Paul Beard

<p>Springtime&nbsp;

When I joined the CPS staff as librarian in June 1968, it was springtime for the College, which had recently been (in effect) bought by Paul Beard who had become very much an executive president. Cumulative loses could otherwise have forced its closure, like the old British College of Psychic Science in 1947. In 1960, even LIGHT had narrowly escaped death, with a helping financial hand from the Parapsychology Foundation. Paul was very well qualified, first to provide the capital. He was assisted in this by Mr. X, a property developer called Instone Bloomfield who had already been instrumental in saving the two main Spiritualist newspapers through the creation of Spiritual Truth Foundation. New offices were carved out of the main ground floor library. William Rauscher had once photographed the principal, Ruby Yeatman at her desk there, with the wooden shelf mark “ Demonology “ visible behind her. (The photo was donated to the CPS archives in 2004).&nbsp;

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