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APRIL-MAY 1986, VOL. 42, NO. 4 jdkr A matter of extremes 6 Chemistry runs "hot and cold"(temperature -wise, that is) for chemistry professor and vice EDITOR president for advanced studies and research John Margrave as he delves into "chemistry un- Suzanne Johnson der extreme conditions" at Rice. SCIENCE WRITER B.C. Robison CONTRIBUTING AND Preserving Houston's heritage 8 STAFF WRITERS Steve Brynes When Marie Lee Phelps McAshan '31 published On the Corner of Main and Texas: A Houston Scheleen Johnson '87 Legacy last year, it was only the latest in the fifth-generation Texan's many activities to help Patti Lipoma '87 preserve the past of her state and her native city, Houston. Second in the Sallyport series cel- Shelly Unger '86 ebrating Texas' and Houston's sesquicentennial year. Bill Whitmore PHOTOGRAPHERS Lex Boterf The owl that roars 10 Philippe Paravicini '86 The uninitiated might be perplexed to hear names like Psychedelic Furs or Fine Young Can- DESIGNER nibals being bandied about the airwaves on Rice's KTRU-FM, but the station is making a Carol Edwards name for itself throughout the state in progressive music programming. Staff writer Sche- OFFICERS OF THE leen Johnson talks to some Fine Young D.J.s(and some not-so-young)from KTRU's past and ASSOCIATION OF RICE ALUMNI present. President, G. Walter McReynolds '65 President-Elect, Gwynne E. Old '59 1st Vice-President, Bridget Rote Jensen '53 How Fondren stacks up 12 2nd Vice-President, Nancy Moore Eubank '55 Rice's Fondren Library is undergoing a lot of changes these days, with rearranged stacks, Treasurer, Russ H. Pitman '58 Past President, Harvin C. Moore Jr. '59 newly-installed computers and increased security. For some professors and students who Interim Executive Director, Marilyn Moore '55 cannot find the books and periodicals they need, it is not enough. For others, Fondren is all it should be. Sallyport explores the pros and cons of Fondren in the '80s. ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS Chairman, John Boles '65 Co-chairman, Darrell Hancock '68 Past Chairman, Charles Szalkowski '70 W.W. Akers th W.V. Ballew Jr. '40 _eetteia, Brent Breedin to Franz Brotzen th Ira Gruber A wiser owl Cox or Eric Hoffer, and has no apparent Ain't that nice. Nancy Boothe Parker '52 hope of ever sending a faculty member or I would like to point out a "serious error" on Who are you? Sara Meredith Peterson '47 cl graduate to the College of Cardinals. How Do you know?" page three of the November '85-January '86 Patti Simon '65 b( many philosophy shops are being fran- Was such a cheer heard over the Rice issue of Sallyport. Geri Snider '80 rn chised these days and have any hope of op- Stadium? Does such a cheer make us better The first live owl(Sammy) was present Scott Snyder '87 D, during the great games of the '49-50 sea- erating in the black? The Nobel Prize for than our opponents? Linda Leigh Sylvan '73 In son. Please let the records be corrected. Peace (or Philosophy) is an idle pipe dream. When I was at Rice I think we enjoyed a t Harry C. Hoover Jr. '50 We must face facts and disband these good Calculus 100 class and we also en- RICE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI GOVERNORS wasteful academic departments before it is th Dallas joyed a good football game in which, as of- Neal T. Lacey Jr. '52 too late. ten as not, we were victorious over the likes Jerry McCleskey '56 di The Rice Board of Trustees' futile at- of Texas, Texas A&M, Bally, Ballew on right track SMU, etc. The most in- Pat H. Moore '52 Pt tempt to revive a flagging discipline by im- tellectual cheer I recall in those days was: cl Professor Albert Bally's concepts about cer- porting a celebrity religionist from Harvard "Rooty, toot, toot SALLYPORT(USPS 412-950) is published in tain of academia's maxims rings a familiar should be seen for what it is — an indul- Rooty, toot, toot September, November, February, April bell for me, and I enthusiastically applaud in gence of those trustees and alumni who are We are the boys and June by the Association of Rice him. Rice should give serious consideration of trapped by a distorted perception that Rice From the Institute Alumni, and is sent free to all university to this man's comments regarding credit for sc can compete for the top players and prizes We don't smoke and alumni, parents of students, and friends. courses complementary too major, tenure, in the metaphysical field. We don't chew, and Second class postage paid at Houston, Ai faculty publication and faculty evaluation Seventy-five years of failure and futility We don't go with Texas. by students. are enough. I call for the only reasonable Girls who do." Accompanying recent changes at Rice response — Get out of religion and philoso- ("Persons" may be substituted for "boys" William Marsh Rice University offers (a new president, athletic director, etc.) are phy while there is still time! and "girls" today.) equal opportunity to all applicants with- the usual strains about improvements and Rod Crowl '70 They say that necessity is the mother of out regard to race, color, sex, age, na- high goals. Fortunately, such has been President, Owl Club invention. Well, I think that the necessity of tional or ethnic origin, or physical ist Rice's credo all along, but there seems to be finding some alternative to or some ration- handicap. isi immobility in aspects of academics as re- ale for losing football games to Southwest vealed by Professor Bally and as ex- The 'brouhaha' continues Conference teams has spawned a new in- Editorial offices for SALLYPORT are located Al pounded by my classmate Bill Ballew in his The current brouhaha concerning the right- tellectualism which somehow equates los- in the Allen Center for Business Activi- article. It appears that at times academia ful place of athletics in the scheme of things Flo ing with winning. ties, Rice University, 6100 South Main th, wears self-imposed blinders. at Rice is highlighted in a recent issue of Street, Why don't we just say we can't compete Houston, Texas. in No question Rice does a most com- the Wall Street Journal wherein a story is on an even basis with these other schools th mendable job of being a leader, and keep- carried on the first page entitled "At Rice and lose like an adult or get into another POSTMASTER: Send address changes to i ing pace with our rapidly changing times. I. University, It's a Miracle When the Football league where the competition isn't as SALLYPORT, Office of Information Services. as are all our alumni, am proud to be one. Team Wins." tough? Please let's not make the controversy Rice University, PO. Box 1892, Houston, Sp R.H. Brogniez '40 The article in the Journal, apparently into a Homeric struggle between right and Texas 77251. th, written by somebody Professor Emeritus who was fed various wrong. ov, viewpoints by "intellectuals" at Rice points Rice Marble Falls, TX The group which