Word: tutor
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Imagine this. You are a senior at Currier House on your way to meet your new acting senior tutor. Expecting a grey-haired, bespectacled professor, you open the door--and find your ex-section leader from Chem 5. Don't laugh, it could happen...
Ethan S. Simon '85, a third-year graduate student in Chemistry, was named to that very post this summer after Senior Tutor Elizabeth N. Goodenough took a leave for the fall term, said Currier House Master Gregory Nagy...
...typical senior tutor type in being young, but he was a very strong choice of the House and my contacts with him were extremely positive," said Dean of the College Fred L. Jewett '57. Jewett added that since the job is only for the fall semester, Simon's age had little to do with his decision...
Simon is not the only recent alumnus to become an acting senior tutor. Stephen J. Szaraz '83, in his second year as acting senior tutor for Eliot House, said he does not believe that age is necessarily an accurate measurement of competence...
...reasons I think he was picked was because the former senior tutor wanted him," said Currier House Co-Master Holly M. Davidson. "I have very good faith...