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UNCOVER TO DETECTIVE FICTION WITH DENNIS HUSTON. fT. THE CLUES ANNOUNCEMENT TR A VEL ART Nov. 22 The NROTC is putting on a 10 Group travel arrangements are made by the kil. run in and around the cam- alumni association. For information, call (713) Through Emerging Texas Photography. pus. The event is open to any- 527-4057. Dec. 12 Sewall Gallery in Sewall Hall. one in the Houston area. There Jan. 22-25 Young Alumni are going to ski Mon.-Sat., noon to 5 P.M. will be a $4 entry fee. Register for a long weekend at Brecken- before or the day of the event at ridge. Approximately, $230/ Jan. 12- A Teaching Survey: Selections Sleuthing. By Nancy Daly. the NROTC office, 211 Sewall, person includes airfare, a bunk Feb. 28 from the Menil Teaching Col- Dennis Huston, professor of or call Jim Foley, 526-3867. in a condo for 6, and transporta- lection. Sewall Gallery. English, uncovers the literary Dec. 13 The Young Alumni will be tion to and from the condo. 4roots of English and Ameri- holding their Christmas party in Reserve early. can detective fiction. the R Room at 7:30 P.M. Jan. 24, 31, One day trips to Ft. Worth to Jan. 12-22 Houston area teleftmd. Volun- Feb. 7 see the exhibition of Chinese teer fundraisers will meet in the Bronzes at the Kimbell Muse- Homecoming 1980. The Allen Center Building each um. $100/person includes air- Fightin' Owls didn't win but evening. For information call fare from Houston. Travel can the weather was perfect. Phyllis Schrader, 527-4091. be arranged from any city LECTURES Those who an. 13 There will be a Rice Today pro- served by Southwest Airlines. 7 were there told Nov. 23 The Friends of Fondren gram in New Orleans at the Young Alunuii will be joining the old tales and new thoughts to the Tulane Alumni House on the Feb. 7 excursion. Library invite everyone to a SALLYPORT. Tulane campus at 6:45 P.M. for lecture by Walter M. Widrig, alumni and parents. associate professor of art and Mastering the Jan. 21 Rice Today program in Beau- art history, on "Country Life Colleges. mont. Then and Now: Rice's Roman By Mary Kay Excavation." In the Kyle Mor- Zuravleff '81. The mas- All Rice alumnae are invited to join the Society row Room of the library at 3:30 ters and co-masters of For 10 of Rice University Women for a $7.50 an- P.M. A reception will follow. the eight residential colleges dis- nual fee. They will be holding a seminar series information, call 527-4022. cuss the college system and their this winter. Call the alumni office for more lives as masters. information, 527-4057. Jan. 5 SRUW seminar, Richard J SPORTS Smith on China. Basketball—men Jan. 12 SRUW seminar, Katherine T. All home Wallingford on the law. games will begin at 7:30 P. m. at Autry Jan. 19 SRUW seminar, Baruch Brody Court in the Rice gymnasium. For ticket infor- mation 527-4068. LETTERS on the Middle East. call Dec. Jan. 26 SRUW seminar, David Minter 2 Tulane at Rice Dec. 4 Southwest Texas St. at on literature. Rice To the Editor: Dec. 6 Western Kentucky at Rice Feb. 2 SRUW seminar, Dianna Red- Good article on Jeff Corbin in June Dec. 8 Angelo State at Rice the Editor, Nancy Daly burn on neurobiology and SALLYPORT. Traverse City was very interest Dec. 29-30 University of Alabama at - Student Assistant, Mary Kay Zuravkff '81 anatomy. ing when I was Birmingham there lastJanuary, albeit lacking Design and Production, HerringDesign, Inc. Feb. 9 SRUW seminar, Stephen Kline- in snow for the trip Jan. 3 Houston at Rice ski I was on. But do check berg on sociology. your map—even Texas Jan. 6 TCU at Fort Worth on a scale, 139miles IS a tad far to justify identifying SALLYPORT is published in September, Jan. 10 Texas Wesleyan at Rice Traverse as a Grand Rapids November, February, April, and June by Jan. 13 Baylor at Rice suburb! Also a good article the Association of Rice Alumni. Executive Jan. 17 Texas Tech at Rice on the laser work. I recog- Director nize the setups, since I worked with the infra- is Kathryn Alcorn Duffle '5/. Jan. 20 Texas A&M at College Station red lasers in that lab. Associate Executive Director is Martha C. Jan_ 24 SMU at Dallas Paul Epton Murphree. Jan. 26 Arkansas at Rice MS'77 PhD '79 Officers of the Association: President, Harry Jan. 28 Texas at Austin Jan. 31 TCU at Rice Reasoner '60; Past-president, Tom Eubank To the Editor Feb. 3 Baylor at Waco '51; President-elect, Steve Shaper '58; First MUSIC Typical Rice Girls "renown Feb. 7 Southwestern at Rice may for thee Vice-president, Annette Gano Gragg '47; Sec- minds," (Through September) Feb. 10 Texas Tech at Lubbock the Sallyport, ond Vice-president, Ann Pierce Arnett '65; but certainly the Typical Rice Editor can't be Treasurer, Feb. 14 Texas A&M at Rice Warren Cole '67. All concerts in the Shepherd School of "distinguish" for the same reason as long 2.5 Music's concert season begin at8P. m. in Ham- Basketball—women Association Committee on Publications: such a blooper is allowed to slip by. Or maybe 11 man Hall and are free, unless otherwise noted. Nov. 28 Pan American Dick Nunn '68, chairman; W. W. Akers; Univ. at Edin- is the proofreader who is sloppy — and maybe For information, call 527-4933. burg 3P.M. Tempe Howze Attwell '49; Joan Rea he or she is not typical. Dec. 2 Tulane 5:15 P.M. Boorman; Sidney Bums '58; Richard Dees at Rice A college paper may be full of quips and Nov. 25 Shepherd Percussion Ensem- Dec. 5-6 '81; T. Franklin Glass '39; Ed Jennings Sam Houston at Huntsville cranks but it must be pristinely, even self-con- ble. Dec. 8 '48; Harold E. Angelina at Angelina 5:30 P.M. sciously, literate. Else how are you going to set Rorschach; Steve Shaper '58; Dec. 4 Rice Chorale Christmas Con- Kathryn Jan. 3 Angelina at Rice 5:15 P.m. standards for the wayward public press? Vanderbeck '75; Bob Veteto; cert, Rice Memorial Chapel. Fred von der Jan. 6 TCU at Fort Worth 5:15 P.m. Fannie Hall Leslie '31 Mehden. Out-of-town Jan. 7 Lynn Griebling, soprano; commentators: Jan. 9 Southeastern Louisiana at Dr. Robert Floyd '61; Hal Michael Morres, piano. McKinney, Hammond 7:30 P.m. To the Editor: Jr. '64; A.H. Hap Rack '38; Jan. 10 Young People's Concert, 11 Jan. 10 Southwestern Louisiana at This is the second time I have written to ask Martin Sosland '76. A.M. you Lafayette 5 P.m. to take me off the mailing list of your disgusting Rice University Jan. 13 The 20th Century Violist: Alumni Governors: C. M. Jan. 12 Texas A&I at Rice 7 P.M. publication. The article "Ain't what she used to Hudspeth '40, Taylor Wayne Crouse, viola; Mary Ray '59, Karl C. ten- Jan. 15 Sam Houston at Rice 7 P.M. be" (Through the Sallyport, September) 15 Brink Norris, piano. '37, and Helen S. Worden '38. Jan. 19 Southwest Texas at San Mar- beyond pale. If senior faculty members are Jan. 14 Choir of the West. cos 5:15 P.M. indeed fatuous and sexist enought make SALLYPORT is sent free to all university alumni, Jan. 20 Paillard to Chamber Orchestra, Jan. 23-24 Rice Invitational at Rice statements like "we're competitive" whet' parents of university students, and supporters admission charged. Jan. 26 Sam Houston at Huntsville they see nude Rice "girls," don't need to of the university. Jan. 22 Shepherd you Sinfonia, Akiro Endo, 6 P.M. brag about it. William Marsh Rice University admits stu: conductor. Jan. 29-31 SWC Invitational dents of I regret every bit of association I ever had any race, color, and national or ethnic Jan. 26 Shepherd Chamber Music Feb. 3 TSU at Rice 7 P.m. origin. Ensemble. Feb. 7 Southwestern at Rice 5:15P.M. Owlmanac continues on Page 19 SALLYPORT-NOVEMBER THROUGH THE SALLYPORT ,

Service, please! add to that problem, "the prospects in the The stern arm of local government once commercial world are tempting students again reached onto the campus in the form away from graduate school," he added. of the city health department inspector. In spite of the problems, he said, "Rice The students in the colleges shall not be will be in good shape for two to three years served their dinner family-style, as of Janu- and in satisfactory shape through the ary 5, he ruled. Thumbing through his large eighties." Because he foresees a trend rule book of possible contaminants, he toward all-public universities, he pointed out chose "unnecessary handling" and "coughs to the council members how necessary and sneezes" as the culprits in this case. In their efforts are. "Rice must serve as phy. the face of student outcry which was picked a template of what education can be," he up by the city newspapers and local tele- concluded. vision stations, the ban was dropped several Richard Stabell, assistant to the president days later. for admissions and academic records, stimu- ions For the past twenty years, the students lated conversation with his "crystal ball gaz- Col- have dined each evening in their college ing" at the admissions prospects for the commons. Cloth tablecloths and napkins are decade. The family received a few delicate calls of of 1553 men (some of whom are counted Spread out by one student from each table Hackerman had pointed out that Scholas- condolence, and, finally, Waples's sister twice because they are double majoring). of eight. The remaining guests at the table, tic Aptitude Testing or SAT scores are called to ask why w.e thought she was dead. This figure is down by 50 from last year. be they professor or student, take a turn at below 1300 for the newest class, which is We looked around for an answer and However, there were 17 more men count- one of the dinner duties. One person goes lower than they had been. Stabell respond- received this explanation: Apparently, the ed altogether last year. The next most pop- through the kitchen for the platter of meat ed, "They may not be as good an indication person listed before her had died during the ular area of study for men is humanities and and vegetables, someone else goes back for of college performance as they have been in year and justly received an asterisk. The social sciences with 359 enrolled. Close seconds, and yet another returns for des- the past. Students who grew up spending a typesetter accidentally repeated the aster- behind is the science area with 342. sert. The portions fetched from the kitchen lot of time in front of the television are isk before the next name, and it slipped by Among undergraduate women, there is are not yet divided, and the bowls and coming in more sophisticated than students a battery of proofreaders. not such a clear preference for one area of re n Plates are passed around the table family- used to be. They have a lot of different We are relieved to be able to say study, although the humanities and social to a style. kinds of knowledge." emphatically that this time the goof is not sciences surpassed the other areas with trig, Many of the students were outraged at the William W. Akers, vice president for our fault. The SALLYPORT staff did not pre- 307 out of the total 900 enrolled. The sci- and health department's initial ruling. Family- administration, mentioned a problem that he pare or proofread "For Rice's Honor." We ence area came in second for the women Life style dinner is one of the most pleasant hopes will be somewhat alleviated by the have duly passed along the complaint to the with 208. man aspects of life in the colleges, they said. coming change in national administration. guilty parties. Due to the tight job market the past sev- 4or- Alumni, who heard about the ruling when "When I came to Rice the university There are not too many members of the eral years, students have seemed to gravi- 3:30 they gathered for Homecoming, muttered reported to two federal agencies — the IRS class of 1916 left, so to Margaret Amy tate to the more vocational areas like engi- For to.each other about getting the government and the Atomic Energy Commission, Waples who is alive and kicking, we say, neering, where jobs are almost guaranteed out of the kitchen. because of work done in the physics depart- back." upon graduation. Among the undergraduate It may headline in the "welcome have been the men, however, enrollment climbed slightly ment. Now the university must periodical- Houston Chronicle — "City's ban on family- thirty-seven government Right turn in the humanities and social sciences ly report to style meals threatens Rice residence hall There aren't any big demonstrations over from last year's total, while engineering agencies." tradition," or it may have been the evening Several academic deans also spoke to the burning political issues; ROTC is flourish- dropped off. It's a different story for the television news reports, or maybe it was just group about the prospects and potential ing; and when they sign up for a major, women where there was a growth in the the student grumbling, but the health disciplines. How to find they want to know what kind of a job it will number pursuing engineering studies. problems in their dePartment's assistant director of consumer keep the best possible faculty was a buy them. If there were any doubts, Rice Within engineering, the junior and seniors and health services hurried over to the campus shared by several, but Virgil Topa- students showed on November 4 that, like have chosen electrical engineering most fre- concern to review the situation. humanities, spoke of other the rest of the nation, they are now a con- quently as a major. Out of 369 upperclass- zio, dean of "I do not object to their family-style ser- more serious problems in his area. "The servative group politically. men in engineering, 151 are in electrical. vice," he said, and the ban was lifted. He humanities, across the nation, are in dire June In Rice's own precinct 361, Reagan The science area accounts for the most policy at the humanities have suf- rest- explained that there is no received 353 votes, which was 44.2 per- graduate students, with 275 registered from straits," he said. "The health against family-style din- from the loss of a core curricu- cking department cent. Nationally, he received 51 percent. a total of 902. But the combined total for fered most ing, as long that have been is not money. We :heel( as the leftovers Jimmy Carter received 266 votes or 33.2 those in accounting, administration, archi- lum. The real problem Passed around are not served again later. convince the public that the humani- des is percent, which was less than his national tecture, the humanities, and the social sci- must necessary for all those who want to as a Baker College, the oldest residential percentage of 41. ences is right behind with 272. ties are budding, dark flooring was also cited for its Anderson ran better on campus though, Texas students still have a very large be truly educated." In the Lest the fundraisers depart in gloom, ,Not kitchen area. Sections 19-21 in the with 134 votes or 16.8 percent, than he did majority of 1458 out of 2477 undergradu- Food that tiles Hellums, dean of the school of engi- infra' Ordinance specifically state nationally where he received only 7 per- ates. Oklahoma is the home of the next David Should non- expounded on the happy state of be "light colored, smooth, cent. Ed Clark also did better on campus. largest group, :a meager 79; New York is neering, order the engineering program, and John Mar- absorbent, and easily cleaned." That He received 45 votes for 5.6 percent. third at 69: Ttfere are only 62 undergradu- was also subsequently rescinded. vice president for advanced studies Nationally, he received less than one 1 ate students from foreign countries, but 229 grave, The perplexing of the inspector's research, discussed some interesting most percent. out of 902 graduate students are from for- and must citations stated that the university Of the other thirty-two races in the pre- eign countries. research that is underway. build news was significant their four-foot by four-foot vestibules cinct, the students also favored Republicans The statistiCs go on and on, and thinking The other good around in the college endowment. In 1973, it was nber) bathrooms located in twenty-four cases. The exceptions we were piecing together a sociological growth in the commons. We decide whether the million. Now it is $405 million. Fifty ft be couldn't included the US representative's seat from masterpiece, we asked for the median $70 health concerned growth in the past few rig as department was simply District 22. There the students did prefer height of undergraduate women. That was percent of that With the diners who might been due to gifts, a satisfied sensibilities of Democrat Mike Andrews with 60 percent of one statistic they couldn't give us. years has Ybe it get glimpse of the bathroom, or whether of volunteers was told. laybe a their vote to Ron Paul. Andrews lost the group there might leak conclusion after the overview seems are certain germs which election, with only 48.2 percent of the vote Looking ahead The out of a one-room bathroom but which can- be that while the larger problems and s and in the district. The declining number of eighteen-year-olds; to not make four-by-four vestibule. are on the increase, Rice will "-con- it across a On the amendments, the students voted increasing competition from public universi- smaller gripes The well during the to set assistant director was not sure either, They favored charitable dollars; and faculty sala- continue to function fairly so he like the rest of the state. ties for also rescinded that order. bingo, and unmanned tellers, but they op- ries which are significantly lower than those eighties. In fact, facilities after reviewing all the posed increasing the governor's fiscal pow- paid in industry are the major problems that and rescinding most of the citations, he November 1980, Vol. 37, No. 2 ers and extending appeal privileges in crim- Rice and other private universities must declared, "I even eat dinner there." might inal cases. They voted yes on the other face during the eighties. So said President SALLYPORT (USPS 412-950) is published five ik you amendments. Hackerman recently to the Rice University times annually, in February, April, June. 'sting Fund Council at its semi-annual meeting. September, and November, by the Associa- It ied t° Only took an asterisk to strike Margaret Head count The RUFC consists of the leaders of the tion of Rice Alumni, Rice University. Editorial is tunY Waples '16 from the lists of the living. Each year the registrar's office releases a university's volunteer fundraising. offices are located in the Allen Center for s are "II, en she received the September issue of weighty report filled with statistics about Due to the recent election, Hackerman Business Activities, Rice University, 6100 S. make tne SALLYPORT, which contained the annual the current crop of students. And while said, he expects to see a decline in the Main St., Houston, Texas 77001. Telephone: wheii report on donors to Rice, she was pleased comparisons from one year to the next may amount of public funds available to higher (713) 527-4806. Second-class postage paid at .ed t° iLci find her name listed under the class of mean very little, it is certainly intriguing to education. The result will be ihat "the com- Houston, Texas. POSTMASTER: Send ad- 916, but astounded to find that is was pre- check the figures from time to time. petition for private money will be intense." dress changes to SALLYPORT, Rice University. I- had ceded by an asterisk. That mark is sup- As we might have expected the most In the areas of economics, accounting, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, Texas 77001. Posed to note a donor who died during the popular area of study among undergraduate and engineering, particularly, he continued, Copyright 1980 by Association of Rice ge 19 Year. men is engineering, with 520 students out it is difficult to attract and retain faculty. To Alumni, Rice University. 4 SALLYPORT-NOVEMBER

PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN GROSSMAN. RETOUCHING BY RIC BORUM SALLYPORT-NOVEMBER 5 DENNIS HUSTON, PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, UNCOVERS THE LITERARY ROOTS OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN DETECTIVE FICTION.