takes the bumps and Copyright 1986 by the Association of be up a classic, if somewhat sophisticated, Alumni, Rice University. bruises, the players, to my knowledge tei case of sour grapes. hasn't been heard from. Our egos are frac- Striking back? "ii People have been writing and saying tured but their bodies are on the line. What (Ow/ Club president Rod Crowl responds to for years now that Rice should be out of the dn the cries of "Out of the SWC!" expressed in do they think? Should they not have a say in Southwest Conference. Some seem to inti- this cause celebre? of the last issue of Sallyport with the following mate that even aspiring to the Southwest tongue-in-cheek proposal. Crowl assures Sports should be fun. We ought to re- Conference quality of competition is some- solve the issue with that in mind. us that it in no way represents the official how beneath the dignity of the "Ivy League John P. Papuga '51 position of the Owl Club or its members. School of the South." I have a suspicion that "And besides," Crowl says, "I am only kid- what is really meant is that many people Pittsburgh, Pa. ding.") who advocate withdrawal from the South- Fighting the 'futility' A MODEST PROPOSAL: west Conference would like to get into an In keeping with the tradition of past contrib- athletic association where they can beat up I was glad to see in your last issue that the utors to the Sallyport, I would like to suggest on the opponents. "Letters" section is still available to those of Rice take the opportunity presented by a I don't think it matters very much us who decry the futility of trying to com- new administration to address a serious whether Rice is in the Southwest Confer- bine Southwest Conference football with problem — the continual waste of univer- ence or in the "Southeast Texas Junior Col- the university's educational and research sity resources funding the departments of lege League." programs. Coverage of April 5's philosophy and religion. The Wall Street Journal says that the The letters from Watson and Hoffman During my four undergraduate years Rice students are enthused that the football were excellent, although my tutoring expe- and for many years since I graduated in team has improved their college entrance rience in the early '20s leads me to question Beer-Bike Race 1970, the university has persisted in throw- scores. Now is that really so? Has attend- Watson's statement regarding the associ- ing good money after bad, financing an un- ance at a football game evolved into an in- ated benefits of physical and mental condi- coming next issue. successful program of metaphysical tellectual exercise at Rice? Does the student tioning from sports. In those less structured education with few tangible results. Rice body really perform the "existential cheer": days, when tutoring to keep athletes eligi- has had no big name players like Harvey "We're from Rice, (Continued on page 20)

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Mark Twain:'not to let schooling interfere years I cannot supply him with the hor- tentative dribble. Then Tom began pok- with one's education. I must confess that mones, but I can provide a much more in- ing around the odd corners of our off - I enjoyed each one, even including the teresting climax. campus apartment near Hermann Park. dreaded 'Math 100.' Moreover, I found the "Imagine, if you will, this tableau. With a triumphant smile, he emerged greatest variety of interesting courses all Dante slowly walks down the narrow, from a closet with a small cylindrical over the campus. So, in my vacant peri- dirty streets of Florence. He can't go very wastebasket of woven rattan. ods, I attended other enjoyable lectures. fast, for his feet hurt. Beatrice suddenly Armed with some string and a hand- Then I discovered the library: it contained springs forth from a shadowy doorway, ful of paper clips, we went looking for a the most fascinating collection of books I flings her arms about him and bestows a spot to mount this descendant of Dr. Nais- had ever known. I resolved to read them passionate kiss! You can see already that mith's peach basket. After a couple of all! I have been at it now for over 63 years my account is better. false starts, we headed for a brick wall and (am)falling rapidly behind every "In this scenario, you may be sure of that screened off the parking lot of our day. two things: first, Dante would have been apartment complex. Soon, our basket was the most surprised man in all Italy and firmly anchored to the wall about seven '55 "A great event occurred in my junior year. I had a "free elective" in my pro- second, Dante would have been the most feet off the ground. The rim was a foot or gram. I know that is difficult for recent pleased man in the world. so below the top, providing a decidedly 59 graduates to grasp the magnitude of this "I relate this idle bit of trivia, 'aca- non-lively brick backboard. event. For in those days, Mr. Lovett felt demic fluff' if you will, to illustrate my In our first games, Tom and I re- that education was a far too important own passionate love affair for Rice. There cruited Scott Pigford and Greg Peters, our Roll over, Beethoven? and serious a matter to allow the imma- are many parallels. I am slowly walking other two roommates. Shot-blocking and ture judgement of students to interfere about the narrow streets of the campus goal-tending proved too easy, though, Rice alumni who fondly remember the with the process. However, as a conces- (and I cannot go very fast because my feet and the team game degenerated into a music from Houston's KLEF-FM helping sion to the ideals of American democracy, also hurt) when, suddenly, the alumni as- kind of deranged handball. pressures of college them cope with the he thought one "free elective" was ample. sociation emerges from the shadows and Tom and I persevered, and refined will be saddened to note that Hous- life So after much study and research, I bestows on me a fond embrace and a gold the game as a strictly one-on-one confron- music lovers are singing tons classical elected Italian 300, for two reasons. First, medal. tation. Essentially, it was straight back- the these days. blues the catalog plainly stated that notwith- "In this scenario also you can be sure alley basketball. The offensive man took mid-March, KLEF — the city's only In standing the 300 label, it was a beginning of two things: I am the most surprised the ball inbounds about 15 feet from the Classical music radio station — officially course and second, I thought that with my man in all America and I am the most basket and tried to work himself into po- began a "lite rock" for- became KJYY and interest in languages, it would be easy. I pleased man in the world!" sition for a shot. Dribbling the little sou- mat, replacing Mahler with Manilow and was wrong on both counts! venir balls proved tricky, so steals were Denver. The format change, Dvorak with "Moreover, I was surprised