ASSOCIATION OF RICE ALUMNI • APRIL 1983• VOLUME 39, NUMBER 4

AhriA I LIVED ON THE POLAR PLATEAU SALLYPORT - APRIL 1983

Apr. 19 Rice Jazz Ensemble and the Summer School Rice Concert Band Rice's summer school program begins in early Apr. 20 Shepherd School Symphony June and includes courses in business, biolo- Orchestra gy, English, engineering, languages, mathe- Apr. 28 Juilliard String Quartet matics, and the social sciences. Some classes LIC1'11R ES May 1 Houston Youth Symphony are in the evening. Registration deadline May 5 "Esprit," Howard Hensel, is May 12. For more information, contact tenor The Rice Design Alliance is sponsoring a lec- the Office of Continuing Studies and Special May 21 Balalaika Society McVey, by Joan Hope '84. ture series, "Houston Options," on the cru- Programs. From the "sensational cial options Houston faces as it looks to the Slime-Soph controversy" future. Lectures will be Wednesdays at 8:00 P.M. of 1924 when he was fresh- in the Brown Auditorium, Museum of 4 Fine Arts, Houston. Advance tickets may be man class president to the contro- obtained by mailing a check to the Rice Design versy over Winston Churchill's Alliance, P. 0. Box 1892, Houston, Texas cigar, sculptor 77251. William Mozart A NN OUR C EME N T McVey '27 has always been where Apr. 27 "Urban Infrastructure — Too the action is. Little, Too Old, Too Late," Executive Development A a T introduction by U.S. Rep. The Office of I Lived on the Polar Mike Andrews; main speaker Executive Development of the Through The Art of Metal in Africa, Jones School offers — George Peterson, director a series of one- and two- Apr. 10 Sewall Gallery, 10 A.M.-5P.M. Plateau, by Kristine Annex- day seminars designed of public finance, the Urban to help executives and Tues.-Sat.; 12 N-6 P.M. Sun. stad '83. Senior architec- managers of small- to medium-sized businesses Institute. Through Cervin ture student Kristine improve their knowledge of finance, account- Robinson: Architec- 7 May 4 "Power and the Urban Deci- Apr. 17 tural Photographs, Farish ing, computers and Annexstad spent her Christmas sion Making Process — Les- productivity. There is a charge for all classes. Gallery, 12 N.-5 P.M., seven break camping with her father, a sons For and From Houston," For more information or to be placed on the days a week; closed Easter Johnson Space introduction by Lance Tar- waiting list, call (713) 527- Center planetary 9651 or 527-8101, ext. Sunday. rance, V. Lance Tarrance & 3232. scientist, in the bleak Allan Hills Through Black Folk Art in America: Associates; main speaker — Apr. 12-13 "Executive Communication" region of Antarctica.. .and lived May 15 1930-1980, Rice Museum; 10 Henry Cisneros, mayor of San Apr. 12-14 "Accounting for Non-Finan- A.M.-5 P.M. Tues.-Sat.; 12 to write an exclusive story of the Antonio. & Apr. 26-27 cial Executives" N-6 P.M. Sun. adventure for SALLYPORT. May 11 "Or Lack Thereof — Mobility Apr. 19-21 "Finance for Non-Financial Apr. C.H. Ward: The in Houston," introduction by & Apr. 27-28 Executives" 18- Twentieth Annual Student Alan Kiepper, METRO; main Apr. 22-23 "Selecting and Using a Com- May 7 Art Show, Sewall Gallery, 12 Biologist in Engi- speaker — Arthur Teele, puter" N-5 P.M. Mon.-Sat. neering, by B.C. director Urban Mass Transit Apr. 29-30 "Tax Planning and Account- Apr. 24- Architecture Student Exhibi- Robison. The second Administration. ing System Considerations May 13 tion, Farish Gallery, 12 N-5 in a series of faculty profiles exam- May 18 "Public/Private Partnerships for the Small/Medium Busi- P.M. Mon.-Fri. ines C.H. "Herb" Ward's climb — Building Blocks for Hous- ness" from a migrant farm ton's Tomorrow," introduc- May 10-11 "Leading Organizations" family in Cali- tion by John Cater, chairman, May 20-21 "Stress Management: An fornia during the Depression to Housing and Community Individual and Organizational the chairmanship of Rice's Depart- Development Task Force of Perspective" ment of Environmental Science the Houston Private Sector May 26 "Profit Improvement Work- and Engineering and Initiatives Task Force; main shop for the Growing Busi- recognition speaker as one of the country's foremost — Dick Fleming, pres- ness" ident, the Denver Partnership. June 3-4 "Cost Control and Manage- TR A V EL environmental scientists. ment Accounting" The following lectures will be presented by June 14-15 "Corporate Financial Report- The 1983 Alumni Travel/Study season is the Rice Museum in conjunction with the ing: New Developments Up- here. If you want to join alumni and friends of S T A F F "Black Folk Art in America" exhibit. Both date for Executives" Rice on trips with members of Rice's faculty lectures are at 7:30 P.M. at the Rice University June 17-18 "How to Develop a Business or other experts who give lectures and per- Media Center Auditorium, adjacent to the Plan" spective on the adventure, write the Associa- Editor, Virginia Hines '78 Rice Museum, and are free and open to the tion of Rice Alumni for more information. Managing Editor, Chester Rosson '65 public. Receptions for the speakers will follow Continuing Studies Upcoming trips include: Design, Carol Edwards at the Rice Museum. The Office of Continuing Studies and Special Photographer, Pam Morris Apr. 18 May 13- China and the Yangtze "The Origins of Black Ameri- Programs offers language courses designed Student Assistants, Lucy can June 3 Gorges with Richard Smith of Lunt '83 Folk Art," Regina A. to develop conversational skills in Spanish, Joan Hope '84 Perry, professor history of African and French, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Ger- Afro-American SALLYPORT is published in September, art history, man, Italian, Arabic, and Russian. Daytime July 16-30 Alaska and Canada Cruise Virginia Commonwealth November, February, April, and June by the Uni- courses in Intensive English as a Second Lan- with John Anderson of Association of Rice Alumni. versity. guage (ESL)are offered at nine levels of profi- geology Apr. 25 Officers of the association: President, "Memory and Sense of Place ciency. For more information call 527-8101, in Black Aug. 31- Greece and the Greek Isles Catherine Coburn Hannah '43; Past Presi- American Folk Art," ext. 3791 or 3792. Also offered through Con- William Sept. 14 aboard the sailing vessel Sea dent, Steve Shaper '58; President Elect, Joe Ferris, director of the tinuing Studies are courses in literature, the Center for the Cloud Reilly '48; First Vice-President, Louis Spaw Study of South- arts, science, photography, computers for the ern Culture at the '40; Second Vice-President, Carl Morris '76; University of beginner and the specialist, and finance, as Mississippi. Treasurer, Kay Dobelman '46; Executive Following the lec- well as a wide range of professional courses. ture, James "Son Director, Kathryn Alcorn Duffle '51. Ford" For more information and a free brochure call Association Committee on Publications: Thomas, an artist whose work 527-4803. is featured in the exhibition, Chairman, Harry Holmes '66; W.W. Akers; Apr. 6 will present a blues guitar per- "Sleuth: Detective and Mys- Bill Ballew '40; Gilbert Cuthbertson; Neal tery Fiction" Lane; formance in the Rice Museum. Patti Shelton Simon '65; Charles Szal- Apr. 9 "Using VisiCalc R on Personal kowski '70; Ed Jennings '48; Paul Pfeiffer Computers" '38; SP OR TS John Boles '65; John King '67;Julie Wil- Apr. 11 "Illustrating Children's liams Itz '72; Brent Breedin. Books" Baseball Rice University Alumni Governors: David Apr. 12 "This is Music: An Introduc- Apr. 5 Lamar, 3:00 Farnsworth '42; William McCardell '48; Tay- tion to the Classics" 7 at Sam Houston, 3:00 lor Ray '59. Apr. 16 "An Introduction to Comput- 8 at Texas-Arlington, 3:00 SALLYPORT is sent free to all university & May 14 ers" 9 at TCU (2), 12:00 alumni, parents of university students, and MUSIC Apr. 20 "Choosing, Preserving and 10 at TCU, 1:00 supporters of the university. Restoring Furniture" 13 at Lamar, 7:00 William Marsh Rice University offers equal Apr. 12 SYZYGY, John Cage Birthday May 10 "Photography and the Art of 15 at Texas, 7:30 opportunity to all applicants without regard to Party Seeing" 16 at Texas (2), 2:00 race, color, sex, age, national or ethnic origin, Apr. 13 Rice Chorale May 13-15 "Waltzing Across Texas"(bus 23 at Texas A&M,3:00 or physical handicap. Apr. 18 Campanile Orchestra tour) 24 at Texas A&M (2), 1:00 SALLYPORT - APRIL 1983 3 THROUGH THE SALLYPORT

The A's Have It A glance at the records of the three Rice early Israel's urbanization and its impact on details originate in the New York office, but One of Rice's most time-honored traditions — alums gives a clue about what it takes to be the Deuteronomic tradition. other designs will come from the Houston the 1-5 numerical grade system — has fallen named to ERAB. All earned PhD's here, all in Another member of the faculty, James firm. "We will be working together all the victim to a more modern mentality. The unu- physics, and all are vice-presidents for Sellers, has been named to supervise Rice's way," Burgee says. Few clues have been giv- sual system, with a "1" as the highest grade, research and development of their respective part in a cooperative graduate program in en about the final appearance of the $19.8 mil- was brought to Rice from Princeton by Presi- companies. Robert Pry '49, of Kildeer, Illi- medical ethics established between Rice and lion structure, to be located at the north dent Lovett. Princeton abandoned the system nois, works with Gould, Inc.; Roland Schmitt the University of Texas Health Science Cen- corner of the campus at Elgin Street, aside years ago. '51 of Scotia, New York, with General Elec- ter's Division of Humanities and Technology from the fact that it will be three stories, prob- The 1-5 grading scale is not the first aspect tric; and Charles Cook '53 of Bartlesville, in Medicine. The program, the details of ably in limestone, and will incorporate a of Rice's academic records keeping to be up- Oklahoma, with Phillips Petroleum. which were finalized in March, will lead stu- sallyport. dated. There was a time when Rice students On other fronts, Rice was well represented dents to MA and PhD degrees from Rice. "We are not trying to show off: it will be a were blissfully unaware of such bourgeois in the March Reader's Digest, which featured The UTHSC side of the arrangement is over- quiet building," Johnson promises those who details as "semester hours," "GPA's," and two alumni. "Peace Be With You," an article seen by Stanley J. Reiser, MD, an adjunct wonder whether he will approach the UH "maintaining a 4.0." Nevermore. Rice's William D. Broyles, Jr. '66 originally wrote for professor of religious studies at Rice. project with the same sense of fancy and his- traditional graduation requirement of a certain Newsweek appeared in the March Digest, torical reference that shaped two of his cur- number of courses was changed to "hours" a along with "Mr. Hannah's Rocket," an article rent jobs in Houston, the art deco Transco few years ago. Now l's will become A's, 5's on David Hannah, Jr. '44's Space Services Tower near the Galleria and the "Dutch guild will be F's, and specified grade point averages Inc. condensed from the Texas Monthly. house" Republic Bank downtown. But we at expressed on a four-point scale will be requir- Rice have reason to suspect that Johnson has ed for graduation and in individual majors. Wages of Sanctity some architectural precedent in mind as he The changes are effective beginning with Despite the absence of department chairman imagines the UH building. the class of '87, admitted this coming fall. Niels C. Nielsen, Jr., on leave at the Colorado The University of Houston's plans include a They were passed by the Faculty Council at School of Mines, Rice's Department of proposed major sculpture as an adjunct to the the encouragement of outgoing Dean of Religious Studies has had a busy spring. The building — perhaps a bronze statue of the Undergraduate Affairs Katherine T. Brown activity has included an appointment to a founder visible through the sallyport would be '38 and others, who presented Rice's policy major endowed chair, the naming of a new nice. Construction is scheduled to begin this as anachronistic and difficult for outsiders to joint degree program with the Medical Cen- fall with occupancy by the summer of 1985 understand. The measure was approved ter, and a host of lectures by eminent visitors .. . then look out, Sammy. With a sallyport despite resolutions against it passed by four of to the campus. all their own, there is no telling what those Rice's eight colleges. The council tabled a Clyde L. Manschreck, formerly of the Cougars will want next. At the very least, proposal to display grade point averages on Chicago Theological Seminary, has been we may have to put them on the SALLYPORT Rice transcripts. named Rice's new Harry and Hazel Chavanne mailing list. Professor of Religious Studies. An expert on the Reformation and a Methodist minister, To Your Health Manschreck has also previously been on the Copy Cats Drinking the equivalerit of three beers a day faculties of Duke and Southern Methodist The Houston Chronicle says the new three- may improve the blood chemistry of seden- universities. story building on the local campus features "a tary men, according to a recent report in the Rice's annual Rockwell Lectures on reli- sallyport to serve as a gathering point for Journal of the American Medical Association. gious topics were delivered March 8-10 by members of the university community." The The report was based on a 1980 study con- Roland E. Murphy, 0.Carm., an authority on distinguished Northeastern architectural part- ducted at the Baylor College of Medicine on the Old Testament. Murphy discussed nership involved calls it "a gateway to the 16 marathon runners, 13 men who did not "Ecclesiastes's Dialogue with Israel's Tradi- campus" that serves as "a natural bridge exercise regularly, and 15 joggers, including tional Wisdom." George Washington Ivey between fine arts and engineering. We hope it John A.S. Adams of geology. Professor of Biblical Studies at Duke, Murphy will be the chief building on campus. It will be Adams and the others involved in the is the author of several books. The Rockwell copied later by others." experiment, all social drinkers, submitted to Lectures have been a campus institution since Sound familiar? It shouldn't. The university blood tests, abstained from alcohol for three 1938. in question is on the other side of town. Its weeks, had their blood tested again, then March 22 Vatican diplomat Archbishop Jean colors are not blue and gray, they are red and drank the equivalent of three beers daily for Oughta Been in Pictures Jadot spoke in the Rice Memorial Chapel on white; its mascot is not an owl, but a cougar. three weeks and had a third blood test, all the Thomas Horton '33, you should have been in "The Growth in Roman Catholic Commit- Talk about copy cats! First it's Texas A&M while maintaining their regular levels of pictures. But your chances may have been ment to Interreligious Dialogue Since Vatican trying to upstage Rice as the Texas university exercise. When blood test results were com- blown thanks to a call from Paramount Pic- II." A former Apostolic Delegate to the with the most National Merit Scholars, and pared, researcher G. Harley Hartung and his tures to Rice's alumni office. United States, Jadot now heads the Vatican's now the University of Houston wants to pur- associates discovered that in sedentary men Paramount is filming Larry McMurtry '60's Secretariat for Non-Christian Religions. His loin our campus landmark. Cross-town rival- the level of HDLC — high density lipoprotein Terms of Endearment in Houston this spring. career has also involved him extensively in ries are one thing, but enough is enough. We cholesterol, so-called "good" cholesterol — In fact, one scene with star Debra Winger was diplomatic work in third world nations. can only take comfort in the realization that dropped during the period of abstinence and actually shot in the Rice Media Center. But Another Catholic scholar, renowned litera- imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. returned to approximately that of the joggers before production got underway, Paramount ture specialist Walter J. Ong, S.J., addressed The building in question is the proposed when drinking was resumed. Alcohol con- representatives called Alumni Director Kathy Rice audiences March 24 and 25 on "Writing new home for UH's College of Architecture. sumption did not significantly affect the HDLC Duffle '51 to check a fact: the movie includes a Is a Technology That Restructures Con- Although plans have not been released, ideas levels in the men who exercised regularly. character, Thomas Horton, who is supposed sciousness" and "Contest, Sexuality, and the for the edifice were discussed in broad terms HDLC has been associated statistically with to be a Rice graduate. Had a real Thomas Hor- Academy." Ong, the author of many books at a press conference announcing the project. protection from coronary artery disease. ton ever attended Rice? and articles on literature and literary theory, The undertaking will be a joint venture The results of the research were reported A quick check of university records turned is University Professor of Humanities, between Philip Johnson and John Burgee of in newspapers across the country, including up Thomas Horton '33. Indicating they would William E. Haren Professor of English, and New York (surely an attempt to top Rice's the New York Times. But Hartung is quick to search for another name and call again, the Professor of Humanities in Psychiatry at St. commissioning James Stirling to redesign caution that detrimental physical effects of Paramount people hung up. . . and have not Louis University. In addition to religious stud- our architecture building) and Morris/Aubry drinking could outweigh the benefits to blood called back. It may be that no one will know ies, the departments of liguistics, English, and Architects of Houston. chemistry and recommends running rather whether the Rice Thomas Horton survived anthropology cosponsored his visit to Rice. Where did the sallyport idea originate? Was than drinking to guard against heart disease. the episode until the film is released. The last of the department's lectures this S.I. Morris '35's partner UH alum Eugene He adds that further research will be neces- Terms of Endearment also stars Jack semester will occur April 12, when John Aubry trying to steal Rice's thunder, or is sary to determine the overall positive or nega- Nicholson and Shirley MacLaine. In the scene Macquarrie, Lady Margaret Professor of Morris himself behind the hijinks? Then again, tive effect of moderate drinking on health. shot in the Media Center, Debra Winger is Divinity at Oxford University, discusses "In maybe the blame lies with the executive attending a lecture on feminism with a small Search of Humanity." Macquarrie is known director of facilities, planning, and construc- April 1983, Vol. 39, No.4 child and must leave when the child starts to for his interpretation of the thoughts of Rudolf tion for our cross-town rival, Ted J. Montz — cry. The scene demonstrates the passage of Bultmann and Martin Heidegger. a 1951 Rice graduate. Or perhaps a more like- SALLYPORT (USPS 412-950) is published five time, since Winger did not have a child earlier Meanwhile, in Rice's own department, ly culprit is the dean of UH's College of Archi- times annually, in February, April, June, Sep- in the movie. Chairman Nielsen and faculty members tecture, William R. Jenkins. A member of tember, and November, by the Association of Werner Kelber and Don Benjamin have pub- Rice's class of '45, Jenkins "defected" be- Rice Alumni, Rice University. Editorial offices Well Represented lished books. Kelber's most recent work is fore graduation and earned his architecture are located in the Allen Center for Business Just because Rice President Norman Hacker- The Oral and the Written Gospel: The Her- degree at UH.. . a decision that may reveal Activities, Rice University, 6100 S. Main St., man finished his term on the U.S. govern- meneutics of Speaking and Writing in the the urge to transfer more than academic cred- Houston, Texas 77251. Telephone: (713) ment's Energy Research Advisory Board Synoptic Tradition, Mark, Paul, and Q; Niel- its to the campus across town. 527-4806. Second-class postage paid at Hous- (ERAB) February 1, don't think Rice won't sen is the author of Religions of the World, a According to the Chronicle, the UH Board ton, Texas. POSTMASTER: Send address be well represented on the panel in the future. survey that introduces students to the main of Regents had been trying for several years changes to SALLYPORT, Rice University, Although Hackerman left the 25-member characteristics of the major religions practiced to persuade Johnson to collaborate with Mor- P.O. Box 1892 Houston, Texas 77251. Copy- board, not one but three Rice alumni began in the world today; and Benjamin has pub- ris/Aubry on their architecture school's new right 1983 by Association of Rice Alumni, Rice new two-year terms on it February 1. lished Deuteronomy and City Life, a study of home. The first plans and drawings of exterior University. 4 SALLYPORT - APRIL 1983 SALLYPORT - APRIL 1983 •

