Volume 30, Number 5 The . Association of Rice Alumni May-June l 975

THE HUMAN COURSE OF EDUCATION

WHOIS WILLIAM GOYEN? BEHIND THE HEDGES MAY30, 1975 WILLIAM MARSH RICE AND HIS INSTITUTE: A YOUNG MAN IN A YOUNG CITY THE SWEATSHIRT SWEEPSTAKES WINNERS 2 SALLYPORT MAY-JUNE

BY PATRICE R.EPUSSEAU

"I've just heard that you have come from France to study the work of William . . . " "Goyen." "William wlw?" "William GOYEN." "I've never heard of him . .. Would you mind spelling his name?" "G-O-Y-E-N. Gas in ghost, 0 as in oto­ laryngologist, Y as in Yoakum, E as in East (Texas) and N as in never-late-than­ better." "Goyen. You said Goyen, didn't you . . . How strange!" "How strange!"

HIS NOT-TOO SENSICAL DIA­ LOGUE is a sample of the numer­ ous non-conversations I have had since I stepped- or rather sank -intoT Harris County syrup at Houston 's Intercontinental Airport one late August afternoon in 197 4; non-conversations with students, university professors and inhabitants of Trinity, Texas (where Wil­ liam Goyen BA '37, MA '39, was born in 1918). To the name of Goyen, practically no bell rang, and this name being rather unusual hereabouts, my French accent could but partly account for my interlo- · cutors' blank wonder, sometimes dismay. In an essay about Goyen's novel In a Farther Country ( 1955 ), poet Robert Phillips wrote in SOUTHWEST REVIEW, "A prophet, as the saying goes, is not known in his own country." Unfortu­ nately, this applies perfectly in Goyen's instance. Besides the readers of SOUTH­ WEST REVIEW and a small group of faith­ ful enthusiasts, few Texas people, and surprisingly few Rice people, know this writer whose books and stories have been published in the United States, Ger­ many, England, Switzerland, Canada, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Den­ mark, France, Poland and Argentina. The House ofBreath, recognized inter­ nationally as Goyen's masterpiece (but built themselves an adobe house on a York City, with occasional forays into HEN The House of Breath which has been out of print in the U.S. piece of land that had been given them, Pennsylvania, writing and intermit­ was published, in August, for many years), has just been reissued. in friendship, by Frieda Lawrence (D. H. tently teaching at the New School or at 1950, it was hailed as a major This April, Goyen took advantage of the Lawrence's wife). Years later, in August, New York University. At that time, he Wliterary achievement by a publication of this twenty-fifth anniver­ 1956, Goyen read a psalm and Law­ began to contribute articles frequently variety of critics and writers including sary edition to make a short tour of his rence's "Song of a Man Who Has Come (and he continues to contribute today) to Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Anne Por­ home state, to visit Rice, the University Through" at Frieda Lawrence's funeral. THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW. ter, Christopher Isherwood and Stephen of Texas and S.M. U., and to speak with During 1948-1949, Goyen, a recipient In 1963, William Goyen married actress Spender. It came to Europe in 1951 with students and professors. In a manner of of a SOUTHWEST REVIEW Literary Fel­ Doris Roberts, who had performed in his the English edition. By the end of 1951, speaking, though, much of Goyen lowship, taught part-time at Reed Col- play Christy (1963), produced that year. the first four chapters of Haus aus remains at Rice always. Due to the gener­ The following two years, grantee of Hauch, translated by the eminent osity of Mary Alice Hamilton BA '32, her the Ford Foundation Fellowship to nov­ scholar Robert Ernst Curtius, had late husband, Charles W. Hamilton BA elists writing for the theater, Goyen appeared in the leading German literary '28, and William Hart, a longtime friend "Though his works have became writer-in-residence at the Lin­ magazine, DIE NEUE RUNDACHAU, and of the writer, Rice's Woodson Research been published in thirteen coln Center Repertory Theatre. From the novel, with its setting in Charity, Center is the depository for the manu­ 1964 to 1966, he taught at Columbia Uni­ Texas, was published in 1952. scripts of Goyen's first five books-The countries, he is hardly versity as a lecturer in English, then left In his preface, E.R. Curtius wrote: House of Breath (1950), Glwst and Flesh known in his own home to become a senior editor for McGraw­ (1952), In a Farther Country, The Faces Hill. During the years he spent there "The House of Breath tells us of of Bl,ood Kindred (1960) and The Fair state. " (1966-1971), Goyen defended the work Charity and East Texas; when it Sister ( 1963 )-along with various pho­ of Heinrich Boll, who had yet to gain ranges farther, it only crosses the tos, poems, articles and letters. In 1969, lege in Portland, Oregon, and continued fame as a Nobel laureate, and also backed border of the neighboring state of Louisiana. in memory of his father, Charles Provine to write. In September, 1949, he left for eleven young writers, helping them to And yet this book is Europe; there, in London, he completed publish their first books. something other than a local novel. Goyen, William Goyen gave Rice his per­ What we are give n here is not sonal correspondence dating from 1940 his first novel, The House of Breath. After five years had elapsed, Goyen regionalism. The language and the to 1963. He returned to America and settled in realized he had not had time to do any landscape of East Texas are only It is possible that Texans know little New York City the following March. His writing of his own and that, however fas­ the ground here of a fabric in which of Goyen because, after leaving in 1940, return was a rewarding one, for his work cinating his editing work was, he had to living and neighboring people talk he has only returned for brief visits. won for him the MacMurray Award, quit, which he did to complete A Book of and move. To the boy whose story given by the Texas Institute of Arts and Jesus (1973) and Come, The Restorer is related to us the outlines of the Letters for the year's best first novel by (1974). countries and continents seemed OLLOWING HIS YEARS AT RICE, like the organs of a human body. where he took his bachelor's and a Texan, and a Guggenheim Fellowship Goyen has been a visiting professor in in 1951. the writing The articulations and conformation master's degrees in English, Wil­ program at Brown Univer­ Goyen spent 1952 in New sity since 1970 of the earth have impressed upon his liam Goyen taught literature at York and in and, after a year's absence F Taos, completing a collection of stories, in 1975, he will continue next year. child's consciousness. In the sleepy the University of Houston for a year Ghost and Flesh, in February. In that Today he lives in New York with his wife, town of Charity he has had an intui­ before enlisting in the U.S. Navy and tive apprehension of the wide world same year, he was granted a second Gug­ Doris, serving four and a half years on the air­ and their son, Michael. and known that he himself was part genheim Fellowship, which enabled him Goyen craft carrier Casab/,anca in the Pacific. considers himself a Texan writ­ of it. That is why this novel of a again to go abroad. After a year in Italy ing in New After World War II, he settled in Taos, York. His concerns, though, childhood has become a book con­ and Switzerland, he returned to New transcend state or national boundaries. New Mexico, where he began writing. taining a universal experience." Mexico and began writing his second With The House of Breath he brought In Taos, he and his friend Walter Berns novel, In A Farther Country. He spent East Texas to the world, and the world And he ended with these words, " ... as Patrice Repusseau was born near Bor­ most of 1953 and 1954 in El Prado, New to East Texas. Its anniversary is a happy Andre Gide said of Charles-Louis Phi­ deaux (France) in 1948. He took his BA Mexico, writing; returned to New York one and one which allows us to look back lippe: 'Cette fois, c'est un vrai' " ( This and MA in American literature at the Institut d'Ang/ais Charles Vin Paris. He in 1955; and resumed work in El Prado at the 1950s as readers all over the world time, it is the truth). is now at Rice doing research on William during June 1956. discovered and responded to this young In France, in 195'3 and 1954, LA NOU­ Goyen's work for his dissertation. After 1957, Goyen again lived in New Texan's first novel. VELLE REVUE FRANCAISE presented

