Association of Rice Alumni

SavaI 31, No. 4 onJanuary— February 1976

At Home with Gene Hackerman: Interview

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The Impossible Job? A Special Report on What It Takes to Run a College These Day THE c dents health. An "WANTED," the advertisement might say: "President, to mentalism of its labor force have made legislators and 10- That the products are being marketed with eve higher direct an enterprise manufacturing societal products. citizens, on whose support the manufacturer depends, greater difficulty in the job-scarce society for whic tably Diversified interests range from agronomy to zoology. increasingly wary of the enterprise. they are produced. abyss. Duration of manufacturing process: 3.7 years. Profit 010'That the corporation is a proving ground for Nor does the help-wanted ad hint at the uniqu aeadei potential: none. Loss: $5,500 on every unit produced. social legislation, a bellwether of social change. qualities of the enterprise's labor force: widow "President must represent company to vast constit- 110- That the institution's former products—many of No- That the workers expect—and demand—to ta fin uency: 63,000 shareholders, state legislators, govern- them gone from the scene for decades—are, in effect, treated not merely as workers, but as part of the colf eating ment bureaucrats, and the community at large. its majority shareholders. pany's governance. "Salary: not commensurate with responsibilities." That it is their contributions that in large part IP- That, at the same time, they are unionizing Year Uncommonly candid? Perhaps, as far as the ad goes. must finance today's manufacturing deficits. ever-greater numbers. deficit Yet it does not tell all. Nowhere does it mention: Nor does the advertisement prepare its reader for And the ad omits entirely the most telling point c A 110- That the company's diversity is held together only the unusual nature of the products themselves: all: that fi by a shaky commonality—and supported by even more NO' That they_must be treated not as mere products, IN- That the exigencies of the job are likely to dr0 sities tenuous financing. but as elements demanding a place in the councils of the president from his office in five years. way. 110- That the volatility of the product and the experi- their producers. that c LITTLE WONDER that Herman B Wells, for 24 year Ric president of Indiana University, should say that a OF versit: lege president needs to be born "with the physic) listing stamina of a Greek athlete, the cunning of a Machi2 rtlY Ii velli, the wisdom of a Solomon, the courage of a lice Sh if possible—but above all, the stomach of a goat." Peril(

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ay THE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES that modern presi- pragmatic, problem-solving approach is likely to create "The search for ever-greater increases in productivity dents are called upon to govern are rarely in good a sense of confidence in the future. Growing anxiety, can best be put into proper perspective by contrasting health. numbing uncertainty, and a paralysis of the will are pictures of two extremes. Take first the image of a An ever-growing number of America's instittitions of likely companions in an age of complexity, contradic- teacher on one end of a log with a student on the other th evef higher learning—and not merely the newer and inevi- tions, and confusion. end, then contrast it with the image of our freshman r whiC tably hustling ones—sway at the edge of a financial "Maybe, however, a variation of the classic response class of 7,000 sitting in our football stadium while one abyss. Institutions whose names are synonymous with to Panglossism—cultivate your own garden—is the lonely professor stands at the 50-yard line in front of a unicla academic excellence and financial invulnerability—the most constructive course to follow. Callously turning microphone. The former represents the ancient notion ,Widows-and-orphans stocks of higher education—are aside from the torment and problems of men and of teaching; the latter would be a demonstration -I0 In financial trouble. One Ivy League university, after women everywhere, abdicating responsibilities thrust of extremely high productivity—assuming that it were te cola eating into the principal of its endowment by over upon us, subsiding into hedonism or into activities efficient. , S25-million in seven years, has embarked on a three- designed exclusively for personal self-fulfillment—none "The choice between these two educational models, [zing r Year auiterity program to eliminate the university's would form part of the suggested variation. as well as among the many idealized models, depends deficit spending. "The appropriate variation asks that we recognize upon a delicate and subjective balancing of educational )oint A Carnegie Commission report estimated in 1973 that there are many things.within our control which can philosophy and economic efficiency. I often wonder that fully two-thirds of the nation's colleges and univer- be done; that general despair should not keep us from whether as a matter of public policy the ever-growing o dri sities were in serious financial difficulty or headed that doing them; and that, in fact, we should proceed to do pressure for greater productivity is not leading us to the way. Two more years of inflation have not diminished them. The doing of them may give us the faith and football-stadium classroom. Is this what the students, that count. foundation of confidence to attack the additional prob- their parents, or the taxpaying citizens really want? 1. year Richard P. Bailey, former president of Hamline Uni- lems to which there are no instant or easy solutions." From the criticism I hear, I doubt it." a co versity, wrote: "Resignations are usually followed by a Inexorably, the president finds himself in the ,hysi0 listing of personal accomplishments. One item only, on THE COLLEGE PRESIDENT must run his or her enterprise dilemma Cincinnati's Bennis describes: lac10 tnY list: for seven years I survived." without the tools of the conventional corporate head. "We have the size and scope of big business, with a lie Should the help-wanted ad be amended to reflect the The college president cannot stockpile products until a few if any of its opportunities to increase our productiv- Perilousness of the undertaking? more favorable economic climate comes. The college ity. People would like us to run like the Metropolitan president cannot apply for tax and tariff relief. The Life Insurance Company. In fact, a university is more HOW MUCH of the individuality of his college or univer- like the Metropolitan Opera Company. .. . sity, for example, must a president be prepared to "In 1860, at the forerunner of our conservatory of sacrifice? music, it took a quintet 58 minutes to play a concerto to be run How much rivalry and variety will be lost in the "Colleges have by Brahms; in 1975 it also takes 58 minutes. Nor can struggle to keep institutions alive in a time of inade- in a businesslike fashion, we improve that performance by using one violin quate financing? but I'm not sure you instead of two, or a moog synthesizer to replace all A "tide of growing homogeneity," Warren G. Bennis, can run them exactly five." he .t President of the University of Cincinnati, calls what like businesses." But even unlike the venerable and equally threatened „s happening to much of American higher education— opera company, the president of a college or university i with the inevitable result that each university and col- cannot take his show on the road when times get 'fege [begins] to resemble all the others, becoming a desperate, hoping to play to S.R.O. in Tokyo to relieve ranchise service, a sort of chain of Holiday Inns of college president cannot decrease profit margins, for the financial strain at home. "The only power I have," the Mind." there is no profit. Yet the college president cannot says Willard L. Boyd, president of the University of Writes Fred Hechinger, in the New York Times: calmly tolerate loss, though loss is inevitable. Iowa, "is the power to persuade." Will the universities, like the railroads, pursue a Nor can the college president lower the quality and ;iefeatist, obsolescence course until the government at content of his institution's product; to do so would be EQUIPPED, THEN, with only his voice, the president 'fast tries to bail them out? The risk that they may opt to defeat the very purpose for which his enterprise finds himself at the helm of an organization offering Or a Passive response to their current crisis of identity, exists. But maintaining, let alone improving the pro- both a product and a service for which the demand illeb 'rieY, and goals is heightened by the fact that the duct's quality and content entails financial strains so is leveling off—even as the costs of producing and `Iniversities have become accustomed to having their grave as to threaten every college's existence. performing continue to rise. The price of the fuel to 4at5 spelled out for them by the off-campus world__ The paradoxes are serious. Alumnae, alumni, and heat the dormitories and classrooms and laboratories r01 are the demands of defense and other external the general taxpayers—and the trustees and legislators quintuples. The annual salary increments for faculty inandates." who hold their proxies—demand that the college or and staff members drop farther and farther behind the boes the ad need a further addendum? university president improve the efficiency of his manu- advances in living costs. Projections by the U.S. Office Should disregard the thinking of predecessors," it facturing process; yet the savings effected by increased of Education tell him that full-time enrollment, which IN/It say. "Must look within for answers." efficiency might be gained only at the expense of the increased over 100 per cent from 1960 to 1970, will product's value. Says Clifton R. Wharton, Jr., the pres- rise only 17 per cent in the present decade. (It will, :rilE PRESIDENT of Reed College, Paul E. Bragdon, ident of Michigan State University: says the government, actually decrease 1.3 per cent in ggests a middle course: "The most disturbing element in the latest fiscal the first two years of the next decade.) 'Viewing society and higher education within it, no crisis is the presumption that the universities can con- The same projections tell his faculty members that, s!ite today seems likely to adopt the Panglossian stance tinue to realize significant savings through continued while the number of doctorates granted by America's tahat all is, or soon will be, for the best in this best of increases in productivity and efficiency, without a institutions of higher education tripled in the 1960-70 Possible worlds. No ideology, doctrine, or faith in a corresponding reduction in quality of services. . .. decade, the employment of full-time teachers will actu- 4 SALLYPORT JANUARY-FEBRUARY

ally decrease .9 per cent from 1978 to 1982. The to research activity, or women graduates to the occu- National Science Foundation tells the researchers em- pational structure of society. When access is considered ployed by colleges and universities (who account for "People would like us to in isolation, the. logic of coeducation as an equitable about 61 per cent of the nation's basic scientific work) run like the Metropolitan social policy appears to be overwhelming. that real spending on basic research is expected to Life Insurance Company. In "The logic for educating women in male-controlled how- decline by 8 per cent from last year to this. fact, a university is more institutions is by no means so strikingly apparent, Does the college presidency, then, call for a defeat- ever, when one views the question of equity of treat- like the Metropolitan ist? Must the new president be versed, as Kenneth E. ment of the sexes from the perspective of the content Boulding suggests, in "the management of decline"? Opera Company." of the curriculum, the opportunity to participate in the "One of education's first priorities," says Mr. creation of new knowledge, and the potential for subse- Boulding, who is program director at the University of quent career development." Colorado's Institute of Behavioral Sciences, "[is to] develop a new generation of academic administrators rassed by the word 'selling,' or by any of the other TO GAIN his or her job, a prospective college president who are skilled in the process of adjusting to decline." sound business terms." must win the acceptance of competing interest groups, On the basis of all that, should the help-wanted ad If the college or university is serving a predominantly which occasionally are as concerned with establishing be amended again? black constituency. suggests James E. Cheek, president their positions vis-a-vis one another as with ferreting "Must be able to deal with decline," perhaps it of Howard University, the president must do further out the best candidate. To perform successfully, says should say. "Must accept diminished circumstances." battle. The enemy in this case, Mr. Cheek says, is the Glenn A. Olds, president of Kent State University, the temptation to sacrifice identity for short-term survival: president "has to be academically competent so that he THE TYPICAL CAPTAIN of the corporo-educational enter- "Leaders of black colleges and universities must will enjoy the support of the faculty, administratively prise has been trained as an academic, not as a pro- show a greater willingness to demonstrate the impor- competent so he can perform feats of fiscal dexterity, fessional manager; as a pedagogue, not as a public- tance of their institutions. able to deal with students, of impeccable integrity, and relations expert. But he is called upon to be the latter, "They cannot allow them to be taken for granted, fearlessly open." while he serves the former. He must do battle against nor can they conform to the easy perception that inte- Yet, suggests Ernest L. Boyer, chancellor of the State the hesitancy of his institution to view itself as a bus- gration will, in and of itself, improve the quality of University of New York, to avoid dismissal the presi- iness, and he must do equal battle against the confusion higher education for black people or increase the quan- dent cannot become identified with any of the groups of his own roles. tity of access to higher education for black people. he represents. "If a president starts giving student i R. Miller Upton, for 21 years (until last summer) They must hold to the belief that an institution can have answers, faculty answers, or trustee answers, he's lost." the president of Beloit College, calls the failure to a traditional black mission and a predominantly black No wonder, then, that the job is so perilous and the make a clear distinction between economic and aca- enrollment and still be integrated." list of casualties ever-lengthening—or that, at one point demic realities the major weakness of leadership in Similar challenges confront the presidents of women's in the past year, at least 78 four-year institutions of higher education: colleges. They—with their trustees and institutions— higher learning were without chief executives. Con- "So many of my colleagues, saying they know must choose whether to embrace the rush toward coed- sider: nothing about business, will delegate the business ucation, or to resist it. As Jill K. Conway, the president 10- At the University of Texas at Austin and at aspects almost totally to their financial vice-presidents. of Smith College, notes, the choice is riddled with Southern Methodist University, presidents were dis- In terms of good management, you can never take that complexities: missed or pressured into resigning by their boards after position. "Up to the present, . . . attention has been focused becoming identified with,faculty concerns. "If you don't have a sense of the importance of the on the access of women to institutions of higher educa- O. At the University of New Hampshire, Thomas N. economic base to the academic purpose, the institution tion, with little or no thought given to the relationship Bonner resigned as president after prolonged warfare is going to suffer. A president must never be ember- of women students to the curriculum, women scholars with the state's political leadership and incessant edi- UARY JANUARY-FEBRUARY SALLYPORT

