Scarlet Under Scrutim] Imo Us

OCIATION OF RICE AL VOLUME 43, NUMBER 5 JUNE-AUG. 1987

Scarlet under Scrutim] Imo us. Scholarship in the Old(and New)South ^mar e.t.a

JUNE-AUG. 1987, VOL. 43, NO. 5 Murder in Manhattan EDITOR 6 Suzanne Johnson The beginnings of Rice University were surrounded by elements of money, madness and CONTRIBUTING AND murder. For Doug Killgore '69, it's the stuff of which good drama is made. STAFF WRITERS Steve Brynes Peggie Evans Scarlett Under Scrutiny 8 Andre Fox Scholars of Southern history have a bone to pick with Scarlett O'Hara, whose hoopskirted PHOTOGRAPHER antics have influenced the way more than two generations of Americans look at the South. Tommy C. LaVergne John Boles '65 and Sanford W. Higginbotham '34 talk about myth, scholarship and Interpret- DESIGNER ing Southern History. Carol Edwards

OFFICERS OF THE Commencement ASSOCIATION OF RICE ALUMNI 1987 12 President, Gwynne E. Old '59 Rice University President George Rupp awarded a record 1,001 undergraduate and graduate President-Elect, William (Bill) Merriman '67 degrees at commencement ceremonies Saturday morning, May 9. Share the moment with a 1st Vice-President, Nancy Moore Eubank '53 special photo collection. 2nd Vice-President, Dan Steiner '77 Treasurer, H. Russell Pitman '58 Past President, G. Walter McReynolds '65 Diary of a Graduate 14 Interim Executive Director, Marilyn Moore'59 For graduating seniors, the final semester of college life is a time of looking forward and ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE looking back, asking questions and realizing answers aren't always easy to find. 1987 Phi ON PUBLICATIONS Beta Kappa Patti Lipoma shares the journal of her final semester with the readers of Sally- Gwynne E. Old '59, ex officio port. Association of Rice Alumni Marilyn Moore '59, ex officio Association of Rice Alumni Keeping the Faith 17 Darrell Hancock '68, chairman John Boles '65, past chairman With guts, determination, faith, hard work and long hours, Nell Harris '25 rocked the Hous- W.V. Ballew Jr. '40 ton medical community when she opened Hedgecroft Hospital for polio victims in 1942. Nancy Boothe '52 Harris recalls how she lost the battle with Houston's medical "establishment" but eventually Nancy Burch '61 won the war. Kent E. Dove Spencer Greene '88 Ira Gruber William F. Noblitt Robert Patten Patti Simon '65 Geri Snider '80 Linda Leigh Sylvan '73 Charles Szalkowski '70 G. King Walters

RICE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI GOVERNORS Joyce Pounds Hardy '45 Fighting 'publish or perish' of time (the absolute minimum figure supplied plosion of community concern and active stu- Neal T. Lacey Jr. '52 The denial of tenure to Professor Joe Martin, by a panel of estimators), Medicare ceases to dent participation that followed in 1986-87 Jerry McClesky '56 detailed in your last issue (April-May 1987) has pay for any further care; and the end of so- surpassed even my hopeful expectations. Pat H. Moore '52 my blood boiling. As an undergraduate I had called custodial care, where if a person makes In February 1986, while my friends and occasion to deal with Dr. Martin insufficient "progress" toward recovery, Medi- classmates were preparing as a substitute for countless job in- SALLYPORT(USPS 412-950) is published in lecturer and as care also simply stops. "Supplementary" insur- terviews a laboratory instructor. In addi- and waiting eagerly for letters of ac- September, November, February, April tion, I heard ance pays only if, and when, Medicare pays. ceptance from many others opinions of him. My various companies or schools, I and June by the Association of Rice own experience and that of my Poverty programs like Medicaid are not availa- was keeping friends and ac- in close contact with the Holy Alumni, and is sent free to all university quaintances was that ble to those who have any other "disposable" Cross he is a superb teacher, Associates program, a volunteer pro- alumni, parents of students, and friends. gifted with enthusiasm, income (i.e. Social Security) at all. gram sponsored knowledge and an by the Congregation of Holy Second class postage paid at Houston, ability In effect, Reagan is telling elderly to convey that knowledge to students. the and Cross and the University of Notre Dame. With Texas. Obviously, given Professor Martin's record chronically or terminally ill to "shape up or my acceptance to the program came my com- ship out" of accumulating teaching awards like dorm — if you have a long-term or debili- mitment to spend a year living in community William Marsh Rice University offers tating disease, aren't rooms accumulate dust, a whole heck of a lot of and rich, that's just too with five other lay volunteers and working equal opportunity to all applicants with- students bad. The administration were of a similar opinion. It is there- doesn't want to hear with the marginalized of society for room, out regard to race, color, sex, age, na- fore absolutely sickening and astonishing to about its own citizens' problems. It's too busy board and a $60-a-month stipend, not normal tional or ethnic origin, or physical see such a gifted teacher blown out the door by playing cowboys and Indians in backwoods fare for a Rice graduate. I didn't think myself handicap. "publish or perish." It's ironic, too, since: 1) the revolutions. better than the rest of my class for having cho- biology department, which rejected Martin, is Reagan's policies in general: politically, sen to pursue 12 months of service work, but I Editorial offices for SALLYPORT are lo- filled with dedicated, able, award-winning internationally, scientifically, environmentally did feel mole fortunate, for I knew that work of cated in the Allen Center for Business teachers whose research, in many cases, is and economically, have done more harm to that type would open my eyes, mind and heart Activities, Rice University, 6100 South hardly world-class; and 2) Rice often trumpets this country than any other eight consecutive to a world unknown and inaccessible from Main Street, Houston, Texas. its commitment to undergraduate teaching, years of administration in history. I would hate some of the towers of business or academia. over and above research. Uh huh. to think that Rice condones such policies sim- At this point, nine months of work with al- POSTMASTER: Send address changes to So what is truly important here? A proven ply because the majority of Rice personnel fit coholics and drug addicts at the DePaul Center SALLYPORT, Office of University Relations, teacher, or a better explanation of how a neu- the profile of those who have benefited most (Portland, Ore.) have not disappointed me. My Rice University, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, trophil eats? from Reagan's practice of helping the rich get hope is that those students who participated in Texas 77251. Finally, kudos to our successors as Rice richer. RSVP's Outreach Day or who committed them- students for standing up en masse and protest- Dian L. Hardison '79 selves to a longer stint of volunteer work in the Copyright 1987 by the Association of ing the actions of those ivory tower research Titusville, Fla. greater Houston community can say the same. Rice Alumni, Rice University, studs. They have my thanks and Your admiration. The fact that U.S. Chief of Staff Howard Baker article leads me to believe that they can. Stephen Sokolyk '84 Jr. spoke at a Rice event was news and was re- Talk to one of those student volunteers and Dallas ported as such. Many of those in the audience, I'm sure you'll hear much more. Stories of friendships, no doubt, agreed with Baker's comments; insights and self-discovery will Just probably the facts, ma'am equally many, no doubt, disagreed. Personal weave in and out of the conversation, for volunteering, Correction Bad enough that Howard Baker Jr. can get opinion, however, has no place in a news story especially in an area formerly away with defending the Reagan administra- — to have injected such, pro or con, would unfamiliar, is a tremendous way to The name of Robert H. Andrews '34 was change tion's disastrous policies (April-May 1987), but have been "journalistic irresponsibility of the the lives of everyone involved. As Pa- inadvertently printed as "Anderson" in tricia Martin for the Sallyport to print such unmitigated self- first order." states in the article, even those the headline of an article in the who volunteer for more pragmatic, career- serving political snake oil without comment, February-March 1987 issue of Sallyport. as if the editors believed him, is journalistic ir- Rice reaches out oriented reasons "will still be changed by the experience," and that Andrews, the retired chairman of responsibility of the first order. I was pleased to read your change, I think, is for the article on "Rice in better. the VF Corp.(formerly Vanity Fair), a Baker's reference to the current adminis- the Community"(April -May 1987) because the Based on personal experience, Fortune 500 company based in tration's catastrophic illness plan as "our hu- activities of Jim Mustacchia and the students then, and the seemingly favorable experiences Wyomissing, Pa., has made an initial mane compassion for those who require our involved in RSVP have confirmed in me the be- of the Rice student volunteers, I encourage donation of $100,000 to establish aid and assistance" is enough to make the lief that not all college students, Rice's or oth- everyone the Ro- to take a look at what services they truth gag. Baker obviously has never come erwise, are concerned only with themselves can offer to bert and Elaine Andrews Scholarship their community. RSVP is a great resource face to face with the realities of Reagan's gut- and their own career advancement. Rumblings for Fund. The scholarships will provide a those still in Houston and the surrounding ted Medicare: the "regularization" of hospital of this nature began during my senior year at financial boost to Rice students work- area, but there are innumerable places stays according to diagnosis, where if the sick Rice with the formation of Rice's OUTReach that ing their way through school. person isn't cured in a predetermined amount and the Chinquapin School Project, but the ex- (Continued on page five)

2 SALLYPORT—JUNE -AUGUST 1987 %lough the Sallypoitt

Ides of marsh ens himself. Did Kreidler jump with The cover story, "Fixing Fondren," 'A Lasertag arena; excitement Stepping hesitantly into the Sallyport at the offer? "I didn't accept played off an April 1986 Sallyport article 'A fourth terminal for Houston's Inter- until I met T. digs, an alumni office staff member Boone —with that small a about the Rice library, in which various continental Airport ("Rice could convert group, you have handed over a postcard. "Some guy to be able to get along plans for building improvement were pre- stadium lot parking to airport parking, with everyone," dropped this by our office for you," she he says. sented. thus allowing the Rice Stadium to pay for said, obviously doubting the sanity of The epitome of cool, Kreidler took in The Sillyport story (written by "Bob its upkeep"); stride both sender and receiver. the offer with one of the most active Cratchitt," a Rice English Ph.D."working *A new home for Rice's first family acquisitions The front read "Fighting to Save a Pa- and merger companies in as a clerk in department stores across the (the Rice president was said to have de- the tient's Life" and featured a cartoon draw- U.S. "I got more excited about my new city") had several suggestions from archi- clined the offer, leaving Fondren to a apartment ing of doctors engaged in fisticuffs over in Amarillo," he says calmly. tect "Sebum Jelli" to bypass budgetary re- "more exciting purpose, one I believe will the body of a guerney-riding patient. straints in making library improvements. affect the entire Rice ethos"); On the back was the beginning of Among them were suggestions to convert *A library (a suggestion declined by more "news" on the intrepid Phil Parker, Take this publication — Fondren into: the board because it would "be just too who has thus far succeeded in elud- please 'A 24-hour drive-in restaurant, bar expensive"); ing the Rice Alumni Patrol and maintain- and student center, possibly a franchise 'A number of other options that the We ing his "lost" status on alumni files. always suspected that Rice produced of Two Pesos, House of Pies or Dunkin' Sillyport could print but the Sallyport the Rodney The antagonizingly alliterative mes- Dangerfield of alumni maga- Donuts; can't. zines, sage on the back read, "The puissant, but until the Rice Trasher — er, 'A coin-operated laundromat and Other than a few irreverent "class Thresher peripatetic Parker provided profound — decided to parody us, we full-service gas station ("a recent Jones notes," the Trasher staff didn't write any never realized priestly palindromes prior to pursuit by the meaning of "no re- School survey shows that such an estab- more copy for their Sillyport — our the Patrol." Puh-leeze. spect." lishment could displace the O'Banion's Trasher spies tell us they ran out of Within a week there arrived a "jack- The Sillyport was intended as a on Kirby as the world's largest coin- money and, besides, it takes a long time Trasher alope" postcard from Jim Beall '78, who April Fool's joke, and an ambi- operated washateria"); to write that much. As a result, the Silly- advised us to ignore last issue's Parker- tious one at that. A Rice student in archi- 'A multi-purpose nuclear reactor port was never printed, and all that work speak from Jim Fowler. Fowler says tecture provided the lively cover illustra- (which would "allow physics majors to appears only here in the object of their tion Parker is a weather forecaster for a Du- featuring Fondren Library converted get hands-off experience with radiation parody. into a buque, Iowa, television station. Beall Two Pesos fast-food Mexican res- and would provide Rice ROTC with first- It's a tough life, kids. See you next says Fowler "isn't entirely stable." As evi- taurant. strike capability"); year. dence, he provides the fact that Fowler teaches English in Conway, Ark. "I know for a fact that Phil Parker learned to play piano while working at a now-defunct Laredo newspaper," Beall writes. "When Reagan was re-elected, it was too much. He moved across the Rio Grande, and now plays piano in a bar in Nuevo Laredo...I've talked to him several times recently and he's doing well." Parker apparently left his piano on "Avenida Elvis Presley" in Nuevo Laredo long enough to attend the May 9 wedding of Walter Underwood '81 and Tina Mc- Mormick in Palo Alto, Calif. Tom Evans '83 reports, "Phil Parker may or may not have been at the wedding. He is still 'lost' and denies having written the story that appeared in the last Sallyport. It is also possible that the person I spoke to was not Phil Parker, but a UFO, possibly a cloud of marsh gas." The RAP will be following up on the above leads as soon as funds are raised for new marsh gas-detecting equipment. In search of a goliard The Goliard Traveling Fellowship doesn't sound all that unusual — unless you know what a goliard is. "Our definition is 'a medieval student given to licentious- ness, traveling and singing bawdy songs,'" says Carl Rosene '83, one of the 12 Rice alumni who annually donate $50 for the summer travel grant. According to Rosene, the winner of the $500 scholarship is "someone who's interesting, who'll have fun with the money — someone like us. Nobody ever gave stuff to people like us." Scott Jones '88, who worked last year at Sallyport but never serenaded the staff with bawdy songs, is nevertheless this year's winner. This summer, the Mt. Vernon, Ill., architecture major has taken his goliard act to Belize. For excitement, it's slim Pickens Chris Kreidler '87 doesn't fit the corporate mold— and Texas corporate raider T. TEACHING AN OLD DOG NEW TRICKS: New For Fondren Boone Pickens was looking for someone Uses who doesn't. Kriedler, who received his M.B.A. from Rice this May, has become the fifth person on Mesa Partnership's acquisitions and mergers team, headed by Pick- The 'Sillyport' cover, planned for pink and turquoise

SALLYPORT—JUNE-AUGUST 1987 3

116., 7111/MINM•-

ead Trustees approve $20 million toward building projects Rice University President George Rupp funds for these urgently needed build- The Biosciences and Bioengineering A proposed building for the Shepherd on June 19 announced that the Board of ings. Institute is one of five interdisciplinary School of Music came about after tremen- Governors has approved $20 million to- "We also want to show that this $40 areas of concentration identified by Rupp dous growth in that area. Of all the aca- ward the $40 million needed for a major million in construction is part of our con- last year as targets for enhanced empha- demic areas on campus, the music school construction program that will include fidence in the resurgence of this part of sis at Rice. The other areas of concentra- is the only one without its own building. new buildings to house the Shepherd the country." tion are the Rice Quantum Institute, The building planned for the music School of Music and a Biosciences/ "These two buildings will improve which has been in place on campus since school will gather the far-flung compo- Bioengineering Center. two exceptional programs and will help 1979, and three additional areas: the Cen- nents under one roof and at the same The $20 million was approved in the us in attracting new faculty," Rupp said. ter for Institutions and Values, the Center time free much-needed space for the hu- form of a challenge to encourage contri- "Rice is at a crossroads now. The build- for Cultural Studies and the Institute for manities,social sciences and engineering. butions from Rice University supporters. ings and the enhancement program of Computer and Information Technology. The new building will support prac- A fund-raising effort is under way to ac- which they are a central part will ensure Provost Neal Lane noted that inter- tice rooms, classrooms, rehearsal and quire the remaining amount. that we continue our traditions of excel- disciplinary research in each of these ar- small ensemble spaces, teaching These two buildings are central stu- to lence in both teaching and research." eas is already taking place at Rice but dios, a recital hall and Rice's plans to a finely tuned con- keep the university at the The new biosciences/bioengineering that, by establishing 'centers' and 'insti- cert hall. cutting edge of research and education. building will house the cell and develop- tutes,' Rice is providing more formal "um- Both buildings will provide these "The board is solidly behind these mental biology department, the Bios- brellas" under which that research can Rice programs with additional up-to-date projects," said Charles Duncan, chair- ciences and Bioengineering Institute with grow. and adequate space for teaching, per- man of the Rice board."We have every its three laboratories, and the organic re- The Rice administration is currently formance and research. confidence that Rice's friends and sup- search laboratories of the chemistry de- in the process of appointing faculty mem- Building sites have porters will not yet been se- help us raise the additional partment. bers to head each of the areas. lected. Baker to head alumni Susan Ruth Baker, a Rice alumna cur- alumni association even more vigorous. I rently acting as program director for the greatly look forward to her working with us." Hurst-Euless-Bedford Chamber of Com- Association of Rice Alumni President merce, has been named executive direc- Bill Merriman also praised Baker."We tor of the Association of Rice Alumni. think Susan's energy, experience from She will succeed Interim Director the chamber of commerce and ability to Marilyn K. Moore as head of the Rice work with people of all ages will make alumni program beginning July 16. her an outstanding alumni director," he Baker, who received her bachelor's in said. history from Rice in 1978, says her Rice Baker has been with the Hurst- background will be an asset in her new Euless-Bedford Chamber of Commerce position. "Being a Rice alumna will pro- since January 1986. She received her mas- vide me with a good perspective for work- ter's in geography from the University of ing with other Rice alumni," she says. Vermont in 1985. "Everybody likes to say that their univer- From 1978-80, she taught social stud- sity is unique, but there really are some ies at Landrum Junior High School. At the things that are different about Rice. same time, she was an active volunteer "Being an alumna gives me an emo- at the Houston Rape Crisis Coalition, tional commitment to the position — I where she was involved in public speak- want to make Rice the best it can be." ing, telephone crisis intervention and In announcing Baker's appointment, public relations and was a representative Rice's Vice President for External Affairs to the board of directors of the Houston Kent Dove said, "I firmly believe that Su- Area Women's Center. She was named Changing of the guard san Baker's enthusiasm and perspective an Outstanding Young Woman of Amer- Graduating as a Rice alumna will help us to make our ica in 1980. Rice seniors make their annual rite of passage into alumni-hood at the Association of Rice Alumni Senior Picnic, held April 30. Alums respond CASE medals awarded to Douglass case The Council for the Advancement and Sallyport's bronze medal was one of Support of Education, an association of five bronze, 12 silver and seven gold Rice alumni spanning more than four borhood in Berkeley and to arrange for a institutional advancement professionals medals awarded. decades have lent their support to help state subsidy for her caretaker/roommate, based in Washington, D.C., recently hon- The 1986 Report of the President re- Huntington's chorea victim Victoria an older woman who seems very sweet ored Rice University with three national ceived a silver medal in the category of Douglass '71, according to Karen Barrett and patient." awards. public relations communications. Of 164 '74, whose letter in the last issue of Sally- Funds donated for Douglass are be- Sallyport was one of 24 college and entries in the category, three gold, port described Douglass' plight. ing five handled through the Oakland (Calif.) university periodicals(magazines and silver and three bronze Douglass' case was medals were first brought to Independence Support Center, Barrett tabloids) selected from a field of 115 to awarded. light in an article published by the San says. Because an incorrect zip code was win awards in "Periodical Writing Excel- Reporter Nancy Stancill of the Hous- Francisco Chronicle in a series on the ar- given to some who called, she says some lence" through CASE's national competi- ton Chronicle won a joint gold medal in ea's homeless. According to the article, of those contributions might not have tion. the national media reporting category Douglass was ill, living on Oakland been received or properly credited. This is the second year in a row that with Rice University and the University of streets and unable to benefit from public Anyone who made a contribution Sallyport has claimed CASE honors. Last Houston. Twenty entries were judged support services because she and had no per- should have received a tax-deduction re- year, the organization named it one of the one grand gold, manent address. one gold and one silver ceipt on which it was clearly noted that top 10 educational tabloids in the U.S. medal were awarded. Since Barrett's letter in Sallyport was the contribution was made for Vicky published, she says inumerable queries Douglass. Those who did not receive and some $5,000 in funds have been re- such a receipt or whose receipt was not ceived by her and fellow Rice alum Han- properly designated should contact Ho- Rice awards music doctorate nah Norbeck from Rice alumni spanning ward Harp at Oakland Independence Harry Benjamin Gryk has been awarded the Shepherd School's department of the class years from 1944 through 1987. Support Center, P.O. Box 77010, Station the first doctorate in music in the 75-year composition and theory, was the director Though Douglass' immediate needs D, Oakland, CA 94610-0010,(415) history of Rice University. of Gryk's doctoral dissertation, a 24- have been met, Barrett says her problems 465-2882. "I believe it's also the very first doc- minute composition titled, "Symphony." are still complicated. "It was not easy to Letters to Douglass should be sent in torate in music ever awarded by a Hous- The Shepherd Symphony premiered the find a landlord who would rent to a ten- care of the Oakland Independence Sup- ton institution," said Paul Cooper, Rice's work April 24 on the Rice campus. ant who is severely disabled and has port Center. For more information, Barrett Lynette S. Autrey Professor of Music and In addition to becoming doctor of mu- only Social Security to cite in the way of can be reached, preferably by phone, at composer-in-residence at the Shepherd sical arts in composition, Gryk is also credit references," she said. "It took some 77 E. 12th St., 12-J, New York, NY 10003, School of Music. Rice's 1987 winner of the $1,000 Louis weeks to find a house in a decent neigh- (212) 505-5040. Cooper, who also serves as chair of Sudler Prize.

