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Any Alumni who would like to submit suggestions about selection of the new presi- SALLYPOR dent of the University are PUBLISHED FOR ALL FORMER STUDENTS OF invited to write S. G. (Red) McCann, Secretary of the RICE UNIVERSITY Committee. VOL. 17 HOUSTON, TEXAS, JANUARY, 1961 Fund Drive Sets Record Q •St A By Whitlock Zander, Jr. first Executive Secretory Editor's Note. This is the of a series of questions and The 1959-60 Rice Alumni answer articles from Rice ad- und was the most successful ministrators on subjects of in- n history, both from the stand- oint of funds raised and the terest to Rice Alumni. Write umber of participants. your questions to Sallyport. The sum of $45,933 was re- Admission Policies eived from 3200 contributors. By Bernard Giles The total Alumni gifts to Rice Director of Admission hrough all sources was $170,351. Question: How does one ex- Our five-year total of Alumni plain in a satisfactory manner giving to Rice is now $897,247. why an unusually promising student, from all indications at Support Increasing least, was not admitted to Rice? The fund is gaining increasing Answer: Rice University has lumni support each year. We a very difficult problem of ex- ave come a long way in the plaining in a convincing manner ast ten years, but, in order to why an unusually good student, •e on a level with the leading in terms of his academic stand- iversities throughout the coun- ing in high school, is not granted try in the matter of Alumni fund admission. There are some good Darticipation, we must strength- students (measured by their our support of the univeii- high school record) who would shy from which we received our understandably be penalized in education. standing by low scores on the College Entrance Examinations. Maintain High Standards The majority of the 2000 ap- This will enable Rice to con- plicants stood high academically inue to provide students with or they would not have applied. training of the highest quality. Many more than the 425 who A university must grow, de- can be admitted under our quota Velop and meet its new chal- stand high both in their aca- lenges annually. With continued demic record and on the ex- support we can aid Rice in meet- aminations. h e admissions ing these challenges. PRINCESSES SIGN PLEDGE CARDS committee, in rating each of Two Homecoming princesses who are seniors Davis, Alumni Fund Chairman, left, and G. these applications, must utilize all available criteria to have a were so interested in the Alumni Fund drive M. (Toby) Morton, new director of Rice Illness Postpones Alumni Funds. Mr. Davis reported the Alumni basis for evaluating an appli- they signed pledge cards ahead of time. cant's relative standing. After drive is ahead of the corresponding period Rice Teller Visit Signing are, left to right, Wanda Phears and each committee member rates of last year. The pledge card is an innovation the application, a composite Dr. Edward Teller, famed Diana Thomas. Looking on are W. F. (Bill) in Rice campaigns. evaluation is derived, and from nuclear scientist, was to have the array of composite evalua- been at Rice during the month tibns the selections are made. of February as a Welch In essence, the answer to this Foundation Visiting Scholar. question is that Rice is not able However, his visit has been to take all the qualified appli- postponed because of illness. cants, and is, therefore, required The Rice Development Of- to turn away many who are well fice released the following qualified. announcement: Question: What does the ad- "Due to the illness which missions committee want from has placed Dr. Edward Teller an interviewer? How can he in the hospital for a consider- avoid duplication of the material able period of time, his visit that would eventually be sent to Rice University as the to Rice? Welch Visiting Scholar, is Answer: The estimated in- postponed until later this tangible qualities should be spring, Dr. Carey Croneis, emphasized. Information on the acting as president, said." following is needed: How well the applicant expresses himself, his motivation, scope of his in- PREE LECTURES GIVEN terests, and, especially, what his general reading habits are. Is bURING FEBRUARY this student essentially a dedi- grade '. A series of lectures on "Tran- cated student or merely a ttstor Technology" of interest to seeker? Is there some outstand- person, Scientists and engineers is being ing quality about the favorable or unfavor- !Presented free of charge on the whether on Page 2) 'Nee Campus during February. (Continued .The series is co-sponsored by Rice University, the