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ASSOCIATION OF RICE ALUMNI VOLUME 43, NUMBER 2 NOV. 1986-JAN. 1987

GOING WORLD CLASS Checklist for moving Rice into the first rank: More faculty Improved facilities N4 Revised curriculum Increased research

INSIDE: Homecoming 1986 Earthquake Research Rice in : A Distinctive Presence Coolefras sa-142-044 NOV. 1986-JAN. 1987, VOL. 43, NO. 2

Going World Class 6 EDITOR Rice President George Rupp outlines his checklist for helping Rice achieve its potential as a Suzanne Johnson "university of the first-rank." Sallyport reviews the game plans, which include an increase in STAFF WRITERS faculty, a revised undergraduate curriculum, and a set of five interdisciplinary programs de- Erin Blair '88 signed to place Rice at the top. Andre Fox '86 DESIGNER Carol Edwards 8 Earthquake OFFICERS OF THE As the people of City continue to recover from the devastation of last year's earth- ASSOCIATION OF RICE ALUMNI quake, Rice's Ahmad Durrani and his fellow engineers are working to understand why so President, Gwynne E. Old '59 many of the city's buildings failed and how to prevent such a disaster from recurring. President-Elect, William (Bill) Merriman '67 1st Vice-President, Nancy Moore Eubank '53 2nd Vice-President, Dan Steiner '77 A distinctive presence 10 Treasurer, H. Russell Pitman '58 Past President, G. Walter McReynolds '65 In the last of Sallyport's articles commemorating the sesquicentennials of Houston and Interim Executive Director, Marilyn Moore , Professor Emeritus of English George Williams and several of his fellow Rice alumni '59 and faculty members give their impressions of the influences Rice has had on its home city and state. ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS Gwynne E. Old '59, ex officio 12 Association of Rice Alumni Homecoming 1986 Marilyn Moore '59, ex officio From the time the first "open class" began Friday morning until the last revelers left the Sid Association of Rice Alumni Rich "Country Club" Octoberfest Saturday night, Rice's Homecoming 1986 was a weekend to Darrell Hancock '68, chairman remember. Sallyport offers a photographic look at the festivities. John Boles '65, past chairman W.V. Ballew Jr. '40 Nancy Boothe '52 Rice's Silicon Valley Pioneers 15 Brent Breedin Nancy Burch '61 It was only coincidence that five of the movers and shakers of 's Silicon Valley out- Kent E. Dove lined in Carolyn Caddes' new book, Portraits of Success, were fellow Rice alums. Caddes Lisa Gray '88 talks about her book and the five Rice grads who helped forge the success of Silicon Valley. Ira Gruber Robert Patten Patti Simon '65 Geri Snider '80 Linda Leigh Sylvan '73 Charles Szalkowski '70 G. King Walters

RICE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI GOVERNORS .2elleia Joyce Pounds Hardy '45 Neal T. Lacey Jr. '52 Jerry McClesky '56 Pat H. Moore '52 Overload? membered and appreciated. She certainly con- Stimulating, but tame of Rice high. Maybe it was just unfortunate timing that tributed to keeping the standards The debate over the curriculum is healthy, and SALLYPORT(USPS 412-950) is published in brought the last issue of Sallyport and For I thank you for myself and our close family the proposal for a required minor is stimulat- September, November, February, April Rice's Honor to my mailbox at the same time, for the tribute to her in this way. ing, but I am afraid it is not radical enough. and June by the Association of Rice but the overall impression of money-grubbing Elizabeth Summers '25 The key is provided in the sidebar by Dennis Alumni, and is sent free to all university was, to say the least, disappointing. I realize Houston Huston, who bemoans the fact that students alumni, parents of students, and friends. that Rice depends on industries that are in a fi- Gridiron wipeouts: the 'up-side' are no longer excited by the "life of the mind." I Second class postage paid at Houston, nancial slump right now for much of its major Please allow me to put in my two cents regard- don't know where Professor Huston was in the Texas, funding, but more than one appeal for money ing the question of whether Rice should con- '60s, but it sure wasn't at Rice. We thought get- per issue is in poor taste. And when I received sider withdrawing from the Southwest ting a Rice education was like getting a drink William Marsh offers two identical brochures in the mail(waste of Conference. of water from a fire hydrant, and tried to es- equal opportunity to all applicants with- printing and postage, no?) exhorting me to For one thing, there is the matter of public- cape it as quickly as possible in the moments out regard to race, color, sex, age, na- "make Rice my first priority" for donations, I got ity and exposure. Like it or lump it, the univer- we thought we could spare from its demands. tional or ethnic origin, or physical is hardly so disgusted I threw them both away. sity increases its general, national recognition More work in the form of a minor handicap. Sure, I have a lot to thank Rice for: a fine quotient more in losing a football game by sev- the answer. Why not attempt the really innova- are located education, friends who still keep in touch, an eral touchdowns against Texas than in win- tive experiment of lightening up on the work Editorial offices for SALLYPORT Business Activi- experience I wouldn't trade for anything — but ning a football game in several touchdowns load in the major? Trust all those talented stu- in the Allen Center for South Main compared to some of the projects I'm involved against Lamar. This is not to say that good po- dents and, who knows, maybe they will have ties, Rice University, 6100 in, it's hardly in bad enough shape to rate a tential students in New Jersey high schools will the energy for some creativity. Street, Houston, Texas. priority. If Rice IS in financial trouble, then be captured by Rice's mention on the ABC George Z. Forristall '66, Ph.D.'70 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to someone hasn't been doing their job. "Football Scoreboard" show. However, it might Houston Office of Information Services, Please, people, hold the fund raising down not otherwise occur to them to investigate. SALLYPORT, Rice University, PO. Box 1892, Houston, to a dull roar. I hate to see a respectable insti- (That was the case with me, for example.) Rice 'families' 77251. tution acting so crassly. There is even an up-side to a gridiron wipeout Thanks to Texas Dian Hardison '79 against Texas or Arkansas. It is our red badge Today, a rare perfect fall day in Houston, I Copyright 1986 by the Association of Rice Titusville, Fla. and our academic orientation is walked through the new Ley addition to the of courage, Alumni, Rice University. punctuated.(We might have won if our quarter- student center — open, but not yet dedicated. Editor's note: The arrival of Sallyport and For back hadn't broken his glasses and if our tight On my way in I passed a plaque that read Rice's Honor on the same day was no coinci- end hadn't gotten absorbed in that lab experi- "Honoring Audrey and Wendel Ley by their dence at all. For Rice's Honor is mailed each ment and forgotten to come out to the stadium, family." I found the new facility attractive, al- September as a Sallyport insert, which saves etc.) though I can't judge how its users will find it. considerably on postage and mailing costs. For another thing, the trends indicate that I continued through the RMC and was glad Alumni Neither of the two is an "appeal for money." the world of college athletics is moving in to see that it had been included in the improve- While Sallyport is geared to keeping alumni in- Rice's direction (albeit with the power of a pho- ments with new furniture, a refurbished Sam- formed about each other and about goings-on ton and the speed of a glacier instead of vice- my's and a remodeled Campus Store. Then I directory at Rice and makes no direct fund raising ap- versa). Some limits are being put on athletic walked out into the Ray courtyard, past the peals, For Rice's Honor is published annually scholarships and some emphasis is being put boulder with the unobtrusive plaque that reads by the Rice development office as a means of on academic standards. Penn State's Joe Pa- "Robert H. Ray Memorial Court," and on to my being updated recognizing those who have given to Rice in terno and other heroes have struck some fear- destination in Herring Hall. the previous year. some blows in this cause. Recent drug stories As I sauntered across the grassy espla- Rice alumni will be It was a mistake that you received two cop- have certainly reinforced many fans' suspi- nade separating the two buildings, I wondered In early January, ies of the recent Annual Fund brochure. The cions that some college athletes are not the whether the families who have donated all, or receiving a questionnaire that will be brochure, however, did not ask alumni to make kind of people who should be associated with a substantial portion, of the money over the used to update the Rice University Rice their first priority for all donations; it American universities in any capacity. A good years for the various rooms, courtyards, wings Alumni Directory. Directories will be asked them to make the Annual Fund their first case can be made that the day is coming when and buildings at Rice know how much pleasure published in August 1987. people who use those facili- priority for Rice donations. student athletes really will be students first, they've given the Once published, the directory will ties. I thought I might tell the families, through and then Rice's football teams will be very be sent to all who contribute $25 or A tribute to Dean the Sallyport, how much pleasure their gifts competitive indeed. Let's not blow the whole more to the university. Members of the thing by dropping out of therSWC in the mean- have given me. I was pleased to see the picture and article "Golden R" classes, 1916-36, will re- about Alice Dean in the Sallyport(September - time! Two of my favorite places on campus are Room in ceive the directory with a gift of any October issue). Francis X. Hurley '68 the Ray Court and the Kyle Morrow It is very gratifying to have my aunt re- Research Triangle Park, N.C. (Continued on page 3) size.

2 SALLYPORT—NOVEMBER 1986-JANUARY 1987 laaartit the Sally.poitt

A 'real' class reunion the freshmen is seduced by a Houston sides, and placed a lock on the door. Rey- When Irene Ward '27 returned to Rice matron (who also happens to be a vam- burn and I carefully filled the shelves from Atlanta for her 50th class reunion, pire), he begins to exhibit his own crav- with books, and helped Dr. Nicholas in- she renewed her acquaintances with a lot ing for exposed necks and raw stall the bunsen-burner-type of generator of former classmates, not the least of hamburger. The action picks up as he is on a small table in the center of the build- which was Thomas Van Cleave '27, whom haphazardly pursued by two "mad uni- ing. Dr. Nicholas started the generator, she had remembered as a lanky engi- versity professors" who just happen to we quickly closed and locked the door, neering student. specialize in vampire hunting. and stood back to see that all went well. In the years after graduation, Tom Unfortunately, hours before Sally- We were instructed not to open the door and Irene had gone their separate ways, port's suggestion arrived urging the film's for a few days. Miss Dean, the two of us, married and raised families — Irene in casting company to use Rice students and and Dr. Nicholas looked on with great ex- Atlanta, Tom in Gibsland, La. professors in the leading roles, King's pectation while the door was slowly Both had since been widowed and, Road (which had apparently never opened. All of us were horrified when we for them, theirs was a reunion that even- thought of this idea)switched the film to saw that the generator had exploded and tually turned to romance. The two were a high school setting because of casting had saturated most of the volumes with married on May 17 of this year in Atlanta, problems. cyanide — many of them were destroyed! surrounded, among others. by children, It's probably just as well — the poten- The great bookworm caper "Dr. Nicholas was not one to be grandchildren, tial and great-grandchildren. Rice cast would not be ready unless When W. Darwin Andrus '34 returned stopped for long, however. He devised an Irene and Tom Vampire traveled back to Rice Hunting 101, tying in the disci- home to San Antonio from vacation, he improved model, and we started all over for Homecoming '86, where they were plines of biology, chemistry and religious found among his mail the September is- again. The new one worked perfectly. guests of honor at a reception given by studies, is worked into the proposal for sue of Sallyport containing an article Reyburn and I were assured that we could Irene's brother, Charles Ward '31, and his Rice's required minor, plans for which about early Rice librarian Alice Dean. keep working until the job was com- wife, Judy, in the Miner Lounge of the Ley have not been discussed. The article brought back a lot of pleted. I do not know how many books we Student Center. Though Rice missed out on that film, memories for Andrus, who worked with moved, but it must have been a few thou- Around 35 people attended the event, the title of which has now been changed Dean in the library while he attended sand volumes." Judy said — most from the Class of '27. to "I Was A Teenage Vampire," it was the classes at Rice Institute. Those memories Eventually, the books were all moved Many of those in attendance were former site of some scenes from the upcoming "A prove that there has been more than one and the bookworms were a thing of the 0.W.L.S. members, as Irene was a char- Tiger's Tale," whose camera crew and kind of "bookworm" at Rice. past, but by that time, Andrus said, he ter member of the organization. star, Ann-Margret, were seen in the vicin- "It was in the summer of 1931 that I had graduated and was ready to move on ity To make the event more special, Sam- of Rice Stadium in October. placed my application for some — any — to the Duke Divinity School to begin work my's Manager Curtis Rodriguez baked a kind of work at Rice to assist me finan- for his Master of Divinity degree. special wedding cake for the newlyweds. Concerts out, togas in cially," Andrus recalls. "By that time, the Divinity school or not, Andrus'fellow Now back home in Gibsland, Tom It wasn't exactly a full house, but an en- Depression had hit my family full-force, students at Duke had a hard time buying and Irene are making plans to attend the thusiastic crowd of around 14,000 was and I was desperate. Alice Dean's his story as he would explain, with a wry Christmas festival in Williamsburg, Va. dancing in the aisles at Rice Stadium on nephew, Reyburn Dean Burford, had just smile, "I earned my way through Rice Oct. 18 as the first of what had originally been employed by his aunt to move books hunting bookworms." been two planned rock concerts took from the library in the Administration About Alice Dean, Andrus has only place. Building to the Chemistry Building; both the fondest memories. "She was strict; Following the Rice-Texas Tech foot- he and Miss Dean discovered that he she was a disciplinarian. She expected ball game was a short but lively concert needed assistance in this short-term pro- us to work long hours, and to do our work by the Beach Boys, whose 25-year-old surf ject. Reyburn asked if I would be inter- well. To this day — more than 52 years af- standards were well-received by an audi- ested — of course I was! So the two of us ter leaving her employ — I will always be ence that ranged from youngsters were hired for a period of no more than grateful to her, and to Rice. She was a li- through Rice students to at least one octa- two-to-three months work in the library brarian in the truest sense, but she was genarian capering in a fishing cap and through the summer vacation. As it above all a true friend and counselor to Hawaiian-print shirt. turned out, I continued to work for the re- the students." Though a second concert had tenta- maining three years — 12 months out of tively been scheduled following the Rice- the year — as a part-time assistant in Air Force game on Nov. 22, an athletic the library, and thus was able to earn my department staff member said contrac- way through Rice. tual problems with the concert promoter, "We had been moving some ancient Letters Projects West, prevented that concert and most valuable leather-bound vol- (Continued from page 2) from taking place. umes when we discovered pinhead-sized . I'm not sure why! like The original contract had been holes going all the way through the these places best but I think it may be that they are drawn up in the hopes books; some were literally riddled that the concert with not strictly useful in the same way a classroom would be able to fill the 68,000-seat sta- holes. We found then that there were is. dium. After the turnout of 14,000 for the some worms embedded in the hard The Kyle Morrow Room has always struck Beach Boys, it was felt that the potential boards covering the front and back of me as very academic and literary — some- Nov. 22 crowd could not warrant the ex- these volumes. Miss Dean was horrified place I, as a Texan, imagine I would find in Ox- when we showed ford or Cambridge. The room should be Blood penditure of scheduling and promoting a her our discovery — she on the hedges second concert in such a short time. informed us that they were bookworms! austere, with its high ceiling and paneled Things have taken a gruesome turn on Though the idea of a "I shall not 'bore' you with walls, but it isn't. Instead, it has been designed spring concert is the intri- with the Rice campus lately. still cate details care (and perhaps love) to be a warm and being considered, athletic office offi- of what followed. Suffice it to intimate The unintentionally macabre cover of place that encourages conversation. I. cials say they are also considering a say that the moving came to an abrupt of course, the September Sallyport notwithstand- imagine such conversation to be "Toga Day" at the stadium that might (or halt. We were instructed to take sharp witty and intelligent. In other words, ing, the first sign the room that things were taking might not)feature Otis Day and the pocket knives, then small scalpels, to dig simply makes me feel good. Thank a dark you, family bent came during fall football Knights, whose music punctuated the fa- the larvae out of the covers. In the mean- of Kyle Morrow. training camp, when Coach 's mous toga party in the movie, "Animal time, Miss Dean attempted to learn from And I have been too often lured to the Ray fierce workouts caused the athletes to House." other libraries how to deal with the prob- Court's sunny silence. Perhaps because I re- dub it "Camp Blood." Students and guests for "Toga Day" lem. I know for a fact that she contacted member this space before its conversion, each time I'm The nickname picked up steam with would be urged to attend wearing togas the Library of Congress and the libraries there I try to remember to render a Houston media coverage, and football mental "thanks" to the Ray family for their gift. which, for the uninitiated, consist of an at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cambridge, As players were soon seenlimping to class I recall, they gave not only the physical artistically draped white bed sheet. and Oxford for a solution. None of them structure but wearing T-shirts that read, Survived also the means to maintain it — a "I were able to assist, although several of leaf blower, for example. I don't Camp frequent the Blood.. And Then It Got Worse." them had encountered the same problem. courtyard now but I also remember years ago (That was early in the fall, before Calling Dr. Freud? "Miss Dean turned to the chemistry the family sent huge pots of blooming plants in they realized just how bad it actually A recent "news brief" in a Houston paper department at Rice for help. One after an- season — chrysanthemums and poinsettias— would get, and "Camp Blood, Pt. II" is contained the following revelation: other, several different attempts were to decorate the walkways around the patio. due back on campus this spring.) "Rice University engineers will be in- tried, but Miss Dean knew that quicker This is another place that makes me feel good. Next came news that the university volved in the nation's first federally methods must be found. Finally, How much better than a monument are Dr. H.O. these spaces! administration had approved the filming funded earthquake center based in Buf- Nicholas suggested placing the books in on campus of a feature film by Kings falo, So, families of Ley, Ray, Herring, Hanszen, N.Y., officials said Thursday. Rice is a small, airtight building with a cyanide Baker, Rayzor, Road Entertainment entitled "Bad Blood." Fondren, Cohen, Wiess, Rice, the only Texas HIGH education institution gas generator in the center. Under the Lovett, Sewall, Anderson, Not story Richardson, Jones, the of feuding freshmen or fight- associated with the center." guidance of Miss Dean and Dr. Nicholas, Brown and all the others! may have overlooked ing faculty, the film was instead slated as We can only hope this was an inno- the maintenance department built a rep- — in case we haven't told you lately, thanks. a vampire tale centering around fresh- cent proofreader's slip, and not one of the lica of an outhouse, lined it carefully to Jer Mardis '73, MBPM '82 men at college in Houston. After one of Freudian variety. be airtight, installed shelves on three Bellaire, Texas

SALLYPORT—NOVEMBER 1986-JANUARY 1987 3 Mead Architecture council formed; PeIli discusses master plan

Cesar PeIli, architect of the prize-winning ing Rice's early plan for today's use: the Herring Hall and the new Ley Student need to capture the spirit of the original Center, discussed his philosophy of a buildings designed in 1910 by Ralph Ad- master plan for the Rice campus in early ams Cram while making his own original October as part of a two-day session of a statement. Many of the distinctive fea- newly formed architecture advisory coun- tures of the older buildings, such as the cil. Faculty, students, alumni and friends stone pilasters, would also be unafforda- overflowed Herring Hall's auditorium for ble now, he said. His design for Herring the hour-long slide presentation. Hall focused on the combined use of brick Architecture Dean Jack 0. Mitchell and limestone to form clearly defined pat- said the purpose of the series of meetings terns echoing the older buildings' design. was to focus on ways the council can be- He discussed the difficulty earlier ar- come most effective in supporting the chitects had in conforming to the original long-range goals of the Rice School of Ar- master plan. Post-war additions, by eco- chitecture. nomic necessity, were watered-down ver- Mitchell said the 21-member council sions of the originals, PeIli said. And in has offered endorsement and support of the 1960s, there evolved a "schizophrenic building an enhancement fund for the style" with architects trying to incorpo- school. "This fund will be used to support rate the International style with the topol- a range of activities needed to enhance ogy of the original buildings. the quality of the varying architectural In a presentation of buildings he's de- programs of the Rice School of Architec- signed for other major cities, PeIli under- ture that are not currently funded by the scored his belief that the trademark style annual budgeting process," he said. of the architect, while an important ele- Currently, he said, the school's publi- ment, should always be secondary to the cations, the exhibits of the Farish Gallery, style that emphasizes the role a building certain computing activities, support for plays in its environment. Herring Hall, for student travel and research, faculty en- >2 instance, was designed specifically for hancement and related endeavors are not the Rice campus and for the Jones School adequately funded. "This enhancement -0>. and would be out of place in another en- fund will be used to support these kinds 2 vironment, PeIli said. of activities and others deemed important In addition to the construction of a in reinforcing and building the quality of Cesar PeIli (left) discusses Rice campus master plan with John Casbarian '69 number of new buildings that would con- the school," Mitchell said. following presentation. form to and unify the organization of the In addition to PeIli, the other advi- old campus, Pelli's plan calls for more sory council members are: Josephine Redmon '64, Clayton Stone '55, Charles R. chairman of the new council, with John M. live oak trees within the campus to give Abercrombie '46, Benjamin E. Brewer Jr. Tapley '54, Talbott Wilson '34, Giorgio McGinty '56 as managing director and added definition to the space, and for all '55, Robert S. Harris '57, Frank S. Kelly '64, Borlenghi, Donald Canty, Robert Gutman, Walter P. Moore Jr. '59 as vice chairman. campus entrances to be accessible to the Neal Lacey Jr. '52, William McMinn '52, Ricardo Legorreta and Dave Pugh. In his Oct. 2 presentation, PeIli de- inside of the campus as a safety mea- S.I. Morris '35, Walter Murphy '48, Chuck Raymond D. Brochstein '55 serves as scribed the dilemma he faced in translat- sure.

