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The Flyleaf, 1995 The Flyleaf I ihr^n/ \/r,l /IK M^ O ** Friends of Fondren Library Vol. 45 , No. 2 Winter 1995 A LETTER TO THE FRIENDS Dear Friends, On Saturday, April 1, 1995, the Friends Brady, Mr. Woodson 's business diaries and a of Fondren Library will gather in the Rice photograph of the Academic Court of the New Memorial Center to honor two of our favorite Rice Institute dated October 12, 1912, 4:00 P.M. friends and benefactors, Audrey and Ben We have a lovely evening planned for Woodson. The occasion will be the Fifteenth April 1 . Please join us in celebrating the Annual Fondren Saturday night and the theme Woodsons' and Rice's long standing love will be "Treasures from the Woodson", cel- affair with one another. Which reminds me, ebrating the gift that made possible the Wood- April 1 is also Audrey and Ben Woodson's son Research Center in Fondren Library. 12th wedding anniversary. Come help us The many wonderful components of celebrate this special day with these "treasures this special collection include a 27,000 rare from the Woodson." book collection, more than 350 manuscript collections and an abundance of Rice Univer- Sincerely, sity archives. A trip through the Woodson reveals such diverse treasures as the 1647 edition of Comedies and Tragedies by Francis Karen Hess Rogers Beaumont and John Fletcher (donated by the Special Events Chairman Friends of Fondren Library for the Millionth Volume Celebration), the Julian Huxley papers, the Carlota and Maximilian manuscript collec- tion, Civil War photographs by Matthew FONDREN LIBRARY THE FRIENDS OF THE FLYLEAF FONDREN LIBRARY Founded under the charter Founded October 1950 and of the university dated May The Friends of Fondren published quarterly by the 18, 1891, the library was Library was founded in 1950 Friends of Fondren Library - established in 1913. Its as an association of library MS - 44-F, Rice University, present building was dedi- supporters interested in 6100 Main Street , Houston, cated November 4, 1949, and increasing and making better Texas 77005-1892, The Flyleaf rededicated in 1969 after a known the resources of Fon- is a record of Fondren substantial addition, both dren Library at Rice Univer- Library's and Friends activi- made possible by gifts of Ella sity. The Friends, through ties, and of the generosity of F. Fondren, her children, and members' contributions and the library's supporters. the Fondren Foundation and sponsorship of a program of Trust as a tribute to Walter memorials and honor gifts, William Fondren. The library secure gifts and bequests, and celebrated its half-millionth provide funds for the pur- volume in 1965 and its one- chase of rare books, manu- millionth volume on April 22, scripts, and other materials 1979. that are needed to support teaching and research at the university. Contents The Woodsons to be Honored with Friends of Fondren Library Page 12 Spring Gala Page 2 Gifts to Fondren Library Page 13 Still Watching the Front Page 4 News and Notes Page 16 The Write Stuff: Friends Honor Rice Authors Page 6 Rice Authors Page 9 Cover photograph of the stencil motif from the Woodson Research Center, representing the insurance industry and the Woodsons' legacy to Rice University and Fondren Library. See story on page 2. Editorial Board: Joan Ryan, Walter S. Baker, Jr., Bettie Carrell, Betty Charles, Elaine I. Davis, Barbara Kile, Charles D. Maynard, Jr., Mrs. William H. Merriman III, Karen Hess Rogers, and Beth Shapiro Photographs by Texas Anderson, Betty Charles and Jesse DeMartino BOARD OF DIRECTORS 1994-95 OFFICERS Roxanne K. Shaw, President Walter S. Baker, Jr. William Pannill, Executive Vice President Mrs. William P. Conner Ronald W. Blake Jan S. Domenico Vice President, Membership David S. Elder Charles D. Maynard, Jr. Harry Gee, Jr. Texas Anderson, Ph.D. Oscar D. Graham II Vice Presidents, Programs Shirley L. Hamner Joan Ryan Diana P. Hobby Vice President, Publication Mrs. Thomas W. Houghton Karen Hess Rogers Elizabeth W. Kidd Sally K. Reynolds Mrs. William H. Merriman III Vice Presidents, Special Event Mrs. Edgar W. Monteith Elizabeth Hutcheson Carrell, Secretary Oliver Pennington Edward H. Koehler, Jr., Treasurer Kathryn V. Smyser Elaine Illig Davis, Immediate Past President EX-OFFICIO Beth J. Shapiro, Ph.D., University Librarian G. Anthony Gorry, Ph.D., Vice President for Graduate Studies, Research and Information Systems David H. Auston, Ph.D., Provost Paul Engel, Ph.D., Chair of the University Committee on the Library Betty D. Charles, Executive Director The Flyleaf Page 1 The Woodsons to be Honored with Spring Gala Audrey and Ben Woodson insurance consultant. One of his long time clients, The Friends of Fondren gala on April 1, 1995, will honor Benjamin Nelson Woodson for Seaboard Life Insurance Company in Houston, whom the Woodson Research Center in Fondren was bought by American General