specialists in production, finance, and public relations occu- torial salvos from William Loeb's Manchester Union "If you can touch their whole character and their successfully. A church, in order to safe- dered Leader. professional expertise, you are doing something impor- —not always traditions, may place leadership in a collective itable No- The University of Colorado dismissed its presi- tant for society through alumni." guard its dent after the faculty voted no confidence in him. Yet there is no easy way for today's college or body. the university not only deals in a host of rolled 10- At Missouri's Stephens College, students and fac- university president, grown increasingly remote from "But student's intangibles rather than profit, but also must move how- ulty members—disturbed that a woman had not been the ebb and flow of campus life, to touch a forward with vigor and sensitivity. Therefore, only a treat- Picked to head the female institution—asked the man character. The college president of yore, who spent his person, a president, can effectively combine tradition intent Whom the board had selected to reconsider his accep- Saturdays pacing the sidelines and his Mondays parsing Although one and vigor to gain understanding response from a com- in the tance of the presidency. Latin, is as rare as the college of yore. plex of cooperating constituencies." ,ubse- The college president, in short, must balance the notable group of modern presidents has gone public— ideal and the real—and he cannot, as Jacques Barzun Duke's Terry Sanford announces for the White House, noted in The American University, "forget the differ- the University of Chicago's Edward H. Levi takes over ;ident ence between the golden and the leaden functions he is the Justice Department, the University of Alabama's oups, supposed to perform." David Mathews is called to head up H.E.W.—many "Presidents are obli- shing more have gone private. Faced with multitudinous generally prized for -faceted institution, they delegate reting NOR CAN THE PRESIDENT FORGET that his products are gations to a many their efficiency as not cars or switch-dimmers or sky hooks, but people. authority and become inundated by their functionaries; says fiscal agents." v, the If the company fails to tool them properly, the losses or, eschewing extensive delegation, they become buried up at he Will be very human ones. in the manifold details of their position. Few stand problems, tively At this point more than at any other, the corporate in the middle, talking in public about the erity, analogy falters. The products are men and women, and challenges, and duties of higher education; and the few , and the process is the often-meandering one of learning. who do are too often quoted to engage the public's Yet, however central to the institution the president "Colleges have to be run in a businesslike fashion," attention for long. becomes, he must lead if he is to be followed. Says State says the president of Bowdoin College, Roger Howell, A recent poll by Change magazine asked 4,000 Beloit's Miller,Upton: presidents, government officials, foundation presi- Jr., "but I'm not sure you can run them exactly like college "A president must be willing to be out front, in leaders of higher -oups businesses. The absence of a bureaucracy would be executives, and journalists to pick the areas where he knows he's going to get shot at. This 'dent very quickly remarked upon by the faculty if their education. Among the top 44 were only seven presi- is difficult. There's a great temptation to play it easy. iost.” checks didn't turn up on payday; but a lot of academi- dents. A president wants to be liked—by alumni, by faculty, come home from his d the cians would argue that efficiency, while a good thing, Yet even if the president does by students and trustees. But in pursuing this, he may point Is not the highest of all possible virtues. travels, even if he does emerge from his office, even end up becoming a mediator. is of "In the educational process there is occasionally a should he choose to speak out, is it possible for him to "Leadership in education is difficult because of the Con- good deal to be gained from a certain amount of touch the character of such a complex structure as a collegial nature of the community; it's tougher than in inefficiency. If you get so that everything is in exactly college or university? business, where lines of authority are so tightly drawn d at the right place, it eliminates serendipity, and one of the If the president can bear the burden, he might reach and easily availed of. But it is possible to be a leader dis- exciting and useful things about an educational process some students in the classroom, others at dinner and and not just a mediator." after Is discovery. You want to be careful to preserve the sports. He can have students living in his home. He capacity for this in the midst of all your efficiency." can, as does Iowa's Boyd, advise a handful of students. ASSUME FOR THE MOMENT that the president can is N. The University of Iowa's Willard Boyd makes a He can put his office in the middle of the quad and hunker down to the job at hand; that he can lead; that dare open the door to all who drop by. But can he identify in ways mysterious or practical he can see to the touch- edi- their character? And, even if he accomplishes that, can he affect it? ing of the institution's complex character. Can he then "A president wants to be Legal sanctions and social change have foreclosed on turn successfully to the very corporate business of liked—by alumni, by the day when colleges could act in loco parentis, with building a better mousetrap—of tooling a product that society wants, a product society needs? faculty, by students and the president as reigning patriarch or matriarch. In the difference between wants and needs lies trustees. But in pursuing Says Bowdoin's Howell: "Our kids are all legally adults; it's incumbent on another dilemma—and yet another distinction between this, he may end up us to treat them as adults in all kinds of ways besides the leadership of business and education. To create a becoming a mediator." just legally admitting that it is the case. The institution product the public wants is a relatively easy and often cannot have a simple set of values which it says is the lucrative matter, once the want has been identified and only moral code to live by. I don't believe that this cuts the technology refined. To create a product to fill a down on the sense of being concerned about values, projected and abstract need, the want of which might further distinction between academic and corporate particularly in a liberal-arts institution." never be articulated, would be business folly, yet how leadership: "The college president must keep things Says Boston College's Father Monan: much such an approach makes education sense—how stirred up so that the intellectual life will grow." The "At least for many institutions, concern with values much it is higher education's duty—may well be a necessity of ferment, he argues, is even greater during is something very new. In the '50's you had some very measure of the limits of the corporate approach to the present besieged state of higher education: prestigious presidents saying that the whole value education. "These are conditions which either can frighten col- dimension was to be left to other agencies and the If, as many who practice the art believe, a president's leges and universities into blind 'intellectual protec- school was to be concerned with truth. primary responsibility is to plan for the future, then it tionism' of the past and present, or challenge them to "I don't think you have to make facile distinctions may be his equal or greater obligation not to settle for take future 'intellectual risks.' The latter is the more like that. For everyone there is a recognition today that survival in a mean world, but to strive for utility in a difficult, yet more creative, course. It is not antithetical there is a clearer obligation. However, to communicate grander one. to the intellectual process. Quite the contrary, it is the values is not like communicating calculus." essence of it." Some beginnings, suggests Father Monan, lie at the The advertisement for a president, then, needs this MANY OBSERVERS of the present educational scene, like very core of the job. The president must show the explanation: Dcedalus editor Stephen R. Graubard, see presidents faculty and students that he understands the value of "Must create an adventuresome corporate structure, and their institutions enmeshed in a survival strategy: the academic life and that he wholeheartedly supports to serve a noncorporate end." "Today, when higher education has receded from the it in all its manifestations. He must, if his constituency front pages of all newspapers, when television has few THUS THE PROBLEM facing today's college or university is to take him seriously, show that he views them with student demonstrations to film and no non-negotiable president boils down to this: how to apply the tech- equal earnestness. demands to report, when the federal government seems nology and lessons of corporate management to the But the data for measuring the touching of character generally bereft of ideas on higLier education, and when verY human process of education. With that problem are squishy. Frequency-of-repair records and percen- state legislatures wrangle usually over the size of budg- comes this more difficult quandary: how to measure tages of the marketplace tell hard facts about light ets and university presidents dash about searching for the worth of a human product. switches and their manufacturers, but no charts can new monies to offset inflationary costs for which The Rev. J. Donald Monan, president of Boston measure the relative worth of a technician and a lawyer, increased student tuition and fees are quite insufficient, College, would begin by looking at the alumnae and a contemplative person and one of action. Indeed it there is an almost instinctive concern within every insti- alumni: may well be—as J. Douglas Brown, the emeritus pi o- tution to look out for itself, to create those conditions "I have sometimes said—and I believe it—that col- vost and dean of the faculty at Princeton University, that will guarantee its own 'survival' and possibly leges exist for alumni and not for students. If everyone suggests—that the very obscurity of the data, the im- increase its competitive advantage. There is not much fell off the earth after commencement, there would be measurability of the product, increases the president's talk of reform: the problem is to get through a difficult a genuine worth in what you're doing; but in the long centrality within a college or university: time, a time of 'no growth' and of persistently rising run—in service to society—institutions have their effect "An industrial organization may seek to merge the costs. Colleges and universities -seem frightened and through the long-term careers of their alumni. functions of leadership into a combination of senior confused."

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and women whose business is to think far ahead ol gg ling their contemporaries, whose business is not to represent) nY ew their own country, their own class, their own times Consi and women who should be excused from many 0,)., men hich the pressures and passions of their own day and per. Jgainst mitted to imagine a different kind of world, to antler) ccused pate problems and propose solutions to them. . a•C I of t Needless to say, we have at least an embryo, just sue )rocedu a class. I refer to the university." 3Y ,stud leaden realities lie in wait. Contemplativi, But the urd creatures require the foundation support that has growl) scarce of late. While X-ray technicians work, Enghs.P g $50 'eneW h doctors of philosophy type curricula vitae. .4or rene the tangibles and intangibles 1 „ The balance of ,ssors educational planning and the articulation of purpos ecau are, says Harvard University president Derek L. Bok, Il° haset critical functions for presidents and their deans: tuversi "As spokesmen for their institutions, they canno eeause expect to win the understanding and support of a wide er community unless they can explain with convictior, witl hoo"eploy,0-n what their colleges are supposed to accomplish. Irti, Part deciding how to allocate new resources—or indeed energy—they car Final to distribute their own time and sued fo hardly establish coherent priorities without some sense) eal Sc] of the ultimate purposes which they hope their college.p, egall will achieve. r "For these reasons, presidents and deans must forttEsiestituti t• Y by ulate their own sense of the institution's goals even ir (Leg their faculties are unable or unwilling to undertake thew when task." Salem It has been a neglected function, he adds: "Our colleges seem to exist without making much oimo-con1, l"e file, an effort to define their aims. In the thick reports Old pr' arnag( undergraduate education that many colleges have e duced in recent years, there is little discussion of what,.ais • es s it is that a liberal-arts education should provide for thea nee e, student." 'ii° i `311"4 ITT^rfIll'i'd ), CIl i The articulation of purposes, however, can rarelY hablir3ti, IVOR% rti 110 that so A •,11' be accomplished solely in the light of today or tomor f 5 1.11 rntri t VA allowed ;16.',' !' , III it,/i 1 1 'Pqd row. The college or university president is not syst ,11:11 '4);#4 1 0/ .1,41 i , t Air A t" I I k, ow . to forget that the majority shareholders in his corpora'ai o, 4. 1 t.,• , • o• ,,.•‘40 ,0 (1.1- l it , is ,,i Lion are themselves its past products, with an attach Ni), ,, ,' , y 7,1 ,/' r And 1 ,1 I' 1 , .ini ment to that past. As survival in whatever form becomes the goal, for vocational education should not obscure the signifi- A Nitta If the traditions of the past are to be violated, if presidents increasingly are measured by the criteria of cance of a liberal education in the lives of men and tents tl ways are to be altered to meet a new world, the alumr tnore survival. Again, Stephen Graubard: women and for the fate of society." and alumnae want an explanation from the president syste "To an extent that was not true previously, presi- Says Martin Meyerson, president of the University And they vote their approval or disapproval in a rn dents and deans are judged for their ability to manage of Pennsylvania: mostWhjI tangible and meaningful way—with dollars and cenV c and husband funds. Even where they have been selected "Those of us in colleges and universities ought to that aggregate into the annual-giving totals upon whicl' as 'crisis managers,' they are generally prized for their help unite the profession or the calling with liberal the daily functioning of the institution's manufacturinf efficiency as fiscal agents." learning. If we do not, we shall have failed the rightful process so heavily depends. Tooling a product to meet present ends and future Perhaps, then, any ad for a college president should needs poses temptations and hard choices—particu- contain a warning: larly in periods of high unemployment, when the "The student unrest of "Caution' past products may dictate direction of demand for specific occupational training increases. the '60's taught present process.” Boom times provide the means for intellectual activity; presidents that we could hard times heighten the demand for vocational skilling. AssumE—again for the moment—that the presider Beloit's Miller Upton and others suggest that the not dictate any longer, can divine a course on which to set his enterprise. Ca measure of an institution's—and its leaders'—commit- that we had to share power he steer it to his objective, through the welter oi ment to liberal education might well be the tenacity and seek counsel." organizational detail? with which it clings to its historic educational mission Here, again, lie the challenge and necessity of bal' in depressed times. ance. Says Princeton's ex-provost, J. Douglas Brown: Paul Bragdon: "Apart from the central leadership in tern Says Reed's aspirations of many of the young who seek a life of role of acknowledge straight-away that there is a of the goals, values, and institutior; "Let us service. Moreover, unless we imbue vocation with a standards of his need and a place for vocational education, and that the president must have a sense of organization and 01 sense of liberal learning, we shall have failed to im- students are going to enter the work force upon the administrative arts of working through organizatior most prove life as well." completing their formal training, i.e., they're going to to attain institutional goals. It is this his role But to unite the need for specific skills with a broad aspect of should not fail, however, to note which makes a shift from professor to president mos' have to find jobs. We exposure to thought and culture is more complex than difficult for many. a number of ironies. overseeing the merging of the acetates and alloys that of all, most institutions, public and private, "The professor can express ideas and purposes wie "First produce switch-dimmers. Ironically, the direction may today seeking as leaders fluency, but the president must through throughout the world are be easiest for presidents whose institutions serve the implement them men and women who have mastered the complex processes of gaining effective broadly educated underprivileged, if only because, for them, need super- willing and methods of understanding and attacking problems, action in scores of areas and at all levels. It is in the the sedes theory. Says Howard University's James Cheek: narrowly trained specialist. Secondly, the seem- balanced interplay of leadership in and leadershir not the "Because blacks have the greatest trouble finding jobs, ideas ingly unyielding problems of our times will not be of an operating, dynamic organization that the quality we must be acutely aware of where shortages are and solved by vocational certificates any more than by good of a president is tested. Too much emphasis on either will be in the labor market, particularly in the profes- intentions alone, but will require the attention of edu- aspect at the expense of the other may lead to hie, sions; and we must tailor our programs to those cated and trained men and women with high moral purposes without accomplishment or a well-run educa'l shortages." purpose. Thirdly, in a society in which more leisure tional factory." time is likely to be available, we have to ask what the FOR ALL THE LEADEN REALITIES of the president's Yet even the art of balancing is not what it once wa51 results will be—enriched lives or lives marked by job, the golden possibilities beckon. "I think," mused To reconcile research facilities and faculty developmer boredom, booze, and the boob tube? the American historian Henry Steele Commager, "we with classroom space and teaching loads, football asPii 1The welcome addition of increased opportunities should support, or if necessary create, a group of men rations with faculty salaries called for a fine bit 0 BRUARL„ 7 UARY- FEBRUARY SALLYPORT

