Currier Memories

A group of Currier House residents and alumni shared their memories of the House's first decade in an informal discussion yesterday that wrapped up the House's week-long tenth anniversary celebration.

Co-master Lenore C. Frazier, tutors, administrative assistants and students reflected on the changes in the House since its opening in 1971 amidst continuing construction.

The panel, whose reminiscences were taped also talked about 1972, when the House became one of the first to go co-ed. Attracted by the 2-to-1 male to female ratio in a day when the River Houses had 6-to-1 ratios, more than 300 men signed up to move in, George Smith, a former senior tutor, said.

Although participants noted a large decrease in student activism on global issues from the early '70s, they described a rise in concern with local issues. "House committee used to run on bribes of milk and cookies." Michael R. Moynihan, a Currier tutor from 1974 to 1980, said, adding. "Now it uns as a town meeting."

More recent changes include the disappearance of the racks of bikes that used to line Currier in favor of an expanded shuttle bus schedule, participants said.

The bus has made the distance between the Quad and the Yard physically shorter but psychologically more distant--"people never walk to the Quad anymore," Katheryn A. Angell '74, a former student in the House, said.