Rice's revamped anthropology department has more to offer than skeletons and broken pots. SALLYPORT-FEBRUARY 1982

The Office of Continuing Studies also sponsors semiintensive language courses and the Rice University Translation Insti- IN THIS tute. Details are available on request. ISSUE MUSIC SPOR TS Shepherd School of Music concerts are in The New Face of Hamman Hall at 8 P.M. and are free unless All games begin at 7:30 P.M. unless other- Anthropology at otherwise noted. For more information wise stated. For ticket information call Rice. call the Shepherd School Concert Line, 527-4068. Internationally recognized 527-4933. TR A VOL Men's Basketball scholars like Rod and Susan Feb. 20 Arkansas at HOME 4 Feb. 16 U.S. Air Force Chamber The 1982 Alumni Travel/Study season is McIntosh and Sarah Blaffer Hrdy Ensembles 23 Houston at HOME are just a few of the good things 17 Wayne Crouse, viola; Mary upon us. If you want to join other alumni 27 Texas at Austin Rice's Norris, piano and friends on trips accompanied by mem- Mar. 1 SWC 1st round revamped anthropology 4-6 SWC finals department has to offer students in 18 Rice Concert Band and Jazz bers of the Rice faculty or other experts the '80s. Cover story. Ensemble who will give lectures and perspective on 22 Campanile Orchestra your adventure, write the Alumni Associa- Women's Basketball 24 Shepherd Sinfonia, Toshiyu- Feb. 19 TAIAW 1st round state Minding the Garden tion for more information. 1982 trips championship(TBA) _ ki Shimada, guest conductor include: Does the British ideal 25-27 TAIAW state championship Mar. 8 Concord String Quartet: co- Apr. 3-9 Mississippi river cruise with of "an English way of sponsored with Houston (Texas Weslayan University, Dr. John Boles life" conflict with mod- Friends of Music, admission Ft. Worth) 7 charge Apr. 29- Japan with Japanese-born Mar. 11-13 SWAIAW regional champi- ern ideas of progress? By Mar- 9 SYZYGY: Concord String May 16 Sumiyo Ender onship(Angelo State Univer- tin J. Wiener. An excerpt from his Quartet June 25- Canadian Rockies with Dr. sity, San Angelo, Texas) prize-winning book on the cultural 28 Shepherd Quartet July 19 A. W. Bally 26-27 AIAW national champion- (TBA) influences behind Britain's current 30 Shepherd Percussion July 19- Italy by land and sea with ship economic malaise. Ensemble Aug. 3 Dean Katherine Brown Apr. 2 Shepherd Sinfonia Sept. 29- France by barge: the third Visions of a New Muse- 4 Richard Pickar, clarinet Oct. 12 year of the association's um: Dominque de Men- 12 Basses Loaded (guest artists) most popular trip ii Plans a Home for the 18 Meryl Ettelson, piano Menil Collection. By 19 Campanile Orchestra 8 21 Shepherd Sinfonia Lulu Lopez. A look at the woman LECTURES behind Rice's Institute for the Arts The Jones Graduate School of Administra- and the proposed home for her col- tion is sponsoring the following seminars. lection which may mean big For further information call 527-9651. changes for the Rice Museum. Feb. 16 "Reagan's Economics — ART Prospects and Perils" by Congressman Bill Archer, Through Leonardo da Vinci Studies, ANNOUNCEMENT James L. Pate, Pennzoil Feb. 20 Painting, and Manuscript Company, and six Rice S T A F F The Office of Continuing Studies offers from the Collection of the professors courses and special programs to Houston Comte de Ganay, Paris, con- Feb. 20 "Accounting and Taxes for area residents throughout the year. tinues in the Sewall Art Gal- the Emerging Business" Editor, Virginia Hines '78 Highlights of the winter 1982 session are lery in Sewall Hall. Open 12 by Robert D. Crooks, Peter Consulting Editor, Brent Breedin listed below. There is a charge for all class- N.-5 P.M. Wednesday - L. Shaw and Sidney A. Copy Editor, Hazel Greenberg es. For further details call the office at Sunday Andrews, Coopers & Lybrand Photographer, Pam Morris 527-4803 or 520-6022. Feb. 7- Fifty Nature Drawings by Feb. 27 "Managing Your Business Student Assistants, Kelly Cuppy, Kathy Feb. 20-21 "The Craft of Comedy Writ- Apr. 4 Leonardo da Vinci from the for Profits and Growth" by Hitchcox ing" with writer/director Royal Library at Windsor Design and Production, Flat Lizard Danny Simon, brother of Philip W. Bres and Somir K. Castle at the Graphics playwright Neil Simon Houston Muse- Paul, Braintrust Inc. SALLYPORT is published in September, From "Introducticon to Architec- um of Fine Arts, Bissonnet Mar. 4-5 "Fundamentals of Account- November, February, April, and June by Feb. 15 ture" with Michael Un- at Main St. ing for Executives and Man- the Association of Rice Alumni. derhill Feb. 5- Yves Klein (1928-1962): A agers" by James P. Mandel, Officers of the Association: President, Feb. 22 "People Who Made Texas" May 2 Retrospective at the Rice Jones Graduate School Steve Shaper '58; Past President, Harry with Joe Frantz (Living Tex- Museum, University Blvd. at Mar. 19-20 "How to Negotiate" by Reasoner '60; President-Elect, Catherine as Series) Stockton, Entrance 7. Open James W. Rosborough, Shell Chemical Company Coburn Hannah '43; First Vice-President, Feb. 23 "Talking Back to Texas 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. Tuesday- Ann Pierce Arnett '65; Second Vice-Presi- Monthly"(Living Texas) Mar. 26-27 "Data Processing for Man- Saturday, 12 N. to 6 P.M. agers and Users" by H. dent, Louis Spaw '40; Treasurer, Warren Feb. 24 "Contemporary Texas Writ- Sunday Cole '67; Executive Director, Kathryn ers"(Living Texas) Albert Napier, Systems and Mar. 9- Cubism and the Origins Alcorn Duffle '51. Feb. 25 "Houston: The Making of a of Strategies, Inc. Association Committee on Publications: City" with Louis Marchiafa- Apr. 10 Abstraction at the Sewall Art Apr. 16-17 "Fundamentals of Finance Ed Jennings '48, Chairman; W. W. Akers; va (Living Texas) Gallery. An exhibition on for Executives and Man- Bill Ballew '40; Gilbert Cuthbertson; Bruce Feb. 27 "Nature Photography" with loan from the Menil Teach- agers" by W. Clifford Ather- Davies; Terry Doody; T. Franklin Glass '39; Jay Forrest ing Collections. ton, Jr., Jones Graduate Harry Holmes'66; Neal Lane; Patti Shelton Feb. 27 and "Wildlife Photography" with The new Farish Gallery in Anderson Hall School. Simon '65; Charles Szalkowski '70. Apr. 17 Jerry T. Smith offers a variety of architecture-related Huston Smith, Thomas J. Watson Profes- Rice University Alumni Governors: C.M. Mar. 11 "Earth History: An Intro- exhibits throughout the year. The gal- sor of Religion and distinguished adjunct Hudspeth '40, William McCardell '48, Tay- duction to Geologic Process- lery is open from 12 N.-5 P.M. Tuesday- professor of philosophy at Syracuse Uni- lor Ray '59, Helen S. Worden '38. es" with John Anderson Sunday. Upcoming shows include the versity, will deliver this year's Rockwell SALLYPORT is sent free to all university From "Universe: An Introduction ollowing: Lectures. There will be a film each evening alumni, parents of university students, and Mar. 15 to Astronom " en Work. at 7:30 P.M. in the Rice Memorial Chapel, supporters of the university. es at 8:00. William Marsh Rice University offers equal opportunity to all applicants with regard to race, color, sex, age, n ethnic origin, or physical han SALLYPORT-FEBRUARY 1982 3 THROUGH THE SALLYPORT

Political Savvy day, December 13 — not with another air during moments of enthusiasm until Commercial Interests An article in the Houston Chronicle last fall A&M or Astrodome scandal but with its security forces confiscated it during the If the setting for a Coca Cola commercial time to announced that "passion politics are out of candid satire on Houston's problems at the third quarter. The Owls hardly had on your television this winter looks more at date at colleges today" and quoted Rice Rice-Houston game. MOBsters satirized recover from the 51-26 embarrassment than vaguely familiar, don't schedule an Presi- Democratic Caucus chair David Curcio '83 Houston's police protection, garbage and the hands of their arch-rivals before appointment with the optometrist — began ringing Lovett as saying students here "feel they bus service, and flood control. "The Satur- dent Hackerman's phone you're right, it's Rice. Representatives of Aggies and alumni don't need a lot from government. day-afternoon spectacle in Rice Stadium with complaints from the soft drink company visited here in They're here to get the degree and then said a lot about what is going on in the alike. December to cast for a commercial that a meeting with stu- make the big bucks as engineers for some nation's fifth-largest city," said Times The president called will be broadcast nationally. Although such oil firm. They aren't as interested in gov- reporter Rone Tempest (who obviously dent leaders to warn of the damage local film companies frequently shoot our university's image. ernment as they are in engineering." has not heard of Philadelphia's concession pranks could do to the scenic campus as the backdrop for were identified Marlis Smith '82 Baker, president of the of the number four spot reported in the last Some of the perpetrators advertisements and other messages, such and repri- Rice Republican Caucus, disagreed: "I SALLYPORT). from pictures in the Thresher a large scale project is a little more special. both sup- find the average Rice students have very SWC Owl Analysis manded. Letters to the editor Film crews a couple of weeks later were the students strong political opinions, and they love to The NCAA's major athletic conferences porting and condemning greeted with unexpectedly cold, rainy A "potential argue their point of view, but you have to vary in strength from season to season and poured into the Thresher. weather, but all came out well in the end: thoughts draw them out." sport to sport. In 1981 it would appear that donor" apparently had second Coke had a commercial, and Rice received -million- If the recent elections in Houston are the Southwest Conference was number about his planned three-to-four a generous stipend from the company, such as any indication, though, alumni from Rice one in football. Texas and Southern Meth- dollar gift to Rice. Organizations which has been allotted to the financial voiced the are neither apathetic nor require coaxing odist University were ranked two and five the Rice Engineering Alumni aid office. exercise more to declare political convictions. Rice was nationally in the postbowl Associated request that students Most of us think of Rice as an education- Winning- well represented in both the winning and Press poll, while Arkansas and Houston restraint in the future. And Geoff al institution rather than a public facility and losing ranks of the November elections. finished regular season play ranked six- ham '65, professor of photography for hire, but each year the university real- that if In the runoff against Houston's new teen and nineteen in the UPI poll. Texas master of Wiess College, warned izes substantial profits from individuals, Mayor Kathy Whitmire was Harris County A&M, while not in either "top twenty," Wiess could not restore the administra- organizations, and businesses that rent serious Sheriff Jack Heard '40. Whitmire applied won the Independence Bowl championship tion's confidence in the college, Rice for their own purposes. In November, result. Among the to and was accepted at Rice but chose to over Oklahoma State, 33-16. consequences would for example, the Billy Graham Crusade at a meeting of col- spend her first semester at SMU before Nor were the Owls' non-SWC competi- alternatives discussed came to Rice stadium for a week and drew Wiess to transferring to the University of Houston. tors easy marks: Missouri finishing nine- lege masters was converting crowds of several thousand each night. for a five-year Fomer city councilman Louis Macey BA teenth in the AP poll after defeating graduate student housing Proceeds from that venture, as well as any '59 was in third place behind Whitmire and Southern Mississippi in the Tangerine trial period. other use of the stadium, go to the athletic not the only bone of con- Heard in the general election, in which the Bowl and Tulane whipping LSU, 48-7, for "Sparky" was department. game: students also incumbent, Jim McConn, came in fourth. a winning season after starting out with tention from the A&M But there is a flip side to the story. Four from the roof of Jerry Wood BA '76 served as director of four consecutive losses. One might ration- hung a seven-story banner football players slated to appear in the that transformed research and public information under alize that Rice would have beaten LSU (3- Sid Richardson college Coke commercial had to back out at the into the mes- Whitmire when she was city controller and 7-1) had the game been played later in the TA&M's familiar monogram last minute at the risk of losing their schol- pranks have has been appointed by the new mayor to season, at home, or under more desirable sage "eat me." But this year's arships and eligibility. According to tradition- serve as director of city management circumstances than coming off consecu- not been limited to shots against NCAA regulations, students may not par- rivals. In a separate incident a research in the new administration. Whit- tive road losses at Texas and Missouri. al university ticipate in intercollegiate athletics if they unknown created the mire has also named Francis J. "Hank" Such analyses are generally a waste of party or parties are involved in advertising any "commer- Fools, Dregs, Coleman BA '66 city attorney. time, but they do provide a degree of op- "Rice University Council of cial product or service of any kind." Two which were In Houston city council elections, timism and a sense of pride. Few other and Drooling Cretins" to seniors, team captains Rodney Williams George Greanias BA '70, an assistant pro- segments of this or any other univer- appointed thirty-one faculty members. and Bryan Hill, appeared in the commer- of fessor in the Jones Graduate School and sity measure themselves against such Notices of a fictitious "public meeting" cial since they had used all their eligibility, resident associate of Weiss College, was competition. the group signed by its alleged "executive but they may have jeopardized the rest of elected to represent his district. Among committee" composed of fifteen profes- their scholarships. those he defeated along the way was Peter sors were followed by the nonexistent Last summer Mike Horn, a senior catch- C. Elloway '76. Attorney Jim Greenwood meeting's minutes describing the selection er on the baseball team, was one of three BA '58 won another city council seat. of new members and officers and the people screened from a group of 300 to Greanias notes that his election will not awarding of the "Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit Life- appear in a Schlitz commercial filmed at affect his teaching load here and will give time Achievement Award" and the Gilley's. Although the appearance had Rice more visibility in some parts of the "Drooling Cretins Bib of the Month." nothing to do with Mike's status as an ath- motive community. Not only will Greanias bring Although the perpetrators and lete, he subsequently lost his scholarship Political insights gained from his experi- behind what has been dubbed the "cretin for two weeks until he returned the several ence to the classroom but through his elec- hoax" remain unknown, faculty members thousand dollars he had earned from the tion a new intership program with the city involved speculate that the perpetrators commercial. or graduate council has been established that allows must be either undergraduate Taking a warning from Horn's case,jun- "in order to know so much about Jones School students to do research for students iors Richard Crayton, Dan Edling, and university the city, in the process giving them an the professors." Such Doug Malcomb, and sophomore Terry chair inside view of Houston's politics. heavyweights as English department Lowe, all football players, decided not to Meanwhile, Texas Lieutenant Governor Alan Grob, sociology chair Chandler appear in the Coke eommercial despite dean of undergraduate Bill Hobby BA '53 has been named "Mr. Davidson, and having been selected in stiff competition. Brown were among South Texas" for having "dedicated tire- affairs Katherine Rice and Southwest conference officials honor of recog- less energies to improving the quality of those receiving the dubious had cleared Horn's television appearance, life for all Texans through his work in jour- nition by the fake council. but it and the football players' appearance phenomenon nalism,communications, higher education, Impractical Jokes But another university in the Coke ad were nixed at the last min- Rice welfare reform, and government." Hobby Especially where Aggies are concerned, some would call vandalism has earned ute by the NCAA. in the South- Will have held his office for ten years when student pranks are nothing new to Rice. somewhat dubious distinction compiling he faces re-election in November. But this year in particular, undergraduate west Conference. Researchers Southwest The Chronicle argued that today's cam- hijinks have created a little more uproar data for a book Graffiti in the February 1982, Vol. 38, No. 3 Rice's graffiti Pus activists, in contrast with those a dec- than usual among students, administra- Conference have noted that of humor in the SALLYPORT (USPS 412-950) is published ade ago, are "battling political apathy," tion, faculty, and alumni. This year's inci- "reflect the wryest sense visit- five times annually, in February, April and perhaps the Chronicle is right that a dent at the Aggie game got no front page Southwest." The authors, who have country writing a June, September, and November, by the qualitative change has occurred in the coverage, nor were there any threats of ed campuses across the that by Association of Rice Alumni, Rice Universi- mood of students at Rice and elsewhere. bodily harm. But the repercussions are far series of Graffiti books, remark Editorial offices are located in the Allen On the hand, it seems no less likely from negligible: threats of closing Wiess comparison Texas A&M graffiti are ty. other Center for Business Activities, Rice Uni- that graduates will continue to College to undergraduates and of losing a humorous and good natured, while at Bay- future Rice versity, 6100 S. Main St., Houston, Texas call of civic responsibility and multimillion-dollar gift to the university lor there reportedly are no grafitti by wom- answer the Telephone: (713) 527-4806. Sec- Play day-to-day politics are in the air. en. Ivy League graffiti are disappointing, 77251. an active part in postage paid at Houston, Texas. and A group of students, among whom they say, especially at Harvard. They say ond- class government. POSTMASTER:.Send address changes to: At least some Rice students are far from Wiess College and the Rally Club were most graffiti are the same throughout the SALLYPORT, Rice University, P.O. Box the politics of the day. The apparently well represented, smuggled a country although they are more politically Oblivious to 1892 Houston, Texas 77251. Coypright MOB (Marching Owl Band) mascot "Sparky" into the stadium for the conservative in the Southwest. Graffiti in infamous Association of Rice Alumni, Rice made America's largest homecoming game."Sparky" — a six-foot Texas especially reflect "Texas jokes" and 1982 by the front page of University. newspaper, the Los Angeles Times, Sun- papier mache phallus — was thrust in the "Texas pride." SALLYPORT-FEBRUARY 1982 THE NEW FACE OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT RICE

