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...used to be that a few people in the administration would choose new House masters quickly and quietly. But this year, students are getting in on the act, and that apparently slows things up. There are two mastership vacancies still unfilled--Currier and Winthrop--and President Bok said yesterday that he doesn't know when he will fill them...
...often looks upon his deanship as a burden, and accordingly, has put a three-year limit, ending in June 1975, on his tenure in office. Of his Adams House mastership, he tells friends: "I can't bring myself to look upon this as home." His family feels more comfortable in their summer home in New Hampshire, where his two young children don't have to reckon with the dirt and commotion of the city...
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...
Levine, professor of Biology, and Goodenough, assistant professor of Biology, announced that because of increasing responsibilities to their family and their work they would resign the co-mastership at the end of the year. Levine and Goodenough--the first couple to share equally in a House master appointment--became co-masters in July...
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...