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OYEN is certainly one writer who has transcended his native Texas "William Goyen has turned the East Texas soil and has managed to tum Gthe local dialect into an esperanto dialect into an esperanto of the body and soul." of the body and the soul. Lon Tinkle expressed exactly the same point of view in THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS. "The try, and how he cannot get rid of the in 1962. In Italy, La Casa In Un Soffw sort of 'reality' in this book is a deeper obsessing faces of blood kindred. Even if was published in 1963. And, to loop the reality than we are usually served. With the narrator hates "old and lusterless and loop and come back to the States, it, one may salute the presence, though napwom" Charity, he cannot help com­ excerpts from The House of Breath were not of course for the first time, in Texas again to listen to the to be found in The Selected Writings of ing back home letters of the artist, the poet; as such. In voices of the past. It is a parable on good William Goyen (1974) one year before the general, till lately, our men of letters have novel was finally reprinted last March. and evil. also been men of action, men of special­ a book To complete the impressive history of The House of Breath is also ties: folklorists, cattlemen, historians. this book, it should be added that Goyen about the inability of people to communi­ journalists, teachers. \Villiam Goyen, always a wrote a stage play of the same name. It cate with each other. There is who wrote his novel with the help of a between human beings, even lov­ was originally performed at the Circle in chasm fellowship from THE SOUTHWEST ers, and the bridges spanning the islands the Square Theatre in New York in 1956, REVIEW, is a new stripe in this type of as fragile as a web of and a new version was given at the Trin­ of solitude are excellence: the pure artist." ity Square Repertory Theatre in Provi­ breath. Those who have not died waiting dence in 1970. And, last year, Martha for the young who have gone away are Graham created a ballet "Holy Jungle," now deaf or blind and, eventually' the "Next JC1ll, Doubleday will inspired by The House of Breath. only possible conversation is a juxtaposi­ tion of parallel monologues. publish his collected works:' ow IS IT . THAT A BOOK ABOUT But all that is just an approximation, whose literary career A SMALL DYING TOWN in the a listing of themes artificially tom out of Today, Goyen, piney-woods appealed to as many a lush, seminal, subtropical and whole began in 1938 (he had a story-''The readers from differer,t worlds and song in which, as in the novel's heavy Children"-printed in the Rice THRESH­ H River, pregnant with all sorts of life and ER, February 11 ), has written two books cultures? In The House of Breath, the setting ["To get to the house, Charity, if death, "everything flows into every­ of short stories, Ghost and Fksh and four I had been in town, I would just start thing." Eventually The House of Breath The Faces of Blood Kindred (1960); walking toward the sawmill, down Main cannot be told or talked about; it must novels, The House of Breath, In A Far­ Street (which was really only the High­ be read, which sounds like an awful plati­ ther Country, The Fair Sister (1963) and, way named this for the short time it ran tude! But the flowing mold supporting recently, his controversial book about through you and became a little piece of the whole fabric is as much part of the early Houston, Come, the Restorer. In you) under all the Charity trees. I would book as the characters. The circular and 1973, A Book of Jesus came out and, last pass the only stores you had, looking revolving structure is as meaningful as year, Random House published a selec­ across Main Street at each other; and the words themselves. Analyzing such a tion from his collected and uncollected ahead of me would stretch the Highway, book means damning the stream, the works. going to pretty close little towns like Luf­ song. When quoting a passage from this Though apparently very different, all kin and Lovelady, and behind me it book, one often has the impression that these books are boughs from the same wound to faraway places, huge and full he cannot stop and that perhaps the best tree, a tree of night deeply rooted in the of many people like Dallas and Santone"] possible commentary would consist in convolutions of a sub-tropical and ghost­ and the East Texas vernacular ["While copying the book from cover to cover. and-fleshly dream. And this is why, she was prancin' round half-nekkid in Raymond Las Vergnas, Dean of the under a sometimes deceptive simplicity some personality show, her pore mother Sorbonne, wrote in Hammes et Mandes: (especially the collections of stories), Lauralee Starnes was a brushing down "It would be foolish to venture an analy­ they have what critic Ana.is Nin called dirtdobbers' nests from a outhouse in sis of this novel. One does not analyze a "a haunting, a lasting effect." And, warn­ confession or a prayer. There is all that ing her readers against the danger,. the h long passages from La Maison d'Haleine Charity Texis with a hickrystick, or spit­ front gallry") in The House of Breath, and more weakness, the transparency of one­ t, in three installments, and Maurice Edgar tin snuff in a tincan on the into besides. It would not be foolish, it dimensional writing, she added, "I would r Coindreau's outstanding translation was are but a foil for an inner journey awarded the French Halperin-Kamin­ self, an erotic and mystic probing of would be impossible because The House suggest to young writers the study of all a of Breath is criticism-repellent, it con­ of William Goyen's books, for a poetry g sky prize. In his foreword, Coindreau memory, with universal meaning. wrote, "William Goyen 's book is not a The young man who tells us the story tains its own commentary. Moreover, it born of the earth and which welds the and seeks is certainly not a novel in the traditional physical world to the emotional world. In n work of the mind. It is a creation of the feels deprived of his identity heart and the sense, a great nostalgic salvation in recollections. He remembers sense of the word. It is rather a sustained his writing, the two are perfectly syn­ song, a painful hymn of love which could his kin, the river and the wood of his incantation, a long prose poem. Rhythm chronized, flesh and emotion, dream and be sung for us only by an aitist who is childhood, his early enchantments and matters more than plot. The book flows human experience. He is not only a ignorant of all the kinds of counterfeit revelations, his first frights and joys. and sways and rises and falls and whirls writer who has given style to folk speech, money that circulate freely today, or is With his breath, he recreates the danger­ as though its body were animated by elegance to colloquial expressions, but too honest to use them even if he knew ously fragile but necessary world of the some animal or even human spirit. And vivified his style with rhythmic, lyrical about them." M.E. Coindreau has trans­ past, crystallized in the magic and these fundrunental universal motions imagery. His style flows; he can summon lated more than fifty books into French haunted house of his youth. He identifies doubtless explain why the work has been an atmosphere and create an entirely (Faulkner, Dos Passos, Steinbeck, Hem­ with all its inhabitants, with all the ele­ felt by so many readers throughout the magic world deepened by an undercur­ ingway, Caldwell, Nabokov, McCullers, ments. Prying into the house of his ances­ world." rent of sorrow." O'Connor, Capote ... Sartre once said tors enables him to forget the unbearable That the writer of The House of Besides this production-slackened that, in France, American literature was anguish of the present, to find names he Breath is a poet would be hard to deny. by his stay at McGraw-Hill-Goyen has "Coindreau literature") and The House of had lost and to be real again. And apparently, this is what struck his written for the theatre (The Diamond Breath is Coindreau's favorite. Among many things, The House of fellow Texan Katherine Anne Porter. In Rattkr, 1960, and Christy), for television the It was not an accident that Curtius Breath is a ceaseless dialogue between THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, (A Possibility of Oil, 1960), and for and Coindreau came across The House of now and then, between what is and what she wrote, " ... the writing as a whole is screen ( The Lefthanded Gun, directed by Breath. They were looking for new tal­ used to be, between wanderings and disciplined on a high plane, and there are Arthur Penn, 1958). ents, and they found one. In 1954, home: long passages of the best writing, the ful­ The jacket of the new edition of The lest and richest and most expressive, House of Breath reads, "25th Anniver­ Crunus talked about it in an interview the That people could come into that I have read in a very long time­ sary Edition of an American Classic." given to NEWSWEEK: "Among the new world in a place they could not at in form, and beautifully organ­ And it is true that Goyen's work has be­ American works of fiction that I have first even name and had never complex read, I greatly enjoyed William Goyen's known before; and that out of a ized, shapely as a good tree, as alive and come a "classic," but the term should not House of Breath. " Gaston Bachelard, nameless and unknown place they as substantial." In THE SAN ANTONIO be misunderstood. "Classics," with a few the famous philosopher, wrote four pages could grow and move around in it EXPRESS, Gerald Ashford stressed once exceptions it seems, are the works of art­ about it in his The Poetics of Space. In a until its name they knew and called more the poetic quality of Goyen's prose, ists whose minds, or bodies, are cold. and letter to Coindreau, Bachelard said, with love, and called it HOME, and added, "Along with the widely her­ Goyen is very alive, and productive. put roots ther'e and love others "What a gift you gave me with that book alded growth in the number of Texas oil He has just completed a children's book there; so that whenever they left wells and chemical plants, our state can and a musical, Aimee, based on the life by Goyen! I am reading it slowly. I am would sing homesick this place they now point proudly to that ever so much of Aimee McPherson, the notorious van­ only up to page 96 and I am enthusiastic write of songs about it and poems ishing evangelist. A new story will about it .. : If you happen to see Goyen, yearning for it, like a lover; remem­ rarer phenomenon, a new writer of tell him that an old French philosopher bering the grouping of old trees, unquestionable eminence on the literary appear soon in THE ATLANTIC MONTH­ admires him." In most reviews The the fall of slopes and hills, the lay of skyline." Even THE HOUSTON CHRONI­ LY. He is writing a "memoir" about the House of Breath was praised, and Goyen fields and the running of river of CLE'S Charles E. White, who did not women he has known, among them became one of the most respected among animals there, and of objects lived thoroughly enjoy the book ("Mr. Goyen, Frieda Lawrence and Margo Jones. the young American writers. Launched with; of faces, and names, all of in some of his more ecstatic moments, Next fall, Doubleday will publish the love and belonging, and forever be so favorably, The House of Breath pur­ soars beyond the reach of ordinary mor­ collected works' of Willirun Goyen, his returning to it or leaving it again. sued its international career. It became tals") admitted, "One thing is certain. entire production. La Casa Del AliRnto in Buenos Aires and The House of Breath is a reflection on The House of Breath is an important Who, now, is Willirun Goyen? Rice ,_ A Casa Sem Alma in Lisbon. The second the human condition, how each man book ... the most important, perhaps to graduate. Novelist, playwright, editor. himself the burden of ances- come from the pen of a Texan." I think Texas should know its poets! d edition of Haus aus Hauch was published holds within Photography by Jomes Aronovsky their problems. There are some "wienies," so intent on making a fine academic record that they miss the joy of fre: heing students (yes, trying for medical school in many jec cases). And there are those who operate on the surface, ces getting by academically on natural ability, without ever nif becoming seriously engaged intellectually. But there is ed1 a most delightful group which is sensitive, inquisitive, thE perceptive, and alive to the life of the mind in an endless int variety of ways. It is gratifying to find these young po: people excited about their studies-stimulated by ideas, COi new to them, as they are put in touch with work of great the minds, by teachers who interpret sensitively, evaluate mt critically, and are themselves alive and growing in the atE process. One knows that whether or not these young thE people engage professionally in the subjects of their an, studies, their lives are richer for the experience. Here, as young minds are being caught up in the excitement of Th the human quest for 'meanings and insights, what I call for "the intellectual life." What of "the intellectuaJ life"? The term signifies to many an approach to life which is bookish or coldly • rational. Certainly the reading (or writing) of books and the exercise of rational thought are important ingredi­ ents of the intellectual life, but they alone by no means "Our time calls for leaders with vision, imagination, a sense of historical define it. The intellectual life includes the whole life of the mind: its curiosities, insights, imagination, appre­ perspective. Our universities must educate such people." ciation of beauty in many forms and modes, the articu­ lation and testing of values, and the attempt to relate to and communicate with other human beings across of his colleagues in science and technology, caught up differences of culture and experience. In the interest of Ci< BY PAUL PFEIFFER in the "publish-or-perish" mill, needing to defend his the fullest grasp of reality, a person committed to the sy academic cred~ntials. intellectual life seeks truth through a critical examina­ co My experiences with young people-principally in RECENT SERIES IN THE COMIC STRIP Doones­ tion which aims at some sense of objectivity. Yet it ca the university, but certainly not limited there-have eschews a false or illusory sense of detachment, of cool Tl bury, by Garry Trudeau, provides a delightful, brought unique rewards as well as deep frustrations. determination of truth. At best, such objectivity avoids ph but devastating, commentary on one aspect of My activities bring me into contact with students who the temptation to reduce reality to fit a preconceived university life. Mark, a hang-loose student, ta1 A have had remarkable intellectual experiences at Rice - notion, or to accommodate individual limitations. The th entices a premedical student, locked into his grade­ going far beyond the classrooms. These are young p~­ grubbing, compusive study habits, to visit classes in intellectual experience involves perceptions of reality be ple who will do well at whatever they attempt, who will which transcend our ability to articulate, formulate, se1 the "humanities"-philosophy, literature, history. provide the "plus," the extra qualities that make for After the initial shock, the premed student is excited systematize, or "model." It in:volves judgments, deci­ es: leadership. They are exceptionally able; but their powers sions, commitments. It leads one to stand in awe and me and stimulated by this exposure to a new dimension of have been set free by a liberating educational exper­ the intellectual life-even to the point of changing his admiration of a universe which is neither chaotic nor to ience which has exposed them broadly to significant sy major course of study! areas of human endlilavor. Many of them have majored "b The mirror Trudeau holds up to us is only slightly in the humanities; even those who have not usually distorting. If his depiction is not the whole truth, it is have had wide contacts with the humanities. On the "The really impractical pursuits in too good an approximation for comfort. Perhaps the other hand, many students-as well as their contem­ most disturbing fact is that the apostle of humanism sh poraries outside the university-possess talents and academia are those which aim a( os, and of the excitement of the intellectual life is a happy­ abilities far beyond anything they have realized. I have thi go-lucky, rather irresponsible young person. been impressed with the terrible waste of potential for immediate, utilitarian goals." There is a powerful and pervasive tendency in our COl living lives that are more fully human, more satisf~_ng, he society to look upon the humanities as a pastime of the reducible to a simple rational system. , and more rewarding. What do they lack? Not ability. th impractical, or the incapable. And this tendency is very Not merely "know how," knowledge, professional skills, The experience of critical thinking and an imaginative search for beauty, pattern, truth provides the individual tei much alive in the universities. One of the most unfortu- as important as these are. I am persuaded that they have HE 11ate features of education at Rice has been a tendency somehow missed the liberating, humanizing experience with a perspective on life which is a worthwhile end in itself. At the same time it is valuable preparation of the mi to look down on the "academ," to dismiss as "jelly roll," of the intellectual life, which sets man apart from his . individual for further experiences and achievements. It le1: as irrelevant or unworthy of the serious attention of fellow creatures. Limited in their experience of the life is this fact which is missed by many critics of the es: capable minds, the pursuit of literature, fine arts, lan­ of the mind, they have failed to realize their possibilities "irrelevant" and "impractical" nature of the intellectual lin guages, history, and the like. These are often viewed as as human beings. life. Indeed, the really impractical and irrelevant pur­ an appropriate areas of study for those who cannot "cut The goal of a university education should be the liber­ suits in academia are often precisely those which aim at th it" in science, engineering, or mathematics. The student ating development of the mind, the recognition and then immediate utilitarian goals, only to be found obsolete by of the humanities-and too often his teacher~has felt realization of human potential. My experience per­ or inadequate for meeting new challenges and new situ­ ac apologetic and defensive, has tended to accept second­ suades me that, in part, this is accomplished through a class status in the intellectual pecking order. What a ations. ni1 critical, but appreciative, exposure to our heritage­ of distortion of reality! What a price has been paid by so U.S. Commissioner of Education T. H. Bell is reported ancient, recent and contemporary. I am convinced that go many for so long! as expressing the view that colleges and universities must concentrate on offering students "'salable skills." 101 One of the most serious consequences has been the of corruption of the humanities themselves. In a recent He is quoted as saying, ~- .. to send young men and women into today's world armed only with Aristotle, as address at the centennial convocation of The Colorado "The goal of education should be the la1 College, Dr. John Silber, president of Boston University, Freud, and Hemingway is like sending a lamb into the lion's den. It is to delude them as well as ourselves." 101 said, " ... the humanities cannot be defined in terms of liberating development of the mind,. foi subject matter. They are defined rather in terms of their This certainly misses the point by caricaturing the the recognition and then realization nature of a humanistic education. In fact, he fails to pr concern. The humanistic concern should pervade the an entire college, its influence being felt in every depart­ understand the purpose of an education and, conse­ ment. The humanities basically ask the question, 'What of human potential." quently, confuses the nature of what is "practical." The crucial need of our society is people who have achieved m is man?' or 'Who am I?"' Silber's refusal to define the a university renders a disservice if it does not incorpo­ an humanities in terms of subject matter is based in part the ability to think, with imagination, clarity of pur­ rate into its various programs a large element of the pose, and insights into the complexities of our diffi­ st: on the fact that the "so-called humanistic disciplines liberal and fine arts. Hence, it is disturbing to me to see "le can be studied in a way that has nothing to do with the culties and the variety of possibilities for resolving some our universities and colleges-and the students in them of our most pressing problems. It is precisely those who Tl humanities." Too often, so-called humanistic studies -pushed in the direction of more "practical," profes­ th have developed into technical investigations which have had a humanistic educational experience who are sionally and vocationally oriented endeavors, to the most likely to respond to new challenges, adapt to new fu mimic the highly touted procedures of the natural effective exclusion of the areas and concerns of the en sciences, but which lose the objectives of the human­ situations, avoid pitfalls and mistakes of the past, and humanities. Our time calls for leaders with vision, utilize the cumulated experience of our civilization to Sp istic quest, the search for self-knowledge. imagination, a sense of historical perspective, and a ap We should be sympathetic. The humanistic scholar find new ways of resolving new problems or new mani­ broad grasp of human concerns and values. We need festations of old problems. ur is too often overwhelmed by the more visible successes leaders who are able to deal critically with complex af issues, and who are able to articulate their views and th understandings to a frustrated people. Our universities OR MANY YEARS I have argued that there are great cb Paul Pfeiffer BS '38, MS '48, PhD '52, professor of ma.the­ and colleges must educate such leaders. possibilities for achie~ng t_he. goals ?f a _human­ matical sciences, took his bachelor's and master's degrees at izing, liberal education withm engmeenng. So WJ Rice in electrical engineering before taking his doctorate in s A FACULTY ASSOCIAT:i:; at one of our women's while I argue for the inclusion of a humanities, dE mathematics. He also holds a bachelor of divinity degree, F er taken in 1943 at Southern Methodist University. Pfeiffer colleges, I have the privilege of knowing a fine arts, "non-professional" component of our curricu~a, has taught at Rice since 1947 and is an associate of Brown remarkably charming and talented group of I do not suppose that scientific and professional studies m College. In May he was elected to the executive board of the Ayoung women. They never cease to amaze me are devoid of humanistic significance or without their si Association of Rice Alumni. with their interests, energy, enthusiasms, and of course, liberating effects, if properly understood and presented. er 5 '1AY-JUNl MAY-JU1'E SALLYPORT ~ -

