Alibi of a Civilization Recent scholarly books have maintained that America's rela- SALLYPORT Fall 1989, Vol. 46, No. 1 tively late military involvement in World War II was due to a lack of knowledge about the events that were occurring within Editor the Third Reich. On the centennial of Adolf Hitler's birth, Suzanne Johnson historian Francis L. Loewenheim talks about how much Assistant Editor America and Great Britain knew—and when they knew it. Maggi Stewart Contributing and Staff Writers Contents Mimi Crossley Golden Years on the Silver Screen Lisa Gray '88 13 Timothy Moloney '90 One hundred years ago began the escalation of the develop- Cover photo by Tommy LaVergne Bill Noblitt ment of motion picture technology, a technology whose Keith Watson impact on social and cultural life has been immeasurable. Steven Zenner '89 Sallyport looks at the development of the movie form, talks Editorial Assistants Jay Fitzgerald '91 to Rice professors about how scholarly disciplines have been Sue Kim '90 treated on film, and takes a look behind the scenes with Batman screenwriter Warren Art Director Skaaren. Jeff Cos

Graphic Designers Life Corinne Zeutzius on the EDGE 20 Michael Sawyers From the bottom of the ocean to the outer reaches of space, Mary Owens '90 Rice professor Manik Talwani is involved in special mapping Photographer projects through NASA's Magellan Probe to Venus and Tommy LaVergne through the NSF-funded EDGE Program. Officers of the Association of Rice Alumni President. Bridget Rote Jensen '53 President-Elect. Louis Spaw Jr. '40 1st Vice President. Karen Hess Rogers '68 2nd Vice President, Carolyn Heafer Woodruff '6S graduate students. Because my parents abroad to a changed country. It took me Treasurer. Homer Borgstedt '57 Past President. J.D. (class of '37) were involved in the 1.I.E. several years to find my place. Those years Bucky Alkhouse '69 Executive Director, Susan Baker '78 host family program for foreign students at were painful because all my old assump- Rice, I was exposed to much more contact tions about "what I would do when I grew Association Committee on Publications with this segment of the campus popula- up" were challenged by everything that Bridget Rote Jensen '53, ex officio. tion than were most of my classmates. was going on around me. Association of Rice Alunini As a German major I was able to read In spite of that pain, I would not ex- Susan Baker '78, ex officio. Association of Rice Alumni German passably but certainly never spoke change the experience in Brazil for any- Lynda L. Crist '67. chair it with any degree of conviction or ability, thing. Like theforeign students at Rice de- John Boles '65 and didn't have a sense that it was any- scribed in your articles, I would do it all Hardy Bourland thing other than an academic pursuit. I say again. What disturbs me about the Ameri- Charles Brachi '69 that not to fault the faculty of the German can Rice students who went abroad is that Kent E. Dove department; it is more a reflection of my they convey no sense that they have come Sue Fernandez own innocence at that time. back with an altered vision of the world Helen Lawrence-Toombs '79 In spite of all these influences, I man- and their place in it. Perhaps the glimpse Fred Murray '72 Bill aged somehow to graduate from Rice of each one that you offered was too brief Noblitt lkaveling Commentary Bill Pannill '62 fairly oblivious to any sense of global is- for that to surface; perhaps their time away Dee Pipes '78 The Summer 1989 issue of the Sallyport sues or concerns. from the U.S. was too brief to challenge B.C. Robison '63 arrived today, and I read with interest the And then I joined the Peace Corps, was their views about our country; perhaps Linda Sylvan '73 articles trained for three months in Vermont, and they were not as naive as I was at 21; per- on the "Global Classroom" theme. Alumni Governors The timing was especially fortuitous, as spent two years in Brazil. During training I haps they are still processing the effects ot learned enough Portuguese to have a start- their travels and can't yet articulate how Joyce Pounds Hardy '45 tomorrow morning I will drive my 18- Jerry McClesky '56 ing place once I landed in the real world of they been changed. year-old daughter to New York City to be- have But I still find Carolyn Douglas Devine '52 gin her college career. With the approach a tiny country town in the interior of Bra- something missing in their reactions to Paula Meredith Mosle '52 of this event my thoughts have been fo- zil. I grew a great deal in the next two their experiences that I think Rice needs to by cused on her education, my education, and years, and still regard them as the most pay some attention to. Sallyport (USPS 412950) is published quarterly Univer- how each of us has been served so far by formative ones in my education. I will As I send my oldest child off to college, the Association of Rice Alumni and Rice those experiences. readily concede that my previous school- I find myself wishing that her next four sity, and is sent free to all university alumni. Par- ents of students and Second-class postage I share the belief...expressed ing, including four years at Rice, gave me years could provide her with an experience friends. in the in- paid at Houston, Texas. troduction to the pieces about Rice stu- the tools to survive and grow in those two like the one I had after college. I think she years. But as for time spent that truly is fairly well prepared academically to deal dents away from their native countries, equal changed my life, I count the two years with whatever she finds at her school, but I William Marsh Rice University offers that an international experience is an in- opportunity to all applicants without regard to spent outside the United States as the be- would like to know that part of the time valuable part of an education. For reasons race, color, sex, age, national or ethnic origin, or that are not entirely clear to me now, Rice ginning of my education. could be spent in exposure to other peoples physical handicap. had little to do with my international edu- I had no idea how much I had grown of the world in ways that could change her and changed in that time until I came back vision of herself and her country. She has Editorial offices for Sallyport are located in the cation. Much more influential, obviously, for to this country. That was in September of certainly grown up hearing both of her par- Office of University Relations, Allen Center was my two-year Peace Corps service im- S. rvilir 1969; I had been away during the assassi- ents carry on about the importance to them Business Activities. Rice University. 6100 mediately following graduation in 1967. St., Houston, TX. address: P.O. Box 1892. nations of Martin Luther King and Robert of the Peace Corps experience much more Mailing I don't remember if study abroad was Houston, TX 77251. even an option during my undergraduate Kennedy, the 1968 Chicago Democratic than she has heard about our Rice educa- career. I was certainly aware of numerous convention, Woodstock and any number of tions. Postmaster: Send address changes to Sallyport. foreign students on campus, mostly as other events that we now remember as I don't expect a trade school education Office of University Relations, Rice University. having been cultural and political turning from an institution like Rice or from the P.O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251. points. So I came back from my sojourn (continued on page 35.) 1989 Association of Rice Alumni. Page 2/FALL 1989 And history's Richard Smith, an Ira Gruber, History: expert on China, left it to you, the Napoleon (1927-French) reader, to analyze his favorites—Mid- The Battle of Culloden night Cowboy, Bambi, Annie Hall and Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned S Baghdad Cafe."The common thread," to Stop Worrying and Love the he says, "is, I am sure, obvious." Bomb (1964-British) S Herein, the Professorial Viewing Barry Lyndon (1975-British) Guide... Babette's Feast(1987 -Danish) S Kathleen Beckingham, Thomas W. Hill, Space Physics: S Biochemistry: Casablanca (1942) Local Hero (1983-British) Citizen Kane (1941) Chinatown (1974) The Riddle of the Sands(1979 - British) Don C. Benjamin, Religious Studies: Airplane!(1980) S Profs on Film: A Thousand Clowns(1965) The Rice Viewers Guide Donald Huddle, Economics: S In surveying faculty members for their Peter Brown, Art and Art History One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) opinions on how the film industry has (Photography): Annie Hall(1977) treated their fields of expertise, Sally- Fellini's Amarcord (1974-Italian) Rear Window (1954) port also threw in a last-ditch ques- t Scenesfrom a Marriage (1973- S ion—what are your own favorite Sarah Burnett, Psychology: Swedish) movies? We expected the responses to Love and Death (1975) vary from a few listings of War and Monty Python and the Holy Grail Randall Hulet, Physics: Peace to quite a few "I don't have (1974-British) Deliverance (1972) time for movies." Young Frankenstein (1974) Obviously, we've seen too many The Graduate (1967) Allen Matusow, Humanities/ films about professors locked in dusty Body Heat(1981) History: library stacks and cluttered laborato- Rear Window (1954) Bounty (1935) ries. Five Easy Pieces (1970) Mutiny on the The Bridge on the River Kwai Rice professors, it seems, like their Casablanca (1942) (1957-British) movies—and their tastes vary as The Maltese Falcon (1941) Moulin Rouge (1952) Widely as their fields of interest, The Graduate (1967) though there is a decided bent toward Marco Ciufolini, Chemistry: Amadeus(1984) foreign releases.(Should anyone de- Kurosawa's Ran (1985-Japanese) cide The Hustler( 1961 to follow up on their suggestions, Fellini's Amarcord (1974-Italian) 11E UNIVEliii in Cool Hand Luke (1 7 cidentally, all the films listed are Gandhi (1982-British/Indian) The Godfather (1972) available on videotape, with the ex- wis9 ception of Bambi, Moulin Rouge and Gilbert Cuthbertson, Political OCT The Richard Smith, History: 29 — Battle of Culloden.) Rice profes- Science: sors Midnight Cowboy (1969) obviously hold romantic The Battle of Culloden Bambi(1942) inclinations—Casablanca was their most Annie Hall(1977) frequently listed favorite. John Freeman, Space Physics: Baghdad Cafe (1988-West Of course some, like mathematical Star Wars(1977) sciences professor Doctor Zhivago (1965) German) so Ronnie Wells, had many favorites they couldn't begin The Gods Must Be Crazy (1981- • to list Gale Stokes, History: them. Others listed them any- Botswanan) way. Blood Wedding (1981-Spanish) • And they take their favorites seri- Jed Friend, Human Performance ously. Edward Williams, Jones School: Biochemistry professor Kath- and Health Sciences: S leen Casablanca (1942) Beckingham not only told us her Rain Man (1989) number-one movie—Bill Forsyth's Gandhi (1982-British/Indian) Local Duane Windsor, Jones School: Hero—but let us know in no u Casablanca (1942) ncertain terms what she thinks of Art Gottschalk, Shepherd School: people Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) • who don't share her beliefs. The Maltese Falcon (1941) It's my way of Casablanca (1942) Star Wars(1977) about finding out something people," she The Treasure of the Sierra Madre S like says. "If they don't this movie, there must be (1948) thing some- wrong with them." M (1931-German) History professor Ira Gruber, who Citizen Kane (1941) teaches The Ply Art of War, says he sim- The Cabinet ofDr. Caligari (1919- • doesn't like war movies. On re- German) flection, however, he discovered a Tora, Tora, Tora (1970-U.S./ deep-seated inclination toward Japanese) Photos on the right, from top to bottom; E.T. a ntiwar movies. Disturbed by this turn The Mouse That Roared (1959- (1982), African Queen (1951), Raiders of the of.events Ark (1981), Wizard of Oz (1939), Maltese he went on his way, British) Lost S hog mum- Falcon (1941), The Tramp (1915), Butch something about re-evaluating Richard III(1956 -British) and Sundance Kid (1969), and his life in Cassidy the accordance with the The Best Years of Our Lives(1946) The Wild One (1954). • ciples prin- of Stanley Kubrick. um S FALL 1989/Page 3 aid. In addition to these lower fees, the President George Rupp said,"Den- The Council for the Advancement freshmen are also eligible for financial nis never lectures. He uses his mag- and Support of Education is the nation's aid based on need and merit. This year, netic personality to provoke discussion, largest educational association in terms about 80 percent of freshmen have some posing the challenging questions and lis- of institutional membership, with around sort of aid in the form of scholarships, tening with critical sympathy to the an- 2,850 colleges, universities and inde- grants, loans or enrollment in the Rice swers. In his hands literary texts offer pendent schools as members. Oil work-study program, Hunt said. not only aesthetic satisfaction but a way Approximately one-third of the fresh- to probe the complexity of character and men this year have entered as humani- explore the human condition." ties and social sciences students, and Campus just under a third are in the school of engineering. About 170 have entered in science, with 21 students coming into the Shepherd School of Music and 25 in the school of architecture.

Pick of the Crop Classes officially opened at Rice Uni- versity for the fall semester on Monday, Aug. 28, with 629 members of the new class of 1993 chosen from a record num- Man of the Year ber of nationwide applicants. English Professor J. Dennis Huston has The new freshman class brings un- been named national 1989 Teacher of dergraduate enrollment at Rice to 2,749. the Year by the Council for the Ad- Rice also has 1,283 graduate students vancement and Support of Education in for the 1989-90 academic year. Washington, D.C. It is the only such "The 17 percent increase in applica- award presented nationally for teaching tions this year reflects the growing num- at the collegiate level. ber of students across the United States Huston will be honored at an awards who are discovering Rice for the first ceremony on the Rice campus in early time," said Richard Stabell, dean of ad- October, and among the year's activities mission and records. This year, 5,219 will be a speaking engagement at the applied to enter, he noted. Smithsonian Institution in Washington, Statistics show the class of'93 is 60 D.C., next spring. percent male and 40 percent female. A faculty member at Rice since Some 55 percent are from outside 1969, Huston was selected Texas, with the largest numbers arriving from more than 500 nomi- from California, Louisiana, Colorado, nations from institutions New York, New Mexico and Illinois. in the U.S. and Canada. A total of 212 freshmen are National He will receive a $5,000 Merit Scholars, one of the highest num- cash award sponsored by ber per capita on any U.S. campus, and the Carnegie Foundation 10 are National Achievement Scholars. for the Advancement of Some 64 percent of the Class of'93 stu- Teaching. dents ranked in the upper 5 percentile of Huston has taught their graduating high school class. courses in Shakespeare, de- Freshmen will pay $10,725 in tuition, tective fiction, major British room, board and fees for the year. Al- writers and public speaking, though Rice is academically ranked as well as the introductory among top U.S. universities, this figure humanities foundation course. is approximately half what it costs to at- He has won every teaching tend other national universities of the honor Rice presents and has highest rank. received awards ranging from "Rice tries to keep its costs to stu- Grand Prize in the Alpha Delta dents down with the help of the Rice Phi Literary Contest to the endowment fund, which underwrites Hanszen College Sports Award. much of the cost of their education," Besides lecturing and present- said G. David Hunt, director of financial ing extensively, Huston has writ- ten two books—Shakespeare's Comedies of Play and Classics of the Renaissance Theater(with Alvin Kernan)—numerous ar- ticles, and several reviews. He has also appeared in more than 15 Rice dramatic productions. - In nominating Huston for the Professor of the Year award, Rice

J. Dennis Huston Pally 1/111,14 19S9 Breaking Ground oreactor pilot plant, mass spectrometry, Groundbreaking ceremonies for the new nuclear magnetic resonance spectrome- biosciences/bioengineering research try and electron microscopy. building at Rice—a $24 million, The Institute for Biosciences and Newsweek -foot,state-of-the-art Bioengineering will occupy about three- 107,000-square biotechnology facility—will be held at 4 quarters of the building's net space. Or- p.m. on Friday, Oct. 27, during home- ganic Chemistry will be allocated ap- coming weekend. proximately 20 percent, with five per- The building will be named George cent reserved for future needs. R. Brown Hall, after the late alumnus Occupancy is planned for fall 1990. and benefactor. The three-story, brick and limestone building, designed by Charles Redmon of Cambridge Seven Associates, Cambr- McCall's idge, Mass., will be constructed on the northwest side of the Rice campus. It will be located between Anderson Bio- Read All About It A Cool Million logical Laboratories and the Chemistry Publishers of some of the most avidly The Howard Hughes Medical Institute Building. read magazines today—Doug Johnston recently announced a $1 million grant to The design for the building will spa- of Vanity Fair, Tom Phillips of Spy and Rice University as part of a $61 million tially link these related buildings by On the Steven Florio of The New Yorker— nationwide effort to enhance under- walkways and new courtyards, Redmon spoke at the Rice University Publishing graduate education. notes. "The design is contextual within Bookshelf Program, held on campus June 19-July14. The funds are intended to encourage the scale and character of the other The four-week intensive course, or- students to pursue research and teaching buildings and the design tradition of ganized by the Office of Continuing careers in medical and biological sci- Rice architecture," he says."The build- Studies at Rice, was designed to develop ences. Rice and the University of Texas- ing uses the palette of materials and ele- Recently published by faculty or alumni talent, skills and career opportunities for Austin were the only Texas institutions ments set forth by the original 1912 authors: People interested in book and magazine selected. buildings, including bands of brick, •Aerodynamics for Engineers, by Publishing. "The Howard Hughes Medical Insti- bands of limestone, dark window John J. Bertin '60 and Michel L. Smith. Charles Hayward, president of Simon tute has shown a deep concern for edu- frames, arches and arcades." (second edition). & Prentice-Hall Schuster, was the keynote speaker cating biomedical researchers," said Redmon, a 1965 graduate of the Rice •Hypersonics, Volumes I and II, ed- during the Book Section, June 19-30. Rice President George Rupp."We are School of Architecture and now manag- ited by John J. Bertin '60, Jacques Authors such as David Lindsey, Christo- gratified to be among the universities se- ing principal of Cambridge Seven Asso- Periaux and Roland Glowinski, Birk- pher Woods and Karleen Koen were lected, and we appreciate the generosity ciates, is noted for his designs for the hauser-Boston. Joined by editors, literary agents and of the Howard Hughes Medical Insti- National Aquarium in Baltimore, San .Engineering Fluid Mechanics, by publishers of large and small presses. tute." Antonio Museum of Art and Houston John J. Bertin '60, Prentice-Hall (second After a four-day break for Independ- Rice will receive $1 million for a Design Center (the Innova Building in edition); also translated into Spanish, ence Day weekend, the magazine sec- five-year program: Greenway Plaza). tion Mecanica de Fluidos Para Ingenieros. began July 5 with Florio giving the •to broaden the academic base of bi- Research laboratories for George R. •Hartmann von Aue: Landscapes of keynote address. Besides the publishers ology in an undergraduate program inte- Brown Hall will be designed by labora- Mind, by Susan L. Clark, professor of Mentioned above, the list of speakers in- grating biosciences and related disci- tory consultant Ulrich M. Lindner of German, Rice University Press. cluded Fred Woodward,Rolling Stone plines (chemistry, physics and mathe- Earl Walls Associates, San Diego, Calif. art •Addicts Who Survived: An Oral director; Robert Rivard, Newsweek matics) into biology and biochemistry Earl Walls Associates has designed The History of Narcotic Use in America, Chief of correspondents; and Ruth Hill- "tracks"; Salk Institute for Biological Studies in 1923-1965, by David Courtwright Ph.D. house, a Rice Publishing Program •to appoint new faculty and to ac- La Jolla, Calif., and the Ortho Research '79, Herman Joseph, and Don Des Jar- graduate and senior editor at McCall's. quire instructional equipment to imple- Center of Chevron Chemical Co. in lais '67, University of Tennessee Press. Participants in the course designed ment the new programs; Richmond, Calif., named 1987 Lab of •Verbal Imagination: Coleridge and Publications and studied actual book •to extend summer and academic- the Year by Research and Development the Language of Modern Criticism, by manuscripts as they took a project from year laboratory experiences with re- magazine. Alfred C. Goodson Jr. '68, Oxford Uni- Stan to finish. search faculty to first- and second-year Lindner's interiors for George R. versity Press. More than 35 experts addressed top- undergraduates, including minority stu- ics Brown Hall will include flexible ele- •Digital Spectral Analysis with Ap- including audio publishing; chil- dents and women; ments enabling easy but major modifica- S. Lawrence Marple Jr. dren's plications, by books; marketing and promotion; •to develop outreach activities (such tions of the laboratories as research '69,Prentice -Hall. b.ustness plans and cost projections; sub- as curricular development assistance and needs change. A number of common ar- Nuncius, or The Sidereal sidiary •Sidereus rights and magazine production. laboratory training) with Houston public eas are designed to promote interaction Messenger Galileo Galilei, translated schools, particularly those with signifi- among disciplines. A top-floor lounge, with introduction, conclusion and cant minority populations. looking into a courtyard, will be a place notes by Albert Van Helden, profes- One of the grant reviewers praised where scientists can discuss projects in a sor of history, University of Chicago Rice for clearly addressing "several ob- relaxed atmosphere. Other interdiscipli- Press. jectives of the Hughes Institute, includ- nary areas will be facilities for a bi- ing an innovative, integrated biological sciences curriculum, with new laborato- ries that represent a wholesale alteration in the biological sciences program." Rice is planning groundbreaking ceremonies during homecoming week- end for a $24 million laboratory build- ing, George R. Brown Hall, which will house the Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering (see related story in this section.)

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by Francis L. Loewenheim Professor of History

The story is told that, shortly after the out- . •.!::1‘7" o. break of the Great War in early August 1914, 114. •, Bernhard von Billow, • ' ••••: • the former Imperial - German Chancellor, paid a call on his un- fortunate succes-

sor, Theodor • .,,a7 von Bethmann- f•

Hollweg."How :".• a"• did it happen?" -

von Billow is said to •-•••-^ have inquired. Raising his head and hands as , •••••••-•• V•••X• -• „ -_,' • if to point to the heav- • 04..,4, ens, Bethmann-Hollweg •"‘"tr- reportedly answered, "If one only knew!" On the occasion of the Hitler centennial, it is an ex- change worth recalling. For after the second world war, a similarly implausible denial soon gained widespread ac- ceptance. On trial as war criminals at Nuremberg in the late 1940s, not a few leading Nazi officials steadfastly denied having abetted Hitler's evil empire, indeed even knowing what it was all about. It was a separa- tion of

FALL 1989/Page participation and responsibility rarely attempted ing. No diplomatic reporting from Berlin was some of the ablest British and American foreign in international jurisprudence. more informative than that produced by the correspondents were stationed in Berlin and Recently, another creative reinterpretation of American Embassy staff. It wasn't that the spent considerable time traveling around the Hitler and the Third Reich has begun to make democracies didn't know what was happening country, discovering how the new Third Reich the rounds. It is to be found, or at least strongly or might soon happen. The democracies didn't differed from the officially disseminated ver- implied, in two newly published books—Char- want to face what they had already learned and sion. In the mid-1930s an important new source les S. Maier's The Unmasterable Past: History, heard more about with every passing day. of information was added—the radio correspon- Holocaust, and German National Identity (Har- No one in the West—in London or Paris or dent. It was from the press and radio that the vard University Press) and Arno J. Mayer's Why Washington or, for that matter, in Houston, Anglo-American public learned all it needed to Did The Heavens Not Darken? The "Final Solu- Texas—could possibly claim not to be aware of know about Hitler and the Third Reich. tion" in History (Pantheon Books). what was taking place inside the Third Reich. In the meantime, Western diplomats in The Nazi era, the authors of these volumes To ignore that unpalatable truth is to deny the Berlin continued to inform their governments appear to believe, was essentially an internal undeniable. It is an alibi that must be put to rest back home about what was taking place inside German affair. What happened in the Thousand once and for all. The Hitler centennial is a good Nazi Germany and what those developments Year Reich was virtually unaffected by what time to start doing just that. seemed to portend. happened outside. And what transpired abroad It seems ironic that some of the best and exerted no significant influence on what took some of the worst Anglo-American diplomats place inside Hitler's state. rom its first days in power the Na- served in the German capital before the war. To be sure, it was the Germans who first tional Socialist regime labored mightily When Hitler assumed power in January 1933, chose Hitler, who adored and idolized and over- at the twin tasks of censorship and the British ambassador in Berlin was Sir Horace whelmingly supported him until his vaunted propaganda. The available record Rumbold, a perspicacious veteran of the British Grossdeutsches Reich came crashing down in suggests that its efforts were far from Foreign Service who had been stationed in the early 1945. It is likewise true, however, that successful. German capital since 1928. As the British Hitler could not possibly have scored some of It may be true—as Professor documents on the period, published in 1950, the extraordinary victories he did without the Deborah E. Lipstadt of the University disclose, Rumbold lost no time informing the help, active or passive, of the Western democra- of California at Los Angeles contends foreign office what he thought of the new Nazi cies. Perhaps understandably, little has been said in her recent book, Beyond Belief: leadership. about that particular subject over the years. The American Press and the Coming of the "The new regime," Sir Horace reported on The prevailing assumption continues to be— Holocaust 1933-1945 (New York, 1986)—that April 26, 1933,"is confident that it has come to especially about President Roosevelt and U.S. journalistic reporting from Germany periodi- stay. It is, therefore, determined to leave no foreign policy—that, had the American people cally fell short of the perfection demanded by stone unturned in the effort to entrench itself in known in time what Hitler and Nazi Germany scholarly hindsight. It seems clear there were power for all time. To this end it has embarked were all about, the United States would surely occasional errors in judgment. But considering on a programme of political propaganda on a have responded with far greater alacrity than it the increasingly difficult conditions under which scale for which there is no analogy in did. foreign reporters operated, the remarkable thing history...The Government of this country, for However reassuring that notion may be, the is that Anglo-American readers—especially the first time since the war, is giving State evidence to the contrary is overwhelming. The those of the major newspapers in both the sanction and encouragement to an attitude of American people did know. The president knew. United States and Great Britain—were so well mind, as well as to various forms of military The State Department knew. To understand why informed about developments in Nazi Germany. training, which can only end in one way." Hitler came so dangerously close to achieving It is no secret that some powerful editors and Such reports were hardly welcome in the his aims and objectives, at home and abroad, it publishers, especially in London, preferred not days of Ramsay MacDonald's National Govern- is necessary to recall what was known and what to know the unvarnished truth or to pass it on to ment, and there was doubtless a considerable was ignored at the time. When it comes to the their trusting readers. This was especially true at sigh of relief, both in Whitehall and at the Nazi Nazi era, the Germans can't plead ignorance— The Times, whose veteran editor, Geoffrey but then, the Western democracies can't plead Dawson, had set himself the unenviable task of ignorance either. improving relations between Great Britain and No journalistic accounts from Hitler's the Third Reich. ("Hitler and Goebbels," the Germany surpassed the best American report- noted American foreign correspondent Edgar Ansel Mowrer wrote in 1939,"could not have provided anything more dangerous with which to dope the democracies.") On the other hand, Anglo-American report- ing benefited immeasurably from the fact that

