Radcliffe Loses Murray Director

And then there were five.

Another high-level Radcliffe administrator--the fifth in seven months--has announced her decision to leave the 119-year old institution.

Martha H. Mauzy, the administrative director of Radcliffe's Murray Research Center, will move down Garden Street on Feb. 22 to become the deputy director of Harvard's Institute for the Arts and Civic Dialogue.

Mauzy said yesterday that her decision to leave Radcliffe after 18 years did not constitute "bailing out of Radcliffe."

Her offer from Harvard was too attractive to turn down, she said.

"I've been here a really, really long time," Mauzy said. "[The offer] was just an opportunity which was too good to be true."

Radcliffe spokesperson Michael A. Armini said yesterday that the college would not be affected by the departure.

"Institutions like Harvard and Radcliffe cannot be measured by counting heads, but instead by how they successfully accomplish their missions," he wrote in an e-mail message.

Mauzy served as an acting co-director of the Murray Center from mid-summer until January, when Boston University sociology professor Annemette Sorensen took over as the center's permanent director.

Mauzy said the transition to Sorensen's leadership has been smooth so far.

"She's just wonderful. We're so glad to have her," Mauzy said of Sorensen. "She's really fun and nice to have around--that's about as far as we've gotten."

Mauzy said that she is confident of the Murray Center's future, though Radcliffe's powers have revealed little to her and her co-workers about the details of their secret talks with Harvard.

"I don't know if there's going to be a momentous change on the horizon. We know so little about that here [at the Murray]," Mauzy said.