Word: mather
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dining hall must be closed to allow for renovation of its kitchen, which will serve both Dunster House and Mather House when it opens in September...
...Administration has issued no details yet. It has only said that it will take about eight months of continuous work to renovate the Dunster kitchen in order to serve both Mather and Dunster. The Administration has handled this in a high-handed style: not one of the 300 students were consulted at any stage in the decision-making process, the Master's advice was ignored, and plans were not made public even after they were formulated. The announcement was made only after juniors had decided whether to live off-campus or stay in the House and after freshmen had submitted...
...summer of 1969, especially since Harvard summers are four months long. Since the Administration has offered no other evidence, it seems that money lies at the root of this problem: it's probably cheaper to close the dining hall for eight months. Yet, even granting that construction plans for Mather House require that the dining hall be closed, the plans could be changed. The Administration's obvious reluctance to issue even preliminary facts and figures suggest some uncertainty about the necessity of the move...
...Master of Dunster House, the Allston-Burr Senior Tutor, and most of the resident tutors have signed a petition demanding that construction plans for Mather House be changed in order to permit the Dunster House dining hall to stay open next Spring...
Master Alwin M. Pappenheimer Jr. '29 told the House last week that the Administration had decided to close the dining hall for a substantial part of the 1969 Spring term to renovate the kitchen which will serve both Dunster and Mather in September...