Insurance Library is named, and his wife, Audrey Haney Company. Its founder, Gus Wortham, became Watson Woodson. Mr. Woodson was born in chairman of the board of the new organization Altoona, Kansas. His father, a young man with a which retained the name of American General and promising future in the farm implement business, had a net value of capital and surplus of about five was transferred frequently. Consequently, Mr. hundred thousand dollars. Mr. Wortham, who Woodson attended public schools in Oklahoma had met Mr. Woodson on his business trips to City; Kansas City; Denver; Rockwood, Illinois; Houston, invited Mr. Woodson to move to Hous- Chicago; Columbus, Ohio; and finally Omaha ton to become president of American General. The where he graduated from high school in 1926. move took place on July 1, 1953. After high school Mr. Woodson, who was The merger brought together two very best known as the typing champion of Nebraska, small but excellent companies with different worked at the Union Pacific Railroad headquar- specialties. Seaboard was in life insurance. Ameri- ters in Omaha for a year and a half. At that time, can General was in property, liability and fire his greatest ambition was to be secretary to the insurance. At that time, neither had written a president of the railroad. However, during a golf policy outside of Texas. Small companies of this game with a high school classmate, he met an sort had dominated the insurance business in insurance executive who, in 1928, offered Mr. Texas since 1905 when large national companies Woodson a job with the Mutual Trust Life Insur- had left the state because a new Texas law re- ance Company in Chicago. Since then his career quired them to invest all the profits from their has been in insurance. Texas business in Texas. That situation eventually By 1953, Mr. Woodson was Managing changed, allowing the newer Texas companies to Director of The National Association of Life grow and expand beyond state boundaries. To- Underwriters in New York City and a private gether Mr. Woodson and Mr. Wortham built The Flyleaf Page 2 Woodsons cont'd. American General into a company now worth over building) was constructed, Mr. Woodson made a five billion dollars which does business world- donation to the project which resulted in the wide and is licensed in every state in the union. Woodson Research Center within the Special Eventually Mr. Woodson succeeded Mr. Wortham Collections Department. The addition was dedi- as chairman of the board, retiring from the com- cated in 1968. His daughter, Mary Burnett Wood- pany in 1978. son Crowell, graduated from Rice in 1961. In addition to his successful business career, Mr. Woodson has held leadership posi- tions in many areas of the Houston community. He is the founder and a life trustee of the Houston Foundation for the Retarded. In 1971, he became president of the Houston Club. At that time he served as general chairman of the $15 million campaign for the Museum of Fine Arts which resulted in the construction of the Brown Pavilion, a new building for the museum school, and endowments for acquisitions and for the opera- tions of the museum and of Bayou Bend. This was the first broad-based capital drive in the museum's history. He has served as an advisory director of Texas Commerce Bank, a charter director of the Society for the Performing Arts, a Grace Woodson as a bride in 1930 director of the Houston Symphony Society, a director and vice president of the Chamber of Commerce, president of the Houston Branch of Mr. Woodson's first wife, Grace Cook the English Speaking Union, a director of the Woodson, died in 1981 after fifty-one years of Texas Medical Center, a regent of the University marriage. As a new bride in 1930, Mrs. Woodson of Houston, and board member of countless other had worked as a volunteer at the United Charities community organizations. in Chicago. There she became friends with Audrey In 1980 Mr. Woodson was named the Man Haney, a native of Lenape, Kansas. Miss Haney of the Year by the Federation Insurance Counsel. was a professional social worker who had studied In 1976 he received the "For Service to Fellow mathematics at Washburn University in Topeka, Man' Award from the National Conference of Kansas, and received an MA in social work from Christians and Jews and was selected the Key the University of Chicago. She married Harry Houstonian of the Year by the Houston Board of Watson and continued to live in Chicago until her Realtors. Mr. Woodson was named distinguished husband retired and they moved to Seattle. Al- citizen by Goodwill Industries in 1973, and in though the Woodsons moved away from Chicago, 1963 he received the John Newton Russell Memo- the two couples remained fast friends throughout rial Award, a prestigious award in the life insur- the years, visiting one another as often as possible.
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