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Across campus, Sandra F. Naddaff ’75 and Leigh G. Hafrey ’73 have been Mather House Masters for 18 years, so their son Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey ’13 remembers no other way of life. In fact, he says his first memory is frolicking in the Mather House basement. Most of his childhood memories revolve around Mather House, from playing four square with students in the Mather courtyard to playing Linus in the Mather production of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown...
Benjamin’s babysitters were a rotating cast of Harvard students, including former Mather resident David J. Malan ’99, who is the instructor for the popular introductory course, Computer Science 50. Benjamin says he considers Malan a part of his extended Mather family...
...Despite all of that, I respect my parents immensely because they really fostered a sense of home,” Benjamin says, “a sense of having a closed family unit living inside Mather that had its private moments as well as its public moments. It never felt like there were any significant intrusions on our privacy or anything like that. It was just an expansive family...
...School Professor Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. and Lecturer Stephanie Robinson—have made Winthrop feel more like a home with spirited conversation in the dining hall and at open houses and class teas. While Winthrop does not have as ostentatious a House spirit as Pforzheimer or Mather, Winthrop’s pride is reserved but true—seen in the quiet burdens that residents brush off with empathy and a smile. With a lion as Winthrop’s mascot, it would be best to consider Winthrop House as Harvard’s equivalent to Gryffindor...
...Mather HoCo has never had anything to do with River Run. We’re not involved with that in any way,” Billing said last night. “River Run is a tradition that freshmen hear about from upperclassmen, and they do it regardless of what HoCos...