Page 8/FALL 1989 Foreign Office, when Sir Horace finally de- ut what of diplomatic and parted for home in August 1933. journalistic reports about Hitler's If Rumbold's retirement deprived the British mounting war against the Jews? government of a discerning observer of the In her recent study, Beyond continental scene, the United States was espe- Belief: The American Press and the cially fortunate in President Roosevelt's choice Coming of the Holocaust 1933- of a new American ambassador to Germany— 1945, Professor Lipstadt contends Professor William E. Dodd, the noted Southern that "Americans who depended on historian from the University of Chicago, who the media for their information was to remain in Berlin until late December were presented with a confused and 1937. confusing picture, a picture with many correct Professor Dodd has not had a good reputa- but unclear or incomplete details." tion among some historians. An outspoken and A review of leading American and British unrepentant Wilsonian liberal—the equivalent dailies—for example, The New York Times, The of an unreconstructed LBJ Vietnam liberal New York Herald Tribune, The Chicago Daily today—Dodd made no secret of his political News and Chicago Tribune, as well as The Philosophy and preferences. The Nazi authori- Times of London, The Daily Telegraph, and The ties soon took a strong dislike to the American Manchester Guardian—suggests there were re- ambassador and did their best, not always un- markably few significant lapses, and if British successfully, to denigrate and isolate him. and American readers wanted to know what was On the other hand, Dodd had certain impor- happening to the Jews in Germany, there was no tant qualifications of his own. He had studied in shortage of available information. That was true, Germany before the Great War and was very for instance, at the time of the Nazis' first na- Proud of having taken his Ph.D. at the Univer- tionwide anti-Jewish boycott on April 1, 1933. It sity of Leipzig in 1900. Dodd's German was was no less true around the promulgation of the good, and he had no difficulty establishing good Nuremberg racial laws in September 1935 or relations with leading academic and other public following the Kristallnacht horrors in mid-No- figures, some of whom remained distinctly vember 1938. skeptical or opposed to the new Hitler regime. Curiously after all these years, no collection Dodd had been a busy and productive of foreign diplomatic reporting on the coming historian, and he was a busy and productive and history of the Holocaust exists. It remains a ambassador. In addition to his formal reports to strange and puzzling gap, for the Western the State Department—some of whose senior embassies and consulates were remarkably well NBTLESSILY porufL Officials distinctly disliked or distrusted him— informed about the fate of the Jews. For ex- Dodd soon began a regular personal correspon- ample, as early as March 31, 1933, Consul dence with the president, one of the most General George S. Messersmith reported from JimmiND HitiVIAJP:41FIE extraordinary exchanges of FDR's White House Berlin: Years. "The background of the anti-Jewish move- Month after month, Dodd warned Washing- ment fostered by the National Socialist party ton—the State Department and the president— and its progress since the 5th of March 1933 has "...NANKS Aim n- what was afoot in Berlin. Under the circum- been set forth in previous dispatches. It is now stances, it was hardly surprising that the Nazi evident that the movement has reached an Foreign Office desired to be rid of Dodd as soon intensity and a diffusion of action which was not 1ATER as possible and, in late summer 1937, finally contemplated even by its most fanatic propo- persuaded Roosevelt's new Under Secretary of nents, and there is real reason to believe now State, Sumner Welles, that he should be re- that the movement is beyond control and may called. have a bloody climax." Eight years and eight months later, on Nov. 1, 1941—six weeks before the formal rupture of diplomatic relations between Germany and the United States—the U.S. Chargé in Berlin sent this ominous message, not published until 1982: "By decree of Governor General Frank Writing shortly after Hitler's first important effective October 25, the death penalty is made "peace appeal" on May 17, 1933, Lippmann mandatory for Jews leaving the ghettoes in the responded in such embarrassingly effusive [Polish] Government General without permis- terms that his authorized biographer, Professor sion and for persons who harbor them. Hitherto, Ronald Steel of the University of Southern these offenses were punished by imprisonment California, seemed understandably embarrassed or a fine and in severe cases by penal servitude. about including Lippmann's words in the text of "The new measure is in accord with the his work published in 1980. stiffening of anti-Jewish regulations and actions "There will be some," Lippmann wrote on which have been evident throughout German that occasion,"who will say that [Hitler's] controlled Europe for some weeks. It will address is merely a shrewd maneuver and that it presumably affect many of the Jews who are at must be rejected as insincere. I do not take this present being deported to various parts of view. The truer explanation, I believe, is that we Poland." have heard once more, through the fog and the Night was rapidly descending on the unfortu- din, the hysteria and the animal passions of a nate Jews trapped in Hitler's Europe, and the great revolution, the authentic voice of a genu- Fiihrer and the Nazi death machine were making inely civilized people. I am not only willing to sure there were no foreign observers to report believe that, but it seems to me that all historical the "Final Solution" now under way. experience compels one to believe it." Such preposterous sentiments should have become unthinkable by 1936, but that was not f the British and American people and the case. That Olympic year—the year after their governments knew so much about Hitler had reintroduced conscription, the year he Hitler's Reich, why, on the whole, did remilitarized the Rhineland and began stoking they respond so feebly and ineffec- the flames of Civil War in Spain—the Fiihrer tively? Nearly 50 years later, it remains had a number of distinguished British visitors. one of the most puzzling and troubling They included Professor Arnold J. Toynbee, the questions about the Nazi era. Perhaps powerfully influential Director of Studies at the only this much is certain. The placid Royal Institute of International Affairs, and response of the democracies never David Lloyd George, the wartime British Prime ceased to fascinate and delight Hitler and Minister. Before the second world war, one of Goebbels, who paid far more attention to Hitler's favorite pastimes was to entertain foreign opinion—public and political—than was foreign dignitaries, and what came out of his or is generally recognized. interviews with Professor Toynbee and Lloyd Hitler and Goebbels, of course, were past George goes a long way toward explaining why masters at the art of public relations. They were the democracies did not unite against Hitler "media types" before that phrase was dreamed until it was nearly too late. of on Madison Avenue. They knew appearances Toynbee, for example, emerged from his counted as much as realities, and they were interview with Hitler in January 1936,"con- geniuses when it came to playing to the foreign vinced of his sincerity in desiring peace in press and democratic politicians, whatever their Europe and close friendship with England." In particular views might be. One shudders to think March 1936, Toynbee told an audience in what Hitler and Goebbels might have achieved Hamburg:"We British are not so foolish as to in the days of international satellite communica- think things must remain as they are; and if it is tions. not peaceful change, it will be violent change." As it was, for years they found gullible West- Roosevelt never considered visiting Hitler, ern journalists, politicians and other notables although he occasionally talked about conven- ready to accept their cleverly deceptive message. ing an international peace conference in which Probably Hitler's first important victim was Wal- ter Lippmann, then at the height of his reputation as a widely syndicated columnist for the New York Herald Tribune.

\ _ Hitler might take part. But the summer Lloyd In mid-October 1938—when the real mean- Hitler is usually thought of first as a military George visited Hitler, FDR delivered a speech ing of Munich should have been unmistakably conqueror. He knew far better. With little on foreign affairs at Chautauqua, N.Y.—his clear to everyone—Roosevelt wrote to William formal education, he learned in his Viennese only address on that subject during the 1936 Phillips, his ambassador in Rome and an old youth that history was first of all a battle of campaign—a speech that must have been read personal friend, "I want you to know that I am ideas. You defeat your adversary in that realm, in Berlin with eminent satisfaction, and from not a bit upset over the final result." In the after- then in the political arena, finally on the battle which Hitler was soon to draw the appropriate math of the Kristallnacht pogroms, a month field. conclusions. later, FDR could think of nothing stronger than From the early '30s, the democracies—the As the president put it in a famous passage: a brief denunciatory statement and the recall of politicians, the media, the schools—played "I have seen war...1 hate war." FDR's words the U.S. ambassador "for consultation." straight into Hitler's hands. In the midst of the left little room for interpretation, and Hitler's It seems generally agreed that the Kris- worst modern depression, they were consumed ambassador to the United States, Dr. Hans tallnacht episode marked a quantum leap in by pacifist guilt and self-doubt over the Great Luther, a former Weimar chancellor, was Hitler's war against the Jews. In his address to War and the peace treaties that followed. They doubtlessly correct in summing them up: The the Reichstag on Jan. 30, 1939, Hitler left little were prepared to make significant concessions Yanks are not coming again. Two years later, doubt about the direction his mind was moving. to the Germans. They failed to recognize that Hitler was on the road to Munich and World He said: Hitler's goals were light years removed from War!!. "Today I will be a prophet again: If interna- those of the Weimar Republic he had destroyed. It would be good to recall that, by his fifth tional finance Jewry within Europe and abroad To many, by 1936-1937, Hitler's Germany Year in office, the president had learned some- should succeed once more in plunging the was becoming the new center of the civilized thing from Hitler's performance. But that was peoples into a world war, then the consequence world. Worse yet, instead of avoiding or "quar- not the case. When FDR heard that Chamberlain will be not the Bolshevization of the world and antining" the Third Reich—as President was heading for Munich on Sept. 29, 1938, to therewith a victory of Jewry, but on the con- Roosevelt had seemingly suggested in a famous finalize the fate of Czechoslovakia, he sent the trary, the destruction of the Jewish race in address in Chicago in October 1937—until Prime minister a congratulatory telegram— Europe." outbreak of war foreign students and artists "Good Man. Signed, Franklin D. Roosevelt"—a Hitler had never used such specifically flocked to Nazi Germany to study, to advance message, I discovered and published in October threatening language before. The democracies their careers and, by their presence, inadver- 1978, which Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy and the Jews, also, ignored it largely at their tently to confer the cultural-political respectabil- failed to deliver as instructed and which Cham- peril. Hitler still recalled it warmly in his bunker ity and equality Hitler indispensably required. berlain never received. in Berlin in early 1945. Big business in the West was still promoting Indeed, the president learned no more from "economic appeasement" in the summer of Munich than did the prime minister. For in- 1939. stance, on Oct. 5, 1938, Roosevelt instructed o we end, as we began, with the Appearing youthful, vibrant, energetic, Ambassador Kennedy to "call urgently upon the question von Billow put to Beth- National Socialism and the Fiihrerprinzip Prime Minister and convey to him orally the mann-Hollweg in August 1914: (leadership principle) were the wave of the following personal message...1 fully share your "How did it happen?" On the cen- future, so ran the interminable Hitler refrain. hope and belief that there exists today the tennial of Hitler's birth, how are we Bourgeois-Marxist-Jew-style democracy was greatest opportunity in years for the establish- to explain his extraordinary rise and old, decadent and dying. The rise of anti- ment of a new order based on justice and on no less dramatic fall? democratic revolution was widely accepted in law. Now that you have established personal The obvious explanation was the West. In his third inaugural address, in contact with Chancellor Hitler [Roosevelt offered by the British historian January 1941, FDR declared:"We sense [de- continued] I know that you will be taking up A.J.P. Taylor in September 1958: mocracy] still spreading on every continent..." with him from time to time many of the prob- "Hitler...was a human phenomenon who occurs Few took his brave assertion seriously. lems which must be resolved in order to bring once in a thousand years." That may be partly No one who has worked in the mountainous about that new and better order. Among these is true, but it is also far too simple. Hitler suc- files of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at the present German policy of racial persecution, ceeded in large measure not only because of his Which has perhaps done more harm than any own remarkable qualities but because of the Other to the estimate of Germany held by public national and international atmosphere in which opinion in America regardless of class, race or he operated. He triumphed as he did because he Creed .As time may be of the essence [FDR understood remarkably well the weaknesses of concluded], I am sending you this message his opponents and victims, present and prospec- Without further delay in the hope that you will tive, at home and abroad. be able to find an appropriate opportunity to lay these considerations before the Reich Chancel- lor.'." Needless to say, nothing came of the President's wishful thinking.

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FALL 1989/Page 1 Hyde Park, N.Y., can fail to know how well status that, alone, might have rendered his vast aware the president was of developments in European conquests impregnable. Hitler's realm. But there is special irony in the In the end, Hitler went so far because so fact that—for all of Hitler's and Goebbels' many—Neville Chamberlain, Franklin Roosev- venomous fulminations against FDR's Jewish elt, Josef Stalin, among them—all believed they counselors—none of the Felix Frankfurters, the could make a deal with him. As late as February Henry Morgenthaus, the Samuel Rosenmans 1940—after Munich, after Prague, after the sought to move Roosevelt to help their fellow Nazi-Soviet pact, even after Hitler's attack on Jews before it was too late. Poland—FDR dispatched his most trusted Christians and Jews, believers and unbeliev- diplomat, Under Secretary of State Sumner ers—none did enough to stop Hitler in time. Welles, to Europe to meet, among others, with O I I1tpLNIUIU WILL There were few sadder spectacles than Msgr. Hitler in Berlin, to see if "a just and lasting Cesare Orsenigo, the Papal Nuncio in Berlin peace" with Nazi Germany was possible. The who graced Hitler's 50th birthday celebration famous dictum of Lord Acton may be extended. BISMARCK SOUL with his imposing presence. A few years later, Concessions to dictatorships tend to corrupt. during the war, he found himself returning, Concessions to totalitarian regimes tend to almost week after week, to the office of State corrupt absolutely. Secretary Ernst von Weizsacker (father of 19TH-CENT" Richard von Weizsacker, the current president of the Federal Republic), humbly pleading for t the close of the "Personal Preface" Catholic clergy and lay people brutally incarcer- to his new book on the Holocaust, ated or facing death throughout Hitler's Europe. Arno Mayer writes that, after ex- Hitler's unmistakable—though probably not tended study, it still remains to him final—goal was to establish the Third Reich as an "incomprehensible" event. Europe's new Overlord (Ordnungsmacht), as He is not alone. Like Professor some of his ardent supporters believed Germany Mayer, I too have searched my had been in the distant Middle Ages. It was a mind and memory to find words wildly illusory quest that, at one time or another, adequate to explain the inexpli- enlisted many of Germany's "best and bright- cable. I have not found them. Per- est." Where it might all end, no one, probably haps we are destined never to find an adequate not even the Fiihrer himself, could foresee. Such explanation. megalomaniac fantasy contained the roots of The closest I have come to language befitting ultimate disaster. the unprecedented tragedy that was Hitler and Almost too late, the democracies discovered the Holocaust are six words—a short sentence— that Hitler was as reactionary as he was revolu- midway in the Reform Jewish prayers for tionary. His imperialist objectives went far Sabbath Eve. It reads: beyond the goals of his most famous predeces- "Some are guilty, all are responsible." sors. Frederick the Great desired to bring Prussia into the forefront of 18th-century Francis L. Loewenheim has been a member of modernity. Bismarck sought to prevent 19th- the Rice historyfaculty since 1959 and has century liberalism from sweeping over the Old published widely on current public and interna- Prussia he loved. Hitler wanted nothing less tional affairs and the era of World War II. than to undo the ideals and institutions of "Alibi ofa Civilization" is condensedfrom his Western civilization since the Renaissance. 1989 Provost's Lecture at Rice. Fortunately, Hitler's qualities and assets proved insufficient for the herculean task he had set himself. Eventually, he failed not only because of his inadequate resources, but because of the limits of his global vision and design. For having conquered France and nearly defeated Great Britain as well, Hitler found no way to master the Soviet Union or to link up with Imperial Japan to achieve the world power

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You follow the crowd to the burning red exit sign, and the ramp rises to meet your feet. You burst into the brightness of the concession stand, squinting as you kick from your shoe one stubborn, sticky piece of popcorn. Outside, the parking lot unrolls, an expansive Whitman's Sampler. Your perceptions are slightly distorted; everything seems just a bit surreal. The street lights twinkle with a singular secret. Every rift in the pavement has a story to tell. You have just participated in one of the great American rituals of the 20th century: going to see a film. Whether you had been seeking art or reality, stimulation or diversion, you found it in a movie theater. There, in a darkened room, you and other audience members permitted your senses to be commandeered by images and sound. Your emo- tions were manipulated, your thoughts guided, your values challenged or affirmed. And you left the theater with an experience that was mutually shared and yet remains distinctly personal. • • I989/Page 13 FALL II 111 II 1

One hundred years ago, the technology Various pioneers in the industry exer- began coalescing that would one day pro- cised their creativity, and 'trick' photogra- duce "Gone With the Wind" and "Ghost- phy made its debut: the cameraman would busters II." In the late 1800s, both an stop the film, an actor who was about to be American photographer and a French sci- 'killed' was replaced with a dummy, the entist were experimenting with different camera would roll, and the action would ways of creating the illusion of motion. continue. By splicing together film that "The roots of film were developing in sev- had been shot at different times, directors eral areas simultaneously," says Brian realized that they could make two separate Huberman, professor of film. "But when events appear successive or even simulta- we think of 'movies' as opposed to 'cin- neous. They had complete control over ema,' we think of America." cause and effect, action and reaction. America's input into the budding me- Through film they could manipulate time. chanics of film is personified, for most of Movies shot during this era did not con- us, by Thomas A. Edison, the father of the tain the extensive credits of today's films. phonograph. According to Garth Jowett of The actors and actresses were anonymous. sociology, however, Edison was more Audiences, who came to know the faces shrewd businessman than movie innovator. but not the names of the performers, be- "Edison did not invent the motion picture came enamored of certain actors and ac- camera," says Jowett."He only improved tresses they could describe only by the it, but improved it in such a way that it be- films in which they appeared. The studios came a more viable process. This gave him theorized that if the performers became some patent rights that were very signifi- known figures, those performers could cant." demand more money. As a culture, our fascination with the But Thomas Ince saw things differ- moving picture began in the late 19th cen- ently. A producer/director for the Imp tury with the growth of the "nickelodeon" company, he realized that audiences who theaters. For five cents, one could view a wanted to see certain stars would follow short, silent and colorless depiction of a their names to the box office. "You can vaudeville act or a bustling street-corner. almost pinpoint the beginnings of the 'star Nickelodeon audiences usually were less system' with the emergence of Florence concerned with content than with novelty. Lawrence, whom Ince started to build up Such entertainment became very popular in 1911," Jowett says. "He took this rather with the working class, who generally had obscure actress and boosted her up, faked a little money and even less leisure time. kidnapping and ended up with 25,000 The nickelodeons became gathering places people clamoring in St. Louis to see her for the segment of the population called by when she arrived." one theater owner "the great unwashed." From one actress in 1911, the star sys- The middle class was at once disparag- tem has burgeoned to include hundreds of ing of this phenomenon and at the same people most Americans recognize on sight, time curious about it. Says Jowett,"There faces that return your stare at the checkout is quite clear evidence that a lot of middle counters of supermarkets all over the coun- class people were 'slumming' and going to try. "This reflects who the public thinks its nickelodeons as early as 1905." Many heroes are," observes Jowett. "If you had movie houses, recognizing this new source asked a kid in the 19th century whom he'd of revenue, began opening in upscale loca- like to emulate, he would say 'Andrew tions and catering to wealthier audiences. Jackson.' If you ask someone in the 20th Throughout this time, the fare offered century, it's 'Clint Eastwood.' There is a by the filmmakers was changing. From fundamental difference in the kinds of travelogues and vaudeville presentations, paradigms our society bases itself on." many producers turned toward producing "The movies are the art form of the films that contained multiple shots and sto- 20th century," says Doug Killgore '70, a rylines. I e

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multi-media talent who wrote "The Trust," film that's only moderately successful in a play about the murder of William Marsh the theater can generate a good income as Rice, which recently completed its third a videotape, and that helps investors hedge season at Main Street Theater. "People their bets." have always had a need for escape; listen- The release of a film on videocassette ing to stories, reading stories, watching or its sale to cable or network television plays. And I think film is the most effec- also widens the variety of that film's po- tive means that's ever been developed for tential audience. According to Jowett, 15 conveying a story." percent of the population, the ardent As an entertainment form, film has to moviegoers, account for 40-to-50 compete with many other media for the percent of all box-office receipts. Another public's attention and money. Most other 35 percent make an occasional outing to forms of entertainment, however, are the theater, and a whopping 50 percent do Wholly or partially subsidized by advertis- not go to the movies at all. The best-made ers who intend to introduce their messages film in the world will not be able to garner on the coattails of the main attraction. a chunk of this latter group's entertainment How, then, can the movies compete dollar in the theater; it would have to be With 'free' media such as television? released in a form they find more agree- "There's almost an illogic to it," notes able. Jowett."Why would people want to pay, In recent years, the demographics of in New York for instance, $7.50 to see a movie audiences have been changing, ac- movie when they can stay home and watch cording to figures published by the Motion it on television a few months later? But the Picture Association. -People over the age movies tap into a social dimension. People of 30 seem to be going to the movies much want to participate in conversations; `Have more frequently now that they did five or you seen Batman?' 'Yes, I've seen Bat- six years ago," says Jowett. "Whether that man,' and so on. It is kind of social pres- is a reflection of the movie generation get- tige to indicate that you have seen the lat- ting older and staying with the movies, or est film." the producers turning out films that are of Warren Skaaren '69, who has written more interest to older people, is not clear. I screenplays for many hit movies, including think it is a combination of both." 'Batman"(see sidebar), emphasizes the If, in fact, the movie's audience is ex- experiential component of seeing a movie panding, what kind of messages are being on the big screen. "Movies are a powerful sent? What do people seek when they go to experience; the size of the image matters a a movie? "I think they seek hope," Skaaren great deal in terms of impact. It's an over- says. "The movies, after all, are a hypnotic whelmingly large image in a darkened form. They deal with images that are not room, so the power to hypnotize and to real but, like a dream, function directly transport is much greater. To the extent from the unconscious." that people want to be transported, they'd "If you look at `Beetlejuice,' you real- Probably prefer to go to a theater." ize that it's a classical dream film. In many The home screen, in fact, may have ways it's the dream of the little girl, more to do with the movies' longevity than Winona Ryder, going from darkness to most realize. Videotape and cable televi- light, from being depressed and suicidal to sion markets now allow those who invest being a hopeful kid who gets, in fact, the In film productions to spread their eggs parents she's always wanted. They just among several baskets. "The videotape in- happen to be ghosts. dustry has not hurt movies at all," says "I think that entertainment, finally, is Killgore. "Theatrical box office receipts about that. It's about catharsis, and it's are at an all-time high right now. Vide- about coming to some belief that things otapes actually help movies, because if a can be better than they are." movie has made it in the theater, this suc- Hibberd 1988 graduate of Rice. cess Ned is a feeds the success of the videotape. A This is his first article for Sallyport. I II 111 II II Yes, But is it Art? ligious art, be it that of the gospel 11-uth vs. Beauty at the Movies narratives or of a contemporary movie," Kelber notes. To paraphrase Keats, truth might be beauty, but it doesn't always have a good plotline. And it is certainly no "Those of our students who criterion of what is, or is not, art. have seen 'Ben Hur,' 'The Ten by Suzanne Johnson Those who advocate social re- Commandments' or any of sponsibility in film, however, point the other monumental reli- Any college student who has seen out that, for millions of people, mov- gious productions are prone "Animal House" or faculty member ies often are the only exposure to the to read biblical texts through who has seen "The Absent-Minded unfamiliar. Stereotypes about places, the eyes of Hollywood." Professor" has first-hand proof that professions, even eras of history, are film portrayal of academic life leaves influenced by what is dramatically, -Werner Kelber, something to be desired in the truth often beautifully, presented on the Religious Studies department. Most also realize an ac- movie screen. curate academic film would leave Peter Brown, an art and art history something to be desired in terms of professor and photographer, was dramatic tension. lured toward photography at age 18 Still, who has not watched a film by the film "Blow Up.""It had a dealing with the unfamiliar subjects great influence on me," he recalls. and wondered,"Is that how it is?" "Here was this guy [the protagonist, a One way to find out is to ask the photographer] doing interesting so- "experts." cial documentary work that seemed "Film as art" patrons argue: as a to improve the world, attempting to work of art, film has no responsibility solve murders, living the perfect life toward accuracy. The goals on many in London in the late '60s, photo- levels—as a filmatic artistic vision, graphing beautiful women, posing as entertainment, as a money-making the correct existential questions and vehicle—are enhanced by creative being paid tons of money. It was an freedom and "editorial license." 18-year-old's dream. As history professor Richard "Now the film seems fairly Smith notes, when talking about amoral, thoroughly sexist and movie representations of China, muddled rather than Zenishly deep," "Most...filmmakers do not create Brown says. "But at the time, it films for the classroom." seemed like quite a life." Religious studies professor Other professors, meeting people Werner Kelber speaks in these terms in social situations, have encounter- about the widespread discussions ed stereotypes about themselves. over the controversial 1987 film, Music professor and composer Art "The Last Temptation of Christ." Gottschalk, for example, says people He found them disappointing. who meet him believe "the idea that a "They focused primarily on two composer's inspiration strikes like points," he says. "One, the human lightning, that the composer just sits depiction of Jesus, as opposed to his down at the piano and plays his new- recorded divinity; and two, the inter- est symphony all at once." Fans of pretative nature of the movie, as op- "Raiders of the Lost Ark" meet reli- posed to the alleged historicity of the gious studies professor Don C. Ben- gospel records." That the gospels jamin and expect revelations. "They scholar themselves go very far in depicting respond to meeting a biblical the humanity of Jesus and that they like they would to a chance to talk are also themselves interpretation, he with an investigative reporter work- . says, render the "Last Temptation" ing for '20/20' or `Geraldo," he discussions much ado about nothing. says. "Fact versus fiction cannot be a valid And when psychology professor criterion in judging the quality of re- Sarah Burnett meets someone new, she braces for the inevitable reaction. "Most people confuse psychologists with psychiatrists," she says. "If I tell people I am a psychologist, they in- variably exhibit a nervous laugh and

