on Football Tickets Ne Last Call 1949 FUND DRIVE nat BE A NOW IN DONOR SALLYPORT PROGRESS IN 1949 loll PUBLISHED FOR ALL FORMER STUDENTS OF THE RICE INSTITUTE e for l'EXAS, AUGUST, 1949 Number 8 map °IUme 5 HOUSTON, 10 gift Jaa

unusl ; pre ANCE SET AT SHAMROCK atterio Noicb in ariri° the Alumni •leuin Order Your Ass'n Plans Wa"` Speak re OP'Iv Many Grads? disPlaY '49 Tickets Informal ditor: a ;10n i surrounded by Texas gradu- 7 the ho insist that Rice has not By Sept. 1 In Houston psitorS eted over 2500 students. I at th t4a1 that the number is some- enteci higher. Can you give me the , o I Seats Are Available Date Planned for Eve of g • figures on this? I should Of Season's First Game utical to know the number of To All Football Games rest t°1E, Who have not obtained a de- How you would like an alumni ftnin Rice. Finally can you tell call for 1949 foot- This is the last dance? uy g ere most of the alumni reside 1 is the ift ball tickets. September Well, so many "yes" answers were graduation? deadline for applications. turned in on this question put forth !ction H.L.W. To get tickets, fill out the appli- in last month's Sallyport that there in 194° cation blank printed on page 2 of will be an alumni dance! the this issue and send it along with It will be held—not at the field- ks a lot for your letter, H. ) your check to the Alumni Associa- house, not at any of the old places— k finding your information tion, Box 1892, Houston. The ath- but at the Shamrock. The fabulous lid even more interesting fig- fr. 11° letic office will mail back your Shamrock, incidentally, was built by pun intended!) tickets in September, in plenty of that Rice alumnus Glenn McCarthy. give Since the initial class grad- time for that first game with Clem- It won't be held just any old time, In 1916 there have been rial Of son on September 24. but on the eve of Rice's first 1949 total graduates. Ranging in rch 110.4 Emmett Brunson, business mana- football game. That's Friday, Sep- 010 the 77 in '16 to the 337 in geog'd ger of athletics, said he doesn't know tember 23 starting at 8 p.m. You ory 9/1E exactly where the seats will be lo- out-of-town alumni will have a good as to " nd: During these years 14,- It cated, except that they will be in excuse for coming in a day earlier dents have entered the In- whoW the north stands "between the goal before that Rice-Clemson game to o • That means 8.391 of those iation lines." For the A&M game, how- attend the dance. tdating did not receive de- atioll• ever, the seats will be in the end The price is right—$5.00 a couple or 44% of those entering re- zone. He knows nothing about seat- or stag for this semi-formal dance. degrees. a Yet° ing arrangements for out-of-town Could you dance at the Shamrock III Going by the circulation discu5- games. for any less? Of Sallyport, well over half Le bag! Only $3.00 In fact everything is right . .. Va alumni live in Houston. he chfil except that there's not enough room 4 4,078 in Houston out of a Through a misprint, the last is- in the Shamrock's Shamrock Room 7,775 circulation. sue of Sallyport listed the price of 2311 for all the alumni. The room can circulation figures are a bit the A&M tickets as $3.60. These New only accommodate about 200 couples. (ling. The 7,775 figure is the tickets, like the ones for the There's no indication of a crying towel in this picture as Coach .less z. I games, are (Continued on Page 3) Iturnber of Sallyports mailed Mexico and Texas Tech Neely talks to the San Antonio Rice Alumni Club, gathered for their first * • A& lich doesn't take into account $3.00. Those alumni who ordered meeting. Alumni Association President John Schuhmacher, in the back- number of ex-Rice couples. M tickets at the wrong price will ground, approves of what the coach is saying, too. Sally- Yep, I'm Coming ilrae we send only one (Continued on Page 2) a Rice couple. Roughly, we'd 0 • Would you like to go danc- t that there are at least 500 ing at the Shamrock in Houston %Dies. for only $5.00 a couple or stag? Ilext largest group of Rice Speaks At First OWLS Alumnae Set Coach Neely (Sure beats the present going is in in Dallas-256. And rate!) 1141 states, for instance, there 25th Anniversary • Would you like to hear the in California, 193 in Louisi- A. Alumni Club Meeting of S. former musical director of the d 164 in New York. Waldorf-Astoria in New York? Celebration in '49 with about 1,500 of these new ad- i You're going to say, well, The District 13 Rice Alumni Club • Would you like to see dresses being added through the 00 't Sally port sent to these began its organization with a suc- Glenn's hotel on the eve (Sept.23) 414 of the 14,885 This year is the 25th anniversary campaign to find "lost alumni," rnni? Out cessful dinner meeting on the eve- of the season's first football lating at Rice only about of the founding of the Owen Wister those alumni whose addresses had ning of July 25. Held in the Tapes- game? Sally-port. Here in the Literary Society, and to commemo- been lost and taken from the active try Room of the St. Anthony Hotel • Would you? Would you? t office, we wish we knew rate this event the 0. W. L. S. alum- 5) in San Antonio, there were 48 alum- (Continued on Page Would you? ithe rest are. Those are the nae are planning a suitable cele- ni and guests present. 0 Well, here's how you can take lenntinued on Page 8) bration. Following a very fine meal, which advantage of this big event the 0 "We're still making plans for it," started everyone off in a good mood, Three Ex-Rice Gridders Alumni Association has been said Peggy Monroe Simonds. "We Dr. D. Jr., '26 served as pulling strings to make happen: rile to hope to hold the affair during home- A. Zucht, kice Middies Have the occasion. To Re-sign With Cardinals , 1. Cut out this coupon. coming this year. Anyway, we'll let toastmaster for start off, Dr. Zucht had 2. Send it along with your 1Y Sails everyone knonw what we've planned the meeting Summer everyone stand and give his name Three former Rice gridders, Cen- check for $5.00 to: The Associa- Arli° in plenty of time." and class year. He then introduced ter Bill Blackburn, Guard H. J. tion of Rice Alumni, Box 1892, Also this year the 0. W. L. S. • „seen a salty summer for 82 John Schumacher, '30, president of Nichols and Quarterback Virgil Ei-1 Houston. $ ." alumnae are instituting a new sys- Ptilen of the Rice Naval Re- the Association of Rice Alumni, who kenberg, have signed their 1949 3. Better fill in the following, Of.r. tem of meeting times. The officers 'acers Training Corps unit. was a guest speaker for the meet- contracts with the Chicago Cardi- too: realized that their alumnae who :I‘e the ones making cruises ing. nals. have small children or who are em- A tt of their training. expressed his ployed couldn't attend meetings Mr. Schumacher Blackburn, who is one of the Eqeilior contract student made large turnout for name class during the day, and that others pleasure at the fastest men in professional football, aatic cruise aboard the USS the of the District couldn't core at night since, maybe, initial meeting stands 6 feet 9 and weighs 235. This / ell aircraft carrier. He left 13 he wouldn't let them Rice Alumni Club, and said is his fourth year with the Cards. ce AO; Virginia, visited Quebec, their husbands street number hoped the club would be a very Nichols, '44 All American, is ted off Cape Hatteras and out. cl 35 ce . night and active one and would continue to small for pro competition-5 feet to Norfolk three weeks So, they're holding both The morning meet several times yearly. 11 and 210 pounds. He's starting mourning meetings. city, zone and state ne g fourth Tues- Growth and Progress his third year with the club. e senior regular students group will meet on the Your ticket will be mailed to evening In This will make Eikenberg's sec- tegular sophomores cruised day of each month and the going over the growth and you. Wednesday of the ond season with Chicago. Last year . • Pacific. Reporting to San group on the third progress of the alumni office Remember, there's only room •• .r.dev group will have past two he played in eight of the 12 league e1,1 1),01,e, they embarked aboard each month. Each years, Mr. Schuhmacher for 400. people. And first-come- ;et 0 programs. brought out that games, passing 19 times and com- Ed be 0 ei („E"eavy cruisers, USS Heolena different and varied the mailing list first-served! had jumped from 6,000 to 8,000, pleting six, three for touchdowns. ‘4°Iltinued on Page 8) (Continued on Page 5) Two SALLYPORT RICE ALUMNI FOOTBALL Says Bell Telephone Executive Peterson, BA, '20 TICKET APPLICATIONS It's Really a Far Cry Individual Out-of-Town Game Order by J. Frank Jungman, B.A.'20 the pursuit of his degree. NW Date Class Reporter was quite different. Aircraft Warning Systems Please enter my order for 1949 Rice football out-of-town game Jesse Raymond (White Pete) Back in St. Louis in 1940, VP) tickets as follows: Peterson, B.A. '20, was promoted Pete was general traffic Price Per No. of this year to general traffic manager engin,,, This job entailed considerable 7, Ticket Tickets Amount of Southwestern Bell Telephone, with the armed services on the Oct. 1 — L. S. U. in Baton Rouge $3.60 one of the highest positions of the craft warning systems. Most °f Oct. 15 — S. M. U. in Dallas $3.60 Bell system. His story equals that never knew such complicated Oct. 22 — Texas U. in Austin $3.60 of Horatio Alger, and the road on rangements existed here in Nov. 19 — T. C. U. in Fort Worth $3.60 the way up has been one of long After the war he was transfej,'4 For Mailing $.35 hours over long years. TOTAL to Kansas City as traffic sun White Pete was born in Guy, Tex- tendent for Western Misouri as, a roadside town south of Rosen- Kansas. This was the last stelij berg where his Individual Home Game Order father, a former fore his present position as schoolteacher, was Date operating a gen- eral traffic manager. eral store. After the 1900 Galveston Please enter my order for 1949 Rice football home game tickets To this very busy business storm, White Pete's father became as follows: White Pete has had a fine county superintendent of schools, no Price Per No. of life. He has one son, Ray, living in Richmond and Rosenberg, years Ticket Tickets Amount Ray put in a couple of ill where White Pete's grammar and Sept. 24 — Clemson* Navy and is now a senior at $3.60 high school work was finished. Oct. 8 — New Mexico U.