4 SALLYPORT—JUNE-AUGUST 1987 Anni

Garside mourned by Rice GOLD MEDAL Charles Garside Jr., a longtime and re- NOMINATION spected member of the Rice history fac- The Association of Rice Alumni is seeking nominations for the Rice Alumni Gold ulty, died June 11 at St. Luke's Episcopal Medal for Distinguished Service to Rice University. This award is presented an- Hospital in Houston of complications af- nually at homecoming. Those wishing to make nominations should submit the ter a stroke. He was 59 years old. form below to the Association of Rice Alumni, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251. Garside, an expert on the Renais- For more information, call the alumni office at (713) 527-4057. sance and the Reformation, was an au- I would like to nominate: thority on John Calvin, the 16th-century Protestant reformer. He was the author of for the Association of Rice Alumni Gold Medal for Distinguished Service to Rice Origins of Calvin's Theology of Music, University.(This person may or may not be an alumncrius.)I believe he/she is published in 1979, and Zwingli and the worthy of this award because (attach sheet as necessary): Arts, a study of the 16th-century Swiss theologian Ulrich Zwingli published in 1966. He had been a member of the Rice faculty since 1966. From 1973-75, he was the president of American Society for Reformation Re- search. In addition to his significant scholarship, Garside became one of Rice Univer- Nominated by sity's most honored teachers. His former on June 13. Garside is survived by his students voted him five Brown Awards for mother, brother, sister and eight nieces phone' outstanding teaching between 1973 and and nephews. 1983. In 1970 the students at Baker Col- Students and friends have initiated lege, where Garside was executive asso- the Charles Garside Jr. Memorial Fund in ciate, honored him with their college's History to benefit Rice students who dis- service award. tinguish themselves in history. Contribu- Many members of the Rice commu- tions should be made out to that fund and Letters nity attended funeral services at Hous- sent to the Rice development office, P.O. (Continued from page two) ton's Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251. need our help all across the country. To quote tion. Why must we have the Chinese dinner from Karen Barrett's moving letter in the same philosophy in education: two from Group A issue, "...All of us confront misery on a mind- and one from Group B? Yuck! boggling scale, in this society and elsewhere Admittedly, lam biased by my training In brief in the world. The knowledge of how miniscule and experience. I went to an undergraduate WARD NAMED TO PANEL wegian Sea. Election to the Academy of an impact we can make is very numbing. We school of engineering where there were only Calvin H. Ward, chair of Rice's environ- Science and Letters is the second major don't know where to start. But I would submit four electives in four years: two humanities Norwegian honor to come to Talwani in that this is a project of comprehensible scale, electives and two science or engineering. 1, mental science and engineering depart- where a little help can make a lot of differ- along with recent others, hated it — hated it, at least ment, has been appointed to a position years in recognition of his re- ence." until we had had some exposure to the outside on the U.S. Environmental Protection search, which was of great benefit to Nor- To RSVP and the Rice student volunteers, I world. We found, to our surprise, that engi- Agency's 55-member Science Advisory way's economic and scientific express my gratitude for making a difference neers from other institutions admired our Board. Ward will serve on the board's en- development. In 1981, the University of and for reminding all of us that our community breadth of knowledge and understanding. vironmental engineering committee until Oslo awarded him an honorary doctorate extends well beyond the hedges of ourselves. Comparing courses, we found our education to Sept. 30, 1988. He is a nationally recog- in philosophy. Mary Ann Leonard '86 give us better adaptability to our environment nized expert on pollution of underground Portland, Ore. than others. lam sad to relate that that venera- FIVE STUDENTS ble institution water supplies and hazardous waste dis- HONORED has now changed its curriculum The trouble with humanists so that it is more "in line" with "the crowd." I posal, having published more than 100 Four Rice students were awarded presti- gious fellowships for study abroad dur- I am catching up on my reading and am up to am afraid it too has pandered to the demands scientific papers over a 30-year period. of the immature "protesters." My point is, the ing 1987-88. In addition, one student was Vol. 43, No. 3(February 1987). I read the curric- Some of Ward's environmental research ulum revision proposal and the accompanying major in the "hard" sciences must take courses concerns culminated in 1979 with his selected for specialized study in the U.S. "opinion" piece (by Prof. Alan Grob). It is to the in English and literature, so why must not the bringing to the Rice campus the National Rice senior Karen Oehler was latter that I wish to address some comments. humanities major be required to take a mini- Center for Ground Water Research in a awarded the Winston Churchill Scholar- Let me make one thing clear — I have no mum of a second course in calculus? Further, if cooperative agreement with the Univer- ship and will do graduate work at Chur- quarrel with the humanities, but I'm afraid I do he/she minors in a science, why not require a sity of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State chill College, one of the constituent have some issues with humanists. It appears course in elementary differential equations? University. The center started out with colleges of Cambridge University. to me that many humanists find any diminu- After all, most good high schools now offer a an first course in calculus. My complaint with initial EPA funding of $5.25 million for a Scott Snyder, Alice Levisay and tion of a science curriculum's humanities con- Heather Miller received the tent repugnant. In fact, they often seek to force many humanists— perhaps Dr. Grob is not six-year period. Thomas]. among them — is that they generally feel that Watson Fellowship, earning the opportu- more of the humanities into science and engi- FONDREN JOINS NEW PROGRAM neering science and engineering majors are intellec- nity for international study. curricula. I agree that there should be Fondren Library has joined 57 other re- philosophical breadth in any science program. tual Philistines. They feel that if we do not was search libraries in a program to provide Rice sophomore Kristine Hain I agree with Nicholas Murray Butler's assertion have the same facility with language and cul- faculty members of participating institu- honored by the Harry S. Truman Scholar- that "I hold first and foremost among the marks ture that they do in their specialized fields, we tions with on-site access to the library ship Foundation. The award includes of an educated man, correctness and precision are to be pitied. Pitied, but not to the extent four years of support(two years under- in the use of the mother tongue." Humanities that would require them to study scientific ma- collections of other institutions, Univer- terial to enhance their understanding of the sity Librarian Samuel M. Carrington an- graduate and two years graduate) with a are indeed important to the majors in science and engineering, but I hold that a minimum scientific problems and hence the scientist. No- nounced recently. The Reciprocal Faculty maximum annual award of $7,000 to cover tuition, fees, books standard of science and engineering subjects body said learning was easy. It is hard work if Borrowing Program was developed by the and room and done well. The rewards are well worth the ef- board. is important to the major in humanities as Research Libraries Advisory Committee well. fort. I feel that the concept of breadth as well to the Online Computer Library Center to SMITH NAMED PIPER PROFESSOR In at least one area, I believe I agree with as depth in education should be supported vig- orously, but I am unalterably opposed to wa- make the collections of some of the most Rice history professor Richard J. Smith, a Professor Grob. Freshman English should not be replaced by a tering down the fundamentals. I know too important research libraries in the U.S. noted authority on China, has been minor foundation sequence. more accessible to faculty members. Rice In fact, the "minor foundation sequence" is the many humanists who brag about their igno- named a Piper Professor for 1987. Smith, rance of mathematics. I feel this is repugnant has been a member of OCLC since 1979. one area where I have an issue with the pro- a faculty member since 1973, also serves posal. Specialized foundation courses invari- and sad at the same time In my opinion, the Details for implementation of the pro- as master of Hanszen College. Piper pro- marks of an educated man should include gram ably wind up being watered-down courses that at Rice are currently being worked fessorships are awarded by San Anto- have a pejorative flavor. For example, a course knowledge of the natural sciences and mathe- out. The program will most likely begin nio's Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation entitled "Probability for Social Scientists" or matics as well as the mother tongue. in the fall semester. "to bring recognition to outstanding "Physics for Pre-med Students" might as well What ever happened to the earlier centu- Jefferson, TALWANI ELECTED TO ACADEMY achievement in the teaching profession be titled "Probability for the-poorly-prepared- ries' concept of a liberal education? Manik Talwani, Rice's and-mentally-retarded Student," with a similar Franklin and Hamilton hadn't been brought up Schlumberger Pro- in colleges and universities in the State only eating intellectual "ice cream." I submit fessor of Geophysics, has been elected to of Texas." title for the physics course. The foundation courses for the minors should be the same as that in part it was the austerity of their educa- the Norwegian Academy of Science and Smith has previously won Rice's tional process that contributed to their great- Talwani, a for the majors. Otherwise, putting these minors Letters. member of the Rice George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in students in intermediate classes with the ma- ness. Jam not a reactionary, but neither do I faculty since 1985, has won international Teaching, three Brown Awards for Supe- jors makes little sense. believe that everything old should be dis- recognition for his pioneering geological rior Teaching and the Phi Beta Kappa The area in which I take issue with Dr. carded for the sake of "progress." I commend and geophysical exploration of the Nor- Teaching Prize. Grob's opinion is the assertion that taking a the Rice faculty for attempting to put a bit more course in "differential equations (is) a commit- rigor into the minor curricululm selection proc- ment few humanities or social science majors ess. In my opinion, it could well put a modern will either wish to or should be expected to flavor on what has been called a "general edu- On the bookshelf make." Metaphorically, "don't make the child cation." The reservation I have is the minors' eat his/her spinach but rather let him/her eat foundation courses. I submit that the founda- New from faculty and alumni authors ice cream if he/she prefers." Even to under- tion for a minor should be the same as the stand simple kinetics or why an automobile ac- foundation for a major. If it is not, then I submit Burning Down the House: MOVE and the Microelectronic Processing: An Introduc- ccelerating at a constant rate will reach a it would be well to examine the major's curric- Tragedy of Philadelphia tion to the Manufacture of Integrated Cir- velocity of "X" after "Y" seconds requires at ulum for relevance. by John Anderson '76 and Hilary Hevenor. cuits least a fundamental understanding of the solu- T.F. Leibfried Jr., Ph.D.'71 Norton. by Walter Scot Ruska '69. McGraw-Hill. tion to a simple first-order differential equa- Houston

SALLYPORT—JUNE-AUGUST 1987 5 .11•••••••-

MURDER IN MANHATTAN The beginnings of Rice University were surrounded by elements of money, madness and murder. For Doug Killgore '69, it's the stuff of which good drama is made.

by Suzanne Johnson

itting in a darkened room, an elderly man city council squabbled over subsidization of a pub- legal foundations for Rice Institute but uncovered quickly downs the last of several shots of lic city high school that many members felt was a murder plot and forged will that, had they gone whiskey. His tortured features relax slightly "highfaluting nonsense," 75-year-old William undetected, would have prevented the Institute Sas a look of decision crosses his face. Pull- Marsh Rice was ensconced in his suite at the Capi- from ever being established. ing a pistol from a nearby drawer, he raises it to tol Hotel, firming up details for the creation of a It is also fitting that, indirectly, it was Baker his temple and squeezes the trigger. great university. who first interested Killgore in the Rice story. The suicide of Charles Freeman Jones, whose Often spending his winters attending to Texas Killgore returned to campus in 1977 to film body was found soon afterward in his small Bay- business interests and his summers near Wall segments for the "Rice Today" series. In the proc- town, Texas', home, stirred some short-lived media Street, Rice, by 1891, was a wealthy man with a ess of interviewing faculty, he talked to Stewart interest in the poorly educated, but affable, man miserly reputation. By all accounts, that reputa- Baker, at that time a member of the Rice English who had been born 79 years earlier into a Harris tion amused him greatly, especially when he department. Baker's telling of part of his grandfa- County tenant farm family. thought of what the public reaction would be, after ther's history sent Killgore to Fondren Library in Charlie Jones had spent the last 52 years of his his death, to learn he had willed the bulk of his search of photographs. life in relative seclusion, as far from the public eye fortune to establish an institute of higher educa- He found much more — an exciting story, a as possible. In 1954, with a single gunshot, he tion in Houston. wealth of research material and the seeds of a closed the final chapter on the tale of deception Rice was a shrewd businessman yet a play. and murder that marked the beginnings of Rice dreamer, a practical man but with the streak of ec- Institute. centricity common among the advantaged. The same man who had amassed millions from lum- By 1900, William Marsh Rice lived exclusively in Monhattan, keeping abreast of Texas business af- Ti story of William Marsh Rice's murder, the fairs through Baker and other Houston associates. phony will forged by a crafty lawyer and an as- Still a sharp businessman at the age of 84, Rice sumption that "the butler did it" are facts of life at was also up to his ears in a legal battle that threat- Rice University that, today, rouse scant interest. ened to undermine the institute he had taken such As he attended accounting classes at Rice in care to provide for. the late 1960s, Doug Killgore '69 also knew little of His second wife, Elizabeth Baldwin, had died "Willy." He was a rich old guy, he had been mur- the previous year following a stroke and an ensu- dered and, oh yeah, his statue sat in the middle of ing decline in health. Behind her, she left a last- the quadrangle. Earning an economics degree and minute will that would provide very generously for woiking with the Rice Players were more to Houston lawyer Orren Holt, among others, but Killg Dre's liking. would, under Texas community property laws, se- Graduating from Rice, Killgore headed to the riously deplete the money Rice had willed to his University of Texas for a master's degree in com- institute. munications, then returned to Houston to start his Rice believed his wife had been mentally un- own media production company. The passion for sound when she signed the will but Baker chose theater that started with the Rice Players he now another legal tactic for questioning its validity, devoted to Houston's Main Street Theater. Never a maintaining the will based on community prop- source of much thought anyway, William Marsh erty was invalid because the Rices were legal resi- Rice was for Killgore completely forgotten. dents, not of Texas but of New York, which had no But a chance reacquaintance with the Rice community property laws. saga several years ago led Killgore to further ex- While Baker was busy in Houston gathering plore the life and death of his alma mater's CAPTAIN JAMES A. BAKER evidence to prove the Rices' New York residency, founder. Though never a history buff, he became (Newspaper artist's drawing) Holt hired New York attorney Albert Patrick(who fascinated with a story that, like most good mur- had been disbarred in Texas several years earlier) der mysteries, was filled with twists, turns, humor her, railroads and a myriad of business interests to gather information to the contrary. With larger and high drama. spent the hours before his murder staring from his rewards in mind, Patrick secured the acquaint- The result of his investigation is called "The New York apartment window and considering the ance of Charlie Jones, a naive Texas farm boy who Trust." A two-act play that will constitute the early purchase of one of those newfangled automobiles worked as Rice's "gentleman's gentleman"— fall offering from Main Street Theater, "The Trust" so he could take drives around Central Park. The cleaning up after Rice, cooking his meals, running offers an honest account of the murder that precip- same man who, childless, meticulously made his errands and, most importantly, writing busi- itated the founding of a university. Appropriately plans for the institute that would bear his name ness correspondence and bank drafts as Rice dic- enough, its production, which opens Aug. 20 and was equally meticulous in taking his afternoon ex- tated. runs through mid-September, will coincide with ercise, which consisted of undressing and rolling Patrick began to practice forging Rice's signa- the 75th anniversary of the opening of classes at for a half-hon, on a floor strewn with blankets. The ture, drawing up a will that named himself as pri- Rice Institute. man who preferred his own medical diagnoses to mary beneficiary; at Patrick's urging, Jones began that of Ties between "The Trust" and Rice University doctors was nevertheless farsighted enough to slip small doses of mercury into Rice's food. Un- do not to entrust end with its author and its subject matter, his plans for the institute to a young aware that he was being slowly poisoned, Rice be- however. Director of the production will be Rice Baker and Botts lawyer with a sharp mind and a gan to physically weaken but remained mentally Players director Neil Havens; one of Killgore's fel- strong sense of loyalty. alert. low Rice Players veterans, Rebecca Udden '73, is When the hurricane of 1900 hit the Texas Gulf artistic director at Main Street. Coast, Patrick knew he had to move fast. Rice had Since it is that entrustment for which Killgore's approved the use of his $250,000 in liquid assets for play is named, it is fitting that the thread of conti- the repair of hurricane damage at one of his Hous- In 1891, Houston, Texas, was a city with one foot in nuity in "The Trust" lies with Capt. James A. ton businesses. Intercepting the initial $25,000 the past and one in the future. While the Houston Baker. As Rice's attorney, Baker not only laid the bank draft before Rice could endorse it, Jones

6 SALLIPORT—JUNE-AUGUST 1987 bought a little time — time enough for Patrick to given a reasonable salary and a chance to travel suspicion to warrant a phone call to the Rice convince him that Rice had to die. On Sept. 23, when he was hired at the age of 23 by William home. After two calls, Jones finally admitted that 1900, Jones chlwuknined Rice as he slept. Marsh Rice. What could have convinced him, two Rice was dead. years and several pay raises later, to kill his bene- Receiving a telegram that Rice had died "un- factor? der suspicious circumstances," Baker immediately Of the unanswered questions that remain about "It's clear that Albert Patrick had a very, very set out for New York. His relentless investigation the William Marsh Rice murder and legacy, two strong hold over Charlie Jones," Killgore says. "It resulted, eventually, in the arrest of Patrick and stand out. First, was Elizabeth Baldwin Rice of wasn't money, because Jones was not even men- Jones. tioned in the false will that Patrick had drawn up. Housed in adjoining cells in the Tombs, a Albert Patrick was clearly the mastermind behind Manhattan prison, Patrick again exerted his influ - the murder — and a more unscrupulous villain you will never find — but why did Charlie Jones go along with it?" In testimony given during the murder trial, Jones said Patrick convinced him that Rice de- served to die because, though he had convinced everyone that Elizabeth Baldwin Rice died of natural causes, Rice had really murdered her and was going unpunished. Beyond that, Jones would only say Patrick had forced him into murdering his employer, an action that, for Killgore, had to represent more than avenging the supposed murder of a woman Jones barely knew. "I never say it explicitly in the play, but I do think there was a strong emotional bond between Jones and Patrick, at least on Jones' part," Killgore says. "Patrick was too unscrupulous for emotional attachments — he even went so far as to marry his ELIZABETH BALDWIN RICE landlady to keep her from testifying against him. (The second Mrs. William Marsh Rice) But Jones was very young and naive and, in the play, Jones does all these things just to please Pa- sound mind when she signed a last-minute will trick, just because Patrick wanted him to." ALBERT T. PATRICK undermining plans for an institute? (From the Newspaper Files) And, more importantly, how did Albert Patrick ence over Jones, who he saw as the only person convince Charlie Jones to commit murder? The morning after Rice's death, Albert Patrick, who could implicate him. Passing Jones a knife Killgore had to grapple with both questions as through an associate, attempted to cash a $25,000 through the bars, Patrick convinced his young ac- he wrote. "I tried to be as historically accurate as check on which he had forged Rice's signature. complice to slit his 9wn throat. possible in writing the play," he says. "But there Jones attempted suicide twice while in prison. were gaps where I just had to put together differ- After the second failed attempt, he made a full ent ideas and come to my own conclusions. On the confession and, based primarily on his testimony, question of whether Mrs. Rice's will was authen- Patrick was tried for murder and convicted. tic, I don't actually say in the play whether or not Through a series of appeals, Patrick's death she wrote the will. But I do have both James Baker sentence was finally commuted to a life sentence. and William Marsh Rice presuming that either she In 1912, as the first classes opened at Rice Institute, didn't write it or, if she did, that she didn't know he received a full pardon and moved to Okla- what she was doing. homa, where he lived until his death in 1940. "There's also a scene where the lawyer, Orren At the end of the trial, Charlie Jones returned Holt, is trying to force her to sign something. I to Texas and remained out of public view until his think it's pretty clear that it was a false will she 1954 suicide. was coerced into signing, but we can't be certain." In the end, the will's validity proved unimport- ant. Rice was murdered before the case went to Though William Marsh Rice could never have trial seeking a political career, and Orren Holt, CHARLES F. JONES foreseen the drama of his final days, his foresight quietly settled the case out of court. He was later (From the Newspaper Files) in establishing the foundation for an institute of elected mayor of Houston. higher learning is what prevents his own story, The question of the Jones-Patrick relationship Though the signature at first looked authentic, a and that of playwright Doug Killgore, from ending proved more complicated. Charlie Jones was discrepancy in the endorsement roused enough in tragedy. "This story has a little of everything — money, murder madness — but behind it all is the idea of the Institute," Killgore says. And the Main Street Theater production of "The Trust" will incorporate artistic devices to make sure the audience knows it, too. Near the beginning and end of the play will be a filmed re-enactment of the Institute's 1931 commencement address by Captain Baker, chair of the board of trustees. Interspersed with black- and-white 16-mm footage Killgore shot at Rice's 1986 commencement will be an actor, portraying Baker, delivering parts of the actual commencement address in which Baker recounted the story of Rice's murder and the legacy he left behind. Tying together scenes of the play will be short songs paralleling the action, sung by a men's glee club like those popular at Rice several decades ago. The songs, which range from originals by Killgore to Rice standards such as "For Rice's Honor," will, Killgore says, keep the audience s aware that the results of the drama they see en- acted in "The Trust" lie just down the street on South Main. "The importance of the whole story is Rice In- stitute, and the fact that, despite all that had happened, the Institute was saved and it is something 0 fF. really worthwhile," Killgore says. Checking out the portrait of William Marsh Rice in the Founder's Room are (L-R)Neil Havens, Rebecca Udden "Rice Institute is what gives this story its and Doug Killgore. happy ending."

SALLYPORT—JUNE-AUGUST 1987 7 Illustrations by George Baechli

Scarlet! under Scrutiny Myth vs. Scholarship in the Old(and New)South

Scholars of Southern history have a bone to picb with Scarlett O'Hara, whose hoopskirted antics have influenced the way ljanbees er, Americans have viewed the South for half a century. Rice history professor John Boles '65 talks about myth, scholarship and interpreting Southern History.

by Suzanne Johnson

he Old South was a land of planters, revising and expanding views of the Old (and South. It frustrates historians because they have slaves and poor white trash. The gen- New)South is revealed in a recent offering from not looked at Reconstruction in that way for almost teel aristocracy governed a world LSU Press, Interpreting Southern History, Historio- 50 years." T where men were men and women wore graphical Essays in Honor of Sanford W. Higginbo- Instead, historians have recognized not only hoop skirts. Slaves worked the fields, poor white tham. Reconstruction but the antebellum South in gen- trash mooched off wealthy neighbors and King Interpreting Southern History was edited by eral as a far more complex world than their prede- Cotton reigned. Children, black and white, rich Boles and former Journal of Southern History asso- cessors — or popular culture — would have us and poor, grew up thinking "damnyankee" refer- ciate editor Evelyn Thomas Nolen '62. The collec- believe. red to anyone born north of the Mason-Dixon tion of essays, honoring S.W. Higginbotham '34, As University of Pennsylvania professor Drew line. retired Rice historian and managing editor of the Gilpin Faust writes in Interpreting Southern His- As American popular culture continues to fuel Journal for 18 years, chronicles the literature of tory, "The Old South still attracts our interest as a that Gone With the Wind view of the Old South, Southern history written since 1965. dark reflection of our own time, as a historical grumbling scholars of Southern history go about Ranging from "The South Before 1800" to "Sun counterpoint to our own identity as Americans. In their business, publishing findings that debunk Belt Prosperity and Urban Growth," the essays the 1960s and 1970s we as a nation began to doubt most of the myths but rarely find their way outside also illustrate how the South as a topic of study the American myths of inexorable progress and in- scholarly confines. has progressed beyond what Boles calls the evitable success. Under the twin shadows of the "Most literate Americans think they know all "never-never land of moss, magnolias, mansions failure in Vietnam and the discovery of Northern about the South because they've seen 'Gone with and mammies." racism, we as historians started to look at the past the Wind,'" laments John B. Boles '65, professor of "What historians have said about slavery, with new eyes and to recognize in the antebellum history at Rice and managing editor of the Rice- about Reconstruction, about the demographics of period some of the new complexity we had found based Journal of Southern History. the South, has found almost no place at all in in our own. Historians exposed many Gone with the Wind American popular culture," Boles says. "The aver- "With such a burden of understanding, nei- myths as early as 50 years ago, Boles says. Just age American still talks about Reconstruction as ther life nor Southern history will ever seem sim- how far scholars of the past 20 years have come in that 'angry scar,' that evil mongrelization of the ple again."

