Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rosencrantz '44, who was Master of Currier House from 1974 to 1979. "Five years is a long time," she adds. David A. Aloian '49, who took over as Master of Quincy House this year from longtime Master Charles W. Dunn, says he may have changed the House's tone slightly by enforcing College alcohol rules more strictly, but that he has striven to keep continuity by adhering to Quincy House rituals like the fall Exorcism and the spring rose-planting...
...this year of Kirkland House, has prompted both the administration and the Masters to take another look at the job of Master. This fall, Thomas A. Dingman '67, assistant dean of housing, compiled an unofficial list detailing the Master's responsibilities. Four areas emerged: providing educational leadership, setting a tone, handling day to day operations and representing the House externally...
Dingman describes educational leadership as consisting of recruiting, appointing and nurturing members of the Senior Common Room, overseeing House tutorials and seminars, ensuring sound management and pre-professional advising, and being regularly available to advice students. Setting a tone involves continual attention to the House as a living community hosting social events and supporting House extracurricular life Day today operations include attention to the budget and "crisis management." Finally, representing the House externally means keeping abreast of College policy, attending faculty meetings and acting as Bok's spokesman to students...
...House residents agree that Masters continue to exercise considerable indirect effect over the tone and image of their Houses, and some make specific efforts to enhance or modify House life. Dowling says he and his wife are trying to make Leverett House more informal, planning an outing to their home in Woods Hole for all sophomores next fall. Other innovations include jaunts to museum exhibits in Boston and a dinner for juniors because "we felt they were being left...
...Alice Ford, Soprano Katia Ricciarelli sang with a lustrous tone that matched her resplendent blond beauty and sparkling stage presence. Hers is a voice that can both beguile with gentle lyricism and blaze with the incandescence of a high-spirited diva. Other noteworthy performances came from American Mezzo Brenda Boozer, who made a lively Meg Page, and Soprano Barbara Hendricks and Tenor Dalmacio Gonzalez, who sang touchingly as the young lovers. British Director Ronald Eyre kept the action crisp; he was correctly content to execute the composer's wishes, rather than impose a fashionably idiosyncratic view...