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cc. tit:: , , 1..1ttct1 Rice faces the Yuppie ethic FEB.-MAR. 1985, VOL. 41, NO. 3 Is Rice turning out well-rounded graduates ready to deal with life, or well-trained specialists EDITOR with an ever-watchful eye on the dollar? Even the experts aren't sure. Suzanne Johnson SCIENCE EDITOR B.C. Robison George Schroepfer's biochemical warfare DESIGN Biochemistry professor George Schroepfer chisles away at the roots of heart disease with his Carol Edwards research into the formation of cholesterol. CONTRIBUTORS Steve Brynes Jeanne Cooper '84 Students play the ratings game 10 PHOTOGRAPHERS Todd Malcolm '87 Rice professors are not the only ones handing out grades. Through course evaluations, stu- Philippe Paravicini '86 dents let their profs know what they like — and what they don't. STUDENT ASSISTANTS Scheleen Johnson '87 Patti Lipoma '87 Life after the Chicken Ranch 12 Shelly Unger '86 After the Broadway and Hollywood success of "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas," Pete Master- OFFICERS OF THE son '57 finds rich options in the world of theater and film. ASSOCIATION OF RICE ALUMNI President, Harvin C. Moore Jr. '59 President-Elect, G. Walter McReynolds '65 1st Vice-President, Carolyn D. Devine '52 2nd Vice-President, Bridget R. Jensen '53 Treasurer, Jack Williams '34 Past President, Joseph H. Reilly '48 Executive Director, Tommie Lu Maulsby '59 ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS Chairman, Charles Szalkowski '70 Co-chairman, John Boles '65 Past Chairman, Patti Simon '65 W.W. Akers W.V. Ballew, Jr. '40 2etiva Brent Breedm Franz Brotzen Darrell Hancock '68 Presidential debate he had no part in making. opment program among the most cost-effective Paul Havlak '86 Although this letter is not directed to the alumni, Whatever else is true, there is no doubt that in the country. Keeping costs down has been, Nancy Boothe Parker '52 I thought it might serve as a stimulus to others the then current board of directors greatly mis- and will continue to be, a priority for this office. Sara Meredith Peterson '47 like myself to consider giving to the annual fund. judged the extent of its power. Real power in this The President's Club was organized in 1971 Linda Leigh Sylvan '73 Also, I was inspired to write it by what seemed world is a constant ebb and flow and is not de- with approximately 200 members who were con- to me to be an offhand dismissal of the Master- rived from laws or conventions. This was proven tributing between $100 and $999 a year to Rice. RICE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI GOVERNORS son incident in the section on the history of Rice in an orderly fashion by the Masterson incident. It was to serve two purposes: to say "thank you" David Farnsworth '42 presidents in your latest issue(September 1984). To the current crop of Rice transients let me in a more tangible way, and to encourage other Neal Lacey '56 As(the following) indicates,(couldn't disagree say this: Overestimating its real power to govern people to consider giving to Rice at that level. William McCardell '48 more with your assessment. is a common error with a governing body. Peo- The President's Club has served both purposes Pat H. Moore '52 Every time I receive a solicitation for a con- ple will tell you all your lives that they or others well. Thousands of Rice alumni display the pa- SALLYPORr(USPS 412-950) is published tribution to Rice University I am torn. My four- have this or that power or right and you don't. In perweight(which is a replica of the Rice ring) in September, November, and-one-half year experience there (1966-1970) any situation that directly affects you, this is true proudly. In 1983-84, we had 4,063 members in- February, April, and June by the Association was undeniably formative and created reserves only as long as you and others like you believe cluding 759 joining for the first time. In that year, of Rice Alumni, and is sent free to all within me which have served me well out here it. gifts to the Annual Fund from President's Club university alumni, parents of students, and in the 'real world.' My hesitation begins when I Now — the board of directors has my contri- members totaled $1,024,034.64. friends. Second class postage question whether the benefit bution. It's up to the rest of you to see to it that The cost figures quoted by Mr. Donald are paid at Houston, of that time was a Texas. product of the aims of the university or was to a they spend my money according to your needs. in error. The $15.83 he says was quoted to him significant degree derived Hugh Moffatt '73 by OMC Awards would be the price he would in spite of them. William Marsh Rice University Since my considered pay as an individual if he bought the paper- offers relationship with Rice is Pegram, Tenn. equal opportunity to all applicants without now a matter of donating money, weight directly from the manufacturer(which he by 'university' regard to race, color, sex, age, national or I mean the people who will spend cannot do). Rice's cost is $9.75 per unit. my money. I ethnic origin, or physical handicap. would like to know if they will use it to further my Worth its weight? In one respect, Mr. Donald is justified in his irritation with us. When he sent ideals of education or to oppose them. What would you think of a corporation which his gift to the An- Editorial offices for SALLYPORT are located nual Fund, There's no way to know that, I've decided. gave you a dividend of five to 20 percent in a he gave us explicit instructions not to in the Allen Center for Business Activities, send him anything but However I am sending a donation, my first ever. form that was intrinsically worthless? Crazy? I an acknowledgment. Rice University, 6100 South Main Through Street, (figure if there were no university there'd be no think so as well. But Rice does something simi- clerical error, these instructions were Houston, Texas. chance at all, and now that I'm financially in- lar; I'm talking about "tokens of appreciation for overlooked. It was a mistake that should not volved (20 bucks)I get to complain and suggest. support of the University's academic programs," have happened and one for which the develop- POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Here's a beginning. that is, paperweights. ment office must take the blame. I believe Mr. SALLYPORT, Office of Information Services, No board of directors has the power to make (sent my check to the Annual Fund one Donald's instructions were sent with the com- Rice University, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, a great university. Only the students and fac- month ago. The day before yesterday I received mendable spirit of wanting Rice to have the Texas 77251. ulty, the unfranchised transients of the campus, my two-pound-simulated-brass-impressed- maximum benefit of his gift. That kind of spirit can do that or not as they choose. The board is motto-and-escutcheon token in the mail. Post- deserves our respect and our rededication to Copyright 1985 by the Association of Rice the producer of the play but has little to do with age was $1.99. I called the maker(OMC serve Rice better. Alumni, Rice University. its run. Thus the power to create that which I Awards, Bryan, Texas) to find out how much it wish to support does not lie with the people who cost: $15.83. I'm not going to count in the cost of receive my check. The desire for excellence of the envelope and the effort of mailing my token the unfranchised may, in a particular circum- but(think we are witnessing an outlay of $10- stance, be misunderstood by the governing 30,000 per year. body, and the two may come in conflict at a ba- Is this truly supporting the University's aca- news yet in sic level. This happened at Rice in the late 1960s. demic programs? I do not think so. No Rice Having been a part of the student body at If. any of your readers feel the same way, the time of Dr. Masterson's resignation and Pres- would you please drop a note to the Develop- presidential search ident Hackerman's selection, I can report that 15 ment Office? Even if they do not heed it, at least years later I can think of no other incident that they can use their paperweights. As of press time in late January, no announcement had yet been made more clearly illustrates what I consider to be the J. Wylie Donald '84 concerning the selection of a new president for Rice University. A true strength of Rice University as I knew it. In a Orlando, Texas 12-member Presidential Search Committee submitted a short list of community as small as Rice it is a remarkable nominees to the Board of Governors in late November, thing to have 1,000 or so people willing to and the board take a hopes to make a final decision in the controversial stand on a vital principle. In such Rice Director of Development Margaret immediate future. a case real change is effected. "Sully" Alsobrook submitted the following The committee includes trustees Ralph S. O'Connor (chairman), The incident was not without its rough response to Mr. Donald's letter: Josephine E. Abercrombie '46, C.M. Hudspeth '40, Edward W. Kelley Jr. '54, edges, chief among them being th victimizing I appreciate]. Wylie Donald's legitimate con- and Rice Board of Governors Chairman Charles W. Duncan Jr. '47(ex of the completely innocent Dr. Masterson. As cern about the stewardship of funds given to officio); alumni Catherine C. Hannah '44 and Gus A. Schill '55; faculty C. was said at the time, the argument was not so Rice University. Had Mr. Donald talked tome, he Sidney Burrus '57, William Martin and G. King Walters '53; undergraduate much against him as against the means by might have been surprised to learn how strongly Garland A. Kelley Jr. '85; and graduate student Alan F. Rister. Karen which he was selected, with which he had noth- 1, and the development staff, share his concern. Ostrum George '77 is executive director of the search. ing to do. For my part I will always be grateful to Our total fundraising costs are less than 3 per- Dr. Masterson for gracefully defusing a conflict cent of gift income, which makes the Rice devel-

2 SALLYPORT—FEBRUARY -MARCH 1985 ii- .1111111 11140440 die gaztromt Nobody does it better nician extraordinaire, specializing in his- nationally recognized authority on Texas Special recognition came to Rice alumni toric old forte-pianos and harpsichords; Big Thicket and assorted global threats to and faculty in December when four alums Van Jones '73, who made the transition plant life. "In nature, a prairie fire occurs and one professor were among the eight from successful architect to successful art- every three years, and that's what we Houstonians featured by Esquire maga- ist in 1983; Bob Tolmach '78, who, at age wanted to do this year on our little prairie zine in its 1984 Register,'The Best of the 29, is vice-president of Arquitectonia, cred- — plus, perhaps, a small herd of buf- New Generation: Men and Women Under ited by Time magazine as "building on the falo..." Buffalo? Forty Who Are Changing America." spirit of daring and experiment that char- Harcombe is willing to compromise. John J. Casbarian '69, Danny M. Sa- acterized the avant-garde earlier in this "I'd settle for a few cattle to graze on our muels '71 and Robert H. Timme '69 are lit- century"; and Houston native Peter Armato tiny prairie, to add their part to round out erally changing the way America looks. '76, who is executive director of the East the picture." It was suggested during the All partners of Taft Architects in Houston, End Progress Association, a nonprofit Houston Rodeo and Livestock Show last the three first teamed up as students at group working to put new life into Hous- year that some stock might be brought by Rice and have gone on to earn more than ton's East End. the campus for a snack but, Harcombe 28 awards and gain worldwide recogni- The magazine called Rice professor said, "the administration did not look fa- tion in architecture. In addition to design- James Castaneda an anomaly — "a uni- vorably upon that request." He admitted ing everything from private homes to city versity athletics coach with a passion for that "judicious mowing," though not as au- halls, the trio also keep in touch with the academics." Castaneda, who teaches thentic, might get the same results. classroom. Casbarian is a full-time associ- Spanish and Portuguese at Rice, coached But what about the fire? Though the ate professor and Samuels a part-time vis- the Rice baseball team until 1983 and now wasps would not be endangered, there iting assistant professor in architecture at leads the varsity golf team. are some concerns about the campus. "As Rice, while Timme teaches at the Univer- A star is born...or is it? Finally, the magazine spotlighted to the wasps, they wouldn't get hurt in the sity of Houston. A group of Arizona astronomers that in- graduate student Liu Wan, who, growing fire because the flames would not be al- Although an accident on the uneven cludes Frank J. Low '57(M.A., Ph.D.)sent . up in China, taught herself English by lowed to rise above three feet and the Parallel bars left her a quadriplegic at age a wave of excitement faster than a shoot- reading "banned authors" such as Mark wasp nests are much higher than that," 16, Kathleen De Silva '77 never let that get ing star through the scientific community Twain and William Shakespeare. She is Harcombe said. "The wasps would get a in her way. She went on to graduate with in December when they spotted what ap- now studying American literature at Rice. little warm but they wouldn't get hurt — honors from Rice and complete law school peared to be the first planet found outside no, not even singed. at the University of Houston, and is cur- the solar system. "However, after reviewing all the rently the in-house lawyer for Houston's In- What they saw was a hot (2,000 de- facts, we reluctantly ruled out the prairie stitute for Rehabilitation and Research, a grees F.) mass of gas the size of Jupiter that fire on account of the hazards it might nonprofit hospital for the severely handi- was orbiting around Van Biesbroeck 8, a pose." Harcombe hasn't given up, though. capped. In 1983, De Silva was named faint star in the Milky Way about 21 light "We've been thinking lately of Rice's an- Handicapped Professional Woman of the years from Earth. nual bonfire at Homecoming. What's possi- Year for the Texas district by Pilot Interna- The gaseous object, given the name ble there might well be possible on our tional, a philanthropic service organiza- VB 8B, was spotted by Low, colleague small prairie." tion for professional women. She was Donald W. McCarthy(who led the re- featured in the Esquire register's politics search team)and Ronald G. Probst of the As he likes it and law segment. National Optical Astronomy Laboratories. Trevor Baxter, one of a group of five actors Michael Berry, Welch Professor of Both Low and McCarthy are on the Univer- from the Royal Shakespeare Company Chemistry at Rice (featured in the last is- sity of Arizona faculty. who visited the Rice campus last year as sue of SALLYPORT), was among Esquire's After the discovery came the contro- actors-in-residence, has returned for the science and technology honorees. versy — first of all, is it really a planet or is spring 1985 semester as a visiting Andrew Credited with the discovery of 80 lasers it a star? And who really saw it first? W. Mellon Professor of Humanities teach- and the invention of a new form of pho- A Naval Observatory astronomer ing advanced acting and Shakespeare in tochemistry using lasers to promote claims he and two associates detected the production. Chemical reactions, Berry is still working presence of the mass in 1983(though they The Alliance for Creative Theatre, Ed- non-stop to find practical applications never actually saw it) by studying the mo- ucation and Research(ACTER) has spon- Biesbroeck for his research, collaborating with phy- tions of Van 8, and insists the sored tours of American campuses by sicians at Texas Medical Center's M.D. mass is not a planet because it is generat- members of the Royal Shakespeare Com- own. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute ing energy on its pany since 1976. A new group of ACTER- Arizona to develop laser technology for medical The astronomers, who actu- Sponsored actors will be on campus in diagnosis and treatment. ally saw the planet — er, mass — through early February to give three perform- relatively new method of - a detecting infra- Where there's prairie... ances, including "As You Like It," at Ham- heat, insist that what Historians making history red they saw was a You've heard it said — where there's man Hall, and to conduct workshops and planet because its mass and temperature Each year, the American Historical Associ- smoke, there's fire. classes with students. are too low to qualify it as a star. They ation(AHA) recognizes a small number of As far as Paul Harcombe is con- In addition to his teaching, Baxter will point out that Jupiter also generates scholarly works in history as the best pub- some cerned, where there's prairie, there ought be a lecturer for the spring Alumni Institute energy of its own, yet is commonly lished during the year. When Sydney Na- recog- to be fire too, even if it's on the Rice cam- and will direct the annual Shakespeare nized as a planet in our own solar thans '62, now an associate professor of system. pus. production of Baker College in late March. Well, no, the Naval Observatory sci- history at Duke University, walked away Harcombe, a Rice biologist specializ- For Baxter, teaching and working with stu- entists say — Jupiter is actually a With the Robinson Prize for substellar ing in plant ecology, established a fenced dents is a new experience and one he is James Harvey object rather than a planet. 1984, he became the second Rice alumnus miniature ecosystem on campus about enjoying. As the debate raged on into in two the cov- the new three years ago. The teaching-research "Last year I came through with the years to have won one of year, someone had finally eted gone to consult area is located near the northwest corner Royal Shakespeare Company and Alan AHA awards. a dictionary. Nathans won the Robinson prize, of the football stadium and features an im- Grob of the English department asked me Which recognizes "the most outstanding pressive selection of prairie grass that cov- if I would be willing to come back for a se- contribution to the teaching of history in Special interests ered this area "before civilization arrived." mester and work on theater," Baxter ex- any field," for a five-volume series of books In its January 1985 issue, Houston City This grass-roots program has garnered a plained. "I have been so impressed by on the social history of North Carolina. The Magazine undertook the gargantuan task lot of attention since it was started, fea- Rice, by the liveliness of the university and WaY We Lived in North Carolina is orga- of choosing the 50 "most interesting peo- tured in widely published articles from the quality of the students that although I'd nized around historic sites in the state that ple" among Houston's millions. Selected both the Associated Press and United never taught before, it seemed to be a very Ore open to the public. for their contributions to the city, their ac- Press International. exciting idea. Nathans is the third recipient of the complishments in a particular field, their In addition to the prairie grass, the "When Baker College asked me to di- Robinson prize, first offered in 1978 and pioneering achievements or "just because ecosystem also features some 25 black rect their annual Shakespeare play, it %/yarded every three years. they make a good story," the group of elite wasp boxes, put there by Joan Strass- seemed the obvious climax of all my other In 1983, Roberta Thompson Manning included several alumni, a Rice staff mem- mann, a Rice biologist with an impressive work with the university. lam so pleased 62 received the AHAS Herbert Baxter Ad- ber and a student. scholarly record on the care, feeding, mat- that together we decided to produce 'The ams Prize for her book, The Crisis of the Alums credited with "making a differ- ing and general life patterns of wasps. Tempest.' It is one of my favorite plays hav- °Id Order in Russia: Gentry and Govern- ence in Houston" included Patrick Baum At first blush this pre-civilization idyll ing, as it does, great poetry, wonderful ment. The Adams prize recognizes the '70, who left his job as a counselor at a within exhaust emission range of Rice Bou- comedy and really exciting visual effects." Year's most outstanding work in 19th and Houston psychiatric research institute and levard could not be closer to the real thing. Ticket information for "The Tempest" is 20th century European history. went on to become a piano tuner and tech- "Well, not quite," said Harcombe, a included in this issue's Owlmanac.j

