhetoric now... JUST THINK what he would be inspired to do for THE LORD! JUST THINK Of how his gifts and talents and his calling would change! JUST THINK of how THE LORD’s love would come through his teachings and his publications to minister to those in need, not only of physical healing — but those in need of spiritual healing, too! From the time I first met Marianne in 1983 up until about 1995, Marianne and I would JUST THINK of the possibilities of “A Born Again T.C. Fry!”

Marianne shared during those last 2 years that when she would see T.C., she felt a darkness, like an oppressive cloud around him, through which she could not reach. And it was then, that we quit this particular reminiscence. I do not know if she had completely given up hope for T.C. at that time. I am sure that she never quit praying for his soul. But the fact that T.C. chose a complete stranger in Anna-Inez Matus with whom to spend his last days, rather than to be with his first wife of so many years and near his many children and grandchildren, most of whom dearly loved THE LORD, does reveal what was in his soul. He certainly was making his choice. He could have stayed in a beautiful home in Austin, filled with GOD’s music and the love of his family. And Marianne could have smoked her 6 to 10 cigarettes a day outside. Don’t get me wrong, I am happy that T.C. had Anna. She served him well, and he deserved that. I am grateful he had this one last, loving, female liaison and hospice. His choice also shows that he dearly wanted to stay near Wellsboro in Pennsylvania to try to get the Shelton Collegeinto reality. In the end, he chose workaholism to his dying day and to stay away from that Spirit-filled home, with the music, the wall-hangings and plaques everywhere glorifying GOD, and where the Bible was found opened and read every day.

“‘Thank GOD,’ Is Right!” Says T.C. Fry... It was in the mid-1980s. T.C. had opened up the Lakemont Resort in Missouri. It was the middle of the night. One of the Lakemont guests had been delivered to the local hospital 40 miles away, having taken a diabetic coma turn for the worse. It was risky business fasting a diabetic guest, but T.C. was big on risks. I was driving the limo, dipping down and rising high, riding the undulating waves of Missouri hills. During the drive there, T.C. just could not put on his happy-go-lucky front. The guest could easily go into diabetic shock and never come out. Repercussions could be disastrous. I remained quiet. T.C. was obviously, genuinely frightened. I appreciated being able to be with him at this time. Here was The Real T.C. Fry, owning up to his real emotions, not covering them up with jokes and a manic-made happiness. I suggested that we pray to GOD, that we ask for HIS grace and mercy to be shed on the life of this lady. I asked T.C. if he would pray with me. And he said “Yes.” I prayed aloud, softly. I prayed that T.C.’s heart be open to THE LORD, as well.

After 2 hours at the hospital, the doctor an-nounced that they were out of the woods, the patient was stabilized. And we left. On that long, rolling drive home, I will never forget, I waited till we were a while out on the road, a road now feeling friendlier. And I said: “Thank GOD.” And T.C. echoed: “‘Thank GOD,’ is right.” I held my breath — hoping for this to be T.C.’s turning point! He had called upon THE FATHER in a moment of crisis on the way in to the hospital, and his prayer had been answered. But the moment was quickly forgotten as T.C. was swept up again with the heady life at Lakemont.

Bad Business Practices... From as long as I can remember until T.C. left for Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, in 1995, Marianne Fry was the head secretary at the Life Science and then the Health Excellence offices. She really held the office together. I doubt T.C. could have held the outfit together without her. She was another example of “Behind every good man is a good woman holding it all together!” At first, until I got the full picture, I wanted to know all about how T.C. ran his business. I had left the teaching field and knew nothing about business. Victor Bidwell had been a poor role model with his business practices, except from him I learned to always get the money before goods are sent so that I do not end up with $10,000 in bad debts at the end of each year, never to be collected. Marianne filled me in completely on how T.C. ran his business. (I am sorry to say that I picked up on 1 of his practices: taking money from GetWell Friends before a project is completed. I still owe many of you for the long-awaited Health Seekers’ BeverageBook.)

I became privy to intimate details on how T.C. raised funds by watching the mailers by the hundreds of thousands go out and by watching what would come back in, then by watching how the money was spent. I also asked a lot of questions about 2 previous bankruptcies. Marianne told me that T.C. had poor judgement in hiring, not in hiring shipping clerks and typesetters and printers, but in hiring those in charge of decisions and money spending. She reported his hiring dishonest people who availed themselves of company money. Of course, good-natured T.C. never pressed charges when he tried to pick up the leftovers. She also told me once that it seemed like with everything T.C. touched, something would go wrong. With the yellow fin potatoes, for instance, a railroad strike took effect; and the potentially profitable potatoes sat and rotted at the docks. And with the persimmons, a drought took effect; and the little trees gasped for water and died. Even The Big Course itself, that was sold to Feeling Fit for Life, was supposed to yield 7% royalties on $1,500.oo for every one of the 2,000 copies sold; but Marianne said, except for an initial few thousand, they never received another dime.

I was deeply concerned for Life Science and T.C. Fry becoming a success; but in 1986, I made a point of starting my own business and keeping our finances separate. For unless T.C. were to make radical, responsible changes in his money-making and money-spending practices, I saw no hope for Life Science thriving, let alone for its long-term survival. He apparently was not as concerned as I! The third bankruptcy, T.C. breezed through with flying colors! I urged him to haul the inventory off the property before they closed the doors, which he did: we spent time and money hauling load after load off to the storage boxes. Then, after the bankruptcy, T.C. simply had his son buy the business back for a mere $4,000. And he was open for business as “Health Excellence” in a matter of weeks! Amazing!

The 4th closure, however, was not a bankruptcy formally, although T.C. was definitely out of money again. It was a closure by the government because T.C. just, plain refused to pay his employee taxes, and any other tax, for that matter! (As you may recall, T.C. got deeply involved with a “NO TAXES” rhetoric that consumed a great deal of his time and Life Science resources.) So, it was not the same group closing him down this 4th time as it was the first 3 times, when all he had to do was file a Chapter 11 and get someone to bid on the inventory, computers, and office furniture! This 4th time, I again begged T.C. to haul away the inventory and the mailing list before closure. But with his devil-maycare front firmly in place, he nonchalantly refused. This time, the bidding was set to start, not at a few thousand — but at $33,000! And no one made a bid. It broke my heart to see 300 YearBooks and all those Big Courses and all the rest of the Life Science inventory hauled away. I even called the officials in charge and begged to buy part of the inventory and was refused. They ended up selling it all for the cost of scrap paper.

T.C. was an embellisher, a wordsmith. And he liked to make himself out as a victim of the establishment. Most tend to embellish from time to time. And I believe he may have been a victim of the establishment when he was stormed by the Texas Rangers and SWAT Team in Burnett, Texas. But all 4 of his bankruptcies and/or closures were definitely on the up and up: he did not pay his bills or he refused to pay his employee taxes. There was never a plot or a conspiracy: he was good enough at self-sabotage that such harassment was not necessary! T.C Fry left for Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, not because he had been victimized by government officials or Disease Industrialists, but because everything had been confiscated when he blatantly refused to pay his employee taxes and when he could no longer pay his bills. He was out of money and contacts, plain and simple. (In the historical documentary on Teamster President James R. Hoffa, one of his right hand men told Hoffa that there is one thing he could not do and that was to square off with The White House. But he did it anyway. And he went to jail for it. T.C. fared well just walking away.)

One thing that always amazed me about T.C. was how he could raise all the money he did, basically through The Bulk Mail proposals he sent out, and not be put in jail for mail fraud when he did not deliver on his promises! T.C. was constantly collecting money for goods and services which did not yet exist and offering interest on loans which he could never pay. One time, he offered a 25% yearly interest on money loaned. I was headquartered at BidWell Drive in Fremont, California, at the time. I will share a most vivid impression. One day, an 80 year old lady called me to tell me her story. She had loaned her life savings to T.C. She believed in his work, and she was attracted to the handsome 25% interest offer. She had sent him her entire life savings, $20,000, as I recall. I let her talk as long as she wanted and offered her sympathy. That was all I could do. But after the call, during which I had listened to 30 minutes of personal details and pitiable tones of voice, I went into the bathroom. And I vomited into the toilet. I felt sick for a few hours. And I wondered how T.C. could sleep at night!

