Word: abigail
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This was a week for playing musical House mastership. Wednesday Ursula Goodenough and Paul Levine announced their resignation as comasters of Currier House. Then Abigail M. Thernstrom and Stephan A. Thernstrom refused President Bok's offer of the mastership of Winthrop. Finally, yesterday, Catherine C. Vogt and Evon Z. Vogt, announced they would accept the offer of mastership of Kirkland House...
...Abigail M. Thernstrom, teaching fellow in Social Studies, said Thursday that Bok has offered her and Stephan A. Thernstrom, professor of History, co-mastership of Winthrop House, but said they had refused the offer. This means that Bok will have to continue to look for a replacement for Bruce Chalmers, McKay Professor of Metallurgy, who is retiring at the end of this year...
...Died. Abigail Adams Homans, 94, feisty, self-assertive grande dame of the Boston Adams family (which produced U.S. Presidents John and John Quincy) and author of the bestselling 1966 autobiography Education by Uncles; in Boston...
Dawes learns one more thing from Abigail. As she silently walks away from him for the last time, plucking a chicken, she says "TAG YOU ARE THE ONE WHO HAPPENS...
...Abigail raises chickens by herself; she's considered crazy by some, a witch by others. She isn't one to deny either allegation, recognizing the Druid blood in herself as something beautiful. Abigail teaches Dawes of the importance of being aware of his family history and of his own personal history. When Dawes asks her about his great-great-grandfather she says something that seems to reduce their existence to its essence...