Using private profile field in conditionals

[Princeton]

members can not view 'private fields' hence why it doesn't work properly for them

why don't you just upgrade the org members into their own USERGROUP?
from there, it would be easier to show their 'membership type'

Another approach I thought of was to remove the private classification from field5, but put a conditional in the template that displays the profile, such that it would suppress printing to the screen unless the viewer was that user or an admin. Haven't taken a peek at the code yet to see what that would entail.

this will work - however, I'm not sure how secure the field would be elswhere.