At Lakemont, I had met Ralph Raschig, the man who made The Food Combining Wheel and who had compiled The Big Course Big Index. He told me how he had lost $40,000 on the soon-to-be-foreclosed Lakemont. During the years, I met hundreds more who had lost small amounts to huge to Dear T.C. Fry. I estimate thousands lost millions. I had actually come to the conclusion that when it came to paying back his investors, T.C. Fry had no conscience. I was relieved to hear from Anna-Inez’s story that T.C. spent some time facing remorse and regret for some of his life’s deeds, without the manic mask of the happy-go-lucky guy firmly in place. But the honest regrets were not in the area of these thousands of people left high and dry. I just never could understand how he could sleep nights, knowing all these people across America, by the thousands, were being fed his promises, and all the while he knew they would not be compensated! It mystified me. I could only surmise that he was unconscionable in this area.

Then Marianne gave me 3 EXPLANATIONS for T.C.’s ability to get up every morning, after a good night’s sleep... cheery, full of fun and jokes and generosity.

EXPLANATION #1: T.C. did not think about where money came from once it was in his hands. He just spent it for the cause. This seemed plausible, all right, although it was certainly not a responsible attitude. Such an attitude would allow for a good night’s sleep, however.

EXPLANATION #2 : T.C. spent money knowing that there is an endless supply of it “out there” and that he could always “raise” more through further promotions and proposals and contacts. This, of course, was true in theory. As long as a promoter has credibility and contacts and resources enough to do a mailing and to make phone calls, the response is likely to be forthcoming; and some are likely to be favorable. And since he was mailing to tens of thousands at a time and knew literally hundreds of potential investors, the odds were always in his favor for a successful fund-raiser, until Health Excellence went under.

EXPLANATION #3 : People knew, when they sent T.C. money, that it really was a donation and that they would probably not get their product or that they would probably not get repaid the principle, let alone the interest. This was an outrageous statement for Marianne to make! Yet she pleaded T.C.’s case with such love and sincerity, I could almost see her view point. Still, I knew, from talking with his people, this EXPLANATION #3 was just not true!

Sometime in the Mid-1980s, The Lakemont Fiasco... T.C. had good ideas, but it seemed he could hardly ever be satisfied with living within his means. It is wonderful to think BIG! But then, our BIG plans need to be scaled to fit the reality of our present resources and our realistically anticipated resources. As little as I knew about business, I knew that the Lakemont Resort in Missouri could never support itself. Life Science needed a retreat that would hold 30 people, not 300! And I begged him to scale down, to not go through with the Lakemont acquisition. But he just had to do it. He collected vast sums of money from many investors, and then lost Lakemont in a matter of many months. Too bad. It was a grand setting. But T.C. went way over his head, even driving a big, rented limousine to go with the “Big Time” image.

Setting the Record Straight about T.C.’s Son... Anna-Inez reported what T.C. told her. She could do no other. But, to set the record straight, T.C.’s son did not need T.C. to get himself into trouble. This son was always a renegade, of mild sorts. And he had been doing marijuana for some time. It was not planted there by the police. The reason “they” gave him such a long prison term should be told. His wife worked for Life Science at the time. And they lived in a less than prosperous rented home with their 2 darling children. But on the day of the seizure, “they” found a great deal of money for people living in such humility. And the officials could only surmise that this son was dealing; and for that, the penalty is stiff and long-term. The officials in court refused to take credence in the wife’s pleading that she and her husband did not believe in banks and that she had been saving her Life Science payroll money for a very long time in the hidden coffee can. That is the story from Marianne, and as I watched it unfold, while I lived there! “They” were not trying to get at T.C. through his son! Still, I printed Anna-Inez’s story from beginning to end, without interruption. It is just that some of her story after being told... “Through the Eyes of T.C. Fry!” is decidedly different than the way it really went down.

T.C. & His Addiction to Younger & Lovely Women... The Eulogies from Linda in Seattle, Washington, is representative of T.C. Fry, The Woman Seeker. Such an encounter described and as it unfolded was not a onetime occurrence. Because I had so much contact with younger and lovely women as Test Corrector for The Big Course and because I did so much advertising with T.C.’s publications that I got to know many of the younger and lovely women on T.C.’s mailing list, and because I would have intimate conversations with these younger and lovely women on a variety of subjects, over the years, I found a side of T.C. Fry I would have just as soon left undiscovered. He would prospect for younger, attractive women through his mailing list and at seminars. It would typically begin with long, long phone calls full of fun and laughter until the 2 got to know each other; and it would typically end with meetings that either developed into a romantic liaison or that fizzled out. I have not kept count of the dozens of women over the years who confided in me that they were so flattered and delighted to get to know T.C. on a personal level and then who finally realized that his interests were romantic in nature and not platonic. Their reactions, depending on their naiveté, ranged from surprise to horror to disappointment. Still, I do not cast stones at T.C. for this. Nor do I fault him. He was a man of the world. He made up his own rules as he went along. Dr. Vetrano had such a nice way of putting it in her book, something to the effect that, simply, T.C. always needed to have a woman doting after him. In the end, he got one fatal attraction who did far, far more than dote. Marianne put it another way: “T.C. is married to Hygiene. He should not have a wife at all.” Had he been able to devote himself totally to his work and his service to humanity, no doubt he would still be with us today. For it was through his very last, younger and lovely, romantic, female liaison that he was primed by her Medical Mentality to do Ozone Therapy.

T.C. & His Family with Marianne... Marianne first met T.C. on a ship traveling from “The Old Country” to The States. They were both very beautiful in their youth. It must have been a romantic boat ride. They married and had 6 children. But by the time T.C. found Natural Hygiene and from then on, his family did not come first. He could not practice Emotional Balance and Nurturing Relationships. The children really were short-changed. The Father they knew, all their lives, was preoccupied with plans and promotions, books and typewriters, seminars and sales. He could not give them the attention children really needs to feel prized by their father. In a very real sense, we all profited by T.C. Fry’s obsession with getting The Health Message out to the masses. And Marianne and her 6 children, oppositewise, suffered from T.C.’s obsession for The Health Revolution. Be- cause of Marianne’s strength in THE LORD, however, she was able to compensate and to provide the love and guidance most of the children needed to walk the straight and narrow. Her life was not easy, married to T.C. And the heartbreak of a remarriage gone awry must have been devastating. Yet, she remained loving towards him to the end. And, she shocked us all by following him only a few months later! GOD Bless You, Dear Marianne.

Sometime before 1994... T.C. Asked Me to Help Him Get Rid of A***... The last name, a word synonymous with “ruthless,” should have been a dead give-away! T.C. had never called me specifically to help him with a personal problem. Sometime before 1994, he called. We were catching up on each others’ news. And then T.C. revealed the reason for calling. He wanted me to help him get rid of A***. “The woman,” he reported, “is a nightmare.” I retorted with, “That is putting it mildly, T.C.!” I had to commend T.C. for finally wanting to take action. But I told him, if I fly all the way down to Texas and go through what it would take, he would have to take orders from me, he would have to go along with my strategy; for surely, it would involve a fit, a fight, and a restraining order! He agreed. When I got to Austin, the 3 of us ended up at the Health Excellence office on Regal Row. T.C. found an excuse to leave, telling A*** that he had something to say and that I was going to speak on his behalf. He made an exit. And we 2 women were left alone to have it out. The man truly did not want to involve himself in confrontation! This situation was practically routine for me: A*** could not be any worse than my most belligerent sister! I knew I could stand up to A*** because of my tough childhood training. I was prepared for anything! Let the demons bring it on! She could not frighten me. I was not surprised when words were not enough for A***. And when I stood in a doorway to keep her from entering the room to track T.C. down by Health Excellence phone, she began pushing and shoving.

Imagine it! Grown women, coming to blows! When she saw I was undaunted by her violence, she was taken aback for a moment only. Next, she went to call the police, thinking I would then back down. That was just what I wanted. For she had initiated the physical violence; and she would be, therefore, the one they hauled away. The next step would be legal justification for a restraining order at the Health Excellence premises. And T.C. would have his freedom while at work. By the time the police arrived, however, she had hot-footed it away. And by the time I got ahold of T.C., he had backed down on the restraining order, for whatever reason, choosing to remain in the co-dependent clutches. This was something I could not change. I threw up my hands. The final &-fatal-for-Fry attraction held strong. In fact, it continued until just 2 or 3 months prior to T.C.’s death. When it became apparent that T.C.’s death was immanent, A*** moved on to other prospects to get her needs fulfilled.

