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When a young faculty couple took over the head residentship of Comstock Hall last fall, their arrival marked a sharp departure from the white-haired house mothers who have traditionally graced the demitasse tables of the Radcliffe Quad. When the David B. Bevingtons move in to Moors Hall next September, the Cliffe community will be able to welcome them with greater equanimity. "The Browns have been a big help to us," Bevington observed. "We're glad not to be pioneers...
...Browns, the Bevingtons are an attractive young couple in their mid-twenties. A handsome man with sandy brown hair, Bevington has been recommended for appointment as an Instructor in English, to be effective July 1, and he will receive his Ph.D. this month. He is a non-resident tutor at Kirkland House. His wife, a pretty brunette, has her Master of Arts in Teaching degree from Radcliffe and is now working toward a Doctorate in Education at the School of Education, where she is a teaching fellow...
Although new at the job of head residents, the Bevingtons are by no means strangers to the Harvard-Radcliffe community. Mr. Bevington graduated from Harvard in 1954, where he was affiliated with Dunster House. His wife, formerly Margaret (Peggy) Brown, received her A.B. from Radcliffe in 1956, and was treasurer of the Student Government Association. Both majored in English and literature as undergraduates. (A literary map of the British Isles hangs on the living room wall of their present apartment at 141 Oxford Street...
...Bevingtons met each other at rehearsals for the Lowell House Opera. "I was playing viola and my future wife was playing second fiddle," Bevington reminisced. They were married after Mrs. Bevington's junior year...
...despite her years as a 'Cliffie, Mrs. Bevington admits that she will have to reacclimate herself to dormitory life. "I lived in a cooperative, Edmunds House, after my freshman year, which I spent in Whitman," she said. But the only thing that really worries her, Mrs. Bevington admitted with a smile, is "the problem of having a maid come in everyday to vacuum and dust. It seems somewhat a luxury and even an invasion of privacy." "We're afraid of being spoiled," her husband interjected, teasingly...