BY N ANCY DALY

He is wearing his short-sleeved pin stripe shirt, open at the neck, no handkerchief, with well-pressed Levis, white socks, and blue running shoes with a white racing stripe on each side. He is neat, clean, shaved and sober, and he doesn't care who knows it. He is everything the well-dressed Raymond Chandlerfan ought to be. He is teaching detective fiction. Dennis Huston, professor of detective Philip Marlowe. "Geiger is a por- English, master of Hanszen "In hard-boiled detective fiction, murder is sometimes nographer, blackmailer, and cat's paw; College, and Shakespearean accidental. In the English fiction, the crimes are carefully Owen Taylor, the chauffeur, has a criminal scholar — if he hadn't been an record; Brody is a blackmailer and chiseler; English professor, he might have become a planned out and there is always a clear motive." Harry Jones is a bookie and a scourge; Private eye. Canino is a killer; Art Huck is a car thief; "I'm an addict," he says of his love for vate eye, "crime doesn't occur for clear two countries, Huston contends. Agnes attaches herself to any man who detective fiction, particularly the hard-boiled motives, murder is sometimes accidental. American detective novels with a hard- looks like he may make a quick buck; Eddie A,Merican genus. Raymond Chandler and In the English fiction, on the other hand, boiled hero reflect the "formless, imper- Mars is a gangster; Carmen Sternwood is a "ashiell Hammett are his main sources. the crimes are carefully planned out and manent, and violent" nature of frontier life, psychopath. Huston might also be called "a pusher." there is always a clear motive. The problem according to Huston. "It's a world without "The detective's entry into a world of When he is not teaching courses on Shake- is to locate it," Huston explains. social graces. The city, in particular Los murder and violence sets off a series of speare and major British authors, he intro- Many books written by and about Ameri- Angeles, is full of blackmail, smut, and sex- vaguely connected murders. Owen Taylor duces impressionable students and alumni cans fall into the English category of puz- ual perversion. The people are corrupt and kills Geiger and then he is killed. Joe Brody or anyone who is interested to the hard zlers with a logical ending. When Huston violent. They're very wealthy or very poor. is murdered by Geiger's homosexual lover. stuff. He may talk a little about the more refers to the American school, he is talking The city is spread out. It is mechanical, Harry Jones is killed by Canino, who is refined Agatha Christie variety of detective about the hard-boiled fiction. Though most tasteless, shabby, anarchic growth. The Eddie Mars's gun. Canino is killed. All this fiction, but it is the vision of life in the raw readers stick religiously with their favorite people are disconnected and rootless. What is extraneous to the main plot," Huston on urban American streets that really type of detective story, Huston grudgingly we have is a world in which all the people exclaims. "The detective is supposed makes it happen for Huston. admits, "I like some English mystery fic- are nasty, in one way or another. They are to find out about the disappearance of . It is not hard for him to find neophytes tion. There is a quality of puzzleness to it people who are on the edge of life about to Rusty Braden, who was killed by Carmen i nterested in the study of detective novels. that I like, but there are limits to how much go under." Gangsters and people who know Sternwood." T .here are many secret stashes of such fic- of the social stuff I'll put up with," he adds. gangsters inhabit this world. Though Huston calls Chandler's work tion on the bookshelves of those who usual- Why some people are drawn to one form The English backdrop for murder, as realistic, he admits that "it is a very lY pass themselves off as lovers of "high- of mystery book and not another is a mys- made famous by Agatha Christie and Doro- depressing view of American society." brow culture." In fact, recently in Houston tery in itself. "I'm just going to make an thy Sayers, is made up of "lived routine and Because of the pervasive corruption in the a bookstore devoted solely to the genre absolutely wild guess," Huston says. "My continuity, often in a pastoral setting. Mur- world the hard-boiled detective inhabits, opened its doors. feeling is that the readers of English detec- der here is a scandalous interruption of a "the end is usually unsatisfying." In fact, as Just discussing detective fiction brings tive fiction really are the people who are peaceful community." The characters in this a typical hard-boiled detective story winds mit Huston's sense of drama. He lowers fascinated by puzzles, by crossword puz- type are usually upper class or members of to its murky conclusion, most of the charac- and raises his voice more vehemently, zles, by intellectual games, and by ritual the aristocracy. The setting is often a coun- ters are dead, but very little has been toughens the look on his face, and begins and routine. I think the people who like try house. accomplished. There can be no catharsis PlaYing the roles he describes. American detective fiction are more inter- "The crimes are an offshoot of milieu," because good can never really triumph in There are several distinct schools within ested in courage." Sharply reminded that Huston says. Their dissimilarity "is a func- this world. ti,he category of detective fiction. Huston his bias is showing, he amends, "or vio- tion of the differences between a world Huston will not deny that the murders uAkes to compare two traditional ones: the lence if you want to put it that way. My which was essentially frontier, settled by come fast and furiously in this type of nov- Zrnerican school developed first by Dashiell guess is that the people who read English independent, autonomous people who were el. "When Faulkner was doing the screen- nanirnett and later by Raymond Chandler detective fiction are more intellectual and restless and always on the move toward the play for The Big Sleep, he wired Chandler abnd. Ross McDonald, which is called hard- the people who read American detective fic- West; and the world where people had and asked 'who killed Owen Taylor,' oiled because of its tough, streetwise Ian- tion are more physical. That doesn't mean, social rules and civilized behavior that was because it wasn't clear from the book. age and sentiments, and the English clas- of course, that you can't end up as an Eng- accepted and had been accepted for hun- Chandler wired back, 'I haven't the slightest s2c deductive mystery, as practiced by Sir lish teacher in a university and not be phys- dreds of years. It's the difference between idea,'" Huston relates. 4rthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. ical. But that's just a guess and it really is a Huck Finn and Pride and Prejudice," he The skeptical might conclude that at least There are several other categories, such subjective guess and one that sounds abso- insists. "That's an absurd over-simplifica- a few of the murders in the hard-boiled ast the "roman policier" of the French tradi- lutely ridiculous when I say it," he disclaims tion, but in some ways it's useful." novels are gratuitous. Huston, however, l°n.and the Gothic romance, which do not as definitely as if someone else had made "The American detective novel seems to agrees with Raymond Chandler that, in Particolari-y.interest Huston. The spy novel, the suggestion. be associated with a series of violent many cases, one murder in an English a close cousin to the hard-boiled school, is The differences between the classic Eng- crimes, as if violence were latent in soci- country house is gratuitous. acnother favorite of his, but the study of that lish puzzle mystery and the slice-of-life ety," Huston says. In The Big Sleep by Even the most devoted fans must laugh ould constitute another course. American stories are reflections of the dif- Raymond Chandler, a favorite example, all at Huston's playful summary of a "typical" In the chaotic world of a Los Angeles pri- ferent cultures and literary traditions of the the characters are corrupt, except the Agatha Christie mystery. "The story takes SALLYPORT-NOVEMBER place in a country house. The people are all "Essentially, some part of the English their constant mixing with murderers, from English upper class society. In the detective is a killer." "Essentially, some part of the English middle of some kind of game they discover detective is a killer," Huston claims. "He is that one of their number is dead, messily really finding constructive ways of convert- murdered. The local constabulary are called ing those impulses to social advantage. in and they nose in and out of things and "They're very dangerous," Huston says, are absolutely befuddled. There are two lowering his voice. "They seem innocuous possibilities, either there are no clues at all or they fumble around like jerks, the way or so many they don't know what to do Wimsey does with that strange behavior in with them. Either everyone or no one has a terms of his way of speaking and his sort of motive. They ask questions that don't seem effete manner periodically, but they're also to go anywhere. Whereupon our detective, very dangerous. For instance, Holmes is a Belgian (Hercule Poirot), enters the very strong, physically strong. There is scene and says he'll see what he can do that great scene where he bends the poker about the situation. He asks a bunch of at the fireplace to show us how strong he inane questions, wanders around gathering is. pieces of cambric from the ground, and "An obsessive capacity to pursue is asks what color shoes people were wear- something we feel in both Wimsey and ing. Then he gathers everyone together, Poirot particularly," Huston continues. determines they're all lying, and reveals the "Their success as detectives is in their criminal. Everyone is horrified but capacity to enter into the mind of the crimi- relieved." nal and to think like him, which suggests The analogies between the hard-boiled that they are at least vicariously murderers. fiction and Huck Finn, and between a "The beginning of Christie's ABC Mur- Christie novel and Jane Austen's comedy of ders gives us a kind of sullied quality to manners may be an exaggeration, but Hus- Poirot in that once he is established as a ton believes they are useful in exploring the character, he is bored until there has been literary roots of the two extremes in detec- a killing." In fact, Poirot does eventually kill tive fiction. himself in the final book about him and "In English detective fiction, you have implicate another man in the death, because essentially the same thing as in a comedy of the man is a killer who could not be brought manners — a love interest, and peculiar to justice any other way. behavior with the emphasis on the proper "Like Natty Bumppo, the American hero women they are in some way sort of polite Echoing Raymond Chandler again, Hus- ways of doing things. The detective is often of hard-boiled detective fiction is a charac- society and go about the business of chat- ton likes to say that the American detective someone who recognizes a social faux pas ter of real technical skill in a world where in ting, visiting, going to church, running novels are more "honest" than the English as indicative of some kind of deeper weak- some ways he is old-fashioned. His moral church fairs, and occasionally writing detec- ones, though he immediately tempers that ness," Huston explains. values are outdated by the standards of cur- tive fiction, depending on the story. If view. TheAmerican ones portray "obviously Though the situation and dialogue may rent thinking. He also has a kind of physical they're young women, they are characters a narrow view of society in which you hearken back to Austen, the suspense and courage and a quality of endurance that go who are lovable, who are going to capture almost never see a healthy family; a mean- mystery in the plot derive from the work of with that technical skill, so that he can some appropriate man to marry." ingful middle-class which is so much a part an American, Edgar Allen Poe, Huston move through his world in such a way as to Not only do the suspects and milieu vary of American society. The life that most of adds. Poe's logical detective, Dupin, was succeed where other men would fail. There widely from the American to English schools, us lead is excluded from detective fiction. the prototype for the English detective. is a quality of courage that often expresses the detectives also respond quite differently to And what you get instead is the raw materi- Later the unusual Sherlock Holmes, created itself in that kind of tough-guy talk that we murder. "Dupin," Huston explains, "stands al of American violence. There are real by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, impressed the think of as characteristic of the hard-boiled still and figures things out. The American things for that material. We know for tradition on the public consciousness. detective," Huston says with a touch of detective is constantly on the move and has to instance, that if you walk down on Dowling "I associate Poe with a particular kind of admiration in his voice. dig around in a mess and find things, and bump Street you can get shot. And the society English detective, with the detective as a He quotes Raymond Chandler's words on into people and trip over corpses. It is almost as that we read about in the newspapers every deducer, with the emphasis on the rational Philip Marlowe to explain the private eye of if in the process of doing that he sets in motion day is real and is characteristic of the whole processes by which the crime can be solved fiction, "he is the best man in his world, lots of murders. He is constantly threatened American tradition of violence and lawless- in the process of looking for the least likely and a good enough man for any world.... with death, whereas the English detective sits ness. It is, however, a society that most of suspect or the most obvious possible It would be no adventure if he weren't a in one place essentially and thinks. One of the us who read detective fiction don't encoun- motive. The assumption of Poe's stories, man fit for adventure. If there were enough most obvious conventions of English detective ter very often." like Conan Doyle's, is that there is always a like him the world would become a safe fiction is that characters rarely try to kill the "There's nothing very realistic for Ameri- logical explanation. place to live in without becoming dull." detective." cans about a society in which people sit "The assumption of a lot of American Huston goes further and likens the hard- English detective heroes not only use dif- around and drink tea and attend white ele- detective fiction is that if you look for a log- boiled detective to a knight on a quest for ferent methods than their American coun- phant sales all the time, and in which the ical explanation you're going to get lost the Holy Grail. However, while Huck Finn terparts, but they come from very different mail man comes three times a day. But at because a lot of crimes are not logical. may retain much of his purity while moving backgrounds. They usually are members of the same time, there's nothing very realis- There is an explanation, but they are through a corrupt world, the detective hero the aristocracy or the upper middle class tic for the English about a society where essentially crimes of passion committed in a does not remain untouched. "The world of who attended Oxford or Cambridge. They you just walk down the street and people moment. Huck is in some ways as violent as the are not quite as sedentary as Huston are shooting off guns and robbing banks world of American detective fiction, though believes. Even Miss Marple, Christie's fus- with tanks." Huck is very much less aggressive,' sy old maid detective, dons her fuzzy wool "What Agatha Christie worked with is the "American detective fiction is Huston says. "Marlowe feels tremendous cap and stages a rescue when necessary. kind of deep-seated fear in all of us that we a world in which every man anger periodically, particularly at women. Lord Peter Wimsey, Dorothy Sayer's will be betrayed by those people closest to Men, as corrupt, he takes for granted. Peo- detective, even goes so far as to get an air- us — the family doctor, our brother or sis- is out for himself" ple beat him up, shoot at him, betray him, plane and fly across the country to nab a ter, our husband or wife. What is empha- and when they are men he takes that as a criminal in the nick of time. sized is the way in which anybody can, if kind of given. There's a moment in The Big Like the Americans, however, the Eng- the temptation is great enough, turn into a "American detective fiction is a Sleep where Carmen's sister tries to seduce lish detectives are individuals with strong murderer, which makes us possible victims. world in which every man is him and he bites on a handkerchief and moral fiber. "I think English detectives are In American detective fiction you can't trust out for himself, in which you're says, 'women make me sick." Huston bites all seen as somewhat odd," Huston says. anybody either, but you know that from the erstruggling on the frontier to an imaginary handkerchief as he describes "It has to do, of course, with the tradition beginning. It's a society in which everybody survive, and in which social institutions are the scene. of Dupin and Holmes. In the case of distrusts everybody." distrusted. The hero works alone like Humphrey Bogart may have stirred a mil- Holmes, he is so obsessed with detective Forgetting past differences, the American (James Fennimore Cooper's) Natty Bump- lion hearts with his screen image of Philip work that he doesn't know that the world is and English traditions seem to be using po, the mid-nineteenth century idealized Marlowe and Sam Spade, but he was Copernican but he has written essays on more common elements, Huston summa- frontiersman, and Huck Finn on the run. In portraying characters in a long series of 200 kinds of cigarette and cigar ash. Other rizes. His latest addiction is actually an the American detective novel, except the somewhat misogynous American heros. English detectives have chosen to forego English author. "Dick Francis is an English- police novels, the cops are not only incom- "Natty Bumppo is, of course, suspicious of titles or prestige they could have had if man who writes essentially American de- petent, as they sometimes are in English women," Huston explains. "There is a tra- they occupied themselves in a more tradi- tective fiction, in what is an English detective fiction, they're brutal and corrupt. dition in American literature, I presume tional fashion. Poirot, Christie's frequent setting. There are certain ways in which it is It's a function of the hero's natural sense of stemming from Puritanism, that women are hero, is considered odd by almost everyone English. His novels are about horse races justice that he senses that social institutions really dangerous. They betray you. They because of his vanity and unusual habits. with all of their social concerns and ceremo- have corrupted what are really idealized use their sexuality to seduce you. They Aside from the eccentricity, "the English ny, but at the same time, it is a world of principles that they ought to represent." eventually kill. There are an outlandish hero is very intelligent," Huston says. "He incredible violence and a world where the Like Cooper's "Leatherstocking" tales number of women murderers in American can read social behavior in such a way as to hero doesn't trust anybody." and Huck Finn, Raymond Chandler and detective fiction," he adds. be able to pick up clues that other people It's a peaceful evening on the campus and Dashiell Hammett plots fall into the "I think women in English detective fic- don't see. In gesture and language, he violence is hard to comprehend. Huston has picaresque tradition. The reader jumps into tion who are killers are like all killers in locates somebody who is acting, somebody had a hard day behind his desk — seeing stu- one adventure after another with the hero English detective fiction. They are anom- who is role playing, somebody who misses dents, grading papers, and dissecting detec- and neither of them has a really clear idea alous. They are figures at odds with the something. He has a very sensitive eye not tive fiction. Though he has ended his discussion of what it is all about. Natty Bumppo, Huck sort of smooth functioning social unit that only for details but for details having to do with a hint of the coming rapprochement Finn, and hard-boiled detectives are all has been disrupted by the murder, and with social nuance that often give murder- between the two schools, there is still a warY innately good men who must fight injustice which will be returned to a smooth running ers away." look in his eye as he shrugs into his khaki in the world because they believe in what is social unit again when the murderer is cap- Though the English hero seems to move trenchcoat, slips a detective story into his fair. Their methods for righting wrongs are tured. Women, like everyone else in that in a much more refined world than the inside pocket and heads out into the sunset often unorthodox, however. world, have a particular place. If they're old American does, they are also tainted by without looking back. SALLYPORT-NOVEMBER HOMECOMING 1980 Hors d'oeuvres, cocktails, dinner, and mostly lots of con- versation were the order of the evening as alumni gathered at reunion parties. There was a lot of reminiscing about shenanigans at Sammy's and the tribulations faced in Mathematics 101. Some people had ten or twenty years to catch up on. Before the Alumni Convoca- tion, members of the Golden classes sedately sipped coffee in the RMC patio, while the mem- bers of the Friends of Fondren Library and the Rice Engineering Alumni joined forces for a lavish Homecoming reception in the Woodson Research Center. at the Faculty Art Arnett '641'65 took a break Harry Reasoner '60, presi- and Ann Pierce fifteenth reunion party in a Bob 'We're going to my dent of the Association Show Friday night. day," said Ann. of Rice been working on it all Alumni, opened the convocation. few minutes. I've James Teague '30 announced that the class of 1930 had endowed a scholarship fund over the past L. several years in honor of their fif- tieth anniversary. They amassed enough money for merit scholar- ships that will go to one member in each of the four undergraduate [e classes. ;- Stanley Moore '37, one winner W. of the Gold Medal for Distinguish- in '32," joked all these people anged a "I knew "but they ve all ch ed Service to the University, was Holliman' 32, recognize me. Cone don't seem to unable to attend the convocation. lot, because they it But Professor Arthur Hartsook, the other winner, received his at medal with pride. Said Reasoner as he announced the award, "I -e lele was not privileged as a student at CS Rice to have had Dr. Hartsook but Stella many on our nominating com- Sullivan '45 and Edward Mayo '42 were show. also taking in the mittee honestly entered Rice with the class of '40 but re had, and I can say Mayo Igraduated in '42," explained, "it took me a long time to to that I've never heard alumni get over mathematics." s- Speak with such affection and a- gratitude of a professor." if a Julian Ward '59, president S. of the Rice Engineering Alumni, st Presented the Outstanding ly Engineering Alumnus Award to Jennings A. Massingill '42. an Samuel Carrington, univer- sity a- librarian and professor of an French, addressed the crowd h- With a positive report on the state e- of the 5 h library. is " The traditional tribute to the es founder preceded lunch in the kO Colleges for alumni. of he The bright, balmy afternoon Marching Owl puffed the Was perfect for a football game. "Oom, pa, pa," the game. rid player during But though the Fightin' Owls Bands tuba Las made a valiant effort, victory went to the SMU Mustangs. The Edgar on final score was 14-34. Cunyus '30(1.) to different," said Howell !nt sure do look The usual promises to "keep in "They Golden Reunion. Toumes '27 at the akl touch" were warmly exchanged E. his before alumni dispersed again ;et until their next reunion. SALLYPORT-NOVEMBER

