Word: chaperone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lawrence has always been co-educational, though in the Victorian era there were constant dicta forbidding pleasantries between the sexes. One elderly former co-ed remembers the rule banning any Lawrentian gentleman walking with a Lawrentian young lady without a chaperon. The one exception was during a rainstorm in which event the young man could offer to share his umbrella with the girl. "We used to call them our rainbeaus," the lady smiles...
...when Grant had a date with Ros, he brought Brisson along. Ros says: "I opened my door with a big smile for Gary, and then I saw this other fellow with him. 'Great!' I thought. 'I have a date with Gary Grant and he brings a chaperon...
...salaries ranging from $2,500 to $5,325*) to meet rising living costs. Until they got the raises, the teachers had announced, they would boycott all extracurricular activities. They would refuse to coach athletics, direct school plays, advise the editors of student papers and yearbooks, supervise student clubs or chaperon school proms...