Photos by Tommy LaVergtle Page 16/ Fill 1989 say something like, 'Well, I guess I And for the science itself? "Some had better be careful about what I say of it is pretty good," Reiff says, but because you will analyze me." adds that, for a scientist, details that Rice scientists credit movies with might not be caught by the general helping to give young people nega- public come across as pretty funny. tive ideas about their work."We are In "The Black Hole," for example, always shown as weirdos, wackos, she says she got quite a chuckle from "My nominee for the worst nerds or as fiendishly evil," notes the line,"We'll be back in a parsec." image of a psychologist in chemistry professor Marco Ciufolini. A parsec, she notes, refers to dis- a movie would have to go "And we wonder why not enough tance, not time. to Bill Murray in the first Young people choose a career in sci- Space physics professor John 'Ghostbusters.' This is the ence!" Freeman applauds the accuracy of first time I remember seeing Should movies be tied to accu- "2001: A Space Odyssey" and its se- a psychologist depicted as racy? The film experts will continue quel,"2010," but both he and fellow a university researcher. to argue that point, while the rest of space physicist Thomas Hill cite "Star Wars" as more of a "western Unfortunately, the primary us just go to the movies. From the of his research was admit- set in space." goal Rice "experts" come a few women students." tedly biased observations. Mathematicians, says professor to seduce Ronnie Wells, are simply ignored by -Sarah Burnett, The Sciences Hollywood. "The public really Psychology The mad scientist out to destroy the doesn't perceive mathematicians as L world or the bumbling scientist in the doing anything," he says, philosophi- White labcoat are two images from cally. "It's just the nature of the 1950s films that prevail, according to field." Rice faculty members."The adjec- Psychologists, however, are seen tives 'sinister' or 'mad' usually de- as doing a lot—not all of it good. scribe the movie view of scientists," "My nominee for the worst image of notes one professor. "It really is a a psychologist in a movie would have loss to society, and especially the to go to Bill Murray in the first Young, that the excitement of discov- `Ghostbusters," says Burnett. "This ery and even of understanding how is the first time I remember seeing a the universe operates is rarely even psychologist depicted as a university hinted at in the shallow puddles navi- researcher. Unfortunately, the pri- gated in the movies." mary goal of his research was to se- Physicist Randall Hulet agrees. duce women students. He also said Scientists are usually portrayed with he was reluctant to leave the univer- exaggerated characteristics, typically sity because 'in the real world, they some combination of goofy, sinister, expected results.— brilliant, antisocial and malevolent, In general, Burnett says, psy- aloof or single-minded," he says. chologists are portrayed as being "not Seldom is a scientist portrayed as a very competent ('I'm Dancing as formal' person." Fast as I Can,"Lovesick'), not very Women have fared even worse. caring or sadistic ('One Flew Over Women in science are usually stere- the Cuckoo's Nest,' Clockwork Or- °tYped as cold, calculating crea- ange'), crazy themselves or out of tures—always with spectacles," ob- touch with the real world either be- serves biochemist Kathleen Becking- cause they are too cerebral or because .h ant. "Occasionally, they transform their training is dictating the way into sexpots during the movie. But they see the world—which is dis- they are never warm, friendly, appre- torted." ciative human beings." The best movies in terms of de- Space physicist Patricia Reiff picting a psychologist or psychiatrist says, however, that recent movies in action, Burnett says, have been such as "Gorillas in the Mist" have "Ordinary People," "Rain Man" and broken that mold. "You're beginning "I Never Promised You a Rose Gar- to see women scientists that are both den." smart and attractive," she says—and scientists who are more than one-di- Foreign Cultures Inensional cartoons. While historian Gale Stokes says Eastern Europe's filmatic treatment has been limited to spy stories, Rus-

FALL 11019/Page 17 sian and Slavic Studies professor Certainly Rice students do. "The Ewa Thompson says the U.S.S.R.—a traditional Hollywood dramatization more frequently covered region—has of biblical themes has had an been either idealized or presented enormous visual impact on the reli- cruelly."On the whole, my impres- gious imagination of the viewers," sion is that there have been no really says Kelber. "Those of our students "Generally speaking, I don't serious attempts to understand the who have seen Ten Hur,"The Ten like to see movies about Soviet mentality," she says, noting Commandments' or any of the other exception—"Moscow China or read popular books one on the monumental religious productions Hudson"—which she says "gives an are prone to read biblical texts about China. The reason is accurate view of how Soviets who through the eyes of Hollywood." that I am a prisoner of my have come to America look at this The very nature of movies adapts academic training and always country and its goods." to the, well, biblical proportions end up being overly critical. It Deeply shrouded in celluloid mys- of religious material. "Taking full is virtually impossible for me tery is China, one reason Rich Smith advantage of the wide, curving simply to relax and enjoy a finds it hard to watch. "Generally screen, which produces the illusion of China-related book or film for speaking, I don't like to see movies a third dimension, most pictures of the 'story' for the characters about China or read popular books this genre are technically quite so- or even for the images." about China," he says. "I am a pris- phisticated," Kelber says. "Ideologi- oner of my academic training and end cally, however, most of them are -Richard Smith, up being overly critical." characterized by a theological History His observation of most Western- triumphalism. made films, however, is that they "Religion is depicted largely as a "continue to view China as exotic manifestation of power, be it in terms and unfathomable. of miracle working, military triumphs "Since this is their premise, they or other types of unambiguous hero- seldom go beyond conventional ism." stereotypes," he says. —The Good But even these "manifestations of Earth' romanticizes the Chinese peas- power" cannot do justice to biblical antry; 'The Sand Pebbles' distorts the drama, says Benjamin. "Movies like nature of the Nationalist Revolution; 'The Ten Commandments' and 'Marco Polo'—a spaghetti East- 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'—as well as ern!—tells us next to nothing about bad sermons—have a tremendous the Yuan dynasty, although the cos- impact on what people think about tumes are reasonably authentic; and the field of religious studies," he 'The Last Emperor' says more about says."Most of it is negative. None of the pathetic Henry Puyi than it does the productions I have seen over the about China, and more about [direc- years comes close to the power, the tor Bernardo] Bertolucci than it does artistic quality and the drama of the about Puyi...`Empire of the Sun' rec- biblical literature itself." reates with reasonable accuracy the Few also reflect adequate research historical atmosphere of the Japanese of standard interpretations, much attack on China in the 1930s but it less current scholarship, he says. "In does not reveal much about China it- my opinion, the movies deal very self." badly—but very profitably—with Smith notes, however, that West- biblical stories. In most, the Bible is ern filmmakers' purposes are not to simply a lexicon of plots and charac- help foreign audiences understand ters, rearranged by the author, seldom Chinese culture, and they most often very well." use China as a colorful backdrop. Exceptions, he says, are "Dim Sum" and "A Great Wall." Biblical Studies Who, when thinking of Moses, does not visualize Charlton Heston tower- ing over the masses holding above his head stone tablets containing the ten commandments?

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With screenplays such as "Top Gun,""Bee- tlejuice" and "Batman" to his credit, Warren Skaaren has placed himself in the upper echelon of screenwriters. He recently completed a script for the upcoming Tom Cruise film, tentatively entitled "Daytona," in which Cruise portrays a racecar driver. When writing a screenplay, says Skaaren, "you consider your audience first, and what you are trying to communicate. Before that, you try to understand what it is about the subject that fascinates you." Skaaren's biggest challenge in writing this summer's runaway hit, "Batman," was to create a main character who was believable in the film's contemporary setting. "The hardest part about writing 'Batman' was to take a character who has such a strong image in the country's consciousness and to modernize him in a way that did not uproot him from that intrigue but advanced him into a modern context. And I think Michael [Keaton, who portrayed Batman] did a good job with that." Holy Screenwriter, Batman! It's Warren Skaaren. The pre-production phase of the film, during which Skaaren produced 11 drafts of the script, lasted a full year. The screenwriter flew to and from the "Batman" London location several times during filming of the movie last fall. "It's a lot of fun to travel around and meet the kinds of people you get to meet in this business," Skaaren says."One of the great things about being a writer, and in particular a screenwriter, is that you have the opportunity to exercise your interests, your curiosity, and pursue them with a practical goal in mind. "The racecar picture I just finished is one in Which I actually got to learn how to drive race- cars and travel with the racers," he continues. In a way, working in movies turns the whole world into your Fondren library. The library was my favorite place at Rice. I feel like I am still walking through the doors and looking at all those wonderful volumes that I never got a chance to take out at Fondren." Skaaren gradu- ated in 1969 with a degree in art. The screenwriter enjoys the work he has been doing lately. Although the writing and re- writing of numerous drafts can be a tedious process, the benefits far outweigh the costs. And the benefits, for Skaaren, are the artists with whom he collaborates. "For the most part, like at Rice, you're dealing with very top-of-the-line People; they're really intense and creative, they re very qualified, and it's exciting to work In that kind of hypercharged atmosphere. You sit across the table from Jack Nicholson and you shape these characters. In some ways, it does remin d me of Rice, because you're working with the absolute best." —Ned Hibberd Q: How deep is the ocean? A: It varies. The Norwegian Sea is 5,000 meters deep. Q: How high is the sky? A: We don't know for sure, but Venus—the nearest planet to Earth—is 42 million kilometers away. Q: What's the connection between them? A: Manik Talwani is mapping both.

The sea has always been of vital importance to Norway. So it was not surprising that the King of Norway in 1987 bestowed one of his nation's highest honors on a man who helped bring about the greatest economic boon to that maritime country—oil riches from the North Sea. An honorary Ph.D. and election to the Nor- wegian Academy of Science and Letters were recognition of the role played by Manik Tal- wani, Rice professor of geophysics, in exploring the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, the long stretch of continental shelf winding down the coast of Norway to Denmark. A professor at Columbia University in the late 1960s, Talwani was the chief scientist on a project to map the geologic structures of the Norwegian Sea floor with new methods based on remote sensing de- vices using gravity, magnetic and seismic data by Mimi Crossley to reach areas people cannot walk on or see. "As a by-product of our mapping project, which was aimed at unraveling the geological origin of the Norwegian Sea, we discovered three major basins of sedimentary rock that looked promising for oil drilling," notes Tal- wani. The payoff from this scientific endeavor was almost simultaneous: by 1971, one billion barrels of oil had been found in Norwegian wa- ters. Today, oil is one of Norway's leading ex- ports and its economic lifeblood. But the honor from the Norwegian academy was, for Talwani, an award for past achieve- ments. By 1987, the pioneering geologist and geophysicist had gone on to other intriguing sci- entific questions. In 1975, he was chief scientist on the project to place a science-experiment package on the Apollo 17 lunar rover to meas- ure variations of gravity on the Moon. The Apollo 17 experiments, for which Talwani de- veloped the first lunar gravity meter, confirmed that the lunar valleys are not filled with sedi- ment as Earth valleys are. Instead, they are an- cient beds of once-molten rock. Following the Apollo program, Talwani was tapped to join scientists designing an unmanned space probe to map Venus. As a co-investigator on the Magellan Probe, Talwani's chief area of responsibility is to coordinate and analyze the findings from topographic surface mapping with readings of the gravity values over different parts of the planet.

Page 20/FALI, 1989 Since swirling, nearly opaque clouds of sul- first to use satellite navigation for civilian ships, from 20 universities to plan the project. Ham- furic acid prevent accurate visual mapping of and developed the use of geophysical measure- pered at first by lack of funds, EDGE put to sea the Venusian surface, the Magellan Probe will ments to describe and interpret the deep struc- on a Houston-based Digicon Corp. ship off the use radar as it tracks the planet through its long tures of mid-ocean ridges. Author of more than coast of California in 1987. Venusian day (243 Earth days). Data on gravity 100 scientific papers, his name is on most of the Their first season, EDGE geophysicists will measure the density of underground masses authoritative textbooks and articles pertaining to tested the method of deep seismic readings, and detect mountain ranges and valleys, Tal- the ocean floor, continental drift and geologi- gaining a look at the geology of the ocean crust wani says. cally active mid-ocean ridges. down to 30 kilometers, or about 18 miles. The effort to assemble the Magellan findings After a two-year period as chief scientist for "One of EDGE's goals is to look at the re- Will begin in August 1990, when the unmanned the exploration division of Gulf Research and gion where the crust under the ocean meets the probe reaches its orbit around Venus. Scientists Development Co., Talwani joined Rice in 1985 continental land mass and begins to form conti- Will be searching for clues to the origin and evo- as Schlumberger Professor of Geology and Geo- nental crust," Talwani points out. It is in that lution of our closest neighbor in the solar sys- physics. At the same time, he established the region that scientists can see tem. Geotechnology Research Institute at the Hous- "Venus is more like Earth than any other ton Area Research Center(HARC) in the planet," Talwani says. "It's approximately the Woodlands. same size and is similar in composition to us, As director of the institute, Talwani and we will be gaining some of the most de- has created yet another project to deal tailed information we have about Venus from with one of the big questions of the Magellan Probe." geology—the formation and What is the connection between Talwani's nature of deep-seated work on the ocean floor and outer space? For rocks just at the edge one, both are on the forefront of geological ex- of the continental ploration. Second, both are regions beyond the margins. reach of conventional mapping techniques, re- Called Project quiring new innovations in the rapidly expand- EDGE, Talwani ing field of geophysics pioneered by Talwani has gathered a and others. consortium of "I was fortunate to be a graduate student in researchers the 1950s when major discoveries in my field, such as the discovery of the mid-ocean ridges, were made and major theories such as the ideas about rigid crustal plates and continental drift were formulated," Talwani says. "To be in on the discoveries, you had to go to sea." Talwani went from Delhi University in his native India to Norway for one year, and then to New York and Columbia University, where he received his doctorate in 1959. From the rank of research scientist, he rose to a full professorship in geophysics and then became director of the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory at Co- lumbia from 1972-81. During this time, he went to sea literally around the world, including a stint on the famed Glomar Challenger, the inter- national scientific drilling ship. "In my field, the major theories are put together after a mass of evidence has accumu- lated. Discoveries are made by new instrumen- tation and methods," he notes. It is in the use of new instrumentation and measuring technologies and the analysis of data gained from them that Manik Talwani has made his reputation. In the '50s and '60s, he devel- oped computer programs to model gravity and magnetic anomalies that are still used today. He also invented the cross-coupling computer, Which is used in making accurate gravity meas- urements on ships at sea. Talwani also was the

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FALL 1989/Page 21 the physical evidence of tectonic plate move- EDGE's goals include taking seismic sound- With a major $1.5 million grant from the ment, the formation of volcanos and mountain ings from the West Coast off Oregon and Houston Endowment over the next three years, ranges and the origin of earthquakes. Alaska, the East Coast off Virginia and the Flor- Talwani and a team of researchers will look at By stringing out seismic receivers in a cable ida West Coast. Talwani is looking for evidence new technology for improving drilling and pro- towed behind a ship and then firing an air gun of the "old scars" where continents once pulled duction from natural gas reservoirs. into the water, the sound reflected by subsurface apart as well as the areas of subduction, where In one advanced experiment, Talwani and his structures to the seismic receivers—when run on the massive rock plates of the Earth's crust and colleagues will test a new device to be located a computer—creates a cross-sectional image of mantle move against each other. just above the drill bit in drilling for natural gas. millions of years of geologic strata. Later this year, the first readings from Up on the ground surface, sound receivers will "Energy companies may use seismic reading EDGE's Alaska experiments will be analyzed. be laid out in a grid. The device above the drill for three kilometers down into the shelf, which Talwani is already pleased with the preliminary bit will bounce sound waves out into the rock is the depth that is useful to them," Talwani results."We have a clear picture all the way and sand; the waves will be picked up by the says. "But we want information from tens of down and for millions of years back in time," he grid on the surface and relayed to HARC's su- kilometers down in order to explore the nature says. percomputer in the Woodlands. A three-dimen- of the deep crust and upper mantle of the Earth." Talwani's interest in EDGE has a touch of sional computer-generated picture of the rock EDGE's first season off the Santa Barbara national pride for his adopted country, for which structure and the possible shape and location of Channel produced the first physical picture of he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. Other, the gas reservoir will be relayed back to a com- the ancient Pacific plate thrust under California. similar offshore efforts have been launched by puter terminal run by the drill operator, who will This plate is now moving to the northwest, cre- France (ECORS), Canada (LITHOPROBE) and guide the direction of the drill accordingly. ating the San Andreas fault line still threatening Great Britain (BIRPS). The "down hole" project will bring super- the coast of California. While EDGE is a big effort using methods computers right into the oil patch, just as high Now, however, Talwani and his institute at and equipment already developed by industry, technology has aided exploration of the sea and HARC have received a $600,000 grant from the another Talwani project at HARC is testing the outer space. For Manik Talwani, however, it's National Science Foundation and $100,000 from latest advances in geophysical instrumentation. just one more step for geophysics. Texaco, effectively launching EDGE on its way.

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Page 22/FALL 1989 Photo by Tommy LaVerglie "Golf." "Oh, no—I've been practicing the whole summer." "Yeah, well, you need a whole summer." Another athlete hops up on the table. "So what you got?" the trainer asks. "Regular." A player squeezing through the cramped aisle bumps into Smith. "Thanks, John!" the trainer chides. "What did I do?" "Knocked the tape out of my hand." Smith, who is larger than most of Behind the the players, does not worry about in- timidation. Nor do the other trainers. The rela- Scenes tionship between the trainers and the football players is one of mutual re- spect, according to fifth-year student and trainer Robert Maniscalco. "We're It's half past three in the sports medi- there for the players. I feel like we're a cine training room. A few trainers part of the team." Junior Suzanne Bal- huddle together in the darkened room, chunas agrees. "The guys aren't that some having just awakened from a bad. Every once in a while I think they quick nap between football practices. forget we're females. I get beat up a But intermission is coming to an. lot. When I remind them that I'm a end. The lights come on, and the train- girl they say, `Aw, you're just my ers circulate through the room, filling little sister.' coolers with Gatorade, hauling away "Of course, sometimes when you discarded towels, peering at player in- give them water or a backrub they can jury records or tallying work hours . be very appreciative," she adds."One needed to complete their sports medi- guy told me if! ever needed anyone's cine apprenticeships. legs broken he'd be happy to do it." A player wanders in. He walks The athletes have good reason to be Rice trainers tend to taping duties, feet first. over to a freezer and takes out a stick deferential to the trainers. Trainers you're also ing-room empties as quickly as it was embedded in an ice cup. He limps serve both as "waterboys" and as in- stick by them. That means filled. "That was fun-12 straight over to a training table and rolls the jury-prevention experts. Even when held accountable. people," exclaims Smith, putting up Ice over his swollen knee. standing idly on the field during prac- "Allen [Eggert] is really good his tape and can of adhesive spray. Other players trickle into the room. tice, the trainers are watching for signs about watching us and then asking af- He Some of the trainers go down to water Some are here to receive treatment for of dehydration, the number-one enemy terward why we do what we do. Little the field, necessary to reduce the al- their injuries, but most gather around of heat-stressed athletes. "Student doesn't interfere needlessly." most perfect friction on the artificial training tables, where the trainers are trainers keep those guys alive," says describes other benefits such as the with the turf, which can cause injuries. Others furiously taping each player's ankles Allen Eggert, Rice's head trainer and a close association Rice has often relax in anticipation of the next as- to prevent injury during practice. 1963 Rice graduate. "Keeping them Texas Medical Center. Trainers doctors and participate in sault: wrist-taping at six. Trainers Some of the trainers are new. You can well hydrated is our primary responsi- work with various aspects keep the same hours as the athletes— ee it in the timid manner they ap- bility early in the season. It's then that presentations covering six in the morning till the end-of-eve- proach wrapping the tape. Others are major problems are most likely." of sports medicine. ning practice during training season. old pros, and it is obvious that the Though prevention is the trainers' As student interns, most trainers This can add up to an 80-hour work Players know the difference. specialty, injuries are bound to occur. are working toward a degree in sports week at times. .Player Louis Belady gives his Last season a dozen football players medicine. They must also complete Trainers will be the first to tell you trainer a thumbs up. "They're good. were brought off the field, severely the requirements for a state trainer's that they perform all the menial jobs. The two best tapers are Allen and hampering Rice's performance. Train- license in order to work profession- They are, for the average sports fan, Wade. I don't know about the new ers at Rice receive considerable inde- ally. Though the demands of training anonymous. They share none of the guys, though." Wade Smith, who is pendence in evaluating and treating often equal those of a full-time job, taping glory the athletes they take care of find Belady, nods. "Just for that, I'm such injuries. Junior Lorna Little Rice trainers are students, usually on so abundant. giving you an extra wrap." transferred to Rice from another scholarship, with other demands both But they don't mind. Maniscalco Soon, the room is saturated with school and says she appreciates get- academic and social. Little says her smiles. "If you don't enjoy it, you People. Conversations range from dis- ting first-hand experience from day friendships are limited to the athletes have no business doing it." cussion of injuries to discussion of one. "We're allowed to make deci- and fellow trainers largely because of sP.0rts—rather appropriate, given the sions and stand on our own with the the strenuous schedule. —Steven Zettner lix of players and trainers. knowledge we have. You have to Little shuffles her water cart out 'Baseball's sweet, man. Baseball's make your own decisions and then of the way of a charging lineman."We sweet." also share a common interest, or we "Yeah, well, Fm no good at it." wouldn't all be out here." Not me. Name something I'm not Like the calm after battle, the train- the best at."