Reiff, Hill selected by NASA Four Rice University scientists

Patricia H. Reiff and Thomas W. Hill of the Rice Center for Space Physics have honored for invention been chosen by the National Aeronautics Four Rice University scientists were hon- try, and three of his research associates and Space Administration as members of ored in late September at Chicago's Mu- — Robert H. Hauge, Leif Fredin, and Za- a select group of research scientists to seum of Science and Industry for their kya H. Kafafi. The four Rice scientists participate in the first U.S. comet mis- invention of "Cryolink," a device that will have also formed a new sion. company, The make future chemical research at ex- Spectroscopic Associates Inc., which is The husband-and-wife team is part of tremely low temperatures easier. In some actively pursuing the integration of "Cry- a scientific group recently selected from cases, "Cryolink" could make certain olink" into existing analytical laboratory candidates worldwide to participate in types of research possible for the very instrumentation. NASA's Comet Rendezvous/Asteroid first time. This year's was the second IR-100 Flyby mission, tentatively scheduled for That potential is one reason award for Margrave, who is a member of launch in the early 1990s. Chicago-based Research and Develop- the National Academy of Sciences and an The research team is headed by Rice ment magazine selected "Cryolink" as internationally recognized authority on alumnus James L. Burch '68 of the South- one of the year's 100 most significant tech- fluorine chemistry. He shared a 1970 IR- west Research Institute in San Antonio. nical products and honored its four inven- 100 award with one of his former stu- "We're really excited about it," Reiff tors with one of its IR-100 Awards at a dents, R.J. Lagow '67(Ph.D. '69), for their said. "It was an extremely difficult com- Patricia H. Reiff banquet held at the museum. synthesis of a lubricant powder called petition." Reiffsaid scientists had only The honorees are John L. Margrave, "CFX." Lagow is now a professor of chem- five seconds to closely observe Halley's Rice's E.D. Butcher Professor of Chemis- istry at the University of Texas at Austin. Comet earlier this year, while the pro- posed mission will allow much longer study of a short-period comet as it moves closer to the sun. On the bookshelf The mission will involve a close flyby of a main belt asteroid followed by an ex- NEW FROM FACULTY AND ALUMNI AUTHORS tended multi-year rendezvous with a short-period comet, permitting detailed 100 Years of Science and Technology in Spanish Colonial Art and Architecture of study of the comet at close range under Texas Mexico and the U.S. Southwest both quiescent and active conditions. Edited by Leo J. Klosterman, C.S.B., Loyd by Mary Faith Mitchell Grizzard '68. Uni- The research team was selected from S. Swenson Jr. '54, and Sylvia Rose. Rice versity Press of America. a highly competitive field of proposals to University Press. provide the plasma analyzer for the Principles of Computer Science: Con- But Also Good Business: Texas Com- spacecraft. The main objectives of the in- cepts, Algorithms, Data Structures, and merce Banks and the Financing of Hous- vestigation will be to determine the com- Applications ton and Texas, 1886-1986 position of ionized cometary gases and to by M. Sandra Carberry (M.S. '70), A. Toni by Walter L. Buenger '73(B.A., M.A., study the comet's interaction with the so- Cohen, and Hatem M. Khalil. Computer Ph.D.) and Joseph A. Pratt '70. Texas A&M Thomas W. Hill lar wind. Science Press. University Press.

4 SALLYPORT—NOVEMBER 1986-JANUARY 1987 Search under way for alumni director Rice University is in the process of look- Hannah '43; Gwynne Old '59, president of not a prerequisite for the position, Shaper he would like to see more programs to ing for a new, permanent director for the the alumni association; and alumni Bill said Rice alumni applicants will have an cultivate alumni interest in remote areas, Association of Rice Alumni. Merriman '67, Jeff Rose '77 and Dan edge over non-alumni. particularly major cities such as Dallas, Marilyn Moore '59 has been serving Steiner '77. The primary responsibilities of the Atlanta, , Chicago and as interim executive director of the asso- Shaper says the committee expects to alumni director will be to maintain and New York. ciation since the position was vacated receive most of the applications by mid- increase alumni interest in the university, Another goal for the alumni associa- earlier this year. December, possibly allowing the initial and to fill the needs of the various constit- tion, Shaper says, is to expand current The search for a permanent director interviewing process to begin before the uencies. programs and create new ones that will began early this fall, and search commit- holidays and the final interviewing proc- Commenting on the future direction appeal to all the different alumni constit- tee members hope to have the successful ess shortly after the first of the year. the alumni association is expected to uencies. "Two of the main objectives of candidate in place during the first quar- In addition to applications received take, Shaper said, "I see more profession- the alumni association will be to involve ter of 1987. as a result of advertisements, Shaper alism, greater activity, a somewhat larger more alumni and to better utilize their tal- Steve Shaper '58 heads the commit- said the committee has also contacted staff, more comprehensive programs — ents," he says. tee, which began its work Oct. 1. Also approximately 50 people currently filling "While the program is already pretty "What I see happening is alumni ac- serving as committee members are Sid similar positions at other major universi- good, like anything else, it can always be tive at every level. Alumni will contribute Burrus, professor of electrical engineer- ties to obtain suggestions and nomina- improved." their part toward increased public aware- ing; Vice President for External Affairs tions. Shaper praised the excellent home- ness of Rice and the advancement of a Kent Dove; Governor-Adviser Catherine Though being a graduate of Rice is coming and travel programs, adding that higher public profile."

Curriculum revision committee work nears completion Rice's curriculum revision committee has fall semester began. "implementation issues — double ma- ulum that we propose." made steady progress toward its goal of Lane said several faculty members, jors, transfer students, switches in ma- The idea of a required minor was first having the proposal for a required minor including committee members Ron Sass jors, and advising requirements." introduced to the Rice faculty last year by ready for consideration by the faculty in (biology)and Franz Brotzen (materials Though the committee's work is not Rice President George Rupp, reflecting spring 1987. Provost Neal Lane, who science), participated in a Lilly Founda- yet completed. Lane said the framework his and others' concern that Rice gradu- chairs the committee, says a rough draft tion workshop on curricular matters over for the required minor will most likely be ates have a solidly grounded acquaint- of the proposal should be completed by the summer. For their efforts, they em- a two-semester foundation course fol- ance with a discipline other than that in the end of the current semester. A forum erged with the structure for a proposed lowed by a three-semester cluster of which they major. that will allow students to discuss the minor in the science/engineering disci- . courses that the student could select. "The outcome of the curriculum revi- proposal with members of the committee plines designed for non-S/E majors. While discussion within the commit- sions that are being contemplated should has been scheduled for Dec. 2. The 15-member committee, com- tee has fostered a greater understanding be that we educate scientists and engi- The committee's work centers around prised of one alumnus, two student repre- of different points of view and different neers who can think and read and write a required minor for Rice undergradu- sentatives, two faculty members from disciplines, all the committee members clearly, and humanities, social sciences ates. The minor would, in effect, require each of the academic schools and one agree on several points. "One, the curric- and arts graduates who have an informed students majoring in science/engineering faculty member each from the schools of ulum can be improved,"Lane said. "Two, acquaintance with the sciences and tech- to complete a minor in the liberal arts, music and architecture, is divided into the present course load is enough. No- nology," Rupp said. "To supply students and vice-versa. task groups aimed at tackling specific is- body is interested in increasing the over- with a sense of confidence in an area Committee work began in earnest sues. all course load on the students. Three, other than their major grows from a sin- early last summer as committee members Sass, for example, chairs the task student freedom of choice is a major cere conviction that to do so will better seized the opportunity to meet for organi- group that is putting together the minor strength of the curriculum now and that equip them to deal with life's many com- zational purposes before they scattered for non-S/E majors, while Brotzen chairs freedom should be preserved to the maxi- plex issues beyond the hedges." for the summer. Meetings resumed as the the group dealing with what Lane calls mum strength possible in the new curric- — Andre Fox Opinio41

Curricula should build solid core of knowledge

by Konstantin Kolenda content comes up. What is to be in- one lives. In the words of the late John education and culture is reflected in re- cluded? If anyone can attempt to answer Ciardi, "a savage is simply a human Editor's Note: As the Rice faculty discusses or- cent discussion at the national level this question, it certainly is an institution ganism that has not received changes in the university's curriculum enough about the goals and practices of all our of learning. Its presumed task is to gather news from the throughout the academic year (see ac- human race." educational institutions. Rice should not the results of the ongoing debate as to What humanity companying article on this page), Sally- has so far experi- ignore this discussion because it is an what deserves attention when we try to enced port will continue its own is by no means a matter of anti- open question whether what we are do- understand humanity, its social experi- quarian interest. curriculum-related "faculty forum" series. The "classics" in any ing is a solution to the problem or one of ence and its natural setting. The high retain Last issue, English professor Dennis Hus- field their status as classics be- its symptoms. We may be taking an easy points of that debate cannot be summed cause they still ton discussed the intellectual climate of point to matters of current way out when we opine — as some in our up in short statements or quick formulas, interest, the Rice campus and the possible effects even when that interest moves in midst do — that, given the brightness of but they can be gleaned from looking at- of a curriculum change. The following es- new, unforeseen directions. Take Ciardi's Rice students, we should leave the matter tentively at some carefully chosen works playful example. say was written by Konstantin Kolenda It seems dated today, of content and coherence to them, within in which able minds illuminate for us the barely '50, Carolyn and Fred McManis Professor three decades after being penned. the current loose structure of distribution world we live in. To be sure, there is of Philosophy and a Rice faculty member Thanks to anthropological studies we are requirements. As a corrective to such bound to be disagreement as to who, since 1953. reluctant to label any culture as savage smugness it might not be uncouth to trot which writer or scientist, is to be included or primitive, reserving the adjective for out a truism: the biggest room in the The current debate about the curriculum, among those who give us a fair picture of special cases of moral condemnation. But world is room for improvement. U.S. Sec- initiated by President Rupp's recommen- our intellectual heritage, but the very we can understand this shift in language retary of Education William Bennett dation that the idea of a "coherent minor" idea of a university rests on the assump- only if we have come to see the broad charged in a recent speech that even at be explored, has broadened into the tion that such a picture can be con- front on which humanity proceeds in the Harvard "there is not that much effort to larger question of what kind of education structed. If not, what do the labels of search for its own rich possibilities. see to it, systematically and devotedly, a Rice student should receive. If coher- "bachelor of arts," "master," and even There is reason to suspect that the that real education occurs."(The New ence is desirable, then it should not be "doctor of philosophy" stand for? "lumberjack mentality" of many Rice stu- York Times, Oct. 10, 1986.) limited to the minor area of the student's A university education, if it is to pro- dents, recently noted by a colleague, is It is becoming increasingly obvious concentration. The attempt to construct a vide more than professional training, not unrelated to what is going on in our that the "global village" in which we coherent minor naturally merges with the should aim at giving its students a sense classrooms. Undoubtedly, the tendency to move easily from continent to continent, idea of a core curriculum, and that's why of the importance of the intellectual draw a sharp line between work and play, establishing economic and cultural con- the committee studying curriculum revi- drama that accompanies the prolonged study and fun, reflects some traits of our tacts, can be understood and managed sion possibilities is also exploring the op- effort of humanity to understand itself, to culture. Proneness to distraction shortens well only by people who besides their tion of introducing foundation courses in devise viable institutions and to orient it- our attention span and kills the curiosity professional expertise also have a coher- natural sciences, social sciences, and the self in the physical world. Each of these to perceive relationships. The magic of ent sense of views and values by which humanities. The availability of such enterprises has a career worth knowing "Only connect!" escapes us. Not surpris- humanity has tried to define itself. Wher- courses would provide a background for about, both in outline and at selected ingly, "lumberjack mentality" sets in, re- ever our students go and with whomever establishing coherence in both minor and points, in some depth. They are worth inforcing the false belief that work is they deal, they will be more confident major areas of study. knowing not just in a pragmatic sense or bound to be dull and that study cannot be and more effective if they carry with them It is difficult to quarrel with the desir- for the sake of one's social status, but also a source of delight. Unfortunately, victims a core of knowledge that will enable them ability of an ethos of coherence any- for the sake of being an informed person, of that mentality are likely to carry this to see in the world and in themselves a where, especially in a university curious about the kind of creature one is expectation into their post-college years. dimension of depth. We should earnestly curriculum. But inevitably the question of and about the complex world in which That there is a connection between try to help this dimension to emerge.

SALLYPORT-NOVEMBER 1986-JANUARY 1987 5 GOING WORLD CLASS

n August 1908, newly appointed Rice institution in the Southwest that has any chance of Institute President filling that niche. secured $1,625 in traveling money from "It is in all of our interests to make sure that Ithe board of trustees and embarked on a Rice does fill that niche, or people 20 years from year-long voyage across America and Europe, now will tick off their list of the most distinguished examining the focus and organization of the universities and there will still be no institution in world's best universities. the Southwest that is included." When he returned in 1909, Lovett and his trust- ees set in writing a number of goals for their fledg- ling school; among the most farsighted was their vii' A matter of enhancement vision of a Rice Institute that always strived to be While a faculty committee headed by Provost Neal the very best, "setting no upper limit to its educa- Lane diligently works at revising the Rice curricu- tional endeavor..." lum (see related article on page five of this issue), Rice's fifth president arrived in 1985. Taking excitement is also growing over another phase of his first look around, George Rupp saw a strong Rupp's master plan. It is a program that has be- university that had made steady progress toward come known throughout the Rice community by a reaching its originators' goals. Convinced that single word that encompasses both the means and Rice was perched on the brink of achieving its po- the goal — "enhancement." tential as a world-class institution, he set to work Enhancement plans, carefully formed after assessing the university's strengths and weak- months of discussions between Rupp, Lane, deans nesses, firming up his administrative staff, and and professors, involve adding top faculty mem- conferring with deans, faculty members and stu- bers, expanding (or, in some cases, rearranging) dents to hammer out a game plan for Rice's future research space, and organizing new areas of inter- as, in his words, "an institution of the first rank." disciplinary research in which Rice can make its A carefully plotted strategy is emerging. mark without forfeiting the intimate sense of com- Spanning the next 10-15 years, it incorporates an munity offered by its small size or compromising increase in faculty members and facilities, a re- its "dual identity" in research and in undergradu- vised undergraduate curriculum, and a set of spe- ate education. cially targeted interdisciplinary programs Considering Rice's size an asset, Rupp says designed to strengthen Rice's impact as a research the total student population will remain roughly university while protecting the advantages of its the same, though eventually a few less undergrad- small size — all punctuated with an infectious de- uates — and a few more graduate students — termination to settle for nothing but the best. might be admitted. The number of faculty will change, however. yr Best of both worlds Enhancement plans call for a sizable addition of For the past year, Rupp has been the consummate faculty members over the next decade, strengthen- "ideas man," working relentlessly with others on ing individual departments and highlighting campus to find the best ways of taking Rice that Rice's strengths in research. extra step. Rupp stresses, however, that because of its "My sense of Rice from before the time I came size, Rice cannot compete with larger, more differ- here is that it's an institution that is very good, dis entiated universities in terms of sheer numbers. tinguished, even outstanding, but that it has not "We have less than a critical mass of faculty in vir- quite completed the transition to being in the first tually all of our departments and no prospect of rank of universities nationwide and worldwide," reaching a critical mass across the range of de- Rupp says. "The challenge now before us over the partments," he says. For example, Yale University, next 10-15 years is to invest the energy and the re- with one of the country's best history departments, sources required to complete that transition." employs 70 historians, while the University of This progress, Rupp says, can best be California-Berkeley's noted biology program achieved by building on one of Rice's greatest boasts some 400 faculty. Rice currently has fewer strengths — the fact that it has retained its small than 20 faculty members in each of those areas. size while developing the "best of both worlds" in "If we followed the pattern of trying to compete terms of teaching and research. department by department with the country's lead- "Rice integrates two kinds of institutions that ing research institutions in building our scale of all too often have gone their separate ways in operation, there is virtually no prospect of suc- American higher education — the major research ceeding at that in our lifetime," Rupp says. At the university and the small liberal arts college de- same time, he stresses the importance of recogniz- voted centrally to the education of undergradu- ing "the need to offer a balanced undergraduate ates," Rupp explains. "What is distinctive about curriculum with a first-rate faculty across the Rice, what constitutes our special identity, is that by Suzanne Johnson range of disciplines," which would be damaged by we are committed to embodying both of those building up only a few departments while letting kinds of institutions — not a compromise between the rest stay small. them, but both of them in full strength and in ways that mutually reinforce and enhance each other." Rice President George From publications to public opinion polls, vf Targets of opportunity lists of the leading liberal arts colleges and re- In response to those concerns, Rupp spent this search universities in the country often leave a Rupp presents his check- past summer working with Provost Lane and the blank spot where the Southwest should be, de- various academic deans to identify "targets of op- spite Texas' abundance of universities. It is a void list for boosting Rice into portunity," specific areas of research that span a if not in reality, then at least in perception — a range of departments in which faculty members void that Rupp wants Rice to fill. the ranks of the world's could be added who can both teach and engage in "I think we are all aware that Texas has plenty collaborative research. of very large educational institutions. What it Rupp and his colleagues identified five areas needs is a small, very high quality institution de- best universities. in which he says Rice "has the potential to be as voted to both undergraduate education and re- good as any place in the world and where our rela- search. Rice, to be blunt about it, is the only tively small scale is a comparative advantage

6 SALLYPORT—NOVEMBER 1986-JANuARY 1987 rather than a comparative disadvantage." Encom- additional building needs. Space considerations passing the natural and social sciences, engineer- must be made early, Rupp says, because of the ing and the humanities, each of the five clusters long lead-time needed to raise building funds, will focus on a general area in which faculty mem- plan the facilities and undergo the actual con- bers from different departments can work together struction. on research of mutual interest. Accordingly, the Rice Board of Governors on The Rice Quantum Institute, the first of the Sept. 23 approved a search for the funding of two five areas identified, served as a working model major building projects, one to house the Shep- for the type of program being sought. Under the herd School of Music and the other a research fa- RQI umbrella, faculty members from space phys- cility for the biosciences, as well as two smaller ics and astronomy, physics, chemistry, electrical administrative building projects whose construc- and computer engineering, and mechanical engi- tion will free existing research space. neering and materials science work together on Calling a building for the Shepherd School basic research at the atomic level. "one of the first dominoes in this row of dominoes Though Rupp says RQI has received "very lit- in terms of adding incremental faculty positions," tle central support from Rice" since it was formed Rupp says the facility is needed not only to give in 1979, it has nonetheless provided a distinctive the Shepherd School a central location for its ac- center for collaborative research between faculty tivities but also to free the space it is currently us- members who, at a larger university, would rarely ing in Herman Brown and Sewall halls and in the have the opportunity to work together. The results Bonner Lab. These spaces will, in turn, accommo- have been remarkable. date the proposed growth in social sciences and For example, the work of physical chemist engineering. Rick Smalley with electrical engineer Frank Tittel Rice President George Rupp "The second building will be a major research led last year to the discovery of a new carbon mol- facility in the sciences and engineering," Rupp ecule, the Buckminsterfullerene. This coup not says, adding that while the building is needed for only made the scientific community take notice; it velopment in computer science and engineering, the Biosciences/Bioengineering Institute, it will received worldwide press coverage, including a integrating efforts across the spectrum from elec- also provide additional laboratory space as other cover story in prestigious Nature magazine. trical engineering through computer architecture science/engineering areas expand. At a larger, more differentiated institution, to software development. The other two building projects will be an in- Rupp says, the type of collaboration that led to the Rupp notes that although each of the five ar- expensive administrative building (on the scale of Buckminsterfullerene's discovery would most eas has either "center" or "institute" in its name, the Rice Media Center) to house such operations likely not have occurred. Rather than working none will operate independently."We are too as the University Police and Central Receiving, closely with a fellow faculty member who was also small an institution to develop a bunch of little which would free valuable research space in involved in the research, the chemist would have centers or institutes spun off by themselves with Abercrombie Laboratory, and an addition to the hired an electrical engineer who would simply little or no connection to the rest of the university," Allen Center for Business Activities, that would have been involved long enough to devise the nec- he says. "The whole strategy is to build strength in provide much-needed space for expanding devel- essary equipment. "In contrast, at Rice, Rick our departments, but to do so with an eye as to opment and public relations efforts as well as al- Smalley and Frank Tittel have their own research how new faculty members brought into the depart- lowing some administrative areas to move from groups that interact all the time in adjacent labs ments will relate to complementary strengths be- Lovett Hall. The vacated space in Lovett could then and therefore are able to conduct research that is ing built up in related departments." be used to accommodate faculty expansion in the more sophisticated than what would happen if a The five areas that have been identified as humanities. chemist just went out and hired himself an electri- part of the enhancement plans will allow faculty Schedules for these facilities will depend on cal engineer," Rupp says. members to be added across a wide range of de- the time involved in raising the building funds, "It seems clear that with further support, some partments and thereby build a balanced faculty but Rupp called the board's approval of the search investment in administrative leadership, and for undergraduate education. It will also, Rupp for funds a vote of confidence that will allow Rice, working with faculty members in developing more says, allow Rice "to develop the kind of research in turn, to begin recruiting the best faculty. ambitious multidisciplinary research proposals, profile that gets attention nationwide and world- "We have to be in a position to go to prospec- we can help not only to enhance the distinction of wide in a way that has not always been the case at tive faculty members and say to them,'You come the faculty we recruit but also to increase the Rice University." to Rice University and you will have the opportu- funds available to support research." nity to teach first-rate undergraduates in not very Other areas of concentration identified large numbers, but you will also have the opportu- (which, unlike the Rice Quantum Institute, are not vrNothing but the best nity to do your own research and scholarship with already in place on campus)are a Biosciences/ Crucial for the process of developing these clus- a distinguished faculty of first-rate colleagues and Bioengineering Institute, a Center for Institutions ters is the appointment of more faculty members unsurpassed facilities.' We have not always been and Values, a Center for Cultural Studies, and an — professors capable of both top-level research able to make that claim," Rupp says. "It is very im- Institute for Computer and Information Technol- and quality teaching. A hiring freeze on vacated portant in the year ahead that we make further ogy. faculty positions, implemented last year while the steps in that direction." The Biosciences/Bioengineering Institute will planning process for enhancement took place, is bring together life sciences faculty with engineer- now being lifted. Soon, Rupp says, the academic ing professors who are involved in bioengineering deans will be receiving authorization to look for Nor Making the move research, while the Center for Institutions and Val- new faculty who can strengthen their departments Houston's sagging economy in the face of falling ues will build on the Rice Institute for Policy Anal- as well as contribute to the five research clusters. oil prices will make implementation of the en- ysis and will draw together faculty members from In keeping with Rice's goals, nothing but the hancement plans difficult, but Rupp says Rice such areas as political science, economics, sociol- best will do. "The crucial task ahead of us in the cannot afford to sit back and wait. ogy and, to a lesser extent, anthropology and the coming year will be to make sure that every one of "Under the circumstances, I'm getting fonder Jones School. Their research will examine funda- the faculty searches authorized both looks for and and fonder of quoting my high school wrestling mental questions of institutional structure and finds the best faculty members it can appoint to coach — 'when the going gets tough, the tough get how America's social values are shaped. this university," Rupp says."No plugs will be going.' I think it's clear that it is going to be more Drawing on faculty from the humanities and pulled on these positions, so if we don't find the difficult for us to do what needs to be done than it social sciences, the Center for Cultural Studies right person, we simply will not fill the position would be in a less-tight economic situation. will provide an opportunity for scholars from dif- until we find the best." "But it is important in this climate, when the ferent disciplines to widen their perspectives as More faculty members will need more space temptation to hold back is so evident in public dis- they work together in interpreting cultural life. in which to work, and this summer's planning cussions of higher education, that Rice make it un- Finally, the Institute for Computer and Infor- process included discussions about how to best ambiguously clear that, in spite of the tough times mation Technology will allow Rice's continued de- use existing facilities, as well as identification of that we too face, we're going to move forward."

