Yes, I am.  I paid the evaluation fee on October 17, 1991, and sent in my first dues check on November 18, 1991.  My membership since then has been continuous.

I was in fact the founding Webmaster of Minnesota Mensa, first appointed on April 28, 1998.

This is a false assertion.  Nine days earlier, Minnesota Mensa and I had negotiated and signed a written settlement agreement by which I was reinstated as Minnesota Mensa Webmaster.  This made me a "contract volunteer" instead of a "appointed volunteer" and the Executive Board's only duty was to cooperate with, and implement, that signed written settlement agreement.  This the Board has so far failed to do.

This is a false assertion.  Advocate's own Exhibit H is a scan of the signed written settlement agreement that, among other provisions, reinstated me as Minnesota Mensa Webmaster.  Anyone questioning whether this agreement was and is valid should click here.

That's because I was the Minnesota Mensa Webmaster.

(Note: the Advocate has advised us that the domain name in question should be amended to "minnesotamensa.org".)

The Executive Director and Counsel had been deliberately misled by some of the leadership at Minnesota Mensa.

On the contrary, the rogue site is the one using our original domain name, mnmensa.org, apparently sponsored by those who let personal feelings interfere with their duties to the group, and who also apparently feel that Minnesota Mensa does not have an obligation to honor signed written agreements to which it is a signatory.

All Local Group Webmasters regularly use Mensa's trademark.

The Minnesota Mensa website is a Mensa publication.  Since its very inception, it has published material that has been submitted for publication.

We are supposedly dealing with Mensa-level thinking here, so one would logically think that if somebody had a specific complaint regarding my work as Webmaster, they would communicate this directly to me.

I keep e-mails - my e-mail top-level folder is currently 3.8 GB, with 3,200 files in 451 folders.  I have searched through all e-mails remotely connected any and all of my website projects over the years.  When I search for "Cyson" in the Sender field, I come up with nothing.  I believe that Karen Cyson has never e-mailed me at any time for any reason.

Thanks to Caller ID, I also log phone calls received in an Excel spreadsheet that dates back to October 1996.  A search for "Cyson" in any field produces no result.  I believe that Karen Cyson has never phoned me at any time for any reason.

(I did find "Cyson" in the bodies of some e-mails.  For example, on October 11, 2000, Paul Jensen wrote me regarding Mensa testing in St. Cloud (where Karen lives).  He gave me the test place address, and added "Contact is Karen Cyson (320) 253 - 6575 or Mensaphone. This is for web update."  I mention this because when I started up our website in 1998, I was generally publishing volunteers' phone numbers, but we all agreed early on that some folks might not care for this, so since then I've done phone numbers on an "opt-in" basis.)

Over the years, since I started our website back in 1998, I have selected Karen's column as a "Featured Article" a total of 13 times, the first being in January 1999, and the most recent being July of this year.

I believe we may have a ringer here.  Karen Cyson is, and has been for some time, 1st ViceSec of Minnesota Mensa, thus a member of the Executive Board that has been continuing a refusal to fully honor the 8/10/02 signed written settlement agreement between Minnesota Mensa and me.

I have scanned my past Mensagenda newsletters, and it would appear that Karen Cyson was first listed as a volunteer (St. Cloud Area Coordinator) in the May 1999 issue.  Thus, absent evidence to the contrary, I would have to include her in the incumbent  "in-crowd" by virtue of her more than 7 years as a volunteer and officer, surely positions in which she has had frequent opportunities to associate socially with the other past and present board members who have been continuing Judy Hogan's vendetta against me for the "crime" of pointing out that the ag2003.com website by Jason Schmitz, done under Judy's supervision, was one of the most incompetently done sites I had ever seen, and one that would harm Minnesota Mensa's image and reputation.

I do.  You can read it by looking at the Advocate's Exhibit H.  You can read the authorization for it here.

To the contrary, there are no illegal actions, unless one is willing to go back to square one and assert that Minnesota Mensa does not have an obligation to honor signed written agreements to which it is a signatory.

The Minnesota Mensa website, currently at http://www.mn-mensa.org, is not in any way a dilution.  It presents Minnesota Mensa, and its activities, in a wholly positive way that makes our organization look good.

It would appear that this is also a reference to Karen Cyson from Charge 10.

This is a bunch of hooey, easily discredited.

I have just gone inventoried all nine issues of our newsletter, Mensagenda, published in 2006.  Karen's "Partly Cloudy" column appears in EVERY ISSUE.  Clearly, she is in no way discouraged from further publishing in Mensa publications.  Also, our website IS a Mensa publication.

The Respondent requests a deferral of any decision-making hearing, as both the Advocate and I could use additional time to present a proper case for consideration.

It should be pointed out that none of the alleged "violations" do any harm to Mensa; however, a "speedy" hearing, at which not all of the evidence is available to the Hearings Committee, would not grant any benefits to Mensa, but rather would make it appear that I am not receiving a "fair and impartial" hearing.

In addition, I am seeing signs that I may not have been provided with the most complete and current paperwork from the Advocate (or others), and I certainly have a right to that, and the right to respond to it, before any official hearing on the charges.