To the editors:
I was saddened to read that the Fay prize will not be awarded this year, and that the College is considering that the prize not be restricted by gender in the future. As a resident tutor at Currier House for several years during the 1990s, I remember with great pleasure several winners of the Fay Prize from the house. Their achievement was extraordinary, both academically and in "conduct and character."
But the point is also that the women who have won this prize over past years make up an extraordinary group who provide leadership and mentoring to the best and brightest female students of the graduating class each year. That is something unique and precious.
Should the College mistakenly change the criteria for the eligibility for the Fay prize, I trust that it will also change all the senior prizes, including the athletic awards, that are restricted to men only. I wait to see how it deals with one specific prize whose criteria I recall includes "manliness!"
David M. Kidger
April 14, 2000
The writer was a Resident Tutor at Currier House from 1992 to 1998.
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