* $3.00 (Continued on Page 3) Majored in Chemistry Oct. 29 — Texas Tech $3.00 He entered Nov. 5 — Arkansas (Homecoming) $3.60 Rice in September White Pete 1916, Nov. 12 — A. & M.(End Zone) $3.00 majoring in chemistry. About HERBERT this Nov. 26 — Baylor $3.60 Pete once commented "It wasn't the title used to get the young men that I was so keen BOLLFRASS For Mailing $.35 about chemistry ready for work as soon as the when I majored in it, but it brought TOTAL work comes along. CHARTERED LIFE * Denotes Night Games. me an assistantship. So I graded In doing some of these things UNDERWRITER Itq• Wit I enclose check payable in full to the Association of Rice Alumni papers and ran a lab, which meant covering full purchase price of the tickets as indicated and 35 cents free room and board." White Pete moved from Dallas to LIFE INSURANCE ‘4eZtrur3 for mailing of the tickets. He also served as business man- Austin to Houston, and it was in PR eston 3271 ti...s1!a;: I am not a Season Ticket holder for the 1949 Rice home games. ager of the Thresher, which in the Houston that he met up with his Signature Class early days of Rice, meant prying ads first real work as district traffic ...„,.."....,608201:17:1: Great Southern = Address out of the business men of Houston chief, in charge of the Houston long City and State with ought but brute force as the distance operating force. NOTE) These application blanks are not for Season Ticket orders clincher. From 1923 to 1928, he filled the All orders and applications for Season Tickets should be sent We called him "White Pete" to same position in St. Louis. In 1929 to the Rice Institute Business Office. The Alumni Office does distinguish him from Red Pete or he was loaned to American Tele- Houston's Most Distinct° not handle season tickets. Melvin Raymond Peterson of Kings- phone and Telegraph for a job in ville who was White Pete's first New York City. Finishing Stores ber the athletic office sends out the it, he ORDER YOUR— cousin, roommate and classmate. came back to St. Louis tickets by registered mail—that's on the gen- Red Pete, incidentally, is traffic eral staff of Southwestern (Continued from Page 1) the purpose of the 35c mailing fee. from superintendent for Southwestern 1930 to 1932. have that extra 60c per ticket re- These ticket reservations, now, M SNT O irSM Bell for the state of Oklahoma. To MINIMUM PRICE MAXIMUM 01)"111' funded. are for non-season ticket holding Or So He Dreams complicate this Pete business a lit- The last issue of Sallyport con- alumni. With season ticket holders Most everybody likes the Ozarks, tle more, White Pete was married rnstedhe:'ael tained no provision for ordering taking up practically all of the and White Pete got his chance in STOREsT0RE No.. 12=15021196 WAie to Ruth Nicholson, the twin sister tickets to the Texas and SMU south stands and two sections of '33 to learn to love the mountains of Red Pete's wife, Helen Nicolson. STORE games. Those original tickets had al- the end zone, with the participating when he was sent to Little Rock as No. 4-711 Gray Answers Blind Ad Park ready been sold to alumni. While schools and Rice students occupying division traffic superintendent. STORE No. 5—Galena Along with the rest of us, White STORE that issue was being printed, Mr. the major part of the north stands, Since the Bell System has a won- No. 6—Pasadena Pete graduated in 1920. In June that STORE No. 7—Industrial A" 'ttbrgal Brunson released additional tickets it is impossible to fill the ticket derful working objective in a year he answered a blind ad and STORE No. 8—Wayside anti to these games. So you may still needs for all those who would like worthwhile pension, White Pete went to work for the traffic depart- Navigation order seats for these games. tickets. Due to this shortage, a lim- some day may be a pensioner living ment of the telephone company. He STORE No. bru-"'":e Mailed in September it of four ducats to an alumnus has in the Ozarks. (Or so I hear he In; started as "traffic chief" which No. 9—PasadenaNvaiSTORE10-802 TeleP11°I;.i Here's how the ticket distribution been set. was dreams about such beautiful and STORE No. 11-290212-6915elt N. Slt , works. When the reservations come Season ticket holders, however, peaceful events.) STORE No. H00' to the alumni office, we certify that may order individual tickets to the °tan In the activities of War I, Pete Road the person is an alumnus. The out-of-town games. had RUSSEL LEE JACOBE 1 attended officer's training checks and reservations are turned Since the alumni office is hand- 31 camp at Fort Sheridan, Illinois and John Schuhmacher Pr over to the athletic office where ling the single ticket applications, Insurance and Surety Bonds was discharged in December, 1918— the tickets are given out on a first- please make out checks to The As- which was only a brief interlude in come-first-served basis. In Septem- sociation of Rice Alumni. All Kinds of Insurance 1512

SALLYPORT Phone CA pitol 9753 phone Published by Hogan-Allnoch Dry Goods Co. THE ASSOCIATION OF RICE ALUMNI 603 Sterling Bldg. WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS of the SINCE 1906 HOUST014 Vol.5 RICE INSTITUTE No. 8 Houston, Texas

Whitlock Zander, Jr. Director Real Robert F. Flagg Editor 1 ROBERT H. RAY CO. — Gravity Meter Surveys and Illtef' lik Entered as third-class matter at the Post Office at Houston, Texas. pretation, Foreign and Domestic. Issued monthly from January through December yearly. Address to Rogers-Ray, Inc.—Seismic notlr Association of Rice Alumni, Post Office Box 1892, Houston 1, Texas. Surveys—Foreign and - ranch estic-2500 THE ASSOCIATION OF RICE ALUMNI Bolsover Road—Houston, Texas. traine '45#_1souritz„Brw. staff EXECUTIVE BOARD Robert H. Ray '25, Sam D. Rogers, Jack C. Pollard' 26 f( Officers ects.

John Schuhmacher, '30 President _2 Mrs. Sam E. Sims, '38 Vice President RD Charles W. Hamilton, '28 Treasurer CASUALS . . . Members are BOSWELL & JOSEPH Carl M. Knapp, '16 Last Retired President il kealt 6 Fred Wolcott, '41 President "R" Association important for the CONSULTING ENGINEERS — 613 M & M BLD-' • Herb-rt Allen, '29 President Engineering Alumni J. L. Boswell, B.S.C.E.'27 --- W. B. Joseph, B.S.C.E. \,-,.,, Dr. Prubert E. Bray,'18 Committee on Outdoor Sports smart comfort of a 1 Miss ilarah L. Lane, '19 Adviser to Women at Rice Mrs. Joseph F. Meyer, III, '42 President E. B. L. S. Alumnae __.tl 1 - Mrs. David Hannah, '43 President P.A.L.S. Alumnae college man. Choose Mrs. E. G. Rountree, Jr., '37 President 0.W.L.S. Alumnae i - 4)A1%1 E Directors yours from our new Harold J. Cohn '30 Term Eixpires "ARS Donald W. Suman, Feb. '44 1949 PE Roy M. Hofheinz, '32 1949 Jacket and Slacks John H. Grooker, Jr., '35 1949 H.1 Cohn Furniture Co Jack P. Shannon, '28 1950 shop on the second ,!katior Forrest Lee Andrews, '30 1950 and 1205 CONGRESS AVE. George Francisco,'24 1950 floor . . INters Felix A. Runion, '29 1951 PR eston 0226 Between Caroline and San Jacillt° Gordon Nicholson, '34 1951 Robert H. Ray, '25 1951 August, 1949 SALLYPORT Three WHITE PETE— Fondren Library Receives Priceless (Continued from Page 2) University of Missouri, majoring in 15th Century Illuminated Missal Leaf political science and journalism. White Pete is a top-notch busi- Pictoral art and literature are in the same perspective. Great at- ness executive with 29 years of combined in a recent gift to Rice tention has been paid to the details valiant service to Bell Telephone. Institute's Fondren Library, a of the man's face, but his robes are That's a lot of straightforward ef- Italian missal given a stylized representation. you know, 140, Fifteenth Century fort and diligence . .. en leaf. Brilliant Colors Hard Work. the library by able It was presented to The tempera colors of this 500- 450,00.0,000 Calls A Year Gottschalk, a New York book- t Paul year old document are as brilliant To give you folks an idea of the seller, a gift at the occasion lost "as as if they had been painted on the size of White Pete's job—he's top of the new li- [Ca of the inauguration vellum yesterday. man to some 30,000 employees who brary building. It is intended as a in Although Fondren Library hasn't get the right number on about 450,- tribute to Miss Alice Dean (the ran been formally opened yet (books are 000,000 long distance calls a year. librarian emerita) and as a sign Cs still being moved to it from other The ones who give you that joy of of my admiration for her wonderful sou buildings on the campus) the missal the everyday use of your telephone. accomplishment." t stet leaf may be seen on the second floor That's between 18 and 20 million which is about the size 1 as The leaf, calls each day on the 3,000,000 odd of a newspaper page, is the work of the new building. According to Librarian William telephones. &less of an unknown Italian monk of the early Renaissance period. At the S. Dix, the building will be offici- And that is a guy you knew as ine ally dedicated "sometime in the chemistry. aosc upper left corner is a miniature "White Pete" studying Y, in fall." 0 ,ars , painting in color of a man seated a monk's cell with an opened book ior itt on his lap. "He probably isn't a saint," says Ruben Weltsch, refer- everybody ence librarian, "since he hasn't a CHARLES halo. Pictures of saints done at this reads time usually had some form of a "R. I." DEICHES JR. halo." (M. E. CLASS OF '48) *ft Psalms .IFg —Photo Courtesy The Houston Post 1 From The Selling Insurance with 1)'• William S. Dix, head of Rice's Fondren Library, admires the The Latin lettering on the leaf RUSSEL LEE JACOBE, '31 ntury illuminated missal leaf given by Paul Gottschalk, New York was identified by Mr. Weltsch as in the Sterling Bldg. 4Cg ller who has long been a friend of Rice. No value has been set the fourth verse of the 66th Psalm: CA pitol 9753 — MA dison 5161 •1 af; it is irreplaceable. "All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall .1 Bldg' DANCE PLANNED— sing to thy name." Music for the SEISMIC (Continued from Page 1) Psalm also appears on the leaf. So the alumni office is taking res- Around the borders is the typical EXPLORATIONS ervations on a first-come-first-to- decoration of this period of illumi- J. B. Earthman '25 get-in basis. Better mail yours in nated manuscripts, thick 'lines of istinet° right now . . only. 200 couples can gold leaf, elaborate flowers and INC. leaves. EARTHMAN get in. F. F. Reynolds '28 A For music, we'll have the Sham- The miniature is interesting in i)11. C TI that the artist appeared to be proud FUNERALS rock's house band, led by Mischa MAY, 1441. apy s Top represent depth. 1007 S. Shepherd Dr. Rahrjeinsky, former musical direc- of his ability to MISSION LIFE The walls of the room recede in the tor for the Waldorf-Astoria who INSURANCE CO. has played his 'cello over many an proper fashion, yet the window isn't HOUSTON NBC program. "I'll put Mischa up Ph. FA-6377 - Fannin & Bremond restkel against any other name band you Limed can think of," says Ramon, the ay Shamrock's famous maitre d'hotel. ROSE,'33 park Ice and mixers, at reasonable BARRY .na prices, will be served by the Sham- ;jai )7 llbrey Calvin '30 rock's waiters, dressed in those C. L. U. le all° handsome uniforms. REAL ESTATE ion , na GO'fie Insurance LIFE INSURANCE relePh°h4 Appraisals -- Valuations T. SheP M. R. VAN BROKER Hun'b" iltance and VALKENBURGH — 1918 —

