NARRATIVE of WARD COURIER/CONFERENCE with TED BENNETT

April, 2012

SOUTH WALES, NY

It was a Thursday evening, the night after the conversation you have just read about with Rick Reynard. I stood at the podium of a grand hall. Most of the school's students, many of them frisky, were arrayed before me at a hundred individual desks. It was evening Study Hall - an annoying, two-and-a-half-plus-hour duty. They have those six nights a week when school is in session. But ...