SALLYPORT—NOVEMBER 1986 -JANUARY 1987 7 EARTHQUAKE Last year's tragedy turns to hope as Rice's Ahmad Durrani joins a select group of U.S. scientists in studying how to avoid recur- rence of the devastation following 1985's Mexican earthquake.

by Andre Fox

n the morning of Sept. 19, 1985, the in civil engineering. Currently, he is also involved damage, buildings also have certain critical parts world collapsed for the 18 million in research with fellow faculty members Pol that fail and precipitate, as a result, the collapse residents of Mexico City. An ordi- Spanos and Loren Lutes that also deals with the of the whole building," he says."We plan to iden- 0nary workday turned into tragedy performance of buildings during earthquakes. tify the parts of buildings that are responsible for as an earthquake measuring 8.1 on the Richter (See accompanying sidebar.) such failures, duplicate those components here at scale(and its 7.5 aftershock) killed an esti- Finding the weak links Rice, and subject them individually and in combi- mated 10,000 and injured 20,000. The world nation to forces of the same magnitude as an watched as the full extent of the devastation A year ago, the rubble in Mexico City reflected di- earthquake." was revealed — in addition to the dead and saster. Today, study of that same rubble by scien- The force used to test the materials will be injured, 150,000 were left homeless and prop- tists such as Durrani reflects both hope and a similar to an earthquake in slow motion, Durrani erty damage hit the $5 billion mark. More than determination to learn from tragedy. says — as strong, but not as fast. "The force of an 800 buildings collapsed; buried in the heaps of Most of the buildings that collapsed during earthquake might occur in waves two seconds rubble were what remained of hospitals, hotels, the earthquake's impact, Durrani says, were resi- apart, but we need to make observations at every schools and businesses. Communications dential apartment buildings. His work will focus step. We need to monitor and record how each between Mexico City and the outside world on identifying some of the weakest links in the component is affected throughout." Slowing down were temporarily severed. buildings that didn't survive the impact. "Just as the process for the simulation, he says, will not af- A year later, Rice civil engineer Ahmad Dur- the human body has joints that are more prone to fect the resultant damage. rani was in Mexico City, surrounded by the rubble Durrani's investigation will focus on what is that still stands testament to last year's tragedy. commonly known as flat-slab construction (where Durrani's trek set into motion a recently- the floors of a building are directly supported on awarded National Science Foundation grant he columns), which was the type of construction most will use, with information gathered from prelimi- common among the heavily damaged medium- nary investigations in Mexico City, to study better rise buildings (six-to-fifteen stories). Though high- ways of constructing medium-height buildings — rise buildings might to the layman appear more those most damaged during the Mexican earth- susceptible to earthquake damage, many factors quake. — such as the soil on which a building is con- The NSF grant makes Rice University one of 28 structed — contribute to the building's ability to U.S. research institutions to participate in a $4 withstand earthquake force. In the case of the million effort to learn from the Mexico City earth- Mexico City earthquake, Durrani says, high-rises quake. Their findings will have worldwide appli- were actually protected by their height while cations, not only for less-industrialized countries buildings in the six-to-fifteen story range were but for the U.S. as well —39 of America's 50 states heavily damaged. have been deemed potential earthquake sites. This seeming contradiction, Durrani says, re- In Mexico, Durrani attended a "first anniver- sulted from the way the earthquake-induced reso- sary" conference with other scientists, including nance affected the buildings on Mexico City's soft several who were able to share insights gained soil. from visiting the city just after the earthquake oc- "Each building has, depending on its configu- curred. "It was an excellent opportunity to benefit ration, a certain time period, i.e., how many sec- from their investigations and get on top of the situ- onds it takes to go through one oscillation," ation," he says. It also allowed him to meet face - Durrani explains. "Those buildings that had a to-f ace with his counterpart, Mario Emilio time period between 1.0 and 1.5 seconds, primar- Rodriguez of Autonoma Universidad de Mexico, ily those in the six-to-fifteen story range, were the with whom he will be working as his research pro- most damaged." gresses over the next two years. The time period of a building is roughly one- A few days later, Durrani returned to Rice tenth the number of stories. A 20-story building, ready to begin his work in Ryon Lab testing struc- for example, will have a two-second period; an tural components such as those used in Mexico eight-story building will have a period of approxi- City buildings to determine why they failed and mately .8 seconds. how they could better withstand earthquake force. "When the earthquake waves reached the soft clay deposits in the lake bed on which Mexico City The early days is located, their period increased from 0.5 seconds Durrani is no newcomer to earthquake engineer- to 2.0 seconds(waves of the earthquake hit at two- ing studies. A general interest in research compel- second intervals)," Durrani says. "Where there led him to leave a teaching position at the was a building on top of it that had a two-second University of Science in Malaysia and travel to the period as well, it became like a swing. If you put a University of Michigan for a Ph.D. In Michigan's child on a swing, you make him or her go faster by strong earthquake research program, Durrani fo- giving it another push each time it comes by. cused his own work on connections (those critical "This is what happened in Mexico City. The junctures in buildings where beams and columns building was oscillating and when it came back, meet)and the structural damage occurring in the earthquake hit again and it started vibrating multi-storied concrete buildings of moderate faster and faster. Because of this resonance phe- height when these connections fail during earth- nomena, the buildings really self-destructed." quakes. When a building with a period of one second In 1982, Durrani came to Rice as an assistant was hit by the earthquake (with its two-second professor, where his interest in earthquake re- Photo of buildings in Mexico City shows structural period), Durrani says, the building cracked. As the search melded with that of other faculty members damage caused by the earthquake. building cracked, its period elongated — a pro-

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cess that would continue until the building's period The damage also was intensified in many matched that of the earthquake and the resulting cases because of buildings constructed too close Rice to participate resonance caused heavy damage. together. When the earthquake occurred, sending Structures with more than 20 floors, which had vibrations through the buildings, they began to periods of more than two seconds, were not af- pound each other, causing the weakest places in in earthquake fected by the resonance and its resulting damage. the buildings to collapse. Despite these factors, Durrani says, some research center Standing on solid ground Mexico City structures — the National Lottery Rice University is the only Texas institution to Built on an alluvial valley, an ancient plain that Building, for example, and a baroque church, both be represented in the nation's first federally was once a lake surrounded by mountains, Mexico located in the most heavily damaged area — suf- funded Earthquake Engineering Research Cen- City's soft geological foundation amplifies the fered little or no damage. In general, he says, ter, based in Buffalo, N.Y. waves of the earthquakes to which the area is sus- buildings that were symmetrical and that had a ceptible and was a major factor in the amount of broader base-to-height relationship fared best. damage that occurred. Durrani says scientists have, however, been "Damage between the west coast and Mexico able to isolate several factors that affected the City was not very great," Durrani says."When the performance of the vulnerable medium-rise build- earthquake motion passed through hard rock, ings. there was relatively little damage. But in the areas The first pertains to the structural system — of the city where the buildings were founded on whether or not the building has a moment- soft soil, the same ground motion caused a lot resisting frame system, is a flat-slab system, or is more damage." a shear wall and frame system. Historically, Mexico has been the site of recur- The second factor is concept — the shape of Durrani Loren Lutes Pot Spanos rent earthquake activity because its west coast the building, whether rectangular, square, or L- or Ahmad lies along the boundary of the Pacific and North T-shaped. In general, Durrani says, regularly and American plates. "The crust of the earth is always symmetrically shaped buildings performed best, "We are pleased that Rice University engi- moving," Durrani explains. "One of the current since irregularly shaped buildings showed a ten- neers will participate in this much-needed pro- theories is that the crust consists of plates that are dency to twist when hit with the force of the earth- gram to improve basic knowledge of moving relative to each other. It is as if a person quake. earthquakes and their effects," said Loren D. were pushing two pieces of material against each Quality of construction also is a major factor. Lutes, professor and chairman of civil engineer- other and the friction between them is not allow- "You can design a building code, but unless some- ing at Rice. "Our own efforts on the Rice cam- ing any movement. body is there to implement it it is not going to do pus will focus primarily on what happens to "Whenever it overcomes that friction, it slips you any good," Durrani says, adding that the type man-made structures during an earthquake." and becomes entangled again. When it slips, cre- of soil on which the building is constructed also Lutes added that Rice engineers will be in- ating a jerky movement, it generates a huge governs its performance during an earthquake. volved in "both experimental studies and math- amount of energy that travels in different direc- Solving those problems, he says, is in the hands of ematical modeling. The latter will be used to tions. This release of energy is what we perceive the government (in the case of building codes) and explore the very considerable uncertainties build- as an earthquake." of those who decide where and what type of which still exist regarding the sites and severity While research in the Ryon Lab will study full- ings are to be constructed. of future seismic ground motions and the dam- perform- scale components individually and in tandem with Yet another factor in the buildings' age they may inflict on buildings." connections. If other connective elements, research done by Dur- ance is Durrani's research focus, In addition to Lutes, two other Rice engi- rani's counterpart in Mexico will test a small-scale one consistent element runs through the extent of neers will be involved in the new center's pro- model of a complete waffle-type, flat-slab build- Mexico City's building damage, it was the persist- jects. They are Pol D. Spanos, professor of ing. Their research offers simultaneous ap- ent failure of those critical junctures where slab mechanical engineering and civil engineering, earthquake's force. proaches that will, together, offer a more complete meets column to withstand the and Ahmad J. Durrani, assistant professor of picture of how connections perform under earth- "One of the problems was that in most of these civil engineering. All three are veteran re- quake force. flat-slab buildings, shear walls were not there," searchers on earthquakes, with Lutes and Durrani says.(A shear wall is a vertical element in Spanos holding Ph.Ds. from California Institute Searching for clues a building that resists lateral force.) of Technology, considered one of the world's fin- "The Mexican earthquake has at least proven In undertaking this research, Durrani faces the est training grounds for earthquake research- without added difficulties inherent in dealing with a coun- this point — that flat-slab construction ers. Durrani received his Ph.D. from the try that does not have an adequate information- shear walls should not be built in earthquake- University of Michigan, where he specialized in prone areas," he says."We need to have some ar- gathering system or long-term earthquake the study of earthquake effects on buildings. rangement in a building that can resist the planning. Lutes and Durrani credited Spanos with se- earthquake on slab-to-column "Seismographs were not sufficient, for exam- forces and not rely curing Rice's participation in the new Buffalo- connections, which are not strong enough to re- ple," Durrani says. "They were not in critical areas based research center. Spanos, a native of sist." of the city where the information could have been — he received his engineering diploma useful. Mexico City has 12 seismographs, com- from the National Technical University, Athens pared to Tokyo, which has more than a few hun- Preparing for the future — has considerable personal experience with dred in the city alone. Also, none of the buildings A year after the earthquake, Mexico City is slowly earthquakes in that part of Europe. in Mexico City had any instrumentation. So al- pulling itself back to its feet. Many damaged All three Rice University engineers wel- though we know what the earthquake looked like, buildings are being retrofitted and strengthened; comed creation of the first federally funded we do not know how the buildings actually per- others that suffered little damage are being Earthquake Engineering Research Center, with formed. The only evidence we have is by looking strengthened as a precautionary measure. headquarters at the State University of New at the damage, rather than actually measuring Durrani said measures being used to York at Buffalo, as a much-needed organization. and getting data from the measurements." strengthen the buildings include reducing the Although many Americans think of earthquakes Mexico faces an additional problem, Durrani building's height to lighten the load on the base; as primarily a West Coast problem, they are a says, because of its lack of regulations. "In gen- broadening the base to create better stability; and national problem, with 39 of the 50 states sub- eral, the quality of construction in Mexico has strengthening individual elements by reinforcing ject to moderate-to-major earthquakes each been inferior because of the lower technical base beams and columns and adding shear walls. To year, the Rice professors indicated. This coun- and inadequate building codes. They have always circumvent the problem of buildings pounding try's worst temblor, for example, occurred in relied on stop-gap arrangements. Once they have each other, entire sections are being removed to New Madrid, Mo., in 1811-1812. Another major an earthquake, they suddenly start talking about allow greater distance between structures. earthquake caused substantial damage in having some emergency code. A few years down While research such as Durrani's should help Charleston, S.C., in 1886. the road, their interest fizzles and they are back to uncover information to aid in constructing new No grants have yet been made to individual the same thing. buildings that can better withstand earthquakes, researchers participating in the new organiza- "They really do not have as stringent a seis- it will also likely lead to better seismic building tion, but the National Science Foundation is mic code as they need, and this earthquake has codes, modernization of older buildings, and a making available a total of $25 million to the proven that whatever they did have was inade- better general understanding of what type of Buffalo Center and its cooperative institutions, quate and not properly implemented." structures can, and cannot, withstand earth- including Rice, over a five-year period. A total This lack of complete information will make quakes. It should also open additional research of $834,000 has already been allocated by the Durrani's work more difficult, but analysis of the avenues for studying whether retroactive strength- NSF for fiscal 1986. Mexico City rubble has offered some clues. ening such as that currently being done in Mexico Also, matching funds of $5 million per year Among the severely damaged buildings, for City is being done correctly. are expected from the Urban Development example, the four most common patterns of build- All of the results, he says, will benefit more Corp. of the State of New York. This state gov- ing failure have been identified: the collapse of than just the people of Mexico. They will enable ernment partnership is designed to improve co- top floors; the collapse of lower floors; weakened those of us in the U.S. to verify our own current operation among universities, government and inner floors sandwiched between intact upper and construction standards and learn from others' industry. lower stories; and total building collapse. tragedies before they become ours as well. —Nathan Broch

SALLYPORT—NOVEMBER 1986-JANuARY 1987 9 Gaston Rimlinger: 'A quality trademark'

"The impact of Rice has been and continues to be mainly through the high quality of its graduates. Rice in Houston: This is most evident at the professional level. The leading law firms and the major accounting firms in the city are loaded with Rice graduates. Rice graduates are prominent also among the top ranks A Distinctive Presence of engineers and physicians. "This prominence, along with what is known about the educational demands put upon the stu- dents and the selective admissions process, has established the Rice degree as a quality trade mark that is recognized by informed people in the whole country. In all walks of life where intellec- tual power and discipline are demanded, from sci- entists to writers and from business to government leaders, Rice graduates have made their mark." Gaston V. Rimlinger, a member of the Rice faculty for the past 26 years, is the Reginald Henry Har- grove Professor of Economics.

Josephine Abercrombie '46: 'Quality and distinction' "By providing a superb education at a very low cost, Rice is able to produce, not only for Texas but for the as well as foreign countries, a well-rounded, well-educated group of alumni. Houston benefits from having a university whose graduates have distinguished themselves in many fields and whose reputation is growing stronger every year. Our city and our state should be proud to have a university of such quality and distinction whose alumni represent us so well." Houston businesswoman Josephine Abercrombie '46 is a member of the Rice University Board of Governors. She has served as a university trustee since 1975.

Katherine Drew '44: 'Simply super students'

"I think Rice has been and is important to the de- velopment of Houston and of Texas in three ways. First, our students are simply super, and when they leave here they either remain in Houston or Texas or they retain ties with the area. This is a real plus for the locality because, though many of these students originally come from some distance away, they never forget Houston or Texas once they have attended Rice. They contribute directly to the economic and cultural growth of the area. "Second, the Rice library is a major research and reference resource for the region. its collection •a is not matched anywhere in the city and in some fields the collection is not equalled in the state. (5 This is an aspect of Rice's excellence that I think is • frequently overlooked — it is just taken for granted. "Finally, the Rice faculty has exerted an influ- • ence. Although the faculty members constitute an important intellectual resource for the city and state, their major contribution has been made As Sallyport closes its series commemorating through their dedication to teaching and their in- fluence over students who leave and go out into Houston's and Texas'sesquicentennials, Rice the community. The professional reputations of faculty members depend upon research and publi- faculty tell how cation, but their direct impact on the region has alumni and they believe Rice has been through their teaching." most influenced the development of its home city Katherine Drew '44(M.A. '45) has been a member of the Rice University faculty since 1950. She cur- rently serves as the Lynette S. Autrey Professor of and state. History.

10 SALLYPORT—NOVEMBER 1986-JANuARY 1987 that has been thought and said in the world," Joe D. Thomas: the Medical Center with its many hospitals, best schools and research centers owe their existence and then to adopt the highestand soundest values 'Changing a culture' to gifts from wonderful people who have shared conceivable in the worlds of letters, sciences and their good fortune, as Mr. Rice shared his. art. "I believe that no agency has done more than our "And, of course, the continued growth of the Of course, individual faculty members(as in- Institute-University to change a culture (or lack of Rice endowment and the building of much-needed dividuals and not as official representatives of it) in which 'book' meant Bible, cookbook, or mag- buildings on our campus has only been possible Rice) did go out into the community as lecturers or azine into a sophisticated and, on the whole, well- because people like George Brown and other consultants to many local groups; and some of informed cultural area. It has done so in many grateful and generous alumni have followed the these faculty members played major roles in help- ways — President Lovett's policy, for instance, of example of the man who 3tarted it all — William ing organize and promote such cultural and edu- providing significant public lectures by scholars Marsh Rice." cational institutions as the Houston Symphony and doers of importance. I am only suggesting Orchestra, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum that we ought to recognize the quieter policy of all Louis D. Spaw Jr. '40 is co-founder of Spaw-Glass of Natural Science, and others. But these activities administrations to develop what is now Fondren Construction Inc. of Houston. A past recipient of of individuals did not represent Rice itself as an Library into a great repository of knowledge, Rice's "Outstanding Engineering Alumnus" award, institution. beautiful letters, and facilities for the promotion of Spaw remains active in alumni activities at Rice. About the only outreach program that Rice new knowledge, writing, processes, and tech- maintained during the early decades was a regu- niques." lar series of Sunday-afternoon public lectures given year after year by Rice faculty members, Professor Emeritus of English Joe D. Thomas ar- along with other public lectures by visiting celeb- in Houston in 1930 to find "the best-selected rived rities famous in the sciences or the humanities. country" in Rice's then-2,000- William R Hobby Jr.'53: two grand in the Since Houston was a relatively small city in those Thomas taught English at Rice volume library. days, and there was no television, and no other until his retirement in 1977. 'A major leadership role' from 1930 college in the city, and no museum, and almost no "Since its founding, Rice University has played a other regular cultural event to attract the public — major role in providing leadership to Houston and these Rice lectures drew hundreds, or thousands, Texas. Its alumni have occupied key positions in of Houstonians over the years. They must have had a little influence on the intellectual and cultural David Westheimer '37: business, civic, scientific and educational enter- prises throughout the nation. life of the city, though they could hardly be re- 'Integrity, learning and showed himself a philanthropist of rare vision garded as a really aggressive attempt by Rice to when he founded the institute to which so many influence the community. scholarship' others have added over the years." On the other hand, Rice has always exerted an indirect or passive influence on Houston and on the 'Thirties, I never once "In my Rice days, William P Hobby Jr. '53 is lieutenant-governor of Texas — as a model, a pattern, and an ideal to be born, reared and educated in to a thought that being the State of Texas, and was recently elected emulated. quarters signify cultural Houston might in some fifth term in office. He was honored as a distin- For instance, Rice was (I believe) the only col- later in life that I encoun- deprivation. It was only guished alumnus of Rice University in 1985. lege in Texas during the 'teens and 'twenties that intellectuals who told me tered self-acknowledged aspired to an overall architectural unity and dis- So I'd ask, did Houston was brash and backward. tinction. Rice showed other Texas colleges that art orchestra? Proba- they know we had a symphony and beauty, elegance and grace, refinement and Did they know the bly not a good one, they'd say. charm in the external environment, may contrib- va- Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo took its Christmas George G. Williams '23: ute as much to a valid educational experience as any cation in Houston? Toe dancers didn't know do reams of remembered facts and figures. better. Did they know Rice Institute was in Hous- 'An ideal to be emulated' Furthermore, Rice has always been an educa- impressed them. Rice ton? Rice? Really? Now, that ideal for other Texas colleges and universi- learning Rice's influence on the world outside its hedges tional had that sort of reputation for integrity, ties. Especially throughout the 'twenties(and even I think it is those qualities has been immense — but any direct influence Rice and scholarship. And the state-run institutions of higher learning of has exercised on the world has been almost en- later), that have most influenced the development of politicians — with jeal- tirely through individuals. Rice alumni and fac- were often the football Houston." legislators breathing down ulty, as individuals, have contributed in ous governors or rural presidents and professors, in- Author David Westheimer '37 is best known for the thousands of significant ways to the political, eco- the necks of college and classroom activities, cen- novels Von Ryan's Express and My Sweet Charlie, nomic, educational, scientific, artistic, and liter- truding into campus church-supported colleges both of which were made into feature films in the ary life of Houston, of Texas, and of the nation. soring curricula. The cautiously a narrow educa- 1960s. Westheimer, who lives in Los Angeles, still But Rice University itself — as an institutional likewise had to tread controversy. Rice writes a thrice-weekly column for the Houston Post. unit — seems to have had a minimal direct influ- tional path to avoid religious in the state that could afford ence on the city, state, or nation. Rice has been too was the only college it wanted to teach, and to small, too private, too intensely academic, and too to teach what and as and intellectual standards suspicious of the merely "popular" to make an au- maintain educational down to suit politicians or dible boom amid the big booms of a city, state, and that were not watered of Irish education during the nation booming all around. As a matter of fact, bigots. Someone said D. Spaw Jr.'40: was a rushlight inthe howl- Louis that is exactly how Rice, during its first 40 years, early Middle Ages: "It To say the same wanted it. President Lovett established a kind of ing wilderness that was Europe." contribution: Texas in the early days would not 'Rice's greatest unspoken but well-recognized policy of not becom- thing of Rice in but it would be almost cor- ing involved in the ambitious strivings, the politi- be entirely correct — contributors' Rice was the only Texas col- cal feudings, and the pecuniary objectives of the rect!... One example: lege in those years where the doctrine of evolution will that Rice was to be outside world. He insisted, rather, that Rice dedi- "By specifying in his was freely and openly taught — without ifs, ands, Marsh Rice founded an insti- cate itself strictly and completely to the "Advance- tuition-free, William or buts — even though its teaching made Rice many students with limited ec- ment of Letters, Science and Art" within the tution that allowed many enemies at the time. 'work their way'and earn hedges. About the only concessions Rice ever onomic resources to Rice was a model of freedom and excellence Rice that have contributed to the suc- made to the urgencies outside happened during degrees from that many a president and many a professor in of outstanding people in our com- the two World Wars, when Rice did try to make ad- cessful careers other Texas colleges must have envied. President world. justments (not too successfully or happily) to the munity — in our Lovett made it like that. When he came from Prin- grown and matured, not so much great national emergencies. "As Rice has ceton (on the recommendation of Woodrow Wilson) scope and quality of curriculum and In its earlier decades, Rice chose deliberately in size as in to be Rice's first president, he brought with him an contributions have extended far be- to be intellectually aristocratic rather than non- in prestige, its obsessive dedication to creating on the result, Houston and intellectually democratic. President Lovett wanted almost yond Houston and Texas. As a nearest thing possible to the Pla- international (and was often bitterly criticized for wanting)a Rice campus the Texas benefit from the national and And that is what Rice — economic self-contained "citadel of learning" rather than a tonic ideal of a university. exchange of people, ideas and resulting — became: an influen- popular institution operating on the same intellec- in its early decades at least development. tial ideal in the community and in the state, not an by his founding of an tual wavelengths as the surrounding community. "William Marsh Rice, influential force. educational institution on a large parcel of land Recently, I saw in Herring Hall directional far south of the city, with an ambitious, well- signs pointing the way to a "Seminar on How to Through his own writing and a teaching career at executed master plan, with buildings designed Improve Your Sales Ability." It occurred to me then viewed Rice that spanned from 1924-1968, Professor Emeri- and constructed in conformance with the highest that President Lovett would probably have tus of English George G. Williams '23(M.A. '25) has standards and best materials then available, set a these signs with uncomprehending dismay. He exerted immeasurable influence over generations precedent for other great and generous Houstoni- would hardly have been able to conceive such a of Rice authors. Though retired from teaching, Wil- ans: George Hermann, M.D. Anderson, and many concession by Rice to the commercial aspirations liams remains actively involved with the Rice com- others of more recent vintage who are too numer- of the world outside. His aim, instead, was to "the munity and in his own writing projects. ous to list. Hermann Park, Hermann Hospital, and make Rice a place where students learned SALLYPORT—NOVEMBER 1986-JANUARY 1987 11 '81 and William Turner -Turner '83 (L), on hand Daraugh Myers among the 250 Ashley, were Engineering daughter, on the their Alumni luncheon for the Young Quadrangle Saturday.