8 SALLYPORT—JUNE-AUGUST 1987 Planters, Slaves and Poor White Trash

Margaret Mitchell's O'Hara family was headed by very much like subsistence farmers in the North. of blacks in the antebellum South, have flourished an Irish immigrant who won his plantation in a They were different in the sense that many no in the past 20 years, offering a fuller, and differ- game of poker. Most of his neighbors, though, doubt hoped to one day be prosperous enough to ent, picture of both black and white culture than boasted fine aristocratic Southern blood. Women own slaves but were the same in the sense that previously available. fretted over beaus and barbecues, men over cotton they were hard-working and grew crops like corn, "Not all blacks in the antebellum South were and the Confederacy. Their slaves were like fam- peas and potatoes. They might have grown a few slaves, for example." says Boles, who in 1983 pub- ily, and the bane of their existence was the poor acres of cotton as a money crop, but they were not lished Black Southerners, 1619-1869. "There were white trash Slatterys who clung persistently to the primarily cotton growers, nor did they own planta- more than a quarter-million free blacks in the plantation fringes. tions. They raised prodigious numbers of cows 1860s South, although admittedly many of them The O'Hara myths cling persistently as well. and hogs, and were herdsmen as much as led miserable lives. Many others, however, fol- "A great many people still believe the Old South farmers." lowed skilled trades, particularly in the cities. was peopled by wealthy planters and mistresses, "Poor white trash" existed, Boles says, but Though the South was primarily an agricultural millions of happy, pleasant slaves and, at the bot- only in small numbers. "They were located in region, there were significant numbers of urban tom level, poor white trash, who were sallow- small pockets, and in no way did they dominate and industrial slaves. One can't think of a single complexioned, dim-witted and looked down on by the non-slaveholding white population of the profession in the South in which there weren't both planters and slaves," Boles says. South." blacks working — engineering, mining, lumber- In the past 30 or 40 years, that view of the As 1960s civil rights issues accelerated, Amer- ing and so forth." South has been totally revised as historians devel- icans — and historians in particular — became in- Still, the majority of antebellum Southern oped more precise methods of analyzing popula- terested in how the U.S. had become so racially blacks were agricultural workers, victims of slav- tion groups and the 1960s civil rights movement divided, Boles says. In looking for answers, they ery. Although Gone with the Wind presented intensified studies of slavery and race relations. looked to the South, whose practice of slavery fig- slaves as satisfied members of the extended white Though the scholars have focused on different re- ured centrally in the only civil war this country family, Roots gave millions of Americans a differ- gions and often reached different conclusions, has known. ent view. Scholars didn't always agree with Alex some generalities emerged. They found few ready answers. Studies to that Haley's interpretations, but they acknowledged "Now, for example, we realize that the num- point had focused on Southern blacks not in terms his public impact. ber of wealthy white planters was very, very of their own culture, but as extensions of planta- As Williams College Professor Charles B. Dew small," Boles says."The Gone with the Wind-type tion culture. Since slaves had been denied formal writes in Interpreting Southern History, "The plantation owner was probably less typical than a education, it was assumed that their lives could publication of Alex Haley's Roots and the subse- millionaire in today's South. Most Southern whites be studied only through the written records of quent television series drawn from his book were not plantation owners — three-fourths of all whites. brought the subject of slavery dramatically to the whites in the South in the 1860s didn't own any By the 1960s, however, research methods had forefront of American popular consciousness. The slaves at all and, of those who did, half owned grown more sophisticated, and numerous sources phenomenon could not last, of course, and there fewer than five." were found — personal accounts written by former was much questionable history in both the novel "Poor white trash" did not, however, comprise slaves after emancipation, for example, and eth- and the television production, as scholars were the other 75 percent. nomusicological studies that explored 19th- quick to point out. But the fact remained that Roots "The majority of Southern whites were not the century black music. And as computer technology forced white Americans, if only for a brief mo- stereotypical sallow-complexioned, ignorant, vi- advanced, so too had the historian's ability to ma- ment, to do something most had never done before: cious trash — they were yeoman farmers," Boles nipulate massive amounts of census data. to confront slavery head-on and to see it through says. "They were essentially subsistence farmers As a result, black studies, including the study the eyes of the slave."

Reconstruction, Dirty ljankee Carpetbaggers and Turncoat Scalawags

After the war, Scarlett O'Hara would tell us, looked good. They saw the South as a land of op- the South, the people like them who had slaves greedy Yankees flooded the South, snapping up portunity." and big plantations would be the ones who suf- business interests and grinding Southern pride There is a great disparity in how these post- fered the most. So the large planters were very into the ground with their shiny Yankee boots. war nomadic Northerners are viewed, depending hesitant secessionists. Poor white trash joined ranks with the Yankee Re- on what direction they moved. "In the 1860s and "After the Civil War, thousands of these publicans to get revenge on the wealthy planters 1870s, when people just like them went West, we Southern Whigs — longtime big planters and mer- under whose thumbs they had squirmed for years. call them 'pioneers' and 'builders of America,'" chants — said, essentially,'Look, we fought the Why, that white trash Emmy Slattery and her Yan- Boles says. "If, for precisely the same reasons, war and we lost. Let's let bygones be bygones. kee carpetbagger husband even had the audacity they went to Louisiana instead of Kansas, we call We've got to pick ourselves up, we've got to put to try buying Tara. them 'evil carpetbaggers." our economy back together, we've got to get the Yet this view of Reconstruction, Boles says, The idea that Southerners who threw in their South going again and, realistically, we can't live has been completely metamorphosized by scholar- lots with Northern Republicans after the war were in the past. The Whig party is dead.' And they ship. By the mid-1930s historians were revising the 'turncoat Scalawags' is also one on which scholars joined the Republican party to get the South's familiar portrayal, and in 1965 historian Kenneth have cast new light. economy back on its feet." M. Stampp published The Era of Reconstruction, a "Popular belief says that all Southern whites synthesis of the new views that demolished the who supported the Republican party were turncoat myths of dirty Yankee carpetbaggers and turncoat Scalawags — ne'er-do-wells who saw their chance scalawags. to get back at the big planters," Boles says. "That "Historians of Reconstruction, for example, is simply not true." are now very careful to point out that not every Before the Civil War, the Whig party fought Northerner who came South after the Civil War the Democrats almost evenly for Southern political was an evil, opportunistic carpetbagger trying to control, with the Whigs claiming support of most take advantage of the South," Boles says. large planters and urban merchants and bankers. "A lot of Northerners who came South were "The wealthiest planters were among the Union soldiers who had been in the South during group that least supported the coming of the Civil the war. They liked the Southern climate. They War," Boles says. "They believed — accurately, as liked the Southern people. They thought the soil it turned out — that if there was a war fought in

The Poor,Poor South Escaping from Yankee-ridden Atlanta and return- fessor Harold D. Woodman divides contemporary ing to the plantation, Scarlett O'Hara was shocked scholarship concerning postwar economics into to find her family starving, the fields empty, most two camps — those who believe the Civil War and of the former slaves gone North and the only emancipation brought a "revolutionary change" to money worthless Confederate notes. the South and those who see a sense of continuity Lying at the bottom of the nation's economic between the pre- and postwar Souths. heap, the South's 20th-century financial woes are Even within the two camps, there are dis- inevitably linked to its past. But to blame those agreements. The more popular "continuity camp" woes on vicious Yankees and an antebellum over- is divided into three schools. One emphasizes dependence on cotton and slave labor, Boles says, white racial prejudices taking precedence over ec- is an oversimplification. onomic or political concerns both before and after In Interpreting Southern History, Purdue pro- the war. A second argues that current economic

SALLYPORT—JUNE-AUGUST 1987 9 experienced its results, black and only in agricultural matters, were suddenly freed. white, Northerners and Southerners, There was no Marshall Plan to provide money or knew better. True, they did not always education or land. How were they going to make fully understand what was happening it? and had little notion of what the future "The whole South was already poverty- would bring. Indeed, their confusion stricken, in part because of having lost the war was a result of their attempting to but also because the world demand for cotton had understand the changing new world ceased growing. The South produced more cotton, by viewing it through lenses that re- got less money for it and grew poorer. It had little mained focused on the old." real political leadership. It didn't have much will Those backward-focused lenses to do right toward the blacks, and even if it had were inevitable in a society that had the will it didn't know how to do it. It was a trag- known only a slave-labor system for edy all the way around. 250 years, Boles says. "No one knew "Sharecropping was the result, and share- how to handle emancipation. After all, cropping simply devastated the South. By the whether they owned slaves or not, 1920s, with more white sharecroppers than black, most whites in the South only knew the rural South was like a Third World country. Its how to relate to blacks in a master- per capita income was less than half that of the slave relationship. Blacks only knew rest of the nation." how to relate to whites in a slave- After World War II, the South's economic, edu- master relationship. All of a sudden, cational and social conditions began to improve. four million slaves were freed and no By the 1970s, the "Sunbelt" was touted as the place problems are directly related to the war and its one, black or white, quite knew what to do. to go. There was oil in Texas, steel in Birmingham aftermath and that the South has otherwise en- "The blacks wanted somehow to push at the and a Georgian in the White House. joyed a consistent economic growth rate. A third boundaries of what they used to be able to do, to Yet the "Sunbelt" image of a region that is out- school believes economic losses brought on by discover and enjoy and practice freedom, but they competing the rest of the country is just another war and emancipation had little effect on South- also knew that since the whites controlled the myth, Boles says. "There are 'Sunspots,' if any- ern political and social structure. power, they would be hurt if they pushed too thing — around Charlotte, Atlanta, Houston, Dal- Though the "schools" and "camps" disagree hard," Boles says. "The whites very grudgingly ac- las. But there is not a 'Sunbelt' that stretches on its longterm effects, each assigns a significant cepted the fact that they had to treat blacks differ- across the South. Every single Southern state ex- economic role to emancipation, as both blacks ently, but they didn't quite know how to do it, and cept Virginia (because of federal government em- and whites struggled to find their places in post- they didn't want to give up any more freedom than ployees) is still below the national average in per war society. they had to." capita income; Texas inched above it for a couple "A synthesis(between the different ap- The ensuing decade was one of struggle for of years in the midst of the oil boom. The South is proaches) must consider the process of change both races, Boles says. It was a struggle never sat- still the poorest region in the United States. And in over time as blacks and whites accommodated isfactorily settled, planting the seeds for 19th- every measure of the absence of social well-being, and adapted to the new free-labor system," Wood- century racial conflict and dealing a near-death whether it's illiteracy rates or murder rates or in- man writes. "It would be foolish to ignore the leg- blow to the Southern economy. fant mortality rates — you name it — the South acy of slavery in shaping postwar institutions and "Before emancipation, it was against the law leads the nation. ideology; 250 years of history cannot be washed for blacks to read," Boles says. "It was against the "So the Sunbelt image of a region that's out- away even by the rivers of blood that flowed from law for them to own property, though a small num- competing the North and is now more prosperous 1861 to 1865. At the same time, it would be equally ber could read and did own property. But essen- is just simply not true. What is true is that the foolish to contend that emancipation made no dif- tially, a people who had been kept uneducated South has made substantial progress in narrowing ference if for no other reason than that those who and without property, many of whom were skilled the gap between itself and the rest of the nation."

The Separate South Author Margaret Mitchell maintained that, after South distinct was this list of negatives will con- the nation's in 1985 than in 1935, says Southern at- the war, Scarlett O'Hara's world at Tara was tend that the distinct South is evaporating." titudes border on counter-intuition. "He argues "gone with the wind." Most, however, extend Southern distinctive- that those in the South today who have the strong- Although the antebellum lifestyle is long ness beyond that list of negatives. One of the most est consciousness of their Southernness are edu- gone, public interest in the South — past and generally accepted theories, Boles says, is that of cated, well-traveled, affluent, urban present — remains. Scholars continue to debate historian C. Van Woodward. Southerners," Boles says. "The kind of provincial why, and if, the South is still distinct. Some claim "Woodward argued in the 1950s that it isn't Southerners who are uneducated and live in Ap- the South is becoming Americanized. Others any one trait from a list of negatives that makes palachian communities or on little East Texas believe America is becoming Southernized. One the South distinct, but that it is the South's whole farms, who have never ventured outside the even contends that America is adopting the worst historical experience. In a nation of plenty, the South, don't have a well-developed sense of of the South as the South adopts the worst of South has lived in poverty. In a nation that has al- Southernness because they have nothing to com- America. As Boles notes, whether or not the South ways known success and victory, the South has pare it with. They don't think about it. will continue as a distinct region is "a hot topic." known failure and defeat. In a nation that has al- "What Reed suggests is that as the South be- The approaches are as varied as the opinions. ways known a sort of righteous innocence, the comes more prosperous and more urban, increas- "The South has sometimes been defined in terms South has had to deal with and live with the guilt ing numbers of Southerners — better traveled and of its negatives," Boles says. "It was the poorest of slavery and segregation." more sophisticated — will have a stronger sense part of the nation, it had the worst schools, it was As for the future, Boles himself subscribes to of Southern identity. In that sense, the South will the most racist. When looked at in terms of those the theory that the South will retain its distinctive- continue to be a distinct area." negatives, the South was easily separated as the ness, if for no other reason than that Southerners Boles, who grew up on one of those isolated evil 'other' side of America. want it to. Taking Southerners away from their East Texas farms, agrees. "I think as the South be- "Many argue that while the South is still the environment reinforces their sense of being some- comes more American-like in terms of economics poorest part of the nation, it is narrowing the edu- how different. and urbanization, there's something — a state of cational and economic gaps. Arguably now, race University of North Carolina sociologist John mind or a sense of folk culture or something like relations are worse in Chicago or Boston than in Shelton Reed, backed by statistical data showing that — that will keep alive a sense of Southern the South. So those who believe what made the that Southern attitudes were less like the rest of distinctiveness." Heroes and Villains

It has been 51 years since the 1936 publication of about the novels Americans have loved — Uncle for better drama than subsistence farms, and car- Gone with the Wind. The movie was released in Tom's Cabin, The Klansman, Gone with the Wind, petbaggers better bad guys than southbound pio- 1939. Both still enjoy immense popularity. Roots, North and South. Most big bestselling pub- neers. Fascination with the South, for historians and lishing phenomena in American popular culture And as they grumble about pop culture's he- the general public alike, has not stopped there. have dealt with Southern history." roes and villains ignoring the fruits of their labor, "Books on Southern history have won a dispropor- This fascination with the South stems from the. scholars will continue to probe. tionate number of Pulitzer Prizes and National very reasons many believe the region has re- "We'll always find new points to argue and Book Awards in the last two decades," Boles says. mained distinct — its history, its character, the different assumptions to test," Boles says. "Even if "And if you think about the great popular fiction way it is perceived. there's no new data, different people at different that's central to American culture, you find the Despite the outcome of the "Americanization times will ask different questions about the past. South there as well. I'm not talking about elite lit- of Dixie" arguments, however, myths about the "It keeps us like Old Man River — just rolling erature that only English majors read; I'm talking South will continue to thrive — plantations make along forever."

10 SALLYPORT—JUNE-AUGUST 1987 Social Studies In 1965, America straddled a decade of turmoil. LBJ ordered continuous bombing of North Vietnam; U.S. forces in that civil war reached almost 200,000. On the home front, anew voting rights bill was passed and 35 died during riots in a black section of Los Angeles called Watts. During the previous two years, the country saw Mar- tin Luther King Jr. and 200,000 others march in Washing- ton, D.C. A new civil rights bill had been passed, but much remained to be done. As he rode in a Dallas motor- cade, President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated. Though effects of that decade on future years are still being assessed, they also touched America's past. As Americans in the 1960s sought to understand the tur- bulence in which they lived, they looked to the past for answers. That search began what has been nothing short of a revolution in historical studies, and no area of scholar- dos ship has been more affected than the history of the South. In 1965, anew book, Writing Southern History, presented an overview of Southern scholarship to that time. scholarship has In the 20 years following, enough major •

taken place to make its sequel-in-spirit, Interpreting LaVergne Southern History, bigger in both size and scope. As Sanford Higginbotham notes, "The world has moved a lot since 1965, and so has Southern history." Tommy While Writing Southern History focused on white by men, slaves, politics and war, Interpreting Southern His- tory expands to cover freedmen, women, religion and - Photo economics. Instead of emphasizing Southern history in JohnJohnB. Boles (L) and Sanford W. Higginbotham the years immediately surrounding the Civil War, historians are now looking at everything from slavery in the the study of religion in the South, will be dominant proach. But there is no light from on-high that is going to 17th-century colonies to the war's effects on 20th-century fields in Southern scholarship for the next 15-20 years, suddenly clarify everything." economy and race relations. during which time Boles hopes to see yet another virtu- Beyond a few "gross generalizations," Boles says, Though Civil War military studies continue, social ally ignored population group gain interest — the non- the nature of historians is not to accept a given theory concerns have dominated scholarship in the last two slaveholding, non-planter Southern whites. "As without challenge. "Everybody now agrees that slavery decades. Much of the period's major work resulted, di- historians, we have gotten ourselves into an odd situa- was wrong," he says. "Everybody agrees that it was rectly or indirectly, from the 1960s civil rights movement. tion," he says."We know a great deal about wealthy somehow to the national good that the North won the "Changes in societal attitudes greatly affect his- Southern planters and, in the past 20 years, we have Civil War. Everybody now realizes that Reconstruction tory," says John Boles. "In the 1960s, for example, Ameri- learned a great deal about slavery. But the majority pop- was much more complex than the evil horror show it was cans became very interested in, and concerned with, ulation in the antebellum South was non-slaveholding presented to be 70 or 80 years ago. how we became a nation so divided by race. As people whites, and we know very little about them." "But history is a dialogue between the present and asked questions, they began looking to the South with Despite new trends in Southern scholarship, Boles the past. When the present changes, it throws up new its long history of racism." and Higginbotham are quick to point out that even questions that we take back to the past in search of an- Developing black studies had a ripple effect on "older" fields such as military history are not exhausted. swers. Southern history as a whole, Higginbotham says. Just as "One area will go forward until it seems to run out of "Too often, people think history is dead — that his- a "blacklight" will illuminate new details on an object gas. Then, someone will come up with a new perspec- tory is facts and events chronologically arranged and over which it shines, black studies affected not only tive and it will move forward again," Higginbotham that once it's written, it's finished. But it's a very dy- studies of slavery, but those dealing with politics, eco- says. "And just because something is 'scholarly' doesn't namic, ongoing concern and, in that sense, every gener- nomics,class—virtually every aspect of Southern culture. mean it's true. It might be a correction. It might be an ation does write its own history." Women's history and another relatively new area, approach that is nearer the truth than the previous ap- — Suzanne Johnson Detour to History The line tracing the map of our lives often wanders a completed part of the work at the University of Pennsyl- served as assistant to the president, foreign student ad- winding path, taking sidesteps and diversions that vania and, in 1941, he returned to Penn to work on his viser, dean of students, professor of history — a little of might veer us temporarily off course or change our direc- doctorate. He married "an adventuresome woman — everything, including involvement in a conflict over edition entirely. In this regard, Sanford Wilson Higginbo- God knows I didn't have any money," and then, he says, torial authority between the Thresher and the adminis- tham '34 is no exception. "the Japanese got around to Pearl Harbor." tration. He took his first American history course at Rice in Anxious to join the overseas war effort, he applied Finally, relief came in the form of the Journal of 1932 simply because it fit into his schedule. More than 55 for a Naval position as an aviation intelligence officer Southern History which, in 1965, needed a managing ed- years later, he would be honored by a symposium in but was turned down. He was undaunted. "I went down itor. After following a "wiggled path" for more than 30 Southern history and a book, Interpreting Southern His- there and talked to this crusty Marine colonel," he says. years, Hig had found his niche. tory, containing essays from that symposium. In be- "I told him the Navy had turned me down. He said, Higginbotham served as managing editor of JSH for tween came more detours than he ever could have 'Here's a round hole. Can you find a peg to fit it?' Within 18 years — 18 good years. The statistics include steady foreseen. six weeks, I had a commission as a second lieutenant in growth in Southern Historical Association membership Higginbotham, affectionately called "Hig" by nearly the Marine Corps." from 2,969 in 1965 to 4,537 in 1983, the year of his retire- all who know him, left Rice Institute in 1934 with "hon- After the war, Higginbotham accepted a teaching ment. During that time, he edited some 288 articles for ors"(the equivalent of a major) in both history and position at Ole Miss and completed his Ph.D. from Penn. publication and read countless submissions. According accounting. Living in Oxford, Miss., in 1949, he prepared to celebrate to his colleagues over those years, his editing style was Thinking all along that he would take a job with a his wife's birthday and the first day of classes. An- characterized by blunt opinions, prompt communica- Houston bank where he had worked throughout college, other surprise arrived that day, however — his orders to tions, a caring attitude and an impeccable sense of de- a tenuous thread of acquaintances led him instead to ac- report to Korea. tail. cept a job with the United Gas Pipeline in Refugio, "A month later. I was in Wonsan," he says. "I was If the job called for authority, he assumed it. Even Texas. In those lean years, the higher-paying pipeline with the First Provisional Historical Platoon, which I now, he exudes an ease with decision-making tempered job was something he simply couldn't refuse. considered a boondoggle. Someone at Marine head- with an ability to assess — and accept — the role he is An enterprising youth with an adventurous streak, quarters had the notion that a junior captain could sit in called to fill. Higginbotham set out for the pipeline, never dreaming on all the top-secret planning and write it up for history. He is no longer the man in charge, but he becomes he would return to Rice after a 30-year absence to hold It was really a pretty stupid idea." animated when describing his part-time work with the the longest tenure to date as managing editor of the After completing his duty at Cherry Point, N.C., Hig- Rice-based Jefferson Davis Papers. He checks facts, Journal of Southern History, ginbotham returned to Ole Miss where, among other du- reads proofs and, best of all, stays actively involved in The pipeline occupied Hig full-time for four years, ties, he became editor of the Journal of Mississippi the field in which he has played such an important part. until a former Rice history professor then at Louisiana History. With civil rights activities hitting a peak and It is his years of leadership, professionalism and State University persuaded him to pursue a master's de- Ole Miss right in the middle, Higginbotham headed personal integrity at the helm of ISH that Interpreting gree. While at LSU, he got his first "hands-on" experi- again for Pennsylvania, where he worked for the Penn- Southern History honors. ence with the Journal of Southern History, working under sylvania Historical Museum Committee until receiving a He was touched by the tribute from his former JSH original ISH editor Wendell H. Stephenson. job offer from Rice in 1961. colleagues, but maintains his trademark no-fuss man- It was an experience that would serve him well sev- Back at Rice, things went none too well. Hired when ner. "I tried to do the best I could, and apparently people eral decades later. But first, he had other detours to members of the university expected Carey Croneis to be think I did right," he says. take. named president, he found himself somewhat of a "su- "You have a job — you do it. That's all." Though Hig received his master's from LSU, he had pernumerary" once Kenneth Pitzer took the helm. He — Andre Fox

SALLYPORT—JUNE-AUGUST 1987 11 Commencement 1987

Photos by Tommy C. LaVergne

ice University President George Rupp and friends testifies to the continuing vitality of awarded a record 1,001 undergraduate the bonds of those communities that have nur- and graduate degrees at commence- tured you. Here at Rice you have also developed R ment ceremonies Saturday, May 9. close ties that have bound you together for four or Surrounded by families, friends and general more years and will continue to support you in the well-wishers, the new Rice graduates included years ahead. 20 summa cum laude honorees from a class that "But as you commence from this place, you included 155 National Merit Scholars. also are moving on to a new stage in your lives, Earlier in the week, Rupp had signed each of new circles of friends, acquaintances, colleagues, the 1,001 sheepskin diplomas. Since presenting its new settings for work and play. The challenge be- first degrees in 1916, Rice has awarded 31,425. fore you as you move into those new situations is This year's degrees included 648 bachelor's, 260 to escape imprisonment in your own self- master's and 92 Ph.D.s. preoccupation in the present. Your individual ca- Rupp sent Rice's new alumni into the world reer and your personal enjoyment are surely with a challenge to give long-term fulfillment pri- important. But individual success and personal ority over short-term gratification. pleasure are sustaining only when they are rooted Noting that commencement represented both in and nourished by the relationships on which "a celebration of memory and hope" for the gradu- they depend. ates, he challenged the graduates to "participate "So begin with family and friends. Take care in a corporate story, a community of memory and and time to maintain and build those relation- hope, that is larger than our individual selves. ships. From there extend yourselves further. Seek "This challenge confronts all of us. But I want out communities that elicit your support and par- to pose it for you graduates in particular," Rupp ticipate in them. Be open to causes that attract or said. "You have come to this place from a great even compel your commitment. many communities rooted in a rich diversity of tra- "In short, allow yourself to be liberated from ditions. The presence of so many family members the prison of self-preoccupation in the present."