to dis- frequent. hopes of increasing the sta- made in the cover that the professor was not an Ital- We soon came to realize that this was widely protested tions revenues, was ian. He was of Teutonic extraction. I had a Big Man's Game. The slam-dunk be- throughout the city (including quite a few the uncomfortable impression that he came the dominant offensive move, and the Rice cam- disgruntled faces around was a Prussian ex-army general. So we our main defensive objective was to force this writing, no new full-time Pus) but, at got down to business at once. the dribbler to pull up beyond easy reach been found. Classical outlet had "The first two lectures were on irregu- of the basket. When this occurred, our Meanwhile, KLEF's collection of record- . lar verbs, the third lecture was on gram- Chamberlain vs. Russell duels came the University ings has found a home at mar. The second week, we started the alive. To juke the defender out of position ,which inter- of Houston's KUHF-FM is study of Italian literature. Der Herr Pro- and clear the way for a lunge to the bas- format with a spersing its primarily jazz fessor made it known at once that there ket, we each perfected an elaborate rep- Pittance for the "longhairs." was only one figure in Italian literature, ertoire of fake jumps and feints to the or any other as far as he was concerned, hoop. The trouble with Dante and that was Dante Alighieri. His princi- Because the balls were easily palmed, a favorite ploy was to bull for- h- When George Holmes Richter '26(M.A. pal work was the "Inferno." Now, inas- Fantasy Hoops ward for a right-handed dunk, get the de- .27, Ph.D. '29), professor emeritus of chem- much as every educated person was quite (If the Beer-Bike Race is not proof enough fender to commit, and then change hands istry and founding father of Rice's chem- familiar with this work, he saw no reason that Rice sports are not limited to the for- in the best Dr. J style for an unmolested istry program, made a short speech to review it and thus delay our entry into mality of the playing field, the following southpaw slam. accepting one of the Association of Rice the beauties of Italian literature. essay contributed by Bill Kennedy '67 Our only rule against goal-tending Alumni's prestigious Gold Medals at "Accordingly, he selected the greatest should seal the argument.) homecoming last November, he begged romance of the millennium, the love of was implemented to counter one of Tom's the audience to "indulge an old alumnus Dante for a beautiful young Italian I was Wilt Chamberlain, a looming pres- favorite defensive moves: when in doubt, 10 the whimsy of 'some remembrances of woman by the name of Beatuce. The class ence around the basket, feinting and then knock down the basket. We didn't outlaw things past.'" was pleased with the thought of this ro- going for the slam dunk. My Rice room- this tactic, but it was declared a two-shot By the time Richter finished the mance. I fancied that it would be an inter- mate Tom Hearron, a bit shorter and thin- foul. Speech, most of the audience wished esting variation from my courses in ner than I was, was Bill Russell, Our free-throw line was a crack in the there had been more. Richter's standing chemistry, calculus, thermodynamics, lightning-quick master of defense, capa- asphalt about eight feet from the basket. ovation was duly recorded, and requests etc. ble of literally bringing down the basket. Tom had little trouble sinking an unhin- began filtering into the Sallyport office to "In the following weeks, I was The real Chamberlain and Russell stood dered shot from that distance. My own reprint Richter's anecdotal account of his amazed to discover that Dante had never more than a foot taller than, and many shooting accuracy, like Wilt Chamber- life-long affair" with Rice. A few months met the young lady, had never sent her levels of ability above, Tom and me. But lain's, declined sharply when I got more (Ind phone calls later...the reminiscenses love letters, not sent gifts, nor flowers. He in our fantasy game, we faced them eye- than a foot from the hoop, so it was often of George Holmes Richter. would see her, from a distance, several ball to eyeball. advantageous to trade a sure two points "It was over 60 years ago that, as a times a week, and rush home and write The evolution of this NBA of the imag- for a couple of shaky free-throws. Tom freshman, I first set foot on this campus. beautiful poetry about his great love. To a ination merits a small footnote in Rice's showed his sporting nature by wiping out Oh, I was innocent; I was naive; I was hot-blooded young Texan, I thought that long tradition of inventive gamesman- the basket only once or twice a game. ttervous! Yet, in a few short days I was Dante Alighieri was about the dumbest ship, which has given the world volley- Imitating the NBA's princes of mid-air Overwhelmed by the curious beauty of the man I ever knew! I did not understand this wallball, cloister frisbee, and, of course, was regular afternoon ritual all through architecture. I had never seen anything affair. the Beer-Bike race. our senior year (1966-67), ending only like it before. I was impressed by the high "Now, philosophers tell us that some- Our roundball contribution to the tra- when Tom and I graduated and went our level of the intellectual content of the lec- times understanding comes with age. But dition began when Tom and I found our- separate ways. tures. I was stimulated by the association every Rice student knows intuitively that selves in possession of several miniature Even though I haven't picked up a With my fellow students. They were differ- this is wrong, since his understanding is basketballs. Given out as promotional souvenir basketball competitively for ent from the college students I had known far superior to that of his elderly parents, souvenirs at Rice basketball games, the nearly two decades, the fantasy game before. As a result of all of this, I fell grandparents or anybody else! I am sorry balls were stamped "Rice Owls" and also permanently changed my perspective on niadly in love with Rice. This has been a to report, however, that in this matter, the carried the logo of a Houston bread com- the real one. Unlike most 5'10" non- life-long affair. I knew then that I could philosophers were correct. pany. They were perhaps one-sixth regu- athletes, I can genuinely empathize when rlever go home again. I had found a new "Fifty years after I took this course, I lation size, but inflated enough to give a Kareem Abdul-Jabbar sails in for the home! understood why Dante did not rush mat- surprisingly strong bounce. slam or Ralph Sampson and Bill Walton "My student days were very exciting; ters; why Dante was in no hurry. Dante We eyed the tiny basketballs for sev- collide far above the rim. clUe in part to following the wisdom of had no hormones! Well, after some 600 eral days, and occasionally gave one a I've been there, too.