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4 SALLYPORT-FEBRUARY -MARCH 1985 If Hippies ruled the '60s and Preppies the '70s, the example, I have no right to encourage my students means the only university those criticisms apply to, '80s belong to the Yuppies. to actively protest against something I believe is but if you look at what we teach you will see that it Yuppies — young, urban professionals — share wrong. My job is to teach them about the situation does not quite compare to the list of recommenda- several common traits. They went to college, got and let them draw their own conclusions." tions made in the report." good jobs at which they excel, bought foreign cars, What the NEH report recommended was the condos and Cuisinarts, and are in the process of return to a core curriculum stressing the humani- getting rich. They also are unconcerned with — ties, a topic of hot debate at Rice for a number of even take pride in — not knowing certain things. years. Beyond balancing a checkbook, what use has an current genera- Currently, Rice operates under a system of art director for mathematics? How could Aristotle The distribution requirements for undergraduates. help an engineer build a better mousetrap? The system was adopted in 1970 as a result of "Yuppies" might be the best and brightest of the rapidly expanding course listings and in re- current generation of college grads, but many edu- tion of college grads sponse to students demanding a greater voice in cators say they see a generation of young people forming their own curriculums. without a sense of values. It is a generation that has The distribution requirements divide the sub- no doubt received better career training than any in jects taught at Rice into six paired categories: history, but are our Yuppies equipped to make the holds the world in I. (1) literature and language;(2) fine arts, moral decisions necessary to cope with an increas- music, philosophy and religion; ingly complex world? Are American universities II. (3)economics, history and political science; producing class after class of technical "experts" (4)social sciences; who are, underneath their specializations, ama- the vaults of their III. (5) natural sciences and engineering;(6) teurs at living? Is it really the university's job to instill mathematics and computers. values in its students? Although there are some individual course The answer, as the idea of "values" takes on bank accounts. But exceptions, students generally must select at different dimensions, is yes and no. There are the least one course from five of the six categories personal values students bring with them to college, and at least four courses from each pair of cate- instilled by parents, churches, schools, peer groups; gories to fulfill requirements for graduation. there are the social values students gain from expo- has college prepared sure to the great ideas and literature of the past; News from the human race and there are the "specialized" values that, as pro- Though few agree on a suitable alternative, most fessionals in the workplace, students will need in or- do agree that the distribution requirements as der to make ethical managerial decisions. them for cold, hard they now stand are inadequate. "Each type of values contributes to the students' Konstantin Kolenda '50, McMannis Professor total set of values in different ways," said William of Philosophy at Rice who spent the 1983-84 aca- Gordon, provost and vice president of academic af- demic year teaching ethics to cadets at the U.S. fairs at Rice, adding that the university's responsi- reality? The experts Military Academy, said his experienfes at West bility in instilling those values differs as well. Point underscored his belief in the role the.hu- In terms of personal values, Gordon said, the manities play in a university education. university should provide students with an opportu- aren't sure. Though West Point is known as a school for nity to test the values they bring with them to Rice military training, Kolenda said that training is and then let them decide whether those beliefs will placed second in priority to giving the cadets an of society. education well steeped in the humanities. "They help them be productive members The academic cafeteria "Human values, personal values, learning to are aware that human beings require a certain live in a society — it is important that these values One of the most important ways a university amount of self respect from being part of a larger are addressed in undergraduate school," Gordon allows a student to examine his own values is by social order," he said. "Providing a background said. "At Rice, the residential colleges act as a kind providing him with an opportunity to compare his in the humanities gives students a sense of be- of 'living laboratory' for the students. They have a own beliefs with those of the past. But it is in this longing to a larger social order; it gives them the social life, self governance and membership in a study of the past — of history, literature, art, phi- idea of involvement with something bigger than competitive group. They learn the importance of losophy, the great ideas of Western and non- themselves. making rules, living with them and enforcing Western civilization — that critics believe "America comes from a larger heritage of them." universities are failing. Western tradition that has been constantly de- Each student brings his own personal values Recent arguments have come from both the voted to eliciting from humans their vast capaci- into the colleges, Gordon said, and the students re- National Institute of Education and the National ties. This job of allowing all human capabilities to inforce or change their ideas by interacting with Endowment for the Humanities(NEH). The 42- surface is also the job of education," other students and with the college masters and co- page NEH report, based on studies by a 31- Without a strong humanities background, masters. member group composed of faculty and Kolenda said, education is not doing its job. "The Gordon also cited the Honor System as an im- administrators from throughout secondary and more you know about the humanities, the more portant means of reinforcing personal values in higher education, criticized American colleges confident you will be that life is worth living. This Rice students. The student-operated system, he and universities for providing a "cafeteria style" constant self-examination of the human race for said, helps students understand "what honor education to their students. NEH Director William J. its potentials can uncover ideas and communica- means and the satisfaction that comes from honor- Bennett, who has since been nominated a's U.S. tions to make your life more meaningful. This is able behavior." Secretary of Education, accused universities of for- how the humanities help human beings retain Donald G. Jones, the first Lynette Autrey Visiting saking the traditional core curriculum in order to of- their self-respect." Professor of Business Ethics in the Jones School, fer students a wide choice of classes with no In higher education, Kolenda said, the hu- stressed, however, that there is a fine line between guidance as to what is important, ignoring the hu- manities introduce a student, in effect, to the hu- strengthening a student's personal values and influ- manities in order to stress job skills and specializa- man race. "The poet John Ciardi once said, 'a encing him to change those values. It is a line, he tion, backing away from their responsibility in savage is a person who has not heard enough said, that a university should be wary of crossing, providing their students with the values necessary news from the human race,' and that is true. A especially if the values are etiological in nature (po- for them to become more than money-makers once person is morally impoverished if he doesn't have litical or social values, for example). they enter the job market. that respect for the human race and the ideas of "A university has certain values inherent in its "A student can obtain a bachelor's degree his own heritage." existence as an educational institution. The discov- from 75 percent of American colleges and univer- Though they are a step in the right direction, ery of wisdom and the learning process requires sities without having studied European history; 72 Kolenda said the distribution requirements do not adherence to certain values — honesty, open- percent without having studied American litera- provide Rice students with that "news from the mindedness, objectivity, tolerance, fairness and ture; and 86 percent without having studied the human face." courage, for example," he said. "A professor should civilization of classical Greece and Rome," Ben- "Universities — not just Rice — have abdi- not hesitate to inculcate these and other core values nett stated. "Fewer than half of all colleges and cated their role in leading and guiding and pre- in his students, even if they are not part of a stu- universities now require a foreign lc.7.guage, scribing courses of study, of deciding what is and dent's value set when he arrives at the university, down from nearly 90 percent in 196E is not important for students to take," he said. because they are the governing norms of scholar- Despite National Merit Scholars and a sound "The distribution requirements allow for loop- ship. I would not hesitate to encourage open- academic reputation, Rice is among the many uni- holes. It makes it possible for the students to avoid mindedness and tolernnce in the marketplace of versities at which those charges were aimed. "What getting many of the things that would truly edu- ideas." the NEH report said applies very much to Rice, cate them. Jones makes a distinction, however, between though Rice is by no means unique in that respect," "If there is a narrowness of vision on the part core values" and etiological values, such as those said Ewa M. Thompson, professor of German and of students it is because many choose to restrict concerning politics. "What right does a professor Russian and a member of the study group whose themselves to acquiring only certain knowledge," have to impress those values on his students? For findings fueled the NEH report. "Rice is by no Kolenda said. "There is such a large number of SALLYPORT—FEBRUARY -MARCH 1985 5 Condos, Cuisinarts and the Core Curriculum

will of the individual advisers. How well it works depends on the students to some extent and the faculty to some extent, and it isn't working per- fectly. It can be abused, but overall I think it is succeeding. It has built into it enough flexibility that it can accommodate the range of talents that incoming students have. "The undergraduate course list is a very rich menu and the problems are to select from that menu a limited number of items that can be fit into a four-year program which, combined, make a sensible undergraduate experience."

A matter of choice It is the idea of that "rich menu" without dietary information that bothers others such as Thompson and Kolenda, both of whom favor stricter distribu- tion requirements(as opposed to a core curriculum) and both of whom have, over the past few years, been involved in campus committees to reevaluate the current system. "I think we must introduce a more clearly- defined curriculum and eliminate the loopholes," Kolenda said. "Our hope in creating the present requirements was that students would make re- sponsible choices. But when you add such a wide choice to the courses that people can pressure being put on students live up to the letter of the and two semesters in the social sciences (includ- to get professional distribution requirements training, it leads to a lot of without really getting a ing economics and business administration, lin- abuse." well-rounded education.'' guistics and education.) Thompson, who unsuccessfully introduced a - Some feel the old Rice corewas too strict — it set of stricter distribution requirements at Rice The Yuppie ethic filled up entry-level courses and did not give stu- three years ago that were similar to the core cur- dents enough Students under economic pressures to focus freedom in shaping their own cur- riculum recommended by the NEH, also favors riculums. only on their major areas of study in undergradu- Others would like to see the core, or at eliminating the loopholes in present require- least stricter ate school do not realize the importance of the distribution requirements, rein- ments without actually returning to a strict stated. core. humanities to careers in such areas as law, med- But she said making any changes will not be icine and engineering, Kolenda said, adding that Opposing a return to the core curriculum, easy. Gordon sees "they want to know everything too quickly." the distribution requirements, coup- "This is not a situation that is unique to Rice, but led with the faculty Tom Haskell, professor of history and chair- advising system, as having there are many philosophies floating around, many the potential of offering man of the committee on undergraduate teach- each Rice student an in- ideologies, that speak of preserving the best of dividualized curriculum. ing, agreed, but pointed out that humanities "The problem with the Western civilization while, at the same time, they core is that you majors are equally guilty of over-specialization assume all students are starting destroy the value system on which it rests," she from the same as undergraduates. point in their development, and said, explaining that many who oppose a heavy fo- your object is to "It's a crying shame that most humanities deliver them all at some other cus on the humanities are objecting, in fact, to in- point by means majors — the ones I come across, at least -- are of the core curriculum," he said. clusion of teaching the religious, political and social "And while never exposed to science beyond high school," our students are all very talented and values inherent in-most humanities subjects. very bright, he said. "It leaves them intellectual cripples. By they're not all equally talented. They "These people are very contemptuous to- the same token, the immense vocational pressure are all individuals, and we at Rice are small wards teaching what is thought of as the 'tradi- students feel is tragic. It makes a farce out of the enough as a university to treat each one as an in- tional values,' those being a sense of right and dividual idea of the traditional, well-rounded university — to develop, if you will, a 'core curricu- wrong, good and evil, honor, loyalty, tolerance education. lum' for each person. I view the really important of religious points of view. Those things are con- "I think this generation of students feels that, step in providing a sound curriculum to be the sidered very primitive, very passe, and certainly even in undergraduate school, they are under advising system." not something to be taken seriously by scholars." pressure to-get leverage in the job market. It se- Even if those scholars who object to seeing duces them into the illusion that these specialized traditional values in the classroom are correct, vocation-oriented courses are the ones they Thompson said, they "are not addressing the ought to be taking. And it is an illusion. The valu- Universities have abdicated their role in problem of how to preserve the fruit of Western able courses are the ones that expand the intel- leading and guiding and prescribing civilization that we all enjoy while eliminating the lect, and those are the courses many Rice courses of study, of deciding what is and is things which are at the base of this civilization." studmts are fleeing from these days. What they Working with the NEH committee, she said, think is going to give them vocational leverage is not important for students to take. made her realize that just relying on "objective simply not going to do so. When IBM hires someone — Konstantin Kolenda teaching" would not work as a defense against they're not just looking for someone who has the l-lose arguments. "It made me realize that our nuts-and -bolts knowledge to be able to know their When each incoming Rice student is as- pretensions that we can teach objectively are re- job on the first day, but for broadly-based talent signed to a college, he is also assigned to an ad- ally false, as much as I would like them to be with the ability for intellectual growth." viser, a faculty volunteer who is responsible for true. Now I realize we have no choice — we ei- The NEH report's answer was for universities advising five or six students. The college advis- ther teach people Western civilization in a way to reinstitute a core curriculum. Though Haskell ers, or associates, are provided with all available that is sympathetic, or in a way that is hostile. I said he agrees that some subjects are more im- information on the student — high school tran- would vote for sympathetic." portant for students to take than others. He said scripts, test scores and recommendations, for ex- Thompson also stressed the need for foreign the "problem cannot be cured by simply fabricating ample — and thus are able to assess each language requirements and for the study of civili- a consensus of what the most important subjects are student's strengths and weaknesses in recom- zation to be presented chronologically. Now, she — nothing short of a spontaneous consensus will mending a curriculum. said, students take courses in any order they do, and we don't have one." Working with the college associates, as well want("students exposed to Aristotle after Karl as departmental advisers, "allows a student to Marx will not appreciate Aristotle as much, find- The core question follow a program which not only gives him chal- ing that he did not understand things Karl Marx Before the distribution requirements were lenging courses without repeating work already understood"), and foreign language is encour- adopted in 1970, Rice had a core curriculum re- done in secondary school but also meets his indi- aged but not required. "Have you ever heard of quiring all students to spend their first two years vidual goals and aspirations and provides the es- anyone taking a foreign language because a studying certain subjects. Requirements in- sentials of a core," Gordon said. committee encouraged him to?" she asked. "It is cluded: a two-semester introduction to critical While he believes the advising system holds joke." reading, thinking and writing; two semesters of the potential to answer Rice's core curriculum either European or American history; a minimum questions, he admits it does not work perfectly. "It The student view two-year competency level in a foreign lan- is a rather uneven system because of the effort Students have mixed reactions to the idea of guage; six semesters of science and mathemat- that individual advisers put into it," he said. "The a core curriculum and to whether or not they ics; two additional semesters in the humanities; system is voluntary, so we depend on the good- think the required courses will benefit them.

6 SALLYPORT—FEBRUARY -MARCH 1985 Condos, Cuisinarts and the Core Curriculum

Some, like junior Robert Moosey, said they think companies and to themselves." Though Sellers stresses the importance of it is important for them to take a wide range of Jones, a former minister, said business ethics professional ethics, he does not believe the subjects. "A major problem of universities is that developed as its sister discipline, medical ethics, courses should be required. "It's a real catch-22," they turn out people who are too streamlined," he gained prominence in the 1970s. Rice is involved he said. "By its very nature, ethics implies moral said. "Our majors require a heavy courseload, in two cooperative programs in medical ethics — choice and it is something that has to be taken and it is the individual's responsibility to expose between the philosophy department and the Bay- because of choice; requiring ethics would force himself to other subjects." Moosey, a biochemis- lor College of Medicine, and between the reli- people into something that I think cannot be try major, said he would have taken a wide vari- gious studies department and the University of forced. ety of courses whether or not they were required. Texas Medical School. "At the same time, I think the first generation Senior Michelle Schultz, however, felt the James E. Sellers, a professor of religious stud- that does not recognize the importance of moral few science courses she was required to take ies who teaches courses in medical ethics along reasoning, the first generation, for example, that were "not relevant" to her major areas of Span- with adjunct professor Stanley Reiser, said dis- places survival above justice in importance — ish, Russian and political science. Like biology cussions in medical ethics began at least in part that will be the generation that has lost the great- Junior Naomi Logsdon, she said she would not as a result of the moral questions arising as ad- est elements of the Western tradition." have taken as many courses outside her major vancing technology enabled doctors to prolong But are these courses in professional ethics had they not been required. and change the quality of life. really doing what they are designed to do, giving While leaving all the options up to the stu- the student a chance to consider situations in his dents is an easy way for the university to answer prospective field, making decisions based on the a problem about which so many disagree, broad humanistic knowledge he has presumably Thompson said, it does not work. Though Rice It's a crying shame that most humanities already acquired? Or are those courses the only students are exceptionally bright, she said, most majors are never exposed to science be- exposure future professionals are getting to the are not in the best position to decide what course- process of moral reasoning? work will ultimately benefit them. "A student who yond high school. It leaves them intellec- "The courses are good, but too often I'm is 18 knows what he wants — there's no problem tual cripples. By the same token, the afraid they are having to apply a remedial patch there," she said. "The problem is, is what he immense vocational pressure students on an education already gone awry," Haskell wants good for him in the long run? It may be said. "If a proper background in Western philoso- nice to take certain courses right now, but what feel...makes a farce out of the idea of the phy were provided, for example, that remedial about 20 or 30 years later? The humanities are traditional, well-rounded university patch might not be so desperately needed." supposed to give you something to live for, to education. Those elements of Western tradition, Sellers structure your life around." — Thomas Haskell agreed, should come from a broad educational What all these conflicts boil down to, she background. "My job," he said, "is to ask people said, is that it is hard to find an answer when dif- The pre-med students face tough questions. to critically consider the moral values of their fering sides both have viable points of view. That "We talk about informed consent, when a doctor own traditions, rather than to teach them what Problem, she said, is most visible in the conflict should tell the truth, whether our limited re- that tradition is." between college and career. sources should all be spent on an artificial heart If a student's personal values are reinforced "There is a great stress on professionalism or on a program to prevent diseases that could be in the college system and by the Honor Code, his and students understandably want to take easily treated," Sellers said. "With our advanced professional and social values seem to rest on the courses that will be of use to them in their future technology, should we keep a child alive know- humanities background he is — or, in some Professions. This is an example of two very ing of problems of retardation or mental defects cases, is not— getting. "Many of our students are Worthwhile goals in conflict. If you want to pur- that the child will encounter? Are we sustaining becoming professionally competent but they are sue a career in science, for example, it might life or just dragging out death? Those are ques- not sufficiently growing as human beings," Ko- seem better for you not to take any humanities at tions that don't have answers, but through those lenda said. "When they get out into the world, all. On the other hand, in the long run, taking hu- questions students can get an awareness of the they are equipped as money-earners but, as peo- rnanities will help you broaden your ability to moral dimensions of their decisions." ple, they will begin to wither on the vine." think and write, which will in turn benefit your The problem, Haskell said, is that this conflict career. So both sides are going to have to give a Supplement or substitute? — the need for a broad educational background little bit in order to accommodate both." Courses in professional ethics, both Jones versus the pressures to specialize — does not and Sellers stressed, are not substitutes for a have an easy solution. "It doesn't come about for Ethical considerations background in humanities, nor should they be re- trivial reasons," he said. "Specialization doesn't In the meantime, one compromise between a lied on solely to introduce students to ethical rea- come about through stupidity or oversight. It humanities-based core education and one based soning. "It's the same as learning to write," comes about for reasons deeply rooted in the na- solely on career training has been the growing Sellers said. "Should we rely only on teachers of ture of intellectual work — the desire to know all number of courses in professional ethics being English to teach people to write? I would say we. one can. And though it is regrettable that the im- taught at Rice and other campuses around the need all the help we can get, and that all of us possible task of making sense out of all these spe- country. Future doctors, lawyers, engineers, ar- need to help teach people to write. It's the same cializations and all the courses available has chitects — all have the opportunity to take way with moral reasoning — it should be the been placed on students, I am not courses that deal with ethical decision-making in concern of all of us." sure how to cure it." their chosen professions, "specialized humani- ties" courses that combine job training with exer- cises in moral reasoning to provide a meaningful look at decision-making for tomorrow's leaders. In the fall 1984 semester, the Jones Graduate School of Administration brought in Donald G. Jones of Drew University as the first in a series of profes- sors to fill the post of Lynette Autrey Visiting Pro- fessor of Business Ethics for one semester each. It Was the first time such a strong focus on business ethics had been offered at Rice, and Jones said it represents a growing recognition in all fields of the need to provide future professionals with a sound basis in ethical decision-making. Students are not taught "values," Jones said, but are given ease studies which allow them to "be in touch With their own values and to evaluate them." For example, Jones uses in his courses the Case of a large chemical corporation subsidiary that discovered several women on its production line were being exposed to a chemical found to cause genetic defects. One of the major dilemmas arising from the case was balancing protection of the unborn and compliance with equal opportu- nity laws. , "There is not a 'right' answer to a question Icoim like that," Jones said. "But it is valuable for a stu- photo by I°c1c1 dent to think about it, and to apply their conclu- sions to other cases. I try to get them to think in terms of long-term benefits to society and to their

SALLYPORT—FEBRUARY -MARCH 1985 7 Biochemical warfare George Schroepfer's fight against heart disease

by B.C. Robison

t is a well-established fact that coronary artery been approached at a fundamental level. Schroep- is primarily synthesized in the liver and small intes- disease is a major medical problem facing the fer, a 52-year-old native of Minneapolis-St. Paul tine. Cholesterol serves as the precursor of such key population of the United States today. Coro- and the founder of Rice University's Department of compounds as bile salts and steroid hormones. I nary artery disease results in more than one Biochemistry, has pursued research directed to- Its formation requires a complex synthetic path- million heart attacks and 500,000 deaths each wards understanding the individual reactions in- way involving a very large number of intermedi- year in this country. It has been estimated that volved in the formation of cholesterol in living cells ates. Basically, cholesterol is formed by the coronary artery disease costs the United States and possibly thereby to control its formation. conversion of acetic acid to mevalonic acid, by the more than $60 billion per year. A major focus of Schroepfer's current research conversion of mevalonic acid into a 30-carbon atom Elevated levels of cholesterol in the blood have is on a synthetic compound with the intimidating hydrocarbon called squalene, and finally by the long been identified as a major risk factor for the de- name of 5a-cholest-8(14)-en-3(3-o1-15-one (hereafter conversion of squalene into cholesterol. velopment of coronary artery disease. Moreover, referred to as the 15-ketosterol). It is very similar in the results of a recent 10-year occurring steroids study at 12 Lipid Re- molecular structure to naturally Biosynthetic search Clinics have indicated that decreasing se- of the body, which include cholesterol. pathways rum cholesterol levels in humans are associated "We have shown that this compound, a 15- In the course of trying to understand some of with a reduction in heart disease. In this study, a 10 oxygenated sterol (i.e., a sterol with an oxygen these individual reactions, investigators studied a percent reduction in serum cholesterol levels trans- atom at carbon atom number 15) is very active in in- number of related synthetic compounds that were lated into a 20 percent reduction in heart disease hibiting cholesterol biosynthesis in cultured cells prepared in Schroepfer's laboratory. In collabora- risk. These and other results have led to increased and in lowering blood cholesterol levels in ani- tive studies with Dr. Andrew A. Kandutsch at the public interest in ways to reduce cholesterol levels. mals," Schroepfer said. Jackson Laboratories at Bar Harbor, these synthetic For the laboratory of George J. Schroepfer Jr., Cholesterol is a 27-carbon atom compound that compounds were found to be extraordinarily active the battle against heart disease and cholesterol has is part of the classical group of steroids. In animals it inhibitors of cholesterol biosynthesis in cultured