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BY JOAN HOPE '84

Ed. note: This profile of William McVey '27 was already under- Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays; Fontainebleau way when the Association of Rice Alumni announced that Tuesdays and Thursdays; and the Louvre on weekends. McVey, along with Sam Worden '35 and Walter P. Moore, Sr. In one concession to the stereotype of the artist in Paris, '27 would receive Rice's Distinguished Alumni Awards at the McVey lived on the Left Bank, where the likes of Hem- seventieth commencement May 7. More details ofthe biographies ingway and Picasso often drifted by. In 1932 he finally of Worden and Moore will appear in the June SALLYPORT. returned to the United States, where he taught art, first at the Cleveland Museum (1932-36), then at the Museum of t age 78,long after most members of the class Fine Arts in Houston (1936-38), then at Rice (1938-39), of '27 have retired, sculptor William Mozart and finally at the University of Texas until the outbreak of A McVey has ten commissions underway. And World War II. standing 6 feet, 3 inches tall, the 1983 Rice distinguished The year at Rice, teaching free hand drawing in the alumnus still has a build reminiscent of the defensive tack- Department of Architecture, was thanks to a grant ar- le and offensive "puffing guard" who played football here ,- ...... ranged by William Ward Watkin. Watkin was also instru- under the legendary John Heisman mental in getting his former pupil the commission for the McVey was born in Boston, but his family moved to San Jacinto Monument, commemorating victory in the Cleveland his second year of high school. His name sug- crucial battle for Texas independence in 1836. gests an artistic lineage; his mother's family was descend- During the war McVey was put to work at Ellington Air ed from a brother of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Force Base near Houston, teaching soldiers to identify Mozart. After graduation from Cleveland's Shaw High airplanes. His method was to help students spot the School, McVey spent a year in the local art school, but planes by learning to draw them. When his superior offi- was unhappy with the "sissy" stereotype associated with cers discovered McVey was teaching men how to draw art students. while a war was on, they threatened to have him court- That summer he worked at a camp under head coun- martialed. But the artist was exonerated when tests selor and Rice assistant football coach H. 0. Nicholas, revealed his students had 90 to 92 percent accuracy in who encouraged the strapping young man to come to Rice identifying planes, compared to only 70 percent among to play football. McVey agreed and enrolled in the fall of those who had not learned by drawing. 1923 as an architecture major, playing defensive tackle As a student in the United States, McVey attended one and offensive "pulling guard" during head coach Heis- f of only five art schools in the country. But in the years fol- man's first year with the Owls. Playing under Heisman lowing World War II, with the introduction of the GI Bill, "was a great experience," says McVey, "one of those over 2,000 universities added art to their curriculum. things you look back at and say, 'I am a better boy for that Teachers, especially those with European training, were experience.' We appreciated him; we knew he was top- in great demand. After the war McVey moved to the notch." , Cranbrook Art Academy near Detroit, where he taught McVey was also elected class president his freshman from 1946 to 1953. There he first met and worked with and sophomore years, at a time when the office was as 7 architect Eliel Saarinen, who is perhaps best known for much a challenge as an honor. An account in the 1924 designing Cranbrook. "lam deeply indebted to Eliel Saar- Campanile recalls how "Slime President William McVey inen," says McVey. He credits "Pappy" Saarinen with concluded a two-day sensational Slime-Soph controversy inspiring him to continue his art at a time when he won- when he slid from the ceiling of Turnverein Hall and led dered if it was what he really wanted to do. the grand march of the annual Freshmen's Ball — face- From 1953 to 1967 McVey served as head of the tiously dubbed the Policeman's Ball by the defeated soph- Department of Sculpture at the Cleveland Institute of omores." The event capped two days of freshman- Art. Then, with 14 commissions waiting and not enough sophomore brawling and kidnapping that pitted McVey 1 time for both art and teaching, he left the classroom to against sophomore president John Jameson, with the spend all his time in the studio. "I have a horror, as I second year students trying unsuccessfully to prevent look back, of being an art teacher — they were people McVey from leading his class at the annual dance who couldn't make a living doing it McVey observes. As a student, McVey kept busy with various odd jobs to To combat the fear, he and his wife Leza arose at 4:00 put himself through school. On one occasion he designed A.M. every day to work before classes. and sold a blotter that featured pictures of the football 1.. McVey works in a studio at his home in a suburb of team. Other times he would sell pints of blood as often as Cleveland. The house, specially designed for him and twice a month. The enterprise had rewards beyond the Leza — a ceramics and textiles artist whom he met as a monetary — McVey still has a slip from.the Baptist Hospi- ' student at the Cleveland School of Art, and whose tal Pharmacy excusing him from classes on a day he gave "Winston Churchill," bronze, the English Speaking Union, ceramics have been exhibited in every country in blood. Washington, D.C. Europe — has won three architectural awards. "Most His biggest problem at Rice, McVey recalls, was that sculptors have to go out of the family for competition, he was expected to be both in architecture studio and on ,.. _ but I have it right here," McVey laughs. Although Leza the football field every afternoon. They didn't jibe very ,... is now 98 percent blind, she continues her art by hook well," he says, so he gave up football after the second ing rugs. year. He stayed at Rice a third year, then decided to On one end of the large studio lighted by two-story return to the Cleveland School of Art to pursue his art windows along one wall, a clay model of Jesse Owens education in earnest. stands beside a bronze turkey designed for a plantation In 1929, McVey went to Paris on a scholarship ar- in Georgia. A relief cast of the head of J. Edgar Hoover ranged by Rice language professor E. J. Oberle. He stud- done for the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, hangs

ied at the Academie Colarossi, at the Academie Scandi- • over the door opposite. "Some people are putting in nave, and with Charles Despiau, a pupil of Rodin. "It was alarm systems; we've gotJ. Edgar Hoover," Leza com- a great experience at a time when very few Americans mented the first time she saw the head. were able to get that kind of training," he recalls. His The walls of the studio are lined with plastic- and work in Paris included sculpting writer Charlie Hairston, cloth-shrouded works in progress — a bust of the presi- despondent over his recent divorce from Hazel Cannon ' dent of Mt. Union College, a sundial for which a neighbor The portrait bust — as well as another of his of a young helped McVey design a daylight savings time adjust girl — was exhibited in the Honor Court of the Paris .. ment, a nude woman, a book motif for a local library. Grand Salon. Next to the college president's bust are photos of some After the 1929 stock market crash, McVey's scholar- of McVey's whimsical tombstones. One commissioned ship evaporated. He became a tour guide, doing Versailles by former Cincinnati mayor Charles Taft is inscribed 6 SALLYPORT - APRIL 1983

Park at the Justice Center. According to McVey, the Corten-steel star that forms the base on which Owens stands "was stolen from the San Jacinto Monument." Most of McVey's work has remained in the United States. "This country is big enough when you're talking Ad' about shipping sculpture," he says. But he has exhibit- "Gone Fishing" on the back and features a carving of ed his works throughout Europe and at least two his honor "pulling in a big one." The gravesite is by a McVeys have remained in European collections — one in lake. Seeing Taft's marker, a local widow ordered a joint Switzerland and one in England. tombstone for herself and her husband tnat reads McVey says many of his commissions have been for "Gone Hunting"; McVey also carved the couple's dog portrait busts, and experience has led him to generalize sleeping at the foot of the monument. about the genre. With a characteristic chuckle, he de- On the ledge of a loft lining two sides of the studio sit fines a portrait as "a picture of someone with something miniature bronze reproductions of many of McVey's wrong in the mouth." He explains that often his por- works. Elsewhere in the loft is a shelf filled with objects traits are of people who have recently died. On viewing from nature — rock crystals, an ostrich egg, stones the bust, the widow will invariably complain, "There's from a river bed. "Every form is harmonious," McVey something wrong with the mouth." observes; the objects are used in his teaching to show Such was not the case, however, with a relief portrait students "how God makes a form." A closeness to of Johnny Cash that he did for one of the entertainer's nature is central to McVey's sculpture. "I don't relate fans. Upon seeing the clay model, the patron exclaimed, "Happy Frog," bronze, Washington, D.C. Zoo to the things they are doing now, like digging ditches at "That's my Johnny!" McVey was so pleased that the the seashore," he says. "It does not have any lasting work had been so easy that he had an extra cast made to quality." His sympathies lie with traditional sculpture hang in his studio. rather than with "the crisp little novelty of the mo- o unwind after a portrait, McVey likes to ment," as he calls modern work. sculpt animals. Because animals need not be Icopied as meticulously as human subjects, cVey has lost count of how many sculptures they are very relaxing, the sculptor says. Perhaps his he has done over his career, but more than best known animal is the three-and-a-half-ton stone At60 are on display in the Cleveland area bear,"The Old Grizzly," in front of Cleveland's Natural alone. One of his best-known works is the bronze of History Museum. Another popular animal is the "Happy Winston Churchill in front of the British Embassy in Frog" at the Washington, D.C., Zoo. "You have given Washington, D.C. The nine-foot-tall piece created much joy to the brats of Washington," zoo director Ted world-wide controversy because McVey designed Reed wrote McVey. Churchill holding a cigar. Of 300 photographs of the McVey remains grateful for the background in archi- statesman the sculptor studied, 278 showed him with a tecture he got at Rice. "I couldn't have planned it better cigar. However, half of the committee in charge of the ill had been smart," he says. He classified himself as an project, as well as the director of Washington's National "architectural sculptor," for which he offers the follow- Gallery, felt that "a cigar in bronze is vulgarity." News- ing definition: "An architectural sculptor — usually a papers as far away as Japan debated whether or not frustrated architect — seeks the happiness of collaborat- McVey should sculpt the cigar. "Scene from Student Life," terracotta, Will Rice College, ing with architects he admires, of providing sculptural In the end, the ayes carried. McVey's Churchill firmly Rice University accents that are harmonious and meaningful to people." grips a bronze cigar modeled on an actual specimen that Just as the influence of architecture extended beyond was complete with the former prime minister's tooth McVey's career at Rice, so did the connection with John marks. In addition, five more bronze cigars were made Heisman. After he graduated from art school, McVey as mementos for the committee members who had sup- wanted to sculpt the coach. "If a mug like mine is what ported the idea. Passing judgment on the finished prod- you need, I'll be glad to help you," replied Heisman. uct, Winston's son Randolph Churchill called it "the Unfortunately, Heisman died before the two could get best damn portrait that has ever been done of my together for the portrait. Then in 1972 a Cleveland judge father." discovered that Heisman had been born in the city. Churchill is not the only McVey on view in the nation's McVey is now a trustee of the birthplace. capital. Six McVey religious figures — St. Margaret In addition to sculpting, McVey has committee meet- of Scotland, St. Olga of Russia, Jan Hus, Simon de ings or speaking engagements almost every day. "A Montford, Stephen Langton, and Sir Edward Coke — committee can be a deadly thing," he says, recalling the stand in niches at the National Cathedral. McVey says furor over the Churchill portrait. The work required he particularly enjoyed sculpting the figures because, only two months of sculpting after nine months of debate since there were no pictures or drawings of the subjects in the committee. As for his public speaking, McVey is a made during their lifetimes, "you can do them the way member of the International Platform Association on the you think they ought to be." "Best Speakers in Our Nation" list, and often lectures Near Houston, McVey designed the 270-by-18-foot on art at schools from the elementary to the university Egyptian low relief frieze that encircles the base of the levels. San Jacinto Monument obelisk, the 220-ton star on top, He is also an associate of the National Academy of and the monument's three-ton bronze doors — the larg- Design and a fellow of the National Sculpture Society, est doors ever done in bronze at the time. In recognition with which organizations he will exhibit some of his work of his work on the Texas landmark, the tallest masonry in two separate three-week shows in New York in April. structure in the world, he was made a commodore in the Other professional associations include service on the Texas Army. editorial board of the National Sculpture Review. Since Even closer to home, McVey sculpted the ten-foot he had artistic training in Paris, McVey often writes relief figure of "Energy" on the front of Rice's Aber- about translating the European experience of learning crombie Laboratory, as well as 60 stoneware panels of about art into the context of the American university. In "student life" located on Will Rice and Hanszen col- "Joseph," stoneware with mosaic inset, San Francisco 1974 the Archives of American Art microfilmed leges. In addition, he is donating a cast of Churchill's Modern Museum McVey's papers for the Smithsonian Institution. He has face to the university art collection. since donated the originals to Rice's Woodson Research Among McVey's favorites in his work is the 16-foot Center. aluminum "Long Road" on the front of the Jewish Com- Not surprisingly, 46 years of teaching have left their munity Center in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. He points mark on McVey's work. He attributes his wide variety out to visitors a mark the piece made on the ceiling of his of techniques and materials — he has worked in stone, studio while he was working on it. Another favorite is a clay, and metals — to his teaching experience. He has set of four stone panels on the front of Christ Lutheran always experimented with new forms in order to dem- Church in Minneapolis, designed by Eliel Saarinen and onstrate them to students. "You can't tell a McVey from his son Eero. five feet away," he jokes of his diversity. McVey also likes his figure of Joseph and his coat of After a lifetime of sculpting, does he have a favorite many colors. He recalls seeing a magazine advertise- medium? "I like them all in a strange way," McVey ment for pieces of color mosaic in 1,400 colors; he replies. "Stone sculpture is a wonderful way to analyze ordered the tiles and used them for Joseph's coat. The form; you do it slowly. With clay you make lots of mis- Joseph is now in the San Francisco Modern Museum. takes that you can't in stone. And bronze immortalizes Other well known McVeys are in Cleveland, including the mistakes in clay." his "George Washington as a Young Man" in front of the "It took me a long time to figure out that if you do it in Federal Building (the area is now known as Washington bronze, you can have lots of copies," he adds with the Square) and "Jesse Owens on a Star" in Huntington McVey in his studio at work on his latest project, a sundial familiar McVey chuckle. SALLYPORT - APRR. 1983 7

L_ CL_ 1111r

IMMO.

I LIVED ON THE POLAR PLATEAU

ANNEXSTAD ANNEXSTAD

JOHN JOHN

AND AND

KRISTINE KRISTINE

BY BY

PHOTOS PHOTOS NASA NASA I never weighed the realistic aspects of an expedition,only the uniqueness. The cold- est, largest, windiest, highest. .sure . I wanted to go!

BY KRISTINE ANNEXSTAD '83

L _J she understands the mental and physical The most flattering aspect of the as it cold? See any pen- strain a person is under during an Antarc- request was that I would not only become he first big step was talking Rice's guins? What did you wear? tic expedition. My hesitation surprised a vital part of his research, I would be his School of Architecture into approv- How many women are in her. How could I share the beauty, the sole assistant on the polar plateau. This ing an early departure last semes- the Antarctic? cold, and the isolation? meant camping 30 days in a tent, in —20 ter and a late return in February. "No These are the common questions peo- My father asked me to accompany him degree weather, with 40 mph winds, no problem," they said. "Finish the William ple ask me about my month in the Antarc- to a continent he had visited several shower, no toilet, a sleeping bag, a side- Ward Watkin Competition, turn in your tic. Then there are the uncommon times as a planetary scientist — he now band radio for survival contact, boiled portfolio for preceptorship application, questions — Did you see any polar bears? works at the Johnson Space Center — but chicken every night, and with only one and take your final exams early." Obvi- How was it up there? Are the Eskimos which I only knew from slides and his other person — my father. Yes I do want ously if I could accomplish this, I could friendly? accounts. I never weighed the realistic to go! I would be one of only a handful of survive the Antarctic. Answering all the questions is not a aspects of an expedition, only the unique- women ever to camp on the polar pla- Drive and determination saw me on my chore, since they are so frequently ness. The coldest, largest, windiest, teau, Dad and I would be the first father- way to Christ Church, New Zealand, and repeated that the responses have highest. . .sure I wanted to go! How daughter team, and I would live as my the Antarctic by December 7. After become automatic. One person, howev- many people have the opportunity? How father's only means of survival, just as he intrusive television and newspaper re- er, posed a tougher question to which I many women? would be mine. porters cut into our family Thanksgiving/ Christmas in November, I yearned for did not have so ready an answer. Space Center Ed. note: Senior architecture major Kristine Annexstad and her father, Johnson the "white Christmas" Dad and I had Having sent my father John Annexstad planetary scientist John Annexstad, spent Kris's Christmas break (summer in the southern hemi- planned. I arrived in McMurdo Station, off to the Antarctic nine times over the sphere) as thefirst father -daughter team to explore the Antarctic. The trip included a month camp- past 25 years, my mother asked me, ing in a tent on the desolate polar plateau, where Kris, a scholarship member ofthe Rice women's the Antarctic Navy base, expecting to be "Now that you've been to the Antarctic, volleyball team, helped herfather with the surveying necesstny to determine movement in vast Ant- one of the gang and not a celebrity any- surely you don't want to go back?" It arctic ice sheets. She agreed to write thefollowing exclusive account ofher adventure, widely publi- more. was more a statement than a question; cized in the national media,for SALLYPORT. But our first day in the Antarctic Hugh 8 SALLYPORT - APRIL 1983

I will never forget the sight confronting me after our flight over mountains and sea ice: WHITE EXPANSE."Dad, I don't see anything," I said.

Downs of ABC's "20/20" interviewed ers, mittens, balaclava — the list goes on pended on that one igloo. We eventually Toledo!" us as the first father-daughter team on an — there was little occasion to try things finished and collapsed into our sleeping The crevass, surprisingly, was a beau- Antarctic expedition. Where did he come out in the New Zealand summer weather bags, wet and cold. The instructors claim tiful sight. The walls were five feet apart from? It was beginning to seem like a before we boarded the 141 airplane for an igloo is the warmest of the three sur- and ice crystals feathered back and forth nightmare version of all the father-daugh- the ice. vival shelters (igloo, trench, and mound), toward the erie depths. I felt fairly ter banquests I never wanted to go to Before venturing into the field, I but I will never admit it. secure, since I could dig my crampons coming back to haunt me. When it turned attended a mandatory two-day survival The second day of survival school we into the wall and wedge my body. After out that "20/20" was filming an Antarctic school. We built snow shelters the first rappelled, went ice climbing wearing facefuls of falling snow and a few false program scheduled to air in March, I day to spend the night in . . and. what a crampons, and roped up for crevass res- slips of the rope, I was rescued. Today I began to realize that the Antarctic would night! I talked two Navy women into cue. I was the only person out of 20 who am happy to say that was the only cre- not be the way I pictured it as long as we building an igloo. I believe every architect would actually encounter crevasses in vass I have experienced from the inside. stayed in McMurdo. has a secret desire to build an igloo some- the field, so I was placed as the leader The morning finally dawned when Dad The weather was poor time during career. while we his The instructors ("crevass expert") to experience the and I were on the helicopter schedule for packed supplies and repaired equipment were impressed, not just that three anxiety. Eventually the instructor asked camp put-in. We filled the twin Huey to for our field season. During the week we women were attempting an igloo, but me how I would feel simulating a rescue maximum load, with one of our two snow- waited in McMurdo for the helicopters to that only three people were building this — meaning I was the one who would fall mobiles dangling underneath. Our camp give us the go-ahead to put in camp, I one. We eventually recruited some extra in. Without much thought, I said okay. was 200 miles inland at Allan Hills — the took the opportunity to test the National help, and seven hours later had a roof Today I admit that after dropping ten feet edge of the helicopter's range. This Science Foundation clothing issue we over our heads. down into a bottomless crevass suspend- meant we refueled at a half-way point acquired on our way through New Zea- That has to be the toughest structure I ed from three guys who had never seen a before continuing on to the polar plateau. land. With four pairs of boots, tons of long will ever build. All day long, as our enthu- crevass before, much less rescued any- I will never forget the sight confronting underwear, a red parka, a heavy duty siasm dwindled, the women kept saying, one, I have second thoughts. But the only me after our flight over mountains and wind breaker (anorak), down jacket, "We tell ourselves you 're the architect!" expletive I could muster during my sea ice: WHITE EXPANSE. "Dad, I wool shirts, socks, wool pants with lin- Great — my professional reputation de- plunge into the dark pit was, "Holy don't see anything," I said. At that point, SALLYPORT - APRIL 1983 9