Ryman Degnan '40 got Farren '40(x) and Barbara Frances June Dunlop at the Warwick. "I Gekseke Boone '30 and Gilbert Leach at the class of '40 reunion '30 weren't sure they together to reminisce Farren said, "and it recognized all their classmate,s at the myfreshman yeai;" few party, "but we'll know quite a was a maid in the May Fete on a con- of them when we get around to the May Fete king sat down talk to them," Leach said so hot outside that when burning him. happily. was because the concrete was crete bench, he shot up again laughed. I'll never forget it," she

Zoe McBride Professor A. J. Hartsook, founder of the chemical engineering depart- Moore '30 said, 'We're having a very nice time," dined as she one of the 1980 Gold Medals for Distinguished with Jay Hebert '83, a recipient ofone ofthe four ment and winner of scholarships Dell Butcher '34, that thefiftieth anniversary class established. Service to the University, was congratulated by E. one of hisformer students and a 1979 winner of the gold medal.

beautiful?" holding up the '47 said, "Isn't it "How are you?" Annette Gano Gragg appreciation for her work as chorused Elizabeth Buhler Summers '25 (1.), Nancy had received in Forbes silver Revere bowl she Daugherty '30 (c.), and Sarah Lane '19 as they hurried up to Homecoming 1980. greet general chairwoman of one another at the coffee honoring members ofthe classes of 1916-1930. SALLYPORT-NOVEMBER 9

"There are a class of '75. "You think we can lot oflost souls out there," said This was thefirst reunion for the he showed Hershel Rich '45(r), as every year?"John Spencer HubertJanicek '45 a printout of sustain this kind of emotional suspense addresses their classmates whose Krause Spencer '75 (1.), and are unknown. '75 said as he joked with his wife Cathe Germaine Bagot Cossaboom '75.

Bob Cruikshank '51 "This is a group of Ofthe reminded neat people. They were neat when activities that Mary Rice and they started at Fondren their classes Catherine they're neat now,"said Patty Amster Library did in Farrington Miller Barbara Hansen '50(r) to "that was so Sammy's when '50 Roos Castille '50 at their reunion much it was still party. fun," he added in

I would have finish thought that this me nine years to Massingill '42 was an "It seems like it took (r) humbly said Don Lyttleton '40 joked, Lyttleton '41 continued, with the 1.980 afterJulianimpossibiliN"Jennings didn't." Marian Sinclair Outstanding Ward '59 college but it really bachelor of science degree in Engineenng presented him Rice to finish a Alumnus Award "he made me go back to he made me finish the though I broke my wrist, architecture, and even her with young chil- proudly "it wasn't easy for year" Lyttleton added dren to take care of" 10 SALLYPORT-NOVEMBER MASTERS OF THE EIGHT RESIDENTIAL COLLEGES DISCUSS THE COLLEGE SYSTEM.

BY MARY KAY ZURAVLEFF '81

ack to school is usually signalled might daunt the busiest soul. "To be by exchanges of mailing address- really do our job," lament the Fr es and renewed promises to keep "there would have to be six of us." 01 in touch. As a senior, responses Colleges are run by the students, siv to my address came as no surprise. masters serve only in an advisory "Baker College?" peers indignantly asked, they say. "You must learn to influence Ph th( assured I have been living a lie. "I thought you says Robert Jump, interim master of el were going to Rice." during Constantine Armeniades leave. "I do goto Rice, but Ilive in Baker College." overt suggestions usually backfire." "Oh, it's your dorm." Richardson .evei Bill Martin, master of Sid , req "No, I eat meals there, go to parties there, ily agrees, "The master's role is not s( serve on committees there." tor but facilitator." As an experienced "A co-ed fraternity?" gist, Martin believes, "You really have "No," I reply patiently, "it is a college." behind the scenes." He cites an examPie Many A simple explanation of the more than twen- of his "brilliant ideas" which never ca ev ty-year-old college system is hard to come by. thought at Halloween it would be great Each year freshmen are randomly assigned to everyone carve a pumpkin and put it in inter one ofthe eight residential colleges. In the tran- dow. With Richardson as the tallest b sient student vkles world of altering lifestyles and campus, I thought a jack olantern tow e)ra, changing majors, a college affiliation is some- probably get us a picture on the cover what less ephemeral."The colleges bring Rice Chronicle. For two years I suggested down to a human scale,"Jeff Kurtzman,profes- one else showed any interest. Last y sor of music, explains. soft "It is a rich and enriching vinced it was a good idea, I pushed. Oaf °Pert) ROBERT & GERRY JUMP environment — from intramurals to dinner dent reluctantly humored me and tried n Sp( WILL RICE conversations, from college courses to drink- erate enthusiasm for the event,. liege ing together." Halloween came, as did truckload 01 our eat t Beginning with freshman year, when stu- kins, but no one showed up to carve eq. dents are invited over for dinner in groups of etint approximately twenty, a visit to the master's Track house is a common event. Occasional tea and e crumpet receptions are well-attended, but it is tudents say that they the root beer float and brownie study breaks feeling that they are tail?. that are best remembered. "When I manageable group of 43drai transferred to Baker," one student recalls, "I rather than a faceless 14 was invited to dinner to meet aSte new students and strangers. This intimacy, along with the Vity t transfers." Another student remarks,"Before sity of activities available, inspires even Perier powderpuff games, Caroline Minter (past to get involved. "Colleges afford the co-master etl of Baker) would make the eleven- establish substantial social animals," ea woman team blueberry pancakes for break- John Freeman. "Students who have, r, We fast." envisioned themselves in leadershIF elodr. "Last year there were seventy-six events often rise to highly responsible positi en‘° just at our home," Franz Brotzen says. In an "They mayjust volunteer to run this, tent MONA & RON STEBBINGS effort to keep gatherings intimate, elaborates students are take care of the library," r 139irite JONES often invited in small groups. All the sopho- Brotzen, co-master of Brown, "and o okeet mores of a college, those who make the honor years, work up to a college officer." OP', St1tutic roll, members of the winning football/powder- ties certainly abound. There are social.c1 On a 1 puff team, and even astrological distinctions tees for party planning, alumni comirat,t;Mcton have been the sieves to ensure that groups homecoming and other alumni activitle Nee rather than mobs gather for conversation and cultural committee takes care of c refreshments. owned season tickets to symphony,0P e* L4 Otgof The better the students know the master, ballet ?lid plans informal after-dinner c'wain by the easier they want to make the job:'I babysit through the semester. There is evehtd I ha so they can go to meetings or just get out of the committee to take care of bicycles 0 ll, Th C.1 house, and people are always volunteering to the college which can be checked out bY 1 opus' help clean up after study breaks."A Baker sen- members. tvered ior adds, "Masters are the sort of people who When a problem arises, however, thoeth 4s." can make you feel welcome no matter what. ters must do much more than just w The a I've been to their house for receptions with Emergency room runs for sprained 0r:Zah the twenty-five students and twenty faculty mem- ankles, frazzled students with insurir ._,dTtrie of bers, and I've dropped by just to talk about col- problems, and pranks involving slum'OT egle is a lege business." ruptmg bottle rockets are among theditlvr Each college houses approximately 200 stu- activities. "During my first Orientation rite e haN dents, one or two resident associates (profes- recalls Kurtzman, master of Baker,hosPlt"° °tsieei . harat, JEFF & KATHI KURTZMAN sors who choose to live on campus), a master freshmen had to be rushed to the . R to sc BAKER and his or her family. For the uninitiated, mas- appendectomy. Later that week, s ar, ter may conjure up Dickensian images of a incoming student broke his jaw at the eicdianse zeT humorless disciplinarian glowering over fright- mg party and needed to have it wirp,a4 tol ened school boys. Actually the master is care- Then a third student had stomach r1.1,3rthra fully chosen by a student selection committee acute an ambulance was called to talteto a The from the appropriate college. Franz Brotzen, the emergency room. All the while I Ite,Pet's Rill master of Brown College, explains the problem ing,'The semester hasn't even started Yr,;tt>ent wi. of defining his role. "If I were a neurosurgeon, I Franz Brotzen observes, "Soap 0PeoyikrePor could explain my occupation in three sentenc- in comparison to students' problems.d aualASE es, because people are familiar with medical student gets a letter that says her nnith the rr terminology. However, in order to explain cancer or her boyfriend has committed ,- ar( 'master' you must first explain the 'college sys- that is when a master is needed to tall(°O ar r rani tem' which is unique to Rice and thus, unfamil- quick to add that he is no psychiatrist. A htkis iar to most." are masters surrogate parents. Inste.3"'#lis Masters serve for five years, though the Kurtzman explains, "We are more IdrA2'leL ti time may be broken up by a sabbatical or leave and uncles who are able to objectivelY176 1de of absence. Each has been an active faculty with problems."John Freeman agreekt . 'I‘ associate of a college prior to his or her selec- as little parenting as possible.""WhenL i tIrnat, tion as master. The administration does not someone at your doorstep crying, 5°,:iI ve ati,lliderit supply them with a list of responsibilities; all that is needed is to bring him in, l'' ,)s'a ti ssay instead, they are plunged into the world of lun- some food, and talk to him." cheons, study breaks, and endless committee Ron Stebbings is enthusiastic about' tw'kh meetings with little preparation. "Basically," as master ofJones. "It's the best thing II'r ,e°.tell summarize John and Phyllis Freeman, master happened tome. Now I can see Rice fr° # p Iins, PHYLLIS AND JOHN FREEMAN and co-master of Lovett College,"we are here dent's point of view, and I care illi.yeQsal Wc LOVE TT to show somebody cares about everybody and them. Fortunately, because of the c00,`-cillbes'r, ar to make sure no one falls through a crack." A tern, faculty are given incentive to inteis rs we sample agenda for any master and co-master students and actually establish friends° SALLYPORT-NOVEMBER 11 "SOAP OPERAS PALE IN COMPARISON TO STUDENTS' PROBLEMS."