head or- epresenr,uggling. But the task has been immensely complicated so that the enterprise can get where it is going? And kind of college or university will arrive at its a times' new legal realities in the academic world.' what "Whenever I watch the many °iv,.Consider the case of a university in the Southwest, destination? rapidly university's man riding Ind per ul.efi, as of July, 1975, had eighteen lawsuits pending How even to find the money to meet the the power lawnmower, anticr it or its officers in which the university was rising costs of complying with federal social programs n. .lecused of violating constitutional or civil rights. Sev- —with the financial demands of equal employment cutting figure-eights, in action, of 1st staral of the suits claimed that the university's admissions opportunity, of equal pay, of affirmative complete control of his )reeedures were arbitrary and capricious. Others, filed non-discrimination by age, of occupation safety and machine and total arbiter ?Y -wage and fair-labor standards, of nplativ, students and faculty members, charged improper health, of minimum of which swath to cut growliInd unlawful dismissals. A research assistant was seek- unemployment insurance, of social security, of health- s ii where and when, I envy his EnglisIiteg $500,000 in damages for the university's failure to maintenance organizations, of pension-security-act pro- new his contract; a faculty member not recommended visions, of wage and salary controls, and of environ- superior autonomy. I don't 10r such ibles renewal was seeking a million. Several women pro- mental protection? At one large, public university have his power." iurposesb sors charged they had been discriminated against costs have tripled in a decade. At a large, private L. Bot eeause of sex; a male nurse contended that he would university they rose from $110,000 in 1964-65 to s: not have been dismissed from his position with the $3,600,000 last year. At a medium-sized private insti- to reflect the full range of requisite skills cannoriversity had he been female. A plaintiff had sued tution, they grew 150-fold in the same period—from modification, a widerheeause, she said, the university had failed to provide $2,000 to $300,000. and attitudes: and practical. Should have a nvictio0 er with an abortion. Two Mexican-Americans, former Must the president reach out blindly for funds—any "Must be resourceful i mPlOyees, grasp of today and a clear vision of tomorrow." lish. i alleged a broad discriminatory policy on funds? Or must he somehow weigh the future effects ed hoothe part of the university. of present relief from financial strain? "Why Richard," ONE FINAL QUESTION needs to be asked. It may negate ley cam'su Finally, the president of the university was being Sir Thomas More was made to say in A Man for All ed the others. le sense. for $5-million by a former professor in the med- Seasons, "it profits a man nothing to sell his soul for the need to answer any of president have the power to lead? collegecial school, who contended that the president had the whole world . . . but for Wales!" How can a college Does the modern ;legally requested both the doctor's resignation and the or university president identify what and where the A veteran watcher of the office, who has served e under five presidents, notes that in the modern institu- ;t form' •stitution of funds allegedly received from the univer- institution's soul is, and when it is being bartered? tion "power is so diffuse. Everyone has negative pow- even ifsq by the doctor without authorization. WHO IS A WOMAN) for this ers, not positive ones. They can veto, but they can not ake thewh(Legal routes are, of course, mutually available. WHO IS A MAN (AND s en Frank I. Keegan was ousted as president of season? effect." alem State College in Massachusetts, following a Boston College's Monan suggests that Aristotle might Faced with government regulations; the moral and legal pressures of organized parents, consumers, and nuch 4cl-confidence vote by his faculty and administration, serve well as a college president. environmentalists; the scrutiny of alumni and trustees; orts Ode filed suit against the trustees, seeking $200,000 "If a president needs one thing, I think he needs and the often-competing wants of some 500 on-campus ye pro' mages and reinstatement as president.) judgment—practical judgment that is able to under- whotra.The proliferation of suits against the institutions stand the complexities of problems and foresee the governance and interest groups, Cincinnati's Warren a longing and frustration that many for thea Ises still another grim specter for the president. Insur- types of consequences that will flow from the alterna- Bennis expresses nee companies are increasingly reluctant to provide tives that are open. He must be able to make good presidents share: man riding the rareh liabilitythe coverage in the civil-rights area; and without decisions, and that's what Aristotle stressed in his "Whenever I watch the university's cutting figure-eights, in complete tomot L sort of basic protection—seemingly so far removed Ethics." power lawnmower, s °/11 the world of academe—the academic support Father Monan, however, issues one caveat: "Many control of his machine and total arbiter of which swath I envy his superior autonomy. Drporir ems cannot begin to function. What kind of legerde- philosophers' theories about life don't always coincide to cut where and when, attach' in is needed to balance such a complex? with their own abilities to live life and make judgments I don't have his power." i And, of course, where will the presidents and their themselves." A study of leadership in higher education, published 1, if old tnsfitutions find the money to finance the support sys- Bowdoin's Howell nominates Elizabeth I: "She's in 1974 by the Carnegie Commission, concludes: ins aspects of alumn' they devise, however perfectly? Indeed, more and certainly used to balancing tight resources and still "The presidency is an illusion. Important rilOre close examination. In !,sidenr s where will they find the funds to underwrite those keeping things going. And she's a marvelous public the role seem to disappear on a Imo )'sterns that already exist? How to look to the future speaker." particular, decision-making in the university seems to from a process that decouples prob- I cenrr hlie keeping the present afloat? How much to scuttle Perhaps our help-wanted advertisement needs further result extensively which cturinf

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Fe lems and choices and makes the president's role more produced in the universities, coupled with a growing WILL THE NEW PRESIDENT be the image of the giants presence Re commonly sporadic and symbolic than significant. Com- disdain and even contempt for universities on the part of the academic past, men and women whose in! pared to the heroic expectations he and others might of those who had loved them most: parents, alumni, echoed through the entire education community? Ra have, the president has modest control over the events benefactors, legislators, students, too." "They had scholarly tastes," writes Harold W Sp of college life." How much of the presidents' loss of power is a Dodds, for 24 years president of Princeton University dii Should he find himself largely symbolic, more the function of their unwillingness to exercise it? Has the "Each came to the office possessing an academic back' Re present Queen Elizabeth than an Elizabeth I, the new judiciary, by bringing the arbitration of social conflict ground. Each was . . of. broad interests; several were " college or university president might well look to the into its grinding processes, dulled the fangs of the presi- leaders in the political and diplomatic, as well as the Ar SF immediate track record of his predecessors to discover dency? Or was the power already lost before it was so educational, life of the country. Although none was AF where (and why) his power has gone. Many lost their ardently tested? able to ignore the undergirding functions, including Fil chambers—literally—as the '60's wrenched to a close For that matter, is reduced presidential power neces- fund raising, without exception they gave educational At and student occupiers moved in. But many, too, may sarily bad for the institution? philosophy, policy, and program top priority." But dr have figuratively abandoned their offices in the crunch James Cheek, who freely owns that he has less power could they live with the discord that is a pervasive and TI of the warfares at home and abroad. now as head of Howard University than he did a dec- perhaps vital part of modern campus life? ot Many presidents—sharing, at least in part, the politi- ade ago when he was president of Shaw University, Could they, indeed, have achieved greatness in the th cally liberal sentiments if not the radical tactics of their does not rue the loss: present constrained, regulated academic world? ni rebellious students—acted reluctantly, if at all, to curb "The student unrest of the '60's taught presidents Will the president become, as the former president Pi of campus disorders. Civil persons, they confronted incivil- that We could not dictate any longer, that we had to of Cornell University, James A. Perkins, predicts, "an Pt ity; persons prone to explore, to weigh, to seek the share power and seek counsel. Unlike the corporate elected official, nominated by the university senate is middle road, they found many of their students holding head, the college president must be willing to exist as and approved by the board, for a limited term . .. the rigidly to political and philosophical stances; peaceful a first among equals. In the narrow sense of executing broker between constituencies, the link—but not the persons, they were expelled by force. my own duties and responsibilities, this sharing has only link—between the board and the senate"? Says Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of the made the job more difficult; but in the broadest sense, Will higher education's leaders of the future be pet' University of Notre Dame: it has been good for the presidency and for sons primarily skilled—in the words of Clark Kerr. the educa- F "The public at large had been told that the univer- tional community." chairman of the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies ill II sity could solve all the nation's and the world's prob- Barnaby C. Keeney, president of the Claremont Higher Education and former president of the Uni- lems. But when they came to solving their own new Graduate School and for 11 years president of Brown versity of California—in "the ability to cut and trim.° problem of student unrest, most university administra- University, suggests that the final years of the last Can a president skilled to cut and trim also lead? Or tors appeared helpless. decade brought to the fore a continuing presidential will the leadership be not outward but inward, ". . . University presidents, the font of all wisdom, and institutional deception. withdrawal toward a stable center? were treated to student contempt, insult, intimidation. "We have a long tradition and a well-established Must tomorrow's college and university presidents, Their offices were occupied and ruined; their authority, practice in American higher education of saying one then, be mediators, low-profile crisis managers trained unexercised or disregarded. Most became scapegoats thing and doing another. This practice was particularly in the arts of conciliation? Task-oriented—a closed for the total failure of the university to cope with dis- virulent in the 1960's for a number of reasons, and it circle of managers revolving from institution to instiar ruption. contributed to the loss of credibility of college and tion as particular needs demand particular talents? "The exodus of distinguished presidents was unprece- university presidents and their institutions. The constituents—the alumni and alumnae, the tax- /5 a dented in the history of American universities. From "We stated our lofty aims and described our payers, the lawmakers—will have the final say. Berkeley to Harvard, from Chicago to Stanford, the virtuous practices, and then sometimes acted sor- presidential offices were emptied, and all efforts were didly. The most obvious example of such action is WHO will answer the ad? made to find new men versed in crisis management. in the usual description of the purity of amateur This special report is the A product of a cooperative endeavor in which score, Often they stayed less than two years, as at Indiana, practices of recruiting with of schools, colleges, and athletics, of which the universities are taking part. It was prepared under the direction of Columbia, and Stanford; those that lasted kept a low unscrupulously giving scholarships the persons listed below, the members of EDITORIAL EROS' little restraint and ECTS FOR EDUCATION, INC., a nonprofit Organization. The members, it should be noted, profile. to athletes who cannot graduate are part. We inherited act in this capacity for themselves and not for their stitutions, and not enforced all of them necessarily agree with all the points jilt "There was no conventional wisdom for the tradi- and made strict rules for student conduct and this report. All rights reserved; no part may be reproduced with00 express permission. made necessary Printed in U.S.A. Members: GENO A. BALLO110; tional presidents to fall back on. One week one presi- them unevenly, more so than was American Academy of Arts and Sciences; DENTON REAL, University 01 dent was fired for calling the police and another was by the need for flexibility. We described our institutions Bridgeport; ROBERT W. BEYERS. Stanford University; DAVID A. BURR, CO'' versity of Oklahoma; MARALYN 0. GILLESPIE, Swarthmore College; civat1f5 M. fired for not calling the police." as open to all qualified students, and then made only HELMKEN, Council for Advancement and Support of Education; JOIIS However dire the events, says Father Hesburgh, the token recruit from outside the middle class." MATIILL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; KEN murzug, Universi0 attempts to of CITegOD; ROBERT M. RHODES, Brown University; VERNE A. STADTMO' aftermath was more profound: Should the help-wanted advertisement contain a final Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education; FREDERIC' STOTT, Phillips Academy (Andover); FRANK J. TATE, the Ohio State Un "The worst results of the happenings of the '60's qualification: "The president must say what is meant, versify; DOROTHY F. WILLIAMS, Simmons College; RONALD A. WOLK, Brovfr University; ELIZABETH BOND WOOD, Sweet Briar College. Editors: CORSO were the crisis of confidence and loss of ,nerve they and must mean what is said"? GWALTNEY, HOWARD MEANS. Illustrations by CAMERON GERLACH. BRuARi IANUARY-FEBRUARY SALLYPORT 9 OWLMANAC