mathematics. own priorities. And it seems that he is on During the past seven years I have taught in the the human beings who are studying establish his able to do this in a marmer consistent of freshman mathematics program. I approach the sub­ Unless the student in mathematics has some experience likely to be most music, drama, philosophy, with his own values and need for self realization if he my ject from the view (which I ·try with some limited sue­ in languages, literature, most sig­ theology, psychology, as well as the sciences and is broadly acquainted with the humanistic quest. lee, . cess to communicate to my students) that the his perceptions of his mathematics are too I see the kind of education I espouse as necess~ for ver nificant things to be learned are not a body of knowl­ engineering, limited. And, more importantly, his development as a the soundness of our civilization. Can we af,ford it? I is edge and a set of tools for application, important as e person is almost certainly inhibited. think we cannot afford not to have this kind of educa­ ve, these certainly are. My primary task as a teacher is to tion. ess introduce students to a style of thinking, a manner of One of the problems growing in importance and sever­ ~ng posing questions, the art of discovering and formulating HERE IS ANOTHER SIDE TO THIS COIN. The stu­ and critical ity in our technologically based society is leisure time, ~as, concepts in ways that facilitate precise dent of literature or languages or one of the visual thought, and strategies of logical argument. Students arts who has no appropriate experience with time which is at the disposal of the individual. For many ~t of us in professional life, there is no sharp dividing line late must be introduced to the art ( I use the word deliber­ mathematics and its applications to various areas T between leisure time and non-leisure time. But this is che ately) of discovering significant patterns, often with of science has been deprived of acquaintance with an not true for many people-and the problem of leisure is ng the aid of physical analogies, geometric representations art form which represents one of the finest achieve­ very real also for those of us who do not readily identify err and interpretations which are the key to applications ments of the human intellect and imagination. While that part of our time which is leisure. A society of per­ ire, as well as to mathematical formulation and discovery. some significant experimental courses have been offered sons who know how to enjoy themselves only as spec­ of The student must be introduced to the art of precise from time to time, the opportunities for the student who consumers of unneeded food and drink, as ~all formulation in terms of appropriate symbols. does not want to study science, engineering, or mathe­ tators, as Out of this exposure should come a growing appre- matics "seriously" have been quite limited. destroyers of environment, as acquisitors of material possessions, as seekers of physical ease, content with to If the goal of a university education is the liberati~g development of the life of the mind, then the student intellectual and artistic inanities, is a society headed lily for disaster. Unless we become participants in the int:)1- nd must be engaged in the humanistic quest. He must have concern should lectual life, the life of the mind, in the broad sense that edi­ "'The humanistic the option of incorporating into his program of studies tried to characterize it. I fear that we shall not be ans courses and activities which will bring him into the I have pervade the entire college, its able to preserve and enjoy the heritage that is ours. of mainstream of the best in humanistic thought and 1re­ influence being felt in every inquiry. This availability must be more than just a mat­ ~u­ ter of having the appropriate. courses offered at con­ HOPE IT rs CLEAR that I am not necessarily advo­ ate department.'" venient" times; there needs to be a supporting ethos cating a classical curriculum in the sense often asso­ bss which helps the student make appropriate selections ciated with the liberal arts college. I think it is quite of ciation of both the power and limitation of mathematical and to devote the time and effort required to come to possible to have "the best of both worlds." For much of representing, studying, and dis­ grips with the central issues. ofI its existence, Rice was highly structured-in terms he systems as a means ina- covering significant patterns in many areas of the so­ of administrative units (the departments) and curricula. it called "real world" (i.e., the nonmathematical world). This has changed markedly in recent years-a new ool These applications have a long and fruitful history in the A MODEL FOR IDENTIFICATION curriculum, allowing great flexibility in planning indi­ 'ds physical sciences. Increasingly, mathematical represen­ I feel that one of the important things a teacher does vidual programs of study, was adopted some five years ed tations ("models" is the "in" word currently) assist in beside impart facts is to challenge, to irritate, to ago. These changes tended to remove barriers which 'he the study of problems in the biological, social, and offer a model for identification. separated "s/e's" (science-engineering students, for ity behavioral sciences. On the one hand, very crude repre­ When I think of the five greatest teachers I had, those of you who have forgotten) from "academs." lte, sentations often serve to help organize and study the it's hard for me to remember specifically what they Recognizing that there are many ways of achieving the ~i­ essential facts and phenomena; on the other hand, the taught me. But I remember James Luther Adams, advantage of exposures to various disciplines and areas nd most sophisticated and complex representations fail who was the first man since Thomas Aquinas to of thought, the faculty replaced course requirements 1or to capture the full reality of even the simplest physical have read and remembered everything. I thought, with "distribution requirements." It is now possible for system, let alone the immeasurably more complex "That would be nice, I'm going to have to catch up students to combine broad-ranging programs of explora­ "behavioral systems" of human affairs. on my reading someday." tion with the more intense and directed preprofessional I remember Reinhold Niebuhr, who had read most studies in fields like my own-mathematical sciences, Such exposure to the character of mathematics of it and was able to synthesize it and talk about it which in itself is broad and flexible. should raise significant questions of fundamental phil­ cogently in an hour's time, which was impressive to Of course, there have been abuses, corner cutting by osophical and theological import. The investigation of me as a model for lecturing. some. This is nothing new; it happens in any system. these questions may not be the proper subject for a I sat once for a semester down low while Paul What is new is the freedom exercised by the vast major­ course in mathematics. But the student should be Tillich sat high up and watched him think about the ity of our students to tailor programs to their own - helped to become aware that he is engaged in an activity universe and ultimate concerns and I thought, "When needs and interests. A large fraction of our students I get big, I'm going to do that!" work out double majors. Often, these majors cut across ive that has significance far beyond preparing for the next test or developing tools for use in some field of endeavor. I took a course from Thomas Pettigrew, who was · traditional lines. In my own field, it is certainly not ual a social psychologist interested in race relations and rare to have a student with a double major in mathe­ bn He should be made aware of the similarities of mathe­ matical learning to the learning of languages or to the who was doing all sorts of original research and com­ matical sciences and some field such as English, his­ the ing in and saying, "Isn't this neat!" and getting us tory, or French. It is quite possible for a student to . It learning of music. He should understand some of the essential limitations of mathematics, for they point to all excited about it. pursue humanistic studies in considerable depth, while the Another teacher was Harvey Cox, who was inter­ at the same time taking advantage of his enjoyment of ual limitations of the human mind: one must begin with :·, ested in all sorts of things that I was interested in. and talent for mathematics to prepare for a satisfying ur- an agreement to accept certain rules of logic as rules of the game ( some commonly adopted rules are rejected And the good thing that was a model for me was that career in business or industry, or for professional or ~ at he seemed to have a spirit of playfulness and cele­ graduate studies with their consequent career oppor­ ete by many practitioners of the art of mathematics); in an bration. He enjoyed doing what he was doing. tunities. Similar situations exist in many other areas. tu- activity which puts pri~ importance on precise defi­ nition of terms and concepts, one must begin with a set Now I don't want to say that I've chosen the best Because of the importance of this freedom and flexi­ of these men and that now I am the embodiment of bility so lately achieved, I view with grave concern ed of undefined terms! Although the finished product of qualities of James Luther Adams, Reinhold into ~chools and special­ ies good mathematical investigation is marked by clarity, the best recent decisions to divide Rice Niebuhr, etc. But I would like to be. I would really is vigorously asserted that these s."' logical structure, explicit connection with other aspects ized divisions. It like to be! For even if, at times, I have difficulty in administrative changes shall in no way curtail the flexi­ tnd of mathematics, and a general esthetic quality known was it they taught?" or as genuine le, as elegance, the initial stages of discovery and formu­ remembering, "Now what bility of opportunities for students. I accept "What was the name of the course?" or "What were but am aware how che lation may be untidy, unsystematic, intuitive and non­ these proclamations of intention, the facts involved?" I think that I am a better such agreements and purposes to get lost 1s.'' logical. The process has much in common with other art easy it is for teacher and perhaps a better human being for having is continual vigilance. And structure does the forms in which the apprehension of reality involves unless there come in contact with them. I think that is an impor­ tend to influence policy and interpretation of policy. If to processes of the mind which we really do not understand and which are certainly not coldly logical. tant part of teaching. - William C. Martin, Winner the views I have set forth with firm conviction are se- Brown Prize for Excellency in Teaching rahe The parallels and questions abound. How does the of the 1975 judged valid, then it is a continuing responsibility of all are so convinced to see that these goals are ved mind work? What is the nature of reality that it is so those who ethos is developed in ur- amenable to the use of mathematics as an aid to under­ There is a persistent temptation in all societies for not lost and that the supporting ffi. standing, yet so elusive in its ability to escape the individuals to accept "labels" and to form their self the University community. and vocations. I am a me "logical nets" with which we attempt to capture it? images in terms of professions an account­ rho These are questions of philosophy, psychology, and physician, a lawyer, a carpenter, a teacher, they point to the ant, an electronics engineer, and so on, endlessly. The ~e theories of language and art. For me, fundamental questions of existence which properly student engaged seriously in humanistic studies, even "I view with concern decisions to ew cannot be satisfied nd engage the theologian-,-though not necessarily to any while preparing for a profession, and always a divide Rice into schools and to specific brand of theology. In other words, a student's with such limited self images. He is first in a private mi- appreciation of the calcuius is not really satisfactory human being, a person -both an individual, .specialized divisions." until he has had experience in a broad range of human sense, and a social being whose identity and character affairs and has asked the questions that have engaged is expressed in and shaped by his relationships with the best minds in many areas. In the sense of Silber's other human beings. Each person has a history, a tradi­ Ultimately our achievements rest on the clarity and eat characterization, these are the concerns of the humanist. tion, a culture, a sense of destiny; and each contributes validity of our perceptions and on our commitment to ,an- Now t~ese are certainly not questions that are dealt -in desirable or undesirable ways- to the shaping of that which we believe is essential. If we are wise enough, So with extensively in a course in mathematics which is human affairs. To be most fully human, most alive, a clear enough about our central task, Rice may continue ies. designed to prepare a student for applications in sci­ person must be both a participant in and a perceptive its progress toward becoming one of those universities observer of the human scene. No aspect of the affairs distinguished by the quality of educational experience 1la, 11 ence or engineering or for the further study of mathe­ lies matics as a legitimate end in itself. But for the univer­ of mankind is irrelevant. Of course, no one can be fully it offers its students. Only by dolll.,g so can it continue 1eir sity not to raise the questions and provide resources, informed of or actively engaged in all aspects of the to merit the confidence of those exceptionally capable ,ed. encouragement, and opportunities for study is to cheat human experience. Each person must make choices, students who decide to become a part of Rice.

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S/E Division Split; Brown School Formed Brown's gifts to Rice were distin­ He has received an honorary Doctor versity relations and a leader of Rice's guished not only by the buildings and, of Engineering degree, a Distinguished efforts to help develop an artificial heart, OF THE GEORGE R. HE CREATION indeed, the stadium they helped to Achievement Medal, and membership becomes vice president for external BROWN SCHOOL OF ENGINEER­ build, but also by the more direct encour­ in Tau Beta Pi honorary engineering affairs. Akers, professor of chemical and ING was announced on March 29 agement they gave to undergraduate fraternity from the Colorado School of environmental engineering, joined the by Herbert Allen, chairman of teaching. It was a Brown gift that made Mines; a Certificate of Merit from the Rice faculty in 1947. T Rice's five the Rice board of governors. possible in 1967 the creation of the President of the United States for his engineering departments and their sub­ Brown Teaching Awards given annually efforts during World War II; and the divisions are components of the new to faculty members chosen for these · Key Houstonian of the Year award from Brown Award Winners Announced made school. Those departments which honors by their fqrmer students. the Houston Board of Realtors (1970). up the remainder of the Division of William C. Martin, associate professor The Brown Engineering Development Brown has expressed his lifelong Science and Engineering are being of sociology, has been awarded the ninth Grant, given in 1968 through the Brown involvement in engineering in these grouped administratively into the annual George R. Brown Pnze for Excel­ Foundation, has proven to be an inval­ words: "There are some people today School of Natural Science. lency in Teaching.Martin, who received uable asset to the Rice's undergraduate who believe that the romance has gone William E. Gordon, professor of elec­ a George R. Brown Award for Superior engineering programs. In the face of out of engineering. I, for one, don't think trical engineering and space physics and Teaching in 197 4, receives a $4000 cash increasing competition for talented stu­ that at all. The world is still wide open astronomy, and formerly dean of the award. dents, $4.5 million was granted to under­ to good engineers. The romance hasn't to become The six winners of the George R. S/E division, has chosen graduate engineering; its $i60,000 gone out of the profession. It's still dean of the School of Natural Science. A . Brown Awards for Superior Teaching for yearly income has allowed for both there for those who can see it." special committee under the chairman­ 1975 are Stewart A. Baker, associate improvement and expansion in Rice's It is in recognition of such spirit, such ship of Professor Frank Vandiver, pro­ professor of English; C. Sidney Burrus, engineering departments. achievement, and such generosity that vost and vice president of Rice, is con- professor of electrical engineering; Gil- Restricted to the undergraduate pro­ the George R. Brown School of Engi­ gram, the grant supplies money for geering has been named. "The school scholarships, recruiting trips, and pub­ will broaden still further the already lications. The top third of the engineer­ established professional aspects of engi­ ing students who are offered admission neering education at Rice," President are also offered a Brown Scholarship of Hackerman has pointed out. But, at the $250 or $500 based on merit. Still ano­ same time, according to the administra­ ther portion of the money goes to sup­ tion, formation of the new school should port a self-help work program in which not lessen the traditional interaction students are employed by the engineer­ between the disciplines of engineering ing departments. · and science, nor .similar interaction with the humanities and social sciences. As historian Vandiver put it, it is not a ROWN, who recently retired as move. chairman of the board of Brown "secessionist" George R Brown, Rice trustee emeritus and Root, Inc. while continuing Creation of the George R. Brown Bill Martin, winner of $4000 Brown Prize of to serve on the board of its par­ School of Engineering and the School ducting a comprehensive search for, a B Natural Science brings to five the num­ ent firm, Halliburton Company, is one bert M. Cuthbertson, associate profes­ dean for the Brown School and will of the nation's most honored engineers ber of professional schools at Rice, the sor of political science; Allen J. Matusow, decide on a nominee by July 1. other four being the Shepherd School of and corporate leaders. His engineering professor of political science; Charles R. honor any­ and Rice has never chosen to achievements have been recognized in Music, the School of Architecture, Stewart, associate pr_ofessor of biology; one in the manner in which it has chosen of Adminis­ such honors as the Moles Award (1968), the Jesse H. Jones School and Frank E. Vandiver, Harris Master­ to honor George Brown. In fact, few tration, which is also awaiting appoint­ the highest honor in the field of heavy son, Jr., Professor of Histo~y. These schools have bestowed such an honor ment of a ·dean. construction, and the Golden Beaver awards carry a cash prize of $1000. without a substantial endowment to jus­ Award for Management (1969), given Alumni with four-year bachelor's tify the reorganization. "There is no new by an organization comprised of build­ degrees received in 1970 and 1973 were gift or endowment involved," says Pro­ Two Vice Presidents Named ers of dams, bridges, tunnels, canals eligible to vote in the election this year. vost Vandiver. "The board and Presi­ and other heavy construction in the Two long-time Rice University faculty Each qualified alumnus votes in prefer­ dent Hackerman are just very happy to West. Brown holds a life membership in members and administrators have been ential order for the three Rice faculty be able to honor Mr. Brown now." Rice the American Society of Civil Engineers promoted to vice-presidencies. members remembered as particularly is simply, but grandly, saying thank you and is a Registered Professional Engi­ Frank E. Vandiver, Rice University outstanding or effective. to a man who has been generous with it neer. provost and one of the nation's outstand­ A faculty member may win the Brown for many years. Other honors accorded Mr. Brown ing military historians, becomes provost Award for Superior Teaching three include the Gold Medal for Distin­ and vice president and continues as Har­ times, after which he becomes ineligible EORGE BROWN'S CONNECTION guished Service (1966), given by the ris Masterson, Jr. Professor of History. for five years. A faculty member who WITH RICE began in September, Association of Rice Alumni, and the He has been on the Rice faculty since wins the Prize for Excellency becomes 1916, when he travelled from first annual Rice Engineering Alumni 1955. ineligible to receive that award for five GTemple, Texas, to enroll as a Outstanding Engineer Award (1974). William W. Akers, director for uni- years. freshman. In 1918 he transferred to the Colorado School of Mines, where he took his mining engineer's degree in 1922. An injury in a mine cave-in later that year convinced him to join the engi­ neering partnership of Brown and Root, begun by his brother and brother-in-law. The Brown brothers incorporated in 1929, after Mr. Root's death, with George Brown as executive officer. Today, Brown and Root, Inc. is one of the nation's largest engineering/ con­ struction enterprises. Brown's first major contribution to Rice's material progress came in 1942, shortly before he joined the University's, board oJ governors. Largely because of his initiative and efforts, the University was able to acquire almost half of the Rincon Oil Field in Texas' Starr County. On January 13, 1943-less than a month· after Rice concluded the Rincon pur­ chase-Brown joined the University's board. Ten years later he became the first alumnus ever to become board chairman. Brown retired from the board in 1968, after reaching age 70, but con­ tinues to serve today as a trustee emeritus.

