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My husband has that book and uses it with the chapter he advises - a tip each week. He also holds an etiquette night each year just before formal. He even takes a place setting of china, crystal and silver to the meeting so they learn how to use it properly. He missed one year and the brothers got all over him - said the newest members didn't know how to act. After one session that lasted a couple of hours because of all the questions, one brother commented "Nobody better ever say I didn't learn anything from being in a fraternity - I learned how to act like a gentleman!" - and he was serious.
I taught my sons to be gentlemen and, as adults, it is second nature to them to hold doors, pull out chairs, help with coats and generally treat ALL females like ladies. As my older son once told a girl who resented having a door held for her "Chivalry isn't dead - it may have taken a long nap, but it isn't dead!!" The term "Southern gentleman" comes to mind but there should be gentlemen all over the country.
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Old Sorority Broad
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