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Cam tageniou: S of tt Lovett Hall...Its Enduring Beaut I famili or Ho ?Millies 4vron Columns, Lovett Hall Which It Stands as a Monument to Oswald Oddl3 half d and t Lassig, to William Watkin, to Ralph agai Inartle titute Cram, and Above All, to Dr. Lovett Since nor the acader By ELEANOR STICELBER AND ROBERT FLAGG Were( NOTE: This is the second in a series of articles on the architecture of the Rice campus. Describing ls are Lovett Hall and the origins of its architectural forms, it gives a number of anecdotes occuring during the con- 1311 a s struction. Of the the 44-LIOR IT IS to the genius of his constructive imagination that we owe all the beauty of Pirst r this place. The appeal of these beautiful buildings is his appeal—an appeal that places With 1 the beauty of art alongside of beauty of truth and beauty of holiness." Of oth With these words, President Emeritus Edgar Odell Lovett introduced Dr. Ralph Adams harm° Cram, the architect of Rice Institute, at dedication embl the ceremonies on October 10, 1912. on "The things that Mr. Cram has wrought so well," Dr. Lovett (see picture) on these capitals are have, continued, "we have builded in brick and bronze and marble, --iin haracteristic of the Byzantine Of cob the hope that they may endure unto days everlasting." school used by the Lombards. The Ian of Here, 37 years after these words, there is every indication leaves are acanthus leaves used, sufficie that the beauties of the Rice campus shall endure. however, by the Romans in their e be ( And the most beautiful of all Corinthian capitals. The figures eads tion o the buildings is Lovett Hall; its leges gives an atmosphere of dusty carved with an eye for humor before beauty the smugness. But the brilliance of Rice can be found in both Byzan- name w a s changed from the bY a t makes the student feel he is living tine and Lombard types. To be ped- Administration Building to ho- still de in a new world of antic about it, the carvings are nor Rice's first president science and dis- in a covery, in a world of attaining Lombard rather than Byzantine in a simple ceremony early in 1948. beauty. since they are cut deeper in the The inscription, bediCa placed to the left The origins of the architectural surface. of the NG tt entrance to Sallyport, reads: forms used by Cram in Lovett Hall Never Stone Medusas titute LOVETT HALL are as interesting as the building is IN the picture can be seen one of the n IN GRATEFUL HOMAGE TO beautiful. For instance, take its the sixteen heads carved on the Irlg of THE CLEAR VISION vaulted Byzantine cloisters, one of column capitals. According to the letters UNFALTERING ZEAL AND the most striking things about the original plans, Medusa heads were ,der wl BENEFICIENT LABORS OF edifice. to adorn the four sides of every ;Mute EDGAR ODELL LOVETT These cloisters were used exten- third capital. But somehow the says FIRST PRESIDENT OF sively in Lombard architecture. snakey locks and head of this figure into ( THE RICE INSTITUTE Medievalists think the vaulted arch- whose glance would turn men to Newto EXEGIT MONUMENTUM AERE es were borrowed from the Byzan- stone were out of place at Rice scien PERENNIUS. tine buildings of Northern Italy by where the aim was anything other to than, solidifying and stagnating th( The last line, a quotation adapted Charlemagne, and then in turn bor- thee!,, from Horace, translates "He has rowed back again from Gaul in the men. —Photos by Nelson Millet!' tablet tc builded a monument more lasting Ninth Century. One afternoon in May of 1912, Dr. The caps atop these granite columns forming the cloisters Of ,8 h ead E than bronze" . . certainly. a fitting In the Eleventh and Twelfth Cen- Lovett and William Ward Watkin, Hall have some of the most interesting sculptural details on th,..e 'Unction thought repeating Dr. Lovett's turies it became the custom to place who was the supervising architect, campus. The head, entwined with acanthus leaves, on the first CO the life words at the dedication ceremonies. the cloistered vaults over the part were walking through the uncom- th one of the sixteen Rice saints and seers. -e rig Lovett Hall's stately beauties are of the church containing the altar, pleted cloisters of Lovett Hall, ,!atrance at their best when the afternoon because of all the types of vaults taking about the sculptural details kt .. her picture hat and flowing skirts. take some of the weight of the. 1,esi zed sun shines on the rose-gray brick, known to the Lombards the clois- on the capitals. "I don't like the from the doorway. This reit 4 of s the marbles of ivory, green, pink, tered vault was undoubtedly the sixteen Medusa heads," said Dr. The curious observer notes that the facial expressions of the coed, the arch became a characterts Aroceed white and purple. most monumental, lending peculiar Lovett. l wE scholar and the athlete vary from ttuh ree mofu thet pl ed eavreelho e psed he pco a,x' ae It Has a Soul dignity to the altar. " All right," said Watkin, "but what else could we put there?" column to column. flounced that the lintel bee nNE wonders if the delight in Vaults Like Hagia Sophia They talked over ideas for differ- At the end of the Lovett Hall 1./ viewing this building isn't VOU'VE probably noticed that the ent heads the rest of the afternoon. cloisters towards the Physics Build- subsidiary division. prompted by the same barbaric love first two vaults of the cloisters "I have it," said Dr. Lovett, "could ing are two examples of the "bas- Just inside the great arell of color that causes a child to revel on either side of Sallyport differ we use heads of 16 leaders, like St. ket" capitals (see picture). Now ings of sallyport are more e in the sight of a Christmas tree. from the others . .. the vaults Paul and Kant?" these, unlike the other column caps, of sculptural humor—the Lovett Hall seems to have a soul, over the entrances to the registrar's So the two parted, "Lovett must are an exclusive Byzantine develop- heads representing the not just a cold thing, profuse in office and the old first floor library. have worked all night on that list," ment. It is, basically, the Corinthian levels of academic achie color and intricate in detail. It These are called "pendentives," the reports Watkin. "He had the 16 by capital, but with entirely Byzantine There's the happy carefree f represents beauty, stateliness and crowning achievement of Byzantine the next morning. I wouldn't be tendencies toward stringiness in who's enjoying himself, the so perhaps, intellectuality. Sometimes architecture as found in Hagia So- surprised if he walked back those carved detail and avoidance of the sneering sophomore, the his there is an aloofness in its elegance phia, Constantinople. Lovett Hall's three .miles into town that night, deep undercarving of the classic ior and the senior with serene that makes the Rice student feel pendentives, while not as impressive thinking of the heads!" ornament. The method evolved by tassel, calm and ehe that he or it is out of place. future. I as those of Hagia Sophia, show the Rice's Saints and Seers the Byzantine school left the square Yet after years of contact, the same form—a dome supported on a block of stone unshaped on the tops It's hard to realize, but O on the caps student is still fascinated by its rectangular base by means of equi- of the cloister's of columns. Then by subtle flaring stone cutting on the Rice variety of detail and color which he lateral spherical triangles. S granite columns appear the curves the capping block was merg- was done in place. The higlj feels is a true expression of beauty, The columns forming the cloisters heads of these founders, leaders ed with the round column and the port arches, the sculptural whereas the critic, comparing the of Lovett Hall come from Venice, and pioneers: rectangular arch endings. A surface tation at the roof—all were architecture with some academic resembling in shaft and cap those of Religion St. Paul decoration of acanthus leaves and after the marble was set.0 standard, might call it a hodgepodge the Ducal Palace. But in the sculp- History Thucydides vines was added, and the fully de- was done by Oswald Lassig, of color, materials and designs. But tural details of the shaft caps, the Philosophy Immanuel Kant veloped "basket" capital had come trian immigrant, and his Lovett Hall's profusion of details capitals, there is a greater field Art Michelangelo into existence. about 10 cutters, including makes it all the more charming and for speculation as to the exact na- Jurisprudence Thomas Jefferson four brothers who were alit interesting when one discovers ture of the carvings in their relation Medicine Pasteur The Graceful Sallyport in religious sculpture in h something new in each glance. to a particular school of architec- Engineering De Lesseps DERHAPS the most elaborate of country. It was Oswald The monotony of the architecture ture. Commerce Columbus the sculpture on the campus is to responsibleh h for cloisterorthe36 edilp er,s e of some of our older northern col- The figures entwined with leaves Mathematics Sophus Lie be found around the main entrance dents ca Physics Kelvin to Lovett Hall—the sallyport (see best work, according to -Visa Chemistry Mandeleeff picture.) Here again is an outgrowth the 16 heads of the saints alio Facade and Cloisters Biology Charles Darwin of the Lombard school. The door They were done from Phet ••• Electric Oscillations- openings are splayed; that is, the of existing busts. -Heinrich Hertz edges are rounded instead of being Worked into the detaile Aerodynamics Samuel Langley left angular. The picture clearly Lovett Hall are numerous Radioactivity Pierre Curie shows this, the innermost band of Rice emblem. (As far as ,...... W.P., ,,...... ;,.., ,.._, Eugenics Richard Galton sculpture revolving upwards in learned, no one knows 0°4 , . .. . ; So these heads appear on -four of graceful spirals. many stone owls are on the. .. . the twelve cloister columns. Four This delicate sculptural design How the owl came to Rice is , .11, 11: contain symbolic birds, pecking the must be admired in its richness. The in itself. P leaves. And the others have the idea began in Lombardy with the three components of the student simple doorways of the early How the Owl Came to g:idc body—the football player, the churches. Above the unornamented HE Institute's shield' 05;04 studious scholar and the coed with lintel was built a relieving arch to T ed by M. Pierre de Ch Five gUSt1 August, 1949 SALLYPORT