March 7 FILMS Lancelot du Lac, Bresson, 7:30 & 10:00

Ira . (FC). • • 5 a. .0"" All films in the Rice Media Center's March 9 -1! Spring Series are shown in the Media On the Waterfront, Kazan, 7:30(HD). University Blvd. Center Auditorium, March 10 at Stockton. Where times are not The Naked Night, Bergman. noted, please check with the Center, March 14 CONTINUING 527-4853. Admission is $1.00 at the Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, door, 50 with a Rice ID, unless EDUCATION Bunuel, 7:30 & 10:00(FC). otherwise indicated. "(HD)" indicates film is presented in coordination with March 17 February 17-March 23 Uavventura, Antonioni. The 1976 Rice Alumni Institute fea- the history department and is fol- "(GC)" indicates March 18 tures eleven distinguished Rice fa- lowed by discussion. with Why Herr R. Ran Amok, Fassbinder, culty members in two lecture series, film presented in coordination department and followed 8:00 (GS). "The Earth from Start to Finish" and the German "(FC)" indicates film March 19 "Culture: Six Interpretations." by discussion. the Why Herr R. Ran Amok, Fassbinder, Complete details are printed on page presented in coordination with and other groups 7:30 and 10:00(GC). Society of Rice 16. For information please call the Alliance Francaise discussion in French. March 21 Alumni Office at 527-8101, ext. 2400. and followed by "(GS)" indicates film presented in Shock, Jessua, 7:30 and 10:00 (FC). University Women 16 Beginning February coordination with the German de- March 24 Interpreting America, a series of Stagecoach, Ford, and Left-Handed February 16 partment and FREE. Whew! giants mini-courses designed to explore and Gun, Penn. Regular luncheon and business meet- February 10 !sence celebrate the nation's bicentennial March 28 ing at 10:00 AM in the Kyle Morrow Scarlet Empress von Sternberg, 7:30 year. Tuition is $35 for three courses Bad Company, Eustache, 7:30 & 10:00 Room of Fondren Library. Guest (HD). and $10 for each additional course. (FC). d Speaker will be Nancy Parker '52, February 11 For complete information call the April 4 ersity director of the Library's Woodson 527- Ivan The Terrible, I & II, Eisenstein, Office of Continuing Studies at Juste Avant la Nuit, Chabrol, 7:30 & back Research Center. Nancy will present 8101, ext. 2599. 7:30. "A Sampling of February 12 10:00 (FC). were Texana." June 9-14 Der lunge Torless, Schlondorff, 8:00 April 6 - is the April 12 Excursion is A Bicentennial Holiday (GS). The Organizer, Monicello, 7:30(HC). SRUW board meeting. being planned by the Alumni Associa- was February 13 April 7 April 26 tion's travel committee. Proposed are udinf The Mummy, Freund, 7:30 & 10:00. Je T'aime, Je T'aime, Renais. Final business meeting of the year, 10 visits to Washington, D.C., Mount tional February 14 April 11 AM, "R" Room. Speaker to be Vernon, and other points of historical ' But Bride of Frankenstein, Whale, 7:30 & Alphaville, Godard, 7:30 & 10:00 (FC). announced. interest. See "News and Notices" this 10:00. April 13 e and The issue for more details. SRUW members extend to all February 15 The Salt of the Earth, Biberman, 7:30 Other Rice women an invitation to join Opera, Julian, 7:30 & (HD). n the Phantom of the them for luncheons and business 10:00. meetings. Non-members are asked to February 17 Pay $3.00 at the door. A full schedule ART ident Animal Farm, Batchelor/Halas, 7:30 4,ari of the SRUW Spring Seminars ap- (HD). SPORTS peared in the November-December March 26-June 27 enate February 18 issue of SALLYPORT. Nouveau in and France, a . the Art Belgium The Bicycle Thief, De Sica, 7:30. Basketball major exhibition organized by the the February 19 February 11 t Institute for the Arts at Rice and the Even Dwarves are Small, Herzog, 7:30 Arkansas, at Fayetteville, 7:30 PM. Art Institute of Chicago, will open at & 10:00(GC). February 17 per- THEATRE the Rice Museum on March 26 and February 20 7:30 PM. Kerr, continue through June 27. It will be TCU,at Rice, February 9-14 The Raven, Corman,7:30 & 10:00. February 21 es iJ on view in Chicago from August 28 Jumpers, a play by Paul Stoppard, through November 7. The exhibition February 21 UT, at Austin, 7:30 PM. Uni- 7:30 & Presented by the Players. 8 PM, consists of about 750 pieces of Art The Body Snatcher, Wise, February 24 im"? Hamman Hall. Admission: $1.50 with Nouveau, including paintings, 10:00. Texas A&M,at Rice, 7:30 PM. ? Or Rice ID, $3.00 without. Call 527-4040 sculpture, architecture, furniture, February 22 d, for reservations. ceramics, glassware, illustrated books Stavisky, Resnais, 7:30 & 10:00. and bookbindings, jewelry, and fab- February 24 ents, rics. The show features 122 iron Strike, Eisenstein, 7:30(HD). architectural by Guimard February 25 ined elements MUSIC which are being exhibited for the first Seventeenth Parallel, Ivens, 7:30 & osed time in the US. Museum hours: 10:00. titu' Shepherd School of Music Chamber Tuesday-Saturday, 10 AM-5 PM, Sun- February 26 s? Music Series day, noon to 6 PM. Closed Mondays. A Free Woman,Schlondorff, 7:30 & tax- All programs are held in Hamman Hall 10:00(GC). and begin at 8:30 PM. Free. February 27 February 19 The Seduction of Mimi, Wertmuller, Ronald Patterson, violin, and Wayne LECTURE and Men's Lives, Hanig, 7:30 & 10:00. Crouse, viola. February 28 ;cores March 10 April 14 Dream Life, Dansereau, and Hookers, under Csisery, 7:30 & 10:00. Shirley Trepel, cello. Harold Bridges, president of the Shell PROP Oil Company, will present the final February 29 rs, March 17 ir lecture in the 1975-76 President's Kamouraska, Jutra, 7:30 & 10:00. ts Music from Marlboro. tholi` Lecture Series, at 8:00 PM in Hamman March 2 ,0111; Hall. Free. The Grapes of Wrath, Ford, 7:30(HD). ty 0, March 3 11103 La Strada, Fellini. UN erSiul March 4 mob Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Fassbinder, ! ; 7:30 & 10:00(GC). rOW° WO 10 SALLYPORT JANUARY-FEBRUARY Mc LADY i a Chain

HE RICE PRESIDENT'S HOUSE all of it out of the house here and have is situated in a quiet, Bernice Stephenson, who used to Twooded corner of the work for my husband, to help. You campus. The woman who lives see, I want to know what's going on there has hosted a U.S. Presi- here. I plan all the menus. I decide dent, several Congresspeople, which invitations to use. I like to see Nobel Laureates, and countless all the regrets. I know all of the American and foreign dignitaries. people who come into my house at any She frequently entertains as many given time — I mean,I may not know as 200 guests for lunch or din- them personally, but I know about ner. One Thursday afternoon in early them. It really makes a much warmer January, however, she sat down for operation if you control it yourself. coffee and conversation with just one How often do you entertain? guest, me, because I wanted to write a story about her. That depends. During January, Articles have been written about now, I'm not too busy. I take January Gene Hackerman before. They for myself because I am excrutia- all sound much the same: Gene tingly busy during the fall. At certain Hackerman (née Gene Allison times of the year, though, there are Coulbourn) is talented, active, op- two or three events every week in this timistic, loves children and animals. house, plus the things on campus. In 1936 she met a young chemist, When we are not entertaining people Norman Hackerman, who first here, we are entertaining somewhere saw her as she played tennis on else — or we are being entertained. courts outside his laboratory at And although these things are a lot of Johns Hopkins University. He ar- fun, you're working. ranged an introduction. A romance Don't you get tired ofit? flourished and four years later they married. Well, I'll tell you: I made up my In 1945 they moved to Austin, mind a long time ago that if I were Texas, where they lived, worked, and going to do it I was going to enjoy it. reared four children. Twenty-five Sure,I get tired. It is not what I would years later, they left the state capital choose. What I would choose would be and the University of Texas presi- to live in the Texas hill country and dency to come to Rice. tromp around in my tennis shoes. I'd During those years, Gene rather not be a public figure. But I Hackerman distinguished herself don't think many of us get to do just in an extraordinary number of what we would choose. ways. As a university First Lady, she truly excels. Even more, she That's one thing I wanted to ask: enjoys the work - and it ain't what is it like to live most of your life peaches and cream. She lives in a on display? fishbowl. She entertains over 3,000 You hope that people will look people in her home every year. beneath the surface to see that there's She devotes more hours to Rice than a lady there, not just a figurehead. all but a handful of others, yet has But I think I'm always aware of the no official title or salary. "Sometimes I'd like to wear my tennis fact that I'm very closely identified I asked Gene Hackerman about her with the University, and in that life and her job, and this is what she shoes all the time, but you can't very position,I probably subconsciously try told me. —Pauline Dessler not to do anything that would embar- shoes." rass Rice. I can't think of anything Pauline Dessler: What have you well sit at the head table in tennis that I would do ordinarily that would learned about this place since you embarrass, but I just .. . Well, really came here six years ago? I've been Tell me about the duties and it tells how I handle all the enter- relaxed about it for a long responsibilities ofRice's First Lady. tainment that we do here at the time. Sometimes, though, I'd like to Hackerman: I knew very Gene house, how the guest lists are made wear my tennis shoes all the time. little about Rice when I came. I've But, then, you I don't think that there are any up, and so on. In the fall, before every can't very well sit at a learned that it has more to offer in the head table in duties. I don't think that there are home football game, we have either tennis shoes. humanities than I thought it had. The any responsibilities. I'm not dedicated lunch or dinner for 200 people. And first place I went when I moved into What about your children? Did to Rice University, wasn't dedicated you have to come up with a good mix the house was to the art department. I they feel the strain of being children to the University of Texas, or to any of people, so I try to invite 200 got hold of Dr. Topazio and said, ofa university president? other university. My dedication is to different people every week. And the "Show me your art department." And Norman Hackerman. I do believe group is always made up of 20 faculty I think it would be very difficult —I he did and that was my introduction. very strongly, though, in any couples, 20 alumni couples (usually think it would be suicidal — for a I've learned that the students are academic wife being from the Houston area), 20 couples child to go to a school where the bright — incredibly bright. involved in what goes on on campus. from among the Rice Associates, and father is the president. But it depends 20 other couples who have expressed on the child. One of our children, our Any first impressions of the Rice an interest in Rice in one way or oldest, wasn't bothered by it. Our son, campus? How are you involved? another. In the faculty group there though, thought (at the suggestion of I thought it was beautiful. You When we came to Rice I didn't know are five full professors, five associate some of his friends) that he was an know, I've been in this kind of job a anyone. The first efforts I made were professors, five assistant professors, honor student because his father was long, long time, and I'm not saying to get to know the faculty. In our first and five instructors, and no two president of the school. So we sent that one university is like another, three years here every faculty faculty members are from the same him away to another school for his but if you're campus-oriented -- I was member — about 350 altogether — department. We have some of the sophomore year. He saw then that he physically on [the University of and his or her wife or husband was young and some of the old. Then I also was doing it on his own. He came back Texas] campus every day in some invited to a meal here. It was done in try to work in the military people and and was all right. I do think that it is capacity or another for 25 years, even small groups of 20 couples; that way some people from the athletic de- difficult for young people to take the though we didn't live on it. So the big you can get to know one another a partment. It's a real mix. Anyway, pressure of, say, the DAILY TEXAN or difference in coming to Rice was little. Still it is a lot of dinners. We that's part of what we do. Of course, the THRESHER. It's not difficult for — I living here [on campus], being able to entertain roughly 3,000 people here there's the reception for the freshmen hate to say adults, because it implies step out the door and walk to the art from the middle of August until every fall; I have that at a different that the editor of a university paper is department or to a basketball game Commencement. Anyway, I had a place each year. Well, the book. I not, but you know that between 18 — I found that delightful. At Texas whole new university to learn about, decided, you know, to write a book, a and 22, people have certain attitudes; we were two and a half miles from the and I thought the best way to do that technical manual, on how best to it's just the nature of young campus. It's nice to live here if you're was to open this house and bring handle the entertainment and the academics. They've got a whole new going to be coming here everyday faculty and students and staff here. I procedures so that if I fall and break world to learn about and I wouldn't anyway. ought to show you my book. Basically, my leg somebody will know. I handle give you two cents for any of them JANUARY-FEBRUARY' SALLYPORT 11