By Virginia Hines

Anyone who has been around Rice's who are interested in applying their medical and biological anthropolo- with their teaching ability as well as anthropology department the last cou- insights from this research to our own gy, she has developed an extensive their academic credentials. ple of years can tell you there is some- society; and finally, to split both Nor- adjunct program with the Texas She took her first courses in anthro- thing new about studying anthro- beck's and Hole's senior positions into Medical Center, which allows a pro- pology before most of the changes pology at Rice, a new enthusiasm and two junior openings each in order to fessional concentration on medical were instituted. "Now there are three a new approach. Course enrollment is bring more of the "new breed" and biological anthropology at the introductory courses instead of just increasing as students find the facul- Marcus and Cooper were looking for graduate level. one," she says. "Things aren't so stiff ty's optimism contagious. The interest to Rice. • Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is a visiting and academic. The emphasis is more in anthropology and archaeology here "Having some understanding and associate professor for 1981-82. She on applied anthropology now, and the is more than a Hollywood-inspired perspective on our cultural values and comes to Rice from Harvard and is young professors are more excited "Indiana Jones syndrome" — it societal institutions is an essential part the author of The Woman That Nev- about what they're doing, more enthu- reflects a conscious attempt to update of being an educated person in the er Evolved (1981), a book exploring siastic. They aren't resting on their the department's courses and academ- 1980s," Cooper says. "At Rice anthropological evidence that over- laurels." ic philosophy and, perhaps more instruction and research in these areas turns traditional justifications for importantly, to replace departing sen- is in the hands of a vibrant and dynam- sex-determined social roles. ior faculty members with young, ic set of faculty members,and the Rice • Michael Fischer came to Rice in dynamic scholars already on the road community can take pride and satis- 1981. An expert in religion and soci- to building impressive international faction in that fact." ety in Iran, he is the author of Iran reputations. A little over a year into the program, from Religious Dispute to Revolution Ten years ago, an independent Marcus is delighted with the results. (1980), a study of the revolution department of anthropology was cre- With one position still to be filled, he from the perspective of Shiite ated from the former department of has succeeded in assembling just the Islam. anthropology and sociology. Professor sort of department he and Cooper • Julie Taylor also came to Rice this Emeritus Edward Norbeck came to envisioned: school year. An authority on Latin Rice as an anthropologist in 1960 and America, gender roles, and the sym- was chair of the joint department bolism of gender and religion in poli- when it divided into two distinct disci- tics, she is the author of Eva Peron: Digging up pots is only the half of the work. Here plines. Current anthropology chair The Myths ofa Woman (1980). workers atop the Mclntoshes' two-story house in George Marcus credits Norbeck with In addition to the new faculty mem- modern Jenne cleaned the day's findings. In the pioneering Rice's anthropology pro- bers, the department includes Marcus, background is the Jenne mosque, considered the gram. It was Norbeck's retirement in best known example of Sudanese mud architecture whose specialty in South Pacific and in the world. The seven-story structure is stylisti- 1981, coupled with the loss of former Polynesian dynastic families has cally a combination of North African Islamic and chair Frank Hole, who left Rice to grown to include studies of business West African elements. head Yale's anthropology department and political dynastic families in Tex- in 1980, which precipitated Marcus's as; Philip Davis, who specializes in lin- decision to restructure the discipline guistics; and Stephen Tyler, a linguist here. and social/cultural anthropologist All the new anthropology faculty "Due to the present economic situa- whose most recent book, The Said and members agree their relationship with tion, it is a real buyer's market in Rod McIntosh, anthropology chair George the Unsaid, is a synthesis of theories of Rice is as much oriented toward teach- anthropology," Marcus says."Among Marcus, Susan McIntosh, and Sarah Hrdy discuss the new approaches to their subject Marcus has language, culture, and the mind. ing as research, and the department's young scholars we could pick almost instituted at Rice.In a conscious attempt to update There are also five adjunct faculty new attitude will unquestionably have whomever we wanted. All we needed anthropology to a discipline more relevant to the members from the medical center. an effect on education at Rice. Long- was a concept." 1980s. Marcus has made interesting changes in If Marcus's new approach to anthro- term judgments must wait until program. In conjunction with Dean of Social Rice's pology has meant important changes Marcus's policies are fully operational Sciences Joseph Cooper, Marcus for the department professionally, it and the department turns out gradu- developed his plan: to shift the depart- has also inevitably meant changes for ates, both with B.A.'s and higher ment's emphasis more toward "com- students. Anthropology major Ruth degrees, who . have received their plex societies" such as our own to give • Roderick and Susan McIntosh Mills '83 comments that the changes entire education under the new sys- anthropology students an immediately came to Rice in 1980 as specialists are very evident to students. After a tem. But in the meantime, with enroll- applicable practical orientation toward in archaeology. Their excavations discussion with Marcus last year in ment rising and enthusiasm running their subject; to rebuild the depart- in western Africa are at the core of a which, she says, he was "very open" high both for faculty and students, ment with young scholars who have new understanding of the history of about the department's new policies, prospects look good that the overhaul begun fo establish themselves, who civilization in that region. Ruth decided to declare an anthropolo- of the anthropology department has have already done their first work in • Linda Adair also joined the gy major. She likes the enthusiasm of brought significant benefits to all of complex, non-Western societies, and department in 1980. A specialist in the young faculty and is impressed the Rice community. SALLYPORT-FEBRUARY 1982 5

The Mclntoshes: Finding the Roots of Urbanization in West Africa

Rod and Susan McIntosh have spent two transforming the non-centralized soci- seasons in Mali, West Africa (formerly eties of the Late Stone Age into highly the French Sudan), excavating the stratified systems, with power and ancient city of Jenne-jeno ("old Jenne," wealth concentrated in the hands of located three kilometersfrom the modern godlike kings. By A.D. 1000, large city of Jenne), studying early urbaniza- areas of West Africa were organized tion in that area, and determining when into empires, such as the empire of thefirst cities appeared. Their work was Ghana, which covered a large territory sponsored by grants from the National in the southeastern corner of present- Science Foundation, the American day Mauritania and southwestern Council of Learned Societies, and the Mali, and which was replete with American Association of University armies, cities, craft industries, and Women. long-distance trade. When and why The Mclntoshes' research has cast did this happen? serious doubts on the traditional assump- For many years it has been assumed tion that it was the arabs from North that much of the impetus for the devel- Africa who brought sophisticated trade opment of complex West African soci- and political structures to this area south eties came from outside stimulation of of the Sahara. They have shown that the indigenous economy in the late Jenne-jeno was settled a millennium eighth century A.D., as North African before the traditionally assigned date of Arabs initiated trans-Saharan trade A.D. 1250 and that it was part of an for gold and slaves from sub-Saharan 1 as indigenous trade network dating back to regions. During the past decade, how- the early Iron Age. It had formerly been ever, controlled excavations incorpo- hro- assumed that Jenne-jeno emerged only rating radiocarbon dating programs Lges after the founding of Timbuktu around have revealed evidence of complex iree A.D. 1100. social stratification, long-distance just The Mclntoshes discovered Jenne-jeno trade, and even urbanism in West Afri- stiff after working in a site in Ghana, whose ca by the middle of the first millenni- iore history led them to the modern city of um A.D. We are thus on the brink of a the Jenne. There, oral traditions spoke ofan fundamental revision in our views of ited ancestral city three kilometers away the area's later prehistory. thu- where the Mclntoshes found a huge Recent excavations at an occupation heir mound rising above the flood plain. site in the Inland Delta of the Niger River have provided insights into the "Absolutely, Africa is full of things Cataloguing artifacts in the courtyard of the Mclntoshes' house in Jenne, Mali, West Africa. waiting to be discovered," says Rod process by which certain West African McIntosh. cultures expanded and became But the mounds are not waiting for markedly more complex in the first the first person with a shovel and the millennium A.D. This site, called urge to dig. It's largely a lack of person- Jenne-jeno, is a mound of human occu- nel," McIntosh says. "And much equip- pation debris measuring 2 km in cir- ment, planning, and logistical support cumference and 6-8 m in height. are required to mount a decentfield expe- According to radiocarbon dates, it rep- dition." The Mclntoshes completed all resents over 1,500 years of continuous the paperwork, applied for the grants, habitation, from about 250 B.C. to then left for Africa. Between the first A.D. 1400. During this period Jenne- and second seasons, they came to Rice, jeno appears to have expanded rapidly where they taught in the fall of 1980 in size, reaching a maximum area of to Jenne-jeno to com- approximately 330,000 m2 by A.D. Here before returning tse in plete their work. 800-900, and then undergoing gradual "it the Having learned the chronology of the abandonment after A.D. 1150. !cl the site, when and why Jenne-jeno became a Situated in an alluvial plain devoid ?dun' city, how the people lived, the food they of stone and iron ore, at the interface ylisti- of Sudanic savanna and Sahel, Jenne- and ate, the jewelry they wore, their technolo- gy, and some of the exotics available to jeno is a natural candidate for the early JENNE TERRACOTTAS — Rod and Susan them, the Mclntoshes have no immedi- development of interregional ex- McIntosh were thefirst archaeologists ever to bring ate plans to return to Africa for another change. Iron and stone, whose nearest out datable, legitimate artifacts in the distinctive Jenne style. Although there has long been a large large field season. At present they are sources lie over 50 km distant, are European market for similar statuettes, none had ;ulty preparing an article for the National both present in the earliest deposits at ever been recovered in a legitimate archaeological with Geographic, scheduled to appear late Jenne-jeno. Copper ornaments found context or been dated before the Mclntoshes' exca- about A.D. 400 must vations at Jenne-jeno. The articles pictured here ,ach- this year, on their experiences and dis- in levels dated to have come from Saharan sources; this are examples of the principal local, preislamic ter- mt's coveries at Jenne-jeno. Here is an excerpt racotta art form from Jenne-jeno. Since they were copper have from their article "West African Prehis- is the earliest evidence for all found togetger in a very late stratum dating trade in West Africa. It happens that ong- tory," which was the cover article in the about A.D. 1400-1500, the Mclntoshes speculate were that the burial may reflect a desecration due to the until November/December 1981 issue of copper and salt from the Sahara commodi- influence of Islam and an intolerance of local onal American Scientist magazine: particularly highly valued ties in West Africa throughout histori- pagan traditions at that time. adu- the tenth gher Little is known in detail about the evo- cal times. Observers from through the fourteenth centuries A.D. their lution of West African societies from reported exchanges of salt for equal its sys- the beginnings of iron use until the his- weight in gold, and copper for two- troll- torical period was inaugurated by thirds its weight in gold. It has usually ning Arab penetration of the West African Sahel at the end of the first millennium been assumed that long-distance trade 2nts, these haul A.D. Yet it is clear that changes of in commodities between the Sarahan and regions did has great importance were occurring in sub-Saharan not really develop 11 of certain regions during this period, until Arabs orga- 6 SALLYPORT-FEBRUARY 1982

nized the trans-Saharan trade (Bovill 1968). The evidence from Jenne-jeno suggests the existence of an earlier, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy: indigenous trading system, which is confirmed at Marandet, in the A'ir Did Women Evolve region, where dates of A.D.550 ± 100 and 640 ± 100 were obtained on char- to be the Girl Next coal from refuse heaps containing over 30,000 crucibles used in copper- Door? working. If the early trade in copper — and, presumably, salt as well — was as extensive as the Marandet crucibles Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is teaching at Rice sex that will lead us back to the "gold- suggest, the easily navigable section as a visiting associate professor in 1981- en age of queendoms, when peace and of the Niger River between the Niger 82, on leave from her position as a justice prevailed on earth," is a dream Bend at the edge of the Sahara and the research associate at the Peabody Muse- that may not be well founded. western Inland Delta at the savanna um at Harvard while her husband com- Widespread stereotypes devaluing margin would have developed early as pletes his second year of residency at the capacities and importance of wom- a major transport axis. The location of Baylor College of Medicine. In her brief en have not improved either their lot Jenne-jeno at the southwest extreme acquaintance with Rice, she has already or that of human societies. But there is of the navigable Inland Delta favored formed the very strong impression that also little to be gained from counter- the town's growth as a point of "the Rice anthropology department is myths that emphasize woman's natu- exchange for Saharan copper and salt something very special." ral innocence from lust for power, her and for iron, gold, and agricultural "The people are young, intellectually cooperativeness and solidarity with produce from the savanna. In re- lively, and unpretentious," Hrdy says. other women. Such a female never turn, Jenne-jeno could offer dried fish At thirty-five the author of three books evolved among the other primates. and rice from its rich agricultural and a primatologist/sociobiologist with a Even under those conditions most hinterland. burgeoning international reputation, favorable to high status for females — The development of indigenous, Hrdy exemplifies the spirit of Rice's • monogamy and closely bonded long-distance trade in West Africa by updated department even though she is "sisterhoods" — competition among the first millennium A.D. provides a not a permanent member of it. females remains a fact of primate exis- reasonable context for the increasing Most recently, Hrdy has been in the This effort to correct a bias within evo- tence. In a number of cases it leads to political centralization and growth of spotlight- due to her book The Woman lutionary biology, to expand the con- oppression of some by others; in other urban centers like Jenne-jeno. Let us That Never Evolved (1981). Her book cept of "human nature" to include cases competition among females has recall that the empire of Ghana was was selected by the New York Times both sexes, continues an endeavor forestalled the emergence of equality fully extant when Arabs first penetrat- Book Review as one of the "notable begun over a century ago. As early as with males. As it happens, a particular ed the southern Sahara in the eighth books of the year. "I've finally written 1875, Antoinette Brown Blackwell sub-set of human societies (patrilineal century. This fact has always been dif- something the general public is read- warned of the intellectual hazard from and stratified) takes the prize of "sex- ficult to explain if one assumed that ing," she says. "It's a new experience. imagining that only one sex evolved. A ism." Yet the same human ingenuity political consolidation in West Africa 4've recently learned that the book will be major goal of this book has been to that eroded the position of women in was a consequence of Arab-inspired translated into French and Japanese describe the female primates that did those cases scattered — in other soils long-distance commerce. It now next year." evolve over the last seventy million — the seeds of sexual equality. appears that Arab trade was merely The Woman That Never Evolved is years. By and large, these females are The female with "equal rights" nev- superimposed on a preexisting system an investigation of primate behavior in highly competitive, socially involved, er evolved; she was invented, and of Saharan and sub-Saharan trade an attempt to discover whether there are and sexually assertive individuals. fought for consciously with intelli- networks. evolutionary foundations for traits that Competition among females is one of gence, stubborness, and courage. But This reconstruction is supported by have traditionally been considered the major determinants of primate the advances made by feminists rest evidence for the rapid and very early innate in females, such characteristics as social organization, and it has contrib- on a precarious framework built upon dispersal of North African trade goods cooperation as opposed to competition uted to the organisms women are a unique foundation of historical condi- far into the interior of West Africa, among males, sexual passivity as opposed today. Yet, social scientists have col- tions, values, economic opportunities, which suggests movement along to aggression, and a stronger desire to lected little information on this facet of heroism on the part of women who already extant routes. At the site of reproduce than to interact ,socially. feminine personalities. Never before fought for suffrage, and perhaps espe- Igbo Ukwu, situated on the forest Hrdy 's conclusions overturn the theories now, I suspect, has it been so import- cially technological developments fringe of eastern Nigeria, excavations both of hardline Darwinists, who claim ant to take account of the full range of which led to birth control and labor- have uncovered a stunning array of only males evolved to be cunning and woman's nature. saving devices and hence minimized cast bronze vessels and finely modeled aggressive, and ofsome hardlinefemin- Throughout millions of years of evo- physical differences between the sex- copper objects. One of the excavation ists, who have imagined the possibility of lution, mammalian mothers have dif- es. This structure is fragile. Should it units revealed the burial chamber of a an _ideal matriarchal society free from fered from one another in two collapse, it is far from certain that the • high-ranking individual, whose regalia the "evils" of competition and aggres- important ways: in their capacity to scaffolding needed to surmount included a bronze staff and whisk, sion. produce and care for offspring and in oppressive natural and cultural barri- chased copper pectoral and crown, But perhaps more importantly, Hrdy 's their ability to enlist the support of ers could ever be pieced together and over 100,000 glass beads. Wood research overturns the vestiges of nine- males, or at least to forestall them again. from the chamber has been dated to teenth-century biological determinism from damaging their infants. Female To assume that women today are the ninth century A.D. that assign rigid behavioral structures to primates have differed from one regaining a natural pre-eminence, or The sophisticated bronze technolo- the separate genders according to a sup- another in their capacity to influence reinstating some original social equali- gy at Igbo Ukwu and the imported posed pattern of evolution reaching back the reproductive careers of their des- ty, belittles the real accomplishment Islamic glass beads imply trading con- tens of thousands of years. Men and cendants. Here is a sex wide open to and underestimates its fragility. How- nections reaching into the Mediter- women are undeniably biologically di natural selection, and evolution has ever well-intentioned, these myths ranean world. The four ninth-century ferent, Hrdy says; for example, males weighed heavily upon it. pose grave dangers to the actual prog- radiocarbon dates for Igbo Ukwu, ini- have evolved to be large because the extra Those same forces which pre- ress of women's rights. They devalue tially dismissed by scholars as centu- size is necessary for them to compete for disposed females to intelligence the unique advances made by women ries too early for such trade contacts females. Females, on the other hand, and assertiveness also selected the in the last few hundred years and with the forest, no longer seem anoma- were naturally selected to be smaller, so highly competitive individuals among tempt us to a false security. Injustices lous in light of the growing evidence there was less competition between them them. This is the dark underside of the remain; there are abundant new prob- for an extensive infrastructure of and their offspring for food. The size feminist dream. If it is shown — as I lems; yet, never before — not in seven- native trade, onto which Arab com- differential has resulted in males typi- believe it will be — that there are no ty million years — have females been merce was later grafted. It is increas- cally dominating females, but among important differences between males so nearly free to pursue their own des- ingly clear that much of West Africa's themselves females will become aggres- and females in intelligence, initiative, tinies. But it won't be easy. rapid development in the centuries sive and competitive if the situation dic- or administrative and political capabil- after Arab penetration can be properly tates it. ities, that women are no less qualified explained only in the context of earli- Thefemale stereotypes we know, Hrdy in these areas than men are, one has to By Sarah Blaffer Hrdy er, indigenous processes of trade conculdes, may be the result of cultural accept also that these potentials did expansion, social stratification, and pressure, but they are not dictated by not appear gratuitously as a gift from urbanism. genes. She summarizes her insights and Nature. Competition was the trial by expands on the more broadly relevant fire from which these capacities lerprinted with permission of the publishers jimn social implications of her research in the emerged. The feminist ideal of a sex The Woman That Never Evolved by Sarah lilafter Ilarmrd University Press, copyright By Susan Keech McIntosh "Afterword" of her book, which we less egotistical, less competitive by '1981 by the President and Fellows of Harvard and Roderick J. McIntosh reproduce here: nature, less interested in dominance, a SALLYPORT-FEBRUARY 1982 7 MINDING THE GARDEN Does the Bri.sh ideal of ''an Engli6 way of q" confict with modern ideas ofprognoss?