the in the party carried guns. St Cambridge, Massachusetts lestial phenomena, we may demon- men Famous Sallyport Lovett Hall stands with its The niously combined the main strate the laws which regulate So enhanced by the afternoon of the coats of arms of the them." beauty which colors to the maximum families bearing the names The other, symbolic of art, has sun rose-gray brick, its green and or Houston. Some ten of the neither fear in her face nor falter- its Vermont Broccadillo, its Inilies had a shield, divided by ing in her steps as she stands over white Negallis, its rose flushed on and carrying three the thoughts of Plotinus that "Love, purple Ozarks, its white Which were either crows or beauty, joy and worship are forever ivory from the violet Breccia and red Oddly enough, the shields building, unbuilding and rebuild- Cippolino, half dozen Houstons bore a ing in each man's soul." Verona. stands as a tribute to Oswald and three charges, too. The But the cornerstone of Lovett It Austrian stonecutter again were birds, these Hall bears what Dr. Lovett called Lassig, the craftsmanship and sly humor olartlets. Accordingly, the "perhaps the best expression of the whose in the sculptural details: itute shield bears a double spirit of science in any tongue." It is sparkle Ward Watkin, who • Since neither the crow, the a Greek inscription reading: To William Boston to supervise its Or the martlet had any his- 'Rather,' said Democritus, 'would came from building and who later became head academic standing, owls of I discover the cause of one fact than Institute's department of Were chosen for the charges. become King of the Persians'." of the Is are in the form which ap- architecture: Pattern Ralph Adams Cram, who cre- °n a small silver tetadrach- Italian Brick To beauty, combining the ele- of the mid-fifth century B.C. HE brickwork of Lovett Hall ated its Byzantium, Lombardy, Ra- the Rice colors had to be T shows the Italian interest in ments of venna and Constantinople into a Pirst of all they must not brick as a pattern material as well of design that roman- With the colors of the hun- as a structural material. There's no general fabric tically and picturesquely evolved a 13f other institutions, they definite overall brick pattern, rather resultant style of architecture with- harmonize with state and they are laid with inch-thick slabs a out precedent in history: 1 emblems for purposes of of mortar, creating, in effect, of all Lovett Hall stands on gala occasions. They slight band design. This is little But most Edgar Odell Lovett, have, Dr. Lovett wrote, more than the Italian manner of as a tribute to first president of the Rice Institute, of color and yet cool in the laying brick, yet there is a decided brick- a tribute to his clear vision, unfal- Itin of summer, delicate and resemblance to some of the tering zeal and beneficient labors— aufficient life if days should work found in the vicinity of Ra- EXEGIT MONUMENTUM AERE e be dull. At least some of 7enna. The picture of sallyport ds were attained in the shows the thick bands of mortar as PERENNIUS." bon of blue and gray . .. well as offering a good example marble for the Confederate gray en- of the use of brick and The concluding article in this decorative effect. bY a tinge of lavender, with more elaborate series on the architecture of Rice is a distinct re- Still deeper than the Oxford Incideritally, there Institute will appear in the next semblance, basically, between this issue. sallyport is an outgrowth of the pattern around sallyport and the The architectural form used for 0 characterized by the splayed door openings. Dedicated by Him." fourteenth century Gothic church of architecture of Lombardy, sallyport are examples of the Italian type of brick laying used in 1NG the dedication of Rice S. Fermo Maggoriore in Verona. COACH NEELY— Around .1.) Lovett Hall. titute to letters, science and A story concerning this rose-gray (Continued from Page the . the marble tablets on the brick has been working the rounds mailing list. He also mentioned the Alumni Placement vote of thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Hi- svillg of Lovett Hall. The pla- of the architectural department at opening of fellow Rice alumni. Alumni Associa- work in mak- letters bears the head of Ho- Rice for some years now. The tale Service, which the Those present for the meeting ram Walker for their head of tion initiated January 1, and of the They made der which is inscribed Pin- has it that Watkin, now were: Dr. and Mrs. A. D. Zucht, Jr., ing this meeting possible. thing the department, rode an armed train, good it was doing towards placing meeting, bute to style: "The H. Austin, '27; Gladys all arrangements for the Okla- the graduating seniors in positions '26; Edward says well goes forth with carrying the brick back from contact work in for F. Hitchcock, '31; Richard Jones, and did most of the Unto everlasting." homa through hordes of fierce and the finding of openings out of jobs Chandler; Mrs. making such a large turn-out pos- Newton's profile adorns the Apaches and Utes, "armed to the alumni who are either '42 (Seguin); Bill positions. Frances Fink- science with Job's words: teeth and daubed with war paint." or are looking for better Ruth Herring, '34; sible. by tell- Klappenbach, 935 to the earth and it shall Investigation proves this tale Mr. Schumacher continued beiner; Ernst K. The meeting of District 10, Rice Mrs. thee!„ quite apocryphal. The true story is ing the group of the great strides (New Braunfels); Mr. and Alumni Club, originally scheduled the past few McMurtray, '25; Mr. and 25 date, tablet to art has Leonardo da that some of the marble used in Rice has made in Roy S. for Waco this same July its program . . . Forbes, '37; Bill Tom, later in the fall. I head and the words: "The Lovett Hall came from a long un- years in building Mrs. John R. was postponed until classroom Sven P. Helland, ruliction of art is to make used quarry in the Ozark Moun- the opening of the new '49; Mr. and Mrs. Hall; the open- Mrs. Guy Jackson, '39; 0 the life of the world." tain region of Oklahoma. This par- building, Anderson '20; Mr. and engineering build- John Koy, '32; Mr. the right and left of the ticular type of marble was needed ing of the new Mr. and Mrs. ing, Laboratory; the M. J. Gerhardt, '20; Mr. OWLS ALUMNA E— ittatrance to sallyport are the for the building, so William Miller Abercrombie and Mrs. the beautiful Fon- Rudy, '41; Mr. and ; of .e-sized draped figures: one, and Sons, the contractors, had to re- completion of and Mrs. M. M. (Continued from Page 1) dren Library; the president's home; Jockusch,'41; le of science, screening her open the pits. The quarry had been Mrs. John and the present construction of the Mrs. James Irvine, '25, A permanent record system has teristic .13roceeds under Aristotle's so long abandoned and the area was Mr. and B. Williams, set up, and the class agents )rtal. "If we properly observe ce- so wild back in 1910 that some of new dormitory building. and son; Rev. George been to reach all of the ante 5°01 Good Football Team Jr., '43, and party; Mr. and Mrs. are endeavoring Coach Jess Neely, the other guest Walter E. Loughridge, '26; A. F. 200 odd 0. W. L. S. alumnae in 1 bell Basket Capitals, Lovett Hall speaker for the occasion, gave a Tygret, '33; (Mineral Wells); Mr. Houston. brief run-down of his squad for the and Mrs. Hiram Walker, '48; Mr. During August the group will t a coming season and expressed the and Mrs. Ivan Whitt, 33; Jeremiah hold a benefit bridge party to secure )re e belief that the Owls would have a Schmidt, '25 (New Braunfels); Mr. funds for their annual contribution —the very fine football team this year. and Mrs. Jake Schuehle, '39; Mr. to Fondren Library. he He added, however, that the ten and Mrs. Jess Neely, Mr. Joe Davis,1 A picnic and swimming party was achi teams we play would be strong too. Major and Mrs. A. M. Mohnac, John held at the Pine Forest Country -ee f said that the team would be '30; and Whitlock Clubs in June. About 50 members the He Schuhmacher, built around his 25 returning sen- Jr., '42. and their families had a very en- e so Zander, ior squadmen and some up and com- All of those present extended a joyable time. his ing juniors. e ah° IIMMIIIIIIII1111111111111M111111111111111111111Mr_ 1111111111111IMMIN Concerning the recent marriage a aii of his ace quarterback, Tobin Rote, • but Coach Neely remarked that he had • Rice • an agreement with the new Mrs. • high Rote, that he would take care of I BALDWIN.. ral 0 Tobin till after football season, and . were • . then she could be in charge of him • t. • from then on out. • ;sig, Following his talk, Coach Neely • his showed the football pictures of the • Ling • Rice-Arkansas game of 1948, and • ?, all everyone enjoyed this part of the • in program very much, especially so, Id since Rice was on the long end of fiffer • the final score. • aPs• Dr. Zucht in closing the meeting . • . • stated that the club would meet• • ts some time in the near future to photo • .a elect officers for the club and adopt 0'080112C a • • the constitution to be used by the • • tails group. • • "The World's Finest Small Piano!" ii )us Huge Success • as This first meeting of the first • ex District club to be organized was a • the. huge success, and all who attended PACE PIANO CO. ice 15 had a very good time and spent an • CHARLES A. PACE '25 • • • enjoyable evening with President • Houston, Beaumont and Pt. Arthur • lIe of Lovett Schuhmacher; Coach and Mrs. Nee-• • to girt i `.basket" column capitals on the Physics Building end ST. HOUSTON Phone CH-6989 • the other ly; Coach Joe Davis; and theirs.11 1511 MAIN 1(haters are an exclusive Byzantine development, unlike many old and new friends; their Ch Rpitals Limsammiummummummummuisimmumi Six SALLYPORT Augus't

