Liem Opened Meeting to Public

I would like to correct some information reported in Elie G. Kaunfer's May 5 article on the open meeting held May 4 in Dunster House to discuss the tutor hiring process and charges of nepotism. After the meeting was over, I narrated to Kaunfer the following sequence of events to explain how the open meeting took shape.

On the evening preceding our scheduled monthly tutor meeting. I had raised with Master Karel Liem the possibility of either using the tutor meeting to discuss the many issues surrounding this year's tutor hiring, or setting a later date for the discussion to take place. Liem responded that we should hold the discussion during the tutor meeting. On the day of the meeting itself, a student asked Liem to open the tutor meeting to students, and Liem agreed. He informed my of this change of plans when he saw me in the dining hall before the meeting. It should be clear, thus, that the credit for opening the meeting to the Dunster community at large should go the student and to Liem, and not to me and to I. Fred Jewett '57, as the article stated.

Henriette Lazaridis Power

Senior Tutor, Dunster House