C.M. Hudspeth '40 year's (L) and prestousigi presented Gold Williatn at ilieda/s Gordon were Saturday's frorn the the repientsofci convocation(see Association of this Rice additional article Alumi,n HOMECOMING in this issue). 1986

A full house Club turned out for Reunion Friday the Second the revelry night at Annual are (L Wiess Rally Lemuth -R) Commons. '71, and Char/es Enjoying Dick Szalkowski '70, Sylvan '70. Richard political sci- Bob McKee '40 sits in on Ambler's class ence professor John Hall. Most Friday morning in Sewall morning of Rice's regular Friday classes were open to alumni. Baylor's right) stops Burgess (51, the Rice's Danny goalline during McAdoo short of the na- Derrick Saturday. Baylor, the game 23-17 homecoming escaped with a -ranked team, tion's 17th win.

LO: cocktail Among of '46 night the 129 ClassCluday attending for a Satur t, Dinner at the Class classmates b Garret Cohen House of '61's Couritry Truett doctors." Saturday Silver their Anderson, Escobar• Class of night Anniversary Oaks Wolf, '61 were some of Joining River Ehlinger Wick Walter physicians (L-R) the "class at Muriel row) Dickinson, Don include buffet Doris and Mark Tea/, and (front row) -R) Garrett, Williamson, Milford John (L Karl Bunn, and were Russell Ludwig, and Earl (back Ruth Howells. Jo Azt Homecoming 1986, on silver David hard work receives a acquaintances: Jon of her '55(L) '59 Renewing old with "Grungy" Gladu honor Eubank Gwynne Old Memphis(L) met up donned an In Nancy '66 of "Owl Tails" uniform Chairman president Rhodes Kirkpatrick from the late alumni classmates Martha 1960s to join the bowl from luncheon. former '65 (with 110 former MOB- Saturday's and Steve Smith sters for an during Smith '66 The Smiths alumni band at Satur- daughter, Shelby). day's halftime their Arlington, Va. show. were visiting from

Among the 168 attending the Class of Anniversary Dinner at '36's Go/den named a 'Distin- were Cohen House wife, Lucy, was Benner Dowe(L) Friday night '38, with his Cohen House and Denton James K. Nance ceremonies at Wise. R Association alumni and guished R Man' in were 157 Attending the event honored.) Thursday night. list of those this issue for full friends.(See article in

Hundreds of Rice alumni "came home" to Rice the weekend of Nov. 14-15. Homecoming '86 festivities got under way Thursday night with an R Association banquet and blasted into the wee hours Sunday morning with the Sid Rich "birthday party" and Octoberfest. In between, visitors got their first look at the new Ley Student Center, caught up with former classmates, and enjoyed a full roster of activities. On these pages is a small sampling of this year's homecoming events. Special thanks are due to a wealth of staff and alumni photogra- phers, including: Peter Yenne '72 (convocation, founder's tribute, lunch- eon); Bill Baptist (football); David Tuttle '82(MOB); Ron Stinebaugh (Rally Club); Shelly Unger '86 and Erin Blair '88 (campus events); and reunion photographers Charles Ladner '36, John Steck '41, Doris Anderson '46, Among the winners of Friday's tennis tourna- Dean Moore '51, Wanda Waters '61, Ann Pace '66 and Tom Greene '71. ment, in which 30 participated, were:(front, L-R) Emily Hoover, Julie Hart and Nancy Flatt; (back row) Lynda Kelly, Pat Hogan and June Levy.

Eighty attended the buffet Class of '71 '51 cocktail Farnsworth Room Cocktail the Class of of the Ley Buffet in the 96 attending Atmar, Willie night, Student Among the (L-R): Genie including (L-R) Center Saturday the RMC were Hoover. Ann Debbie Kaiser A Saturday at Hoover and Harry Kreymer, Bob Card, bramowitz, Karol Montz, Emily and Dorian Moreno, Ted St. Clair Myers.

... An even 100 guests gathered the after the Rice-Baylor Grand Class of'66 reunion. game for RIAC Among those the Among Connie Niehaus, Ron attending were (L-R) luncheon at speaker. Niehaus, and Al Harper. Saturday's featured Brot- Barker, Franz attended was the Rupp members J.R. Approximately '215 George President faculty where retiring Hall, were recognized Gordon• those William and zen

HOMECOMING 1986 1:11' John Heard '40, pictured with Note: Among Friday activites not pictured were: lunch in the colleges, attended by the his wife, Elly, was by 21; Class of '31 reunion luncheon, attended by 40; reception for the faculty art Friends of Fondren at a honored Friends of brunch co-sponsored by show, attended by 25; Class of '81 cocktail buffet, attended by 93. Saturday Fondren and the Rice ceiving the REA Engineering Alumni. Re- events not pictured include postgame cookouts; Rice Business and Professional award was Charles S. photo in Alumni Matthews '41 (see Women reception, attended by 25; Class of '43 cocktail buffet, attended by 95; section of this issue). Class of '56 cocktail buffet; Class of '76 reunion, attended by 215; the Sid Rich 15th birthday party and Octoberfest; alumni interviewers breakfast; and past presidents' breakfast, attended by 13. Some 260 guests attended the President's Concert and reception on Thursday night.

Thirty-three former Thresher pus tales at a editors Cohen House gathered to roster of breakfast exchange cam- those attending Saturday morning. abouts, and a chance For a full stay tuned for to catch Upon the next issue their where- of Sallyport.

eunion enjoying a r alumni night of '41 Saturday many Class Country Club Sullivan. of the Oaks Charles A few at River and cocktail buffet Bob Fowler Paul Bybee, were (L-R)

14 SALLYPORT—NOVEMBER 1986-JANUARY 1987 RICE'S SILICON VALLEY PIONEERS Excerpts from 'Portraits of Success: Impressions of Silicon Valley Pioneers,' a book by Carolyn Caddes '58.

Photos and text by Carolyn Caddes

JAMES G. TREYBIG '63 FOUNDER, TANDEM COMPUTERS INC.

Eleven years after James Treybig founded Tan- ployees and make them feel they're important, dem Computers Inc., it made the Fortune 500 that the company cares," Treybig says. list. The company now has more than 5,000 em- Born in 1940 in the Texas Panhandle where ployees and annual revenues of over half a bil- his father was a geophysicist. Treybig received lion dollars. a B.A. and a B.S.E.E. from Rice University. He The innovation that caused this growth was decided on a business career when he took over Tandem's NonStop on-line transaction process- as manager of the yearbook and made a profit. ing computers, systems structured to offer unin- After earning his M.B.A. from Stanford, he terrupted operation in the face of malfunctions. worked for Texas Instruments and Hewlett- This eliminates the costly computer downtime Packard and then joined the venture capital that plagues more conventional systems. firm of Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield and Byers. Banks, airlines and newspapers, critically de- While there he recognized the need for com- pendent upon keeping their computers running puters that don't break down and developed the even while repairs are being made, are among plan that in 1974 resulted in Tandem. Tandem's customers. Outgoing, informal, and with a disarming "Yew kin spot maah house way bafor yew git The company is also innovative in its atti- country-boy manner, Treybig has maintained there. Maah roof is loaded with an-tennahs.' I tude and concern for employees, receiving his deep Texas accent through twenty years of had forgotten what Texans from the Panhan- much publicity for its Friday-afternoon popcorn California residency. Everybody who knows dle sound like, but Jimmy Treybig's drawl re- parties and conspicuously accessible top man- him calls him Jimmy T. got to stay close to your em- minded me. Shore 'nough, those antennas agement. "You've directed me to his hillside home...Looking for a place to make the portrait, Treybig said, 'Wanna see mah radio room?' We lugged my equipment upstairs to a small room adjoining the enormous master bedroom. I felt that this room is where the man's soul is."

A PORTRAIT OF SUCCESS

Professor George Williams left neers of Silicon Valley. home with vignettes of life at the ond on the ways women of her own members of his 1957 writing class One publisher, an editorial top in Silicon Valley — verbal por- generation have fared as they took with a parting shot — "now, go out board, 62 portraits and more than traits that revealed as much as any their 1950s tradition and idealism there and write a book." four years later, Portraits of Success biography about the movers and through the turbulent '60s, the inde- Almost 30 years later, Carolyn is complete. shakers of high technology. pendent '70s and the career- Caddes '58 has done just that. The It offered Caddes some sur- Caddes met RayChem founder oriented '80s. subject matter might not be what prises, not the least of which was Paul Cook on the racquetball court, — by Suzanne Johnson Williams would have expected, but that of the 62 "pioneers," chosen by for example, and used lively banter Caddes' book, Portraits of Success: a panel of scientists and scholars, about fishing to get the best "fish- Impressions of Silicon Valley Pio- five are Caddes'fellow Rice alumni ermen's smiles" from William neers, is making a splash. Combin- (excerpts above). Hewlett and David Packard. ing striking and often intimate Caddes was also surprised by Caddes also quizzed the 62 portraits and profiles of the people the positive reception she received about their motivations. "Many are who made California's Silicon Val- from most of the executives. With motivated by the creativity, the ley a byword for the 1980s, Portraits the others, perseverance paid off. "I challenge and the competition," was published by Tioga Publishing just stayed with them until they got she says. "But others said they Co. in September. so tired of me that they agreed," were in it for the money." Advanced The book's origins date back to she laughs. Micro Devices founder Jerry the late 1970s, when Caddes — a The same determination fol- Sanders told her, for example, that photographer by profession — com- lowed her through the process of "money is life's report card." In- pleted an Ansel Adams workshop "getting the right shot." After re- spired by that quote, she talked project portraying the people of searching her subjects carefully, him into posing, dressed in expen- Palo Alto. Among the many she she posed each in a setting to re- sive jewelry and a white bathrobe, in his elaborate Bel Air mansion photographed was telecommunica- veal the personality behind the 'Portraits of Success: Impressions of Sil- tions pioneer William Hewlett. success. It involved working photo that she says "reeked of money, icon Valley Pioneers' was published in Capturing the normally reclu- shoots around hectic schedules power and sex." September by Tioga Publishing Co., sive Hewlett on film prompted and coaxing her subjects into re- Tentative projects Caddes now Palo Alto, Calif. Excerpts and photos re- Caddes to tackle first a photo ex- laxing for the camera. faces include a book on the pio- printed with the permission of the pub- hibit, and later a book, on the pio- After each shoot, she returned neers of biotechnology and a sec- lisher and the author.

SALLYPORT—NOVEMBER 1986-JANUARY 1987 1 5

Aaa_ BURTON J. McMURTRY '56 VENTURE CAPITALIST, TECHNOLOGY VENTURE INVESTORS

Burton John McMurtry was born in 1935 in Hous- Sylvania for twelve years, during which time he ton, where his father was employed by Humble earned an M.S. and a Ph.D. in electrical engi- Oil Company. During his summer vacations Mc- neering at Stanford on the Honors Co-op Pro- Murtry worked as a laborer in the oil fields. "I gram. enjoyed the physical exertion of the manual In 1969, McMurtry joined Jack Melchor in a work and the satisfaction of seeing something seed capital operation and served as president tangible accomplished," he says. But the expe- of Palo Alto Investment Company for three rience also convinced him that he wanted an years. He then became a partner with Reid Den- education and the opportunity to work with his nis and Burgess Jamieson in Institutional Ven- mind. ture Associates. In 1980 he began his own In high school Burt McMurtry excelled in ac- venture capital firm, Technology Venture Inves- ademics and the great Texas sport, football. He tors with Jim Bochnowski and Dave Marquardt. graduated early and enrolled in Rice Institute to Over the years he has established a remarkable major in electrical engineering. Entering Rice's track record, including investments in ROLM, five-year program, he earned "McMurtry's wife, Deedee, told me we could a B.A. in 1956 and Triad, and NBI. a B.S.E.E. a year later. "The most useful subject "Venture capital is tough, get the most relaxed photographs of Burt at but interesting," was English," McMurtry claims, "because of the McMurtry says. "There are tremendous suc- their Pajaro Dunes beach house, an hour and importance of communication in virtually every cesses, huge failures." Drawing a parallel be- a hales drive from Silicon Valley. Reputed to business activity." tween venture capital and his old sport of be an intense and driven man,McMurtry While interviewing for jobs at the Rice football, he observes, "Both are event and team placement showed me another side. As I set up the cam- center, McMurtry approached a oriented. In football, each player has his own Sylvania interviewer because "he looked lone- role, era he talked about his new grandchild and yet each play depends on the whole team. some; no one else was around his booth." This This is true of the venture capital business as his son's acceptance into Stanford's graduate chance conversation led to an offer, and he well." program in mechanical engineering...The in- moved to Mountain View in 1957. He stayed with tense venture capitalist seemed completely at ease."

TOM A. KELLEY'62 FOUNDER, THOMAS A. KELLEY AND ASSOCIATES

Tom A. Kelley runs a Silicon Valley executive ents, perhaps the best known is ROLM, for search firm that recruits management person- whom he has conducted executive and profes- nel vital to the industrial ferment of high- sional talent searches for fifteen years. technology ventures. Kelley thinks some investors in the early Kelley was born in 1939 in Memphis, where 1980s put more emphasis on marketing their he was raised by his mother and grandmother. high-tech companies than on building them. A talented athlete and good student, he was of- "This occasionally manifested itself in execu- fered five academic scholarships. He chose tive search assignments in which the investor Rice University and earned a B.S. in mechani- or board member would attach more impor- cal engineering in 1962. While at Rice he spent tance to the image projected by candidates than a summer working at Yosemite National Park to the substance of their abilities and experi- where he met his wife, Sharon. In 1967 he re- ence," he says. "I tell such clients that I know ceived an M.B.A. fromStanford. some outstanding businessmen who are really Kelley worked for Trane Company and Ray- pretty ugly!" chem Corporation, and then "an inordinate de- In addition to his recruiting business, Kel- sire to be independent" led him to start Thomas ley is involved in numerous commercial real- "His colonial-style home in the foothills of- A. Kelley and Associates in 1969. The firm spe- estate holdings throughout the Bay Area. He fered many possibilities for casual photo- cializes in executive searches for small- to has also invested in some of his high-tech client graphs, but I knew I wanted to make Kelley's medium-sized high-technology companies. Kel- companies. In 1985 he was elected a trustee of portrait with his Kennedy memorabilia be- ley particularly enjoys getting involved in start- the Portola Valley School District. Kelley's per- cause he had been a fervent supporter of Jack up firms and maintaining relationships as sonal credo is, "I have only wanted to be the and those companies grow. Among his long-term cli- best at what I do." Bobby. In addition to Kennedy photo- graphs and sculptures, I think Kelley owns every biography written about the Kennedy family members. And they were all in his study. That was the place for this portrait."

RICE'S SILICON VALLEY PIONEERS.. . 16 SALLYPORT—NOVEMBER 1986-JANUARY 1987 M. KENNETH OSHMAN '62 CO-FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT, ROLM CORP

Malin Kenneth Oshman learned the realities of tions." the marketplace as a teenage cotton broker He received B.A. and B.S.E.E. degrees from dealing with the shrewd farmers around Rosen- Rice, where professors said they were never berg, Texas. As co-founder in 1969 and presi- able to challenge him sufficiently. He married dent of ROLM Corporation, he began his his childhood sweetheart, Barbara Daily, and in telecommunications and computer business in 1963 was recruited by Burton McMurtry to join a prune shed in Cupertino. Fifteen years later, Sylvania in Mountain View. He worked as an he negotiated the sale of ROLM to IBM for more engineer and simultaneously attended Stanford than $1 billion. on the Honors Co-Op Program, earning an M.S. A high school friend, Houston physician and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in record Charles("Bubba") Yates, says Ken Oshman ex- time. Oshman had a short but productive career hibited his business acumen early by foiling an as a researcher in lasers and nonlinear optics. "impossible" biology teacher who passed out a With backing from venture capitalist Jack Mel- sheet of "impossible" questions for a study chor, Oshman and three other Rice graduates guide and that failure was a certainty without (Gene Richeson '62, Walter Loewenstern '59 and "Friendly, sensitive, and completely coopera- the answers. Oshman organized the FONY note Robert Maxfield '63)founded ROLM, an acronym tive, Oshman let me photograph him sitting company, named for three classmates and him- consisting of their initials. behind his desk, in front of a new monotype self. The young business partners researched Widely regarded as a person who takes print, and perching on a countertop of his the answers to the study guide and sold them to command, Oshman is competitive, magnetic, custom-crafted oak cabinets. He was cornfort- every biology student in the school. and energetic. Leo Chamberlain, a retired While at Rice University, Oshman played ROLM executive vice-president, describes able in front of my camera. When I told him I the stock market, lost most of his summer earn- Oshman as "a man who challenges the thor- needed some variety in the book and wanted ings, and learned an important lesson:"The oughness of your thinking. Ken is a brilliant a portrait of someone in a hat, he took me to only way to make money in stocks is to invest in business person who absorbs a tremendous his closet and pulled out three great ones. We good companies and management and forget amount of information, throws away the junk, went outside, he tried each one on while puf- about short-term market and company fluctua- and keeps the kernel." fing on his cigar, and I clicked away."

ROBERT R. MAXFIELD '63 Co-founder, ROLM Corporation

Many consider Robert Maxfield, the "M" founder build my own stereo. I chose the latter." of ROLM Corporation, the genius behind its re- Maxfield received a B.S.E.E. in 1964. Then, search and development. He disagrees. "I'm while working as an engineer at IBM in San good at stimulating ideas from others, then fig- Jose, he earned his master's and Ph.D. in elec- uring out which are the best ones and making trical engineering at Stanford. In 1969 he be- them happen." came one of the four co-founders of ROLM Born in Detroit in 1941, Maxfield grew up in Corporation, a manufacturer of business com- Wichita Falls, Texas, where his father was an munication systems and military computers. orthopedic surgeon. He competed in high Widely regarded as the key technical and oper- school and college swim meets, winning two ations figure behind ROLM's phenomenal suc- state championship gold medals and setting a cess, Maxfield served as executive vice state record in the individual medley. president and as a member of its board of direc- Maxfield knew he wanted to major in sci- tors. Upon ROLM's acquisition by IBM in 1984, ence or engineering at Rice University and nar- Maxfield once again found himself working for rowed the choice this way:"My sophomore year "Big Blue." I took chemistry and the lab seemed like a lot of When Maxfield and his family have oppor- "I first heard of Bobby Maxfield in the early dishwashing, so I eliminated that. Then I tried tunities to travel, they like to go where they can 1960s when he and his wife Melinda partici- to decide between electrical and mechanical study archaeological ruins such as those of the pated in car rallies with mutual friends. Next engineering. I knew that if I majored in me- Greek and Mayan civilizations. With no hesita- thing I knew,this man had helped start a chanical engineering, I would learn how to tion, he admits he's a workaholic who enjoys company and moved to a bigger house, but work on my car. If I majored in electrical, I could setting goals and achieving them. little else had changed. He still enjoys cars(he has a classic Mercedes 300 'gull wing'coupe and took Bob Bondurant's famous race-car driving class), and he swims every day. Max- field, always a good sport, consented to photo- graphs in his swimming pool. He got into the water, squinted with the sun in his eyes, and let me take pictures. He swam,got his hair wet, and I kept photographing. Then he put on his goggles, looked silly, and let me continue."