8 SALLYPORT—FEBRUARY -MARCH 1985 cells. Further studies with these cells showed that demonstration of the biosynthesis of cholesterol in a the compounds caused a reduction in the levels of cell-free preparation. He then joined the faculty of activity of a key regulatory enzyme involved in the the University of Minnesota but, under a special fel- synthesis of mevalonic acid. It can be seen that Sch- lowship award from the NIH, was allowed to spend roepfer's compounds work at an early stage in the two years in other institutions. He spent one year biosynthetic pathway. (1961-1962) at a Medical Research Council Unit in The actions of a limited number of these com- London working with George Popjak and Sir John pounds were then explored in intact animals. Sev- Cornforth. Following his year in London, he re- eral were found to significantly lower blood turned to the U.S. to conduct research in the labora- cholesterol levels in rats,' Schroepfer said. "After tory of Professor Konrad Bloch in the chemistry the completion of approximately five years of stud- department at Harvard. Drs. Frantz, Bloch, Fropjak ies in small animals, we then took the research a and Cornforth were major figures in the delineation step further and began testing one of the sterols, the of the general features of the complex biochemical 15-ketosterol, in nonhuman primates. A major prob- pathways leading to cholesterol formation. Bloch lem in this work was the preparation of the com- and Cornforth subsequently received separate No- pound on a large scale so as to permit the bel Prizes in Medicine(Bloch, 1964) and Chemistry completion of the required experiments. This effort (Cornforth, 1975). proved worthwhile since our results indicated that Schroepfer returned to Minnesota but shortly the 15-ketosterol is very potent in lowering blood thereafter accepted an offer to join the faculty at the cholesterol levels in both baboons and Rhesus mon- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was keys." The results with these primates are especially promoted through the ranks to his eventual position notable since these animals carry cholesterol in of professor of biochemistry and organic chemistry. their blood in a manner similar to humans. Sch- He also served for two years as the first director of roepfer conducts his research in primates with colo- the School of Basic Medical Sciences, with responsi- nies at the Southwest Foundation for Research and bility for the initiation of a new medical school on Education in San Antonio and at the Bowman Gray the Urbana-Champaign campus. Medical School in Winston-Salem, N.C. The studies in primates also demonstrated that New beginnings not only does our compound lower the total choles- terol levels in blood but it also affects the way it is In 1971, Rice University approached him about carried in the bloodstream," Schroepfer said. founding a new biochemistry department. Schroep- fer accepted this challenge and moved to Houston in 1972 as a professor of biochemistry and chemistry A matter of density to begin a new phase of his career. Under his direc- Most of the cholesterol in blood is associated tion, the new department grew to 11 faculty and to with what are called low density lipoproteins (LDL). an annual external research budget of more than $2 A smaller amount of the cholesterol is carried by million per year. Since its inception, the department high density lipoproteins(HDL). has graduated a total of 292 biochemistry majors, LDL is considered to be involved with the trans- most of whom have pursued careers in medicine or Coronary artery disease port of cholesterol into cells, including the cells lin- research or a combination of these. "We are very ing blood vessels. A substantial body of evidence proud of our undergraduate program in biochemis- indicates that the higher the level of LDL-cholesterol try and, in particular, of the graduates of the pro- results in more than one in blood, the greater the risk of coronary artery dis- gram," Schroepfer said. The development of the ease. The high density lipoproteins, on the other department also involved the initiation of an active hand, are believed to be involved with cholesterol graduate program. To date, a total of 52 students million heart attacks each removal from cells and the body in general. The have been awarded advanced degrees, 45 of them results of numerous studies have indicated a strong at the doctoral level. inverse relationship between the levels of HDL- Last year, Schroepfer asked to be relieved of year and costs Americans cholesterol in blood and the risk of coronary artery the administrative responsibilities of department disease. It has been suggested that an increase of chairman, which otherwise would have exten.ded HDL-cholesterol levels of 10 mg per deciliter could through 1987, to provide required time for his ex- more than $60 billion be associated with a 50 percent decrease in the risk panding program on inhibitors of cholesterol syn- of coronary disease. thesis. Also, in 1984, he was named to the Ralph "Under the conditions of our studies in mon- and Dorothy Looney Chair in Biochemistry. annually. Rice biochemistry keys, our compound lowered the levels of LDL- Schroepfer's research has involved major par- cholesterol and, at the same time, raised the levels ticipation by students. Since joining the Rice faculty, of HDL-cholesterol," Schroepfer said. "The magni- the research in his laboratory has involved a total of department founder George tude of these changes was quite remarkable." 25 undergraduate majors completing individual While the average reduction of total cholesterol lev- honors research projects for academic credit, 15 his els was 41 percent, the mean lowering of LDL- graduate students pursuing doctoral degrees, and J. Schroepfer turns cholesterol was 61 percent. The average increase in a total of 35 Ph.D. scientists participating in ad- HDL-cholesterol was 61 percent, with an average vanced studies. In addition, more than 120 under- the absolute increase of 33 mg per deciliter. The magni- graduate students have had part-time or summer focus to research into tude of the observed increases in the HDL- choles- employment in Schroepfer's laboratory. "The rather terol is much greater than the reported 4 to 5 mg per broad range of individual projects in our program the deciliter increases which can be achieved by exer- and their requirements for a wide variety of experi- heart of the problem — cise such as jogging. mental approaches and techniques presents a par- ticularly favorable opportunity for students who Continuing have decided on or are considering careers in re- formation of cholesterol. the line search and/or medicine," he said. Schroepfer's pedigree descends directly from "Our ongoing research projects cover a very preeminent scientists in the field of cholesterol bio- wide range of subjects. However, heavy emphasis chemistry and chemistry. He received all of his de- is being given to further studies of the metabolism of grees from the University of Minnesota, i.e., B.S. the new inhibitors(what their biochemical fate is), (1955), M.D.(1957), and (after completing an intern- studies of the possible effect of the compounds in the ship in internal medicine at the University of Minne- prevention and/or regression of coronary artery le- sota) a Ph.D.(1961) in biochemistry. He completed sions, and studies of the biochemical mechanisms his Ph.D. research under the direction of Ivan D. responsible for the observed changes in blood lipo- Frantz Jr., a physician- scientist involved in the first proteins." Ul

SALLYPORT—FEBRUARY -MARCH 1985 9 THE RATINGS GAME Rice professors face their toughest critics and say their students are, if nothing else, brutally honest.

by Suzanne Johnson and Patti Lipoma '87

The semester is over. Across campus, once-busy chance to elaborate on specific likes and dislikes things. It helps you think about the issues raised classrooms grow quiet and students wander anx- about the class. and whether they are serving the intended purpose iously through campus buildings searching for their Student honesty is encouraged by anonymity. or are becoming counterproductive." The most posted final grades. -The students can feel certain that their professors valuable evaluations, Stokes said, are the ones that The students are not the only ones waiting for aren't looking over their shoulders," Haskell said, make specific suggestions for change or that specify test scores, however. Rice professors, busy going explaining that the evaluation forms are collected particular problems. over final exams and planning future courses, by a student volunteer and taken in a sealed enve- Civil engineering professor Walter J. Austin await their own ''grades" — the results of the semes- lope to a central location for them to be summa- said he thinks the evaluations are particularly help- terly course/instructor evaluations. rized. Each department on campus receives a ful for newer professors. Haskell agreed, adding Started as a student-run project in the 1960s to summary sheet for each particular course, and cop- that good evaluation results have given some de- help students(through results published in the ies go to deans, department heads and the provost. served recognition to younger faculty members. Thresher) better decide what courses to take, the Their identities protected, the students gener- Students take the evaluations were in 1970 officially recognized by the ally do not mince words. "They are very honest," evaluations seriously as well. Biology junior John university. Their distribution and assessment now said B. Frank Jones '58, Noah Harding Professor of Wright, who finds the evalua- tions "very useful," said they help him find falls under the jurisdiction of the Committee on Mathematics at Rice, who like other top-rated pro- profes- sors with the qualities he Undergraduate Teaching. fessors, finds the evaluations useful in assessing the values most — those who know their material Committee chairman Thomas Haskell said the effectiveness of their courses. thoroughly but are able to present it in an evaluations, though not required, are recognized Though Jones said he does not rely as heavily understandable form, who are will- ing to help their students, and by most faculty members as valuable gauges of on the statistical portion of the evaluations, he uses who can add per- sonal experiences to their work. "The system is not mandatory, but I don't the written comments of the students to a great ex- classroom presentations. know of any faculty member who does not use it," tent. "The evaluations are important, and they de- Haskell noted that copies of the total evaluation he said. "It is a successful system — it asks the right finitely influence me to modify my teaching," he results for each semester are on file in the library questions, and I've never seen an evaluation said. "I read the written comments very carefully. reference room and in each of the colleges for stu- system that works better." We all have blind spots and the evaluations help dents to use in choosing courses. The evaluations, Haskell said, consist of two me see what mine are and help me change them." Though English junior Jenny Kavinsky said she forms — one which asks standard quantitative History professor Gale Stokes stressed that, thinks the evaluations are not always applicable to questions, allowing the student to rate his professor even if the evaluations do not result in specific all courses, they are very important. They let the on such things as class preparation and presenta- course changes, they are extremely important. "It is teacher know what we think they are doing right or tion, and a second form that gives the student a good to get that feedback even if you don't change wrong, and I think most of the students take them

10 SALLYPORT—FEBRUARY -MARCH 1985 seriously." them have been taught the art of passive learning to your students. If you do it in an effective way, a Jones, who is a consistent favorite in his stu- that they feel everything should be encapsulated in lot of it is going to rub off." dents' evaluations, said the results help him gauge a lecture. I don't believe that." That enthusiasm is just as important outside the how well he is succeeding in what is, for him, the As a result, students in Jones' literature classes classroom as inside, Jones said. "I think it is hypo- greatest part of the teaching process — opening up are expected to vigorously discuss ideas — their critical for a teacher to be very enthusiastic and new vistas of knowledge for his students. "What I own ideas, not just those they have picked up from very serious about his subject matter in the class- like most about teaching is seeing how much peOl- others. room, and then not be approachable to a student ple can progress in such a short period of time," he A really good teacher, in turn, must challenge outside of class. Even if it's just five minutes to talk said. "It is really thrilling to me to think that a stu- students to extend their capabilities and develop about an idea out in the hallway, it's important." dent comes into a class in August knowing nothing those vigorous discussions, he said. "We have a re- What his students say in their course evalua- about calculus and, in April, he is almost an expert. sponsibility to challenge our students to think, to tap tions is also important to Jones, who says he con- I like being part of that process." their own inner resources, and not to accept the siders them an important source of information in If both Rice faculty and students place a lot of staid old answers." planning and reorganizing his courses. "Rice stu- weight on the evaluation results, they are not alone. In order for a professor to be able to continually dents are painfully honest. If they are not pleased "The information is taken into consideration when challenge his students, he must be willing to chal- with a course, they'll tell you. The evaluations are the professor is up for promotion or tenure," Haskell lenge his own ideas, Jones said. "Good teaching is one of the best gauges of how well you're doing said, explaining that professors are judged by three an ever-changing process, not a fait accompli. It with a course." criteria — teaching, for which the evaluations play constantly challenges an individual to be original Do good course evaluations mean Jones con- the major means of judging the professor's effective- and imaginative in designing and conducting siders himself a good teacher? ness, research, and service to the university and to courses. A lot of people feel that 'I'm a good teacher "In terms of form — in terms of organizing the the profession. "Different departments weigh the so why bother to change what I'm doing?' But a per- course, preparing interesting information, making three things differently, but when the University son with that attitude becomes so calcified that he sure that information is presented in an interesting Council meets to make final recommendations con- never changes." way, then yes, I am a good teacher," he said. cerning tenure or promotion, they take the evalua- Trying to keep a fresh outlook on courses and "But in terms of having reached a state of 'good tion results very seriously." materials also helps keep teachers enthusiastic teaching,' the answer is no. It's important to always Haskell added that Rice professors will get an about their work, an enthusiasm Jones said is vital keep looking for new ways to do things, to look for added boost in evaluating their own courses with in helping students get the most out of their course- new ways of helping others see something they've the establishment of a teaching clinic at Rice in the work. "It seems to me that if you love what you never seen before. That is part of the beauty of coming year. The clinic, built around a videotaping teach, you communicate that love and enthusiasm teaching."[:1 facility, will allow faculty members to commit their Photo by Todd Malcolm classes to film. "We're goingto ask some of the best- known, most highly regarded teachers on campus to tape their classes, then make these videotapes available for others to look at," Haskell said. "We are encouraging everyone on campus to have themselves videotaped at least once in class and then a member of the undergraduate teaching com- mittee or some other faculty member will be availa- ble to look at the tape with them and comment on problems and possibilities for improvement." Haskell added that although he thinks the vide- otape program will be extremely useful, "we are eager to steer clear of the myth that a polished per- formance is all it takes to make a good teacher. But it is one elementary way to see what you look like from the audience's point of view."j For students, Jones has the right stuff As a child, Robert Jones watched both his father and grandfather prepare lessons, grade papers and answer occasional late-night phone calls from students. With such a background, his choice of a teaching career came as no surprise. Jones, assistant professor of English at Rice and winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award in 1984, credits that background with influencing his own attitudes toward his profession. "I have had good role models, so I always felt teaching was an honorable profession," Jones said. Consistently high ratings from his students in their evaluations of his courses — he was the top-rated professor in the fall 1984 student evaluations — indi- cate that Jones' approach to teaching, and his be- liefs on what makes a good teacher, are right on target. "Probably the most important point I can make about teaching is that good teaching effectively dis- tinguishes between critical thinking and learning, between active and passive education," Jones said. Passive education, in which students are of- fered information through simple lectures and read- ing, holds little value for Jones. "I want them to think, and getting them to think.is not always easy, he said. "Many students come to Rice — and they are really smart students — wanting you to tell them a formula to use in order for them to produce what they think you want to see," he said. "So many of

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12 SALLYPORT-FEBRUARY -MARCH 1985 Life after the Chicken Ranch

by Andre Fox '86

or Peter Masterson '57, combining a B.A. in his- terson, writer Larry L. King and Carol Hall, who Masterson's career, and his success, has af- lb tory with a compulsion to write added up to composed the songs and lyrics. The project's origins fected his family life as well. "Life has been both ri "ongoing adventure." can be traced to an article King wrote for a 1974 is- chaotic and stable," he said. "At times it has been Masterson, an actor, writer and producer best sue of Playboy magazine. And judging by The chaotic, with traveling and all, yet it has also been known for co-writing and directing "The Best Little Whorehouse Papers, a book of recollections by stable because I am home a lot and we are together Whorehouse in Texas," did not always know he King, the project was not always smooth sailing. a lot. In fact, I've always had my office at home. wonted to work in the theater. However, he did pos- Masterson's role, among many, frequently became When the kids were younger, work was sporadic so sess a pronounced writing talent. At age 10, he that of mediator. I was fortunate to be able to take them to the park Wrote, edited and published a newspaper in his "At one point, I was directing six different com- and play with them." hometown of Angleton, Texas. panies in 'Best Little Whorehouse,- Masterson The Mastersons have three children — Alexan- , During his years at Rice, Masterson studied cre- laughed. "It's difficult to keep up with approximately dra, Mary Stuart and Peter Carlos. Daughter Lexie ative writing with George G. Williams, an associate 35 people multiplied by six. It's important to motivate is a sophomore at Rice this year. Professor of English, and experimented with writing them to do their best. You can't imagine all the time Though Masterson said it was difficult for him to Plays. When the Rice Players sponsored a play- I have spent on the telephone to Cleveland, Seattle, move to a new project after the success of "Best Lit- writing contest, he entered and won. But the verdict L.A. and Washington. tle Whorehouse," it didn't stop him. znded down from the powers-that-be was that "I remember one particular time I was in a Currently, he's involved with rehearsals for 'Anchor and the Rose" could not be produced in meeting in Hollywood with the president of Univer- "Rainbow Dancing" each day from 8 p.m. until mid- Autrey House because it was "inappropriate" — one sal Pictures when I received a desperate phone call night. He is directing the Ed Graczyk play, which is of the characters in the play, a priest, was a homo- about whether or not we had to continue to use the about a dance hall in Texas where women live out sexual. smelly' chickens that were kept backstage. The ac- their fantasies. He is also working on pre-production The venture remained a triumph of sorts, how- tors were in an uproar, protesting loudly about the of Horton Foote's ''Trip to Bountiful," which will star ever. The temporary honor, elation and pro- bad odor and threatening to call Equity, the actors Geraldine Page, Frederic Forrest and Carlin Glynn, rlounced controversial reaction to his play became union. Many times, I'd wonder why someone else and will begin filming in Texas in April. In addition, clu early barometer of Masterson's merit as a writer couldn't take responsibility for all those details." Masterson is working with Gardner McKaye's - a foretaste of success yet to come. Somehow during all this directorial activity, Trick," scheduled to be done in London next year, A growing fascination with the live drama then Masterson also found time to write the script for the and "Moonlight Requisition," a Masterson-penned a television and a particular affinity for Horton movie version of "Best Little Whorehouse." play that will feature actor Randy Quaid. oote's writing prompted Masterson, in his senior The process Masterson followed in taking "Best Reading scripts is also important in Masterson's ear, to decide on a career in acting. In January Little Whorehouse" from pen to production shows busy schedule. "The hard part is staying ahead, not 58, after a short stint in the oil business, Masterson the creative process at work. "I work very slowly," just reading for my work but also trying to stay rrived in New York City wanting to study the he said, adding that at one point he saw the play as abreast of what's happening in the world," he said. Tiethod school of acting" at Stella Adler's acting a black and white movie. As if those activities don't keep him busy khool. Apprehensive and ambitious, he said he "Creating reminds me of viewing galleries in enough, Masterson said he and his wife spend their Was relieved to discover, "if you could pay the entry Amsterdam that displayed works of Van Gogh," summers working at Robert Redford's Sundance In- •e, you got in." Masterson said. "There were sketches, parts of stitute, which promotes the creation of small inde- Then the work began. sketches, evidences of ideas tried and discarded so pendent films. "And last, but not least," he said, "I By 1963, the young actor had initiated his that in the finished product you could see the steps always keep the interests of the Actors Studio close roadway career in "Marathon 33." Each subse- that led up to it. My work reflects the same attention at heart." quent experience acted as a stepping-stone, and to detail. You may not see anything that was done Masterson's view of his work goes beyond the nlY four years later, his portrayal of the title role in in the past year incorporated in the finished prod- level of entertainment. "I guess what I keep coming je Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald" brought him un- uct. Yet it took all those trials and errors to arrive at back to is the power of the human spirit," he re- isPuted recognition on Broadway. Masterson has a more or less completed version." flected. "I've no interest in the negative, or glorifica- cllso had a variety of film parts, including the lead- The Actors Studio had never produced a musi- tion of the negative. I am interested in the positive „,,g1 role in "The Stepford Wives” and the doctor in cal until it became involved with "Best Little Whore- aspects of human nature. As a realist — yes, pay The Exorcist." house." As the scenes were written, they were tried, attention to problems, admit to mistakes. But as an , Today, Masterson's career encompasses some- torn apart, studied and modified until they were artist, I'm concerned with the emotional human be- ° lulg from every point of view, including title roles agreed upon and thoroughly digested. ing, his triumphs and his ability to prevail against c3r1 Broadway, leads in films, directing and writing. "I knew it would be successful," Masterson said almost any odds." , Masterson's greatest commercial success came of the musical. "The audience wanted to see it and Even though all of his audience might not have Po-author and director of "The Best Little Whore- the actors wanted to perform it." seen it," 'Best Little Whorehouse is a positive story i'uuse in Texas" in 1978. The musical, first produced That same success brought inevitable changes about people surviving," Masterson said. "It is Workshop at the renowned Actors Studio, ran off- to Masterson's life. "It was like creating General Mo- about people fighting against evil where good ulti- 'roadway beginning in April 1978 for a total of 68 tors overnight," he laughed. "It's lucrative — ex- mately wins."j °erformances. It had already been named best tremely so. Before, the problem was how to pay 1crY of its season before it transferred to Broadway bills and get by. The considerations shifted to, 'How raid-June of the same year. With it, Masterson do I make sure this continues to work?' Before, I clOtured the Drama Desk Award for best director of didn't know what success really meant. It was fun, rnusical in 1978, and was nominated for twogTony exciting." j— as best director of a musical and for best The show left in its wake enhanced options for 'uok of a musical. Masterson — not only freedom from day-to-day fi- Masterson's wife, actress Carlin Glynn(whom nancial struggle, but freedom to more frequently in- raet during a production at Houston's Alley The- vest his creativity where he wanted. "Increasing won a Tony Award in 1978 for her portrayal of responsibilities are also a part of it," he said. "Now, 114 Mona in "Best Little Whorehouse" on Broad- there is a desire for everything else I do to be this vcry. successful. Not only that, but people sometimes tend r "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" resulted to see me as one of the bosses. I'm not comfortable °Irl a massive collaboration project between Wis- there; I'm one of the creators.' .__ SALLYPORT—FEBRUARY -MARCH 1985 13 Telescopic visions: Measuring the Universe

