Ex-officio members, who have full voting power, include Bahat and Ma; Professor of Government and Sociology Theda Skocpol, who chairs the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Standing Committee on Public Service; Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III; and Assistant Dean for Public Service Judith H. Kidd.

Kidd said yesterday that she had not received the letter and declined to comment.

"I didn't write it to her," Johnson said last night. "That's her problem. I don't see this as a personal situation."

PBHA Board member and Lamont Professor of Divinity Paul D. Hanson, who said he had received the letter, said that it was unfair to charge that the Board was acting counter to the interests of PBHA.

"The Board consists primarily of people that are members of PBHA," Hanson said. "I don't know how you could draw the distinction of the Board not doing what is in the best interests of PBHA, when the Board is PBHA."

In the letter, Johnson said that the Board should be "expected to set policy, to employ an Executive Director and to raise money--in short, to be able to manage their own affairs."

Johnson sees the current role of PBHA's acting chief operating officer, a position that will be vacated next month by Kenneth G. Smith, as an "impossible" one.

"It's impossible to be paid half by the University, half by PBHA Inc., report to a University administrator, and [still] be an independent agent," Johnson said last night.

Bahat declined to comment on the content of Johnson's letter.

Board members said that the questions involved would take time to work out.

"It is a huge organization and everything can't be solved immediately," said Board member Rev. G. Stewart Barns, who noted that the questions were "on-going" and that the Board was taking time to resolve them.

"There is no need for antagonism and conflict to exist," said Cambridge City Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55, a recent addition to the Board who added that he believed differences could be "reasonably worked out.