SALLYPORT—APRIL-MAY 1986 3 Shuttle disaster puts research on hold The space program "holding pattern" ing "objects that we have no idea exist. Au adopted by the National Aeronautics and They will be purely discoveries." Space Administration following the ex- Until NASA resumes its space pro- plosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger gram, however, O'Dell must wait — not Applications at all-time high in January has also put the research of at an easy task. "I would rather be using the least one Rice scientist on hold and has telescope instead of looking at it sitting Applications from prospective freshmen between 1984 and 1985. potential ramifications for the research of on the ground," he said. "I would rather hoping to enter Rice University in August several others. "As a rule, the average SAT of a class be doing science than expecting to do sci- 1986 have passed the 3,800 mark (3,818 in is about 100 points higher than that of the C.R. O'Dell of Rice's space physics ence." late February), and the average SAT score total application pool," Moss said, pro- and astronomy department, former pro- of the applicant pool is 1,240. Both figures jecting a 1,340 average for the incoming ject scientist for the Space Telescope Pro- Though research is currently being are the highest since Rice began charg- class of 1990, up from 1,324 for last fall's ject at NASA's Marshall Space Flight conducted by Rice faculty members un- ing tuition in 1965. incoming class of 1989. Center in Montgomery, Ala., has been der 29 NASA grants, a spokesman for the Director of Admissions Ron Moss While a complete geographical working since 1971 toward seeing the Office of Advanced Studies and Research noted that while the increase of 81 appli- breakdown by state and foreign country 25,000-pound, $1.25 billion telescope sent said most of the work being done under cations — representing 2.2 percent — has not yet been completed, Moss said 65 into space. Originally scheduled to be these grants is basic research that will over last year's pool of 3,737 is not sub- percent of the applications are from out- launched Oct. 27 and placed in a 330- not be affected by the NASA delay. stantial, "we were glad to hold and im- of-state, with 35 percent coming from mile-high orbit, the telescope's mission, For those whose work involves the prove slightly over the 28 percent increase Texas. like others, is now postponed. study of comets, however, the loss of a "I've seen enough delays on this pro- chance to view Halley's comet at close gram that I am not demolished by the de- range is a blow."We won't have any de- lay of a few more months," he said. "But I tailed observation of Halley from space," 'Renaissance man' named look at it from the point of view that I in- said Rice space physicist Pat Reiff. "The tend to use the space telescope for the Russians and Japanese are each sending new rest of my life. And since I don't know how two space craft and a consortium of Euro- Shepherd School dean long that is, I don't know how much to pean nations is sending one. Columbia Michael Hammond, founding dean of mu- consin Conservatory of Music while head worry about a six-month delay. That was supposed to get the big picture while sic and later president of State University of its composition and theory program in could be half of the rest of my life, but it the Russian, European and Japanese of New York(SUNY) at Purchase, was in 1966-68 and as instructor in music theory, also could be a trivial fraction." probes of Halley got the little picture. mid-March named professor of music and conductor of small ensembles and assist- O'Dell said the space telescope offers That's one price we pay for the destruc- dean of the Shepherd School of Music at ant to the director of Music for Youth (Mil- the opportunity for detecting and study- tion of Challenger." Rice. waukee)in 1964-66. Hammond will begin his duties this In 1959-63, he studied and taught summer, succeeding Larry Livingston, physiology, anatomy and neuroanatomy who is leaving Rice to become dean of at the University of Wisconsin and Mar- music at the University of Southern Cali- quette medical schools. Computer science team places fornia. Hammond's affiliation with the per- Calling Hammond "exceptionally forming arts includes conducting roles in international contest sensitive, intelligent and imaginative," with the American Symphony (under Rice President George Rupp said, "I am Leopold Stokowski)in 1969-71 and, more A team of four Rice computer science stu- from Stanford University, my alma ma- enormously pleased that Michael Ham- recently, with Pepsico Summerfare (Bach dents placed third in the 10th Annual ter." mond is joining us...The range of his in- Festival and Britten's Noye's Fludde)in ACM International Programming Contest Twenty-four teams representing 12 terests not only in music but also across 1979-84. Hammond has composed for the held in Cincinnati, Ohio, in early Febru- different geographic regions in North the range of the arts and sciences is ex- theater, acted as dean of dance at SUNY- ary. The team consisted of seniors John B. America and Europe participated in the traordinary. In music alone, his teaching Purchase, and spent a summer studying Carter and Chet R. Murthy, and juniors contest sponsored by the Association of and scholarship and performance include the arts at Baroda University in India as Jeffrey G. Erickson and Robert A. Hearn. Computing Machinery, the leading pro- music theory, composition, conducting, an HEW Fellow. William G. Golson, assistant professor of fessional organization for computer sci- medieval Western and Asian music sys- "Michael Hammond is a luminous, computer science, served as the team entists. The teams from California tems, and classical ballet music. We are spiritual and intellectually stimulating sponsor. Institute of Technology and Rensselaer delighted that he will be providing lead- human being who travels as much with This is the second time in five years Polytechnic Institute placed first and sec- ership not only for the Shepherd School ideas as with books," said outgoing mu- that a Rice team has placed in the top ond in the competition, respectively. but also for the university as a whole." sic dean Livingston. "He has the force of three nationally in the ACM program- To earn a berth in the international Described by SUNY-Purchase Presi- will, quality of mind, and leadership ming contest. contest, the Rice team finished first in the dent Shelden Grebstein as "one of the few ability to bring new and wonderful things According to Robert Cartwright, act- regional contest held in Houston in No- 20th century renaissance men I've ever to the Shepherd School of Music and to ing chairman of the computer science de- vember. This event pitted two teams horn known," Hammond — a graduate of both Rice University." partment, "This award is a significant Rice against teams from approximately Lawrence University and Oxford, where Turning his sights toward Rice, Ham- achievement for the Rice computer sci- 60 universities in Texas, Louisiana and he was a Rhodes Scholar — majored in a mond foresees unlimited opportunity. ence program. Our team performed ex- Arkansas. The other Rice team, com- wide range of disciplines: classics, phi- "My colleagues and predecessors have tremely well against very tough posed of Ervan Darnell, Doug Monk, losophy, pre-med, psychology, physiology made the Shepherd School one of the competition, including graduate student Blake Wilfong and Michael Wolverton, and pre-clinical medicine. most promising musical communities in teams representing the most competitive finished third in the regional contest. A native of Wisconsin, the 52-year-old the nation," he said. "That the school is computer science programs in the coun- In addition to a plaque and trophy, Hammond is completing his 18th year as part of a fine university in a fascinating try. I was particularly gratified that we the Rice contestants won a $3,000 Macin- a professor of music at SUNY-Purchase. city makes the task of contributing to the defeated the defending championship tosh 512K computer system and a $500 He has also served as director of the Wis- realization of its promise irresistable." team, composed of graduate students cash award for the university.

