July 25, 1982

Comment: Up to this time, I had tried to handle thestory sermons myself. With the encouragement shown for mydramatic efforts of the earlier weeks that summer, I decidedto try to involve the congregation in a more direct way.

That year, a large hotel in a major U. S. city hadcollapsed, killing scores and injuring hundreds. I saw thestory in a periodical which, unfortunately, I did not keep.The first interview in the script, the woman's experience,comes from that. With a few bits remembered from thatincident, and knowing the congregation had a teacher fromthe Medical College of Wisconsin, an accountant, a unionmember, and an engineer working for the telephone company, Iput together the following text and literally handed thevarious pieces to the respective church members as th…