Word: escorted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Three people stop by the classroom-turned-office. Staffers eagerly ask if they need an escort. But they don't--they are merely dropping by to see if a friend of theirs, a Saturday night regular, is working...
...service that it must operate on a buddy system, so that no students are ever made vulnerable by working alone. "If there is an odd number on any given night we either send someone home or try to get another volunteer, because you need groups of two to escort as well as two people here at home base at all times," says Bell...
...Pretty neat, huh?," says VanDyke, as he explains how the equipment is used. "We have the [sashes] as well as SafeStreets' identification so that the person waiting for us can easily recognize us. Each escort pair gets one beeper so that home base can give us our next assignment while we're out walking someone else. And, the particulars about each assignment go in the log book--you know, time of call, whereabouts of caller, destination, escorters' names...
...more people and the weather wasn't so bad, we'd send an escort pair out walking," says VanDyke. "If a call came in, we would give them a beep and they'd call us back...
...call! VanDyke and Bell quickly don their raincoats and shoes as Ford takes the message. Turns out to be a false alarm: the student meant to call the car escort. The raincoats and shoes come...