1986 commencement marks return of traditions Rice's 73rd commencement ceremonies nies marking the opening of Rice Institute will be marked by several new features and the first commencement. as well as a revival of some traditions In addition, a number of new "tradi- that hark back to the opening of Rice In- tions" will begin this year. stitute in 1912 and the first commence- ment in 1916. On the Friday before commence- Beta In the first Rice commencement cere- ment, newly elected members of Phi monies over which he will officially pre- Kappa and students receiving certain hon- side, President George Rupp will university prizes and awards will be implement the committee on commence- ored at a reception and dinner; the Asso- ment's proposal to return to earlier tradi- ciation of Rice Alumni will host a dinner ci tions that involve the entire Rice for distinguished alumni; and the Shephel community in a variety of activities. Un- School will offer a concert, followed by der the proposal, the formal commence- reception given by the Rupps for all de- ment exercises, including the individual gree candidates and their families and presentation of diplomas and hoods, will friends. Friday evening will end with a take place in the academic quadrangle on fireworks display. New Shepherd School Dean Michael Hammond talks to outgoing dean Larry the west side of Lovett Hall at 9:30 a.m. on On Saturday afternoon, an informal Livingston (left) and Jack B. Mazow '44(center), a Houston physician and presi- Saturday, May 10. all-university party will welcome gradu- dent of Houston Friends of Music. The site is both that of the ceremo- ates to their new status as alumni.

4 SALLYPORT—APRIL-MAY 1986 studies; Omer Aslam Ilahi, biochemistry; Gordon elected to top post In brief Andrew Frederick McDowell, physics; Sima Misra, biochemistry; Karin Elyse William E. Gordon, one of Rice Univer- SPANOS TO EDIT JOURNAL Murphy, Spanish/psychology/managerial sity's most honored scientist-engineers, Pol D. Spanos of civil and mechanical en- studies; James Nicholas Mustacchia, le- has been elected foreign secretary of the gineering has been appointed associate gal studies/psychology; Kenneth Stuart National Academy of Sciences. His four- editor of Probabilistic Engineering Me- Richardson, mathematics; Thomas Carter year term begins July 1. chanics, a new quarterly journal of proba- Willett, mathematical sciences; and A long-time member of both the Na- bilistic and statistical approaches to Marie Zarbock, managerial tional Academy of Sciences and the Na- Glenda he contemporary solid and fluid mechanics studies/sociology. tional Academy of Engineering, Gordon's problems. new assignment makes him, in effect, the Loren Lutes, chairman of civil engi- APPLE NOVEL NOW IN PAPERBACK guiding spirit and chief executive of the ;ci- neering at Rice, is a member of the edito- Zip, A Novel of the Left and the Right, by international relations of American sci- rial board. The journal is published by Rice professor Max Apple, has been pub- ence. Computational Mechanics Publications lished in paperback by Warner Commun- In addition to his responsibilities as of Woburn, Mass. ications. foreign secretary, Gordon will serve as Apple, a Rice faculty member since ie chairman of the Office of International Af- CANNADY IN BBC SERIES 1971 and now the Gladys Louise Fox Pro- ch William T. Cannady of architecture is fea- fairs of the National Research Council. William E. Gordon fessor of English, saw Zip first published Gordon, 68, a Rice faculty member tured in a new BBC series, "Architecture to wide critical acclaim in 1978 by Viking. and administrator since 1966, retired re- at the Crossroads," which made its air Winner of a number of prestigious cently as the university's provost and vice Gordon first gained wide interna- debut in England on Jan. 12, The 10-part prizes and awards, Apple was honored president. He remains on campus as dis- tional recognition in the 1960s for his de- series, to be shown in the U.S. later this last year with the Harold U. Ribalow Prize tinguished professor emeritus. sign and construction supervision of the year, includes a program on building in for his 1984 book, Free Agents, a collec- As foreign secretary of the academy, Arecibo Ionospheric Observatory in Texas. tion of essays and stories that found an Gordon assumes an office created when Puerto Rico. It's the world's largest radar- enthusiastic national reception from crit- the academy was established in 1863. radio telescope and Gordon served as its ics. It also won the Texas Institute of Let- Le Louis Agassiz, a Swiss-born and interna- director during its initial operating years. ters' Jesse H. Jones Award for Fiction in rig tionally known naturalist, was the acad- Gordon's numerous honors and 1985. ro- emy's first foreign secretary. Fellow awards include the 1984 Arctowski Medal, a academicians referred to his election at with a $15,000 prize for his "pioneering BEARDEN RECEIVES GRANT ale the time as an opportunity "to avail our- development of theory and instrumenta- Frank Bearden of health and physical ed- selves of his universal acquaintances." tion for radar backscatter studies, which ucation received a U.S. Office of Special Gordon's election might well rate opened a broad field of research in the Education and Rehabilitative Services similar comment since his "universal ac- high altitude ionosphere." He has also grant to attend a one-week conference at quaintances" in the scientific community been honored with the van der Pol award Oregon State University on "Physical Ed- in most parts of the Free World and much for distinguished research in radio sci- ucation for the Moderately/Severely of the East Bloc have been and continue ence, 1963-66, presented by the Interna- Handicapped." The conference was held to be numerous, multidisciplinary and tional Union of Radio Science; the 1969 in early March. thorough. American Meteorological Society Medal; Gaston Rimlinger LINGUISTICS SYMPOSIUM HELD Since 1981, for example, Gordon has a 1972-73 Guggenheim Fellowship; and RIMLINGER IN SYMPOSIUM Rice devoted a special symposium March been a member of the executive board of an honorary doctor of science degree Gaston V. Rimlinger, Rice's Hargrove Pro- 17-22 to the 200th anniversary of the dec- the International Council of Scientific Un- from Austin College in 1978. In 1984, the fessor of Economics, participated in a bi- laration by Sir William Jones that Latin, ions, a global umbrella organization of Soviet Union honored Gordon with its national symposium on the comparative Greek and Sanskrit must have "sprung scientists. Geophysics Medal. history of bureaucracy in the U.S. and from some common source." Germany at the University of Cologne, "That statement marks the beginning Germany, March 13-15. Rimlinger has of scientific linguistics in the Western Airfares to remain low, been a member of the Rice economics fac- World," said Sydney M. Lamb, Rice's ulty since 1960. Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Linguis- Rice economist says Rimlinger was invited to participate tics and chairman of the department. "Sir in this gathering of American and Ger- William made the statement in his his- Airline ticket prices, which have declined most heavily traveled markets during six man social scientists because of his toric address to the Asiatic Society in dramatically since the industry was de- quarters, beginning with the first quarter widely known research into the bureauc- Calcutta in February 1786. His'common regulated seven years ago, will likely of 1980. By the beginning of the sample racies spawned by Adolf Hitler's German source,' now known as Proto-Indo- stay low for the foreseeable future, accord- period, all fare and entry restrictions had government and the development of U.S. European, was probably also the origin of ing to Diana Strassmann of economics. been removed. The last quarter of the bureaucracies, starting with the 1930s Gothic, Celtic and Persian." "Economists and industry analysts sample was the last quarter of free entry and the beginnings of the social security The symposium was Rice's third bien- agree that the industry today operates before the PATCO strike and associated system and the bureaucracies accompa- nial symposium on linguistics and semi- more efficiently, with reduced costs trans- entry restrictions muddied the data. nying the delivery of American health otics with the general them of "Genetic lated into lower ticket prices," she says. "In markets where entry is very easy, services in more recent years. Classification of Languages." "But there is concern that the current established firms have not been able to The Cologne symposium was spon- wave of mergers may reduce the number charge noncompetitive prices, even if the sored by the Volkswagen Foundation. HARVEY ON INSTITUTE BOARD of carriers serving major routes, and that number of firms is limited (for efficiency Reese Harvey of mathematics has re- the remaining firms will respond by jack- reasons) to a very small figure," Strass- cently been reappointed to the board of ing prices back up." mann says. "Higher prices quickly attract trustees of the Mathematical Sciences Re- These fears are basically unjustified, new competitors, who gain market share search Institute in Berkeley, Calif. Harvey she says, basing her conclusion on a re- with lower fares. has also been invited to chair the pro- in- cent statistical analysis showing that po- "My results show that new entry is far gram committee for the 1987 meeting of tential entry plays a key role in the more likely to occur in markets where the the American Mathematical Society. deregulated airline industry. established firms have been charging REDDI SYMPOSIUM HELD "Capital is highly mobile in this busi- higher prices. This is true even when the An afternoon symposium sponsored by ness because airplanes may be easily analysis controls for other factors, such the Rice Engineering Design and Devel- transferred from one market to another. as differences in costs. The threat of entry opment Institute (REDDI)of the George R. This means that airlines not serving a therefore prevents established firms from Brown School of Engineering was held on particular route may easily enter if the tacitly behaving as a shared monopoly the Rice campus March 18. The sympo- established carriers on the route try to and charging high prices for any ex- sium featured an overview of engineering Dagobert Brito charge monopoly or oligopoly prices." tended period of time. research, as well as departmental pro- an ex- tute Strassmann recently completed "In fact, the results suggest that the BRITO NAMED INSTITUTE MEMBER grams. tensive empirical study of the exact role most profitable strategy for carriers is Dagobert L. Brito, Peterkin Professor of and consequences of this threatened en- generally to deter entry by limiting prices ii- Political Economy, has been elected a try or "potential competition" in econo- to fairly competitive levels." member of the International Institute of On the bookshelf mists' terminology — in the airline But, Strassmann said, barriers to the Strategic Studies, London, and the Hous- industry. entry of airline city-pair markets do exist, ton Philosophical Society. NEW FROM ALUMNI AND eta She tried to determine how easily and where these barriers are higher, es- FACULTY AUTHORS carriers could enter new airline city-pair tablished firms have been able to get PHI BETA KAPPA NAMES MEMBERS Imperialism and Idealism: American tow markets(Houston -Dallas, for example) away with charging somewhat higher The following Rice students were recently Diplomats in China, 1861-1898 s0 and whether the ease with which airlines prices. elected by the Beta of Texas Chapter of by David L. Anderson '68, Indiana Uni- ter j are able to enter these new markets influ- "These barriers stem from the way in the national honor society Phi Beta versity Press pheru ences the pricing behavior of established which airport gate space and landing Kappa as the fall contingent of members- Freud's Discovery of Psychoanalysis: ( firms. She approached these problems by slots are allocated. If more efficient allo- in-course. To be considered for member- constructing a mathematical model of cation procedures were instituted (such ship in Phi Beta Kappa, students must The Politics of Hysteria both the pricing behavior of established as bidding or auction schemes that also have completed at least 90 semester by William J. McGrath '59, Cornell Uni- a firms and the entry behavior of potential allowed the later renting or selling of the hours of courses in liberal arts and sci- versity Press entrants. These potential entrants could slots), consumers would be the winners, ences, reflecting a breadth of intellectual Religious Outsiders and the Making of or airlines as potential become an interests and a love of learning. New Americans 101 be either brand new carriers competition would routes. even stronger force in regulating the be- members are: Hsiao Yang Chin, biochem- by R. Laurence Moore '62, Oxford Uni- iu- currently serving other Strassmann used data from 92 of the havior of established firms." istry; Jon Dean Hanson, economics/policy versity Press

SALLYPORT—APRIL-MAY 1986 5 A Matter of Extremes by B.C. Robison

'Chemistry under extreme conditions' is what keeps Rice's John Margrave at the forefront of chemi- cal research. For Margrave, 'extremes' means taking chemistry outside the realm of the bunsen burner and the ice water bath.