4.1 ..-...... , month I'll know exactly what I'll be doing and with Portrait by Ellis Vener/Photo by Tommy LcIVergne whom. tiamaalut 29 We had an informal meeting tonight of the OUT- Reach program's core "steering committee," plus a few other students who are interested in helping out with our activities this spring. In addition, we talked a lot about the program in general and all the things that need to be improved. A group of five of us started this community volunteer program last year, and only four of us (three of whom are seniors) were left this year. Who will be taking over all the responsibility to keep the program going? It's something we're really concerned about. Even as committed to the program as we are, it has been difficult at times to take care of every last detail and devote so much time to the program when our schoolwork severely needed atten- tion. But we have managed because we really felt an attachment to the program after all the effort we put into getting it off the ground last year. While there have been, and still are, several students who are genuinely interested in the program, will they be willing to take the program "under their wings"? Will they not only keep the Patti Lipoma '87 program going, but continue to make progress and improvements? It's scary to think that something you have worked so hard for and given so much time to could simply disintegrate.

qeklaaiut 2 I really think graduating seniors should be allowed to spend their final semester at Rice doing nothing but interviewing for jobs, applying to e is necessary to plan Ybia4iojc liadual graduate schools or whatever their futures. I have barely been able to keep up g with my work — I never thought I'd see the day when rushing to get homework done, cramming by Patti Lipoma '87 for exams the night before and skipping classes would become habits! And there are others in 05.97ORS NOT.9 198 1, a 44 A.ce doploejm 2thie141/1642, 7&xc„1, wancleized ilv2ouctitt4e cat4- worse shape than I am. It's not just the actual in- 7es1ae4,ate cletoie ritoi2e liote cia4s- terview time(which in January and February has a week), but eci4 ai Rice. 74/4-illaie exce4pts involved as many as four interviews wo4adIedsI "cIadSioIeS, it's also the preparation time — reading about the kon heii#444/a/ pi200e, wca a koie cijioale joaiciiid and iooiea,q oicau pp./J.404-a 4i41 firm and getting yourself "psyched up" for the in- ei44 terview. And that's just for the interviews in the j campus placement office — office visits involve at least one full day, often more. amaa/ut 14 difficult. Using my "freshman mentality," I rea- I don't really mean to complain — I feel fortu- i so many interviews and several I had a really nice dinner with a good friend to- soned that an "A" in French (which wouldn't be too nate to be having but it has made for a very hectic and night at Butera's. Our situation as two senior difficult since I'd had a lot of Spanish and Italian) call-backs, so far, and there's nothing economics/managerial studies majors interview- would help ensure a reasonably high GPA and frustrating semester last semester being behind. ing for all the same jobs had the potential of being would therefore be worth taking, even though I re- like starting out your interviewing process is cru- very awkward, but we've managed to weather the ally have no desire to learn French. Fortunately, On one hand, the else should take a storm. We've both had offers for jobs that we'd re- my "senior mentality" won, convincing me to take cial, and, logically, everything it's all over — after all, these are ally enjoy in the cities of our choice — Boston for the economics course, which, even though it was back seat until our careers we're talking about. her and New York for me — and even though we more difficult, was more relevant for me. our futures and keeps reminding me,"Your GPA are both still interviewing, we both feel a lot more I have become considerably less grade con- Yet, as my father the rest of your life." None of relaxed and less worried that the other is going to scious this year and more concerned with graduat- will be with you for reminded of that little detail! I get all the offers and that "I" will end up unem- ing with the feeling that I've really learned us needs to be last semester to be memorable for ployed! something. I guess it's that "senior mentality" would like my as the semester that I barely I don't know with certainty how often this situ- again. good reasons, not ation of close friends competing with each other pulled through. myself that by mid-March, when for jobs here at Rice occurs, but I have a feeling I keep telling aw.,.28 is over and I know exactly where that it's more prevalent than we all would like. It's h the interviewing I'll be able to catch up. almost inevitable that one person will get more I ordered my graduation announcements and my I'll be next fall, or the offer while the other will get noth- cap and gown today, so I guess it's official — I'm job offers geigiuccrif 3 ing or have to settle for less than he or she finally going to graduate! I thought I would get at could happen to me wanted. How we handle this situation says a lot least a little depressed as the time grew closer Think of the worst thing that yesterday's entry about the strength of our friendships. when I would no longer be a college student, at this point, keeping in mind when I would be finished with the "four greatest (lots of interviews and failing school). "Getting haw,"19 years of my life." But now that graduation is only a sick," you say? Bingo! I had a feeling this would It's amazing how my attitude toward school has few months away, I'm looking ahead to a new be- happen, with my roommate and another close changed since I was a freshman — I took 19(!) ginning instead of looking back on all the things friend coming down with colds — it was only a hours in the fall of my freshman year and I'm now I'll miss about Rice. In other words, it's been great matter of time before I got my share. I made a mad taking 12. Of course, before I make myself sound but I'm ready to move on. dash to Walgreen's for Vitamin C tablets, Sudafed like I've become totally overcome by "senioritis," Another exciting thing happened today. I had and juice, but it's hard to tell if I've gotten it in let me salvage a little self-esteem by explaining an interview with a firm that I'm really interested time. that I'm working on a very challenging indepen- in, and it went great! I never thought it would hap- Needless to say, being drugged up and voice- dent research project, I'm a coordinator for a com- pen, but I'm finally getting the hang of this inter- less is not the ideal condition in which to convince munity service project and I work 15 hours a week. viewing business. Once you've had a couple that someone that they want to hire you, but I'll give it But my attitude toward grades and my reason- are pretty thorough and probing, you get more my best shot. There's just no time to stop and be ing in deciding which courses to take is decidedly comfortable with the kind of questions you'll be sick. different — I'd like to think it's more mature. For asked and more sure of the answers you want to Ma/wit 11 example, I almost took 13 hours this semester, tak- give. It has become almost like a game, and I find I really can't being French 101 instead of an upper-level eco- myself almost looking forward to the next inter- The interviewing process is over! this free time? nomics course that I had heard was rather view instead of dreading it. I hope within the next lieve it — what will I do with all of

14 SALLYPORT—JUNE-AUGUST 1987 (Try to catch up on my schoolwork so I can gradu- This will be my first experience with a long- — I'm pretty happy with who I've become.(What's ate, that's what.)I feel like the pressure of my sen- distance relationship, so I'm a bit nervous. I'm go- really funny is that I'll probably feel the same way ior year is over — until I remember my research ing to miss him, but maybe it won't take too long in a few years about the incredibly naive and im- paper. to get used to talking to him on the•phone and mature person who graduated from Rice back in In the past, when I've had a really important writing letters. I think the hardest thing for me will 1987!) and time-consuming project, I've dreaded getting be not getting so involved in my new life in Boston 4pitii 14 always knew it would get done. that I let our relationship fade. started on it but I've been having a lot of really violent dreams different story. I can't make my- He is more worried about what's going to hap- Now, it's a whole lately. Since I haven't seen any violent movies re- and for more than 30 pen after we make it through the next two years. self sit down concentrate cently, I can only attribute them to anxiety about All I do is daydream about this come to Boston to earn his master's in real minutes at a time. Will he my immediate future. I didn't think I was that ap- my job. Is (he there also)? Will he summer, moving to Boston and starting estate at MIT was accepted prehensive about the "big move," but I guess, sub- this the same grade-conscious girl who started at want to stay in California or go back to Texas? consciously, I am. career this university four years ago? Will I want to stay in Boston and build my I've already decided to try and find a room- with Bain? mate. It hit me the other night that I don't want to Ma4ch 23 and many, For answers to these questions live alone, at least not at first. I had been thinking again in 1989. Right now, all Tonight, we had interviews for new OUTReach co- many more, tune in all this time that there was no way I would want to a time. ordinators. We decided the only way to ensure we can do is take it one day at live with another person. I couldn't wait to have that people would be committed to the program my own place to fix up. But the more I thought to 4piril2 and to handling the details would be have "for- about it, the more I thought how nice it would be to mal" interviews for particular positions. We had One of my really close friends has been having have a roommate to run around with. I don't want very He'll grad- nine people interview, and they seem excited some really tough luck in finding a job. to fall into the trap of coming home each evening about working with the program next year. They uate with a degree in mechanical engineering, and spending all that time alone. have a lot of good ideas. I feel much more relaxed but he's really not crazy about working in an engi- A friend of mine at Yale knows someone in about leaving them in charge. neering job. Nevertheless, he's interviewed with Boston who is looking for a roommate to live with almost every engineering firm that has come to her and her sister in a three-bedroom condomin- Maiwit 26 Rice, as well as with firms who were interviewing ium. It's only two blocks away from where I'll be I've been thinking a lot about Houston these past all majors. He's had two office visits so far, neither working. I talked to them a few days ago and few weeks. Driving the freeways and through the of which led to offers, out of nearly 30 interviews should hear something in about a week. downtown area and just being around Rice, I've since September. been trying to see Houston as a non-native Housto- I have another friend at Rice, one I went to 4p441 f7 nian would. I guess the prospect of leaving a high school with, who's also having a hard time One of the friends I was worried about got his first place forces a person to look more objectively at finding a job (he's a civil engineering major). job offer today! I think I'm more excited about it what he or she is leaving. Also, as I start meeting What's really sobering to me is that both guys are than he is. Seriously, though, even though the job a lot of people who have never been to Houston, considerably smarter than I am. I mean, they are is in Houston (he's originally from New York), I much less lived here, I want to have some concep- naturally brilliant, and I sincerely don't believe know he's relieved. tion of what type of place they will associate me that I am. The difference is that I've worked really with. hard to make good grades at Rice, whereas they 4fvui 30 In most of my interviews on the East Coast, worked hard enough but didn't consider the Well, I finished college at 10:30 a.m. I can't believe people asked how Houston was surviving the oil grades that important. I'm glad all the hard work it's all over — it is the strangest feeling to have crunch. I think that's the first thing everyone has paid off. what are supposed to be the best four years of my thinks of these days when they think of Houston. I hope they find something soon, though. life over with. I feel old. One particular comment made by an interviewer Graduation's not far away. I remember the first semester of my freshman stands out and is probably largely responsible for year like it was yesterday. I thought I'd never my taking a closer look at my native city. He said eirviii 6 make it through that semester, let alone four the thing that really struck him about Houston was Another friend just heard today that he has been years. It's funny that, now, it doesn't seem that big the absence of people walking around downtown accepted into flight school for the Navy. He's been of a deal — just something that was inevitable. — most are walking around underground! I had in the Navy ROTC at Rice and has spent his sum- I look back on the last four years and just can't never even taken notice of this phenomenon, and mers on ships all over the world. He had a pretty believe that it's been that long since I first set foot it certainly would never have been part of my de- good idea that he would get in, but couldn't really on this campus. I can remember the things that scription of the city. relax until he knew for certain. He'll be going to went through my mind as I walked the same paths My feelings about leaving Houston are ambig- Pensacola, Fla., which I'm sure makes his parents my freshman, sophomore and junior years. Each uous. On the one hand, I can't wait to leave — I've happy since they live in Miami. year seems so distinct. lived here for 21 years. The thought of staying in He is usually rather reserved and low-key My freshman year: I was bubbly and naive the Houston area my whole life without ever hav- about everything, and he is very humble. But we and very intense about my schoolwork. I first met ing known what it's like to live in a different part can tell he's excited — he got out a book of planes my boyfriend. I got along very well with my par- of the country is a scary thought indeed. Yet, when and showed all of us which ones he'll be flying. Of ents that year. I look at what my life has been like in the Houston course, much to his chagrin, we all made him de- My sophomore year: I lived off-campus and area, I really can't say that I wish I had grown up scribe his future experiences in terms of the movie felt very isolated from my friends at school. My re- somewhere else. At the risk of being labeled "Top Gun." Unfortunately, that's the only thing we lationship with my parents was strained, and my "Houston Proud"(the most nauseating slogan civilians can relate to. mother's health began to deteriorate rapidly. My around these days), I must say that I have loved sophomore year was very lonely. my time here and I'll be proud to tell people where teimil 13 My junior year: I moved back on campus and I'm from. I don't know when, if ever, I'll be back to Tonight I got a phone call from a guy I dated the once again felt more like a part of college life. I Houston to stay, but if this is where I end up, I summer before my freshman year at Rice(and still studied quite a bit, but I made time for other won't complain. about three weeks into my first semester). We've things and had some fun instead of spending all talked a few times over the past few years, but to- my time with the books. Maitch 27 night something really hit me. I feel like a totally My senior year: What can I say that hasn't My boyfriend just found out today that he got ac- different person from the me that he knew almost been said already? It has been a great year, but cepted to Stanford Business School. He had al- four years ago. It was such a strange feeling — it studying has become a real drag. I've felt some- ready heard from UCLA, but Stanford is definitely was as if he was talking to the person I used to be, where in between student and professional. So his first choice. I'm really happy for him because I and here I was on this end of the phone, a total much of my time has been spent thinking about know it's something he really wanted. stranger. and preparing for my career that I haven't felt im- He graduated from Rice two years ago and It's not that I've been doing so many new mersed in college and student life like I did in the we've been going out for three years now — the things and he hasn't. It's just that he still seems past. It's a very weird feeling, kind of like not hav- longest I've ever gone out with anyone. Now that like pretty much the same person. I, on the other ing a real identity — not a student any more, but plans for the immediate future have firmed up for hand, feel worlds away from who I used to be. I not yet a working person! both of us, we can realistically look at what the can't really attribute it to one experience or period I plan to hang around here until the day be- chances are for our relationship to survive. We — I guess it's been all of the experiences of the fore graduation, going through my things and couldn't have gotten farther away from each other college years. And Rice, without a doubt, did its spending time with people I won't be seeing for a if we'd tried — Boston and San Francisco. I can al- share in shaping and refining me into the person I while. ready hear the thud of my phone bills as they roll am now. I don't mean to assume a snobbish atti- in each month. tude, but there's definitely something to be said Mal 9, 1987 But we both feel confident that we'll make it about the unique(and, I feel, enlightening) experi- "Senioritis" notwithstanding, Patricia Annette Li- through the next two years. We'll both be busy do- ence of being at Rice University for four years. poma spent most of her four college years on the ing what we think is best for us and believe this It's a little sad that I feel so different and dis- President's Honor Roll. On May 9, 1987, she gradu- will be a good test of our relationship — if we can tant from this and my other friends from high ated Phi Beta Kappa from Rice University and has stay close even though we're a continent apart, we school — people I thought the world of at one time. since joined the staff of Bain & Co., a national should be in pretty good shape. But I can't say that I wish I were that same person management consulting firm based in Boston.

SALLYPORT—JUNE-AUGUST 1987 1 5 Perfect Timing

by Steve Brynes

David Scott stretches the boundaries of statistics to study questions of nature such as why 'Old Faithful' isn't so faithful after all.

David Scott Photo by Tommy LaVergne

ike many celebrities, the "Old Faithful" probability density estimation) in which a family geyser at Yellowstone National Park of flexible curves or surfaces is used to model the sometimes falls short of its reputation. frequency of various events. This derives from the LTourist folklore has it that "Old Faithful" work of Karl Pearson, considered the father of erupts every 60 to 65 minutes. Much of the time it modern statistics, around the turn of the century. does, although lengthy periods of inactivity have In contrast to the work of pure mathematics, also been noted, a condition some geologists at- Scott's research does not aim at finding an abso- tribute to earthquakes and seismic faults. lute truth, but, in many cases, only rough approxi- Another irregularity is the length of the erup- mations. "There is insufficient appreciation here tion itself, varying from one to six minutes, but of the critical role of model building in these situa- tending to be either one or the other. In the lan- tions," he says. "For example, the 'nuclear winter' guage of statistics, this is "bimodal distribution," scenario proposed by Carl Sagan and co-workers with two clusters of data, each following the fa- followed from a mathematical model that has re- miliar bell-shaped curve. cently been shown to be severely defective and 0 min faulty in its conclusions. The model builders for- Under the Volcano. This three-dimensional stereo- Reality is more complicated, says David Scott got that the oceans are a tremendous reservoir of of statistics. "A bimodal distribution in two dimen- scopic view of the epicenters of 510 small earth- heat." quakes that preceded the March 1982 Mount St. sions tells only part of the story. Representations Scott's background is unusual in that he re- in three dimensions show additional information Helens eruptions shows that the origins of these ceived all of his higher education and has spent quakes fall into three clusters stacked on top of each lurking in the data about the sequence of these nearly all his professional career at Rice. "My un- other. Scott recommends that viewers either cross eruptions." In the adjacent three-dimensional per- dergraduate plan was a joint electrical engineer- their eyes or hold a finger about six inches away spective drawing we see only three bumps instead ing and mathematics major, but then I had a class from their noses, thus fusing the stereo image in the of the expected four. The missing bump would rep- with Jim Thompson(now a Rice colleague and col- middle. resent successive short eruptions. Only short- laborator) who introduced me to statistics, later di- long, long-long and long-short sequences are rected my thesis (together with Richard Tapia, observed. another colleague), and then suggested my return- "Why this odd state of affairs exists is any- ing to Rice. After three years 'across the street' as one's guess," Scott says. "Modern geology shows a research statistician at the Baylor College of us that the Earth's crust is dynamic and changing, Medicine, I joined the Rice faculty as an assistant with many variables either unpredictable or un- professor and have been here ever since. Very known." A similar complexity is shown in the next simply, it is a good place to teach and do re- L illustration showing the places of origin (epicen- search." ters) of 510 small earthquakes that preceded the A significant professional honor came to Scott Mount St. Helens eruption of March 1982. "It's in- recently in his selection as a Fellow of the Ameri- teresting to note that the earthquake locations are can Association for the Advancement of Science. not distributed either uniformly or in a bell- "I'm not a fellow of the several professional statis- shaped curve," says Scott. "Instead, they are con- tician societies," he says,"and the AAAS selection centrated in three distinct clusters, stacked one would seem to reflect my involvement in the re- upon the other but with gaps. search of other scientists." "I'm not a geologist, but most of the data I An unusual aspect of his personal life is his work with is similar to this; i.e. requiring repre- interest in riding a unicycle. He also skis cross- sentation in three or more dimensions and often country with his wife and three young children. Old Not-So Faithful. This three-dimensional perspec- unwieldy. The question is: how can the signal be "I'm fascinated by the problems of balance," he tive drawing groups the hourly eruptions of the "Old separated from the noise?" says. "In my career, also, there is a balance be- Faithful" geyser into sequences of long and short. In trying to answer this, Scott uses an ap- tween the real world and mathematics, and I try to Had it been present, the short-short sequence would proach (with the unwieldy name of nonparametric accommodate both." have occupied the left foreground.

16 SALLYPORT—JUNE-AUGUST 1987 P4ople

Keeping the faith:'Castlemaker' Nell Harris

by Peggie I. Evans

In the early 1940s, panic was growing — allowed her to secure funds for opening not over the escalating war but over and running Hedgecroft. "Never in my something closer to home, a disease that (two) marriages did I feel my husbands was spreading like wildfire. Its victims were responsible for my debts," she says. were mostly children, its cause and cure "And I never felt discriminated against unknown, its treatment ineffectual, its ef- because lam a woman." She does, how- fects crippling. Its name was poliomyeli- ever, remember that during her tenure as tis. president of an association of Houston In Houston, community hysteria had hospitals she was the "least paid." reached the point that, by the summer of Her independence also gave her the 1944, only the county hospital would ac- courage to continue working around a cept polio patients. There, the afflicted disease that had the entire country in a children were consigned to the "pest panic. "People would walk to the other house," the facility's isolation ward. side of the street to avoid passing by Orthodox treatment consisted of com- Hedgecroft," she recalls. To safeguard plete rest and immobilization of the af- her own health, she took disinfectant flicted limbs. Though surgery could baths after returning home from the hos- sometimes correct the deformity that re- pital each day. sulted, polio generally left its victims America's polio epidemic reached its crippled. peak in 1950 and, in 1953, Jonas Salk pat- There was in Houston at that time, ented the vaccine that would eventually however, a woman for whom orthodoxy put an end to the dreaded disease. held no fascination. And it was to Nell The resentment Harris had built up in Harris '25 and her Hedgecroft Hospital, a Houston's medical community came to a facility offering general rehabilitation head in the early 1960s. While Harris re- programs, that many of Houston's polio cuperated from an illness and without victims turned for help. her approval, Hedgecroft was first con- Harris' treatment for polio victims verted into a psychiatric hospital, then stirred controversy among Houston doc- closed down. When she returned, she tors. Rather than following accepted found the building itself had been bull- go back, medical treatment, immobilizing polio dozed. "When I got ready to back victims and putting them in braces, there literally wasn't anything to go Harris, a lay worker, packed the partially to," she says. paralyzed limbs in hot packs and exer- By that time, through an agreement to no avail, cised the affected muscles. whose terms Harris disputed As more crippled patients responded the property reverted to Jesse Jones' Hous- to Harris' treatment, her Hedgecroft Hos- ton Endowment. for long, pital won growing acclaim and the in- Not one to be kept down creasing support of once-skeptical and Harris turned her energies to the enter- bringing resentful doctors. Yet, braces remained tainment promotion business, the prescribed polio treatment of many stars like Joan Sutherland and Broadway physicians, who scorned the woman es- shows like "Porgy and Bess" to Houston. many her teemed by thankful patients, parents and In the early 1970s, when she turned to real the Houston public. age had long retired, Harris recently wrote the story of her estate for another successful tenure. fictional alter- trials and successes in working with po- Ellen Willman, Harris' handsome woman, lio and other physically handicapped pa- ego, is a strikingly was in her younger tients at Hedgecroft, which she founded just as the author today. In her book, in 1942. The resulting book, a fictional- years and remains the pain of having to ized account in which Harris is portrayed Harris writes about and the long days by the character of Ellen Willman, is The turn patients away, the stricken. Castlemaker. and nights of tending to the fun of 1950s "The part about Hedgecroft is true," She also writes of divorced, Harris took an Harris says, adding coyly, "The romance Houston. By then McCarthy's Shamrock part is fiction." apartment in Glen in Houston's Harris went the traditional route of Hotel, enjoying the swirl of doctors, bankers marriage and family after graduating high society circles from Rice. It was not until the early 1940s, and oil kings. however, Hedgecroft after tutoring a 7-year-old polio victim in Nell Harris Behind the fun, "I had my share of her home, that she first developed an in- always came first. Harris says. "But I terest in physical therapy. handicapped, including polio victims, in hospital. work as well as play," I always had a In Australia, a nurse known simply a reconverted Montrose Boulevard man- Hedgecroft and the county hospital never felt worked down. as Sister Kenny had gained publicity by sion. Hedgecroft Hospital was born. were still the only two facilities in Hous- lot of fun." her skin smooth, hot-packing and exercising partially par- Harris attended medical school for ton that would take polio victims. While Her eyes clear, today. Looking 25 alyzed muscles, hoping to postpone com- three years while running Hedgecroft. Hedgecroft relied heavily on rehabilita- Harris still has fun age, which she plete paralysis and eventually teach the However, she opted to become a licensed tive therapy involving exercise, the years younger than her lives in com- afflicted muscles to work again. Her tech- physical therapist instead of pursuing a method pioneered by Sister Kenny, the tells only in confidence, she townhome near the niques had thus far not impressed the career as a doctor. county hospital immobilized their pa- fortable elegance in a active and, with "two American medical community, but they In 1949, with the number of polio vic- tients and put them in braces. With better Galleria. Her life is her social calen- impressed Harris — since taking the tims increasing, Harris decided to incor- results, Hedgecroft, even with its ex- or three dates a week," polio victim as her student, she porate Hedgecroft as a non-profit facility panded facilities, attracted more patients dar crowded. young eyes on the in order to serve the growing numbers than there was available space. "My life is full," she says, her had read everything available independence seeking the clinic's help — she couldn't Though she would have liked the twinkling with the spark of subject. throughout The more Harris learned about polio bear to turn them away. With the help of widespread support of the medical com- that has been characteristic not been dull. I and its crippling effects, the more she the late Jesse Jones, the Houston philan- munity, Harris was determined enough in her career. "And it has routine living very well — I wanted to learn. In 1942, using borrowed thropist, Harris was able to move into a her belief to survive without it. don't take funds, she opened a private clinic for the larger mansion converted into a 90-bed The same fierce independence had have to stir up something."

