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...Larisa Heimert, daughter of the late Cabot Professor of American Literature Alan E. Heimert ’49, who served as Eliot House Master from 1968-1991, and his wife Associate Master Arlene G. Heimert ’59, spent her whole childhood in the Eliot Masters’ residence, from when she was born in 1972 until 1985. She is now an editor at Yale University Press. Like Bossert, she remembers the excitement of House life. “It was a huge playground in a lot of ways,” she says. “The Masters?...
Considerably older than Heimert during his years in Lowell House, Bossert adjusted more easily. “Strange though it seemed at first,” he explains, “having two or three hundred people milling about on the first floor eating brownies became normal, even negligible, after the first few months.” The duties of House Masters require constant attention. William Bossert jokes that he used his children as “slave labor for entertainment” at weekly teas. For Greg, helping out at the teas “was hard work, hard...
Bossert and Heimert also recall being intimidated by students in the Houses. “I didn’t have much meaningful interaction with students, even though we ate in the dining hall almost every night of the week. I do remember that they all looked tremendously sophisticated and mature,” Heimert says. She says it was not until years later, when she enrolled as an undergraduate at Princeton, that it dawned on her that the Harvard students of her youth were perhaps not that advanced. “I realized that I was not remotely sophisticated...
Both Bossert and Heimert remember the fun of entertaining famous guests in the Masters’ Residence. Bossert fondly recalls serving tea to labor leader Cesar Chavez, pointing actor Robert Redford to the bathroom and watching his father (“in a tux and bare feet”) chat with Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart over a bowl of Cajun crawdads. Heimert says that often famous figure skaters stayed in Eliot House during the Evening With Champions benefit show...
...until the first performance was over, and the show’s attendees, who had purchased their tickets at $3 a head, were handing money to the ushers on the way out and begging that it be delivered to the Jimmy Fund’s coffers. Mrs. Heimert still speaks of that first night, remembers being seven months pregnant with a child now 30 years old, restricted to bed rest on doctor’s orders— until her husband came home with tears in his eyes. “I have never seen anything like this...