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Norman R. Shapiro ’51 has been affiliated with Adams House for several decades. During the 1940s and 50s, before the college began using randomization to assign student housing, he reveled in the house’s strong artistic community and later became a house tutor. “Even when I went off to make a living in the real world,” he says, “I found that I was never so far that I couldn’t come back.” Shapiro is currently a professor of Romance languages...
...it’s basically 200 families living in shacks of tin and wood on the side of dirt paths, but that is beginning to change.” Upon graduation, Tischfield is going to continue to run the Ceramics Program’s studio as a non-resident tutor in Quincy—after he spends the summer at what Tischfield calls “the Harvard of ceramics” in Jingdezhen, China. He has received a fellowship to study in Jingdezhen, a village of 325,000 craftsmen and artists built on the site of a 2000-year...
...personal life, McCarthy has applied the same dedication and enthusiasm he brings to academia and advocacy. As a senior resident tutor and LGBT advisor in Quincy House where he lived as a student, he relishes his role as a part of the undergraduate experience. “I’m fully part of the rhythm of Harvard College,” said McCarthy. “And I’m not a particularly good dancer but I feel like if there’s a song that I dance to pretty well it’s that song...
...He’s amazing. He moves his foot and it makes seven different sounds!” she laughs, beaming as she describes her tutor...
...Christopher Catizone ’06, who is currently a Harvard Law School student and tutor in Dunster House, said that a great books program would provide Harvard with an enriching unifying experience. He wrote an essay for the student essay collection on Gen Ed that was published in 2005, which made a rare case for the great books during the curricular review...