SALLYPORT—NOVEMBER 1986-JANUARY 1987 17 Spoids R Association honors six Erfurth announces retirement Four new members of the Rice University holds the Rice record in the I0,000-meter Augie Erfurth '49, executive director of Athletic Hall of Fame were inducted on run in 28:27.3, finishing third in the '76 athletics and the last athletic staff mem- Nov. 13 during ceremonies at Cohen NCAA championships; ber from the era at Rice, has House. Jack G. Brannon (Texas '33), part of announced his plans to retire. His retire- In addition, Houston attorney James the Rice medical team for almost 50 ment, which becomes effective Jan. 1, K. Nance '38 was honored as a Distin- years, dating back to his internship at "marks the end of regular service for an guished R Man, and Rice faculty repre- Hermann Hospital in 1937, who has individual who has devoted the majority sentative and golf coach Jim Castaneda worked under eight Rice coaches from of his professional life to Rice University" was named an Honorary R Man. through . says Jerry Berndt, director of athletics and New members of the Hall of Fame are: Nance, a retired senior partner in the head football coach. Bruce Henley '74, a three-year foot- law firm of Baker & Botts, was a star Rice The athletic program first interested ball letterman who still holds Rice re- end on the Institute's 1937 Cotton Bowl Erfurth when he came to Rice as a student cords for pass interceptions in a career champions. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, 41 years ago."I considered Rice because I (15) and a season (seven in 1972); Nance was named to Sports Illustrated ran hurdles and Rice had Emmett Brun- Jim Gerhardt '51, basketball and magazine's Silver Anniversary team in son for a track coach," he recalls. It was track star for the Owls in the early 1950s 1962. the golden age of Rice athletics. Brunson who earned a place on the 1952 U.S. Castaneda has been Rice's repre- and his teams were renowned across the Olympic Team in the hop, step and jump sentative to the Southwest Conference Southwest and Jess Neeley led the (now triple jump)and finished 11th in the and NCAA since 1974, serving as the Fightin' Owls to victory after victory in Helsinki games with a best effort of 48- SWC president in 1981-83. He has over- football. Erfurth got a scholarship and feet,two-and-one-quarter inches; seen the Owls' resurgence in golf since played a season of freshman football un- American. In 1972 Erfurth was selected as Jeff Wells '76, an outstanding dis- being named coach in 1983, and previ- der Neeley, but it was in track that he dis- outdoor coach of the year by the United tance runner who finished second in the ously was an assistant baseball coach for tinguished himself. States Track Coaches Association. 1978 Marathon after winning the the Owls. His primary responsibility at "Brunson had Fred Wolcott in the Erfurth was assistant and then asso- Houston Marathon in 1976 and who still Rice is as a professor of Spanish. '30s, and Fred Patterson was All- ciate athletics director before assuming American," Erfurth says, modestly ne- the title of director of athletics in 1978 glecting to mention his own contribution with the resignation of . The to the track team. Erfurth twice won the position requires attention to the detail Hines to lead '86 Owls Southwest Conference championship in and "everyday responsibilities" of the Rice enjoyed its most successful basket- With Hines leading the way, the Owls hurdles and lettered all four years of his athletic program, including fund raising ball campaign in the last 16 years in 1982 are expected to rebound from a disap- career as a scholar-athlete. and the management of nine men's and when All-SWC performer and first-round pointing 9-19 record last season — a sea- After graduating from Rice in 1949, seven women's sports events. pro pick Ricky Pierce led the Owls to a 15- son marred by the absence of Dave he spent 11 years coaching high school Rice still leads the Southwest Confer- 15 record. Ramer, who suffered a career-ending in- track, football and basketball in his ence teams in graduating its student- For the first time since then, Rice is jury the year before, and the limited ef- hometown of San Antonio. Erfurth also athletes and Erfurth is pleased at the again expected to have a first-team all- fectiveness of Terrence Cashaw, who earned a Masters in Education from Trin- amount of support it receives from alumni conference pick in senior Greg Hines, played the second half of the season with ity University before returning to Rice in and friends. "During my tenure here and Owl partisans are hoping his impact a broken foot. 1960. we've built Cameron Field for baseball, on the fortunes of their team will be just Hines, a second-team All-SWC pick "I was elated when Jess Neely called new football dressing and training facili- as great as that of Pierce five years ago. last season, finished sixth in the league me for an interview," he says. "I feel very ties and coaches' offices in the stadium, "Greg is the best individual player scoring race with a 16.7 points per-game fortunate to have been able to return to and another tennis court for Jake Hess we've had since Ricky Pierce. There's no average and pulled down 5.5 rebounds both my high school and my college in a Stadium. We've renovated the track sta- question about that," said Rice head per-outing. The 6-3 swingman is now tied professional capacity. I guess I've been dium and Autry Court and put lights in coach Tommy Suitts, who took over the for 12th on Rice's all-time scoring list with blessed twice." In his 26 years with the Cameron Field and the tennis stadium. Owl program in 1982. 1,053 career points. athletic department, Erfurth has seen a We've also installed a new electronic variety of positions and eight different football scoreboard in the stadium," he head coaches. For the latest head coach, says. The total cost for the improvements he has only praise. "Jerry's a good choice has been more than $2 million, with more Win-loss column part of story for Rice," he says. "I've been very im- than half of that amount coming from out- pressed with what he's done. The team side support. Erfurth increased athletic Head football coach Jerry Berndt, in his of gas, 49-21; and defeat Texas Christian improves every week and I think he's go- fund raising from $50,000 to $550,000 dur- first year at Rice, can recall the losing University, 37-31, on Oct. 11 and Lamar, ing about it in the right way; he ing his administration, as well as in- tune being won't sac- sung by the Owls this fall — 28-14, on Sept. 6. rifice academics." creasing publicity for the program. he's heard it before. With two wins and Put the Sept. 13 loss to SMU, 45-3, Academics is still a key issue in "I've really seen Rice grow," Erfurth seven losses following the 17-23 heart- into the "too much too soon" category and Rice's sports programs, as it was when says."We have over 50 employees now breaking loss to nationally ranked Baylor the road defeats to nationally ranked Erfurth first took his position as assistant but I remember when we only had about at homecoming, Rice — if form holds true Texas A&M, 45-10, and Arkansas, 45-14, business director and Brunson's assistant 10 coaches. Now, we have two trainers — could be singing winning songs a year into the "outclassed" column, and one coach on the track team. and women's athletics and new NCAA from now. has the season to date. "In the '40s and '50s and into the '60s, regulations. It's quite a change." At least such was the case in 1980 at Odds on late November games with we were very competitive and won An athletic office without Augie Er- DePauw University, where Berndt fol- Air Force and the University of Houston championships," Erfurth says. "Now I be- furth will be quite a change for Rice, too. lowed his first (1979) season of two wins are about even. The oddsmakers rate the lieve that pendulum is coming back. With Rice President George Rupp, in rec- and seven losses with 07-2-1 record. He Falcons at Rice Stadium a slight favorite what has taken place in the last several ognizing Erfurth's achievements, said, repeated the scenario at Pennsylvania in and the Cougars in the Astrodome a toss- years — the grade and dope scandals — I "His unquestioned personal integrity has 1982, winning the first of four consecutive up. see the presidents of the universities been reflected in the operation of our ath- Ivy League championships get- after a 1-9 Junior quarterback Mark Comalander ting more involved. letic program for many years and has season in 1981. and his sophomore back-up, Quentis "A big topic for discussion this year is guided our coaches and athletes. We are For skeptics who argue that South- Roper, have complemented each other a core curriculum for athletes in the all very much in his debt." west Conference football is a lot tougher well in guiding the Rice offense. The NCAA, with a 2.0 grade point average "He is a good friend as a person and than that played by DePauw and Penn, sharp-eyed Comalander had completed and a minimum SAT score. Of course, was truly a nice guy as a boss," adds the 1986 Owls' increasingly sharp per- 101 of 190 passes attempted for 1,226 Rice cannot enroll students who score be- longtime Rice sports announcer Bill Whit- formances since an embarrassing 31-6 yards and touchdowns 6 through the Bay- low a certain minimum set by the univer- more."No one is more deserving of the defeat at the hands of Southwest Texas lor game; Roper was 38 of 86 for 644 yards sity so we have always had a problem accolade 'he is a totally dedicated Rice State on Sept. 27 demonstrate otherwise. and 6 touchdowns, but his running ability with numbers and never having the ade- man'than Augie Erfurth." With almost a third of Rice's key play- netted him 214 yards for 54 carries. quate depth of other schools." "I have mixed emotions about leav- ers learning their third coaching system On defense, senior linebackers Despite the recruiting problems, Er- ing Rice after 26 years," Erfurth says. "We (recruited and playing their first year or Danny Burgess, Joe Heikkinen, Bert Ad- furth, as assistant, and later, head, had some very good days here. However, two with in 1982 or 1983 and track ams and Travis Williams—along with coach, had great success with I certainly feel that Jerry Berndt and his their second and third seasons under the teams seniors safety Steve Kidd and captain- he led. He was assistant coach to staff will bring Rice back to its promi- Watson Brown in 1984 and 1985), it bor- four noseguard Dwain Turner — have led the Southwest Conference Track Champion- nence, as it should be. It may be far out to ders on the remarkable that this year's way. They'll be the most difficult to re- ships, and in 1971 was head coach to say Rice could be a contender in the SWC team could outplay the University of the place next year, though their back-ups SWC Track winners. He has coached every year, but I think we could contend Texas Oct. 4 before falling, 17-14; remain are largely freshmen and sophomores. three Olympians, two world some years, and I think we can be com- even with Texas Tech (Oct. 18) midway record hold- ers, eight NCAA Track All-Americans, petitive every Saturday." into the final quarter before running out — Brent Breedin and three relay teams that made All- —Erin Blair

18 SALLYPORT-NOVEMBER 1986-JANUARY 1987 104 Rica dlosfrupt Last chance for non-itemizers To claim charitable deductions Those who choose to give to their favorite others have been curtailed or eliminated organizations and institutions in 1986 will by the new law. However, there will be an benefit from more than a sense of per- increase in the standard deduction. sonal gratification. Following years of As a consequence, those allowed to sometimes heated congressional and itemize under pre-tax reform may not public debate, President Reagan recently have enough deductible expenses to signed the most comprehensive tax re- itemize in 1987. As non-itemizers, these form legislation in more than 50 years. persons would be unable to deduct chari- The provisions of the Tax Reform Act table contributions next year. of 1986, applicable January 1, 1987, will Other revisions of interest include in- affect almost everyone. Though not sim- creases in the personal exemption— wel- ple, many feel that the reform will pro- comed with open arms by people with mote fairness within our tax system. Now large families — to be ushered in over the is an especially attractive time for giving next few years. Of critical interest to in- because many persons will be able to vestors is an alteration in the way in save taxes while they give. Taking ad- which capital gains are taxed. vantage of this opportunity to give in the Capital gains(increases in value of time remaining provides some important real estate and non-cash property such as savings that will not be available in fu- stock) will for tax purposes be treated as ture years. ordinary income. The maximum will be The new law includes widespread 28 percent in 1987 compared to the current lower rates. Currently, the highest tax top rate of 20 percent. rate is 50 percent of taxable income (the In the final version of the bill, Con- amount calculated after various exemp- gress decided to allow taxpayers who tions and deductions are claimed). In itemize deductions to continue deducting 1987, the maximum rate will be reduced their charitable gifts. Lawmakers decided to 38.5, thereafter falling to a maximum that the sums from the increased stand- Ley Student Center dedicated average rate of 28 percent in 1988 and ard deduction and personal exemptions Audrey and Wendel Ley ('35/'32) participate in the ribbon-cutting at the dedica- subsequent years. would, in most cases, offset the amount of tion of Rice's new Ley Student Center on Oct. 22. Funding for the Ley Student Cen- In fact, as a result of Tax Reform '86 charitable contribution deducted by those ter was obtained in part through a $500,000 challenge grant from the Mabee the majority of taxpayers will pay at a who will find themselves in a category of Foundation, which matched the remaining $3.5 million in gifts from alumni and rate of only 15 percent. non-itemizers. This year is final year the friends, including a substantial gift from the Ley family. Some deductions such as medical ex- for non-itemizers to apply the same de- penses, entertainment, sales taxes, and ductions for charitable gifts as itemizers. UPS gift received Alice Pratt Brown Library Rice University is among 29 member in- responsibility and particularly the com- dedicated stitutions of the Texas Independent Col- mitment of American business and indus- The Alice Pratt lege Fund to share in a record try to maintain a strong private sector in Brown Library, located on 500 periodicals in the area of the fine arts, distribution of $52,200 from the UPS Foun- higher education." the second floor of Fondren Library and and the reference collection consists of housing Rice's dation Endowment Fund. The amount The UPS Foundation is supported by collections in art, archi- 1,800 volumes. All folios, recordings and tecture and music, was dedicated will be divided equally among the mem- grants from United Parcel Service and is on rare books are kept in closed stacks. Pa- Oct. 5. ber schools, each receiving $1,800. the single largest contributor to the na- trons may use the recordings at specially Designed by the architectural Donald R. McAdams, president of the tional program of the Independent Col- firm of designed listening carrels. Crain/Anderson, the Texas Independent College Fund, said lege Funds of America, of which the facility was com- The archives of conductor/teacher Ri- pleted and ready the UPS Foundation gift "reflects an in- Texas organization is a member. for occupancy in the chard Lert are housed in the new facility, creasing awareness of corporate social late spring of 1986. The main focus of the as well as the H.L. Bartlett Beethoven col- move was the integration of the fine arts lection. Mr. and Mrs. John de Menil have collection, bringing related materials enriched the collection with their gener- from the Woodson Research Center, the ous gift of approximately 20,000 volumes Giving Clubs Enroll New Donors Reserve Room and other partsof the li- on art history. In addition, Mrs. de Menil The Founder's Club and President's Club were established in the fall of 1970 as a brary together in one central area. has loaned the library four paintings by means of bringing together alumni, parents and friends who give substantial support Rice's fine arts collection includes the famed French artist Fernand Leger. for Rice's current operations. Membership is on an annual basis (July 1 through June 30) 70,000 volumes, 16,000 recordings and Over the years, the collection has and includes the individual and his or her spouse. Names listed below are first-time 11,000 study prints. Modification in the been enhanced through generous contri- members from July 1 through mid-October 1986. stacks increased the book capacity butions from the Brown family as well as within the existing space, which will grants from the Brown Foundation. Alice Founder's Club Irene Frazzell Gallagher '56 Kurt T. Guenther '79 Hugh R. McKean '22 Elizabeth Armand Meydrich '56 Robert J. Miller '79 help to accommodate the 50 percent in- Pratt Brown, wife of George R. Brown '20, Roy L. Lay '28 J. Barry Moss '56 Joel D. Lilly '80 crease expected in the collection over the was long-active in the cultural and civic George H. Allen '36 Pauline Applebaum Stark '57 Vivian Christina Ng '80 next decade. Along with the new on-line activities of Houston. John W. Brcmdenberger '37 Dr. Joseph A. Meschino '58 Ming-Cheng Peng '80 computer access system, the library also The Alice Pratt Brown Library was es- Ortrud Lefevre Much '38 Dr. Richard Bloom '60 Alan C. Rodgers '80 William P Craddock '39 John H. Monroe Jr. '61 Timothy J. Finley '81 has an electronic security system. tablished by the Rice Board of Governors John M. Clark '49 George D. Gordon '62 Gloria Angela Meckel '81 The reading room/lounge is a focal in recognition of her lifelong interest in Urvine E. Atkinson '56 Rhueina McCullough Monroe '62 Charles E. Fox '82 point of the new library, serving as an in- and support of the arts, and in honor of Dr. John R. Treichler '69 Robert R. Beck Jr. '64 Jean-Francois P Heat '82 formal user area with the potential for Mrs. Brown's friendship and enduring Dr. Rodger P Liljestrand '70 Dr. Michael R. Rosenthal '67 Marc J. Truant '82 Dr. John 0. Bennett '74 Richard L. Sawyer '69 Marie Gemmell-Crowe '83 after-hours functions. There are almost commitment to Rice University. Dennis A. Mitchell '75 Dr. Truman J. Odiome '71 Margaret Rose Jenkins '83 Dr. Daniel L. Ziegler '81 Dr. Ccrthey Jean Roberts '71 William J. Murray '83 Dr. and Mrs. Subram G. Dr. Carlos M. Simon '71 Carl M. Rosene '83 Krishnan Donald E. Johnson '72 Susan Brown Snook '83 Mark A. Brumbaugh 73 Thomas D. Snook '83 Telefund scheduled for January Yuzuru Funahashi '73 Mario Cavazos Jr. '84 President's Club Dr. Ronald B. Goldfarb '73 Lisa Marie Shambro '84 Alumni who have not pledged to the 1986- served as vice chairman. William M. Lancaster '37 Deborah Richardson Nagy '73 Jonathan Smith '84 87 Annual Fund should be expecting a Rapson will again head the 1987 Te- Harold B. Morris '37 James H. Vance 74 Robert W. Stone '84 call from an enthusiastic fellow alumnus lefund, with vice chairman Caroline Herbert C. May Jr. '38 Randall P Biesterfeldt '75 Charles F.Caldwell '85 or Rice student in January as the annual Foulkes Morrison '35 helping her urge Miriam Eliott Nolen '40 Gaylyn L. Cooper '75 Karen Elizabeth Crawford '85 Olney J. Dean '41 Lawrence A. Darby'75 Arthur W. Gelber '85 Rice Telefund gets under way. Houston area alumni to volunteer in tele- James!. Duffy '41 Julius 0. Smith, III '75 Robert M. Palenchar '85 The 1987 Telefund, running Jan. 19-23 phoning classmates on behalf of the Rice Harry P Thompson '43 Scott A. Turpin 76 Loren K. Pieper '85 and Jan. 26-29, follows in the footsteps of Annual Fund. Elwin M. Peacock '48 Do aid M. Walters '76 Brian R. Tucker '85 last year's Telefund, which raised Those interested in volunteering are Dr. Gerald A. Belkin '51 Ab jail E. Thierman '77 Marcos Frid '86 DT. John D. Jcrnicek '52 Adrienne Randle Bond '78 Gregg R. ICsonenberger $218,000, the largest sum in the history of urged to call Annual Fund Director Alice Arthur F. Gallagher '55 Joel D. Miller 78 Hunter L. Martin Jr. the event. The 1986 Telefund was chaired Harden at (713) 527-4991. Norman K. Hunt '55 Dr. Constance L. Senior '78 Mr. and Mrs. Hyman L. Slohm by Mary Lou Rapson '54; Edgar Lovett '79

