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Originally Posted by FSUZeta
oh anchoralumna, you really brought back memories.
no one had phones in their rooms during my time-it just never dawned on us. there was a phone on the 3rd floor landing, one on the 2nd and of course, the phone/mail room, where phone duty was carried out. we had 2 or 3 lines-i can't remember.
pledges had to serve as door monitor/phone answerer from 5 to 7 on a rotation basis(because they did not live in the house) and "actives" manned the phone room and answered the door from 7 to 11. executive officers did not hold phone duty. somehow, we all managed to make and receive phone calls with minimal problems, and it was always exciting when the intercom buzzed and the voice from downstairs said, "fsuzeta, you have a call on line
1."
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When I pledged my chapter in 1992, we didn't have phone lines in all the rooms either. (I think perhaps 2 or 3 rooms did have private lines, because somewhere along the line the occupants of the room paid for the installation out of their own pockets. But the vast majority of in-house residents had to rely on the house phone.)
I did phone duty as a pledge, and also as an active. We had a system down for paging someone over the intercom...a "phone" call meant that you had a female caller, a "telephone" call meant that the caller was male. There was a similar system for visitors...if you were being paged that you had a "guest" it was a female. If you were being paged that you had a "visitor" it was a male. Ah...brings back memories.