FALL 1989/Page 23 assured her that even more alumni time for homecoming? Our older unwelcome here. Even though there would have come if they had known alumni think so, but some people think were women at Rice from the very about it in time. Beer-Bike would be a more appropri- first class, they still felt out of place. Jensen urges Houston alumni to ate time. What does someone from '81 We didn't feel this in the '50s, perhaps subscribe to "On Campus," an events think? This is why we need younger because women were just breaking calendar that lists the lectures, recitals alums on that committee. into science and engineering fields." and cultural events occurring on "This is an excellent time to solicit Jensen knows from personal campus.(Subscription information can from alums any ideas, comments or experience that the best way to excite be found elsewhere in this issue.) criticisms they may have about the interest in Rice is to expose alumni to Because Rice is such a small school, alumni agenda," Jensen says, includ- today's students. Jensen's attitude visitors to such events never feel out ing input from alumni outside Hous- toward Rice changed dramatically of place, she says. "I've never felt ton."We need to listen to our out-of- after a stint on the Rice Admission unwelcome just wandering into a town alums because we are now a Committee. "Seeing the kind of Getting lecture. Also, a lot of people don't national university." students coming in really got me realize that as alumni we can audit Jensen urges concerned alumni to excited about Rice again," she says. Involved classes here—not just continuing communicate their thoughts to Nancy While not every Rice alum has the education, though that is available, Boothe, the planning committee chair. time or the inclination to work on an too. For $25, you can audit any class Jensen recognizes that it is no easy admissions committee, Jensen feels Betty went to Rice University for one you want." thing to motivate the entire alumni that even limited exposure to Rice year, got married, dropped out of Jensen notes that the alumni population to support their school. would be sufficient to arouse a sense school and never came back. Jack association offers Rice alumni Rice alums vary widely in the fond- of pride in where the university has received a graduate degree from Rice something virtually unheard-of at ness they hold for their alma mater. come in 77 years. but an undergraduate degree from other universities—services that are "Alums of different generations have —Steven Zenner another school. Betty and Jack are not tied to annual donations."Many different feelings about Rice," Jensen Rice alumni—true or false? universities tend to equate the love notes. "Prior to World War II, for in- 1989-90 Association of Rice their alumni hold for their alma mater stance, many women felt most Alumni President Bridget Jensen with how much money those alumni answers with an emphatic,"True." give," she says, but points out that One of her top goals this year will be Rice benefits from an active and to communicate the message that one interested alumni community in many needn't have been a mainstream four- ways other than financial. Some year undergraduate to be a Rice alum- alumni become involved in organiza- nus or alumna."We need to communi- tions such as the Shepherd Society and cate that anyone who came here is a Friends of Fondren, while others offer Rice alum," says Jensen."As selective Rice students a taste of the working as Rice is, if you can claim to have world through the Rice Alumni Extern been accepted, that is an honor in Program. Jensen says more subtle, but itself. We're missing a lot of people no less important, aspects of alumni because they don't realize that they are support are recruiting excellent still part of the Rice community." students and maintaining Rice's image Jensen says there are a number of "outside the hedges." ways a Rice alum can choose to Jensen sees the Association of Rice benefit from that status. Alumni as a facilitator between the Those outside the Houston area, more than 30,000 Rice alumni and the who comprise the vast majority of school itself. "The purpose of the alumni, can take advantage of travel- alumni association is to foster positive ing Rice faculty members to arrange emotions that make people want to local lectures or even living room contribute to the university," she says. discussion groups. Likewise, the Part of her strategy for accomplishing Alumni Association can arrange for this goal is to encourage participation local alumni clubs to connect with from younger alumni."More than half M.O.B. and Shepherd School road the alumni from this university have events. For younger alumni moving graduated since 1972," Jensen says. into a new city, an invaluable resource To enlist their support, the alumni as- is the Alumni Contact Service, whose sociation has established a long-range members can help take the sting out of planning committee, many of whose adjusting to a new locale. members are more recent graduates. President Bridget Jensen Rice sporting events are always "It's quite possible that this ARA popular, as Jensen witnessed person- committee will refocus where we need ally when Rice traveled to Notre to go," says Jensen. "Take homecom- Dame last year. "It was amazing how ing, for example—is mid-fall the best many people came to see Rice get creamed," Jensen laughs. One alum

Page 24/FALL 1989 Service to the University presented to 1979-TGIF,Friday, Oct. 27, 4:30- Franz R. and Frances R. Brotzen and to 6:30 p.m., RMC Courtyard. Mexican David C. Farnsworth '42(posthu- buffet, Saturday, Oct. 28, 7:30 p.m., mously). Retirement presentations to Grand Hall, RMC. faculty members Katherine T. Brown 1984 -Dessert party, Saturday, Oct. Rice '38, H. C. Clark, Madeleine M. 28,8 p.m., Farnsworth Pavilion, Ley Raaphorst '59 and Mercedes Valdivieso. Student Center. 12-1:30 p.m. Homecoming Lunch- eon, Grand Hall and Sammy's, RMC. Special Group Reunions Homecoming '89 Please make reservations on the attached •1949 Chem-Es. Friday, Oct. 27,7:30 form: $10 advance; $12 at door. p.m., Vargo's, 2401 Fondren. Hosted by 12-2 p.m. World's Largest Tailgate Jerry Jax '49,(713) 468-2117. Party, Stadium Parking Lot, North End. •Rice Men's Volleyball Club. Contact 4 p.m. Outstanding Engineering 12-5 p.m. "Harriet Shorr-Paintings Jimmy Disch,(713) 527-4083. Alumnus Lecture by George Miner, Se- and Monoprints," Sewall Art Gallery. •Willy's Pub Bartenders. Saturday, Oct. Fun and wall Hall, Room 301. 12:30-2 p.m. Rice Couples Photos, 28, 8 p.m., Willy's Pub. Organized by 7 p.m. Rice vs. Colorado State Blair Lounge, Ley Student Center. John Adams '80,(713) 748-5551 (w); Games Women's Volleyball, Autrey Court. 2 p.m. Rice vs. Texas A&M Home- 928-4834(h). 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Oktoberfest, Sid coming Football Game. •Architecture. Friday, Oct. 27, 7:30 Richardson College. 5-7 p.m. Masters' Receptions, all col- p.m.,"Aldo Rossi: Three Works in Rice Homecoming traditionally opens leges. America" lecture, Chemistry Lecture With a concert, appropriate given the Saturday, Oct. 28 6 p.m. Young Alumni Celebration, Hall; opening reception, Farish Gallery. Symphony of activities scheduled to take 8 a.m. Alumni Past Presidents' Cameron Field. Barbecue, beer, soft Contact Geraldina Wise '83,(713) 660- Place weekend. Sports over the coming Breakfast, Cohen House. drinks. $6 in advance; $7 at door. 6640. events are plentiful and include a 5K 8:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Registration, Ley 6 p.m. Reunion Tennis Classic Wel- .Rally Club. Contact Doug Monsour, Fun Run for those who would rather run Student Center. coming Party and Dinner, Jake Hess (713)527-8101, ext. 2308. than watch. And all the old favorites 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Alumni Archives Stadium. •MOB. Saturday, Oct. 28, early morning (campus tours, couple photos and, of Women's Display, Miner Lounge, Ley Student 7 p.m. Rice vs. Wyoming rehearsal, halftime performance with Course, reunions) are back-plus some Center. Volleyball Game, Autrey Court. current MOB,reception following game. new activities sure to become favorites. Association 8:30 a.m. Golden "R" Coffee, 9 p.m. Graduate Student Contact Guinn Unger '71,(713) 789- A list of homecoming activities fol- Classes of 1916-39, Farnsworth Pavilion Dance/Halloween Party, Valhalla. 1180 or 933-2350. lows. For more information, contact the and Brown Memorial Garden, Ley Stu- •Cheerleaders. Meet on the field at 9 alumni office at(713) 527-4057 or con- dent Center. Sunday,Oct. 29 a.m. Contact Jane Jordan '85,(713) 654- sult your homecoming brochure. 9-10:30 a.m. Campus tours, walking 9:30 a.m. Reunion Tennis Classic, 1234. and motorized. Meet at Ley Student Jake Hess Stadium. •Grad Student Association. Dance and Center. Halloween Party, Saturday, Oct. 28,9 9-11 a.m. Open House, Admission Class Reunions p.m., Valhalla. Contact Robert 527-8101, ext. 2433. Thursday, Oct.26 Office, Lovett Hall. All alumni and pro- 1929-Friday, Oct. 27, 12:30 p.m., Schmunk,(713) Game. Saturday, Oct. 8 p.m. Shepherd School of Music spective alumni interviewers welcome. Kelley Lounge, Ley Student Center. •Alumni Soccer next to gym. Symphony Orchestra and Chorale con- 9 a.m. Friends of Fondren and Rice 1934-Friday, Oct. 27, 11:30 a.m., 28. Meet at soccer field 527- ducted by Tom Jaber, Hamman Hall. Engineering Alumni Members Brunch, Farnsworth Pavilion, Ley Student Cen- Contact Albert Van Helden,(713) 9 P.m. Champagne reception with Alice Pratt Brown Library, second floor, ter. 4948. Dr. Tennis Classic Wel- and Mrs. George Rupp. Fondren Library. Friends of Fondren Li- 1939-Golden Anniversary Dinner, •Tennis. Reunion Dinner, Saturday, Oct. brary Award presented to Mary Lou Friday, Oct. 27,6:30 p.m., Cohen coming Party and Hess Stadium. Contact Nduy,Oct. 27 Margrave. Outstanding Engineering House. 28,6 p.m. Jake Larry Turville,(713) 527-8101, ext. 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Registration and Alumnus Award to George R. Miner Jr. 1944-Friday, Oct. 27, 7 p.m., Hous- .2451. Alumni Archives Display, Ley Student '50. ton Country Club, 1 Potomac off Center. 9:30 a.m. Lovett College 5K Fun Woodway. 10 a.m. Campus tours begin from Run. Meet at Sallyport. 1949-Saturday, Oct. 28, 7-10 p.m., Ley Student Center. 10 a.m. Tribute to the Founder, Aca- Marriott Brookhollow Hotel, Loop 610 12-5 p.m. Art exhibit: "Harriet demic Quadrangle. at U.S. Highway 290. rorr-Paintings and Monoprints." In- 10 a.m. Rice Varsity Tennis Team 1954-Cocktails and Noche Mexi- lormal gallery talk at noon, Sewall Art Exhibition Matches, Jake Hess Stadium. cana, Friday, Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m., RMC; Gallery. 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. "Back to the Brunch, Sunday, Oct. 29, home of Mary 1 P.m. Fifth Annual Alumni Tennis Future," Panel Discussion and Convoca- Ellen Wilson, 674 Shartle Circle. Tournament Jake Hess Stadium. tion, Hamman Hall. Faculty panel mod- 1959-Party, Saturday, Oct. 28, 7:30 2-4 p.m. Campus tours, walking and erated by historian Allen J. Matusow, p.m., home of Nancy Mafrige, 2330 motorized. Meet at Ley Student Center. Dean of Humanities, will present a Glenhaven. 2:30 p.m. Estate Planning Seminar, sneak preview of the future. Speakers 1964-25th Anniversary Class. In- Career Services Office, 2nd floor, Rice will include sociologist Stephen L. Klin- formal get-together. Friday, Oct. 27, Memorial Center. eberg, biochemist Kathleen M. Becking- 7:30 p.m., Vargo's, 2401 Fondren; f 4 P.m. Groundbreaking ceremonies ham,computer scientist Don H. Johnson Cocktail Buffet, Saturday, Oct. 28, Co- ,t91. George R. Brown Hall (see story in and chemist/environmental scientist hen House. He news Ronald L. Sass. -Seated dinner, Friday, Oct. tails). section of this issue for de- 1969 11:30 a.m. Homecoming Award 27, 7:30 p.m., Forest Club,9950 Memo- 4 P.m. Blue-Gray Final Fall In- Presentation and Annual Meeting, Ham- rial. tersquad Baseball Game,Cameron man Hall. Bridget Rote Jensen '53, pre- 1974-After-the-Game Party, Satur- Field. siding. Gold Medal for Distinguished day, Oct. 28, 5:00 p.m., outdoors across from RMC.

FILL 1989/Page 2: John Oliver Brown retired as astronauts and provide design for Primo has just finished an his- a research engineer for Transco. the space station. We still have torical novel inspired by his expe- He and his wife. Hattie, have two three '37 more years left on our con- riences in World War II, which is children, Hattie Jo Brown Parker tract and after that, with 'who knows?' Class Recorder: his publisher.(Move over, (Mrs. Robert). and a son. Kurth Mary Charlotte and I toured David Westheimer!) Mary Jane Hale Rommel Brown, who is a well-known inte- Greece this year and found it to be Primo's address. 504 Fairway Drive, Riverhill in case you'd rior designer in Houston. John Ol- a beautiful country, three like to get in -fourths Kerrville, TX 78028 touch: 505 Spanish iver likes to garden and work with of which is mountainous. What a (512) 896-4310 Oak Drive, Ingram, Texas 78025 his hands and has done a great thrill to see the original Olympic (near Kerrville), tel. 5 12/367- deal of work to enhance the beauty Stadium, or stand in the recon- 2287. of his home and gardens. He is struction of the temple where the Received a nice letter from also interested in the history of Oracle of Delphi held forth. What Dorothy Weiser Seale recently, Houston and collects papers and a surprise to learn that the Oracle thanking me for my letter telling Classnotes photographs of early Houston. was a 'Virgin Female. — her about the recent marriage of Nelda Reichert Lawrence and Rice friends Harry Fouke '35 and her husband. Kenneth, moved Harriet Allen Talbot '36, who back to Houston from Kerrville. are making their home in Houston. Texas. Nelda's health wasn't the '34 Dorothy and Mike '39 have best for about a year, but now she two grandchildren living in Amar- Class Recorder: is back in the groove. She and illo. She says they are planning to '30 Kenneth Elliott Flowers '31 are very active in their attend Mike's 50th Rice reunion at 3330 Del Monte church. teaching conversational homecoming this October and Class Recorder: Class Recorder: Houston, TX 77019 English, one on one, with the hope to see a lot of you there. The Mildred Ogg Fisher Anne McCulloch international group. Nelda pres- (713)524-4404 Scales' 2910 Braebum 2348 Shakespeare address is 8203 Yukon ently has two young Korean Court, Arvada, CO 80005. Bryan, TX 77802 Houston, Texas 77030 Mary Eleanor Norris women she is helping with their Hamilton Received a letter from Ward (409) 774-7217 and Grover English. She also collects and re- Richard Adams send Adkins offering to help with this finishes antiques. She and Kenneth this note: "In my 13th year of wid- Class recorder Mary Jane Hale Class recorder Mildred Ogg column by feeding me news of enjoy being back in Houston with owhood, I (Mary) decided to take Rommel writes:"My husband, Fisher friends he sees in Houston who are writes: the plunge; Dick '32 old friends. and I were mar- Ross, and I moved to the our classmates. He sent a fine re- Apologies for the absence of a ried after meeting at a singles Kerrville-Hunt area in 1969. Dur- column for the spring issue of Sal- port on Ernie Gammage, which Class Recorder: church party nine months before. ing the years that followed, we de- lyport. During the ice storm on will be covered in the next issue of Chris Hoover Although our lives had run in par- veloped and operated a unique Feb. 5, I slipped on the ice and Sal/sport. 5318 Meadow Lake Lane allel directions, our paths never boutique—El Buzon Imports—for smashed my right elbow. I was '33 Houston. TX 77056 crossed. We each came from the which we traveled and shopped largely incapacitated for six Midwest, graduated in the same worldwide. After my husband's months; for 12 weeks a cast from Class Recorder: Chris Hoover writes: class at Rice, each worked for death in 1984 I sold the shop and wrist to shoulder, and for two Willie Mae Chapman Cole It was so good to have news of Humble Oil Co.. and each married resumed my writing. '38 more months my arm in a sling. 2414 Chimney Rock George Osburn. one of the gang the first time in St. Paul's Method- My newspaper column,"So All is well now. I recently mailed Houston, TX 77056 Class Recorder from the architecture department ist Chapel. Dick and I were mar- You're Moving," which appears in Coordinator: 16 cards to classmates, begging for (713) 782-9509 Helen Worden in the old days. George retired as ried last November in St. Luke's the Kerrville Daily Times, is the Saba news items. I prayed for a high 695 Rocky River Road production superintendent for Methodist Chapel. My dear friend, same one I wrote for 10 years in percentage of response. Recorder Willie Cole sends the Houston, TX 77056 Coastal Gas Co. to Baton Rouge. Lydia Ponder Miller '35(who the Houston Chronicle. I receive The first was from Marjorie following news: La.. but he and his wife. Margie, passed away on April 12, 1989), letters from all over the country Nicks Carothers. Marjorie said Leata Meyer Hess makes vis- Class Recorders: recently moved to Anderson. S.C., stood with me. Lydia and I had asking about moving to Texas and/ that she and Durell have just sort its to her office to keep a "hands .Mary Greenwood Anderson, 3740 to be near their son, Hugh Osbum, been in one another's weddings in or the Hill Country. It is great fun of slowed down the last few years. on" experience—but still has extra Willowick, Houston, and his family. They wanted to be 1941. Dick and I had a mini- and keeps me studying and in- TX 77019 Who hasn't? Durell makes it to the time. During a visit to the Smith- .Phil Peden. Essex close to their three grandchildren honeymoon with the first night in volved with my community. I have 2709 Terrace, Rice football games and hunts a sonian. Leata saw a photograph of and have the pleasure of watching the bridal suite at the plush War- an office in the First National Houston, TX 77027 little. They go to most of the Alley the planet Earth taken in space. them grow up. George was very wick Hotel. He still chuckles about Bank where 1 offer relocation as- •Zelda Keeper Rick. 12951 Trail plays."We read a lot and play gin When she returned home she rec- Hollow, Houston, active in civic and fraternal groups the clerk's reaction to his inquiry, sistance to new Texans. If you or TX 77079 rummy and Scrabble." she writes. reated the photo on a three-by- •William in Baton Rouge, but he now 'Do you have a senior citizen's any of your friends plan to move Rogde. 4101 Case, Hous- Bernice Ludeau Doak writes four-foot canvas—from memory. ton, TX 77005 spends his time playing bridge, discount on the bridal suite?' here, please come to see me! that she and Edmond live a quiet She did the background in acrylics fishing, and working in his shop, Dick's and my mutual fascination I recently joined a group of lo- life. Then she says."Ed spends and the planet in a collage. She has Class recorder where he makes furniture from with photography made our cal writers called "Easywriters" committee many hours at his typewriter and invited us to see it when she gets it coordinator scratch. honeymoon trip to Europe fun. I'm here in Kerrville. Can you imagine Helen Worden writes interesting stories, reminis- from the frame shop. writes: Cornelia Pearce Smith has amazed at the precise detail Dick my surprise when a tall, distin- cences, and historical and bio- Dick Adams and Eleanor wife, two children and four grandchil- was able to get in the London Brit- guished, gray-haired gentleman James K. Nance and his graphical essays. Some have been Hamilton '34 really did get mar- Lucy Nance, will remember dren. Her son lives in Dallas and is ish Museum of the Magna Carta, looked at me and, smiling, said, Bates published. I edit his writing.- Ed ried after last year's homecoming. forever April 10, 1989. an attorney. He has three children: Rosetta Stone and Handel's Mes- "Mary Jane, I went to Rice with During a has traced his ancestry back nearly Since Eleanor is a member of the visit Washington. D.C.. Phil, who attends the University of siah. Fond memories include: you. In fact, we were in the same in with 2,000 years. Between them they class of '34, the report of the wed- Houston. Stephen, presently at boarding the hovercraft for the class!" Lucy's son, David Q. Bates Jr., have three children, three grand- ding will be in that section. Be who President Austin College, and Rene, who is ride from Dover to Calais; the illu- I replied,"Well, who were is senior assistant to children, and two great-grandchil- sure and read it! Best wishes and George and secretary the on the dean's list at TCU. Daugh- minated boat ride on the Seine you?" Turned out it was our own Bush of dren. good luck. Dick and Eleanor. ter Ann lives in Houston and has a around Notre Dame island past the great football star Primo Miller. Bush Cabinet, that memorable day Lee Harney Johnson writes Kenneth E. Jones wonders following events: a daughter, Dawn, who is 10 years Eiffel Tower, lit to celebrate its known as Ralph these days. included the from New Orleans. I had asked. where the years have gone. "It personal Bush old. Comelia has been elected 100-year anniversary; the Lion of Since Rice days, Primo went on visit with President "What kind of doctor are you?" seems that it was just yesterday in the oval personal visit president of the residents' associa- Lucerne; the pictures from the top to play three years of pro ball with office: a His degree is doctor of science in that I came down to Clear Lake to at a Lady Bar- tion at the Hallmark Retirement of Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland; the the Green Bay Packers and Cleve- reception with First civil engineering from Harvard. go to work for Lockheed Aircraft, bara Bush; a private reception at Home. Cornelia says quite a few Golden Roof of Innsbruck, Aus- land Rams. During the war years His career includes 13 years as but it was not, it was 24 years ago. the home Vice President Rice alumni live at the Hallmark. tria; Lorelei, churches and castles he progressed from private to lieu- of and dean of engineering at the Univer- I had worked for Lockheed in Bur- Mrs. Dan Quayle; and Roland Spencer, who did such as we cruised on the Rhine in Ger- tenant colonel in the U.S. Air a dinner sity of Mississippi. 22 years in the bank. Calif., for six years during hosted by Minority Leader a great job in the past years as many; and Anne Frank's hide- Force. His career years saw him in Bob same capacity at Tulane in New the war as one of five manufactur- Dole, class chair of the annual fund away, Rijksmuseum and a canal the lumber business in San Anto- Dole and his wife, Elizabeth Orleans. and 15 years of teaching ing engineers in their Plant 'A.' I secretary of Jim drive, died this summer. We are ride in Amsterdam. Although I had Mo, as marketing manager of East- labor. Lucy and calculus to freshman engineers at still prize the slip of paper entitled. are fortunate that Genevieve Pyle enjoyed my life before, our mar- ern States Petroleum and Chemical life members of the Republi- Tulane and senior high school stu- 'A Report of Lockheed Person- can Senatorial Inner Circle. Demme(Mrs. Roy) has agreed to riage has brought a new dimension Co., and as general manager and dents at New Orleans' Newsome nel.' which said (among others) We owe grati- assume this job. by combining our varied interests president of his own oil refinery in Jim considerable High. He says,"I retired in 1987 that the work that came out of tude Evelyn Flick Studdert(Mrs. and a completeness that is mutu- Palestine. Texas. for his contribution of the when I learned that I was teaching Joneses Group was the best in the class Book (?/' B.P.) moved about a year ago from ally satisfying." While living in Palestine, he anniversary reunion the great-granddaughter of a for- Lockheed organization, which at which he the Rice University vicinity to a served as president of the chamber Memories and Histories, mer associate!" Lee's wife is a that time numbered 80,000 per- year. townhome in the southwest section of commerce, president distributed at our dinner last sons. Some of the optical devices I of the professional artist who paints and of Houston at 9512 Briar Forest. The publication was indeed a labor designed for Lockheed at Clear YMCA and vice president of the draws under the name of Kitty She is the great-grandmother of a of love. Sincere thanks, Jim. Lake were mounted on the tele- East Texas Area Council Boy O'Meallie. fourth-generation Studdert with '36 Scouts of scopes at the McDonald Observa- America. He retired in the middle name of Patrick. Son tory in the Davis Mountains of Class Recorder: 1979 and moved to Kerrville in James lives in Houston as does her Texas. I am now working for the Mary B. Arnold 1981. He and his wife, Barbara daughter. Jo Ann. who has two third sub-contractor in support of 10714 Del Monte Jane Porter. from Mansfield. La., children. Evelyn is very active in the Johnson Space Center. We de- Houston, TX 77042 had five children. the Owls Alumni Group, and she sign articles for use in training the also enjoys playing bridge.

