Memories of a Young Man: A Witness to the Hearings About Jacqui Schiff

Abstract This article chronicles the experiences of one witness involved in the hearings conducted by the ITAA Board of Trustees in response to ethics charges brought against Jacqui Schiff in the mid-1970s. It describes her refusal to accept that the charges had any relevance and her belief that the matter was a groundless political vendetta. Going to extreme measures, the board, and then ITAA President Ruth McClendon, in particular, made every attempt to hold fair hearings. In the end, Schiff was found culpable of ethics violations. She refused to admit the validity of the board’s findings and also the conditions they set out for her remaining a member of the ITAA. As a result, she terminated her membership by default.