SALLYPORT—NOVEMBER 1986-JANUARY 1987 19 Rupp meets area alumni Gold Medals presented Rice University President George Rupp "Meet the President" dinner at the Breck- continued his series of "Meet the Presi- enridge Frontenac, with Vice President to Hudspeth, Gordon dent" dinners throughout the fall, meet- for External Affairs Kent Dove joining ing with Rice alumni and friends Rupp for the event. Myra Russek Tener '72 Scientist-engineer William E. Gordon Hudspeth, one of Rice throughout the country. of St. Louis was in charge of local ar- University's and Government Lecturer C.M. Hudspeth seven The dinners, sponsored by the Rice rangements. trustees, has served the school's '40 have been awarded 1986 Gold Medals department of development office, are designed to ac- On Oct. 16, Rupp met with alumni political science for almost for Distinguished Service to Rice Univer- 40 years as lecturer in government. quaint the audience with Rice's chief ex- and friends of the Kansas City area at the A 1940 sity. Rice graduate, he ecutive, create a heightened awareness Overland Park Marriott. Dove also partici- received his law de- Gordon is currently in his first year of gree, with of the university as it is today, and pro- pated in the event, as did Dean of Admis- honors, from the University of a four-year term as foreign secretary of Texas in 1946 and vide a forum for timely discussion. sions Richard N. Stabell. Earlier in the has been practicing the National Academy of Sciences. Until law for the past four decades. Rupp met with Albuquerque, N.M., day, prospective Rice students and their He is a his recent retirement as Rice's provost partner in alumni and friends on Oct. 8 at the Albu- parents had an opportunity to meet with the Houston law firm of De and vice president, he had served the Lange, Hudspeth, Pitman, querque Marriott. Maureen Davidson '74 Rupp in the same location. Mr. and Mrs. and Katz. Be- university for some 20 years as teacher fore joining the Rice faculty of Albuquerque was in charge of local ar- Gary H. Cortes ('61/'65) of Kansas City's in 1947, Hud- and administrator. Gordon first gained speth had served four years rangements for the event. Hoff man-CortesContracting Co. were in in the U.S. international recognition in the 1960s for Navy On Oct. 9, Rupp met with Los Ala- charge of local arrangements. and as assistant professor of law at his design and construction supervision the University of Texas. He mos, N.M., area alumni at the Hilltop An Oct. 30 "Meet the President" event has also held of the Arecibo Ionospheric Observatory in a number of important honorary House Hotel. Other university partici- was held in Galveston at the home of Dr. posts Puerto Rico. He was the observatory's ini- with the Texas Bar Association. pants in the event were William W. and Mrs. Elmer Vogelpohl '50. Sally Ab- tial director. Before coming to Rice in A past president of Akers, vice president for administration, ston '56, an associate professor of surgery the Association of 1966, Gordon was a member of the faculty Rice Alumni, Hudspeth was honored and Margaret S. Alsobrook, director of de- at the University of Texas Medical with at Cornell University. He remains on the the Gold Medal for his "judicious velopment. Ann Pendergrass '62 was in Branch, was in charge of arrangements leader- Rice campus as Distinguished Professor ship and lifetime charge of local arrangements. for the event. service as alumnus, Emeritus. In awarding Gordon its Gold teacher, trustee, and benefactor" who has St. Louis was the site of the Oct. 15 Medal, the Association of Rice Alumni "enriched immeasurably the university in stated that his "contributions both to re- its quest for excellence." search and to Rice University-serve as a Both honorees received their medals Class of'36 model to us all." during Homecoming convocation. awards scholarships Area Members of the Rice 1986 50th Anniver- a married student who-returned to Rice in clubs hold sary class have presented $1,000 scholar- order to finish his degree in civil engi- ships to four Rice University students. neering. He is president, for the second fall meetings Class of 1936 scholarships will be year, of ASCE, and is a member of the En- awarded to Rice students Sue Kim, Ho- gineering Council. ward Burton, Teresa Canfield and Canfield is a sophomore member of DALLAS Thomas Hopson. Wiess College and a native of Elkins, Rice Alumni Kim, a freshman from St. Louis, Mo., Ark. A managerial studies major, she has in Dallas(RAID) met Sept. 11 is a gifted pianist who won the St. Louis been active in Wiess Tabletop Theater at the Coors Distributorship Hospitality Orchestra competition at the age of 14. and intramural sports, including serving Room for election of officers and a busi- ness She was active in her high school, where as a Rice cheerleader this year. Canfield meeting. Those elected were Harry she maintained an excellent academic maintains a 3.334 Hoover '50, vice president/president-elect; GPA. Taber record and served as an officer in several Hopson, a native of Los Alamos, Michele Schultz '85, secretary; Dan Prit- chett '74, treasurer; Ken Still '83, program organizations. Though she has not yet de- N.M., is a junior physics major with a Joyce chairman; James Edwards '78 and Fran- cided on a major, Kim is working in the 3.592 GPA. He has been a member of the by academics area and is considering a pre- Rice rugby team, Lovett Beer-Bike team cisco Escobar '76, telephone chairmen. med program. and is currently a percussionist in the Woodrow Wilson conducted a drawing for Photo Burton, a senior with a 3.444 GPA, is Rice Jazz Ensemble. eight tickets to the Rice-TCU football game. Matthews speaks Nov. 14 A Rice-TCU pregame party was held Charles S. Matthews'41, recipient of Oct. 11, with a hospitality room at the Fort this year's Outstanding Engineering Young Alumni present Worth Hilton jointly sponsored by the Alumnus award, spoke to a full house alumni and athletic departments. Rice at Sewall Hall Nov. 14 on "Projections alumni ranging from the class of '26 to '86 for the Oil and Gas Industry." Mat- achievement awards gathered with athletic and alumni staff. thews received the engineering award Coach Jerry Berndt and university repre- at a homecoming brunch Nov. IS. The Rice Young Alumni(graduates of 1976 by Time magazine, applied his computer sentative Alan Chapman greeted the and later) gave three achievement background to investment banking, re- guests. awards during 1986 Homecoming activi- sulting in some very innovative and suc- Future plans include having "happy ties the weekend of Nov. 15. cessful plans. The Taft Architects — John hours" at various locations. Members The awards are given in recognition Casbarian '72, Danny Samuels '71 and also signed up for special interest of Rice alumni under the age of 40 who Robert Timme'69— have received na- groups, including those for tennis, bridge have advanced the interests and stand- tional and international awards for the and golf. Two of the projects discussed ards of excellence of the university excellence of their design. The three al- were an inexpensive newsletter that through distinctive professional or volun- ways work as a team, and therefore were would include an employment bank (for teer careers. recognized as a team in their award. Wolf Rice alumni seeking employment and/or Recipients of this year's Young is a tenured associate professor of En- employees)and the need for a yearbook. Alumni Achievement Awards were Dexter glish at Yale University whose 1982 book, Senft '74, The Taft Architects, and Bryan Romantic Revision, won praise for its Wolf '69. originality. AUSTIN YOUNG ALUMNI Senft, called an "investment creator" The Austin Area Young Alumni(gradu- ates after 1970) began meeting on the sec- ond Thursday of each month for "happy hour" after work. The November event Tax seminar planned was held at the Lakeview Cafe. The next happy hour site will be the The Rice University Young Alumni are sponsoring a Dec. 10 seminar focusing on Tangerine, next to the Wyndam Hotel Ar- the new tax laws, to be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Farnsworth Pavilion of the Ley boretum, on Dec. 11. Looking ahead into Student Center. the new year, the group will meet on Jan. Tailgate triumph The guest speaker will be Chini Streitwieser, a CPA with the firm of Op- 8 at the Safari Bar, 9000 Burnet. The north side of Rice Stadium was a penheim Appel Dixon & Co. More information may be obtained by busy place Oct. 4 as alumni gathered The seminar is free and open to the Rice community. calling John Nicol at 345-7098 (office) or in advance of the Rice-Texas game for 263-3223(home). an Alumni Tailgate Tent.

20 SALLYPORT—NOVEMBER 1986-JANUARY 1987 eka,m0.1,A, mostly enjoys her children and "Hazel and Harry Chavanne in World War II where, he claims, Ga., that he retired from the U.S. 16-18 grandchildren. spent a delightful summer, June- he learned humility. Eighteen Air Force in 1969 and that he and 53 September, in their home on the years in the printing business, 15 his wife have spent a good portion CLASS RECORDER: "News from Richard 11 Baldry, Salmon River in Idaho. Their fam- years in the men's clothing busi- of their time(and Mrs. W.H. Jameson who lives in Oroville, Calif., is money)in travel- ily joined them during the summer. ness, serving as commissioner of ing. This year they took a six-week 2425 Sage Rd., #82 that he has retired as superintend- Harry fished now and then from West University Place, and serving tour of South America. Last year Houston, TX 77056 ent of Feather River Recreation the front porch, except July 4 (it on the vestry of the Episcopal they spent almost a month (713)621-6052 Park District. Dick attended Hum- in boldt State and Chico State after snowed)and Labor Day (it hailed). Church seems to pale for Bill com- and Southeast Asia. The Class recorder Mrs. W.H. Jame- getting his degree from Rice. He Before leaving for Idaho, Harry pared to the fact that his three sons year before, they spent two weeks son '18 sends in the following was the second-ranked athlete in was invited by Frank Vandiver to all have college degrees and are in Nepal. Jim says that almost class report. the world during 1932 and 1933. be a part of the Friday afternoon still married to the girls they first yearly they spend a few weeks in "The 70th anniversary of the first Prior to attending Rice, Dick won graduation ceremonies of A&M married. He is also proud of the Europe, usually in and graduation class of the Rice Insti- enough points to win the state University and present the di- fact that he and Floy (Flay King . They have also visited tute will fall in 1986. Of the 35 who high school track meet and over ploma for a B.A. degree in educa- '39) have six grandchildren — both North and South Africa and in received diplomas that day, only his 10 years of competition he won tion to his granddaughter, Lisa three girls and three boys. 1978 took a trip around the world. one survives. Lel Red '16 was the 100 gold and silver medals. He be- Turner. She was completely sur- "Clyde Dill retired five years ago Jim admits they have several blank first woman to receive a B.A. de- longs to the Oroville Lions Club prised. Another honor — Harry from Hughes Tool Co., where he spots in their world travels, gree from Rice. After graduation and is the athletic representative shares a Sept. 22 birthday with was in charge of research. Nicely namely, , New Zealand she taught mathematics in schools of the Olympic Club in San Fran- Rice President George Rupp. They timed, he retired shortly before the and Antarctica, but he adds,'these in Hillsboro and Waco. Later, she cisco. He has two children. It was will celebrate with lunch when bottom fell out of the oil business are on our agenda if health and Dave Chapman, the former pres- taught in Old Central High in good to hear from him. they find a day. in Texas. Right out of Rice, Hughes money hold out.' ident of Mayan Construction Inc., Houston. When Lamar High "The big news for Marian Mel- "Miriam McGary has retired Tool sent him to their strut plant, "Art Goforth and his wife, Pat, recently joined Gilbane Building opened in 1938 she went there and linger Britton and James L. from the San Antonio Light as edi- where landing gear for planes was have lived in the Clear Lake area Co. as vice president and manager taught until she retired at 70. She Britton '29 is a great grand- tor of the society page after many built. In World War II he was a for 32 years and have no retirement of construction operations in the has received several meritorious daughter who is about 7 months years. She is now taking courses in communications officer on an es- in sight. They recently took a trip Southwest regional office in Hous- awards from Rice, and she now old now. Marian is an active art history and English at San An- cort carrier. During the Korean to China and were thrilled to climb ton. Chapman, who received a lives at Sharpsview Manor." worker at Bayou Bend and helps tonio College. War, Hughes sent him to their the Great Wall. Art said it was in- bachelor's degree in architecture, is arrange the flowers for the house. "Charles Nathan retired four Dixon Gun Plant, where anti- teresting to compare the Commu- active in the Houston business community and in She and Jim still collect antiques years ago from Nathan's Clothing aircraft and anti-tank guns were nist style of China with what they the construction and usually travel East a couple of and is now active in commercial manufactured. After about three- saw in the USSR a few years before industry nationally. He is a mem- 28 times a year in pursuit of that in- and residential real estate sales. and-one-half years, Clyde returned — 'different, but still the same.' On ber of the Houston Chamber of "I am just a con artist. .1 have my Commerce, an officer and director terest. Charles married Ruth Frank, who to Hughes to become chief metal- Nov. 2, 1986, Art planned to go to health, a wonderful family and nu- of the is now administrator of the Jewish lurgist and then director of re- New York for the New York Mara- Houston chapter of Associ- merous friends and employees "Frank Hopkins didn't send any ated Community Center in Houston. search until he retired. Probably thon. This will have been his third General Contractors, and a who, over the years, have made news, but a new address in Fort They have recently visited the most 'glamorous' project of his time to run in it. member of the AGC's national me look extremely good," claims Worth. and England. Charles says they career was his involvement in met- "Gwendolyn Cribbs Murphree committee on construction man- Walter Hall, who is the owner of "Marjorie Dunn Jacobe enjoyed drive funny there. They have chil- allurgical and test design for the (Jackie) tells me that she is enter- agement. three Clear Lake(Texas) area a trip to Williamsburg this spring. dren in Houston, New York and Glomar Explorer, a deep ocean ing the University of Houston law Robert Sutherland became vice banks and has for more than 50 She is still active in her husband's Lubbock. mining project designed to mine school this year in the fall semes- president and general manager of years been a key figure in the de- (Russel Lee '31)insurance manganese nodules from the Pa- ter with the aim of obtaining her Dalen Trading Co., a national velopment of Galveston County. At agency at his request and, in her "Gardner Soule, living in New cific floor. Quoting the text I used law degree. Jackie has been in chain of 60 retail silk plant and 79, his days are still filled with spare time, gardening and her six York, has written a book,Antarc- teaching oceanography, the Ex- touch with Mildred Fargerson flower stores, in March of this year. working at his three banks. In ad- grandsons and one granddaughter tica, recently published by plorer was described as a 'vessel Cordill in Spicewood, Texas. She dition to his real estate and insur- take up most of her time. She has Franklin-Watts Press. In the book, of considerable notoriety because says that Olie Cordill has been ill ance interests, he is particularly one grandson who is a junior and he mentions Rice University sev- of its use in an attempt to raise a but is doing okay now. Jackie is al- proud of his instrumental role in an 'A' student at Princeton. Her eral times. Among those named in sunken Russian submarine.' Re- 55 older son, Russel Lee the book are Kristine Annexstad, a ready planning for our 45th re- creating the Clear Creek Indepen- Jr., is an ear, ports at the time that Howard Jack Swank recently moved from nose and throat specialist and the Rice student, her father, John An- union next year. Committee dent School District, which in- Hughes was searching for sunken Indianapolis, Ind., back to Hous- younger, Ronald, is a partner in nexstad (Johnson Space Center), meetings will be held after the first cludes Webster, Kemah, Seabrook treasure at the site were appar- ton, where he will be manager, the Houston law firm of Butler & Bi- and John Anderson, Rice associate of the year and I will try to keep and League City school districts. ently a smoke screen. Clyde would general engineering-products, for nion. professor of geology, plus five Rice you up to date on the Plans as soon only say,'According to some as the information is available." Shell Oil. "Harold L. Kelly is the owner of students who were part of the ex- sources, reports of recovery of a Kelly's Tile and Supply Co. Inc. in peditions. sunken Russian submarine have 29 Lubbock, Texas. He belongs to the "Eula Gass Winterman tells us been made.' Clyde is happy as a CLASS RECORDER: local alumni group and inter- that when her husband, David, re- clam playing golf, fooling around 44 56 Beverly Van Zandt viewed Rice applicants for a num- turned from a salmon fishing trip with the computer and playing the CLASS RECORDER: CLASS RECORDER: 218 Shoreacres Blvd ber of years. All of his children to Alaska, she went to New York organ. He and Julia (Julia Taylor Larry Hermes Maureen Bybee La Porte, TX 77571 graduated from Texas Tech. Harold 'fishing' for art and visited the Rus- '40)are enjoying their two new 2028 Albans Road 3800 Chevy Chase (713) 471-0827 received a letter of commendation sian Exhibit, The Wintermans grandchildren and traveling." Houston, TX 77005 Houston, TX 77019 for his service in the Navy during have recently donated 62 paintings (713)529-2009 (713) 527-0444, or World War II. He worked with vet- from their American Impressionist (713) 522-3705 erans studying architecture at School collection to the Houston Texas Tech; most of them are now Museum of Fine Arts, to be hung 40 31 chronologically. The Wintermans 48 CLASS RECORDER: active architects. Raymond H. Brogniez is an ex- are still collecting art." Orville D. Gaither, recently George Blocher "For those of you who have asked, cited new grandfather to Paul elected treasurer of the Society of 57 CLASS RECORDER: 9478 Briar Forest Tom and Lucille Lancaster Mc- Christopher, the first child of his Petroleum Engineers, is president Dixie Sick Leggett Houston, TX 77063 Cleary are still very active. Lu- son, Philip, and Philip's wife, She- of Amoco Production Co.'s African 13411 Kingsride (713) 780-0566 cille says she is retired from the re. and Middle East Region in Hous- Houston, TX 77079 architectural firm, and Tom says 34 ton. Gaither, who received a mas- (713) 468-5929 he is semi-retired. Lucille has CLASS RECORDER: ter's degree in petroleum taken up tennis again and she and Elliot Flowers engineering from the University of 32 Tom play mixed doubles when they 3330 Delmonte 42 Houston in 1962, has been involved CLASS RECORDER: have a chance. Tom is still playing Houston, TX 77019 CLASS RECORDER: in Amoco's international opera- Chris Hoover and winning in the 75-year-old and (713)524-4404 Oscar Hibler tions since 1967. He was produc- 58 CLASS RECORDER: 5318 Meadow Lake Lane over tennis tournaments. P.O. Box 27266 tion manager for Amoco U.K., Phyllis Walton Houston, TX 77056 "Congratulations to Roland Houston, TX 77227 president of Amoco Trinidad, and 4233 Harpers Ferry (713)621-5318 Spencer for the great job he did (713)621-7272 chief engineer and production vice Road Birmingham, AL 35213 Vernon Duerer recently retired, this year on the Alumni Fund 37 Class recorder Oscar Hibler president for Amoco's worldwide (205) 870-0332 closing his optometry office on the Drive. CLASS RECORDER: sends in the following class news: operations before assuming his Jane Rommel square in Huntsville, Texas, after "Roger Cratin retired last year present position. For the Society of Gary D. Nicholson (Wiess) was "James 0. Younts is a retired 504 Fairway Drive, Riverhill 34 years of serving the needs of colonel in the Army. His son, James after 43 years with AMOCO in Petroleum Engineers, for whom he made president of LTV Energy Kerrville, DC 78928 Products on July 22, community and area residents. Be- 0. III, who graduated from West Texas City. He and his wife, Ruth, will serve a three-year term as 1986. The pro- (512)896-4310 motion came shortly fore opening shop in Huntsville, Point, is now a lieutenant colonel, recently took a two-week Rice treasurer, Gaither serves as chair- after he was named president of a division Duerer had been in a Houston. also in the Army. His daughter, Alumni Association tour to Greece, man of the Ferguson Medal com- within the practice with Harry Cohn, one of Shane Ann, graduated from SMU which included a one-week tour of mittee and member of the company. Nicholson joined the city's oldest and most well- and teaches speech in New York the Greek Islands aboard the Sea DeGolyer Distinguished Service LTV in 1981 as vice presi- dent of the established optometrists at that City. Jim is active in civic affairs 38 Cloud. Roger reports that RC. Pin- Medal committee. He was chair- production equipment CLASS RECORDER: group when the firm was time. Duerer continues to live with and is a past president of the kerton has retired and is living in man of the 1981-82 SPE investments known as Jane Stockton-Dunaway Continental Emsco. In addition to his wife. Margaret, on a 325-acre Chamber of Commerce, United Tyler. committee and chairman of the 415 Blalock his "double E" degree from Rice, ranch in the Huntsville area, Way and the Rotary Club. He has "Aubrey Farb had a heart attack Chicago petroleum section during Houston, TX 77024 1970-71. he holds a master's degree in me- where his sons and their families also served in various capacities in in May. He said that he (713)465-7332 chanical engineering from the Uni- also have their homes. Duerer, in the First Methodist Church in was treated royally and in a most William V. Grisham retired versity of Washington. The who was instrumental in introduc- Kerrville. He enjoys golf and dove Helen S. Thomas(M.A., Ph.D.), a competent manner by the French from his position as vice president company will move its headquar- ing Santa Gertrudis cattle to the hunting in season." professor at the University of Hous- medical personnel prior to his re- of Amoco Production Co.'s New Or- ters from downtown Dallas to Gar- area, occupies his time with horti- ton, recently received an honorary turn to the United States. Upon his leans region on Sept. 1 after 43 land, Texas, later this year. culture, woodworking and church life membership and her husband, return, he had a double bypass op- years with the company. He re- work, and leaves the cattle opera- Joe D. Thomas (professor emeritus eration and is now doing fine. Au- mains active in several industry, Class recorder Phyllis Walton tion mostly to his sons. of English at Rice), received a dis- brey said that prior to his civic and community organiza- (Jones) sends in the following re- Class recorder Chris Hoover 33 tinguished service award at the operation he went to the hospital tions. Grisham and his wife, San- port: sends in the following report: CLASS RECORDER: 1986 College English Association for a test and in the waiting room dra, will continue living in New "Thanks to you who called and Willie Cole meeting in Philadelphia. "For the past 11 years, Catherine found classmate George Pierce Orleans. wrote this month. It is great to hear 2414 Chimney Rock Montgomery Abercrombie and Class recorder Jane Stockton. waiting to have the same test. Fur- how you are faring, and how you Houston, TX 77056 Lovett A. Abercrombie '27 and Dunaway sends in the following ther, they each had the same doc- have led such interesting lives. (713) 782-9509 their family have occupied the class report: tor. George had a quadruple 49 "Not so many years ago, I received some cottage on the golf course at Class recorder Willie Cole sub- "Getting information out of Bill bypass operation and Aubrey says CLASS RECORDER: a note from Carolyn Dearmond the Garden of the Gods Club in mits the following class news: Rodge is harder than pulling hen's George is doing fine and is al- Mary Lou Douglas Caddes(Jones) that, among other Colorado Springs, Colo., during "We hear that Madeline and Bob teeth unless your object is to have ready out on the driving range hit- 5531 S. Kimback things, she was taking a course in the summertime. Catherine says Blair have been on a golf tour in a real good time! Bill spent three- ting a few balls. Chicago, IL 60637 photography at a nearby college she does play some bridge, but . and-one-half years in the Air Force "Jim Gold reports from Roswell, (312) 752-1186 and truly enjoying it. This month,

