New Organization Hires Coordinator, Gets Office Space

The new organization. Women Employed at Harvard, has hired a paid part-time coordinator and now maintains an office in Fay House in the Radcliffe Yard.

Corey Patterson will serve as the temporary administrator for the summer. In addition, Elizabeth E. Butterfield, assistant Registrar of the College and the GSAS, has been named temporary chairman of the women's organization.

The association--which includes both Corporation appointees and salary-and-wage employees--reported at its Friday meeting that its dues-paying membership is nearing 200 and its funds. $2000.

The minimum annual dues set by the organization for voting membership is $5.

Affirmative Action 'Inadequacy'

At Friday's meeting, the organization discussed what it termed the "inadequacy" of the University's affirmative action proposal. Members were urged to respond as individuals to the portions of the plan that have been made public, although the organization postponed any response as a unit.

However, a task force was established to study the University's affirmative action progress and to report back to the general organization.

Members will then vote whether or not to take action regarding what the group has often called the "delinquency" of the Administration in responding to criticism of its affirmative action program.

Patterson said at the meeting that she had received a rejection in writing from John Butler, director of the Personnel Office, of her request for a mailing list of all women employed by Harvard. Butler could not be reached to comment on Patterson's charge.

Although all Corporation appointees and their addresses are listed in the "red book" issued by the University, there are no master lists of salary-and-wage employees (office and kitchen workers, technicians, etc.) readily available.

Patterson reported that Radcliffe President Horner had worked with the organization to find available office space. Women Employed at Harvard will reportedly pay $2 per square foot annually for the space it has rented in Fay House.

Patterson contrasted Horner's "invitation" to the organization to use the space with the "lack of cooperation we have received from Harvard.