MIT New House 50th Reunion

Vivian Hir, Class of 2025presented a history of New HouseA few months ago we attended an interesting reunion at MIT. It wasn't a class reunion, or a family reunion, but it was a 50th anniversary of my husband's dorm (known at MIT as a living group). I thought about how little genealogists use college, school, or university records, and this reunion created a lot of epherma, presentations, and photographs that will end up at the MIT archives. Someday someone will want to see those records. They list names, occupations, degrees, hometowns, and other pertinent information, and all of it is of interest to family historians.I have done research at the archives at Simmonds University, Acadia University, Boston University, University of New Hampshire and other schools. I've found not just academic records and yearbooks, but also journals, sermons, news clippings, photographs, books and other interesting items. All of it was useful and helped to flesh out the bones on some ancestors for whom…