“The Conspiracy Theory” of How T.C. Fry Died... One of my dear friends, whom I met at Andrews’ California Health Sanctuary in 1982, and with whom I have been in monthly communication for a year now, speculates and speaks for untold numbers of T.C. Friends when he states: “I don’t care what anyone else says. I don’t care what Dr. Vetrano wrote in her book. (I had sent him a copy in August.) I still say ‘THEY’ got to him!” He means, of course, that like others on a long list in American history who had been a threat to “The Powers that Be,” T.C. had been assassinated, not with a lead bullet, certainly, but with... other wiles! With his very first publication, T.C. had been an irritant, a firebrand, and a highly undesirable commodity to The Disease Industrialists. He had been for years bucking the system with his anti-establishment rhetoric. My speculating friend will never be convinced otherwise: “THEY got to T.C. And THEY silenced him!”

I must agree on the spiritual level. Certainly Satan knows more than one way to skin a cat, even a cat with 9 lives. We are told in Ephesians that... “We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against powers, against principalities, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” What more perfect, fatal liaison to get her digs into female-addicted T.C. Hygienist and to wear him down — than a younger, lovely, manipulative woman, who is a medical doctor by training, and who has the ferocity of a wolverine and the tenacity of a Tasmanian Devil? By the time he took on this final, female addiction, T.C. was already worn down. After years of marriages and divorces and romantic liaisons and bankruptcies and with so much of his substance spent and Nerve Energy spread so thin on mighty Hygiene projects and squandered so deep on petty, personal distractions, this woman was “the perfect pawn” of the dark powers in high places to put right, smack-dab in the middle of T.C. Fry’s path to bring down his faith in Hygiene! This woman worked on T.C. Fry like it was her well-paid job. I watched them interact: she had a hold on him, all right. And in the end, it was she who had helped set up T.C. to opt for a therapy, to take that spring Ozone Treatment “LARK!” “THEY” got to him all right! And “THEY” picked the perfect person for the job, and she got it done. Still, it was T.C.’s free will that chose.

A Week after His Funeral... Still September, 1996... T.C.’s Death Saves My Life... I decided to drive the hypotenuse of the triangle back to The Barn in my little ’86 Ford Ranger, instead of going through California. The Ranger was pushing 300,000 miles with the original engine and transmission. Nearly all of those miles had been driven for Hygiene, and probably, 1/3 of them on trips to Texas and back to work with and live with T.C. and Marianne and/or Dr. Vetrano. My health, on this trip, was still far from “good.” 20,000 YearBooks out to The People, tens of thousands of other GetWell titles out to The People, hundreds of thousands of packages and hundreds of thousands of News Bulletins out to The People since 1986. And I was still “eating-disordered fat” and so tired. And with T.C. Fry now gone, how would I survive, without our on-going advertisements in each other’s publications and our deals? And after 4 years of being criticized and even physically battered twice by Joe Mellon before finally forcing him to leave, and then working with the young New Ager in The Algae for 1 year, I was worn... down, down, down.

Still, it was a beautiful drive through the prairies, over The Rockies, and up through Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks. I was feeling the weight of T.C.’s work shift to my shoulders. And I was not up for the load. My drive to The Barn was a long prayer for strength to carry on. I kept thinking, “If T.C. could go at 70, I could easily go any minute!” I was so tired and worn down. My work for The People had ceased to be deeply gratifying and had slowly turned into dread and drudgery. I still felt the gratitude and that I was providing a worthy service. But the joy was gone. As I drove through the spectacular Yellowstone in the midst of fall splendor, I wondered how I would find the strength to keep going, when I felt as close to death as T.C. had been.

My prayer was quickly answered. I was told to find one thing in life that I wanted to do before I died and to do it, whether it was related to Natural Hygiene and my calling or not! I was told to not check out early like T.C. The HOLY SPIRIT spoke to me that day through breath-taking, natural beauty: “Go back to your child get the 1 thing that had saved you then... it willhood... get the 1 thing that had saved you then... it willhood... get the 1 thing that had saved you then... it willhood... get the 1 thing that had saved you then... it willhood... get the 1 thing that had saved you then... it will nurture you now... it will bring you daily inspiration andnurture you now... it will bring you daily inspiration andnurture you now... it will bring you daily inspiration andnurture you now... it will bring you daily inspiration andnurture you now... it will bring you daily inspiration and joy... and with joy will come the strength of the Lord.

“Get a Horse!” — the Yellowstone and Glacier Park mountains and streams and trees sang out! “Get a Horse & Ride like the Wind!” — the elk and the buffalo nodded in grazing agreement! “Get a Horse & You Will Be Renewed Everyday by GOD’s HIGHJOY!” — the hundreds of steamy spouts bubbled up! And so I did... “Get a Horse” — THANKS TO T.C. FRY’S INSPIRATION and by the grace of GOD, I got Captain HIGHJOY America! And, as GOD’s personal gift to keep me company without criticiz- ing, I have been renewed everyday, several times a day, as we make juice together, visit, have meals or snacks, do tricks, ride, or just play... through all kinds of weather and through all kinds of Natural Hygiene Projects for The People! By the grace of GOD & Thanks to T.C. Fry.

Friends, I have gone on pages longer than planned. I have covered the highlights on my list. You may read these “MEMOIRS, MOMENTS, REMEMBRANCES, RECOLLECTIONS & VIVID IMPRESSIONS” and sur- mise that I have been harsh and focusing on the negative. If so, you need to read it again and maybe again. I just wanted to share with you... “The T.C. I Knew.” And that is what I have done. I could go on for another hundred pages like this. But I feel I have given you the clear idea — as seen from the eyes of Victoria — that this man, this “T.C. Fry” worked under handicaps, weaknesses, and addictions with a fervor that is admirable and rare in the history of humanity. I believe we can receive inspiration from his strengths and learn lessons from his weak- nesses. And I believe in telling The Whole Truth. So there you are. Next, I shall give you my speculations as to what, in G’s Truth, killed T.C. Fry.

Passages from T.C. Fry’s...

Program for Dynamic Health

Introducing Natural Hygiene — The Proven Natural Health System Published by the American Natural Hygiene Society in 1974

(Victoria’s Note: Dear GetWell Friends, This little “collector’s item” $1.00 book may someday have a serious dollar value! Hang on to yours. Better yet, read it again to get a better picture of the “on-fire firebrand” for Natural Hygiene that T.C. Fry was just 3 years after discovering it! I print for you now a few “Passages” with the idea that you can better appreciate T.C.’s beginnings and his original intentions for his efforts to bring Natural Hygiene to The People.)

DEDICATION

I dedicate this book to the world’s misled millions who seek happiness and well-being but who know not how to find it. I humbly consecrate the collected knowledge of this volume to a suffering people in the hope they will welcome and embrace its essential message, thus freeing themselves from the shackles of disease foisted upon them by the errant, the profit-motivated, commercial interests that do not care about the consequences to health of those who use their pernicious products and gain-motivated traffickers in human disease.

IN TRIBUTE

I owe a debt of gratitude to DR. HERBERT M. SHELTON of San Antonio, Texas, the greatest genius the health movement has ever known. Without the inspiration and guidance of his vast knowledge and understanding, I would have been unable to bring this information to you as I would still share the misconception, the ignorance, the despair, and the suffering almost all Americans endure. If America survives the debauchery of its death-dealing “food supply,” medical and drug trusts, it will owe its survival largely to DR. SHELTON!

A HOPE & AN INVITATION

I hope this little volume will be instrumental in introducing to you and to America, indeed, the peoples of the world, a true health philosophy and practice that will enable them to realize the high potential with which millions of years of development have endowed them.

ON UNDERSTANDING

It has been observed that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. It could just as truly be said that it’s worth a ton of cure; for, in health, nature forgives no transgressions of her immutable principles. Every act contrary to the principles of health has its bad, physiological consequences; and they cannot be undone. Every practice in accord with the fundamental principles of health as outlined herein has its beneficial results. I submit that an ounce of understanding is better than a pound of knowledge and that a pound of knowledge is worth a ton of belief. I bid you, therefore, seek understanding above all things.

More from Dynamic Health...

How the Author Discovered Natural Hygiene, His Experience & How He Practiced It in 1973

Your writer has been on the Natural Hygiene regime for just over 3 years. In late 1970, when I made my GREAT HEALTH DISCOVERY in the form of DR. HERBERT M. SHELTON’s fine book, SUPERIOR NUTRITION, I was very conformist in my living practices.

At that time, eating was not, for me, for the sole function of nourishing the body. Gormandizing was one of my hobbies! In pursuit of the pleasures of what I now realize was a perverted and depraved taste, I ate indiscriminately as long as eating was a “taste delight.” And I never stopped to think about the purpose of eating or the consequences that might result.