During his years as board chairman, >­ -" Brown guided major expansion of the ~ 0 University, in the number of students, C 2 faculty members, and buildings. In < 1965 he headed Rice's first capital fund "'., E campaign, 'the $33 Million Campaign, .Q which surpassed its goal by $10 million Willie's Pub, open all summer Mon-Fri, 4 pm to 2 am, Sat, 8 pm to 2 am. dollars in less than three years. MAY-JUNE SALLYPORT 7

ber, having apparently bought out years and lay the solid foundation of the Kingsbury's share in the meantime, and Rice fortune. The firm of Rice and he had also moved into another reward­ Nichols had its office on Main Street in WILLIAM MARSH RICE ing area of Texas commercial life: he Houston and proceeded to carry on, on a was prepared to furnish cash against far more ambitious scale, the kind of mortgages on property. business that William Marsh Rice had By the summer of 1840 Rice had first practiced in Springfield. As com­ entered into the first of his several busi­ mission and forwarding agents, Rice and INSTITUTE New &HIS in goods from ness partnerships. On August 5, Nichols brought "William M. Rice and Barnabas Haskill, Orleans and from as far away as New r merchants residing and trading in the York, first by boat up the Buffalo Bayou h city of Houston," leased the Austin from Galveston and then by ox wagon to House property from Benjamin Buckner the settlers and plantation owners far­ for the sum of $50 monthly. The partner­ ther inland. ship must have been short-lived, for in August of the following year the lease was renewed in Rice's name alone. !STORY IS OFTEN BEST It may have been that Mrs. Haskill RECORDED ON SHOPPING LISTS, found the Southwest, after Connecticut, and a good deal can be deduced too alarming for her taste. In the spring Habout life in Texas in the eigh­ of 1842, Santa Anna, in a show of force teen-thirties and forties from the ledgers to keep up the claim of Mexican sover­ of Rice and Nichols. Already in St:p­ eignty over Texas, sent an expedition tember, 1844, William Marsh Rice was north across the Rio Grande that easily assuring the Secretary of the Treasury captured San Antonio. [President.] Sam in Austin that he would send to New Houston hastily moved the government Orleans "at the first opportunity" for AYOUNGMAN from Austin to the city that bore his the articles which had been requested, name, but the Mexicans rode south again to wit, paperweights, quills, sealing-wax, after only a few days. Although the sand, red ink, inkstands, and that IN AYOUNG CITY Texas militia had rushed to the colors bureaucratic essential, red tape; by the C could only continue, and the Texas legis­ and a company from Houston actually twenty-fifth of October these had been Q APTAIN JAMES A. BAKER, JR., a 0 close personal and business asso­ lature was doing its bit by promising set out on a mission of rescue, the Presi­ sent to Austin "in great haste." On E Marsh] Rice free land to any family man moving into dent prudently vetoed his Congress' Christmas Eve, the MORNING STAR 2 ciate of [William .E., during his later years, did not the Republic. declaration of war, and the men marched advertised that Rice and Nichols had u C only sixty miles when an order was "now received a full supply of groceries," founder's ci: hesitate to attribute the removal to Texas to romantic motives. N OPENING FRONTIER stands in . issued for their return. Under the com­ and a few years later the Rice firm's "His young and ardent soul was fired need of any and every sort of mand of Captain Sidney Sherman was a account with Mrs. E.G. Compton makes with the spirit of patriotism and adven­ finished goods; tradition says private named William Marsh Rice; it it clear that the ladies of the Gulf Coast ture, and he then and there resolved to that William Marsh Rice sent a was his first and last experience in mili­ did not intend to be outstripped by their emigrate to Texas and cast his fortune A of merchandise around to Gal­ tary service. The Mexicans repeated Eastern sisters when it came to ques­ shipment with those heroic souls who at San veston by sea, making the journey there their feint in September, 1842, and this tions of fashion. Jacinto had humbled the Napoleon of himself down the Ohio and Mississippi tune Houston was forced to order a pur­ While there seemed to be no end to the West" ("Reminiscences of the by rail and packet. The "shanties and suit as far south as Laredo, but Rice the variety of goods that flowed into Founder," RICE INSTITUTE PAMPHLET, stumps about the street" which greeted took no part in it. Unlike his grand­ Texas, her principal export increasingly July, 1931 ). With all due respect to Cap­ him in October, 1838, cannot have looked father Josiah Hall, he must not have came to be cotton. Whereas in 1839 only the tain Baker, it seems ·more likely that better when he was given the news that found soldiering to his taste. eight bales had been sent down to by 1841 Cornelius Rice left Springfield for hard-headed, all his goods had been lost at sea along Military glory, on the other hand, coast from Houston, practical reasons. with the ship carrying them. Whether seems to have appealed to [Ebenezer B. Ennis, one of Rice's lifelong friends, had of cotton direct By the late summer of 1837, the United because of this setback or in spite of it, Nichols], the man who by December, made ·the first shipment of Galveston. In States had entered a period of financial Rice chose not to remain in Galveston, 1844, had become Rice's partner in an to Boston from the port first cotton com- panic, partly as a result of unwise land for on February 12, 1839, he was issued association that was to last for many the spring of 1844 the speculation, partly due to President a conditional headright certificate to 320 Jackson's "hard money" policies, which acres of land in the town of Houston. produced several years of depression. Having neither womenfolk to make Business in Springfield, like business comfortable nor children to educate, everywhere, can only have fallen off William Marsh Rice seems to have sharply. William Marsh Rice, along settled down at once to the business of with many others, could have seen a making money. On April 22, 1839, an notice carried by Eastern newspapers agreement was recorded between W. M. the previous summer: Rice and Reed & Eichelberger whereby "The Town of Houston," [the notice the said Rice "doth agree to furnish with read], "must ever command the trade of Liquors the Bar of the Milam House, the largest and richest portion of Texas occupied by the above named Reed & . . . There is no place in Texas more Eichelberger," for which he was to healthy . . . having an abundance of receive, over and above the cost of the excellent spring water and ... sea breeze liquors, three dollars per day and board . . . . fine ash, cedar and oak . . . also the James Baker preferred to omit this epi­ tall and beautiful magnolia ... Nature sode from his account of the founder's appears to have designated this place history, thereby sacrificing one of the for a future seat of government ... Now authentic, colorful incidents in the career in the very heart or center of population of a man who throughout his life neither and [it] will be ... for a length of time smoked nor drank anything even as to come." stimulating as coffee or tea. William Marsh Rice would have recog­ The wine and spirits business, in any nized a situation with an unlimited event, could not have offered more than potential for business growth when he a limited future, and Rice must have saw one. In cannily buying up their land already formed a fairly shrewd idea of at the highest navigable point on where his real opportunities lay. Less "Buffalo river," Augustus C. and John than two months later, on the first of K. Allen established Houston as the fur­ June, he and Timothy Kingsbury bought thest point inland on the wide crescent three and one-half lots in San Felipe, between the Sabine and the Rio Grande Austin County, executing notes for where goods could be shipped directly something over half the purchase price. by water. The westward push of settlers Rice had resold the same lots by Novem-

>- settled ~ "Once in Houston, William Marsh Rice > 0 eC down to the business of making money." Rice required a residence that would serve to show off the solid state of his fortune. <( .,"' E '1 1. by~. e tln,ver ~ This excerpt from William Marsh Rice and His Institute: A Biographical Study, edited by Sylvia Stallings Morris from the papers and research notes of Andrew Forest Muir, is reprinted with permission of the publishers, Rice University Studies. Copies of the complete. volum.e can be purchased from the Rice Campus Store, Rice University, P. 0. Box 1892, Houston, 77001, at $3.60 for the paperback edition and $6. 75 for the hardcover volume. These prices include postage and handling. 8 MAY-JUNE

The portrait, shown here over the mantelpiece, is of a man in the prime of Ufe, shrewd and some press was brought to Houston, and the in the business world than the next man, Syracuse, a Yankee named Harvey almost at once. Rice, however, who following year it was estimated that the Rice was qqick to realize that a cotton Baldwin, came to Houston. Baldwin liked to keep his options open, was in economy was inevitably dependent upon publicized his project so much that the same year one of the incorporators the availability of transportation: every although preliminary grading had been of the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colo:­ 'Rice neither smoked nor bale that came into the city of Houston, undertaken for a railroad that would rado Railway. By 1852, when the first whether from the rich Brazos bottom connect Harrisburg, just down the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado drank anything even as lands or from as far north as Dallas and Bayou from Houston, with the Brazos had actually begun to lay track, plank stimulating as coffee or te&" Waco, had to be dragged there by ox Valley, a public meeting was held in roads were heard of no more. The honor teams, eight to twelve pair to a hitch. Houston to debate the question of plank of being the first railroad incorporated By late autumn and early winter, when roads. William Marsh Rice was in Texas, however, had already gone to the bulk of.the planters' crop was ready appointed to a committee whose busi­ the Galveston and Red River Railway, number of bales shipped out the of city for market, the roads could become ness it was to study the proposal and the brainchild of Paul Bremond, [later would run to nearly fifteen thousand. impassable for weeks at a time. to outline the incorporation of the to be Rice's father-in-law). Hides ran a poor second to cotton, as Rice was not alone in wishing that Houston and Brazos Plank Road Com­ In that year of plank roads and rail­ did lumber after a sawmill had set been something could be done about the trans­ pany. ways, 1850, William Marsh Rice was up alongside the bayou in the middle portation situation. Early in 1850 the The committee quickly came to agree­ thirty-four. He had 1840s. been living in Hous­ builder of the world's first plank road, ment that plank roads were a sound ton for eleven years and occupied a Always seeing a little farther ahead running from Brewerton, New York, to investment and surveying got underway recognized position as one of the city's Photography by John Kotz [ MAY-JUNE 9