Institute of 4adio Engineers and Texas In- trurnents, Inc. Lecturers are Success In rom Texas Instruments. The lectures are being pre- New Orleans tented each Monday night at 8 p.m. in the Physics Amphi- New Plans theatre on the Rice Campus. Sparks A pre-game rally and brunch and an after-game party at New More Data Later Orleans for the Sugar Bowl game Though the 1960-61 Rice were so successful that plans af- Alumni Fund drive is already are being made for similar Well underway, this edition CLASS OF '27 fairs at other games. gathered at contains the honor roll and Some 200 Alumni in New Or- most of the data about the the Hotel Roosevelt 1959-60 drive, which ended leans for the pre-game brunch. William M. McVey, Artist of International Renown Alumni were present from many on Sept. 30. plam Louisiana and The 1959-60 drive was ex- William M. (Bill) McVey, One of his art works, first mantic tales of waving points in Texas, and mellifluous mocking- Mississippi. tended. Due to this delay and '27, an artist who left his exhibited in Paris in 1930, was trees About 100 attended a cocktail the need for work on other mark on Rice and Houston, was purchased by the Cleveland birds. attended Rice In- party after the game. Projects, we still have not featured recently in a sketch in Museum of Art and is still on "There he played football for The New Orleans Alumni Club, been able to complete all the the Cleveland Plain Dealer. exhibition there. stitute and years under the famed under the leadership of president data usually found in the an- Now known Intel/ ationally as- —Frcrnrthe Plain Dealer sketch: two our coach, John Heisman, for whom Carl Schwarz, '50, sponsored nual report. a sculptor and teacher, Mr. Mc- "Born in Boston in 1905, Sports Trophy was the two highly successful and This data, including the ten Vey's works in Houston include subject spent his boy-hood on a the Heisman named. His football career rea- enjoyable affairs. leading classes, the ten lead- carvings on the San Jacinto farm near Worcester, Mass., and Monument, several port- time was the state's 4-H ched its peak when he missed a Plans are being made for si- ing clubs, both in number and relief at one raits of faculty After sideline tackle and hit the water milar parties next year at the Percentages of contributors, members in the Club gardening champion. Cohen House, and moving to Cleveland and gradu- bucket with his head, denting UniVersity of Texas game in Will be published in the next some "student life" ceramic plaques around ating from Shaw High School, same. Austin and the Texas Christian Sallyport. game in Fort Worth. Aft, dormitories. he was lured to Texas by ro- (Continued on Page 7) University Page Two SALLYPORT January, 1961 )4.nuary, New Funds Director Named Busy Time Plans Visits To Clubs G. M. (Toby) Morton, a form- his wife, and four-year old Ahead For 19 er campaign division director of daughter live at 1127 Wister- the United Fund of Houston and wood Dr., Houston. Harris County, was named Di- A native of Corsicana, he is Rice Sports rector of Alumni Funds by the a graduate of North Texas State Association Executive Board at College at Denton. By Bill Whitmore its Jan. 21 meeting. Rice Sports News Director Mr. Morton immediately laid In February the Rice ath' plans with Whitlock Zander, letic program starts hitting d executive secretary, to visit nine Alumni Invited all cylinders. Beginning with tl3! of the Rice Alumni clubs early start of a new semester thi in February. lineup is in store: A meeting is also planned in To Welch Lectures “$004 (1) Basketball goes into t the near future for Alumni Fund Alumni are invited to hear .; "home stretch" with the varsi gs‘,„1111 Campaign Chairmen at which two Welch Foundation Visiting cagers playing ten SWC gam plans for the current Lecturers who will speak on the further ELIAS G. RAMIREZ in a month's time, while the fi Alumni Fund Campaign will be Rice campus in February. frosh team has eight contests. presented. Dr. F. 0. Rice will lecture on Neilan) (2) Spring football practi Mrs. Frank (Dallas Mr. Morton is married. He, Wednesday, Feb. 8, in Fondren Modest Rice Worker is due to start on or about Fe Dyer, '29, has been elected Lecture Lounge in Fondren Li- Lived Life of ruary 11th with 20 workouts president of the Houston brary. Much Service a 30-day period to be climax School Board. A former tea- R. Miller,Jr. Dr. Sterling B. Hendricks will by the spring Blue-Gray ga Nathan For 43 years, Elias G. Ramirez cher, Mrs. Dyer is now serv- speak in the lecture lounge on and Rice spring coaching cli of Magnolia Park was a familiar ing her third term on the Feb.