By Martin J. Wiener

Martin Wiener recently won the 1981 psychological. English middle and upper-class culture nomic development as in England, except Schuyler Prize, given by the American His- In a world perspective, it seems difficult affected the nation's economic develop- in the hands of a few intellectuals, whose torical Association everyfive years to the best — and unhelpful — to separate sharply cul- ment? distinctive strain of almost anarchic indi- book by an American an British or Com- ture and economics. Development econo- For a longtime, the English have not felt vidualism reflected their awareness of monwealth history,for his book English Cul- mists have repeatedly come up against the comfortable with "progress". As one being outside the cultural mainstream. ture and the Decline of the Industrial limitations of purely economic analysis. social analyst has perceived, "progress" is Even rural panegyrists and those nostal- Spirit, 1850-1980,from which this article is Most leading development theories have a word that in England has come to possess gic for an earlier America rarely disdained excerpted. Wiener has taught at Rice as a pro- agreed that economic motivations alone — a curiously ambiguous emotive power. "It manufacturing or commerce. The ideal of fessor of history since 1967. however necessary — are not sufficient to connotes tendencies that we accept, even the American yeoman-farmer was of an redirect a society's path. Culture, society, formally approve, yet of which we are pri- agrarian technologist and capitalist, a busi- and ideology have been portrayed as cen- vately suspicious." It is a historic irony nessman producing for a market, ever tral to the development process. This that the nation that gave birth to the indus- ready to invent or adopt technical or com- HE LEADING problem of modern awareness has spawned a large body of lit- trial revolution and exported it throughout mercial improvements. Men like Jefferson TBritish history is the explanation of erature, emanating particularly from social the world should have become embarrass- welcomed the development of commerce economic decline. It has not always been psychologists and development special- ed at the measure of its success. The Eng- and manufacturers as an essential part of thus. Until the later 1960s, the generally ists, that elaborates models of social psy- lish nation even became ill at ease enough civilization, while idealizing the "rural accepted frame for the history of Britain chological change undergone by members with its prodigal progeny to deny its legiti- republic." Industry would and should over the previous century was that of a of modernizing societies. These studies all macy by adopting a conception of English- come, planted in the rural landscape, the series of success stories: the bloodless brought out the importance of such fac- ness that virtually excluded industrialism. one as American as the other. establishment of democracy, the evolution tors, difficult to quantify, as character, This suspicion of material and techno- In England the symbols of Machine and of the welfare state, triumph in two world world outlook, values, and attitude in the logical development and this symbolic Garden, Workshop and Shire were in more wars, and the enlightened relinquishment economic transformation of societies. exclusion of industrialism were intimately direct opposition. These symbols embo- of empire. This approach has not been limited related in Britain. They appeared in the died a tension that had become implanted Such a happy frame, however, became either to social psychologists or to Ameri- course of the industrial revolution, but, deep with middle- and upper-class culture increasingly hard to maintain as having can scholars. The Swedish Nobel Laureate instead of fading away as the new society over at least the previous century. Much of steered clear of the rocks of political tur- Gunnar Myrdal, in his massive Asian Dra- established itself, they persisted and the peculiar character of English domestic moil or military defeat, the British found ma, showed in detail the social and cultural indeed were extended and strengthened. history over this period was the result of a themselves becalmed in an economic Sar- upheaval involved in — and apparently In the later years of Victoria's reign, they nation, or at least an elite, at war with gasso sea. necessary to — development. came to form a complex, entrenched cul- itself. As successive governments, Labor and The example of India virtually tural syndrome, pervading "educated This inner tension in modern English Tory, saw their varying panaceas for lift- overwhelms anyone following a narrow opinion." The idealization of material culture is something of a puzzle. Why did ing the economy to the level of growth of approach to economic development. growth and technical innovation that had hostility to industrial advance persist and Britain's neighbors and competitors yield India's experience since independence has been emerging received a check and was even strengthen in the world's first indus- only frustrating failure (despite even the been frustrating for economic planners at more and more pushed back by the con- trial society? Why did such hostility so unforeseen windfalls of North Sea gas and home and advisers from the West. Repeat- trary ideals of stability, tranquility, close- often take the form of rural myth making? oil), the realization began to sink in that the edly, schemes of fiscal and financial policy, ness to the past, and "nonmaterialism." Some answers lie in the peculiar pattern of problem had a long history. foreign aid, programs of industrial and An "English way of life" was defined nineteenth-century British social history. "The English disease," Correlli Barnett agricultural investment foundered on the and widely accepted; it stressed nonindus- Nineteenth-century Britain was a pio- argued in 1975, "is not the novelty of the intangible resistances built into perhaps trial, noninnovative and nonmaterial quali- neer of modernization. Yet the path it took past ten or even twenty years . . . but a the world's most conservative culture. ties, best encapsulated in rustic imagery — to modernity was one all its own. Britain's Phenomenom dating back more than a cen- Another Asian society, Japan, by its con- "England is the country," in Stanley transition was marked by admirably peace- tury." The intractability of the problem trasting success, has also underlined the Baldwin's phrase (by his time already a ful gradualism but also, thereby, by a cer- made it ever clearer that it was rooted deep fact that economic behavior does not take cliche). This countryside of the mind was tain incompleteness. From this incom- in the nation's social structure and mental place in a cultural vacuum. We have come everything industrial society was not — pleteness stemmed long-lasting cultural Climate. The more closely Britain's twenti- to see that Japan's startlingly rapid devel- ancient, slow-moving, stable, cozy, and consequences. eth century economic decline is examined, opment owes at least as much to peculiar "spiritual." The English genius, it Modernization has never been a simple the more social and psychological ele- characteristics of Japanese society and cul- declared, was (despite appearances) not and easy process. Wherever and whenever ments are to be found intertwined with ture — the "tribal" character of work rela- economic or technical but social and spirit- it has occurred, severe psychological and economic factors. The German director of tionships and the inner discipline that ual; it did not lie in inventing, producing or ideological strains and stresses have the London School of Economics, Ralf makes possible remarkable adaptability, selling but in preserving, harmonizing and resulted, though they have not always tak- Dahrendorf, concluded after studying Brit- for example — as to the country's specifi- moralizing; its greatest task — and en the dramatic form they found in Germa- ain for some years that "economic per- cally economic techniques. No one can ful- achievement — lay in taming and "civiliz- ny or received so much attention. In formance and cultural values are linked," ly understand the Japanese economic ing" the dangerous engines of progress it Britain these tensions have been particu- and that "an effective economic strategy miracle without grasping the working prin- had unwittingly unleased. larly easy to overlook, as the transition to for Britain will probably have to begin in ciples of Japanese culture. Over the years this outlook contended modernity was relatively smooth and the cultural sphere." How did specifically English cultural with an industrial reality that sometimes involved no political upheaval. However, All manner of historical explanations for elements influence economic life? Despite was proclaimed as a source of pride. The that very mildness fostered a self-limiting British economic decline have been put all the publicity given trade union resulting conflicts of social values — prog- element in Britain's development. The forward, ranging from the exclusively eco- "obstructionism," this question is in the ress vs. nostalgia, material growth vs. mor- industrial revolution in other countries nomic to those involving political, social final analysis primarily about "bourgeois," al stability — were expressed in the two came at least partly from without and thus and psychological components, and span- or elite, rather than popular English cul- widespread and contrasting cultural sym- challenged and disrupted traditional social fling the ideological spectrum from Marx- ture (although there exists no precise line bols of Workshop and Garden (or Shire). patterns. In Britain, on the other hand, ist to Keynesian, to free-market of division between them). Elites have Was England to be the "Workshop of the industrialization was indigenous and thus standpoints. It is without doubt a complex disproportionate influence upon both the World" or a "Green and Pleasant Land?" more easily accommodated to existing Problem and lacks any simple or generally effective climate of opinion and the con- This question, with its presumed incompa- social structures, which did not need to accepted solution. Although it is true that, duct of affairs. The values of the directing tibility of industrial and rural values, lay at change radically. as E. J. Hobsbawn has sternly enjoined, strata, particularly in a stable, cohesive the back of a great many English minds. The often-hailed Victorian achievement, economic explanations of economic phe- society like modern Britain, tend to perme- Rural myths did not have to be opposed seen in this light, was Janus-faced. If soci- nomena are to be preferred if they are ate society as a whole and to take on the to industrialism. In later nineteenth-and ety was transformed, with a minimum of available," such explanations as have been color of national values and of a general early twentieth-century America, nostal- violence, the extent of the transformation Put forward, by their inadequacies, have mentalite. In economic matters, as has gia abounded for what was often seen as a was more limited than it first appeared to only made clearer the problem's character. been observed, bosses tend to get the simpler and happier time; rural life was be. New economic forces did not tear the Strictly economic explanations either have workers they deserve: the attitudes and often idealized, and much was made of its social fabric. Old values and patterns of been based on questionable assumptions or behavior of workers are deeply influenced, moral importance to the nation. These sen- behavior lived on within the new, whose have left large space for "residual" fac- even if only in reaction, by the attitudes timents, however, rarely came together character was thus profoundly modified. tors, which could appear to be social and and behavior of employers. How, then, has into a critique of progress itself or of eco- The end result of the nineteenth-century 8 SALLYPORT-FEBRUARY 1982

transformation of Britain was indeed a peaceful accommodation but one that entrenched premodern elements within Dominique De Mend Plans a Home the new society and gave legitimacy to antimodern sentiments. The cultural and for the Mend Collection practical consequences would become clear only in the twentieth century. The ambiguity of the Victorian achiev- ment has been perceived by some observ- ers, both on the right and on the left. Conservative politician Sir Keith Joseph has located the source of Britain's contem- porary economic problems in the fact that VISIONS it "never had a capitalist ruling class or a stable haute bourgivisie." As a result, he has argued, "capitalist or bourgeois values have never shaped thought and institutions of a as they have in some countries." This interpretation has expressed an important truth but in a partial and misleading form: it blurs capitalism and bourgeoisie. The NEW MUS EUM key to the peculiar pattern of modern Brit- ish history is that the two have been dis- tinct. The nation had the world's first (except perhaps for Holland) essentially capitalist ruling class: the eighteenth-cen- tury landed aristocracy and gentry. What By Lulu Lopez Britain never had was a straightforwardly bourgeois or industrial elite. Lasting social and psychological limits were thus placed on the industrial revolu- For the past derail,, the fine arts program at immediate future. The did approach tion in Britain. As Correlli Barnett con- Rice has been virtually symmymous with the architect Louis Kahn for the plan of a cluded in his history of modern British name de Mena Before John and Dominique de museum building in Houston, "but we military leadership, "the social and intel- Mend brought the Institutefor the Arts, includ- were looking at it as a Louis Kahn ing lectual values of industrial society never the Rice Museum and the Media Center, to building for Houston, not a collection ousted those of the aristocracy." Out of Rice in 1969-70, Rice offered art students eight this successful aristocratic-gentry holding instructors teaching eighteen courses. By 1970- building. We thought he was marvel- action a distinctly English "culture of con- 71 the size of the art faculty had doubled and ous, and Houston needed something of tainment" developed. The social conflict thirty-eight courses were taught. his." Kahn's plans, made very shortly was never clearly resolved but internalized The ensuing (fern* has brought many before his death in 1974, were sketch- within the compromise that emerged: a changes in art at Rice. A glance at the latest es only; he did not have a grip on what new dominant bourgeois culture bearing catalog shows over sixty course offeringsfor the was needed to house the entire collec- the imprint of the old aristocracy. The ten- newly titled department of art and art history. tion. Mrs. de Menil pushed aside the sions within this compromise culture were The Sewall Gallery has assumed new promi- thought of what would happen to the reflected in anxieties and discontents sur- nence on the university's art scene since the collection. She believed it was some- rounding the idea of material progress and appointment ofa full-time director last year, and thing she could not handle single- in the emotions most recently the Farish Gallery has been adcled laden onto the cultural handedly; her commitments symbol of England as a garden. Beyond to Rice's list of exhibition spaces. The de Menil to the this, these tensions shaped not only bour- influence has not waned here, but it is no longer Rothko Chapel and to the Institute for 3 geois culture but also, through culture, the only voice ofart at Rice. a. the Arts as well as other projects behavior. This winter, Dominique de Menil announced seemed to absorb all her resources. A variety of modern British practices preliminary plansfor the Menil museum which "Ialways wanted it to be in Hous- In the years that followed, Mrs. de that has served to humanize urban indus- had long been in the back of the minds of her ton, but I never thought there Menil worked with several architects trial society — new towns and green belts, and her kite husband. To be built in Houston would be enough support." from Houston and elsewhere, and a the love of gardening, even a wariness of but not at Rice, the new homefor the Menil col- few years ago things went so far as most modern architecture — owes a debt kction could mean the virtual end of the Rice clearing the land on the city block to this social compromise. Less attractive Museum and the de Menil involvement in Rice the endless collecting of art works, she patterns art exhibitions. In an interview adjoining the Rothko Chapel for con- of behavior also show their mark exclusive for the is bringing to fruition — and chief among these is persistent eco- SALLYPORT,Dominique de Mend discussed her a home for the struction. While the lot remained nomic retardation. collection, her involvement with Rice and Hous- Menil Collection. vacant, it became a temporary park for The consolidation of a "gentrified" ton over the years, and her plans for the new Rice will best remember John and the residents of the area, and Mrs. de bourgeois culture, particularly the touting home of the Menil Collection. Dominique de Menil for the Institute Menil, seeing this ("the people sitting of pseudoaristrocratic attitudes and values for the Arts, a transplanted, fully oper- under the trees, reading, and the chil- in upper middle-class educated opinion, Since the late 1940s, the de Menils ational teaching endeavor assembled dren and dogs running through"), shaped an unfavorable context of econom- have poured an enormous amount of at the University of St. Thomas and decided it should remain a park. "We ic endeavor. Economic historians, econo- energy into Houston's cultural scene. then brought over and into full bloom needed the park." She then began mists, civil servants, and even political In the near future the city will receive at Rice University. The energy with slowly buying up the lots on the block leaders held sentiments and ideals that the culmination of their work in the which the couple assaulted Rice served to restrain rather than in adjacent, bordered by Mandell, Sul stimulate form of a museum — not a concrete 1969-70 was economic growth. Often even those seek- tremendous. They Ross, Mulberry, and Branard, looking ing growth showed at the same time the block, monument, or temple but an art brought an art collection and a faculty, at that as a possible site. influence of their cultural environment, compound one story high with a sec- built an Art Barn (the Rice Museum) However, plans did not gel until, in which worked to —muffle" or "domesti- ond level "treasure house" perched and a Media Center, and made art so 1980, Mrs. de Menil met Italian archi- cate" such growth. over part of the first level and separate accessible to students, teachers, and tect Renzo Piano, whose work on the Industrialists themselves were crucially satellite buildings housing adjacent the entire Rice community that few Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris affected in developing their view of the operations. All this, an attempt to learning experiences can compare. brought him to Mrs. de Menil's atten- world and their role in it. They too gravi- blend in with inner city houses and There were academic lectures; there tion via an introduction by Pontus Hul- tated toward what they saw as aristocratic lifestyles of the Montrose area near were avant garde "happenings"; there den, former director of the Centre values and styles of life to the detriment, the University of St. Thomas, is still in were modern art exhibitions more often than not, the likes Pompidou. Although the Centre Porn- of their economic its first stages. With plans in of which effectiveness. The outcome was the spec- their had never been seen in Hous- pidou seemed to be the antithesis of tacle of an industrial society diffidently led infancy, an accurate picture of what it ton; there were films, famous film what Mrs. de Menil wanted in a build- by men with "mind-forg'd manacles" will finally look like and mean to Hous- directors, and a film school unique to ing to house the collection, Piano (a restraining their concepts and their ton is difficult to determine,but with the the Southwest; there were young visit- former associate of Louis Kahn's) and actions. de Mends involved, the impact prom- ing artists and professors, enfants ter- his two English associates, engineers Can this culture change? Indeed, should ises to be significant. ribles who rocked the institute's Peter Rice and Tom Barker, have it change? It has, after all, nurtured many Dominique de Menil said, "I could foundations. Art became tangible, come up with the plan that appears to British virtues as well as vices. As the New never do what I do without John," in never aloof or cool. It was and still is be the solution — "a building big York Times columnist Anthony Lewis 1971, two years prior to John de Men- presented as sacred, yet so fully inside and small outside," the stipula- observed a decade ago, "There is a larger il's death. Despite the supposition, she human, a mixture reality than the GNP.It is life, and of grandeur and foi- tions Mrs. de Menil had put forth. the Brit- has since involved herself ish are good at that." On the other hand, it fully in so bles continually exposed. In the years when Mrs. de Menil seems doubtful that the quality of British many projects here and abroad it The idea of housing the collection was searching for this solution, she life can flourish if the material base contin- would take pages to cite them all. under one museum roof was never contemplated splitting the collection ues to deteriorate. British history in the Along with her work with the Rothko seriously considered while John de up into its various sections — Surreal- late twentieth century may well turn on the Chapel, a three-volume art book, mul- Menil was alive, mainly because the ism, African, Antiquity, etc. — while answers to these questions. tiple shows and art exhibitions, and de Menils were thinking only of the "shopping around" for different insti- SALLYPORT-FEBRUARY 1982 9