{that's 1 ,j U of lire SALLYPORTIN I gt 71,4 G • • •• • • • • • • 21,4. an( CLASS a geo OF 1917 CLASS OF 1926 one incident that profession:smade 10 g Class Agent: CLASS OF 1931 oustouu n,i1 Class Agent: to throw over one Miss Helen Weinberg Class Agent: Mrs. John Holland another. 'I just suddenly 3345 Palm W. Brant Rawson k°11t at n (Elsa Schneider) wanted to be a preacher,': t116 4 Houston 4, Texas P. 0. Box 2637 at the 2739 Centenary haired one-time chemical Maud Michaux Powell returned Houston, Texas eniZe woo Houston 5, Texas said. 'So I gave up my recently from attending the gradu- T. V. Moore, who went on to get job, 8 to get Dr. Frank B. Loomis has a chiro- back to schoot Maybe ation of her daughter, Maud, from his BS in ChE in '27, is with Stand- it 92r1' oncc practic clinic in Huntington Park, war, he admitted Sweet Briar College at Sweet Briar, ard Oil Development Company in thoughtfT`lichols California. After his days at Rice, was a Navy lieutenant eVe Virginia. "Mimi," as Maud, Jr., is New York. He's married to the in I he attended Texas A&M in '29 and motor torpedo boat in the, known, was graduated as a music former Kathleen Houseman (Rice, '30. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. S. with no chaplain within resT major. She was presented in her '25), and they have one son— 01' Ra Loomis, live in Houston at 4315 tance. 'And when a bunch own senior piano concert on May 8. Thomas, Jr., who's 13. The Moores ei:June 2 Garrott. Frank's wife, Dr. Mary are isolated like that, the t She composed the music,and did the live at 33 Buckingham Lane, Man- 'tlsil\ no Kutner Loomis, attended the Los sort of has to be a chaplaiTh choreography for the senior play hasset, N Y Mary Northrup Lee v Angeles College of Chiropractic. men. That was me,' the' 11 which was given in November. Mimi (Mrs. D. Merritt Abbott) and her He's a Mason, a Lion, a member of Fairbrother added. It took! Ill has been given an award for her husband are building a new home in titt the National Medical Society back at his old outstanding work in choreography. Indianapolis. In October their new and job of chenlic_sjA‘ird, as Sigma Chi Omega . . .Howard M. neer for the Champion P9 Congratulations, Mimi! . . Mrs.. H. address will be 7995 Evanston Road. P7lizing Banner writes that he left the coun- Fibre Company for that de E. Cray (Verner Benton) lives in Her husband is chief clerk with the ;:ledicine. try immediately after leaving Rice, materialize. Then, one daY, Houston at 7666 Edna street . . . Texas Company. Aside from bring- kontro and that he's lost track Fairbrother ing up her 15-year-old son, Frank of a lot of quit his job, 011411113er c the old grads. They're all the seminary of G. Abbott, Mary's hobbies are gar- around, the Unive.2Of Ha; Howard. Howard is assistant Frank Wallace the South in CLASS OF 1922 dening and bridge. So until Octo- gen-' Sewanee, Te174 cl of dir eralimanager I settled down Class Agent: ber, her address is 5939 for Bewley Mills n to his books. Se'"Iii saciatio Primrose nies on management problems in Avenue Fort Worth, dealing with personnel was new to him, but net v'llston Mrs. Sam R. Hay in Indianapolis . . .Paul much the same I and buying. He and his wife, way a large corpor- days. He had graduated (Gessner Lane) Stroup takes time out from his job, Alison, flo live at have ate law firm serves its clients on in 3660 Meadow Lake Lane assistant superintendent two children—David Knox, 8 1936 with a BS in ChE, H;ibett'i.e at Hous- legal problems." In 1945, Franeer he' i sd Houston, and Carol Rae, 31/2 running around Frank was his master's degree in the sa187te Texas ton's Manchester Terminal Corpor- made 1622 Fifth Avenue a principal in McKinsey and ject in Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Tidwell were ation, to raise cattle. He's in Fort Worth 1939 from MIT. a mem- Company. Two years later, he moved in Houston recently, staying at the ber of step in reaching the minian10:411d the Texas and Southwestern to Chicago to take part Tons Shamrock. in the man- when he was ordained With them was their Cattle Raiser's Association as well agement June er Doro of the firm's office there. ing a service daughter, Alice Ann who will enter as being a member of the in St. Mark's Joh Traffic. During the war, one of his major SMU as a freshman this fall. Rod- Club. He CLASS OF 1933 Church. Bishop Quin condt7i1ty and his wife, the former assignments was working Jun' ney married Class Agent: out the service, assisted by Bishop Alice Simmonds of Mary Starper, have two children— production Thomas H. Hale program of amphibian tor Temple; she attended Baylor. They Betty Ann, 17 and Richard, John E. Hines. In JulY, 15. They tanks used extensively in the live at 1176 4th street live 3000 McKinney Pacific. 35-year-old Episcopal millist in Alice, in Houston at 6611 Sylvan Rd... It's not all :ttAgenSt:S Houston 3, Texas work, though, for Frank; ported to Texas. Rodney is interested in the Arthur Darling (Zuke) Zucht, his first job—r_e_:et 11 Jr. is Dr. Robert K. he has the extraordinary hobby Puenticitas Oil Company as well a San Antonio Blair has his phy- of St. Phillips in Hearne and DrLlou 4 hh, as dentist, in practice oil painting. And when in sician's office in Houston at 2418 he's in New in Calvert. Until they find 81:16:'an farming. His business address is with his father. Zuke has two chil- York, 'tonawtli Travis. He and his wife, the he manages to drop in at the of 637 Nueces Hotel Building, Corpus dren—Gay Diane, who's former their own, the Rev. 5P almost 14 Madeline Harvard Club where he's a Christi. He's a member and Freeman (Rice, '34), have member. Fairbrother and their three t 6' of the Arthur Darling III, who's al- Frank and three children—Judith, 12; Lydia, his wife, Clara (a Uni- dren will live Darem Temple Waco, the Methodist most 12. In San Antonio is a mem- with his Par° 7 and Robert, 4. versity of Michigan alumna) live Church in Alice and is an enthusias- ber of the Bob is a member 2922 Plumb in Houston. . Quarterback Club, the at 222 Essex Road •liaisnsentghrier tic golfer. of the Harris County Medical Asso- in Winnetka, Pond is assistant to the -g Alice Ann, by the way, Turners, the Elks and the San An- Illinois. ciation, Riverside Methodist Church secretary of Board Was selected as best all around girl tonio Golf Association. Besides his the for C'), and the U of T Medical School Social in high school last year. She's a interest in golf, he's taken up square of the American 111;j4/ Alumni. He plays golf at Brae Burn Church. past Worthy Advisor of the Rain- dancing. At his age!! Zuke lives in CLASS OF 1934 He has a shorteo Country Club in Houston when Class now, bow Girls, attending the Grand As- Alamo Heights, at 435 Normandy Agent: as surveyor and he takes time away from sembly in Houston during the latter Avenue . .. his other Grover Geiselman social welfare agencies and: hobby of part of June . . Perhaps. square dancing . . Her-. City Nat'l. Bank Bldg. tions of the church, traveling' b_ent: you have orofl schol M. Vaughn of 1020 13th, Port Houston, Texas Waverly, Iowa been reading the series of articles . . . riassils17:4 Arthur took some time Benjamin :arSbeSe in the Houston Press called "Doctor, CLASS OF 1927 off this Briseno Castrejon, who Lorimer was awarded his ' summer to take a trip got his Come Quickly!" They were written on his own B.A. from Rice in '34, has degree in education in inne 8rdeen 4' Class Agent: yacht. He took his family been awarded by Margaret Blackwell Davis of the and his his doctorate from Western Reserve Universit, n' Milton B. McGinty mother and father on a 600 Washington Rams class of '22. Margaret married Dud- mile University . 2425 Ralph trip to Pass Cavallo in Matagorda ley Davis, who also was class of '22. 1101iollyn°111(woo Houston 6, Texas Bay and adjacent waters. "Fishin' Dudley was killed in an accident in R. C. Hoppe is city manager at wasn't too hot," he reports. CLASS OF 19'0 14 farne, 1931 while he was managing editor Herschel CLASS OF 1935 Waco. He and Elizabeth Wood is married to the former Eleanor Class Agent: , of the Houston Press. Mary has one Class Agent: Hoppe (she's a Hardin Simmons-ex) Stevens who got her BS Archi- Robert i,4113ortai daughter, Mrs. Mary Davis Pack in Wilbur. Hess M. Williams have two children—Robert H., 17 tecture in 1936. They have two sons: 4825 Chenevert. No. 4 ,,1112an Fi who also went to Rice—class of '49. 617 1st Nat'l. Bank Bldg. and Patricia Ann, 15. He can be H. M., Jr., 9 and Francis, 6 . . . Houston 4, ``)°, and Margaret lives at 2104 Ruth in Houston 2, Texas Texas lio reached at the City Hall in Waco James A. Beeley is an officer ill'elative: Houston. She belongs to the ... for Dr. Clarence Scheps went on to Kenneth Kinch PALS the Knapp, WI 0 ,°11ston s alumnae. Texas Pipe Bending Company get his master's from Columbia We're all proud of Mar- and on to A&M to get his Petr°',e J .:eir4 which fabricates pipe for the pe- his Ph.D. from Louisiana vac garet and the name she is making Univer- gineering degree in 1940, I hi llise, B, CLASS OF' 1928 troleum, chemical and other indus- sity for herself as a writer . . .Marie after his BS from Rice in 1935. troleum engineer with Ka° prly. Class tries. He's a member of the Hous- Now he's assistant to the Th Rose Remmel writes that she's being Agent: president and Gas Company in ParnO:g t ton Country Club, and you can at tip TE transferred to Boston "as a result Mrs. Shad E. Graham find Louisiana University. His new Kenneth and his wife, Patricipai4. him there, puttering around they ; of the merger of the (Ruth E. McClain) the book, "Accounting for Colleges and two children: Kirwin Evangelical greens KinelliA°Ilston a and 3370 Ozark when he's not taking pic- Universities," has just been pub- Reformed Church and the iCon- 5 and Karen Kay Knapp. 