I discovered Dr. Shelton’s fine book on a holiday in 1970 among some of the many books I had purchased 16 years earlier. I now regard much of my life as being LOST, especially the nearly 16 years in which I had possessed the “Open Sesame!” to superb health! I had read SUPERIOR NUTRITION completely on the day of its discovery. I reread it within a week, marking it liberally where I found its contents to be nothing less than revelations for me. So inspiring and so very obviously true was this book, that from that day to this, I have not:

• Partaken of meat, fish, eggs, milk, or any animal food.
• Used a particle of salt, pepper, spices, mustard, sauces, catsup, or any other condiments.
• Eaten or partaken of breads, chocolates, candies, ice creams, pastries, or any of the hundreds of other concoctions that are popular.
• Drunk of teas, coffees, alcoholics, or any other beverage than pure, distilled water!
• Taken any drugs, shots, pain killers, sleeping pills, aspirins, antacid pills or concoctions, “medicines,” or any other injurious substances.
• Eaten but very little cooked foods!

Subsequently, I stopped using soaps (Cleansing is a mechanical, not a chemical process!), toothpastes, deodorants, shampoos, shaving creams, skin cleansers, lotions, and other cosmetics! I undertook most of these radical changes in my life IN A SINGLE DAY! So heavily did the truths of Dr. Shelton’s book weigh upon me! I had always regarded myself as a creature of truth, and it was beholden upon me to follow its dictates upon discovery! So astounded was my family by this revolutionary turnabout in my regimen they thought I had gone kooky!

At 5 feet 6 and 1/2 inches in height, I was a hefty 195 to 198 pounds. I had a whole catalog of ailments and frequent bouts with colds and “viruses.” At 44 years of age, I had pimples, blackheads, twitching of the eyes, heavy dandruff, perpetual indigestion, migraine headaches, acid stomach, frequent colds, “malarial attacks,” dental cavities, defective vision (I wore glasses but do no longer!), continual sluggishness and tiredness, constipation, sinus troubles, angina pectoris (heart pains), bad breath, foul stools, obnoxious body odors, a runny nose, continual mucus expectoration, rheumatic or arthritic joints, and other complaints. I had a “normal” pulse of 70 to 75 versus a normal pulse today of 44 to 48!

Going on a completely living food diet, consisting exclusively of certain vegetables, fruits, nuts, and seeds caused the most startling changes to occur! There was a disappearance of one complaint after another.

Victoria’s Note: T.C. then goes on to tell of 3 fasts and of his weight dropping to 144 pounds. T.C. continues: Then something happened to me — a kind of euphoria! A new sparkle was in my eyes — eyes which had looked a glassy yellow and somewhat bloodshot — became white! My wife, who was on the verge of summoning a doctor against my wishes, noticed the sharp change. Within a week, my weight was back up to 148; and a month later, I was 155 pounds, where it has remained almost continuously ever since.

All my complaints have disappeared! My hair is still mostly gray, but my balding has definitely stopped. I have not had a single cold! No “malarial attacks” have put in an appearance. My nose no longer runs! My headaches have never recurred since my third fast. I would say that, at 47, my health is as fine as it could be after the damage I suffered through 44 years of wrong living!

Victoria’s Note: T.C. then goes on to tell of a typical day, filled with The 10 Energy Enhancers; and he describes the rigorous exercise regime he demanded of himself.

As I write this, I suffer no complaints except lingering gray hair, which I have had for nearly 10 years. Being thoroughly cognizant of the fine results of my regimen through better and greater performance, a won- derful feeling and better disposition, a happy lack of ailments and “viruses,” I find it no drag or in any way a problem to follow The Hygienic Program I established. I can recommend nothing better than the establishment and diligent pursuit of The Hygienic Program of living!

Victoria’s Note: Were I to give T.C. Fry a grade for The 10 Energy Enhancers by what he has written up for us Health Seekers here, I would have to give him a “VERY GOOD.” He reported doing so many things so right and so consistently. But the 7 hours of sleep he reported were not enough for the rigors of his day, especially with the wear and tear of all that exercise. Dr. Vetrano told us of his lack of concern for caring for his teeth. And Marianne had reported that Energy Enhancers #9 and #10 were definitely not up there in the “A” grade. Of course, for “EARNESTNESS” and “ENTHUSIASM,” he rated “A+” for “EXCELLENT!”

The Back Cover of T.C. Fry’s Program for Dynamic Health With Photos of T.C. at His Most Fit!

This Book Shows “The Way to Newfound Vigor and Strength!”

Splendid health is not attained by any one factor alone. We cannot achieve it through diet alone, through exercise alone, or through fasting, rest, etc. A high state of health can be achieved only by the employment of ALL factors and influences essential to human well-being in accord with the organism’s requirements. The program we must follow to achieve the highest state of health possible, taking into account our inherited limitations and ecological factors is outlined in this book. This book has been compiled by T.C. Fry, a businessman in New York City. Herein Mr. Fry presents the program of NATURAL HYGIENE as he discovered and employed it. He tells how he, at an obese 200 pounds and in failing health, achieved newfound well-being.

T.C. Fry & His Misadventures with What Was Once Called “The American Natural Hygiene Society”

Dear GetWell Friends, Please keep in mind that I am not attempting to do a thorough biography of T.C. Fry, that I am giving you remembrances and hearsay from reliable sources. Still, there is a story of when T.C. was a favored author and promoter for the ANHS. It had to have been somewhere between 1970, when he discovered Natural Hygiene on that fated Thanksgiving Day, and after 1974, when the ANHS liked him so much they actually published his story in this book, Program for Dynamic Health!

The book is long since out of print. And, as far as I can figure from talking with dignitaries of the ANHS and those who remember all the ruckus T.C. caused, The Florida People, formerly the ANHS, would like to forget T.C., altogether! In fact, at the ANHS convention following his death, one of T.C.’s admirers stood up at the dinner and delivered an unsolicited eulogy to T.C. The speakers in charge, it is reported, stood by and barely acknowledged the eulogy and then quickly went on to other matters. Neither was T.C.’s passing noted in any ANHS literature.

So what happened? Well, T.C. was a promoter of Musical Heritage when the ANHS found him (or vice versa). And T.C. proposed to use ANHS funds to promote Natural Hygiene to the tune of, it is said, over $1,000,000. When the Bulk Mail failed to bring in the returns expected, it took years and years for the ANHS to recover. That is the story. Plus, they had many prob- lems with T.C.’s teachings and his rhetoric!

“Not to volunteer aid when unintentional suicide is going on seems nothing less than criminal.” Dr. Edward Hooker Dewey “Would you believe me if I told you that unintentional suicide IS going on in America? That, in fact, 98% of ALL Americans suffer from self-imposed disease due to their self-chosen living habits?”

T.C. Fry

Eulogies for T.C. Fry

From GetWell friends

Dear Victoria,

My first contact with T.C. Fry was in 1968. I believe he had a classical music business in New Jersey at the time. I was 16 years old and just beginning to study Natural Hygiene, and we started a corre- spondence on the subject. I don’t remember how we first began to write to each other or how long it lasted. But he was always very helpful, supportive, and dedicated. We finally met in person several years after that, at a Natural Hygiene seminar in Queens, New York. It was inspira- tional and enlightening to hear him speak on health. Amy Bert in Huntington Station, New York, 1998.

To: Victoria BidWell — Re: Remembering T.C. Fry... I had been corresponding frequently with T.C. within a month of his untimely passing. In one of his letters, he said: “I intend to put Natural Hygiene on the map really big this coming year! Things are beginning to crank up now.” T.C. was exuberant and lively right to the end. And he always had an enlightening way of ending all his letters: “Yours for a Compassionate, Caring, Happy & Healthy World.”

T.C. had a unique way of proving the wrongs of medical drugs and how they interfered with the body’s natural recovery system and how all toxic substances can further weaken our immunity and create adverse reactions.

T.C. and I both helped students and parents for more than 15 years to avoid unwanted vaccines. And when a problem arose, we strived to solve it together. T.C. shared many great writings generously for all of us to know and understand The Real Truths that exist on Hygienic Living. With Great Respect for a Truly Caring and Insightful Man on Health Issues, Most Sincerely, Grace Girdwain in Burbank, Illinois, 1997.

More Eulogies for T.C. from GetWell Friends...

Dear Victoria, Thank you for notifying me of T.C.’s passing. I had not heard, and I am saddened. Like your initial reaction regarding mortality, it always bothers me when an Hygienist passes on before 100. I know we’re not in a longevity contest; yet it seems to fuel the “I told you so!” fires, when one of us passes prematurely, usually from overworking to serve mankind and womankind. Our gift of robust health till the day we do die is what makes me vigilant. Joel Ahlbrandt, Paola, Kansas, 1996.