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..1 bookstores will have her book, Por- "Carolyn Satterwhite (Jones) re- Southern Methodist University in 1974 in Baytown. He held various Pieper & Associates, Consulting traits of Success, her impressions cently married architect Ben Dallas. 68 assignments in process and tech- Engineers and Planners, of Hous- of 60 movers and innovators who Brewer, and they are living in Jack B. Hartung (Jones) has fin- nical before being transferred to ton. pioneered what we now know as Houston when they are not travel- ished his tenure as Richard Mont- refining headquarters as an econo- Terry Kilpatrick-Weaver California's Silicon Valley. Her ing. gomery Field Fellow mist. He and his wife, Alice, have black and white photos, taken in- at the (Brown)and her husband, Steve "Elizabeth Gallegly Vanderzyl 62 American Geophysical Union and four sons, Kenneth, Kevin, John Weaver (Will Rice), are still living formally, are complemented by bi- Leo Wade Jr.(Will Rice) received (Jones) was teaching English at is now a guest scientist at the Max and Joshua. in Bucks County, Pa. Steve is now ographical data written from a his M.S. in studies of the future Second Baptist School in Houston Planck Institut fur Kemphysik, Hei- Bennett E. Werner(Wiess) has an editor of the Trenton (N.1.) human interest as well as busi- from the University of Houston. and has moved now to St. Thomas. delberg, West Germany. been elected to fellowship in the Times, as well as a law student at ness viewpoint. Some are Rice ClearLake in May 1986. He has re- Her three children are all out of American College of Cardiology. Temple University. They also be- graduates, and it should be a mar- cently been appointed assistant to Mauda Kelton Palmer(Brown) college, yet her daughter went on Werner, who is a graduate of the came parents of twins, Emma velous contemporary history book. the president for planning at the and her husband, Jim, will soon be to law school, one son is in med University of Maryland School of Norris and Lucas Antrim, on For further information, give Caro- moving from Newnan, Ga., to Dal- May school, and another is in graduate University of Texas Medical Medicine, is currently in private lyn a call. (Editor's note: an article las, where Jim has accepted a po- 27, 1985. studies in architecture at USC." Branch, Galveston. Wade will also practice in Wheeling, W.Va. on Caddes and excerpts from her continue his position as director of sition as vice president of book are featured in this issue.) the office of environmental health Voluntary Hospitals of America. (Also see "New Arrivals.") "David Dillehay (Will Rice) has and safety. 77 Rosemary Thomas Shepard not been sitting around smelling 74 Michael Parmet(Baker) writes, 59 (Brown) was appointed chairman the roses since Rice days. He and CLASS RECORDER: "Last October (1985), while vaca- of the self-insurers and risk man- his wife have two children, four Tommie Lu Maulsby tioning with fellow alumnus Paul agers committee of the American grandchildren, and another one on 2735 Pittsburg 63 Hebling '76 (Lovett) and his the way. They CLASS RECORDER: Bar Association tort and insurance all live in Marshall. Houston, TX 77005 spouse in England and , Texas, where David was named Kathleen Much practice section for 1986-87.(Also (713)664-5042 we visited Ken Lacey '76 (Lovett) 'Image Maker for Marshall' in 1983. 2080 Marich Way, #14 see "New Arrivals.") Class recorder Tommie Lu and his wife Graceson '76 Also that year, he received a Ph.D. Mountain View, CA 94040 (Brown). We have just delivered in chemistry from Clayton Univer- Maulsby (Jones) sends in the fol- (415)964-8680 lowing Class of '59 news. twins from having too much fun sity and is now the research and while on vacation. To help expand Helen development supervisor for Morton Bloxsom Davis (Jones) 69 our house to accommodate twins, writes from Leroy G.(Skip) Thiokol's Longhorn Division. Last Aspen, Colo., "We've Wade (Hanszen) Walter Murphy (Lovett) helped been attending is associate professor of chemistry July, he was elected president of the Music Festival 64 design our expansion. I also have at Colorado State University. He the International Pyrotechnic Soci- concerts and rehearsals in a music an alumni softball team consisting and his wife, Betsy, have two ety. He will present a paper in tent. The final performance took of Paul Oliver (Lovett),Con Die place Sunday with Sir Charles daughters, ages 5 and 7. Wade has in connection with this '76(Lovett), Greg Barolak (Lov- Mackerras conducting just published a textbook for the work, and he has traveled abroad the Festival ett), who recently moved to Aber- Orchestra in chemistry majors' course in or- extensively attending pyrotechnic a program that in- deen, Scotland, Paul Hebling, cluded Beethoven's ganic chemistry. Entitled "Organic meetings. In addition to all of this, King Stephen Dan Steiner (Lovett), and Pete Overture, Liszt's Chemistry," this book uses a vari- David has begun anew business Piano Concerto Schwab'79 (Lovett). (Also see ety of study aids and marketing/medical office manage- No. 1 in E-flat Major with Misha graphics to "New Arrivals.") ment program for computerizing Dichter on the piano, and, in con- enhance the success of students medical offices. What a busy guy! clusion, Mahler's Symphony Na. 1 studying modern organic chemis- try. "It pays to read the sports page in D Major. On this particular carefully! It seems that when the afternoon, it happened to rain; the 78 Chicago Bears played the Phila- tent was crowded to the point of CLASS RECORDER: delphia Eagles for the first time overflowing, but the performances Rhonda Hale Kreger this year, great interest was fo- were so fantastic no one seemed-to 70 1810 Beaver Creek Court cused on the new Eagles coach's mind...Several students we've met George Greanias(Wiess) re- Duncanville, TX 75137 hail from the Shepherd School. signed from his teaching position strategy, as Buddy Ryan had been Charles Redmon (Baker) has (214) 780-7183 Also, we've heard John Perry, Al- at Rice and is now a member of the the defensive coach of Mike Diticds been appointed as managing prin- Michael V. bert Tipton and Mary Norris, all the law firm Wood, Lucksinger & House (Will Rice) Super Bowl team last year. The re- cipal of the 50-person architec- was recently promoted in the associated as faculty members Epstein. In addition, he remains port of the game included how tural, interior and graphic design budget and with the Shepherd School, perform active in politics with his work as finance department of Ditka could not figure out how the firm, Cambridge Seven Associates the USDA-Soil Conservation Serv- Eagles could read the signals so here." District C Councilman for the City Charles Alexander Berg (Will Inc., Cambridge, Mass. Redmon of Houston. ice (California State Office). He well. It turned out that the reason L.H.(Les) Veltman (Hanszen) will be responsible for overall di- Rice) and Sharon Perry Jach- now lives in Sacramento. Calif., was because of a gentleman who has just finished serving his term rection of the firm, including pro- John A. Booth (Will Rice) has mich (Jones) have formed Alexan- and welcomes any news from Rice been had spent time at the previous five as president of the Oklahoma As- ject and financial management promoted to professor of po- der and Perry, an interior design persons in Northern California. litical Bears games watching plays being sociation of Life Underwriters, and new business development. science, awarded tenure, and space planning firm. Both House married Suzanne McNamee which represents and assumed sent in by the coordinators. 'He the approxi- Redmon joined the firm in 1965 and the chair of the polit- were formerly partners in Chelsea (Kent State 77)in 1981.(Also see ical science department was talking about King Hill, the mately 15,000 licensed life insur- became a principal in 1970. He at North Architects of Houston. Berg brings "New Arrivals.") old quarterback.. Obviously, he ance agents in Oklahoma. He now Texas State University. 12 years' experience in commercial served as principal-in-charge of Ed Huston (Will Rice)completed did a first-rate job...' That reporter becomes immediate past president and residential design to the enter- the Houston Design Center, "IN- his Ph.D. in biochemistry at Wash- must have been a young whipper- and head of the long-range plan- NOVA," a $60 million showroom fa- prise while Jachmich, who was the snapper to refer to King as being ning committee. After graduation, partner responsible for interior de- ington State University in Decem- cility; the $20 million renovation of ber 1985. Since January of this 'old.' Why, George Blanda was Veltman attended graduate school sign at Chelsea, offers nine years the Atlantic City Convention Cen- 71 year, he has been a postdoctoral playing ball at King's age! at the University of Texas, later of experience in residential, com- ter, Atlantic City, N.J.; and River The architectural firm established associate in the physiology/ serving six months in inthe U.S. mercial and contract interior de- "I was in Houston for a few days in Front Office Park, a $75 million of- in 1972 by William T. Cannady, a biophysics department of the USC Army. Upon returning to Houston, sign. Both are members of A.I.A. August and tried to contact several fice complex in Boston. He is a fel- professor of architecture at Rice, Medical School he in Los Angeles. of you, but missed many folks due went to work for Tenneco in low of the American Institute of recently changed its named from and the Texas Society of Archi- their Guy Miller (Wiess)sends in his to your hectic schedules. I talked to insurance division and, in Architects, member and former di- Wm. T. Cannady & Associates Inc., tects. 1963, -story in a nutshell" for his first several housekeepers of varying was transferred to Tulsa, rector of the Boston Society of Ar- Architects, to Cannady, Jackson & Timothy S. Gunther (Lovett) has Okla. In 1965, he left Tenneco classnote since graduation: "I accents, so you'll never know I to chitects, member of the AIA Urban Ryan Architects Inc. This reflects been promoted to vice president of form Veltman Insurance Agency. joined Southwestern Bell Tele- called. My accent seemed to throw Planning & Design Committee, co- the inclusion of Guy W.Jackson 3D/International in Houston. His He phone's Houston operations in a few! I did reach Barbara is married to the former Gayna chairman of the National AIR R/ Jr.(Wiess) and Jeffrey D. Ryan new position became effective in Billue March of 1978. At the time of he Whitworth Mabry (Jones), who and they have two children, UDAT Program and recipient of the '67(Baker), who were former July. Krista, 16, and Lee, 15. Veltman is AT&T breakup in 1983. I was picked is working for an oil field service prestigious AIA Kemper Award. Morris-Aubry Architects partners. William S.(Bill) Lee (Baker, also a member of the Top of the Ta- to help set up Bell's new Telecom company as an accountant. She Ryan is noted for the design of the M.A.C.C.) was recently honored by ble and a qualifying and life mem- subsidiary, specifically to handle and Jim are doing well, and are Junior League of Houston, the Wyn- the Texas Society of CPAs ber of the Million Dollar Round during national and major account sales. proud of their two daughters and dham Hotel at Greenspoint, and their annual meeting. Lee was Table. He says it is My wife, Nancy(SMU '79— sorry, son who are grown and moving hard to believe the Greens Crossing Shopping named Young CPA of the Year. He that he ended up in the insurance but at least it's a Texas school), and along. Only their high school-aged 67 Center. Jackson was lead designer was chosen for significant contri- business and especially in Tulsa, I were married in April 1984. In son remains at home. She reported Tom Buckle(Wiess) was elected for the Global Marine Building, the butions to his local chapter, to the but it has worked out well since it 1985, I was transferred to Telecom's that Cille Brooks Emery (Jones) chairman of the environmental Alfred E. Glassell School at the state society and for his activities gives him a lot of time to enjoy St. Louis headquarters to develop was recently in Houston, and that and natural resources section of Museum of Fine Arts, the Loop with the Dallas Bar and the State golfing and backpacking. He and and direct all technical, manage- she and Frank were getting their the State Bar of Texas for 1986-87. Central Office Park, and the U. S. Bai of Texas. Last year he received the children do a lot of skiing in ment and administrative training youngest into UCLA this fall. Since graduation, he has been liv- Home Building. the Dallas chapter's Young CPA of Colorado, where they have a programs to meet the company's "I also remember turning on ing in Austin and has been a part- Donald 0. Pederson (Ph.D.) has the Year designation. Lee is a the TV while in Houston to see house in Creste Butte. ner in the law firm of Scanlan, needs. I have traveled extensively been named vice chancellor for ac- practicing attorney with the Dallas at friend and City Councilman Jim Buckle & Fleckman since 1978. home and abroad in the last ademic affairs at the University of law firm of Golden, Potts, Boeck- nine years. Nancy and I are look- Greenwood (Baker) riding and Brian Mustain (Hanszen) sends Arkansas, Fayetteville. In his new man & Wilson. ing forward to a'down under' working on the garbage trucks(as in the news that he has started a post. Pederson will provide leader- Ernest Speed (Hanszen)recently Christmas with Sydney friends part of a study into working condi- 60 company in Urbana, Ill., called ship for all instructional, research had a short story, "The Coach Who and New Year in New Zealand. I'm tions that led to a recent strike). CLASS RECORDER: Plant Breeding Consultants, and public service programs on Didn't Teach Physics," published in in the St. Louis phone book (under Hopefully, the situation causing Barbie McKittrick aimed at helping small seed com- the campus and work with college a volume of sports literature enti- Guy E. III) and there is always such an unusual outing for Jim has 111 Guinea Drive panies set up their own soybean deans in the development of aca- tled Sports Inside Out: Readings in chauffeur service and a spare been resolved. Of course, Jim can Houston, TX 77055 breeding research programs. He demic programs. Pederson joined Literature and Philosophy. The room ready for visiting friends." always find work in Mississippi (713)465-4827 writes, "We love it in Urbana. In a the UA faculty in 1972 as an assist- book was published by Texas Nesbitt (Will with Paul Montjay's group, if things more personal realm of breeding, ant professor of physics and served Stoner Rice) has a Christian University Press. The new job as director of information don't pick up in Houston (see be- our fifth child was born on Sept. 1." as chairman of the physics depart- story, originally published in 1973, systems development with low). ment from 1978-1983. He was asso- Har- 61 This has been a year of awards for was written by Speed at Rice when court Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, "What a delight to receive a call architect David ciate dean for research and faculty CLASS RECORDER: Weiser (Baker). he was a creative writing student in Orlando, Fla. from Paul Montjoy (Hanszen). His first came in November 1985, development for the Fulbright Col- of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Nancy Burch Jeffrey M. Thurston and Lynne Paul is in Bay St. Louis, Miss., when he captured the British Co- lege of Arts and Sciences from Larry McMurtry '60(M.A.). 3311 Stoney Brook B. Thurston '80(Hanszen) write where he has a waste business. He lumbia (B.C.) Interior Design Insti- 1983-85. Speed and his wife. Rhoda, live on Houston, TX 77063 to say that Jeff has joined Walnut says he has no knowledge of any tute Award for his work in News of Pederson's appoint- Tiki Island, near Galveston. Speed (713) 781-3634 Hill OB/GYN Associates and Lynne other Rice people in this line of remodeling Deep Cove Gospel ment was featured in Fayetteville's is the owner of Rice Welding Sup- Lila Fitzgerald has transferred work. I was dismayed to detect Laux (Jones, Hall. The second award came from local press and was sent in by E. ply Co. in Houston. to Zenith Data Sys- that he had lost that distinctive Ph.D. '86) just completed her Ph.D. the Ceramic Tile Contractors Asso- Mitchell Singleton '59 (Baker), tems Operations Center, South- Southern accent until it dawned on in psychology at Rice with a dis- ciation of B.C. in May for his crea- who is practicing medicine in Fay- west Region. The Thurstons live in me that he hadn't at all; I was now sertation entitled -The Relation Be- tive use of ceramic tiles in a North etteville. Dallas. so used to it that I didn't notice it. tween Speed of Visual Perceptual Vancouver home. As a culmination 75 Paul has three sons who bring joy Processing and Intelligence in Nor- of this stream of awards, Weiser Sophia Ortutay Rohr (Jones) to his life. They haven't reached mal Populations." Laux, who re- was recently named West Vancou- and her husband, Michael, an- college age, so he has much to ceived her Rice bachelor's degree ver Citizen of the Year at the gen- 73 nounce the birth of their third child 79 look forward to when they get there in English, received her master's eral meeting of West Vancouver Mark A. Brumbaugh (Will Rice) (second son)on Sept. 10, 1985. She CLASS RECORDER: almost all at once. Paul, an admit- degree from the University of Chamber of Commerce for his com- has been named head of the engi- writes, "It's a little late — he's al- J.C. Puckett ted workaholic, is busy in civic Southwestern Louisiana in 1979. munity leadership in spearhead- neering design department at Ex- ready an active 1-year-old! Julia (6) 435 E. 70th, #6-F and Christian activities. She is now a member of the psy- ing the Horseshoe Bay Downtown xon Baytown (Texas) Refinery. and Andrew (4) are doing great." New York, NY 10021 "I talked to Bob Newton (Baker) chology faculty at Rice. Revitalization Program. Weiser Formerly clean products supervi- The Rohrs live in Houston. (212)872-6711 (daytime) recently, who insists that he is Grover C. Wetsel Jr.(M.A., moved from Houston to Vancouver sor in supply headquarters, Brum- Philip deSola Tournier (Lovett) Dana Miller Baker(Hanszen) merely an entrepreneur and didn't Ph.D.) was recently named chair- in 1973 and opened his own archi- baugh began his career as an has been made a partner and vice married Ronald Davis Baker, a na- give any further details. man of the physics department at tectural firm in 1976. operations support engineer in president in the firm of Howard tive of Massachusetts and 1976

