Rosenkrantz said she knows "a great many" students in Currier House.

"I have no trouble getting to know a great many students in the House," she said. "My residence is right in the house and I eat at least one meal a day there."

"Sometimes I think I'm even more accessible than virtue demands that I should be," she said.

She said she sees her primary role as master as providing a certain degree of continuity in an atmosphere that changes from year to year.

"As master, I must act as the representative of the faculty in the House and encourage other faculty members to come see the students," she said, adding that House life could be vastly improved through a greater faculty commitment to it.

However, she said that professors will only become more involved in the Houses when students become more receptive to them.

Their responsibilities as co-masters and their other academic responsibilities caused a "decline" in interpersonal relations between her and her husband, Paul S. Rosencrantz, she said.

"My husband is a professor at the University of Massachusetts and we have great difficulty in arranging our schedules so we can get together at the same time," she said.

"Ideologically, we have a co-mastership, but I'm the actual administrative director of the House. My husband literally has no time for the day to day responsibilities of the mastership," she said.

Dudley House

Charles and Patricia Whitlock

When he assumes the Dudley House mastership this fall, Charles P. Whitlock, associate dean of the Faculty, will be resuming a task he began 25 years ago when he was senior tutor there.

"I've always been extremely concerned about improving Dudley House, even while I had no formal ties to it," Whitlock said last week.

"Before I became senior tutor in 1952," he said, "Dudley was not even recognized as a House, but only as a non-resident students' center. It did not have a building of its own, a library, or an adequate tutorial staff."

"I became deeply involved in the process of granting Dudley House non-resident House status," Whitlock said, adding that before he left the senior tutorship in 1958 the House not only had that status but its own library, an increased tutorial staff and its own building, Lehman Hall, as well.