of Houston's Hook and Ladder Com­ Square from the north side, rightly judg­ pany No. 1 in 1861, but nowhere else, as ing that the city's business and social far as is known, in the city's records; life would center there. He laid down possibly he did not share the single­ floors of two-inch-thick longleaf pine minded devotion to business that char­ and for much of the interior paneling, acterized most of his relatives. The com­ as well as the carved stair rail, insisted ing of the Civil War gave him what he on that nineteenth century favorite, had been looking for in the shape of a rosewood. commission in Hood's Texas Brigade. Rice's brothers Caleb and Frederick made their way "to Texas at about the same time, which is reported to have "By age 44, William Marsh been 1850, although Caleb, nine years Rice was probably the younger than William, returned to New England after only a short stay and second richest man in remained there until his death in 1865. Texas." Frederick, (fourteen years William's junior], seems to have been William all over again. The last born of David and It can only be surmised whether Patty Rice's children to survive infancy, Nichols drew up the plans himself or he was very close to his elder brother, (began] what was known as a "pattern­ who had seen to it that Frederick, as book house." Architects were in short well as Charlotte, stayed on to gradu­ supply except in the largest cities of the ate from the Wilbraham Academy. East; there were in circulation all over When Frederick Rice arrived in Hous­ the country a number of manuals giving ton he went straight into his elder bro­ details of doors, windows, mouldings, ther's business. The two men seemed to columns, and all the requisites of an have remained close all their lives and elegant home, from which the prospec­ William, who was to remain childless in tive householder could pick what he spite of two marriages, took more than liked and show it to his builder. The an uncle's interest in the welfare of house which took shape, in any event, is Frederick's children. A burgeoning fron­ a fairly happy example of the Greek tier town like Houston is not only a Revival, its front elevation presenting a likely place for younger brothers to seek classic pediment supported by four their fortunes; it is also notoriously Ionic columns, the whole divided by favorable to young women who are look­ deep upper and lower galleries. A build­ ing for husbands. When Frederick Rice ing of moderate size, it gives the impres­ was married to Charlotte Baldwin Ran­ sion of being higher than it actually is don in August, 1854, in Syracuse, New by the sweep of its windows; flanked by York, it can only be presumed that he tall shutters, these may have been had met the striking young widow in intended for a house of quite different - Texas at the home of her father, Horace proportions. The interior was arranged Baldwin, or her aunt, Mrs. Augustus C. so that whatever breeze was about could Allen, also named Charlotte. Horace, µiove through all the rooms; (sliding] brother not only to Charlotte Allen but doors between the downstairs parlors also to that Harvey Baldwin who had could be thrown back to create one spa­ initiated the Plank Road venture, had cious reception room running from the come out about 1839 and within five front of the house all the way to the back. years was elected mayor of Houston. Kitchen and storerooms, as was the prac­ William Marsh Rice seems to have tice throughout the South, were set set his brother an example in all things, away from the main house, as much to not excluding matrimony. On June 29, avoid heat, noise, and cooking odors as 1850, in Christ Church, where since 1845 to reduce the danger of fire. Rice spent he had been a member of the vestry, he eight thousand dollars, which in those had been married to Margaret Bremond, days was considered a princely sum, on Paul Bremond's eighteen-year-old finishing his residence. daughter. On the evening of the wedding there was a reception at [Houston's] IKE HIS FATHER, William Marsh Capitol Hotel described as "the most Rice did not shirk his responsi­ splendid affair ever given in the city," bilities within the community. and the following day the Rices set off Christened in Springfield in the on a wedding trip to the Atlantic sea­ L Methodist chapel so closely associated board. Travel was unhurried in those with David Rice, he seems in Houston days; the honeymooners may have only to have become a member of the Episco­ been returning home when in the fol­ palian Christ Church soon after its lowing February William Marsh Rice establishment, perhaps because Ebe­ telegraphed ahead to Louisville from nezer Nichols and his family as well as somewhere in Ohio or Kentucky asking Margaret Bremond, her mother and sis­ that the steamer Oregon be held for ter were all staunch Episcopalians. For them for a few hours. The Oregon could a number of years Christ Church had to not wait and set off without the Rices: struggle to remain alive, and William on the second of March she exploded_ Marsh Rice's name appears regularly, if and sank in the Mississippi. prudently, as .one of those who came to its financial rescue. AVING ACQUIRED A CHARMING Through his association with Christ YOUNG WIFE, [William] next Church, Rice would have seen a good required a residence that would deal at this time of a man whose name is most substantial men; from now on, frail about the man in the Rice House serve not only to show her off but bound up with the whole history of the Hto reflect the solid state of his fortune; nearly everything he touched would turn portrait. Episcopal Church in Texas, The Rever­ to gold. The portrait which was made valued at that time at $25,000. He did end Charles Gillette. Gillette, like David about this time and now hangs in the ITH THE ARRIVAL OF PROS· not have far to look, for he and Ebenezer Rice, worked his entire life in the cause entrance hall of the restored Nichols­ PERITY, William Marsh Rice Nichols had recently decided that in the of education; before his congregation Rice-Cherry house, shows a man in the had begun to send for other interests of their business one of the had a church in which to worship, Gillette prime of life, shrewd and somewhat members of his family. First partners should move to Galveston, had seen to it that they had a school­ W David, through which all the firm's goods sooner quizzical. Here is the face of a man who to arrive was his elder brother, house. believed in keeping his own counsel. the most dashing member of the family'., or later passed. Nichols elected to make Having been exposed to the views of Increasingly preoccupied with his Married in Springfield at the age of the change, believing that the future two men like David Rice and Charles health in later years, Rice appears none­ twenty, he was a young widower by the was brighter down the coast; the new Gillette, it is not surprising that William theless to have been a wiry man, rather time he came out to Texas leaving two home which he had just begun to build Marsh Rice's name appeared in 1856 as small in stature, who was rarely ill. At sons in Massachusetts with David and for himself he sold to his obliging part­ an incorporator of the Houston Aca­ the time of his death he was reported to Patty Rice. Striking out from Galveston, ner. demy, in 1857 as a member of the board measure only five feet three inches in he apparently worked for a while for his The original site of the house is still of the Houston Educational Society, and, height and to weigh ninety pounds, but brother and then moved into the Texas uncertain, although it may have been two years later, as a trustee of both the age had undoubtedly diminished both Rangers, where he rose to the rank of on what was known as "Quality Hill." Second Ward School and the Texas weight and stature. There is nothing colonel. He is mentioned as the treasurer Rice moved it to face on Court House Medical College. The idea of a univer- (amtinued page 12) SALLYPORT M NttnB c~ NOTICES i Grandson of the Victorian biologist to Rice for two years of engineering Honors Thomas Huxley, a champion of Darwin­ study. ism, and the eldest son of schoolmaster During the first three years, students and editor Leonard Huxley, Sir Julian will take two courses in engineering at Trustees, Term-Governors Named was a precocious child who gr~w up in Rice to provide background and help in an atmosphere of science and culture. a career decision. Upon completion of Josephine Abercrombie Bryan BS '46 and Charles W. Duncan Jr. BS '47 have been He was educated at Eton and Oxford, the five year program, the graduate will named trustees of the University. Both have served as term members on the Univer­ where he later taught. receive a BS in cheinistry, mathematics sity's board of governors. Their unexpired terms will be filled by Mary E. Johnston or physics at TSU and a BS in engineer­ BA '41 and Theodore N. Law. ing from Rice. An additional year will "The two new trustees have a long record of dedicated service to education," Her­ qualify the student for a professional bert Allen, chairman of the University's board of governors, said upon the announce­ - master's degree. ment. "It is this background, in addition to their civic involvements and achievements, The program is intended to take that will be most helpful to Rice." advantage of the strengths of both Mrs. Bryan is a director of the J. S. Abercrombie Mineral Company and is on the schools. TSU has an excellent liberal board of directors of Cameron Iron Works and Cattle Reproduction, Inc. She is the arts program, but no degree program in founder of the Lexington School in Lexington, Kentucky, and a life member of its engineering. Rice offers degrees in chem­ board. ical, civil, and electrical engineering, Duncan is chairman of the Rotan Mosle Financial Corporation and chairman of environmental science and engineering, Robertson Distribution Systems, Inc. He is a director of the Coca-Cola Co. and is also and materials science and mechanical on the boards of the Great Southern Corporation and the Southern Railway System engineering. and on the advisory board of Texas Commerce Bancshares. Rice's new trustee is also a trustee of Emory University. Mary Elizabeth Johnston is a member of the board of editors of FORTUNE magazine in New York. A former HOuSTON POST writer and correspondent for the CHRISTIAN Women Athletes SCIENCE MONITOR, she has been a member of the Rice University fund council for the past several years. She served on the executive board of the Association of Rice Alumni Recognized (1970-73) and is currently a member of the editorial advisory board of the Rice Uni­ versity Review and of the publications committee of the Alumni Association. Julian Huxley, while at Rice Rice's women athletes were honored by Law, a director of Falcon Seaboard, Inc., is a member of the University's geology the Association of Rice Alumni on April advisory council and the Owl Club. He served as a term member of the Rice board from A noted author, Huxley's writings 20 when the First Annual Varsity 1969 to 1973 when he became governor advisor. Law is also a member of the American reflect his diverse range of interests from Awards Picnic for women was held in Petroleum Institute, Texas Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association and the Indepen­ poetry, religion and philosophy to the Old Rice Stadium. Barbecue, volley­ dent Petroleum Association of America. zoology and cancer research. He was ball and presentation of awards were on recognized not only as a biologist but the program, with Janis Tymeson, senior also as a scientific administrator, ration­ volleyballer, receiving the first Joyce alist, philosopher of science and inter­ Pounds Hardy Award for the Most Out­ Chapman Chosen·Alumni-Governor national civil servant, serving as first standing Woman Athlete, and 31 var­ director-general of UNESCO (United Richard A. Chapman BA '54, MA '55, James R. Meyers BA '49, of Austin, sity letters being awarded in volleyball, ' Nations Educational, Scientific and whose term expires on June 30, 1975. basketball, swimming and tennis. PhD '57, a scientist-executive in the Cultural Organization.) During his undergraduate ¢ays at Central Research Laboratories of Texas Sir Julian, who was knighted in 1958, Rice, Dick Chapman played tackle and Instruments in Dallas, has been elected is survived by his wife of 56 years, the to a four-year term on the University's guard o~ the Rice football teams of 1951, former Marie Juliette Baillot of Switzer­ 1952, and 1953. Upon graduation, he was board of governors. Dr. Chapman was land, and their two sons. chosen as alumni-governor through mail the recipient of Rice's Bob Quin Award ballots and will replace District. Judge and was the first draft choice of the Detroit Lions. But he stayed at Rice to do graduate work in low-energy nuclear Promotions physics. Before joining Texas Instruments in 1959, Dr. Chapman spent two years Announced researching nuclear power reactors at The University board of governors has General Electric's Vallecitos Atoinic approved the promotions of twelve Rice Laboratory. Currently manager of Tl's faculty members. >- ;'Ji Optoelectronic Devices Branch, he has John W. Brelsford, psychology; P.R. > 0 published numerous articles. in scien­ Brooks, chemistry; W. F. Walker, C e tific journals and is a fellow of the mechanical engineering, and J. E. <( American Physical Society. W arme, geology, have been promoted "' "E In 1961 and 1962, Dr. Chapman served to the rank of professor. .Q on the executive board of the Associa­ Promoted to the rank of associate pro­ Hardy Award winner, Janis Tymeson tion of Rice Alumni and, in 1972, was fessor are W. E. Billups, cheinistry; elected to Rice's Athletic Hall of Fame. Margaret Eifler, German; P. S. Engel, The Joyce Pounds Hardy Award is Alumni-governor Richard Chapman His wife is the former Barbara Dell cheinistry and Joan Green, Spanish. Madden BA '54. J.P. Hannon, physics; F. Quiocho, named after the current chairman of the biocheinistry, and Albert Van Heiden, student-alumni liaison cominittee and history, have been promoted to the rank co-chairman of the athletic cominittee of associate professor for a three-year of the Alumni Association. Joyce Hardy Piper Foundation Honors Brotzen term. Arthur Few, space physics and '45 has been interested in women's Dr. Franz Brotzen, professor of mater­ engineer; he was awarded a Guggenheim astronomy and environmental science, athletics since her days as an under­ ials science, has been recognized as an Fellowship in 1960, received the 1973- has been promoted to adjunct associate graduate, when, as she says, she "was outstanding teacher by the Minnie 74 Senior Scientist Award from West professor. nearly expelled for being on a woman's Stevens Piper Foundation. Piper Awards Germany's Alexander von Humboldt The appointments are effective July 1, football team." The award is given on are given annually to ten professors in Foundation, and is a fellow of the 1975. the basis of athletic and acadeinic excel­ Texas colleges and universities. The American Society for Metals. lence and the recipient is chosen by a award carries a $1,000 honorarium. Brotzen is currently serving as master vote of all women athletes. Brotzen, a member of the Rice faculty of Jones College, whose women have Exxon Funds A trophy will be given each year to since 1954, is a four-time winner of the established an annual Brotzen Prize in the recipient of the award and a plaque George R. Brown Award for Superior his honor. The Prize is given to the col­ engraved with the award winners' names Teaching. In addition to his recognition lege's most outstanding senior and this Dual Degree will remain on permanent display in the as a teacher, Brotzen has won honors for year was awarded to Sue Berry, a pre­ Autry Court trophy case. various achievements as a scientist- med student from Cincinnati. Program A dual degree program in engineering Quin Award Campus sponsored by both Texas Southern Uni­ versity and Rice was recently given funds for scholarships by the Exxon Goes to Carroll U.S. A. Foundation. Danny Carroll BA '75, former Rice bas­ Biology Department Founder Dies During each of the next three acadeinic ketball player, was awarded the Bob Sir Julian Huxley, distinguished British 1912, when I was just 25, President years, ten students will receive scholar­ Quin Award at the annual Spring Sports biologist and founder of Rice's biology Lovett of the newly-created Rice Insti­ ships which will enable them to partici­ banquet on April 21. The award is given department, died in his London home on tute in Houston, Texas, offered me the pate in this program, developed to help to a graduating senior each year on the February 14. He was 87. Chair of Biology there, with a salary far minority students enter the e.ngineering basis of scholarship, leadership, charac­ Older brother of novelist Aldous Hux­ beyond what I could look forward to in profession. Students will attend TSU for ter and athletic ability. The award, ley, Sir Julian recalled in his Merrwries, Oxford." Huxley taught at Rice for four the three year pre-engineering phase of given in memory of Robert Pitcher Quin published in 1970, "In the summer of years. the program, then be formally adinitted '33, was first presented in 1931. SALLYPORT