SALLYPORT—JUNE-AUGUST 1987 17 1987 grads are undergoing a period of ferent at different stages of the game." transition as old and new aspects of their Going for the Gold Commenting on the bad rap some- lives blend together. Olympic hopeful Re- times given to the scholar/athlete at Rice gina Cavanaugh '87, winner of three in- by Andre Fox Cavanaugh says, "They set themselves door and three outdoor NCAA crowns up for it. It's not only the male athletes. (with 12 SWC titles in shot put and dis- The female athletes also tend to think cus), has almost been too busy to contem- that they are superior to others because plate the changes. of their athletic ability. It's not exactly "It really hasn't hit me yet that I've their fault. Their parents, their coaches, graduated," she says. "Five years went their friends put them on a little pedestal. by so quickly. I'm still in track season so I "When you get to Rice University ev- really did not feel that I had graduated eryone here is very special and has very from Rice until after the NCAA." Even so, special talents and no one here is on a her last collegiate meet and also the last pedestal. You are not at Texas A&M SWC meet were special ones. "Those two where the football players are considered meets told me,'Regina, it's coming to an demigods(her 18-year-old, 270-pound "lit- end now. You have to be more disciplined tle brother" plays for A&M). This is a to- than ever before.'" tally different atmosphere. Just because While collegiate competition was de- you have an athletic talent does not make manding, this year Cavanaugh will need you better than someone who has an aca- to go to bigger meets and compete with demic talent be it in engineering. English the top female shot putters in the U.S. in or whatever. Athletes here need to get off order to beat her competition for a place their high-horse and face reality that ev- on the 1988 Olympic team. She will also eryone is an individual and that no one is try to break through the (58'1") distance superior to another. I'm not saying that barrier that represents her personal best. all of them (athletes) do, but some of them "In 1984 I was alternate and I missed still do. making the Olympic team by only three- "Another reason some athletes might and-three-quarter inches. That was my get a bad rap is the elitist attitude they greatest achievement and also the most may have. They sometimes take it too far. disappointing. I have yet to achieve my They sit at the back of the classrooms and ultimate goal. Nothing is going to com- are disruptive. Again, I'm not saying all pare to making the Olympic team." the athletes do it, but it only takes one This past year Cavanaugh has expe- athlete to give all athletes a bad rap." rienced a few physical setbacks. She had "My training time takes anywhere teams. "But," she says half in jest, "what She is optimistic that things will surgery on her right elbow (her throwing from two-to-six hours a day — six days a would that do to my MCAT studying?" change. "I think Coach Berndt is already arm)and two-to-three months ago she week. I normally have one day of rest. Cavanaugh, a pre-med major who main- working on sitting down and discussing found out about torn cartilage in her Right now, I'm practicing three-to-four tained a 3.49 cumulative grade-point av- with the athletes the image that they por- power leg. She says, "I'm not throwing as hours during my season. In the fall dur- erage, long ago learned to juggle her tray and how it affects the support and well as I would like to be, but I'm optimis- ing conditioning work, it's more like two academic and athletic duties. "It is very non-support that they receive. tic about next year." Her knee is allowing hours." Cavanaugh expects to work 30-40 typical for Rice students to have their "As a woman athlete I have gotten her to train and her upper body is hours per week at the hospital. books out at the actual track meet in be- more suport than I can imagine. My pro- stronger than ever. People often underestimate the time tween their races or while they are trying fessors have always been supportive not The frustrating dilemma Cavanaugh and money necessary to train for Olympic to watch their teammates," she recalls. only of my athletic endeavors but my faced in 1987 was not solely whether or competition. "People really don't under- "There were many times I pulled all- academic ones as well." not to train for the Olympics. "It's sad but stand," Cavanaugh says. "I think the nighters studying and then went to prac- Cavanaugh says she wishes that true," she explains. "The first thing that words'amateur' and 'professional' should tice. I mean you just do that. You have to." more faculty would understand the time enters your mind is,'How are you going be thrown out completely from athletics. During these pretrial months, Cava- demands placed not only on athletes but to make ends meet? How do you train and If you want to be the best in the world, naugh will continue training with Victor on architecture and music students as pay your bills?'" you have to train like a professional. Like Lopez, head coach of Rice Owls women's well. "The time demands are incredible. She is 22, the oldest of five children; anything else, it is your career. That is track and field. "I'll probably come to Although we have these demands, we the other brothers and sisters follow close your job. That is where you put your time. practice between 10 and 11 o'clock. That's still have to perform in the classroom. behind. Her mother is a single head of It is very difficult if you want to be an ath- when his athletes are in class, so there There is no substitute for that. But to have the household. "You know at my age you lete because most of the time you are not will be no conflict with the team's prac- an understanding that I have a concert to- should be out from under your mother's paid to do that." tices. Victor is the one who got me where night or a competition this weekend, and wing. That was foremost in my mind." Presently, Cavanaugh's career plans I am today. He is my best friend. I have a 'May I have the option to turn in the work Many persons, including Dale are on hold. Since she plans to become a wonderful relationship with him and his on Monday instead of Friday?' Not to Spence '56(professor of health and physi- doctor, it was especially important for her wife and family. I feel very much a part of abuse that privilege, but to on occasion cal education), Joyce Pounds Hardy '45 to find a medically-related job such as their family, too." have it helps. and Dr. and Mrs. Ron Sass(Sass is a Rice her present one. This fall she plans on Looking ahead to the games, politi- "I know how I felt this past five years. biology professor), have actively taking the MCAT."I'm having a little dif- cal unrest in Seoul, Korea (the 1988 Olym- I was always behind the power curve. Al- searched for a practical solution. Re- ficulty scheduling time to study for it," pics site), is becoming a concern for the ways. As soon as I turned in one paper a cently, it came in the form of a one-year she says. "However, one thing that my athletes. Without hesitation, Cavanaugh test was coming up. I know all students contract with Park Plaza Hospital, where years at Rice taught me was time man- concludes, "You can't let that affect your feel like this. But an athlete and perhaps she previously worked part-time as a fit- agement." training. Who knows what the world situ- a musician and an architectural student, ness trainer. The hospital, in conjunction The June 27-28 weekend, TAC Nation- ation will be like next summer? I wish the they are probably in the same boat. They with the Olympic Job Opportunities Pro- als, will define the remainder of her sea- games were somewhat like they were in are just always behind." gram, created a special working situa- son. "How you place in this national meet ancient Greece. All war stopped. All Athletes at Rice really appreciate the tion for Cavanaugh. determines which national teams you roads, even ones where wars were being opportunity that Rice has given them to "Honestly, if this special situation make. I feel very strongly that I can defin- conducted, could be crossed for the excel in their particular talent. Cava- had not been created things would have itely make the U.S. National Team that games. Then, once the games were over, naugh says."We really strive here for ex- gotten really tight and my training would competes in the World University Games of course, the wars would resume. I wish cellence in every aspect of an have suffered. This job opportunity is fan- (where she competed twice before), the Olympic games were not as political individual's life and athletics is part of tastic. I could not have asked for a better which will be going to Yugoslavia. The as they are." certain individuals' lives. I think the rela- one." team that goes to the World University In Cavanaugh's view, the Olympics tionships between the student athletes Under her new contract she will be Games takes the top two collegiates." are a chance for individuals to prove and the other students are going to im- given time off to train and compete. This She also feels that she will make the themselves to their competitors. "They prove. I think the athletes need to take frees her from financial strain and pro- South Team of the U.S. Olympic Festival, say,'Look, I've made it. I've been disci- the first step toward that improvement vides training time — two factors critical to be held in North Carolina this summer. plined and I've made these sacrifices and and to recognize everyone as an individ- to her success in the upcoming Olympic There are also two other exceedingly dif- now I'm going to beat you.' It is an ulti- ual and recognize that their demands are trials. ficult teams she will attempt to make — mate testing ground. not so different from those of other stu- "That is the ideal situation for Ameri- ones that compete in the World Champi- "There are very few things that are dents." can athletes," she says. "My employment onships in Rome and the Pan-American more gratifying than wearing U.S.A.," Cavanaugh hopes the NCAA will em- will be somewhat the same. I'll still be a games in Indianapolis. "Those are pretty she says but adds,"When you are actu- phasize more the academic side of col- fitness trainer but I'll also be a public much the four 'biggies' this summer. ally competing you think about yourself lege athletics. Then, she says, "Rice can speaker, possibly within the hospital but That's what I'm trying for," Cavanaugh no matter what you are wearing. After be one of the forerunners in showing how also within the Houston community. I'm said. you win, you are proud for yourself, but athletics and academics can go hand in really excited about it. She would love to make all four also for whom you represent. So it's dif- hand."

18 SALLYPORT-JUNE-AUGUST 1987 41140tHi 104 Rkel alloa.04 Alumni leadership selected RUF Council holds meeting The annual spring meeting of the Rice University Fund Council was held May 8, the Friday of commencement weekend. Some 75 members of the council heard Kenneth H. Ashworth, commissioner of the coordinating board of the Texas Col- lege and University System, report on the Everett Wood Drew Clarke Mosle Tresch Mafrige current state of higher education in the Texas. In recent voting, Rice alumni elected one val Board; performing arts coordinator, State of In addition to Ashworth's presenta- new alumni member to the Rice Board of Olympic Festival; past chairman, visitor the program included remarks by Governors and six new members of the information at Texas Medical Center; tion, President George Rupp and a report Association of Rice Alumni executive past chairman, Able Express; and mem- Rice intercollegiate athletics by Ath- board. New alumni association officers ber, Assistance League of Houston. on Rice letic Director Jerry Berndt and Rice's new were also announced. Paula Meredith Wood, an attorney/judge with the coach, Scott Thompson. Mosle '52 was elected to a four-year 127th judicial district of Texas, has basketball Thomas S. McIntosh '59, president of term as an alumni governor of Rice Uni- served as an alumni representative to the Enterra Corp., was elected chair of the versity. University Standing Committee on Af- and council for the 1987-88 year and A.L. Jen- A former teacher, former adviser to firmative Action; a Survival Seminar speaker; Young sen '52, president of H.A. Lott Inc. was Rice women and founding partner and Life Beyond the Hedges is a Pres- elected vice chair. It was also announced (L-R) Winfield H. Cook '37, R. Howard treasurer of The Three Heirlooms Inc. of Alumni committee speaker; and She is or has also that Steve Shaper '58 will head the 1987- Wilson '36 and Jack C. Williams'34 Dallas, Mosle has previously served Rice ident's Club member. Texas Juvenile Jus- 88 Annual Fund drive and F. Tim Pease gather at Rice for the RUF Council's through the ARA executive board (two been involved with: Prevention Board '53 will assist in that effort. spring meeting. terms), Annual Fund, Fund Council, class tice and Delinquency Big Sisters of chairman, Dallas telethon, admission in- (appointed by the governor); former Foster terviewer, capital fund campaigns and Houston, former member; Faith Home; University Rice Associates. Parent, DePelchin Giving Clubs Enroll New Donors As alumni governor, Mosle has of Houston School of Law, Trial Advocacy professor; various semi- pledged to "direct my energies toward Course, adjunct The Founder's Club and President's Club were established in the fall of 1970 as a Bar of the continuation and enhancement of nars and institutes for the State means of bringing together alumni, parents and friends who give substantial support that tradition and would expect to work to Texas and Houston Bar Association, for Rice's current operations. Membership is on an annual basis (July 1 through June 30) help find the most effective ways to make writer and lecturer; and Houston Bar and includes the individual and his or her spouse. Names listed below are first-time Rice's strengths known throughout the Foundation Fellow. members from February through mid-May 1987. history at Rice. country." Drew is a professor of Dr. Steven J. Fliesler '80 Founder's Club Dr. Donald B. Wood '65 elected to She has been involved with the alumni Hamilton '66 Alan Josephson '80 Six alumni were also W. John Perlitz Jr. '49 William E. Institute, '66 Richard T. Mifflin '80 three-year terms on the executive board. executive board and Alumni Joan Cooley Urquhart '55 Dr. Boyd L. Harrison Meier '66 John H. Wolf, 111 80 1, 1990, and directed projects that produced Wil- John Urquhart '55 Dr. Russell G. Serving terms through July Dr. Denise Jackson Hunnell '81 and A Cullen Long '56 David A. Schwarz, II '66 will be: Robert E. Tresch '43, Nancy liam Marsh Rice and His Institute Comelia Capt. John F. Hunnell '81 Bruce I. Hendrickson '59 Mary Comeil '67 Everett History of Rice University, the Institute '67 Joanne Alice Keller-Wolf '81 Mauney Mafrige '59, Patti Lewis Dr. Horace G. Cofer '60 Ralph W. Neumann offices in Timothy S. Leight '82 Sharolyn Petty Wood '70, Katherine Years. She has held numerous Ann Schudy Hendrickson '60 Rebecca Rosenberg '66, Jeffrey B. McGee '82 '44 and Robert L. Clarke '63. the American Historical Association and Jerry L. Osborne '61 Goldman '68 Fischer Drew Reece '68 Michael E. Monarchi '82 of America, is presi- Carolyn Skebo Osbome '62 Ralph G. Tresch, president of R.E. Tresch Co. Medieval Academy '68 James T. Reinhart '82 Ted Shown '66 Dennis K. Swanson the Ayr- dent and fellow of the Medieval Academy G. John R. Boomer '83 Inc. and senior vice president of M. Murray '72 Warren E. Skaaren '69 awards for Dr. Consuelo Karen Sue Bradley '83 Corp., Houston, is a past president and has received numerous Robert A.M. Gottlieb '75 Elisabeth Ogorzaly shire Joan Katherine Kronk '83 and member of the "R" Association, direc- teaching and scholarship. Kathy Ann Gillette '76 Greenberg '70 of Michael M. Ivy '70 Patricia Ann Lubar '83 of the Owl Club and a member of the Clarke serves as U.S. Comptroller Jim Davis'77 Kenneth C. Scheuer '83 tor '79 DT. Sam W. Law,!!'70 has served 14 the Currency. Formerly a Houston attor- Phil Rosegrant Guillermo F. Trevino '83 Rice Quarterback Club. He '81 Eric S. Denbina '71 chair- Richard G. Hebert Greg Wortham '83 on the City of Houston Board of Ap- ney, Clarke has served as precinct Baerst Sudela 133 Michael L. Ettredge '71 years Eileen Stanley D. Young '83 man of Harris County Republican Party; Mrs Mehdi Mashayekh Christine Morrison peals and is on the board of the National Mr. and Matthew R. Barry '84 the board of advisers of Houston Cen- Percy A. Meyers Hutchinson '71 Association of Home Builders and on Monte J. Hutchinson '71 James M. Jackson '84 of the Charlotte A. Rothwell Leight '84 Greater Houston Builders Association. ter for Photography; and member Major Joe Tullbane, III '71 Elizabeth Hazlewood Mr. R.I. Sudela Spellman '84 Mafrige, a lecturer at the University American, Texas and New Mexico Bar As- Dr. Anita Glikman Beneke '72 Catherine Ann President's Club Dr. Norman D. Gabitzsch '72 Colette Asako Brown '85 of Houston, has been involved with the sociations. Matthew H. Brown '85 Carma Tabor Culp '25 David L. Pettit '72 library committee Houston attorney Jack D. "Bucky" All- Diane M. Denton '85 alumni fund council, Frank W. Godsey Jr. '27 Joyce Thomas Tullbane '72 been named president- Ross R. Kay '85 (alumni representative), homecoming shouse '71 has Col. Francis E. Davis '31 Kathleen Marie Williamson '72 Sharon E. Nowotny '85 publicity committees elect of the Association of Rice Alumni. Weldon R. Hale '33 Cynthia Hamil Gaudet '73 luncheon and Bruce G. Pounder '85 current president Bill Frank C. Halpin '33 Stephen E. Geis '73 (chair), and the board of the Friends of He will succeed L. Smith '85 Kathryn Pearson Keating '36 Dr. Richard B. Quy '73 Rudy president of the Merriman '67 on July 1, 1988. Elizabeth Margaret Barton '86 Fondren. She is a past Henry A Jackson '37 Tom Rich '73 June, outgoing association Knowles Breedin '86 Harris County Children's Protective Serv- In early John F. Buddington '39 Gary L. Oliver '74 Amelia E. Dossier '86 of Lamar High president Gwynne E. Old '59 also an- James B. Thomas Jr. '39 Dr. Rebecca Russell Wheeler '74 Andrew ice Board, president Fisher Jackson '86 that Juliana Williams Itz '72 has Judge Hugh Gibson '40 David E. Anderson '75 Ann School PTA and Vestry member of St. nounced Christopher G. Regier '86 George W. West Jr. '42 Elizabeth Weisemiller Edwards '75 Church. been named vice president-elect. H. Rus- Udcry N. Sheth '86 Mark's Episcopal John T. Patillo '43 Ed Erwin '75 Mr. '58 was elected to a second A. Wells 86 Everett has been involved in the Rice sell Pitman Patricia Nyberg Davis '44 Patrick E. Kelly '75 Richard and Mrs. Percy L. Abram (class chair), class of 1966 term as the association's treasurer. Dr. Riki Kobayashi '44 Dr. Kent G. Merryfield '75 Mr. Annual Fund and Mrs. Albert J. Anderson All three are veteran supporters of Charles E. Beecher Jr. '45 Dr. Gary W. Brewton '76 Mr. 20th reunion (chair), Owl Club and Rice George H. Boerger Gordon K. Moellman '47 Bill Chamberlain '76 has served as publicity the university and the Association of Rice and Mrs. Terry S. Carlton Associates. She Robert Porter '47 Joan Kathryn Kehlhof '76 Mr. and Mrs. Kevin B. Casey chair, 1987 Mayor's Gala, Houston Festi- Alumni, Mrs. Lee Parker Kobayashi '50 Fred W. Lancaster '76 Mr. and Mrs. Bobby G. Cooper Charles N. Coleman, 11 51 Dr. Margaret Laue Merryfield '76 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Dew Thomas H. Burton '54 Douglas S. Miller'76 Mr. and Mrs. George C. Dobbin Calvin L. Bushnell '54 Howard L. Speight '76 Mr. '77 Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Ferrell 1937 alumni James H. Booker '57 Ms. Ilse Dunbar Bailey-Graham Wanted: and Mrs. Richard M. Francis Herbert D. Simons '57 John S. Durbrow '77 Mr. as "lost" on Rice University Martin E.Goldman The following Class of 1937 Alumni are currently listed Henry G. Coors '58 Paula Fenster Fliesler '77 77251. Mr. and Mrs. James P. files. Updates should be sent to the alumni office at P.O. Box 1892, Houston, TX Dr. David R. Dillehay '58 Richard H. Loeb '77 Katherine Whitfield Miller '77 Goodnight Dorothy Mae Ferguson Pinkerton Dr. Thomas A. Kitchens Jr. '58 Mary Elizabeth Burt Allen Sellers Hosah Holloway Mullinger '77 Roy Greiner John Sinclair Rogers Bob Byrne '60 Ralph Mary Maurice Belt Allen James Leonard Hunter '77 Mr. and Mrs. James D. Sheffield Nancy Strickmeier Beard '61 Joan Mussler Spaw Berkley Barfield Norvell Ford Jackson Hugh Wooldridge Groseclose Jr. Dr. Emily Jordan Oaks '61 Richard H. Spaw '77 Catherine Barrett Borskey Martha Francis Jordan James G. Shirley Gsell Mary Dr. Lewis T. Waters '61 Mr. Maeng Y. Yi '77 Mary Clark LaneIle Humphreville Langdon William A. Stanford and Mrs. Irvin R. Haley W.H. Paul R. Kirkpatrick '62 Wiley N. Anderson, III '78 Mr. Clevenger William Chapman Malone Jr. Elwood Enoch Stark and Mrs. Gene A. Kent Helen Mike A. Maroney '62 Ellen L. Hahne '78 Mr. Graham Crowder James M. Manuel Jack Caudle Steele Gershon and Dr. Ester Robert Dr. Verna Bean Schuetz '62 Julie A. Hardin '78 Dr. Orville Drollinger Charles Harrison McLean Tillford B. Sullivan Jr. Mandelker Clarence John B. McKnight '63 Kathi Anne Helmle '78 Foster Ralph E. Miller Joe Gordon Turner and Mrs. John H. McClintock John Sidney Sue Kothmann McKnight '64 Steve Holler '78 Mr. Friery Everett Howard Moody Dorothy Janet Walker and Mrs. Edward Menutis Thomas Wilson Ronnie D. Cervenka '65 Lisa Horn Johnson '78 Mr. Jr. Allen C. Moore Ben Warriner IV and Mrs. T.L. Polasek J.Z. Garza Miss Dell Goldsmith '65 Craig H. Lackey '78 Mr. Irwin Gibson George Gay Morgan Alfred Lee Wheeler Jr. Cynthia Lou Quy David Dr. Michael R. McClung '65 David O'Gwynn '78 Graham Jr. Elton Myers Edgar Warren White Jr. and Mrs. Herbert C. Stine Robert Dr. Michael H. Stern '65 Dr. Daniel J. Cohen '79 Mr. Mae Roosevelt Green George Clinton Norris Albert Calvin Williams Gilbert S. Thompson Norma Bud Tunnell '65 Patricia Cronkright Dalheim '79 Haseltine Elizabeth Jane Rieger Nosier Betty Hays Wilson Lionel T. Willingham Nathanial Dr. Raymond A. Wende '65 Ann C. Palen '79 Muriel Eugenie Hjertberg