Dear, Dear Victoria, Yes, I’m still alive and kicking. I know it has been awhile since I wrote to you. I corresponded with T.C. and took The Course in the late 70s. Then, in 1989, my husband of 48 years died. I went to Texas and did my internship at T.C. Fry’s Wellness Retreat. The work and the people and T.C. saved my sanity. I came back in good health and high spirits and ready to tackle the job of settling the estate and paying the bills. And I have gone on from there to make a very rewarding life for myself and the people around me. I enjoy yard work, gardening, and traveling. Just bought a new car, as I drive to Florida by myself. It’s a bit over 1,000 miles. I stayed at T.C.’s retreat til April of ’90. I was the only one there that knew anything about gardening, so T.C. sent me back out to the farm. And I planted an acre of tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, lots of lettuce, broccoli, and melons, lots of melons.

One of the watermelon packages of seeds said the melons would be ripe in so many days. That came to The 4th of July. I told T.C. I would be back The 4th of July to help him eat a melon. We laughed and looked at the pitiful, Texas, bare ground full of little humps. Well, I went back on The 4th of July, and the garden was like an oasis! One acre of flourishing shades of green in the middle of dry, yellow grass and brown dirt all around. It must have taken thousands of gallons of water. But everything looked good. Our efforts haretreat with garden goods, including all the lettuce the rabbits didn’t eat!

Yes, the melons were just beginning to ripen. I checked out a big Charlston grey, 2 feet long and a foot through and yellow on the bottom. We put it in the cooler about noon. And at 5:00 P.M., we celebrated and cut it open. When the knife cut in, it split half way open. There were five of us, and we had our fill and some left over. We took pictures and just had a good visit. I didn’t want to leave but had to get back to work. That was a very happy occasion. But that was the last time I saw T.C. I was very shocked to hear he had died. We lost a good friend and a fellow Hygienist. I miss him and his letters. I received a letter from him just before he was hospitalized. Can’t believe he is gone... he was always so alive! Geneva Brummet, Unionville, Indiana, 1998.

& Even More Eulogies for T.C. from GetWell Friends...

Dear Victoria, Praise God you are back on track! When we did not hear from you for over 9 months, I wasn’t surprised you had nervous system breakdown symptoms. You have always worked too hard and never rested enough since I’ve known you down in Hollister, California. THE HOLY SPIRIT will see you through your vision of The Great American Health Revolution. I have prayed for you and helped you since 1985 at Arthur Andrews’ School of Natural Hygiene. I have all your books, as well as T.C.’s books and tapes. I will be 84 in 3 months, and I’m never sick and still weigh 95 pounds for 25 years. I thank GOD in our LORD JESUS’ glorious name for many blessings and goodness in my life. You know, as well as T.C. Fry, that my life is in HIS HOLY WORD — the source of my strength and striving to obey all his perfect laws and to do them — IS MY DELIGHT!

T.C. Fry has developed and produced the only complete Natural Hygiene Course (106 lessons). No one has been as generous, giving, caring, regarding The SAD sufferings and downward health in America. The entire Earth needs desperately the cause of disease and health. Both Shelton and T.C. were persecuted by the American Medical Association and government lackeys of elite medical cartel — jailed falsely for practicing medicine without a license! T.C. was a voracious researcher in more than scientific Natural Hygiene — politics, economics, and challenged all to debate, fearlessly, even relentlessly! T.C.’s legacy to Natural Hygiene will live on in his 106 Lesson Course taught in France, England, India, and Australia and in Austin, Texas, at the Life Science Institute where lessons were graded and diplomas were earned.

Yes, T.C. died prematurely, ignored the first step of Enervation. His last project was a driving passion to open The Shelton College of Life Science and a Health Retreat in Costa Rica. John Maye, his benefactor, told T.C.’s little staff in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, that he would try to continue T.C.’s dream of establishing The Shelton College. How can he? There is nobody who can replace T.C., no one who can follow in his selfless dedication to TRUTH! I know GOD loves T.C. And his life work will always be praised by me and many others.

Take Care, Dear. Lovingly, Helena Henn, California, 1997.

Gratitude to T.C. Fry... In 1982, I read a newspaper ad that advertised T.C. Fry’s school. I enrolled and started the lessons thereafter. In 1989, The Fruitarian Diet saved my left hip. I could not walk in September of that year because the hip had developed severe arthritis. I had a choice — “Get a hip implant or go on The Fruitarian Diet!” I ate just juicy fruits; and in 3 days I could walk, hop, skip, and jump! I was extremely elated, and the hip has not bothered me since! Kate Florio, Cedar Chest, New Mexico, 1998.

& Yet Another Eulogy for T.C. from A GetWell Friend...

Dear Victoria, I heard of T.C.’s passing exactly one month after it occurred. The news was a real jolt to me, because T.C. Fry was a very special person to me. I first became aware of him in the mid-80s when I got on one of his mailing lists. (I honestly don’t know how!) and started receiving his mailings. The first one to catch my eye and attention was a letter in which he had made the claim that: “AIDS is a hoax!” And he wanted contributions to help him publish a book exposing it. I said, “Ah-ha! I always thought so!” and sent him a contribution. From that point on, I felt a personal connection. And I hoped that someday, I would get to meet this man.

Well, my dream came true early in 1992, thanks to another very special man, L.C. Green of Seattle. L.C. was teaching classes in nutrition and health. A scholar and a researcher, L.C. advocated raw foods; but he taught that if you are not eating all raw, organically grown foods, you’d sure as heck better be taking digestive enzymes every meal. (Use of enzymes had turned L.C.’s life around.) L.C. had become personal friends with T.C. Fry in the course of his studying and researching, and he had some of T.C.’s books available at his classes. One night, L.C. announced that next week, we would have a special surprise guest in class! The following week, I walked into class and instantly recognized T.C. Fry. (I’d seen his picture.) The rapport between us was immediate. And I later slipped him a note expressing my admiration for his work and my hope to become better acquainted with him. He “jumped on it,” got my number from L.C., and soon our friendship was off and running.

I can definitely vouch that T.C. was a very kind-hearted and generous man. When he heard me express my wish that I had the money to study his course in Natural Hygiene, he said, “Well, we’ll see what we can do about that.” And not long after that, installments of the course began showing up in my mailbox! And also, bless his heart! When he found out that I couldn’t make my car payment one month, he sent me the money for it.

In May of that year, I went to Dallas to join him for a conference and see his part of the world. Later in the summer, he came back to Seattle on business and stayed with me. That fall, he got on to a project and would “hole-up” with me for days at a time working on it. Our correspondence thinned and tapered off, and I never saw him again after that summer. But I will never forget him.

I noticed that T.C. tended to lose himself in his passion for his work. I feel he did not always take care of himself properly. I suspected that he went on little food and not enough sleep for days at a time. And people — being human, as we all are — do not always “practice what they preach.” My guess is that T.C. was no exception to this humanness. And I speculate that such personal neglect in deference to his work could have contributed to his early passing.

Another thought... T.C. told me that he never drank water. I speculated about that and wondered if he had not dehydrated himself to death! A naturopathic doctor I know once taught me: “We don’t age. We dry up!” We are born 90% water. And by the time we are 70, we’re only 70% water. Aging is dehydration!” I don’t know who ever came up with the stupid notion that drinking water is “un-natural.” Every animal I know drinks water! My health improved when I started drinking un- chlorinated, purified water twenty years ago. I have read the book, Your Body’s Many Cries for Water! by F. Batmanghelidji. It should be “MUST READING” for everyone!

I’ll mention one more thing. It is only a theory. As an observer of human nature, I have noted that people, (and especially men) who feel unloved and unneeded, tend to lose their will to live. I think T.C. was a very loney man. And perhaps, regardless of new projects in the making, he had come to a completion point in his work. I don’t know. Maybe deep within, he was ready to go. Linda in Seattle, Washington.

“The 22 Essentials of Health”

by T.C. Fry

Founder of Life Science

No one else can breathe for you, drink for you, sleep for you, exercise for you, eat for you, get sunshine for you, or perform any of life’s processes for you. Health is your responsibility: not that of a physician. If you want to enjoy happy well-being, you must undertake the steps that build vigorous, sickness-free health. No one else can do it for you. Health is self-built, not conferred from without.

For most, overcoming any disease can be easy. Discontinuing The Causes of Disease and establishing The Conditions of Health will eliminate the disease symptoms.

The Life Science Motto is this: “Exercise and a raw food diet build great health — try it!”