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gan Bethea BA '39, vice president; Mary David Isaacks BA '45, recording seere­ Alumni Gordon Elected tary; Miriam Ormerod Matthews BA '44, corresponding secretary and Donna toNAE Shultz Weinberg BA '59, treasurer. Peters on President's Council The organization has added $1000 to Mary Beth Morris Peters BA '39 was recently nominated to President Ford's Advisory Dr. William E. Gordon, dean of Science their Endowment Fund this year to pro­ Council on Women's Educational Programs, and ·will serve a term of three years. and Engineering and soon-to-be dean of vide a scholarship to a woman student. The council was established in the Office of Education, Department of Health, Edu­ the Rice's School of Natural Science, The fund was begun last year, and the cation and Welfare by the Education Amendments of 1974. It consists of seventeen was recently elected to the prestigious first scholarship will be awarded for the members appointed by the President and the chairman of the Civil Rights Commission, National Academy of Engineering. 1975-76 school year. Gordon, who is also a member of the director of the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor and the director of the the National Academy of Sciences, was women's action program of HEW. chosen for the honor as a result of his H&PESummer The purpose of the council is to advise the Commissioner of Education on general pioneering work in radar telescope design policy matters relating to the administration of women's education equity; to advise and his contributions toward improved and make recommendations to the Assistant Secretary for Education concerning the radio communications. Program improvement of education equity for women; to make recommendations to the Com­ missioner with respect to the allocation of funds, including criteria developed to Election to the Academy is the high­ of the Depart­ The recreational facilities insure an appropriate geographical distribution of approved programs and projects est professional distinction which can Education ment of Health and Physical throughout the country and to develop criteria for the establishment of program be conferred on an American engineer. summer to Rice alumni. will be open this priorities. The Academy is a private organization is $25 for The fee for use of the facilities The mother of four sons, Mary Beth is currently director of the Program in Admin­ established in 1964 to share in the a family and $5 for each one member of istration and Management at Chatham College in Pittsburgh. She is a nationally responsibility given to the National of the immediate additional member recognized leader in organizational development and management science. A native Academy of Sciences under its 1863 family. of Houston, she received her degree from Rice in architecture. congressional charter. summer program includes swim­ The Ms. Peters has served as a consultant to education organizations, religious systems volleyball, basketball, ming, tennis, and with government and business. She is the founder, director and board member of softball, handball, !'!quash, racquetball, Consultant Trainers Southwest, a non-profit organization developed to bring profes­ badminton and weight NewSRUW table tennis, sional services of organization and education development to religious systems in the and tennis instruc­ room and swimming Southwest, and Southwest Institute for Personal and Organization Development, a ID must be presented tion. The Rice non-profit organization developed to bring professional consultant and human rela­ Officers Installed are being when gymnasium facilities tions trainings to schools, business and industry in the Southwest. under twelve must be The Society of Rice University Women used. Children Ms. Peters is active in Rice alumni activities and recently organized the first area a parent when using installed officers for the 1975-76 year accompanied by club meeting to be held in the Pittsburgh area in several years. during their last general meeting on facilities. April 28. For further information, call the The new officers are Annette Gano Health and Physical Education office rary Gragg BA '47, president; Frances Flana- at 528-4141, X 330/332. Alums Give to the Lib Cash gifts from two alumni organiza­ James Dickey, Paul Ramsey and Allen tions and the manuscript collection of Tate (some autographed) to the library, cement Held an alumnus have been given to Fondren as well as a number of letters written to Sixty-second Commen Library. Critique by such literary· figures as A $595 donation by the Owen Wister Erskine Caldwell, Dickey, Caroline Gor­ Literary Society Alumnae has made it don, William Goyen, Frederick Manfred, possible for the library to obtain the Brian Moore, Ana.is Nin, Joyce Carol titles they lack in the reprinted regional Oates, Ramsey, Tate and Yvor Winters. little magazine series, Regional Litera­ ture West of the Mississippi. The Society of Rice University Won,.en has given the library a gift of $1000. The money will be used to buy the Guide to World Science, a 25 volume set needed by the Science Reference Department, and the Encyclopedia of Women, a 16 volume set providing comprehensive to women, coverage of topics relevant R. O'Keeffe, D. Lovell accept SRUW gifts feminism, and women's history. In February, the library received a Also included in the collection are a 1926 posthumous gift from James Korges Theodore Dreiser letter and a letter BA '53. Korges, editor of Critique: Stud­ written by Sean O'Casey to Korges in ies in Modem Fiction, left his manu­ 1953, when Korges was editor of the script collection of publ_ished works by Thresher. Architect Grenn in Samoa Karen Grenn BA '73 joined the Peace Her role as architect, which also Corps after receiving her degree in archi­ involves numerous other large and small tecture in May, 1973. By July, she was projects, is considerably broader than it in Western Samoa where, after an inten­ would be in this country. Architects on students and Senior Day 75: Another good time Rice sive training program in the Samoan the public works staff in Western Samoa Commencement Day events began on Saturday morning, May 10, with the presenta­ language and the history, culture and tion of awards and prizes in Cohen House, followed by a buffet luncheon for seniors traditions of the people, she began to and parents in the homes of the college maslA;lrs and the ROTC Commissioning Cere­ put her architectural skills to work. mony in Hamman Hall in the early afternoon. Some 1,600 miles northeast of New Steve Golvach BA '75, Gus A. Schill, Jr. BA '55, and Frederic A. Wierum, Jr. PhD Zealand, Western Samoa consists of two '62 were this year's recipients of The Rice University Service Award, given annually large and two small islands with a total in memory of Dean Hugh Scott Cameron. land area about that of Rhode Island. The Rice Engineering Alumni Fourth-Year Engineering Scholars were also Most residents live by small-scale fish­ announced at the awards presentation. They are George M. Pharr IV, James Alan ing and farming. Conner, Barry James Dale, Michael Roy Kump and Alfred A. Ochoa, Jr. The Fifth­ The developing country of 150,000 Year Engineering Scholars are William Louis Barnard, Douglas G. Ashcraft, Matthew lacks its own qualified architects and Christiano, Robert 0. Nellums, and Roy R. Ray. needed volunteers to help build public Among other awards presented was a Woodrow Wilson Doctoral Dissertation- Fellow­ facilities. Karen, 24, holds a key position ship in Women's Studies, given to Patricia S. Martin, graduate student in history. She in the Western Samoa Department of will receive $5,100, plus up to $500 to cover dissertation-related expenses of her study, Public Works in Apia, capital of the Peace Corps volunteer Karen Grenn "Sisterhood and Suffrage: Evangelical Protestant Women and the 19th Amendment." country, as the architect responsible for Seniors and other degree candidates picked up their diplomas during the evening the entire building program of the coun­ are involved in every step of the design Commencement Exercises on the east side of Lovett Hall. A total of 520 bachelor's try's education department. and construction process, from prepar­ degrees, 198 master's, and 88 PhD's were conferred. The invocation was given by Dr. She designs and constructs prototype ing preliminary drawings to keeping Jerome N. Sherman, lecturer in religious studies, and President Hackerman reviewed classroom buildings with the objective track of orders for construction supplies the past school year, citing the opening of Willie's Pub as one of the most significant of producing basic standardized designs and supervising work crews at the build­ events. for reinforced concrete structures which ing sites. As a woman, she admits that Immediately following the exercises, Dr. and Mrs. Hackerman hosted a reception are inexpensive, durable, easy to build she is an "unusual sight" at the construc­ honoring Rice degree candidates and their guests at Cohen House. and require little maintenance. tion projects. (continued from page 9) Gunn's Success Was Predicted "Presumably, Rice hoped Sam Houston might be able In the June 16, 1961, issue, TIME maga­ On Wednesday, April 23, Dr. James to prevent Texas' secession.,, zine chose James E. Gunn BA '6lasone Gunn, now a professor of astronomy at of twelve graduating seniors in the California Institute of Technology, gave ~ sity had not yet entered the thoughts of able to choose such new partners as his U.S. who would be heard from again: a physics colloquium on the Rice cam­ most Houstonians. Those young men own personal tastes directed, and now James Edward Gunn, 22, is a summa pus. His topic was "Observational Cos­ who went on to college were sent back he set up the firm of Groesbeeck, Rice cum laude student in math and physics mology and the Hubble Diagram." to the East even after the Civil War, as and Company. Abraham Groesbeeck at Rice University, the Southwest's Gunn received his PhD from Cal Tech was the case with William Marsh Rice was an old acquaintance, one whose toughest campus. A straight-A high in 1965. From 1966 to 1968, he was Senior II, Frederick's second son and Rice's name figures almost as frequently as school graduate, Gunn attended Rice on Space Scientist, JPL, while serving a namesake, whose years at Princeton Rice's owri in the legal and financial a four-year scholarship, won a peck of two-year term of military service in the were a gift from his uncle. transactions of the time. The "and Com­ academic prizes. "I've never been able U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. As an Politics and public office seemed to pany" was young Frederick Rice, now really to determine the limits of his assistant professor at Princeton from lie outside the range of Rice's interests, his brother's full-fledged partner. ability," says one physics professor. 1968 to 1969, he worked on theoretical although as far back as 1845 he had With these new associates, as with "I've never been able to ask him an exam pulsar models, formation and dynamics served on a committee on resolutions in the earlier ones, Rice's affairs prospered. question that he can't give a perfect of ciusters of galaxies and observations a public meeting that approved the In 1851, shortly after Nichols had gone answer to." Except for the astronomy of background radiation in clusters of annexation of Texas by the United to Galveston, Rice had also set up a lim­ club, Gunn steered clear of extrqcurricu­ galaxies. He began teaching at Cal Tech States. ·Patriotism, however, never ited partnership with a few business­ lar activities, studied ten hours a day. in 1970 and was made a full professor triumphed over prudence. men who operated under the name of Still, he found time for Army ROTC and in 1972. Rice seems to have felt none of the the Houston and Galveston Navigation the girl he married last week. Headed enthusiasm for the Mexican War that Company. By 1858 he was an owner of for Cal Tech to study astrophysics, Gunn Both an observational and theoretical astronomer, Dr. Gunn is currently con­ seized upon so many Southerners and the brig William M. Rice, which made thinks that "academic life is the only one slaveholders. The campaigns of 1846 and the run from Galveston to Boston to that would suit me. I'm intere:,ted in centrating his attention on supergiant galaxies, clusters of galaxies, photo­ 1847 which culminated in the American pick up New England ice during the long problems that industry has no use for. " occupation of Mexico City were no doubt Texas summers. For the well-to-do, life Main ones: "The secrets of gravity and electric radial velocity measurements and observational cosmology. inevitable in view of geographical and could indeed be very agreeable. Almost traveling to the stars. " -For if myopic political pressures upon the United anything, useful or luxurious, could be 1TWn "ever becomes a galactic being, " Dr. Gunn was accompanied by his States government, but Rice left the purchased in San Antonio, Galveston, muses Gunn, "it will probably be a key wife, the former Rosemary Wilson '63, military glory to those who cared for or other major towns. to his maturing. " on his return trip to the campus. that sort of thing and went on tending In 1856 the name William M. Rice to his own affairs. A life-long admirer of and Company appears for the first time Sam Houston, Rice twice attached his in the Deed Records of Harris County. name to letters asking that Houston Abraham Groesbeeck was no longer a address the citizenry, and from 1855 to partner and [still] ~he "and Company" 1857 he intermittently represented the was Frederick, who was eventually to Second Ward as an Alderman to the handle most of his brother'.s affairs in Houston City Council. An Odd Fellow and around Houston. Their acquisition and a Mason, he was called to petit of land and its development went ahead juries and to the Harris County Grand steadily. The firm was buying cotton Jury; he served one year on the slave from the planters in the river bottom patrol and for another with Liberty Fire lands and seeing to its shipment over­ Company ·No. 2138. land and by water. Rice took the next Margaret Bremond Rice remains logical step in January, 1860, when, almost invisible throughout these years, along with Groesbeeck, Ennis and some as was to be expected -in an age when dozen others, he became an incorporator ladies' names appeared in print only in the Houston Cotton Compress Com­ when they married and when they were pany, thereby putting the staple under buried. In 1860 it was reported that the same control all the way from the when the Hook and Ladder Company field to the cotton exchanges of the No. 1 was presented with a new banner, world. He was too shrewd to go into cot­ worked for them by the ladies of Hous­ ton raising himself, subject as it was to ton, the firemen marched in full uniform the endless uncertainties of labor, soil and with their "truck dressed" to the conditions, unstable markets, and the Rice home, where Mrs. Rice delivered weather. the banner to W. Browne Botts, [who] Of Rice's views on slavery nothing made the presentation on behalf of the written has survived. All that is recorded ladies. Some fifty years after Margaret is that William Marsh Rice was in fact Rice's death, a Houston newspaper a slaveholder. In the census of 1860 he recalled the New Year's Day reception is listed as owning fifteen Negroes, some which was held each year on the ground of whom he had acquired in default of floor of their home, the [sliding] doors payments, as he had some of his land set open to their full extent and a large holdings; others, the records show, he table, at which Mrs. Rice poured coffee purchased outright. for the guests, placed beneath the far Over the protests of the aging Sam windows of the room. As night fell, there Houston, Texas voted itself out of the James Gunn, Cal Tech astronomy professor was dancing; like the strollers of the United States in March, 1861. It had square, one sees Margaret Rice through already been admitted to the Confed­ the lighted windows for an instant, and eracy which was being put together in then she is gone. Montgomery, Alabama. Given the kind Rice History Executive Board of hard-headed man that William Marsh Rice always showed himself to be, it is PhDs Shine Announced N THE CENSUS OF 1860, William only reasonable to suppose that he Marsh Rice was listed as being worth agreed with Sam Houston in seeing Four recent Rice history PhDs partici­ Results of the Alumni Association's $750,000 in real estate and personal secession as a disaster. With a first­ pated in the 1975 Organization of Ameri­ Executive Board election became official property, which may have made him hand understanding of the North's can Historians Meeting in Boston on on May 22. Ithe second richest man in Texas, second indefinitely greater resources of men and April 16-19. All are former students of The winners are: only to John Hunter Herndon of Bra­ material, he must have suspected what Dr. Harold Hyman. Position No. 1-Nancy Head Bowen '58, zoria County, a sugar planter whose the outcome would be. On November 14, Harold Platt PhD '74 presented the wealth lay primarily in land and slaves. Corpus Christi 1860, six days after Lincoln's election, paper, "Urban Public Franchise-Regu­ Position No. 2-Paul Pfeiffer '38, The building which housed the firm of Rice had been a member of the com­ lation or Promotion of Monopoly?" and Rice and Nichols was one of the largest mittee on resolutions which, at a public Donald G. Nieman PhD '75 presented Bellaire Position No. 3-Leota Miyer Hess '33, in Houston, three stories tall and a hun­ meeting, urged Sam Houston to convene "The Freedman's Bureau, Southern Houston dred feet deep. Rice was involved in the legislature, a step which the old State Courts and the Legal Rights of Position No. 4-Annette Gano Gragg '47, every major business enterprise in the statesman refused to take. Accordingly, Blacks, 1865-1868." city and, along the way, had amicably Houston the anti-Unionists acted without him Michael Les Benedict PhD '71 com­ Position No. 5~G. Walter McReynolds '65, dissolved his partnership with Ebenezer and unconstitutionally called a state mented on the session on "Presidential Houston Nichols, whose interest_s now centered convention which resulted in a vote in Authority, Executive Privilege or Con­ Position No. 6-WilliamJ. Mathias '58, entirely in Galveston. Rice seems always favor of secession. Presumably Rice, like gressional Government?" and Daniel to have judged that, of the two cities, Houston many others, had hoped that Houston, Flanigan PhD '73 provided comments Houston held the greater promise. with the force of a lifetime of authority on the session on "Courts and Civil The three-year terms of the new mem­ The affiliation with Nichols had been behind him, might be able to prevent Rights During Reconstruction." bers will begin on July 1, 1975. a profitable one for both men; Rice was this very thing. SALLYPORT Class notes the University of Houston." Jo Baggett have five children who are carving out From 1963 to 1970, Kramer served in 1916-1949 Eddleman BA '45 recently published rather mediocre records in local schools, the U.S. Navy as a lieutenant. He ie Joseph P. Coleman BS '18, a veteran Cows on the Runway · (Sleeping Fox but so far none has failed or been stabbed. currently studying toward his PhD in independent oil and gas producer, was Enterprises), described as a "witty, Last year I was selected as best coach chemistry at Harvard. John Welge '64 recently awarded the Independent Petro­ laugh-provoking collection of episodes in the Braes Bayou Little League by the writes, "After graduating with a BS leum Association of ,America's Russell which usually fall into the 'How NOT enthusiastic members of my team, which in mathematics from the University of B. Brown memorial award. The citation To-' category. It is a fast-paced story helped offset the disappointment over Tulsa in 1965, I returned to Rice for noted Coleman's "54 years of vigorous of the author's early days as a chemist, our won/lost record. I hope to have a graduate study in mathematics. After participation in the domestic industry." her fiascos while learning to fly (from a more exciting report in a year or two as working in Houston as a computer pro­ During his career, he has served the gov­ cow pasture), her entry in the Powder my business career is definitely on the grammer, I returned to the University ernment as a member of the Petroleum Puff Derby and past attempts at survival uptrend since my immediate supervisor of Tulsa and obtained an MS in chem­ Industry War Council and the National in the classroom as a mathematics is nearing retirement." George Abdo istry in 1974. I married Barbara McKen­ Petroleum Council and the industry as teacher." Ms. Eddleman worked as a BA '58 is an associate professor of zie from Coalgate, Oklahoma, in August, president of the North Texas Oil and Gas chemist with General Electric Company mathematics at Florida Institute of 1973, and we now live in Oklahoma City. Association and of the National Strip­ in Schenectady, New York, the Texas Techn.ilogy in Melbourne, Florida. Mary I am currently working for the Oklahoma per Well Association and in many offices A&M Research Foundation and Texas Kay Hawkes Bond BA '61 has moved State Health Department as a chemist of the IPAA . Coleman lives in Wichita A&M Extension Service. She was mar­ from San Antonio to Salina, Kansas. in the area of air pollution. I find the Falls, Texas. Blakely Smith '19, a mem­ ried in Stuttgart, Germany (during the "Our little family is moving back close work quite interesting." ber of the Offshore Technology Confer­ Occupation after WW II) where she sang to my parents," she writes. "As an only ence executive committee, represented on Radio Stuttgart, AFN. Her husband, child, I would need to do it someday, so 1965-1969 the Society of Naval Architects and Lt. Col. A.H. Eddleman, who taught we're doing it while it's still fun-they Ann Wilson Heath BA '65, who received Marine Engineers during the Confer­ her to fly, participated in the Berlin Air have land, horses, fishing, etc.-and her MSEd in elementary education at ence, held in Houston recently. Smith Lift. She has taught mathematics in before the Bond boys get settled in junior Bucknell University in January, writes, holds an honorary life membership in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Sacramento high and high school. My employment "For the past two years I've been direct­ SNAME. Owner of numerous patents and Santa Clara, California; and pres­ is not settled-I have no certification, ing an ESEA Title III project aimed at on nautical equipment, he is a consult­ ently, since 1964, in Oxon Hill, Mary­ no courses toward certification -and finding out whether the rural low-income ant on design, construction financing, land, a suburb of Washington, D. C. Kansas doesn't go in for private schools child has language disabilities which are and operation of offshore floating equip­ She is a member of Ninety-Nines Inc. like Texas! We'll see." Christian W. severe enough to hamper success in ment. A resident of Houston since 1903, ( International Organization of Women Knudsen BA '61 has been appointed school. The results of our study of 860 Smith served as chairman of the Off­ Pilots). William V. Grisham BS '48 has assistant director for conversion and elementary school children are leading shore Technology Conference in 1974. been named division production man­ utilization in the Department of the to the development of different William G. Harding BSCE '26 writes ager for Amoco Production Company's Interior's Office of Research and Devel­ approaches to primary instruction. I've from St. Louis, "I retired May 1, 1968, Houston Division. Grisham received his opment. Knudsen, who spent three years also been teaching workshops for teach­ from the Norfolk and Western Railway degree at Rice after serving three years in the Pacific as an officer in the Navy ers in this area. My husband, Jim, is an after 42 years of service on the Missouri in World War II. He also served two after leaving Rice, received his master's associate professor of classics at Buck­ Pacific, Wabash and N&W as Engineer years in the military during the Korean and PhD degrees in chemical engineer­ nell in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and of Buildings, in which position I had conflict. He joined Amoco in 1942 and ing from MIT. He worked for Exxon next year we'll be traveling while he's charge of design and construction of all in 1958 was named district engineer for before joining the Federal Energy on sabbatical. Andrew and Sarah are types of buildings. I am also a Life the New Orleans office. In 1960 he was Administration in 1974 as the chief of nine now, and Martha is seven." Gary Member of the American Railway Engi­ made petroleum engineering supervisor the Division of Synthetic Fuels. Knud­ Anderson BA '66 and Mavis Atkinson neering Association." He is looking for­ in '.l'ulsa and, after several more moves sen lives in McLean, Virginia, with his Anderson BA '67 are moving to Birming­ ward to attending the Class of 1925 and promotions within the company,, wife, the former Elizabeth Anne Neff, ham, Alabama, for a year. Gary, a senior (with which he entered) reunion this was transferred to headquarters in Chi­ and their four children. LCDR Joseph L. petroleum engineer with Southern Nat­ fall. John L. Moilliet cago in 1973, which he will be leaving to Lockett III BA '61 and Sharon Atkins ural Gas in Houston, is being trans­ BA ·31, (pictured at accept this newest position. Lockett BA '63 and their two sons (age ferred. Mavis, son Gray and daughter left) who lives in 6 and 6 months) are living in Arlington, Dawn will be going too and "are leaving Abberley, Worcester, 1950-1964 Virginia, where Joe's present Navy behind a large house, seven goldfish, England, was on cam­ Martin Brown BS '50 and Gloria Wilson assignment is with the Center for Naval and two ponies. Anyone interested in pus recently, visiting Brown BA '50 are living in Bay City, Analyses. Pat Groves BA '62, BSEE caring for any or all of the above during Houston and some old friends. Moilliet Texas. Gloria was recently recognized '62, MS '64, PhD '67 writes from Sara­ their absence should contact us at once. visited with Dr. Robert K. Blair BA '33 for distinguished service to youth by the toga, California, "One of the most impor­ Over the past four years we have had so and his wife Madeline Freeman Blair Sam Houston Council, Boy Scouts of tant things I learned at Rice was hand­ many Rice friends coming to stay at our BA '34; Mildred McDavid Patterson America, who presented her the Silver ball. I still play several_times weekly house that this move is almost like the BA ·35 and her husband, Hugh; and G. Beaver Award at their March Apprecia­ with several Rice alums of this area such closing of a second 'Rice Hotel.' We are Holmes Richter BA ·34_ Dorothy Eckel tion Dinner. She is an advisor for Co-ed as Carroll Keilers BA '65, Ranny Mose­ glad to say that this one, too, has plans Justman '35 has recently written a book Explorer Post 2699 in Bay City. Martin ley MS '64, Gene Richeson BA '62, and for reopening." Jon L. Wakelyn PhD '66 entitled German Colonists in Houston, is an area engine0 r for the State Highway others. I am working at GTE Sylvania was recently appointed undergraduate (Nortex Press). She explains, "The book Department. Mary Patricia Richey Fox Electronic Systems Group in Mountain dean of the faculty, College of Arts and traces the establishment of the Usener BA '54 is living in Bryan and writes. "I View, California. During the last two Sciences, at Catholic University of [family] line parallel to the founding and received my MEd in Curriculum and years I have been involved in campus America in Washington, D. C. He is cur­ history of Houston. Well documented Instruction from Texas A&M Univer­ recruiting at Rice for GTE. You might rently at work on a Directory of Con­ for history buffs and illustrated with sity in August, 1973. In August, 1974. be interested to know that a lot of grad­ federate Leaders, with a projected pub­ maps and photographs for alumni remi­ I became a curriculum supervisor for uates work at GTE Sylvania's Western lication date of 1976. Rice's Provost, niscing, the book is available at the pub­ the Bryan Independent School District Division here in Mountain. I may not Frank E. Vandiver, is serving as con­ lic library and at most college libraries - working with fourth, fifth and si.xth know them all. but the ones of whom I sulting editor on the book. Wakelyn, in Houston." Mrs. Justman's mother, grade teachers and the resource pro­ am aware are: Mike Yarborough BA who lives with his wife, Catherine Carl Loleet Usener Stimson ·21, "attended gram for our mainstreamed special edu­ '63, Judd Stiff BA '62, Bowman Miller Wakelyn BA '64, MA '66, and their two Rice Institute in 1917 along with Sarah cation students. I miss my students MS '66. Neal Rachlin BA '69, David children David, 6, and Meredith, 5, in Lane BA '19 and Pender Turnbull BA (after 12 years in the classroom). but Decker PhD '74, Tommy Sartor BS '73. Takoma Park, Maryland, is a member '19." James J. Nallin BA ·37 'ATites, find many challenges as I try to help Carl Strickland BA ·7 4, Marc Marshall of the consortium committee of the D. C. ''After graduation from Rice, I entered teachers with their instructional pro­ BS '73, Rick Mandrell BS '7 4, Ray Bicentennial Commission. Catherine is the School of Law at the University of grams. My husb!:I.Ild was recently pro­ Lucas BA ·59, and Franklin Sll]oak BA currently working on her law degree at Texas, Austin, from 'Ahich I received moted to professor in the Industrial ·71." Neal W. Marcus BA '62 has joined Catholic University. Anthony W. Labay the LLB degree in 1940. I entered mili­ Engineering Department at A&M. We'd the staff of the Scottish Rite Hospital BComm '67 was recently promoted to tary service in World War II in which I love to hear from friends when they get for Crippled Children in Decatur, Geor­ the position of specialist/management served as a senior lieutenant in the to Aggieland. We're very close in gia, where he will practice pediatric selection and placement for Eastern Air­ ~avy as Chief Counsel for the District Bryan!'' Steve Muller BA ·55 writes orthopaedics. Calvin R. Starnes BA '62 lines. In his new position with the Miami­ Public Works Office, Bureau of Yards from Houston, "After graduating in the has graduated from the Northern Com­ based airline, Tony will be responsible and Docks, Department of the Navy, lower quarter of the Class of 1955, I munications Area Team Chief Academy for management recruitment activity Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. After the war, I joined the U.S. Navy. failing to find Starnes completed two weeks of compre­ for Florida and the Bahamas. He and was engaged in the private practice of more suitable employment. After the hensive training in the management of his wife. Elayne, currently live in Miami law in Livingston and Longview, Texas, Navy lost their court martial proceed­ 1>[ectronics installation field team opera­ and ha\e two sons, Scott, 6, and Mark, until 1954. when I joined the legal staff ing against me over the aircraft incident, tions. He will now be returning to his 3. Robert B. Leftwich BA 67 is an asso­ of Amoco Production Company. I I was transferred to shore duty. This Ohio ANG unit. He received his mas­ ciate economist for the First National resigned from that company on January assignment was finally declared non­ ter's degree in business administration City Bank in New York City. He and his 1, 1975, after 20 years as a member of its essential and I was awarded early release from Tulane University and was com­ wife, Donna, recently relocated from legal staff, to resume the private prac­ and replaced by a WA VE. Things were missioned in 1964 upon graduation from Washington, D. C., and are interested in tice of law. In 1941, I married Miss slack in 1957 so I took employment as a Officer Training School at Lackland getting together with other Rice alums Mildred Collier of Livingston, who clerk in my Dad's pump repair business. AFB, Texas. Alfred in the New York City area. Monty J. attended Mary Hardin Baylor College Recently things have been going quite V. Kraml!r BA '63 Strauss BA '67 writes from Lubbock, and we have two children, Sharon (now well at Dad's and I am now in charge of (pictured at left) has "To fill you in on the latest concerning Mrs. Wayne Ramsey), who graduated the gasket and seal desk. If things con­ joined the General me, I have been promoted to associate from the University of Houston and who tinue to go well, I will probably be given Electric Research and professor of mathematics at Texas Tech is now an elementary school teacher in a late model company car next year, or Development Center University. I am also currently serving Houston, and James, who is a junior at at least the year after. My wife and I in Schenectady, New York, as a chemist. on the State Executive Board of the that sound worse in print than they did that we had to go outdoors. Texas Association of College Teachers." at the time. We agree that it sure is Rumors flew about the source of the Our First Contest: strange for a Rice grad to be running a fire in the garage below. Finally someone 1970-1974 bluegrass club in Connecticut, while said it was a Porsche, and my mind another is hustling a job for a third as eased, because I had an MG Midget. But William Travis Briscoe BA '70 received a musician, and Harry agrees to hire then someone else_ said the · car had his PhD from the University of Texas Bill, sight unseen, sound unheard. Texas plates, and I knew it had to be School of Biomedical Science Graduate Haymes comes to town in October to mine. A short time later everyone moved in 197 4 and is now with Scripps Research play Guffee's club, contact what other to the driveway to see the poor, gutted Center and Clinic in La Jolla, California. Ricies are around (notable for present MG being towed up from the garage. Fannie Scott Howard PhD '70 has been TALES purposes, an history grad student at named director of the University of Yale who had been his tutorial leader at Houston's Open University program. TOLDOUTOF Rice, Bari Watkins), and mostly to sing The widely acclaimed British-styled pro­ his little heart out (Bill's phrase, not gram involves independent study, the mine). of video-taped lectures prepared viewing Soon, I get to know Bari as a close British scholars, and- tutorial and by friend, although I had known of her ·at examination sessions on the UH campus. SCHOOL Rice, knew she lived in New Haven, and The Open University program is hadn't bothered so much as a phone call designed for the adult, who may enroll last up until then. a "special," an audit, or as an under­ As lpyal SALLYPORT readers know, as By now (Spring '74), I amin imminent graduate student. Dr. Howard, an assist­ month we announced our first contest, Sweatshirt Sweepstakes. danger of getting a graduate degree, ant professor of French, began teaching the Sallyport the and have accepted a job in Charlottes­ at UH in 1969. She was director of the We asked Rice people to answer where have you ville, Virginia. Bari insists that on my University's Academic Year in Stras­ question: "When and met other Rice people?" first trip to Charlottesville I call an old bourg in 1972-73, its inaugural year. unexpectedly to award prizes, Rice friend of hers, Dave Gipson, from you­ J. Peter Jordan BA '71 writes from and promised to the three know-what-small-metropolitan-college­ Decatur, Georgia, "After four and a half T-shirts and sweatshirts, poised-on-the-threshold-of-greatness. months of unemployment, I finally found most interesting responses. Given how poorly I deal with strangers, a job with DeKalb County as a Planning had no idea how willing Rice peo­ The police asked whose car it was, and We I amaze myself by actually calling him. On the same day, I received was then 5:00 a.m., Technician. ple were to share their tales! After hours Instant hospitality-I am immediately ingreatweariness,it word that I had passed my exams and reached I confessed it was mine. The policeman of deliberation, our tale judges offered a place to stay while looking for will be 'permitted to practice architec­ asked for my name, and when I gave it, their decision based on some arbitrary housing, and am served more chili and ture in this state . . .' Maybe a Rice another tenant came up and introduced set of standards only they understand. beer. Dave and I are friends before the pays off after all. I would like himself as Bob Stinson of Rice, and said education For your enjoyment, the winning sto­ week is out. to hear from old friends who would like he'd been told to look me up. I've never ries (and some interesting "honorable­ The rest of the summer is spent writ­ to hear from me; also from alums in the seen him again. mentions") are printed below: ing a dissertation, parting with friends Atlanta area." Carole Holmes Lake BA of long standing, and listening to music '71 and Larry W. Lake PhD '73 were (with appropriate viands and beverages) March 22, 1975, in Houston. married By September I have Larry is a research engineer for Shell 1STPRIZE at Guffee's club. 3RDPRIZE rented a Development, and Carole is teaching moved to Virginia, having Charles Duncan '70 of Emily Coffman '75 junior high Spanish, French and Ger­ house I can't afford. Of course, one is stop by Gipson's man. Karen K. Nikaido BA '71 married Free Union, Va. the first things to do Housto·n, Texas J. Paul McGuffey in January. They live to say hello and see if he knows anyone to "The French Connection" in Houston, where she works for Getty "Worthy ... merely by the prolonged looking for a place to live. When I get student at South Texas and tangled nature of its unfolding " his apartment, he's not home, but the Oil and he is a I spent last year in Paris with the Sweet MA '72 person in his living room looks familiar. Law School. Richard J. Sirchio Briar Junior Year in France program. an international bank­ Sometime in the summer of 1973, my I ask and find out he's Dennis Bahler, has been named Most of my courses were held at the Bank Inter­ buddy, Syd, a 35-year old permanent stu­ a Rice graduate currently in Charlottes­ ing officer with Continental Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. national, a Houston subsidiary of Con­ dent, calls me to invite me to the opening ville looking for a place to live. Suddenly, of housemates. One of those was a special class about tinental Bank of Chicago. Sirchio previ­ of a restaurant owned by a neighbor it's settled: Dennis and I are restaurant later, I find a place French political and economic life for ously held positions with General Elec­ his. As these things go, the A few months (that being the foreign students. As I was standing out­ tric Information Systems and Bank of turns out to be in a, say, unusual neigh­ where Haymes can sing last Friday, he side of my first session of this class, I the Southwest in Houston. Rick Brewer borhood of New Haven, serves mainly only way to see him), and Some with traveling compan­ was discussing with other students the BA '73 has finished his MBA degree at beer and chili and bluegrass music. comes to town this, ah, Rice graduate on course offerings, and grade transferral the University of Florida and is now weeks later I'm eating lunch in ion, Hillary Loring, Jersey to her to the U.S. at the end of the year. working on the audit staff of Arthur club and decide the time is ripe to hustle her way from central New grad­ with the armadillo" in central I had just commented on Rice's trans­ Andersen & Co. in the firm's Atlanta a gig for itinerant musician, Rice "home to know Gipson has invited fer policies when another American office. Thomas M. Ginn PhD '73 is one uate Bill Haymes, whom I got Texas. Meanwhile, festival of his, Jerry Perry, to approached and asked, "Are you talking of 14 students at the Bowman Gray after running into him at a folk an old Rice friend (no less) home in Boston, and about Rice University in Houston? I go School of Medicine of Wake Forest Uni­ on an island in Lake Ontario visit from his spinach to Rice. Why haven't I ever seen you versity in Winston-Salem, North Caro­ some three years previously. I'm intro­ somehow I find myself fixing a big and cherry soup (did you before?" Amazed and astounded, · we lina, who has been elected to . Alpha duced to the co-owner/manager, provencale named think we ate nothing but beer spent a few minutes exchanging colleges, Omega Alpha, national medical honor bass fiddle player/architect really formalities no less than five Rice majors and the like, when still another society. Election is based on scholastic Harry Guffee. After polite and chili?) for else?), we whom I didn't know at Rice, American approached us both and said, achievement and character. Ginn is mar­ over chili and beer (what graduates had been introduced to me by other "I go to Rice. Why don't I know either ried to the former Judith Nanney of begin to talk business: who of I didn't know in Hous­ of you?" Greenville, South Carolina. Bruce E. HG: Where does this friend Rice graduates half decade after leaving Texas, The two Rice students were also Breeding BA '7 4 married Susan Elaine yours play? ton, a outskirts of Free Union, academs; in fact, one was a Poli Sci/ Rantal, of Houston, on February 22. CD: He lives in Maryland, but in the unlikely a lot. French double major like me. We parted Breeding is currently continuing his plays all over-in Texas Virginia. (That's not with the promise of further meetings and graduate studies at Rice. His wife is a HG: No kidding. but this continued friendship. graduate of the University of Texas at really what he said Arlington. Thomas Wright Titus '71 is an "edited transcript.") I to school in Texas­ 2NDPRIZE married Jane Frances Styron on Decem­ used to go ber 22 in Dallas. Titus, now a student at for more years than I care Rita L. Paddock HONORABLE MENTION Southern Methodist University School to admit. Cambridge, Mass. Charles I. Kaplan '47 of Law, graduated from the University CD: Me too; where? of Texas. He and his wife, a graduate of HG: Houston. "None under rrwre bizarre circum­ Houston, Texas Boston University, are living in Dallas. At this point I see the writing on the stances " and Guffee and I say more things Nancy Montgomery BA '74 received her wall, "I cannot tell you a tal,e of sound and master of library science deg~~e from It was the night of the Harvard-Yale fury or of erotic love-only one of a 'put­ the University of Texas on May 17. Phil ·game, and I had come home tired and down '." Thomas BA '7 4 says he "is gaining a sleepy after a good day to go to bed well-deserved reputation as campus early. I was sound asleep, about 3 :30 am, About two years ago I was standing in weirdo at Houston's Stratford High when someone pounded on the door of line to purchase a ticket at Chicago's School in Spring Branch," where he my 8th floor apartment and shouted O'Hare Airport and noticed a Rice ring teaches American history (he's only in "Fire!" on a young, tall, goodlooking fellow pur­ it for the money). Recently elected I threw on my coat, it was about 20° chasing a ticket in front of me. While Teacher of the Month by the student outside, grabbed two struggling cats we were waiting to be served I com­ body, he spends his spare time sponsor­ and my purse and started down the mented about his ring and how many, ing the Key Club and grading papers. smoke-filled stairwell, losing a cat on from such a small school, that I have "Knowledge for the pupils," he says. the way. ( She was later rescued.) All the run into in my business travels around "Give them a light, and they'll follow tenants and pets huddled in the first­ the country. it anywhere." · floor corridor until the smoke got so bad Unfortunately, this young fellow was SALLYPORT Reverberations not properly endowed with what I con­ It was our Pleasure! Being a senior in 1974-75 and Office of the Director of Student wishing to have my ring made in Activities sider to be the "Rice Spirit." As he What a wonderful article: "Dr. white gold, I intend to take this Rice University looked at my ring, he turned up his nose, Max Freund-Der alteste Pro­ fessor!" Of course, I am preju­ proposal back before the Perma­ Rice Memorial Center and said "Oh, you have one of the old diced because I am one of Dr. nent Ring Committee. If you as Houston, Texas 77001. style rings!" Stephen F. Barnhlll Freund's daughters. I would like an alumnus have any objection. Your response will be greatly I had been feeling pretty good, having Publications Editor to send my plaudits to Johnette to having the Rice ring perma­ appreciated. nently offered in an optional made some nice sales that day, but that Johnette Duff Duff for such a splendid article. Calvin Dale Slater 76 Ms. Duff has captured the white gold, please write to me, or retort knocked the wind out of my sails Communications Assistant Rice University as I thought about my slight paunch, essence of the tremendously full to Mrs. Hellums, and let us know Charles Hively life my father and mother have the nature of your objection. If my greying temples and my receding Design Director hair line. led-all so very well stated. I you feel that offering the ring in The Association welcomes all Grace Garcia thoroughly enjoyed the article! white gold is a good idea and comments on Sallyport articles Production To this day, I admire the stam­ would like to add alumni support or issues of the day in the form Contributors to this issue ina with which my parents to the proposal, please let us of letters to the editor. Corre­ HONORABLE MENTION BIii Ballew, Nathan Broch, approach life. Thank you for so know. Write to either of us at the spondence will be printed as The Harris County Heritage honoring my father and mother following address: space permits. Ed Cochran '17 Society, Ola Moore, Patty Nunn, with your article. Nancy Parker, Since the publication of SALLY­ Omaha,Neb. Pender Turnbull, Bruce Wallace, PORT, we have learned that the SALLYPORT PERSONALS. Better than a and Pat Zumwalt. Smithsonian Institute in Wash­ message in a bottle. Think of this Class Notes form as a letter "A heart-warmer" Sallyport 1s published bi-monthly by the ington, D. C., has selected his to people you knew at Rice. Speak to them about your life Assoc1ation of Rice Alun:,ni. book, the translation of Gustav since graduation ... and anything else you want to tell them Dresel's Houston Journal (men­ I unexpectedly met "Bill Leifeste" by Carolyn H. Wallace '66 is welcome, too. We would like Class Notes to reflect the style, Executive Director tioned in Ms. Duff's article), for the interests, the causes and the ideas of those whose paths mail yesterday, while he resides in Mid­ exhibition during America's ... Martha C. Murphree crossed the Rice campus. Tell us what's important to you. land, Texas, some 998 miles away. On Bicentennial Celebration. Natur­ Assistant Executive Director that day I received a letter from my son, ally, we are all very pleased. Marshall Cochran, a landsman for Exxon Grete Freund Flagg Corporation at Midland, Texas. I quote: Officers of the Association Lubbock, Texas "Bill Leifeste, our landsman here in Walter P. Moore, Jr. '59 the office, is an alumnus of Rice, noticed President I want to congratulate you on your picture and letter in the March­ David Farnsworth '42 the splendid article on Professor April '75 issue of SALLYPORT, and was Past President Max Freund in the March-April good enough to let me have his copy of L. Henry Gissel, Jr. '58 issue of SALL YPORT. This is a fine that issue to keep with my mementoes. Incoming. President and perceptive piece of writing It is now becoming a little dog-eared, as Catherine Coburn Hannah '43 which captures this admirable I have been proud-as-a-peacock showing First Vice President man in correct perspective. The pictures are marvelous, also. Evelyn Smith Murphy '43 I II Second Vice President Patrick J. Niclwlsan BA '42 Steve Shaper '58 Houston Treasurer I look forward with pleasure to receiving the SALL YPORT, but Executive Boord can't recall ever having enjoyed it William D. Broyles, Jr. '66 morethantheJan-Febl975issue. Raymond Cook '35, It was just great and I look for­ Genevieve Pyle Demme '32, ward to its continued success. ' James R. Doty '62, Janice Cornell Doty '60, Danald H. Gartner '39 J. Thomas Eubank, Jr. '51, Houston Thomas B. Greene, Ill '71 Joyce Pounds Hardy '45, Douglas S. Harlan '64, Upcoming Homecoming: Oct.17 Albert N. Kidd '64, Will you please print in your next Thomas McKittrick '56, issue of SALLYPORT the 1975 it to every one in the office. Your letter Marilyn Kinzer Moore '59, Homecoming date? It seems that is priceless and your picture turned out Paula Meredith Mosle '52, out of town alumni are not given superbly. Everyone who sees it com­ G. Holmes Richter '26, much advance notice of it. ments on how heartwarming your Robert R. Robertson, Jr. '55, Although I graduated from Rice thoughts and recollections are expressed G. King Walters '53, in 1926, I entered with the class Helen Saba Worden '38, of 1925 and hope to attend the and your astute manner of writing. Patricia Crady Zumwalt '43 Wilma (his wife) is going to take it 50th reunion of that class this down to her office tomorrow." fall. I have enjoyed reading the It just so happens that my copy of Rice University Alumni Governors SALLYPORT and look forward to SALLYPORT had arrived two days before, Catherine Coburn Hannah '43, Judge James R. Meyers '49, receiving it as it keeps me posted though I hadn't read more than the first on the happenings at Rice. The page. There I was, being introduced to Frank B. Ryan '58 and Talbott WIison '34 March-April issue is very inter­ a fellow alumnus and notified that my esting. It's too bad that there letter to your publication had been are not more class notes of my printed. Why? Because a fellow alumnus time, but I realize "Time marches three states away, unknown to me, Credits on." Jerry Jeanmard I hope to see the campus again showed his copy of SALLYPORT to a this fall. fellow office worker. I submit that is an Cover Illustration example of how Rice affects its wor­ William G. Harding BSCE '26 shippers-for life and always. St. Louis, Missouri