22 SALLYPORT—NOVEMBER 1986-JANUARY 1987 graduate of Texas A&M architec- Gayle Greer(MM., Jones) corn- sistant professor of economics at ture school, on June 29, 1980, ip pleied a season in Vienna with the LSU.(Also see "New Arrivals.") NEW ARRIVALS Ocean Park, Maine. Mary Austrian National Radio Orchestra McLeese (Hanszen) was maid of and is now starting anew job in Philip H. Jones'67 (Will Rice) Marion Isabel Johnson Stan- Helen Kegel Penberthy'79 honor, with Laura Inskeep (Hans- West Germany as the principal vi- sends in news of the birth of a son, ton '75(Brown) and her husband, (Baker)and her husband, Wardner, zen)also attending. After a honey- olist of the Regensburg Philhar- 83 Andrew McFerran Jones, on Sept. Emmett, announce the birth of announce the birth of their first 18, moon in St. John in the U.S. Virgin monic. Sarah J. Brown (Baker) has re- 23, 1986. The Jones family lives in their second child. "Ann Catherine child, Mary Elizabeth, on July Philadelphia, Pa. Stanton arrived on July 2- a little 1986. The family lives in Chatham, Islands, the couple settled back Amy Jonassen (Lovett) is married cently moved from London, En- sister for Elizabeth, age 2. I will be N.J., where Helen works for Bell into their lives as architects at to Ricardo Mesa-Tejada, a re- gland, to Laguna Hills, Calif., Mauda Kelton Palmer'68 on leave from my position as sen- Communications Research. Cambridge Seven Associates search pathologist at Columbia where she holds an administrative (Brown)and her husband, Jim, an- ior attorney at Pacific Telesis (where they first met) and into their University. In May she received her position in a pharmaceutical re- nounce the birth of their third Chris Schulman '79(Wiess) and Group in San Francisco until the new home in Medford, Mass., a M.D. from Columbia and in June search firm that manages field child, Mark Kelton Palmer, on June his wife. Robin, announce the first of next year," she writes. The suburb of Boston. they had their first baby.(Also see testing of both pre-FDA-approved 4, 1986. She writes,"We are the birth of their second child, An Ni- Stantons live in San Francisco. James G.(Jim) Jones (Baker) re- -New Arrivals.") and marketed drugs. She writes, proud parents of our third son- cholas Schulman, on May 21, 1986. my commuter drive we grew, since our Parmet'77 (Baker) The Schulmans live in Austin. ceived his M.B.A. from Wharton in Lynn Pugh Kaerwer (Baker) "Surprisingly, but the first one Michael not the nightmare I had ex- are adopted. Mark is an in writes that he and his wife "have 1983. Since then, he has been writes, "I went on a fantastic week- is first two Adnan Yucel '79(M.S., Ph.D. '82) pected; in fact, it's fun, although I vitro ("test tube") baby born to us at just delivered twin memories from working for Campbell Taggart Inc. long vacation to Kitty Hawk, N.C., and Mine Kuban Yucel '84 miss London's buses and subway. I ages 40 and 44, and we have our having too much fun while on va- in Dallas. He writes, -In January of down to Myrtle Beach, S.C., (Ph.D.) announce the birth of their would like to hear from class- our other sons are 11 cation" last October in England this year, I was made president of through drought-stricken corn hands full, as sop, Emre Yucel, on Aug. 16, 1986. since I've been 'off' the months old and 3-and-one-half and Scotland. Twins Morgan and the Rainbo Baking Co. of El Paso, fields, up to Monticello, Va., D.C., mates, The family lives in Baton Rouge, for too long." years old!" The Palmers currently Kelly arrived on July 1, 1986. The Texas. In February, my wife. Di- and then back to our house and grapevine La. live in Newnan, Ga., but will soon Parmets live in Houston. ana, and I had our first child. In two cats in Wallingford, Conn. David Scott Curcio (Lovett) sends Laura Ferguson '80(Brown) moving to Dallas. July we finally moved into our new Others participating in this jaunt in the following enigmatic mes- be Jerry D. Gibson '78(Will Rice) writes, -We'd like to announce the home in El Paso. It's been a busy were Christi Castling Todd (Ba- sage: "I may be employed as a Rosemary Thomas Shepard and Mary K. Gibson (Jones) an- birth of our second daughter, year!"(Also see -New Arrivals.") ker),Payson Todd (Baker), and lawyer-type person in Houston, but '68(Brown) writes, "I celebrated nounce the birth of a daughter, Stephanie Lauren, on Sept. 3, 1986. Lou Ann Montana (Jones) and husband, Rick. In Baltimore, we beyond that I have no comment at my 40th birthday by having my first Mary Elizabeth, on July 26, 1986. Her big sister, Marian, is now al- James W. Pflugrath (Sid Rich) visited George Hall (Wiess). The this time. Excuse me, let me child, Mark Abraham Shepard, Along with their other children, most 2." While Ferguson is in her will soon be returning to the vacation was followed up by a job through, please." born April 20, 1986." Amy and Will, they write that the second year of a pediatric resi- United States after a two-and-one- offer as chemical process engineer (John) Russell Hoffman (Ph.D.) Bill S. Caldwell Ill '72(Wiess) new addition "will complete the dency at UT Medical School in half year sojourn in West Germany. at Allied-Bendix in Cheshire, writes, "After being 'laid-off' by and Sarah T. Caldwell announce 'three-ring circus at our house!" Houston, her husband, Stephen They write,"We are really looking Conn. Believe me, the job offer res- Conoco Inc., I have finally moved the birth of a son, Jesse Thomas, The Gibsons live in Galveston. Barrett, is a member of the Rice forward to renewing contacts with cued me from a Yankee sweat from Oklahoma to Colorado to pur- on July 15, 1986. The Caldwells live Michael V. House '78(Will Rice) Jones Graduate School of Adminis- our Rice friends." shop." sue other interests." in Concordia, Kan. and his wife, Suzanne, announce tration's class of 1987. David L. Talent(Ph.D.) recently Scott Lushbough (Will Rice) is Gale Morrow '73(Jones) and the birth of their son, Adrian Vin- Amy Jonassen '81 (Lovett) and started a new job for Lockheed- currently working at the Jet Propul- Dexter Katzman announce the cent, in August 1986. The Houses her husband, Ricardo Mesa- Emsco at NASA's Johnson Space sion Lab and lives in Pasadena, birth of a son, Samuel Trent Katz- live in Sacramento, Calif. Tejada, announce the birth of their Center. He is working on orbital Calif. He writes,"My colleagues man, on Sept. 22, 1986. The family Rick Keating '78 (Sid Rich)and first child, Gabriela Elizabeth 80 announce the Mesa-Jonassen, on June 11, 1986. CLASS RECORDER: environment problems. from places like Penn State and lives in Madison, Wis. his wife, Michelle, daughter, Shan- The family resides in New York Richard Morris Michigan chuckle at me when the Dave Bishop '75 (Ph.D.) and his birth of a second 1986. The Keatings City. 9555 Cloverdale football season arrives. But then, wife, Liz, announce the arrival of non, in January Mo. San Antonio, TX 78250 what sculptures do these places their adopted daughter, Mary live in Bridgeton, Becky Hardcastle Meyer'85 45- (512) 523-1820(home) 82 have? Rice has 30-60-90(a.k.a. Choi, on Feb. 28, 1986. They write, James G.(Jim) Jones '79 (Baker) (Lovett) and Greg Meyer'85 (512) 342-6063(office) CLASS RECORDER: 90-180)! Would love to hear from "Mary was born in Seoul, South and his wife. Diana, announce the (Hanszen)announce the birth of Rice folks." our birth of their first child, Trevor their first child, Joshua Gerson, on Laura Ferguson (Brown)is in her Kevin Honnell Korea, on Sept. 5, 1985. She's in February 1986. Sept. 14, 1986. The Meyers live in second year of a pediatric resi- 1421 Geneva St. Brian Lloyd Mica (Wiess) is cur- first." The family resides in Neubert Jones, The Jones family lives in El Paso. Provo, Utah. dency at UT medical school at Raleigh, NC 27606 rently employed as loan officer at Fishkill, N.Y. Houston affiliates while her hus- (919)737-3615 (office) Fort Bend Savings and Loan in Ro- band, Stephen Barrett, is in the (919)851-2550 (home) senberg, Texas. He and his wife, live in East Bernard. Jones School (Rice University) class In May, Randy Garde!!(Wiess) Michelle, IN MEMORIAM of '87.(Also see "New Arrivals.") received his M.D. degree from the Randy Wile (Sid Richardson)and Harry M. Bulbrook '16 of Fort Thomas B. McDonald '28 of Al- Mary Flint Heard '37 of Mt. Ida, John J. Helms(Will Rice) recently University of Texas Medical Branch Catherine Graubart(Brown) Worth on July 24, 1985. vin, Texas, on Oct. 24, 1985. Ark., on July 31, 1986. started business school at New in Galveston and was commis- were married in Houston on May York University, majoring in fi- sioned as a lieutenant in the U.S. 26, 1986. Randy is a real estate Margaret Amy Waples'16 of Gordon (Turp) Turrentine '28 Peter B. Kamin '37 of San Anto- Laventhal & ncmce. He says he plans to be a Navy. He writes, -My wife. Bar- consultant with Houston on Sept. 22, 1986. of Kerrville, Texas, on Aug. 8, 1986. nio on Sept. 23, 1986. is an attorney portfolio manager. bara, and I have moved to Vir- Horwath. Catherine May Tompkins Clasby '20 of Cherry Lisette Schwartz Brun- Raymond (Fred) Emmite '40 of ginia, where lam doing an with Mayor, Day & Caldwell. Roger C. Hardwicke (Lovett) Houston on Aug. 9, 1986. son '29 of Brenham, Texas, on Houston on Aug. 10, 1986. internal medicine internship at the sends the following classnote, Ben Stool (Wiess) is a first-year Frances Foote Carter'20 in Sept. 27, 1986. Charles Z. Scheps'41 of Hous- Naval Hospital in Portsmouth." law student at the University of Or- which he says is all the news he Phoenix, Ariz., in 1985. Arthur Bradford Austin '31 of ton on Aug. 21, 1986. Chris Gerken (Hanszen)and Kay egon. He writes, "I love Oregon!" has that's fit to print. "After gradu- Theodore A. Flaxman '23 of Joplin, Mo., on April 30, 1986. Betty Jo Knox '42 of Tyler, ating with a Chem E. degree from Snell '83(Hanszen) were married Shreveport, La., on July 29, 1986. Daniel Louis Armstrong Jr.'32 Texas, on Sept. 23, 1986. Rice and working for three-and- on Aug. 2, 1986, at the Rice Chapel. Nelda Davis'24 of Houston on of Houston on Aug. 6, 1986. one-half years as a builder in Rice alumni in the wedding party Joseph D. Krakower '42 of Aug. 8, 1986. Odessa, we are moving to the were Ken Cornell (Hanszen), Rob 84 Amos Edward Beeler'35 of Houston on Sept. 25, 1986. The October issue of Consumer Re- Washington, D.C., area, where I Catterall (Hanszen), Mike Sarah Gray Houston '25 of Houston on Sept. 18, 1986. Charles Paine (Chuck) Hart- ports carried a picture of Teresa 15, 1986. will be taking a job with the RDS Monachi (Hanszen), Anne Hit. Houston on Aug. Laurence K. Kellersberger '35 man '45 of Houston on Sept. 3, Carr(Wiess) in running shoes, no Systems as a programmer/analyst ton '83(Hanszen), Kathy Martha Scott Moore '26 of of Fredericksburg, Texas, on June 1986. for the National Science Founda- Jenkins'86 (Jones), Barbara doubt a familiar sight for those Houston on Sept. 17, 1986. 13, 1986. J. Lee Vilbig '45 of Dallas on tion. Olivia and I now have three Snell '86(Hanszen), and Carol who remember her time at Rice. V.R (Vip) Ringer'26 of Houston Richard W. Lilliott Jr.'35 of Aug. 13, 1986. daughters, Andrea, 6, Tara, 3, and Snell'88 (Hanszen). The couple Carr was part of a project team on Aug. 4, 1986. Houston on Aug. 22, 1986. Cheryl, 8 months. While on my job continues to live in Houston, where that included 117 runners who ran Doris Speich Brett'47 of Dallas Addlean W. Bennett'27 of hunt in Boston, I stayed withDavid Chris is a senior systems analyst 40,000 miles to come up with run- James Mott Clark '36 of Balti- in August 1986. at Exxon Data Processing Center. ning shoe ratings. Carr, the writer Houston on Sept. 8, 1986. Shera '81 (Lovett), who is working more, Md., on Sept. 30, 1986. Clifford L. Lawrence '48 of Kay abandoned a three-year ca- on this project, joined the maga- Harolde Turner Loftin '27 of at Massachusetts General Hospi- Dawley '36 of Houston on Sept. 17, 1986. reer in international banking in fa- zine staff after completing a mas- Kingsland. Texas, on March 22, George Wallace tal. I also saw Ian Carrie (Lovett) Houston on Sept. 22, 1986. and his wife, Ellen Haag Carrie vor of a career coaching ter's degree in a program called 1986. Susana (Susie) Ruggles'49 of About Aug. 8, 1986. (Brown). In late June, Mike Scha- swimming. She coaches age-group "Writing Science" at Johns George Graham Bloxsom '28 Hall W. Griggs'36 of Houston Irving. Texas, on fale (Lovett) dropped by to go hik- and and pre-competitive swim- Hopkins University. of Houston on Aug. 5, 1986. on Aug. 23, 1986. Robert F. Brinton '51 of Dallas ming at the Dad's Club YMCA and ing in the Guadalupe Mountains. Beth Mull (Brown) began playing Ethel Elizabeth Hickey '28 of Alonzo Shilling '36 of Houston on June 28, 1986. masters swimmers at the Yellow cello this fall with the Garland Schafale is working in North Caro- Denton, Texas, in August 1986. on Aug. 25, 1986. Sarah Lynn Simon DuPr6'64 lina for the state natural heritage Rose Aquatic Club. (Texas) Orchestra. This winter, she '28 of Man- Courtney Taylor Willet'36 of (Jones) of Louisville, Ky., on Sept. Sherry Spears Jackson (Brown), will begin her third year playing William F. Jenkins program." vel, Texas, on Sept. 23, 1986. Wimberly. Texas, on Aug. 26, 1986. 18, 1985. a former legislative assistant to piano for a Mesquite ballet studio. Texas Rep. Ashley Smith, has been Mull lives in Dallas. named executive director of the 81 Mid-South Foundation Inc., a non- Leticia Morgan Buscaino profit group promoting revitaliza- LET US HEAR FROM YOU! (Brown)recently received her tion efforts south of downtown 85 Dallas-Fort Worth. CLASS RECORDER: M.B.A. from Amber University. She Enjoy keeping up with friends and classmates in the Classnotes section? Why not re- is now a systems engineering su- Susan Stone Lehmann (Baker) David Phillips pervisor for Electronic Data Sys- and David E. Lehmann (Wiess) 6013 Ridgeview Drive turn the favor- drop us a line and a (preferably black and white) photo at Sallyport, tems in Dallas. saw classmates Cindy Pincus Alexandria, VA 22310 Office of Information Services, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, Texas 77251. (703)960-9249 Ethan Hiram Dubin (Sid Rich) '80(Baker), Chris Knoll (Baker), recently graduated from Einstein Eddie Burke (Baker), Chris Da- Navy Ensign Jeffrey J. Flack El Married? 11 New Job? LI New Baby? Medical School. He has begun a vies(Will Rice), Chaz Wampold (Lovett) was recently designated a El Promoted? LI Take a Trip? CI See a Classmate? three year internal medicine resi- (Baker), and Martha Rinehart Naval aviator. Presentation of the dency at St. Charles Hospital, Wampold (Baker) at Chaz and "Wings of Gold" marked the culmi- E Moved? El Back in School? El Other? which is affiliated with Johns Martha's wedding in Hiram, Ohio, nation of 18 months' intensive Hopkins University. In August 1985, with parties July 3I-Aug. 2, 1986. flight training. Flack's curriculum he married Hinda Fink, a medical (Their wedding was Aug. 2 and included studies in engineering Send us details: student at the University of Mary- they honeymooned in Ecuador.) and navigation, training flights in land. They also report that David was re- simulators, aircraft familiariza- advanced instru- t Roger Ford (Sid Richardson) cently promoted in his job as engi- lions, basic and extended left the CPA firm of Deloitte, neer for Amoco Production Co., ment training, and and landings Haskins & Sells in San Antonio, Hobbs, N.M., and Susan was re- navigation flights exchanging his old job for a posi- cently promoted in her job as disc aboard an aircraft carrier. tion with the Coca-Cola Export jockey/production engineer for Greg Meyer(Hanszen) married Corp. that has him traveling out- KZOR/KYK1C radio, also in Hobbs. Becky Hardcastle (Lovett) on July side the U.S. -100 percent.- So far, Nancy Rapoport (Jones) writes, 25, 1985, in Dallas. Greg is now in business has allowed him to ex- "I finished my clerkship with Judge his second year of law school and plore (June), (July/ Sneed (U.S. Court of Appeals for Becky is pursuing a master's de- August), a return to Spain the Ninth Circuit)and I'm now a gree in psychology at Brigham (September)and Nairobi(October - second-year associate at Morrison Young University in Utah.(Also see December). and Foerster in San Francisco." "New Arrivals.") Name Thom Glidden (M.A.'84, Baker) Adnan Yucel(Ph.D.) and Mine Erich W. Wolz(M.E.E.) married retired from the Houston Indepen- Kuban Yucel (Ph.D. '84) are living Karen S. Rathkamp on Aug. 9, Class College dent School District(Kashmere in Baton Rouge, La., where Adnan 1986. He is currently employed as High) in 1984. Glidden is currently is an assistant professor at the Nu- an associate engineer with IBM's Address( New?) working for Houston Lighting and clear Science Center of Louisiana federal systems division. The Power Co. State University and Mine is an as- couple is living in Houston.

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EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT Dec. 3-7 Jan. 8. Boropin Trio, presented by E V E N T $ The Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Ad- In the Steps of Cortes Houston Friends of Music. 8 p.m. Ham- ministration offers management courses Join Pre-Columbian art specialist Mimi man Hall. Admission $12(students and YOUNG ALUMNI to the business community throughout route senior citizens, $6). Rice's Young Alumni will meet for Third Crossley in tracing much of the the year. For details contact the Office of Cortes and his Con- Jan. 12. Faculty Artist Series presents Thursday Mixers (after work)on Dec. 18 at taken by Hernando Executive Development at 527-6060. in Veracruz, the Jeanette Lombard, soprano; Frances Bi- Kay's(2324 Bissonnet)for a Christmas quistadores, beginning first European city on the New World con- ble, mezzo-soprano; Mary Norris, piano. 8 party and on Jan. 15 at Gingerman's(5607 Mexico City. The p.m. Hamman Hall. Morningside). tinent, into present-day T R A V E L journey will go to the heart of ancient Jan. 17. Shepherd School Symphony Tenochtitlan, where you will visit the Orchestra presents "Young People's Con- FRIENDS OF FONDREN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PROGRAMS Fondren will present the Great Temple of the Aztecs recently exca- cert." 11 a.m. Hamman Hall. The Friends of For information on 1986 alumni travel/ December, January vated in the center of the capital, under Jan. 28. Orford String Quartet, pre- following lectures in study programs, call the Alumni Office, reception will the pavement of the Zocalo next to the sented by Houston Friends of Music. 8 and February. An informal (713)527-4057, or write the Association of each program. Presidential Palace and the National Ca- p.m. Hamman Hall. Admission $12(stu- follow Rice Alumni, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, Collecting for Fun and thedral. Points of interest will also in- dents and senior citizens, $6). Dec. 10. "Book Texas 77251, to receive detailed itiner- M. Orgain, senior clude Cholula, Cortes Pass, the Saturday Jan. 31. Campanile Orchestra. 8 p.m. Profit," by Marian aries. Prices are approximate. member, American Society of Appraisers. Bazaar("Bazaar Sabado")in San Angel, Hamman Hall. Program featuring members'collections. Dec. 21-Jan. 4, 1987 and the National Museum of Anthropol- 7:30 p.m. Kyle Morrow Room. Holiday Cruise 1986 ogy. au- A R T Jan. 21. Reception honoring Rice Try a warm-weather destination for this 4-9 thors of new books published in 1985 and year's Christmas/New Year's trip. The Jan. Waltzing Across Texas: The Big SEWALL GALLERY 1986. 7:30 p.m. Kyle Morrow Room. ultra-deluxe Explorer Starship will take Bend Through Dec. 6. First group show of the Feb. 1. "Schubertiad V," a 19th- travelers on a Caribbean cruise of the Explore the fabled Texas Trans-Pecos Rice art faculty. Recent works by mem- century musical event featuring perform- most exotic islands between San Juan, with Ray Miller, known to millions for the bers of the studio art faculty, Department ances by students of the Shepherd Puerto Rico, and Barbados. Ports of call "Eyes of Texas" television program and of Art and Art History. School. 3:30 p.m. Kyle Morrow Room. include St. Thomas/Virgin Islands, Saba, for his series of Texas travel guides; Uni- Nevis, St. Kitts, Antigua, Dominica, Mar- Jan. 30-March 28. "Expressionism, Sight SERIES versity of Houston geographer John Cof- SRUW SEMINAR tinique, Bequia, Tobago Cays, Barbados, and Sound," innovative, expressive as- University Women fman; and Rice astronomer C.R. O'Dell. The Society of Rice Grenada, The Grenadines, St. Lucia, St. pects of visual arts, music, literature, its seminar series, with pro- All three will lecture throughout the trip, will feature Barts, St. Martin, St. Maarten, Buck Is- dance, film and theater during the early at 1 p.m. each Monday, O'Dell will assist in making tele- grams beginning land, St. Croix, Virgin Gorda, Salt Island and 20th century, especially in Germany. observations of the Texas night sky from Jan. 12-March 30. Light refreshments and Norman "Treasure" Island. Options scopic (Note: Sewall Gallery will be closed Feb. served before the program. All and will accompany travelers on a tour of will be available for one week cruise over Christ- 28-March 9. will be held in the RMC Grand the famed McDonald Observatory. Other seminars mas or New Year's, or a full two-week FARISH GALLERY Hall. stops will include the Museum of the Big cruise. $2,195-6,190, depending on length Jan. 21-Feb. 23. "This Edifice is Colossal: Bend, the Chinati Foundation sculpture of cruise and choice of cabin. Architecture and 19th Century Photogra- RICE WOMEN'S CLUB near Marfa, Fort Leaton State Park, the phy." Exhibition of American, British, The Rice Women's Club will feature the Terlingua ghost town, Study Butte, and Feb. 14-21, 21-28 French and Italian photographs. Orga- following guest speakers or special pro- the old army barracks at Castolon. of grams at their upcoming meetings. Meet- Feb. 28-March 7 nized by the International Museum at the George Eastman ings are at 3 p.m. in the Kyle Morrow See/Ski Innsbruck Photography a lecture. Room of Fondren Library unless other- Choice of three winter trips, a repeat of House. Introduced with wise noted. For more information, contact the 1986 "runaway bestseller." Innsbruck MUSIC Ann Greene at (713)655-2828. has five ski areas from which to choose, The following events are free and open to THE A T ER Dec. 7. Annual Christmas party fea- and a full day's excursion to Salzburg is the public unless otherwise noted. turing The Mission Bells, Houston's bell included in the price of the trip. Those Dec. 1. Shepherd School Symphony The schedule of the Rice Players fol- choir. who wish to tour the surrounding area Orchestra and Rice Chorale. Conductors: lows. Unless otherwise noted, admission Jan. 11. Rice political scientist Robert may choose to visit Bavarian Royal Cas- Benjamin Zander (orchestra) and George for all productions is $6($5 for faculty and Stein previews the upcoming legislative tles, Oberammergau, , Lucerne, or Lynn (chorale). Featured music to include staff, $4 for students). Productions are at 8 session. take a sleigh ride through the Tyrolean Mendelssohn's "Hear My Prayer," Faure's p.m. Obtain more information by calling Feb. 8. Rice University Librarian Sam countryside. One week, approximately "Requiem" and Beethoven's Third Sym- the box office at (713) 527-4040. Carrington speaks on the complexities of $795. phony, "Eroica." Time and location to be library. the modern university March(TBA) announced. Feb. 11-14, 18-21 music recital featur- Lysistrata The Orient Dec. 2. Chamber SCIENTIA LECTURE of the School. 2 classical Greek comedy by Aris- A trip to the Orient "at cherry blossom ing students Shepherd The On Dec. 4, Thomas S. Kuhn of Massachu- House. tophanes. Hamman Hall. time," encompassing many destinations p.m. Milford setts Institute of Technology's Department for Shep- beginning with a four-day stay in Tokyo Dec. 2-5. Madrigal Dinner of Philosophy and Linguistics will deliver guests. ending with a four-day stay in Hong herd Society members and their the fifth Annual Bochner Lecture at 8 p.m. and visit the island nation By reservation only. 7 p.m. Rice Faculty SPOR TS in Hamman Hall. The topic of his lecture Kong. In between, of Singapore; Taipei, capital of Taiwan; Club. will be "What are Scientific Revolutions?" String Quartet, Bangkok, Thailand; Kamakura, Hakone Dec. 3. Colorado More information about the lecture and of Music. 8 FOOTBALL and Kyoto, . Eighteen nights, ap- sponsored by Houston Friends the reception following may be obtained Hall. Admission $12(stu- proximately $3,395. p.m. Hamman Nov. 22 Air Force by calling the philosophy department at dents and senior citizens, $6). Nov. 29 at Houston (713)527-4994. June(TDA) Dec. 3. String Showcase given by Alaska Adventure Shepherd School students. 3 p.m. Milford MEN'S BASKETBALL See Alaska's untouched wilderness by House. Nov. 28-29 at Central Fidelity Classic, Richmond, Va., 7 and 9 p.m. NOTICES motorcoach and train and its magnificent Dec. 3. Advanced recital- Bruce 7:35 p.m. coastal area by cruise ship. The land por- Hanover, piano. Works by J.S. Bach, Men- Dec. 1. Pacific. Dec. 5-6. Rice Invitational (Rice, TSU, UT- RICE BUSINESS AND tion begins with a visit to Alaska's delssohn, Debussy and Prokofiev. 8 p.m. San Antonio, NW Louisiana). 7 and 9 p.m. PROFESSIONAL WOMEN second-largest city, Fairbanks, then con- Shepherd School Rehearsal Hall(en- Dec. 9. Austin Peay. 7:35 p.m. Professional Wom- tinues to Denali National Park for a view trance #12, Rice Boulevard). The Rice Business and Dec. 17. Louisiana College. 7:35 p.m. en's club is aimed at the professional of Mt. McKinley. Travelers will take the Dec. 4. Master's recital- Margaret to Valdez, then Dec. 19. Southeastern Louisiana. 7:35 women in the community, and member- Columbia Glacier Cruise Beard, clarinet. Program: Brahms' Clari- and Skag- p.m. ship is open to all alumnae and friends of continue to Tok, Whitehorse net Quintet and Nielsen's Clarinet Con- Princess Dec. 23 at University of San Diego. 7:35 the university. Current Rice students may way before boarding a deluxe certo. 5:30 p.m. Shepherd School Glacier Bay, Sitka, p.m. join at a reduced fee on an associate ba- Cruise Lines ship for Rehearsal Hall (entrance #12, Rice Boule- Fjords. Thir- Dec. 30. Southwestern. 7:35 p.m. sis. For more information, contact Judy Jo and the wilderness of Misty vard). teen days, approximately $3,350-3,750, Ian. 3 at Texas. 7:30 p.m. McGlaun at 659-1988. Ga- depending on choice of cabin. Discount Dec. 6. Campanile Orchestra. Jan. 7 at Texas Tech. 7:30 p.m. briel Sakakeeny and Ming-Feng Hsin con- CONTINUING STUDIES available for those who sign up before Jan. 10. Houston. 3 p.m.(televised). duct the orchestra in works featuring The Office of Continuing Studies and Dec. 31. Jan. 12. Trinity. 7:35 p.m. "Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un Faure" by Special Programs offers classes through- Jan. 14 at Arkansas. 7 p.m. Debussy,"Symphony in C" by Bizet, and out the year in the arts, finance, litera- CONTINUING STUDIES Jan. 18. Baylor. 3 p.m.(televised). excerpts from "La Damnation du Faust" ture, science, photography and foreign The Office of Continuing Studies and Jan. 21. Texas A&M. :35 p.m. by Berlioz. 8 p.m. Hamman Hall. languages. A wide range of professional Special Programs offers a number of both Jan. 24 at SMU. 7:30 p.m. courses also are offered. For more infor- domestic and foreign travel opportunities Dec. 9. Messiah Sing-a-long. 8 p.m. Jan. 28 at TCU. 7:30 p.m. mation and a free catalog, call 520-6022 throughout the year. For information, call St. Paul's United Methodist Church, 5501 Feb. 1. Texas. 3 p.m. televised). (527-4019 for languages). (713)527-6022. S. Main. Feb. 4. Texas Tech. 7:35 p.m.