150k, Houston tures of his three kids around the lished by the Louisiana itl anotl gregational Christian Churches. Will 4, Texas State Uni- alliteration for you!! Ken Clother c, pool. That's Robert Alfred, 11; Lin- versity Press. still be doing editorial work in the T. Hagan Allin has been elected He and Wife Mary (a the first bunch in the da Kay, 8; and Becky, 5. He's mar- LU-ex) ArlilY'rl' Ber field of religioius education." Ma- president of the Dallas Chapter of have two children—Philip, in as a second john in i,it 11e ried to the former Roberta Moore 6 and Edward, jti tit ilager a rie's new address is 14 Beacon St. the Federal Bar Association. He's an 1 . . .William F. and coming out as a lieuten8.. who graduated from in Ilager o in Boston . . . attorney for the Department Rice in 1936. Burke, Jr. is chief production engi- nel in 1945 of La- after serving 0,1:11), Pac bor Jim and his family live at 4317 Blod- neer for Lone Star Gas Company in Dallas. Membership in this European Theatre . . • Sat gett in Houston . . . Bill Burke and Lone Star Producing 1111(1 of organization comprises attorneys Company Marsh writes that "we saWelotot)',()11e (Rice, '35) tells us that J. Lee i CLASS OF' /923 employed by the federal govern- which is a public utility as well as old friends at a wonderful viNtile Lucile Dannebaum Thompson is research engineer for an oil producing company. tube Meyer is a ment. The chapter was chartered in Bill and party of the Rice Club in '14 60 'tlthia f housewife, living in Lone Star Gas Company in Dallas his wife, the former Houston at 1817 1941 when Tom C. Clark, now U.S. Virginia Jen- (a icteh,e of Prorrei .. Frank Wallace has had quite tittearto in South Boulevard. She's the widow of attorney-general, was national a ca- kins (an ex-TSCWite) live in Dallas. (Rice, '34)." That reer since his Rice days. He attended They have two Mr. L. M. Meyer . . . president of the organization. Allin children—Bill Jr., 7 bunch is really atop the sPlle,01Y0, mo Harvard Business School for is quite active in the Rice Alumni two and Martha Diane, 3 . . Earl. B. who went on to get his phD' el "Itirtg years-1933 to 1935, receiving his Barnes CLASS OF Club . .. Thomas E. Lowe is a is assistant professor of is a research chemist for' 19:1.50 atitied°1 1925 MBA in '35. The same year he went surgery Class Agent: Houston physician with offices at at Georgetown University Cynamid Company. He and 111 (li 'the with a firm of national public ac- Medical Center. life Charles A. Pace 3803 Harrisburg. He lives at 4385 His offices for pri- the former Ruth Whitsoolokte a countants, Peat, Marwick, Mitchell vate 1511 Main Street Blodgett . . . practice are at 1150 Connecti- '42), have three children-- Oka 'an and Company. With them he spent Houston 2, cut Avenue in Washington, D. C. King, 5; 'Walter Whitsun Texas four years 81le mi.: in Kansas City, Missouri Earl and Edna have one girl: Eunice (Oliver) Reid, who's a sec- Pam- Daniel Whitson, 1. The five '' ,a , and one in Washington, D.C. While ela, who's retary CLASS OF 1930 three. His wife, the for- live at 82 Gardiner Streetirs1;4,,, Pad. with Phillips Petroleum Com- in Kansas City, he was an evening mer Edna Youngs, is a University ton Heights, pany, writes that "during July of Class Agent: instructor Conn. . .• "011,1:1,111 at at Rockhurst College. of California alumna this year I made . . . Triplett (Mrs. Joseph R. '1,IV sons.: an 11-day cruise Carl Blig Frank made C. P. A. with this out- to Havana and Guatemala has two children: G. Heillifir aboard 1113 Milford fit. In 1940 he joined his present frifiiZ:,: D'obe lett III, 5, and United Fruit Company's SS Chiri- Houston 6, Texas firm—McKinsey David Clarice "e< Valenti and Co., Man- CLASS OF 1936 3. qui." It seems that this was Eunice's Richard Joe Shannon is a Rlee,c0K 'rand C. Bellamy, who took two agement Consultants. Its personnel Class Agent: second trip aboard the Chiriqui years classB, Bof '2802.5TheShan-A in La nonpoesrt'', l;'§'i ,. lta sc: and of his pre-med at Rice, is a is made up of specialists in various V. B. Dowe her third down the Latin physician American -surgeon at Daisetta, Tex- management fields, like personnel 4718 Laurel St. way. Why for their mailing address •' 'llorltil don't some of you drop as. He's been in practice in the Dai- relations, marketing, etc. Frank Bellaire, ?lac is Texas class of '38 by and compare notes—Eunice's setta-Liberty area ever decided tile A, Farn, for the past 13 a specialist in management controls "Horace Fairbrother," said the home address is 117 River Oaks years. contest to see who has t ccI,... ja. His wife, the former Esther and organization. "The firm," article in the June 25 edition Gardens of the children, Ralph G. Nic11015,,Ziv s0 ;- in Houston . . . Sayers, is a TU-ex . Frank says, "serves large Houston compa- Press," can't remember any sure be in the running. Ile .4 °11 A/ Seven kug11.'91 August, 1949 SALL YPORT

and Charlie are now at 4041 Doris Marie Bickel on June 18 at (that's the former Isabelle keep 3-year-old Sister Patricia oc- Apartments . . . Steve Dyer is a zanne H. Ray Purdue in Houston, after being in Anne's Church in Houston. The 11 of Oklahoma-ex) have cupied. Saunders is an architect party chief for the Robert St. 1 in the Austin where he was in Law School. g, 7/12; Tracy (girl), 5j; with the Texas Company in Hous- Company on Bahrein Island couple are making their home at Steve has been with He's now a special representative • and Terry, 9 months. ton, living at 3905 Tennyson . . Persian. Gulf. 3438 Rosedale in Houston . . It's. from Rice, for Trans-Texas Airways. They geologist with Superior We regret write of the death of Ray since his graduation Doris 14 a 3 and now Mrs. Maurice Adam for hiel 0. Deming. He died July 5 has been on foreign service for five have three children—Sherry, le easton, room 400 in the Oil Julius June 20. His mailing address is Party the twins, Susan and Charles Jr. J. Deppenbrock—as of •ssion 8 Builling. When Ralph in Oak Ridge, Tennessee after doc- years. interning at John Sealy in to remove a ruptured No. 5, Quatar, c/o I.P.C., Bahrein who are 8 months old . . . Doris is enly tat at night, you maybe can tors failed attending Persian Gulf . . . Ann and Galveston. And Maurice is er,' the at the bowling alley or in appendix in time. Julius was head of Island, announce med school there . . . Also in Gal- ical woodworking shop. He K-25 Production Department at Fred Williams (Ann Tuck) '44 CLASS OF OCT. are Mrs. Sadie Gwen Allen job to the week- Oak Ridge, coming there in Feb- the arrival of Fred L. Williams, III veston get away on Class Agent: He's es- by his on June 23. Ann and Fred and Fred Blackburn and Husband Ed. e it once in a while to fish. ruary, 1944. He is survived Jr. in Texas Mrs. J. E. McCleary, tablishing residency at John Sealy ughtf Nichols (or the thirty Pen- wife, Mary Alice Deming, and his III are living Angleton, with (Maribel F. Spiller) for two years, having just finished .nt in Houston at 5400 La parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Wil- where Big Fred is a lawyer 606 West Polk at Jeff Davis in Houston the is catching liam Deming of Overton, Texas. He Masterson and Pope . . Mary. Oli- internship • . R. W. Baird Houston, Texas Stirton an- Tennessee on via Fuller and Laura Louise Peden . . .Mr. and Mrs. David n ro 01' Ralph. R. W. Jr. was was buried in Clinton, was on vacation Little Mark Malone Feehan nounce the arrival of twins on April lch of Jane 22. That makes three July 7 . . . have been in Houston born May 29, 1949 in Coronado, Johanne and David Kirk are during June. They are both living 20—Linda the ds now. The other two son of Major in New York City and share an California. He's the . . .Fred M. Winn Jr. is at 1214 Lee who's 7 and Joan B., Albert Feehan CLASS OF 1941 apartment at 225 W. 69th Street. and Mrs. Harvey South Denver in Tulsa where he's a the Mrs. Baird is the former Lindsay Agent: a play, and (Betty Malone) . . Frank design engineer for Unit Rig and took who got her B.A. in Class Mary Olivia is writing Rill Barcus was ordained a Lutheran which manu- :here' Mrs. R. M. Williams Laura Louise is associated with a Equipment Company trd, as you know, is an M. 19. The or- (Leah Powell) stock brokerage firm . . .Sue and minister Sunday, June factures oil field equipment. Fred's ,n ing in diagnosis and in- took place at Grace 4825 Chenevert, No. 4 Bob Jameson (Sue Kurth) live at dination services wife, Martha Ann, is a 1948 gradu- hat eine. He has his offices Frank Houston 4, Texas Boulevard in Houston. Lutheran Church in Houston. ate of the University of Oklahoma, day, Montrose in Houston. He's 706 Chelsea graduated from Rice and the Chi- where Fred got his master's in e department of The sleepy proofreader last month They've been vacationing this month 'Tiber of the cago Lutheran Theological Semi- . .. Here's in this column. in New Mexico in Holy Ghost Can- mechanical engineering Unive Of Baylor Med School, on let a typo slip by at Holy yon . . .Jimmy Winters graduated nary. He will be assistant such a nice letter from Edith Tho- ?, (I of directors of the Settle- wife is Bernie, dim- Marion Floyd's Trinity Evangelical Church in Elgin, John Edward Clayton) of from TU law school last November rold (Mrs. °dation and a member inutive for Bernice, NOT Beanie. Virginia Arnold's en- not and is now with the Houston firm of Illinois . . . that we're going to pass it on to ilston Harvard Club. The Feehan has Their son, Ben, is eight-months old Blades, Kennerly, Fisher and Whet- gagement to Thomas J. you. "First of all," she writes, "I ed fr° live at 2513 MacGregor parents, Dr. now . . A. E. Groff is now prac- worth . . Neal. A. Prince is the new been announcel by her would like to tell you how much I ChE, • Here's another of '38 that is ticing medicine at 1012 Esperson of the Houston Little The- and Mrs. Edmond B. Arnold. He enjoy reading your column, for like the se e children—John Frankie. president in Houston, specializing in the son of Mrs. Hugh Feehan, Sr. I have lost con- IT.' 1118 Building atre. He's been very active in local most ex-students, le Frankies are Jennie, 8; . . . Betty ninistd internal medicine. He did post grad- theatrical circles, having had his and the late Mr. Feehan tact with so many of my friends, 41d Tony, 2. Mrs. Frankic is Bryant uate work at Harvard Medical play produced by the Little The- Jo Lumbley married William and it's really grand to have a source June Dorothy McMahan of the own ,et _received his M.D. in 1944 White on June 14. They will live such as the Sally- rk's School and atre not to speak of having played of information 10. John is with the Whar- Bill is a grad of 3ondoe . . .Harwell "Tiny" Appling writes the lead in one of the Alley Theater here in Houston. porting column. In 1945 I went to tY Junior College . . president of a Texas A&M . . .Mary Louise Eck- :shop C that he is owner and productions. Neal and Frances (that England and married John Edward house in man married Robert L. Pendley July a member of July, t(.1,e farm implement wholesale Frances Dennan, Rice '42) live at Clayton who was then St. Mark's Methodist Church min'st° Portland, Oregon. He makes fre- 4833 Caroline with their three-and-a 22 at the Royal Air Force. On April 15, LASS OF 1939 Bob is from McDough, b_-reetC quent trips over the West Coast and half-year-old son. Neal is associated in Houston. 