Word: stade
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crowd apparently opposed the move. Within 15 minutes, students had swarmed into University Hall and ejected several administrators, including Robert B. Watson '37, dean of students and later athletic director; Archie C. Epps III, then assistant dean of the College and now dean of students; F. Skiddy von Stade '37, then dean of freshmen; and W.C. Burris Young '55, a freshman senior adviser and now associate dean of freshmen. Most of the administrators put up some resistance--Epps's was reported to be strenuous--but the students held the building...
...Skiddy Von Stade...
...norm. Its secret: a short twelve-week season that welds its cast for brief, intense, festival-like engagements. This season began with Luciano Pavarotti in Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore. Coming up are Jon Vickers in Britten's Peter Grimes and Frederica von Stade in The Barber of Seville. This November the Lyric will mount its first Die Meister singer. For opening night next year, Fox has even hired Broadway Director Harold Prince (A Little Night Music) to concoct a new sauce for that classic spaghetti western, Puccini's The Girl of the Golden...
...difference between the two men, in role, approach, background and personality illustrates the new, more clearly defined structure of the College administration. Whereas von Stade, who served as freshman dean for 24 years, is perhaps best if unfairly remembered for his Great-Gatsbyesque style, an association with horsemanship and polo ponies, and an old-school style of administration, Moses was not born and reared in the Harvard tradition...
Perhaps the most salient difference between the traditional von Stade role and that which Moses is likely to assume is in the relationship between the Freshman Dean's Office and the rest of University Hall. As John B. Fox Jr. '59, dean of the College, describes the relationship, "Impressionistically, it is true the dean was a somewhat autonomous character who was more a colleague than an employee of the dean of the College." But when Henry Rosovsky, dean of the Faculty, asked Fox to create a more structured environment within the College administration, Fox moved to place the freshman dean...