The main dining room at Dudley House was decked out and filled to capacity on October 27 as President Drew Faust joined House Masters Jim and Doreen Hogle and legions of GSAS students — along with FAS Dean Mike Smith, GSAS Dean Allan Brandt, and Harvard College Dean Evelyn Hammonds — to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Dudley’s dedication as the graduate student center at GSAS.
Many members of the Graduate School’s Alumni Council were also in attendance — appropriately so, since GSAS alumni, including some current Council members, were central to the effort to dedicate the House as a space for GSAS students to form connections across disciplines, build friendships, and pursue interests beyond the lab or library. When the House opened in its current form in October 1991, the idea that graduate students should do any of those things was far from an accepted wisdom. But today, Dudley is a central Harvard resource, crucial to graduate-student recruitment and wellbeing, and widely imitated among peer institutions. Three cheers!