SALLYPORT—NNE-AUGUST 1987 19 ek,ufruxte4 TI terminal incorporating thermal "Dave Donoghue is still tharine Parker Gregg, as tensively. Louise is living in Hous- would like to help with the ar- the ba- practicing law and I talked to his charming as ever; John Glenn ton and is involved with alumni rangements. printing, and is a holder of 16-18 wife, Henny. They have three chil- Yeager and his wife, Jean. John affairs, among many other things. "This will be my last article sic terminal paterit. It was from development that Ti's CLASS RECORDER: dren who live in Washington, Aus- Glenn is still active in business "Arthur Platt attended law until next fall. Thanks to all of you this initial series ter- Mrs. W.H. Jameson tin and Santa Monica. And they and community affairs, as is Jean. school right out of Rice. After serv- who have written me during the "Silent 700" of printing TI the 2425 Sage Rd., #82 are way ahead of most of us, as "Earlier in the day. King and! ing with the Coast Guard during past year. For those who have not minals evolved. announced Houston, TX 77056 they have six grandchildren and had seen and talked with John World War II, he worked for the written, drop me a line this sum- presentation of the Haggerty (713)621-6052 three great-grandchildren. The Glenn Yeager, Howard Wilson J.M. West interests until he be- mer and let me have your news to Awards to Pope and six other TI share- Donoghues'favorite pastime these and Walter Crawford at the came president of Houston Title pass on to your classmates." employees at their annual in Dallas. The days is checking out the restau- Rice University Fund Council Co. Then he became vice president holders meeting in 1983, com- rants in Houston. meeting. Walter had come from of American Title Co. Arthur's award, established memorates one of Ti's pioneers, 27 "Ruth Joost Wallace keeps Beaumont. taking some time off wife, Gaye, is also an attorney and 60th REUNION CLASS pretty busy, too. She attended from his business. Howard and his is a former president of the Hous- Loyd Swenson is currently teach- The Class of 1927 will have a Texas after her Rice graduation wife, Elizabeth, who graduated ton Bar Association. In spite of five 44 ing American history to students in homecoming reception on Friday, and is very active with her Alpha from the University of Texas, re- children and seven grandchildren, CLASS RECORDER: Malaysia on a one-year appoint- Oct. 23, 2-4:30 p.m., at the home of Chi alumni group. She also is ac- turned to Houston to live after he they have managed to travel ex- Larry Hermes ment sponsored by the Malaysian Florence Powars Stancliff. For tive in the Trinity Episcopal retired as a senior vice president tensively. Arthur's 'son #1' is a 2028 Albans Road Ministry of Education and the more information, call Florence at Church and is a former volunteer of Texaco. psychiatrist with his own clinic in Houston, TX 77005 Texas International Education (713)622-3939. at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital. "Later this month we'll be driv- Bosemcm, Montana. He was the (713)529-2009 Consortium. Ruth has traveled extensively, and ing to the East Coast to help cele- psychiatrist who developed the says she has been to most places brate high school graduation with psychological profile of the elder she wanted to see. Her hobby now one granddaughter in Virginia and of the two 'mountain men' wanted 29 is gardening. She has three chil- college graduation with another in in a recent criminal court case. He dren and three grandchildren. Pennsylvania. Both their dads also did the psychological testing 55 CLASS RECORDER: 47 "I would be really pleased if went to Rice, Leslie, Class of '61, of the man for purposes of the trial. 40th REUNION CLASS Beverly Van Zandt 'Son #2' is graduating from Stan- you all would send me a letter tell- and John, Class of '63. The Class of 1947 will hold a 40th 218 Shoreacres Blvd Forge, we ford and 'Son #3' is a student at the ing me about you and your family. "While in Valley reunion party during homecoming La Porte, TX 77571 Frazier Crawford, University of Houston.'Daughter The Class of 1932 is planning a hope to see weekend on Saturday, Oct. 24. De- (713) 471-0827 from several busi- #1' is teaching eighth grade math 55th reunion. Marshall Robertson who is retired tails will be announced in the next has owned and lives in and 'Daughter #2' is 'staying home is chairman, and she is planning a nesses he issue of Sallyport. For more infor- Mawr. He wrote inter- and raising her children.' luncheon the Friday before home- nearby Bryn mation, contact reunion chair An- last year when we "Now is the time to start plan- coming, Oct. 23. Save that date!" esting letters nette Gano Gragg at (713) 522-6826. 31 were compiling the biographies for ning to attend our 50th reunion in CLASS RECORDER: our 50th class reunion, sending the fall of '88. It will be a glorious George Blocher along news about himself and his time of renewing our friendships, 9478 Briar Forest 33 twin, Francis, now a retired Air catching up with the news and Houston, TX 77063 Force colonel living in San Anto- having a ball. It is also time to get 49 RECORDER: (713)780-0566 CLASS Mo." our house in order as time will run CLASS RECORDER: Willie Mae Chapman Cole out by June 1988 to contribute to Mary Lou Douglas 2414 Chimney Rock our 50th Anniversary Scholarship 5331 S. Kimback Houston, TX 77056 Fund. We are $73,000 short of our Chicago, IL 60637 (713)782-9509 32 37 goal, but we can reach it if we all (312) 752-1186 Troy Gordon Rankin, president CLASS RECORDER: CLASS RECORDER: give back a little that Rice gave to and chairman of the board of Chris Hoover Jane Rommel Farwest Corrosion Control Co. in 5318 Meadow Lake Lane 504 Fairway Drive, Riverhill Gardena, Calif., was recently in- Houston, TX 77056 34 Kerrville, TX 78028 stalled as 1987-88 president of the (713)621-5318 CLASS RECORDER: (512)896-4310 51 National Association of Corrosion Elliott Flowers recently retired Engineers. NACE is a technical 55TH REUNION CLASS GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY CLASS 39 Jacob Geller 3330 Del Monte from his dental practice after 30 and professional society made up A Class of '32 reunion luncheon Houston, TX 77019 The Class of 1937 will hold its years and from his 19-year teach- of approximately 15,000 members be held during homecoming will (713)524-4404 Golden Anniversary Dinner during ing position at the University of who are concerned about the pre- weekend, Friday, Oct. 23, noon, in homecoming weekend, Friday. Texas Dental Branch. He also re- vention and control of corrosion on the Farnsworth Pavilion of the Ley Oct. 23, at Cohen House. For more cently married Martha, "a friend of all materials in all environments. Student Center. For more informa- information contact reunion chair 32 years," and moved to Avon, Rankin has been active in NACE tion contact reunion chair Mar- 35 Cornelius Ryan at (713)877-2792 Cob., eight miles west of Vail. He since 1959 and served as chair- shall Ferguson Robertson,(713) Raymond L. Heinrich Sr. of (business). writes that he still practices some man, vice chairman and secretary 622-8726. Baytown, Texas, writes that he is dentistry as a captain with the Na- to the NACE Los Angeles section Class recorder Chris Hoover re- selling his summer estate on Cape val Reserve, and recently spent from 1971-74. In 1984, he received ports the following: Cod after 40 years. -With over 9 two weeks at Long Beach, Calif., that section's Certificate of Merit "Morgan Jones says there's acres of beach, dune, marsh and 38 and at Key West, Fla. Since leav- for his leadership. He served as nothing new with the Joneses of forest it has been a source of plea- CLASS RECORDER: ing Houston, he says, "I miss the NACE vice president in 1986-87 Abilene -- they're just worn down sure to ever so many Rice friends Jane Stockton-Dunaway fund drive and the gym." and, from 1982-86, as chairman of like the rest of us. over the years," he writes. 415 Blalock Road James L. Powell was recently the organization's exhibits com- "Carmen Lewis Gould, who Houston, TX 77024 elected to the board of directors of mittee. Rankin is listed in the 1980 lives in Kensington, Calif., says in (713) 465-7332 Central and South West Corp., the edition of Who's Who in the West- a short note that she cmd Jack had Robert F.(Bob) Williams is a Dallas-based public utility holding ern U.S. He is an accredited NACE their son, Bob, and his family in Class recorder Jane Stockton- professor emeritus of information 36 company that is the parent com- corrosion specialist and a regis- from Indiana for a five-day visit in Dunaway submits the following systems and artificial intelligence pany of West Texas Utilities Co. A tered professional corrosion engi- the spring. The Goulds have two CLASS RECORDER: Class of '38 news: for California Polytechnic State rancher and business investor neer in California. other sons, Rick, who lives in Cali- Mary B. Arnold "Helen Saba Warden lost University at San Luis Obispo. He from Fort McKavett, Powell is a di- Both Gordon and his wife, Bet- fornia, and Lewis, who is in Aus- 10714 Del Monte her husband, Sam Warden '35, also serves as a research consult- rector of Texas Commerce Banc- tie, are licensed pilots and share tin. Houston, TX 77042 a longtime and loyal friend of ant to the Cal Tech division of the fishing. shares and of four banks. He is an interest in hunting and a nice letter from Ed Class recorder Mary B. Arnold Rice, in April. Helen's untiring Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasa- "Such chairman of the National Cattle- Correll. He and his wife Jimmie sends in the following news: work for the university is a memo- dena, Calif. men's Association tax and finance (Catherine Lucille Marmion "What a thrill for those of us rial to Sam. committee and first vice president '311 are involved and busy with who attended the party on May 8, "Margaret Turner Wil- of the Texas and Southwestern Ed retired from 1987, given by the alumni liams enjoyed a Caribbean cruise various activities. associa- Cattle Raisers Association. Powell 56 Amoco Oil Refinery, Yorktown, tion at Cohen House in honor of with her husband, Carson Wil- 42 served on the University of Texas CLASS RECORDER: Va., as chief accountant and con- Distinguished Alumni and alumni liams '37, and friends. Don't CLASS RECORDER: board of regents for six years and Maureen Bybee troller, after 15 years of service. commended for meritorious serv- know what happened! Oscar Hibler was board chairman for one year. 3800 Chevy Chase They still live in Newport News. Ed ice to see two of our classmates as "Louise Sakowitz Johnson P.O. Box 27266 He also served as president of the Houston, TX 77019 writes that Jimmie 'maintains her honorees. Marshall Gates and claims to be very traditional, but Houston, TX 77227 board of regents for the Texas (713) 527-0444, or music as organist and music direc- his wife were there for him to re- she has been shown to be a (713) 621-7272 State University system. (713) 522-3705 tor at St. Matthews Anglican ceive the Distinguished Alumni woman of vision, breaking paths 45th REUNION CLASS Clay M. Armstrong, professor of Church, plays piano for two nurs- award, which he was unable to for important things to come. She The Class of 1942 will hold its 45th physiology at the University of ing homes each week and does her come for last year. Ray Watkin worked for Planned Parenthood reunion with a buffet following the Pennsylvania School of Medicine, stint at being a correspondent and Hoagland, our Meritorious Serv- when it couldn't be mentioned in Rice homecoming game, was recently elected to the Na- present-giving grandmother to two ice Award winner, was there with the newspapers. She was a 52 Saturday, Oct. 24, in the tional Academy of Sciences, one of 6-year-olds and one 3-year-old her brother-in-law Nolan Barrick founder and served on the board 35th REUNION CLASS Farnsworth Pavilion of the Ley Stu- the highest honors to be accorded Marmions '35 and his son, Bruce. Ray has for many years of the Living Bank. for a big 35th grandchild.' The dent Center. For information, con- Plans are under way an American scientist or engineer. have three children: one son a done so much to promote interest The early work of the Living Bank celebration for the Class tact reunion chairs Gwendolyn reunion A biophysicist, Armstrong is inter- priest in Los Angeles, their daugh- in the history of Rice and to orga- made it possible for donor organs 1952. For more information, call Cribbs Murphree at(713)468-4387 of nationally known for his work on ter a mother and a paralegal, and nize and be the first chairman of to be made available with efficient chair Carolyn Douglas or Joyce Rowell Wylie at (713)622- reunion the control of ion flow across the another son a designer of furnaces the archives committee. We are record keeping and data banks. or trea- 6898. Devine at(713) 626-4275 cell membrane in a nerve impulse. for glassblowing. Sounds like an lucky to get to see her three or four The work has been so important surer Al Jensen at(713) 524-2328. His research has explained how interesting group. Ed has guile a times a year as she stops in Hous- that it has made people nation- Class recorder Oscar Hibler nerves send messages. Armstrong, few jobs; he is editor of the news- ton when making the rounds of her wide aware of the need and al- sends in the following news: who trained with Sir Andrew Hux- letter of St. Matthews Anglican homes in Kennebunkport, Tucson, lowed hospitals to have patients "Walter Bolton writes that ley, winner of the Nobel Prize for Church and is on the board of the Houston and New Orleans. sign for organ donation upon ad- he lives in Beaumont, Texas. He is his work on electrical signals in Salvation Army, Boy Scouts, sym- "Beulah Axelrod Yellen mittance. Louise is now serving on writing a book 'on an easier way to 54 nerve cells, did research that phony orchestra, literacy council and Reggie Kottwitz were there the auxiliary board. Her great learn algebra' and searching for a Hermon Pope has been awarded Award for added to the understanding of and National Accounting Associa- helping make the party a good hobby is golf and has found it "a publisher. the Patrick E. Haggerty Huxley's work on electricity in tion. one. Also having a good time were super game for many reasons, "Don't forget to mark your cal- Innovation by Texas Instruments cells. "I wanted to have some news Larry O'Connor, now an energy chief among them a way to make endar for our 45th reunion. It will Inc. of Dallas. Pope has worked for Wynnewood, Pa., of Fred Dixon, but I sent the letter consultant here in Houston; Har- many friends." Her son, Gaylord be held on campus in the TI since graduating from Rice and A resident of followed his Phi Beta to a Houston address and now un- riet Allen Talbot, who came Jr., is a graduate of Rice and her Farnsworth Room at 5 p.m. on Sat- is currently a senior member of the Armstrong graduation from Rice with a derstand he has moved to North with Mary Crain Williamson daughter, Gail, is a graduate of urday, Oct. 24, immediately fol- technical staff for the data systems Kappa plant. from Washington Univer- Carolina. Send us a note, Fred, and her husband, Joe William- Converse College, S.C. Before her lowing the football game. A group in TI's Temple, Texas, degree of Medicine in St. and let us know what you are do- son '34, the president and dean at husband Gaylord Johnson's death mailing is being prepared with Pope was responsible for the de- sity School ing. South Texas School of Law; Ka- two years ago, they traveled ex- more details. Let me know if you sign and development of the first Louis, Mo. He is a member of the

20 SALLYPORT—JUNE-AUGUST 1987 Graduate School of Adminis- in Houston. Hayes also holds a Sauare, the Millers are building a Golden to Denver. where they Jones National Institutes of Health study tration. He is also senior vice pres- Ph.D. in pathology. the panel new home in nearby Chadds Ford, bought a 1939 international-style section for physiology, ident and chief financial officer of thcrt awards ICH grants. He is also a beautiful area in far southeast- house. Three of their four children Phil Garon (Hanszen) writes to OmniMed Corp. and president of correct the Sallyport story the author of numerous scholarly ern Pennsylvania. Angela and are married, and they have four on much Tabard Capital Corp. articles. Hugh enthusiastically look for- young grandchildren: "It's former Thresher editors: "Although ward to attending our 30th year more fun than living with them full I worked for the U.S. government class reunion. time," she writes. from 1976-1983, I was just a regular civil servant. Also, the Interna- hope all of you can join in this Margaret Van Melle Cate "I 64 tional Energy Agency, where I reunion during the weekend of Oc- writes, "Bob Cate '57 and lover presently work, is in Paris, France, 57 tober 23-24. Anne Westerfield the last 28 years have lived on both not New York City." Garon and his CLASS RECORDER: Brown, our reunion chairman, coasts, Texas, England and West wife, Lenore, are expecting twins Dixie Sick Leggett asks that any class members in the Virginia, ending up in Colorado this summer. After that, he writes, 13411 Kingsride Houston area who would like to Springs for the last 10 years. Bob "We will have had three of our four Houston, TX 77079 work on the reunion committee tel- got his doctorate in physics, did re- children here in France in a two- (713) 468-5929 ephone her evenings at(713) 665- search in physics and ended up as private practice. and-one-half-year span — proof, if 30th REUNION CLASS 3444." a psychologist in I was an elementary school any were needed, that Paris is an is planning a ca- Texas Instruments has named Ri- Haskell Monroe (Ph.D.) has been The Class of 1957 teacher while Bob went for the two extremely romantic place." sual party for its 30th reunion, to chard A. Chapman (Ph.D.)a TI named chancellor of the University doctorates. We are proud of our Gary Neptune (Baker) writes during homecoming week- Fellow for his work in infrared of Missouri-Columbia, effective be held daughter. Holly, who is a sopho- from Neptune Mountaineering in end, Friday, Oct. 23. On Saturday. charge coupled devices. Chapman July 1, 1987. Monroe has most re- more at Harvard. She is into drama pro- Boulder, Colo.:"Since I enjoy read- Oct. 24, the class will have cock- joins the ranks of those recognized cently served as president and as an extracurricular activity, and ing about those I attended Rice dinner in the RMC. For by TI as top experts in their fields fessor of history at the University tails and going to see her performances has with, I'm going to mention some of more information, contact reunion and outstanding contributors to of Texas-El Paso. In announcing been a special treat for us." of my activities since graduation in chair Anne Westerfield Brown at the success of TI products and pro- the appointment. University 1968. For over 14 years I've oper- (713)665-3444. grams. Senior Fellows and Fel- Missouri President Peter Magrath said, "Haskell Monroe has done an ated my shop, which has recently Dixie Leggett lows are positions on Ti's Robert L. Davis (Baker), a part- Class recorder excellent job of both leading and been called 'the last great spe- following news: Technical Ladder of Advancement, ner in the law firm of Brown, Maro- sends the managing at El Paso. He has ener- cialty shop in the country,' but I "Cheri and Leo Holder are which offers scientists, engineers, ney, Rose, Barber & Dye in Austin, technol- gized the faculty academically, he still find time for the occasional both involved in new business mathematicians and other 59 was recently elected vice presi- to manage- has championed minority educa- climb. In 1983 I was lucky enough ventures. Leo and a friend are de- ogists an alternative CLASS RECORDER: dent of the board of trustees of the has tion needs and he has developed to reach the summit of Mt. Everest, an insurance company to rial advancement. Chapman Tommie Lu Maulsby Eanes Independent School District. veloping strong ties with the community and less than a week ago I re- the pest control industry, the received many awards for innova- 2735 Pittsburg He and his wife, Peggy Saun- serve and with legislative supporters." turned from the summit of Makalu, first of its kind in Texas. His major tions in semiconductor technology, Houston, TX 77005 ders Davis (Jones), have two chil- A. Morton IEEE Monroe earned bachelor's and senior, the fifth highest mountain in the role will be in the area of loss con- including the Jack (713) 664-5042 dren. Missy, a high school to master's degrees from Austin Col- world. That makes my fourth sum- trol, ensuring that the client com- and IRIS Herschel awards given and Lee, a Lovett College sopho- charge transfer lege and a Ph.D. in history from mit in four Himalayan expeditions. panies are following safe him for his work in more. 74 pa- Rice. He served as dean of facul- Good Karma, I guess. Stop by — I operating methods. Cheri, a travel devices. He has published holds 17 pat- ties at Texas A&M University be- always enjoy seeing old acquaint- agent, is also working with friends pers on his work and of the fore being appointed president of ances." to open a new health spa in Puerto ents. He is a fellow 60 Physical Society and a UTEP in 1980. He and his wife, Jo Bill Sheets (Baker) has been Vallarta, where the varied pro- American CLASS RECORDER: 65 of Elec- Phillips Monroe, have four chil- named regional sales manager for gram will highlight aquatic aero- member of the Institute Barbie McKittrick Victor A. Belfi (Ph.D. '69, Will Engineers dren. Miller Brewing Co.'s Northern Pa- bics. tronic and Electrical 111 Guinea Drive Rice), who joined the Texas Chris- Monroe serves on the board of cific sales region, where he will be "Although Leo and his dad (IEEE). Houston, TX 77055 tian University faculty in 1969 as is a governor ad- directors of Southwestern Bell responsible for working with sold their well-established Hous- Chapman (713) 465-4827 assistant professor of mathemat- for the Rice University Board Corp., headquartered in St. Louis, chairmanship of Miller area managers and distrib- ton pest control business, Leo is viser ics, will assume and is a member of Mo., and Security Southwest Life utors in Oregon and selected mar- now proud to be working for his of Governors Michael D. Beldon (Baker) was that department in fall 1987. An- of directors of the Cotton Insurance Co. Among his numer- kets in northern California and son, Ronnie. After college gradua- the board elected president of the National nouncement of the three-year ap- at ous academic and civic honors are William southern Washington. Sheets be- tion and his marriage to Kelly, Bowl Athletic Association. Roofing Contractors Association pointment was made by and the Texas A&M Faculty Distin- gan his Miller career as a control Ronnie began his own business, its 100th annual convention H. Koehler, TCU vice chancellor guished Achievement Award in the chemist at the company's Fort Holder Pest Control. Leo's exhibit in San Francisco this for academic affairs. Active in Ronnie Teaching; Outstanding Teaching Worth, Texas, brewery. He most Scooter, likewise works in the spring. President of Beldon Roof- American Mathematical Socirty son, Award, Texas A&M Gamma Sigma recently was an area manager in Dale plans to complete ing & Remodeling of San Antonio, and the Mathematical Association business. Delta; Distinguished Alumnus San Francisco, Calif. In addition to and then pursue Naval offi- Beldon began his one-year term as of America, Belfi has published college Award, Austin College; Centen- his Rice degree, Sheets holds an and flying. Kim looks president on June 1. He previously -Characterizations of C•-algebras: cer training nial Medallion, U.S. Civil War M.B.A. from Texas Christian Uni- to college as preparation served as the association's vice the Gelfand-Naimark Theorems." forward Centennial Committee; and Cita- versity. a teaching career. Leo is active president. for tion of Appreciation of the League Exchange Club along with Archie P. McDonald (M.A.) is the in the of United Latin American Citizens. other Rice friends; when time per- regents' professor of history at mits, he also enjoys golfing, flying Stephen F. Austin State University. 66 and hill-country hunting. A nationally recognized scholar of David M. K. Ruth (Hanszen) has 69 "For the past 16 years, Eunice Civil War and Texas history, Mc- joined 3i Capital of Boston as a 62 Gary Grether (Baker) has been and Ron Liesmann lived in Donald is the author of 16 books vice president; prior to this he was SILVER ANNIVERSARY CLASS appointed vice president of Bloomington, Ind., where Ron was and numerous articles on Southern investment director at Churchill Anniversary Dinner for the Gensler and Associates/Architects pastor of University Baptist history. His dissertation (at Louisi- A Silver International, during he has been with the Church. He thrived on the chal- ana State University) on Jedediah Class of 1962 will be held in Houston; Saturday, since 1978. lenge of working with both the Barbara Coleman recently won Hotchkiss, Stonewall Jackson's to- homecoming weekend, firm An infor- University of Indiana college stu- the race for District 3 trustee in the pographer, was published as Oct. 24, at Cohen House. Peter I. Karp(M.Arch.) has been the previous dents and the community. There El Paso(Texas) Independent Make Me a Map of the Valley, a mal party will be held named director of interior architec- 23. For infor- were opportunities for overseeing School District. Coleman defeated Civil War History Book Club selec- evening, Friday, Oct. 67 ture for RTKL Associates Inc., a na- chairs 20th REUNION CLASS student ministries throughout the three opponents with 65.6 percent tion, and was named to the Civil mation contact reunion tional architecture/engineering state; for working in the areas of of the vote for a six-year term on War Times Illustrated's list of the Anne Shamblin Baillio at (713) 497- During homecoming weekend, the firm with headquarters in Balti- mental health; for ministering to the seven-member school board. 100 best books on the Civil War. He 0858 or Susie Morris Glasscock at Class of 1967 will be holding a more, Md. Karp will be positioned prisoners and drug addicts; and for She listed improving teacher mo- has taught at SFA since 1964 and (713)526-3046. party following the Rice-A&M in RTKL's Washington, D.C., office serving in federal and city agen- rale, counseling programs and has served as president of the Dick Duke (Will Rice) is senior game on Saturday, Oct. 24. For and will oversee the firm's archi- cies dealing with community de- dropout prevention among her top Texas State Historical Association pastor of Woodland Acres Baptist more information contact Arthur tectural programming, space plan- velopment and social services. In priorities. Coleman, secretary- and as a member of the Texas Ses- Church in Houston and teaches and Karen Hess Rogers at (713) 960- ning and interior architecture addition, Ron was the Indiana rep- treasurer of Coleman Pharmacies, quicentennial Commission. He re- "success in life Bible studies, born- 8600. studio. resentative to the Foreign Mission is a former elementary school cently published a textbook, again Christians enjoying God's Peter Doyle (Wiess) has been Karp joined RTKL in 1985 and Board of the Southern Baptist Con- teacher in El Paso and has more Texas: All Hail the Mighty State, blessing through the application of elected to the American Institute of was appointed associate principal vention. Eunice worked in the than 20 years of PTA and school and currently edits the East Texas Biblical principles in our lives." Architects' College of Fellows for in 1986. He directed RTKL's archi- as a remedial programming and space Bloomington schools volunteer experience. Coleman's Historical Journal. Margaret Bulas Flood (Jones) is "notable contributions to the pro- tectural in the Baltimore of- reading teacher. candidacy and election were the Noel C. Scrivner (Baker). a a real estate developer. She has fession.- planning group "Recently, Ron and Eunice articles in the El Paso fice before assuming his current subjects of chemical engineer with Du Pont, recently formed a new building The architectural firm Cannady, moved to Englewood, Colo.(a sub- responsibilities. Times. recently received the first Chilton venture in Gilbertsville, Pa., Jackson & Ryan, made up of Rice urb of Denver), where he is pastor Bill Weir now manages three Award from the Wilmington, Del., known as Rosenberry Farm, in Professor of Architecture William South Valley Baptist Church. of marketing enterprises: one for U.S. section of the American Institute of which she has placed an 80-plot T. Cannady, Guy Jackson '71 Their son, Michael, a junior in the Sprint long distance telephone Chemical Engineers. The award subdivision in a residential devel- (Wiess)and Jeffrey D. Ryan '67 Indiana State University, is fall at service, which also channels funds was developed by the section to opment. She will be a partner in (Baker), recently received three in the ROTC program, currently in into the subscribers' favorite wor- recognize outstanding chemical the project. Flood lives in Gilberts- awards for design excellence: an paratroop training at Fort Benning. thy causes; one in National Vaca- engineers in the region, and is the ville. honor award from the Houston He is also completing his commer- tion Network, providing travel club first major local award of its kind. Rice)and AIA, and two merit awards from cial license in a professional pi- Gordon Grubbs(Will services including luxury resort Scrivner, a consultant in the engi- Grubbs'63 the First National Bank of West lot's program. Entering her Clare Kollenberg two-bedroom units at $50 a night; neering department of the Du Pont in Plano, Texas. Re- University Place, all for projects in sophomore year at the University (Jones) live and for the U.S. Chamber of Com- Co., specializes in the prediction Gordon, at the age of 46, Houston. of Indiana, Sallie majors in music cently, merce, managing membership de- of the chemistry of water-soluble to return to school; he is — piano and voice. She is working decided velopment in portions of Colorado, substances. His work in aqueous pursuing a Ph.D. in eco- this summer in an entertainment now Montana, and North and South Da- electrolyte thermodynamics has from Southern Methodist group at an Indiana recreation nomics kota. developed this area of chemistry University. When he's not cracking 68 park. into a useful tool for prediction of he enjoys jogging, rac- "Rita Miller Fason continues the books, chemical concentrations in aque- reading, playing the in her busy law practice, working quetball, ous waste streams. He is nation- banjo and practicing amateur as- primarily in family law. She finds Joe G. Norman (Will Rice) has ally recognized for his role in trology. "I'm a jack of all trades, a time, however, to delight in being de- been promoted from associate 58 coordinating industry efforts to master of nil," he says. Grubbs a grandmother for the newest fam- dean of the graduate school to velop the computer software and recently the subject of a fea- ily member, James Daniel, who is CLASS RECORDER: was dean of the College of Arts and physical measurements needed to in the Plano Star- the baby son of Rita's daughter, Phyllis Walton ture story Sciences at the University of 4233 Harpers Ferry Road process commercially generated Cathy. Rita's three sons, along Courier. Washington-Seattle. He continues AL 35213 waste streams. He is a co-author of with Cathy, are all pursuing de- Birmingham, as professor of chemistry. Norman (205)870-0332 the Handbook of Aqueous Electro- grees at the University of Texas. lyte Thermodynamics, the key ref- has lived in Seattle since 1972. S. Angle has been ap- John has completed his second Nancy erence in the field. Scot Ruska (Hanszen) writes with term on the year at UT Law School and is clerk- pointed to a three-year 63 news of "a new book, a new job educational materials committee ing with two Houston law firms CLASS RECORDER: and a fairly new baby." He re- National Council of Teach- this summer. Bill, who has spent of the Kathleen Much cently published a book on the ers of Mathematics; she continues the past year studying in Marburg. 1065 Greenwood Ave. manufacture of integrated circuits math and programming at Germany, will return to UT to fin- to teach Palo Alto, CA 94301 entitled Microelectronic Processing economics degree. Richard Colorado School of Mines in 61 ish his (415) 328-9779(home), or Linda C. Hayes(Brown) gradu- and published by McGraw-Hill. He his sophomore year in Golden, Colo. Her husband, Mar- CLASS RECORDER: will begin (415) 321-2052 ated in May 1987 from the Univer- is living in Fremont, Calif., with the fall. shall Martin, recently completed Nancy Burch Ralph (Will Rice) has sity of Houston College of his wife, Paula, and their daugh- "Rita enjoyed a recent visit his Ph.D. in geophysics and began 3311 Stoney Brook Weaver named assistant director of Optometry (0.D.)and will be ester, Lindsay, band-one-half, and with Hugh and Angela Jones working at Chevron USA. Angle re- Houston, TX 77063 been development at Rice's tablishing an optometric practice serves as manufacturing manager Miller. Currently in Kennett ports that they have moved from (713)781-3634 executive