wiild and visibility was less than ten feet. mer temperatures were averaging freez- This condition — where ice fog obscures ing. For the past 30 days, I had sworn the sun and, combined with the white of that the first thing I would do on my the ground ice, there is no land definition return was to take a shower, but by that or depth of field — is known as a "white time I had waited so long, I decided a out." Without the sun to cast shadows, I beer was more important. Later, al- could turn away from our tent and imag- though the water shortage allowed only ine I was viewing the last frame of a slide two-minute Navy showers, bathing was show in which we joke of the blizzard pure heaven. from Duluth, Minnesota. Dad and I had one final chore drilling Christmas Day was like many of our ice cores for isotope dating before our other days on the polar plateau, except return to New Zealand to catch a Pan Am we exchanged the small gifts we had flight home. On this last trip, the helo brought for each other and read from the pilots landed on the sea ice to let us 'pet' Christmas story. I gave Dad a tiny bottle the killer whales that were spy-hopping of cognac transported surreptitiously for penguins through the channel cleared through customs, and a New Zealand by the ice breakers. Thank goodness wool shirt. He gave me the Antarctic lux- whales are intelligent mammals and were uries of chapstick, nail clippers, and a hesitant to attack a red parka. mirror. To our surprise, the mirror Before we went into the field we had proved to be the greatest luxury of all at taken another chance to land on the sea our desolate campsite. ice and photograph emperor penguins. Our work on Dad's study of the move- My only other special adventure was a ment in the Eastern Antarctic Ice Sheet dog sled ride at New Zealand's Scott continued in segments. We extended the Base, where they raise the only husky previous triangulation field 25 more sta- team in the Antarctic, more for nostalgic The weather was such a deterrent that a majority of tions, surveying the points with a theo- than for functional reasons. However, dolite. Our only means of transportation the huskies stand by for "search and res- the days were spent keeping warm in the sleeping was the snowmobiles. The first time I cue" missions if planes are unable to fly. bags and reading books. was behind the wheel, I dreamed of tak- In retrospect, my close calls with ing off into the Great White South at high frostbite, the days when the sleeping bag speed. But no, the incessant wind sculpts would not get warm, the endless reading, four-foot high ice ridges (sastrugi) that and the never-setting sun adding to the hinder movement even on foot and keep monotony and frustration of having only the snowmobile speed down to 10 mph. one other person to talk to sum up the The jarring climb-crash-climb-crash bulk of my expedition. But when I recall rhythm was enough to make anyone set my appreciation of the small pleasures, off on foot. Had it not been extremely like returning to New Zealand, stepping dangerous, I might have picked up where off the C-130 plane to moisture in the air, my marathon training left off. the color of life, the gardens and warmth of Christ Church, I would work in the Antarctic all over again. s our season neared an end, When I remember how, after we had our surveying became criti- been cooped up in the tent so long, the cal, and our patience was run- wind ceased, allowing us to take a "walk ning out, a seven-day storm settled in around the block" going nowhere in par- that confined us to the tent until the heli- ticular, I would go again. When I remem- copter came. We awoke every day to 40 ber coming into the tent after ten hours of mph wind, —20 degree cold, and blowing wind, snow, and sun to a small Svea snow that we had to dig through whenev- stove and hot boiled chicken, or our er we wanted to venture out of our tent. enthusiasm over hearing a voice on the We extended the previous triangulation field 25 sta- The pilots were hesitant to fly in that sideband twice a day for survival check-in tions, surveying the points with a theodolite. Our weather, but on the morning of our pull- and forming a radio camaraderie, I would out, three helos flew in and loaded our go again. Finally, when I recall my heart- only means of transportation was snowmobiles. remaining supplies. Only two left on break as our plane landed in Houston and time; one helo had problems lifting off and my tears walking up the ramp arm-in-arm waited for repairs. Allan Hills was hardly with Dad, reali7ing the expedition was the banana belt of the Antarctic. over and it was no longer just the two of We returned to McMurdo, where sum- us, I know I would go again. he began to direct the pilots for choosing arctic. We stood for a moment listening to our camp. How was he navigating? the deafening silence. Then, as we real- All of a sudden a network of bamboo ized the 10:00 P.m. sun was giving us little poles with red flags appeared. He had warmth, we returned to survival instincts found the triangulation field left on his last and pitched our tent, settled into our expedition, and directed the pilots to sleeping bags, and began the first of 30 land. Dad and I proceeded to unload the days on the polar plateau. helicopter while the pilots monitored the The first tough lesson I learned in the engines. They never shut down for fear field was to calculate the number of days the helo would not start up again — our a job should take to complete and multiply disadvantage for being a remote field par- by four. Our season turned out pretty ty. Once we established radio contact, accurately: of the 30 days, we worked the pilots waved a hurried farewell, say- only 10. The weather was such a deter- ing, "We'll see you in 30 days!" the polar rent that a majority of the days were plateau is not the most desirable flying for spent keeping warm in the sleeping bags pilots, and they departed hoping their and reading books. This the only time in only return would be at the end of our my life I might have attempted to read season. The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. Since our family moved from Alaska in 1968, I have dreamed of a white Christ- watched the orange helo disap- mas. This year, I not only had the white pear over the mountains, and as a Christmas I had imagined, but an Antarc- cold chill crept in around my ears, tic one. December 25 we woke up to an I realized I had finally arrived in the Ant- ice fog that had settled in. There was no 10 SALLYPORT - APRIL 1983 --,..._ Signe Faculty profile: lere , searc "Th( n spa C. H.Ward: The Biologist in Engineering larnbe Tospa logis tine irork St by He erat .vel. 1 "One of the things that really dis- g rr alti tressed me was the public's discov- ilet-1 ery of the word 'ecology.' Suddenly tosy ecology was the most important e sys thing, but a lot of people didn't have ‘:TIt1114E the vaguest notion of what len n, it Pre meant." Texa (11, si 'hat: 001 a ' of th ntifi( also 11 of :.t.irig.

_ BY B.C. ROBISON si:tidri:wei):1:111.eac:(1si !ngir PreE ogist tial. When I first went there I really didn't know what I ,, goo, n The Grapes of Wrath, will I Steinbeck writes, "The wanted to study," he says. "Although I had done well in cars of the migrant people crawled out of the side science in high school and had worked in agriculture all i, toouri br roads onto the great 1 cross-country highway, and my life with my father, no particular specialty they held anY took the migrant way to the West." For Calvin H. dominant interest for me." "M a gi "Herb" Ward, professor and chairman itinue of Rice's "Soon after my arrival there, I met a stately old gent t Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, who asked me what I was going to major in. I said I 'erns the saga of the Joad family was not just , anc a literary creation wasn't sure, and that I just wanted to take some general , but a portrait of his own early life in rural America in the courses. It turned out that the man was Raymond Craw- 1930s. '41 e ford, who was a nationally renowned plant pathologist as A bi The Ward family at that time farmed in the Ozark well as biology chairman, although I didn't realize any of ks; AI Mountains of Arkansas, where the future ulem Rice scientist that at the time. So I started the basic courses in sci- was born in 1933. A few Con years later, the ravages of the ence, and from there I decided to major in biology and, Great Depression struck home, and the Wards lost their under Professor Crawford's influence, to specialize in farm. In 1936, the family packed its life into a car and plant pathology." headed for the Golden State. "Well, toward the end of my junior year he asked me In California their fortunes brightened: they settled about graduate school," Ward continues. "I didn't feel I into a pleasant citrus valley north of Los Angeles in the could afford to go on to advanced studies, but he once town of Santa Paula, and the senior Ward eventually again encouraged me." worked his way up to county agricultural inspector. "The summer after my junior year I got a job with the Through his father, the young Ward was first introduced California State Department of Agriculture. I asked to what was to become the first phase of his career, around about good graduate programs in plant patholo- plant pathology and physiology. gy. Cornell seemed to be the place to go. Later that fall'. Ward went through the local public schools and told Professor Crawford about Cornell and he thought it excelled both academically and athletically. A college was a great idea. Two weeks later I got a letter from education at that time, however, seemed an inaccessible Cornell offering me admission and a fellowship. I had do luxury. But in his junior year in high school, Ward dis- sent them nothing' — no transcripts, no applications. covered he could go to college after all, and on a scholar- Professor Crawford had a great deal of influence in aca- 1 ag ship at that — a football scholarship. After considering demic plant science." :a°ac4‘ talYftirtnhi tilr UtortI dete iil relanSi°en init offers from several schools, including Stanford, Ward At Cornell Ward began to specialize in the physiologY arcl n 1111 tilga "1 had Rube Goldberg contraptions aII over the place. The BBC and national fltifi( television networks it came to the lab to see what was going on. President rese Kennedy visited the lab on his fatef I visit to Texas in 1963, and I got to s of meet him. This was all heady stuff for a 30-year-old." t4tE 1 Und d, tl selected what was then New Mexico A&M (now New of plant disease, with emphasis in genetics and on the se 0 Mexico State University), the state's land grant college. various pathogenic bacteria, viruses, fungi, and nema- arc He had a generous scholarship, although one the NCAA todes. He received a PhD in 1960. might frown upon today. • All during his Cornell years, Ward had been on special t°1 sl "We were paid room, board, books, and laundry," academic leave from the U.S. Air Force. He was a men res Ward recalls, and adds with a laugh, "plus something ber of the Air Force ROTC while at New Mexico, and ,,I of B.C. Robison is a graduate student in biology extra depending on how well we played." his entry into active service had been delayed while he vard at Rice in the laboratm of Frank M. Fisher. His college years at New Mexico were very influen- pursued graduate studies. After graduation he wa5 rot* ____....-7"...... SALLYPORT - APRIL 1983 11