) be hers of their classes. There is no doubt tapes of the race. The downpour downed Fre this makes for better faculty." Also, he school power, and, unlike the dedicated bikers, ts. out, advising in this atmosphere is less the victory films were stopped by a little rain. Its, slve, more accessible. Meanwhile, the youngest Stebbings anxiously rY co-ed colleges specialize in a family watched the water level rise inside the mas- nce_, °sphere with lots of brothers and sisters, ter's house, while his mother lay in bed recov- of Yllo e the single sex colleges seem to command ering from pne.unlonia. Finally, he waded to the e ave. e loyalty from their men or women. The commons to alert his unsuspecting father. option the crowd of about forty girls ev is still on the rise in popularity, Wishing to help, isom reer, among incoming freshmen. To meet followed Stebbings to the house with its )t e:uests, Lovett and Jones changed from increasingly wet rooms. "Vernon kept saying, ced wi:x to co-ed this year. Brown, Sid Rich, 'The gates in the backyard are trapping the ave ss are still havens though, for those water,' and I kept telling him that was ridicu- e a retreat from the opposite sex. lous," recalls Stebbings. "Finally, I said he ,augjit eatlY colleges produce their own plays and could open them if he thought it would help. reat t 'Yen offer college courses accredited by When he waded outside to open the gates, sud- . it inl° versity. Each has an endowment, and dently all the water in the house flowed out. As t buil °Interest from that along with college dues a physicist I felt pretty silly," he adds with a owe des a sizable budget for the college. Baker smile. Immediately the in-house disaster team .ovet 2 e,\x arnple, has the largest budget with of Jones women went to work bailing out the PRISCILLA JANE & DENNIS HUSTON edit, 'u°0 per year. Washers and dryers, rest of the water and picking up rugs and furni- HANSZEN t veal* s and power saws, vacuum cleaners ture so they would dry. "After the girls sal- burrro„:"thall bats are all among thepersonal college vaged the house," says Stebbings,"a guitar "IT'S A RICH AND tied toairsrtY and available to members for appeared, then one or two more popped up." ENRICHING t. Pecial dinners, receptions for guests, "The power was still out," adds Mona Steb- ,,do1F4eri :r e magazine subscriptions, and a yearly bings, "so we had candles all around. It was a ENVIRONMENT- FROM ve thei\n,;-at to discuss goals and improvements are regular sing-along." Ae'eetio°gIts.h e projects planned at weekly cabinet There are a few problems in the colleges, INTRAIVIURALS TO Trad• • however. Freeman believes that the colleges DINNER • Mons rapidly develop in the colleges. are too large and therefore lack social aware- ey masters often have a part in their incep- ness. Martin advocates a reduced teaching load CONVERSATIONS, FROM e a 'the,se traditions soon become self-perpet- for masters, so neither research nor master COLLEGE COURSES of ewg' Ine Martins cite the popular Sid Rich duties will suffer. Kurtzman believes the past ss 'arama as a good example. "Our first year social emphasis should be broadened to include TO DRINKING ster th and co-master we were lookingfor an more academic concerns. And unfortunately, aye p,evlt3'that could be produced with minimum vandalism, often fired by rivalries between two TOGETHER." e Cl ni"AelIce." Bill elaborates, "A melodrama colleges, has been a problem in recent years. " lOse a fun choice, so we held meetings, Thejumps note that they are in "the worst loca- have r a script, organized auditions, etc. This tion." Their home between Sid Rich and Will e heard water balloons, fireworks, suloArshiC elodr a about a meeting for the current Rice is in the path of ppare ma during dinner announcements. and even sling-thrown grapefruit or tennis balls. thise tt Y they already had a script which was Concerned with the recent pranks, the com- tes hY an alumnus, and a producer had been mittee of masters and college presidents ted JUDY & JEFF WINNINGHAM d as well." The Martins insist that the recently met with the chief justices, who head Op :tjecit t is independent of them now. "It's an the student courts in the colleges, to try and WIESS cialC ontItIOn," Pat remarks. solve the problem without help from the admin- m utt' ofa nlore serious side, the organizational istration. Geoff Winningham, master of Wiess, of jtie "lee the colleges is being pressed into believes the vandalism problem is ebbing. of C eer by the university. "After the spring "Damage to personal property is clearly '79," Kurtzman says, the administra- down," he observes. "Early in the semester arn-r ler c byganized a volunteer flood control pro- there was a lot of late night noise, but things at evell fcollege. Because my office is in Sewall Wiess have been calmer this year than last." a key, Baker was assigned Sewall Winningham knows the colleges as both stu- iisr °by n Physical Plant showed us where to dent and master. In his undergraduate years at ve;." sand bags, what critical points had to be Rice, he was a member of Baker College, and taved• and where the emergency generator his senior year he was president. Things have lust ,The changed, he notes, the most obvious changes A th ihrnasters carry a full teaching load along being, "colleges simply get into more activities foiinot t," teir college duties, which makes them now, and college government is taken more irfri,A1 e( Attie rour, e is busiestpeople on campus. Private seriously. When I was a student, the cabinet tteler allci° Precious commodity for both the mas- was a token government," he continues. "The 'tioo Vs"Ve ha inaster. Mona Stebbings remarks, real decisions were made by masters and Parat.,. nine phones in the house on three administrators. For example, I remember the R to tines. It is not uncommon to bespeak- administration telling us we were not allowed to k, 'Onare when one or both of the other have refrigerators in our rooms. Aside from an :he zen 'grig."r Dennis Huston, master of editorial in the Threshe7; no one thought to fight BILL & PAT MARTIN tf`111 toid'c'llege remembers, "I winced when the decision through the cabinet. Now any con- SID RICHARDSON PS,,anYtirn,, „the incoming freshmen to stop in troversial issue on campus is discussed, and passes taRe viy„sa, 'Th; _ . the college government frequently IkerjYSB other flight, I was awakened at 2 A.M.," resolutions of support or opposition." When ._red Y`'A"ent ito' as arttn. ,"by afire alarm. At 3, the base- Winningham was a student, masters had an De' repo °°ding and someone was at the door overriding power, all now that he is master, s'. P1 ah)raiiksrart a Missing roommate 'Fire alarms and students have more say. Does he feel he has thqedly:aroleateisi,ettehreseledgaleast7 pleasant been passed over? "Not at all," he chuckles, Part ofthe job' out of their way to be wherebut "this way I avoided a lot of decisions I didn't Ilk to. want to make." o ails frorotzen s fondest moments are visits There may still be room for improvement, Perso rn graduated students. As a master but the concensus is that the college system is able t 'friend of the college members, he one of the best elements in the undergraduate c), e write letters of recommendation that education at Rice. "State universities are t. will.sightst that many professors never becoming better, and many are establishing tes e about sixty letters each year," he honor programs which eliminate the large ttldents ' sounds so Mr. Chipsy, but when classes they are criticized for," Brotzen 11C1 Say enine back as doctors and lawyers explains. "Though Rice is relatively low-cost tisfyin NI really helped me,' that is most for a private school, these state schools are t gtri" incredibly inexpensive. Other private schools rigths).-tl‘n teilir, aster will always remember one or can brag of a high quality of students and just as froffliptlirdse'"g episodes. Ron Stebbings likes to, qualified professors. It is only a comparable col- Tot d ast iiinfabout the system they cannot offer." Frances great flood last year.Jones lege FRANZ AND FRANCES BROTZEN collegpr,e an-7 n had emphatically adds, "There simply are triumphed in Beer-Bike that Brotzen BROWN wer,,the night of the flood, college mem- no disadvantages to the colleges. Without Os° Planning to re-celebrate with video- them, all you have is a dorm." 12 SALLYPOFtT-NOVEMBER Nan'&N fotices' Students Discover Blaze

$63,000 in Damage

Problems with the stadium scoreboards this season which lasted until the Homecoming game were the result of afire in a stadium store- room on September 10. The blaze, which has been judged the result of arson, caused about $63,000 worth of damage. During the height of the fire, cans of paint that were stored in the room exploded, punch- ing holes in the outer wall. Later, melted plastic chairs, broken lightbulbs, and mounds of water-soaked paper towels were cleared from the room. The scoreboard wiring in the storeroom also suffered some damage. The training room, located below the storeroom suffered water damage, and the R Room and recently reno- vated coaches' offices were slightly smoke damaged. "At about 6:40 A.m., we smelled smoke and saw it coming out of the air vents," says Keith Kveton, a senior and the center on the football team. He was attending an early-morning weight lifting session in a room beneath the storeroom with the other linemen and two assistant coaches. "We ran upstairs and the Calvin coaches called the fire department. There Fance carried the ballfor the Rice touchdown in the A&M game. A field goal clinched itfor the Owls. were some good fireworks when the paint cans started to explode. Flames and smoke were Fall Sports:Football Team Surges pouring out of the storeroom. One guy ran up from the field with a hose but there wasn't Football yard interception return by safety Ricky with an easy 3-1 victory over LSU varsity enough water pressure to do anything. Thomas resulted You know Rice football is stronger when a in a touchdown and with women's team. Though the game was of- less than victory over Texas A & M doesn't even two minutes remaining, a second ficially only a scrimmage, it was the club's scoring attempt rate a wow in the Houston Post. Rice is succeeded, and Rice first opportunity to play another college. emerged doing its best in years, though the Owls victorious. The women finished their exhibition season began with a slow start. With high hopes of evening up the sea- with an impressive 3-1 record. Traveling to son, Rice Coach Ray Alborn unveiled his 1980 Owls hosted Texas Tech here, but a Austin to begin the competitive season wet against Clemson, who turned a 3-0 Rice field and intermittent rains caused sev- resulted in a disappointing 6-0 loss to UT. eral costly lead into a 19-3 Tiger victory. Clemson lost Owl turnovers. Coach Ray Next the club was defeated in a tough game Alborn four fumbles to the greedy Owls, but the refused to make excuses for the with powerhouse Texas A&M (5-0), bring- Owls' Rice offense continually stalled deep in 10-3 loss. "They executed and we ing their early season record to 3-3. didn't," he Clemson territory and the kicking game remarked. "It's as simple as that. It could only connect on one of three field goal rained on both sides of the field. attempts. Rain didn't have anything to do with it." The Tennis Hoping to repeat last year's victory over sun came out the next weekend, though, and Rice Historically, Tulane, the Owls traveled to the Super- scraped out an emotional men's tennis has been one of 10-6 victory dome to take on the "Green Wave." The over the always-rival Texas Rice's most outstanding sports, and this A&M game was tied 14-14 after three quarters, Aggies. The victory brought the year the opportunities for a high ranking are Owls but Tulane exploded for three touchdowns to a 2-2 conference record and a 3-4 abundant. Last year's number one player season standing. in the last period. In the final score, the Rocky Royer will be returning in the spring Playing Owls were washed up at 35-14 for their Arkansas in Little Rock, the Owls from tournament play in Europe. Coach eleventh loss in a row. were sixteen point underdogs at the half. Larry Turville's optimistic outlook charac- However, Senior Keith Kveton helped to keep the stadi- Two losses for the season behind them Rice overcame the Razorbacks in terizes the whole team's feelings for this a seventeen um blaze under control. and facing LSU, pessimistic fans prepared point outburst in the final season: "I think we've got an excellent shot twelve "The firemen for the twelfth loss at a wet Rice Stadium. minutes to win 17-16. Rice has been out there. There's no one we can't beat." responded in less than five unable minutes," he continues. Instead, the Owls dumped the Tigers 17-7 to beat LSU, Texas A&M, and Brenda Hook arrived fresh from North "Some of us werit up Arkansas in with them into the building for their first win of the season. With five the same season since its 1957 East Louisiana University this year to coach to help haul their championship hoses. You could minutes remaining in the game, Rice exe- year. women's tennis. Though four of the six only stay there a couple of minutes because of cuted some spectacular plays resulting in players are freshmen, the team is shap- the smoke. The firemen ran in with no protection. Frank Wilson running fifteen yards for a ing up well. Presently sophomore Tracie It makes you appreci- ate what they do." touchdown. Rice's final touchdown came Soccer Blumentritt is in the number one spot on after a the teadi. Blumentritt recently overcame Firefighters spent several hours extinguish- twenty-four yard run by Calvin The Rice Men's Soccer Club lost their first Fance, with just tough competition to reach the final round ing the burning insulation above the storeroom. forty-two seconds left in two matches of the season to Baylor (3-1) the game. of the Houston Fall Festival before being Although arson investigators were con- Not bad for a team who hasn't and St. Mary's (1-0). Their first victory beaten LSU knocked off by tournament top seed and vinced that arson had been committed, they did since 1966. soon followed in a 4-1 decision over Sam The nation's top ranked collegiate single, Zina not have enough evidence to prosecute. nationally fifth-ranked Texas Long- Houston State. Lamar was the next victim, horns were Garrison. In doubles, Blumentritt and Rudd the next foe to arrive at Rice with Rice easily winning 6-1. A forfeit to Stadium played their way to the quarterfinals. on October 4. UT was undefeated TCU hurt the Owls, and tied games result- If the Brody before young team can capitalize on its depth Publishes they came, and their 41-28 victory ing from matches with Texas Tech and and over increase in individual consistency, it has Rice was their fourth win for the sea- Trinity made the season standing 2-4-2. -A a Book son. good chance to place in the top five It wasn't until the final period that the heartbreaking game with Arkansas resulted at Owls regionals. Baruch Brody, head of the philosophy depart- began showing signs of life. With Rice in a 2-1 defeat, and the following weekend, down 35-7, ment, recently had a new book published. It Randy Hertel lofted a pass to North Texas State University ran all over is Hosea entitled Identity and Essence. Brody chose Fortune who scored for Rice. The the Owls to win 12-0. The Owls were ensuing Texas Princeton University Press from his possession resulted in anoth- forced to play with only seven starters and Owl Club many er Longhorn offers because the management agreed to fumble, and two plays after a no true goalkeepers, and NTSU, a national pub- With a winning football season in full swing lish the book simultaneously in nineteen-yard throw to tight end Al Whit- top twenty team, was just hardcover and physically and basketball around the corner, the Owl paperback. He was field, Hertel himself scored the next touch- stronger and faster than concerned that the nine- Rice. Finally, the Club is looking for new members. Owl Club teen dollar down. Texas, however, scored again for club dropped their hardcover edition was not afford- game with fourth nation- supporters receive special privileges like the final tally of 41-28. ally-ranked able for most graduate students, and he wanted SMU 6-0, dropping their record sports brochures and use of Establishing themselves as a fourth the club room. to present the book in a more accommodating peri- to a disappointing 2-7-2. The Owls held Most of all, they know od team, Rice rallied they are taking an five dollar paperback. Though the volume has past TCU 28-24 in SMU scoreless for the first half; however, active Fort Worth. part to keep men's and women's ath- been fifteen years in the making, Brody spent Rice trailed 24-7 at halftime, the Mustangs came out galloping in the and sec- letic programs alive. For more information, the final five years working on the the feisty Horned Frogs no doubt ond half and scored four goals Rice campus. within the write The Owl Club, Rice Univeristy, P. 0. He dedicated the work "To thought the 24-13 score at the end of the first fifteen minutes of play. Rice University third Box 1892, Houston, Texas 77001, or call whose Identity and Essence made period was final. Not so. A fifty-six Rice Women's Soccer began their it the Right season 713-527-4809. Place at the Right Time." 13 SALLYPORT-NOVEMBER Nctus'&News" Arts:Sewall Gallery Revitalized Alumni Join Athletes The first alumni athletic day, sponsored by the Association of Rice Alumni and organized by the association's athletic committee, drew over 600 participants in spite of rainy wea- ther. Dan Drake '54 chaired the organizing committee. The afternoon event, which was held on Sep- tember 7, offered a variety of activities and dis- cussions for alumni, their families, and fans of Rice's athletic teams. While many of the adults listened to head football coach, Ray Alborn, dis- cuss"What You Always Wanted to Know about Football," and to a panel with Alborn, Mike Schuler, the basketball coach, Augie Erfurth, athletic director, President Hackerman, and Ken Dye, the new MOB director,on all aspects of Rice athletics, the children tossed footballs with the team or watched other varsity teams give short demonstrations. For those who felt the need for activity, the swimming pool and courts were reserved for athletic day participants. Players, coaches, and alumni all attended the barbeque dinner. Children were occupied while they waited in the buffet line with greet- ing the human-size, blue, Rice Owl. Bucky Allshouse '71, serving as the master of ceremonies, chose names out of a hat for the door prizes. Joe D. Parmer, a Rice fan, won the grand prize; a chance to stay with the team at the Marriott Hotel before a game, eat the team etching by Felix The photograph above, by Peter Brown, lecturer in photography at Rice, is included in the Sewall's current show. An meal, and sit with them on the bench during the Bracquemond is reproduced below. game. A gift certificate for western wear, a gas barbeque grill, autographed footballs and bas- Rice Players ketballs, and other athletic equipment were Sewall Gallery and its Revivals." also given away. Vecsey not only sees the gal- The Rice Players just concluded their fall Tacked on the wall is a saying attributed to Esther de "We're definitely going to do this again next of the art department, production of Bertolt Brecht's The Cauca- Confucius which claims, "museum people lery as an extension year," says Kathryn Alcorn Duffie '51, director of campus life as well. Hoping sian Chalk Circle. are exhibitionists." Esther de Vecsey, the but as a part of the alumni association. the music department, she asked Brecht's modern version of Solomon's hew director of the Sewall Art Gallery, is to involve School to assist in the parable of two women fighting over a baby that and more. Most recently the curator the Shepherd "It was so wonder- was first produced at Rice in 1954, and it from the College of Wooster in Wooster, Bracquemond opening. "Albert Tipton came was only the fourth production of the play Ohio, de Vecsey was lured to Rice in an ful," she exclaims, flute students and played. It in this country. effort to make the gallery program a profes- with six of his century salon." In its first production, Sandy Havens, an sional one. "The feeling of the department," was just like a nineteenth of the collection of print- undergraduate English student, was one of the dramatic Hungarian explains, "was that As past curator Arms, de Vecsey has the actors. In its 1980 run, Havens, now I would be, in effect, bringing art objects to maker John Taylor area collections. "I teaching drama at Rice, is the show's direc- the students. I want to make the Sewall investigated many of the share what expertise I have in tor, but Havens is not the only link to the Gallery not only a professional gallery, but I would like to and print collections with past production. The actor who played the also want to use it as a viable teaching tool connoisseurship volunteers. She has given spe- central character of the baby in the 1954 Where we can correlate shows with course alumni," she alumni groups, and production is now a parent of an eighteen 9fferings. De Vecsey stresses that they are cial tours for requesting about building up Rice's month old child whom Havens saw as per- Independent of the Rice Museum. "The is enthusiastic with the help of Rice fect for the same part. Talent seems to run .Sewall Gallery," she explains, "was founded permanent collection past and present. in the family. in the sixties by John O'Neil, professor students, both eMeritus of art. Up until now, it has been directed by one of the full-time faculty; hOwever, the need for someone with an art history background to both expand the per- manent collection and curate shows from scratch led to hiring a director." De Vecsey's first show as director/cura- tor was impressive. Felix Bracquemond and the Etching Process was a showing of fifty of the often-ignored master printmaker's works. Bracquemond (1833-1914) led the French revival during the late nineteenth hturY, etching the drawings of Corot, u Vecsey sees elacroix, and Courbet. De Alumni children exchanged afew pointers helpful ,this most recent show as especially with the football players during the alumni io not neces- students. "The etchings are athletic day. sarily genius or especially imaginative, but tuleY are of the highest technical quality tcqind in printmaking. Students have been Architectural History !Qining to the gallery with jewelers' glasses lo study the intricacies of Bracquemond's Explored technique." Editors at the School of Architecture are in the „ The will run through current show, which process of producing a book entitled, The Gen- Texas Photogra- uecember 10, is Emerging eral Plan of the William Marsh Rice Institute Phers Peter Brown as featuring Rice's own and Its Architectural Development. Written by oWe. II as Daniel Robert Paul Mial, Barsotti, Stephen Fox, the book is Number 29 in the and others. On I lane Hopkins-Hughs, series, "Architecture at Rice." January of the spring 12, the first show It details the history of the architectural plan setnester with a preview and recep- begins for the new institute which was developed by tion. gallery. The from 7 to 9 P.M. in the Cram, Goodhue, and Ferguson, the architects e Survey: _xhibition is called, A Teaching who designed the first buildings at Rice. It 8 Collection. lections from the De Menil totals ninety-nine pages, plus a preface. The show," de Vecsey selections for this Call 527-4870 for more information. The De Men- i?c131ains, "are all from Dominique book can be ordered from: s was to private collection. Our intent The School of Architecture relate to ‘,c11°0se pieces which particularly Rice University 'eCoth . nd well as semester art history, as P.O. Box 1892 Houston, Texas 77001 hilip Oliver-Smith's course on Classicism 14 SALLYPORT-SEPTEMBER Nam'&Nottce5 Faculty Salary Ratings Rise RICE NEAR TOP IN TEXAS

