Lewis said he will also meet with Cabot students next week, as he did with the students in Winthrop and Currier Houses, to solicit their input for the master search.

At that point, Kargere will assemble a selection committee of Cabot tutors, students and a member of the Senior Common Room.

“I just want to make it as diverse a group as possible,” Kargere said. “The Wares’ shoes will be hard to fill.”

Lewis said he hopes to complete all three master searchs by the end of March in order to “limit the period of understandable anxiety and uncertainty, and to provide a longer period of overlap to smooth the transition.”

He said he does not think finding enough qualified faculty members to fill the positions will be a problem.

“As we have already developed a good pool of candidates, we will be ready to begin the search process very quickly, and I don’t anticipate any difficulty in making three strong appointments,” Lewis wrote.

—Staff writer Emily E. Anderson can be reached at emanders@fas.harvard.edu.