In any case, the transition might not be seamless for McDonald and Rosengarten, given the 18-year-long tenure of their predecessors, Mather House Masters Sandra F. Naddaff ’75 and Leigh G. Hafrey ’73.
“They’ve been such great Masters so it’s going to be a hard act to follow obviously,” McDonald says. “So we’ll want to make sure to continue all the things that people care about in the House that they’ve built up.”
“It’ll be a learning curve, and some say a steep learning curve,” she adds.
Rosengarten, with a seemingly restrained but relentless sense of humor, immediately chimes in.
“We’re counting on a long honeymoon phase as well,” he says.
—Staff writer Danielle J. Kolin can be reached at dkolin@fas.harvard.edu.
—Staff writer Naveen N. Srivatsa can be reached at srivatsa@fas.harvard.edu.