According to recently released statistics, facul- with salary." money available for larger faculty raises. ty salaries and fringe benefit compensation at For 1979-80, Rice earned the third highest Between the original announcement in Rice appears competitive with those at other rating in Texas, behind Texas College of November and the revised figure issued in outstanding private colleges and universities, Osteopathic Medicine and University of Texas May, the faculty and administration engaged in and better than those at almost all other institu- at Dallas. However, each of these institutions a heated debate on the subject of raises. The tions of higher learning in Texas. The survey of has far fewer full professors who fall into the history department sent a memorandum to more than 1700 institutions was compiled by highest salary bracket than Rice. The 2/1 rat- President Hackerman asking, "Why has the the American Association of University Pro- ing was significantly better than the University real cost of Rice education continued to fall dur- fessors on data for the 1979-80academic year. ofTexas at Austin's 2/2 or Texas A&M's3/3. ing the past inflation, thus subsidizing the par- In the recent past surveys, Rice's rating had Among private universities in Class I, Rice's ents of undergraduates at the expense of facul- been slipping down from the top levels. Raises compensations and salaries look better than ty and staff, who are very often much less of more than eleven percent are credited with Tulane's 4/4 and Dartmouth's 2/3, but they fall affluent than those parents?" the improvement in standing. below Duke and Princeton's 1/1. Johns Hop- The Faculty Council Salary Subcommittee, Rice was given a 1 rating for the average sal- kins garnered a 1*/1 rating. Its average total chaired by Ian Duck, professor of physics, ary for all ranks combined, i.e. professor, asso- compensation was ranked in the top five per- issued a report stating that "Rice can no longer ciate professor, assistant professor, and cent. At Stanford, where faculty salaries are at hire a professor into the existing salary struc- instructor. The ratings range from a high of 1* the high end of the national scale, faculty com- ture but pays a premium salary to new profes- to a low of 5. The 1 rating signifies that average pensation and salaries were both ranked 1*/1* , sors with salary differentials of $10,000 and salaries at 80 percent of the universities sur- the highest possible rating. more between new and old professors." It also veyed fall below the average here. Before this latest report, Rice's decreasing stated that "it is a practical impossibility for an Rice is among the Class I institutions, which standing in the annual AAUP surveys had assistant professor to support a family on a Rice offer a number of doctoral degrees each year. become a matter of concern to the faculty. The salary." Salaries and benefits are generally higher in this average salary increase for all ranks combined The report added that while salaries for class David Minter than at the more limited institutions. was 11.7 percent, however, for the 1979-80 assistant professors at schools such as MIT, For its average faculty compensation, which academic year. This was higher than that at any Princeton, and Yale were not much higher than includes fringe benefits such as social security, of the other universities mentioned above. The those at Rice, the other institutions offered Minter Leaves retirement programs, insurance, worker's and average increase at Stanford was 10.8 percent, greater prestige and research facilities, and unemployment compensation, housing allow- David Minter, chairman of the English depart- Johns Hopkins was 11 percent, U T Austin industry offered much higher initial salaries. ances, and tuition for faculty children, Rice was ment, has accepted the position of Dean of 7.3 percent, which was a more typical "Faculty salaries across the country are received a 2. The 2 rating places it among the increase Emory College in Atlanta, Georgia. Emory for the majority of institutions in the behind other salaries, as they have always top 40 percent surveyed. AAUP College is the arts and sciences division of survey. been, except during the sixties," Hackerman Gaston Rirnlinger, professor of economics, Emory University, encompassing some 3000 The faculty again received an average 11.7 contends. "Even if we had the Number 1 rating is chairman of the university committee on percent undergraduates. The position of dean is the top increase in salaries for the 1980-81 in the country, the salaries would still be below fringe benefits for both faculty and staff. administrative post at the college. Minter Rice's academic year. This came after the administra- the comparable salaries for persons with simi- 2/1 rating for compensation and salaries "is a enters at an exciting time in Emory's develop- tion originally announced in November 1979 lar education in other professions." At the substantial improvement over what it has been ment. Last year a gift of over $100,000,000, that the faculty salary budget would be raised present time, he adds, the administration is in past years," he.says. "But it shows the Woodruff Gift, was presented to Emory. that the by only 8 percent. The university's income channeling any available resources to faculty fringe benefits are not quite commensurate One of Minter's duties will be to"discover intel- exceeded expectations, however, making salaries rather than to university facilities. ligent and imaginative ways" to use this reve- nue. Minter, who primarily teaches American lit- erature and is a past winner of the Brown Teaching Award, hopes he will continue to teach in his new position. "Though it may take a semester to get organized," he speculates, "Emory has supplied me with an assistant to the dean, two associate deans, and two assist- ant deans. They should enable me to find time to teach." While at Rice, Minter's research and inter- est in American literature developed into a book entitled William Faulkner: His Life and Work. It was recently published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. In their catalogue it is described as, "a literary biography of more than usual grasp and understanding. Anyone Angelo Miele who has ever been moved by William Faulk- ner's fiction will find here a sensitive and read- able account of the novelist's struggle in art and Miele life." Wins Brouwer Richardson College men, some women from other colleges, masters Bill and Pat Martin, and Award several ofthe college's associates learned the fine art ofselecting good wines and cheeses at a Angelo Miele, professor of astronautics and five-session college workshop. They were taught by Jackson Hicks, buyerfor Richard's Wines mathematical sciences at Rice, was recently and Spirits. He dexterously led them through the offerings ofEurope, California, and Latin awarded the prestigious Dirk Brouwer Award America. of the American Astronautical Society. Miele was honored for his"extensive contributions to Rice Club News the literature in flight mechanics, astrodynam- AUSTIN Oyster Bar. The officers are planning to have the event which was held at the Shady Oaks ics, optimization theory, and numerical meth- four or five good programs each year and ods, and, in particular, for early contributions Kathleen Bailey Davis '69 has been elected they Country Club. are developing a short newsletter for to optimum rocket trajectories, for the devel- president by the steering committee. Austin Peggy area alumni. LITTLE ROCK opment of the theorem of image trajectories in Saunders Davis '64 was chosen as treasurer, President Hackerman, Coach Alborn and the Earth-Moon space, and for the recent and Ed Harris '56 will be secretary. Max COLLEGE STATION Alumni Director Kathryn Alcorn Duffle invited development of efficient and practical algor- LaGrone '40 will join the admissions commit- Arkansas alumni to a pre-game cocktail party ithms for solving trajectory optimization prob- tee, Donna Thompson Garner '73 will be the The Brazos Valley Owls joined Norman Hack- before the Owls faced the Arkansas Razor- lems on a digital computer." Austin representative for the annual fund, and erman after Rice's victory over Texas A&M backs on November 1. The refreshments were Miele, a Rice faculty member since 1964, is Pascual Piedfort '69 and Morris Davis '64 will at the home of Bill and Colleen Jennings Batche- provided by Salliejane and Roy D. Rainey of the author of some 300 publications, including serve on the athletic committee. Jim Hulme'67 lor '71/'72 in Bryan. They enjoyed a barbeque Rainey Realty, whose son plays football for two books (both translated into Russian) that will head the club's membership buffet. drive. Rice. brought him worldwide attention, particularly Education and program planning in the club for his pioneering work in analytical methods will be handled by Lee DALLAS NEW YORK Blocker '39, Jean Lilliott for optimal flight trajectories. Prior to his arriv- Blocker '38, Elaine Sommers Brooks '44, Phil- Hance Burrow, III '74 organized the Novem- About thirty alumni gathered for lots of wine al at Rice, Miele was Director of Astrodynam- lip Brooks '35, Jim Hargrove '66, Linda Moor- ber 22 dinner at the Doubletree Inn. Gilbert M. and cheese at the Sheraton New York on Sep- ics and Flight Mechanics at Boeing Scientific man Hargrove'66, and Caroline Campbell Rey- Cuthbertson, professor of political science, tember 11. Several of those who attended Research Laboratories in Seattle, and he has nolds '64. Robert Davis '64 and Jim Wilson '70 joined the group to speak on "The Physics of expressed interest in having regular meetings. also served as principal investigator of some have formed a special committee on the consti- Texas Politics." Burrow also planned a party in The "Rice Today" program, including a dinner, thirty research projects sponsored by govern- tution and by-laws. Fort Worth before the Rice/TCU game, Octo- was held at the Harvard Club in Manhattan on ment and defense agencies such as the National The club held its first function on Sunday, ber 11. President Norman Hackerman and November 5. Bill McCardell '48 coordinated Science Foundation and the National Aeronaut- November 2. It was a brunch at the Capitol Coach Ray Alborn were special guests at the event for the Development Office. ics and Space Administration. L) SALLYPORT-SEPTEMBER Neitis'&Nfottce5 Hartsook and Moore Honored Alumni Award Two Gold Medals