who didn't think they could change right in our own city! We've got Oveta let her go!" So I was a Brownie leader Well, I had a friend who had a local the world. So for me, and certainly for Hobby here; she's some kind of until she was in junior high school. talk show in Austin. Sometimes she my husband, these things are no- special woman as far as I'm con- Meanwhile, our five-year-old boy had would call me up and ask me to be on. thing; but for children — well, let's cerned. And we've had dinner with to tag along to Brownie meetings, so I Once she called and said, "We've got say you're on campus and you read George and Alice Brown, who gave promised him, "If you'll just behave So-and-so's wife and someone or the newspaper or you hear people Houston that marvelous new wing on yourself, I'll be a den mother." So I did other" — you know Austin has a lot of saying, ". .. that stupid man," or the Museum of Fine Arts. I sat next to that. Then by the time he was out of government people — "and we whatever, you'll tend to stand up for Walter Cronkite one night. We've had Scouts I had another girl who was thought it would be nice to have the your father. So, yes, I do think it's both Nationalist Chinese and Com- ready, and then another girl. I was wife of the UT president. We'd like for difficult for children, and I think they munist Chinese delegations here at literally known as "Mrs. Girl Scout" you to tell a little bit about what you ought to go to school someplace else. the house. I remember we were told of Austin! I not only had a Brownie do." I took along the Cat in the Hat that the Red Chinese couldn't have troop for many years, I was also a book. I took it because, you know, the What kind of private life has the any alchohol, that they liked orange troubleshooter. I even put together a Cat says,"Look at me! With a cup and Hackerman family had? Did you get juice, so we just had a big bowl of little pamphlet on "how to be a girl a cake on the top of my hat, I can hold to spend much time together when orange juice for them. I suspect that scout leader in ten easy lessons." up two books and do this and do that." the children were growing up? they do drink alchohol back home, Then I got interested in — well, our And that's what this job is like: you're though. When we had President oldest child had cancer when she was being a dozen people at once. What You've probably heard the saying, Johnson here (both he and John nine years old and she received really made me do it was the fact that "If you want to get something done Connally, actually), none of our radioactive isotope treatments, which I had one girl in a sorority, another in get a busy person to do it." Well, I student helpers knew about it until were very new. You couldn't get them nursery school and two children in sometimes think that women in my just before. I gave scratch pads and anywhere other than M.D. Anderson between. The day before that I had sort of position do more with their pencils to those wanted to get some Hospital here, and at M.D. Anderson been to the "Uncle Jay Show" with children than those who have lots of autographs. That was fun. you pay according to what you earn. the nursery school bunch for my time. I know I show up at Kinkaid Our daughter received treatments youngest one's birthday, then had the [School] for a basketball game or a I know you're interested in interior that couldn't have been bought at any entire Chi Omega pledge class to the football game far more often than decorating. Did you do any redecorat- price, so I felt I owed a debt to the house that afternoon for Pat. And some of my daughter's teammates' ing in this house? American Cancer Society. I asked there was Little League baseball or mothers. I don't make it to all of them, whatever on that day, and then we Oh, yes. We added this whole wing them what I could do. I was on their but I do make every effort to be did the show. Another time we did a here. I wanted the house board and did publicity for them. One involved. I get out there and work at to have that program on "What would you do in Hackerman look. Every house we've summer I did a series of cartoons for the Book Fair. She's eighteen now was called case of nuclear war?" People were ever lived in looked like it was a the Austin newspaper; it and will go to the University of Texas "Cancer Facts and Fallacies." I don't building bomb shelters at the time, Hackerman house, somehow. I next year. With the others, yes, I ordinarily mention these things — and the program asked "What would wanted this house to be warm enough made a private life for them. You you take with you into a shelter?" You for a family, but elegant enough to I'm not a professional. They were all have to make a private life. You try to could not take pictures of the family, represent Rice. And it had to be right, I guess, although nothing work your schedule so that you're guess you never know the obvious choices. Anyway, I had spacious, so that all the people we spectacular. I there at three o'clock when they come think filled a small paper bag and when I have in here at times can move what you can do until you try. I home. I did the things I like to do: Girl started taking the things out, the around without bumping into one my deepest interest is in being a Scouts, Cub Scouts and various and period of 25 cameraman's jaw dropped open. I had another. It does get complicated. carpenter. During that sundry other things. We're really very years [in Austin] we bought a garage my tin coffee pot, a roll of scotch tape, close. my rosary — and I'm not a Catholic But you've had a lot of practice. and garage apartment — two rooms but it has sentimental value — my Tell me about those earlier years, and the garage below. When we What types of community demands tennis shoes and a hammer. I figured your early life. moved from there it had thirteen do you respond to? rooms. As one of the [UT] Newcomers that with these things I was in I limit myself to one major project My father was superintendent of Club's activities every year, I had a business, no matter what. I could get off-campus, and that's the Houston the Baltimore school district. We program for them on interior design, berries and water and make a fire by Symphony. I help by doing something lived in Baltimore. I went to elemen- on how to do things on a shoestring, rubbing two sticks together and heat I really don't like to do: asking for tary school there and then to the how to use what you have, the up something in that old pot. And money. I also do volunteer work one Normal School. I was going to be a existing materials and structure. For when I pulled out the tennis shoes — afternoon a week at St. Luke's teacher, but when I graduated from instance, rather than knock out the well, I got rid of them at the Hospital. These are things that I high school we were in the Depres- whole structure you can fill in a insistence of one of our children who would do anyway — I don't do them sion, and my father told me that I window frame with bookshelves. You said,"Mother, please don't wear those because I think they're good for Rice. I should take some courses in business can do this same thing with a door: fill anymore." They were red and old, and think that if you live in a community school. Well, I did and the first job I it in with bookshelves and then you at one end my big toe had worn a hole You ought to participate. And I don't got was working with a geneticist in a can use both sides. You can take a right through. The funny thing was have the time to participate more lab at Johns Hopkins. I think I was section of sheetrock out of a wall and, that when we went to San Antonio to fully. the only woman at Hopkins under 35 using the two-by-four boards under- a )Regents' meeting, some of the years old; I had a great time. I kept neath, build three-inch shelves for people said, "Say, I saw you on How much traveling do you do for my tennis clothes in the lab. Then storing cans in your kitchen. television with your tennis shoes!" Rice? after Dr. Hackerman and I were married, I had several different jobs How did you learn things like that? Oh,I don't know. That's like asking — even two or more at once. In Have you ever taken a course at You just figure them out. There's a how many gallons of paint it would Blacksburg, when Dr. Hackerman Rice? way to solve any kind of problem. take to draw a white line from here to was an assistant professor at V.P.I., I Yes, I took a course the year before Los Angeles. I still have a child at taught students how to type and take What about your other hobbies last in beginning drawing and de- home so I don't like to be away that shorthand two nights a week. I - your art, reading? I know that cided that I don't think it's really fair much. The president of Rice, whether charged them each 50c a night and I you sew very for me to be in classes with other it's Norman Hackerman or someone thought that was just great. I was in well. students on this campus. I inhibit else, is invited to many things in business! When we came to the I used to sew. I made a lot of clothes, them. You see, at Texas there were so Houston. And Dr. Hackerman and I University of Texas, and we were draperies, bedspreads, you name it. many students that I was in a lecture are invited — by virtue of his there, you know, for 25 years, the Often I didn't know what I was doing. class with, say, three or four hundred chairmanship on the National Sci- faculty — especially low guys on the I didn't know why the jackets I made people. Here, the classes are much ence Board — to dinners and things in totem pole — weren't paid much, so I always looked bad around the lapels smaller, and the students and I both Washington. For the important ones, got a job teaching typing and short- until I took a tailoring course. I took a live on campus. They know who I am. the State Dinners and things like hand in a business college at night lot of courses while we were at Texas. that, I go with him. We have had a lot while my husband stayed home with I don't have the right courses or of marvelous opportunities to partici- the babies. I started a new course in credits for a degree, but I wasn't The students at UT didn't recognize Pate in things. Practically all of our office behavior there. It was a little interested in a degree. I just took the you? Married lives, we have met fascinat- mini-course on how to answer phones, courses I liked. My husband says that The faculty all did, of course, but I ing people, people who do things, who how to make people feel comfortable I took such a variety of courses I make the world rim. had known them for years and they when they're waiting in an office, and should qualify for a "homogenized didn't care if I showed up in their so on. I am sure they now offer this in degree." Lots of memorable moments? classes or not. But, no, the students all business schools — not as a result didn't. The students we entertained in think it was The night after this year's Blue- of me, of course. I What did you take? our house — and we'd have about 600 bonnet Bowl I sat next to composer something that was going to evolve a year — were seldom in the classes I Johnny Green at a dinner party. I anyway. And, of course, I had Home economics — but not home took. find this sort of thing very exciting children. economics as you know it now. I was and rewarding. And we've been to the especially interested in design and Yes, and all four Scouts! How did relax? Do you White House a number of times — I decorating. Then I became interested What do you do to that happen? sometimes? thought it was very heady 'stuff to in journalism and advertising, and I need to get away Sleep at the White House. I've met my Well, it started out with the oldest, took some courses in those. They were Relax? Yes, I do need to relax girlhood heart-throb, Gregory Peck a girl. When she was seven, I fascinating. sometimes, although I don't really get flew in a helicopter around the LBJ wandered into the Girl Scout office in many opportunities. Generally, when ranch with him and a couple of other Austin and said, "I'd like to be a I've read that you have been on I want to relax I paint or take long People, then spent practically all day Brownie leader." Well, they all fell television a number of times. How did walks. And, of course, I wear my With him at a picnic there. But look over on their desks and said, "Don't that happen? tennis shoes. 12 SALLYPORT JANUARY-FEBROARYJANUAR