by Steve Brynes

The story goes that Albert Einstein and Charles Ket- he presented a nine-power glass to the Venetian to represent the distances between planetary orbits tering, inventor of the automotive self-starter, did Senate, and the seafaring Venetians immediately — and only six planets(ending with Saturn) were not hit it off when introduced. "Oh, yes," said Ein- saw the advantage of spotting an enemy at sea be- known at the time. A diagram is shown below. stein flippantly, "the auto mechanic." fore the enemy saw them. "Galileo's spyglass made A recent biography of Kettering notes that the a tremendous impression," Van Helden noted. "His inventor's pride was greatly wounded, spurring him salary as a lecturer in mathematics was doubled, to spend his last years in hopes of making a basic and he received tenure." discovery in theoretical physics that would rival By year's end, Van Helden said, "Galileo had (a) Einstein's. Ironically, both worked on the same turned the feeble gadget into a powerful scientific problem — the unification of gravitation, electro- instrument, and he was observing the moon and magnetism and other basic forces — and both stars with a 20-powered telescope. In January 1610 failed. he discovered four moons circling Jupiter. This As the story indicates, science and technology epoch-making and entirely unexpected discovery are usually assigned to separate, noncommunicat- became the centerpiece of...the first publication in ing compartments. Traditional histories of science the new field of telescopic astronomy." Later came make only scant reference to the technological ad- Galileo's discoveries of sunspots and the phases of vances that underlie basic discoveries. Venus. This pattern is broken in historian Albert Van As a technician, Galileo was far ahead of his HeIden's Measuring the Universe, a history of astro- contemporaries. Handicapped by faulty lenses, one nomical theory from 4th century B.C. Greece to 17th early astronomer complained that Jupiter and Mars (b) century England. Much of the emphasis is placed appeared square and another that Jupiter was on measurement of size and distance, and the effect "...completely on fire, so that it appeared separated Kepler's application of the five regular solids. Dia' of the telescope in determining the new picture of into three or four fiery balls." gram (a) shows the solids themselves. From left to ico• the universe. This sophistication led Galileo to argue that the right they are: cube, tetrahedron, dodecahedron, the one Ke' Van Helden is a professor of history at Rice. traditional (derived from Ptolemy)sizes of the plan- sahedron and octahedron. Their order is to account for the sizes of the seventeenth century saw the birth of ets and the fixed stars were far too large. However, pler developed "If the planetary spheres. Diagram (b) shows the solids it' new system of cosmic dimen- modern science, then surely the telescope is the he did not produce a Saturn's sphere is circumscribed be- this application. prototype of modern instruments," Van Helden sions, Van Helden said. That evolved gradually, about the cube, and Jupiter's sphere is Inscribed in it. writes. "Without this instrument, which was the first ginning with Johannes Kepler. The tetrahedron is inscribed in Jupiter's sphere, and extension of one of the human senses, there would "Modern scientific investigation is based on di- so on. have been no mountains on the moon, no phases of alogs among scientists and between scientists and Venus, no satellites around Jupiter and Saturn, no their instruments, and when viewed in this light Ke- "Odd as it may seem, Kepler achieved a fit for estimates of the speed of light and no substantial pler's original inspiration does seem rather bizarre," two of the five distances, between Mars and Jupiter - improvement on the accuracy of Tycho Brahe's Van Heiden said. "He was a Neoplatonist, i.e. con- and Venus and the Earth," Van Helden said. "Whe5 measuring instruments." vinced that simple mathematical regularities under- the figures were juggled around a little, taking The first person to apply for a patent on the tele- lay all of nature, and devised a theory of Earth's moon into account, the distance from Earth scope was Hans Lipperhey in 1608. The patent was interplanetary distances on the basis of what to Mars was also acceptable. not granted because the authorities decided the in- seemed 'right' to him." "In any case, he felt encouraged enough to could not be kept a secret; it is known that Kepler took the five regular solids — i.e. the publish his results in 1597. This led to a position on vention test Lipperhey was well paid in making telescopes for face of each separate solid identical and only equi- Tycho Brahe's staff, where he could continue to the Dutch government. lateral figures used for faces — and attempted to his mathematical and physical ideas against the Galileo heard about the invention sometime in show that the planets followed perfect circles cir- most accurate observations then available." the summer of 1609, quickly figured out how it cumscribed around or within these solids. The five Kepler learned of the telescope in 1610. As worked, and made himself a spyglass. That August, distances from one circle to the next were supposed shown in the illustration, he modified Galileo's de- sign by placing a convex eyepiece in back of the fo- cus, greatly enlarging the field of view but inverting the image. Although it is possible to reinvert with c15. erector lens, to this day astronomers publish photo- graphs "upside down." Galileo's 30-power telescope had such a small field of view that at a distance of 100 yards an area only as small as the license plate of an automobile could be seen," Van Helden said. "In addition to an enlarged field, the Keplerian or cf5' tronomical telescope was later — beginning around 1640— fitted with devices so that the posl" tions of stars and planets could be determined with great accuracy. "Kepler's scheme of five regular solids deter' mining astronomical distances was wrong, of course, but it did focus attention on the sizes and distances of planets and stars from the Earth," Van Helden said. "Slowly, during the next 130 years after his death, a new vision came into be- ing — roughly congruent with the cosmic dimerr sions accepted today. My book ends with Edmond Halley's method for observing the pas- sage of Venus across the disk of the sun, demorr strated in 1761 and 1769. This accurately measured the distance between the Earth and the sun. Once this was known, the other dis- Galilean and Keplerian telescopes tances fell into place."j

14 SALLYPORT—FEBRUARY -MARCH 1985 Rice track star still winning Former Rice track star Marty Froelick '80 1977 and again in 1981) at Rice. He gradu- captured a major marathon win at the 13th ated with a managerial studies/economics Annual Houston-Tenneco Marathon on degree and went on to receive his MBPM Jan. 6. from the Jones School. The native Houstonian overcame Ken- Last September, Froelick said he quit yan Sam Ngatia in the last 700 yards to fin- his job as a financial analyst in Houston ish the race in 2:11:13 — just two seconds and moved with his wife, Diane, to Colo- off Benji Durden's 1982 Houston course re- rado Springs, where he was able to train cord. full-time in the high altitude of the Rocky It was a sweet victory for Froelick, Mountains. who called it "the most exciting thing I've Though Froelick qualified for the 1984 ever done in my life." Although it was the Olympic trials, he was unable to attend 26-year-old's fifth marathon, it was his first due to a foot injury. major win, and he took home a $20,000 Currently Froelick said he is looking prize for his trouble. for a part-time job in Colorado Springs that Froelick, who now lives in Colorado will allow him to continue concentrating Springs, Colo., said being back in Houston on his training. Although he plans to run gave him a boost. "It was really helpful to some shorter races before then, another be in Houston and have friends there to marathon is not planned until fall. -I cheer me on," he said. "I even ran into a wouldn't want to do more than two mara- couple of my old track buddies from Rice. thons a year,- he said. -But I do feel I have Froelick was a two-time Southwest a few more in me." la Conference distance champion (once in — by Scheleen Johnson '87 Brown gets vote of confidence The final record was 1-10, same as Ray Al- Houston out of the Cotton Bowl before fall- born's first and last seasons as Rice football ing, 38-26. The 213 points scored by Rice coach, but the optimism surrounding Wat- during the season was its highest number son Brown's coaching performance in 1984 since 1976 when Owl quarterback Tommy is perhaps best summed up by the Jan. 7 Kramer was a senior and consensus All- official announcement promoting Brown to American. athletic director as well. Nor have Brown and his assistants Though his promotion was tied to a limited their efforts to coaching existing tal- similar one for predecessor Augie Erfurth ent. Unlike a year ago when a new coach- Senior guard Tracy Steele has been a major force for the Owls this season. (from athletic director to executive athletic ing staff struggled to learn who to recruit in director), Brown's selection as day-to-day the competitive Texas football world, this head of all Rice varsity sports, holder of February Rice leads the Southwest Con- Dia• Injury adds to cager woes the department's purse strings and presid- ference in pledges received from standout ft tO ing officer of the Owl Club amount to a athletes prior to the actual NCAA- , ice' Rice's hopes for a winning basketball sea- have been seeing a lot of action and re- major vote of confidence from the univer- sanctioned signing date of Feb. 13. e Ke• son may have suffered a year's delay on sponding well under pressure. Tracy sity. Erfurth, who graduated from Rice in ' the Dec. 3 in Ruston, La., when nationally Steele, the only senior besides Barnett, Brown's first football team seemed to 1949, is in his 25th year as a member of ds le ranked Louisiana Tech center Karl Malone and junior Ivan Pettit have been excep- get better as the season progressed. Na- Rice's athletic department, having served ribed removed Owl center Dave Ramer from tional at bringing the ball down the court tionally ranked SMU captured the Owl as athletic director since 1978. As execu- in ie. Coach Tommy Suitts' 1984-85 plans with a from their guard position and, together Homecoming game, 31-17; Baylor de- tive athletic director he will have responsi- . and viciously thrown elbow. with sophomore Hines, lead the team in feated Rice, 46-40, a week later in the sea- bilities in the areas of Rice's relationships The six-nine, 230-pound Ramer, Rice's outside scoring. son's home finale against Baylor; and on with the Southwest Conference and Na- only legitimate center in several years, The major goal of Coach Suitts at this Dec. 1 in the Astrodome, the Owls came tional Collegiate Athletic Association, and for had so frustrated the similarly built Malone time is to finish out of the conference cellar ever so close to knocking the University of the department's business operations. dter M the first half of their competition that the in order to qualify for the newly structured Theri Tech All-American candidate threw an el- SWC Post-Season Classic in Dallas, Mar. bow that crushed the right side of his oppo- 8-10. Highlight of last season for the Owls Starters back for'85 season nent's [rth face. Ramer has successfully was going to the Classic for the first time One would expect any college baseball road games with college world series par- undergone surgery, but he's lost for the and reaching the semifinals before losing program that lost its three starting pitchers ticipant Miami and a three-game homes- season. a nip-and-tuck game to heavily favored and its top two offensive players from the tand with Temple, which also made the on Meanwhile, the Owls' returning big Houston, 53-50. previous season in the professional draft to NCAA regionals.[ .,1 Men, test senior Tony Barnett and junior Ter- be in for a major rebuilding year. rence Cashaw, have done a remarkable .e Rice coach David Hall, who finds him- lob — at least through Rice's exciting upset SEASON AT A GLANCE self in just such a position after leading the win over Notre Dame. Between them Owls to a 41-14 record and a second place Whitmore ,theY've led the team in scoring and re- Rice 93, Austin College 56 finish in the Southwest Conference with a ie- roounding in all winning performances Rice 66, Seton Hall 69 13-8 league mark, is getting no sympathy testimonial e fo' and most of the losses as well. Only sopho- Rice 62, Holy Cross 60 from the other head coaches, however. rtirig More guard Greg Hines has come close to Rice 63, Louisiana Tech 75 The reason or the hard-heartedness Feb. 14 th c11:14 niatching their scoring and rebounding. Rice 58, Tulane 55 among his peers is the 36-year-old Hall's In Southwest Conference play, [oto- how- Rice 65, UT-San Antonio 80 welcoming back of seven of the nine eve- ever, it has evident been that the Owls Rice 63, Ark.-Monticello 39 ryday starters from last year's club, which esPerately need what they thought they 62, set a new school record for victories. nad Rice Lamar 55 found in Ramer — the big man to neu- Rice 64, SE Louisiana 61 Catcher Mike Fox heads a quartet of [rd5 tralize the likes of SMU's Jon Koncak, Rice 57, SMU 66 returning Owls that hit .300 or better last Arkansas' Joe Kleine and Texas' John Rice 63, TCU 62 seaspn. Others are Carl Mikeska, who split R'rownlee and Mike Wacker. Successive Notre )1- cis" Rice 73, Dame 70 time between first base and shortstop, losses to Texas, Texas Tech, Houston, Rice 53, Texas 65 third baseman Kent Koppa, and infielder Arkansas and Baylor left the Owls at 8-9 Rice 54, Texas Tech 78 Bryan Foxx. Senior outfielders Bobby Eg- 13° overall and 1-6 in the conference. Rice 73, Houston 77 gleston, James Thompson and Curtis Fox It will be difficult to play .500 ball the Rice 56, Arkansas 67 are the other returning starters. rest of the season, though not at all impos- Rice 56, Baylor 65 The loss of pitchers Norm CharlIon, ?ter' lble. Three freshman players — Michael Tim Englund, David Hinrichs and Dave [f 'rvirig, Carl Daniels, and Jeff Crawford— Pavlas to Montreal, Toronto, San Fran- Jrici cisco and the Chicago Cubs, respe6tively, won't be easy to overcome; however, all- 0 Women cagers look to SWC SWC reliever Derek Hoelscher and sopho- be- more southpaw Steve Blackshear are still Rine's women cagers are looking forward in order to host one of these games. The around. They'll be joined by junior college to their remaining 11 games in Southwest bottom three SWC teams are eliminated, transfers Russell Wright of Blinn Junior Col- Bill Whitmore, Rice sports publicist from Conference competition following disas- and only the first two teams — expected to lege and Ed Holub of San Jacinto Junior 1950 to 1984, is being honored at a Cohen ls- ,trous results outside the league through be nationally ranked Texas and Texas Tech College along with freshman Todd Ogdon House (faculty club)testimonial dinner on or" ,,KTO. 20. With a 2-7 nonleague mark and a — are assured of making the semifinals in and returnees Tim Dehne, Shawn Mikesha Friday, Feb. 14. Scheduled to attend are 4-31 SWC record, the Owls hope to finish at Dallas on Mar. 4-5. Edith Adams and Holly and Paul Moomaw. many former Rice athletes, members of the .d tteast in sixth place in order to qualify for Jones have been leading Coach Linda Rice, which opens its 54-game sched- media, family and friends. For information he conference tournament preliminary Tucker's Rice team in most areas. ule with a Feb. 9 doubleheader with visit- on the dinner, please contact Augie Er- garries and ideally in third or fourth place ing McNeese State, has added a pair of furth at 527-9802. I:11

SALLYPORT—FEBRUARY -MARCH 1985 15 accepted were University of Texas 61, Tu- length films for a major studio, responsible lane 25, Texas A&M 23, Washington Uni- for movies such as "Flavio" and "Shaft." versity 22, Duke 17, Trinity 15, Cornell 14, Parks' writings include two autobio- Georgia Tech 14, Johns Hopkins 13, Van- graphical novels, The Learning Tree (1963) derbilt 13, M.I.T. 12, University of Chicago and Born Black (1971). His awards include Meum 11, University of Houston 11, Emory 10, a television "Emmy" and the Photographer University of Michigan 10, University of of the Year award for 1960. Pennsylvania 10, R.P.I. 10 and Stanford 10. In addition to the above, from one to SOCIAL SCIENCES nine Rice students were also accepted at CAMPUS 161 other schools. Speaking in tongues Rice fourth in merit scholars You had to be a Belgian to hear Rice Uni- Rice University's 169 National Merit versity economist Gaston Rimlinger de- Scholars in this year's freshman class is the liver his lecture "Private vs. Public Social fourth highest total in the nation behind Policy: American Experience Since World Harvard, the University of'Texas and Yale. War II" in its original English. Trailing the top four, in order, are Prin- Bilingual Belgium is still in the grips of Via ceton, Texas A&M, Stanford, M.I.T., Michi- a national linguistic dispute which, at C.H gan State and Trinity of San Antonio. The times, troubles relations between the eng, only other schools with at least 100 Na- Flemish and French speaking segments of pre, tional Merit Scholars among their 1984-85 the population. Rimlinger, fluent in French logic freshmen are the University of Chicago but without working knowledge of Flem- 110v. and Carleton College. ish, didn't want to take sides in the linguis- Once again, Rice's ratio of merit tic battle by speaking French, so he spoke scholars to freshman enrollment — 169 of in English to audiences in Brussels and 574 or 29.2 percent — is tops among the Antwerp. nation's colleges and universities. Also of Rimlinger's recent speaking tour, interest is the fact that the four Texas sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency

schools in the "top 10" have one-eighth of (USIA), also took him to France and Ger- Gordon Gordon

D. D. the nation's new National Merit Scholars — many, where he addressed audiences in 725 of 5,858, according to information in French and German. Joe Joe Corp. an- his by by the National Merit Scholarship Rimlinger's German tour included nual report. lecturing in German at the Foreign Service