That really sums it up. These are the 2 areas in which we most sin against ourselves. The First Commandment of Eating is this:

“Thou shalt not poison thyself.” Building health consists of meeting life’s needs appropriately. These needs follow: Overcome Ailments & Achieve Health: Establishing “The 22 Essentials of Health”

• 1. Good air. Polluted air is destructive of health and well-being.
• 2. A comfortable body temperature. Uncomfortable temperatures drain Nerve Energy.
• 3. Cleanliness. Most of us are adequately clean externally but not internally, which contributes to our discomforts, pains, and ailments.
• 4. Pure water. Drink only distilled water.
• 5. Sleep. Sleep is the condition under which the brain and nervous system regenerate a fund of Nerve Energy, heal tissues, and make repairs, and rebalance the body chemistry.
• 6. Raw fruits & vegetables, nuts & seeds. Only foods consonant with our biological adaptation must be eaten. When we eat foods that our dietetic character decrees, we’ll handle them efficiently and without problems. Most Americans are taught and most believe that “The Basic Four Food Groups” are required to furnish our needs. Of The Basic Four (meat/protein group, dairy group, grain group, and fruit and vegetable group), 3 are contrary to our dietary character and precipitate or aggravate all kinds of diseases from which we suffer. Just giving up these 3 toxic food groups and eating fruits and vegetables alone, in the uncooked state, is enough to help many people regain health.
• 7. Sunshine & indirect sunlight. We should obtain at least an hour of sunshine on our bodies weekly.
• 8. Regular exercise. At first, you may have to limit your exercise routines. But, vigorous, high exertion exercise is essential to high-level health. Activity is the foremost characteristic of life.
• 9. Rest & relaxation. Like sleep, the body regenerates its Nerve Energy during rest and relaxation. They are essential after any kind of fatigue brought on by any kind of exertion: mental, emotional, or physical.
• 10. Play & recreation. Such activities rejuvenate the spirit: both combine well with exercise.
• 11. Mental & emotional poise, peace of mind & self-assurance. These all derive from the foregoing “Essentials” and “The Requisites of Life” cited hereafter. Stressful conditions will disturb you less as your health and equilibrium improve.
• 12. Pleasant environment. An ugly, distressing environment drains our spirits, and, therefore, our sense of well-being. Lovely and beautiful surroundings uplift us and contribute to health.
• 13. A sense of belonging to a group. Humans are, by nature, social beings. We have a gregarious instinct. Being among pleasant, loving, joyful fellow beings or peers contributes to wellbeing.
• 14. Self-mastery. This is a must if we are to competently cope with life’s ups and downs, with the temptations and demands that face us.
• 15. Security of life and its means. Insecurity leads to emotional stresses that rob us of wellbeing. We must have assurance that the necessities of life will be ours for reasonable efforts.
• 16. Creative, useful work. No one wants to be a parasite or be unproductive. Everyone thrives when their needs of life are met by their efforts.
• 17. Inspiration, motivation, purpose & commitment in life. Having realistic goals to achieve and working towards them is health-promoting.
• 18. Instinct of reproduction.
• 19. Satisfaction of the aesthetic senses. We thrive on beauty, are repelled by ugliness. We should stop to appreciate beauty when possible.
• 20. Love & appreciation. We are exhilarated and exuberant when we are loved and appreciated. On the obverse side, we become depressed when others dislike and deprecate us, even if unjustifiably. These exalted feelings must be earned! To be appreciated most, you must genuinely appreciate others and make it known to them unmistakably by your words and actions.
• 21. Interaction with peers about feelings, matters of intellectual moment, life’s affairs & life’s problems. While this is implicit in belonging to a social group, it needs to be highlighted.
• 22. Self-esteem, self-confidence, self-reliance & a sense of self-worth. “Self-esteem” means “you have a good self-image because you’re equal to the demands life makes upon you.”

The Harringtons' Eulogy

Dear Victoria, Your package came as a pleasant surprise. I have been feeling quite let down by Natural Hygiene for quite some time now. The society in Florida keeps steadily advancing towards a more “medical” stance. The local chapter here in Toronto (my closest, main city) has changed its name. I have never been thrilled with the name “Natural Hygiene.” But I am even less thrilled with the name... “Natural Health Society.” They feel it more accurately reflects what they are about. The McCarters have passed on (At least they rated an obituary in the Toronto newsletter.), and I did not receive a reply when I wrote to T.C. Fry’s new venture. (And now I know why, thanks to you.) I was saddened, but not surprised, to learn that T.C. had passed away last September. I sit here and seethe, that the Florida folks could not have even put in a small mention of his passing. If it were not for him training Harvey Diamond, they would still be a small cult of ultra righteous, health equivalents of the branch Davidians of Texas. Indirectly, T.C. put them back on the map. They may not be grateful, but I am. You ask for reminiscences of T.C. Well, here is ours.

For Christmas, in 1987, my sister gave me a book, Fit for Life. I did not read it. I was very into health. It is not only my profession as a Public Health Inspector, but it is also my avocation. My wife and I had been searching here and there for some 10 years for a proper health system. Clearly, our present system of nutrition and care was not as it should be. “FIT?” I was as “FIT” as I wanted to be. What I wanted was high level wellness. I was not interested is “fitness.” I was mentally happy. What we wanted was a wellness system to guide us to physical happiness.

In March, with a visit from my sister due, I figured I had better read her damn book! I prefer to be honest when I comment to people. Well, I have never read such a book! It seemed to open doors, doors that I knew were there, but doors that I knew not how to open! With such a mass of insights, I figured I owed it to myself to check out this “new” health system further. FFL gave the Toronto address of the then Canadian Natural Hygiene Society, and so I wrote to them. I got an immediate reply and decided to attend their next lecture.

I was somewhat taken aback by their 10 rules of living. Number 8 stated we must refuse all vaccinations. I thought... “What a bunch of kooks!” Between the army and my public health service, I had become a literal pin cushion from required shots! How could this “universal” health measure be bad??? BUT... based on the valid information in FFL, I decided I would investigate further before I made up my mind. To this end, while I was there, I bought Living Health, Harvey and Marilyn’s newest book. It was the book Harvey had really wanted to write about this truly marvelous health system... Natural Hygiene. And it centered on the total health program, not just on weight-loss.

I read the book and was truly fascinated. Here was the system I had been searching for... Then I thought, Havey mentioned his book was all based on a system that he learned through a course from T.C. Fry. I thought... “Why should I take this valuable information second-hand? It would be best if I took The Course myself and found out the information first-hand!” It was then that I enrolled in T.C.’s “Big Course.” As I worked through the lessons, I became more and more fascinated and rewarded. T.C. had a seminar in Texas, and so I went. It was fantastic! I met T.C. and many of his assistants. I examined the whole course: its presenters and contents were all first class. The only thing I could not understand was the low number of attendees. It was then I found out about T.C.’s ongoing fight with the U.S. Government. The-Powers- that-Be had kept one hand (and later, both hands) tied behind his back, and so he could not be what he wanted to be.

I was so impressed that I decided to have a 2 week fast in December, 1989. I had some health problems that could not wait until I finished his course, and I did my required 2 week fast. T.C. then told me, this fast would do for the required one. A 2 week fast requires one week of realimentation. Since I am happily married, this was too long to be away from my spouse and loved one. She, therefore, took a leave of absence from work and accompanied me. She was not too sure about this fasting thing; but since she was there, she was willing to give it a try if I was doing it. Of course, the idea was that she could quit anytime. Well, the long and the short of all this is she got the better results from her fast! The most wonderful part was we got to be with T.C. for 3 weeks of almost undivided attention! He gave a lecture to us “fastees” everyday. It was enlightening, but I was constantly concerned about his apparent low self-esteem. He seemed to always be putting himself down. On top of this, he was waging a war on the medical establishment. Yes, it is the right thing to do. They are very, very wrong. BUT NO ONE EVER WINS A WAR.

Without T.C., there would be no Harvey Diamond; and without Harvey, there would have been no Natural Hygiene for me. I face the future full of confidence (for my health and well being). For I know that whatever goes wrong, it is my fault; and following the precepts of Natural Hygiene, I can set it right. When you blame someone else, such as germs, you are giving away your power. I am not surprised to hear that T.C. died at the untimely age of 70. He was a man who had seen the answer and was trying to save the world. Unfortunately, it would have required that the world take responsibility for its actions and inactions. This the world is not willing to do, and so poor T.C. was doomed to failure. And in my mind... he died of a broken heart. I cannot believe otherwise of this great, great man.

Ron and Elaine Harrington in Toronto, Canada, 1997

A Letter & Eulogy from...