signed to the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine, subsurface soil and water. It is a fairly new field, and one would have the same effect on the physiology iere of plants he would spend the next six years in scientific that carries tremendous potential impact in the areas of as clinostat gravity compensation. He listened intently, search. water quality management and pollution control. asking all sorts of questions. But when I asked him about "The Air Force at that time was the fledgling Ameri- "We know that when an organic substance — oil or his experiments, he suddenly turned very sullen and ° space agency," Ward says. "All the original space some other pollutant, for example — seeps into the uncooperative and said sternly, 'when I do it, I will tell anther physiology studies were carried out at the ground, several things may happen to it," Ward says. you about it.' The Russians won't tell you a thing, but %space school. So when I got there as a research "It may undergo physical or chemical degradation in the they'll pump you endlessly for data." logist in 1960, I got involved in a branch of physiology form of photolysis or hydrolysis, it may affix to a soil A somewhat more amusing incident (1 occurred while never dealt with before. And I had the good fortune component, or it may be degraded by the subsurface Ward was visiting the Institute for Molecular Biology at vork with another remarkable man, a superb physiol- microorganisms. This whole area of subsurface micro- the University of Moscow. "I had just given a lecture S,t by the name of J. Neal Phillips." biology is just now being explored. Five years ago very and met afterward with a group of senior scientists who He put me in charge of a program to design biore- little was known about it, and the early work done was had worked on the Apollo-Soyuz project," he relates. erative life support systems for extended space initiated by the oil drilling industry because of fouling "One feature of this joint venture was that the experi- .vel. We dealt with the capture of solar energy, circu- problems. It has been discovered that a substantial pop- ments performed on board each spacecraft were fully g mass algae systems for oxygen production, and ulation of bacteria — on the order of 100,000 to known by both governments. The Americans had their gh altitude and orbital biological experiments. We did 1,000,000 organisms per gram of soil — exist at great experiments, the Russians had theirs, and each knew very first work on the effects of weightlessness on depths." about the other's. Or so we thought." tosynthetic gas exchange and on large scale algal cul- "At ES & E for the past several years we have done "Well, one of these high level scientists was a wom- ,e systems for life support in spacecraft." extensive analysis of the role that these microorganisms an. As I was talking with her, she said mischievously, 'I It was great. I had Rube Goldberg contraptions all play in the degradation of man-made organic compounds have something to show you'; then she showed me a !the place," he laughs. "The BBC and national tele- that work their way through the soil. We have found out ground control device. She said it was for her experi- % networks came to the lab to see what was going President Kennedy visited the lab on his fateful visit Texas in 1963, and I got to meet him. This was all "The space shuttle has presented some new environmental problems that dy stuff for a 30-year-old." were not a factor in previous hat year Ward left the Air Force but stayed on at the space ventures." ,00las a civilian for another three years, now as direc- of the Bioregenerative Research Program and chief that, depending on the synthetic compound involved, ment, which she explained to me. 'But this experiment ntific coordinator of biological space experiments. microbes may totally degrade the substance, or they is not on the official list,' I said. She answered,'I know.' also had his first contact with Rice in 1963, in the may not affect it at all. Now consider for a moment the The Americans knew absolutely nothing about it." 1. of a job offer from A.W. Busch of chemical engi- implications of microbial control of introduced pollution Ever since he left the School of Aerospace Medicine, nug. Busch was the founder of environmental sci- in the subsurface, such as you find in a gasoline spill or a Ward has worked closely with NASA on various scientif- • and engineering (ES & E) at Rice and went on to hazardous waste dump. Once we know a certain com- ic projects. He served as a member of the space agen- me a regional Environmental Protection Agency pound is degraded by microbes, we can seek to create cy's Life Sciences Committee, and has been cochairman ,A) administrator in the mid-1970s. conditions that would enhance the bacteria's activity of the American Institute of Biological Sciences/NASA 'just didn't feel I could leave the laboratory at that upon that substance. If microbial degradation can be study team for the assessment of the ecological impacts e", Ward says. "A lot of time and money had gone stimulated and managed in the subsurface, we will have of the space shuttle. • What we were doing, and I had a lot of projects I an invaluable tool in the control of selected subsurface "The space shuttle has presented some new environ- ted to complete." In 1966 Rice called again, and contaminants. And this is precisely what we will be mental problems that were not a factor in previous space d accepted a joint appointment in biology and chemi- working on in the near future." ventures," Ward remarks. "The early rocket systems e, ngineering. "A great deal of my research in the early years of ES we had burned a clean fuel that gave off mostly water as President Pitzer said he wanted me to work as a & E centered around gravitational effects on plant a byproduct. The space shuttle, because of its enor- °gist, but to maintain offices in engineering. This growth," Ward continues. "It is one of the fundamental mous size and therefore its expense, has a dual fuel sys- at f good advice. An engineer will work with a biologist, principles of plant physiology that the direction of plant tem that doesn't burn as cleanly. One system is El in Will not go out of his way to consult one. It was my growth depends on gravitational effects on certain hor- hydrogen-oxygen, the other is a solid phase, aluminum all ,t() bridge the two areas." mones elaborated in plant cells. If a certain hormone chlorohydrate. The byproducts here are thousands of inY ,t buring my years at the aerospace school I devel- stimulates growth, it will accelerate cell division and pounds of hydrochloric acid and particulate aluminum. It „d. a growing interest in environmental quality," Ward elongation in the structure where the hormone becomes has been my job to monitor and evaluate the effects of ent 'unues. "In our work in self-contained spacecraft concentrated. In a laterally projecting branch, for exam- this output on the Cape Kennedy area." d Items, we had to deal with water, food, waste, oxy- ple, gravity concentrates the hormones along the lower The entire space program has been a showcase of !ral , and contaminants. The quality of air and water in portion of the branch; that side becomes more stimulat- careful cooperation between high technology and envi- tw- ,ral environments began to interest me." ed to grow than the upper portion and the result is that ronmental concerns. "What a lot of people don't realize . as A biologist has a unique perspective on these prob- the branch grows upward." is that the launch site complex at the cape is set right in r of ,!. An engineer is not trained to consider biological "My lab employed a device called the clinostat to the midst of a 100,000 acre wildlife preserve and nation- ;ci- ulems in engineering design. That's where the biolo- study the effect of gravity compensation on plant metab- al seashore. And the Indian River Valley, the heart of Comes in. I felt the Rice offer was an excellent olism. It is simply a mechanism that slowly rotates on its Florida's table grade orange industry, is close by. So in .rtunity to delve into the challenge of environmental long axis an outwardly projecting plant shoot so that environmental impact is not taken lightly," says Ward. tY to the fullest." gravity essentially has an equal effect throughout the The so-called environmental movement that arose in me hen Ward first came to Rice, ES & E was not a sep- plant tissue. This condition simulates weightlessness, the 1970s spawned a great deal of confusion and emo- department, but a specialty program within chemi- or zero gravity, as far as plant metabolism is concerned, tion, in Ward's opinion. "One of the things that really Ice engineering. "A.W. Busch was the only environ- tal engineer at Rice at that time. It wasn't until 1968 "The whole area he ES & E became a separate graduate program; of subsurface microbiology is just now being explored. It ed II left Rice in 1970, and that year ES & E became a has been discovered that a substantial population of bacteria — on the lo- funded separate department. I then became profes- order of 100,000 to 1,000,000 organisms per gram soil dj I and chairman." of — exist at great t it °day ES & E is primarily a graduate program, depths." )51 Ugh it offers undergraduate courses for the option lad double major along with another science. The since there is no one region where gravitational pull distressed me was the public's discovery of the word is. aliment is heavily funded by foundations, govern- dominates." 'ecology.' Suddenly ecology was the most important t agencies, and industrial consortia. Under Ward's "The results were intriguing," he continues. "Over- thing, but a lot of people didn't have the vaguest notion etorship it ranks among Rice's top departments in all plant photosynthesis and respiration were increased of what it really meant. Ecology is the study of the gy arch and financial support. under gravity compensation. Now compare that to what interrelationships exhibited between organisms and the the late 1970s the EPA decided it needed to we know about the physiological effects of weightless- environment in which they dwell. An ecologist is not isr,then- its research activities and provide a more ness on the astronauts, whose red blood cell count necessarily an environmental scientist, and the two of ntific basis for its regulatory activity. The agency decreases and bones undergo decalcification in pro- them are certainly not synonymous with 'environmental its Centers of Excellence program, in which the longed space travel. The parameters revert to normal activist,'" he emphasizes. research institutions for about a dozen or so specific upon return to earth, but we don't know why the Added to Ward's already hectic life of research, 8 of environmental problems were chosen. Rice's changes occur. Nausea is another big problem. So the teaching, and consulting are his extensive editorial and E Went into competition for the National Center for problems of zero gravity are far from resolved." administrative duties. At the request of the Society for Inid Water Research, and was selected in 1979. "The upshot of all of this is that my work on photo- Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, in 1981 Ward d, the codirector of the center, explains: "The pur- synthetic gas exchange and gravity compensation land- founded and currently edits the official journal Environ- e of the National Center for Ground Water ed me an invitation to the Twelfth International mental Toxicology and Chemistry. He is a long-time arch, which is jointly shared with the University of Botanical Congress in Leningrad in 1975. I was an offi- member of that society, as well as of the Society for oma and Oklahoma State, is not for trouble shoot- cial guest of the Soviet government and was treated Industrial Microbiology, ,Or of which he is now the presi- specific problem solving, but to perform explora- very well. I also got a first-hand look at Russian scientific dent-elect. , research into the biological, chemical, and physical ethics in action," Ward says. It has been a long way from the journey to California v of ground water quality." "In Kiev, for instance, I went to great lengths to to a globe-circling research scientist's life. "Mom and ard's current research activities center around the explain to a Russian scientist our experimental tech- Dad took good care of the family," Herb Ward remem- obial degradation of synthetic organic compounds in niques for determining if actual space flight zero gravity bers. "But Steinbeck ....--,7 .... got rich writing about us." 12 SALLYPORT - APRIL 1983 E WS & NOTICES Making Ends Meet: The Cost of Education in 1983 BY.JOAN HOPE Although cuts in federal funding to colleges Lisa Noble '85 has a National Direct and univei3ities have been in the headlines Stu- dent Loan, a Rice tuition grant, and a work- recently, Rice is still able to meet "full deter- study job in her financial aid package. An mined need" for every student, according to electrical engineering Director of Financial Aid David Hunt. In fact, major, she works in the Office of Information while Supplemental Educational Opportunity Services several hours a week. Lisa had to give Grants (SEOG) may be cut next year, work- up an additional job in the Rice study funding will be increased. library when she earned more money than her work-study grant allowed. Last sum- Hunt explains that the federal government mer she worked in a law office in her home- has saved money because of lowered interest town, Greenwich, Connecticut. rates. Since the government pays the interest Lisa moved off campus this semester into a on loans while students are in school, the low- house where she babysits and does house- ered interest rates allow for budget cuts with- work in exchange for free rent. Although out significantly decreasing the money money was only one of her reasons for reaching students. moving off campus, she comments that the arrange- However, Hunt says, there is a trend this ing distance of Rice to save money. SALLYPORT talked to four Rice undergradu- ment is economical. "I'm very pleased with year toward more students working than Although the cost to the university — based ates of varying financial backgrounds to find the financial aid program. They meet our in the past. He attributes the phenomenon on the instructional and general budgets divid- out how their educations have been funded: need," says Lisa, explaining that Rice has to increased student awareness of econom- ed by the total enrollment — of educating an Randy Wile '83, a managerial studies been understanding about the fact that she ic problems and to students who do not re- undergraduate in 1982-83 was $13,000, tui- major, receives no money from Rice and has has a sister in school at another university. ceive financial aid helping pay for their own tion for the year was only $3,500. Even with used his entrepreneurial skills to earn Charles Caldwell education. extra '85, a political science the planned tuition increase, Rice still offers money while in school. For four years he has major, finds much of his education financed The 1,041 Rice undergraduates who dem- an excellent bargain in high quality private run an "exotic automobile brokerage," buy- with academic scholarships. The Wiess Col- onstrated financial need (from a total under- education. Thanks to a generous endowment ing and selling sports cars. In the summers, lege Outstanding Freshman Award has paid graduate enrollment of 2,481) received a total — the ninth highest overall and the third high- he has earned money working in his home- for his tuition this year. In addition, he of $5.5 million in financial aid in 1982-83, for an est per student in the nation — the university town, Buffalo, New York. Randy has worked received a Baker Honor Scholarship and an average of $5,300 per student. An additional only began charging tuition in 1966 and still at an advertising agency, for the Public Hous- Edmonds Foundation Scholarship. Charles 1,013 who did not demonstrate need received keeps costs to students at a fraction of actual ing Authority, for a bicycle rental business, makes up the difference through parental con- $3 million in scholarships, loans, and campus cost to the university. and in the menswear department of a depart- tributions as well as by tutoring in political sci- employment for an average $3,000 per stu- Hunt calls Rice "a bargain" compared to ment store. ence and working summer jobs. dent. Of the money given to students, $4.5 similar private schools. But he adds, "I would Marialice Hildebrandt '84, a computer sci- Inflation, fluctuating interest rates, and a million is paid by the university, $1 million is suspect there are a substantial number of stu- ence major, receives no money from her par- recessionary economy mean everyone federal, $1.2 million is state, and $1.7 million - dents who rule Rice out — don't even apply — ents fo finance her education. This year her involved must view financing a college educa- is from other sources. because Rice is so expensive." He believes financial aid package includes a Guaranteed tion as a greater challenge than they did ten In 1982-83 the Financial Aid Office deter- these students either do not know about the Student Loan covering approximately one- years ago. At the same time, the current eco- mined total costs to be $8,800 for a student financial aid that is available or do not qualify third of her expenses. The balance is divided nomic uncertainty makes earning a college living on campus, $9,300 for a student living for it. between money she earns as head waiter in degree more necessary than ever. At Rice, off campus paying rent, $7,600 for a student Funding for graduate students, whose tui- Brown College and grants. In addition, Mari- the university, parents, and students all seem living at home or with free rent, and $12,000 tion is the same as for undergraduates, is han- alice worked last summer at the Greensheet, a to have succeeded in finding ways to meet the for a married student. dled chiefly by the Office of Advanced Studies Houston advertising newspaper. She has challenge that impose no undue hardships These figures are based on current on tuition and Research. Each department is given a declared herself independent from her par- any of the parties involved. of $3,500 and campus room and board of budget for fellowships (tuition plus a stipend) ents for the 1983-84 school year. $3,400. Next year, in 1983-84, tuition will and scholarships (tuition only). These awards Marialice estimates that three-fourths to jump to $3,700 and room and board to $3,675. are granted according to merit withoutregard seven-eighths of all the money she has ever Students Need Summer Jobs Ten years ago, students who wanted to to need. In addition, outside sources fund earned has gone toward room and board and As the cost of living and of education con- save money lived in apartments off campus, many fellowships. tuition at Rice. She considers herself lucky tinues to rise, that student institution the but for 1982-83, the estimated cost of apart- Rice's current graduate student enrollment because this is the first year she has had to summer job becomes more and more ment living was $500 more than on campus is 1,030, including students in the business take out a loan. Despite the cost of Rice in important. If you or your company is look- residence. Hunt attributes the change to and engineering professional programs who comparison to state-supported schools, Mari- ing for intelligent, enthusiastic summer increases in gasoline and transportation costs. are not eligible for money from the university. alice never considered going anywhere else. help, consider hiring a Rice student. Con- Rent inflation in the now more desirable Mon- Of those who are eligible, slightly over half "I've been challenged here like anything," tact the alumni office or the Placement trose, West University, and Southampton Of- receive fellowships, according to Janis Stout she comments. Of Rice's aid she says, "On fice for further areas is also a factor. However details or to post job many students of Advanced Studies and Research. About half the whole, I've been taken care of by financial openings. still move to apartments within walking or bik- the remaining students receive scholarships. aid. It has been close, but it has worked out." Nobel Laureate Seaborg Interviewed By B.C. ROBISON Glenn T. Seaborg, Nobel laureate and former tion. The French are simply more efficient has been a persistent dedication to the cause Commission from 1961 to 1971. chancellor of the University of California at than we are in this area. They have to be, for of nuclear disarmament. He was a high level "Today there is a great deal of controversy Berkeley, was one of several distinguished their natural energy resources are scant," he advisor to the White House during the formu- concerning the use of nuclear power and scholars visiting the Rice campus in 1982-83. says. "They are also proceeding with the lation and ratification of the Limited Nuclear nuclear weapons," he says, "and not just The seventy-year-old nuclear chemist came development of a breeder reactor, which is far Test Ban Treaty in 1963 and the Threshold about the hazards involved but also about the here November 16 to give a Brown-Rayzor more efficient and economical than the con- Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1974. He believes morality of such things. At the time we were lecture on his research and discoveries in the ventional reactor that uses only 1 percent of a comprehensive test ban treaty — one elimi- working on the first atomic warhead, there transuranium series of elements. I talked with its fuel. The breeder reactor, by contrast, nating all warhead testing, regardless of size was no such moral agonizing among the scien- Seaborg in the chemistry conference room effectively uses 100 percent. — is not only essential to global welfare, but is tists. The simple fact was that we were at war the afternoon of his visit. Not surprisingly, the "Fortunately, the Nuclear Regulatory also the easiest agreement to verify, and with Adolf Hitler and the Empire of Japan, and conversation covered a wide spectrum, from Commission is attempting to streamline the therefore the most practical. we had to have the bomb before they did." energy conservation and nuclear disarma- American regulatory process by, among other "We have seismic equipment sensitive Foremost among the multitudes of honors ment to the sad state of math and science edu- things, combining the building and operating enough to record a detonation of only one kilo- and awards Seaborg has received over the cation in American high schools. permits," Seaborg adds. ton of explosive. No illegal test of any size years is the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Seaborg believes it is folly to maintain our France is not the only country outpacing could escape detection with equipment that awarded to him and E. M. McMillan in 1951 reliance on a finite supply of natural gas and the United States on the technological scene. good. Satellite surveillance is also used," for their work in discovering an entirely new oil for the production of electricity. Nuclear A "third revolution" is taking place (after the Seaborg says. "An inability to verify is there- group of elements, the transuranium series. power and solar energy should be explored, colonial and industrial revolutions) in the bur- fore a weak argument against a bilateral com- Over the years Seaborg and his colleagues he says, as well as coal gasification and geoning area of computers and robotics, and prehensive test ban. It's a different story with have discovered such new elements as pluto- liquefaction. the leaders are Japan and West Germany. the threshold ban, however. This treaty nium, einsteinium, and curium, as well as "France is a good example of the wise use "The root of the problem lies in math and allows testing up to a certain level. It's diffi- many new nuclear energy isotopes. of nuclear energy," Seaborg says. "The science education at the secondary level in icult to tell by surveillance instrumentation the Seaborg's talk here was entitled "Modern French take only five years to build a safe, this country," says Seaborg, who is a mem- precise level of a test — is the explosion just Alchemy," a reference to the ancient alchem- effective reactor, and by the end of the centu- ber of the President's Commission on Excel- below or just above the legal limit? With ists who tried to create gold out of common ry a full 50 percent of their total production of lence in Education. "A high percentage of the a comprehensive ban, that ambiguity is substances. But there is another, less-known electricity will come from nuclear reactors." nation's high school student population takes eliminated." connection between Seaborg and Rice Uni- Part of the reason for this French success no math or science beyond the tenth grade, Seaborg brings to the nuclear debate a per- versity. After he received his PhD from story is the comparatively low number of and there has been a 70 percent decline in the spective that few modern commentators can Berkeley in 1937, he did post-doctoral work "interveners," as he terms them, that enter number of college majors preparing for math claim. His scientific career has spanned Amer- there with the renowned physical chemist Gil- the approval, inspection, and building pro- and science secondary education. We are ica's rise to predominance in the nuclear era; bert Norton Lewis, who pioneered the mod- cesses for a nuclear plant. "In the U.S. a undergoing what I call 'unilateral economic he was on the team of researchers who ern theory of acids and bases. His son, E. S. broad range of people can intervene all along disarmament' as a result." worked on the first atomic bomb, and he Lewis, has taught here since 1948 and is now the way during plant planning and construe- Among his many activities over,the years served.as chairman of the Atomic Energy chairman of Rice's Department of Chemistry. SALLyporr- APRIL 1983 13 Renovated Library Lounge Major Gifts Busy Spring for Amoco Foundation Young Alumni Will Be Named for Sarah Lane $200,000 for laboratory improvements in chemical engineering. The Second Annual Alumni Beer Bike Races, • President Catherine Coburn Hannah '43. held prior to the main student event at Ronde- "She others up to K. Cooper expected to live them. We Patti let April 9, is only the first of several activities all tried to." $20,000 to the Burt Duke Raiza Piano Schol- held by and for the Rice young alumni — a "She was like an in the Shepherd School of Music estab- older sister, or maybe a arship group loosely defined as those who graduated by Mrs. Cooper in 1975 in memory of trusted aunt," adds Dean of Undergraduate lished within the past fifteen years — this spring. Affairs Katherine Tsanoff Brown '38. In rec- her mother. Other upcoming events include a much ognition of Lane's popularity, the Sarah Lane E. I. du Pont de Nemours requested young alumni trip to Big Bend Society — first to Literary the admit Jewish $10,000 to chemical engineering. National Park and the second champagne and Oriental students — was chartered in the croquet tournament. honorary spring of 1947. Miss Lane was given Richard P. Goodwin Estate Young alums will travel together from which lifetime membership in the group, $46,958 to endow the Richard P. Goodwin Houston to Big Bend (or, for a reduced price, merged with other literary societies in 1965. Scholarships. Mr. Goodwin was a friend of the meet in the park) for the weekend of May 20- She eventually resigned as adviser to women university. 