Photo Photo Academy of East Germany in East Berlin. Inman gives President's Lecture On the other side of the Wall, Rimlinger It was no blizzard, but the Rice campus did share the light dusting of snow that Admiral Bobby R. Inman, former deputy spoke at the Amerika Haus in West Berlin. Houston in early January. Despite the limited amount of white stuff, a few covered director of the Central Intelligence Agency The German tour also included the cities of well-packed snowballs were occasionally seen flying through the air at unsuspect- and now president and chief executive of- Bremen, Duesseldorf, Heidelberg and Mu- Pea ing targets. ficer of Microelectronics and Computer nich. In France — and speaking in French J. Bol Technology Corp. of Austin, was the Jan. — Rimlinger addressed audiences at the goes r,sor i Hail to the MOB Rice debate team national 31 speaker in the President's Lecture Series universities of Bordeaux, Marseille and Or Kenneth W. Dye, director of Rice Univer- It's called the George R. Brown Forensic at Rice. Inman discussed the management Aix-en-Provence. sity's famed Marching Owl Band (MOB), Society. But behind the formal designation of technological change in Texas. the A was one of three directors of the 450- stand Rice University's new debate team A Texas native, Inman entered the hseri member All-American College Marching and its coach, Michael L. Fain. U.S. Navy in 1952 and was a full admiral NATURAL SCIENCES , 1 Band that performed at major events of Rice University President Norman by 1981. He has served as the director of qie u January's Presidential Inauguration in Hackerman authorized establishment of the Naval Intelligence Department, vice- 'teen tives Washington, D.C. Five members of the the society last year. director of the Defense Intelligence Keck awards second grant MOB also performed with the nationwide "Fielding the team and hiring its Agency and head of the entire National California's W.M. Keck Foundation has 'gracii band under Dye's baton. coach were made possible through gifts in Security Agency. awarded Rice University $1,290,000 in sup- ,ctrict c Dye and the MOB are no strangers to memory of George R. Brown," said Allen J. port of geophysics programs in its geology national musical honors. This summer, the Matusow, Rice's Dean of Humanities, who department. A year ago, the Keck Founda- F theM Rice band director and three of his student helped the society recruit Fain. Brown, a tion made a $1.5 million grant to Rice for musicians participated in major musical rice alumnus and one of the nation's most the initial phases of this project. Ph.D. events of the Olympics in Los Angeles. outstanding engineers, was a major sup- This newest Keck award will be used The five students who partook in the porter of his alma mater. He died in 1983. to set up a $750,000 fellowship endowment Inaugural pageantry were: Bill Reese, While recognizing that the team is still fund to provide graduate student fellow- • Houston, trumpet; Derek Mauzy, Victoria, in its infancy as a competitive factor re- ships in geology and geophysics and a Marcia Brown, Denver, Colo., gionally and nationally, Matusow feels it is $540,000 equipment purchase fund to sup- TASSC trombone; losep French horn; Vince Fox, Deer Park, tuba; worth noting that in their first two tourna- port geophysics programs. and Ken Richardson, Shavertown, Penn., ments the Rice debaters finished fourth The earlier Keck funds went to estab- tiht CI( saxophone. and fifth respectively in contests with some lish the W.M. Keck Foundation Professor- CIrld s Dye and the five Rice band members 30 other universities. ship in Geophysics ($750,000) and to CIZSistl for th( performed Jan. 19 in the musical Salute to As for Fain, he hopes "to have five purchase equipment and otherwise sup- the Vice President. The next day, they Rice students qualify for the 1985 Ameri- Samuel M. Carrington port geophysics at Rice ($750,000). 8 can Forensic Association National Individ- tor of, played in two major events — the National The W.M. Keck Foundation was estab' r•to Pageant for Young Americans and the 50th ual Events Tournament to be held in Carrington reappointed lished by W.M. Keck in 1954 for general ei Presidential Inaugural Ball. On Jan. 21, Baltimore in April. Given the talent and Samuel Carrington has been reappointed charitable purposes. Among its major in- 1974 f; determination our team has demonstrated University Librarian for a five-year term, 4erve( Dye and the five MOBsters moved their terest areas are strengthening educational 1973.1 scheduled Inaugural Parade appearance so far, I consider this goal to be fairly effective July 1. and research programs in institutions of indoors because of a severe winter storm. conservative." A scholar in French literature of the higher learning in the areas of science, en- ,clacc)i A 1982 magna cum laude graduate in Middle Ages and Renaissance, Carrington gineering and medical research. The foun- '`e dii business administration of the University of came to Rice in 1967 as an assistant profes- dation is located in Los Angeles. cc,uris Houston, Fain was named UH's Most Ous- sor of French following teaching assign- tanding Speaker in 1979, 1981 and 1982, in ments at his alma mater (University of %or addition to numerous regional and na- North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and the Uni- 1'1%4 ,q1 tional honors. In 1983, Fain won the John versity of Colorado. He became an associ- Black First Year Moot Court Competition, ate professor at Rice in 1971 and a full and was selected "Mr. UH" for the 1983-84 professor in 1979. academic year. Frrty Parks visits campus I,trl 194; Students make the Rice choice Noted author, director and photographer S• A Applications to Rice are running slightly Gordon Parks visited the Rice campus in tc ahead of last year, and information from December, delivering the Brown-Rayzor the Admissions Office reveals that of last Lecture, "Motivation in Art," on Dec. 11 at tkfriy,u fall's incoming Rice freshmen, the highest Hamman Hall and attending a showing of percentage were also accepted at other his new film, "Leadbelly," at the Rice Me- top universities as well. dia Center on Dec. 12. Robert M. Thrall Ittetroi Based on 258 responses(approxi- Parks began his career as a photogra- after being mately half) to a questionnaire submitted pher in the late 1930s forced by Thrall heads NSF program ctifiau: high school. rti to this year's freshmen, 161 had been ac- poverty to drop out of His pho- Robert M. Thrall, Noah Harding Professor, c cepted at other "blue chip" schools, 20 ap- tographs of Chicago's South Side ghetto of Mathematical ScieRces and Professor 01 th MOB members who joined band direc- plied only to Rice and 77 were accepted at won a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1941, the Administrative Science, has been ap- FttY's tor Kenneth W. Dye at the inauguration schools generally acknowledged to be less first ever granted in photography. He pointed director of the Decision and Man- Yetztrs were (I-r, front row)Ken Richardson, prestigious than Rice. served as a staff photographer for Life and agement Science Program of the Nation01 1950-52, Dye, Marcia Brown;(back row)Bill Included among the other schools to Time magazines from then be- Science Foundation in Washington, D.C. Ri Reese, Derek Mauzy, Vince Fox. which Rice freshmen said they had been came the first Afro-American to direct full- for a 13-month term that began Jan. 1.

16 SALLYPORT—FEBRUARY -MARCH 1985 NGINEERING and as executive assistant to the president Berne Conservatory. Luca was brought to partment of English at the U.S. Military Q of Brazil's largest consulting engineering the United States in 1961 at the urging of Academy. and architectural firm in Sao Paulo. famed violinist Isaac Stern, and has en- Through teaching two advanced elec- joyed great concert success both here and tives, two faculty seminars and the core Career series started abroad ever since. He is also artistic direc- curriculum philosophy course, the citation or To help accounting and management stu- tor of the Houston-based Texas Chamber credited Kolenda with "making substan- dents develop clear, accurate ideas of the Orchestra. tive contributions to the intellectual growth career options open to them, the Jones of cadets and played a major role in the Graduate School placement office and continuing professional development of alumni association have begun a series of philosophy instructors." informal meetings at which students can HUMANITIES discuss a particular field with an alumnus working in that field. Austin is keynote speaker The series began Jan. 22 with a pro- Joe Dan Austin, associate professor of edu- ARCHITECTURE gram on consulting. Organizers, including cation and mathematical sciences, was placement director Emily Canales and the keynote speaker at the Kentucky Math- Archi-Arts Ball scheduled C.H. Ward alumna Jer Mardis, have pointedly sought ematics Teachers' Fall Meeting on Oct. 13 On Feb. 9, the Emerald City will come to of Ward elected to post to avoid formal presentations or speeches. in Lexington, Ky. The title of his talk was Houston when the Archi-Arts Ball, the an- 01--1. Ward of environmental science and Instead, students are encouraged to attend "An Overview of Homework in American nual fundraising event for the student engineering officially began his year as the sessions (informally attired), have a Education." council of the Rice School of Architecture, Of president of the American Institute of Bio- glass of wine, and talk freely with an is held in the Cullen Center. ch logical Sciences. A reception was held on alumnus about his or her work experience. An annual tradition originating in the 11)v. 18 in Washington, D.C. First-year students have been especially late 1920s, the ball has throughout the is- encouraged to attend because the series years held a noted position in Houston so- :e was designed to help in narrowing career ciety. Full page write-ups and photo- choices. graphs in the local riewspapers were not uncommon, until the ball was discontin- May fills Autrey post ued during the 1960s and 1970s. cy William V. May, director of the Program in According to Architecture Student Business Ethics at the University of South- Council President Scott Harmon, the stu- ern California and an associate professor dents have worked hard to rebuild the city- of social ethics there, is the Lynette S. Au- wide status of the ball. Last year, he said, iis trey Visiting Professor of Business Ethics in more than 750 people attended and, for 'ice the Jones School for the spring semester. the first time in almost 20 years, a substan- 1. The author of several articles focusing on Clyde L. Manschreck tial amount of money was raised for the corporate ethics, his current research in- Christian history published school. terests include the issue of the right This year's location is downtown in the n. to a Clyde L. Manschreck of religious studies is job, corporate culture and ethics, two-level lobby of the 1600 Smith Building s of James Boyd Pearson how to the author of A History of Christianity in resolve ethical issues, and the assessment in Cullen Center. The space is being do- 4u- the World, published by Prentice-Hall. Pearson honored by academy of legal and moral responsibility in asbes- nated by Cullen Center, Inc. The theme, Lch I, This is the second edition of the 357- 8oyd Pearson, J.S. Abercrombie Profes- tos cases. May received degrees from Co- "The Emerald City," is "obviously based page work that has enjoyed worldwide sor in the Department of Electrical and lumbia and Drew universities. on, but certainly not limited to," the "Wiz- readership since its original publication in ecTriputer Engineering, was inducted into ard of Oz," Harmon said, adding that crea- 1974. Sweeping social and religious the Arkansas Academy of Electrical Engi- tive and outrageous costumes changes have prompted have rt ering on Oct. 26 in Fayetteville, Ark. Manschreck to re- always been a trademark of the ball. SHEPHERD SCHOOL assess and revise the material The organization was established by he pre- "The ball is unique in that it is at- sented in the work's first edition. He the University of Arkansas electrical engi- has tended by a diverse cross section of Hous- 11 added completely new segments on r1?•enng department with several objec- the ton society, including students, alumni, women's movement, the growing impor- tl'es in mind, one of which is "to recognize professionals and local artisans," Harmon tance of blacks in western society graduates of the department for sustained and the said. Ct religious ferment swirling around Funda- ;up- ri,A outstanding contributions to the elec- More information on the ball is in- tr mentalism, Liberalism and post-Vatican II >gY 'cal engineering profession." cluded in this issue's developments in Roman Owlmanac. Pearson received the BSEE in 1958 and Catholicism. "In this new edition I've >r 'e MSEE in 1959 from Arkansas and his emphasized the dangers of hi). in 1962 from Purdue University. claiming sovereignty for the ad church, state or individual and what this means to Christian living," Manschreck Lent Distinguished Alumni Sought T- ONES SCHOOL said. "I've tried to show that when either church or state dominate society, then in- Once again, the Association of Rice Alumni is soliciting nominations for Rice's up- Assistant deans named justice, immorality and oppression can Larry J. Livingston occur." annual Distinguished Alumni Awards, N)sePh R. Bucchen has been named assist- Manschreck is an ordained given each commencement. The honors ib- tit dean of admissions and student affairs Filling the 'musical chairs' Methodist minister and one of the nation's are given to living alumni in recognition of or- 1-4 Salvatore E. Manzo has been named Shepherd School of Music Dean Larry top author- ities on the Reformation. In lifetime achievement. More than one szistant dean for executive development Livingston and music professor Sergiu addition to the history, he has written nine name may be submitted. To make a nomi- 'r the Jones Graduate School. Luca have both been awarded endowed other books and numerous articles. nation, please return the form below to the Buccheri joined Rice in 1979 as direc- chairs by the university. Association of >tab- Rice Alumni, P.O. Box 1892, t of admissions and student affairs. He Livingston has been appointed to the Fifty years of Southern history Houston, Texas 77251. i,;ceived a B.S. in an Schneider Chair in Music, 1969 and M.B.A. in Elma estab- The Journal of Southern History, which in in- '74 from College, 1984 in memory of Lynette I would like to nominate: si Loyola where he lished in S. Au- 1984 hit the ripe old age of 50, is entering Dna' 1-4.rved) in the admissions office from 1969 trey's sister, "in recognition of his to its second half-century not only being pro- )f During his two in the Loy- accomplishments as an instructor" at last years Rice. duced on the Rice campus but with a , efl c admissions department, he addition to riis was associ- Luca, who in teaching du- strong alumni connection as well. %-iirector of admissions. Buccheri is a renowned concert violinist, was ties has Founded in 1935, the Journal came to Class of as a Rice University o the director of and been awarded the Dorothy Richard student records Star- Rice in 1959 under its first Rice editor, Wil- Distinguished Alumnus/a. His/her accom- c°Uriseling and to Chair in Classical Violin, assistant the dean of ling established liam Masterson '35. The staff has also in- plishments include the following: n6orgetown University's School of Busi- 1975 to support the performance in and in- cluded S.W. Higginbotham '34 as a t‘s Administration classical violin music. from 1976 to 1979. terest in previous managing editor, current man- Manzo response to the honor, joined Rice in 1979 as director In Livingston aging editor John Boles '65 and associate ,executive development. "I am touched and honored He received a said, by this editor Evelyn Thomas Nolen '62. in 1939 gesture which I receive not only with from the U.S. Military Acad- per- The journal is the official publication 1T9Y and sonal enthusiasm, but read as attended the Naval War College symbolic of of the Southern Historical Association, j 1947 and 1955. Having served in the university's statement of the commenda- based at the University of Georgia in Ath- Air Force tion for the entire school of music." for 23 years, Manzo left in Living- ens. The quarterly publishes four or five 2 to serve as vice-president an inter- ston came to Rice in January of 1982 of as essays in each issue on all periods and )Qczttorial construction engineering corn dean of the Shepherd School and profes- - topics related to Southern history. The Y, sor of conducting. He had previously and executive director of an airline journal's circulation of more than 4,500 (it ICIanization concerned and taught at the University of California with the use at is distributed to all association members) \ eloPment of the New York-New Jersey San Diego, Northern Illinois University and includes subscriptions in all 50 states and etropu—litan region San Diego State University, among airports. others. several foreign countries. 41,He was director of aviation for the City Luca was already a formidable name .:1 Iou5ton, responsible for the develop- in the world of classical.music when he ac- Kolenda receives Army honor Nominated by: of Houston Intercontinental Airport cepted a position as professor of violin at Konstantin Kolenda '50, McManis Professor the financing and operation of the Shepherd School in August of 1983. Born in of Philosophy at Rice, recently received an clirport system. Immediately prior to Rumania, Luca studied in Israel where he Outstanding Civilian Service Medal from Class of. itig the Jones School, Manzo spent five debuted with the Haifa Symphony at the the U.S. Department of the Army. From Address. ;1 4's as a consultant in developing the age of 9. He studied in England and Switz- August 1983 to June 1984, Kolenda was a II° Rio de Janiero International Airport erland, where he was enrolled at the visiting professor of philosophy in the De-

SALLYPORT—FEBRUARY -MARCH 1985 17 THE BROWN CHALLENGE 1984 BROWN AMOUNT 474 CATEGORY GOAL RAISED 4.1100.04 Alumni $690,000 $1,697,179 RiceA of Board Governors 750,000 2,624,153 Corporations 960,000 2,572,578 Non-Alumni Brown Challenge enters 10th year: Friends 200,000 1,275,021 the 1984 report Totals $2,600,000 $8,168,931

year 1984, Rice alumni, board 1976, 6,074 alumni participated while in Hackerman attributed the success of In calendar ALUMNI INCENTIVES corporations and friends of the 1984, some 8,200 alumni gave to the an- the Challenge thus far to both George R. members, 1. Five most recent classes-1979, 1980, fund, an increase of 35 percent. Total Brown's foresight in the way the program university contributed $8,168,931 for cur- nual 1981, 1982, 1983-needed to raise number of donors has gone from just over was set up and to the increasing aware- rent operations, more than three times the $50,000 to qualify for a $200,000 match. in 1965 to 10,267 in 1984, the third con- ness of the importance such support plays challenge goals set by the Brown Founda- 7,000 These five classes raised $64,837. Highest secutive year the total number of donors in Rice's continued success. "There is a tion. As a result, Rice will qualify for a previous raised was $62,997. matching grant of $2.5 million for the uni- has surpassed 10,000. growing perception of the difficulty of versity's permanent endowment. In the Rice President Norman Hackerman maintaining an institution, in carrying out 2. Direct Awards first eight years of the Challenge, $20.9 said he is delighted that the Challenge has its functions and objectives," he said, cit- Classes with 50 percent participation*- million has been added to the endowment, elicited such strong support. "It has done ing as an example the response to recent twenty-eight classes qualified 1917, 1918, matching funds for the $45.8 million raised what Mr. Brown intended it to do, and be- dramatic decreases in support for public 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1925, 1926, 1927, for the general fund. cause of his wisdom and foresight the uni- universities. 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, The Challenge has provided an un- versity is so much better off that it is "In this institution, which really runs 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, precedented incentive which has resulted difficult to even put it into words," Hacker- close to its budget, we have demonstrated 1942, 1943, 1945, 1951, 1953. in a remarkable growth in Rice's annual man said. "We look forward to another 10 that we can use our funds effectively," Direct $5,000 award for each class with 50 put giving. Total gifts have gone from $1.8 mil- years or so of the Challenge." Hackerman said. "People are willing to percent participation. lion in 1976 to $8.1 million in 1984. The The Brown Foundation Challenge, money into it because they know their was twenty- number of donors has also dramatically which began in 1976, will run through money will be used purposefully and Highest previous participation increased during this nine-year period. In 1996. usefully."j seven classes. *Participation percentages include alumni board members. BROWN CHALLENGE COMPARATIVE REPORT, 1976 TO 1984 RICE GIFTS PLUS BROWN BOARD OF NON-ALUMNI TOTAL BROWN MATCHING MATCHING 10TH, 25TH AND 50TH REUNION CORPORATIONS FRIENDS RAISED* GRANT PAID GRANT PAID ALUMNI GOVERNORS CLASSES 1976 $ 659,184 $ 169,303 $ 654,260 $ 33 1,576 $ 1,814,323 $ 1,503,226 $ 3,317,549 1977 758,901 353,107 941,054 256,311 2,309,373 1,778,757 4,088, 1 30 1934 $44,857 69.3% 1978 914,697 625,810 1 ,221 ,350 391,677 3,153,534 2,233,862 5,387,396 1959 44,857 37.3% 1979 991,334 1,254,332 1,359,900 421,504 4,027,070 2,496,369 6,523,439 1974 16,126 27.2% 1980 1,280,833 1,721,453 1,538,645 696,688 5,237,619 3,483,810 8,721,429 1981 1,392,247 2,951,775 2,854,157 710,519 7,908,698 3,492,175 11,400,873 Direct award of $50,000 per class for com- 1982 1,588,825 1 ,1 59,472 2,592,747 799,444 6,1 40,487 3,410,1 22 9,550,609 bined effort of 10th, 25th, and 50th reunion 1983 1 ,561 ,892 2,102,313 2,405,839 1,026,861 7,096,905 2,547,250 9,644,1 55*** classes. 1984 1,697,1 79 2,624,153 2,572,578 1,275,021 8,168,931 8,168,931 Totals $10,845,092 $12,961,718 $16,140,530 $5,909,601 $45,856,940 $20,945,821 $66,802,511 Direct award of $250 for each alumnus gift *Gifts for current operations only. of $1,000 or more. $1,000 or more **Undetermined at this time. 648 alumni contributed qualifying for this bonus award. ***Reflects 1984 Rice gifts only; matching grant undetermined at this time. Giving clubs enroll new donors The Founder's Club and President's Club were established in the fall of 1970 as a means of bringing together alumni, parents and friends who give substantial support for Rice's current operations. Membership is on an annual basis (July 1 through June 30)and includes the individual and his or her spouse. Names listed below are first-time members for October, November and the first half of December.1984.