SALLYPORT—JUNE-AUGUST 1987 21 of Intel Corp.'s Livermore, Calif., Baylor College of Medicine, where tion...The results of his extraordi- gland and Scotland. They are ex- tering class. There are four majors School of the University of Virginia plant, producing among other he serves as an instructor in oncol- nary efforts will benefit the Navy's pecting their third child, their first — physics, math, chemistry and during commencement exercises products the Intel 80386 micropro- ogy at the Veterans Hospital. He mission for many years to come..." to be born in America, in August. engineering(my kind of place) — May 17 in Charlottesville. He has cessor. writes, "I have seen Hannes Vo- Glen M. McFerren (Baker) at- and the students take a third of accepted a position with New En- Carolyn Janette Tribble Witt gel '75 (Lovett) in Boston, Ed- tended Baylor College of Medicine their courses in humanities terprise Associates in Menlo Park, (Jones) has received an award mund Barnum '73(Lovett) in after graduating from Rice. He now (good!). Calif. with high distinction" as one of L.A. and Augustine Martinez 75 practices psychiatry in Southern "I often see Lisa Mandy and the 130 candidates receiving the '75 (Lovett) passing through here M. Daniel Carroll (Will Rice) is California. McFerren lives in Ir- Joel Miller, Jim and Linda highest grades on the November (Houston)." finishing up his residency require- vine, Calif., with his wife, Robynn, Brannon Walkup and Kent and 1986 CPA exam. She completed her Jorge Flores(Wiess) is now work- ments for a Ph.D. in Biblical stud- and 3-year-old daughter, Megan. Ann Grubbs Meeks, not to men- ies at the University of Sheffield, tion running across Kevin Lind, 81 M.S. in accountancy/tax specialty ing as bureau chief of Family Their second child is due in Sep- Brian J. Giguere(M. Arch.) has England. A professor of Old Testa- Butch Cox and Laura Paul. I in May 1987 and is entering the tax Health Services in San Antonio. tember. joined Cullen Center as an associ- ment, he will, in October, travel to also saw Richard and Beth Jun- department of Deloitte, Haskins & The health director there is an- and ate architect for the development's Guatemala to teach at seminary. Curtis Schelling (Sid Rich) gle Barron when they were visit- Sells this summer. She and her other alum, Kate Rathbun Joan Romann '79 (Jones) were new architectural services depart- Meanwhile, he remains busy with ing from Turkey. They and I send husband, Rick, live in San Diego, (Jones). married in September 1985. After ment; he was previously with Farb Rick, a mechanical engineer Sheffield's basketball team, which our greetings and love to all of Calif. Gary Rodriguez (Lovett) writes, completing his M.D. at the Univer- Companies. and graduate of Duke University, recently won the national tourna- you, especially to the RIVCF com- "I am now a high-Tex-Mex M.E. in sity of Pennsylvania, he is pursu- Neal Howard is a senior ac- has his own business, Blue Ridge ment. Carroll was selected to both munity." Austin. It's the closest to a G.D. en- ing a residency in radiology there. countant with Exxon USA's south- Consulting, which she says "has the All-English and All-British Uni- vironment. I've been on the 'Beat She received an M.B.A. from the western division. Previously a survived its entrepreneurial years versities teams. Russia' project. Where's Jimmy J. University of Texas and is cur- member of the division's business and, at age 7, can be proclaimed Rick Howard (Baker)finished his Reed now 'days?" rently in commercial real estate. analysis group, he has been with 'here to stay.'" She adds, -Linda, Ph.D. at Texas A&M University in Stewart(Baker) 80 Exxon since receiving his M.B.A. how is law school going?" December. He is now an assistant J. Martin mar- the University of Virginia. professor in the department of ried Dianne Jorde on March 7, 1987. CLASS RECORDER: from aeronautics at the Naval Postgrad- He finished his residency in diag- Richard Morris Patty Doyle Renfrow (M.A.)is uate School in Monterey, Calif. nostic radiology at the Mayo Clinic 9555 Cloverdale now on the government faculty at 74 "Visitors welcome!" he writes. in June and is returning to Houston San Antonio, TX 78250 the University of Queensland, Aus- 70 Douglas E. Crowell (Lovett) is a to join St. Joseph Radiolgy Associ- (512)523-1820 (home), or tralia. She was previously on the Jeff Champion (Hanszen) has Carolyn Dahl Rees(Hanszen), professor of English at Texas Tech ates. His wife will resume practice (512) 342-6063 (office) political science faculty at the been promoted to the rank of major her husband, Tony, and their new University in Lubbock. Recipient of of nurse anesthesia; the couple State University of New York, Air Force Reserves at Kelly baby in March moved into a new in the a National Endowment for the Arts will live in Clear Lake. he is a pilot flying the home in Calgary, Canada, which Binghamton. AFB, where Creative Writing Fellowship in has accepted a position describes as "post-modern Eleanor and Jim Seerden (both C-5A. He 1983, Crowell has been honored for she USAA as a financial repre- funk, on one of the rivers running Will Rice) write, "After three years with his short stories. His story "Work" sentative. through Calgary." She continues on Guam, Western Pacific, we received the 1982 Best Short Story to practice law; Tony serves as di- have finally returned to the main- Award from the Texas Institute of rector of archives at the Glenbow land. We will be living in Chula Letters, and other works have re- Institute, one of the top 78 Vista, San Diego, Calif., for the ceived honorable mention listings Alberta museums in Canada. She writes, CLASS RECORDER: next two years. Jim is to be sta- 71 in Best American Short Stories and Uwe Gabel (Ph.D.) "Any Rice friends or classmates — Rhonda Hale Kreger tioned aboard the USS Fox, CG-33. Gernot The Pushcart Prizes. His works "After graduating from Rice look us up if you are up 1810 Beaver Creek Court Jesse H. James(Sid Rich)and Eleanor is in the Reserves and lov- writes, have appeared in numerous maga- please went to UNC-Chapel Hill, where I Duncanville, TX 75137 Faith Stovall James'78 (Jones) ing her work at Imperial Beach. I zines and collections, including here for the Olympics next Febru- received a M.S.L.S. in 1973 and ary or are otherwise in the area." (214) 780-7183 have a lot to report since they were "Chuck Nicholson (Sid Rich) Mississippi Review, Fiction Inter- Catherine Baker also taught as assistant professor (Also see "New Arrivals.") married at the Rice Chapel in 1980. and Ni- national, South by Southwest:24 Ellen L. Hahne(Brown) has fin- cholson (Brown)arrive here in before returning to Germany. Fol- ished a Ph.D. in electrical engi- Jesse received a master's in public Stories of Modern Texas and oth- July. Chuck went back in the Navy lowing a two-year training period I and returned to and international affairs from the ers. Crowell has been on the Texas neering at M.I.T. in November 1986. John Nussel took a job as subject specialist at Bell Laboratories in University of Pittsburgh in 1986, Tech faculty since 1981, and sup- work at AT&T (Will Rice) and his wife are here, the central library of Cologne Uni- 76 She writes, "I've and is now a research analyst with plemented his Rice degree with a Murray Hill, N.J. and so may be 'Tex' Sandlin '82 versity. Meanwhile, I have been Mark Farris(Ph.D. '80, Sid Rich) times between the Arms Control Association in master's from Johns Hopkins Uni- shuttled so many (Wiess). promoted to deputy director and has been named an associate pro- that some- Washington, D.C. His work in- versity and doctorate from State M.I.T. and Bell Labs "The family is bigger. Olivia became a part-time lecturer at the fessor of mathematics at Hardin- forwarded in volves monitoring the strategic University of New York, Buffalo. times my mail gets Juliet was born Sept. 6, 1983, and same university. A few books and Simmons University in Abilene, circles! It will be nice to settle balance between the U.S. and the Lane (Baker) left George Jeffrey on Nov. 27, 1985. numerous articles have been pub- John Christian Texas. He has been a member of down and stop living out of card- Soviet Union, for the advocacy of Tulane University a year ago to Eleanor's sister, Ensign Alice Lip- lished along the way." the Texas A&M University faculty board boxes." rational, coherent arms control teach preventive and international 1983. Fans, 32, is married policies. pincott'86 (Will Rice)and Ensign J. Peter Jordan (Hanszen) writes, since William Leler (Lovett) writes, "I medicine and to practice and teach two preschool-age chil- Faith received her law degree Cliff Dorman '86(Sid Rich) are "After nearly eight years with an and has finally finished my Ph.D. in com- pediatrics on the faculty of Oral the Ameri- from the University of Texas in engaged to be married next year. architectural firm in Honolulu, I dren. He is a member of puter science from the University Roberts University School of Medi- Mathematical Society and the 1981, and was admitted to the ROTC classmates, look us up." succumbed to the allure of aca- can of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, cine in Tulsa, Okla. He writes, Association of Texas Bar that some year. She is Walter Underwood (Will Rice) demia." With experience in teach- Mathematical and I only left there four years ago. "Visitors to Tulsa from Rice may now an attorney with the enforce- married Tina McMormick (UC- ing on a part-time basis, he has America. Now I've left Tektronix and Port- join me at the City of Faith or at ment division of the Securities & Davis '82) on May 9 in an afternoon been appointed associate profes- Buddy Grazioli (Will Rice) has land and moved to Manchester, I. home in Broken Arrow, Okla." Exchange Commission in Wash- ceremony at All Saints Episcopal sor at the University of Hawaii's been promoted to vice president at the England. Drop me a line in Palo Alto, Calif. Wal- school of architecture. He writes, Neal Mangham (Ph.D.) has been and is the senior sales manager at ington. Her work involves the in- Church University of Manchester." prosecution of in- groomsmen were T.W. Cook "Aloha to friends and classmates named academic dean of the Uni- Coldwell Banker's downtown Los vestigation and ter's Fritz Morsches(Hanzsen) re- sider trading and other securities (Sid Rich), Mark Linimon that I can never forget and who ha- versity of Redlands in California. Angeles office. He and his wife, '77 cently moved to Cleveland to work law violations. (Sid Rich), Eric Sisson '76 ven't seen or heard from me in He writes, "July 1, Gail and I will Caroline, have bought their first '80 for McKinsey and Co., a consulting Faith and Jesse invite any Rice Rice)and Don Bennett years." move from Norman, Okla., where home and have added another (Will I've been assistant vice provost. firm. After graduating from the alums in the D.C. area to look (Wiess). Rice guests included Wi- Peel (Hanszen) was recently dog, "Woodie," to the family. Tom Two of our sons will be students at Yale School of Organization and them up. ley Sanders'78 (Lovett), Jim appointed assistant vice president Diane Satin (Jones) is currently in worked Redlands, so it's a family reunion Management in 1982, he Ranch in Wim- Beall '78 (Lovett), Bob Puckette of Frank B. Hall & Co., San Anto- the doctoral program in business From WeatherTop for us as well." for Hallmark Cards Inc. in Kansas berly, Texas, comes news that '82(Wiess), Margaret Schaurte nio, a worldwide brokerage firm. administration at the University of City for four years. Puckette (B.F.A. '80, Jonathan R. Richardson Jack (John) Kent Jr.(Sid Rich) '79 Jones), He was formerly a partner with California, Berkeley. Bennett'82 (M.Ch.E. '74, M.B.A. '86, Will Rice) Victoria Price has been inducted and Carrie Richerson '73(Jones) Debbie Gronke Swantner & Gordon in Corpus J. Teneyuca Neff was married to Martha S. Young Sharyll (Brown) into the Southeast Texas Women's moved from Houston to the Texas )Hanszen), Diana '80 Christi. was recently sworn in as magis- William Watson '83 on May 2, 1987. He currently is em- Hall of Fame for her contributions Hill Country in 1985. Jack writes, (Baker), trate in the new 24-hour magistrate Noall '78 ployed as a systems programmer to international education. "We've been building a house (Sid Rich), Matt program at San Antonio. A native Phil (the infor Rice's Institute for Computer (ever since)) on a small ranch be- (M.E.E. '79, Sid Rich), of that city, Teneyuca is a former trepid) Parker'79 (Lovett), Meg Services and Applications; Martha tween Blanco and Wimberley. I 72 deputy director of the Bexar (Lovett), Les Richardson is a systems coordina-• have had my own architectural Green Sisson '85 15th REUNION CLASS County Legal Aid Association. She Tom Evans tor for Rice's Jones Graduate and graphic design practice in Doss'80 (Wiess) and The Class of 1972 will celebrate its is a graduate of the New York Uni- School of Administration. Both are 79 Blanco since '85. Carrie has just '83(Lovett). reunion with a Schooi of Law. 15th cocktails and native Houstonians. versity begun a business, Richerson's Evans provided the following buffet on Saturday, Oct. 24, at the CLASS RECORDER: "local color" on the celebration: Russell Wilson (Will Rice)is at- J.C. Puckett Books, handling new and used Grad House (formerly the Tide- Linton D. Stables III (Will Rice) "Meg and Eric Sisson, currently tending the University of Texas 435 E. 70th, books and traveling around the lands)from 7 p.m. "until." Plans has been appointed an associate #6-F living in Iowa Colony, Texas, took law school and recently placed New York, NY 10021 small towns in our area." are currently under way. If you of Hardison, Komatsu, Ivelich & the opportunity to do some sight- second in the National Trial Com- (212) 872-6711 (daytime) Deborah Sod berry (Hanszen) would like to help with the plan- Tucker, an architectural firm in seeing on the coast and showed petition held in San Antonio. After writes, "Having just finished my ning or want additional informa- San Francisco, where he has lived 6-month-old daughter, graduating tram Rice, he went on Gene Creely (Baker)and his pediatric residency, I'll now be do- their tion, call Julie Williams ltz at since 1979. a number of important to earn a master's in electrical en- wife, Dena, have moved from Cor- ing a fellowship in behavioral pe- Brenda, (713)528-3233. Robert Taylor (Hanszen), Bob gineering from UCLA. pus Christi to Houston, where he diatrics at Children's Hospital of landmarks like the Pacific Ocean, Stinson (Will Rice) and Leonard Napa Valley and the post office Scott Perry (Wiess) has been ac- works for the law firm of Meredith, Los Angeles. My husband, Jeff the Lane (Hanszen), principals of Big Sur. They report that there's cepted into the Th.D. program at Donnell & Abernethy. Klingman, is finishing his last at Chelsea Architects, have relocated not much else at Big Sur besides the Graduate Theology Union in Richard A. Lavenda (M.Mus.)is year of residency in neurology. We their offices to the Phoenix Tower, the post office. Berkeley, Calif. When he begins 77 an assistant professor of composi- both heard from Rolf Asphaug 3200 Southwest Freeway, Houston, "Wiley Sanders also made work this fall, he will be focusing 10th REUNION CLASS tion and theory at Texas Wesleyan (Hanszen)recently. He has em- his trip do double duty. He's scout- on the arts and spirituality. Lt. James Paul Wilhoit(M.C.E. The Class of 1977 will celebrate its College in Arlington. Since joining barked on a seven-month walk ing at Berkeley, where he is con- '75, Will Rice) of the U.S. Naval Re- 10th reunion with a "TG" on Fri- the Texas Wesleyan faculty in from Tucson to Seattle." serve's Civil Engineer Corps has sidering seeking a Ph.D. after he day, Oct. 23, 6-8 p.m. at the 1983. Lavenda has composed many Lovie Smith (Brown, M.Mus.) been awarded a Navy Achieve- finishes his M.S. at UT-Austin. Farnsworth Pavilion of the Ley Stu- works for faculty colleagues and says, "If you're a musician and you ment Medal for professional "Phil Parker may or may not 73 dent Center, followed by a buffet student ensembles. His works want to work, you can work.- To achievement. According to the ci- have been at the wedding. He is on Saturday, Oct. 24, that is still in have also been played by ensem- prove it, the Houston percussionist tation, Wilhoit received the award the For more in- still "lost" and denies having writ- planning stages. bles and soloists nationwide. maintains a hectic schedule. In ad- "for professional achievement in formation call reunion chairs Mike ten the story that appeared in the David Maresh (Will Rice)gradu- dition to her "real jobs" with the the superior performance of his du- Parmet at (713)661-3456 (office) or last Sallyport. It is also possible ated from Texas A&M University percussion sections of Houston's ties while serving as Assistant Ostrum George at (713)652- that the person I spoke to was not Karen this spring and has been accepted Theater Under the Stars orchestra Resident Officer in Charge of Con- 4901 Phil Parker, but a UFO, possible a (office). for a residency in psychiatry at Tu- and the Wichita (Kan.)Symphony struction at NAS(Naval Air Station) cloud of marsh gas. Jabir Al-Hilali (Sid Rich) has Orchestra, Smith teaches in Bryan, Whidbey Island from 16 January lane. "T.W. Cook prepared a fine been appointed senior associate at Texas; at Grambling State Univer- 1986 to 12 January 1987. His leader- John R. Torczynski (Will Rice) barbecued brisket for a bachelor's Gensler and Associates/Architects sity in Grambling, La.; and at ship of the $14 million Terminal sends in the following "pertinent shower for Walter the day before in Houston. Houston Community College. She Equipment Building project re- facts:" "I am quitting my job at the wedding. The Texas contin- also plays snare drum for a Dixie- sulted in timely and high quality Jon M. Havlak (Wiess) has Sandia National Laboratories, not gent brought along about eight land jazz band and vibes for a jazz completion of this critical facility. joined the architectural firm of because of dislike, but rather to cases of Shiner to go along with group from the University of St. Having assumed responsibility for Packham Guyton Albers & Viets fulfill my dream of teaching under- the barbecue. Thomas; heads her own entertain- the project at approximately one- Inc. in St. Louis, Mo., as a project graduates. This fall I join the phys- "At a reception for the bride ment agency, LDS; and serves on fourth of the allowed construction designer. Prior to this, he worked ics department at Harvey Mudd and groom the night before the board of the Houston chapter of time, Lieutenant Wilhoit's organi- or Morris Architects of Houston. College in Claremont, Calif. Har- the wedding, Jim Beall and I pre- the professional musicians' union. Robert Furse (Lovett) is working zational ability, technical skills Becky Lambourn Krusen vey Mudd 'out-Rices' Rice, and the sented the bride with a symbol of Smith was the subject of a recent as an oncologist in Southwest and countless hours of extra effort (Jones) and her husband, Fritz, dean took great pleasure in in- our fatherland, an Arkansas Razor- feature in the Houston Chronicle. Houston, with his main interest ly- were instrumental in saving the were planning a move to Okla- forming me that HMC has sur- back Hog Hat, along with an im- ing in cancer chemotherapy. He is project from the virtual certainty of homa City in May, after seven passed Rice's proportion of Geoffrey B. Walne (Wiess) re- promptu lesson in hog calling. also a part-time faculty member at a significantly delayed comple- years overseas in Norway, En- National Merit Scholars in the en- ceived an M.B.A. from the Darden "Les Doss, known as 'Trip' in

