Considering: The Economics Department is courting MIT professor DREW FUDENBERG, while MIT has extended a tenure offer to Harvard professor ERIC S. MASKIN. Both are leading game theory specialists.
Returned: JEAN BAPTISTE, who in 1991 was convicted of raping two summer school students, was released on parole. Summer school administrators warned students that Baptiste had allegedly reappeared in the Square.
Appointed: Temporary City Clerk D. MARGARET DRURY was named permanent city clerk; University attorney DIANE PATRICK became Harvard's Director of Human Resources.
Moved: Toaster Tutor NOEL IGNATIEV, who sparked controversy with his criticism of a Kosher toaster and was fired from his non-resident tutorship in Dunster, was hired as a tutor by Adams House Master ROBERT J. KIELY.
Deceased: Secretary to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Senior Tutor of Dudley House JOHN R. MARQUAND died in July of complications from colon cancer. He was 52.
Professor of Romance Languages Emeritus LOUIS F. SOLANO '24 died at age 88 after a long illness.
RUTH HIBBARD ROMER, a founder of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) who helped reform the city's government in the 1940s, died at age 90.