1947, Kathleen Ann was born. Af- Agent: to hear from any Rice Georgia, and he received his B.A. for two years, and EP( would be glad with Ernest Shult in the practice ter living in England °I.Ighby Williams in that area and M.A. degrees from Emory in we find 3 people who are living of architecture . . .Beuhrirtg W. my husband was demobbed, and Hawthorne . . . Bill Christopher lives just a Atlanta. He spent four years in the up and returned to Houston." 3V. an Pike is hoping to come back • to packed 4ton 6, Texas blocks from them. His wife, Army Air Corps in intelligence. Bob estate salesman witp r three few Houston. "My wife, Alicia Olivari John is a real • tdward Meadows is a di- attended St. Agnes has just been awarded his doctorate they are liv- Pere Jane Elizabeth, of the class of '39," he writes, "and Hodell Company, and is for Humble Oil a year in • engineer Academy. They have two children— I have tried the East Coast and the from Texas after spending ing at 6012 Community Drive in 'ling Company in Midland. and Beverly Ann, 2/12 France writing his dissertation. He . . . E. Rue the e Janet Sue, 5 West Coast and have, after seven West University Place sa there is 407 North A Broadway, and Mary Louise are living in Aus- expecting for C Bill's address is 27 N.E. years, decided that the old home Thomas and wife Jean are Oregon . . . Hugh E. tin at 805 West 16th. Bob is teach- taking bets at one to .•an- Lti Portland, town is the best place to live." Alicia twins. Rue is architect with the ing there . . . Doyle Andrews, Jr. boys. Rue is rt ase'g Gragg is an and the two Pike daughters have ten that they will be of Nunn and Mc- married Florence Cagle, and they and consul Houston firm been in Houston on vacation, report- working at Humble in Houston LASS OF 1940 2425 Ralph. live at 2811 Guerin Place in Dallas . . and 1 Ginty with offices at ing back to Poppa that it's wonder- has just purchased a new home 5 gent; Hugh and his wife, the former An- ful in spite of the heat. Pike is now with their five-month-old daughter, Harvey Senturia, just back from a borothy Bransford nette Gano of the class of '47, live at the Naval Ordnance Test Station Deborah. Doyle is a clerk with Naval Reserve Cruise to Florida, is t arbee at 3416 Yoakum Boulevard . . Leon. at China Lake, Florida . . Joseph. Southern Pacific there . .. Jack off again on a vacation to Yankee- his on 4, Texas a T. Atlas is senior assistant surgeon David Krakower who got his B.A. Bernard Mazow is an M.D. with the land. Harvey works for H.E. Bo- n June Wil- in rsity k nice note from Mrs. in the U.S. Public Health Service, from Rice in '42, his B.S. in archi- Veterans Administration Hospital vay, consulting engineer, in the Es- e Birath) 1 ilurns Jr. (Elna National Institutes of Health in tecture in '43 was awarded his mas- Houston. He lives at 1659 Harold person building . . Elender. Hickey Gentry, home at 4329 Bethseda, Maryland. He's engaged ter's in architecture in June from . . .Dorothy Louise Witt received Coll, who vacationed in New Mex- Their .ullYwood, California. in research on diseases caused by the University of Southern Cali- her master of arts degree from ico, reports that it rained for the III & Val- 1938 lamed San Fernando viruses. Leon is in charge of the lab- fornia . . . Washington University on June 7. first time everywhere she went. ih,l(im," a cocker spaniel, is oratories and clinical studies inves- Dorothy lives in Houston at 1105 Elender still works for Bovay, too. "Portant member of 4329 diseases, Highland Avenue . .. as- CIS tigating minor respiratory . . Lloyd Orville Crutchfield is is class CLASS OF 1943 0. 4 San Fernando. Bill like the common cold. After leaving sistant manager of the Haverty •00, t and they are presently Rice he spent a year organizing and Class Agent: CLASS OF 1945 Furniture Company's store in bo litelatives in Dallas and will designing processes and equipment Hortense B. Manning Shreveport. Lloyd and his wife, the Ilist Class Agent: )1), // thei on soon. Last year they Smelting and Refin- 2910 Westheimer, No. 4 Louisiana Detrol'e for the Atlas Mrs. Richard A. Isaaks former Jeanne Belden (a vacation in Canada— ing Company—he remains a vice- Houston, Texas Tech-ex), have two children— )40, iS 1 431iir (Lawrean Davis) icevpoi ,se, Banff and Vancouver president of the firm. He received Happy Atkinson (Mrs. Oran L. 4525 Larch Lane Cheryl, 3% and Christine, 8 months. wel amps, 'l:tq' They extend the his M.D. in 1945 from Galveston, Wylie, Jr.) has three children now— Bellaire, Texas They live in Shreveport at 162 Al- to visit ,tr icitilAt `.° Texas friends graduating with the highest schol- Oran III, 5; Sheila, 21/2 and Nancy, Bernard R. Conrad married Miss bert Avenue . . . Srliou,they always love to hear astic average in his class . . . 8 months. Husband Oran Wylie cinch and Dallas! . .. J. B. (Rice, '41) is assistant department en if7k11_ a_ nother nice letter, wish- 1942 manager for the Shell Oil Com- l ,, t 'tiler "good ole Rice alum- CLASS OF pany's ethyl chloride plants. They the Agent: will feature: n jii Berkeley area! He's of- Class have a new address-1124 Ellsworth The '49 - '50 "R I" Magazine John E. Boyd, Jr. lit ager and assistant to the Drive in Pasadena, Texas . . .Wil- utens' ,iba. 2723 Robinhood • A football and basketball photoscope—player and coach .ving illo of Wyandotte Chemi- liam H. Delany Jr. is a draftsman Houston 5, Texas interviews, analysis and predictions for the Southwest Con- Pacific division. He is for Superior Oil in Houston. Like se less sai 1017t 'do of his garden in which Caleb L. Morris, Jr. is nothing Oran, Bill and his wife, Jolly, have ference for the 1949-50 season. the State ee7th _lte of California's best than a bank examiner for three children—Karen, 6; Paula, 2 rful Department. He • Departmental additions, changes, discoveries. in is/e4:t tuberous begonia. When of Maine Banking and Suzanne, 1 . . Robert M. Lay Houston—in Do( 10,,tt:nar fog closes in, and he lives a long way from is an air conditioning contractor • The Engineering Show. J. B. Auburn, Maine at Box 145. He and /il: in the garden, whose business is probably booming ✓ yorl`,;st daughter, __here.N to listen to his records— his wife, Rita, have one this time of year. Mrs. Lay is the • The Alumni events, interviews and Homecoming. . .. pbtjhron N!i Mostly classical. He's Rita Linda who is 16 mos. old former Julia Margaret Bentz who Marion J. • Jokes! Cartoons! Humor! ,14,ng on the libretto of an Janice Howard (Mrs. got her B.A. in '45. Julia is a school husband in biro' thItted "The Gogal." It's Greve) lives with her teacher. The Lays live in Bellaire at and Marion went • If you're interested in Rice, you want RI. Price $2.50. I t4tee life of Meyrich. He says Dallas at 5604 Junius. 5323 Valerie . . . User' School after Rice (Payable on or before June 10, 1950.) ri____0(tA\ 4 a good guide for visit- on to Harvard Med ollea and would be happy to to get his M.D. . . Halora Adams tson, Si? Bob Burleson December 21, CLASS OF FEB.'44 Please send me a full nine issue subscription of the '49-'50 "RI." five Id N 4ek who happens to be in married . R. P. McCants and 1948 in New York City at The Little Class Agent: Price $2.50 reet ill..) 44 :-• /00P,iil 13ady Whitcomb, live in Church Around the Corner. They are Mrs. J. Q. Baldridge, Jr. with their home at 190-06 B 69th (June Whittington) slifilifrilt 1140 :t 3336 Parkwood making Name (print) R. k. ,°118—Earle, 3 and Kevin, Avenue, Flushing, Long Island. Bob 1005 Kenwood folineil• r1S,141tobert is in the engineer. is advertising manager for the Cel- Houston 6, Texas Lrke' (111 is Suzanne Tracy (Mrs. Charles M. Address e 'tient of United Gas Corp. anese Corporation, and Halora Magazine Haden) has just moved to Houston I/ icei,60 'ii_ 'rank Glass, nee Frances employed by Electronics ons' Aili from Brackenridge Apartments in 'es with her husband and as an editorial assistant ... William City and State Porte? At a Mar- Austin. Her husband, Charles Ha- s .... A.it tt.sd one daughter in West Morton Paxton was married to den, received his degree from Rice jlace in Houston. Frank ily McDaniel on February 12 at St. Signature 11'40 Paxton this June, making him B.A. '49, al- Ls tbe ly', arnsworth Construction John the Divine in Houston. for Behring's though he really should be class of cheis ,01[41,;• James Robert Saunders is a sales engineer SEND TO: THE RI MAGAZINE, Paxtons '44. Seems he left after three years lie 14 0. son. James Robert Jr. Bearing Company, and the RICE INSTITFTE, HOUSTON, TEXAS at Rice for the Navy. Anyway Su- n April 3. He'll probably are at home at Wilshire Village Eight SALLYPORT August, I

