* * * * Gabe By comparison with the huge state universities, our school was only medium sized at best, but with eight thousand students, all of the B & G crews were kept busy. The electrical crew was constantly stretched thin. That’s why I had requested adding at least one more person. The request wasn’t approved in time to get someone new for the fall term, but we did hire a new guy just after the first of the year. Jay Bonner was just out of the service. He was overqualified for our job, but he wanted to work on campus for a while before he began to take courses at the university. He was twenty-two but looked younger. I assumed he was in good shape, being just out of the Air Force, but he looked as if he was even thinner than Brent. He had brown eyes, black hair, and a sort of light c

