It's 8:15 a.m. Monday and the telephone in the front office of Fairfield High School rings. The secretary, Mrs. Trueheart, picks it up and says "Hello."
"My nephew is on the football team and I've spent all weekend looking for the school web site to see what time the football game starts today," says the caller. "But I can't find it anywhere. What's the address of the school web site?"
"We don't have a web site," Mrs. Trueheart says.
"What?" exclaims the caller. "Why not?"
"I don't know," says the secretary. "Would you like to talk to the principal about it?"
"Please."
"That's the fifth call about a school web site in two weeks," muses Mrs. Trueheart. The other callers had asked about homework assignments, class descriptions, rules about absences, college counseling. The secretary is beginning to think that if the school had a web site, she would have fewer telephone calls.
Moments later, the principal , Jack Jefferson, comes out of his office. " We seem to be getting an awful lot of telephone calls about a school web site," he says. "Personally, I'm not sure that this web thing is here to stay, but a lot of people in our community evidently think it's really important. I'd like to form a committee to talk about it. Will you send notes to these people and ask them to come to a meeting next Tuesday at 11 a.m. in my office?"
Bess glances at the list ,written in Mr. Jefferson's almost indecipherable scribble. She types invitations to four people.