"all the great dealers . . . . Things "One doesn't hesitate to play with it, were very cheap then, but still we to make it really the exact setting would hesitate. Father Couturier tailored to each exhibition . . . . I know would absolutely push us to buy." His I won't have that in another struc- was not a scholarly approach but a ture." She enjoys the total flexibility poetic one. "Too many museums are the Barn allows and hopes to keep it up only didactic," Mrs. de Menil says. "I as an exhibition space. The only prob- hope to have both the poetic and lem is the money to do so. "I would didactic." love to keep two stages," Mrs. de Another influence was fashion Menil says, envisioning some shows designer Charles James, who did the remaining up for a year at a time, interior of Mrs. de Menil's home, maybe of one artist's work, taking the house designed by architect advantage of the largest possible audi- Philip Johnson. "Charles James ence. She never likes to keep a show was unknown because he was diffi- up less than three months because cult, so demanding of perfection .. .. people are so slow to respond. A long- But he was gifted . .. . He had impec- term exhibition might be the solution cable taste . . . an eye for color. He for keeping the Rice Museum alive, refined my tastes. He taught me what but unfortunately for Rice, nothing is perfection is." certain. The art dealer Alexander bias The Institute- for the Arts will introduced the de Menils to Max remain at Rice Universtiy, but the Ernst, Magritte, and many other art- eventual fate of the Art Barn is unture ists and their work. "Thanks to him, I once the Menil Collection is housed in a built up the collection in Cubist and its permanent home. The Rice Muse- Surrealist works," works of such um was built as a temporary building =.110,- 10A importance it is impossible to gather to survive a number of years, and it .AkATAA , I zAk any number of them in one collection has now existed almost twice as long a 1r FA today. projected. The uniqueness of the Since the construction of the Rice structure and of the work of the wom- 44" I iI Museum, impeccable exhibitions have an who took such a deep interest in its `Wain.. V. been assembled and displayed for the presentations is dr-awing to a close. enjoyment of, unfortunately, only a Rice University has been exposed to C few avid admirers. "Only word of an artistic climate few, if any, universi- mouth works in this community." ties can claim to have on their own 3- Mrs. de Menil is grateful to the small grounds. In the future, students and A view of the working model of thefuture home of the Mend Collection (top)shows the loca- group that is particularly interested in other members of the Rice community tion of the new museum near the Rothko Chapel at left. Cutaway view (bottom) reveals the her work, a group that impatiently may have to drive a few blocks to one-story exhibition area adjacent to work areas with the "treasure chest" storage room waits for the next show to go up. see what is developing at the Menil perched above. "They are very faithful . .. very com- Collection. mitted to what we've been doing all along." Lulu Lopez '74 has been involved with the de tutions in which to leave them. The collection — if work were to begin Mrs. de Menil thinks the Rice Menilprograms at Ricefirst as an artstudent Centre Georges Pompidou had recent- before funding is completed. Mrs. de Museum, her "Art Barn," is "the and later as a researcherfor the Mend Foun- ly been completed, and there is no Menil sees no construction beginning most wonderful building for exhibi- dation. She lives in Houston, writing "when doubt that they courted her seriously. until at least 1984. tion" because it is not architectural. she feels like it". Mrs. de Menil says she also toyed with The second point Dominique de the idea of joining forces with the Get- Menil insists upon besides the finan- ty Foundation because "they could cial support of the Menil Collection, provide the funds necessary" to build as the museum is to be called, is and endow what she thought was the "absolutely impeccable" way essential to house the collection. the works of the collection must be There is a first point Mrs. de Menil shown. Mrs. de Menil modestly refers insists upon, and that is the financial to this museum as "a much smaller security of the project. outfit" than the Museum of Fine Arts, "I always wanted it to be in Hous- an "outfit" geared to certain ton, but I never thought there would specifications: be enough support." It was Fred Hof- 1. "One shouldn't show too much at heinz, when he was Mayor and later, one time .. .. It shouldn't be like a who recognized the importance of the cocktail party that is so crowded JU Menil Collection to a rising star like can't see anybody. You should give Houston and approached Mrs. de everyone the chance to see and look." Yves Klein's People Begin to Fly (Anthropometry 96) 1961, Menil, asking her to bring the collec- 2. "It must be shown in an impec- one of a hundred works by Klein at the Rice Museum through tion home to Houston. "Hofheinz cable way . . . an attractive way. Sur- May 2. talked to people. He got a group of roundings are very important. You them together and made them see that must warm up people to see the art Klein Show At Rice Museum they would lose the collection if some- . . . to be able to read it." The latest exhibition brought to the Rice Other projects Klein—the self-styled thing wasn't done." Soon, the same 3. "The rest, you compress. Com- Museum by Dominique de Menil's Insti- Painter of Space, Champion of Color, and benefactors Houston has depended on pression. But don't hide it from schol- tute for the Arts is "Yves Klein (1928- Conquistador of the Void—undertook from the beginning, some of the same ars, or classes, or people that have a 1962): A Retrospective." The show, included the Cosmogonies series where Museum of Fine Arts trustees whose real interest. We will have the treasure including the most complete monograph natural forces such as rain and wind were interest in art has brought a cultural chest for that. We will save on guards. compiled on Klein to date, reviews the life used to create paintings with little or no scene to Houston, were involved. "It There will not be miles of museum. and works of one of the most controversial interference from Klein himself. The Rice was There will be no figures on the art scene in France in the Museum show included not only Klein's all very quiet .. . . Fred was very excess." 1950s. In the planning for four years, it art but also his writings and extensive quiet about it." Was there a model, or a guide, that includes 100 works of art from over 50 documentation of his life through photo- Due to the initial work of Fred Hof- Mrs. de Menil used as an inspiration public and private American and European graphs, letters, and interviews. heinz and recent efforts by Mrs. de for the Menil Collection? Mrs. de collections, and will be on display through Several eminent French patrons of the Menil, half of the final $30 million Menil shakes her head no. "All my ide- May 2. exhibition were in Houston for a preview endowment has been raised, including as about this museum come from my Yves Klein gained notoriety in the late of the "Retrospective," including Mme. the matching grant the Menil Founda- own experience, my own work .. . '50s and early '60s, before his premature Georges Pompidou, widow of the former tion is giving, one dollar for every four and also certain ideas that go far back. death in 1962 from a heart attack, for such president of France; M. Dominique Bozo, pledged. "But we will not start build- My eyes were opened by three or four artistic stunts as throwing nude women director of Paris's National Museum of in paint ("living brushes") on can- ing been covered Modern Art of the Georges Pompidou Cen- until the total amount has people in life, no more." vases and offering an empty gallery filled ter; and the artist's widow Mme. Rotraut pledged," warns Mrs. de Menil, rais- Father Couturier, a Dominican with "immaterial paintings"—his mental Klein-Moquay. After leaving Rice the ing her finger in the air. "We would priest, told Mrs. de Menil, "A muse- images projected onto the empty space. Klein exhibit will travel to the Museum of again be in an impossible situation" — um is where one loses one's mind." While the aesthetics of such an "exhibit" Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Solo- that same insecure predicament that After the war, in the late 1940s, were questionable, Albert Camus saluted mon R.Guggenheim Museum in NewYork, Previously forced her to look at the Father Couturier would take John and their philosophical implications: "With the and the Pompidou Center in Paris. serious possibility of splitting up the Dominique to art dealers in New York, void, full powers." 10 SALLYPORT-FEBRUARY 1982 NEWS & NOTICES Brown Foundation Increases Challenge to 50 Million, Extends to 1995 The Brown Foundation's ten-year $20-mil- Brown Challenge lion challenge to Rice University Comments on the announced in 1976 has been extended Comparative Report another ten years and will guarantee the Brown Challenge university at least $50 million in Brown funds for the 20-year period, 1976-95, if NORMAN HACKERMAN, presi- 1976-1981 foundation conditions are met. dent of the university: Board of Non-Alumni Total Brown Matching The combined $50-million Brown com- "The Brown Foundation, in my time Alumni Governors Corporations Friends Raised* Grant Paid mitment made to Rice in 1976 and 1982 is here, has been the major impetus in main- one of the largest of its kind in U.S. philan- taining the 1976 $ 659,184 $ 169,303 $ 654,260 $ 331,576 $ 1,814,323 $ 1,503,226 university on a reasonably thropic annals. These funds, allocated to steady financial course. It not only has pro- 1977 758,901 353,107 941,054 256,311 2,309,373 1,778,757 1978 914,697 625,810 1,221,350 the university's unrestricted endowment, vided enhancement 391,677 3,153,534 2,233,862 of the endowment, but 1979 991,334 1,254,332 1,359,900 421,504 4,027,070 2,496,369 will generate at least another $50 million in indeed has induced enough interest in oth- 1980 1,280,833 1,721,453 1,538,645 696,688 5,237,619 3,483,810 unrestricted giving for Rice's annual oper- ers to help ** us with our operating budget. 1981 1,392,247 2,951,775 2,854,157 710,519 7,908,698 ating fund - assuming Rice alumni, board That means that it has had a double-bar- members and friends and corporations relled effect, TOTALS $5,997,196 $7,075,780 $8,569,366 $2,808,275 $24,450,617 $11,496,024 the way it was supposed to. continue their current level of giving to the "In addition to that, the fact that it's *Gifts for current operations only **Undetermined at this time university. ongoing for a number of years indicates Giving for annual operating expenses at that we will have this substantial founda- Rice has dramatically increased since the tion from which to work at a time when our Brown Challenge became operative in income from other sources such as the Rin- 7.9 Million Raised for Current 1976, jumping from $1,814,323 that first con oil field is dropping off due to diminish- year to almost $8 million in 1981. ing production. The income from that oil Operations in 1981 Breaks All Records The Brown Foundation has responded to field has been very important to our gener- University alumni, board members Rice's record-breaking fund campaigns by al income, but it has been on a production Rice along with corporations, con- BROWN CHALLENGE exceeding their original challenge commit- decline for some years now. Fortunately and friends, $7,908,698 to the university in 1981 ments by $2,766,007 during the years for us, this was at a time when the price of tributed under varied incentive terms of the 1976-80. The Foundation's payment to oil increased, but as prices level off the real 1981 Brown Challenge to break all Rice giving CATEGORY BROWN AMOUNT Rice for meeting and surpassing its 1981 income from the field will begin to drop, GOAL RAISED records for current operations. challenge will be made in the spring. and this grant is going to be a very import- for New Brown Incentives ant factor in making up the difference. In surpassing the varied Brown goals Alumni $ 690,000 $1,392,247 com- 750,000 2,951,775 For the calendar years beginning in 1982 "The continuation of the Brown Chal- the sixth consecutive year, the Rice Board of Governors for a matching grant Corporations 960,000 2,854,157 and continuing through 1995, Rice is chal- lenge also shows that George Brown and munity has qualified from Brown of at least $2,165,000 for the Non-Alumni Friends 200,000 710,519 lenged by the Brown Foundation to raise his family are certainly very important to $2,600,000 $7,908,698 $2,600,000 for current operating expenses us at Rice." university's unrestricted endowment. In each of the first five years of the Chal- from alumni, friends, board members, and BEN HAYTON '45, chairman of the lenge,the Brown Foundation matched Alumni Incentives corporations in order to qualify for a Rice 1977,1978, Annual Fund: giving 1. Five most recent classes - 1976, matching grant of $2,165,000 to the uni- surplusses beyond its basic com- 1979, 1980 - needed to raise $25,000 to "The Brown Challenge has stimulated mitment. versity's unrestricted endowment. support for Rice from alumni, businesses, qualify for a $100,000 match. These five The Rice Board of Governors contribut- previous During the first five years of the Brown community groups, and friends classes raised $49,785. Highest alike. It is ed $2,951,775 in 1981 - almost four times raised was $43,460. Challenge, Rice's annual goals to qualify realized by all that financial stability is a more than the Brown Foundation required 2. Direct Awards for Maximum matching funds increased necessity for Rice to maintain its excel- for matching purposes; non-alumni friends Classes with 50 percent participation* - from $1,300,000 in 1976 to $2,600,000 in lence over the years. Through the Brown gave Rice $710,519 - three and a half nineteen classes qualified: 1916, 1917, 1918, 1980. In each of these years Rice sur- Foundation's generosity, each contributor times more than needed for the basic 1919, 1921, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1928, passed the challenge, and Brown recog- has added incentive knowing that his dona- Brown match; corporations provided 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, nized this by exceeding its commitments tion is multiplied for additional impact to $2,854,157 - just under three 1937,1938. under the complex matching formula. times the Highest previous participation was seven- sustain Rice's high standards of teaching Brown requirement; and alumni more than Incentives under the extended Brown and scholarship that set it apart." teen classes. Challenge are as follows: doubled the basic Brown goal with a total *Participation percentages includes alumni E. D. BUTCHER '34, chairman of of $1,392,247. Board members. the board of trustees: Top Three Classes (Dollars)** GOVERNORS AND TRUSTEES: up to "The Brown Foundation gifts plus the alumni to contribute to the university. 1931 $60,691 $600,000 at current levels of giving will be matched have made 52,407 other gifts that were Alumni gifts are an important source of 1956 matched one-to-two to a maximum of the difference between a Rice budget at 1954 51,371 funds that help close the gap between oper- $300,000; up to $150,000 in new gifts and starvation levels and the healthy budget 10t!,, 25th, and 50th Reunion Classes** ating costs and the total of other contribu- increases will be matched two-to-one to a under which Rice has operated for the last 1931 $60,691 59.7% tions, keeping the quality of programs maximum of $300,000. seven years." 1956 52,407 30.7% intact. I see the renewing of the challenge 1971 24,727 27.5% WALTER MOORE, JR. '59, past as a vote of confidence in the university **Figures used for these two categories CORPORATIONS: up to $860,000 at president of the Rice Engineering and its alumni." excludes alumni Board members. current levels of giving will be matched Alumni: WILLIAM W. AKERS, vice-presi- one-to-two to a maximum of $430,000; up "I have always supported Rice as best I dent for administration of the uni- to $100,000 in new gifts and increases will can; I see the Brown Challenge as an versity: be matched two-to-one to a maximum of enhancement rather than a motivation. I "The miracle of the Challenge •is the $200,000. admire the Brown Corporation for its response of the entire Rice family. We all Brown Officers' effort to prompt new contributions." now realize that the destiny of Rice is in ALUMNI: up to $630,000 at current lev- PAT MOORE '52, head of the Fund our hands and that we have the strength Fund in 10th Year els of giving will be matched one-to-two to Council: and the capacity to maintain 'a university a maximum of $315,000; up to $60,000 in "The most important feature of the of the first rank.'" The Brown & Root Officers' Scholarship new gifts and increases will be matched Brown Challenge that's really exciting for MARGARET S. ALSOBROOK,dir- Fund celebrates its tenth anniversary this two-to-one to a maximum of $120,000; giv- Rice is that the challenge has been extend- ector of development: year, awarding cash aid to children of ing by Rice's five most recent classes will ed another ten years. The first seven years "It has been a joy and privilege to work Brown & Root employees who attend Rice. be matched four-to-one to a maximum of have generated not only a lot of enthusi- with the hundreds of volunteers who have T. J. Feehan, president and chief execu- $200,000 in Brown funds; classes with 50 asm for the university, but also money that made it possible to exceed the terms tive officer of Brown & Root, recently percent participation will qualify for a the Brown fund has then matched. No one required by the Brown Challenge year announced that the Officers' Scholarship $5,000 Brown grant up to a maximum of 70 conceived when we began that we would after year. That this unprecedented incen- Fund is contributing over $26,000 to Rice classes and a total of $350,000; for every actually meet the challenge; now that it has tive has been extended through 1995, for 1981-82, including matching funds Rice alumnus who contributes $1,000, been extended it's a great opportunity to strengthens the university's future from Halliburton. Brown will add $250 up to a maximum of set even higher goals. Those of us particu- immeasurably. Unrestricted endowment Since it was established in 1971, the $175,000; and for fund-raising efforts by larly involved in fundraising now see that monies are difficult to obtain and very fund has given over $200,000 to Rice stu- the 10th, 25th, and 50th reunion classes the potentials of fundraising at Rice were helpful in the battle of the budget. Rice will dents. Generated by senior officers of the each year, Brown will contribute up to never realized until we had the incentive to be forever indebted to the Brown family." company, donations are made to the fund $150,000. set out and meet the challenge." H. E. RORSCHACH, JR., professor at Christmas time in lieu of a present to LYNN LAVERTY ELSENHANS of physics: Rice alumnus George R. Brown '20, NON-ALUMNI: up to $150,000 at cur- '78, member of the young alumni "The Brown Challenge has been a real retired president and chairman of the rent levels of giving -will be matched one- committee: inspiration to everyone with kind thoughts board of Brown & Root. Scholarships are to-one to a maximum of $150,000; up to "The Brown Challenge ensures the con- about Rice. It's like getting high odds on a awarded annually to qualified applicants $50,000 in new gifts and increases will be tinuing excellence of Rice University. I sure thing. It has also set an example of from Brown & Root families who have matched two-to-one to a maximum of feel one key aspect of theChallenge is the dedication and involvement that has been evaluated and selected by Rice. Cur- $100,000; especially strong incentive it provides Rice strongly influenced my own meager bene- rently, nine undergraduates hold Officers' volences." Fund scholarships. SALLYPORT-FEBRUARY 1982 11 NEWS NOTICES Hackerman Tells Work Improves Effects of Cuts Building Safety interviews with The Christian In recent This fall's chemistry building fire has The Houston Post, Science Monitor and prompted a new interest in safety at Rice. explained President Norman Hackerman Safety Officer Bill Glidden has instituted neg- that federal budget cuts will have both training programs in first aid, CPR, and consequences for higher ative and positive safety procedures for staff members in cuts in science education. Administration hopes of building "a safety consciousness will have an adverse and engineering on campus." At the same time he has relying on federal effect on individuals worked with the physical plant's planning research projects. Areas funding for their and construction unit to repair safety haz- most are space sci- that will feel the pinch ards around campus. ences, astronomy, and some fields of phys- Among new improvements are wide- ics, Hackerman said. Like other university the cracked and subsided presidents, he is encouraging faculty to spread repairs to a new fire escape for the be creative in finding private sources of sidewalks; Lab; safety showers and money. Mechanical in the chemistry and biology In the past, Rice has supported up to 70 eyewashes detection equipment for percent of its students with some sort of buildings; fire Anderson Hall; a ventilation system for the financial aid package. According to Hack- range; and special safety cabinets, a erman, the university loan fund will be able rifle storage area for flammable liquids, and a to cover part but not all of the gap caused decomposition facility for the by cuts in the federal student loan pro- chemical building. gram. Other negative results nationwide chemistry Physical Plant Director Ed Samfield will be reductions in faculty size and physi- comments that Rice is attempting to bring cal plant maintenance; the elimination of buildings up to current city safety institutes, centers, and bureaus; and campus even though a grandfather increases in class size. standards clause in local statutes allows older build- Even with all the. hardships, President ings to remain unimproved as long as they Hackerman feels that universities will to meet the standards in effect profit from becoming more self-sufficient. continue they were built. Higher education has been, in effect, when spoiled by the large sums of money avail- able in the sixties, he claimed, and has developed spending habits that are some- times indiscriminate. While individuals may now be faced with a struggle for their Library Extends education instead of a free ride, the budget cuts will assure that the scientists and Weekday Hours engineers universities do turn out will be and responsible. highly motivated In last issue's "Through the Sallyport," we reported the tempest brewing in the discusses his plaster cast of the PROFESSOR EMERITUS DAVID PARSONS (right) teapot of Fondren Library over library in the late '60s was over 8feet, nine Rice Night Tried world's largest woman, who at her death in Houston hours. Library Director Sam Carrington Channe113 News reporter Bob inches tall and weighed around 540 pounds, with Houston's cut back library hours from 111 to 91.5 in the Medical Center. in Local Suburbs Boudreaux. Parsons made the cast at the request of authorities hours weekly and began closing the library In a pilot project that will be expanded if it at what students insisted was an unreason- proves successful, the popular "Rice Parsons Casts Largest Woman ably early hour — 11:30 P.M. He iced the Today" program which travels to alumni cake by doubling photocopying charges groups around the country is coming to Where would you look for a cast of the that has remained in his studio ever since, from 5 to 10 cents. perma- suburban Houston. body of the largest woman ever recorded promising the widower only one But late in the semester, Carrington Cosponsored by the development, . . .in some ancient civilization in Africa, nent cast would be made and that it would amended the order. The original plan was admission, and alumni offices, "Rice Peru, or New Guinea? In the Smithsonian only be used for medical purposes. initiated to save money and prevent cuts in of Today" has traditionally brought alumni Institution or another world-famous muse- Administrators at the Baylor College the acquisitions budget. After several who live out of town up to date on the uni- um of natural science? Medicine have known about Parsons'scast months of increased copying charges, versity and campus happenings. On April 1 No, the only cast of the world's largest since he made it, but not until recently did though, Carrington found the Xerox the program will grow to include Houston woman — she stood 8'9/12" tall and they ask the sculptor to make a final ver- machines profitable enough to pay for alumni who live in the suburbs most dis- weighed 540 lbs. at her death at age 22 — is sion of the body in lightweight fiberglass. keeping the library open nights until 1 largest woman ever on record," tant from Rice. The first meeting is aimed here at Rice in the Sewall Hall studio of "It's the A.M., or a total of 100.75 hours weekly. at the estimated 1,100 alumni and parents sculptor and professor emeritus David Parsons says, "a magnificent specimen of Weekend hours remain curtailed, but the went of current students in northwest Houston, Parsons. a human whose growth pattern new schedule, in effect for a trial period of north of the Katy Freeway, outside the The woman died in the late 1960s in Ben haywire." He attributes the delay in creat- at least two months this semester, actually ing cast to attitudes in loop, and west of Interstate 45. Taub hospital after surgery to try to stop the final changing makes the library open longer than before The program will combine an afternoon her phenomenal growth of around an inch the Baylor administration. Renewed inter- on weeknights. student recruiting meeting with a recep- a month. A normal sixteen-year-old in est came after Parsons spoke on the expe- Carrington promised when he first tion and dinner in the evening for alumni Lake Charles, Louisiana, she was injured rience last year at Will Rice College, where shortened library hours that if students was a and parents. An afternoon athletic event playing basketball and her pituitary gland he is an associate. In the audience showed there was a demand for the library planned by Athletic Director Augie went out of control. When she died six student whose father is in the Baylor hier- late at night, he would reconsider the deci- Erfurth will also be available nearby. The years later, Parsons was brought into the archy, and after that things fell into place. sion. Now he has proven as good as his programs will be April 1 at the Ramada Inn - project by former anthropology professor The full-sized fiberglass replica will be word, and the ball is in the students' court: Northwest Crossing, 12801 Northwest Frank Hole. mounted on the wall of Baylor's anatomy they must demonstrate by using the library Freeway at 290 and Pinemont. Parsons made a plaster cast of the body room. that their avowed need for longer hours Several faculty members will attend the was more than just rhetoric. event, including President Norman Hack- erman and Dean of Humanities Allen Matusow, who will speak during the eve- PBK Fall List ning, and professor of physics Neal Lane, who will talk in the afternoon. The "The The Beta of Texas chapter of Phi Beta and managerial studies and political sci- Way We Are" slide presentation will also Kappa has selected its fall contingent of ence; Nancy Barbara Rapoport, psycholo- Zip Code Change be shown. Alumni chairing the event members-in-course. Election to PBK in the gy and legal studies; Jennifer Susan code at familiar P.O. include Barbara McKittrick '60, Chris fall is considered a special honor since it is Young, chemical engineering. For years Rice's zip 77001, but starting in Amandes '76, Robert Flatt '69, and Cliff based on only six semesters of academic Brown College: Christine C. M. Gor- Box 1892 has been change. The new zip is Crabtree '73 working with athletics. work. The following students have man, biology and English; Patricia Elena 1982 there's a Office is giving Invitations have been mailed. Any area received the honor: Campbell, managerial studies and Span- 77251, and while the Post straightened out, residents who have not received informa- Will Rice College: David Nelson Barnes, ish. us a year to get everyone bearing the new tion on the meeting should contact Phyllis mathematics and psychology. Lovett College: Chul Soo Ha, biochemis- it emphasizes that mail more efficiently. Schrader in the Development Office, 527- Baker College: Charles Estill Blud- try. number will be handled SAL- 4091. If the first suburban Houston "Rice worth, chemical engineering; Gordon Richardson College: Robert Logan Therefore, address all mail to the at Rice to Rice Today" day is a success, the project will James Goetsch, mechanical engineering, Avery, biochemistry, chemistry, and phys- LYPORT and elsewhere Houston, Tex- be expanded to other outlying areas of computer science, and math science. ics; Betty Stovall Clark, English. University, P.O. Box 1892, Houston. Jones College: Amanda Mitchell, legal as 77251. 12 SALLYPORT-FEBRV.ARY 1982 NEWS & NOTICES Faculty News