Fellowship of the Ring Throughout the history of Rice, the official class ring has only been offered in yellow gold. Dur- ing each of the last three spring Marguerite John Ford BA '19 semesters, when rings were of Sweetwater, Tennessee. ordered for the following year, there has been discussion among Leonard Bowling '24 the students about having the of Channelview, Texas. ring made available in white gold as well. • Murry J. Gammill BA '28 As a member of the Permanent of Houston. Ring Committee in 1972-73, I supported having the ring offered Emil J. Johnson '28 in white gold. However, the pro­ Name of Oakland, California. poi;al was tabled until last spring SALLYPORT wishes to thank all respon­ Class dents, notably Emily Hawtlwm '70, when it was brought before Dean Ormond E. Dunlap BA '34 Wierum. Dean Wierum decided whose story was very interesting though, of Kensington, California. that a poll should be taken of Address\_new) as she acknowledged, it was not about both students and alumni to an unexpected meeting, and Elizabeth determine if white gold would McBride '66 (there's no 'e' in SALLYPORT, be allowed as an option. In the Liz) for her "just kidding" story. There Dr. Floyd Seyward Lear, professor transition of turning his office emeritus of history, died on Sunday, over to the new Director of Stu­ are meetings, and there are meetings! May 25, in Houston. Dr. Lear, 79, Prizes have been mailed. taught history at Rice for nearly fifty dent Activities, Mrs. Bonnie years and served as chairman of the Hellums, the plans for a poll department from 1933 to 1965. were lost.