Honors Campus

Hargrove Named to Homer Rice Named Nin fall wor Ambassador's Post Head Football Coach ran, his President Gerald Ford has announced 1972 and last year was appointed Perhaps Al Conover saw the future NB that he will nominate James W. by the 200th State District Court as best on October 4, a cold day in Lub- int( Hargrove'43, a Rice governor-advisor, the special supervisor and manager bock, at Texas Tech's Homecoming. hed as the new U.S. Ambassador to for a financially troubled gas pro- Behind by four points with two min- Australia. Hargrove will serve duction firm, the Lo-Vaca Gathering utes left to play, the Owls had a first ri concurrently as Ambassador to Company. and goal at the Red Raider four yard Wei Nauru, an island republic 1300 miles The Hargroves, who live in Hous- line. Success remained that far away sch northeast of Australia. ton, have four children, among them and Rice lost, 28-24. drei A Shreveport, Louisiana,native, James,Jr., '66. It was the closest that any private stip Hargrove and his wife, Marion Smith school came to defeating a state Hargrove, graduated together in school during the 1975 Southwest are 1943, after sharing editorial duties on Conference season, and the loss R. the Thresher during their senior year. drained the morale of Rice's football Val Hargrove retired as vice president team. They finished 2-9,in last place. Sirr and chief financial officer of Eastern On January 2, Conover, with two dis, Transmission Corporation in 1969 to years remaining on his five-year con- Th( become U.S. assistant postmaster tract, delivered a short resignation Stadium named for him Del general for finance and administra- statement to President Hackerman mig tion. Two years later he was named and left, without expressing com- out of professional football is that Urn senior assistant postmaster general, plaint, regret, or the disappointment many people I know became very tior which put him in a supervisory he certainly felt. He said he pur- frustrated because at an early age it son position, as the U.S. Post Office chased a pig farm near Austin, Texas. appears to be all over. I just think not was transformed into the semi- The search for a successor to that in the athletics we should plan Bal independent Postal Service. He re- Conover lasted 18 days, but one can- for a lifetime, a future." hot turned from the Postal Service in Tapped by President Ford didate dominated from the start. Homer Rice's philosophy, what he Homer Rice, athletic director at the wants to add to Rice University, is in University of North Carolina, had summed up in a book, The Attitude Of turned down the head coaching Technique, which he'll have published A Jungman Library Dedicated position which went to Al Conover by Success Motivation this fall. "It's a Poi in 1972. On January 20, 1976, he concept of total-person success cajc The City of Houston recently lish the first city library in his was named the University's head technique: If you know what's inside a of memorialized the late J. Frank hometown of Hondo, Texas. He football coach. person you can teach him blocking atti Jungman '20 by naming its newest was active in his support of Rice and Homer Rice looks like a professor, a and tackling. of branch library in his honor. The the Fondren Library, and of many 5'8", 160-pound man with conserva- "I don't believe in instant success. inn Jungman Branch of the Houston Pub- Houston business and civic projects. tive clothes and a quiet voice. The You build something step by step, so by l lic Library is located on Westheimer contrast with Conover goes beyond that you're always climbing upward. He was the originator of the Rice appearance, however, to his position A pole vaulter never succeeds his ful- Road between Augusta and Bering "Frontier Five" class organization, Drives. in life and his goals. lest until he knocks down the bar." and actively presided over the "Five" At 49, Homer Rice has a record of A motivational instructor, Rice has J. Frank Jungman, banker, realtor, until his death in 1971. government administrator and accomplishment. Twenty years ago, sold his program to both Baylor and businessman, shared generously his Children of J. Frank and Thelma he brought the triple option offense, Arkansas. time and talents with the com- Young Jungman, Bob and Frank later adapted into Houston's Veer and Homer Rice doesn't have any prom- munities that had served him well. Jungman attended the library's dedi- Texas's Wishbone, to football. He has ises for Rice University's gridiron The one-time president of the Rice cation,. which was presided over by delivered 250 lectures and written success, but it's in his thinking on Student Association helped to estab- Mayor Fred Hofheinz. four books on football strategy. His athletics that he will most assuredly 1968 University of Cincinnati team have an impact."I believe in winning, set seven NCAA records. He has but there's something bigger than jobs in both that, and that's why I like this in- Library turned down coaching college and professional football, in- stitution. I'm very interested in what his idol, Paul happens to these young people, and Public cluding one with Brown. The question, then, is not setting goals in their lives should be why Rice hired Rice, but rather why number one, then their football, their

Houston Rice wants this University. academic life, their social life on "I shook hands with Jess Neely in campus — these are the ingredients 1958 and I've been impressed with to get there. But to win and then this fine institution and what it see that it's all over? That's not stands for ever since," he says; but his accomplishment." reasons go deeper than that. Homer For years, whenever it falls open, Rice believes in the student-athlete, the head coaching position here is re- not as a contradiction, but as a mix. ferred to simply as "the Rice job." For Branch library honors originator of"Frontier Five" He believes in athletics as a bridge to the first time, that's what it is. With a successful life and not an end in it- luck, it will stay that way for many Giles Takes Position at SMU self. "I guess the main reason I stayed years. — Dana Blankenhorn'77

J. Bernard Giles, for 29 years director Few Rice administrators or of admissions and a lecturer in teachers know more Rice people than economics, resigned his posts in this man who interviewed so many. Can You Picture This? January to head north toward Dallas Few, indeed, can count more friends and Southern Methodist University. among the Rice alumni. He assumed the admission director's Assistant Professor of Fine Arts sculpture hung 38 feet from the ceil- To chair at SMU on February 2. David Parsons is desperate; maybe ing. Even in damaged condition, they far alumni can help him. are impressive features of the build- tey Giles's resignation surprised many Services Rice ings they adorn. tie here. "It would be hard, perhaps im- of contemporary Two pieces According to Parsons, many photo- spi possible, to find someone who could Parsons were hanging in sculpture by graphs have been taken of the two VVz fill Mr. Giles's shoes,"says Dick the east-end stairwells of the Biology

Information pieces; many stu- Stabell, assistant to the president for buildings when, in 1960, have been taken by wi and Geology dents and their parents. But until Al admissions and records. "There's no Rice blew into town. The Hurricane Carla Parsons can question about how much Mr. Giles battered the sculpture, locate such photographs, Cal strong winds the catalogue of his work remains (fri will be missed around here. He played both pieces damaged, one leaving sadly incomplete. the key role in admissions for over a Today Parsons finds him- seriously. If alumni have photographs of one quarter-century, and the results of without a single photograph of self or both of the hanging sculptures, Ca his hard work are all around us. the two pieces intact. Rice's reputation for top students and Professor Parsons would appreciate subject of to it record for graduating the students Parsons's works were the hearing about it. He may be reached to his much attention when they were hung c/o the Department of Fine Arts, P.O. 1\1( who enter are tied to Mr. Giles, opi care and knowledge." No question, he'll be missed in 1957. Each gold and copper Box 1892, Houston, 77001. BRUARV4kNUARY-FEBRUARY SALLYPORT 13