Club Mr. A. Stanley Daniels '54 Dr. Vincent B. Wickwqr '69 Mr. Henry Gittord Hood '79 Ms. Laurie Ann McKinzey '84 Mr. and Mrs. A. Gordon Jones '38 President's '40 Mrs. Genevieve Ingram '20 Mr. Robert F. Bunce '55 Mr. Duane Windsor '69 Miss Therese M. Klingler '79 Mr. Peter D. Quinn '84 Mr. and Mrs. Carl E. Letscher Sr. Mr. Tillman Malone Rylander '26 Mr. Benjamin R. Waller Jr. '56 Mrs. James Anthony Beirne '70 Mr. Ronald Eugene Marusak '79 Mr. Walid S. Shoaibi '84 Dwight and Beverly Hilbom '41 '47 Daugherty '27 Ms. Rita Miller Fason '57 Mr. David Norman Kitner '70 Mr. James W. Robertson Jr. '79 Ms. Amy Thayer Thompson '84 Mr. and Mrs. John A. Rowe Jr. Mr. Paul E. Grisham'48 DI Thomas D. Cronin '28 Mrs. Edward Louis '58 Mr. Robert Young Rodgers '70 Mr. Robert Lynn Einkauf '79 Mr. Patrick David Turley '84 Mr. and Mrs. William V. Mrs. Shad E. Graham '28 Mr. James A. Middleton Jr. '58 Dr. George Roy Terrell '70 Mr. Patrick Joseph Sullivan '79 Mr. Thomas James Sullivan Jr. '84 Mr. and Mrs. Eugene L. Clonts '49 Mrs. W.G. Theisinger '29 Mr. Jerry L. Sims '58 Dr. Richard E. White Jr. '70 Ms. Kathleen Willcutts Beique '80 Mr. Leo Atkinson Mr. Vern V. McGrew Jr. '50 Mr. Maxwell S. Wortham '30 Mr. Gene A. Smith '58 Mrs. Daniel K. Hedges '71 Carmellia Boyer '80 Dr. A.W. Bally Judge and Mrs. Finis E. Cowan Mrs. Louis L. Hertenberger '31 Mr. Ramsey L. Cronfel '59 Mr. J. Peter Jordan '71 Mr. Albert Timothy Darby '80 Dr. John W. Brelsford Jr. Jr.'51 Dr. John S. Oliver '31 Dr. David N. Davis '59 Dr. Sidney Vaughn Soggs '71 Mr. George Ravelo Diaz-Arrastia '80 Mr. William Ves Childs Mr. and Mrs. Roger Bonney '53 Mrs. Oscar L. Bocock '34 Mr. William Byron Morgan Jr. '59 Mr. Frank T. Whittinghill III '71 Mrs. Sumiyo Takebayashi Ender '80 Mr. Pierson De Vries Mr. and Mrs. Jack D. Crutchfield '56 Mr. Robert Beaumont Rourke '34 Mr. W.H. Orme-Johnson III '59 Mr. John Hauck Wiegman '71 Dr. Marshal. Ness'80 Dr. F. Barry Dunning Dr. and Mrs. John P. Eberts '57 Mr. Arnold Block Aronson '35 Mr. Julian Russell Ward '59 Mr. Gregory S. Benesh '72 Miss J.C. Puckett '80 Mr. John Howard Gano Dr. and Mrs. William Fulkerson '57 Mrs. Milton Morrison '35 Ms. Franji Bishop 60 Dr. Robert J. Gentry '72 Dale Bickerstaff Walker '80 Mr. Charles A. Haegelin Miss Patricia A. Kirk '59 Mrs. Charles T. Riley '35 Mr. Charles Y. Prescott '61 Mr. James Barthel Gregory '72 Robert Thomas Walker '80 Mr. Douglas R. Hendrickson Mr. Richard Victor Adkins '60 Mrs. Robert Gabro Brandes '36 Mr. Terrance Harold Chamness '62 Dr. Felix Millhouse '72 Ms. Eleni Barzouka-Soto '81 Mrs. Douglas R. Hendrickson David and Glyssie Berberian '60 Lt./Cdr. Nat H. Prade, USN (Ret.)'36 Dr. Paul E. Malone '62 Mr. Eugene Robert Allspach'73 Mr. Laurence Edward Bays '81 Mr. Carl J. Herman Jr. Mr. Hugh W. Rucker '60 Mr. Edwin B. House '37 Mr. Thomas L. Rees '62 Rabbi Daniel Meyer Horwitz'73 Mr. Mark W. Brown '81 Mr. Paul S. Herman Mrs. Janet R. Tydlaska '62 Mr. Thomas E. Pulley '37 Dr. Joseph Neil Barfield '63 Ms. Ann C. Jacobs '73 Mr. William Jay Cober '81 Dr. N. Ross Hill Mr. and Mrs. R.P. Wright Jr. '62164 Mrs. Don B. Parkinson '38 Mr. Paul Joel Burka '63 Mrs. Susan W. Powell '73 Mr. Mark Russell Hall '81 Mr. Kingdon R. Hughes Dr. and Mrs. Paul M. Henrichs '65 Pendleton Mrs. Robert N. Barrett Jr. '39 Mr. Douglas I. Johnstone '63 Dr. William R. Bell Jr. '74 Mr. Gregory Keith Hinkle '81 Mr. Vahe Krzentz Mr. and Mrs. Terry Gene Mrs. Harris G. Johnston '39 Mrs. Allen J. Matusow '63 Mr. Steven Ward Crain '74 Mr. David Charles Holmes '81 Mr. Pierre Matthys '68 Mr. H. Bryce Parker '39 Mr. Dennis Parnell Sullivan '63 Mr. Gordon B. King '74 Mr. Thomas Arthur Koski '81 Dr. Allen J. Matusow Mr. and Mrs. Tom D. Plant '69 Mrs. Wayne Phelps '39 Mrs. Ann S. Bell '64 Dr. Pao-Tsin Koo '74 Mr. Hugh Dennis Morgan '81 Dr. Richard Melville Mr. and Mrs. John Killough '71 Mrs. Charles H. Wilson Jr. '39 Dr. Benny R. Breed '64 Mr. William S. Lee '74 Mr. Charles Franklin Rudolph '81 Dr. William Patrick Moore Mr. David S. Elder/Ms. Melinda L. Mrs. June W. Travis '39 Dr. Robert Cleveland Clarke '64 Mary J. Parrish '74 Ms. Karen Netzband Schnitzer '81 Mr. Roderick Moss Snell '72 Dr. Charles N. Jones '43 Dr. Ronald James Jandacek '64 Mr. Robert Stephen Phillips '74 Mrs. Eleanor Lippincott Seerden '81 Mr. Alan Dean Moyer Dr. and Mrs. James F. Gamer '72/13 Mrs. Joe Chumlea '44 Dr. M. Douglas Jones Jr. '64 Ms. Katherine Dressner Bell '75 Mr. Richard J. Thomson Jr. '81 C.R. O'Dell Dr. Stephen James Sheator/ Dr. Robert F. Lewis '44 Mr. Paul Perry PiperJr. '64 Mrs. Robert S. Phillips '75 Mr. Gary Lee Wagner '81 Dr. Benjamin Powell Ms. Cindy Jo Lindsay '72174 Dr. James R. Whitehurst '45 Dr. William Thomas Strickland '64 Dr. Kenneth L. Stilwell '75 Mr. Frank Williford IV '81 Mr. James H. Spraul Mr. David R. Henkel/ '73/13 Mrs. Robert F. Lewis '46 Mr. Robert G. Anderson Jr. '65 Mr. Joseph M. Eiwuley '76 Ms. Elisabeth Brinkmann '82 Mr. Francis Stephan Mrs. Kathryn Grundy Henkel Mr. Robert B. Manning '46 Mr. Geoffrey Lea Winningham '65 Dr. Robert M. Ghrist '76 Ms. Terilyn Perhamus Cober '82 Mrs. Hubert L. Stone Mr. Richard J. Pfeffer '73 E. Thigpen Mr. John C. Jackson Jr. '47 Mr. Paul W. Brewer '66 Mr. Manuel Javier Murillo '76 Mr. Donald H.Frey '82 Mr. Claud Mr. Harris B. Forbes/Ms. Kay P. Mr. Christian G. Timmins '47 Mrs. Russell Everett Ekblad '66 Patricia Rangel '76 Ms. Marsha McMaster Haltom '82 Mr. James J. Thompson Forbes '73/75 Mr. George N. Hailey Jr. '48 Mrs. Paul Piper Jr. '66 Ms. Joyce Bradsher '77 Mr. James Allen Seerden '82 Ms. Miriam H. Young Ms. Susan Diane Halter '75 Ms. Dorothy V. Dorsett '77 Mrs. Robert B. Manning '48 Mrs. Stephen Swenson '66 Mr. Kenneth A. Cowin '77 Dr. Huey-Ching Betty Yeh '82 Mr. Timothy E. Ebersole '76 R. Glunt '77 Ms. Cynthia L. Eckles '83 David J. '76 Mr. Jack M. Nixon '48 Mr. William Arthur Wheatley '66 Mr. David Founder's Club Mr. Hodgdon Mr. Edwin P. Shaw Jr. '48 Mr. Charles Kimbro Barrow '67 Ms. Kristin R. Lucas '77 Mr. Kyle Allen Frazier '83 Ms. Louise Sparr Smith '77 Mr. Glenn D. Birdwell '19 Mr. Wallace B. Thomas'48 Dr. Mark Stacy Scheid '67 Mrs. Nancy C. Santamaria '77 Ms. Gretchen T. Gaskill '83 Mr. Gregg R. Cannady '77 Mr. William G. Copeland '27 Mr. Jack Frank Bums '49 Mrs. Mark Stacy Sheid '67 Mr. Roger M. Soto '77 Mr. Michael David Boatman '83 Mr. Frank Lester Worley III '80 Mr. and Mrs. Eleuterio De La Mr. John A. Huebner Jr. '49 Mr. Stephen Swenson '67 Mr. Lubomyr Vadym Zyla '77 Mr. Edward Jostes Keller '83 Garza Mr. and Mrs. H.G. Vanderlee Jr. '30 Mrs. John C. Jackson Jr. '49 Dr. Clark Red Gregg '68 Dr. Charles R. Anderegg Jr. '78 Ms. Mary Ng '83 Mr. Marvin B. Myers Mr. Daniel B. Lovejoy '32 Mrs. Jack F. Bums '51 Dr. Joanna Ingersoll Scott '68 Dr. Malcolm Thomas Bonnell '78 Ms. Goldie B. Terrell Mr. and Mrs. Azik Perelberg Mrs. Margaret Mr. Kenneth W. Ferguson '51 Mr. Richard L. Alexander '69 Mrs. Lynne Schubert Hall '78 Ms. Nora Lee Walker '83 Hutchinson Rous- Ms. Olympia Critikou seau '32 Dr. Charles L. Bishop '52 Dr. James Anthony Beirne '69 Mr. Poh Sun Leong '78 Mr. Randolph Loren Wile '83 Ms. Marie Fay Evonchides Mr. and Mrs. William M. Merritt Jr. '52 Dr. Morven Spencer Edwards '69 Mr. Scott D. Senauke '78 Mr. Kevin Malone Clark '84 Mrs. Dick H. Gregg '32./36 Mr. Tolliver L. Austin Jr. Mr. and Mr. John D. Boswell '53 Dr. Judith Fenner Gentry '69 Mr. Marc Andre Beique '79 Ms. Melissa Ann Geiger '84 Mrs. Lewis V. Roos '36 Mr. Michael J. Upchurch Mr. Mr. William A. Chuoke '53 Mr. Scott Russell Kidd '69 Mr. Kurt Harold Goedecke '79 Ms. June Bashford Huber '84 and Mrs. George G. Hughes Jr.'38 Mr. Marlin P. Cruse '53 Dr. Nancy Dietz Safer '69 Ms. Elizabeth Ann Hare '79 Mr. Brian David Loftus '84

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Photo When the search began in 1982 for a living 1982, Mrs. Brown(who died in April of dramatic combinations of geometric man- ously. I guess the idea is to make art that American artist to design a sculpture for 1984) and a committee composed of art made forms and natural shapes. reflects this premise." the engineering quad, Michael Heizer was and architecture faculty members began In an extensive interview with Julia Heizer's work has been shown the in ma- perfect candidate. Known for his work their search for the appropriate artist. Brown, senior curator at the Museum of jor museums and galleries throughout the In three-dimensional forms, Heizer met After Heizer was selected, a feat of Contemporary Art, Heizer related much of United States and Europe. In Houston, he each of the criteria sought — he was al- megalithic proportions began — the proc- his recent work with objects of nature — is represented by the Janie C. Lee Gallery. ready established as one of the outstand- ess of getting three slabs of granite weigh- such as large slabs of granite — with a Formal dedication of Heizer's sculp- ing sculptors of our time, he had the ability ing more than 200 tons from the quarry in search to rediscover the basic, undiluted to ture at Rice was held on the engineering take the special nature of the quadran- Marble Falls to the Rice campus. The power to be found outside the realm of quadrangle Jan. gle on 24. Charles W. Dun- and the overall design of the campus pieces of granite, wider than two highway what is often considered "art." "A piece of chairman of the Rice-Board of Gov- Into conk., account, and his work was known to lanes, finally arrived on December 7, each rock can be a sculpture" he said. "You ernors,'presided over the ceremony, with stimulate and engage its viewers. mounted on a 36-wheel flatbed truck. don't have to make the sculpture; you don't remarks by President Norman Hackerman The result of his work at Rice, dedi- Heizer, who was on campus to super- have to design it. I want the thing to have and representatives of the Houston art cated on Jan. 24, is 45°, 90°, 180°. The three vise the unloading and installation, was power so I find something that has po- community. 70-ton megaliths of pink granite are ar- born in 1944 in California and grew up in wer...The idea of the rocks was that they Following the dedication, visitors ranged in a symmetry of degrees on the the Bay area where his father, a distin- were surrogate objects, replacement ob- gathered for a reception and preview of '31-tad, facing the new engineering build- guished archaeologist, taught at the Uni- jects, replacements for the art object. the School of Architecture's Farish Gallery ing under construction opposite the versity of California at Berkeley. Something in lieu of a consciously created, exhibit, "Michael Heizer: Project for Rice Abercrombie Lab. By his own account, Heizer has been highly surfaced, highly detailed, academi- University," which features models, draw- The sculpture was commissioned by drawing since childhood. And though he cally studied work of fine art. ings, photographs and additional materi- the late Mrs. George Brown and her family still draws and paints, he has been known "We live in a schizophrenic period," als documenting the production and as a tribute to the memory of George primarily as a sculptor since the late 1960s. Heizer said. "We're living in a world that's installation of the Rice work. The exhibit tirow n '20, founder of Brown and Root. In For the most part, Heizer's work is in large, technological and primordial simultane- runs through Feb. 6.1:11

The five-month'campaign for the Audrey Ley Student Center Campaign and Wendel Ley Student Center (the ex- pansion and refurbishment of the existing R.M.C.) has met its most urgent goal—the Bequest Mabee Foundation Challenge, which called for the university to raise $3.5 mil- honor roll lion by Dec. 31 in order to receive the foun- dation'sgrant of $500,000. The following members of the Class of To date, 1,535 donors have pledged or 1929, in their 55th reunion year, have given $4,212,476 (including the Mabee made or are planning to make a gift grant). Alumni contributed $2.7 million, from their estate to Rice University: corporations $288,267, foundations Herbert $755,000, and friends, parents, faculty and Allen staff $451,598. Charles H. Bell Thomas Benbury The total cost of the project will be $4.7 Mrs. A.O. Beyer (Elizabeth million, and any part of that amount which Ann Ennis) James is not raised in gifts will be paid from funds L. Britton Mrs. Thomas (Marguerite functioning as endowment. Daniel Durrett) Mrs. James Darby (Charlotte Gwynne Williams) Board of Governors member David Mrs. William Fitzgerald Farnsworth, who served as director of the (Ruth Grafton Waples) Lawrence campaign, credited its success as being a A. Hamilton real team effort. "I was very encouraged Karl John Karnaky, M.D. Lebbeus Kemp by the support of the alumni, the board, C. Jr. Floyd A. King the faculty and staff and even the stu- dents," he said. "And when you consider Rose E. Matthaei Mrs. Edwin Neilan (Julia Ellen Motheral) ice University has received $150,000 from the Corpus Christi-hased John G. and the short amount of time involved in the l Mrs. John Seltzer (Mary Sanford Campbell) tTerie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation to help defray the costs of expanding campaign, a lot of credit should be given Halsted R. Warrick university's student center. At the check presentation were (1-r) Rice Trustee to the Development Office — they did a Rudolph F. Weichert (14- Hudspeth '40;the Most Rev. Rene H. Gracida, president of the Kenedy Founda- great job." Jr. Anonymous(3) 211 and Bishop of the Diocese of Corpus Christi; and Rice President Norman Groundbreaking for the new wing is ckerman. The visit also marked a 'homecoming'for Bishop Gracida: he attended scheduled for May 1985 and completion of , ce in 1942-43 before joining the Army Air Corps for World War II service. the new addition is expected by August 1986

SALLYPORT—FEBRUARY -MARCH 1985 19 Alumni picnic, sports day set On March 30, Rice alumni will be able to noon, and both men's and women's track combine good company and good food events are scheduled as "The Meeting of with a chance to catch some exciting the Minds," the Rice Bayou Classic, con- 41ktenfra sports action as a special alumni picnic tinues. At 1:30 p.m., Rice will face Louisi- and sports day gets under way on campus. ana State in tennis. A tent will be set up for a picnic to be- For the first time this year, tickets will gin at noon (complete with balloons for the be available in advance for the baseball kids), and participants will be able to pick game, and the baseball tickets will also be and choose among the sporting events good for admittance to the track events. scheduled at Rice that day. More information on the day's activi- A baseball game at Cameron Field ties can be obtained by calling the alumni between Rice and Baylor will begin at office.j Hackermans honored The past presidents of the Association of emonies. Moore summarized the back- Rice Alumni who served under Rice Presi- grounds of the past presidents who had dent Norman liackerman honored Dr. and served under Hackerman, noting that Mrs. Hackerman with a black-tie dinner at there were seven lawyers, two Phi Beta the Houston Country Club at 7:30 p.m. on Kappas, five who were Top Ten Seniors at Sept. 14. Rice, 11 who were in the Rally Club, and The executive directors of the associa- three former Rice cheerleaders. tion who served from 1970-84 also at- Moore also thanked the Hackermans tended, as did the Hackermans' children. for what they have individually and collec- Gus Schill opened the program and tively meant to the association and to the Harvin C. Moore Jr. was the master of cer- university.j Pulling for the home teams What do Pinch-Hitters, Rebounders and area when the team goes to away games. Brunson Club members have in common? The Brunson Club was named after They are all people with a cause: support- Emmett Brunson,.a long-time and highly club, ing the Rice athletic programs. visible track coach for Rice. The TE Each of these three support groups Keesling said, identifies itself with the Fourth Annual Beer-Bike Race set falls under the "umbrella" of the Owl Club, needs of the men's track program and pro- th which the club's executive director Bill vides the team with a sizable amount of the day on as the Fourth Annual Beer- Suds and spokes will be the order of April 13 Keesling calls the "major fundraising func- support. Bike Race gets under way at Rice. The alumni race is scheduled for 1 p.m., and te tion for athletics at Rice." Alumni, friends For those interested in supporting Si plans are in the works for more special activities. For more information, contact the and businesses contributed more than sports other than baseball, or men's bas- se tuned for details in the next issue of SALLYPORT. alumni office or stay $500,000 to Rice athletic programs during ketball and track, Keesling said, contribu- the 1984 calendar year, Keesling said, and tions are channeled through the Owl Club IS membership in the 12-year-old Owl Club to whatever sport the donor has speci- Find the Young Achievers has risen to 588. fied. Undesignated contributions are put to a Support is not limited to the financial, use by the athletic department in the areos The Executive Board of the Association of Please send us names of alumni 35 or however, Keesling said. Specific groups are of greatest need. R. Rice Alumni and the Young Alumni Com- under who are exceptional in public serv- aligned with certain sports, and their Other than the satisfaction of helping or mittee welcome Lominations for awards to ice, religion, professional achievement, members provide moral — as well as fi- out the home teams, Keesling said an Owl er be presented at Homecoming 1985 to Out- education, science, and the arts or has several benefits. by nancial — support to their favorite sports, Club membership pr, standing Young Alumni Achievers. humanities.j sponsoring social activities and encourag- "We are always looking for ways to im- ing attendance at athletic events. prove what we do for our members," he Name Degree/s The Pinch-Hitters, for example, offer said. Currently, a special social event is basketball Phone Major/s support for the baseball program through held during both football and their fall golf tournament. But their main season, he said, and this spring, plans are Address objective, Keesling said, is "to generate at- being made to go to four or five areas out- tendance and enthusiasm for the baseball side Houston to give alumni a chance to Honors received team." meet the Rice coaches. Occupation For the Rebounders, basketball is of With a growing number of activities prime interest. "They really lend personal and an expanding membership, Keesling Current title support to the men's basketball team," said the future underneath the Owl Club sup- Boards served on Keesling said. "They support the team fi- umbrella looks bright. l'he alumni nancially, too limited degree, but they are port is really the key to our success," he more interested in assisting the basketball said. "Our goals are like any other pro- program with auxiliary kinds of activities, gram at Rice — we want our programs to ele perhaps having some drop-ins and social be ones of quality, ones that people can Professional activities functions before and after the games, or take pride in."j for meeting with alumni outside the Houston — by Scheleen Johnson' 87 ter: YOt Tqc

