Executive Director: the credential, the bay-window office, the Board tie

pivotal · STANDING (YDAU); drop-in hours dated 4 Nov YDAU

• When: STANDING through YDAU — she has worked at the House ever since her recovery; the drop-in-hours transcript is dated Wednesday 4 Nov YDAU
• What: Pat is the House's Executive Director — the 052 transcript's header styles her "MS. PATRICIA MONTESIAN, M.A., C.S.A.C." — holding daily 1300-1500h resident-interface drop-in hours in which residents confess fork-stabbings, toilet horrors, and requests for a suicide prayer while Pat, unheard on the page, presides. Her office is the House's one handsome room: a bay window over a black lacquer desk, with the downhill view of a Green Line train laboring up the first Enfield hill — the only spectacular thing about a building that is otherwise a wicked awful dump. (Hers and the House Manager's are the only offices with locks.) Her standing reaches past the walls: the E.R. physician who treated her stroke almost seven years ago is now a personal friend who sits honorarily on Ennet House's Board of Directors — the private channel through which event 12 arrives.