'Cliffe Approves Changes in Quad

Radcliffe will have an underground coffee shop and kitchen complex operating by next winter as the first step of a proposed $2 million renovation of Bertram and Eliot Halls.

The coffee shop and Kitchen will be built in a basement link between Bertram and Eliot. The Radcliffe Council--which finally approved plans last month for a huge parking lot beneath the Quad--also decided to begin construction on the underground link, Mrs. Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe, said yesterday.

Sometime after the underground area is completed, Bertram and Eliot will be joined above the ground by a "center building" containing tutors' studies and a dinning hall. Although the Council has informally approved tenative plans for the center building and for extensive interior renovations of Bertram and Eliot, Mrs. Bunting said that construction probably would not begin before September, 1970, because of time needed to raise the funds.

Digs Coffee Shop

Digging for the coffee shop-kitchen area, however, will start early this summer because it will be least expensive to build it at the same time as the underground garage.

The coffee shop was something of a surprise addition to the original plans for the underground link, Mrs. Bunting said. After architects told the Council that the coffee shop could be included in the basement area with the kitchen, the Council decided to approve it.

The underground area will take "a minor portion" of the $2 million total involved in the Bertram-Eliot project, Mrs. Bunting said. The center building and the renovation work--which includes converting individual rooms into three-to-six room suites--will use up the rest of the money.

New Currier House

When the above-ground construction begins, the 95 girls living in Bertram and Eliot will move to the new Currier House, which is scheduled to open in the fall of 1970. The Bertram-Eliot work should be finished in a year, Mrs. Bunting said, and by 1971 girls should be able to return to the dorms.