Toni Ringo Helfer

I have known Toni and Ralph Heifer for years and through them have experienced some of the most touching, exciting, and the funniest episodes in my life — everything from bewildered lions turning to me for protection from dancing, singing schoolchildren to the sad death of a 22-foot pregnant...

They were aflFectionately referred to as the "garbage class": eight physically and emotionally handicapped children who didn't fit in anywhere else. Add to that a cramped classroom and untrained assistantsit was more than Torey Hayden, a gifted young teacher, had bargained for.Then, to complicate...