A.J. Hartsook came to Rice in 1921 to Lines, last year's winners of the gold altinew App begin teaching chemical engineering without medals. Calendar 350 of his former stu- 1961 even the aid of a textbook. He continued In 1972, more than teaching the subject for forty years, until dents joined together to establish the A.J. in 1961. During the second World War, he Hartsook Chair in Chemical Engineering to was the only member of the department. In his honor. It is the only chair at Rice his years at Rice, close to 900 students have been established by such broad sup- came under his tutelage. He gave them the- port from one professor's former students. tuition during ory and he saw that they got summer Though Rice did not charge was a stu- employment in industry. the thirties when Stanley Moore years and For more than twenty years, Stanley C. dent here, they were Depression pay his living Moore '37 interviewed prospective students Moore had to work hard to college. His for Rice in West Texas. He helped organize expenses while he was in to clean indus- and lead the university's $33 Million Capital freshman year he contracted and he Campaign. He served a four-year term on trial water tanks on the weekends, bookstore. By the board of governors, and he chaired the began working in the college of the Rice University Fund Council during the his senior year, he was the manager officer in the 1972-73 academic year. bookstore, a commissioned on As a measure of thanks and appreciation, National Guard, and he worked nights Company's Hartsook and Moore were each awarded the Houston Lighting and Power the Gold Medal for Distinguished Service to switchboard. of sci- the University by the Association of Rice Since he graduated with a bachelor Alumni. Harry Reasoner '60, current presi- ence degree in mechanical engineering, the campus. his time and engagement calendar depicts architectural detailsfrom buildings around dent of the association, presented the gold Moore has consistently given The weekly contin- medals during the annual Alumni Convoca- resources to insure that Rice would students tion at Homecoming. ue to be a good university for the Finding Familiar Faces Hartsook received a bachelor of arts who followed him. private university is one Rice Engagement Calendar degree from Nebraska Wesleyan University "I feel that the On the top of every column, in doorways things in the future of send the calendar/s to: in 1911 and became a school teacher. For of the most important and stairwells, and staring out from balco- Please that Rice, three years he served as a school superin- our civilization. And I think nies across campus are the figures, owls, most tendent in Nebraska before he received a although it is small, is one of the and symbols that comprise Rice's rich archi- Name to go to MIT and study chemical promising organizations that I know of in tectural detailing. In your years at Rice you fellowship engineering. this area. We need this kind of university," saw many of them, maybe you even had a Address With a master's degree in chemical engi- he said several years ago. favorite, but you probably never saw them all. in his hand, Hartsook came directly Moore began working for the Hughes The reliefs, plaques, ornamental carv- neering Rice. He began teaching industrial chem- Tool Company as soon as he graduated. mgs, and statues have been searched out to Signature istry to just five students from the notes he He assisted the vice president for engineer- and photographed for a 1981 weekly desk to start had taken during his own classes at MIT. ing. Twelve years later he decided calendar. The spiralbound book contains 1928, he established the department of his own business, the Drill Collar Service more than eighty black and white photo- Enclose a check or money order for $6 each, In chemical engineering, which he chaired until Company. graphs of both the familiar and seldom-seen payable to Rice University. with 1956. In recreating the type of real-life It prospered and merged in 1953 architectural details. Beside each photo- practice for his students that he another West Texas company to become graph is a weekly calendar and space for industrial received at MIT, he made perhaps his Drilco Oil Tools, Inc. In 1967, that compa- notes. TOTAL had Rice University contribution to the quality of ny merged with Smith International Inc. James Morehead, professor emeritus of Make check payable to most important education at Rice. Moore served as a senior vice president has written an introductory Send to: a chemical engineering architecture, called "Pappy" of Smith International for several years. In note. The Office of Information Services Hartsook was commonly his students. Though he could 1974 he became chairman of the board, and The calendars are on sale in the campus Rice University by many of and demanding, he took a personal in 1977 he retired to become chairman bookstore, for $4.95, or $6 each when ordered P.O. Box 1892 be stern student. He helped them emeritus. by mail. Send in the coupon. Houston, Texas 77001 interest in each with their problems and ran what has been A leader in Rice's alumni admissions a called by a former student "a one-man work and fund raising, Moore endowed placement service." chair in engineering and strongly supported He He molded his students into practical the Brown Challenge from its inception. Laud Club, a Engineers chemical engineers, and after he gave them has also been a member of the Owl years Rare Religious Book a start by launching most of them into good group of athletic boosters, for many the Massinill jobs, they went on to assume positions of and he supported the publication of Massingill, who received a Acquired Jennings A. leadership in industry and business through- biography of William Marsh Rice. degree in 1942 in elec- of bachelor of science out the community. His former students A special memorial resolution in honor was given the 1980 Out- facul- Fondren Library's Woodson Research Center trical engineering, indude Charles W. Duncan, Jr., '47, the US John E. Parish who had served on the Alumnus Award. The has acquired a rare 16th century religious ref- standing Engineering of energy, and E. Dell Butcher ty since 1946 was also read during the to Massingill at the secretary erence book. Known among scholars as the award was presented '34, past president of American Commercial awards ceremony. during Homecoming by ibliotheca Sancta or "sacred book collection," Alumni Convocation the president of Rice Engi- the volume was printed in 1575 in Frankfurt, Julian Ward '59, The REA sponsors the Young Alumni Germany, and was entirely set by hand. With neering Alumni. Sims to Head ASCE Perhaps only 1,000 copies printed, the annual award. has worked for thirty-eight Sponsor Tournament Bibliotheca Sancta was a rare book the day it Massingill James R. Sims BS'41, the Herman and George the General Electric Company, Alumni sponsored their first rac- was published. years with The Young R. Brown Professor of Civil Engineering, was of that time he has been the late last spring. Charles The book, bought with $1,000 given by the and for much quetball tournament recently installed as president-elect of the generator products. He has in the Advanced Men's Rockwell Fund, is a type of encyclopedia that manager of Hart '71 came in first American Society of Civil Engineers. The involved in producing large- Bohannon '80 second. Monks would consult frequently. Though it is been directly division, with Steve ASCE is the oldest national engineering organi- of which he says enthusi- '67 led the Novice Men's divi- Currently subject to the tight security of the scale generators, Jim Woodruff zation in the United States, and Sims is the first they "are truly awesome to be by Blaine Ahrens '79. research center, this volume has always been astically, sion, followed Rice faculty member to head one of the founder large generator can carry Hatton '76 won the Women's carefully protected. A chain attached to its back around." A single Genny Howell engineering associations. is large enough "to meet the Kathleen Ryan McLaurin '73 Cover was once linked to a shelf or bookcase to a load that division, with Sims taught his first class at Rice in 1942, one of a city of over 1,000,000 people." ,IteeP the monks from running off with it. Librar- needs second. year after he graduated. Since then he has produced under his supervision and Genny Howell Hatten ian Lauren Brown explains, "Monastic librar- Machines Steve Bohannon been, chronologically, chairman of the civil about forty-five percent of all in the Mixed Doubles. Bill ies, because of the wealth of their resources now supply won again as a team engineering department, Dean of Students, power used in the country. Blanton came in behind them. and the itinerancy ofthe monks who used them, the electric '69 and Debbie Campus Business Manager, and Vice-Presi- graduated with distinction from were subject to theft."The Bibliotheca Sancta, Massingill dent for Business Affairs. He was an active con- holds the prestigious rank of he suggests, would be welcomed by any Rice. He Allen Award Given sultant for ten years on offshore petroleum pro- Fellow in the Institute of Electrical and of five monastery, no questions asked. Sleeper is the first recipi- duction, and his work led to theissuance Electronics Engineers. Senior Andrew Duke No one will be walking out of the Woodson Award. The $1000 US patents on devices and techniques. In 1974, In presenting the award, Ward quoted ent of a Herbert Allen Merit esearch Center with this new acquisition, annually, was Sims accepted an appointment to theHerman Massingill's thoughts on his work: along award, which will be presented nowever. There is a buzzer on the locked door to go to an out- and George R. Brown Chair of Civil Engineer- developing new generators, he has recently established by Allen of the center, and if a fire breaks out, nozzles on with ing, which permits full time association with the source of satisfaction is prob- standing engineering student. on the ceiling will fill the entire room within said, "another undergraduate engineering program. His ties that is in having had a Sleeper is an electrical engineering student thirtY seconds with a gas that is meant to extin- ably the greatest and are long-standing, and in 1977, the pro- with a 4.02 grade point average. He was select- with the ASCE guish not harm human beings. Safe- share in developing the capabilities, became the twenty- flames but and ed by the Rice Engineering Alumni Awards the new president-elect guards notwithstanding, the public is welcome fessional integrity, self-confidence, since 1913 of the Texas Sec- wonderful Committee through recommendations made fourth recipient to visit the to see the newest addition to work style of so many great and library by all the engineering departments. tion ASCE "Award of Honor." tile Rice collection. men and women." Ih SALLYPORT-NOVEMBER Gina=Ca=

Brown College ert M. Hermance BA '55, son of Gil Hermance, longtime chairman of Rice's Celebrates department of Health and P.E., has been named the partner-in-charge of the Houston The members of Brown College recently cele- G.C. Branum BA '36 was recently writ- office of Ernst & Whinney, a "Big brated their fifteenth anniversary. The college, 8" ten up in the Houston Chapter newsletter accounting firm. Bruce Laubach BA '55 built in memory of Herman Brown's wife, Mar- of the Texas Society of Certified Public and Mary Lou Hertenberger Laubach garett Root Brown, was erected with money Accountants for his own accounting prac- '58 moved from Denver to Dallas recently. from the Brown Foundation. Both Alice and tice, which includes his son and a staff of Bruce is joining the staff at Baylor Medical George R. Brown, whose donation made the fifteen. He is the chairman of the TSCPA's Center as an obstetrical anesthesiologist, construction possible, attended the open Management of an Accounting Practice and Mary Lou plans to enroll in an MBA house, along with college members, alumnae, Committee. He also serves on several program. Mary Lou is a member of. the and associates. Amy Christensen, president of other committees in the organization. Rice University Fund Council, representing Brown, recognized the Browns as honorees Emmie Craddock BA '36 was recently the Central District. Dave Brown BA '56 and John Ambler, the only faculty associate honored in a public ceremony in San Mar- writes that he has had "a combination who has been with the college since its opening. of cos. Craddock is the former mayor of San sadness and joy this past year. My wife Board members Ralph O'Conner, Catherine Marcos as well as the current president of Ulla and I are divorcing after seventeen Hannah, and Taylor Ray and trustee W. A. - the Heritage Society and a retiring profes- plus years of marriage. I have moved to the Kirkland joined the more than 300celebrants in sor of history at Southwest Texas State Honolulu area and accepted a position as reminiscing about the second and now only all- University. Peter L. Scardino BA '37 senior analyst with Pacific Analysis Corpo- woman college. An art show with works by dropped us a note from his Savannah, GA ration. Currently, I am working on Navy Brown members filled the renovated base- urologcal clinic: "In SALLYPORT Class Notes' tactical development and evaluation projects ment, and photos of beanie-clad freshmen and are widely read. We follow with great inter- with the fleet staffs at Pearl past tea-trike races adorned the Harbor. It's commons for est the activities at Rice, and wanted you to nice to be back the anniversary celebration. with the Navy after a few know that one part of the family has joined years in 'retirement.' Also I am planning to the Rice family. My eldest son, Peter, be remarried soon — more on this next Faculty Honors and assistant professor of urology at Baylor time. Meanwhile, I enjoyed seeing Captain University and his wife Alice "Barrie" Myr- Lew Allen J. Matusow Chatham BA '56 as he brought the Appointments ick, a member of the Rice Architecture USS Kitty Hawk back home last spring and Department, keep Norman Hackerman, president of the universi- us informed. With their then went west of here as 7th Fleet Chief three children, they ty, has been elected by the American Council live on Sunset Boule- of Staff." Edmund M. Olivier BS '59 vard within the on Education to serve on its board of directors. Matusow Named to shadow of the university, Hanszen has been elected vice president anticipating one day a Rice The council, with more than 1,600 members, is student." Amfor- of planning and development for Diamond sam One, a chorale the nation's principal, independent nonprofit Humanities Post prelude for organ and Shamrock Corp. He is a former vice presi- trumpet, by Dawn Crawford BA '39 was dent and director coordinating body for postsecondary edu- Allen J. Matusow, professor of history, has of the commercial devel- premiered at St. Peter's Church in Galves- opment cation. It provides national leadership for been named to a five-year term division of Corning Glass Works. as dean of ton on August 5th. Her new cycle of seven strengthening educational standards, policies, humanities. He will replace Virgil W. Topazio, songs, A Gamut of Badinages, written for and programs. who is retiring as dean. Topazio will continue to Pauline Applebaum Stark BA '57 John L. Margrave, vice president of ad- teach French, however. MA '60, will be introduced in Houston next vanced studies and research, received theCre- Matusow, whojoined the faculty in 1963, will year. Obert L. Nordin BS '41 vice presi- ative Work in Flourine Chemistry Award in late do some teaching in recent American history, dent and senior advis- August. along with his administrative duties. He has or of Thornhill-Craver Harold M. Hyman, professor of history, has won three George R. Brown teaching awards, Co., was recently Rudolph been named to the Advisory Committee of the the Nicholas Salgo Award, and Gaedke he was a 1980 elected chairman US Senate