Life-long Friend of T.C. & GetWell Friend

Kenneth Pamplin Holistic Minister, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Dear Victoria BidWell, Thank you so much for the material and information about the passing of T.C. Fry. My heart sank as I read your account. I had known T.C. (“Thunder Cloud”) since we were kids in Bennington, Oklahoma; and we had stayed in touch over the years. I visited him in New Jersey in the 50s when he had a large wholesale discount mail order business. He had a large warehouse there and had been operating very successfully for several years. I later ran a branch office for him in Dallas for a short time, along with my own business I had at the time. But that operation soon went bust along with his New Jersey office. T.C. ended up going to prison for mail fraud. I don’t think he intended to defraud anyone. Somehow, it seems he just got in over his head as he was trying to expand the business. Anyway, he ended up in a bad situation, and I remember sending him $1,500.oo to help pay his lawyer’s fees.

This was before T.C. became involved in the Natural Hygiene movement. I had visited Dr. Shelton in San Antonio, read quite a few health books, began to experiment with fasting, various diets, and so on. T.C. didn’t seem interested and warned me about fanatics in that field. When, a few years later, he told me of his involvement with Natural Hygiene, I was absolutely amazed! It was as if he had received some kind of “religious experience.” As if he had a new foundation for his life, a solid rock to stand on. It seemed to give deep meaning and purpose to his life, and pointed to a kind of “salvation” for mankind while on this Earth, even though T.C. was a devout atheist.

At the time, I was involved in a deep, personal struggle and search for truth. My Father was a far right Fundamentalist Preacher, and I had rebelled against his teachings. Naturally, I was very interested in what T.C. had to say about religion and The Bible, based on his hardcore atheistic view. He introduced me to a publisher and distributor of atheistic books. I still have a whole “dark shelf” of these books in the corner of my library. I was, indeed, shaken by what I read in this “Fry recommended literature”! After studying it, I could easily understand why anyone who was familiar with the sordid details, or the worst in any religion, could easily end up being an agnostic or atheist.

But my search contin- ued in other directions. I got into “The New Age” study of UFOs, parapsychology, spiritualism, psychic phenomenon, Eastern religion, metaphysical groups, etc. Having thoroughly studied “the darkspirited alternatives” to THE LORD, the deeper esoteric and mystical meaning of The Bible made a lot more sense to me. I then went back to college to study religion. I earned two masters’ degrees, one of which was a seminary degree from Phillips in Enid, Oklahoma. I then became a pastor for several years. My search also had created a new foundation for my life; and it was a wonderful experience, indeed! I talked to T.C. about some of these things, but it seemed as if he had some kind of block about THE LORD, THE HOLY SPIRIT, and GOD. He just couldn’t see or grasp what I had experienced and was trying to share with him.

But how do you de- scribe a man like T.C. Fry? I was fascinated with the man for years. And I liked the man. Yes, I just liked the man but really didn’t know why. Today, I can say “I loved him and still do.” There was something in him that was kind, gentle, and brilliant. None of my family ever liked him. They thought he was a crook. They warned me over and over not to associate with him. My wife had a kinder opinion, but she felt T.C. had a huge ego that made him feel superior to others.

I talked to T.C. right after the Oklahoma City bombing. The last time I saw him was in 1991 at the Bennington School Homecoming. He was there with a girlfriend named “Andy Savage.” During that time, I took Andy and T.C. out into the country to the site of a country school house where T.C. had attended grade school, and where my Dad had preached and held revivals. The place was deserted, the old buildings all gone; but we found a spot to sit and visit. I set up my video camera to record the session. It lasted about one hour and a half. I just wanted T.C. to review his life for me. I wanted to know more about why and how he had become an atheist and how he now felt about certain things which had happened in his childhood that I had privy to. I guess I was trying to psychoanalyze T.C. Anyway, it was an interesting interview. I viewed the video tape again right after receiving your notice of T.C.’s death.

T.C.’s mother was found dead on the ice, between the house and the barn, in 1935. She apparently had slipped and had fallen on the ice, but it was hard for some to believe that this could have caused such a serious blow to the head. T.C. did not remember a lot of fighting between his father and mother, but he did say that he saw his mother throw a butcher knife at this father. The knife barely missed his father and stuck into the wall. But T.C. never believed that his father killed his mother. He did say that within six weeks after her death that his Dad brought another woman into the home. T.C. said his father was a bootlegger and talked of drinking parties at their home.

The new woman lived with them about a year and then left. But soon, his father took in another woman, a young one only 18 years of age. T.C. did not like her. He said she was hateful and spiteful to the kids. After about five years, this woman also died from a blow on the head which T.C.’s father said happened when she fell off his buckboard. When the law investigated, they arrested his father and charged him with her death. They claimed to have found blood on the buckboard which could not have gotten there if she had fallen off the wagon as T.C.’s father had said. They concluded that T.C.’s father had hit her over the head with a hoe while she was sitting in the wagon. Anyway, T.C.’s father was convicted and given a 15 year prison sentence. I remember T.C.’s father well, and I liked him also. He was always kind and friendly to me. I’m sure there are more details in the above events, but these are some of the things T.C. mentions on the video tape.

After T.C.’s father went to prison, “Small Fry,” as he was called, was left alone with the other children. On the video tape, T.C. talks about his life after that. The kids were shifted between relatives, foster homes, etc. Of special interest to me was what he said about his early exposure to religion and how he had become an atheist. T.C. had a keen and brilliant mind, and he loved to read. He would get books from the library or any way he could. He was reading the works of some of the deepest thinkers and philosophers at a very early age. As to religion, by the time he was 13 or 14, he was already being called “heretic,” “a son of Satan.” When he was only 11 or 12, he did go to church and was reading The Bible. His study of The Bible impressed many around him, especially one minister he knew. That minister encouraged T.C. to keep studying The Bible and suggested that he should become a minister. But T.C. had questions about The Bible. Such questions as... “Where did Cain get his wife?” And he questioned the things in The Bible that seemed to be in direct conflict with science.

The minister immediately turned on TC. and accused him of being “a tool of Satan” or of being “misled by Satan.” Instead of encouraging T.C. to keep reading, questioning and seeking the truth, the minister rejected “Small Fry” as being “unworthy and defiled.” Here I can identify closely with T.C. because I received the same kind of rejection by my own Father, who was a Fundamentalist minister, because I could not agree with some of his doctrines and dogmas, or that his was “the only true church with the only true Christians,” etc. Even after I had gone through seminary and become a minister in another denomination, my Father still could not accept me as a Christian. He simply consigned me to hell along with many other ministers who were not of his denomination. It was the most devastating experience of my life, and it hurt me deeply.

I don’t know, of course. But I wonder how different the life of T.C. Fry might have been had that minister loved and encouraged him in seeking THE LORD and in studying THE WORD OF GOD. Because T.C. had changed his views about science and health and had become a Natural Hygienist, I always hoped that he would change his views about atheism. I
hoped he might understand what I believe to be the deep, profound, great and wonderful truths found in The Bible. When T.C. converted to Natural Hygiene, he acted as if he had found “The Absolute Truth.” And as you said in your letter, it was hard to get him to budge one iota on even a small point. In that sense, he had become like my Dad, who wound not give an inch on any of his cherished dogmas and doctrines. But T.C. was very different from my Dad, in that T.C. never rejected me for my religious views. He never accused me of being insincere, of being some kind of deceived, evil, unworthy who should be destined for “the pit.” Perhaps, that is one main reason I liked T.C. so much. He accepted me just the way I was for who I was. Many said that TC. felt superior to everyone else. Well, maybe it was never in a way that was offensive to me. And indeed, T.C. was my superior in some ways. I think among the people who disliked T.C., it was because of his independent thinking and because of his intellectual skills and abilities.

T.C. is gone now. But I will always be grateful that his life touched mine. I know that “Nothing good ever ends.” But there is change as each of us suffers, learns, grows, and moves on to fulfill GOD’s plan for our lives. We each come to Earth with a mission, a plan to fulfill. It is a glorious path, because it is here that the gold is tested and tried in the fire, as we learn the true meaning of GOD’s love. The path before us is the path of GOD’s pure love, if we only have the eyes to see. The glory and beauty that awaits us is beyond words to describe! When I think of T.C., I feel love and affection.

And so, Victoria, I just wanted to share my thoughts and feelings with you because I felt you would understand. I like the way you wrote about T.C. You were very open and frank about your feelings and how you admired and respected him, despite his faults and weaknesses.

I assume that the Wellness Network has been dissolved and that you are the main one carrying on the work on any sort of a large scale now. I would like to mention you, give your address, and explain how readers can obtain more information, get your publications, etc. I would like to hear from you about this.

