Phoebe A. Search '00, McHenry's roommate, had a guest in their room that night which is why McHenry was sleeping in the common room, Search said.

According to Evans, McHenry noticed that her wallet, which contained her ID card and a credit card, was missing at 9:30 on the morning of Friday, Feb. 14.

Although she called to cancel her credit card by 10 a.m., $300 had already been stolen from her bank account, Evans said.

Later that day, at about 3 p.m., Evans said she found a huge mess in the common kitchen.

Eggs, ice cream, concentrated juice and other items had been poured in the sink and smeared over the interior of the refrigerator, she said.

A utensil tray had been filled with water and overflowed into the kitchen cabinets.

Evans said she also suspects that the vandals were responsible for a bottle of raspberry vinaigrette poured over two loads of clean laundry that had been removed from a clothes dryer that day.

The laundry belonged to Brian J. Daigle '00, who said he discovered his vandalized laundry at about the same time that the the mess in the kitchen was found.

Evans said that the two events might be related.

"I see no reason why they wouldn't be," she said.

Evans sent an e-mail message to her proctor group stating that McHenry had seen three strangers wandering around Greenough the night before she discovered her wallet was missing.

According to Evans, McHenry said she saw a girl with long wavy brown hair, a shorter man with brown hair and a tall man with a blond head that was "almost shaved."

In a written statement distributed over e-mail by her proctor, McHenry described the strangers as "college age, and all looking, (to me anyways) like ordinary college students."

Sarah E. Birmingham, another Greenough proctor, said she remembers a similar series of thefts last year.

In September 1995, a combination VCR and TV disappeared from the Greenough common room. Later in the year, a bass guitar, jewelry and other personal items were stolen from dorm rooms.

However, unlike the recent thefts which happened in the period of a week, last year's crimes were spread out throughout the year.

"Sometimes last year it looked like the thieves could have been students, other times it was obvious it was someone who depended on having a getaway car," said Evans