The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), has given Paul Cooper, professor of music the- ory and composition, composer-in-resi- dence, and chair of the academic faculty, the 1981-82 ASCAP Award. The awards, granted by an independent panel of schol- ars and musicians, are based on the pres- tige of the writer's catalog as well as on performances of his compositions. Angelo Miele, professor of mechanical engineering and mathematical sciences, has won the 1982 Pendray Aerospace Lit- erature Award of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics "for contri- butions to the literature on flight mechan- ics, aerodynamics, optimization theory, and numerical methods, and particularly for recent contributions to methods for solution of optimal control problems on digital computers." Miele received the honor at the AIAA's twentieth Aerospace Science Meeting in Orlando, Florida, Janu- ary 12. Klaus Weissenberger, professor of Ger- man, is editor of a collection of essays, Die Deutsche Lyrik 1945-1975, published by the August Bagel Publishing Company of Dusseldorf, Germany. The book features studies by specialists — including Weissen- Economics students Steve Milan, left,Susan Rhymes, secondfrom right, and Ron Robinson, right, all members of the class of 1981, talk with an unidentified berger — in German poetry. Michael Win- state highway project worker as a part of economics professor Donald Huddle's study last year of the role illegal aliens play in state-supported construction and kler, another Rice professor of German, road work jobs. Huddle has recently announced the conclusionsfrom his research. also contributed an essay to the collection. U.S. Pays Aliens,Economist Says This summer the National Endowment for the Humanities will be holding ten The federal government is financing illegal between $4.00 and $9.50 per hour — placed in federally financed make-work NEH summer institutes in universities aliens on the job in violation of its own wages that are considerably above the projects such as CETA." throughout the United States, and two of immigration laws, says Rice economist U.S. minimum rate of $3.35 prevailing at "As our study progressed, the seminars will be conducted through the Donald L. Huddle. a specialist in Latin we began to the time of our 1981 interviews," Huddle search for reasons why philosophy department of Rice. Baruch A. American and U.S. labor economics. He contractors and said. "These wages debunk the commonly subcontractors Brody will offer a program in legal studies, found in a current study that federal, state, would hire illegals when held notion that illegal aliens are taking these jobs could have and Dick Grandy will offer studies in phi- and local government agencies are financ- been filled from the only those jobs that American workers ranks of losophy of language. It is the first time that ing the large-scale employment of illegal U.S. youths — aged between 16 don't want because they are so lowly and 24 any university, much less a single depart- aliens. — that show a 20 percent unem- paid." Huddle added that these findings ployment ment, has hosted more than one NEH sem- The federal government not only rate," Huddle said. "One reason "imply that some American workers are why illegals inar, Brody says. finances the employment of illegal aliens, are more readily employed being displaced." was found by the but it also enforces an hourly pay rate for research to result from William E. Gordon, Rice provost and State inspectors regularly check high- the better information network the illegals which is higher than the feder- regarding vice -president,has been appointed a coun- way construction sites where illegal aliens jobs which illegals ally-ordained minimum wage, Huddle had reaching all the way cillor of the American Meteorological Soci- are employed, the study showed, "But," to Mexico. The study said. In addition, his study claims that "the suggested that some ety. His appointment was announced at the said Huddle,"the function of these inspec- foremen on such projects presence of illegal aliens within the U.S. may be able to society's annual meeting in San Antonio tors is to ensure that all workers are paid extract bribes from their work force may be much more widely felt illegal workers January 11. the going rate for local labor as required which the latter than previously believed." are willing to pay due to under the federal Bacon Davis Act. Public the already higher-than-minimum Huddle conducted the study in the Hous- wage funds are therefore not only being used to they must be paid under ton area with senior economics students federal law." hire illegals, but the federal government Huddle conservatively acting as field researchers and inter- estimates "a pay- Lectures itself — through state inspectors — is inad- roll in construction Study viewers. The research, spanning several going to illegals of vertently making sure that taxpayers com- more than $7 billion per year, months, uncovered "that an astoundingly nationally." pensate the illegal aliens at the going, While his study still awaits final "Sacred Spectrum" high one-third of all workers in sampled tabulation normal wage scales. However, the taxpay- and full statistical evaluation, he has segments of commercial construction in Huston Smith, Thomas J. Watson ers' burden doesn't end there since dis- already concluded that the displacement Profes- Houston were illegal aliens." sor of Religion and distinguished placed American workers may then threat to U.S. workers is such that adjunct "Our researchers found illegal workers immedi- professor receive unemployment compensation, wel- ate action is called for. of philosophy at Syracuse Uni- in unskilled and semi-skilled jobs making fare checks, food stamps, or even be versity, will visit Rice March 23-25 to deliver this year's Rockwell Lectures. The talks have been sponsored at Rice since 1938 by an annual gift from the Rockwell foundation. Smith will deliver a series of three lec- tures touching on the general topic "The Board Considers Another College Sacred Spectrum." His titles include "Folk Religion: Alive and Well in Ameri- A joint committee of the masters of Rice's The report is supported by the Graduate Margrave points out, it will still be three or ca"; "Theism: God and the Human Soul"; eight colleges has recommended to Presi- Student Association, which also insists four years before the housing is available and "Mysticism: The God Above." Each dent Hackerman that another residential that "on-campus graduate housing is the to students. evening's program will consist of a film at college be built to ease the present gradu- permanent solution." The topic of new In other news about university build- 7:30 P.M. and a lecture at 8:00 P.M. All ate and undergraduate housing shortage, housing for graduate and undergraduate ings, construction for the new Mudd Build- events will be in the Rice Memorial Chapel according to Dean of Undergraduate students is now under consideration by the ing, which will house Rice's computer and are free of charge. Affairs Katherine Brown. board of trustees. operations, has been delayed slightly. Bids Smith was born of missionary parents in The masters' action follows a unani- One possibility for graduate housing is are now scheduled to be taken this month Soochow, China, and lived in that country mous resolution passed by the University to use a plan President Hackerman notes with groundbreaking this spring and the until age seventeen. His youth provided an Council to the effect that there is a need for has been very successful at other schools. building completed near the end of the appropriate background for his interest in graduate housing at Rice and the univer- The university finds a donor to give the 1982-83 school year. Further building proj- comparative philosophy and religion. He sity ought to make an effort to meet the land and the building and, operating ects that the board of directors has listed has since made eight trips to Asia for field- need. The resolution was encouraged by a through Rice, the donor recoups his invest- informally as potential improvements to work and is the author of several books on report from Vice -President John Margrave ment through rent on the facility for a cer- the campus include a building for the Shep- world religions. Smith has also produced of advanced studies and research, which tain number of years until the sum is paid herd School of Music and an expansion of three series of films for National Educa- claimed Rice frequently lost "prospective back. Then he gives the building to the uni- the RMC. tional Television and has made award- graduate students because of anticipated versity. But even if a commitment to grad- winning films on Hinduism, Tibetan or real difficulty in the housing market." uate housing is made in the near future, Buddhism, and Sufism. SALLYPORT-FEBRUARY 1982 NEWS & NOTICES

Joseph Cooper, dean of the School of Social Sciences, explained that in order to integrate computers with course work, the school needed a place for laboratory-set- ting instruction as well as for actual com- puter use. The lab concept also allows the use of student consultants, who give instruction in the use of terminals and answer student questions, thus freeing professors for other duties. Cooper reports that the new lab is already very busy, and is being used not only by those in the social sciences, but also as a general university facility by peo- ple in the computer science and other departments.

Nancy Parker, director of Fondren Library's Woodson Research Center, works with some of the Sidney Lamb, chair of the new linguistics department, and James Copeland, professor of documents from the Johnson Space Center histori- German, who was behind the drivefor the establishment ofa separate linguistics curriculum cal archive, which NASA officials have turned at Rice. over to the library. An official ceremony marking the transfer andfeaturing former astronaut Joseph Linguistics Is New Department Kerwin as speaker was held in the RMC January President Hackerman has announced the will join the faculty as part of Rice's effort 28. formation of a new department of linguis- to bring the new department up to top sta- tics and semiotics at Rice to be chaired by tus as an institute for the study of linguis- NASA Archives linguist Sidney Lamb,a member of the fac- tics and semiotics. The department's first ulty since last year. Lamb came to Rice function will be an international symposi- Come to Fondren from Yale as the Andrew W. Mellon Visit- um March 18-20 on "Directions in Linguis- The Johnson Space Flight Center in Hous- ing Professor of Linguistics and tics and Semiotics." The conference will ton is transferring to Rice numerous docu- Anthropology. be in the Kyle Morrow Room of Fondren ments covering the last eighteen years of, Linguistics has been offered as an inter- Library. space flight. Fondren Library's Woodson disciplinary undergraduate major at Rice The formation of an official department Research Center is administering the for several years, but the formation of an of linguistics culminates many years of exchange, which began in October with official department allows graduate stu- effort by James Copeland, professor of the transfer of materials concerning the dents in linguistics to study here for either German, to establish such a curriculum at Mercury missions. an M.A. or a Ph.D. The department also Rice. Instruction has gradually expanded hopes to offer two graduate fellowships from two courses and three professors in Over the next two years Rice will Richard &huhu '77 receive test files on Gemini, Skylab, and next year when the program opens the sixties to the over thirty courses and Apollo Soyuz. Files on Apollo and the officially. ten instructors the new department will space shuttle will be received after these In addition to Lamb, Douglass Mitchell provide. projects are completed. New Med School The collection includes letters, memo- randa, telex messages, research and devel- Has Unique Benefits Leonardo Debate opment reports, recorded interviews on tape, and manuscripts, films, and video A shortage of physicians in the military Is Speech Topic tapes. combined with the desire to help young Joanne Snow-Smith, professor of art college graduates contend with the high history at the University of Washington at costs of medical school resulted, five years Seattle and contributor to the catalog Rice Has ago, in the establishment of the Uniformed Center Leonardo's Return to Vinci, will lecture Services University Medical School in Thursday, February 18 at 7:00 P.M. in 301 New Directors Bethesda, Maryland. The school offers not Sewall Hall on the Rice campus. Snow- only free medical education to the approxi- Richard G. Merrill, president and chief Smith will present one of the principal mately 160 students selected for each class operating officer of First City National arguments for the Salvator Mundi painting from about 3,600 applicants but also Bank in Houston, is the 1982 chairman of display in the Sewall Gallery unique opportunities to study medicine currently on the board of the Rice Center. The center is being an original work by Leonardo da and special medical problems all over the a research and development corporation of the painting has been world. Vinci. Authorship affiliated with Rice University that for over three hundred years. Richard Bakalar '77 was admitted to the controversial researches community concerns in Hous- Some scholars attribute the work to school's third class in the summer of 1978. ton, other cities in the United States, and Leonardo while others insist it was done by A Navy ROTC graduate from Rice, he is some foreign countries. his followers. one of twenty-nine Navy students and at Andrew Rudnick, former associate Snow-Smith's lecture, "The Salvator the head of his class at the USUMS, which chancellor of the University of Houston Mundi of Leonardo da Vinci: Historical, represents all four branches of the service. Central Campus who was named the cen- Stylistic, Scientific, and Iconographic Bakalar will receive his M.D. this May. ter's first director of operations in the fall James B. Owens '41 Analyses," will focus on evidence that the Although it is a military school and grad- of 1981, has been elected vice-president of Salvator Mundi is painted on a piece of uates are obliged to work on active duty the board. wood possibly from the same tree as the St. service for seven years after they complete Others appointed to the board of direc- John the Baptist painting in Paris known to training in return for their Alum Named Next tors include Francis J. Coleman '66 of Vin- residency Leonardo, and on a detailed stylistic schooling, Bakalar emphasizes that the be by son and Elkins law firm; F. D. Tuggle, comparison of the two paintings. The USUMS is first and foremost dedicated to IEEE President dean of the Jones Graduate School of lecture is jointly sponsored by the medicine. During the final two years of Administration; and M. A. Wright, presi- of art and art history and the their program, students have the option of James B. Owens BSEE '41 has been department dent and chairman of the board of of Engineering. traveling to any U.S. military medical facil- named president-elect of the Institute of George R. Brown School Cameron Iron Works. and manuscripts by ity in the world to broaden their clinical Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the The exhibit of works Walter P. Moore, Jr. '59, president of now in the Sewall experience. Bakalar was recently back in largest professional engineering society in and relating to Leonardo Walter P. Moore & Associates and current remain on display through Houston, his home town, studying at the the country. A member of the IEEE since Gallery will president of the Rice Engineering Alumni, February 20. was elected to the board's executive Ben Taub trauma unit. He has also studied 1945, Owens was named a fellow in 1969. committee. undersea medicine at navy facilities in During 1980-81 he served as technical divi- New London, Connecticut, and aerospace sional director for Division 7 for the IEEE medicine with flight surgeons from board of directors, and he has been particu- 24-Hour KTRU NASA's space shuttle program. larly active in the IEEE Power Engineer- KTRU, the Rice University radio sta- Soc. Sciences Has After graduation, Bakalar will be com- ing Society, serving as its president in tion at 91.7 FM,is now broadcasting twen- missioned a lieutenant in the Navy Medical 1973. ty-four hours a day for the first time in its Computer Lab Corps. He plans an internship in internal Until he retired in 1980, Owens was ten-year history. Besides music, KTRU medicine at the National Naval Medical president of Gould-Brown Boveri. He airs news three times a day, at 5PM.,9 PM calendar ofarea The school of Social Sciences has installed Center in Bethesda, then he intends to vol- holds eighteen U.S. patents and is the and 1A.M.,and a campus a day, at 7PM. and midnight. a new computer lab in the basement of unteer for flight surgery on the navy flight author of numerous technical papers in the events twice an expanded broadcast radius of Sewall Hall. The lab will serve as a facility squadron and ultimately serve a residency field of high-voltage switching equipment. With dele- about ten miles, Rice radio is now accessi- for graduate training, faculty research, and fellowship in cardiology. Bakalar's brother Owens served as the United States ble to many Houston alumni, as well as to as a tool for initiating the use of computers Steven, a senior at Rice, is captain of the gate to several meetings of the Internation- students. in the social sciences at Rice. cheerleaders. al Electrotechnical Commission. 14 SALLYPORT-FEBRUARY 1982