Page 26/1:11,1, 1989 western 1938. I always heard that anyone John (Jack) Webre is married Frances Burrell Chenault, New York up the East Coast to great hearing from you and learn- eled throughout the that had flunked Math 100 at Rice to Rose Flanagan. They live in With her husband. William. en- Montreal and Quebec and back to ing about your activities. I know United States. Sullender is would never get a degree in engi- Houston and have five children: joyed their get-away vacation in Boston and Newport. The Royal you feel as I do and can't wait for Maurine Martin Caroll Sullen- neering. It looked as if this would Johnny, Cynthia, Rose Virginia, Scandinavia before assuming du- Viking Suit was their cruise ship. Oct. 27. married to Maurice be the case, for I busted Dr. Estelle and Christopher. John has ties as president of the Society of They have three very beguiling In the order I received them: der. They have four children: Re- Weiser's Chem 480 course, a must been retired for 10 years, follow- Rice University Women during the and sharp grandchildren; one is Violet Stephen Jackson was becca S. Anderson, Brenda S. and to graduate. Thus(my presence in) ing 30 years in foreign trade. The current season. SRUW,founded in named for Margaret, and one is married to F.C.(Bob) Lawrence in Carll, Wayne M. Sullender the class of 1939." Webres have traveled to Europe, 1968, has been supported actively named for Carson. These two are 1939 (deceased as of 1969). She Craig C. Sullender. The Sullenders Ada Frances Miller Hirdler is South America, South Africa and by the women of our class as offi- the pride of son Carson,(called married R. Graham Jackson in live in Pasadena, Texas. Maurine the wife of Louis C. Hirdler '40. the Far East. Jack enjoys golfing, cers: four have been president. Casey) and daughter-in-law 1971. Graham is a fellow of AIA says she loves walking, traveling They live in Lake Charles, La., swimming, fishing, hunting and Frances and William look forward Joanne, and live in Austin. Mar- and CSI. They live in Houston. volunteering and visiting their and have two children: Ann Lou- boating. to their 50th anniversary next July got, named for 'our' Margaret, Violet and Bob had three children: grandchildren. ise Hirdler and Arthur L. Hirdler. Mary Frances Carter Lewis in Paris, where they celebrated graduated from St. Andrews Jun- Lana L. Lawrence, an ordained D. H."Budde" Gartner is The The Hirdlers lived in Cuba for is married to William B. Lewis. their 40th. ior High, a private school, this Baptist minister(now deceased), married to Dorothy Jean. over three years while Louis was They live in Baytown, Texas, and One classmate who seems to spring and will be going to Austin John F. Lawrence, retired from Gartners have four children and working for Sulphur Co.; they also are the parents of three children: enjoy retirement thoroughly is Sr. High this fall. Arthur Anderson & Co., and seven grandchildren. Houston is enjoyed a trip to Europe when William C. Lewis, Mary Lewis Herbert E. Holm. He delights in Casey and Joanne have very Stephen H. Lawrence, a retired their home. Budde says he spends trav- Louis was employed by Olin Corp. Cauble and Margaret C. Lewis. doing "nothing:- "Nothing" means interesting careers. Casey does USAF colonel. Violet reports his time playing golf. Ada holds a permanent teaching Frances worked for 18 years as a going to the office each day—just impressive, museum quality work eling to South America, Canada, Alice Foulks Gage is married certificate. She says that both chil- public librarian. She retired in checking; then on to lunch with in photography as well as teach- Scotland and around the U.S. She to John R. Gage '40. They have dren served in the Vietnam war— 1984 as assistant library director friends and returning home early ing. and enjoys his careers im- enjoys spectator sports, swim- two children, John R. Gage Jr. and to "grandchildren and live in Arthur as a Marine sergeant and from Sterling Municipal Library in be with Dorothy his wife of 44 mensely. Joanne is busy studying ming, camping and Elizabeth Gage Coble, Ann as an Air Force captain. Baytown. The Lewises have been years. Herbert was an active, suc- for a career in art therapy. This watching." Two of the grandchil- Port Gibson, Miss. Alice lists gar- She Arthur and Ann are graduates of to Canada, Mexico and Great Brit- cessful C.P.A. for 40 years. Dur- summer she has been in New dren are at Duke University. dening, walking, crossword Louisiana State University; Arthur ain in addition to touring the ing World War II he was a Navy Hampshire at a summer intensive hopes the 5-year-old will attend puzzles (particularly the New York holds an M.A. in computer science United States. pilot and accumulated 2,000 hours course of the Pratt Institute (based Rice. Times'), church activities, and en- and Ann is an aspiring author. William (Bill) Theodore Ken- in the South Atlantic locating and in New York the rest of the year). Thomas Franklin Glass(M.A. tertaining friends and relatives as William John Holden lives dall writes,"Following graduation chasing submarines. He joined the She is well known for works she '41) married Frances C. her recreational activities. She Hous- with his wife, Beatrice, in in June of '39, I entered law Navy in November 1941, one has done in the past for distin- Chapman '40. They live in writes,"Nothing exciting to report, Brownsville, Texas. The Holdens school at the University of Texas month after becoming a C.P.A. guished food stylings. ton and have four children: Tho- except that we are very well and have four children: William, Mar- at Austin. At the end of my mid- There were many Navy pilots who The third grandchild is Megan, mas Franklin Glass III, Edwin happy, and enjoying retirement in ian E., John Gill, and Emily. John law year, in June 1941,1 went on became Certified Public Account- born to the Williams' daughter, Chapman Glass, Kay Glass Easton this beautiful small town (where is a CPA and says he watches tele- active duty in the Navy and was ants after the war; Herbert's dis- Margo—young Margot's aunt— and Judith Glass Mabrito. Frank John was born and grew up). It is vision for recreation. They write commissioned an ensign in Sep- tinction was being the only C.P.A. who is married to Michael Con- has been in the construction and between Natchez and Vicksburg, that their niece, Alice Holden, is tember. I spent the entire war on Navy pilot on active duty. nolly from Georgia. This Margo general contracting business since and is the third-oldest town in the visiting Japan after winning a destroyers, the first two years es- A third-generation Rice student has a master's degree in dancing 1945. He was a professor of state. Also, some of our family Of theme contest. corting convoys in the Atlantic the Alexander family matricu- from the University of Houston. mathematics at Marion Institute have lived here continuously since Artelle Johnson Wallace and and Mediterranean. In December lated this year. Heather Alexander Her most recent degree is in moth- from 1941 to 1945. Frank loves the early I 800s. John retired from is Earl Wallace live in San Jose, 1943, my squadron was trans- the daughter of Steven Alexan- erhood, and for this we all give her virtually all water activities, espe- Houston Lighting & Power Co. in Calif. They have four children: ferred to the Western Pacific, der '67 and the granddaughter of A-plus. Megan is a delightful and cially swimming and fishing. 1979 and we kept homes in Hous- Mary Anne Wallace Leipper, where I spent the remainder of the Woodrow W. Alexander. enchanting child-at 2-and-one-half Catherine Ehrhardt Leever ton and Mississippi until 1983, Karen Wallace Weissman, Ken- war. I attained the rank of com- Let us know if there are three- years. Husband Michael is a psy- and her husband, Don, live in when we made Port Gibson our neth Wallace and Frank Wallace. mander. When I finally got out of Feneration members in your fam- chologist with a corporate psy- Houston. They have three chil- permanent home. Hoping to see ily. Artelle says they came to Califor- the Navy in early 1946. I returned chology firm. dren: Charles Simmons, Carolyn you (all) in October." nia in 1958 and lived near San to Austin and completed the last We were saddened by the death The Williams' third grandchild, Simmons Schoenfield and Thomas Margaret H. Schwartz Kar- Francisco until 1988. Artelle is a year of law school in the fall. I of Louis Jacobs in August. In the unaccounted for up to now, is sec- Simmons. There are six grandchil- tus is married to Malvin Kartus. member of the League of Women have practiced law since then." Previous issue of Sallyport we ond in Casey and Joanne's branch dren. Catherine says she and Don They have two children: Richard Voters and the American Associa- Bill went from Vinson & Elkins to read of the pride he felt of his chil- of the line, and is called Carson. are retired and have traveled ex- N. Kartus and Adrienne J. Bien- tion of University Women. She Texas Eastern Transmission Corp. dren's accomplishments. Our sin- He is everyone's delight. He is the tensively. She enjoys reading, Willner. They live in Phoenix, cere teacher and Earl have traveled to the So- (now Texas Eastern Corp.). sympathy goes to his wife. third Carson in a row and is called hunting and travel. Ariz. Margaret was a piano viet Union, China, Panama, "When I retired on Dec. 31, 1980, Lucille. and the other members of 'Carson' for his grandfather, Richard E. Leigh recently re- from 1939 to 1969. She enjoys his Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico, the Brit- I was vice president of the com- family. whom you all will remember as ported to a joint meeting of the traveling and says they have vis- ish Isles, France, Spain and Swit- pany. Just after the war I married May King one of those years so Texas Medical Association and the ited England, Scotland, Wales, Ire- zerland. She and Earl are often Loretta Dubois of Boston, Mass. Recorder Mary Anderson writes: long ago. Texas Ophthalmological Society land, Holland, Belgium, Switzer- volunteers for school district, We have five children and 13 We would like to bring to mind Travel and the three wonderful on the development of an instru- land, Italy and Hawaii. Margaret in church and senior groups. The grandchildren. We have always this column, from time to time. grandchildren should make this ment that he invented to be used in paints in oil and watercolor and Wallaces have six grandchildren. lived in Houston, although we the meritorious service of a few transition to retirement a fine ad- eye surgery on cataract patients. has sold paintings through local Earl retired in 1979 and lists golf have traveled extensively, both for members of this class whose serv- venture. During the past 10 years, Leigh artists' leagues. as his principal recreation. business and pleasure." ice to Rice stands above that of the developed and used the instrument Carl F. Greer is husband to rank very few and tile of the rest of us. with good results and Evelny Louise Marquart Greer hundred First of all comes to mind complications on several '42. The Greers have two children: procedure Katherine Tsanoff Brown, who patients. The surgical Carol Anne Redd, a U.T. graduate. WNW •NM. the accomplished her great deeds so '39 devised by Dr. Leigh utilizes and Donald Greer, a graduate of quietly invented and Alumni and always with such intel- instrument he has Texas A&M. Donald is an archi- Attention, Houston-area Class Recorder: safer. ligence. good sense, enthusiasm provides a method that is tect in Texas. Carl writes that he Dorothy Zapp Forristall—Brown both and Perfect taste that it is an honor easier and less expensive for spent four years in the Navy dur- to to 1250 Oakcrest Circle is he retired with Annual subscriptions are now available have her be the first. patient and surgeon. Richard ing World War II; No Beaumont, TX 77706 publication containing one knew of an art school currently director of the Bellville the rank of lieutenant commander On Campus, a weekly Other (409) 892-1048 to re- than that which was incorpo- Eye Clinic. Before moving after 20 years in the volunteer news about Rice and a comprehensive rated was lo- work as an in the architecture depart- Bellville six years ago, he serves. He decided to plays, concerts, ment Dorothy Forristall-Brown writes: calendar of events including until Katherine was taken on cated in the Texas Medical Center. electrical design draftsman for the Can you believe it? Our Golden seminars and films being offered on faculty at Rice. She has given He was clinical assistant professor Consolidated Technical Services, lectures, Of 'R' 50th reunion is almost here! herself and her time at of ophthalmology at Baylor Col- Hudson Engineering and Bechtel campus in the coming week. For a one-year every By now I'm sure you hai,e re- Possible opportunity. Without her lege of Medicine and was attend- after finding little satisfaction in I do ceived all the information from subscription (through spring semester1990), not believe Rice would yet ing ophthalmologist at Hermann chemical engineering. Carl worked have Frances Bethea and the '39 com- send a check for $16 to Rice University On an an department as Hospital, Methodist Hospital, Park until his wife retired from Shell. such. mittee and have made your plans P.O. (Editor's Note: An article Plaza Hospital and the Veteran's He enjoys travel, photography, and Campus, Office of University Relations, on to be at Rice for all the festivities. Katherine Brown, in honor of her Administration Hospital. He also railroad memorabilia. Carl is a Houston, TX 77251. If you haven't, it's still not too Box 1892, renrententfront the Department of served as chief of ophthalmology member of the Gulf Coast Chap- Art late. mid An History at Rice, at St. Luke's Hospital for many ter—National Railway Historical is Thank you so much. My letter Scheduledfor an u.pcoming issue years. Society, serving as its president in (4 got results. Since the last issue of Sall.yport.) Sibyl Hunter Handel is mar- 1988 and now as museum director. Sallyport. 84 additional classmates Margaret and Carson Wil- ried to H. Grafton Randel. They He adds,"I guess that you might liams have sent in their information '37 celebrated their 50th have four children: Margaret and consider me some sort of a 'freak', forms. Space limitations do not wedding anniversary this summer Elizabeth, who are twins; Sharon; as I was originally in the class of in June. permit publishing summaries for CAMPUS and John. They live in Pickens. 1937 but flunked Math 100 and g ON Margaret Williams' tor doc- all in this issue, so a few will be husband, Carson, retired at the Sibyl says she had her own busi- busted out in the spring of 1934. I end of presented now and the others in July after 45 years in the ness as a public accountant for 22 was readmitted to the class of the next issue. It has been really Practice of years. She enjoys needlework and and urology in Houston. He Margaret, in reading. The Randels have tray- this celebration of event, went on a cruise from

