Yacht Club Boat House To Be Built Near M.I.T.

The Harvard Yacht Club will soon have a permanent sailing pavilion on the Charles River Basin, Commodone David W. Stookey '64 said yesterday.

A joint student-alumni planning committee has chosen a construction site at the foot of Ames St. on Memorial Drive, beside the M.I.T. sailing pavilion.

Drawings Prepared

Preliminary drawings have been prepared by Sherman Morse of the Boston architectural firm of Shepley, Bullfinch, Richardson, and Abbott. Approval of the plans by the Metropolitan District Commission is expected before spring.

The committee consists of Stookey, David A. Gants '64, James A. Rousmaniere '40, chairman of the Harvard College Fund, Leonard M. Fowle '30, graduate secretary of the New England Intercolleginte Sailing Association, Barrett Wendell, Jr. '37, and Timothy M. Brown '54. They hope to get financial support for the project from the Friends of Harvard Sailing, an alumni group of which Rousmanlere is chairman. No University funds will be used for the project, according to Stookey.

The committee hopes that construction can be started this summer, and that the pavilion will be ready for use during 1954-65. Plans call for a dock supported by pilings, an office, rest rooms, a carpenter shop, and two bays with racks for 24 Interclub Sailing Dinghies. Last fall the Friends of Harvard Sailing donated 15 dinghies, which are currently stored on floating docks attached to the M.I.T. sailing pavilion.

Near M.I.T. Pavilion

The pavilion is to be located directly across from the M.I.T. President's Residence. It will be a low structure resembling the M.I.T. pavilion, only slightly shorter. Stairs will lead from the street level to the docks and bays at water level.

Stookey said that the Yacht Club "deserves" the new facility in view of its large membership and consistently outstanding racing teams. The pavilion would be run by a full-time professional sailing master with his salary paid by a Friends endowment, and it would provide the University with as complete a sailing program as any college in the country, according to Stookey.