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Women Cagers Lead Division 2 Sports Illustrated Two-thirds of the way through their 1981- 82 schedule, the Rice women's basketball team had compiled an impressive 16-2 record and are among the favorites to capture the Texas AIAW Division II A Shooter to Hoot About Championships to be played in Fort Worth, Feb. 25-27. THE RICE OWLS ARE NO LONGER TURKEYS, THANKS TO FORWARD RICKY PIERCE Coach Linda Tucker's Owls have wins over both Texas A&M and TCU,their only SWC opponents in regular season play. The following item is reprinted courtesy of next night, but the Owls got 24 from 6' 2" extra sneakers and socks — Ricky refused Other major successes include a victory SPORTS ILLUSTRATEDfrom the Janumy 18, Center Renaldo O'Neal to make Rice-a- to try out. Then one day he met up with a over Harvard's women in Cambridge, 1982 issue. © 1982 Time Inc. "A shooter to hoot roni of fourth-ranked, previously undefeat- press gang, "I was in my gym clothes, and Mass., in December and the championship about. The Rice Owls are no longer turkeys, thanks ed San Francisco, 78-66. Pierce was back these guys grabbed me and put me in a in their own eight-school invitational, Jan. to Forward Ricky Pierce" by Alexander Wolff. on form in the final, getting 23 points in a truck and took me to practice," he says. "I 21-23 (Rice 60, Sam Houston 50 in the 51-47 defeat of North Carolina State, figured there was no use scuffling with finale). Of all the burdens Ricky Pierce has borne which also had been unbeaten. them every day. After that, I'd always be Leading scorers for the Rice women in his young life — sharing a bed with four When a team that was 12-15 the season the first one on the truck." have been sophomore Pennie Goff of brothers, being stiffed for an entire sum- before wins a tournament against national- By the time he entered Garland High in nearby Missouri City and seniors Pat mer's wages, having a "scholarship" to a ly ranked opponents and the biggest per- 1974, Pierce was already an accomplished Krieger and Goya Quarles, both from New junior college turn out to be a loan he had sonnel change is the coach, credit would player who, by his own assessment, need- Jersey. no way of repaying — playing basketball, seem to belong to the man at the end of the ed guidance. All that summer he had FALL REVIEW and losing with numbing regularity, for mowed lawns for a man who paid him back bench. Suitts became that man last April VOLLEYBALL: The Rice women's Rice may have been the weightiest. by moving away without settling up. John- when Mike Schuler left Rice to become volleyball team finished the season with a "Ricky's had so many disappointments, son took notice of and sympathized with Larry Brown's assistant with the New Jer- 29-26 overall match record. Competing at but he never complains," says Rice's Ricky and, the following summer, put him sey Nets. the AIAW Division II level they took Coach Tommy Suitts, whose name rhymes to work ,distributing athletic equipment, "Mike and I didn't see eye-to-eye on fourth place among the Texas teams in with shoots, something Pierce does very taking inventory, cleaning stadiums. To anything," says Suitts. "I feel very bad their league, finishing behind Texas well. Johnson, who wanted Pierce to become a about that because, as his assistant, I prob- Lutheran College, Sam Houston State and Pierce, a 6' 4", two-time All-Southwest football star, the quiet kid from the impov- ably should have felt the way he did." On Angelo State. The '81 squad was a young Conference forward, is now a senior, erished family was Big Rick. To Pierce, and defense, the Owls now play man-to-man one with only one senior, Kris Annexstad, as a reward for his patience, the "who" the 47-year-old man who gave his time and instead of zone. On offense, with a 6' 8" lost to graduation. Coaches Linda Tucker heard whenever the Owls play is no advice so freely was Mr. Homer. longer perimeter player and a 6'2" post man, Rice and Debbie Sokol can look forward to a meant as an interrogative. Pierce "He always said, 'You've got has is freelancing more than under tightly to put solid corps of returnees next fall led by received a measure of national effort into the books, too,"" says Pierce, acclaim as wound Schuler, who went through basic Caryn Perkins, probably the most Rice, 8-6 at week's end, has gotten off now a C student in physical education."He to training for head coaching at places like consistent player on the team over the past its best start since 1971; he is one reason Army and VMI and handled one Owl loss told me that hard work would pay off. I season. the league race is likely to be the most wide last season by stalking out of Rice Gym, chose basketball over football because I open in years. getting in his car and driving off, abandon- didn't think I'd work as hard playing a MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY: Coach Steve The conference's nine schools have a ing his team, wife and child. game I didn't like as much." Straub took his team of six freshmen and combined non league record of 66-27 and But the secret of the Owl's success is For three summers Pierce joined the one sophomore to a third place Southwest collectively retain 37 of 49 players who more comlex than just a change at the top. future college football stars then at Gar- Conference finish behind powerful could have been classified as regulars last Partly it may be traced to a tendency land High — players like Oklahoma's Her- Arkansas and Texas, beating out strong season. Pierce may be the best of them. toward the unorthodox when it comes to bert Young, Texas' Herkie Walls, Rice's Baylor and Houston contingents. The Until last weekend he was tied for third in finding players and assigning them their Freddie Johnson and North Texas State's Owls also finished third in the district the nation in scoring at 27.4 points per roles. For example, Tyrone Washington, a Marvin Walker — early in the mornings of meet. game and had been in double figures in 63 6' 2" guard, leads the team in blocked 1000 days. Homer Johnson Would have With everyone back next fall, the of 66 games as an Owl. A sprained shoot- shots; 6' 8" Kenny Austin is the leader in them run five miles, spirit them off to rake outlook is quite promising. The "old man" ing hand was his alibi in the other three. assists. Washington and O'Neal came to a field, then take them into a stadium press of the team, William Moore of Dallas Schuler's attention through form letters box where he and his secretary, Elaine Jesuit, will only be a junior. He will be their high school coaches had mailed out, Baker, held classes in typing and public joined by Francisco Melendez, twelfth Pierce packs 205 solid pounds, 15 fewer and Austin wasn't even a starter in high speaking. place finisher in the District VI meet, along than last season, thanks to an off-season school. Only Guard Bob Tudor was really "They couldn't see a whole lot of value with Greg Johnson, Gawain Guy, Robert running and weightlifting program,and his wooed, or whooed, as it were. in that," says Johnson. "But we had them Schooler, Craig Hughes and Jaime Najera. game matches his strapping physique. Certainly Pierce had not been. "Ricky read the sports pages and write about what In the meantime they will all be busy He's a no-frills player, rarely fiddling with walked in off the street, almost," says they'd read. And sometimes we video- competing on the track in the middle the ball or going outside the foul line. He Suitts. In 1979 Homer Johnson, an athletic taped their speeches and played them back distance and distance events. prefers instead to flash across the lane administrator for the school system in so they could see exactly how they looked. WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY: from the weak side, get the ball and use his Pierce's hometown of Garland, Texas, In one of Big Rick's first classes at Rice, he Women's cross country is still in the considerable strength inside, or to simply called academically prestigious Rice on had to give a 10-minute speech. He got an developmental stages at Rice, and there let go with his accurate jumper from the Pierce's behalf. Schuler had missed out on A." were meets last fall when there were not corner. "You see,very few guys who look the forwards he had been recruiting and Homer Johnson's study group included a enough bodies available to field a full team like a blacksmith who also have that feath- offered a scholarship; Pierce, an average future Southwest Conference 60-yard- of runners (five required, seven allowed). er touch," says Suitts. student in high school and junior college, dash indoor champ in Walls, and a high Transfer Kathy Sullivan of Pearland paced Last week, despite facing an array of was only too happy to accept. He had school long-jump star in Freddie Johnson. the squad and ran well in the TAIAW and man-to-man, zone, trap and combination just spent a disillusioning season at Walla "Herkie could outrun Big Rick at the 50- SAIAW Division II meets, finishing defenses, Pierce scored 37 points in Rice's Walla (Wash.) J.C., where, through a yard dash, but only by a foot," says Homer second in both races. Only two full teams conference opener, a 63-61 defeat at Hous- misunderstanding, he'd gotten $400 in Johnson. "After Freddie won the long competed at that level and the Owls were ton, and another 26 as the Owls dropped a debt — the cost of tuition for one quarter, jump at the Texas Relays in his senior second to Abilene Christian. Four runners 65-64 game to TCU. Those close losses which he was able to pay back in weekly year, I called the kids together and said, 'I went on to the national championships at were easier for Rice to take in light of what installments. want you all to know that Freddie's the Pocatello, Idaho, where Sullivan came in had happened the week before at Hawaii's The seventh child of Carl Pierce, a jani- best long-jumper in Texas.' Rick said, `No, 96th. A veteran group will return next fall eight-team Rainbow Classic, where the tor, and his wife, Dorothy, Ricky shared a he's not. I can outjump him.' And Freddie and with a good recruiting year to add Owls were supposed to have been served bed with his four brothers growing up in said, 'Well, he always could.' So we had a depth, the Owls should field a strong team up as the roasted pig at the luau. If you've Garland. "It was a queen-size bed," says little contest. Big Rick didn't hit the board in '82. Sullivan, Disa Lewis of Houston gone 70-196 over the past decade and the Pierce, "but my brothers were bigger and right, but you could tell he could have done Memorial, and Denise Weeden from tournament's host schedules you as its stronger, and they were going to get their it." Edmund, Oklahoma, are still talented opening opponent, you better consider the positions." Pro scouts want to know if the kid who distance competitors. leis they draped over your neck as nooses, Ricky was big enough and strong rarely misses but rarely dribbles can han- not garlands. enough in his own right to be called Giant dle the ball well enough to play big guard in FOOTBALL: The football finale at Rice Instead, Rice knocked the Rainbows out in elementary school, and as a fifth grader, the NBA."At Rice, I'm needed at forward. Stadium was entirely too similar to the of their own tournament with a 69-59 win he began to play pickup ball regularly with but if they want me at guard, I'll practice opening game at Austin. In each instance as Pierce scored 40 points, pulled down 12 several older kids. His grade school had a every day over the summer at that posi- the outmanned Owls lost to a powerful rebounds and — not incidentally — shut team, but being shy and convinced it would tion. I mean I have the ability to play any SWC rival without scoring a touchdown: to out the two Hawaii forwards he guarded at involve costs his family couldn't afford — position. I'll work at it." And this time, Texas 31-3 at the beginning; to Houston various times. He tailed off to 15 points the for a physical, at least, and probably for presumably, be paid for it. 40-3 at the end. In playing 4-5 ball in between, Rice scored 22 touchdowns, with quarterback and most valuable player SALLYPORT-FEBRUARY 1982 15 ALUMNI NEWS & NOTICES Michael Calhoun rushing for one and pass- ing for the others in tying for the one-sea- Mementos Sought son SWC record for TD passes (21). Other "most valuables" for Rice: freshman play- for Preservation er, Kevin Trigg; pass receiver, Hosea For- tune; offensive lineman, Donny Martin; Don't throw out those old scrapbooks, linebacker, Richard Gray; defensive line- clippings, photographs, and other memen- man, Clenzie Pierson; and defensive back, tos of your days at Rice. The Alumni Asso- Richard Crayton. Selected for both the ciation's Archives Committee is looking Hula and Senior Bowl games was tight end for just such artifacts to preserve, store, Robert Hubble, who, along with defensive and catalog for future generations. Your end Marc Sequin and wide receiver For- Rice paraphernalia will be used in exhibits tune, is considered most likely to be draft- in the alumni office or stored in Fondren ed by the National Football League. Library's archives. Call the alumni office with any questions or donations.

HAPPY HOUR!— Alumni who have been out of Rice more than fifteen years meet Women's Sports Alumni Groups the first Tuesday of every month for a happy hour in Willy's Pub in the basement of the Rice Memorial Centerfrom about 5:30 to 6:30 P.M Pictured at the first happy May Join NCAA Pick '82 Leaders hour in December are (Ito r) Mary Lou Rapson '54; Carol Smith Johnston '54, assist- ant alumni director; Taylor Ray '59; Louise Loose Horr '46; Tempe Howze Attwell Ever since intercollegiate sports for wom- Nominees for alumni governor and for the '49; Walker Duffie '48; Alumni Office Coordinator Carolyn Mata;and Steve Shaper en began in earnest at Rice five years ago, alumni association executive board were '58, past president ofthe alumni association. female varsity teams have been members presented at the December meeting of the of the Association of Intercollegiate Ath- board. Ballots for the election will be Donors Enrolled letics for Women, competing under AIAW mailed to alumni next month and counted The Founder's and President's Clubs Mr. & Mrs. William B. Kitzman '59 supervision and complying with associa- May 14. Nominees for alumni governor were established in 1970 to bring togeth- Mr. & Mrs. John William Lowrey, III '59 tion guidelines concerning recruiting, trav- are: er alumni, parents, and friends who give Mr. & Mrs. Earl Bartram Meharg '59/'59 All that el, eligibility, and scholarships. substantial support for Rice's current Nelson B. Peterson '60 soon as this fall. '42; George W. Han- may change, maybe as David Farnsworth operations. Membership is on an annual Dr. Joseph R. Rodarte '60 If the AIAW goes ahead with plans not sen '50. basis (July 1 through June 30) and Mr. & Mrs. J. E. Broadfoot '61 to accept renewal membership applica- Those nominated for the executive tions, Rice's women's teams have indicated board include: includes the individual and his or her Stephen R. & Lois E. King '63 that they will join the ranks of the National Lawrence J. O'Connor, Jr., '36; William spouse. Dr. Carlos Schubert '63 Collegiate Athletic Association, of which D. Broyles '45; J. Evans Attwell '53; Mrs. First-time President's Club members William P. Alexander, III '64 the men's squads are already members. James W. (Nancy Robinson) Lomax '67; from October and November are: Mr. & Mrs. Anthony J. Coumelis '64 The single most significant change for the Mrs. David D.(Juliau Reid) Itz '72; John Mrs. Conrad J. Hansen '20 Charles Edward Hoffman '66 women's teams will be their upgrading E. Eisenlohr '50; Mrs. Lucius (Marshall John C. Reinhardt, Jr. '22 David Blair Justice '66 from Division II in the AIAW to Division I Ferguson) Robertson '32; Mrs. Fred L. Mrs. Floyd L. Scott '25 Narendra T. Sheth '66 in the NCAA. (Ann Tuck) Williams '43; Gwynne E. Old Mrs. Adele Roensch Arnold '26 Dr. Milton Jerome Guiberteau '67 more effectively in Kathleen Much '63; Charles N. Briicht In order to compete '59; Mrs. Frank Moser '27 Richard L. Alexander '69 Division I, Rice would have to expand its '69; James W. Hargrove, Jr.,'66. Mrs. Franklin Devine '29 Harold R. & Hellen Rowland recruiting and scholarship programs as The Rice Engineering Alumni also nom- Taylor, III '70/'72 well as travel more extensively during the inated and accepted a new slate of officers Mrs. Barry Grove '29 '71 season. "There's no doubt about it," com- in December. REA officers for 1982 are: Mr. & Mrs. Earl E. Koeppe '29 Daryl Greebon mented Rice's Women's Athletics Coordi- President, Charles P. Johnson '71; vice- Miss Mary C. Stribling '29 John Jin Lee '71 nator Martha Hawthorne, "Division I is a president, Harvey Senturia '45; secretary, Henry Bruce Gilmer '30 Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence J. Dahm '72/73 more expensive adventure." Pending the Patsy S. Chappelear '53; treasurer, D. Miss Eleanor Thornell '31 Mr. & Mrs. Anthony R. Maresca '72 result of an antitrust suit filed by the Eugene Simmons '47. Mr. & Mrs. Jerome G. McKean '31/'27 Mrs. Susan N. Meers '72 AIAW against the NCAA, Rice will New members were also named to the Frederick R. Freyer '33 Gary Martin Seay '72 in bas- remain a regional Division II power REA board. These include: Henry A. Harbordt '33 Charles Mallon Stedman '72 track and field, and James M. Wilson ketball, volleyball, Samuel T. Sikes '29; Charles F. Montgomery '33 Frederick Timothy Thurston '72 swimming. Women's tennis is already list- '39; Galloway H. Hudson '60; Jack Joplin John Coffee Dr. Steven Henry Vanderpool '72 ed as Division I competition. '45. B. '34 Leon Feder '34 John F. K. McGill '73 Mrs. Mary Catherine Mossman '34 Ms. Helen E. Jameson '74 Ex-Owls Excell On Pro Gridiron Stan P. Cowley '35 Liz Badger & Lansing Pugh '74/'74 Professor & Mrs. John W. Green '35 Thomas C. Whitlock '74 Lt. Col. Mary G. McDonald '35 Ms. Ruthie Melton '75 There aren't many of them — only four — sonification of San Francisco's remarkable but former Rice football players who have success. He led the NFL in pass receiving a Dr. & Mrs. Robert Moore Hill '35/'39 B. Stephen Woods '75 chosen to play professionally excelled in year ago and in 1981 has handled running, John J. Costley '36 Miss W. Patricia Keselik '76 1981: blocking, and pass-receiving chores effec- Harriet Allen Talbot '36 Dr. Anton Prodanovic '76 tively in pacing the Forty-Niners to the Mr. & Mrs. Frank Cavenagh, Jr. '37 Ms. Rachelle Meshulam Reisberg '76 best win-loss record in pro football (13-3) Dr. & Mrs. Henry F. Dunlap '38/'38 Eric Michael Sisson '76 going into the Super Bowl. Paul H. Sanders '40 Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Henry Kent, Jr. '77/'77 Dr. & Mrs. Stephen A.(Mary Kate Leslie C. & Rebecca Lambourn • Minnesota quarterback Tommy Averill) Powers — /'41 Krusen '77/'77 Kramer was featured in Inside Sports Ralph M:Pritchett '41 Mr. & Mrs. Edward A. Pierce '77 (December) as the pro game's outstanding Dr. Warren C. Simpson '41 Bruce E. Wilson '77 field general and passer. While his team Mr. & Mrs. H. H. Wise, Jr. — /'43 Randal M. Brush '78 failed to make the playoffs, the Vikings Charles A. De Mars '48 Keith A. Garrett '78 came close and anticipate greater success Howell '78 in years ahead under the youthful Kramer. Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence L. Bott '49 David L. Mr. & Mrs. Stig Ekeroot — /'49 Ms. Anne V. Millioud '78 S. S. McClendon, III '49/'50 Jennifer S. Schuh '78 • James Sykes, who like Kramer, Mr. & Mrs. played on the 1973-76 Owl teams, led the Mr. & Mrs. Larry Athy '50 Stephen R. Sills '78 Canadian Football League in rushing for Dr. & Mrs. R. Dale Biggs '50 Christopher Burns '79 the second year in a row — 1,107 yards in Dr. & Mrs. S. Jesse S. Binford, Jr. '50 Kevin L. McKenna '79 240 carries for a 4.6-yard average for the Martin & Gloria (Wilson) Brown '50/'50 Miss Ellen R. Monheimer '79 Calgary Stampeders. He is contemplating Mr. & Mrs. Homer B. Leonard '50 Mr. & Mrs. Bruce M. Ruhlin '79/'79 a switch to the NFL. Mr. & Mrs. Carl L. Cook '52 James Regis Tunney, Jr. '79 Christopher M. Partridge '52 Mark Scott Whitney '79 • Mike Downs, a standout defensive Mrs. Andrew K. McColpin '53 Frank Anthony Wolak, Jr. '79 Owl's 1980 team, was not back on the John & Gloria O'Quinn Zachari — /'53 Eric A. Freeman '80 drafted by any NFL team but was given a Mrs. Lou Rapson '54 John Bennett Henderson '80 chance to try out in his hometown, Dallas. Mary Joe A. Durrenberger '56 Miss Frederica Terrell Lake '80 • Earl Cooper, a first round draft He earned a starting position at free safety Schad '58 Bryan K. Sandow '80 Choice after completing his eligibility at for the Cowboys, performing against for- Mrs. Mary Nell Jennings Rice in 1979, appeared on the cover of the mer teammate Cooper in the NFL Champi- Wm. A. Grant '59 Mr. & Mrs. J. D. Hellums December 21 Sports Illustrated as the per- onship won by San Francisco. Mrs. Oliver S. Kitzman '59 Professor & Mrs. William W. Porterfield 16 SALLYPORT-FEBRUARY 1982 ALUMNI NEWS & NOTICES Rice Club News

