The Kirkland House subcommittee, inquiring into a replacement for retiring master Arthur Smithies, professor of Political Economy, offered President Bok a list of 12 recommended candidates at a closed meeting yesterday.

Bok added eight suggestions of his own, and now both the subcommittee and the President will prepare thorough evaluations of the 20 persons discussed at the meeting. Bok will meet with the six-member committee again in mid-December.

Thomas G. McKinley '74, sub-committee chairmen, declined yesterday to release any of the names under consideration.

McKinley said only that the Kirkland representatives have urged the President to choose a member of the Faculty.

"This is an attempt to make the house system more cohesive with the Faculty members involved in undergraduate education," McKinley said. "We want to see the house system work."

Kirkland residents expressed their preferences to the committee at an open meeting Monday night. Douglas Schwalbe, managing director at the Loeb, and his wife Mary Ann, director of Radcliffe admissions, were discussed as possibilities.

Among the other names frequently mentioned were Leonard K. Nash '39, professor of Chemistry; Dr. Warren E. C. Wacker, director of University Health Services; and Stephen Williams, professor of Anthropology.