By the way, I agree completely with you about blue green algae. I have been using blue green algae for some time, and I have no doubt about its amazing health benefits! You certainly have my support, my prayers, and best wishes for success in the work you are doing. I know that it is an important part of the answer to the problem of health care in this Country. President Clinton said escalating health cost could bankrupt this Country if something weren’t done.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,
Kenneth Pamplin

Last Letters to T.C. Fry & “Our Fond FareWell”

This page and the next are the last 2 pages of the 2002 Common Health Sense #3. This Issue #3 is a tribute to T.C.’s contribution to Health Seekers around the world; and it serves, also, to set the record straight on some of his misguided misteachings. These “Last Letters” are representative of tens of thousands of letters of gratitude sent to T.C. Fry over “The 26 Years of The T.C. Fry Heyday!”

From Victoria to Dear, Dear GetWell Friends —

I had planned to limit this Issue #3 of Common Health Sense to 150 pages. And I am anxious to get on with completing Issue #4 and getting this off to you so I can start #5 & #6! And, like with The YearBook, I had to stop somewhere! Putting these 2 Issues together has so greatly enriched my love for you and for all humanity, my love for T.C. Fry and for Dr. Shelton, and my love for The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit, as well as my appreciation for their gifts, both spiritual and material! This Enrichment is a Blessing I had not anticipated! I do pray for you and for your Circle of Friends, that you will, likewise, be blessed by these 2 Issues. I can keep going, with further funds, to bring you Issues #5 & #6 throughout 2001. Please renew at this time, so that we can keep the blessings flowing! In closing this Issue #3, then, let me share with you a “Last Letter” I got just last week. And then, I will fill these last 2 pages with short, selected letters to T.C. taken from his many publications I have been poring through the last month. StayWell, Dear Friends in Natural Hygiene. Thank You So Much for lifting GetWell?StayWell America! up above the dark clouds of financial worry this year of 2000 so that we can keep serving others. And Thank You for All Your Acts of Kindness You Do throughout Your Days!

Dear Victoria, I wondered what had happened to you for quite some time. And then I got your letter explaining all your problems and getting so much misery with “Fibromyalga symptoms.” That is a dreaded ail- ment which, it seems, there is not much help for. Thank GOD my temporal arteritis is now completely reversed! These ailments come from stress, which is a Killer in itself. With T.C. Fry’s help, I got off prednisone, lost about 60 pounds, and felt like myself once again. Of course, it took a long time for me to gain my strength back. I could not brush my hair or put a dress on that had an opening at the neckline. I could not climb up on a chair. No strength to get my body up. It took a long time after losing the weight to get back to almost normal. It has been 5 years since I first became ill. But at 75 and working 6 days a week as a Home Health Aide, I can truthfully say, “I feel great!” GOD has been good to me. Victoria, I do hope you are doing better and hanging in there. With T.C. Fry gone now, you are the only one that I get mail from to keep me up on “Healthy Living.” Do sign me up for Common Health Sense #3 and #4. Sincerely, Nancy Ford, Ft. Pierce, Florida.

Yes, Indeed! Life Science Really Works! Let me take this opportunity to commend you, Mr. Fry, on your work. Your writings/teachings have been a great influence over my life. My mother suffered for 20 years with chronic bronchitis. She is now 80 years old and was rapidly becoming so incapacitated she would have to stop and gasp for breath after walking a short distance. She loved milk, cheese, bread, etc. I took her off all dairy products. Then I taught her how to grow sprouts and put her on a 90% raw food regime. Within six months, she underwent an amazing transition! She formerly could be heard coughing and struggling to expectorate as I approached her house. No more! She never coughs or expectorates anymore. She works out in the garden with a hoe and even a shovel. She can walk many blocks right along with me. She used to buy Prepara- tion H every time I took her to the store. She does not use that anymore. Neither does she stew prunes for constipa- tion. She is not yet 100% well. Her hypertension is much less but not licked. I am confident it is only a matter of time before the rejuvenation returns her to normal. She contin- ues to improve. I cannot praise your work enough. I believe you and all those converted to Natural Hygiene are the true apostles of the future. Harold Elder, D.C. Miami, Florida.

Thank You! Good-Bye! And Our Fond FareWell, Dear T.C.”

Tributes to T.C. Fry

I am now 80. Had it not been for my doctors, I would not be here today — I would not be writing this letter to you. At 52, I was a dying man. I was in a hospital and getting worse. Three medical experts came to me and told me they could no longer help me and sent me home. Looking back, I am happy they gave up on me; for I am sure I would be dead now if they had not sent me home. I started searching for answers on my own. GOD helped me find Natural Hygiene. I started following it immediately. I improved so much no one could believe it! Please do not go away, Mr. Fry. I admire your great courage in teaching us The Truth that has been kept from us.

Louis Neuburger, Goodson, MO.

Part of my study regime con- sists of rereading your many fine articles. I find that every time I read them, I learn something new! The other night, while reading, for probably the 10th time, your great “Cancer Cure Nonsense from a Laboratory” (February, 1985), I found myself wondering if people who really appreciate your efforts ever get around to saying, “Thank You!” So, I sincerely wish to say, “Thank you for all you are doing to help people!”

Bill Griffith, Sr.

Just a note to say I have lost 41 pounds in about 6 weeks since I started eating fruits and vegetables only. I feel better than I have in years! I have had a problem of being overweight for 30 years and was always trying some kind of diet that never worked. I have been a slave to meats and rich foods all my life, but I never smoked or drank. So probably that is the reason I have been in fair health most of my life. I will be 61 in December, and I plan to give fruits and vegetables a 100% chance to make the rest of my life happier and disease-free. I only wish I and Natural Hygiene and Life Science sooner.

Wilbur Nabors, Dallas, TX.

Americans sure are funny people. Just 1 month ago, I smoked. I drank coffee, wines, beer, and soft drinks by the gallon. I ate huge steaks with all the trimmings — in short, I lived sumptuously on the Standard American Diet, just like everyone else.

But I also had problems. I had a by-pass operation in which they replaced a couple of nearly occluded arteries. I was in a physician’s office every week. I had high blood pressure. I was rather hefty, being nearly 50 pounds overweight. I had headaches and backaches, often together. I had attacks of gout — I could hardly hobble at times. I had enough drugs in my medicine cabinet to start my own drugstore.

Well, I got on your program. Now, I have lost 40 pounds. Your Program for Dynamic Health and Revelation of Health and The Health Formula really took effect! I just threw out my whole inventory of drugs —including my wife’s! I convinced her we could not be poisoned into health with drugs. I no longer have backaches or headaches. I really feel great! I am not so draggy as I used to be. I have a lot more go-power, and I am expecting more!

I did go to in for a check-up. the doctor was pleased my blood pres- sure had gone way down. He was pleased with my weight loss. He was pleased my heart was regular. When I tried to tell him what I had done, he just brushed it off with: “I don’t care what you are doing. Whatever it is, keep it up.” But there was grave concern when I told him I was off his drugs.

I tried to persuade a friend that he, too, could perhaps get over his many problems which were similar to mine. He came back with the observation that I had really gone off the deep end, and I should see my doctor — he would bring me back to my senses. Besides, he was not about to give up all of life’s pleasures nor go on a “rabbit-food diet.”

Harry Goldman, Chicago, IL.

I am 72 years old. My hearing ability in the left ear was so far down, I could not use the phone with it — voices were just barely audible. On December 17, 1982, I decided to go on a fast. On noon of December 24, I peeled and blended a large orange and drank it. In the evening, I drank 2 large, blended oranges. I ate only fruit for the full week; and by December 31, I had full hearing. During the fast, I woke several times a night and coughed up considerable phlegm. I could tell that I was getting rid of lots of junk. Now I can hear on the phone as well with my left ear as my right. I recommend fasting and Mr. Fry to anyone who wants their body to bring itself back to normal.

Earl Girler, Lebanon, PA.

I was diagnosed as having glau- coma. My vision was blurring. Eyedrops were prescribed for me. This did not help. When I became a student of the College of Life Science, under the guidance of Mr. T.C. Fry, I began the regular usage of fruit. Upon subsequent examination, I was found to have normal vision in both eyes.

Maurice Tobin, Hampton, VA.

Your publication has changed my life, and I appreciate it very much. Your teachings have taken me out of the wheelchair. I was a very sick, battered man. I could not talk or walk. I fainted many times. From your very fine teaching, Mr. Fry, I have gained my health back. I am very happy to say I now dance 100 to 150 dances a week. I play tennis, golf, and other games.

Harry Carlson, Phoenix, AZ.