22 SALLYPORT—JUNE-AUGUST 1987

MEM and Jeff Long '86:'Areas of con- kakeeny(M.Mus.) (who was re- college days, is living in Soo ritoi- rope, but with emphasis on the lyn Landry Amador'85 (Will quest included the Virginia Motel, cently employed as music director cisco and has recently completed Scandinavian stock exchanges. Rice) both recently received mas- 86 Disney World and Epcot Center, of Houston Youth Symphony), Ad r- recording an album of his music. After all, I am of Norwegian heri- ter's degrees from the University of Lisa H. Berman (Jones) has the Indiatlantic Beach and a Texas Ian Clark, Luke Sellers, Paul "Mark Linimon caused a tage and will be completing my California-Berkeley. Ellyn writes, joined McDaniel & Tate as a junior Rangers exhibition game. We & Emberton, Stan Yoder'87 number of eyebrows to raise by ap- year here in Norway with a visit to "We plan on moving back to account executive. McDaniel and will were amazed when we bumped (Hanszen), Lynn Thomas'87 pearing at a post-wedding party in my almost 90-year-old grandfather Texas, to the Dallas area, Tate is a Houston-based public after into Bret Hem n '83(Sid Rich)on a (Lovett) and Bridget Jensen '53. the company of two very attractive in a little Norwegian town in North begin working in September relations/advertising/fund-raising in Eu- Putt-Putt golf course.' Dee Ann Tasha Neeper'87 (Lovett) was young women who tied him too Norway called lbested. I have vis- a much-needed vacation agency. Burgess(Lovett) is employed in one of five bridesmaids. Becky chair, brought him strawberries ited with Kurt Guenther'79 rope." Kari L. Brandt(Jones) is a Peace Jon's division of Tracor, and Luck, Viviano Guzman, Sara and cream and consistently re- (Will Rice)and his wife, Suzanne. Richard K. Barbieri (Will Rice) Corps volunteer teaching general Messrs. Crockett and Hudson have Ullman, Shinik Ham,Jim Mus- ferred to him as their 'toy.' The two They are living in Oslo, just blocks and his wife, Debra, have moved science, grades 7, 8 and 9, in lately been occupied as first-year tacchia '86(Sid Rich) and Kevin attractive young women are the from the famous Holmenkollen ski from Los Angeles to Denver, where Gorblee Compound #3, Liberia, law students at the University of Tarrant provided some of the spe- daughters of Bob and Margaret jump. They have a wonderful son, he now works for Martin Marietta West Africa. Kentucky and UT, respectively. cial music." After a honeymoon in Puckette. They are Charlotte, 6, born in February." as an engineer on the Titan launch is begin- -Out on the snow- and allergy- Larry Lesser(Hanszen) Cancun, the couple is living in and Madeline, 4. The Puckettes are vehicles. year as a graduate plagued East Coast I have been ning his second Houston. moving to Taiwan at the end of the Eubanks(Jones) mathematics depart- Lori A. Stone doing graduate study in education student in the summer. They expect to remain Joe Eubanks on May 22. University of Texas. 83 married and -of all things- physics at ment at the there for about two years, while the returned from a hon- Bill Bonner (Baker)received They recently George Mason University, while Ruth Shelly Unger (M.Mus.) Bob learns the ropes as an engi- from in Hawaii and are living Doctor of Optometry degree eymoon working as a lowly substitute married Kendall Steffen on May 30, neering manager for Corvallis Mi- Houston on May in the Woodlands, north of Hous- the University of teacher. Since arriving back in my 1987, at Gloria Dei Lutheran 87 croelectronics at their position as a 16. He has accepted a ton. native Virginia, I have stumbled Church in Nassau Bay. She writes, Christian Thomas Blackwell manufacturing site. Cigna staff optometrist with Lars K. Hansen (Hanszen) mar- upon only one other Rice-ling, "Despite such last-minute dilem- (Wiess) is spending his summer "I should also note that Hal- Ariz. Healthplan in Phoenix, ried Polly Baren in Dallas on May Doug Plummer'86 (Wiess), mas as frozen flowers, it was an teaching at the Beau Soleil School sey W. Taylor (Will Rice)and Chris Conway (Jones) has ac- 2, 1987. His best man was Peter whom I encountered in George- exciting day. Among the 300-plus in Villar, Switzerland. This fall, he Harvey J. Spooner were present cepted a research staff position at Ku '84(Hanszen). back in June '85. wedding guests were Rice friends will go to La Paz, Bolivia, to study at the wedding." town the M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory in Amelia K. Sutton (Jones) writes, "My best wishes go out to the Ken Celina '86(Wiess), Leela international trade and in Febru- Lexington, Mass. He writes, "I am -We've just moved to a new home rest of the Class of '85 out here in '87 and Kiran Murty '89(both my, he will enter the American working on the hazardous weather (in Lancaster, Texas)on May 1. the Wilderness, away from the Lovett), Camila Shahani, Marty Graduate School of International detection project, automating wind Austin Andrew, 9 months old, shelter of the Hedges." Merritt'85 (Hanszen), Gabe So. Management in Glendale, Ariz. 82 shear and gust front detection at loves crawling around to explore." CLASS RECORDER: airports using a doppler radar." Kevin Honnell Tom Evans (Lovett) received his ARRIVALS 1421 Geneva St. M.S. in mechanical engineering NEW Raleigh, NC 27606 from the University of Texas in De- Richard M. Jones'72 (Baker) son, Oliver Crampton, on Aug. 23, Soto, Texas." (office), or 85 (919) 737-3615 cember and is now working part and his wife, Marlene, announce 1986. The Phillips family lives in Timothy J. Furlong '82(Sid RECORDER: (919)851-2550 (home) time as a volunteer at the Capital CLASS the birth of a son, Benjamin Ri- Houston. Rich) and Gayle Starkey Fur- David Phillips the FIFTH REUNION CLASS Area Food Bank while he -looks for chard, on Feb. 10, 1987. Jones is a Ginger Ehrhardt Twichell'79 long '84(Jones) announce 6013 Ridgeview Drive birth of a daughter, Rebecca Anne, The Class of 1982 will hold a fifth permanent(and gainful) employ- partner at O'Melveny & Myers, a (Jones) and her husband. Michael, Alexandria, VA 22310 8, 1986. The Furlongs live reunion party on Saturday eve- ment." Los Angeles law firm. The family announce the birth of their second on Oct. (703)960-9249 in Portsmouth, Va. ning, Oct. 24. Plans are still being Richard Hunt(Sid Rich) is living lives in South Pasadena, Calif. daughter, Leah Michelle, on Feb. and Darren Cofer made. For information call reunion in Hong Kong, where he teaches Amy Arnold Helen Jameson Moulton '74 23, 1987. Ginger completed a mas- Steve Wilkerson '84(M.C.E. '87, were married Aug. 30, chair Lynn Lednicky at (409) 238- history and religious studies at (both Jones) (Jones) and her husband, Cliff, an- ter's degree in counselor education Lovett) and Janet Greenberg Dallas. Members of the 4223(office). Hong Kong International School 1986, in nounce the birth of their second in May. The Twichells live in Dal- Wilkerson '85 (M.S.'87, Lovett) wedding party included Anne De- announce the birth of a son, Wal- Bob Avery (Sid Rich) writes, "I fi- and social stratification at Hong child, Gerald, on Jan. 18, 1987. las. se (Jones), Tony Munn (Jones) 2, 1987. The nally have something significant Kong University. In a letter to the Their first child, Laura, is now 2. Leticia Morgan Buscaino ter John. on May and Cameron Cofer'90 (Jones). in Houston. to write to you about. I was just alumni office he writes, -My Can- The family recently moved to (Brown)and her husband, Al, an- Wilkersons live The newlyweds are living in lucky enough to graduate from the tonese is pathetic and barely im- Avon, Conn., where Cliff works for nounce the birth of their first child, David Conrady '85 (Will Rice) Arlington, Va. Johns Hopkins University School of proving." He invites anyone Honeywell. Robert Addison, on May 14, 1987, and his wife. Catherine, announce China or Asia, recently com- Medicine, and even to win an visiting Hong Kong, Tom Bogart(Wiess) Paul Phillips'77 (Wiess) and in Dallas. She writes, "Dr. Paul E. the birth of a son, Tommy Jack, on through my examination in award for the research I did during or otherwise "passing pleted his general Maureen Fulton Phillips'78 Tullar'73 delivered our son and March 23, 1987. The family lives in the Pacific Rim- to look him economics at Princeton University. my time in med school. I'm now neck of (Baker) announce the birth of a is in his fifth year of practice in De- Beacon, N.Y. preparing to research the beaches up. "A dissertation is the only thing he of Santa Barbara, Calif., where I'll Lisa Maier (Lovett) was married left between me and a Ph.D.," be doing my internship this com- to Peter N. Dayton II of Cincinnati, says, adding that other Rice ing year. Then I'll return to Ohio, on May 16, 1987. Until re- alumni attending Princeton in- IN MEMORIAM oph- clude Harry Ploehn '83(Wiess), Hopkins to do my residency in cently, Lisa was working for First Honora Avenel, Ryder'16 on Max Weiner'32 of Houston on R.B. Gilliam '48 of Victoria, In- Marlon Boarnet'84 (Wiess) and thalmology at the Wilmer Eye National Bank of Cincinnati. The June 25, 1975. April 23, 1987. Texas, on March 8, 1987. stitute. I'm happy to report what a couple is living in that city. Dave Trevas'86 (Sid Rich). '50 of Hous- Richard 0. Chandler'17 of San John McKee III '35 of Hilton George W. Hansen small world it is, as Sumit Though Charles F. Caldwell 1987. Antonio on March 24, 1986. Head Island, S.C., on March 10, ton on March 22, Nanda '83 will be one of the four (Wiess)continues to work as a leg- 1987. Doralyn J. Hickey '51 of Den- people who will be starting this islative assistant to Congressman Ralph V. St. John '20 of Corpus D. McReynolds'35 of San ton, Texas, on March 18, 1987. ophthalmology training with me in Mike Andrews, he has also be- Christian May 10, 1985. John Diego, Calif., on Jan. 30, 1983. Nicholas'51 '88. I'd really like to get in touch come House director of the Con- Ruth Greenhill '21 of Houston Charles Edward with any other alums in either the gressional Sunbelt Caucus, a on May 24, 1987. Ralph Vincent Nicosia '35 of on March 17, 1987. or Southern - Houston on March 20, 1987. '51 of De Baltimore/Washington bipartisan regional coalition Clinton L. Dutton '22 of Need- Thomas D. Peyton 10, 1987. California areas." building organization with 120 ville, Texas, on May 12, 1987. Sam P. Worden '35 of Houston Quincy, La., on March members of Congress from the on April 3, 1987. Fla., (Betty) Kit Clark, who holds the LeGrande Bright'23 on Don E. Self'52 of Orlando, South and Southwest. He became Mary distinction as the first woman April 23, 1987. Jack Woodrow Comiskey'36 on March 16, 1982. director when Andrews was graduate from Sid Rich, became a of Houston on May 29, 1987. Mary Eileen Broussard New- named chair of the Caucus in Merle Colley Don igan '24 of member of the Texas Bar in May Rentz Doggett Jr.'36 of man '53 of New Braunfels, Texas, March 1987. Officers of the caucus Houston on April 3, 1987. John after completing a Doctor of Juris- Independence, Texas, on May 7, on Jan. 1.1987. prudence in December 1986 at the have identified as goals for the up- Wilbert Oscar Crain '27 of 1987. Adrian S. Rosenberg '53 of University of Houston. coming year seeking more federal Houston on May 7, 1987. research funds for Sunbelt univer- Reginald P. Kottwitz'36 of Houston on April 2, 1987. Timothy J. Furlong (Sid Rich) Paul Evan Daugherty '27 of sities; searching for ways to re- Houston on May 14, 1987. Joseph Bernard Wolens'53 of graduated from University of Dallas on April 25, 1987. Sumit K. Nanda (Wiess)recently duce the South's high rates of Lanelle Langdon '37. Dallas on March 29, 1987. Texas medical school in May. He graduated from Duke University James W. Dodson '27 of Hous- illiteracy and infant mortality; and Rodger Grigsby Smyth '37 on L. Williams'59 (Baker) and his wife, Gayle Starkey Medical School and is beginning a ton. William developing strategies for diversify- April 5, 1987. of Ann Arbor, Mich., on Nov. 11, Furlong '84(Jones), and their residency in ophthalmology at '28(M.A., ing local economies and training Gen. Noel F. Parrish Heaps'39 of Hous- 1986. children, Michael, 3, and Rebecca, Johns Hopkins University. He Va., on April Stanley N. dislocated workers. Ph.D.)of Alexandria, Jr.'62 8 months, are moving to Ports- writes that Bob Avery '82(Sid ton on April 16, 1987. Jack Alton Goddard (Sid Rich) received 7, 1987. on Sept. mouth, Va., where Tim is begin- Rich) will be a fellow resident at Marcos Frid J. B. Bishop'40 of Berkeley, Ca- (Baker) of Humble, Texas, in electrical engineer- Robert Leroy Byrne'29 of ning a psychiatry internship with the Wilmer Eye Institute in Balti- his master's lif., in 1978. 29, 1985. University in Houston on April 29, 1987. the Navy. Gayle, he says, "will more. ing from Stanford Law Lawson Lovelace '40. James Verne Dalton '71 (Ph.D.) he will start work- of Houston continue being a full-time mother." June. In August, Philip B. Smith '29 Francis T.N. Hood '41 of Plano, of Houston on April 23, 1987. Co. in Cu- (Also see "New Arrivals.") ing for Hewlett-Packard on May 22, 1987. Texas, on May 15, 1987. John S. Trout'72 (Baker) of pertine, Calif. Walter Romanko (Will Rice) re- Inez Terry Hochmuth '30 of Norman R. Haertig '42 of Aus- Buda, Texas, on May 12, 1987. cently completed an M.S. in chem- J. Craig Hermann (Will Rice) re- Houston on May 9, 1987. tin on May 23, 1987. Dyonisio G. Pinatti'77 of ical engineering at Northwestern ceived an M.B.A. from Hankamer Victoria King '30 on March 2, James S. Cleaver'45 of Dallas Monte Aprazivel, Brazil, on Dec. University, and is now working on School of Business at Baylor Uni- 1987. on March 11, 1987. 25, 1986. versity on May 14. '88 of his Ph.D. in the department of ma- Harry Scott Norman '32 of Elaine E. Dippel '47 of Houston Catherine M. Mergele terials science and engineering. Angela Nelle Hooper (Will Rice) Houston on May 13, 1987. on April 7, 1987. San Antonio in 1986. His wife, Corinne, is pursuing her and William Nance Creager master's of music education de- '83(Hanszen) were married at gree. He reports that he often sees Rice Temple Baptist Church in Carl J. Williams '81, who is fin- Houston on May 313, 1987. Attend- ishing his Ph.D. in chemistry at the ants included Ann Bauser (Will Let us hear from you! University of Chicago and will be Rice), Elizabeth Hinson Elder Why not re- going to Northwestern for postdoc- '83(Hanszen), Kathy Cage El- Enjoy keeping up with friends and classmates in the Classnotes section? toral work. Also at Northwestern, der(Hanszen), Lynn Broady turn the favor-drop us a line and a (preferably black and white) photo at Sallyport, he writes, Lucy Deckard '82 and (Will Rice), Martha Creager P.O. Box 1892, Houston, Texas 77251. her fiance, Terry Creasy, plan to Diane Popelka (Lovett) has been Barnes '81 (Hanszen), John El- Office of University Relations, complete their M.S. dgrees in ma- promoted to vice president of de- der'83 (Hanszen), Jim Baeder 111 New Job? 0 New Baby? terial science soon. velopment for Michael Canyon '83(Hanszen), Paul Roush '83 El Married? a Trip? LII See a Classmate? John H. Scott (Sid Rich) gradu- Productions of Burbank. Calif. The (Hanszen) and William Hooper DI Promoted? LI Take ated in June 1986 from the UCLA job, she says, -means I get to read '90(Wiess). After a Canada/ 0 Moved? El Back in School? 0 Other? Graduate School of Management a lot of scripts in hopes of finding Alaska honeymoon, Bill and with an M.B.A. and is now working one good enough to make a movie Angela will reside in Berkeley. Ca- Send us details - as a subcontractor liaison officer at out of." lif., where they are both graduate TRW Space & Technology Group in John G. Worrall (Lovett) writes, students at the University of Redondo Beach, Calif. "I finally graduated to the oil patch California-Berkeley. Wendy Young (Lovett) writes after an extended stay at the UT Class recorder David M. Phillips from Oslo, Norway: -I'm finishing geology master's program. I've (Wiess) writes from Alexandria, Va... Name up my law and language studies moved to New Orleans(Gretna) • now here at the University of Oslo in and a 9-to-5 life with Conoco Inc." "Jon Burnett(Sid Rich), College June. In addition to international an engineer for Tracor Aerospace Class in Austin, has written of a recent public law and European commu- New?) nity law studies, I've been re- reunion in the Orlando area with Address( searching and visiting stock 84 his former Sid Rich suitemates market activities throughout Eu- Gonzalo Amador(Wiess) and El- David Hudson, Andy Crocker

SALLYPORT-JUNE-AUGUST 1987 23

11' attlifiCatae

throughout the year. For details contact Alumni Association will join Yale Alumni and architectural history. Co-sponsored E V E N IS the Office of Executive Development at for this in-depth 21-day trip that takes you by the Foundation for Cultural Exchange, 527-6060. from the scenic Sydney harbor to the The Netherlands-USA. HOMECOMING 1987 Great Barrier Reef to the Outback and Homecoming 1987 is scheduled for Oct. Ayers Rock. You will travel back to Syd- Oct. or Nov. 22-24. Rice vs. Texas A&M in football. An ney via the Alice Train and then New 'Four Corners': the TR A V E L alumni basketball game for former play- Zealand in all its spectacular beauty Colorado Plateau cheerleaders and managers is being will begin in Auckland, On-site lectures in geology, architecture ers, ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PROGRAMS awaits you. We planned for this weekend and will be Waitomo Caves and then travel and anthropology of the scenic Colorado For information on 1987 alumni travel/ visit the to all as spectators. If interested in will see Mt. Cook, Queen- Plateau wilderness area. open study programs, call the Alumni Office, to Rotorua. We the alumni basketball game, contact Wil- Anau and end our trip in (713)527-4057, or write the Association of stown, Te Wilson at (713) 527-4075 or Bill Irish at Cost is approximately lis Rice Alumni, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, Christchurch. (713)527-4809. Other scheduled activities A R T Texas 77251, to receive detailed itiner- $6,335. include a concert, luncheon, class re- aries. Prices are approximate. SEWALL GALLERY unions, special reunions and much more. Dec. 21-Jan. 3 exhibition Look for your homecoming brochure in Departing Aug. 31 Christmas in Rome and More Sept. 4-Oct. 16. A retrospective Christmas in Rome and New of works by contemporary Dutch artist Jan the mail and make plans to join the fes- British Isles Imagine call in Paris. Enjoy the beauty of Schoonhoven, comprised of 18 paper re- tivities. For additional information, Choose a one-, two- or three-week tour of Year's Eve Christmas Holiday in Rome followed liefs and 36 drawings(dating from 1957- the alumni office at (713) 527-4057. the British Isles. This is an unstructured the to Orvieto, the most spectacu- 85), initiates Sewall Gallery's trip that allows you to visit all the sights by a drive hill city. Then on to Assisi, participation in a decade of ambitious you've always wanted to see. You will larly situated and Florence. From Florence you cultural exchange programs between the spend the first week in London. If you Perugia NOTICES an overnight train to Paris Netherlands and the United States. The choose to add a second week, you will will take celebrate the New Year. exchange was inaugurated in 1987 in the then travel to Cardiff, Wales and Edin- where you will RICE BUSINESS AND is $2,400. State of Texas. A preview reception that Scotland. Limerick and Dublin Approximate cost PROFESSIONAL WOMEN burgh, is open to the public will take place await those who stay the full three weeks and Professional Notice Thursday, Sept. 3, from 7-10 p.m. At 8 The Rice Business and conclude their trip with a week in Ire- is aimed at the profes- The Association of Rice Alumni hosted a p.m., there will be a special guest lecture Women's club land. Many tours will be available to you women in the community, and seminar on travel and wildlife in Kenya, on Schoonhoven by exhibition curator Dr. sional so that you may do as little or as much as open to all alumnae and East Africa on June 25, 1987. David Keith David Courtney, director of the Ritter Art membership is you want during your trip. The pace lets university. Current Rice Jones, noted photographer, naturalist, Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca friends of the you experience the places you see. In 20 at a reduced fee on an author and conservationist shared his Raton, Fla. Although the 73-year-old art- students may join days, you'll have visited five incredible For more information, prize-winning wildlife photographs and ist has enjoyed a long and successful Eu- associate basis. cities in four amazing countries. The at 659-1988. outlined the unique Kenyan safari he will ropean career, this marks his first contact Judy Jo McGlaun price for one week (from Houston)is $999 escort in June 1988 for Rice University one-person exhibition in America. for two weeks is $1,398.(Due to air- and alumni and friends. For more information CONTINUING STUDIES scheduling, the third week option to line about the trip, contact the Association of The Office of Continuing Studies and is not available from Houston on Ireland Rice Alumni. SPORTS Special Programs offers classes through- British Caledonia. For those interested in out the year in the arts, finance, litera- the Ireland extension, we recommend re- RICE FOOTBALL 1987 ture, science, photography and foreign serving your space from Boston and mak- CONTINUING STUDIES Sept. 5, Lamar, 6 p.m. languages. A wide range of professional ing your own arrangements to the East The Office of Continuing Studies and Sept. 12 at Indiana, TBA courses also are offered. Summer 1987 week trip Special Programs offers a number of both Coast. The cost of the three Sept. 19 at LSU, TBA courses include: This is Music-An Intro- $1,697.) domestic and foreign travel opportunities from Boston is 6 p.m. duction to the Classics; Effective Public throughout the year. For information call Sept. 26, Southwest Texas State, Speaking; Hollywood's History Through Nov.6-8 (713) 520-6022 or 527-4803. Oct. 3 at Texas, 7 p.m. Cary Grant's Life; Introduction to Novel Wyeth Weekend Oct. 10, Texas Christian, 1 p.m. to see 115 Writing; Advanced Novel Writing; Intro- Take a weekend trip to Dallas Sept. 5-13 Oct. 17 at Texas Tech, noon Writing; Advanced works of N.C., Andrew and James Wyeth. Alaska! duction to Screen Oct. 24, Texas A&M (Homecoming), 1 p.m. Screen Writing; Introduction to the Short This exhibition has recently concluded a Dr. John Coffman will be your guide as noon Story; Journal Writing; and a number of tour in Moscow and Leningrad and will you explore the great American north and Oct. 31, Arkansas, introductory financial courses. For more be shown in Washington and Chicago. search for the famed northern lights — Nov. 14 at Baylor, 2 p.m. information and a free catalog, call 520- We will also include a visit to the Kimball the aurora borealis. Nov. 28, Houston, noon current 6022(527,4019 for languages). Museum in Fort Worth to see their Game times are subject to change. $200. Sept. 18-26 exhibits. Approximately For ticket information call (713) 527.14068 EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT An Architectural Tour Netherlands or (713) 527-8101 ext. 2441. Season tickets The Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Nov. 20-Dec. 12 of the This trip will be of special interest to ar- may be purchased at a reduced price Administration offers management Australia and New Zealand city planners and students of art through Sept. 4. courses to the business community Visit the lands "down-under!" Rice chitects,