First Music Rice Meets the Press Hire a Nine months after one witnessed the In the library, the reporters were Scholarships fall of Saigon, four days before one confronted with a roomful of high would cover President Ford as he school newspaper reporters who sat in Rice rang in the USA's third century with such awe that it took the local radio Endowed his State of the Union address, six top reporter to get the discussion rolling. Student NBC news correspondents slipped After being asked what measures he Dean Samuel Jones and others at the Shepherd School of Music had special into Houston, through the Rice took to protect his equipment during This month the Alumni Association is hedges, and spent six hours discus- dangerous battles, Utley shot back reasons for cheer when they rang in the new year of 1976. In December, initiating a program to help Rice stu- sing the state of the world. "The hell with it!" and smiled bravely dents locate full-time jobs during the Their audiences on January 15 as he sat down. With Simpson defend- the Shepherd School was gifted with endow- summer and part-time jobs during were Rice Associates, Houston high ing the ERA to two awe-struck girl- its first student scholarship ments. The Elva Kalb Dumas Award the academic year. Tom Greene '71 is school reporters, and several hun- reporters, the other NBC people sat chairperson of the Association's stu- dred interested standard-model Rice relaxed, listening,or reading the only and the Burt Duke Raiza Piano Schol- awarded for the first dent financial assistance committee, students. thing available, a Rice Thresher. arship will be time next fall. which has put together the student The names of the NBC reporters Down in Willy's Pub for a few beers, It was Dean Jones's suggestion that employment project for spring '76. are, many, household words: Irving Valeriani and Delaney exchanged to the Elva Kalb Dumas Award carry An outgrowth of the Rice Employ- Levine, Garrick Utley, Richard war stories to the delight of several R. the name of the benefactor. Hous- ment by Alumni Program (REAP), Valeriani, Steve Delaney, Carole surprised pub-goers. Utley toured the the new program is designed to en- KTRU studios with the general man- tonian Elva Kalb Dumas,a member of Simpson, Tom Pettit. Not all of the the sister of courage Rice alumni to employ Rice ager; and as Simpson sipped her wine, the Rice class of 1922 and discussion was pleasant to hear. the late E. F."Tiny" Kalb '16, enjoyed students. Job listings will be ex- There was a simple "no" from she remarked to a Rice Associate on panded to include part-time jobs dur- how bright and informed she thought a most distinguished 50-year career Delaney when asked if Beirut her New ing ,,the school year and "occasional the college students were. That's all in music which began with Might survive. And after Levine had debut in 1927. A Lyrico Spinto, jobs such as yard and house work, re- that they saw of the students that day, for York unraveled a tricky economic ques- she performed in search assistance and housesitting. rery the Associate's Dinner at seven was or dramatic soprano, tion, he concluded with "Aren't you opera, concert and on radio. "It is Prospective employers may call the ;-e it sorry you asked that?" Apparently strictly a grown-up affair. The pro- Alumni Office on campus (527-8101, link gram with the Associates was filmed most fitting," Jones says, "that the not, for at the first seminar, held at carry her name; thus it recog- ext. 2400) between 1:00 p.m. and 4:30 plan for local TV viewing on January 28. Award Baker, standing students jammed nizes her outstanding career and her p.m. The job project coordinator, The only still photographer in both entrances to the commons, as desire to be the first to endow a music Tricia Regan, a Rice junior, will list t he the Grand Hall, I stood next to a mon- information in the Alumni luckier ones sat at tables engaging scholarship at Rice." the job r, is strous television camera watching 111 stimulating informal discussions The Dumas Award will be given to Office and will circulate a job de- ude of the brilliantly lighted panel seated issues. a female student in the Shepherd scription among the eight residential ,hed desks, complete with After the Baker session, the corres- at their School. colleges. Students will contact L's a name cards and water pitchers Pondents had to be nudged and The Burt Duke Raiza Piano Schol- prospective employers directly, ;ess second part and the NBC-Nebraska logo, when cajoled to continue to the arship was the gift of Patty R. Cooper and employers will make all decisions de a of the professor turned to me. program because students had a sociology of Amarillo and memorializes to hire. The Alumni Office will not :ing another "This is just like TV," he said. And screen applicants. attached themselves to one or her mother. of the newspeople and were deter- it was. The Association has expanded :ess. Burt Duke Raiza was a talented, Mined to get their questions answered self-taught pianist who frequently REAP in response to Rice students' 1, SO by a professional. - James Aronovsky '76 need for additional financial aid re- ard. performed at church and social gatherings in Granbury, Woodson, sources. A Student Association poll ful- conducted in January revealed the ar." and Lewisville, Texas, where her husband, Harry W. Raiza, was in- students' desire for employment. has The Alumni Association intends to and volved in the flour-milling and cotton-ginning industries. Mrs. Raiza act only as a clearinghouse to aid died in 1962 at the age of 83. prospective employers seeking top- orn- quality talent. It is not acting as an ron Mrs. Cooper is the mother of Joel B. Kirkpatrick '58, a neuropathologist agent for either party, and assumes on no responsibility for any problems who teaches at Southwestern Medical 4:111y arising from the employment of, or ing, School in Dallas, and Martha Kirkpatrick Smith '66, of Arlington, failure to employ, any student. han If you or your company seek intel- in- Virginia, who is the president of the Washington D.C. Alumni Area Club. ligent, hard-working people for :hat part-time work during the school and year or for full-time work during the l be summer, exploit your Rice connection peir Camerons and call in the job opening. on Rice has your kind of talent. nts hen Endow Chair not A one-million dollar gift to Rice to oen, create the Harry S. Cameron Chair in re- Mechanical Engineering was made For last December by the five children of Brando and rith the late Harry and Isabel Cameron. any The five, Victor E. Cameron, Voorse Matusow '77 M. Cameron, Charlotte I. Cameron, Alumni Estelle C. Mounger and Frances L. Miller, are co-trustees of the Harry S. for $1.00 Alumni and Isabel C. Cameron Foundation. The memorial gift honors their A chance to view such film fare as father, founder of Cameron Iron "The Scarlett Empress," "Animal Excursion to D.C.Planned Works, who died in Houston in 1928. Farm," "The Grapes of Wrath," and In expressing the University's "On the Waterfront" at $1.00 each eu- To help Rice alumni and alumni The cost of the excursion is appreciation for the gift, President would be bargain enough. But the hey fainilies celebrate the nation's bicen- estimated to be $240.00 per person Hackerman said that the endowment history department is offering these ild- tennial year, the Alumni Associa- (double occupancy) — a total which contributes "in great measure to and others and is following each with tion's travel committee is planning a is only slightly more than the Rice's ability to maintain its tradition an open discussion-session led by the oto- sPecial group excursion to the regular Houston-Washington round- of excellence. It not only provides a department member whose area of two Washington, D.C. area. The D.C. trip trip airfare of $211.73! Family accom- financial benefit to Rice, but more expertise best qualifies him or her to ;tu- will be the summer offering in the modations also will be offered at importantly it affords the Uni- comment on the film's topic and his- ritil Alumni Association's program of edu- considerable savings. versity a means of recognizing torical significance. cational date of departure truly distinguished teaching and Films are being shown on selected tours. The All arrangements should be com- .ins (,frolia tentatively set for scholarship within the academic Tuesday evenings at 7:30 at the Rice Houston) is plete by the time you receive this vune 9. community, thus bringing distinction Media Center. The cost of admittance issue of SALLYPORT. For tour informa- one Visits to the University and honor to the is 500 for members of the campus to the White House, the tion please call the Alumni Office at -es, c,aPitol, and MountVernon will be in- donor." community, $1.00 for all others — a (713)527-4057. ate cluded in the tour package, with trips The Harry S. Cameron Chair in good buy either way you go. A full hed „ _to Williamsburg, Gettysburg, Fort The Association's travel committee Mechanical Engineering brings to 33 schedule offilm dates and correspond- ).0. IvicHenry, and Annapolis offered as is chaired by Marilyn Kinzer Moore the number ofendowed professorships ing discussion leaders is printed in oPtional additions. '59. at Rice. "Owlmanac." JAN LT, 14 SALLYPORT JANUARY-FEBRUARY Classnotes Te all kinds of wildlife. My daughters hills, there were a lot of disadvan- McNeil MA '59 is in Washington in 1916-1959 own ground hog, who lives tages to living there, among them the "being a bureaucrat. I came up here to have their trE in a flower bed around the backyard cold winters, the narrow, winding do metallurgical research at the Na- gr terrace. My family and I love the roads, and the long annual trips to tional Bureau of Standards. Then I a s The J. Frank Jungman branch of the moved into international relations. Midwest — the friendly people and Texas to visit relatives, made increas- Houston Public Library opened this have had a ingly more arduous by having added a Now I am moving into industrial the change of seasons. We of fall in west Houston. The new branch energy conservation. How long I'll be beautiful Indian summer this fall and couple of kids to the family. So, after a was named for and dedicated to the here is impossible to predict, but are looking forward to a winter with two-year-long period of job hunting, late J. Frank Jungman BA '20, a Washington is nice. We live in Mary- much snow!" Paul Lee Prout BA '66 Buff finally obtained a transfer by Houston realtor and philanthropist land though, not only because of the has been appointed a principal in the Union Carbide to its seadrift plant who supported Rice's Fondren Li Pearson & Prout P.A. near Victoria on the Gulf Coast. Buff schools, but also because of proximity firm of Joyce st: brary and the Houston library system Huntsville, Alabama. is in the computer systems depart- to my office." Architects of H: throughout his life. In a recent letter American ment, working with minicomputers Prout is a member of the I-1( to classmate Lee Blocker BA '39, developing Institute of Architects. Brenda and process control sys- va Ross McKee BS '39 wrote: "I have 1960-1969 Barry Tanner BA '66 writes: "My tems and applications packages. Joan been many places with many assign- husband, Robert Wolfe Tanner BS has had a lot happen to her besides ments since our last association. I ce '67, and I have been transferred to moving. She won a race against the vi spent five years as plant manger in Samuel B.Trickey BA '62 has "been Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On June 6 stork, obtaining her master's degree Belfast, Ireland, 1956-60, six years as out of touch so long it's hard to know te our third son, Brendan Clark Tanner, in counseling and guidance from Te plant manager in Dallas, 1960-66, where to start. I'm currently on sab- just before arrived, and shortly afterwards Bob WVU giving birth to their el and then back to the old homestead as batical from the Quantum Theory secondborn son, Bradley was promoted. He'll be working at the Allen. Brad's go plant manager, manager of the indus- Project, Physics Department, Univer- Westinghouse Education Center as two-year-old brother, Rick, is de- trial engineering and presently vice sity of Florida, where I've been since manager of marketing recruiting and lighted with the addition and shows president of operations services. Our 1968. Was promoted to associate pro- placement." "How to Lose with Style few signs of jealousy. Rice friends, company and we have been successful fessor in 1973 and named Teacher of and Spirit," by Emory M. Thomas as please note: We are at 307 Hampshire irr to a moderate degree. We have had the Year in the College of Arts and PhD '66, associate professor of his- in Victoria and provide a convenient our 'ups and downs' but mostly 'ups' Sciences a year later. Have been at tory at the University of Georgia in pit stop for those trips to Mexico." by far. I guess I would have to say IBM since September 1 and am really Athens, was printed recently in the gL that as I enter my last five years of enjoying being away from commit- tu Georgia Alumni Record. Originally Is business, I am more satisfied with my tees, courses, grant administration, published in the Athens Banner- 1970-1975 toi attainment than disenchanted. I am conference organizing, etc. Will go paper, Herald & Daily News Sunday Sc healthy, comfortable, and will be able back to all that in September, 1976, the article described Thomas' experi- at to eat after retirement. The wise part but greatly refreshed. Married in ences as a college football player: Buford C. Alexander BA '70, now is questionable." Haskell Sheinberg 1962 (to Lydia Hernandez) and have in his second year of Harvard's two- te "From 1958 to 1960 the University of Ju BS'41 has been elected a fellow of the two boys, Matthew (5) and Phillip Virginia Cavaliers lost 28 consecutive year master of business administra- American Society for Metals by the (3/12). Have been active, as has Lydia, football games — a tie with Kansas tion program, was awarded honors for Society's board of trustees. For the for last three years on local, state and his academic achievements during his B4 State for the record among major col- be last 25 years, he has worked with Los (to a limited extent) national levels in leges. I played guard and linebacker first year of study. Thomas V. Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New support of United Farm Workers Brown BA '71 writes: "After marry- an in 20 or those 28 straight losses ... 19 Mexico as a powder metallurgist. (Cesar Chavez), particularly in speak- ing the former Cheryl Peterson of Perhaps because of my experience St Eugene C. Paige, Jr. BA '50 will re- ing to church groups. We come to with the luckless Cavaliers, I have Houston in 1972 (I don't write very turn to his position as professor of Texas frequently, but almost never to empathy with often, do I?), I was self-employed in Lk always felt a certain as mathematics at the University of Houston, since our families are in the delivery business in Houston losers." Gretchen N. Vik BA '66 "got hE Virginia in Charlottesville in the fall Denton and Austin. As a former until '74. In '74 we relocated in a PhD in English from the University as of 1976. For the past five years, Paige Hanszen headwaiter (1960-61, 1961- of Florida in August, 1975. I have Nacogdoches so that I could enter the has served as direct or of UV's 62), I was very saddened by the news graduate school offorestry at Stephen 111 office of been teaching business communica- an institutional analysis, which facili- that Hanszen Commons burned F. Austin State U. I was recently tions in the Information Systems jol tates the University's long-range down." Joseph C. Beck BA '63 Department (School of Business) at awarded a fellowship by Texas writes "After completing medical Utilities Generating Company to do planning by analyzing its various op- San Diego State University since in erations, such as enrollment, use of school at Columbia in 1968 and a then." research concerning the strip mining medical internship at Harlem Hospi- of lignite in East Texas. I am looking building space and faculty load. ot Gloria McDermith Shatto tal, I spent three years in Germany as William E. Wylie BA forward to receiving my MF (master BA '54, or PhD '66 professor of an Army medical officer. I have re- '66 has been of forestry) in '77. We lived in Nacog- economics and jol associate dean of the College of In- cently completed my residency in elected to the Board doches until the summer of '75, but so Georgia radiationoncology at the University of Directors of couldn't take city life any longer so we dustrial Management at in Tech in Atlanta, has been named to of California, San Francisco, where Houston State Bank. moved about 10 miles out of town. partner in the Cheryl has managed a liquor store for the Board of Trustees of Georgia's I am currently a clinical instructor. A Cl My wife, Sandra, five law firm of Lee, the past year and a half, while I Berry College and Berry Academy. -year-old son, bE Shatto is the first educator and the Douglas, and I enjoy living in the Bay Brown and Wylie, he is also a member studied in the woods. I often think Association, the about the og first woman not directly connected area and plan to stay. I have begun a of the American Bar people of Baker ('66-'71) F( Houston that I knew and with the founder's family to be new job as radiation therapist at State Bar of Texas and the those in the fine arts th named to the Berry board. Berry Eden Hospital, Castro Valley, Cali- Bar Association. Robert G. Russell, department and wonder what they're College is a private, four-year, coedu- fornia." John W. Mullen, III BA'63 Jr. BA '68 writes that he was "re- up to. As for me,I'm doing all right in cational college with an enrollment of and Anne d'Olier Mullen BA '64 leased from active duty in the U.S. the piney woods of deep East Texas." 1700. It shares its 30,000-acre Mount write: "We leave Dallas where we Navy here in San Diego in 1972. At- Donald E. Castle- Berry, Georgia campus with the af- have lived for seven years on January tended the University of San Diego berry BA '71 is an filiated Berry Academy, a college 2 with our children, Mark, 9, and School of Law, graduating magna electrical engineer preparatory school. Morton L. Levy, Kate, 8, to get on a 35' sailboat in St. cum laude in 1975. Admitted to the working with the Jr. BS '55 "is completing a term as Petersburg, Florida. We will go California bar and am now associated General Electric Re- president of the Houston chapter of around Florida to Palm Beach, then with the firm of Procopio, Cory, Har- search and Devel- the American Institute of Architects over to the Bahamas, then be home greaves & Savitch in San Diego. My opment Center in and was recently elected vice presi- April 1." Nancy Neibuhr Littlefield wife (Bev) and I are the parents of a Schenectady, New York. He and his dent of the Texas Society of Ar- BA '64 writes, "My husband, Clar- two-year-old son (Bobby) and are ex- wife, Julie Allen Castleberry BA chitects." Robert Dopson BA '59 ence, sons David (age 3) and John pecting another addition to the family '69, and their three children live in and his family "have enjoyed living in (age 1), and I are moving to our farm in May, 1976." Vick F. Giles BA '69 Niskayuna, New York." Laura Gar- Austin since 1966. My dental practice between Shiner and Gonzales, Texas, and Linda Lussier Giles BA '70"are cia Weston BA '71 and J. Michael has developed from zero to a new sometime in December. For several proud to announce the birth of their Weston BA '72 are the parents of a dental building (25 dentists) in the years we have spent our weekends number one son and heir, Ellis Robin- baby girl, Christina Michelle, born Medical Center. My wife, Amelia, there raising cattle, vegetables and son Giles. Ellis arrived on October 21, August 7, 1975. Michael finished graduated from UT in 1964 where she lots of grassburrs! Now Clarence's 1975 and weighed 8 lb., 3 oz." The SMU Law School in June, 1975 and is was feature twirler in the Longhorn engineering consulting firm is mov- Giles family lives in Houston. Paula now with the antitrust division of the band and Phi Beta Kappa. She re- ing to Gonzales. We will be living in a L. Smith BA '69 writes: "I left my Department of Justice in Dallas. cently went back to UT and got her mobile home while we build our new position on August 1 as a Personal Melvin L. Cohen BA '72 writes: "I MA in communications. Last week house. We plan to do most of it our- Appearance Supervisor for Eastern was home for the Xmas holidays and she became public relations director selves." Michael E. Wilson BA '64 Airlines flight attendants in Atlanta read my parents' SALLYPORT and for the Austin public library system. I writes: "I will be completing my and rejoined the ranks of the flight realized you did not have my new ad- am still playing tennis irregularly — radiology residency at Kansas Uni- attendants — in the air. This gives dress as I haven't been receiving the now in the 35 years and over division. versity Medical Center. December 1 I me a lot more time off, which I hope to SALLYPORT lately. I'm finishing my I hope our children (Diana, 9 years; will become the fifth member of the use for more travelling (and skiing third year of medical school in Vir- William and Richard, twin boys, 7 radiology group of Davenport, Iowa. this winter), visiting friends and pos- ginia. Last summer, I spent six weeks years) learn to play well. Austin is My wife, Coress, and two daughters, sibly taking some courses (subject touring France, Austria, Czecho- such a fine place to live and we have Michelle and Heidi, are already living undetermined) next spring. Hope I'll slovakia and Yugoslavia and visiting been so busy raising a family, work- in Bettendorf, Iowa. Bettendorf and see some of you on my flights!" Buff friends I made in Europe in 1972-73." ing and going to school, we rarely get Davenport are two of the quad-cities (William-E., Jr.) Waters BA '69 and Lawrence Dahm BA '72 and Char- out of town. However, I definitely on the Iowa side of the Mississippi Joan Foster Waters BA '70 "have lotte Talbot BA '73 "were married in miss the friends I had at Rice and the River. We have a nice home on three finally returned to native Texas soil! Dallas in June, 1975. Larry will re- activities on the campus." Michael and half acres with many trees and In spite of West Virginia's beautiful ceive his MD from the University ofj JANUARY-FEBRUARY SALLYPORT 15 •_ RY Texas Southwestern Medical School Nominations for Executive in June, 1976 and plans residency Board training in pathology. Married life is great, or... DAHMnation isn't as bad In accordance with Article II, Sections POSITION N 2 as you might think!" Ricky R. 1 and 2 of the Association of Rice Alum- 1. Israel A. Na man '38 McKinney BA '72 2. Ben G. Sewall '33 received a master ni By-Laws, the 1976 Executive Board 3. Louis D. Spaw, Jr. '40 Silivroort of divinity degree from Southwestern Ballot is published here. The Asso- Baptist Theological Seminary during ciation's Standing Committee on Nom- POSITION N 3 December 19 commencement exer- inations selects the nominees 1. Ann Pierce Arnett '60 each year. 2. Harold R. DeMoss, Jr. '52 cises. L. John Doerr, HI BSEE '73, The names of other Stephen F. Barnhill alumni may be 3. Taylor Ray '59 Editor MEE '74 was awarded honors for out- placed upon the official ballot by peti- standing academic performance at tion. Such a petition shall bear the sig- POSITION 4 4 Pauline Dossier Harvard Business School last year. natures of 1. Anne Jones Brice '70 Editorial Assistant at least thirty participating 2. Mardis He Jer '72 Jan David Boyles & Assoc. is now in the second year of Har- members and shall be delivered to the 3. Mike R. Tibbetts '70 vard's two-year MBA program. Ray Executive Director within 30 days after Design /Production Schaub BA '65, PhD '73 "was re- the date of publication of this notifi- POSITION 4 5 cently elected to a two-year term as cation. 1. Randy J. Beck '71 (Austin) vice president 2. Alfred "Ike" Neumann '51 (Beaumont) of the Michigan chap- _ 1976 EXECUTIVE BOARD BALLOT 3. Eugene B. Sisk '38 (San Antonio) ter of the American Association of SALLYPORT is published bi-monthly by the Teachers of German. He has also been POSITION 4 I POSITION 4 6 Association of Rice Alumni elected state co-sponsor 1. Lawrence A. Hamilton '29 I. Katherine Tsanoff Brown '38 Carolyn H. Wallace'66 of the Michi- 2. E. Dale Shepherd, Jr. '25 gan Federation of Students 2. Alan J. Chapman '45 Executive Director of Ger- 3. Logan C. Waterman '26 3. Nat Wetzel Krahl '42 man. His wife, Uta Liebmann Martha C. Murphroe Schaub PhD '71, will deliver a paper Assistant Executive Director next April on liliencron und Heine SALLYPORT PERSONALS. Better than a Officers of the Association im Urteil von Karl Kraus' at the message in a bottle. Think of this Class Notes form as a letter University of Kentucky Foreign Lan- to people you knew at Rice. Speak to them about your life L. Henry Gissel, Jr.'58 guage Conference in Lexington, Ken- since graduation ... and anything else you want to tell them President tucky." John Slimp BA '73 and Jill is welcome, too. We would like Class Notes to reflect the style, Walter P. Moore, Jr. '59 Isbell BA '73 were married in Hous- the interests, the causes and the ideas of those whose paths Past President ton in May, 1973. John is at SMU Law crossed the Rice campus. Tell us what's important to you. Neal Lacey, Jr.'52 School working toward degrees in law President-Elect and public administration. Jill is Evelyn Smith Murphy '43 teaching history at Richardson North First Vice President Junior High School. Gail Goodrich Helen Belton Orman '60 Totten BA '73 and Jess K. Totten Second Vice President BA '73 write: "Some of this is rather Steve Shaper'58 belated, but anyhow, Gail Goodrich Treasurer and Jess Totten got married June 7, 1974, whereupon they moved to Au- stin, Texas, so Jess could go to UT Law School. After a miserable month as director of a day care center, Gail Executive Board had the good luck to get a decent job Nancy Head Bowen '58 as a secretary. After one and a half Harry J. Chavanne '33 months at that, Gail had even more J. Thomas Eubank, Jr. '51 amazing luck in getting a teaching Annette Gano Gragg '47 job at Thomas B. Greene, III '71 the best junior high school in Joyce Pounds Hardy '45 Austin (Dobie). She is enjoying teach- Douglas S. Harlan '64 ing more than she ever thought she Leota Meyer Hess'33 would. George Bernard Shaw obvi- Albert N. Kidd '64 ously never taught junior high — it's William J. Mathias *58 one of the toughest, most challenging G. Walter McReynolds'65 Jobs around. Jess is playing a lot of Thomas McKittrick '56 soccer and, much to his relief, enjoy- Marilyn Kinser Moore'59 ing law school! Paula Meredith Mosle '52 Write to us at 905A Paul E. Pfeiffer '38 Duncan Lane, Austin, Texas 78705." G. Holmes Richter '26 Charles W. Weisenberg MA '73 has Helen Saba Warden '38 been appointed an instructor of geol- Name Class Patricia Crady Zumwalt'43 ogy at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. He will begin teaching in Address I _ new) the fall of 1976. John N. Williams, lops\ IV BA '74, a student Rice University Governors at the University Alumni of Texas Graduate Richard A. Chapman '54 School of Biomedical Catherine Coburn Hannah '43 Sciences, Frank B. Ryan '58 has received Talbott Wilson '34 a $3,600 fellowship In Memoriam from the American Legion Auxiliary Cancer Research Fund. Williams, who is working to- Credits ward a Bob Lapsley master of science degree, is Cover Illustration esPecially interested in human gene- Claud Baker tics. Mary Ellen Blade BA '75 and '17 Edward L. Horton '29 of Houston. of Austin. her husband, Pat Sapaurx, are living SALLYPORT is published bi-monthly by The Association Samuel H.Lowrie BA of Rice Alumni, In Durham, North Carolina, where '17 Esther Louise Brown Mallett BA '29 anon-profit organization with offices on of Claremont, California of Houston. the campus of Rice University, and is sent free to all Rice She is attending Duke University Lucile Baldwin alumni in the United States. ©1976 by the Association Law School. R. Scott Thurston BA Garrett'20 Raymond Phillip Sanders,Sr. '29 of Lufkin, Texas of Houston. of Rice Alumni. 75 writes that he "is now a student at Edward E.Dunlay MA '24 the Baylor College of Medicine and is Fay Donald Lagow '34 of Port Arthur, Texas of Dallas. Sharing an apartment with George William Marsh Rice University admits students of any P.Taylor, Jr. BA '75." Willie Wood Kendrick '25 Dorothy Bransford Sparks BA '40 race, color, and national or ethnic origin. of Houston. of Humble,Texas Max M.Roensch BS'25 Embry Randolph Cockrell, Jr.'42 of Laguna Hills, California of Houston. Mary Margaret Forbes King'26 Gerard Dobelman BS'42 New Phone Number at Rice of Princeton, New Jersey of Houston. Henry Lewis Semler '26 Arr Nell B. Weatherall BA '44 The Association welcomes all of New Braunfels, Texas of Texas City, Texas. comments on SALLYPORT articles Rice University Frank H.Freed '27 Glen Bryan,Jr. BA '47 or issues of the day in the form 5 now has a new of Houstom. of Dallas. telephone number Margaret Elizabeth Buchanan BA '29 Ray La Don Cox BS'56 of letters to the editor. Corre- of Houston. of Galena Park, Texas. spondence will be printed as 527-8101. space permits.