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June 5-7 South-south Texas w-kend Three doys ond nights of sun, sond and surf at Brownsville's beout1ful Country Club Inn.

June 15-July 31 • Toulouse-Loutrec and other notable French ort1st~ Terminal Iron Works will be represented. Rice Museum. Photogrophs by Ben Budnik of Dovid Smith's sculp­ ture ot Bolton's Landing, New York. Rice Museum. Sewall Gallery will be closed for the summer July 10-August 15 The Media Center will be offering a Summer Thr- Centuries of French Posters Seminar on FIim during July. Coll 528-4141, ext. 1395, for further information.

he Alumni Association is now completing plans for offering this fall tw~· Alumni nstitute courses which, in recognition of the American Bicentennial, will focus I on our American Heritage in six areas of human endeavor. The first course will explore the beginnings and development of American art, music and literature. The second will focus on American ethics, religion and philosophy. Our plans are to begin both eight-week courses, which will meet on Thursday eve­ nings, on September 18. And there's more. One course will be offered in a suburban Houston location as well as on the campus! The Institute course on American art, music and literature will be presented in the Fellowship Hall of the Memorial Drive Luthernn Churrfi, Memorial Drive at Gessner, at the same time -that it is presented in the Biology Lecture Hall on campus. Involved in the preparation and teaching of this course are William Camfield, professor of fine arts, Anne Schnoebelen, associate professor of music, and David Minter, professor of English. Each will lecture at both locations. Registration fees for the two courses will be similar to those of the 1975 Alumni Insti­ tute held last spring: $10 per person for one course, $17.50 for both courses. This fee covers promotion, registration and custodial costs, and provides for an honorarium to be given·to each professor. Make your plans now to attend our premiere offering of fall courses, and please spread the word to those you think might be interested. Enrollment is open to anyone in the community. AFALL SERIES IN THE RICE ALUMNI INSTITUTE! SEPTEMBER 18TH-NOVEMBER 7TH.

OCTOBER 17-18, 1975 UPCOMING HOMECOMING 1975 A rrangements are now being made for the 19 75 Homecoming festivities. K Among the events being planned is a juried alumni art exhibit. Come get a first-hand look al "Willie's Pub" in the RMC. Class reunions for all classes whose year ends in 'a or '5', and for those alumni who are members of the classes 1916-1924, are on the sched­ ule. Make your plans now lo allend The Saturday night football game fea­ tures SWC rival SMU against the Fightin' Owls.

June 5-7 June 16-21 Track and Field Tennis NCAA Meet in Provo, Utah. NCAA Tournament in Corpus Christi

September 3-16 the Rhine and four nights at the International Hole! Alpine-Rhine Spectacular in Zurich. Flighty owls will leave direct from the KLM Dutch Airlines and the Association of Rice Bayou City. Cost of $1150 includes df'r fores, hotel, Alumni present surprising Amsterdom. EnIoy the sightseeing tours in Amsterdam and Zurich and luxury of the Amsterdom-H1lton, o five-day cruise on doily continental breokfosts.