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with the Mercury program and Legion of Merit with two Gold An Introduction to Controlled Ther- live in Huntsville with son Chris- 19 45 lasting through 15 shuttle flights. Stars, the Meritorious Service monuclear Fusion, as well as more topher. Ruby S. Lowry is helping out at Medal. the Navy Commendation than 50 scholarly articles. In addi- Stephanie Ferrante Wiley is the City-County Clinic in Laredo Medal with three Gold Stars, and tion, Hagler has conducted five living in Vienna, Austria, with her and continues to serve as supervi- the Navy Achievement Medal. major research projects and served husband John, who received a sor of nurses after closing her own 53 Evans and his family live in on numerous committees both two-year appointment to the Inter- medical office 10 years ago. Her Patsy S. Chappelear, section Arlington, Va. within the university and in profes- national Atomic Energy Agency. granddaughter, Linda Lowry leader in process engineering for Ron Kramer has been named sional societies. She writes, -We hope any friends Gerbode '73. attended Rice, and Hudson Engineering Corporation athletic director for the Baytown D. Kent Anderson has been in the area will come visit." Linda's husband Farrell is in the of Houston, has been selected as a School District. In his 17 years as named president of Allied Banc- Rice computer science depart- director of the American Institute head football coach at Robert E. shares Inc., a Houston-based bank ment. of Chemical Engineers (AlChE). Lee High School, he has led the holding company. Anderson joined She is one of four new directors Baytown Lee Ganders to five dis- Allied in 1978 as a senior vice pres- 69 chosen to serve three-year terms trict championships and two state ident, and was named executive Houston attorney Norman Lan- on the 60,000-member society's quarterfinals. Kramer has also vice president and secretary in ford was elected judge of the governing council, and is the third been named the district's outstand- 1981. Before joining the bank, he 339th Judicial District of Houston in 31 woman to be selected. Previously, ing football coach four times and was vice president for corporate fi- the Nov. 6 elections. Lanford has 12 Elizabeth Nye Sorrell has been Chappelear held the distinction of coached the south team in the 1981 nance at Underwood, Neuhaus & years of trial practice and has awarded the Humanitarian of the being the first woman to head up Texas High School Coaches Asso- Co., a Houston brokerage firm. spent 13 years as a detective/ Year Award by the Kiwanis of Robert E.(Bob) Talley has been an AlChE division and to achieve ciation all-star game. sergeant for the Harris County Laredo. In addition to a distin- working in South Milwaukee, "fellow" status within the institute. sheriff's reserve. guished teaching career, she has Wisc., since 1952 and would like to She is also a member of AIChE's Jim Tighe has recently been worked as a columnist and society hear from other "Owls" in either program and nominating commit- named assistant to Ken Don, vice- editor for Laredo newspapers, be- Milwaukee or Southeast Wiscon- tees and is a past director of the 63 president and director of Chevron longs to several professional orga- sin. South Texas local section. 60 Kathleen Much (MA '711 left John W. Lamer Corporation, who is in charge of nizations and is active in recently com- Houston in September for Silicon the merger with Gulf. Tighe community service. pleted two years on the staff of the Valley. After editing "a couple of joined American Historical Association books" for Stanford University Chevron after graduation and has as project coordinator and, later, Press, she is currently editing an held a variety of staff and manage- 55 project director of the National En- ment positions in shipping, foreign 46 Leslie Center is now staff archi- American history text for Addison- dowment for the Humanities- operations, logistics and engineer- tect with the Planning and Con- Wesley Publishing. She writes, funded project, "Constitutional ing. He and his wife, Susan, live in struction Division-Physical Plant -Steve Engberg came down from 34 History in the Schools." Scholarly San Mill Valley, Calif. W.J. Williamson has been Department at Rice, where he has Francisco for Thanksgiving. Resources of Wilmington, Del., re- Ann samed interim dean of the South been since Nov. 1. Kriegel Ludwig '61 is a cently published The Papers of freelance writer in San Francisco, Texas College of Law in Houston. Carlos Montezuma, gathered by a Director and corporate secretary of where her husband Karl Ludwig historical editing project Lamer di- '61 is a pediatrician. I know there 70 the Shell Pipe Line Corp. from Sharolyn Wood has been elected 19 rected since 1978 under funding are Rice folk on the Peninsula — 55-70, he returned to South Texas 56 from the National Historical Publi- judge of the 127th Civil District as a Carolyn Waters has been pro- please make yourself known!" full-time professor in 1977 af- cations and Records Commission. Court in Houston. ter moted to professional banking offi- his retirement from the Univer- Lamer recently received another sity of cer at BancTEXAS Tyler, where she Houston. Williamson will NHPRC grant to prepare a compre- has worked since September 1983 serve as interim dean for approxi- hensive microform edition of The inately as a special services representa- one year, until a new dean Papers of the Society of American 66 71 is selected. tive. Waters holds a master's de- Linda Persohn is back in Hous- Indians, 1907-1924. This grant was William E. Wylie has merged gree from SMU and is a 1984 ton doing her residency in radiol- administered through Juniata Col- his law practice in Houston with graduate of Texas Bankers Associ- ogy at the University of Texas. She lege at Huntingdon, Pa. Lamer is the firm of Wilson, Miller, Spivey, ation's School of Trust Banking. writes, "I would love to hear William H. Tisinger, a senior currently visiting associate profes- Sheehy, Knowles & Hardy in Tyler. from 39 experimental chemist with the sor on the educational studies fac- old Rice friends." Harrison Radiator Division of Gen- ulty at the State University of New Ronald J. Wilson has been R. Clyde Hargrove was named eral Motors in Dayton, Ohio, re- York at Buffalo. named geologist/log analyst for one of the 20 most prominent en- tired at the end of 1984 after 31 57 Cawley, Gillespie & Associates, ergy lawyers in the United States Frank E. Seestrom has been years 67 Fort Worth-based petroleum con- by The of service. In 1983 he was named director of programs for Pit- National Law Journal. He sultants. Before joining CG&A. Practices named one of 13 outstanding sci- ney Bowes U.S. Business Systems, law in Shreveport, La. Wilson was manager of geology entists in the Dayton area during with the responsibility for the 61 Ron Fisher, former Rice and petrophysics with Intercomp the annual "Engineers and Scien- product development of electronic All- American tennis player and Resource Development and tists Week." He was recognized for postage meters. Prior to joining Engi- Dubler Cup captain, helped neering Inc. in Houston contributions in the development Pitney Bowes in 1980 as manager guide and served the top-seeded U.S. team as log analyst, exploitation geolo- of alternate refrigerants and par- of systems engineering, Seestrom to the fi- gist and logging engineer for ticipation in the development of was affiliated with Recognition nal in the mid-June tennis compe- Del- tition taUS, Atlas polyurethane foam insulation for Equipment Inc. in Dallas. for men 45-and-older at Dresser and refrigerators and freezers. He is Bastad, Sweden. He serves as the Schlumberger. Rejoined CG&A in married to the former Magdalene liaison between tournament offi- 1983 and now handles all pe- Chakiris and is active in the Day- cials, the opposition and his tearn. trophysical and detailed log anal- ton Greek-American community. Fisher will return as captain of the ysis utilizing the company's 58 team in 1985, in-house computer system. Erie Adrian, professor and dep- when the Dubler Cup Wilson competition will be held in is a member of the Society of Petro- uty chairman of the cellular and Austra- lia. As the Texas leum Engineers of AIME, the Soci- structural biology department at Tennis Associa- tion's liaison to ety of Professional Well Log the University of Texas Health Sci- the U.S. Tennis 47 Association, he made one trip to Joan Scott, president of Scott Analysts, the Fort Worth Geologi- William F. Kieschnick, presi- ence Center at San Antonio, was Australia in December 1983 to Consulting Services in Houston, is cal Society and the Houston Geo- dent and chief executive officer of one of six faculty members to re- scout and evaluate junior tennis the editor of a recent book, Compu- logical Society. Mary Beth Peters has been Atlantic Richfield Co. and a mem- ceive the 1984 Presidential Award talent for the International Tennis tergraphia. In this work, Scott has elected to a three-year term on the ber of the Rice Board of Governors, for Excellence in Teaching. On the Mike Alliston has recently Federation. assembled a collection of ad- board of directors of NTL Institute was one of several leading Ameri- faculty since 1969, Adrian has been bought a house in Summit, N.J. vanced electronic images with for Applied Behavioral Science. Pe- can business executives who pro- selected by students as outstand- and moved for the eighth time in brief chapter introductions and in- ters, who recently moved from New vided economic forecasts for the ing teacher in the medical school nine years. He writes, "We plan to formative captions explaining York City to Arroyo Hondo, near Dec. 31, 1984, issue of U.S. News & five times and was chosen as one stay a while this time." graphics applications in the earth TQOS. N.M., is a development con- World Report. Commenting on the of 10 outstanding professors by 62 and life sciences. Previously coor- sultant who works with organiza- oil industry, Kieschnick predicted four graduating medical school dinator of computer-aided drafting tions in fields such as energy, "continued transition and adjust- classes. He was elected by the Al- and design for Fluor Engineers, finance, education, health, manu- ment" for the oil business in 1985, pha Omega Alpha medical honor 72 f she is also author of Introduction acturing service, community and "assuming no major Mideast sup- society as its faculty member for Howard Prichard (M.S.), assist- to Interactive Computer Graphics. government. NTL Institute is a ply disruptions." 1983. ant professor of environmental sonprofit, educational organiza- health at the University of Texas tion that conducts seminars and School of Public Health, has been Workshops throughout the U.S. awarded an $89,000 research grant and in parts of Canada. 49 59 by the National Institute for Occu- Col. Frank Chambers has been 68 Bill Archer was reelected to the Charles Richard (Rick) Chap- pational Safety and Health for his assigned as assistant deputy chief U.S. House of Representatives Dis- pell (Ph.D.) of NASA's George C. past achievements and current of staff for research, development trict 7 of Houston on Nov. 6. He has Marshall Space Flight Center in work in the field of occupational and studies at U.S. Marine Corps served as member of the House Huntsville, Ala., has been health. He will develop and study headquarters in Washington, 41 Committee on Ways and Means, D.C. awarded the agency's Exceptional a new method of testing for genetic Louis J. He and his wife, Carol, have Girard has been named as ranking Republican on the So- spent Scientific Achievement Medal for damage requiring less time and the first the last five years in Japan. recipient of the Distin- cial Security subcommittee and on his significant contributions to the labor and possibly proving more Zuished Alumnus Award from the the National Commission on So- On Dec. 4, 1984, President Ronald Marion 0. Hagler has been success of the first Spacelab mis- reliable than current methods. rfe, 'w York Eye and Ear Infirmary by cial Security Reform. Reagan approved the nomination named chairperson of the electri- sion. NASA Administrator James Richard Whittington is no tilS of A infirmary's alumni association. Capt. Thomas W. Evans for cal engineering/computer science M. Beggs and Deputy Administra- longer in the Navy and has joined Houston native, Girard is a clini- promotion to the permanent one- department at Texas Tech Univer- the University of cal tor Hans Mark presented the medal Pennsylvania fac- professor and former professor star grade of Commodore, United sity. He currently holds the title of to Chappell during a recent NASA ulty as assistant professor of radi- and States chairman at the Baylor Col- 52 Navy. Since August, Evans Horn Professor of Electrical Engi- Spacelab Honor Awards Ceremony ation therapy. lege of has Medicine, where he inau- John McLeaish retired in January been assigned as deputy di- neering and has been serving as at the National Academy of Sci- gurated the of the rector, first three-year from his position as chief strategic systems pro- acting chairperson since February ences in Washington, D.C. The tesidency John- grams, program in ophthalmol- Public Information Branch of in the Navy's program 1983. He is also director of the uni- medal was awarded for "exem- Ny and office established the first eye son Space Center. A defensive in Washington, D.C. He had versity's Center for Energy Re- plary performance as mission sci- ?sink in the his previously served as 73 Southwest. He also lineman for the Owls during Commander, search. Hagler joined the Texas entist for the Spacelab 1 joint Sue Powell (M.A.) was one of four ,'atinded the McLeaish run Submarine Squadron Eyes of Texas Sight years at Rice, has SIX, in Nor- Tech faculty in 1967 after earning a European/American space shuttle women elected for Woman of the rouridation. folk, Va. Evans holds Girard's wife, Louise, the space center news division many decora- B.A. and B.S. at Rice and ad- payload which conducted more Year by the members of the currently involved tions and awards, working on a Spanish since 1968. He has been including the vanced degrees from the Univer- than 70 scientific investigations." Bartlesville League of Women Vot- utegree at beginning Distinguished Service Rice. with 41 space shots, Medal, the sity of Texas. He is the co-author of Chappell and his wife, Barbra, ers. In addition to being a member

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Although the recipes of Robert Kegg '42 might sound mundane in compar- parts. Of course, chocolate has also become the medium for more eclectic ison, this down-to-earth candy man has been pleasing Houstonians' pal- representations: armadillos, sets of teeth, greeting cards and telephones. eng Kegg has even concocted solid chocolate owls for employees heading to 1501 ates with his confections for nearly 40 years. Since venturing into rzrea chocolates in 1946 with brother David Kegg '39 as his partner, Robert his alma mater, although the chocolate Texas shapes with "UT" or ''A&M" With Kegg has seen business expand to two retail stores in Houston (in the Mey- on them undoubtedly reach a larger audience. clan, erland and Rice Village areas), an "association" with Foley's department Behind the scenes, the Kegg kitchen has gone from "100 percent hand stores and special arrangements with two local hospital gift shops. dipping to 100 percent machine dipping." Kegg calls the process for as- 7, Originally from Ohio, the Kegg brothers noticed something missing in sorted chocolates "by no means fully automated," however, since careful hands must still place each piece on a belt, give it its distinctive swirl once Ntin their new hometown of Houston: candy stores. "We decided we needed a Soul few," said Robert Kegg. Timing gave their edible enterprise an initial it is covered, and then gently remove it. But, he laughed, "at least I've aey. Ethy. boost; after the hungry years of the Depression and World War II ration- solved the problem of temperamental hand-dippers." plugging along, and ing, "you could sell anything that was sweet," he remarked modestly. His designs for the future are simple. "I just keep kus to the young people for plans." Nephew Mike Kegg (David's son), a PIPie His sweet "anything" — including his trademark, assorted chocolates, look UT alumnus, and daughter Karen Kegg '76 appear to be the likely carriers errik and other goodies like fudge tmd holiday pecan tins — turned out to be Year. of his tasty tradition on the Gulf Coast and West Coast, respectively. While T11 rn real treats for his appreciative customers. The sole cook in the Kegg Mike devotes his time to the Houston stores, Karen and husband Tim John- be in kitchen since 1955, Robert Kegg focuses his business on one area: the Warr] son '74 have taken on the firmly established See's chain in California with product. "I have a product and I enjoy making that," he said. "I leave sell- °Qv their own "Chocolate Gallery" stores, one each in Santa Barbara and ing it up to the ladies." work nearby Goleta. AT841 this largely female cadre of counter help often in- tie Around holidays, All of Robert Kegg's four daughters worked part time in the stores dur- Mary, who gave in to his sweet nothings in 1950. She also woric cludes wife ing high school and college, but only Karen, she said, "sat him down to were quality control by keeping the books, an increas- eni,1 frees his time for more tell me how to make the candy. I was the most addicted to chocolate." She task as the business continues to grow with its clientele's wc(ii( ingly bigger decided to open her own business after she was graduated and married, Yet both could be even larger. waistlines. "finding linguistics not too marketable." After several years of planning, "The candy business here is still not even close to per capita con- she opened the Santa Barbara location in April 1980, "right after Easter," sumption in the North," Robert Kegg noted. Stores like his, with confec- she recalled with a laugh. tions made on the premises, are "still very few" in Houston and in the The venture became a "his and hers" affair two years later when Bur- South in general. Competition in the business is anything but cutthroat, roughs Corp. offered Tim (who had received a master's degree in electri- though — many a local entrepreneur has consulted Kegg over tubs of cal engineering from Rice in 1975) a transfer that he declined. Now he melted chocolate or caramelizing sugar before and after setting up his or handles the cooking and management at the Goleta store, while she her,own sweet-shop. "runs between the two." Confessed Karen, "My favorite part is organiz- On the national level, the Keggs make trips three or four times a year ing, coordinating. I like to plan." And although Dad's contacts in the first to candy conventions and meetings. Business includes formula swapping, year were invaluable," Karen said their confection connection is now idea exchanging and, to the joy of Simple Simon, plenty of ware tasting. "give-and-take on both ends." She and Tim "feel confident about our "We're very willing to share," he commented. He credits a cocktail party candy-making ability and decision-making...but the phone calls are still at a convention in Sun Valley for what has become one of his best-selling there." was an instant win- items, a buttery pecan brittle called pecan crisp. "It Like the senior Kegg, the couple has found a certain satisfaction in INN ner," he recalled. "In this business you get a lot of losers, but you just try to their own business. "I enjoy seeing the fruits of our labor on a running bent drop them quickly and hang onto the winners." day-to-day basis," Karen said. She enjoys eating them, too. "I need my Prof,: With For Kegg, the sweet smell of success is due more to tenacity than any daily caramel; the main reason we got in this was because I'm hooked on novelty of taste. "The biggest thing for me is that chocolate became an 'in chocolate." relser thing' about five years ago, with books written about it and cards and so Although most readers have spent the time since December easing siort c liit y. on. You can say I was in the right place at the right time — after 25 years!" out of the holidays, the Kegg candymakers on both coasts have been busy fihhern, fi: Those years have seen changes at Kegg's Candies other than in total getting ready for Valentine's Day, the best-selling day for chocolates. In Arint sales. Particularly at the Village location, which he opened in 1949, Kegg California, the only person not welcome in the stores that day is a mem- u. notices "steady customers, older people who you couldn't make try milk ber of the family, Karen and Tim's second baby, due sometime in Febru- of the third career in chocolate, and their children, who you can't get to try dark chocolate." He ary. It's too soon to tell if any generation will choose a 05011 like their its r estimates that he sells "25 times" as many chocolate rabbits at Eastertime chocolate, but if they grow to be grandfather, they'll discover 1101111 than in previous years, multiplying almost as fast as their living counter- sweet rewards.fj 4041 t Of put 'kw( Following in her sister's footsteps, Jeanne Cooper worked at Kegg's during high school and returned during college holidays to help out and to gratify cravings. kr of She is now in the English graduate program at Stanford University.