FALL 1989/Page 27 Alicia Olivari Pike is married Robert L. Whitmore is hus- marketing of power plants and in- more year at Rice. Jennifer's parents are Rice graduates Cape to Beuhring W.Pike '42. They band to Louise V. Whitmore. They dustrial equipment. In addition to parents, Bill '66 and Martha Dewitt '38 and Marjorie Ann live in Ventura, Calif. The Pikes live in Galveston. Texas, and have very interesting technical and Murphy Folk '68, who met at Correvon Dewitt '39. Doris keeps have two children. Elizabeth and four children: Robert H., Steven, commercial challenges, these as- Rice. both teach at the University busy with many activities in Hous- Martha, and two grandchildren. Catherine Johnson, and Victoria. signments provided opportunities of Missouri. ton, including the Tanglewood Andrew and Alexander Quinton. Robert is a former FBI agent and for broadening our horizons—lan- Summer travelers went north, Garden Club, St. Martin's Episco- Alicia worked briefly as a mathe- works as a real estate broker now. guages. customs and cultures. On mostly. Archie and Margie pal Church, Rice groups, and matics aide for the U.S. Navy in He enjoys golfing when he has business and vacation trips we vis- Stroup Hood '45, to Colorado. Bayou Bend, where she serves as a China Lake, Calif.."thanks to free time. ited many other countries(some Ann Wallis Dorsey and Gloria docent. Math HO" Elizabeth enjoys trav- 65 by last count.) All of these ex- Van Pelt Williams '41 visited Betty Stone Nichols of Hous- eling and has been throughout Eu- periences were shared by my wife. Quebec, then cruised down the St. ton writes,"After graduation in rope and the United States. She Margarethe, whose fluency in Lawrence River. Bob and Halora 1948, I worked and studied music likes reading, genealogy and eight languages was a great help, Adams Burleson, accompanied for several years before I went to working as a docent in the re- '41 especially in the Far East. We are by David '44 and Catherine Co- work for Humble in 1951.1 search library of Ventura Histori- now firmly rooted in Saratoga, burn Hannah,explored Nova worked for cal Museum. A. F.("Jeep") Sartor Jr. retired eight-and-one-half Calif.—near San Jose—but still Scotia. Some traveled overseas. years before I married John S. Charles A. Colhoun Jr. was in July 1986 after 45 years as a travel abroad frequently." Bill Mackey, recently returned Nichols (engineer. Kansas Univer- married to the late Betty Ku!dell research chemist with Shell Oil/ Margo and I are leaving in a with Barbara from a trip to Africa, sity '48, and choral director) Colhoun. Charles has four chil- Shell Development. Sartor was in few days for a 30-day vacation to exuberantly recommends the Afri- Bill Pravel has become senior 1957. During the 18 years that I dren: Charles A. Colhoun III, involved in development and com- the Pacific Northwest. I'll make a can experience to everyone. partner in the 25-person firm of stayed home to Kathy (now Catherine Colhoun Pickell, Carolyn mercialization of catalysts for hy- 'raise' full report in the next edition. In Thanks to my faithful Pravel, Gambrel!. He was also 30) and David (now 26), I worked Colhoun Shepard and R. Bruce drotreating/hydrocracking and cus- the meantime, drop me a note and newsgathering committee. I eleeted vice-chair of the American part time as a secretary, organist, Colhoun. He is now married to tomer service related to use of the let me know what you did and couldn't write this column without Bar Association patent, trademark piano teacher, etc. Charlotte Kuppinger Colhoun. catalysts. He is currently interested Also. during where you went this summer." her! and copyright section at Honolulu many of these years. John They have two children: Ann Kup- in genealogy. In July 1989, Sartor and I meetings in August. have worked together as choir di- pinger Phillips and Sally Kuppin- published a book, A Sartor-Shulis rector and ger Johnson. Charles Family History . He and his wife organist in several and Charlotte A.E. Woelfel, former since 1950, Leela ,44 chair of Houston churches. In 1977 I re- live in Harlingen, Texas. Charles Bartlett the petroleum division of the sumed my Exxon (Humble)career worked in the fields of oil refining, Cardwell(TWU '41), recently '43 American Society of Mechanical and worked in Exxon Supply until land and cattle before retiring. moved to a country place in Pear- Engineers in 1981-82, was re- I retired in 1986. Presently, I am Pedro Salmeron, M.D., is land, Texas. They have one child, Class Recorder: Class Recorder: cently named one of two recipients on my third Exxon career—work- married to Eva M. Salmeron, R.N. Carol(TCU '75), who works for Peggy Johnston Gibbons Larry Hermes of ASME's Petroleum Division ing contract for Exxon They have five children—Law- Texas Instruments in Austin. 474 Sandy Mountain Dr. 2028 Albans Road Profes- Bronze Oil Drop Award. Woe!fel sional Employment—and working rence, Geraldine, Walter Allen, Sunrise Beach, TX 78643 Houston, TX 77005 received the mechanical engineer- toward my third retirement." George Alphonse and Eva. Law- (915) 388-6659 (713)529-2009 ing achievement award for his pat- Joanne Shanks '48, now Mrs. rence is an attorney; the rest are ents that contributed to increased Robert L. Fo!ger, called from her M.D.s. Pedro and Eva live in Peggy Johnston Gibbons submits Here is the latest about the class of '42 safety and/or improved perform- home in South Carolina with Houston. He retired from his this report on the class of '43: '44. as reported by Larry Her- news ance in surface and underwater of her Rice medical practice in 1987. Pedro Before the memory of our 45th mes: family. Joanne entered Class Recorder: valves, underwater Christmas class enjoys gardening class reunion blurs into nothing- Shirley Simons retired from as a premedical student in the and improving Oscar Hibler trees, drill pipe ness. we need to present a few velocity valves and of '48, but moved to Illinois and his home. P.O. Box 27266 being an architect in January 1987 blowout preventers. The Bronze graduated James Bates Thomas Jr. is more travel awards to members and lives in Tyler, Texas. from the University of Houston, TX 77227 Oil Drop Award is the division's married to Virginia Wells Thomas. who came from out of state to at- Chester Morgan recently re- Illinois with a degree in music. (713)621-7272 equivalent of the Oscars or the They have four children: James tend our party: Walter Hopkins. tired from Union Carbide; he lives Joanne and Robert have four Emmies. The other recipient was grown children. Bates Thomas III, Stephen W. from Pittsburgh, Pa.; Hance! in Oak Ridge, Tenn. While raising Oscar Hibler reports: Thomas H. Cruikshank '52. Langham Evans, Alabama; Gor- After working their family, they moved around Thomas. Phillip W. Thomas, and BiIlye and Neal Heaps vaca- 40 years for don Bushey, Fairfax, Va.; Ha- Exxon, W. the country a few times, including Allen S. Thomas. They live in tioned in Europe with a number of B. Everett Jr. retired rold Muchmore, Oklahoma City; and is now busy doing Berkeley. Calif., where Joanne Houston. James writes that he is Rice alumni this summer: a week charitable Tommy Evans, Leawood, Kan.; work for the indigent. taught music. Mr. Folger was a limited by Parkinson's Disease. driving in Portugal and to Madrid He has two Charles N. Jones, Arkansas. sons. nuclear chemist with DuPont at Nash 0. Campise is the hus- with Peg '47 and Robert Simonds '48 A sizable gathering of class the Savannah River Plant in Geor- band of Rose M. Campise. Their '45, a bus trip through northern Alice Cobb Dailey is still busy members met Aug. 28 for lunch managing Class Recorder: gia before his retirement. Since re- three children, Jim, Dan and Joan, Spain with a group from the Hous- a True Value Hardware and a progress report on our store in Houston. Mary Sue (Fox)Grace tirement, they are living in North are all married. Nash and Rose ton-Austin area including Betty golden anniversary scholarship Anne 13511 Kingsride Augusta, S.C. Their three daugh- live in Pearland, Texas. He '44 and Charlie Ehrhardt '41. Bates Grefe lives in Hol- fund. A refreshing addition to the lywood. Houston, TX 77079 ters are in various places, and their worked for BS&B—HOMCO in Mary Jane '46 and Bob Goff '47, Fla., and does environ- loyal group of Houstonians was mental work for Dade (713)467-7927 son is a professor of psychology at chemical manufacturing and met- Dot and Damon Slator '48 and County. Her Doug Steinman, who came in Tulane University. following sev- allurgy for 26 years and for Lum- Don and Katherine Ehrhardt husband, now deceased, was a Lu- from Beaumont. Doug is a board theran minister. Class recorder Mary Sue eral years' teaching at S.M.U. mus 17 years. Nash has been the Leever '39. Then, leaving this (Fox) president member of the Beaumont Commu- Margaret Grace sends these notes: Joanne recalled the days at of Campise Inc., an engi- group at Barcelona, they drove to Vickery Matthews nity Foundation of the United Way resides in Yorktown, Hugh Harleston still lives in Rice, when she and Mitsu neering service firm, since 1983. Villefranche-sur-Mer for a week- Va. She has and also serves on the Jefferson lived there Mexico City, and for many years Kobayashi lwata were roommates He writes that he has had four pat- end at the beautiful home of No. the past 35 years. ents County Council on Alcoholism Helen Palmer he has been interested in the pyra- at Beth Griffith's home on Haw- issued and produced several die '54 and Charles Jacobs '51 is in Houston and Drug Abuse. Signs of and has been a longtime mids of Teotihuacan. He gives lec- thorne in the late '40s. technical articles. overlooking the Mediterranean employee Elizabeth Beaumont's economic recovery of Eastern tures about them and has written Roberta Montgom- just outside of Nice, France. Airlines. ery Wilson are reflected in his architecture Harry B. Whitehurst teaches articles about their history. is married to Charles Neal is very saddened to report H. Wilson Jr. business, he's happy to report. radiochemistry at Doris Moellenberndt ten They live in Hous- that Bill Asper's wife, Lori, suf- Arizona State in ton. Roberta taught The study of history can be ex- Tempe. He has two children—a Brink and husband, Karl C. ten sixth grade in fered a fatal cerebral hemorrage • '49 the Houston ceedingly fascinating, judging by son and a daughter. Brink '37, retired from Texaco Independent School while they were vacationing in this year's stampede to enroll in Bryant Bradley five years ago, after living several District for 34 years. She and London from their home in recently re- Class Recorder: Robert Giesberg's class at tired from Shell years in New York. They are now Charles write that they spend a lot Chapala, Mexico. Bill and Lori Oil and now re- Tempe Howie Attwell of time playing Women's Institute, "Twenty-five sides in Austin, living in Houston. Their son, Hal, bridge now. had been on an extended British Texas. 3806 Essex Green Years that Changed the World." and his wife. Barbara, live in Roberta also goes to three or four Isles trip and were to have met Houston, TX 77027 aerobic Or maybe the teacher's personality Austin, where Hal is a lawyer classes a week, and plays Billye and Neal in Paris. Bill and with (713)622-1784 (home) piano is the big attraction. Robert, co- the Texas State Commission of the for the college women's Neal were roommates at South (713)528-1148 (office) author with his wife of a book-to- club group meetings as well as Hall. Motor Vehicles. Hal and Barbara be, says he's "gaining '47 other frequent- are the parents of the ten Brink's group meetings. She is also Mack Friedl sent me the fol- Tempe Howze Attwell sends co-chair of the scholarship com- flyer points" at St. Luke's Hospi- grandson. Samuel Lane "Sam" ten lowing on his "comings" and Frank A. Lawrence took the Da- these notes along with the above- mittee of the College Women's tal. Brink. Daughter Charlotte ten "goings": "I retired in 1985 after nube River cruise with the Asso- noted change in office phone num- Club, which granted 12 scholar- Reg Dugat is a volunteer fund Brink '76 is an audiologist at the 42 years with General Electric, ciation of Rice Alumni Travel/ ber: ships this year. raiser for Houston's Crisis Hot University of Pennsylvania's Bio- and for half of these, Margarethe Study Program and says it was ter- Condolences to Jetta Schuma- Dawn C. Crawford lives Line. Electrode Diagnostic Laboratory. in and I resided overseas—in Puerto rific. "Dr. Gilbert Cuthbenson's cher Koch on the loss of her hus- Houston. She has traveled exten- Katharine Cameron On May 20,1989, Doris visited Rico, Mexico, Switzerland. Ger- presentations and meeting other band. J.C., last spring. sively in Canada. Europe Corscaden reports that she's thor- New York to attend the wedding and many and Spain. We have two interesting alumni added much Congratulations to Evelyn Mexico enjoys oughly enjoying retirement. of Dianne Dewitt, hostessing the Bill's and writing music, sons and a daughter. Erik. Karl unexpected pleasure," reports Taylor Sterling on husband Theo '45 and Francese Moran bridesmaid luncheon at the Prince- the reading biographies and working and Mady, who also benefited Lawrence. election to Suffragan Bishop of Tusa are among the more recent ton Club. Dianne is a model in in her vegetable garden. Of her from the overseas living. Most as- Episcopal Diocese of Texas. homeowners to sell out and move New York and has received many family, she writes,"We're a mite signments involved international Robert Lohse, retired, is be- odd without half trying" when list- into a highrise. awards, including being selected coming a resident of Bellaire, ing accomplishments. Jennifer Folk, granddaughter as "One of the Ten Most Beautiful along with his two whippets, and of Walter '48 and Evelyn Smith Women in the World." Dianne's is enjoying life. Murphy, is enjoying her sopho- rage 28/ FALL 1989 rector of First City Bancorporation In May, Waldo Leggett and I nance of the N Reactor, the Fast of Texas, American General '57 enjoyed seeing June Knolle Levy Flux Test Facility, the PUREX '64 '50 Corp., Galveston-Houston Co., after a 25/50 mile bicycle event Plant, the Plutonium Finishing and Seagull Energy Corp. benefiting the American Diabetes Plant, the nuclear waste storage Lewis has been pro- Class Recorder: L. Williams Association (and organized by our tanks and other support facilities moted to vice president and gen- Dixie Sick Leggett Bill Fisk recently joined the ad- daughter-in-law Stephanie.) A on the 569-square-mile site. eral counsel of Anadarko Petro- 13411 Kingsride ministration of Hull-Daisetta High good biker. June can be found leum Houston, TX 77079 Corp. her psycho- School as the new principal. Fisk (713)468-5929 weekdays continuing has 21 years of school administra- therapy practice in Houston. tion under his belt, having also Dixie Sick Leggett sent the fol- served as high school principal in lowing news: '51 Colorado and junior high school thanks to Ted Class Recorder: Many principal in the Houston and Klein Richardson for serving two years '58 Nancy Burch Lillian H. Lockhart, M.D., pro- school districts. as our Class of '57 Annual Fund 3311 Stoney Brook fessor of and pediatrics human chairman. Currently, he is general Class Recorder: Houston, TX 77063 biological and genetics chemistry vice chair of the Annual Fund and Phyllis Walton (713) 781-3634 at the Texas University of Medical also chairs the Designated Giving 4233 Harpers Ferry Road Branch (UTMB)at Galveston, has Committee. Ted, Bruce Wallace Birmingham, AL 35213 Wendy Rainbow Germani been honored with the 1989 Dis- '54 '53 and Jerry Stuyck are involved (205) (Jones) writes: "I have been pro- tinguished Texas Geneticist 870-0332 John Rhogan was married on in a special project at Rice. Their moted to manager of actuarial Award of the Texas Society of March 16, 1989, in Tuscon, Ariz., firm, RWS Architects, is the asso- services for Ranger Insurance Co., Genetics. The award was pre- Mary Sue Wilson Barnum to Denise Schwartz. He writes,"I ciate architect for the new bios- where I have been for the last sented during the society's annual writes,"I went back to graduate live in San Diego, Calif., and my cience/bioengineering laboratory, four-and-one-half years. I received school when I divorced five year, meeting in San Antonio. A UTMB George R. Brown Hall, now under '59 my M.B.A. with honors from the wife and I will be on an extended member since 1964, Lockhart has ago (two things I swore I'd never honeymoon for quite a while." construction. The design architect University of Houston in 1988. I Class Recorder: do) and became a psychotherapist. conducted extensive research on is Cambridge Seven Associates, am currently vice president of the the Tommie Lu Maulsby which I love doing. I recently management of mentally re- with Chuck Redmon '64 repre- Rice University Business & Pro- tarded 2256 Shakespeare moved my private practice to the children. She has also stud- senting their firm as principal in fessional Women's group. My son, ied the Houston, TX 77030 Village, so stop by when chromosomes of NASA charge. Bruce Wallace is principal Ken Germani, graduated from Rice (713)664-5042 you're in town." astronauts and the genetic basis for '56 in charge in the RWS office. The Rice in 1989." Cystic fibrosis and other genetic general contractor is H.A. Lott of '59 30th reunion vice chair, disorders. Class Recorder: Inc., represented by Al Jensen The Class Phyllis S. Moore has established E. Linn Draper Jr., buffet is still set for Octo- executive offi- Maurine Bybee '52. Ted looks forward to his first cocktail her own consulting business president and chief 28,1989,7:30 p.m. at Nancy cer of Gulf States Utilities Co., has 3800 Chevy Chase grandchild in January. Parents-to- ber (Words Worth) for Instructional Houston, TX 77019 Mafrige's home, 2330 Glenhaven. been nominated for reappointment be are son Calder and his wife Design and Development this (713) 522-3705 Watch for your invitation, but if it to the Texas Radiation Advisory '52 who live in Detroit, where Calder year. Her first grandchild, Chan- gets lost, send a check for $25.00 Board by Gov. Bill Clements. is a mechanical engineer with cellor Adam MacArthur Moore, Maurine Bybee sends the follow- per person to Les Greenberg, Draper is a former associate pro- Thomas H. Cruikshank was one General Motors. Ted's daughter was born in January 1988. Her son ing news: P.O. Box 1600, Houston, TX fessor and director of the nuclear of two recipients this year of the Christie works in Los Angeles for Philip will enter Reed College in Fred Sklar wrote with infor- 77251 by Oct. 21. engineering program at the Uni- American Society of Mechanical Gerald Hines, and daughter Kay- January. mation about members of the 1956 So far, the reunion committee versity of Texas. He serves on the Engineers(ASME) Petroleum Di- lee is zone manager for Ford Mo- fencing team. Fred lives in Hous- consists of Harvin Moore, Wal- board of directors of Texas Com- vision Bronze Oil Drop Award. tor Co. in Alexandria, Va. ton with his wife, Patsy, and they ter Moore, Les Greenberg, Ray- merce Bank-Beaumont and is a Cruikshank president and C.E.O. Elaine 1111g Davis is our class' have four children and one grand- mond Chilton, Bill Hall, Jessie member of the Texas Research of Hallibuoon Co., received the current Annual Fund chair. She child. He has worked as a CPA Helms, Bill Landfield, Nancy '62 League, Texas Association of Tax- industry award for leadership and also continues on the board of and a real estate broker and is cur- Mafrige, Marilyn Moore, Jessie payers and Texas Council of Eco- business acumen demonstrated in Friends of Fondren Library. Re- rently financial vice-president for Sloan and Tommie Lu Maulsby. Class Recorder: nomic Education. directing his company's course cent months were busy for Elaine a property management company. If you want to join this committee, Nancy Bullard Schlatter during the extremely adverse busi- and Frank as they attended their Edwin Kasky has a Ph.D. in call or write Tommie Lu Maulsby 1400 Hermann Drive #5B ness climate of the oil industry in daughter Doris' graduation from the physics and has been professor of at the phone/address listed above. Houston, TX 77004 1980s. The Bronze Oil Drop is Davidson College in North Caro- the physics at Michigan State for Hope to see you there. (713)522-8422 division s equivalent of the lina and, soon after, celebrated the many years. '65 Oscars or Emmies. The other marriage of their son Barrett to Charles Reed recently left a award went to Rice alumnus A.E. Nancy Couch in Houston. Both Damon Douglas Hickey received successful law pratice in Washing- (Al) VVoelfel '47. Frank and Barrett are attorneys— his Ph.D. in history from the Uni- ton. D.C., to become a partner in a Frank, a longtime partner with '63 versity of North Carolina in Au- real estate construction and devel- Andrews and Kurth in Houston, gust, 1989. Hickey's dissertation opment company. and Barrett, an associate with Th- Class Recorder: topic was "The Quakers in the Edwin Growner also lives in ompson and Knight in Dallas. Kathleen Much New South, 1865-1920." A native Washington, D.C. He was an '53 Chuck Berghane has enjoyed 1065 Greenwood Ave. of Houston and a former minister economist for the Public Health a long career with Exxon. He and Palo Alto, CA 94301 in the Presbyterian church, Hickey Department and retired after 24 Myra Hutzler Berghane '59 live (415) 328-9779 joined the faculty of Guilford Col- years to become a land developer in Old Greenwich, Ct., with Chuck (415) 321-2052 lege in Greensboro, N.C., as a li- in D.C. and Baltimore. currently commuting to his Exxon brarian in 1975. He is now the col- Joan Smith Ottinger was in Nugent Jr. International office in New Jersey. Roderick Mathew lege's associate library director Houston in June. She received her senate confirmation Myra has a small private counsel- has received and curator of its Friends Histori- Ph.D. in 1982. Joan has her own Texas State ing practice. Chuck is an avid for a position on the cal Collection. He holds the aca- consulting business in Boston, Judicial Conduct. hiker and has climbed all the ma- Commission on demic rank of associate librarian, Mass., for early childhood educa- in Amarillo jor mountains in the Adirondacks Nugent is a partner the equivalent of associate profes- tion. Her husband, Les Ottinger Medical Practitio- and the White mountains. The Pathological sor. Hickey is a member of the '53. is head of the general surgical Berghanes recently became grand- J. Roger Knight has been named ners. Historical Society of North Caro- teaching program at the Massachu- parents. Their son Ted, his wife manager of the operations support lina, the North Carolina Friends setts General. a biochemist Joyce, and baby Andrew live in services department at Westing- Ernest J. Peck Jr., Historical Society, the Society of Frank Barnes, orthopedic sur- director for Maryland. with Ted in the Fax ma- house Hanford Co. in Richland, and former program North Carolina Archivists, and the geon, is president—elect of the Science Foundation, chine business as well as interning Wash. Knight was the former the National North Carolina Library Associa- Houston Surgical Society. dean of the in filmmaking. Daughter Florence, manager of the chemical process- has been appointed tion. He is married to the former David and I saw Anne Norris Nevada-Las Vegas a freelance writer and editor, and ing division before taking this new University of Mary Lyons Temple. on a recent trip to Paris. Anne has and Mathemat- her husband Jay live in Wilton, Ct. position. He joined Westinghouse College of Science lived there since 1962 and has an ics. Prior to his work with the J. Evans Son Peter and his wife Alicia live Electric Corp. in 1961 under the Stephen H. Stow, section head for Attwell, managing part- apartment overlooking Notre Peck served as professor and ner of in Montpelier, Vt., where Peter is corporation's graduate student NSF, geosciences in the environmental Vinson & Elkins, a Hous- Dame and the Seine. She writes chair of the biochemistry and mo- ton-based an architect. program. He joined the Bettis sciences division at Oak Ridge law firm,joined the restaurant reviews for Pan Ameri- lecular biology department at the board of In January 1988, Leo Holder Atomic Power Laboratory imme- National Laboratory, has been ap- trustees of The Welch can Airlines and has just finished University of Arkansas for Medi- Foundation purchased the End-O-Pest Co. diately following his student pro- pointed chair of the newly created on June 2,1989. The writing a book about women vint- Rock. o Houston classmates are aware that gram and remained there for 25 cal Sciences-Little education committee for the south- I undation fosters basic research ners. in c Leo has many years of experience years until his transfer to Hanford. eastern section of the Geological hemistry through operating Our class feels very honored to grants and in the pest control business in our At Bettis he held a number of Society of America. programs at Texas uni- have a Rice Trustee from among versities area. He is past president of both management positions involving and colleges under direc- our ranks. Burton McMurtry will ion of the Houston and the Texas pest operations and research for the t the board of trustees with serve as such until age 70, so we ctssistance control associations and past chair- United States naval nuclear pro- from a scientific advi- are in good hands. "0•Y man of the Texas Structural Pest gram. In his new management po- board and the professional staff. Control Board. sition, Knight will oversee mainte- Attwell also serves as a di-

