Chapter 5 - DIANE’S REAL FEAR WAS LOSING THE FOUNDATIONThe Bennett Children’s Health Foundation was Diane’s life.
Or at least she said so.
She had chaired its family advisory council for eighteen years.
Her name appeared on hospital wings.
Fundraising galas.
Research grants.
Every annual report included her photograph.
Arthur’s trust gradually reduced family advisory control as grandchildren matured and added independent professionals.
Why?
Because before he died, Arthur had become worried the foundation was becoming a social club for wealthy relatives.
He wrote in one memorandum:
No child-health charity should operate as a family monument.
Diane hated that sentence.
She believed Arthur had been manipulated by outside counsel while ill.
No evidence supported that.
She viewed Noah’s fifth birthday transition as the beginning of her erasure.
Not from wealth.
From relevance.
That was her motive.
The trust did not pay Noah millions on his birthday.
It moved nomination authority.
Boring governance.
But to Diane, symbolic death.
So she needed delay.
A “behavioral fitness concern” could create trustee review.
Review could delay transition.
Delay preserved her committee.
That was what she was protecting when she called my son a dog.
May you like
Not family.
Position.
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