Historical Office for a three-year Piper Professor. of BA '60 Hanszen Committee A-1 of the has been appointed term. He will also be on the recently estab- He is currently completing a history of American Society for associate vice presi- lished Study Group on the Commemoration of American liberalism in the 1960s. He teaches a Testing and Materi- dent the US Senate Bicentenary, which will be very popular undergraduate for academic course on the als. Nordin observed in 1989. same subject. will head affairs and dean of the 892 member com- records and admis- mittee concerned with research, specifica- sions for Trinity Uni- Giving Clubs Welcome New Members tions, test methods, and usage relating to versity in San Anto- steels, stainless steels, and related alloys. nio. Gaedke has been on the faculty of The Founder's Club and President's Club were Reverend Patrick 0. Braden BS '44 has Trinity's physics department since 1965. K. Dr. & Mrs. Norman established in the fall of 1970 as a means of G. Einspruch '53 been chosen to be president and chief exec- Terry Koonce BA '60 PhD Mr. & Mrs. bringing together alumni, parents and friends Joe Wylie '54 utive officer of St. John Fisher College in '64 Will Rice has Mr. & Mrs. who give substantial support for Rice's current Morton L. Levy, Jr. '55 Rochester, New York. Braden, a Roman been named Division Capt. Wade operations. Membership is on an annual basis I. Melton '55 Catholic priest and a member of the Basilian Manager for Exxon's _Mr. & Mrs. (July 1 through the following June 30) and in- Mendel Laviage '56 Order, joined the faculty of the University Western Division, Dr. & Mrs. cludes the individual and his or her spouse. David Lee Davidson '58 of St. Thomas in Houston as a physics pro- headquartered in Cali- Mr. & Mrs. Douglas B. Harp '66 First-time Founder's Club members during fessor in 1954. He became president of that fornia. Oliver Penn- the Dr. Kenneth A. Narahara months of August and September '66 university in 1967, a job he held until ington BA '60 are: Dr. Ralph Stoddard Dr, Leon Bromberg '20 Sharman '66 recently. Frank B. Lawrence BS '47 has Baker, an attorney Frank E. Gerth III '67 Vester T. Hughes, Jr. '49 been named project manager-operations for for the law firm of Mr. & Mrs. John B. Hawkins Mr. & Mrs. Seth T. Roberson '49 '68 Sun Gas Company in Dallas. He will be han- Fulbright & Jaworski, was recently appoint- Dr. & Mrs. Kent R. Carson '69 dling special projects. Since May 1977, ed to the three-member Houston First-time President's Club members during Civil Ser- Dr. Jeffrey Hoover '69 Lawrence has been president of Deepsea vice Commission. H. Clifford Rudisill BA the months of August and September are: Henry Salzhandler '69 Ventures, which is affiliated with '61 Hanszen Mr. & Mrs. Theo F. Keller '25 Sun Gas. has Stewart Morris, Jr. '71 T. E. Curry BA '49 has F. Fox Benton '26 been named been appointed vice Dr. Carlton M. Caves '72 general manager of the new Gulf Oil Lubri- presi- dent of the Miss Irene D. Simpson '26 Phillip Allen Martin '72 cants unit of Gulf Refining & Marketing internation- al banking Eugene P. Lillard '27 Dean Alan Harbert'73 Company. department of New Mr. & Mrs. Britt 0. Bruner '29 Stephen Emery Kennedy '73 Jersey National Bank. Mrs. Lillie K. Butler '30 Dwight Edward Maney '73 Previously he was Mrs. Gus E. Cranz, Jr. '30 Paul K. Stansberry, M.D.'73 assistant vice presi- Mr. & Mrs. James W. Kennedy, Jr. Hance W. Burrow III '74 dent at the Fidelity Mrs. R. Ewell Mills '31 John L. Naman '74 Bank in Philadelphia. Rudisill is also a mem- Col. and Mrs. Thurman L. Ward '31 Mr. & Mrs. Winfred Dale Henry, Jr. '75 Lillian Hoffman Lockhart BA '51 M.D. ber of the choir of the Church Mrs L. C. Owens '32 of the Ascen- Ms. Dorothy Gayle Johnson '75 was promoted to professor in pediatrics, sion in New York City, and of the Irma Fonville Garrett '33 Princeton Mr. & Mrs. John J. Ostermann '75 and in human biological chemistry and Amateur Musicians. W. Carl S. Kuhn, Jr. '33 Vance Underhill Robert & Rachel Davis '76 genetics at the University of Texas Medical BA '61 Wiess, currently Mrs. James T. Reynolds '33 a professor of Robert Leon Fenton '76 Branch. She is a UTMB medical graduate mathematics at East Texas Dr. & Mrs. Sam G. Werlin '33 University, has Timothy J. & Lynn Jacquet '77/'78 and has been a member of the pediatrics just finished writing a new calculus Mr. & Mrs. Arthur C. Koch, Jr. '34 text, Carter N. Davis '78 faculty there since 1964. She is also direc- Introduction to Analysis, Julien Pearson Muller '35 which is being pub- Susan B. Davis '78 tor of the cytogenetic laboratory in the lished by the University Press of America. Joseph L. Stafford '36 Miss Sheri L. Gierhart '78 department of pediatrics. A. Roy Price Though he studied geology at Mr. & Mrs. Berney L. Morgan '37 Dana Carl Hinlde '78 BA '52 BS '53 PhD Rice, Kent Anderson BA '62 Hanszen Mrs. Robert N. Barrett, Jr. '39 T. Brant& Candace Barrington Waldrop—I'79 '57 has been appoint- is doing just fine in banking now. He was Dr. & Mrs. James R. Sims '41 Mr. & Mrs. Neill Binford ed vice president of recently elected executive vice president of Mr. & Mrs. Julio Gonzalez —/46 J. A. Campbell development of the Allied Bancshares, Inc. Anderson, who Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Smith '46 Mr. & Mrs. Frank Chuber Merichem Company received his MBA from the University of Dave Stirton '46 Dr. & Mrs. Paul A. Harcombe in Houston. He will Virginia's Graduate School of Business, will Mr.-& Mrs. James William Askins '47 Mr. & Mrs. John W. Harrison be responsible for be responsible for financial and corporate Mr. & Mrs. D. Ward Gregory '51 Mr. & Mrs. Eugene A. Rohrbach new products and planning at Allied. He is also involved in Robert J. Havers '51 Bob Veteto diversification. Rob- commercial lending activities for Allied Bank SALLYPORT-NOVEMBER 17 • II• in of Texas. Before joining Allied. Anderson cialized in protein-nucleic acid interactions worked at Underwood, Neuhaus. R. B. order to pick up some new techniques to "Buzz" Hoover BA use in my study of messenger RNA. Last '62 Will Rice has month the five of us moved to Strasbourg, accepted a partner- France, to the Institut de Biologie Molecu- ship with the ENI laire et Cellulaire, where we will be for a Companies, which year. The town, located on the Rhine M the include a large inde- Alsace region, is lovely. As I write this, I pendent oil and gas am looking at the twelfth century cathedral company and a lead- in the center of town. We would welcome ing sponsor of public visits or calls from any Owls wandering in drilling programs. He was previously chair- the area (is Max Pung still living in Germa- man of the petroleum industry services ny?). Address is IBMC, 15 rue Descartes, group of Price Waterhouse & Co. He will Strasbourg." Sheila Brownyard continue to reside in Denver. Hubert G. Goldwire BA '67 Brown is performing Aaron BA '63 Wiess has been elected her residency in psychiatry at San Mateo executive vice president at City National Community Mental Health Services in Cali- Bank of Plano, Texas. He will head the fornia. Last August she received her M.D. commercial lending section of the bank. from the University of Texas Health Sci- Previously, Aaron was senior vice president ence Center at San Antonio. Douglas B. and commercial lending officer at Dallas McNeal BA '67 Baker completed his International Bank. Don M. von Schriltz two-year assignment on the Korea Desk at BA '63 Hanszen writes: "I've moved to the State Department and began Chinese Wilmington, Delaware to assume the posi- language training at the Foreign Service tion of research manager for polymer sci- Institute in Washington, D.C. The full-time ence in DuPont's Central Research and program will take him and Karen, his wife, Development Department." Edwin T. to Taiwan in 1981 for a second and final Burton BA '64 MA '65 Wiess writes: "I year. His training in Chinese is in prepara- very much enjoyed our fifteenth class tion for his next assignment abroad (1982- reunion in Houston last October. It may be 85), as a political officer at the U.S. Embas- of interest to my classmates that I'm get- sy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Doug, ting married August 16 in San Francisco to whose experience in East Asia began with a Patricia Ann Fugitt. We will reside in New Peace Corps assignment in Korea just after Pleasure • York City and in Houston. Aside from con- graduating from Rice, views his study of Business Before tinuing business interest in the East Texas Chinese as not just the acquisition of an as the Gil Whitaker BA '53 has to be a businessman/administrator/academician Oil Field, my main vocation is at Smith Bar- essential diplomatic tool, but also of Business Adminis- a fascinating hobby. "There to run the University of Michigan's Graduate School ney where I am first vice president and in continuation of dean's spot in January 1979. depart- is a degree of carryover from Korean," he tration. He was tapped by Michigan for the Charge of Smith Barney's option of business economics at Texas ment. I am in Houston each month, howev- notes. "As a spoken language, Chinese is Previously, he was dean and professor er, and still consider Houston my real relatively easy; it just happens to be sad- Christian University. home." Alvin H. Lane BA '64 BS '65 dled with the most inefficient writing sys- "Michigan is ranked in the top ten business schools in the country. Lovett was recently tem in the world." Marcella Blake Ritter We'd like to make it in the top three," Whitaker says with quiet determi- promoted to the sen- BA '68 MA '74 PhD '75 Brown recently nation. "It has been a good program for a long time. The students are ior vice president was awarded her professional degree from is very good." Science good, and the faculty finance/secretary of the University of Texas Health studied business and economics at Rice. Since he graduated, Center in San Antonio. Houston's Baylor Whitaker the Dr Pepper Com- says,"I've always been an academic except for three years in the Navy pany in Dallas. Lane, College of Medicine will be her home while he she performs her obstetrics/gynocology and nine million years in graduate school." a native Texan, joined the job, he still loves to talk about the the company in 1972. residency. Tom Brown BCo '69 Lovett After less than two years on "Since I last wrote, I've moved University of Michigan and particularly, his school."At Michigan, they've Walter J. Meyer, writes: top II has been promoted twice (Phoenix to Cincinatti to Dallas), mar- always been able to control the admission offreshmen to those in the BA '64 Baker MD as 0 Professor at the University of Texas ried (Julie on October 2, 1978), and added ten percent ofthe high school classes. The students come to our school Medical Branch in pediatrics, psychiatry and to the family (Erin, born October 9, 1979). juniors and they tend to average B +. We only have 600 undergraduate behavioral sciences, and human biological I'm still with Procter & Gamble, as Dallas school, which is a small number. At Texas, they have for students in the Chemistry and genetics. Meyer has been district manager, and am responsible 9,000 or 10,000 undergraduates in business. Chief of pediatric endocrinology since 1975. New Mexico, Oklahoma, North and West We have 750full-time students and BA '69 "The MBA program is our biggest. Before that he was a pediatric endocrinolo- Texas."W. Clark Chamberlain master's degrees in business administra- "Having completed four 600 part-time working on their gy fellow at Johns Hopkins University Baker writes: candidates. The programs at the school are was a years as pastor of the First Presbyterian tion. We also have 70 doctoral School of Medicine and Hospital and ones." Member of the Johns Hopkins pediatrics Church, Welsh, Louisiana, I have become predominantly graduate Pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Largely pleased with the condition ofthe school he inherited, Whitaker faculty and associate director of the pedia- Interim "we tric at Johns Hopkins Church, Sulphur, Louisiana." Mark Orville has not tried to make major changes. Since he came though, he says, clinical research unit have Hospital. D. Edward Mineau BA '65 Medford BA '69 MME '69 Baker just have reemphasized some of the research programs. We also ilaker writes, "After graduating from received his MBA from California State expanded the faculty from about sixty-five to ninety." Southwestern Medical School in 1970, I Polytechnic University in Pomona. In spite of the expanded research opportunities, Whitaker doesn't .in terned in Salt Lake. We spent three years have time now to do any of his own research. "I'm a full-time administra- in Germany with the Air Force before I he says. "But I'm enjoying it because it involves working with the I am tor," returned to Salt Lake for residency. faculty and with the business community." now an assistant professor of Radiology at 1970-1979 is to raise funds for the school. "I'm trying to wife Geri just One of his tasks as dean 11,1e. University of Utah. My dollars for a new library and management education "rushed her PhD in sociology and is raise fifteen million einployed in population research. Bob facility," he explains. writes: "I've John Ensey "Michigan is an unusual public university in that over half the buildings Rhoads BA '66 Hanszen the state and been meaning to write for the past fourteen BA '70 Will on campus were paid for privately. The interaction between Years, and am just now getting around to it. Rice sends the private sector is an importantfactor in the strength ofthe university." "apologies to are better Things are slowing down a bit now that I'm Although Whitaker does not believe that business students my classmates On sabbatical. But let me start at the begin- now than they were several decades ago, he says, "There has attend- trained After leaving Rice, I married Carol for not improvement in basic knowledge and in intellectual develop- ing the ten- been a great 'eifsnyder from Alexandria, Virginia, and in the last twenty-five years, so we are year reunion, ment in fields related to business e_ntered graduate school in biochemistry at I have just communicating a lot of new knowledge to students." ieorge Washington University, doing my but Businesses, MBA in The school offers courses on The Management of Small i,ah work at the National Institutes of started studying full-time for my taken systems at toward the entrepreneurially-minded students. "They are riea It h. Halfway through my PhD, my computers and information geared BA '70 of 350 graduate students in a class. Though most stu- f,esearch advisor became director of the UCLA." William R. Roberts by about 100 out this spring jobs in large businesses initially and in '‘Oche Institute of Molecular Biology, and Lovett was awarded a doctorate dents leave the university and take Mike branch out into their own We followed him to New Jersey. We next from Johns Hopkins University. the Big Eight accounting firms, later they may has rejoined the ent to Stanford (by this time there were Estep BA '71 Will Rice ventures. bout visiting ,"says icliree of us) for post-doctoral work, where tennis circuit after a two-year auto industry slowdown has hurt the economy of the state from a "The enneth Pitzer was then president. After medical specialists. Estep suffered Whitaker. "The auto industry had been a very generous employer in the •uree years, the four of us moved to Lex- virus which caused growths on his vocal explains. But the graduates of his school aren't having any trou- caused problems past," he iringi.0u, Kentucky, where I took a job at the chords and mysteriously finding jobs. They're just spreading out around the country. Last his left elbow. Recently, his arm began ble nversity of Kentucky in the biochemistry with year, eleven were hired by Texas Instruments. 'ePartment. As sabbatical time approached, to show signs of returning strength, and l began looking for a laboratory which spe- Estep was back on the courts. Though he IP