In the early days of the U.S. space program, the however, is to play only a few bars from a sym- 20,000 degrees Centigrade. Other ways to gener- late 1950s, rocket scientists were plunging ahead phony, so varied and numerous have been his con- ate high temperatures include chemical flames, with the development of solid and liquid fuel rock- tributions to science. explosives, electric furnaces and, now, lasers." ets and searching for new fuel-oxidizer systems. If any one description effectively captures The highest temperature Margrave has ever One-hundred-million taxpayer dollars later, what John Margrave and his research group have achieved in his laboratory was around 50,000 de- the scientists and engineers had designed a rocket been exploring throughout his career, it is, as he grees C. in a constricted plasma arc. using organo-boron solid or liquid fuels. This, they calls it, "chemistry under extreme conditions," es- "We can subject an element or material we are hoped, would be the pioneer rocket of American pecially the chemistry that occurs under extremely studying, such as iron, platinum or magnesium, to space exploration. high or low temperatures and pressures. these high temperatures and a variety of species But boron hydrides, which are not very stable, — atoms, molecules and even ions — can be gen- react with water and air. There was also another erated," he says. Exploring the limits problem, as John Margrave was to point out to "Our next step is to get these high tempera- them — it wouldn't produce the specific impulse The world of the classical chemist — the realm of ture species, produced only under extreme condi- predicted. Margrave, at the time a member of the the bunsen burner and the ice water bath — has tions, to react with another substance, such as a chemistry faculty at the University of Wisconsin, not been Margrave's bailiwick. He has looked into small hydrocarbonmolecule. To achieve this, how- had discovered that combustion of the boron fuels the mysteries of chemistry that can occur only at ever, we resort to extremely low temperatures." that had been developed yielded a series of gas- the extreme limits of heat and cold that man can eous boron hydroxides, which drastically altered create in the laboratory or that occur in nature. In A working technique the rocket impulse from what the engineers calcu- this field, and in the numerous ways that Mar- Margrave and his associates study these low tem- lated it to be based on incomplete knowledge of grave has applied it, the Rice professor has perature reactions of high temperature species by the high temperature species. When using this achieved international reknown. means of a technique that has been under devel- fuel, a rocket couldn't generate sufficient thrust. "Our first challenge is obviously to create opment at Rice for more than a decade, the forbid- The project was abandoned. these extraordinary conditions in a laboratory set- dingly entitled process of matrix isolation The 35-year research career of John L. Mar- ting," says Margrave, a short, affable man. Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy. The con- grave, professor of chemistry and vice president "One of the ways to generate these extremely high cept behind it, however, is simple. for advanced studies and research at Rice, is a lit- temperatures is to use an electric arc, which Once the high temperature reactants are gen- any of fundamental discoveries such as this. To fo- draws a large amount of electric current and can erated, the atoms and molecules — and the other cus on just one aspect of Margrave's career, easily produce plasma temperatures from 5,000 to reactant substances — are co-condensed in a ma-

6 SALLYPORT—APRIL-MAY 1986 trix of inert gas such as argon or krypton on an ex- This almost insignificant difference makes Branching out tremely cold surface, in this case an 80-sided CFX one of the few lubricants which can be Margrave's career has also included administra- copper mirror that is cooled by liquid helium. The used in high temperature, oxidizing-corrosive tion, even as he maintained his pace of scientific surface temperature of the mirror is around -260 environments, at temperatures up to 1,000 de- research. After five years as chairman of the Rice degrees C. grees F.; CFX has also seen industrial applica- chemistry department, he became dean of ad- "When these substances are co-condensed on tion in Japan for the production of vanced studies and research in 1972 and was the cold surface, they undergo chemical reactions that could not be observed under normal, ambient conditions," Margrave says."We can then study "I read an article in 1963 that said electromagnetic levitation calorimetry was the resulting compounds by means of optical or impossible. In 1968, we did it." electron spin resonance spectroscopies." Mar- grave and his associates — Robert Hauge, Zakya Kafafi, Leif Fredin and a long list of graduate stu- lithium-fluorocarbon batteries. named vice president in 1980, a position he still dents — have combined metal atoms and small CFX exists only as a fine crystalline solid holds. clusters with such varied chemical partners as that is neither soluble, reactive, meltable or va- In 1974 came the supreme accolade to John ammonia, water, methane, ethers and many hy- porizable," Margrave says. "The fluorine atom Margrave, election to the prestigious National drocarbons. His research group was the first to in- has an electron-rich structure, and this explains Academy of Sciences. Only a few other Rice fac- sert a metal atom directly into a C-H bond (iron the extreme lubricity of fluorocarbons. The ulty and administrators have been members — into methane to form HFeCH3)in a cooperative electron-rich surfaces that include the fluorine Norman Hackerman (emeritus), recently-retired project with Mark Konarski and fellow Rice pro- atoms repel each other and other surfaces, too, provost and electrical engineering professor Wil- fessor W.E. Billups. so this makes a slippery surface. liam Gordon, space physics and astronomy profes- In the early days of matrix isolation