FALL 1989/Page 29 principles of physics and mathe- authored, Richmond Redeemed: Kathryn Gautesen Sharber Leslie H. Southwick (Lovett) '66 matics with computers to simulate The Siege at Petersburg, the best (Brown) was recently named state writes,"Thanks to my work for practical processes, primarily arti- Civil War book published in director for AFS Intercultural Pro- '74 George Bush that started back Capt. James G. Campbell ficial lifts. Gibbs has been a re- 1980-81. As chief archivist-histo- grams in Texas and Oklahoma. when I was at Rice and he was los- (Baker) Carey and Donna ('77) Carter writes,"The Navy is search associate, head of drilling rian for the U.S. Army Military ing to Lloyd Bentsen for Senate. I sending me (Hanszen/Jones) and family are to Misawa. research and chief and division History Institute, he is also an au- have been appointed a deputy as- Japan, for three years, moving to Lincolnshire, III., 28 where I'll be commanding engineer for Shell Oil Co. He de- thority on all aspects of American sistant attorney general in the Civil officer miles outside Chicago. Carey is a of the Naval Security Group Ac- veloped the sucker and rod instal- military history. Division. Left the family behind in lation design and diagnostic meth- '72 partner with Touche Ross, and af- tivity, Misawa." Jackson. Miss., but only temporar- ter being in San Antonio for al- ods used worldwide. Deborah Theodore just sold an ily. I hope. Life in the nation's Georgia Bost quit her job as an most six years, is moving to the option for a film script and is capital is certainly different." environmental consultant and Chicago office. They now have working on a second,"A Long eventually developed the Village three children, Allison, 9, Stephen. Time Coming, A Long Time Philip Patrick Sun has been ap- Botanica, an interior and exterior 6, and Jeffrey, 2. They write,"Af- '67 Gone." pointed to the new position of vice '69 design emporium in Houston. This ter living in Texas all of our lives, president for design, construction Patricia Kendrick Brito(Brown) business provides landscaping this should be a real adventure." Class Recorder: services and and facilities management at has graduated magna CUM laude houses an art gallery, Kathleen Rockefeller University. His re- from the Bates School of Law at Callaway gift ship with pottery, floral hair Virginia Moyer has received a 8, rue Leon Blum sponsibilities include overseeing the University of Houston. She ornaments, handmade kaleido- master's degree in health services 33400 construction of a new laboratory joined the Houston offices of Talence scopes, Arizona Indian jewelry, from the School of Public Health France building to be erected next year Mayer, Brown & Platt in Septem- stained glass hangings, a frame at the University of Texas Health '71 and managing all university facili- ber. shop, corsages and potpourri. Bost Science Center at Houston. Fol- Hugh Brown (Will Rice) writes, has always been an ties. Prior to this appointment. Sun liana Ben-Or (formerly Lana artist—paint- lowing graduation, Moyer plans to "I have written a play, 'Friends ing, creating clay sculpture was employed by the Harris Paul Cloutier (Ph.D.), professor Claire Amans Pones)) wants to and join the faculty in the department and Lovers.' with Nancy Ory. It line drawings—and she County Hospital in Houston since of space physics and astronomy at know what has happened to the utilizes of pediatrics at the UT Medical was performed in Austin at the her knowledge in biology, geology 1976, where he served as senior Rice, doubles as a high-tech busi- class of '71."After reading virtu- School at Houston. Acting Studio, Sept. 7-30,1989. It and plant ecology to its fullest. vice president since 1986. nessman with clients around the ally nothing about my class in Sal- is a contemporary romantic com- globe and is one of many Hous- 1won for ages, I've decided to edy, and it's a lot of fun! I also Jon Glazier and Susan Davis tonians to have benefited from start the ball rolling in the hopes won the 0. Henry Pun-Off in Glazier '73(Hanszen/Brown) spinoffs of America's space pro- that the class of '71 will start writ- Austin in May." '75 send this note: "In 1983, gram. Cloutier is president of In- ing in and let us know what's hap- we ran away to the British Virgin Islands '73 novatum, a world leader in the pening. I refuse to believe we all Philip Tournier (Lovett) and Warren Skaaren was recently to get married, but we grew up field of magnetic sensing. The turned out to be such losers that Cindy McMorris '76(Brown) technology featured in the Dallas Morning anyway. Now we live in Washing- is used from miles we're ashamed to write. Not all write,"Greetings to all of our above the News and in Texas Monthly ton. D.C., where Jon practices Earth to miles beneath success stories deal in promotions friends, near and far. It's been an the magazine as one of Hollywood's international tax and trade law and ocean. and awards. eventful year and a half for the most successful script doctors/ Susan has an aerobics business. "First of all, that poor little family. We moved to the 'burbs in writers. A script doctor, according We both continue two activities Rick and Pat ('69) Jacobs thing called Lana Claire Amans February of 1988 and are happily Hanszen to Skaaren, specializes in rewriting from our Rice years: searching for /Brown) send this note: doesn't exist anymore. She's been ensconced in our home in Katy. a once-mediocre script and trans- the ultimate Mexican restaurant "Several family events are worth superseded by liana Ben-Or, who Kevin Campbell '76, his wife, forming it into one that sings. and pursuing the good, the true noting for us. We are currently liv- lives on a kibbutz somewhere in Carolyn, and their twins live two ing in Skaaren shares the credit for the and the beautiful, or at least be- Pittsburgh. Pa., and have the wilds of northern Israel." streets over.(Our babysitter, Amy been script of Batman, one of this sum- lieving that we are. With two here for eight years now. After graduation, Ilana worked Gillette, is the daughter of Robert mer's blockbuster movies.(See small children—Martin,4, and Rick has recently been appointed as a secretary in the day and stud- and Sharon Gillette '68/%9). In manager related article in this issue.) Gregory, 2 months(who by the for environmental opera- ied ballet at night. Two years later August of 1988. Phil joined Lum- tions way was born on April 22,1989. for the chemical division of she gave this up to earn her J.D. at mus Crest as an instrument engi- PPG Skip (L.G.) Wade and his wife, in Washington D.C.)--neither pur- Industries. Pat got her Ph.D. New York University, but seven neer—one of his favorite things Betsy, and two daughters have suit is as easy as it once was, but is in organic chemistry—Dr. Ror- years of law and politics left her about the job is the I5-minute schach moved to Walla Walla, Wash., no less compelling." will never believe it—at equally unhappy. So in 1983 she commute! Best of all, on May 26, the University where he is professor of chemistry of Pittsburgh in packed her bags and headed for 1989, we were blessed with a 1986 at Whitman College. Skip will be Rodney Hoffman (Hanszen) Robert J. Cook (Baker) has (barely made her goal of Israel. daughter, Hayley Lynn. She's a completing teaching and doing research in or- writes,"I don't believe I've ever formed METROPOLIS Proper- her education before "I'm a kibbutz member and liv- sweet, beautiful little girl and a ganic chemistry and revising his written to classnotes in all these ties, a real estate development her—sigh-40th birthday!) and is ing a life better suited to my nu- perfect foil for her lively, imagina- organic chemistry textbook. Betsy years, so here's a quick overview. and consulting firm in Chicago. working as a research chemist at merous peculiarities," she writes. tive, 5-year-old brother, Erick. Mobay will be teaching violin at Whitman For more than 10 years, I have Previously, Cook was vice presi- Corp. The guy in the next "About the only things I really Life is busy and happy! We'd love office is College as an adjunct faculty split my time between teaching dent for new projects at Rubloff Robson Mafoti from miss are bourbon and country mu- to hear from anyone and every- member. Rice friends are asked to and work in industry. I teach intro- Inc., where he was responsible Rice (Ph.D. '86). Our youngest sic. I work as a technical translator for one!" keep in touch. ductory- daughter. Bethany, is now a junior in a business operated by the kib- and intermediate-level office development projects with a programming and computer in high school, and our oldest butz. In my spare time I raise, train sci- value in excess of $500 million. ence classes at Occidental daughter. Jennifer,just graduated and show German shepherds and College He says he is trying to apply the in Los Angeles and also work from high school and entered Rice dachshunds in conjunction with the as a principles adopted while studying software engineer for in August—Wiess '93! Pat re- '70 kibbutz's kennels. Xerox Corp. architecture and urban design at '76 I am a local and national cently talked with Paula Smith "If you're ever in the neighbor- officer of Rice: "to develop the types of Computer Professionals for Social '69(Brown), who is living in Mi- Mike Ross (Baker) writes, "I've hood, do drop in. Southern hospi- projects which help make our cit- John Calvin Coffey, D.D.S., Responsibility. I spend ami and continues to be employed moved from Livermore, Calif., tality is a frame of mind, not a a week ev- ies great." writes,"I have relocated my dental ery summer grading computer sci- by Eastern Airlines, in spite of all and Lawrence Livermore National function of geography. I'd really practice to Santa Cruz, Calif., ence Advanced Denise that company's problems." Laboratory to the Almaden Valley like to hear from you." Placement exams Fischer, assistant city li- where I practice with my wife, Dr. of San Jose, Calif., and the IBM for the Educational Testing Serv- brarian in charge of public serv- Catherine Brennan." ice. I am a member of ices in Baytown. Larry Oswald (Hanszen) writes, Almaden Research Center. I am J. Peter Jordan (Hanszen) writes, many tech- Texas, was the nical, civic, political We are the host family for Alexei continuing my career in science "After three years as an associate and social guest speaker on July 18 at the Keiko lchiye '88 (Lovett) sends change organizations, especially Ladies Association Bolshakov. a fourth-year student writing and media relations (I be- professor at the School of Archi- of the Goose this note: "I doubt that they have numerous gay activist groups. from Moscow State University in gan at KTRU). After work, I con- tecture. University of Hawaii at (I Creek Country Club. Fischer's written you about this, but my am delighted to know Rice has a topic was the the USSR. He will attend Rice tinue to enjoy cooking, gardening, Manoa, I was granted tenure in literacy project at sister Toshiko lchiye '78 gay student group these Sterling Municipal classes this year." music, ballroom dancing, wild- June 1989. It felt good to get that days!) I Library. Fis- (Hanszen) and Brad Pate '76 am also a volunteer at cher began the flower photography, hiking and behind me. For the last two years. Recording local literacy pro- (Hanszen) got married last No- for the Blind." gram wine tasting. Friends in the area, I have served as the school's in January 1986 and has con- vember in the Dolphin Sailing tinued to develop the please call or stop by to visit or undergraduate chair, with dean-of- curriculum, Ship Restaurant in San Francisco. Guy McClung, associate which is aimed share a meal or beverage!" students-type responsibilities. I am vice at teaching reading Calif. Many wonderful people at- '68 president for institutional affairs at skills to adults from 16 years of tended the wedding. teaching computer-aided design Unfortu- the University of Texas M.D. An- age who lack Richard J. Sommers has received and architectural economics and or who are deficient nately, due to too much cham- Gail Drayton (Brown) writes,"I derson Cancer Center, has been at these skills. Fischer a distinguished achievement award really enjoy working with the kids is an ap- pagne, I can only remember Eric am practicing medicine in Santa appointed to the advisory board of pointee of Gov. Bill from the Carleton College Alumni (several of whom are older than I Clements to Eason '78(Hanszen). Tosh and Monica, Calif. My husband, Andy, the Journal ofthe National Association for his contributions am). Looking forward to July in Cancer the Texas Literacy Council and Brad will remain in San Francisco who is a civil engineer, and I have Institute. McClung is secretary to the field of history. Sommers England and France before return- M.D. Ander- serves as of the board of until August, when they will move two sons, ages 7 and 5." son's chief legal has become one of the country's ing to academia in August." officer. directors of the state component of to Washington State to work at the foremost authorities on the Ameri- Literacy Volunteers of America. University of Washington." S. G."Sam" Gibbs is the co- can Civil War. The National His- Thomas Evans founder and president of Nabia Kendrick (Baker) torical Society named a book he According to Scot Martin Corp. in Midland, Texas. Gibbs is now working for Electronic Data Systems (Wiess),"I have been married for performs mathematical modeling in Plano, Texas. one year to Hilda Klein Martin, of pumping well systems, merging whom I met through a Christian rage 30/FALL 1989 Texas!). We wanted to David Courtwright sends this dating service. I received an M. U.S. Now we are off to Jackson- Sally Smith, M.D., has graduated ment for that Paul could look note,"You asked for other book Div. from Trinity Evangelical Di- ville. Fla., for three years in a P-3 from the University of Texas get mobile so '80 another publications. This spring I was the vinity School in Deerfield, Ill., and squadron with deployments to Sic- Health Science Center-San Anto- for and be ready to accept in the principal author of Addicts Who am currently teaching correspon- ily and Bermuda. I have three sons nio. She will remain there to start job, hopefully somewhere Class Recorder: Survived: An Oral History of Nar- dence courses with Moody Bible now: Austin Robert, 7, Andrew her career in family practice. Northeast, south of Pennsylvania Richard Morris north of cotic Use in America, 1923-1965, Institute." Murphy,4, and Alexander Calvin, and New Jersey, but 9555 Cloverdale published by the University of 6 months. Our near-term goals are South Carolina. We've been in a San Antonio, TX 78250 a Tennessee Press. I am a professor Carl W. Morris writes: "I wanted a bigger house, selection for astro- two—bedroom duplex for almost (512)523-1820 (home) to and chair of the Department of (work) lot you all know that my wife, naut and promotion to Commander year and love it.(At least the fi- (512) 342-6063 Philosophy at the Uni- Karen retirement in 1997). '79 nancial part of it!) We had to get History and White Morris '77 (Jones), (guaranteed died on rid of a lot of junk, going from versity of North Florida." Kathleen Boyd (Jones) sends this Sunday, May 28,1989, in Long-term goals are to get a Class Recorder: New four bedrooms to two, but it feels note: "I am writing to let you York from complications Ph.D., teach in a small college and J.C. Puckett from great. In October of 1986, I started Michael Edwards has announced know that I was promoted in De- surgery for acoustic neu- spend lots of hours in my wood- 435 E. 70th #6—F working out of the home with my the relocation of his law practice cember 1988 to director of product roma. This was a sudden and shop. Look us up if in Washington NY 10021 New York, to 4331 McCullough in San Anto- planning in the mar- tragic loss for me and my family or Jacksonville. Till December, computer and printer. I've since and program (212) 872-6711 nio. Edwards has been in private Continental and all who knew her. Karen write 3111 Calloway Court, Woo- upgraded the equipment and am keting department of served able to do what's called 'desktop practice, concentrating in personal Airlines. I now have responsibility on the Rice Engineering dbridge, VA 22192." Terrell Benold (Hanszen) gradu- publishing'(for all you computer injury cases since 1986. Prior to for the President's Club (airline Alumni board and was active in ated from A&M Medical School Other buffs, I use an IBM—compatible opening his private practice, he clubrooms) program and fleet con- alumni activities when we Gerry Bustillo Jr.(Sid Rich) is in '83, went to Aschner's Hospital lived computer and HP laser printer was an assistant district attorney figuration/interior design (a in Houston. currently in private practice in New Orleans for a surgical resi- "I with Ventura Desktop Publisher). I for Bexar County from 1983 to change is in the works), in addi- think I should also give you (Ob—Gyn)in Long Beach, Calif. dency, and is now completing a art also subcontract out as a trainer for 1986. tion to the onboard and ground update on me. I am currently different residency in family prac- vice Ventura. Now that we have 'products'. Also, in the president of finance and ad- Tracey D. Conwell sends this tice at the Lubbock General Hos- Alyssa, I can see the real advan- Arthur S. Harrow, M.D.,(Will Spring—Summer 1989 issue's 'The ministration for Carando division note:"I have been a partner in the pital. He will only be there until of tage of being able to work out of Rice) sends this note: "I married Rice Reader 1988-89', at least one DiGiorgio Corp. in Springfield, firm of Caddell & Conwell since December, when he'll be going Mass. the home. It'll be great. With the former Judy Shapiro on July 2, Rice alumna-authored book was Carando manufactures hams March 1987. Our firm specializes into practice—likely in Austin. He and Paul's help, I have been leading 1989, in Albany, N.Y., and have overlooked. Margaret Moore Italian stylemeat products in tort litigation, both for busi- is married and has two daughters. such as the San Antonio Ventura Desktop returned from an exciting honey- (Jones) co—edited (with Bill Jay) a salami, prosciutto and pep- nesses and individuals. On a more Laura, 4, and Abbey,9 months. moon in Vienna and Budapest Bernard Shaw's Peroni. I transferred here in early personal note, my partner, Michael Publisher Users Group which fine anthology of 1988 meets once a month. I was thrilled (where we did not look carefully writings about photography from the DiGiorgio Corp. A. Caddell, and I were married last Paul A. Briggs(Lovett) and his he to see that I was quoted in Xerox's for old Rice friends, if that's okay entitled Bernard Shaw On adquarters in San Francisco. I April in Carmel, where we were wife, Anne, send this update. "I have newsletter for Ventura. Of course, with you...). The wedding was at- Photography (Peregrine Smith two children (future Rice stu- joined by about 32 other guests. know it's been awhile since you dents?) there are only a few of us that tended among others by James Book, Gibbs Smith, Publisher, Benjamin, 4, and Cindy, The wedding took place outdoors, heard from Paul and me. Each meet, and I was nominated to be Hilton (Will Rice) and his lovely P.O. Box 667, Layton, Utah on a terrace overlooking one of the Christmas we have wonderful in- leader because, at the time, I knew wife, Darla, Sheldon Campbell 844041). Margaret also just com- most spectacular coastlines in the tentions of sending a card and let- Diane more than the others. But still, '80(Will Rice) and Richard pleted her MFA in Photography at Satin (Jones) writes that entire world. The guests all left ter to all of our friends and rela- She is doesn't it sound good? It's been Jensen (Will Rice). Judy Sheldon Arizona State University School of still at the University of after the weekend, and Michael tives, but you know how it is Calif fun for me and a good source for Campbell '80(Will Rice) will be Art in Tempe. While I'm at it I ornia-Berkeley. and I enjoyed a week in San Fran- sometimes. Well, this year, we fig- developing business leads. joining me in Richmond, where guess I should mention that I went cisco, Carmel and Big Sur. Upon ured we'd have motivation. We Jeff "Paul has healed nicely since she will be continuing her career to the wedding of Phoebe Wese- Wells (Lovett) writes,"My our return, we began trial prepara- were expecting the birth of our wife, the plane crash. (This occurred in as a teacher of the hearing im- ley '83(Brown) and Dave King Gayle, and I recently moved tion for what ended up being a first child around Christmas time. to April 1986, in an airplane he and paired. Those who are interested '81 (Lovett) in Dutchess County, Houston. After 10 years in Ore- large victory. Mike and I tried the Well, she finally came on Jan. 5, gon, l'm his dad built. The engine failed at may find my first publication in N.Y., on June 25,1989. Bill Hart- delighted to live in Texas case together and obtained a jury 1989, bright-eyed with a full head again I feet and the plane glided like the June 1989 issue of Virginia man '81 (Sid Richardson) also at- am leading a group that is verdict of approximately $6 mil- of hair! Alyssa Luhring Briggs 5000 forming a a rock right into the ground. Mi- Medical, entitled "Beer Potomania tended, and Danny Weaver '81 contemporary commu- lion on behalf of our client, a small was 10 days late, and she weighed nity raculously, both survived and are Syndrome in an Alcoholic." Fu- (Lovett) was best man while Eden church near the Woodlands." gas gathering company." eight pounds, three ounces. After doing well. But the plane was to- ture career developments will be Harrington '83(Brown) was the eight weeks, I'm finally adjusting Sue Hudman (Hanszen) writes, taled.) Even though he does not announced; right now I'm having maid of honor. Phoebe's horse, to motherhood and am beginning "I've been in Austin since I left have full range of motion in his too good a time. Here's to hearing Say Goodnight, Gracey, and dogs, to actually enjoy her. The first Rice and have just completed two left foot, he is able to go on slow (I from folks—my address is in the Tiffany and Georgy, were allowed '77 week. I had my mother helping, years with Radian Corp. They're call them fast)jogs these days. He alumni office." to attend the reception only. and I was totally enamored of takes our German Shepherd, Sab- Phoebe and Dave will live in Cali- StIsan W. Buzek has received a transferring me to our Sacramento Alyssa—couldn't get enough of d rina, with him and throws the ball Robert Jenkins, M.D., Ph.D., fornia where Dave is in Stanford's octorate in office to work in contracts admini- holding and staring at her. The biochemistry from the for her as he runs. Paul is also a (Baker) writes,"I finished my MBA program." Graduate School stration. I've played lots of softball mom left, and my S of Biomedical second week, Institute's internal medicine residency at ciences in Austin and already have a posi- pitcher on one of the at the University of hormones went wild. Alyssa cried, Hospital in Texas softball teams. When he doesn't Vanderbilt University Health Science Center tion waiting for me on the Sacra- and I wanted to give her back! - run with Sabrina, he takes her to a Nashville, Tenn. I am moving to Houston. mento team." But, now, well into the eighth nearby field and practices his Dallas for yet more training (ugh) week, I'm back on my feet, getting pitches. She goes and gets the ball in a rheumatology fellowship at Becky Lambourn Michael C. Sanders(Baker) and into a routine and thoroughly en- Krusen (Jones) for him every time! Southwestern." writes,"It seems Claire Wilner Sanders '80 our little girl. that we're des- joying "Now that the baby is born, tined to live (Baker) have been living in north- in cold, dark, wet cli- "Paul is real cute with her. He Therese Klingler, P.E., has joined mates. Houston for over a year. we're back into the job-hunting After seven years of the west changed his first diaper a couple of North business, so if any of you have a the staff of Bryant-McClelland Sea Claire writes of her family, did okay. My most S (Norway, England and weeks ago and lead for a quality assurance engi- Consulants Inc. in Austin, Texas, cotland), "Wendy (12-4-81) has started 3rd we were transferred to traumatic experience was letting as manager of environmental serv- is in neer, please let us know! In the Oklahoma City. It was time to grade, and Geoffrey (2-28-85) him watch her Saturday morning. Settled meantime, in addition to learning ices. Klinger will manage geoenvi- and preschool, showing signs of being door as she the live a quiet life in He pushed me out the to be father, Paul is studying to ronmental projects for the Austin sunny midwest, but, alas, a future math prodigy. was crying and had a dirty diaper. was it take the Quality Assurance Engi- and San Antonio offices and will not to be. "Mike is now an independent did great—no longer do I Co. Phillips Petroleum But he neer Certification exam offered by also be responsible for business closed the consultant in hardware and system take care of her. fice Oklahoma City of- hesitate to let him ASQC (American Society for development and recruiting for and sent design. I have started a children's us to Kenai, Alaska. He's been very supportive and Bryant-McClelland's geoenviron- Fritz and "Curtain Call Quality Control, exam date. June I and our three children theater workshop, loves his little girl. The greatest love it 3,1989). I've never met anybody mental division. Klinger is regis- here, but don't tell Kids," which I offer in area moments are when she smiles at body." any- more disciplined than Paul (I had tered as a professional engineer in schools, and I am into my second grins from ear to ear and Paul. He to add that one after he proofed Texas, is certified as an AHERA Melinda C. Litherland has been year singing soprano with the melt- you can almost see his heart most asbestos inspector, and is an active promoted to senior audit manager Houston Symphony Chorus." this letter). He's up at 5:00 ing. mornings, studying for the exam, member of the Texas Society of for Deloitte Haskins & Sells, the "To get you up to date. Paul what- Professional Engineers, the Soci- international accounting and con- David P. Smith (Wiess) has been reading the Bible and doing '78 has been working for the last three accomplish his as ety for Marketing Professional sulting firm, in San Jose, Calif. promoted to senior project engi- ever it takes to years as a quality assurance engi- Services, and the Austin Chamber Litherland has been with the firm neer at the Santa Barbara office of well as the family's goals. I keep Class Recorder: neer for a non—profit, high—tech Right of Commerce. for eight years. She specializes in Inc., a national civil engi- hoping it will rub off on me. Rhonda Greiner research and development organi- high technology and D Hale Kreger now, the only time I meet him that serving 1810 neering, planning and land survey- zation called Southwest Research Beaver Creek Court time of the morning is when I have manufacturing companies with ing firm. Smith is responsible for Institute. It's been interesting canville, TX 75137 to get up to feed Alyssa. As far as government defense contracts. (214) managing, marketing and super- work, but Paul is ready to try a 780-7183 - goals are concerned, I'm lucky if I Litherland is a member of the vising the technical workload of en- more manufacturing—oriented this let- Northern California government his project team. He is married to get the clothes folded...or Boyd vironment. In addition, we'd like contracting industry group of the sends (Sid Richardson) ter done for that matter! We hope this Peggy Ann Murphy, and they re- be within a half-day's drive of note: "I am finishing a to hear from you soon. Please California Society of Certified tour_ as side in Lompoc, Calif. to a detailer in my family in Northern Virginia. Public Accountants. She is also a C Washington, don't take us off your Christmas se.ading We had bought a house when we member of the American Institute d Navy people to new mailing list. We love hearing from mi first moved here, then sold it last exciting jobs all around the you and miss you all very much. of Certified Public Accountants. A (very unusual accomplish- spring We'll be in touch."

FALL 1989/ Page 31 native of Beaumont. Texas, she Laura Flanagan (Jones) now outside the job market of the mili- Mass., in May. Lending critical as- Michelle Yu-Mei Fang has resides in Sunnyvale with her hus- works as the director of systems tary-industrial complex. I'll be re- sistance were Dan Cocanougher graduated from the University of band, Kevin Pei, and their son, and programming for the Lillian ceiving mail at P.O. Box 4133, (Will Rice), Cadillac (Will '86 Rice) Texas Health Science Center at Ryan. Vernon Corp. in Mt. Vernon, N.Y. Austin, TX 78765. I'd love to hear and Wendy Young '82 (Lovett). San Antonio. She will be going to She and her husband, Kenneth Jennifer Morrow Burstain was from you all." Also trooping in from California the University of California-Irvine Kathryn Makris, a Houston Bowen, reside in Croton-on- among 47 medical students across were Katherine Eggert(Hanszen) Medical Center in Orange, Calif., young adult novel writer, will have Hudson, N.Y. the country to receive research Jim Kahle (Will Rice) sends this and Lisa Chaskin (Hanszen). The to start her residency in pediatrics. A Different Way published in Au- training fellowships under a new note: "In September 1988.1 mar- future is uncertain: Wylie finished gust by Avon Books. She is the Robert Miller, an associate in the program begun by the Howard ried Mary Closmann in Houston. driving submarines and is pursuing Bobby JaM (Lovett) was pro- author of nine previous young law firm of Liddell, Sapp, Zivley, Hughes Medical Institute. Burstain The bridal party included Keene a career in environmental policy. moted to principal investigator on adult novels. Makris has been a Hill & LaBoon, has been selected is in her third year of medical Taylor, Jamie Bell, Steve Kathy is building telecommunica- a contract to study the use of reporter in San Francisco and a for inclusion in Who's Who in school at Duke University. Her Sciance, Jim Moore, Charles tions networks, but thinking of fur- NASA's software support environ- contributor to Mother Jones maga- American Law,Sixth Edition. fellowship mentor will be Michael Closmann, Randy Kahle (all ther schooling." ment by the Japanese to develop zine. Miller, who practices real estate, V. Norgard, associate professor in Will Rice), Cecile Closmann the Japanese experiment module lending and election law in the the department of microbiology. Brink (Jones) and Claire James T. Cheng (Sid Rich) is in for the space station Freedom. Houston University of Texas Southwestern office of Liddell. Sapp, Closmann (Will Rice). Many Dallas starting a new job. He re- serves by gubernatorial appoint- Medical Center at Dallas. other Rice friends attended the cently had a Sid Rich get-together Boris Jezic(Wiess) has just ment as chair of the Battleship wedding. We live in Austin, where with Lloyd Bennack, J.P. Hal- graduated '81 from Columbia's MBA Jon Cooksey (Wiess) is starting Texas Advisory Board. He also lam with IBM and Mary is with vorsen, Nate Chan, Francis program. He began working in the serves as secretary—treasurer of the his second year of graduate school Class Recorder: Andersen Consulting. We spend Chen and Ed Riquelmy, finance area at BASF in Committee for Judicial Merit Elec- at the Harvard Graduate School of Kevin Honnell much of our free time windsurfing Ludwigshafen, West Germany, on tion and is assistant treasurer Design (architecture) this fall. 1421 Geneva St. of and playing soccer." Katherine Eggert '84(Hanszen) Aug. I. 1989. Merit PAC. Raleigh, NC 27606 Miller is married to married Mark Winokur on July 23, Lisa Anne Miller, a student at the Richard Jones (Sid Rich) says,"I (919)737-3615 (office) Millie Macossay (Brown) gradu- 1989, at the Faculty Club on the Chris Kreidler (Lovett) writes, Baylor College of Medicine, and is will be attending law school at the (919)851-2550 (home) ated from the University of Texas U.C. Berkeley campus. Katherine "Mesa is opening a financial head- a member of the Houston Club and University of Texas at Austin in at Austin Law School in May writes,"Rice alums on hand in- quarters in Dallas in September, the Forum Club. the fall." In July 1989, he had 1988. She is clerking fora federal cluded my maid of honor, Lisa and I will be moving down from planned a trip to Rome. N.Y., to judge in Corpus Christi, Chaskin (Hanszen), and my Amarillo. So, look for me down- Greg Stahl (Lovett) married Ra- see Duane Willsey '86(Sid Rich). brothers. Paul Eggert '75 town at the Trammell Crow Center chel Paz of Watsonville. Calif., a navigator on a USAF B-52. on Marty Marx Mogren (Lovett) (Hanszen), Jim Eggert '79 or biking around White Rock April 15, 1989. The best man was writes,"I was married to Tod (Hanszen), and Kurt Eggert '81 Lake!" George Pettit (Lovett). Other Mogren on April 22. Margaret (Hanszen), as well as many other Chris Kohnhorst (Sid Rich) groomsmen were Brian Kubena writes,"I was promoted to lieuten- Biczynski Christensen '82 friends: Susan Eicher (Hanszen), David Phillips sends this note: "I ( Lovett) and Joe Shea (Lovett). ant and was transferred to a new (Hanszen) was one of my atten- Mark Jenkins '83(Will Rice), arrived in Amsterdam on July 3 Michelle Zumwalt Pettit (Baker) ship, David R. Ray DD 971. which dants. Also celebrating with us Kathy Batho (Hanszen), Wylie and enjoyed three days there with served as guest-book attendant. is a destroyer in Long Beach, were Lynn Banta Gray '84(Lov- Donald (Will Rice), Michael the nicest people anywhere. Then I Other Rice grads present were Calif. Traveling to look for a place ett) and Tim Vala '82(Will Rice). Tinkler (Hanszen), Laurie McK- went to Brussels July 6-8, where I Welli Yeh '84 (Lovett), Lay to stay in Long Beach. 1 saw Jan- Lynn, Margaret and 1 all brought inzey (Hanszen), Chris Wagner met the most boring folks on the Gratke Kubena '84(Brown), ice Rudd '87 (Brown). Then I our future little Owls to the wed- '83(Hanszen), and Mark Hollar earth. But I have to say that this is Kelly Bolam Shea '83(Will ding—William, 3, Caitlin, spent the 4th of July with her and 3, and '81 (Hanszen). I am now commut- the most beautiful city I've seen. I Rice), Jill Gunter Blom (Brown), Irene, 4, respectively. Watch out ing Brenda Elliason '87(Brown) in between Berkeley, where I'm spent the week of July 11-17 in Jim Ivey '84(Hanszen), Amanda for the year 2006. Washington. D.C., in front of the My husband op- finishing my Ph.D. in English Paris during the bicentennial." Gerdeman '85 (Jones), Lisa Yee erates his own tree service busi- Renaissance literature, and Car- Washington Monument between '84(Hanszen), Terrance Ladd ness. I am currently in a lisle. rain showers (and beers) watching new posi- Pa., where Mark is a profes- Raid A. Trevino III received his Phil Botkiss (Baker) writes,"I '84(Lovett), Cindy Winkler '85 tion with Allen Bradley the fireworks. Janice will soon go Co. in the sor of film and American literature Doctor of Optometry degree from will complete my residency in (Baker) and John Bergman '67 industrial computer division to graduate school at the Univer- as an at Dickinson College." the University of Houston College psychiatry at the University (Baker). Greg says,"We met at a application engineer in sity of Chicago. I also saw Donna of commer- William Hoel (Hanszen) sends of Optometry on May 13, 1989. California at San Diego in June party on April 15, 1988, and we cial marketing." Arrington '87(Brown) in Miami this note: "With glory to the Lord, He is a member of the Texas Op- 1989 and then start private were engaged by October. Since when my ship pulled in for the prac- I finished my Master of Music, tometric Association and the tice in San Diego after a April 15 fell on a Saturday in Doug Taylor month of March." long (Baker) writes,"I'm major in cello performance, at American Optometric Association. awaited two-month vacation!" 1989, we selected it as our wed- now pursuing post -graduate stud- Southern Methodist University. He currently is practicing at the ding day. We live in Mountain ies at the John F. Nancy Lamb is the first medical Kennedy Center Thus I completed what some said I Cataract Institute of Texas in George LeBus View. Calif., at 242 Flynn Ave. here student to enter—and win—the (Lovett) is the in Fayetteville, N.C. I'm could not begin." Houston. (94043). Texas Neurological president and co-founder of U.S. I have lost track of so working in international communi- Society's an- Operators in Dallas. He writes that many people. Please let me hear nual essay contest in neurology. cations. In the past couple of Leonora Aboulafla Maya (Jones) Cindy L. Vitto is an assistant pro- he is married and has two children. front you." She competed statewide with resi- years, I've been living in several married Sammy Maya in 1985. fessor of English at Glassboro dents who submitted the 12 other places, including Georgia; Mon- Leonora writes."We are, unbe- State College in Glassboro, George Zgourides recently gradu- N.J. Colette Marcellin (Hanszen) terey, Calif.; El Paso, Texas; and lievably, expecting our third child papers in this year's contest. ated with a doctoral sends this note:"On May 27, degree in now North Carolina. 1 expect to be in September. We have two other Lamb, now a fourth-year medi- clinical 1989. I married a wonderful guy, psychology from Pacific going to Japan next year. I'm still children, Amanda, 3, and David, I. cal student at Baylor, based her University. He Greg Adams, whom I met while graduated from running, cycling. orienteering, We are happily living in Boca Ra- paper on research conducted for an we both worked in Kenya. Present Trinity University in 1986 with an rock climbing, scuba diving and ton, Fla." "Investigative Neurology" elective at the wedding were Rice alums M.A. in the same field. He is now all of that good stuff I used to do. under the supervision of Bernard adult Tori Byrne Huntington, Teresa pyschologist resident at Tu- I'm still involved in the Sierra Julia L. Pepper(Brown) writes, M. Patten, associate professor of alatin Valley McHenry and Gus Williamson." Mental Health Center Club, although my travels have "My husband and I are heading neurology. She evaluated the sig- of Portland, Ore. limited my involvement in the Boy back to Houston. We're both still nificance of a certain type of anti- According to Charles Spain (Will Rice) writes, Zgourides, who Scouts. I just recently went on va- with Air Products, and I'm looking body in neuromuscular disease. earned an M.A. in "Since graduating from Baylor music while at cation to Kitty Hawk, where I flew forward to seeing old friends." Law School in 1988. I've been Rice,"In April, 1 composed and a few kites in honor of the Wright Larry Lesser (Hanszen) received premiered 'Soson serving as a briefing attorney for Kyrie Ton Laon brothers and worked on my tan. Alan Rister was recently pro- an M.S. in statistics from the Uni- Su: Fantasy for Piano and Orches- Justice C.L. Ray of the Texas Su- Here is my new address. I would moted to sales supervisor at Tif- versity of Texas at Austin this Au- tra,' with preme Court. I will start as an as- the Pacific University love to hear from my classmates: fany & Co. gust and celebrated with a vaca- sociate with Graves, Dougherty, Orchestra." 6443 A. Applecross Avenue, Fay- tion in Washington. While there he Hearon & Moody in Austin in Oc- Zgourides also recently pub- etteville, NC 28304." hiked Mt. Rainier with Jed Dennis tober." lished his 19th professional psy- (Jones). chology article. Juan Tellez (Will Rice) sends this note: "I got married in November '85 The ad agency that Baker alumnus Sylvia Hsu—Wong, M.D.,(Lovett/ 1988. I also finished my residency graduated Greg Marshall is working for re- Class Recorder from Baylor College of in June 1989 and am now moving Medicine on May 24, 1989. She cently merged."We're now Tay- '82 David Phillips lor/Christian Advertising, one of to the Phoenix area to start prac- '83 6013 Ridgeview Drive will be doing her dermatology tice in anesthesiology." the top five agencies in this mar- Cecile Closmann Brink (Jones) Alexandria, residency in Philadelphia. She VA 22310 ket," writes Marshall. "I'm a V.P. writes,"My husband, Rinse Brink, Thomas A. Evans(Lovett) writes, (703)960-9249 married Tien Pei Wong, an oph- with Taylor/Christian, primarily accepted a position with USF&G "I'm moving again, again, thalmology resident at the Wills again.. handling accounts involving insol- in San Francisco. We are moving This time. I'm fleeing John Oliver Brooks III is cur- Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, on California vent savings and loans and real there from Houston and anxiously to return to Austin. I'll '84 rently a second-year medical stu- Dec. 27, 1986. estate that's been foreclosed upon. await the arrival of our first child, be starting work this fall on a dent at Stanford University School Have recently moved to a new due in December." Ph.D. in civil engineering, with an Kathy Batho(Hanszen) and of Medicine and plans to special- place as well—and am also organ- emphasis on environmental and Wylie Donald (Will Rice) send ize in neuropsychological re- izing A.A.A.R.G.. the Alamo Area water resource engineering. With this note: "Married and living in search. Association of Rice Graduates. any luck this will place me safely New Jersey? Yes, we finally got We had a large meeting on Oct. 2 serious and tied the knot in Acton, here in San Antonio. Doc C. was the speaker."