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says he feels "strong but rusty," he quali- tor H. Engelhard BA '73 Lovett, assist- fied for doubles in the U.S. Pro champion- ant professor of microbiology at the ships at Longwood. J. Peter Jordan University of Virginia's School of Medicine, BArch '71 Hanszen has been named an has just been awarded a basic research associate of Media Five Limited in Honolu- grant by the National Institute of Health. lu, Hawaii. He will hold responsibilities in Engelhard hopes to learn how Cytotoxic T project management, computer processing, Lymphocytes recognize infected and can- and as director of specifications. Media Five cerous cells. Doctors would like to•sup- Limited, so named because of the five press this white blood cell's ability to recog- media on which the firm's capabilities are nize foreign cells during organ transplants, based, provides services in architecture, thus preventing the body from rejecting planning, interiors, graphics and multi-media new organs. During treatment of tumors or services. Margaret Shelton BA '71 viral infections, however, it would be desir- Brown writes: "Nine years of teaching able to enhance the ability to recognize and kill high schools, three years of University of the diseased cells. Houston graduate school at night, four Hugh Moffatt BA years of whitewater kayaking, three and '73 Baker, who one half years of marriage to Scott Hender- entered Rice original- son — all in Houston. As of June 1, we ly in '66, is making a have moved to New Braunfels, where I will name as a songwriter/ be teaching undergraduate accounting at singer. Dolly Parton UTSA, using my newly-acquired MBA, as reached the top of well as building a house on eight and one the charts in late Sep- half acres of land, raising horses, growing tember with the single, Old Flames Can't gardens, and quilting, I won't miss Hous- Hold a Candle to You, written by Moffatt Payin' His Dues ton, and I will love the country." Melvin L. and his wife Pebe Sebert. In 1975, Just in Cohen BA '72 Hanszen MD says, "I am Case, Hugh's first song to be cut, was tak- Even on stage, Michael Marcoulier BA '74 is quiet and reserved as he now a Captain in the Army and I am sta- en to the top of the Country Single Charts introduces his band, the Michael Marcoulier Band. He is living out the tioned at the 97th General Hospital in by Ronnie Milsap. It was also recorded by dream that millions of kids had in the early seventies —being the leader of Frankfurt, Germany. I finished my medical Tammy Wynette and Barbara Mandrell. the band, making music before hundreds of excited fans, and writing his residency in pediatrics at UTSA Health Sci- Moe Bandy, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Alan own songs when he's not on stage. ences at the end of June. If any of you are Wayne have also recorded songs by Mof- He isn't famous yet, but Marcoulier admits that he is doing in Frankfurt, give me a call." Larry fatt. just what he Dahm Moffatt sometimes sings his own likes and that makes him pretty happy. "My parents bought me a guitar BA '72 Lovett and Charlotte Talbot works, and he has been featured as the Dahm for Christmas years ago and I was, I guess you say, a closet picker until I BA '73 Jones write, "We have opening act for Martin Mull, Jesse Winches- came joined the Establishment all the way ter, John down here to school." now. Stewart, Little Rivers Band, and Raised mostly Charlotte worked as secretary to the Medi- for his sister, Katy Moffatt. William W. in New Hampshire, Marcoulier listened to the Beatles cal Director of the Dallas EMS System until Whalen BA '73 Lovett sent us this note, and Rolling Stones in high school. He attended a prep school in Vermont July of 1978 when we had a baby boy, along with his change of address to Char- and applied to several traditional men's colleges in the northeast. He Andrew Lawrence (Lovett, 2000). We lived lottesville, VA, "My friends have become chose Rice though, because "I didn't feel like continuing there at a college in Dallas up until Larry finished his patholo- doctors, lawyers, computer programmers, that was sort oflike prep school squared,"he says."I came down here and gy training at Parkland Hospital in March of professors, writers, artists and Episcopali- I liked it a lot." this year. We then said goodbye to 'Big D' ans. I am pleased with their success and Texas progressive country music has exerted its influence on Mar- and moved to Harlingen in the tropical Low- have nothing further to add." Frank J. coulier as have several other er Rio types of music. A few years ago, he and his Grande Valley where Larry has Cutaia BA '74 Richardson received his band played a mellow rock, entered private practice in pathology. M. D. from with a little bit ofcountry in it. Now their sound He is the University of Texas Health includes more blues and reggae very pleased with his new situation. Char- Science Center in San Antonio in June. with the rock. lotte is busy getting settled in a new house Tom Godard BCo '74 "From the time I came to Texas about ten years ago until about five Hanszen recently years and keeping up with an active two-year old was administered the Lawyer's Oath by his ago I did a lot of country music. I was into blue grass and all the boy. Larry says 'When I passed my Pathol- father, retired District Judge L. D. Godard. country kinds of music. It's an easy kind of music to play." ogy Board certification exam, I thought I Tom is a member of the law firm Shirley, As a freshman studying art and architecture, he played the guitar most- have taken my final, final exam. It's a new Shirley and Mackey in Texas City. Mark ly for himself and a few friends. It took a little persuading to get the shy sensation not to be studying for the next A. Jones BS '74 Hanszen sent this note: Marcoulier on stage the first time. Then he began playing several test anymore.' " nights a Bradley Park Etherton "My wife, Joy, and I had our first child, week for the next three years to keep himself in "moving money." Two BA '72 MChE '72 Baker received his Kristi Ann, born April 8, 1980. I graduated people who also were at Rice and also in the music business, Bill Haymes doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in in May with a PhD in computer science '71 and Jim Alderman '74, May. Army Captain William T. Farmer from the University played at a club occasionally. "They got me to of Kansas. I have taken go audition. I was a little scared, BA '72 Hanszen sent in an update, a job on Long Island at the State University but I got through it. The next weekend I "Drove back from a tour in the Canal Zone of New York at Stony went back and played two sets for $7.50. I wasn't kidding when I said Brook as an assistant moving in May-June '78. Enjoyed Panama, the professor of computer science. Thanks for money. The stars were getting $10." three weeks in Central America and a week the opportunity to keep in touch," he add- Since he finished school, he says, he has played with a lot of different in the Yucatan. I attended Personnel ed. Lanell M. Matlock BA '74 MACC people. For a while, he and Shake Russell had a band. The current Administration Advance Course in Indianap- '75 Jones has become the assistant con- Michael Marcoulier Band is the third to go under that name. He also had a olis and then was reassigned to study at the troller responsible for commercial/industrial band called the "Full Moon Band"for a while."I do some songs by myself, Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, development for The Woodlands Group. but I don't really hire myself out as a single anymore. California. In The music that I'm June '80, I received my MS in Previously she was with Arthur Andersen writing is mostly too complicated for a single to do." Operations Research. I'm currently & Co. as a manager in the audit division. assigned Fortunately, Marcoulier now makes a little more than $7.50 for two to the TRADOC Research Ele- Samuel A. Bagley BA '75 Will Rice sets. "I've ment-Monterey at the Navy School to do graduated from been supporting myself since I got out of school by playing the University of Texas music, but there original research in computer modeling of Health Science Center in San Antonio in are various levels of breaking even," he says with a land combat. I hope to work on the PhD in June. He will perform his residency in smile. my 'spare time.' Would enjoy hearing from anesthesiology at University of Tennessee. "My eventual goal is to be successful, to live comfortably and to be able friends." "Though it will probably be diffi- Daniel J. Guerra BA '76 Hanszen grad- to travel. To do that means making people like my music. I guess that cult to believe, Will Rice's former 'resident uated from the University of Texas Health involves becoming semi-famous to famous. I don't know how to deal with Marine' is now a 'clogface' in the US Science Center in San Antonio this sum- that right now, but I like playing for large crowds." Army," writes Captain Michael S. Jindra mer. He will perform his family practice Presently, the band appears regularly before loyal crowds at clubs BA '72 Will Rice. "I executed an inter residency at John Peter in - Smith Hospital in Houston, seating two to three hundred. They have played for service transfer this past February after Fort Worth. Michael J. Hanaway BS '76 groups almost over a thousand, and they're gaining a following in Austin and other Texas eleven years in the Corps and am Wiess recently returned from training at cities. currently assigned to the US the Marine Army Chemi- Corps Mountain Warfare Train- Marcoulier cal School at Fort McClellan, Alabama. I ing Center in Bridgeport, California. says he hasn't tried to"push into the big business and collar start the Chemical Officer Advance course Charles L. Hewell BS '76 MChe '77 producers on the West Coast," but he tries to get into a better position this September and, after I graduate in Richardson has returned from a deploy- every day by improving his writing, his singing, and the band. April 1981, my next duty station will be ment in the Western Pacific. Hewell is a After he got started performing, Marcoulier soon decided, "If one is to Fort Lewis, Washington. Ann, Lisa, Brian, Navy Lieutenant assigned to the 438 foot- think of music as a real career, you really have to do something and creative. I are looking forward to our move to long frigate USS Reasoner which is Songwriting seemed like the easiest thing to do creatively. The bulk of my the Northwest; we've never been homeported stationed in San Diego. Jeff E. Mandel songs are love songs or falling-out-of-love songs, and I also do a lot of in that area before. Anyone knowing the BA '76 Hanszen also graduated from the story songs. I wrote a address of Bill Craddick, couple of detective songs after reading some Bruce Martin, or University of Texas Health Science Center novels a while ago." A favorite Bob Womack, all '71 Will Rice, please drop in San Antonio recently. of his listeners has been one called A He will start Touch ofNew Orleans, which is me a line," he adds. His address is 3405-B anesthesiology residency at Baylor College about a "New England Cowboy." Littlebrandt Dr., Fort McClellan, AL of Medicine in "I feel that the songwriting has turned out to be the best thing I've got. Houston. "Get thee to a I'm an 36205. Leslie Williamson BA '72 nunnery," Shakespeare advised Dave adequate guitar player and a good singer, but the songwriting is Brown has joined the Phoenix Indian Medi- Fleischer BA '77 Hanszen. Dave writes: where I stand the best chance of becoming known." cal Center as a staff otolaryngologist. Vic- "Little did Shakespeare know that silly me SALLYPORT-NOVEMBER 19 11111111=1111E11111101 I• American Graduate to Rice to build and equip a civil engineering Continued take him literally and move into the now attending the OWLMANAC would Management. building. The Ryon Engineering Laboratory chapel of a convent, complete with four School of International was dedicated in 1965. as a distillation of stained glass windows, in holy Flatbush. with Rice; and the SALLYPORT, character of Law degree and odd abode notwithstanding, the limited, sexist and complacent sick. I have opted for political organizing and ADVANCED DEGREES the institution, makes me being dropped from teaching and lobbying as 'career.' All Rice Howard D. Fulwiler '17 of El Paso on I would much appreciate folks are warmly invited to dial 212-462- July 27, 1980; John P. Payne, '18 of your mailing list. MArch '51 recently won two 3543 or head over to: 12 Veronica Place, E. Fay Jones Haskell, Texas on January 22, 1980; Wil- Nancy Tips Jones awards and two honorable mentions Brooklyn, NY 11226 to see what three design lard H. Moore '20 of Austin on July 18, BA '67Jones completed by Arkansas archi- years at Harvard bath wrought." Arthur for projects 1980; Helene Caranagnostis Hodde '21 January 1978. A total of eleven Koenig BS '77 Will Rice writes: "We've tects since of Houston on September 2, 1980; Oren Jones, a professor of To the Editor: been in Germany for the last three years awards were made. Arnold '23 of South Laguna, California on at the University of Arkansas Thank you for the June issue of SALLYPORT, and are coming home with souvenirs - architecture August 30, 1980; Allan Bloxsom '23 of of the Rome Prize Fellowship which I received recently. I always enjoy read- including a baby on the way. We're on our and winner Austin on August 15, 1980; Daniel C. won the design awards for a ing it, especially the articles on current activi- way from Giessem, Germany, where I was for 1980-81, Lawrence '24 of Village Mills, Texas in and a residence. The honorable men- ties at Rice. an energy conservation engineer with the chapel January 1980; Dora Arthur Ballard '25 both for residences. Jared Earl A suggestion: you might publish a map of the army, to Syracuse, New York, to be a tions were of Dallas on June 20, 1980; Vivian Tef- PhD '65 has been named dean campus, at least once a year, indicating which manager for some EPA sewer Hazleton teller Bauernschmidt '26 of Houston on project School of Public Affairs at are the new buildings there in the last year, and grants projects. Hello to Don Prescott. of the Graduate August 7, 1980; George C. Rich '26 of El of Washington. Before going where. Side elevation photos would help peo- Glad to see you got the sheepskin." Ed the University Campo, Texas on May 27, 1980; Forrest Hazleton was associate dean ple like me, who are far away, keep current our Huston BA '78 Will Rice is bucking up to Washington, E. Byrnes '27 of Houston on August 18, professor in the Lyndon B. Johnson mental picture of the campus. under tough circumstances. Ed writes: and 1980; William B. Killebrew '27 of Port of Public Affairs at the University of Douglas B. McNeal "Spent a year in Houston after graduating School Neches, Texas on June 30, 1980; Frank David Stewart PhD '65 has been BA '67Baker becoming an alcoholic. Moved to Washing- Texas. A. Lawson '27 of Houston; John S. Per- director of summer sessions at ton, AA and got married. The wife appointed ry '29 of Houston on August 10, 1980; joined A professor of philosophy To the Editor: died of leukemia, I fell off the wagon and Ohio University. Robert M. Cooper '30 of Pinehurst, member of the faculty since 1970, I hate to be a nit-picker, but as a Rice grad and lost my job as a prison guard. Other than and a North Carolina on June 26, 1980; William will continue teaching on a part- hard-working English prof, I feel obliged to that things are swell!" James R. Arnett, Stewart H. Davidson, Jr. '30 of Houston on Stewart has been named by stu- point out a pattern of persistent errors in the II BA '79 Lovett, a Marine 2nd Lieuten- time basis. August 18, 1980; J. Reginald Tucker '31 a University Professor for 1980- piece on the TV serial writers, the Corring- ant, recently completed the Officer's Per- dents as of St. Petersburg, Florida; Martha Hickey Last year he developed a series of tons, in the September issue. The name is sonnel Administration Course. Tip John- 81. Hedrick '32 of Austin on May 16, 1980; on religion and technology, and wrong almost every time it is used. "The Cor- son BA '79 Richardson writes: "After workshops John Hastings Hickey '32 of Baton also been a member of a teaching rington's" at the beginning of the second para- bumming around in Colorado and Houston he has Rouge, Louisiana on July 29, 1980; Louis from the departments of philosophy graph should read "The Corringtons" ("Cor- a year, I am entering Austin Presbyteri- team T. Jahn '32 of San Antonio in March for engineering for an interdiscipli- rington's" will never be correct!). an Seminary this fall to pursue my Master and chemical 1980; John E. Maersch '32 of Fort course in philosophy and technology. And "the Corrington's" at the beginning of of Divinity degree. Lord willing, I will finish nary Worth on February 21, 1979; A. Carl Myers PhD '69 has accepted a the next paragraph should read "the Corring- in the spring of 1984 and become a Presby- Mitzi Polk, Jr. '32 of Austin on September 8, in the UCLA Writing Programs at tons'." Ditto at the beginning of the next para- terian minister." Beth Routman BA '79 position 1980; Bernard A. Kreiter '36 of Houston of California in Los Angeles. graph(your author might also want to check out Brown married John Perry, "an ex-Univer- the University on August 18, 1980; William Alvarez '39 the spelling of Faulkner's mythical county, for sity of Houston student," on August 17, of Salem, Virginia in June 1980; Rolland that is wrong too). Near the end of that para- "We are living in Oklahoma City E. Dixon '40 of Oklahoma City on May 1980. graph "the Corrington's were bored" should While John finishes his degree in journal- Memoriam 14, 1980; Robert L. Perkins '45 of Phoe- In read "the Corringtons were bored." ism," she writes. "I am vorking as a photo nix on June 18, 1980; Kenneth Henry In the next paragraph it should be "the Cor- grapher in the meantime. The newest addi- Bischel MS '48 of Loma Linda, California John Edward Parish, an English profes- ringtons' ideas." And the beginning of the tion to our 'family' is now a long dreamed of on March 27, 1980; Thomas Gayden sor at Rice since 1946, died on September next paragraph should read "Neither of the reality. We bought a 'TR7' to zip around Craddock '48 of Palos Verdes Estates, 14, 1980. He had introduced generations of Corringtons." town in." Monica Strauss Westbrook California on April 15, 1980; Bernard F. students to Milton's "Paradise Lost" and I enjoy the SALLYPORT, and I enjoyed reading BA '79 Jones writes: "After receiving my Dodds MA '55 of Urbana, Illinois on Octo- Renaissance poetry. about the Corringtons(we were in at least one Degree in industrial and operations ber 1, 1979; C.A. Proctor '55 of Abilene Masters A resident associate of Wiess College class together), but I thought your author and/ from the University of Michi- on August 10, 1980; Jane Benke Wil- engineering from 1957 until September 1980, Parish had or your proofreader would welcome my note. gan, I married Fred Westbrook, my high banks '59 of Houston on August 29, 1980; developed friendships with many students C. Earl Ramsey school sweetheart We are living in Hous- Michael Henry Merritt '60 of Houston that lasted long after they graduated. A BA '59 MA '61 Baker ton, where I am working for Texaco, and on September 16, 1980. memorial service in the Rice chapel was he is employed at Entex. After a long win- attended by hundreds of Parish's students, ter it's great to be back to the warmth and alumni, and colleagues. The crowd filled the humidity (ha!) of Houston." chapel, its gardens and the Grand Hall of what exciting things their classmates are the RMC. CLASSNOTES. Alumni are continually asking If you would like the true story published, drop us a line Parish, who had published a number of doing, and if we don't know, we make it up. articles on Milton's work, was chosen three and a black and white photo. times by students to receive the prestigious George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching. He frequently entertained stu- Mark Brice BA '80 Richardson recently dents in what came to be known at "John's had his documentary "Vietnam in Texas" Happy Hour." Each spring break, he took a aired on Houston public television. The film group of students to Big Bend National the racial strife on the Gulf Coast explores Park. fishing town of Seadrift. Joseph R. Fur- "John had an incurable habit of caring man BA '80 Lovett will soon begin pedia- about people, especially students," said Jim trics at the Children's Medical residency Bernhardt '59 at the memorial service. Center in Dallas. Furman received his M. "He epitomized the phrase 'All for Rice's D. in June from the University of Texas Honor." Health Center at San Antonio. Science A memorial resolution honoring Parish Mary Kinney Gibson BA '80 Jones was read at the Homecoming Alumni "Jerry D. Gibson BA '78 Will writes: Convocation. Rice I were married on June 14, 1980. and Dorothy Dawson Looney '22, who died Jerry is continuing his third year of medical on June 10, 1980, was honored recently school at UT Houston. I am presently with a memorial tea and musicale at Milford Working for a small law firm downtown and House. She has maintained an interest in begin classes at night this fall at Bates will Rice, and as a active member of Milford College of Law. We will undoubtedly be in House was instrumental in seeing that it Houston for several years and would love was given to the university. to. hear from friends in the area." Alison Joseph Patrick Aleo '34, died August Mills BA '80 Jones says, "After spending 10, 1980. Aleo had served as chairman of the summer of 1980 working as a geologist his class for the past seven years for the Ill a research laboratory for a major oil com- annual fund, and he was a member of the DanY, I am now at Penn State working on Rice University Fund Council for two years. trly degree in geology. Michael master's Always a willing volunteer, he helped to W• Mock BS '80 Will Rice, a Navy organize his class's forty-fifth reunion last ensign was graduated from the Navy's Avi- year. ation Indoctrination Course. Elizabeth A. Mae E. Ryon, died October 27, 1980. She Parrish BS '80 Hanszen wrote in to tell was the widow of Lewis B. Ryon, who College _Class US that she has become an engineer at GTE Name taught civil engineering at Rice from 1917 and moved to Mountain View, California. until 1958. Shortly after his retirement, the She is looking for other alumni in the area. Address( new) Ryon's donated their entire personal estate S Phte en M. Soileau BA '80 Baker is ORLDLY-WISE. Deck shoes and If you want to stay closer to home, you can cruise Chinese-red, silk gowns are the proper among New England's islands. Launching from • garb for the slate oftrips that the travel Hartford on August 1, you can spend a leisurely week committee of the Association of Rice stopping along the coast at Sag Harbor, Long Island's Alumni has lined up for 1981. old whaling town, Block Island, Newport, Martha's Bronze vessels inlaid with silver and gold from the Vineyard and Nantucket. The cost is estimated at ancient Qin and Han dynasties, and terracotta horses $745/person, based on double occupancy, plus airfare that stood for centuries in the grave of an emperor — to Boston. these are the treasures from China in "The Great Bronze Finally, from September 30 until October 14, you Age" exhibit at the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth. can take perhaps the most relaxing cruise of all. Once Rice groups will be flying up to see it on January 24, 31 again "Burgundy: Castles and the Barge" is being and February 7. The cost is $100/person. offered. Sample the rich, red wines of Burgundy as you After you have steeped in the ancient traditions of watch the magnificent French architecture float by. The China, you may want to sign up to see more ofits histor- cost is estimated at $2,798/person, based on double ical sights, as well as its modern ones. Walk on the occupancy. Great Wall, and step into the Ming Tombs, then sam- For more information, call the Association of Rice ple a few of the hundreds of dishes that make China's Alumni(713) 527-4057, or write to them at food justly renowned.The twenty-six day trip from April P.O. Box 1892, Rice University, 23 to May 18 includes stops in Hong Kong. The cost, Houston, Texas 77001. based on double occupancy, has been estimated at $4,420/person. A deposit of $370 is necessary by mid- January. The group will be accompanied by Richard Smith, associate professor of history. The rest ofthe alumni tour groups in 1981 are taking to water. From June 5 - 25, you can visit Peru and then cruise around the Galapagos Islands. Lima, Cuzco in the 101 Andes, Machu-Picchu, the lost Inca city, in Peru; My dear, I think, perhaps, the Guayaquil, and the Spanish city ofQuito in Ecuador are Galapagos. stops on the tour. The Galapagos are a world offantastic scenery and unusual wildlife. The eighteen-day trip costs about $2,843/person. v Ob't //A. • July 17 - 27 should be a lovely time to take , It in "The Island World of Great Britain." This tour includes Scotland, Wales, Orkney, Skye, The Outer Hebrides, and The Isles of Scilly. Ruined abbeys, and Harris tweeds are among the sights. The cost is between $2,795 and $3,085/person, based on double occupancy from New York. Ira D. Gruber, professor of history will accompany the group.

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