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Jenness House

10 Morley Drive
Williamstown, MA 01267

Jenness House is the home of the staff of the Multicultural Center and serves as a learning and resource center. It contains offices and meeting space for AASiA, ATP, CASO, KOW, and SASA. Jenness also features a large classroom for academic seminars and general and public weekly meetings. The library contains two Macintosh and two Dell computers with network access as well as the video archive collection. There is a small lounge and kitchenette at the back of the house. Students are always welcome to use the MCC as a study space 24 hours a day with ID card access.

Room Directory

Room #1	First Floor	Dept. Admin Asst.	Denise Jacon Church
Room #3	First Floor	Classroom	General Public
Room #5	First Floor	Library	General Public
Room #6	Second Floor	Director	Gail Bouknight-Davis
Room #7	Second Floor	Asst. Dir./QLC	Kareem Khubchandani
Room #8	Second Floor	Program Assistant	Marcela Villada Peacock
Room #9	Second Floor	Student Organization Office	AASiA
Room #10	Second Floor	Academic Director	David Eppel
Room #11	Second Floor	Conference Room	MCC Staff

It was in 1946 that Arthur Freeman Jenness began his Williams career as the first and only member of the Psychology Department. He served as Professor of the department from 1946 to 1966 and as the Chair of the Department until 1962. Before his tenure at Williams, Jenness taught at the University of Nebraska and after his time here, he retired but still taught at the North Carolina Wesleyan University. His research focused on the relationships between several perceptual abilities, personality traits and susceptibility to hypnosis. His wife, Barbara Babcock, helped him with his research while he taught at Williams. She also wrote several psychology articles and taught at other institutions. Jenness House was the private home of the Jenness family for many years. It later served as the Dean's Office while Hopkins Hall was being renovated and was the site of the 1988 student sit-in which lead to the creation of the Multicultural Center. It finally became the home of the MCC in the fall of 1989 when the center opened.

By Anita Doddi '98, Assistant to the Director
from Spectrum, October 1998