22. The price, which is between $150 and ARCHIVES ARCHIVES in order to head the library's circulation Endowment, Inc. $177 per person from Houston or $110 with- department and serve as assistant librarian. Houston RICE RICE Brown Memorial out transportation, includes all camping equip- The proposed Sarah Lane Lounge will $10,000 to the George R. Miss Sarah Lane '19 Fund. ment except sleeping bags, meals, and improve the area outside the Friends of Fon- guides. Those interested should contact the For generations of alumni, thoughts of the dren office with carpeting, new furniture, Killson Educational Foundation alumni office immediately. Rice library inevitably recall memories of bookshelves, display cases, and recessed $36,692 for the student loan fund. A Great Gatsby Memorial Champagne Cro- Sarah Lane '19. The Friends of Fondren lighting. The room will be modeled after the quet Tournament will be held at the home of Speros P. Martel Library have now launched a project to make second floor lounge outside the Kyle Morrow Doug and Carolyn Morris Killgore '69/'69, for $250,000 to establish the Speros P. Martel the association official: as soon as sufficient Room, a much more attractive space 2245 Stanmore, at 2:00 P.M. April 24. Cost is Loan Fund for students in the Jesse H. Jones funds are raised, the Friends will begin reno- studying and reading. Renovation will include $5 per person. For details of this and other Graduate School of Administration. vating the library's third floor lobby and name the adjacent Friends office; full-length win- young alumni activities, contact Carolyn Mata the area the "Sarah Lane Lounge" after Miss dows will replace the wall that now separates NL Industries Foundation in the alumni office. Lane. the areas. It is also hoped that a portrait of $15,000 to provide for three two-year schol- Sarah Lane returned to Rice in 1920, not Lane can be acquired for the lounge. arships to undergraduates in geology, civil long after her graduation, as a library assis- Cost estimates for the combination lounge engineering, or mechanical engineering. tant, and remained as a full-time staff member and office renovation are $50,000, of which Management until her retirement in 1961. She continued to the Friends' board has committed an initial James H. Wright'28 work in Fondren's book repair section on a $22,000. The Friends hope to have the reno- $30,000 to the John H. Wright Fund for Biblio- Course graphic Research in Fondren Library estab- part-time basis into the late sixties. vation completed in time for dedication at The Executive Development Office of the lished in 1981 by Mr. Wright. From 1931 to 1950 Miss Lane also served Homecoming '83, October 21-22. Those Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Adminis- as Rice's adviser to women. "Her personal wishing to participate should contact the tration invites applications for admission to its standards and values were high, and she nev- Friends of Fondren Library, P.O. Box 1892, first class of The Management Program er lowered them," recalls Alumni Association Houston, Texas 77251. Ballots Mailed (TMP), which will commence this fall. Designed especially for mid-career managers for Board Slots and professionals assuming general man- Suitts Optimistic Despite 8-20 Season Ballots for positions on the board of the Asso- agerfient responsibilites, TMP's primary of Rice Alumni and for alumni governor objectives are to help participants: Basketball Coach Tommy Suitts expected his people we can't recruit to start with because ciation Governors have been 1. Develop an increased understanding second Rice team to show improvement over of our academic requirements; and third, stu- on Rice's Board of The deadline for return- of the organization as a whole and how its the 1981-1982 Owl squad's surprising 15-15 dent-athletes we feel certain could do well at mailed to all alumni. is May 6. Any alumnus who did functional areas interrelate; record, best in eleven years, despite the loss Rice are often told by people outside the uni- ing the ballots both ballots should contact the 2. Sharpen their ability to use tools and to graduation of All-American mainstay Ricky versity that the work is too hard here. not receive 527-4057. Results of techniques in such important functional areas Pierce. It was not to be. The 5-3 pre-Christ- Alumni Office at (713) counteract all this? announced in the June as finance, accounting, marketing, computer mas start was the same as a year ago, but the How do you the elections will be committed to playing big time systems, planning, and human resources academic loss following exams of six-nine sen- Well, Rice is SALLYPORT. record of the past two Candidates for a one-year term as alumni management; and ior Kenny Austin, team leader in points basketball. I think the I know of no SWC are Ben C. Hayton '45 and Louis D. 3. Increase their effectiveness in managing scored, rebounds, and defense, proved to be years shows this. And governor has a better record of graduating Jr. '41. Candidates for a four-year term resources, making decisions, and evaluating insurmountable for the relatively short and school that Spaw, than Rice. I believe the players we governor are Neal Terry Lacey, Jr. results to improve organizational effectiveness. inexperienced Owls. Between December 8 its athletes as alumni help convince others that Madelyn "Wookie" Sinclair Johnson The program, to be taught principally by and March 7 an additional three wins against already have will '52 and us sell the school. Also, Jones School and other Rice faculty, will be seventeen losses added up to a disappointing this is so and will help '48. more young people three-year terms on the conducted on 15 full days, 11 Fridays and four 8-20 mark for Rice. SALIXPORT talked to the I think there are more and Candidates for school where they can be Alumni Board are: Position One: Walter P. Saturdays, from September 9 to November usually optimistic Suitts in mid-March and who want to go to a where their degrees will mean Moore '27, Ortrud Lefevre Much '38, and 19 in Rice's Herman Brown Hall. Two special found him not discouraged. somebody, something, and this is the one big selling point Evelyn Fink Rosenthal '36; Position Two: features of the instruction, in addition to fac- SALLYPORT: Is it necessaryfor a college team to that we have at Rice. If a young man signs a Vincent H. Buckley '47, Ray E. Simpson, Jr. ulty presentations, use of cases, and invited have a superstar in order to compete today? scholarship with Rice University he is saying '44, and Jim Walzel '59; Position Three: executive speakers, will be the Sony Interna- Suitts: It really helps, but I don't think it is to the world, "I am something special. lam a Nancy Thornall Burch '61, Tommie Lu Storm tional Management Game using Sony's Stra- essential. I believe you can do as well with cut above the rest, and my education is Maulsby '59, and Patricia Shelton Simon '65; tegic Accounting System (STRACTM) and the four to six good players. But without this kind important to me. I am going to college to play Position Four: Neil Kenton "Ken" Alexan- International Operations Simulation(INTOP), of balance you've got to have one or two truly ball, yes, but it is very important to me that I der, Jr. '75, Joseph Douglas "Doug" Killgore which will tie together most of what will be outstanding players to be successful. obtain a quality degree." '70, and Scott W. Wise '71; Position Five: C. taught in class and will challenge the partici- making roles. How did you rate Rice's talent at the start ofthe Sidney Burrus '57, Neil "Sandy" Havens pants in their decision The Houston area has some ofthe finest basket- in more information past season? '56, and Henry H. Rachford, Jr. '45; Position Those interested ball talent in the country. How important is Simon Milford should call the Office of Executive Develop- Kenny was reaching that "outstanding play- Six: Marlynn G. Brodnax '49, your local recruiting effort? 527-9651 for a brochure. and he achieved • Bunn, Jr. '61, and Richard B. Stephens '56. ment at er" status as the season began, We are trying very hard. One of my goals win streak. Unfor- this during our five-game since taking over as head coach has been to tunately, his progress probably delayed the concentrate on the Houston area in recruiting. promising new- development of some of our Last year we signed Terrence Cashaw from put more pressure comers, and his departure Lamar High and Ivan Pettit from Bay City, always handle. I just on them than they could and this year we are very much involved with don't think we did a good job of convincing our about five local prospects. players that they could win after he was gone. I really do think we were good enough to have What about the.competition — both for players won more games. and for wins and national recognition? Has all this discouraged you? Can you field a It's very tough. The Southwest Confer- winning team at Rice? ence is still football-oriented, but this is Not discouraged, just disappointed! Very changing. And nationally, the NCAA tourna- disappointed! We felt at Christmas that we ment is being recognized as a major sports were playing better than we had been playing spectacle. It's an exciting time to be part of a in December the year before. But I am not college basketball program at a school like discouraged about the future. We have most Rice in a league like the SWC. of our playei s coming back, and I think they what does the immediate future hold? have the potential to become a good basket- So I think we have some very good returning ball team. If we have a successful recruiting players. All the people that we brought in this year, then I obviously believe we'll be in good year will help us in the upcoming seasons. And shape. Tony Barnett, who red-shirted a year ago How difficult is it to recruit successfully? after transferring from Kentucky State, and It is very difficult at Rice. First you have to Tracy Steele, a 1982-83 newcomer from Lit- commissioned the wonder about the effect of this year's 8-20 tle Rock, each have two more seasons. We Rice alumni travelers can now travel under their own flag. The alumni office world. For details of record on the people we're trying to convince can have a competitive team next year if we banner held by Tom Smith '51 to accompany Rice adventurers around the to come here: second, there are just so many sign players of comparable ability this spring. . upcoming Rice trips, see the "Owlmanac." 14 SALLYPORT APRIL 1983 Campus News Sports Roundup Medal Nominees Solicited Libraries Join Forces Cavanaugh Eyes Olympics Tennis Teams Impress The committee that selects winners of the The libraries of Rice University and the Texas The Rice women's track team enjoyed one of Men's and women's tennis teams have both alumni association's Gold Medal, awarded at Medical Center have expanded cooperation, its biggest wins in years with an impressive shown themselves to be among the nation's Homecoming each year, will meet in August. agreeing on "circulation of materials from victory over Texas A&M and Baylor in a meet strongest as post season tournament time Nominees are being sought for the honor, their respective collections to the faculty, at Waco. A major new asset for Coach Victor approaches. The women were 14-3 through which is given on the basis of outstanding ser- research staff, graduate and professional stu- Lopez is Regina Cavanaugh, a freshmai. shot the weekend of March 26-27, and the vice to Rice. Nominations should be sent to dents, and men selected undergraduate students putter from Killeen. Cavanaugh finished were 5-6. the alumni office in the RMC. of Texas Medical Center and of Rice Universi- fourth in the NCAA indoor championship and Women's Coach Paul Blankenship's most ty." Rice Librarian Samuel M. Carrington, won both the shot put and discus at Waco. Her consistent winners have been Tracie Blumen- Jr., is enthusiastic about the Bochner Papers Donated new arrange- winning toss of 53 feet, 8/12 inches, in the Bor- tritt in the number one singles, freshman ment. "Their collection of 170,000 Deborah Bochner Kennel, daughter of the volumes der Olympics meet makes her a serious con- Wendy Wood at number three, and the dou- and 4,600 periodical titles almost late mathematician and Rice professor Salo- entirely tender for the 1984 U.S. Olympic team. bles team of Eileen Curreri and Wendy Brock- complements ours," he notes,"and mon Bochner, recently donated her father's should be Other Rice standouts this season have been man. Blumentritt and doubles partner Susan particularly valuable to Rice papers from both Rice and Princeton to Fon- students in such Disa Lewis in the 1500- and 800-meter runs, Rudd (number two singles) teamed to areas as biology, win the dren Library, and was on hand for the first biochemistry, ethics, and Laura J. Wright in the 100, and Cecilia Nunez 1982 AIAW doubles championship psychology." but in 1983 annual Bochner Lecture, sponsored by Scien- in the sprints. are playing in the tougher NCAA Division I. tia. I. Bernard Cohen, Victor S. Thomas Pro- Tres Cushing, at men's number one sin- fessor of the History of Science at Harvard Broyles at Commencement Men's Track Fares Well gles, reached the semifinals in the twenty fifth University, spoke on "The Newtonian Revo- annual Rice Tournament William Broyles, Jr. '66 will be Rice's first Rice's men's track team fared well in March held the weekend of lution in Science." Bochner was a founding March 26-27, becoming commencement speaker in the 13 years since meets, winning the Texas Southern Universi- the first Owl player to member of Scientia, Rice's institute for the advance this far since Harold Norman Hackerman became university presi- ty Relays, finishing second in the Rice Invita- Solomon played history of science. In a ceremony preceding Dick Stockton of Trinity dent. Members of the senior class petitioned tional, and taking third in the Border Olympics in the finals in the the lecture on February 23, President Hack- mid-1970s. Teaming the university to invite Broyles, a cofounder at Laredo. The squad was not at full strength with Cushing in number erman and university librarian Sam Carrington one doubles for of Texas Monthly and former editor of Califor- the final weekend of the month at the Baylor the second year is Don thanked Kennel for the gift and announced Tomasco. This duo nia magazine who is completing his first year Quadrangular and finished fourth in that meet. has compiled a 10-1 that funding had been received for a Bochner record, best on the as editor-in-chief of Newsweek. Vince Courville has qualified for the NCAA team. Memorial gift to thelibrary, which will use the Championships in the 100 for the second sum to purchase portions of the "Sources of straight year. Other standouts for the Women Cagers Are 8-18 Science" series of facsimiles of landmark Student Art Show Opens Owls have been William Moore in the The Rice women's basketball team, playing works in the history of science. The Association of Rice Alumni joins Rice distances, Jerry Fuqua, Gawain Guy, for the first time in NCAA Division I, University, the Department of Art and Art Francisco Melen- complet- dez and Charles House in ed its season with a 8-18 record. History, and the Friends of Fondren in host- the mid-distances, In Southwest REA Approves and pole vaulter Paul Conference play, the Owls New Officers ing the Twentieth Annual Student Exhibition Bratloff. were 2-8, winning abinst Texas Christian in both regular The Rice Engineering Alumni board has at Sewall Art Gallery April 18 through May 7. season and postseason tournament play and approved a new slate of officers for the The show will include pieces in many media - New Offensive Coordinator losing to all other SWC opponents, upcoming year. President is Harvey Senturia painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, Spring football is divided this year into two including twice to national power University '45, vice-president is John Jaggers '73, secre- printmaking, as well as film and video - parts: ten workouts in March, followed by of Texas (once in cho- the SWC Tournament). tary is Robert Flatt '69, and treasurer is Gal- sen by instructors from the work of current Easter break, and ten workouts in April. Big- Pennie Goff and Val Ziegler led the loway Hudson '60. New members have also undergraduate and BFA students. Many of gest news of the off-season was the an- team in scoring with 21- and 16-point joined the board:James McGuinness '74, Lar- the works exhibited will be for sale. The pub- nouncement that Clovis Hale would be averages, respectively. Both are expected ry Whaley '71, Kurt Welgehausen '68, Bruce lic reception on Monday, April 18 from offensive coordinator, a position that was to return in 6:00 to 1983-84. Hendrickson '59, Judith Bruscher '55, and 8:00 P.M. will feature a dance performance by vacant during the 1982 season. Hale, who Karen Morris '77. Linda Phenix and company. Sewall Art Gal- coached the defensive line in 1981 and 1982, lery is open from noon until 5:00 P.M. Monday was the offensive line coach at the University Alums Return to Gridiron Jazz Ensemble Outstanding through Saturday; closed on Sundays. of Iowa prior to joining head coach Ray April 16 alumni from the Rice Owls football teams The Rice University Jazz Ensemble received Alborn's staff. of the past will return to the gridiron in Rice's outstanding ratings at the Collegiate Jazz Fes- first alumni football game. The event Volume IV Published will be 2:00 P.M. tival at Lamar University in Beaumont March Baseball Team Improved at in Rice Stadium and is free The Louisiana State University Press has of charge. 25. Three students and one alum were also Coach David Hall's baseball Owls were 22-7-1 published the fourth volume of The Papers of According to Coach Ray honored as outstanding soloists: Diana Her- through the weekend of March 26-27, with 2- Alborn, many Jefferson Davis, covering the years 1849-52, alums from several years back will rold (vibraphone), Robert Hamden (trom- 1 SWC series triumphs over Arkansas and join recent when Davis was a U.S. senator. Volume V, graduates on the teams. Those bone), Tom Blount (trumpet), and Georgiana Texas Tech following an earlier 0-3 series expected to which deals with the years 1853-55, Davis's participate include George Young '82 (vocals). Organized by band direc- setback at the hands of the Houston Cougars, Schulgen '68, Bob term as secretary of war under President Brown '72, tor Ken Dye in 1980, the Rice Jazz Ensemble currently ranked number three in David Houser '79, Carl Swierc Franklin Pierce, is scheduled to go to press at the nation '74, plays three regular concerts behind University of Texas Frank Mandola '69, Wes Hansen '80, each year; their the end of 1983 and be published by late 1984. (number two). last performance for 1982-83 The major difference Robert Hubble '82, and Lew Harpold '56. will be at 8:00 The ongoing project, at Rice since the 1960s, between the Rice P.M. April 19 in Hamman teams of 1982(which The game will be held in lieu of the traditional Hall. The competi- will produce a complete edition of Davis's won a record 34 games tion was the first but failed to qualify spring Blue-Gray Game. jazz festival to be entered by papers by the end of the century. for the SWC tournament) a Rice band. and 1983 is the pitching. Newcomers David Hinrichs (with a no-hitter against St. Edwards Homecoming '83 en route '87 Prospects Attend Owl Day to a 7-1 record) and Tim Englund (4- Homecoming '83, including the golden 0) have accounted for the With Texas A&M, UT-Austin, and UH Owls' four SWC offer- reunion party for the Class of '33 and the sil- wins. ing National Merit finalists scholarships as a ver reunion for the Class of '58, has been Rice regulars hitting .300 or matter of course, competition for the best better are des- scheduled for October 21-22, 1983, The foot- ignated hitter James Thompson high school students has never been more (.344), out- ball game will be with Texas A&M. Carl fielder Jay Bluthardt (.340), second intense in Texas. The Rice Student Admis- baseman Morris '76 is in charge of arrangements. Any- Bryan Foxx (.337), outfielder-third sions Committee will respond April 14 and 15 baseman one wishing to participate should contact Carl Scott Johnson (.320), and catcher-first with its fifth annual Owl Day. Modeled after base- or the alumni office. man Mike Cox (.319). Fox leads the the "holding parties" held at many presti- team in home runs (4) and runs-batted gious eastern universities, Owl Day is expect- -in (26). ed to attract a record number of high school 3-Generation Alums Sought students who have been accepted by Rice, The alumni office is looking for three-genera- Women Swimmers Finish 8th but who may not have made up their minds to tion Rice families. We know you are out there, Rice's women swimmers finished in eighth attend in August. Activities designed to show but there is no way to trace you through our place in the NCAA Division II National Cham- Rice "as it really is" include attending classes computer records. Any member of three-gen- pionships held in Long Beach, California, with with student hosts, visiting the various eration Rice families, regardless of your gen- senior backstroker Kay Snell closing out her schools' open houses, and picnicking on the eration or of whether all generations are still intercollegiate career with two seconds and RMC lawn. living, is asked to send details of you and your three thirds in setting four individual Rice relatives' attending Rice to the Association of records. She also helped the 400-yard medley Rice Alumni, P.O. Box 1892, Houston 77251. and 800-yard freestyle relay teams to fourth AMOCO Gives Energy Grant and fifth place finishes, respectively, in school C.H . "Steve"Siebenhausen, Jr. '50(right) Rice has received a $200,000 grant from the re,cord times. has endowed a scholarship in engineering in honor Amoco Foundation that will be used to bolster Rice, Paris Swap Artists While no other Rice participants finished of his wife, Harriana Butler, to provide an America's efforts to achieve greater energy Rice and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris first, second, or third in their events, senior award to a married engineering student at Rice independence, according to Dean of Engi- have arranged an exchange of artists Gina Gaskin, -in-resi- juniors Kathy Batho and Barb who is in need offinancial support to continue neering J.D. Hellums. The money will "reno- dence. Parisian artist Olivier Debre Demorotski, arrived on and freshmen Kathy Jenkins, his or her studies. A mechanical engineer, vate and equip one of our chemical campus March 1 for the first phase of Kathy Benzick, and the Anita Heil joined Snell on Siebenhausen says he made the award to honor engineering laboratories for research on prob- agreement. The French artist and teacher the NCAA Division will H All-American squad on his wife's working uith him while he completed lems of national interest - initially for use in remain in Houston for six weeks, painting the strength and of finishes among the first twelve his studies here and in gratitudefor Rice's pro- applications related to methods of recovering participating in individual and in their competitions. class critiques of viding "an opportunity to receive such a fine additional oil from underground reservoirs," student artwork. Then in May, Rice's Basilios There were 49 teams competing at Long education in such an outstanding and he said. The renovated space will be used for Poulos will travel satisfy- to "les Beaux Arts" for an Beach. Clarion (Pennsylvania), Air Force ing atmosphere." Siebenhausen research on the dynamics and equilibrium equivalent is general period. Poulos, who joined Rice's Academy, California State at Northridge, manager, Purchasing Department, properties of oil-water-detergent systems. faculty of Shell in 1975, points out that Debre's visit Univeristy of California at Davis, Oakland Oil, while his wife is "This will lead to a better understanding of the owner of an .antique will provide an opportunity for Rice art stu- (Michigan), South Florida, and Furman and collector's the role of surfactants in.. tertiary. oil doll shop. The couple live in the recov- dents to see how another artist works and to (South Carolina) finished in that order ahead ery," Dean Hellums noted. Woodlands near Houston and havefour hear his critique of their work. of Rice. children. SALLYPOFtT - APRIL 1983 15 Giving Clubs Enroll Donors

