S T A N D U P
February 12, 2004 
TO: Whom it may concern
RE: FREEDOM - Professional and political FREEDOM
FROM: Gene Cretsinger, D.C.
The front line is Palmer College. The over view reveals the conflict 
is between the forces and people wanting to establish the profession 
for service to a chiropractic medicine model and the forces and 
people wanting to establish chiropractic as the key to the wellness 
and human potential model. The players on one side are the CCE, the 
Palmer Board of Trustees, and the Executive Committee of the 
Palmer International Alumni Association. On the other side is Guy 
Riekeman, the majority of the Palmer students, the majority of the 
Palmer alumni and the majority of the profession. I am on the side of 
Riekeman. 
The conflict arose when the Board of Trustees forced their 
Chancellor, Dr. Guy Riekeman, who they hired five years ago, to 
resign. He was hired to reestablish Palmer College as the 
Fountainhead of chiropractic because Palmer was struggling. Life 
College, under Sid Williams had taken over. Life had an enormous and 
beautiful campus, with the highest enrollment, and being thought of 
as the Fountainhead. Palmer was losing ground. The Palmer Board 
needed to do something, and made a bold and exciting decision, they 
hired Dr. Guy Riekeman. It was met with almost universal 
enthusiasm and the college grew and grew and grew. Palmer became 
again the unquestioned Fountainhead of the profession. The Beacon at 
the top of Brady was shining and leading the profession. 
The medical model proponents, who have always been in the 
minority, yet clever enough to put themselves in positions to control 
CCE, worried about their ability to stay in position and control their 
medical model requirements. They had previously enjoyed friendly 
relations with the Palmer Board and Administration prior to Dr. 
Riekeman and managed in recent times, for the purpose of 
undercutting the growth of the human potential model movement, to 
nearly destroy Life College. Now, Palmer stood in the way of clear 
and uncontested CCE control, and it was because of Dr. Riekeman. 
And the Palmer family, and their Board, had come to recognized that 
the Beacon, at the top of Brady, was not Palmer, it was Guy 
Riekeman. Riekeman had established worldwide support. His 
administration developed the concept for the „Triangle of Care¾. It 
is brilliant, and includes everyone under the umbrella of 
chiropractic, without being in the medical model. When enrollment 
at the other chiropractic colleges is down, Palmer Davenport is at 
all time highs. The Enthusiasm, pride, and hope in a true health 
profession contributing to wellness and human potential was 
growing. CCE had to step in, like at Life, they had to destroy the 
source. They had to attempt to destroy the Riekeman movement. The 
Palmer family, being in full control of the electorate body that 
establishes the Board of Trustees, and unlearned in the higher 
purpose of chiropractic as a wellness and human potential 
profession, and being influenced by self serving position seekers 
within their own established board, three months ago voted to take 
off the Riekeman supporters on the board and replace them with 
friends, who either didn't know or would follow the position seekers. 
Riekeman either had to resign or just be a figurehead. Great leaders 
with courage do what Riekeman did. He resigned. The Alumni 
Association Executive Officers are ACA members. That is why the 
Alumni President was quick to state that the Alumni Association 
supports the board's decision. I don't like this fact anymore than you 
do, but let us watch and see how politics work. Hey, this is about 
politics, about ACA aligned with the CCE, about a corrupt electorate 
controlling the Palmer Board, about position seekers, and about 
stopping a movement of support for Riekeman and the chiropractic 
wellness/ human potential model. Is it too much for you to handle? 
Well you can stick your head in the sand and maybe it will go away. 
Or maybe, like many, you can just ignore it. 
It has been going on for so long that maybe you feel that nothing can 
be done. That is exactly what the board, the Alumni Executive 
Officers, the CCE, and the position seekers are depending on. We are 
puppets to their mission and they set the rules of play. The students, 
the alumni, the profession is under their control. That is the fact. 
But, it doesn't have to stay that way. Guy called it „crossing the 
Rubicon.¾ I am asking you to Cross the Rubicon. Guy has asked you 
many times. I have already informed the Board of Trustees that I 
will no longer financially support the college until Guy has been 
reinstated with real authority or we have new and honest 
representation. I will pay my alumni dues so I can cast my No 
Confidence vote for the Executive Officers every chance I get. 
