At the Corporation for Public Broadcasting [CPB]'s October 22, 1997 gathering in Washington, D.C. which marked the Thirtieth Anniversary of The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, former VOA Deputy Director Robert
Coonrod singled out Lynn Chadwick for "special attention."  Chadwick was praised by CPB President/CEO Coonrod for either using National Federation of Community Broadcasters' funds to underwrite the CPB celebration or for organizing the tribute to CPB.

In his speech to the CPB gathering, Coonrod made the following comment: "Let me also draw special alttention to our friends who generously helped underwrite this celebration and to our organizing committee,  Lynn
Chadwick of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, Robert O'Leary of the Mobil Corporation, PBS, APTS and NPR."

Chadwick is now the Pacifica executive director who still has failed to respond positively to listener/staff demands for immediate democratization of Pacifica's governing structure and for an immediate and permanent end to Free Speech denial on Pacifica's airwaves.  As Jeff Blankfort (of Take Back KPFA) notes:  "Lynn
Chadwick is the person directly responsible...She should be fired...Her shoddy handling of this vote, whether or not she was following or giving orders was inexcusable."