1 il 1976 Rice Alumni Institute

1 The Earth Tuesdays, February 17-March 23 7:30 PM in 301 Sewall Hall Five distinguished Rice scientists have collaborated to distill from the highlights JL from Start to Finish of Earth history six cogent,one -hour lectures to conclude with a glance into the crystal ball at what the future might hold for planet Earth and its inhabitants.

February 17 March 2 March 16 The First Billion Years This Ever-changing Earth — To Are We Alone in the Universe? Donald D.Clayton, Andrew Hays Buchanan March 2, 1976 F. Curtis Michel, Andrew Hays Buchanan Professor of Astrophysics Richard E. Casey Professor of Astrophysics "Man has long wondered at his own exis- "How and when did our solar system come "The origin of Man or the man-like creature tence and imagined that people must exist into being? How did that event fit into the may date back as far as six million years. elsewhere. Could that elsewhere be planets preceding history of the universe? What was Since that time, this creature and this planet around distant stars? What are the some of the origin of the chemical elements of which have been interacting, each profoundly the prospects of finding and communicating the Earth and ourselves are composed? How affecting the other." with someone or 'something' else?" are such questions answered?" March 23 March 9 From Here to Eternity February 24 William E. Gordon, Professor of Electrical This Ever-changing Earth — To the Present Problems: Population, Politics Food, Energy and the Environment Engineering and Space Physics and Astron- Dawn of Man omy;Dean of the School of Natural Sciences Richard E. Casey, Associate Professor' Frank M. Fisher, Jr., Professor of Biology of Geology "Civilized man may survive the population "The world's population of 3.6 billion will explosion and the tightening of natural "The theories of plate tectonics and sea floor double in the next 35 years. If the rate of resources, but not without scars. It is likely spreading explain much about the physical increase continues, in 500 years each person that he will confront the coming ice age after and biological history of the last 200 million will have roughly one square yard of living a series of manmade catastrophes. And what years, and they suggest much of what proba- space. Roughly one-half of the world's people about a cooling Sun? Or a slowing speed of bly occured before." suffer from inadequate nutrition today." Earth-orbit?"

Culture: Tuesdays, February 17-March 23 8:30 PM in 309 Sewall Hall The study of culture is a vital part of the scholarly work of the six Rice professors LA Six Interpretations participating in this lecture series. Yet,in the context of his work,each ofthe six professors defines culture in a different way. What is culture?

February 17 sored by the L.A. County Museum, Chris March 16 Culture, Society, and the Individual: Burden crawls bare-chested across a parking Culture and the Age of the Reflections on Choice and Identity in lot strewn with broken glass. A prominent Enlightenment Contemporary Life philosopher writes about what it would be Virgil W. Topazio, Lawrence H. Favrot Stephen L. Klineberg, Associate Professor like to be a bat. Is something rotten in the Professor of French and Dean of Humanities of Sociology states of contemporary art and philosophy?" and Social Sciences "In the lexicon of the behavioral sciences, March 2 "Montesquieu, Voltaire and Diderot—unlike 'culture' refers to ,the whole organized way of Religion and Culture their more unorthodox and iconoclastic life ofa people,to the central values and rules David Borbridge, S.J., Lecturer in contemporary Rousseau—epitomized the concerning the ways in which individuals Religious Studies concept of culture that stressed humanistic should behave toward one another and think values rooted in individual freedoms,human about their environment. But American "Most of what we value in human culture justice, and the edification derived from the society today has many cultures that speak and depend on for the form and content exercise of one's mind." What some of the in our lives had its origin in the religious in conflicting voices. are March 23 of this condition, and what do history of the human race. This is as true implications social The Persistence of they suggest about the directions of social of music, poetry,and drama as for law, Greece order and the family." Philip Oliver-Smith, Associate Professor change?" of Fine Arts February 24 March 9 Is Contemporary Culture — Anthropology's Child "Classicism is a recurrent theme in the Culture Terminally Ill? ' Edward Norbeck,Professor of Anthropology\ history of western culture. Its roots are in Richard J. Sclafani, Assistant Professor ancient Greece, and its original manifes- of Philosophy "The concept of culture is principally the tation has been a formative influence on the creation of anthropology. It has played a many subsequent periods, including our own." "Andy Warhol makes Brillo boxes. Spon- major role in human life and evolution."

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