22 SALLYPORT—FEBRUARY -MARCH 1985 of several community committees, of Colorado School of Medicine in Kennesaw, Ga., as an activity/ UCLA last summer, is now in his rently working in Rome, Italy. lowship to study rye derivatives she taught secondary school for Denver. music therapist at the Devereux first year of the MBA program at Antonia Makosky has com- and distillates. seven and a half years and also Jeffery 0. Rose has been elected Center, an adolescent residential the UCLA Graduate School of Man- pleted two of 24 months' Peace served in the administration at president of Texas Commerce psychiatric treatment center. Last agement. He reports that Jeff Rice. Corps work in public health in the Bank-Greenway Plaza. August, she received her regis- Luck '81 is also in his class. village of Nsona Mpangu in south- R. Kelly Hill tered music received the Hous- therapist status after Lizabeth Richter married western Zaire. Her work focuses on ton Police Department's 84 Public completing a six-month internship Ronald Mann '82 in the Rice teaching nurses and mothers to Kevin M. Clark writes that he Service Award with Citation at a psychiatric and hospital in Chapel on Dec. 29, 1984. treat various diseases in children has accepted a position with the Certificate of Appreciation for his Arlington. In her spare time, she under 5. Her roommate is Nanda management information consult- work with the Houston SWAT 78 works on completing de- D. Michele Bonilla, with her her thesis in Duhe '83, who teaches biology ing team of Arthur Andersen in tail. Since 1982, he has served as husband, Dominique F. Frizzell music therapy from SMU. and chemistry at a local school. Dallas, "proving that even geology the medical consultant for the spe- '76, and some friends from Cali- Elizabeth Karschnia Lemus majors can get a job if they have a cial weapons and tactics unit and Norman J. Sievert has been fornia, opened a custom jewelry was married in November of 1983 83 named field representative for Rice degree!" has been the only physician to at- and is living in sales and repair shop, Metal Temp- the San Francisco Roger S. Held is now working for Western Wood Products Associa- Rafael R. Longoria has rejoined tend and complete the SWAT Bay Area. She has Ford tations, in Houston last August. been with Aerospace on-site at NASA in tion in Houston. He will provide the staff of Ford, Powell & Carson team's rigorous basic training Chevron Corp. for "We specialize in the manufacture more than three payload operations, support and technical and promotional guid- Inc. in Houston. When he was with course. In addition to providing on- and repair of gold and silver jew- years, the past two and one-half integration. In addition to the par- going ance on Western lumber to archi- the firm previously, he was a pre- medical instruction, care elry, including diamonds and the years as a construction engineer. tial responsibility for integrating mid consultation to the team in tects, specifiers, builders, ceptor from Rice and was also with colored stones," they write. Chris J. Castaneda is working at the Jupiter exploration probe (Gali- both routine and emergency situa- wholesalers, retailers and build- other Houston organizations in- "Please come and take a look at a natural gas consulting leo) with the Shuttle for flight in tions, he has served as the un- firm as an ing code officials in south Texas cluding the Houston Museum of the store." analyst and is finishing an M.A. in 1986, he will be a controller on the armed combat instructor for the and Louisiana. Besides his archi- Fine Arts and the Texas Medical history at the University next two shuttle flights in January unit. Hill has a private practice in Edwin Mercer Stone, now a sen- of Houston tecture degree from Rice, Sievert Center. at night. His wife, Terri Alford, and February (51-C and 51-E). family medicine at Memorial City ior at the Baylor College of Medi- is has experience in the construction Bob Swanson, Kent Erickson currently working on her Ph.D. in Margaret B. Morrison Medical Center, with special inter- cine, has been elected to is now and engineering fields. '80 and Marcus Erickson '85 anthropology at Rice. with the audit group ests in sports medicine and stress membership in Alpha Omega Al- They are ex- of Touche Doug Taylor has returned from a sent in the following message: pecting a Management. pha (ROA), the national honor so- baby in late March. Ross and has moved to Sugarland. tour of Danish and German farms, "Bob is getting married. Marcus ciety of the medical profession. He Jeffrey Karl George Lebus has joined Armi- Jeanette Laffoon moved to Colo- where he was conducting a feasa- and Kent's dad is too. So we are all Ochsner's design of has also received the DeBakey New Mexico residence ger & Associates, a telecommuni- rado this past August to attend the bility study of the commercial as- going to play golf in Madisonville received Scholar Award, the highest stu- honorable mention in cations firm, as marketing University of Denver Law School- pects of rye ergot production. He to celebrate R.B. Johnson '84 be- the Houston dent honor Baylor confers. Stone is Chapter/American of Ar- director. He was formerly market- -a freshman again!" she says. Her hopes to spend this spring at the ing in Germany. We are having Institute married to Mary Seabury Stone. chitects design competition. ing services manager of the West- father, John Laffoon '56, is cur- University of Garmisch on a fel- fun." ern Company of North America, a Fort Worth oil and gas industry 79 service firm. NEW ARRIVALS 74 Julie Graves McCraney gradu- The December 1984 Institutional In- ated from the University of Texas vestor listed Dexter Senft among Southwestern Medical School in John T. Kemper '66(Ph.D.) and Georgia Martin Bost, announce the nounce the birth of their first child, °group of scientists who are "re- 1983 and did a surgical internship Sallie Lancaster Kemper'68 birth of their third child, Martin Meagan Elizabeth, on Sept. 21. shaping the capital markets" on 82 at Parkland in Dallas. She is now announce the birth of their first Gordon, on Oct. 27. Nancy is taking a leave from work Wall Street. Senft is a managing in the first of two years of anesthe- child, Anne Mason, on Sept. 29. to "play mom" and to complete her director at First Boston, where he Glenn Hansen '76 and his wife siology residency at the University graduate studies at SMU. heads a high-powered Richard Whittington '72 sent announce the birth analytical of Florida and married David Mc- of their second group that includes in news of the birth of his new four Ph.D.s, Craney, a neurology resident, on son, Andrew Wes, on Nov. 1. Julie Robbins Campbell'84 six engineers, a nuclear physicist daughter, Sarah Anne. Oct. 20. Rick Reyes'78 and his wife, Me- and her husband, Rickey B. Camp- und an astronomer. Denise Root Bynum '73 and her bell, announce the birth of a husband, James, lodi, announce the birth of a announce the daughter, Amy Erin, on Oct. 12. birth of their third child and first daughter, Amanda Marie, on Aug. 29. She writes, "This is by far the most 80 son, Jacob Dylan, on Nov. 27. exciting thing that's ever hap- 15 Kathleen Boyd was promoted in Richard Bost'76 and his wife, Mike and Nancy South '80 an- pened to me. It's great!" Robert C. Visser Jr., a project October from purchasing agent engineer with Chevron U.S.A., has with Continental Airlines in the °loved from the San Francisco operational purchasing depart- 'idea to "hot" Bakersfield, Calif., ment to manager-project planning IN MEMORIAM With his wife, Mary, and their in the marketing services depart- daughter, Amy. ment, where she plans and coordi- nates the "Inflight Product." In her Steven A. Milan made one of the Marion Holmes McNeely of Albert 0. Peckham '29 of Port Frances Ward Mott-Smith '34 "dwindling" spare time, she does top 10 test scores out of 9,375 on the Houston, former director of the Arthur on May 2, 1983. of Houston in December of 1984. CPA Rice Marching Owl freelance editing for Krisis, a examination last year and Band, on Nov. Evelyn Epley Shimek '29 of Elizabeth Kellogg May '35 of 4, 1984. Y6 publication of the International was honored during November cer- Houston on Dec. 13, 1984. Simonton on March 1, 1984. -ancy Tague is "back in the emonies in Austin. He is employed Adelaide Lovett Circle for Research in Philosophy. Baker'20 of Samuel T. Sikes Jr.'29 of Hous- Edward Pollak '37 of Houston South" after two years by Deloitte Haskins & Sells, an in- in New Jer- Brian Cooper and Cindy Kiest Houston on Jan. 15, 1985. Mrs. ton on Nov. 16, on Nov. 27, 1984. &Y. She ternational certified public ac- 1984. has been transferred to '82 were married Sept. 1. Cindy Baker was the daughter of first tthyl counting firm in Houston, as a Miry Elizabeth Boone Rees J. Kenneth S. Arthur '41 of Dal- Corp.'s research and devel- works as a chemical engineer for Rice University president Edgar 0. °Prnent member of the small business '30 of Baton Rouge, La., on Sept. las on Oct. 13, 1984. headquarters in Baton Rohm and Haas and Brian works Lovett and the wife of Walter kuge, services section. 16, 1984. La., where she is a senior as a chemical engineer for the Ex- Browne Baker, whose father, Capt. Tom Charles Hardy '43 of Hous- Project Mount evaluation engineer. She xon refinery in Baytown. They live James Addison Baker, served on Hester C. '30 of Port Ar- ton on Nov. 15, 1984. Writes, "I've bought a lovely, 46- the Rice Board of Governors for thur in March of 1984. in the Clear Lake area. Hubert B. Wilder Jr. Year-old home here and although more than 50 years. '47 of Sumiyo James M. Sturgis'30 of Akron, Pearl City, Hawaii, on !:11 miss New York City, I'm glad to Ender (M.Mus.), who has July 17, taught voice Rev. Charles M. Spalding '21 Ohio, on March 17, 1984. 1984. d'e in the South again. It's at the Shepherd School of Music for five years, was of Dallas on Dec. 7, 1984. Ralph A. Shaffer '31 of warmer!" Charles J. Fornes'53 of among those featured in Festival King R. Ransom '26 of Port Ar- Sweetwater on Aug. 3, 1982. bevid Stephenville in January of 1983. R. Modisette has been Hill's third concert on the August- thur on April 26, 1982. torking Lawrence B. Crosby '32 of at Western Electric(now to-April series. She has studied op- Mary Anne Davis Borden '54 eatT)b in Lonnie F. McAnally '27 of Houston on Nov. 4, 1984. Denver since graduation. era at UCLA and oratorio at the of Houston on Nov. 26, 1984. rie Round Mountain on Nov. 18, 1984. writes, "There I met the most Boston Conservatory of Music and Lenore May Durham West- wo Frank T. Allen '28 of Bay City on Dr. Hubert L. Stone '58 of Okla- nderful woman in the world. We has sung as soloist heimer'33 of Austin on March Were for the Houston Dec. 22, 1983. homa City, Okla., on Nov. 16, 1984. married on June 16, 1984, and Grand Opera's "The Marriage of Fi- 11, 1984. She is survived by her t Id°Yed a romantic seven-day Ha-, garo,""La Perichole,""Madame George R. Boynton '28 of Pryor, husband, Eugene G. West- Lisbeth Dreaper Hild '61 of "cdian cruise on our honeymoon.' Butterfly" and others. She also pre- Okla., in 1983. heimer '32. Houston on Nov. 12, 1984. sented programs of German lieder Harry W. McCormick '29 of Walter Owen Cox '34 of Hum- David R. Au '76 of Sugar Land on and art songs at the 1984 Round Houston on Nov. 1, 1984. ble on Oct. 30, 1984. Nov. 2, 1984. Top Music Festival. Beverly Allison is currently 77 Janis Harlan has resigned from freelancing as a musician in Hous- Amoco Production Co. in Houston ton with several different groups. to work with Monsanto Oil Co. in She is a performing member of the London, continuing her work as a Tuesday Musical Club and the geologist in the North Sea rather Houston Metropolitan Orchestra than the Gulf of Mexico. Her hus- and formed -The Flute Troupe," a band, Barry Acomb, also a geolo- professional performing group. Enjoy keeping up with friends and classmates in the Classnotes section? Why not re- gist, is with British Petroleum. "We She is also founder and president turn the favor-drop us a line and a (preferably black and white) photo at the Asso- of a music agency, Chamber Music really enjoy our London lifestyle," ciation'of Rice Alumni, P.O. Box she writes. Unlimited, and is founder and 1892, Houston, Texas 77251. president of the Houston Flute Greg Kane is currently attending Club. Allison is listed in the 0 Married? CI New Job? LII New Baby? the University of Texas Medical Inter- national Who's Who of American CI Promoted? School in Houston. CI Take a Trip? See a Classmate? Women and has been asked to be a CI Moved? CI Back in School? El Other? Jim Wrotenbery, an associate of guest artist at Stephen F. Austin in the law firm of Hancock, Piedfort, Nacogdoches in May. She is also Galton & McGill in Austin, was re- the mother of three teen-age boys Send us details. cently featured by the Texas Bar 4entia Robert Catterall began working Yeager is working as a Journal in an article on his active iM part time on his MBA at SMU in t essional actress in London -and varied -lifestyle. In addi- h January. A systems engineer for O her husband, actor Nicholas tion to practicing law, Wrotenbery IBM, he recently completed his Ldr• She has earned credits in teaches an aerobics class for a lo- :, third marathon, with a time of Pertory, cabaret, film and televi- cal health club, is a paid soloist at "°11 and 2:59:29. is a member of British Eq- an Austin church and is active in She has recently completed Lawyers and Ac- Sandra Lee Jones received her er the Austin Young 4141.first major role in a feature countants for the Arts. He serves J.D. from the University of North as chairman of the Texas Young Carolina Law School in December. i hrinr,id E. Baron has received a Lawyers Association Committee During the summer of 1983, she at- ,;.u. in biometry from the Univer- on the Arts, and also helps conduct tended a special law summer 1%l laf Texas School of Public seminars instructing artists and school at the University of Oxford th in Houston. She holds a entertainers in aspects of the law and completed other summer SA • Name h. • in mathematical sciences concerning their professions. courses at the University of North Carolina. In f.'en Rice and an M.S. in biometry January she joined the Class College :r4ri the University of Texas School law firm of Holliman, Langholz, °' Runnels Public Health. She is currently & Dorwart in Tulsa, Okla. Address( New?) °Yed as an assistant profes- 81 John H. Scott, after earning an n Of biometrics at the University Melissa Martin is working in M.S. in mechanical engineering at

SALLYPORT-FEBRUARY -MARCH 1985 23 Arkansas (1:00 P.M.) MUSIC Feb. 24 Feb. 27 at Baylor Unless otherwise noted, performances are at 8:00 p.m. in Hamman Hall. • Denotes Mar.2 at Texas A&M admission charge. For more information, call 527-4933. Mar.8-10 Owime,„friac SWC Postseason Classic, Dalla: Feb. 18 Shepherd Symphony Orchestra WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Feb. 20 All home games played at 7:00 P.M. 00 Tour Dumas Artist Series try Court unless otherwise noted. E V EN T S adventure for families and the A five-day Richard Tetley-Kardos, piano young-at-heart exploring Yellowstone and Feb.2 at SMU Feb.9 the surrounding national forests on snow- Feb. 21 at TCU ARCHI-ARTS BALL mobiles with expert guides. $900. *Ridge String Quartet Feb.5 The Rice University School of Architecture, Houston Friends of Music Feb. 10 at Texas the Rice Program Council and Cullen Mar.22 -Apr.9 Center Inc. are sponsoring the annual The Island World of Indonesia Feb. 23 Feb. 12Texas Tech Archi-Arts Ball on Feb. 9 from 8 p.m.-2 Fly to Singapore, then voyage from there _Campanile Orchestra a.m. in the main lobby of the 1600 Smith to Hong Kong aboard the yacht Illiria, ex- Feb. loot Houston Building in Cullen Center, downtown ploring the exotic islands that form Indone- Feb. 25 Houston. Theme is "The Emerald City." sia, an ancient land of rich cultural Shepherd Singers Feb. 18 Lamar For ticket information, call the School of traditions and tropical landscapes of un- Rice Chapel Architecture at 527-4864. surpassed beauty. Escorted by Rice politi- Feb.23 Arkansas cal scientist Fred R. von der Mehden, an Feb.26 Quartet at Baylor ALUMNI ACTIVITIES expert on and former resident of Indone- American String Feb.27 sia. $4500-$7000 depending on cabin Feb. 28 Mar.2 at Texas A&M choice. Rice Concert Band/Jazz Ensemble May 13-28 Mar.7 of France Cathedrals and Chateaux *New York Chamber Soloists Spend 15 days among the major French gothic cathedrals and abbeys, the cha- Mar. 12 teaux of the Loire Valley, and Versailles. Faculty Artist Series Escorted by Katherine T. Brown '37 of art An evening of opera and art history. $3,000. Mar. 13 July 27-Aug. 12 Shepherd Symphony Orchestra Trans-Siberian Special Student conductors concert A grand 16-day rail journey in the USSR across Russia and Siberia by private lux- Mar. 14 Mar.30 ury train with first-class service and din- Electronic Music Concert include Moscow, Picnic, Sports Day ing. Off-train excursions 27 will be able to join family pic- Khabarovsk, and a cruise on the River Ob. Mar. Rice alumni Shepherd Symphony Orchestra nic festivities on campus, then watch Optional extension to Leningrad. $4600 scheduled Rice athletic events in baseball, (extension $550). Apr. 1 BASEBALL men's and women's track and tennis. Call Shepherd Symphony Orchestra the alumni office for details. Oct. 12-23 Northern Italian Palladian Villas In conoert with Houston Music Teachers Feb.9 McNeese State, noon 13 Spend 12 days touring the nistoric cities of Association ocncerto winners April with State, I p.m. Beer-Bike Race Northern Italy, from Verona to Venice, Feb. 10 McNeese accommodations selected for charm and Apr.2 The alumni race is scheduled to start at 1 Brass Quintet historic importance. Optional extension *Eastman Feb. 12--at Lamar, 2 p.m. p.m. for the Fourth Annual Beer-Bike of Music overnight from Venice to Paris on the Ori- Houston Friends Race. For information on this and other Southwest Texas Eta:. ent Express. Escorted by Mark Hewitt of Feb. 14 special activities being planned for the 1 p.m. day, contact the alumni office. architecture. $2850. ART Feb. 1g— Nicholls State, 3 p.m. SEWALL ART GALLERY NO T ICE Feb. 16 Nicholls State, 2 p.m. 25-Mar.2 Jan. Texas State, 1 RICE DESIGN ALLIANCE Monumental Islamic Architectural Feb. 17 North "Gardens" lecture series Calligraphy from India 19 Stephen F. Austin Sta:. Mar. 13, will Wayne Begley Feb. This five part series, starting Lecture by exhibit curator 3 p.m. explore gardens of the world and have for Feb. 21, 8 p.m„ 301 Sewall Hall. its speakers five authorities on garden de- Feb. 20 Sam Houston State, 3 sign and architecture. For information, call Nov.4-11 Mar. 14-Apr. 13 the RDA office at 524-6297. Colonial and Revolutionary Contemporary Satirical Prints by Feb. 23Pan American, noon Virginia Red Grooms and Warrington SRUW Eight-day history tour highlighting the un- Colescott Feb. 24 Pan American, 1 p.m. of Rice University Women is The Society usual in Washington D.C., Williamsburg, to all alumnae and female friends of Dallas Baptist, 1 p.m. open and Charlottesville. Escorted by historian FARISH GALLERY Feb. 27 tiniversity. For further information on Ira Gruber. $1200. p191.rams, contact the Alumni Office. Feb. 13-Mar. 31 Mar.2 at Florida International Chicago and New York: More than 6:30 p.m. CONTINUING STUDIES of Architectural TN E A TB a Century Mar.3 at Florida International The Office of Continuing Studies and Interaction of Special Programs offers a variety Drawings and models by Louis Sullivan, Call 520-5022 Mar. Sat Miami, 6:30 p.m. classes throughout the year. Daniel Burnham, Philip Johnson, McKim, for infor=tiort. Mead, White and others. Mar. oat Miami, 6:30 p.m. EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT Mar.8 Temple, 2 p.m. The jones School offers management SP OR TS courses to the business community Mar.9 Temple, noon throughout the year. For details contact MEN'S BASKETBALL the Office of Executive Development, Mar. 15 Arkansas(SWC), 2 p.m. 527-6060. All home games played at 7:35 P.M. on Au try Court unless otherwise noted. Mar. 16 Arkansas(SWC), noon TR A V EL Feb.3 at SMU Mar. 19 Lamar, 3 p.m. For information on 1985 alumni travel/ Feb.6 at TCU Mar.22 at Texas Tech, 2 p.m. study programs, call the Alumni Office, at Texas Mar.23 at Texas Tech, noon (713) 527-4057, or write the Association of Mar.25-30 Feb. 10 Rice Alumni, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, Baker Shakespeare 3 p.m. detailed itineraries. Feb. 13 Texas Tech Mar.25 Minnesota, Texas 77251, to receive "The Tempest," directed by Trevor Baxter, Prices are approximate. a member of the Royal Shakespeare Com- Feb. 17 at Houston Mar.29 Baylor(SWC), 2 p.m. pany, 8 p.m. Baker Commons. Call 527- Feb. 22-26 State noon Yellowstone Country Snowmobile 4001 for ticket and reservation information. Feb.20 '..rarleton Mar.30 Baylor(SWC),