Ennet House is founded by the Guy Who Didn't Even Use His First Name

pivotal · YW (2002)

• When: Year of the Whopper (2002); the House opens "within a year of his parole"
• What: Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House is founded by a nail-tough chronic addict/alcoholic who spent most of his adult life under Massachusetts Corrections, found AA at M.D.C.-Walpole, and had a sudden total self-surrender and spiritual awakening in a shower during his fourth month of continuous sobriety. So humbled he refused even to use his first name — known in Boston AA as "the Guy Who Didn't Even Use His First Name" — he opens the House within a year of parole to pass on what was freely given him. The House leases a former physicians' dormitory in the V.A.-managed Enfield Marine complex and is equipped for 22 clients on a nine-month supervised program. Its very name is redundant (n.49's deadpan "Redundancy sic."). The founding fixes the institution's DNA: AA-tradition anonymity and twelfth-step passing-it-on, the charter its recovered-resident Staff still embody (event 3).