The Founder's Club and President's Club were established in the fall of 1970 as a means of Miss Sarah Anne Cortez '72 Stephen Thomas Hutzler '79 David Lee Collier '82 bringing together almuni, parents, and friends who give substantial support for Rice's current Jay and Patricia Heck '72 Miss Ivy Gwen Jacobs '79 Louis Marion Flores '82 operations. Membership is on an annual basis (July 1 through June 30) and includes Randy and Debby Hencke '72 Mr. Jeffrey Lehmann and Ms. Lauren Ms. Carmen Ferreyros '82 the individual David K. Huffman, Jr. '72 and his or her spouse. Names listed Pate '79 Laura Anne Flanagan '82 below are first-time members from October 1982 through Miss Esther Lam '72 Mark Loranc '79 Ms. Linda E. Fox '82 February 1983. Dr. Edward Enns McEntire '72 Donald and Kathryn MacAskie '79 Donald Hugh Frey '82 Dr. Paula Nan Noelke '72 Miss Dana Miller '79 Ms. Lavelle Ann Fritz '82 Dr. Shelley M. Payne '72 Miss Lisa Ann Mondy '79 Alan Jay Hirshberg '82 Founder's Club Mr. and Mrs. John W. Brice, Jr. '61 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wm. Burgess, Dr. Wesley Kent Wallace '72 Michael E. Novelli '79 Ms. Dr. Edmund B. Middleton '18 Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence L. Gilbert '61 Jr. '56 Cynthia Diane Kiest '82 Dr. Gayle E. Woodson '72 Robert Alan Paulsen, Jr. '79 Lloyd John La Comb, Jr. '82 Mr. and Mrs. Joe B. Alexander '27/.27 Dr. and Mrs. Edward K. Massin '61 Mr. and Mrs. John W. Mullendore Capt. and Mrs. Charles Horton Allen Lt. Jay Leslie Peterson '79 Daniel Joseph Mr. and Mrs. Tom M. Davis '31 Dr. and Mrs. Robert R. Maxfield '63 '56/56 McCormack '82 '73/.75 Randy T. Reese '79 Richard A. Miss Edna M. Vaughan '31 Daren R. Appelt '65 L. Duvall Webster, Jr. '56 Newhouse '82 John I. Allen, M.D. and Peggy L. Ms. Susan Elizabeth Roehm '79 Peter and Charlotte Peltier Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bartell '33 William T. McGregor '65 Mr. and Mrs. James A. Ragsdale '57 '82 Naas, M.D.'73 William James Rowan '79 David R. Winnie Helen Ratliff '33 Dr. and Mrs. John M. Pankratz '68/65 William N. Sick '57 Sebastian '82 Ltc. Joseph C. Arnold '73 Robert Charles Skocpol '79 Ms. Candice Jeanne Dr. Walter T. Scott '33 Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Buechner '66/.68 David B. Daviss '58 Woeltjen '82 Dr. Andrew J. and Mrs. Deborah L. Ms. Nina Springer '79 Wendy Irene Young Mrs. Agnes Cox Balfour '35 Mr. and Mrs. William V. H. Clarke '66 Mrs. Earl G. Derveloy '58 '82 Blakeney '74/73 Geoffrey Kent Vogel '79 Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. R. Graham Jackson Anne P. Ladd '66 Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Durham '58 James H. Barksdale, Jr. William Lee Brown '73 Jeffrey C. Wood '79 Dr. and Mrs. Wm. '35/'39 Charles E. Peterson '67 Mrs. W.J. Ruez III '58 C. Caccamise Mark Samuel Feller '73 Patrick Andrew Zummo '79 Fermin and Umbelina Cantu Mr. and Mrs. John R. Averill '36 James A. Woodward '69 Mr. and Mrs. Rex Tidwell, Jr. '58 Gary P. Fischer, Denise Reineke Roff Gunnar Asphaug '80 Ms. Laura Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Lewis, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William D. Kendall '70 Edward M. Galle '59 Clyburn Fischer '74/73 Miss Martha Lynn Causey '80 Mr. and Mrs. Jon D. '36/.38 Edward F. Norbery '70 Mr. and Mrs. Roderick S. Heard Cooksey Mr. and Mrs. James T. Heg '73 Brian William Cooper '80 Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. E. H. McCann '36 Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Wilson '71/.70 '59/'59 Mrs. Robert M. Cradock John A. and Lynda Myska Irvine '73 Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Eubank '80 Dr. and Mrs. F. Barry Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Liliestrand Dr. Thomas F. Brownscombe '71 Ms. Tommie Lu Maulsby '59 Dunning Virginia J. Jee and Robert F. Williams Eileen Boyd German and Jim German Mr. and Mrs. Norval F. Elliot, Jr. '37/'39 Dr. Stephen James Sheafor and Ms. Dr. Madeleine M. Raaphorst '59 '73 '80 Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Faulk, Jr. Arthur Platt '38 Cindy Jo Lindsay '72/74 Mr. and Mrs. Wm. M. Sherrill '59 Mr. and Mrs. Stanley F. Joynton '73 Jotua Helms '80 Mr. and Mrs. Eugene B. Fabiano Mr. and Mrs. James M. Wilson, Dr. Leigh Whitton Murray '72 John D. Wiliert '59 Colleen Kegg and Robert Simon '73 Jack Boston Hollins '80 Jerrie Fullenweider '39/.38 David and Edith Archer '73 James Edward Ambrose '60 Reuben Stephen J. Jeu '80 Charles M. Gibbs Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Ehrhardt, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald H. Philpy '74/73 Mr. and Mrs. Jack Burke '60 Lloyd Leslie, Jr. '73 David Joseph Kacar '80 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gilabert '41/44 Rev. William Jennings Bryan III and Edward F., III and Deanna D. Cooke Michael R. Lynch '73 Janet L. and Robert]. Kass '80/81 Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hall Dr. and Mrs. Louis J. Girard '41 Mrs. Corrine Clemons Bryan '60/'60 Mr. and Mrs. K. L. Martindale '73 Miss Carolyn Kuo-Yao Lee '80 Mr. and Mrs. Wm. G. Hand Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan B. Meyer '41 '74/.74 Harvey M. Hoffman '60 Brenda.). and Robert H. Owens George Christian May '80 Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hannum Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Leigh '42 Mr. and Mrs. James R. McGinness '74 Wantland J. Smith, Jr. '60 '73/'73 Charles F. and Nancy J. Murphey Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Harris, Jr. Stephen H. Buckley '43 Mr. and Mrs. D. Reed Wilson, Jr. '74 Paige L. West, Jr. '60 Mr. Frank E. Allen and Ms. Cindy '80/.80 Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Hine Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Mims '43/43 John E. Straub II '75 Drs. Rantil and Cynthia Wright '60 Myska '74/.76 Alan Douglas Mut '80 Ernest G. and M. Fagan Hotze Mr. and Mrs. John T. Patillo '43 Mr. H. Ralph and Mrs. Susan K. Dr. Simon M. Bunn, Jr. '61 Charles A. Berg '74 Mark A. Pacheco '80 Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Husick Mr. and Mrs. Raymond E. Simpson, Hawkins '76 Dan S. Davis '61 Everett and Natalie Curtis '74 Dr.Gregory P. Pepin '80 Mr. and Mrs. Morris V. Jenkins Jr. '44/46 Carl and Karen Morris '76/.77 Dr. F. Michael Irwin '61 Mr. and Mrs. T. Jefferson Eby III '74 Miss Ana Maria Prieto '80 Mr. and Mrs. John C. Keneally Mr. and Mrs. T. Robert Jones '45/.45 Mr. and Mrs. Edmund P. Segner Ill Mrs. Joe R. McFarlane '61 Mr. and Mrs. Michael Halpert '74/74 Thomas George Richter '80 Basil P. and Marlyn W. Korin Karl C. Spock '33 '76/.76 William 0. Schneider '61 Dr. David and Dr. Karen Hattaway Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Scudder '80 Mr. and Mrs. John M. Latimer Miss Dorothy M. Daley '34 George J., Jr. and Melissa M. Wagner Gary B. Webb '61 '74/.81 Lt. Donald S. Spear, USN '80 Mr. and Mrs. Mario Lavazzi Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lamotta '34 '77/76 Thomas B. Campbell '62 Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Labanowski Robert and Dale Walker '80/.80 Mrs. Peter C. Licea Jack B. Power '34 Gregory C. and Lisa Breier Alexander Dr. James H. Hammond '62 '74/76 Gregory John Woodhams '80 Mr. and Mrs. Nat L. Maggio Eugene K. Scott '34 '77/78 Mr. and Mrs. John A. Mundis '62 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stephen Phillips Frank Lester Worley III '80 Kenneth Mahand Mrs. T. F. Smith '34 Lynn Laverty Elsenhans and John W. Dr. Thomas Michael O'Gorman, Jr. '74/.75 Miss Virginia Elizabeth Abbott '81 Mr. and Mrs. Aubary L. Montgomery Mr. and Mrs. William J. Williamson Elsenhans '78 '62 Mr. and Mrs. James H. Powers '74 David Paul Bernstein '81 Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Morris, Jr. '34/.36 Mr. William]. Leddy and Ms. Linda S. Mr. and Mrs. James M. Rhodes '62 Miss Barbara A. Rampt '74 Robert L. Boyles '81 Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Mullaley Mr. and Mrs. Pat G. Combs '35 Dobbs '80/80 John Joseph Hollenburger, Jr. '63 Gary E. Schroller '74 Ms. Elizabeth D. Brumley '81 Mr. and Mrs. Phac D. Nguyen Dr. and Mrs. David C. Furman '35/.36 Hardie W. Morgan '80 James K. Jennings, Jr. '63 Raymond J. Serpas '74 Ms. Anita Norma Cuevas '81 William G. Nolen Richard]. Metcalf '35 Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Linder Bane Mr. and Mrs. Raymond L. May '63 Dr. and Mrs. Milton D. Shaw '74/.78 Mr. and Mrs. John H. Diesel '81 Mr. and Mrs. Michael Lynn Parks Mrs. Richard D. Moers '35 Mr. and Mrs. Ronald D. Barbour Ms. Kathleen Much '63 Dr. Linda A. Williams '74 Richard Gardner Hebert '81 Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Pearl John S. Drake '36 Prof. Michael Berry and Dr. Julianne Mr. and Mrs. J. P.(Paul and Jayne) Dr. Charles J. Billington and Dr. Susan Ms. Amy Dianne Jordan '81 Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Powell Dr. and Mrs. Joe C. Much '36 Elward-Berry Roberts '63 A. Berry '75/75 Rodney A. Kiel '81 Mr. and Mrs. Vincent C. Rethman Leon R. Schurman '36 Dr. and Mrs. Terence Seven Dr. and Mrs. Edward W. Tuthill '63 Dr. William A. Chuoke, Jr. '75 Ens. John Martin Mosher '81 Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sieckmann Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Vaughn '36 Mr. and Mrs. Jack T. Gossett Dr. J. Robert Birchak '64 Ms. Emily J. Coffman '75 Christopher Jon Peddie '81 Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Sparke Mrs. Bernadine Keller Evans '37 Charles H. Hewill Drs. Joe and Barbara Bourland '64 Bryan A. Doming '75 Mr. and Mrs. Allan Porterfield '81/.81 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen G. Sutton Miss Mime Moore Gillespie '37 Mr. and Mrs. John A. Kaneb Dr. and Mrs. R. Dennis Hamill '64/.69 Lt. Tom Gehring, USN '75 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Alan Russell '81 Mr. and Mrs. M. Lee Taylor Mrs. Charles C. Green, Jr. '37 Mr. Louis Lechenger Dr. and Mrs. Wailter J. Meyer III Mr. John Holmes,Jr. and Mrs. Mathew Wareing '81 Mr. and Mrs. Warren W. Waggett Alfred C. Goodson '38 Mr. Lyman I. and Ms. Eloise W. Owen '64/.65 Jeanette Doucet Dean '75/.75 A. E. Williamson '81 Mr. and Mrs. James A. Waggoner Herbert E. Holm '38 Alvin Pederson Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Carson '65 Dr. and Mrs. Jack V. Matson '75 Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Beck '82 David F. Webb Dr. and Mrs. William H. Lane '38 Mrs. Gail Schwinger Ronnie Lyman Cox '65 Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. May,Jr. '75 Bruce Keith Campbell '82 Mr. and Mrs. Winfield E. Wight Mr. and Mrs. Mark]. Liverman '38 Ms. Anne M. Simpson Barbara Hamski Peck '65 Dennis A. Mitchell '75 Ms. Carolyn M. Canright '82 Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Winn William F. Reed '38 Mr. and Mrs. Howard Upton William Charles Voight '65 J. Gregory Schmidt '75 Robert Fredrick Catterall '82 Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Zarbock James Maniscalco '39 Dr. and Mrs. Basilius Zaricznyj Nick and Sayra R. Hearn Hesselsweet Lieutenant Commander and Mrs. Ste- Harvey J. Neeld '39 '66 phen W. Wallace '75/.75 Thomas C. Roddy, Jr. '39 Drs. Harry and Pat Holmes '66 William M. Wilson, Jr. '75 Mrs. Maurice Lebourg '40 President's Club Dr. Robert L. Horton '66 Mr. Marcus Aurelio and Mrs. Martha Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Standefer '40 Mrs. Harold E. Gray '17 Dr. John Joseph Jell II '66 Garcia Aguilar '76/76 James G. Hogg '41 Cjeo Lafoy Dowell '21 Dr. Tsung Tee Li '66 Mr. and Mrs. James Y. H. Ghee '76 Haskell Sheinberg '41 Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bushong '22 Mr. and Mrs. James Park, Jr. '66 James Best Connor '76 Memorial Funds Mrs. Gloria Van Pelt Williams '41 Mrs. Harry W. Dietert '22 Mr. and Mrs. James Eilliot Radford Paul D. Fleming '76 Mrs. C. E. Cunningham, Jr. '42 Mrs. Marion Eaton Morrison '22 '66/66 Dr. Linda Patricia Flores '76 Funds in memory of the following individuals have been estab- Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Elrod '42 Mrs. Forrest M. Hemker '23 Dr. Harvey M. and Dr. Susan S. Sachs Dr. and Mrs. Matt B. Martin '76 lished. Friends wishing to contribute to these funds may send Linus G. Sharpe '42 George Wesley Brown, Sr. '25 '66/67 David Rollie Modisette, Jr. '76 their gift to the Development Office. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Willbern (Ruth George C. Berly '27 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Earl Toone Lyman R. Paden '76 Moore)'42 Dr. and Mrs. Adrian B. Cairns '28/'32 '67/66 Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. Setser George R. Brown Memorial Fund Mrs. John B. Deaderick '43 Mrs. R. L. Rifling '28 John V. Bergman, Jr. '67 '76/.78 In memory of George R. Brown '20, distinguished alumnus Mrs. Herman Kraal '43 Mrs. Anna Lay Turner '28 Mr. and Mrs. R. Craig Christopher '67 Thomas M. Williams '76 Mrs. Patricia T. Bowman '44 John D. Hancock '29 W. Paul Farmer, AICP '67 Steve and Mary Jo Barta '77 and trustee emeritus. The income from this endowed fund will Paul Z. Brochstein '44 Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Garrett '30 Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Barnet Gilliam Andrea and Rick Behrend '77 be dedicated to intercollegiate debating. Mrs. Malcolm Ezell Moss '44 Mr. and Mrs. John L. Hannon '31/.33 '67 Roger Clegg '77 Ms. Nellie McNeill Sanders '44 Mrs. John N. Powers '31 David William Kuykendall '67 Robert M. Eury '77 Joe L. Franklin Memorial Fund Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Saltier '44 Margaret Dunn Kendall '32 Roy Anthony F. Lowey-Ball '67 Mr. Henry Clay, Jr. and Mrs. Mary C. In memory of Joe L. Franklin, Jr., Robert A. Welch Professor Dr. Sol Louis Dittman '47 Mrs. Carolyn W. Lard '32 Mr. and Mrs. Ronald G. Olin '67 Hodges '77/77 of Chemistry emeritus, this fund will be used to endow an Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Drew '47 Mr. and Mrs. Ewell E. Mitchell '32 Earl Thomas Smith '67 Dr. and Mrs. John S. Hoerster '77/.79 Mr. and Mrs. Charles I. Kaplan '47 Mrs. Floyd D.(Marguerite) Aston '33 Robert Louis StelzI '67 Louis E. Kempinsky/Carol Minuek '77 annual lectureship in physical chemistry in his name. D. Eugene Simmons '47 Mrs. Mervin Cole '33 Michael and Jackie Grosch Yellin Serge Mirabeau '77 Mr. and Mrs. Henry N. Armstrong Henry M. Holden, Jr. '33 '67/69 Ms. Wanda Pan '77 Joe Gallegly Memorial Fund '48/'48 Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth E. Jones '33 Dr. peorge Walter Bright '68 Ms. Jan Preston '77 In memory of Joseph S. Gallegly, Jr. '25 who was a professor David W. Brochstein '48 Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Key '33 Dr. and Mrs. Ronald G. Brown '68/'68 Doak Rainey '77 of English at Rice from 1929 to 1968. He was known to his Sidney G. Clark '48 Wm. Barry Rose '33 Clois Judson Byars, Jr. '68 Arthur H. Saville, III '77 friends as "Cowboy Joe." This fund will be used to establish Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Darnrel, Jr. '48 Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Meyers '45 Frederick Melvin Cloud '68 Mr. and Mrs. James S. Turley '77 students with a demon- Charles S. W. Deiches, Jr. '48 Milton C. Butcher '46 Dr. and Mrs. Philip S. Davis '68 David R. Walker '77 an endowed scholarship in his name for Dr. Emory Temple Adams, Jr. '49 Miss Elaine E. Dippel '47 Rosemary Thomas Du Pree '68 Mark A. Albert '78 strated financial need. James L. Ellis '50 Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Winograd '48 Douglas John Gooselaw '68 Claudia Jeanne Anderson '78 Ms. Betty K. Manning '50 Mr. and Mrs. George Wray, Jr. '49/52 Dr. Patricia Marie Lesko '68 James R. Beall '78 General Scholarship Fund Mr. and Mrs. Vern V. McGrew, Jr. '50 Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence G. Katz '50 Mr. and Mrs. Alton Zang Parks '68 John Richard Berry '78 The family of A.T. "Red" Dickey '33 has requested that Dan J. Moran, Jr. '50 Mr. and Mrs. James W. Gary '51 Dr. William Donald Smith '68 Dr. Mark T. Chiu '78 contributions made in his memory to Rice be placed in the George E. Sullins '50 Eugene M. Langworthy '51 Brickley McQueen George '69 Miss Diana M. Daech '78 Mr. and Mrs. John W. Dorsey '51 Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Tighe '51 Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Harris '69 Richard J. Evrard '78 University's General Scholarship Fund. Mrs. Maurice J. Duffey '51 Mrs. Mary F. Bolduc '52 Miss Anne Norris McLaurin '69 Vicki W. Gardner '78 Mr. and Mrs. W. Richard H. Ramsay Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Cruikshank James William Thomas '69 Dr. Ronald L. Gross '78 Charles P. Latourette Fund '51 '52/.52 M. Sue Whinnery '69 Ms. Catherine L. Hanks '78 In memory of Charles P. Latourette '67, an All-American Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Warren '51 Mr. and Mrs. Harold R. DeMoss, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Wiley Sam Dennis '70 Miss Karen F. Jones '78 member of Rice's 1966 football team and graduate of Universi- Richard A. Braman '52 '52 Dr. and Mrs. David G. Haase '70 Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Keating '78 ty of Tennessee Medical School. This fund will be used for a Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Collins '52/.54 Dr. and Mrs. L. Stanley Eubanks Dr. Peter R. Lloyd-Davies '70 Joshua T. Kutchin '78 Douglas D. Hale, Jr. '52 '52/53 Michael Chenault McParland '70 Dr. Jeffrey Meffert and Dr. Paula scholarship for scholar athletes. Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Littlepage, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Don L. Stieghan '52 David and K. Cummings Pipes '70/.71 Lyons-Meffert '78 '52/.55 Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Dalton, Jr. '53 Frank Joseph Pustka, Jr. '70 Robert B. Morey '78 John T. Mitchell Traveling Fellowship Dr. A. William Ruff, Jr. '52 Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Donald Harvey Sarah Daniel Ryan '70 Kevin Patrick Pei '78 In memory of John T. Mitchell, Jr. MARU '72, president of Philip H. Scott '52 '53 Samuel I. and Sylvia A. Shiroyama '70 Eric R. PettyJohn '78 Mitchell, Carlson and Associates, architectural firm. This fel- John D. Boswell '53 Mr. and Mrs. Bruce W. Wallace Dan and Carlleen Groves Williams '70 Julian J. Pop '78 lowship will be awarded annually to a student in the School of Robert Paul Hosemann '53 '53/.53 Mr. and Mrs. Alberto Carrero '71 Bruce E. Richards '78 Architecture. Jean Rosalyn Cornelius '54 Mr. and Mrs. W. Owen Irish '54 Ms. Lucy Ferguson Galbraith '71 David J. and Cathryn L. Rodd '78/.78 Horton D. Nesrsta '54 Dr. John N. Loomis '54 Dr. and Mrs. Gerald R. Icrie '71/'72 Allen Robert Samuels '78 Fund Dr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Biggs '55 Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. Bower '55 .Mr. Tzy-Ping Lin '71 Claude Sisson and Cynthia Molena Robert Parker Shubinski Jayne Wunsch Dye, M.D. '55 Dan Rogers Farmer '55 Dr. Donald Otis Pederson '71 '78/.79 In memory of Robert Parker Shubinski '57 B.A., B.S. in civil John H. Maness '55 Sally Abston, M.D. '56 Dr. and Mrs. Charles K. Prokop '71 William A. Tucker '78 engineering. This fund will be used for a graduate level award Robert]. Saldich '55 Ann B. Blesoe '56 Randhir Sahni '71 Mr. or Mrs. Roy Lee Beller '79/.80 in civil engineering in the areas of civil, structural, environ- Mr. and Mrs. Edwin S. Keasler, Jr. '57 Dr. and Mrs. James Porter Baughman Guy Thomas Almer '72 Ms. Lindy Brandt '79 mental and/or water resources. Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Pollard '57 '57 Dr. and Mrs. John W. Barnes (Jan Leigh Charles Canker '79 Dr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Davis '60 Mr. R. L.(Lee) Fowler '57 Bacon)'72 Stella Elizabeth Fleming '79 Mr. and M. Ed Bailey '61 William 0. Berryman '56 Coy Lynn Clement '72 Miss Amelia Gay Gardner '79 Mrs. - 16 SALLYPORT - APRIL 1983 Letters First Married Student Writes IIMMIIIIIIK411• • To the editor: Thomas Hickey and his wife I have read your lead article in the current the Harold Smith and his wife, the for- three sons. A soprano, Pauline has appeared former Ethel Place '28 issue of SALLYPORT entitled "Love at First 26 write that 43mer Frances Williamson, moved as a soloist with major symphonies and con- they now live with their daughter, Doralyn Hoot," and I am moved to share with you a bit to Austin from Ridgefield, Connecticut, in ductors, including the Halle with Sir John Bar- J. Hickey '51,in Denton, Texas. of my own history. I entered the Rice Insti- February. Starke Taylor, Jr., is a candidate birolli in England, the CBS with Algrado tute in September 1932 on a graduate fellow- for mayor in Dallas, running on a platform sup- Anonini in New York, the Houston with Law- ship in physics'. I was deeply in love with Anna Lay Turner says she has porting planning, public transportation, and a rence Foster, the Dallas with Eduardo Mata, Marcella Hamilton and determined to marry 28 no time for a rocking chair." Anna war on crime. After a career in the cotton and the Houston Grand Opera. She has also her. We had both graduated that June from the keeps busy as a coordinator for Meals on business, Taylor is now chairman of the board given recitals in the Carnegie Recital Hall and of the University of Tennessee and both parents and Wheels in southwest Houston. "Seven real estate development and invest- the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., as ment my major professor thought we would never churches have the program and furnish volun- firm Graylor Investments, Inc. His civic well as in Europe and the Far East. She has make it and that it would be the ruin of a prom- teer drivers," she writes. "I have fun coordi- service includes five years as chairman of also made numerous television appearances Dallas's ising career. We were married two days after nating about 42 meals a day, five days a week. Park Board. and is the soloist for the documentary on Christmas, had a brief honeymoon in New I order from the caterer at 7:00 A.M. each day David Amram on PBS. Her recent recording Orleans on the way to Houston, and settled in for an area covering over 98 square blocks." Roland W. Schmitt (PhD), Gen- of Lili Boulanger's "Clairieres dans le ciel" a doll house I had rented for $20 a month at 51 eral Electric senior vice-president with pianist David Garvey on Spectrum 1307/12 Marshall. Homecoming reports are still com- for corporate research and Records has received wide acclaim, and the We were the first married students Rice 32ing in from classmates. Harold development, has been two have since recorded the songs of Polish had ever had, and after some puzzlement as to Braun lives in Austin after a career teaching appointed to the National composer Karol Szymanowski. She is now what to do with a student's wife, Marcella was psychology at the University of Alabama, then Science Board, the policy- touring artist for the Texas Commission on taken into the Faculty Women's Club. I working in the Office of Economic Opportuni- making arm of the Na- the Arts. Numerous classmates have become shared my fellowship with Tom Bonner '32, ty of the Texas Governor's Office to establish tional Science Founda- ministers: Helen Morris Havens is the rec- who had started his the year before. H. A. and upgrade antipoverty programs. He is the tion. Schmitt is a member tor of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Wilson was my major professor and others on father of five children and is involved in the of the National Academy of Engineering Houston and has the largest congregation of Rotary and a consultant the faculty of the physics department were and Lion's clubs. Margaret Dunn to the President's Foreign any female Episcopal priest in the country. Kendall taught Intelligence Advisory Board. Claude Heaps and Lewis Mott-Smith. We school for 17 "rewarding and In addition, Her daughter Juli attends Rice and is close successful" he is a fellow made it thanks to my wife's rigid control of the years and is now active in numer- of the American Physical Soci- friends there with Elizabeth Gross, daughter ous Dallas ety, the Institute Electrical budget and even had our first son in August civic organizations. She is the of and Elec- of Helen's college roommate Merle Zinn mother tronics Engineers, 1934. We were especially friendly with Lester of four. Franklin Kennedy worked and the American Gross-Ginsburg, who is a senior vice-presi- for 28 years as an electrical inspector Association for the Advancement of Sci- Ford in mathematics, Arthur Scott in chemis- for the dent at Edward S. Gordon Company in New City of Dallas before his retirement. ence. He lives in Scotia, New York, with his try, and Arthur Burr in engineering. After He has York City. Merle works in the commercial real four children. John Garland Tucker wife and four children. Sara Puig Laas watching us for a year, George Garrett '33, a of estate investments division. Ken Carter is Houston has been active has been promoted to vice-president fellow in mathematics, decided it was possible in the Southampton at senior minister of the First United Methodist Civic Club, for which he First Victoria Bank in Victoria, Texas, and he brought Olie to Rice as his bride the fol- was plaintiff in two Church of Carrollton, Texas. He and his