Dorms Will Bear Alumnae Names

Two units of Currier House will be named after distinguished Radcliffe alumnae, Barbara W. Tuchman '33 and Mary C. Bingham '28, Radcliffe trustees announced Friday.

Tuchman was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1962 for The Guns of August, a history of the events leading up to World War I. Her latest book, Stillwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945, will be published in February.

Tuchman, a member of the History Visiting Committee, the Harvard Board of Overseers, and the Radcliffe Board of Trustees, has received honorary degrees from Bates College, the University of Massachusetts, Columbia andYale. She has three daughters, two of them Radcliffe alumnae.

Bingham, a former Radcliffe trustee, is vice-president of the Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal. She is married to Barry Bingham '28, president of the Courier-Journal.

Bingham was a member of the panel on vocational education named by President Kennedy in 1961. She has been heavily involved in other projects concerning education, library services, and conservation, including the Soutrern Committee for selecting Marshal scholars. In 1954 she received an honorary degree from the University of Louisville.