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Harvard Business School Professor Rakesh Khurana, Natural Sciences Professor Douglas A. Melton, and French and Comparative Literature Professor Christie McDonald and their spouses will lead Cabot, Eliot, and Mather Houses as House Masters next year, Hammonds announced Friday in an e-mail to the College community...
Along with Khurana at the helm of Cabot House will be Tobin Project Acting Executive Director Stephanie Khurana. Educational consultant Gail O’Keefe will join Melton, who also co-directs the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, at Eliot House. McDonald will be put in charge of Mather House, along with her husband, McGill University Associate Professor of Medicine Michael D. Rosengarten...
Last semester, Hammonds was left with the task of filling House Master positions in almost a quarter of Harvard’s undergraduate Houses. Within a span of two weeks during the end of 2009, Cabot House Masters Jay M. Harris and Cheryl L. Harris, Eliot House Masters Lino Pertile and Anna Bensted, and Mather House Masters Sandra F. Naddaff ’75 and Leigh G. Hafrey ’73 announced that they will step down from their positions at the end of the academic year, citing a variety of reasons ranging from a heavy workload...
...House pride during and after Housing Day—not before. As a way of promoting Housing Day itself, active House spirit works well. Yet as a plug for the individual Houses, it unnecessarily builds freshmen hopes about a situation they cannot control. Since many are randomly slotted into Eliot or Cabot, which lie at opposite ends of FlyByBlog’s rankings as well as opposite ends of campus, ranking Houses based on their projected personalities can set up unfair expectations and, worse, can ultimately disappoint...
...every year that a Dean of the College has the opportunity to nominate a House Master—much less three—House residents’ responses to Evelynn M. Hammonds’s Friday announcement of the appointments of next year’s Masters in Cabot, Eliot, and Mather Houses remain unsettled...