Officials Dedicate Currier House

Radcliffe College formally celebrated the completion of Audrey Bruce Currier House yesterday in a dedication ceremony to the late Audrey Bruce Currier '56.

Members of the Radcliffe Board of Trustees, major donors to the House, members of the Harvard Corporation and heads of Radcliffe departments attended the two-hour ceremony. About 50 students were present.

Helen Gilbert '36, chairman of the Board of Trustees, Barbara Wertheim Tuchman '33, Pulitzer prize-winning author, and Mary Caperton Bingham '28, newspaperwoman and civic leader, also attended the meeting. The three residences were named after these women.

Lavinia and Andrea Currier, daughters of the late Audrey Currier, also were there.

Form New System

Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe, said in her opening speech that Currier House is an attempt to form a Radcliffe House system which will transform the previous system of separate dormitories.

Bunting also quoted a remark by the late Elsa Mellon Bruce who donated more than $5 melon in honor of her daughter. She had commented before her death, Bunting said: "How fortunate it was we hadn't known that men would be admitted until now and that the building was planned for women. Otherwise some of the best civilizing features might never have been considered."

Audrey Currier established the philanthropic Taconic Society which aims to "alleviate human distress and create opportunities for the disadvantaged." John Simon, president of the foundation, spoke about its activities at the ceremony.