Imagine it is March of 1972 as we start our tour of Green Valley's campus in front of The Big House. To get here we drove through Orange City, turned east on Graves Avenue and then south on Monastery Road.

Upstairs is the behavior lab and downstairs are the administration offices. If we go through the front door, Don File's office will be on our left and the office girls will be on our right, typing on their IBM Selectric typewriters and filing the carbon copies in a bank of Steelcase file cabinets. I can almost smell the Whiteout.

If we go towards the back of the house we find Earl Nettles in his office. Earl is the most unpopular man on campus. Earl's job is to impose some discipline on the spending. And with all the drifters, nair-do-wells and college kids on the staff, his job is not an easy one. One time years later, when Earl and I were hauling off what we could salvage from the Buckbrook campus before it was to be torn down, George put his hand on Earl's shoulder and told him that he always understood that he was in his debt, because Earl had married the most obnoxious woman in Orange City, thereby stopping George's brother from doing so and keeping her out of George's family. As high praise as that was, I am sure that is not why George gave Earl the job. With his prickly, in-your-face personality, Earl was a natural and just the man you would want keep everyone in line when it came to the spending. Most people want to be liked, but Earl didn't give a damn what you thought of him and would be happy to tell you so.

Well, we could go inside, but that singing you hear coming from The Big House means the George is on campus. No point in tempting fate. Let's duck off the right before we are spotted.