It will not be an easy crossing. It will take thousands of Freedom 
lovers to reverse the decision. We have a very slim chance because 
there may only be a few hundred who care. But it will not be in vain, 
we will empower ourselves with our action and we will live on a 
higher order of service than those that do nothing. The nothing doers 
are nothing. They are the puppets, the complainers, the used. It will 
take courageous, bold and dramatic action to be effective. 
Guy will continue to serve, if not at Palmer, at another college. I 
want it to be Palmer because I want Palmer to have the Beacon. I 
want Palmer to have the best. If the Board and the Alumni Executive 
Officers do not want the best, then they should get out of office. 
WHAT CAN WE DO? The action I offer is to STAND UP. STAND UP when 
you make the call or send the e-mail to the Board withdrawing 
support until Riekeman has been reinstated or until the Board of 
Trustees and the Alumni Officers have been replaced, with honest 
and authentic representativesä STAND UP. Stand at your desk. Stand 
tall, stand with courage, stand with honor, stand as a chiropractor, 
not as a puppet to the Board, the Alumni Executive Officers and the 
CCE. Students could stand in the classrooms, stand in the meetings. 
Stand all day. Stand as future free chiropractors, not as puppets. 
Stand until you get tired; stand until the tears roll out of your eyes. 
I am standing with you as I send this out. I will stand with you as I 
write my dues check. I want to be free. I do not want to be a puppet 
to CCE, the Palmer family, or to the Executive Officers of the Alumni 
Association. I am a key contributor to wellness and human potential. 
I am a chiropractor. 
You are free to do what you decide as best for yourself and our 
profession. 
Gene Cretsinger, D.C.
gcretsinger@spinalcc.com
PS-I am sure the reason Palmer forced Guy's resignation was to 
allow the new Board of Trustees to drop the law suit Guy imitated 
with the CCE.  Guy would not have done that but now that he is out of 
the way, they will drop it.   The ACA and the CCE instructed Vicki on 
how to change the Board and force Guy's resignation.  There has to be 
a legal term for that. Life is out of Power, Palmer is under control 
and CCE has an open road.  The puppets are all in hand.
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Palmer College of Chiropractic Alumni Association Past Presidents- 
Request for Alumni Association Position Paper to College Palmer 
Board of Trustees February 12, 2004
TO: Dr. Kirk Lee, President, Palmer College of Chiropractic 
International Alumni Association
From: Palmer College of Chiropractic International Alumni Past 
Presidents Council
Subject: Request, by the Past Presidents Council of the PCCIAA, that 
the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors of the PCCIAA 
present a Position Paper to Vickie Ann Palmer, Chair, and the entire 
Board of 
Trustees, requesting ongoing negotiation meetings between Palmer 
Board of Trustees and Dr. Guy Reikeman with the purpose of 
reinstating Dr. Reikeman as President of Palmer College of 
Chiropractic immediately. 
Please accept this request for the Alumni Board of Directors to 
develop a position paper, not only supporting the Palmer student 
body and all its related organizations on Palmer campus, but also 
requesting the chairperson of the Palmer Board of Trustees to 
establish and call for negotiation meetings with Dr. Guy Reikeman 
for the purpose of negotiating the position for President of Palmer 
College so they can work together for the success of the students, 
the alumni and Palmer College.
The PCCIAA Past Presidents recognizes the major status position 
loss in our profession, along with the tremendous financial loss that 
is already taking place at Palmer College. Millions of dollars are 
being lost in the Capital Campaign. Primarily, the PCCIAA Past 
Presidents recognize the extra ordinary financial loss from 
decreased student enrollment, alumni participation and donations, 
and again trusts that the Palmer Board of Trustee, in their wisdom, 
understand the importance to maintain Dr. Reikeman as President of 
Palmer College.
We, the PCCIAA Past Presidents request PCCIAA Board of Directors 
to recognize the importance of the Palmer momentum and the 
undisputed roll Palmer College has had in our entire profession 
especially the past five years while Dr. Reikeman was President, to 
promote and protect chiropractic as it was delivered by the Palmer 
Family. We ask the PCCIAA Board of Directors to present a document 
requesting reinstatement of Dr. Reikeman as President to the Palmer 
Board of Trustees.
Respectfully,
Palmer College of Chiropractic International Alumni Association, 
Past Presidents Council