Julie Ireton

But Howard Christie is not easy to locate. I do find a phone number and an email address. Neither work. Then my searching produces a mailing address. So I go old school. I send him a letter with my contacts and a brief explanation. To my surprise, he calls me weeks later. Christy's call catches me off guard, but I start recording with him on speakerphone at my desk, and he agrees to that.

But Howard Christie is not easy to locate. I do find a phone number and an email address. Neither work. Then my searching produces a mailing address. So I go old school. I send him a letter with my contacts and a brief explanation. To my surprise, he calls me weeks later. Christy's call catches me off guard, but I start recording with him on speakerphone at my desk, and he agrees to that.

The quality of the phone recording isn't great, but it's good to hear his voice, the recollections of a 93-year-old widower and former vice principal.

The quality of the phone recording isn't great, but it's good to hear his voice, the recollections of a 93-year-old widower and former vice principal.

I tell him about my research and about the survivors. More than a dozen women allege sexual exploitation, assault, abuse involving the music teacher. Do you ever recall on one of those trips Jackie Short telling you about some things that Doug Walker was doing with students? Jackie seems to recall she even remembers it was on a boat trip on the Alba River.

I tell him about my research and about the survivors. More than a dozen women allege sexual exploitation, assault, abuse involving the music teacher. Do you ever recall on one of those trips Jackie Short telling you about some things that Doug Walker was doing with students? Jackie seems to recall she even remembers it was on a boat trip on the Alba River.

And yet you don't recall Jackie telling you anything about what Walker was doing?

And yet you don't recall Jackie telling you anything about what Walker was doing?

If you had found out, what would you have done? What would the protocol at that time have been?

If you had found out, what would you have done? What would the protocol at that time have been?

You think he would have been fired?

You think he would have been fired?

Hmm. I know that five years later in 1987, Allie told the administration what had happened to her. Walker had sex with her on a band trip to Montreal, but the teacher moved. He wasn't fired. Christy was part of that administration, too. It is.

Hmm. I know that five years later in 1987, Allie told the administration what had happened to her. Walker had sex with her on a band trip to Montreal, but the teacher moved. He wasn't fired. Christy was part of that administration, too. It is.

I do find it interesting you say that it would have been cause for dismissal because, you know, in 1987, when it happened to another girl, he was just moved to a different school when Nicky Fork was in charge.

I do find it interesting you say that it would have been cause for dismissal because, you know, in 1987, when it happened to another girl, he was just moved to a different school when Nicky Fork was in charge.

So what did you hear was the reason that Doug Walker was leaving the school? I dialed Jackie short soon after I get off the phone with Christy. I tell her what the former vice principal said, and I remind her he's elderly, and we're talking about 40-year-old memories.

So what did you hear was the reason that Doug Walker was leaving the school? I dialed Jackie short soon after I get off the phone with Christy. I tell her what the former vice principal said, and I remind her he's elderly, and we're talking about 40-year-old memories.

Jackie is adamant about what she told Christy in 1982.

Jackie is adamant about what she told Christy in 1982.