New Adams and Lowell Senior Tutors Announced

The chief administrator of Phillips Brooks House (PBH) and a lecturer on religion have been named senior tutors of Adams and Lowell House respectively.

Graduate PBH secretary and an Adams affiliate for six years, Greg A. Johnson '72 will replace current Adams Senior Tutor Marshall Hyatt next year.

Carol G. Zaleski, who has served as assistant head tutor for the religion department and has a been a member of the Lowell House senior common room for more than a year, will replace current Lowell Senior Tutor Jack M. Lee.

As senior tutors, Johnson and Zaleski will act as academic advisers for house residents and serve on the Administrative Board.

Hyatt, lecturer in Afro-American Studies, is leaving Harvard to become director of Wesleyan University's center for Afro-American Studies.

Adams House Master Robert J. Kiely could not be reached for comment.

Lowell House Master William H. Bossert said the house selected Zaleski for her involvement in undergraduate teaching. "The first criteria was that we have a faculty person, and we were looking for someone who had a demonstrated rapport with students," he said.

An American History and Literature concentrator as an undergraduate, Johnson has served as adviser to the student social service association and chief administrator for the building and its permanent staff since coming to Harvard in 1979. He was named to the post of Adams public service tutor last fall.

Johnson said he was very pleased by his new appointment. "The house is very dear to me. I think it's a very special place," he said. "[Being the senior tutor] will be very much a challenge and an excitement."

Zaleski and her husband, Philip, a freelance writer, are currently expecting their first child.

Lee, assistant professor of mathematics, has accepted a teaching position at the University of Washington for next year.

Quincy House has completed the process of selecting a senior tutor but has not released the tutor's name.

The search is still on for a new senior tutor at Leverett House, officials said. Assistant Dean for the House System Thomas A. Dingman announced last month that he would be stepping down after eight years in order to assume a full-time post in University Hall.