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Even though she grew up around the world, Owada was more familiar with Cambridge than most Harvard freshmen when she moved into the fourth floor of Thayer in September of 1981. Her father was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School for the previous two years, and Owada spent her junior and senior years of high school at nearby Belmont High School...

Author: By Stephanie B. Garlock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Japanese Princess Bridges Cultures | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...There was a lot of criticism in the Japanese press that she was too American,” said Nadine H. Jacobson ’85, Owada’s Thayer floormate. “I remember thinking, as I knew Masako she was the quintessential Japanese. She was smart and respectful and reserved...

Author: By Stephanie B. Garlock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Japanese Princess Bridges Cultures | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Owada instead tried to bridge the gap between the two cultures, joining the Japanese Culture Society and introducing her friends to Japanese traditions. Lucia A. Giudice ’85—who lived on the fourth floor of Thayer with Owada and attended high school with her—said she remembers Owada organizing a trip for a group of friends to go to the Boston Children’s Museum to see an exhibit on traditional Japanese tea ceremonies...

Author: By Stephanie B. Garlock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Japanese Princess Bridges Cultures | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Shoshana S.R. Tell ’10 and Kacie M. Rounds ’11 are co-directors of Room 13, a confidential peer counseling service located in the basement of Thayer. From the velveteen purple couches of their office, Tell and Rounds, like all Room 13 counselors, listen as students reveal their most guarded vulnerabilities. Some students shed tears,  while others sort through issues that they would not share with anyone else—proctors, parents, roommates and friends included...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Writing on the Stalls | 4/29/2010 | See Source »

This was a time when Winthrop House had an endowed fund for ice cream sundaes every weekend. It was also a time when the administration put women well inside the Yard for safety: Stoughton and Thayer rather than Wigglesworth. When one of Jody’s suitemates, Susie Case Peterson ’79, graduated, she lived in an apartment in Boston where her landlord was a heroin addict. One night he used his spare key to break into her room while she was sleeping, but she didn’t know if he meant to harm her or just...

Author: By Mark J. Chiusano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard That They Knew | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

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