wife, civil suits to maintain deed where she has been personnel director lowing Christmas vacation. The Rice admin- restrictions in the for the former Mary Alice "Freddie" Freder- neighborhood. Mavis Wood Hutchinson four years. istration decided the fellowship was too gen- ick, have two children. Jim Scott is the regrets that she was unable erous and reduced the stipend from $750 to to attend the Episcopal chaplain at the Seaman's Center in reunion party, but writes that she taught $500 per year. Nancy Boothe Parker, director Houston, while his wife, the former Carol school for 37 years and "never got out I obtained my PhD in 1936 and returned to of the 52of Fondren Library's Woodson Ford,is a senior electrical designer and group third grade." Mavis stays busy with Research the University of Tennessee as assistant pro- church Center — home of Rice's archives leader at Fluor. Jim Abernathy is the rector work in Houston. — fessor of physics. In 1962 Rice did me the and a recognized authority on Texana, has of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Freeport, been elected great honor of selecting me as one of two to a three-year term on the Texas. He has six children and one grandson. alumni board of directors of to receive the Semicentennial Medal of S.I. Morris's Morris/Aubry Archi- the recently formed Erlene Hubly teaches nineteenth- and Honor. Texas Archival The other was Maurice Ewing '26, 35tects won a citation in Progressive Network (TAN). As one of twentieth-century British and American liter- who completed his graduate nine TAN directors, Nancy will guide fellowship in Architecture's annual awards competition the de- ature and a course in detective and mystery physics before I started velopment of the network and of a union mine. I retired in for their design for a 450-seat proscenium fiction at the University of Northern Iowa in 1976 and this Christmas catalog of Texas's documentary resources. we met our three theater atop the Alley Theater Center garage Cedar Falls. She is writing a book on the mod- sons, their wives, and five grandchildren John C. Reynolds of Houston to building now being built in Houston. has been ern mystery novel. Hugh Miller and his celebrate Christmas and elected treasurer of the our fiftieth wedding Texas Society .wife, the former Angela Jones, have anniversary. of Architects, a regional Hall Wesley Griggs, Sr., returned to Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, William G. Pollard PhD '36 and component of the American Hall Wesley (Wes) after 13 years in Europe. Hugh is president of Oak Ridge, Tennessee 36 Griggs, Jr. Institute of Architects. '71, were both elected and Stuart Pharmaceuticals, a division of Imperial installed as fel- Reynolds has previously Ed. lows of the Texas Bar Foundation Chemical Industries PLC, Britain's largest Note: Those leery of marriage early in an recently. served as secretary, direc- The two are attorneys industrial firm. Angela has become a super academic career can take heartfrom Pollard's in the law firm of tor, first vice-president, stoty. Griggs & Griggs of West Columbia, sportswoman in both golf and tennis. Bill In addition to the accomplishments he Texas. and president of the local The father and son alumni Arhos is the vice-president for programming lists, he has workedfor the Oak Ridge Associat- have both been chapter and has been chairman of TSA's active and held office in and production for public television stations in ed Universities(ORAU), of which organization the Brazoria County Committee on Construction Administration he was principal Bar Association. Hall also served San Antonio and Austin. He has taught televi- founder, since 1946. He as city attor- and Management, Budget Study Task Force, ney for West Columbia sion production at UT and originated and is served as executive director until 1974 and is from 1946 to 1975, and Professional Development Committee. now a consultant when Wes succeeded him in the executive producer for the PBS series "Aus- for its Institute for Energy position. On the national level, Reynolds has been a Analysis. He was tin City Limits." Max Royalty and his wife, also ordained an Episcopal member of AIA's Human Resources Council priest the former Alice Carmichael '58, live in in 1954 and is the author of numerous The University of Texas has named and Committee on Architects in Commerce Lake Jackson, Texas, where Max is a dentist books and articles on the interaction of science 37a $500,000 Centennial Chair in and Industry. and Alice is a librarian in the local school sys- and religion. The auditorium ofthe new office/ Communication for Everett D. Collier, sen- tem. They have a daughter, Amy Royalty auditorium complex at ORAU has been named ior vice-president and director of the Houston Neil Havens, professor of theatre Jordan '81, and a son. Don Gee is a dentist in honor ofPollard, and his portrait and a pla- Chronicle Publishing Company. Collier was 56at Rice, recently directed a produc- in Abilene, Texas. He has ten children and five que citing his contributions to the organization editor of the Chronicle from 1965 to 1979. He tion of Lanford Wilson's Fifth ofJuly for the grandchildren. Emil Tejml and his wife, have been installed in the lobby. joined the paper's staff after serving as Rice's the Alley Theater in Houston. Havens directed former Sue Rosson, live in Bay City, correspondent during his student days. Texas, A por- the Rice Players in an earlier version of the where Emil is plant tion of the Lyndon B. Johnson manager for Celanese Deplores Editorial Pessimism Memorial play three years ago, but Wilson, whom Chemical Library in Austin Company, and Sue is city attorney is also devoted to Collier and Havens calls the best American playwright To the editor: his and president of the Matagorda Bar Associa- relationship with the former president. today, has revised the The trouble with you jounalists is that you work to the point of tion. They have three children. Shirley Dit- calling the Alley production always concentrate on the dismal side of life. a Houston prem- tert Severin married December 26. After a Dorothy Zapp Forristall-Brown, iere. Joe Steele spoke at Why don't you follow up the article on mar- the Industry of the few months in Scotland, she and her husband 39director of learning skills at Lamar Year awards banquet for the Haltom Richland riages of Rice students with another article will live in Houston. Norman Hall lives in University in Beaumont, and her husband are Area Chamber of Commerce pointing up the good news — Rice divorces? in Haltom City, Arlington, Texas, where he started a plastics the coauthors of major elements of a comput- Texas, Margie near Ft. Worth. Steele is a professor recycling business, Polymer Techniques, Burns BA '70, PhD '75 er program developed to teach efficient study of decision sciences at Texas Christian Uni- Inc., two years ago. He has two sons. After Washington, D.C. skills and effective academic attitudes to col- versity and also serves as operations research 20 years in the Navy, Bill Morgan and his lege-bound students. The ten computer advisor of the Dallas/Ft. Worth Regional wife the former Bobbie Whitehead '58 live modules and supporting exercises and tests Airport, systems simulation consultant to in Richardson, Texas. Bobbie teaches eighth will be distributed nationally beginning in the Batelle Memorian Institute, business grade and Bill works at the Ben Area Club News November. Franklin divi- research director at TCU, Texas electric sion of Household International, Inc. They AUSTIN consultant, operation advisor to the United have three children, including Leticia Mor- Harold Murphree and his wife the States Air Force, and research analyst Austin alumni met for Sunday with gan '81. Sharon Jones Bintliff has moved brunch Febru- former Gwen Cribbs '42 have General Dynamics. ary 27 at the Old 41 to Oakland, California, to launch a new career Pecan Cafe. Richard J. Smith moved from St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin of Rice's in pediatric emergency medicine. She previ- Department of history spoke on Islands back to Houston now that Harold has Over 90 classmates attended the ously practiced medicine in Hawaii. Anne and "Contemporary China." retired from Hess Oil after 11 years as assis- 57two Homecoming parties in Octo- Florence urge classmates who have not yet tant refinery manager. In his newly found ber, which featured such nostalgic moments sent in information to write and let everyone WASHINGTON, D.C. spare time, Harold plans to build a two-seat as home movies taken during the class's know where they are and what they are doing. Alums from the Washington area met for din- tandem aerobatic plane in the garage of their years at Rice by Erlene Hubly. Reporters Address information to Mrs. N. A. Brown, ner at the Jour et Nuit Restaurant March 29. home in Clear Lake City, while Gwen, who Anne Brown and Florence Helm send in 5226 Jason, Houston, Texas 77096; or Charles Garside of history spoke on "The chaired the '42 class reunion at Homecoming, the following news: Pauline Applebaum Mrs. B. L. Helm, 5219 Imogene, Houston, Humanities at Rice." will continue her public affairs consulting. Stark and her husband live in Austin and have Texas 77096. In other news, Thomas SALLYPORT - APRIL 1983 17 McKittrick of McKittrick chairman of the board of Houston's Fannin Richardson Wallace Archi- Bank, which InterFirst acquired in Decem- tects of Houston was ber, chairman of the executive committee of named 1983 president-elect Browning-Ferris Industries of Houston, and a of the Texas Society of director and former chairman of American Architects. He has served Title Co. as president of the Houston chapter of the American Institute of Archi- Barbara Long Chilton writes, tects and been a member of TSA's Architec- 61"In August when my last son left ture for Education Committee and the the nest for the University National AIA committees on Architecture for of Texas, I decided to Education and International Relations. McKit- return to my alma mater to trick was elected to the AIA College of Fel- work in the alumni office as lows in 1979 and is a member of the the assistant director. If I International Union of Architects. He is also a can be of help to any class- past president of the River Oaks Rotary Club. mate, please look me up in Robert Wilson, winner of the Nobel Prize in the Rice Memorial Center." Mary Anne physics in 1978, was quoted in Sweden's Boone Flournoy has been international magazine Sweden Now on his life living with her family on a since winning the prize. "It has had the effect farm in southeastern Ohio of my doing many more sorts of public things for the past 12 years, com- than I would have done otherwise and proba- bining a measure of self- bly slowed down the research somewhat, but sufficiency (bee-keep- I keep my research going," Wilson says. He ing, tapping maple trees, also notes that, with research financed as it is gardening, heating with wood) with the now, the prize money does not "make a big pursuit of intel ectual life. Two years ago difference to someone's research budget" as she quit her job teaching sixth grade to try Alfred Nobel may once have hoped, but "it to get funds to do international program- certainly is a very nice way to be recog- ming and is now director of international nized." Wilson works in the Bell Laboratories studies outreach programs at Ohio Uni- in Holmdel, New Jersey. versity and project director of the Cultur- al. Awareness Project funded by the Fred Erisman will begin a three- National Endowment for the Humanities. 58year appointment as chairman of Mary Anne is responsible for community pro- TCU's Department of English next fall. Fred gramming and is in the process of setting up a is the author of numerous works on western regional international council to provide ser- and detective fiction as well as on children's vices for schools, community organizations, Ace literature. He was elected to the governing and local businesses and farm groups. Barton "Kids come up and look at me and see Eddie Wold, the glamorous bridge play- board of the International Research Society Gillman, vice-president of er. And it's a great sport; you associate with billionaires. But they don't realize Frank Gillman Pontiac Co.! for Children's Literature in 1981 as its only all the study and effort I put into my game. They ask me how I do it and I tell American representative. He has been at GMC, has been elected TCU since 1965. David L. Davidson has president of the Houston them, but they don't believe me." Eddie Wold '76 is going to Stockholm with been named an institute scientist for the Automobile Dealers Asso- the United States bridge team to play in the world championship in October. Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. ciation for 1983. John E. With such prizes as the McKinney Trophy for best bridge player this year, five A recognized expert in the application of elec- Wolf, Jr., has been named national championships, and the Grand National, he has had a phenomenal tron microscopy to metallurgical problems, acting chairman of the Department of Derma- career as a professional bridge player. Yet when Eddie first came to Rice, he David has been at the institute for 20 years. tology at the Baylor College of Medicine and had never played a single hand of bridge. His career has included a year as a visiting acting chief of the dermatology service at As an undergraduate majoring in biochemistry and math, Eddie spent professor in Brazil and as a senior visiting sci- Methodist Hospital in Houston. He will also innumerable nights in the Rice bridge subculture both playing the game and entist at Oxford University in England in serve as chief of the dermatology services at reading about it. He even took a year off before graduation to play in tour- 1979. St. Lukes' Episcopal Hospital, Texas Chil- dren's Hospital, the Veterans Administration naments. Obviously, this was after Eddie discovered his talent and got hooked Samuel Denny is a partner in the Medical Center, and the on winning. He won the first tournament he played (with PhD candidate Jim 59Ft. Worth law firm of Snakard, Harris County Hospital Dis- Stevenson), and the winning streak has never really stopped in the eleven Brown, and Gambill. He has two children , trict. Now involved in years of Eddie's professional career. and serves as president of several civic research on the pharmacol- Before he entered that first tournament, Eddie Wold did not even know that organizations. ogy of and growth of blood some people made a living — sometimes a very good one — playing bridge pro- vessels in the skin, Wolf is fessionally. Then he saw the variety of people competing and realized he could John W. Lamer writes that he has also recognized for his work easily become one of them. Although almost all the players were older and 60moved to Altoona, Pennsylvania, in the history of medicine, particularly derma- more experienced than Eddie, they were not necessarily as perceptive of where he teaches part time at Pennsylvania ology. He is historian of the Texas Dermato- character and strategy as he was, and he knew that he could find clients — peo- ogical Society, chairman of the committee on State University's Altoona campus. He is also ple who would pay expenses and perhaps more for him to play as their partner project coordinator for the American Histori- history of the American Academy of Derma- cal Association's recent National Endowment tology, and a member of the American Associ- —as well as the next person. for the Humanities grant to strengthen the ation of Medical History. He has taught at the Eddie won more and more games, and demand for him from prospective cli- teaching of constitutional history in high Baylor College of Medicine since 1973. Jon ents increased. After the trial year he took off from his studies at Rice, he schools and is completing a microfilm edition Abmeyer has been named manager of Con- knew that he could make a comfortable living playing the game. His parents of the papers of Carlos Montezuma, an early tiCommodity Services of Houston, a world- were "not too enthralled" with the idea, Eddie recalls, but he did return to twentieth-century Yavapai physician and wide futures brokerage. Jon joined the Rice to get his degree before making the final plunge into professional card American Indian rights leader. John was company in 1980 after over a decade of expe- playing. previously chairman of the Department of rience in the commodities industry. Now 31, Eddie is at the peak of his form years earlier than most of the com- Social Sciences at Klein Forest High petition. Like many professional athletes, he travels across the United States Robert L. Collett is a principal and School. Mary Lou Henry, and around the world, to all sorts of exotic locations, for competition. But vice-president of Vernon 62consulting actuary with Milliman Henry & Associates, Inc., a and Robertson, Inc., in Houston. He was unlikea tennis or basketball star, a bridge professional does not need physical Houston planning, consult- elected to the company's board of directors in prowess to be at the top of his career; he needs experience. Eddie gathered ing, and landscape architec- 1976 and presented a paper at the Twenty- much of the necessary experience vicariously, reading through hand-by-hand ture firm, has been elected First International Congress of Actuaries in replays of world championship games. He says knowledge, concentration, and national vice-chairman of Switzerland in 1980. Robert was also presi- memory are important to playing a good game of bridge, but experience is the the American Institute of Certified Planners. dent of the Actuaries Club of the Southwest in real key to success. Eddie's reading and studying — "the same skills I used for Donald P. Sharp, Jr., is an assistant profes- 1976 and is involved in various civic activities. studying chemistry" — gave him the understanding he needed to succeed at sor at North Texas State University. He Philip N. Holt joined Consumers Power such a young age. recently earned a PhD in computer science Company in Midland, Michigan, as a planning "Rice teaches a person how to study. You need to know what to study and from Georgia Tech. The father of three, Don- and scheduling administrator at the Midland then do it," Eddie says, crediting his alma mater with more than just introduc- ald also holds an MBA from the University Nuclear Power Plant. Roberta Thompson of Pennsylvania and enjoys golf in his Manning is the author of The Crisis ofthe Old ing him to the pastime that was to become his profession. Rice gave him the spare time. Larry H. Stewart has Order in Russia: Gently and Government, means to improve his strategy and to develop his talent. During his college been elected vice-president published in January by the Princeton Univer- years Eddie pursued bridge with a great deal of energy — energy many of the Western Hemisphere sity Press. The book studies the "fateful con- classmates spent on academia. Marine Structures Division flicts within the Russian upper classes during "I'm very dogmatic about things I get into," Eddie says, adding that he of Brown & Root, based in and after the first Russian revolution of loves the fast-paced life of a professional bridge player. So although he taught Houston. He has previously 1905." Roberta is an associate professor at calculus at a military academy in Georgia for a year after graduation, he does managed the company's Boston College. Donald F. Rose has been not market his knowledge of biochemistry and mathematics; he doesn't need two Texas offshore plat- made a partner in the architectural firm Dud- to. But Eddie Wold has still made good use of his Rice education in his rise to form fabrication yards, the Greens Bayou ley and Associates_ of Waco, Texas. Roy A. fame and glory in the esoteric world of championship bridge. Marine Yard in Houston and Harbor Island Seaberg has been reappointed to a three- Aransas, and worked year term as director-at-large of the Farm Fabrication Yard in Port Lunt around the world since joining the company in Credit Banks of Texas. Living in Huffman, — Lucy 1965. Louis A. Waters was recently elected Texas, he is a partner in a family farming oper- a director of the InterFirst Corporation. He is ation and is coowner of a seed company, an 18 SALLYPORT APRIL 1983 agricultural implement dealership, and a study of the dynamics involved in a juried associated with earthquakes. Alan Rufus ber as labor and litigation counsel. The Hous- gravel company. He is the father of four. architectural competition. The study, "Anat- Waters (PhD) was sworn in as chief econo- ton-based health care management firm omy of a Competition: Urban Design for mist and director of the Office of Economic owns, leases, and manages hospitals and den- Milwaukee's Carol Childress married in July. Lakefront," seeks to help other Affairs, Agency for International Develop- tal laboratories. Rabbi Daniel Horwitz has 63After a six-week honeymoon in Afri- cities conduct better competitions and make ment(AID) in Washington, D.C., February 3. been named general chairman of the 1983 ca, the couple returned to Galveston where better use of competition results. Farmer Waters has been granted a leave of absence United Jewish Campaign in Galveston County. Carol is director of the Island Montessori won one of 26 awards made from among 1,040 from the University of Dallas, where he The leader of Congregation Beth Jacob, entries. School. An article on Tom J. Fatjo, Jr., Psychologist Judy Getz Weiser teaches in the Graduate School of Manage- Horwitz has also served as treasurer and recently appeared in the Christian Science runs the PhotoTherapy Centre in Vancouver, ment and directs the International Manage- vice-president of the Galveston Ministerial British Monitor. The garbage service kingpin and Columbia. The first of its kind, the ment MBA Program. In the new post he will Association. He married last June in Houston. advisor to President Reagan on physical fit- center helps clients learn about themselves write economic analyses of world trade and Michael Johnston has moved to Austin with ness is called "one of the members of the new through their reactions to photographs. development prospects, and direct a depart- his wife and 18-month-old son. Michael teach- Judy's generation of Texas entrepreneurs." Tom work has received extensive media ment of 125 economists working with AID es math in the Austin School District. Susan began in 1966 with a $500 investment and a coverage, including articles in USA Today, funding proposals and doing project analysis. Larson is the coauthor of several Silhouette Maclean down payment on a garbage truck and built 's, and Life. John A. Booth has published The End and romance novels, including Silver Promises, Browning-Ferris Industries, which has reve- the Beginning: The Nicaraguan Revolution which she promoted at a Houston bookstore nues of $661 million. The Houston resident David J. Cohen writes that he is with the Westview Press of Boulder, Colora- on Valentine's Day. Larson and her partner has also run in seven Boston Marathons and is 68an assistant professor of surgery at do. John says the book is "based on research write under the pseudonym Suzanne the now chairman of The Houstonian, a posh Uniformed Services University of the done while in Costa Rica as a Fulbright Lec- Michelle. George Stewart (PhD) runs the Health health club, hotel, clinic, and conference cen- Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, and a turer at the National University's School of Phoenix Bird Rehabilitation Center in Arling- cardiothoracic ter. Mary Ann Miller Sullivan writes class surgeon at Walter Reed Hospi- International Relations, 1979-1980. I am still ton, Texas, and he credits it all to a project he tal. David, 'chairman Kathleen Much that she received his wife, and their five sons enjoy an associate professor of political science started at Rice in 1972 — raising barn owls to Washington, her doctorate in English from Ohio State over D.C., but are moving back to at the University of Texas-San Antonio." prey on Rice's pesky blackbirds. George and San Antonio ten years ago and is now a professor of Eng- early this year after David is Carlleen Groves Williams was recently his wife accept injured birds from across the transferred lish and art history at Bluffton College in Ohio. to Brooke Army Hospital. "I am certified by the American Board of United States (including, not coincidentally, looking Mary Ann is spending the spring '83 semester forward to seeing many old Rice Ophthalmology. She practices at the Rugeley an owl they named Rice), up to 350 at a time, friends," on sabbatical in Florence, Italy, continuing he says. David also gives an update & Blasingame Clinic in Wharton, Texas. and house them in cages in their back yard and graduate study in art history. on two classmates: William P. Vaughan is Thomas K. Gaylord (PhD), professor of in two other locations, then nurse them back an assistant professor of medicine at Johns electrical engineering at the Georgia Institute to health. A pet project for the future is to Hopkins, where he does leukemia research. of Douglas Harlan has quit his law Technology in Atlanta, was recently elected start a bald eagle breeding and rehabilitation He is the father of three. And Jo Ellen Bain a fellow practice in San Antonio and decided of the Institute of Electrical and Elec- center, but more money and property are 64 '71 has married and is Jo Ellen Pillsbury; she tronic to see if he can expand the base of his local Engineers and a fellow of the Optical needed. George also teaches biology at the lives in Natick, Massachusetts. She writes, Society newspaper column and make a living writing. of America. He was cited "for contri- University of Texas-Arlington. Harris "I am adjusting well to becoming a first-time butions "I may starve trying, but at least I'll be a lot to the fields of grating diffraction, opti- Forbes and Kay Preston '75 were married mother at age 36 and am happier than I was practicing on a temporary leave cal data storage and processing, and electrical January 8 in the Rice Faculty Club "after a law," Doug from Eastern says. Airlines. Come visit us if you're engineering education" by the IEEE, and brief courtship," Kay writes. The Forbeses near Atlanta." Patricia Lesko, a research "for contributions to grating diffraction analy- "are presently living in Bellaire, but have just scientist at Rohn Haas Company, has been sis, solid state holography, optical processing, bought a new home in West University and Cary Wayne Cooper (PhD) has selected to receive the company's Otto Haas and optics education" by the OSA. soon will be moving closer to the campus. 