If you want to know Rice club activities in Letters to the Editor your area or are interested in starting a group, call or write the Alumni Office, P.O. "But Letscher can still beat me by about Box 1892, Houston, Texas 77251. two strokes a round. He is one of the fierc- est competitors I've ever seen, and a few HOUSTON more years and a little less hair doesn't The young alumni in the Houston area stop him a bit. He currently holds the have been very active this fall and into the Riverhill Country Club Golf Champion- new year. In November Greg Stock '72 led ship, even though he is competing against a white wine seminar in the Farish Gallery many fine golfers still in their 40s. Three of Anderson Hall. Plans are to repeat the years ago, after not having seen each other fun in the spring with an emphasis on red for 39 years, Ed and I teamed up with wines. The Christmas party, headed by Harris "Tightwad" Lodge '36, the notori- Mary Weeks '73 and Birna and Dan Foley ous basketball player, and football coach '76/'76, went on well past midnight in the Mike Dean to win the Owl Club golf cham- R Room. High school district playoffs on pionship thirteen under par. We still enjoy the field below added additional entertain- fighting each other on the golf course and ment. Plans are in the making for the settling our bets over drinks and dinner young alumni to enjoy an evening with the with our wives." Rice Players sometime in March. They Ed. note: Finger, who lives in Houston, will attend a play and subsequent party. designed the following courses recognized by For more information contact the alumni Golf Digest: Concord Course, Kaimesha office. Other young alumni events tenta- Lake, Neu' York; Atlanta Athletic Club and tively on the books for the spring include a the Atlanta Country Club, Atlanta, Georgia; champagne-croquet tournament, canoe Cedar Ridge Country Club, 71dsa, Oklaho- CLAIVK tfErriverw 44014tIM E I.Mtl4Eft JOE ForGER Maw crussfiA trip, and racquetball tournament. Young .pcSpetAil 0101 CO - vier, cm.r. ma; and the Colonial Country Club, alumni(everyone graduated in the past fif- Ric.f. Memphis, Tennessee. He also designed cours- teen years) have happy hours in Willy's es for the Kingwood Country Club in Hous- Pub the third Thursday of every month Seaman, Clark, Artlhur, Letscher, Finger, and Crissman in 1939 ton and the Riverhill Club in Kerrville, from 5:30 P.M. Happy Hour for other Mx-as, and rebuilt the eighth green at the alumni is also at the pub at the same time Augusta National course, site of the Masters every first Tuesday. nurnament, in Augusta, Georgia. HILL COUNTRY Marjorie Peters '40 writes that the fall round-up barbecue at the home of Florence and George Schulgen '68 was a real suc- cess. Alums enjoyed the Western theme, which extended right down to a bandana and western hat on Sammy the Owl. Hill Country alumni interested in spring activi- ties should contact Marjorie at 1402/12 McAllen Street, Kerrville, Texas 78028.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Reports are that last fall's Rice club get- together in the elegant setting of the Desiree Club was a great success. Plans are being made for a similar meeting this year with Rice professor Bill Martin as speaker. Capital area alums should contact John Turner '71, 1535 Longfellow Court, McLean, Virginia 22101 for information on spring activities.

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Finger and Letscher in 1981 John and Ann Doerr '73/'75 will be taking Robert G. Porter PhD '68 (German litera- over direction of alumni activities from Joe Finger BSChE '39 recently wrote and Ed went into the oil business and eventu- ture) writes from Vaddukoddai, Sri Lanka: Burton McMurtry '56. John may be included these "before and after" photos: ally became chairman of the board and "After teaching in Germany five years, I reached for alumni information do "Ed Letscher BSChE '40 and I were CEO of the Caltex group of companies in took an art and architecture sabbatical at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, 4 cocaptains of the 1939 Southwest Confer- Australia, then a director and vice-presi- the Romanesque Institute in Poitiers, Embarcadero Center #3520, San Francis- ence championship golf team, and Ed won dent of Bahrain Petroleum Company, and France. Then, after a year in the German co, California 94123. the individual title. If I hadn't choked on a regional director for Bahrain in New department at Oregon State University, I the last green, I would have been runner- York. He didn't give up golf while he was took a job at Tehran International School up, but alas, I finished third. Ed Seaman out of the states: he NXion the Bahrain Open in Iran, arriving in time to enjoy the entire Homecoming '41 passed away several years ago. I'm not Golf Tournament in 1975 in a sudden death revolution while trying to be chairman sure what has happened to Harry Criss- playoff against a Scottish pro! of English and German there. A month man '41 and John Clark '40. Kenneth "After graduation I went on to MIT to after the hostages had been taken at the 1982 "Duke" Arthur '41 lives in Dallas, has get my master's in chemical engineering embassy I managed to get an exit visa. Plans have already begun for Homecoming been president of Brookhollow Country practice and was lucky enough to be able to "In March 1981 I took a job at Jaffna 1982. Louis Spaw '40 is in charge of the Club, and was in good health and spirits study with the Alfred P. Sloane scholars. I College at the northern end of Sri Lanka festivities, which will be Friday and Satur- when I saw him this summer. went to work for what is now Amoco in (formerly Ceylon) through the United day October 15 and 16. The football game "The recent photograph shows Ed Texas City, then formed my own plastics Church Board for World Ministries. Here I is Saturday night with Texas Tech. Ideas at Letscher and me last summer at Riverhill company and developed the corrugated am teaching English,German, French, and present are to have reunion parties Friday Country Club in Kerrville, Texas, where translucent fiberglass panel business. Our Western music! At the same time I am in night, the annual convocation and coffees Ed retired. Riverhill is one of the courses I product was known as Corrulux. That the midst of the Tamil/Sinhalese turmoil Saturday morning, and lectures to show off designed in collaboration with Byron Nel- industry today has sales of over $100 mil- that resulted in the burning of the fine Jaff- faculty and facilities Saturday afternoon son, whose 1945 tournament record has lion. During that time we sold our company na Public Library and its entire collection. before the game. Alumni are invited to never been equalled, not even by Jack to Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company, New attacks on the citizens of this area offer suggestions. Call the alumni office, Nicklaus. where I was vice-president of the Corrulux continue, one such scare attack being (713)527-4057. "Letscher and I both graduated as division for four years. mounted just outside the school gates. The chemical engineers under "Pappy" Hart- "But golf called me back, and I resigned tension eased for about three days during sook. I graduated in 1939, but Ed graduat- and started building golf courses in 1957. Queen Elizabeth's visit in October. Jaffna Blue-Gray Game ed in 1940 since Dr. Richter busted him in The latest biennial issue of Golf Digest College itself struggles to maintain a tradi- Coach Ray Alborn has announced the date organic chemistry for missing too many Magazine published the "100 Greatest Golf tion of excellence; a great-grandfather of for this spring's annual Blue-Gray Scrimm- labs to play golf against the other universi- Courses" out of some 13,000 in the United John Foster Dulles wrote the still defini- age. the intrasquad football contest will be ties. I believe Doc didn't bust me because I States. I am pleased to say that I have five tive Tamil-English dictionary, and a sister at Rice Stadium Sunday, March 28, at 2 had already been elected to Phi Lambda courses in the list, putting me in the top of Grover Cleveland's also taught here P.M. Admission is free. Upsilon, but he did give me a 4-! five living golf course architects. many years." SALLYPORT-FEBRUARY 1982 17 11111111EMEMEM• I• Rice. Waslmsley played with the Owls under Jess Neely in the championship days and recalled that the most exciting games 1916-1959 were against Texas. He eventually joined the enemy, though, attending the UT med- ical school in Galveston. He now has a pri- Abram L. Geller BA '20 writes that vate medical practice in Baytown. George although he has cut down on his office married the former Betty Bob Storm hours in his octogenarian years, sales are BS '48. Bill Leifeste BA '49 writes still going strong after more that fifty years that, although he in the insurance industry. In his spare time recently retired from Abram leads daily morning religious ser- Exxon in Midland, vices at the Jewish Home for the Aged in Texas, he returned to Houston and devotes much time to volun- the energy industry teer work. Harold E. Mortimer '28 two days later as retired in 1971 as vice-president of Gulf regional landman, States Utilities Company. Harold enjoys Permian Basin Re- singing in the choir and serving on the ves- gion, for C&K Petro- try of St. Mark's Episcopal Church in eum, also in Midland. Dynamic Duo Houston. He urges retired alumni to stay C. E.(Charlie) Jacobs BA,BS '51 has Champagne in the snow? The toast seems perfectly normal when busy and involved and, with his service on been named Tulsa administration manager you have as much to celebrate as Carolyn and Gary Zintgraff '66/ the boards of the Symphony Society and for Dowell after serving as general mana- the Museum of Fine Arts and membership ger for the Dow Chemical Company's oper- '65 do. The Zintgraffs have combined their Rice knowledge with on the Rice Alumni Travel Committee, ations in Saudi Arabia. Thomas H. entrepreneurial skills to form two fast-moving, dollar-generating Harold sets a fine example. Arthur C. Cruikshank BA '52 has been elected corporations. Gary is president of Indianapolis's Chemical Inves- Koch, Jr., '34 and president of Halliburton Company tors, the fourth fastest-growing public company in the U.S., his wife Ferne are on (NYSE), Dallas. Cruikshank was Hallibur- according to INC. magazine, while Carolyn heads Third Century special assignment ton's executive vice-president and chief for Tejas Architech- financial officer prior to becoming presi- Venture, an energy corporation involved in the production of fuel tural Products, Inc., dent of Otis Engineering Corporation, a ethanol. of Dallas in Clifden, subsidiary, a year ago. Other subsidiaries Both Gary and Carolyn N. cre raised in Texas. Gary brought a Connemara, County of Halliburton include Houston's Brown & childhood interest in chemistry to Rice, where he met and married Galway, Republic of Root. Joey R. Horn BArch '55 has sophomore Carolyn Oliver in 1964. Following the completion of Ireland for six been named a vice- months with a new factory, Marble Prod- president of CRS, their education and a stint in the U.S. Navy for Gary, the Zintgraffs ucts, Ltd. The company's product, thin Inc. of Houston, a relocated to Indianapolis, where he accepted a chemical engineer- veneer marble or granite facing, will soon design/construct ing position with Eli Lilly & Co. In the early 1970s, Gary started a appear in Dallas and elsewhere in the Unit- company. Horn is a consulting engineering company specializing in industrial waste ed States. The Kochs love to travel and member of the Amer- disposal and chemical process facility design, while Carolyn capi- have particularly enjoyed Ireland. ican Institute of Henry Meadown BS '39 was the sub- Architects, the Tex- talized on her three black belts and incorporated "The Golden Dra- ject of a feature article in the Midland as Society of Archi- gon" martial arts school. (Tex.) Reporter-Tribune. Henry, a retired tects, and the Constructions Specifications In 1976 Carolyn transferred her energies to the couple's new engineering coordinator for Humble Oil, Institute. Morton L. Levy, Jr., BA undertaking, Chemical Investors. "I handled the administrative commented that there are more similari- '55, BArch '56 sale, while Gary directed his attention to ties than differences in the current Mid- was elected 1982 work and the stock land oil boom and the three others that president of the Tex- obtaining chemical distributorships and setting up custom synthe- have occurred since the 1920s. F. Donald as Society of Archi- sis facilities," says Carolyn. "In those days, it was just a secretary Leigh BS '42 has tects, a regional and the two of us." The old days are long gone, as Chemical Inves- been promoted to component of the tors projects 1982 revenues of over $60 million. After getting the senior vice-president American Institute corporation on its feet, Carolyn maintained a position on the board of Southern Natural of Architects. Levy is Resources, Inc., ef- president of Levy and directed her energies toward founding Third Century fective January 1. Associates Architects in Houston. The Venture. Leigh came to work ornithological interests of the family of Gary is quick to point out that Carolyn's abilities complement his with Southern Natu- Mary Catherine Anderson Cezeaux own and that the bases were easily covered in the early days ral in 1970, was elect- BA '58 were featured in an article in the thanks to that advantage."We'd like to work together more close- ed vice-president of exploration and Houston Chronicle in November. Mary production of Southern Natural Gas Com- Catherine is the wife of Dr. Gus ly than we have in the past two years," he adds. And the desire will pany in 1974, and was named president of Cezeaux BA '58. P. David Mantor be realized when the companies relocate to adjacent corporate SONAT Exploration Company in 1976. J. BA '58, MS has been appointed presi- headquarters this month. J. (Jack) Clemens BS '42 has been dent of Hamilton International Oil Compa- While they obviously enjoy their work, the Zintgraffs agree that named executive vice-president of Coral ny, an affiliate of Hamilton Brothers Oil such intensive business interests leave little time for the extended Navigation Company, a subsidiary of Dow Company. Before joining Hamilton Broth- Chemical Company. In his new post ers last year, Hill was president of Texas vacations and active social lives that less involved couples might Clemens is responsible for managing International Petroleum Corporation in enjoy. "Sometimes reconciling my schedule with Gary's and my Coral's Bermuda headquarters and other Oklahoma City. He also worked for Exxon housekeeper/babysitter's proves to be a physical impossibility. Bermuda operations of Dow companies. Corporation for fifteen years. Gary and I both need a traditional wife." Carolyn laughs. Jay Anthony BS '45 was the subject of The couple play as hard as they work. Carolyn enjoys racquet- a feature article in the Houston Chronicle last fall. Jay, a senior vice-president of the ball, jazz dancing, and working out at a nearby health spa. Gary is Weekly Penney ad firm, has developed a an avid handball player who, like many executives, does a lot of hobby in computer programming. After T960-1969 business on the courts. becoming involved with computers Thirteen-year-old Ryan and three-year-old Amber add to the through his business he expanded to work richness of the couple's life. "We are not able to be with the chil- as a programming consultant, but his main interest is just plain fun: he enjoys playing dren as much as we'd like, so our time with them is very special," games, creating new programs, and devel- Katherine Kellogg Nikkei BA '61 Carolyn explains. "We try to make it quality time." Amber has oping teaching aids for his grandchildren. has been named financial manager for the announced her intentions of taking over her mother's company Frank A. Law- Defense Contract Administration Services and wardrobe in a few years, while Ryan already has firsthand rence BS '47 is region, Chicago. For the past two years, knowledge of how a business works. "During the Chemical Inves- moving to Denver, she has been regional director of the man- Colorado, to organize agement and budget division of the tors stock sale, Ryan attended all of the Saturday sales meetings, and manage a new Department of Housing and Urban Devel- passed out materials to the sales agents, and ran the copier. When Rocky Mountain Dis- opment's five-state Region III. Navy the copy machine broke down, Ryan could fix it when no one else trict Office for Sun Commander Joseph L. Lockett BA could," says Carolyn. Production Company '61 returned in November 1981 from a On the subject of Texas, Houston, and Rice University, the •after serving a three- deployment to the Western Pacific and year assignment as president of Deepsea Indian Oceans. He is commanding officer Zintgraffs share identical feelings. "It's home," Gary says, "and Ventures, a deep ocean mining project for of the guided missile destroyer U.S.S. some day soon we plan to move corporate headquarters right back Sun Oil. George Walmsley BA '48 was Berkeley. During the seven-month cruise, to where we came from." the subject of a feature article in the Hous- the Berkeley participated in training exer- ton Post which recounted his achievements cises with the Seventh Fleet and was — KELLY GUPPY as a football player in high school and at attached to a carrier battle group operating 18 SALLYPORT-FEBRUARY 1982 USST1 otes

