Welcome Letter from the Masters
To the Cabot House Community,
As we embark on our third year as masters of Cabot House, we extend
the warmest welcome to all students, tutors, and SCR members. We
look forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones. We hope
that the coming academic year will be filled with success and fulfillment
for all of you.
A word about ourselves: Cheryl will continue her work as a school
psychologist at Sharon (MA) High School; she devotes most of her
time there to counseling and testing. She welcomes discussion with
those of you who have interests in all areas of special education,
special needs, and school psychology; she also welcomes speaking
to those of you interested in everything else. Jay, in addition
to his teaching in Jewish Studies and Moral Reasoning, directs the
Center for Jewish Studies, and is involved in many aspects of the
discussion surrounding undergraduate education at Harvard. He hopes
you will be willing to share your thoughts on the nature of your
academic and non-academic experiences here at Harvard, among many
other things. We have three children; only our youngest, David,
will be living with us full-time at 107 Walker. The older two will
be off at college, and not around much. We all look forward to a
great time at Cabot House.
We are lucky to have a truly excellent senior staff, comprised
of remarkably dedicated professionals. Stephen
Kargere, our Resident Dean, works incredibly hard to
serve all your academic and personal needs, while juggling
the responsibilities of parenting three young children.
Susan Livingston
has been a member of the Cabot community for many years
as the assistant to the masters, and gives graciously of
her knowledge and time, from providing cider and snacks
throughout the year, to producing and directing the Cabot
House musical, a truly transformative experience for
those who participate in it. Susan
Bourneuf, the assistant to the Resident Dean, is a consummate
professional whom you will find an invaluable resource for
many of your academic needs. Finally, even in our relatively
brief time as masters, we have come to appreciate the efforts
and expertise of Cabot's Building Manager, in supervising the upkeep of such a sprawling space. Those
of you who do not yet know them should feel free to come
by A-entry and introduce yourselves.
We are lucky to have a wonderful group of dedicated and hard-working
tutors;
although we will have opportunities to introduce you to them early
in the term, please use the facebook and/or this website to familiarize
yourselves with their various responsibilities. They are very committed
to helping you navigate through the College successfully, so please
feel free to approach them to discuss whatever is on your minds.
We look forward to working with them to plan events - academic and
social - to enrich student life in the House.
With only two years under our belts we continue to have much to
learn about serving as Masters of Cabot House. We look forward to
continuing and improving the Cabot House film series this year,
as well as bringing music and the arts more fully into the life
of the house; we also hope to upgrade our exercise facilities this
year. But, of course, we cannot do this alone; we very much hope
that all of you will share your constructive suggestions about making
the House a vital and vibrant community.
Finally, Tim
Ledlie ('02) will continue as our webmeister. Please check out
the House website, and feel free to approach him, or Antoniu Fantana,
our tutor charged with supervising the site, with your ideas; the
site exists to serve your needs so do not be shy with constructive
suggestions. Make sure to head over to the SCR
links; there is much talent in our SCR, and we hope that we
will be more successful in making that talent easily accessible
to students; we especially encourage all of you to try to participate
in SCR events, which is an easy way to interact with all that talent.
With best wishes for a great year,
Cheryl And Jay Harris
Cabot House Co-Masters