65moved to Galveston from Chapel Award for 1982, recogniz- Harris is working at Applebaum & Company, Hill, North Carolina. James Orr Bryant ing her outstanding per- Roger W. Roitsch announces a and Kay is a tax manager with Arthur Ander- (MS) has moved from Edwardsville, Illinois, formance and achievement. career change: he resigned in July sen & Company." to Gainesville, Georgia. Dale Particularly, Patricia is 1 L. McCleary from his position as vice-president of the Fed- and William P. Z. German, III, being commended for her are presi- eral Intermediate Credit Bank after an 11- Tom Berg has been appointed dent and vice-president, respectively, contributions to under- of year career with the agricultural lender to 74 assistant federal public defender for McCleary Associates, Inc., standing the effect of syn- an architectural found Roitsch Properties, a ranch and farm the Southern District of Texas. He lives in firm that has provided architectural he si s variables on polymer adhesive services brokerage in Houston. "The purpose of Houston. "I am defending 'citizens accused' to over 60 banks and financial performance. She lives in Lansdale, institutions in resigning was to take a bold step into the free of high crimes in the federal courts while the Houston area. The bank boom in Houston Pennsylvania. world — private business," Roger says, but working on an article for publication on alien has increased the number of banks chartered "it remains to be seen whether I'll meet with smuggling and the Fourth Amendment," Tom from 11 in the 1960s, to 47 in the Robert 1970s, to an Campbell Coale has success." W. F. "Buddy" Trotter, Jr., says. "Come visit even if not under indict- estimated 46 in 1983 alone, and the growth 69moved to Doylestown, Pennsylva- writes,"Fm a director of the newly chartered ment." Jim Asker, a reporter for the Hous- has kept business booming at McCleary nia, from Princeton, Asso- New Jersey. Peter I.- National Bank in Sealy, Texas. We're shoot- ton Post, reviewed A Histm of Rice ciates. The firm was recently written Karp (MArch) up in moved to Knoxville, Tennes- ing for an opening date sometime in the mid- University: The Institute Years, 1907-1963for both the Houston Chronicle and the Houston see, in 1977 to work for an architectural firm summer of this year. This was the first bank the paper. "The book serves as a scrapbook Business Journal. Barbara and Beasley Olsen teach part time at the University of Ten- chartered in Texas this year." as well as a study of one of Houston's unique and her husband Edgar 0. Olsen '68(PhD) nessee until 1979, when he founded Karp institutions," Jim says. Harold L. Platt have moved from Charlottesville, Virginia, to Associates, Inc., Architects and Consultants (PhD) has published City Building in the New John Ratcliffe says, "After sev- Madison, Wisconsin. in Architectural Programming. The firm has South: The Growth ofPublic Services in Hous- eral years of traveling, I ran into completed several commercial and restora- 72 ton, Texas, 1830-1915 with the Temple Press. tion projects in the Knoxville Jimmy J. Reed. Together we have formed Merritt Ruhlen became the father area and has a The work grew out of Harold's dissertation at full time staff of twelve. Howard an engineering consulting firm specializing in of identical twin boys in April, 1982. P. Smith Rice. He is now an associate professor of his- 66 writes, "Since joining Zale Corporation defense-related work. We're particularly It isn't the first time the Ruhlen family has in tory at Loyola University in Chicago. Doug- April 1980 as manager of the corporate interested in hearing from Phil Keener '74, seen double: Merritt has a twin sister of his credit las E. Crowell, a teacher in Texas Tech's center, I have been part of the management Brad Morris, and other Lovett alums. Alan own — fellow alum Marian Ruhlen Johns. creative writing program, has received a team working on the centralization and Reed Shaw and his wife, the former Penny William Broyles, Jr., editor-in-chief of auto- $12,500 grant from the National Endowment mation of the credit service provided to Kay Parker '73, moved to Carouge, Swit- Newsweek, has stayed in the national head- Zale for the Arts to write a novel. He has previous- customers and stores. In May zerland, from New York City. lines recently. He was featured in SALLYPORT 1981 a subsidi- ly published a novel and several short stories ary corporation, Jewelers Financial Services, and the Washington Journalism Review this and poems, and recently earned his doctorate Inc., was formed. As part of the reorganiza- winter, and now articles on Broyles and his Elwood Vogt was elected presi- in English from the State University of New tion, I was designated director of credit oper- dent plans for the magazine have also appeared in 73 of the board of directors of the York at Buffalo. Crowell says his novel ations. In February 1983 I was promoted Palo Pinto the Wall Street Journal, New Republic, and to Community Playhouse in Mineral "attempts to explore the connections USA Today. vice-president of JFS Field Services." Wells, Texas, in January. He is manager of between writing/violence/voyeurism (prying marketing services for the Perry Equipment observation)/intimacy and knowing." He will Barbara D. Boyan has been Company. Michael P. Webster writes, take a leave Of absence in 1983-84 to write the Paul Robison, Jr., sends an 70selected an Outstanding Young "After six years in architecture and three book. Forrest N. Johnson is now managing update on the last 15 years: 67 after Woman of America for 1982. The award years working for a major real estate develop- editor of Softalk, a personal computer maga- graduation he married and entered the Air honors and encourages exceptional women ment firm, I have opened my own business, zine published in North Hollywood, California, Force, where he was a navigator in air refuel- between the ages of 21 and 36, who have dis- the Webster Company, in-Houston, for the where Forrest lives'. Dave Lamar sends in ing tankers with the Strategic Air Command. tinguished themselves in their homes, their purpose of real estate management and devel- his first classnote since graduation, promising "I served 11 months in Southeast Asia, get- professions, and their communities. Barbara opment. My free time is primarily devoted to try to keep better in touch in the future: ting in over 100 combat missions," Paul teaches periodontics at the University of Tex- to family activities (we have twins), occas- "Since I left Rice I've been working for writes. "We returned to Houston in early as Health Science Center in San Antonio. sional racquetball and golf, and reading." McDonnell Douglas, a space shuttle contrac- 1974, going to work in public accounting with Greg Williams is the new director of athlet- I. Jay Aarons was married February 12. tor for NASA. I've had the good fortune to a national firm. I passed the CPA in November ic marketing at Southern Methodist Universi- John I. Allen received the 1982 work on every shuttle flight so far, and have 1974 and stayed public for about six years. I ty. A basketball star at Rice, Williams served J. Jacob Kaplan Award from been assigned to work on flights six and sev- am now working for a prominent oil operator as an assistant coach here for four years the Minnesota Medical en. I've helped train every crew for flight in Houston and enjoying it very much. We before coaching women's professional bas- Foundation for his research since STS-4. I think they are going to let me have three children. I was ordained a perma- ketball in Houston and Dallas. Russell in colon cancer. John's off for flight eight, so I'm planning on going to nent deacon in the Roman Catholic Church in Brown (PhD) is the new head of the work involves characteriz- Florida to see that one, a night launch. In addi- May 1982 after three years of evening semi- Department of Civil Engi- ing surface antigens of tion, I'll be doing some technical consulting nary study, and I am assigned to a parish in neering at Clemson Univer- colon cancer cells using and proofreading for the contract that Rice southeast Houston, St. Luke the Evangelist. sity. A registered profes- monoclonal antibodies. He is a gastroenterol- just won from NASA to write the comprehen- Both Linda and I are very active in the parish sional engineer in five ogy fellow at the University of Minnesota sive chronology of the space shuttle ,pro- and enjoy the role of service very much. We states, Brown taught at the Medical School, conducting his research at gram." John Sigwald has moved to Sioux do seem to keep busy, and the children are University of Houston and the Veteran's Administration Medical Center City, Iowa, from Austin. Pat Reiff (PhD), such a joy." W.Paul Farmer and his partner Georgia Tech before com- in Minneapolis. The $1,500 award is the larg- assistant professor and assistant chairman in have won an award in the thirtieth annual Pro- ing to Clemson in 1977. His research inter- est prize for research given by a University of Rice's Department of Space Physics and gressive Architecture Awards Program, spon- ests include structural materials, particularly Minnesota source each year. Randall N. Astronomy, was featured in a recent article in sored by the professional magazine, for their concrete and masonry, and building problems Finley joined Lifemark Corporation in Octo- the Houston Digest that described her as the SALLYPORT - APRIL 1983 19 "quintessential Houstonian: frank, young, includes the Houston Ship Channel, the Uni- Robert Bryan Russell writes that eager, and able, with a handful of business versity of Houston, and Hobby Airport. 80he is a first year student in the mas- cards indicating dozens of specialities." In ter of accountancy program at the University H Memoriam addition to her work at Rice, Pat is a member of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. David Rus- of the Center for Space Physics, an owner of Dan C. Steiner married October sell and his wife had a baby girl in June in Ft. William H. Masterson '35 of Austin on Wind-Power Systems, Inc., a navigator with 7723, 1982. "She's a 'Hook 'em Meade, Maryland, where David is an electri- March 3, 1983, in an accident with his car at her sailing group, and second term president Horns,' but we sit on the Rice side at football cal engineer with the Army. The Russells his home. A member of the history faculty of the Citizens Environmental games," Dan Coalition. She writes. "Looking forward to expected to move "to Georgia and beyond" from 1948 to 1966, Masterson had a career at is also the wife of Thomas Hill '67. the upcoming seventh annual Chelsea Roast early in 1983. James Ian Carrie married Rice including service as assistant to the pres- this summer." David Christopher Blyth and moved to Boston, where he and his wife ident, as the first master of Hanszen College has moved from Boulder, Colorado, to Provo, have jobs as software engineers with Culli- and one of the founders of Rice's college sys- Stephen B. Bowling (PhD) has Utah. David Bize, who is married to the for- nane Database Systems. He send "a big 'hel- been tem, and as dean of humanities. He left in 75 appointed a group leader in the mer Marion Petefish '78, writes, "I have lo' from Yankeeland!" With his eye on the radar division at the Lincoln Laboratory of the 1966 to become president of the University of completed my service with the Navy and have 1984 Olympic marathon in Los Angeles, Mar- Chattanooga, the first Rice graduate to be a Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Con- taken a job with Texas Utilities at their corpo- ty Froelick decided to leave his post as centrating on radar university president. The position changed to signature analysis and rate headquarters in Dallas." David, Marion, financial planning analyst with First City metric measurement, Stephen finds his chancellor when the school became the Uni- and their daughter find people in Dallas "very Banks in Houston to enter training. Marty versity of Tennessee-Chattanooga in 1969. In responsibilities expanded to include technical friendly, even if we are from Houston. I will established several SWC records as a mem- management and February 1969 Masterson was named by data processing for several say that it will be hard giving up our Oiler T- ber of Rice's track team. He recently took sensors Rice's Board of Governors to replace Ken- fielded at the Kwajalein Missile shirts." David gives the following update on third place in his first competitive marathon, Range in the Marshall Islands. Charlie Rob- neth Pitzer as president, but after emphatic classmates: "Karl Olin and Anne Murdoch the 1983 Houston-Tenneco event in January, protests by faculty and students that the inson and his wife the former Debby Pal- Shipps had their first child in September. with a time of 2:12:47. mero '78 announce the board had ignored their advice in making the birth of their fifth Karl is still in the Navy, on a fellowship study- child in August. The selection, he declined the appointment and Robinsons live in Katy, ing for an advanced degree in physics in Texas, where Charlie remained at Chattanooga, where he was chan- works for CPSI, travel- Hamburg, Germany. I am looking for Larry Charles Richard Hodges and his ing the world as an oil and gas consultant. wife, the former Linda Slider '82, cellor until his return to teaching in 1972. Houth of Sid Richardson fame. I have written 81 Masterson moved to Austin in 1979 when he Debby trains for local running events; she him but have not received any response." have moved from Chicago to Fremont, Cali- recently took a second in the New Year's Day fornia. Mary Lee Adams graduated in Au- retired from UTC. He taught part-time at St. Fun Run. Gaylyn Cooper is running for the gust from the American Graduate School of Edwards University and was on the staff of the LBJ Library. position of full-time trustee of the South Park An exhibit of paintings by Fernan- International Management with a master's in Independent School District in Beaumont, 78do Casas (PhD) is in Houston's international management. She has accepted Donald I. Wood, chairman of the Depart- Texas. He resigned from his job as assistant Toni Jones Gallery through April 6. Titled a position at the Instituto Superior de Agricul- ment of Education, on March 5, 1983. A district attorney for Jefferson County to set "Four-Dimensional Realism," the show tura in Santiago, Dominican Republic, where member of the faculty since 1961, Wood was up a private practice that allows him to devote attempts to demonstrate Fernando's theories she will write cases in agricultural manage- largely responsible for the establishment and his energy to the school district, Gaylyn says. about visual representation of how "four ment. Roy Klose is an electrical engineer growth of Rice's summer school for high The Beaumont Enterprise quotes him as say- dimensions constitute the reality of our uni- with General Dynamics in Fort Worth. He school students. The former staff member of ing his main goal is to "bridge the communica- verse," on which topic he has published arti- enjoys working with other engineers to the National Education Association wrote tion gap" that divides the three neigh- cles in the art journal Leonardo. The show improve the microprocessor-controlled ultra- extensively on student activities in secondary borhoods of the district. Mary S. Degnan also includes a video documentary about sonics nondestructive testing system under schools. Survivors include son Michael Wood writes that she finally received her MBA Casas, a native of Bolivia who has won several development. He is also active in many '81. from Houston Baptist University early in intramural sports at General Dynamics. Joel art prizes in that country. The press release Helen Barber Gray '18 of Lincoln, Nebras- 1982. "I took a new job in June with Helena for Breazeale is the publicity chairman for the Fernando's show was prepared by Bruce ka, on September 27, 1982; Robert H. Laboratories as the advertising manager after Leutwyler'79 of Houston's Eidos Fine Art, Houston Astronomical Society. The HAS will seven years with my original employer. hold Astronomy Day 1983 on the Rice campus Waterman '24 of Oklahoma City on January Inc. Christopher J. Lahart has moved to a 27, 1983 (survivors include son Harold W. Unfortunately, I had to leave Houston for new address in Houston. He writes, "Does April 23. Sharon L. Schmidt will marry in Beaumont, but the opportunities that my May. She and her future husband are chem- Waterman '57); Rosa Pomerantz Rosen- anyone know what Mike Lammers is doing berg '27 of Houston in August 1982 (survi- present job offers are well worth the sacrifice. and where he is doing it?" Mark Mlcak and ists with Shilstone Engineering Testing Labs I've just purchased my first real home — and in Houston. Michael Petry is working in vors include son Adrian Rosenberg '53); his wife, the former Kimberlee Lowe have Frank Fisher Reynolds'28 of Houston on there's NO TRAFFIC here!!" After six and a moved from San Antonio to Wichita Falls, London. His latest effort — art jewelry — is half years as a staff scientist for a company in being exhibited at the Electrum Gallery in January 12, 1983 (survivors include daughter Texas, where Mark is in his first year of a fam- Jane Reynolds Lindsey '55; sons Fisher Rey- Heidelberg, Germany, Jim Jordan (PhD)is ily practice residency while Kimberlee stays London, then will move to Germany. In June now an assistant professor at Lamar Universi- he will dance at festivals in Munich and Inns- nolds, Jr., '59, Norman T. Reynolds '61, and at home taking care of the couple's two Richard V. Reynolds '64; and brother Vining ty in Beaumont, Texas, where he recently children. bruck. Friends can write Michael at the gave a public lecture on the solar system. Jim American Express office in London. T. Reynolds '32); Ewing J. Newton '28 of has written many articles on his specialty, Houston in September 1982; Elizabeth cosmochemistry. Stephen W. Curson Heath '30 of Houston; Evelyn Stafford Richard F. Lawson is currently (PhD), assistant dean of engineering at the Susan Biela Reinhard married Yorty Nichols '31 of Houston in January enrolled in the Harvard Business University of Texas-El Paso, has been chosen 79 January 22 and moved to Leander, 1983; Albert T. Dickey '33 of Houston on School. Robert David Maresh is a freshman 82 to receive the American Society for Metals Texas. She works for IBM in Austin and has February 21, 1983; Marian Moursund at Texas A & M Medical School in Bryan in (ASM) Bradley Stoughton Award for Young run into Juan Zalles '81, who also works for Holke '35 of Houston (survivors include hus- 1982-83. Carol A. Mossman (MA) has Teachers of Metallurgy for 1983. The award IBM. Susan Warme writes, "I am in my band William Holke '32); Donald E. Nor- moved from Houston to Austin. Alan E. IS not the first for Stafford, who in 1980 was first year of veterinary school at Washington gaard '36 of Mountain View, California; Hirschfield (MARU) was selected by the named one of 12 recipients nationally of the State University." She lives in Issaquah, Louis Caldarera, Jr. '36 of Houston on Hebrew Academy of Houston as the architect Dow Chemical Outstanding Young Faculty Washington. Scott B. Relf moved from January 10, 1983; Gus M. Borgstrom, Jr. for a planned $300,000 expansion of its facili- Award. Stafford will receive the ASM award, Houston to Ft. Rucker, Alabama, in January. '38 of Houston on February 4, 1983; James ties. Alan teaches architecture at the Univer- which includes an honorarium of $2,000, at Jim Hagberg(MMus) was musical director M. Wilson '39 of Conroe, Texas (survivors sity of Houston. Susan Mezynski the Metals Congress in Philadelphia next for a recent production of Man ofLa Mancha include wife Kathryn Turbeville Wilson '38); Fratamico writes, "I was married January 1 October. He has taught at UTEP since 1976. at the Brazosport Music Theater in Clute, Suzanne Stevens Miller '76 (MA) of in New Jersey. After three and a half years Michael Ytterberg married in November. Texas. He also serves as director of the Bra- Houston- on December 26, 1982 (survivors with Bell Laboratories there, I have moved Steve Shannon (MA) is seriously ill at his zosport Community Orchestra. include husband David C. Miller '71). across country and am now working for San home in Houston. Friends can write or visit Diego Gas and Electric Company. San Diego Steve at 2010 Winrock #801, Houston 77057 living certainly agrees with us!" Sue Wittie or call 780-2892. and her ideas on time management were CLASSNOTES. Enjoy keeping up with your friends and classmates in the Classnote sec- recently featured in the Houston Post. Sue tion? Why not return the favor — drop us a line and a (preferably black and white) photo at P.O. James Guenter of Garland, Tex- teaches a class on time management while Box 1892, Houston, Texas 77251. 76 as, writes, "things have finally got- working on finishing her law degree at the CI Married? D New Job? LI New Baby? ten back to normal after a minor epidemic of University of Houston, serving as a law clerk D Promoted? El Take a Trip? 1=1 Run into a Classmate? porcine equinosa that claimed several prize during the day, and getting married in March. LI Moved? D Back in School? LI Other? sows." Jacqueline Beatty Queen has She also recently started her own business — moved from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to a temporary employment agency for law Send us details: Philadelphia. Paul Jeffrey Hutter has clerks. "The first things you have to give up is moved from Milpitas, California, to Manhat- the idea of perfection," Sue says. She recom- tan, Kansas. Scot Martin received his Mas- mends a list-keeping system as "an important ter of Divinity degree from Trinity Seminary tool" toward getting organized. H. Sunny in Chicago last June and has been looking for Aparicio, an account executive with Von work with a church. He writes that he has Haller and Robbins, Inor, in Nashua, New seen Howard and Claire Graf Ludwig Hampshire, has come to the "executive '75/'78, who live in California, and Greg'75 scene" after a career in counseling was pre- and Dana Tanner Benesh, who live in maturely terminated "due to a glut of mental Waco, where Greg teaches physics at Baylor. health professionals in this area." He and his Nancy Overman McNeil has moved from wife have also opened a small translating and New Orleans to Bellaire, Texas. Peter linguistic consulting firm, and have long-range Armato was recently hired by the East goals "to establish a psychoeducational/man- End Progress Association agement consulting firm in the Southwest (EEPA) of Houston as its specializing in Chicano issues." Michael first executive director. In Edwards is a new member of the Jefferson his new position, Armato is County district attorney's misdemeanor trial Name Class responsible for implement- division in Beaumont, Texas. He received his Address( New?) ing projects to revitalj7e the license to practice law in November and joined East End of Houston, which the DA's office the same month. Don't think the action's over just because you've graduated from Rice; stay around for the second feature. That sheepskin and Rice ring are tickets of admission to one of the most exclusive shows in town. Your friends, classmates, and fellow alumni—some of the most interesting people you're likely to meet—welcome you to the Association of Rice Alumni.

/tsi lid vii ‘(if The Alumni Association is holding a free barbeque for the Class of '83 April 28. " For details contact the alumni office on the second floor of the RMC.