in the Arabian Sea. Lockett visited Hawaii, '69 and his wife Harriet have a new son the Phillipines, Hong Kong, British Colum- Dylan Howell. Bob has his own computer bia, Singapore, and Western Australia dur- software business in Los Angeles. ing the mission. His ship was twice awarded the Humanitarian Service Medal for the rescue of Vietnamese refugees from the South China Sea and received its second Navy Expeditionary Medal. Vic- tor Edwards BA '62 reveived the Rob- .1970-1979 ert L. Churchwell Award for 1981 from the South Texas section of the American Insti- tute of Chemical Engineers. The award Kerry Lee Goezler BA '70, BArch recognizes outstanding volunteer commu- has joined the Houston firm of Denny, nity service. Edwards is principal process Ray,and Wines, Architects-Planners. Ker- engineer in the Houston offices of Fluor ry is a member of the American Institute of Corporation's Advanced Techology Divi- Architects. Sharolyn Petty Wood BA sion. He is married to the former Mary '70 has been named judge of the 295th Margaret Litzman BA '62. Tom J. judicial district. A graduate of the Univer- Fatjo, Jr., BA '62 was named to the sity of Texas Law School, she is an attor- President's Council on Fitness and Sports ney with Sullivan, Dailey, King, and by President Reagan. Tom is president of Sabom in Houston. Terry Eschen the Houstonian Foundation and founder of , Garber BA '71 several companies. Dr. Ernest J. Her- was promoted to mann '66 recently wrote us about his life assistant vice-presi- after he left Rice. He received an MS in dent of the South clinical pharmacology from Vanderbilt in Carolina National A Lifetime with Rice 1970 and three years later earned his MD Bank. Terry joined When H. Malcolm Lovett BA '21 turned eighty January 8 he from Meharry School of Medicine in Nash- SCN in 1978 as a data marked more than just another birthday: for ville, Tennessee. Presently, Dr. Hermann base analyst in infor- Lovett, son of Rice's is staff physician at the Abilene State mation services. She first president Edgar Odell Lovett, 1982 will be the seventy-fifth School in Abilene, Texas. A. Lee Hall was promoted to assistant data processing year of his association with Rice. BA '66, BS '67 has been named vice- officer in August 1979 and in February she Lovett recalls first hearing about Rice in January 1908 when his president of AAR Corporation, Elk Grove was named data processing officer and father announced at the dinner table that he had decided to leave Village, Illinois. He lives in Barrington, manager of on-line systems, her current Princeton Illinois, with his wife Linda. Forrest position. Gary P. Carley BA '71 has for Houston at the end of the school year. With his "Woody" Fox BS '67, MS currently been appointed to the North Central Texas father he watched the foundations of Rice's first buildings being the technical director of the biomedical Health facilities Development Corpora- laid in 1910 and skipped school for the university's official opening and monitoring department of the Method- tion. He is senior vice-president of First in October 1912, when he acted as a footman to assist arriving dig- ist Hospital of Houston, presented a slide City Bank of Farmer's Branch. Zan nitaries. Five years later he entered Rice where among other activ- show and talk at the ECHO (Electronic Guerry BA '71 has become a member of ities he Computing — Health Oriented) 1981 meet- Chattem Inc.'s board of directors. Before captained the basketball team. Those were the early days ing explaining the on-line computer main- assuming his present position as Chat- at Rice, Lovett recalls, when all women students were required to tenance and innovative education tem's vice-president and chief financial leave the campus by 5 P.M., before dark. programs he has designed for the hospital. officer, Zan was manager of financial plan- Lovett went on to Harvard Law School, receiving his degree in Tony Labay BCo '67 has been pro- ning for the company, which specializes in 1924. Bucking the trend to settle in New York, he returned to moted to the position of manager, manage- health and beauty specialty chemicals. Houston and ment and selection,with Eastern Airlines in Michael Daley BA '71 writes that after joined Baker & Botts, where he continues to practice Miami, Florida. He is responsible for all several years of graduate school he has today as a senior member of the law firm. external corporate professional employ- taken a job as assistant professor in the Not surprisingly, attending Rice seems to run in Lovett's family. ment and internal management promotion sociology department of Bemidji State His sister Adelaide, Mrs. W. Browne Baker of Houston, earned a activity. Dr. Michael E. Maguire BA University in Bemidji, Minnesota. Ellen B.A. in 1920, although brother Laurence was a renegade and '67 recently addressed the annual meet- Kelley BA '71 has been chosen presi- attended Harvard. Lovett's wife, the former ing of the Society for Neuroscience in Los dent-elect of the Houston Symphony Soci- Martha Roberts Angeles. Maguire is assistant professor of ety. Ellen has been a member of the society Wicks, was a student at Sarah Lawrence College before her mar- pharmacology, School of Medicine, Case since 1964 and is currently vice-president riage but returned to her hometown Houston with Lovett and is a Western Reserve University,in Cleveland, and chair of planning. Jane M.Kominek member of the class of 1935. The Lovetts' two sons, Malcolm Jr. Ohio.His talk concerned his recent research BA '72 was graduated from South Texas BA '67 and Edgar Odell II BA '79, are both Rice graduates. The on the effects of various drugs on the ner- College of Law last May, completing her Lovetts also have two vous system. Maguire has won numerous degree in less than two and a half years. In daughters, Eliza Lovett Randall and Mrs. awards and grants to support his studies of the process she received an American Jur- Charles I.(Mary Hale) McLean, Jr., both of Houston. the alterations in cell chemistry that isprudence Award in Administrative Law Few individuals have the opportunity to participate in the life of accompany drug dependence. In addition and the John A. Maxwell Award for her an institution as Malcolm Lovett has in the life of Rice. "Rice has to teaching, he directs his own laboratory work on the law journal staff. Once she probably been the biggest interest in my life," he says. "It was an in Cleveland. Terry G. Pendleton BA receives her license, she will become an exciting and thrilling '68, MEE has been appointed to the associate to prominent union attorney experience to go through the early years." board of directors of Texas Commerce Chris Dixie of Houston. Denise Root Lovett has been on Rice's board of governors sice 1951. He served Bank-Quorum. Pendleton is a partner with Bynum BA '73 and her husband James as chairman of the board of trustees from 1967 to 1972 and is now a Luedtke, Aldridge & Pendleton Real announce the birth of their second child, trustee emeritus. He is also on the board of the Owl Club, and ex Estate Development and serves the North Lisa Elaine, on February 11, 1981. Mary officio member of the fund council, and a member of the council of Dallas Chamber of Commerce as director/ Elizabeth Rader BA '73 has resigned the Shepherd School. He has been chairman of the Streets and Highways from Arthur Andersen & Co. of Houston to involved with the Friends of Committee. He is also director of Quorum become a fellow at the Securities and Fondren Library for many years and has served as the chairman of Protective Corporation. Robert M. Old- Exchange Commission in Washington, the Rice Historical Commission. berg BA '68 was named assistant profes- D.C., for a two-year period. A research In Houston Lovett has served as a director of several companies sor of biology at Union College in project that began in graduate school at the including the South Texas Commercial National Bank and its suc- Schenectady, New York. He has also University of California at Davis has led cessors; Tenneco, Inc.; Southwestern Drug Corp.; taught at the University of Washington Anne Ewing Rassios '74 to a life in and the DePel- and high school mathematics and science Greece. In 1978 she married and then both chin Faith Home. He has also been a member of the Visiting courses in Palau, Western Caroline completed her PhD and gave birth to son Committee of the Harvard Law School. Islands, where he was sent as a member of Mikhail in 1980. Gary D.Bailey BA '74 At eighty Lovett remains active and frequently drops by Rice on the Peace Corps. Bob VanderLinde'68 has been working at the Federal Trade his way to and from work. Rice today is a far cry from the empty is working as a consultant in Los Angeles. Commission's San Francisco Regional Off- prairie he used to visit with his father in a horse and After spending time in the Air Force and ice on a special assignment. Gary married buggy — at working at Rice, Bob received an MBA in January, and the couple plan to return to least partly thanks to Lovett's own efforts (four new buildings from Stanford. Ann Failing BA '69 Washington, D.C., in March or April. were erected during his tenure as chairman of the board of trus- teaches junior high school now in Wapp- John Edward Spencer PhD '75 and tees). There is no question that Rice has benefited immeasurably ingers Falls, New York. She and Thom Catherine Krause Spencer BA '75 from the enthusiasm of the Lovett family. And as for Malcolm Scrutchin BS '69 divorced in 1976, he became the proud parents of Edward Lee Lovett, after a lifetime spent writes. Thom has moved with IBM from on August 23, 1981, in Houston. They growing up with the university, he Houston to Poughkeepsie to Tucson, have high hopes he will enter Rice as a says, "I've enjoyed every minute of my experience with' Rice in where he has just been promoted to senior freshman in the fall of 1999. A.L. whatever capacity." programmer. One of Thom's IBM col- (Lucky) Smith BS '75 writes that he leagues, Ann Hunt'68, now lives in Los was graduated in June from Southwestern Altos Hills, California. Bob Sculley BA Medical School in Dallas and is now in his SALLYPORT-FEBRUARY 1982 19 C u-s-s-notes

was a part- first year of residency in the family prac- survived by his wife, the former Eleanor on October 27, 1981. Sherwood tice department of UTHSC, San Antonio, Warden BA '58, who was not involved in time librarian at Rice. in Bexar County Hospital. Lee T. ADVANCED DEGREES the accident. SowelBA--76- MAcco has been 11111•1•11111•11111MENIIIIN Margaret Everson Fossi BA '79 was killed near her home in Houston January appointed to the Rider College faculty for OWLMANAC Contmued the 1981-82 academic year. Lee is an act- 17, 1982. A fifth-year architecture student Cooper R. Mackin at Rice at the time of her death, she is sur- ing instructor in accounting after having 23 "Folk Religion: Alive and '62 has had vived by her husband Larry Fossi BA '79, Mar. served as an internal auditor for the Fort PhD Well in America" a change in title at currently a law student at Yale. Bend School District in Stafford, Texas. 24 "Theism: God and the Hu- University of Mar. Ann MacL aine BA'76 has moved to the Sarah Jourdin '17 of San Antonio; man Soul" New Orleans from Kenneth Cunningham '19 of Grosse New Orleans where she is "living in pseu- Mar. 25 "Mysticsm:The God Above" doconnubial bliss with another transplant- vice-chancellor for Point, Michigan, on July 27, 1981; Mollie ed Houstonian." Ann writes that she loves academic affairs to Mantooth Simons '20 of Tyler, Texas, the city and plans to practice law there vice-chancellor for on January 1, 1979; Elmer F. Hard '22 The Society of Rice University Women after.she passes the Louisiana bar exam. academic affairs and of Houston on May 1, 1981; Noel C. Wil- presents its spring 1982 seminar series. Cheryl Hein Johnston BA '77 says provost. A professor of English, Mackin lis '24 of Houston on October 20, 1981; Lectures are held at 12:30 P.M. in 301 she has been graduated from the Universi- joined the UNO faculty in 1961 and has Frances Loock Emison '26 of Hous- Sewall Hall with coffee beforehand at ty of New Mexico School of Law in May also served as dean of UNO's College of ton on November 16, 1981; Milton 0. noon. 1981 and was admitted to the bar at the Liberal Arts and as chair of freshman Eng- Liljestrand '28 of New York on July 8, Feb. 15: Karin Broker of art and art end of September. In celebration she was lish and of the English department. M.K. 1979; Jack Waltrip'29 of Humble, Tex- history: "The Unique Multi- then off to Munich for Oktoberfest with Horn PhD '64 presented a series of lec- as, on November 8, 1981; Sam Miron ples" (lithographs, intaglio, "no regrets." Bill Cox BA '76, MEE tures during the week of October 26,1981, '31 of Houston on December 26, 1981; silk screen, woodcuts) '77 and Debbie McCleary Cox BA at the University of Texas at Austin. Horn, Elbert A. Boynton '32 of Austin on Feb. 22: Nancy Burch '61, assistant '76 announce that after four years in Ore- director of exploration and production for July 26, 1981; Margaret Evelyn Aller- sports information director: gon, they decided to leave "God's coun- Cities Service energy resource group, dis- ton Hacker'32 of Tyler, Texas, on Sep- "Women in the Business of try" and return to Texas. Bill accepted a cussed the idea that ancient continental tember 27, 1981; Ray Harbour '32 of Athletics" position with Schlumberger and expected margins are sites of major oil and gas fields Baytown, Texas, on June 26, 1980; J.V. Mar. 1: Susie and Terry Gaschen, to be in Austin by Thanksgiving. The and urged exploration geologists to "Doc" Pennington '33 of Houston on '73: Classical Guitar Coxes brought back two bottles of volcanic explore these areas as well as present day November 25, 1981; Joseph J. Bourret Mar. 8: Bob Kee, Kee Motors: "You ash and baby Michael, born February 2, continental margins. '33 of Houston on November 2, 1981; and Your Car - A Woman's 1981. Robert R. Lockett BS '77, MS Jerry B. Swint E.B. Mendel'35 of Houston on Novem- Guide to Surviving Automo- '81 is alive and well in Boston but longs PhD '72 has joined ber 24, 1981; Richard El Ballanfant bile Care and Repair" for Mexican food and chicken fried steak. the Inland Steel '35 of Houston on October 23, 1981; Ella General meetings are held in the Grand He just began a new job on the administra- Company's medical Mae Gehring'35 of Houston on Novem- Hall of the RMC with coffee at 10 A.M. tion staff of MIT as industrial liaison offi- staff in East Chicago, ber 24, 1981; J.W."Buck" Friedman and a speaker at 10:30 A.M. General meet- cer, postponing the completion of his PhD. Indiana. James J. '37 of Terre Haute, Indiana, on November ings for spring 1982 are listed below: Dan Adams BS '77 quit work back in McDonald MARU 7, 1981; Catherine Bonner Bentley Feb. 8: Gary Schuman, Director of 1980 to pursue a PhD in laser physics. '74 has been pro- '38 of Dallas in 1963; Victor C. Calma the Harris County Heritage Louis B. Griffen BA '78 has become moted from senior '39 of Corpus Christi on December 30, Society: "The History of part of the First National Bank of Mid- designer to vice-president at Hellmuth, 1981; Cecil W.Smith '39 of Houston on Houston" land's staff. Griffen comes to FNB as a Obata, and Kassabaum, a firm offering October 30, 1981; Robert R. Feldman Apr. 19: Michelle Heard '80, former petroleum engineer in the energy group. comprehensive service in architecture, '47 of Sands Point, New York, on April Thresher editor and current- His affiliation with First National began in interior planning, engineering, and graph- 19, 1981; Efton Lilborn Park, Jr.'63 ly a feature writer for the September after three years of employ- ics. Prior to his association with the firm in of University, Missouri, on October 26, Houston Chronicle: "The ment with Marathon Oil Company. After 1980, McDonald was an associate profes- 1981; and W.H. Sherwood of Houston Houston Look" leaving Rice, Stoner Nesbitt'78 earned sor of architecture at Texas A&M,a visit- his MBA at Oklahoma State University. ing critic and assistant professor at Rice, For the past two years Stoner has been and a designer at both Charles Tapley & working as an information systems analyst Associates in Houston and Shepley Bull- CLASSNOTES. Alumni are continually asking what exciting things their classmates black for Arthur Andersen & Co. in Tulsa. finch Richardson and Abbett in Boston. are up to. Why not have the true story published - drop us a line and a (preferably 77251. Kathleen Gammill BA '79 recently Lynn E. Mitchell, Jr., PhD '75 is the and white) photo at P.O. Box 1892, Houston, Texas wrote SALLYPORT about "whatever hap- Rockwell Visiting Theologian at the Uni- pened to those Gammill kids." Kathleen versity of Houston during 1981-82. Mitch- works as contract administrator in the ell is an associate professor of theology at gas sales and regulation department of the University of St. Thomas and an Pennzoil. Her brother John Gammill ordained minister in the Church of Christ. BA '78 is an entrepreneur in his new busi- David R. Glunt ness in Houston and is married to the for- MARU '77 has mer Karen Russell BA '78, MA '81, joined Benton/Gould who is earning her law degree at the Uni- Properties, Inc., as versity of Houston. Laura May Gam- vice-president of mill BS '80 is currently working on her marketing planned MS in geology at Rice. communities. Ben- ton/Gould provides a complete range of real estate brokerage services. Previously, Glunt was director of research and devel- opment coordinator at the Rice Center in 1980-1981 Houston. John W. Cheek MA '80 has been named an associate of CRS, Inc., of Houston, a design/construct company pro- viding comprehensive services in project management, architecture, engineering, Dan Chapman PhD Norwood H. Kee- and construction. part of the staff at Odessa ney III BA '80 '81 has become Texas, after teaching at recently participated College in Odessa, Southern University and Rice. in the Congressional both Texas Research Service's Graduate Institute for Legislative Staff. Norwood is a legisla- tive assistant to Con- gressman Judd Gregg of New Hampshire. Memoriam Norman E. Gutzler'80 has completed In the basic officer course at the Naval Sub- marine School, Groton, Connecticut. He joined the Navy in May 1980. Ellen Chapman Snooks '80 announces the Dr. Robert P. Shubinski BA '57 of birth of a son, Jonathan Michael, on July 4, Annandale, Virginia, was killed in the Air 1981. Susan Wise Nelson '81 married Florida 737 plane crash in Washington, in June and now lives in Tarrytown, New D.C., on January 13, 1982. Shubinski was Name College Class York, where she works in the development president of Water Resources Engineer- office of Hackley, a private high school. ing, Inc., of Springfield, Virginia. He is Address( new) SPRING ALUMNI INSTITUTE: SIGN UP NOW FOR FREE BONUS! Troubled with Houston's urban sprawl? Puzzled by Reaganomics and the Reagan presidency? In the market for fresh ideas or new perspectives on the same old questions? Any way you look at it, if you still have the open and inquiring mind that probably brought you to Rice in the first place, the 1982 Spring Alumni Institute has something for you. Once again the Alumni Association offers a two-part lecture series this spring combining the exper- tise of Rice professors with that of other authorities in the Houston area to give you inside looks at "Houston: Urban Development, Cultural Geography, and Architecture" and "The Reagan Presidency." Organized by Mary Anne Collins '54, the lectures are $15.00 per course. The Houston course meets at 7:15 P.M., followed by the Reagan course at 8:30 P.M. on consecutive Tuesdays February 16-March 23. SPECIAL BONUS: Mary Anne has also arranged a special bonusfor those who attend the institute. At 8:00 P.M Tuesday March 30,four members of the Rice faculty will team up to present a panel discussion of "America in Transition" with audience participation encouraged. The special bonus lecture is presented as a courtesy to the Rice community at no extra charge. For a brochure and registration information, call or write the alumni office: Association of Rice Alumni Alumni Institute P.O. Box 1892 Houston, Texas 77251 (713) 527-4057