Page 32/FALL 1989 Richard McLean received his Patrick Dimuzio writes,"The Cati Moses (Lovett) is pleased to roommate, Ian Knight '87 Jane Whaley Barron '69(Jones) Certificate of Individual Theologi- July Fourth weekend brought say that in January 1989 she be- (Baker), was recently accepted to and her husband, Don, announce cal Study on May 26. 1989. during Daan Hekma-Wierda, Alex came a U.S. Foreign Service Offi- the Notre Dame MBA program for the birth of their fourth child, Ell- the 36th commencement of the Hodge and Mark 'Squid' Th- cer."My good friends know that the fall of 1990. Rachel Giesber cry Paul Whaley Barron. on May Episcopal Theological Seminary ompson to Patrick DiMuzio's becoming a diplomat has been one '89(Baker) and I have been shar- 25, 1989. in Houston. Jane and of the Southwest in Austin. place in Cincinnati for a wildcat of my goals for a longtime. I'm ing the responsibility of a Welsh Don celebrated their 20th wedding Sixth Floor Party Reunion. The very happy with what I'm doing. I Corgi puppy. Travel takes Ian and anniversary on May 18, 1989. Ken Romeo (Sid Rich) sends this marathoning began at Riverfront am currently studying Mandarin me away from Houston two-to- note: "It's come to my attention Stadium in the Todd Bensinger fan Chinese to prepare for my first three weeks out of every month." Lela Lee '72 and Norman Wikner that some of you did know that I club section, continued on a river- post, Beijing. Before joining the announce the birth of their daugh- went to China (the PRC)this last boat on the Ohio River, a '67 Mus- Foreign Service, I completed my Steven Slavik, Marine second ter, Elena Lee Wikner, on May I. Year. To allay any fears that may tang convertible in the rain, and master's degree in political science lieutenant, recently reported for 1989, in Denver, Colo. Lela have been aroused. I'm safe and finally ended some 12 hours later at the University of Georgia. duty with 1st Marine Division, writes: "Having a baby has in- (to a limited extent) sound, back in in a dark alley behind a blues club While at UGA, I was inducted into Camp Pendleton, Calif. spired me to write to the Sallyporr Los Angeles. It was a very eye- in the university area. We are the national honor society, Phi After medical school in Dallas, I °Pening 10 months studying Chi- happy to report that there were no Kappa Phi." went to Philadelphia for a resi- nese at Northwest University in casualties, and the photos of Squid dency in internal medicine, then to Xi'an. In the end. I saw quite a doing his Stevie Ray Vaughn im- Rebecca Jo Neudecker has been Denver for a residency and fellow- few Matt Morroo (Sid Rich) is work- '89 demonstrations but no troops personation on stage should be de- named as an intern by the city of ship in dermatology. My husband and finally decided to get out and veloped in time for the next issue Phoenix Management Intern Pro- ing as regional director for The (whom I married in 1984) and I Todd Jones (Jones) has been pro- fly to Hong Kong on June II. of Sallyport." gram. The program provides in- Princeton Revievv in Tampa, Fla., are on the faculty at the University moted from intern to full-time Now I'm in L.A.(sleeping on terns the opportunity to learn the where he is "currently soaking up of Colorado School of Medicine in status as a copywriter with Ogilvy friends' floors) looking for some- Scott Lee Johnston (Sid Rich) city's budget process, administra- the sun and sand (as is Audrey Denver. My research concerns lu- & Mather in Houston. thing, anything, that will put me writes that he is planning to enter tive and organizational analysis. Harrel)." Morrow plans to head pus erythematosus and related dis- back in Asia with a salary. Until I law school in the fall of 1990 and quality staff assistance and other north next year for graduate eases, and Norman's research in- get a job somewhere, the best way adds,"My daughter, Tanna, facets of city government. The in- school. volves studying extracellular ma- to reach me is through this ad- passed the first grade with four terns rotate during a one-year pe- trix problems." dress: 645 Prospect Crescent, 'As' and three 'Bs." riod among the management and Michael H. Rogers(Baker) New Arrivals Pasadena, Calif. 91103.- budget department, the city man- writes,"I was promoted to con- Gayle E. Woodson, M.D.,'72 ager's office and the neighborhood struction manager with Schnabel (Jones) and her husband, Tom .1:Ina Lynne Sanchez (Jones) is improvement and housing depart- Foundation Co. after leaving my Because their parents sent in birth Robbins, announce the birth of the Northern California Finance ment. They serve as staff assistants first job in January. At the age of announcements, thefollowing "fu- their third child (first daughter), Director for Leo McCarthy. She to administrative or citizens' com- 22, I am the youngest manager in ture alumni" received Rice bibs Sarah Elizabeth Robbins, on Feb. was a fund raiser for his campaign. mittees and attend city council the history of the company. My compliments of the Association of 6, 1989, in San Diego, Calif. Before going to California, Jana policy sessions. This program is Rice Alumni: had been a legal assistant for one of the oldest, most highly-re- Baker, Smith & Mills in Dallas. spected city management training programs in the nation. It is de- Susie Scown (Brown) married signed to attract, develop and re- Andy Crocker '87 (Baker) in the tain innovative people in local Rice Chapel June 24. Bridesmaids. government. among them Cathy Clack of MI- n°1-itY Affairs, wore hot pink dresses with matching pumps and orange belts. Those shielding their eyes included: Tracy Hodge '89 ( Brown), now at University of WYoming grad school: Eric Sali- Mariann': Lloyd (Hanszen '88 turo (Hanszen), with whom the writes,"I am currently working as bride is again on speaking terms: a summer associate for Akerman, Thomas Burnham (Jones) sends Keith Cooper '78(Sid Rich): Senterfilt & Eidson in Orlando, this note: "I have been promoted Amy Collins (Brown). now in Fla., and will graduate in Decem- to Peace Corps Volunteer and am grad school at the University of ber 1989 from Florida State Uni- stationed with a base in Nowhere, Houston: Neil Liss '86 (Wiess): versity College of Law. AS&E is Paraguay. After surviving a Emmy Alvarez '85(Hanszen), one of the oldest and largest law bloody coup without knowing it, I f ormerly of the Rice admission firms in Orlando and is engaged in have been aiding in the admini- Office. Lisa Gray '88(Brown). general civil and commercial prac- stration of an agricultural coopera- The happy couple is living in tice." tive. See you all at Beer-Bike Little Rock while Andy finishes 1991." medical school at the University of Maureen McKelvey (Jones) Arkansas. writes, "I've lived in Lund, Swe- Keun Huh,Ph.D., is now a mem- den, for two years now—ever ber of the economics department Holly Knudsen Varner was mar- since graduating—and really like at Southern Illinois University in ried to Michael Carbondale, Ill. ( Aaron Varner it. I just received my master's de- University of Houston '87) on gree and will continue for a Ph.D. July I, 1989, in Houston. The here, concentrating on European Tanya Adelaide Huang (Jones) bride was given away by her fa- policy (social and technological). has been selected as a member of ther, Chris Knudsen Outstanding Young Women of and '61,(W .iess), If anyone travels to Europe and was attended by America. day Kathy 'Holli- manages to 'fight off the polar Rowland '86(Brown). Also bears,' they are welcome to come present were Larry Rowland '87 visit! Lund will celebrate its Chris Mineo (Baker) will be (Baker). Alice Gee '86(Brown) 1.000-year anniversary and is married to Kim Samovce (Uni- and Henry de la Garza '87(Sid close to Denmark. Alan versity of Texas '87)on Jan. 20, Rich). Ainsworth (Jones) has been our 1990, in Fort Worth, Texas. Chris only Rice visitor so far. However, says that Kim's father doesn't my most important news is that on own a shotgun and she's not even Aug. I, 1989, Tomas S. Carlsson pregnant. Rice alums in wedding '87 and I became engaged on Mount party: Tash, Chuckles, Steven Rainier. near Seattle. Wash. We R., Chap and, hopefully, Mike will continue Bishop (Lovett) and to live in Sweden.- Doug-Bob. After the wedding, Melissa Linardos '89 they'll head back to Bahrain for were (Wiess) married in May in Connecti- another year in "The Gulf." cut. In attendance were fellow Lovett grads Brock Wagner, Paul Luther, Alex Hodge, Millicent Coil '88, Daan Hekma-Wierda, Mark T hompson, Ike ()saki. Norm Byrne, ette Scott Doak, Nan- Canepa '88 Ra and Pradeep manirtham.

FAIl 1989/Pao Ellen Law Reiss '80(Brown) and her finance degree at Wright State Kristen Moore Eagleton '86 Jane Amerman Vanzant '31 on her husband. Donald, announce University this past December, (Baker) and her husband. David. May 26, 1989. the birth of their first child, Steven just prior to Derek's arrival, and announce the birth of their first Josephine Rogers Allen '32 on Notice Michael, on May 3, 1989. He was was quite a sight waddling across child, David John Eagleton, on July 13, 1989. born at St. Joseph Hospital in the commencement stage. All in Nov. 26, 1988, in Saint Louis, Mo. Clovis J. Harkrider '32 on June Houston. Ellen writes,"In August. all, it's been a busy year for the 12. 1989. Due to a change in the bylaws, the Young I returned to work as coordinator Lorances in Fairborn, Ohio. In Margaret Williams Morris '32 Alumni group now includes all graduates of executive programs at Sisters of other news. I'm still playing with In on June 2, 1989 from the last 15 years (rather than the Charity of the Incarnate Word semiconductors(GaAs) for the Air Memoriam Richard J. Metcalf'35 on July Health Care System.- Force: little has changed there." 24, 1989. previous 10-year limit). The Young Louise Ewing Grigg, wife of for- Alumni David Paul Walsh '37 on June 26, mer faculty member Cecil B. welcome volunteers to serve on their commit- Richard Deal '81 (Lovett) and Richard Barbieri '84(Will Rice) 1989. Grigg, on May 31, 1989. his wife, Diane, announce the arri- and his wife. Debbie, announce Frances Lovene Silver '39. tee—call the alumni office at (713) 527-4057 Andrew Nicholas Jitkoff, Rice val of Christopher Braden on May the birth of their son, Richard Al- Fred Woodrow Pepper '41 on to get involved. University Professor Emeritus, on 5, 1989. Christopher joins Ryan, exander, on Feb. 5, 1989. Richard July 5, 1989. July 26, 1989. 4-and-one-half, and Eric (2-and also writes,"I saw H. Mark Carroll P. Walker Jr.'42 on Lona V. Morgan, widow of for- one-half). Rich and Diane are now Stanley '84(Will Rice) as he June 14, 1989. mer Rice assistant football and living in central New Jersey, passed through Denver in May." Daniel on head baseball coach Dell Morgan, D. Compton '46 May where Rich is manager of financial 29, 1989. Gayle writes."Despite being on Middy Benedict on July 20, 1989. Wetzel '77 analysis and planning with Airco Amy and Darren Cofer '85 Donald P. Camp '48 on June 16. the Trenton W. Wann,former fac- 'Mommy Track', I have made (Baker) and her husband. David, Industrial Gases. (Jones) announce the birth of their 1989. it to the rank of associate profes- announce ulty member,on April 21, 1989. the birth of their third daughter, Bonnie Ann Cofer, on Beatrice S. Friedman '50 on May sor, department of surgery, son, John W. Cox '27 on July 5, 1989. at Russell Benedict. on June Bryan Philips '81 (Lovett) and Aug. II, 1989, at Bethesda Naval 5, 1989. UCSD School of Medicine. It is 1989. Joseph Sherrell Jarrett '27 on his wife, Renee, announce the Hospital. Herb N. Hill '55 on May 29, not impossible to write a May 25, 1989. success- birth of their first child, Camille 1989. ful grant proposal while rocking a Ruth Esther Graham '28 on May Kerry McCarley Balthrop '78 Nicole, on May 6, 1989. Michael Scott '85 and Wendy Andrew Jitkoff'64 on June 6, baby with an earache—if 26. 1989. you have (Brown) and Ricky Balthrop '79 Covey-Scott '85(both Will Rice) 1989. a laptop computer." (Sid Rich) announce the birth of Vincent P. Rosheger '28 on May announce the birth of their first Tim Barker '66 on May 9, 1989. their son, Brian James. on Nov. Mark Hendrix '82(Baker) and 25. 1989. 8, child. Caitlin Marie Scott, on Aug. Charles Keith Haley '72 on May 1988. Susan Hemphill Hendrix '83 Henry C. Tooley '28 on May 28, Janik '75(Will Rice)and Brian and his two sisters, 21, 1989."Mike should be receiv- 26, 1989. his wife. Leah, announce the birth Kelly, 5, and Lindsay, 3. look for- (Brown) announce the birth of 1989. ing his Ph.D. from Caltech by the Karen E. White Morris '77 on ward to seeing their second child, Taylor Davis, Betty Berleth '30 on May 22, of their second son, Tyler, on Feb. people at home- summer of 1990," says Wendy. May 28, 1989. 7, 1989, in coming on Oct. 28. on May 27, 1989. Mark is still 1989. Irving, Texas. "He'll be playing Mr. Mom until Robert Dean working at Arthur Andersen, and Marian A."Cookie" Cooke '30 Burnell '80 on Aug then." Susan was recently promoted to on July 8, 1989. 6, 1987. David Moody '76(Sid Rich) and David Tupper '78(Wiess) and Patrick G. Gordon Investment Manager at American Lavoisier Lamar '30 on May 8, '88 on Ma) his wife, Catherine Leslie, an- his wife, Debbie Smith Tupper General Corp. 1989. 25, 1989. nounce the birth of their first child, '79 (Jones), announce the birth of Emily Rebecca Moody, on April their first child. Zachary, on Jan. Ricky Pierce '82(Sid Rich) and 9, 1989. They write,"We're all 28, 1989. his wife, Joyce, announce the birth healthy and quite happy." Ross G. Baker Jr.'79 and his of a son, Christian Charles Pierce, on June 28, 1989. The family lives Trent Primm '76(Hanszen) and wife, Lisa Jones, announce the in Wisconsin, where Ricky contin- his wife. Anne, announce the birth birth of their first child. Alexander ues to play professional basketball of their first child. Kathryn "Ka- (Alex) Hines Baker, on April 5. as a guard for the Milwaukee tie" Michele Primm,on July 21, 1989. Bucks. 1989. Dwight and Dana Debacker '79 David R. Sebastian '82 and his John Fogarty '77(Wiess) and his (Sid Rich/Brown) announce the wife, Carol, announce the birth of wife. Nancy. announce the birth of birth of their daughter, Danielle their first child. Samantha Ellis, on their son. John, born in February Laraine, on Jan. 7, 1989. April 16, 1989. David writes,"I 1989. They now live in Danielle's older brother, Devin, is have been with the investment Greenwich. Ct., due to John's 3 years old. banking division of Shearson transfer to the executive office of Lehman Hutton in corporate fi- Deloitte Haskins & Sells last sum- Jeff Kerr '79(Lovett) and his nance since graduating with an mer. John was admitted to Deloitte wife. Sharon, announce the birth MBA from The University of as a partner this June 1989. of their first child, David Lloyd Kerr, on June 28, 1989. Jeff Texas at Austin two years ago. I share an office with David South- Kermit Lancaster '77(Wiess) writes,"I have finished pediatric well '84(Wiess) and also work and his wife, Sarah Heaner Lan- neurology residency at Bowman with Osmar Abib '81 (Will Rice). caster '78(Hanszen), announce Gray School of Medicine and was My wife and I recently moved the birth of their second daughter, hired onto the faculty at Bowman from New York City to Kendra Marie, Gray." on June 29, 1989. Greenwich, Ct. Greenwich is a Sarah says she was also perhaps great place to live but the one-and- the most pregnant person ever to John H. Rex '79(Lovett) and his one-half-hour commute each way be ordained a deacon in the United wife. Sara K.(Hill) Rex '80 (Jones), is a killer." Methodist Church. She plans to announce the birth of their receive her daughter, Madeleine Kate Rex, on Master of Divinity de- John Fletcher Elder '83 gree from May 17, 1989. the Perkins School of (Hanszen. MEE '84) and Eliza- Theology at SMU next spring. beth Hinson Elder '83(Hanszen. Meanwhile, Charles W.Taylor Jr.'79 (Sid Kermit wonders how MAT '85) announce the birth of a former Rally Clubber Rich) and his wife. Brenda. an- can ever their first child, Catherine Jean, on make it as a minister's spouse. nounce the birth of Christain Pi- Oct. 9, 1988. Elizabeth is caring They live in Dallas. erre Taylor on April 23, 1989. Charles has also been elected for the baby full time and plans to take a few graduate courses at the Claire Rimlinger McDonald '77 president of the "R" Association University of Virginia. John is (Baker) and Scott McDonald '82 and to the board of directors of the pursuing his Ph.D. in systems en- (Hanszen) announce the birth of Association of Rice Alumni. gineering at U.Va, and is director their first child. Joseph Victor, on of research (long distance) for March 19, 1989, in Houston. Patricia Vichareli Crawford '80 Scott Delta Financial Inc. in Virginia has (Jones) and her husband. John. are recently joined the Coastal Beach. Corp. as a senior systems analyst. happy to announce the birth of Claire continues as an assistant their second child, Caitlyn Maria Lt. David Lorance '83(Jones) professor Crawford, on July 29, 1989. Cait- of drama at the Univer- and his wife, Melissa, announce sity of St. Thomas. lyn has a 2-year-old brother, John Nai Marshall. the birth of their second son, Derek Edward. on Friday. Jan. 13, Curtis Schelling '77(Sid Rich) 1989. David writes,"I just com- eta and Joan Romann Schelling '79 pleted my M.S. in chemical engi- (Jones) announce the birth of their neering this April at the University Ad, first child, Victoria Ann, on April of Dayton. David Jr. is coping 18, 1989. with his newfound brotherhood quite well. Melissa also completed

Page 34/FAIA, 1989 •••••.• (continued from page two.) school my daughter will attend. I am not The Real China asking the school to present to each gradu- ate an immediately saleable skill along The Summer 1989 issue of Sallyport is With the diploma. I certainly didn't have very well done, as have been most of the any more such skills when I "graduated" recent issues. from the Peace Corps than I did when I However, one of the articles in the graduated from Rice. What I am asking for group presented is not up to the quality of fs some daring on the part of those who the others, nor fits the spirit of the intro- design and administer international experi- duction. There are glaring inaccuracies in ences at the college level. The goal of such the article about Scott Cohen on the page Programs should be to challenge the stu- (nine) labeled "China." Nanjing is cer- Travel dents' assumptions about themselves, their tainly not out in the country. The name of school, their country and the countries they the city means "southern capitol," and so it visit. has been through much of history. For- As I compare my own experience with eigners still live there in large numbers, those described in the Sallyport article, I and hundreds of tourists pass through each The Wonders of the World am shocked to find myself intoning an ad- month. The accident and hospital story are From the heart of the Amazon to the pyramids of Egypt, the Associa- vertising slogan I don't otherwise care for: also very improbable as reported. tion of Rice Alumni Travel/Study Program offers well-planned trips no pain, no gain. I don't mean the kind of The implication that Thailand is very for adventure, education or both. For additional information on these Pain the Rice students experienced abroad; primitive also gives the wrong impression, You make it clear that all of them had rea- although it is possible that a rest house trips, contact the alumni office at (713) 527-4057. Prices are approxi- sonable amounts of that. What I think is might be built for a foreign tourist in a tree mate. missing is an expression of the kind of on some island. Pain that comes from seeing your own Having lived in both China and Thai- Ski/See Innsbruck Country with newly opened eyes. That, to land for extended periods, and having vis- Feb. 22- March 2,1990 me, is where the real growth occurs, and ited both recently (and about to go again), that should be the focus of any program I hate to see a publication from Rice be so The first offering of 1990 is the annual (since 1986) Ski/See that sends young Americans abroad. inaccurate. Either the author did not realize Innsbruck trip. Innsbruck, situated in an enchanting alpine setting, is Philip H. Jones '67 that Scott Cohen was telling jokes, or Co- considered to be one of Austria's loveliest cities. There are five ski Philadelphia, Pa. hen understood little Chinese language and/or wishes to confuse those with whom areas served by a shuttle, and sightseeing tours are available to he spoke in reporting his experiences. destinations as varied as Salzburg, Vienna, Venice, Munich and A Powerful Force Keep up your good work, but suggest "mad" King Ludwig's castles of Bavaria. The trip has been scheduled that all of your writers not only use during Innsbruck's carnival week. Approximate cost: $1,045. Bravo to President Rupp for a commence- quotations...but try to give a more bal- ment address (Sallyport, Summer 1989) anced view of the country being discussed, Egypt that was bound to be unpopular with some, so that new, inaccurate stereotypes not be Particularly the "Reaganistas" that seem to created. March 2-13,1990 be both the greatest accumulators of Laurence C. Judd '42 Of all the countries in the world it is likely that Egypt has the largest Wealth and the most ardent practitioners of Consultant on Asian & Peace Studies concentration of monumental sights with its wonders and antiquities the deception and irresponsibility which he Emeritus Professor ofSociology decries. Illinois College depicting 5,000 years of civilization. Your itinerary begins and ends As any issue of Sallyport makes clear, Jacksonville, Ill. with stays in Cairo, from which you will visit Memphis, Sakkara and the graduates unleashed by Rice can be a the Pyramids of Giza. The middle portion of the trip will be a flight werful force. If more alumni shared President Rupp's ideals, that force could to Abu Simbel and Aswan, where you will board a private Nile cruise Well overcome the problems once consid- yacht for visits to Kom Ombo, Edfu, Esna and Luxor. The group will ered the the "liberal fringe."concern of only visit Dendera and Abydos before returning to Cairo. The group will Dian L. Hardison '79 be limited to 22, so make your decision early. Approximate cost: Titusville, Fla. $3,653. A Passion Play Let us hearfrom you July /990 En• and his wife, Nancy, will accompany n JoY keeping up with friends and classmates in the Classnotes section? Why Rice President George Rupp :-t),,t return the favor — drop us a line and a (preferably black and white) photo this special trip to Austria that will include tickets to "The Passion 7 /Yport, Office of University Relations, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, Texas Play" in Oberammergau, West Germany—the villagers of Oberam- 1 4 mergau perform this special event only once every 10 years. Home DMarried? El New Job? III New Baby? base for the trip will be Zell am See, a beautiful Alpine resort area in El] Promoted? DTake a Trip? 0See a Classmate? Austria. Because of the difficulty in reserving tickets for "The Pas- 121 Moved? 0 Back in School? El Other? sion Play," which are already in great demand, the Association of Send us details. Rice Alumni is asking for early reservations. Please call the alumni office at(713) 527-4057 to be placed on the mailing list for the trip brochure.

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Playing the Field A lone Owl stalks toward the field, no doubt pondering the Rice record as of press time, 1-2-1. Off to a promising start under first- year coach Fred Goldsmith, the Owls meet the Aggies in the homecoming game Oct. 28 at 2 p.m.

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