Houston, Sophomore Year (pp. 133-136) Summary

Steve and other members of the GOD Club seek out Mr. Waters. He is very tall and thin - Steve describes him as spidery and fragile - with a goatee and wispy moustache, graying dark hair, and in his early thirties. Waters is an iconoclastic teacher who has irked the school administration and faculty to such an extent that he is considered an outcast. He makes fun of a Dadaist movement seeking official recognition from the school organization and then agrees to sponsor the club. Thus, the GOD Club is officially reconstituted and enjoys a school yearbook photograph. Steve does not appear in the photograph but Dub, Doug, Waters, and the other members of the club do. In all, there are ten people in the photograph, each using sign language to spell out a concealed...