Bricks Arrive for Quad Dining Hall

Bricks will finally arrive this morning for the long-delayed South House dining hall, Thomas F. Duffy, resident inspector in the Construction Management Division, said yesterday.

A shortage of the special bricks used exclusively in Harvard buildings recently slowed construction of the dining hall, which was originally scheduled for completion last September.

Contractors for the new Kennedy School of Government, who are using the same type of bricks, had no problem securing them, Robert Heinmann, a spokesman for the Planning Office, said yesterday.

Richard J. Gersh'79, chairman of the South House Committee, said yesterday the Kennedy School construction "took up all the bricks that might have gone to the dining hall."

Devil Made Them Do It

"When you have a big project, it is inevitable that it will draw on smaller projects. We can't help that," Heinman said.

Ira Jackson, senior assistant dean of the Kennedy School, said yesterday he was "unaware" of South House's brick troubles. "We simply put in our brick order way in advance," Jackson added. Construction of the Kennedy School is on schedule and should be completed by August 1978, he said.

Gersh and some other South House students said the brick problem is only part of a larger set of troubles.

"For the past few years the Quad has been gettin a raw deal and the dining hall delay is just another example," Gersh said. "Knowing the University's attitude toward South House, and the Quad, I really didn't expect them to keep to the deadline," he added.

Planning officials declined to estimate when the dining hall construction will be finished