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Subject: Re: Stupid question

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Date Posted: 14:35:49 11/23/12 Fri
In reply to: Deadly Ernest 's message, "Re: Stupid question" on 00:14:36 11/21/12 Wed

>>I have a stupid question on a minor point in a story
>>I'm kicking around. I'm planning a scene set in a dorm
>>room at a private college in the late 1950s, and I'm
>>presuming the college would have something like a
>>housemother to keep the lid on, enforce separation of
>>the sexes, and probably keep booze out of the dorms.
>>It would be very strict in comparison to what we're
>>used to today. However, the "housemother" would in
>>this case be a man. What would be the term used to
>>describe him? Housefather? Something else?
>>
>>-- Wes

In the 1950's my freshman dorm had a grad student in residence (the RA term hadn't been invented). The upperclass dorms had a housemaster (faculty member with a very generous apartment) and usually several more resident faculty.

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