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Subject: Re: Stupid question

Author:
Ralph Burner

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Date Posted: 19:36:41 11/22/12 Thu
In reply to: Wes 's message, "Stupid question" on 22:37:52 11/20/12 Tue

I attended Bowling Green State Universiy in Ohio during the early 60's. Each dorm floor or wing depending on the dorm had a RA(Resident Advisor) whose duties were to maintain order, counsel students and be a role model for their charges. The RA's were usually undergraduates. The Head Resident of the dorm was usually a graduate student. When I was a student there was no alcohol allowed on campus, no members of the oposite sex in dorm rooms. At BGSU at this time girl dorms had "hours' just like curfew at home.

>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

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[> Subject: Re: Stupid question

Author:
Kirby Lambert
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Date Posted: 14:30:28 11/23/12 Fri

>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

From fall 67 to fall 69 I attended ( did time at ) a fairly strict church college of my parents choice.

All dorms had a dorm mother or father or married couple. each floor had an RA who was an upper class student. Rooms were checked regularly for contraband and if any was found punishment up to expulsion was the order of the day. Maybe 1 strike but no more.

Kirby