ing up with Anne Barnes who was CLASS OF 1946 graduate work there this past year. Mr. and Mrs. James K. Foster, Jr. 3. She's housewifing . A married way back last August to Class Agent: Lida is spending the summer in (Barbara Yarrington) live in Bell- other of this rash of marriages' Herman Ray Crosland. Anne is a Miss Alice Houston at "the same old home on ville, Texas with their children— olyn Delhomme as of July 16 i5 BE Stallings statistical clerk for Humble Oil in 6331 Sewanee Suzanne, 4 and Kinch, 1. Barbara's John Curtis Jackson. John Arbor" and would like for some of Houston while Herman is attending DON Houston 5, Texas husband is a dentist in Bellville .. . Ch.E. from Rice in '47; he's the old gang to call her . . .Joy the U H, majoring in business IN 11 Wolfgang P. (Bill) Strassmann's of technical division of Duro Winnie Wroten (Mrs. Ralph Cow- Joyce Kittrell, Emmy Butler ('47), administration. Herman, in his non- light was really shining at the Uni- Orange, Texas. Carolyn, whe5e gill) has been visiting relatives in Barbara Hicks, Suzy Johnson, Billie studying time, is a salesman for versity of Texas this year. He was tures have been spread 01, Houston along with her two girls Brodford Brown, Day Dobleman Hollywood Overhead Door Company. a Phi Beta Kappa and Rhodes Schol- Houston sheets, plans to We' —Barbara, 2 and Susan, 11 months. (Bayless) Alice Edmington (who The Croslands live in Houston at arship state finalist. He graduated ior high English there this f Winnie and Ralph live in Susque- was a freshman in '46 but finished 1810 Vassar . . . Helen Grace Yar- from TU this May with a major in Mary Davis is now Mrs. Cha hanna, Penna. . . Donald. Lee Spain at TSCW), Elizabeth Vondy and brough is now Mrs. Alton J. Lan- economics and political science. Dur- Pack. Mary's a salesmansb is now a full time farmer, around Johnelle Morrow Cortner have a dis, the housewife of 1196 Peddie e. ing his senior year he was a vice- structor for Foleys. She and C Olton, Texas, having received his gay bridge group going. Lida plans in Houston . . Here's a lad who's president of the stulent body. This live in Houston at 2029 park Si BS in agricultural engineering two to substitute for her new sister-in- really Buddy Farb, two fall he'll be at Columbia working on made good. Herman Conly Fenn is a Cost months ago from Oklahoma A&M. law luring the summer months . . . years after graduation, is president a master's in economics . . . Her- neer (electrical) in Houste He says he's doing irrigation farm- Florence Groce is still millionaire of an oil company. He recently WaMI schel Stewart is a chemical engineer lives at Campbell Road ing. Don's wife, the former Sue hunting in the halls of the Humble 1501 with Victor Chemical Works in Illi- brought in a well near Baytown. letter Naomi Teal, is a BBA graduate of Building . . .Robert William Bell 0 nois. He's assistant superintendent He and his brother, Aubrey Farb k, '42, r Texas Tech . . . Beverly Taylor is and wife Rosemary (Schmidt) live of their semi-works division. Her- (Rice, '43 )are in business together 8 of '4 now public relations director at the at 6349 Vanderbilt with their two- schel, who's still a bachelor, lives at . . . Oxis K. Ausmus, Jr. is up in Naval Personn Houston Anti-Tuberculosis League. year-old son, Robert Patrick. Bob 1309 Sunnyside in Chicago Heights Marshall, Texas working under ell 'I She reports that she still possesses holds a Pan American Fellowship . . . Woolworth's manager training pro- is own the class prediction that she and in chemistry at Rice . . .Mrs. Wil- End Tour of Du gram. He's assistant manager of the InPlemer Muriel Wicks wrote but never pub- burn A. Boebel (Mignonette Berg) Woolwbrth store there. Oxis and i1beysd OOre2hBi7a• lished because it got to the writes that Owl too she has quit her job to CLASS OF 1947 Kathie Jane live in Marshall at 803 At Rice Navy U triPs ove late. She suggests we have a class enjoy life at home (6538 Lawson) Class Agent: North Franklin . . .Ruth Corinne be glad' reunion centered arounl the just being There'll officer reading a housewife . . . Muriel Mrs. Thomas W. Smith Meyer, now Mrs. Driscall H. Otto, be a new Who ar of same. Wicks at Rice's Those who agree might became the bride of (Mary Simpson) Jr., is a Houston housewife, liv- naval R.O.T.C. I Christ drop me a line . .. Lida Kittrell Javier Escobar classes start fall. The of Mexico City on 1743 Colquitt ing at 1403 Holman . . . next from t in with writes that she plans to start work June 25 at the Annunciation Church Houston 6, Texas personnel is in line atte on her doctorate in math at Texas in Houston. They honeymooned in Well, we must apologize for being CLASS OF 1948 policy of a two-year tour °I University next year. She has taken Mexico and will settle in Austin .. . so far behind. We're just now catch- Marine Major Cleland g• t Class Agent: the only one who had been Rodney Quinby three years, reported in I 409 Bankers Mortgage Bldg. kuregOn.'' the Troop Training Unit HAVE WE HEARD FROM YOU LATELY? Houston 2, Texas ge4's Tir ibious Base at Coronado, Sas Jacquelin Stoltje was a June If we have not heard from you for several months, please fill out the below in- California. His relief is Manse bride. She married a fellow editor: formation blank and send it to the Association of Rice Alumni, Post Office Box 1892, with the or J.E. Shepherd, Jr. of th rhythmic name of C. Milton I have n Houston 1, Texas. Your classmates would like to know what you are doing, whom you C. Marine Division now statio Jones. C. Milton king rp married, your C. is a second john Camp Pendelton, California. business, and other items of interest. We would also like to get our in the marines, stationed 't has a at Quan- To Diving Jt records as up to date as possible. Let's fill out the information and have a lot of School displez tico, Virginia. They were married Commander news for SALLYPORTING Lieutenant rnigh in our next issue. in Houston June 8, just after he ver USS 131° will command the 'bling to had graduated from the U.S. Naval OP a submarine rescue vessel "ottinghl Academy'. Jackie is living at 928 with the Fleet. Befere NAME Pacific I also d Pizer in Houston for the time being ing over he spend two will to g . . .Geraldine Howard (Mrs. Henry at the Deep Diving Schoe Sea !lice at CLASS: DEGREE (If Graduate) Allen Miller) had an appropriate al Washingt Gun Factory in ° it doe Mother's Day gift here recently. He will be relieved by 1-aell of hi FULL NAME OF HUSBAND OR WIFE: Henry Allen, Jr. was born then. J.A. Grace, who is noW Jr. oewever Geraldine's husband is attending the the Quillback, a subnlart USS (41 that University of Houston. The three erating in Atlantic Flee,' SCHOOL ATTENDED the tIlanled Millers live in Houston at 2306 Hop- Lieutenant Leon B. 131°1f ,had ma kins . . Betty Jean Underwood and- spend a the NavY NAME OF CHILDREN: year at clizabett AGE Richard Lee Schleier are another Newport, VI Line School at all tc 'Rice couple. They live in Houston at land. Lieutenant His relief, d in R AGE 1847 Branard. Betty Jean is a chem- H. Dozier comes from tile 4 we N ist at W.H. Curtin Company . . . school. details. Coptain Brantly, cola Most Permanent Mailing Address: N.D. atraighte of to i Ice CLASS OF 1949 the unit, will return Or thr weeks Class Agent: spending two to four my City State ing la° Ernest Maas the Armed Forces :houth ti• School Barracks, 2307 Isabella at Carlisle tie abot BUSINESS Houston 4, Texas California. ut Now comes Nancy Hood who's a (Contim POSITION HELD feminine fly boy for Braniff. She RICE MIDDIES 1) works out of Dallas on the Dallas to (Continued from Page TYPE OF BUSINESS Denver run. "How about flying with and Toledo. During the last IlaS me sometime?" she writes. Thanks, July they participated Nancy, but it'll be some few years OTHER INFORMATION vers in the Southern C° ktis I] before any 49er will be flying, ex- area. cept on company expense. "I'm al- Thirty-three regular ready through with my training," dents received six weeka fore she continues, "and have flown to training at Pensacola, Flo,,:, Denver and Chicago by myself. Of two weeks amphibious trill'o ter course I had a little help from the Dallas ADDRESSEE, PLEASE NOTE! Little Creek, Virginia. Tilie/ a di captain and copilot, but they were had to leave June 4, the ()c nice about it. I didn't have to teach If you attended Rice, you are en- commencement exercises.. to be 'em a thing. The place where I live Mari titled a copy The three senior %eii t g to of each issue of Sally- is just wonderful. Have a 3 bed- officer candidates are at 4 i port without obligation. For delivery of room apartment with Mary Virginia Virginia in the middle of, larStThg be, Sallyport, the Alumni Office must have Hill, another girl in this hostess perie months basic training October your best, direct business with me. Have seen Brady mailing address. time they finish on August oti in D (Tyson) about four times. He looks instruction will have had !f Oallas real well. Seems to like the theolo- IMPORTANT training necessary to clut,liar 41e f gical school at SMU very well. Al- for commissions in the eordially Is your address though he's been correct as stencilled? having a lot of Midshipmen from the w trouble with Is the spelling of your name and your his car, he still seems NROTC colleges, about' 2•1 00V I hold happy. Heard from class numerals correctly shown, and as Micky Macaluso. participated in the cruise 4 of y He's loafing along you desire? on the 52-20 Rice boys. club allowance, but is coming to TU for an M.A. in September." Nancy's ALUMNI SPEAK— p i) IF NOT, PLEASE RETURN THE Dallas address is 3809 Bowser, (Continued from Pag,,- Apartment 1 William A. Mal- FORM BELOW WITH CORRECTIONS ones who've moved and le" el. 0 seed writes from Long Beach, Cali- slowly trac cu lO address. We are CO 444 fornia where he's a technologist for down—through relatives' tIO:' 11 v:tellooeLlee°:11:8:1atientPirttinleaha 03 Shell Oil. He and Jeanne (Jeanne etc. 03 In the past twelve 01;001 undeliver 0 Marie Carter) have an apartment at example, we have found ° .1 obe Full Name and Class Year 2140 Magnolia in Long If Beach . . . Fourth: Although you 0,ell all In the siege of marriages, seeming- data t oUt-of_i 0 there are some more C.) ly a perennial aftermath of gradu- to pass on. Out of the 6,49 en ation, Nancy Helen Walters married ates 14, Maiden Name if there have been 4,1 ti taatbrlaeci 03 Married Elwood Wayne Vogt, of class '47. a15 0 deivethde bnaecxhetlolrarogfeet 1,01;ijr 4t1(t.eig l ini He holds a mechanical and civil en- And io the elD bp gineering as degree and works with the graduates are the chenlic Humble Oil Company. POSTMASTER: of °' The couple neers with an even 600- f, 0 Most Permanent Direct Mailing Ilted co 0. Address are living at 4708 San Jacinto, Apt. lot from