spec- "The fluorocarbons have a vast potential for sor Joseph Chamberlain, former president troscopy, though compounds could be isolated commercial application. Teflon is the classic ex- Kenneth Pitzer, Fred Rossini (emeritus), Fred Wall and identified, really detailed characterizations ample. In addition to their unique lubricating (emeritus), Salomon Bochner (deceased), Richard were not possible. The Margrave group has properties, fluorocarbons are extremely resist- Turner (deceased)and William V. Houston (de- pushed this sophisticated analytical technique ant to corrosion and solvents. We have been ceased). to the extreme by studying not only the reac- able to prepare perfluorocarbon surfaces on Margrave's interest in science dates back to tants and products themselves, but also the fun- various hydrocarbons like polyethylene, poly- high school days, when he won awards for science damental chemical processes involved. propylene or natural rubber. The perfluorocar- and mathematics. With a four-year Summerfield "We showed that lithium reacts with water bon coating can reduce diffusion through the Scholarship in hand, the Kansas City native went at low temperatures to form an adduct, Li(H20)," wall of a container. This last property is impor- on to complete a B.S. in engineering physics at the Margrave says. "Since we could confirm the tant in the perfume and insecticide industries, University of Kansas in 1948, and he received his electron transfer from water to lithium by our for example." Ph.D. there two years later. matrix spectra, we have been able to develop a Working with fluorocarbons has not been After 18 months as an Atomic Energy Commis- very fundamental view of how chemical reac- only a matter of chemistry for Margrave; he has sion Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cali- tions such as these take place. We have also often had to tangle with the world of patents fornia at Berkeley, he moved on to the University of synthesized many new organo-metallic com- and attorneys. His work with "CFX" and in the Wisconsin, where he served on the chemistry fac- pounds, which are of great significance not only fluorination of hydrocarbon polymer has led to ulty from 1952 to 1963. Margrave has been at Rice to the inorganic research chemist but also to the more than 10 U.S. and foreign patents, most of since 1963. biomedical scientist, since many enzymes and which are assigned to Rice University. Among his numerous awards and honors have other important biological macromolecules, "Trying to protect a compound by patents been, in addition to election to the National Acad- such as hemoglobin and chlorophyll, are isn't always easy," he explains. "Sometimes, in- emy of Science, research fellowships from the Al- organo-metallic compounds." stead of the final product, one can only patent fred P Sloan and Guggenheim foundations, and the process by which it is made. Competing the Kiekhofer Memorial Teaching Award at the The role of CFX companies can then legally produce and market University of Wisconsin. He received the American A second major area in which Margrave is pres- the same product by slightly changing the proc- Chemical Society Award in Inorganic Chemistry in ently active, and to which he has made outstand- ess, even in an almost trivial way, like altering 1967, the American Chemical Society's Southwest ing contributions, is that of fluorine chemistry. He the temperature or pressure or the size or shape Regional Award in 1973, and that organization's has been investigating this unique element since of the reaction vessel. But in the eyes of the pat- award for fluorine chemistry in 1980. He is a fellow his college days at the University of Kansas, ent laws, it's a new and different process. That's of the Texas Academy of Science. where he received a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1950 for why some companies don't reveal their manu- In 1981, Margrave was named a distinguished a dissertation on the properties of elemental fluo- facturing processes in patents that are pub- alumnus of the University of Kansas. rine. lished — they simply keep them as trade Margrave is the editor of High Temperature Margrave and his group have investigated the secrets." Science, which he founded in 1969. He also served various ways by which fluorine reacts with car- on the editorial boards of many of the major publi- bon, silicon and most of the elements in the peri- 'Chemistry without containers' cations in his field, including the Journal of Physi- odic table. The Margrave group was the first to A third area in which the Margrave research group cal Chemistry,The Annual Review of Physical synthesize alkali tetrafluorochlorates, and over a works is in the field of electromagnetic levitation Chemistry and Advances in High Temperature 10-year coordinated research effort, they exten- calorimetry, which was first developed here at Chemistry. Margrave is currently on the editorial boards of High Temperature-High Pressure, the In- ternational Journal of Thermophysics, and Ad- "Trying to protect a compound by patents isn't always easy... That's why some vances in High Temperature Chemistry, and he companies don't reveal their manufacturing processes in patents which are has lectured all over the world. In reviewing his career, Margrave emphasizes published — they simply keep them as trade secrets." the importance of graduate students and postdoc- toral researchers in the modern chemical labora- sively characterized the molecule SiF2, an inor- Rice in 1968, and which has been carried out with tory. Their interactions with senior scientists in a ganic carbene that possesses a unique and NASA sponsorship in recent years. mutual pursuit of new knowledge are truly syner- interesting reaction chemistry. "We were the first to do high-precision calo- gistic. Thus, Margrave's research in collaboration Since coming to Rice in 1963 after an 11-year rimetry using levitation," Margrave says. "Basi- with more than 40 Ph.D. students, 14 M.S. students tenure at Wisconsin, Margrave and his associ- cally, this method involves suspending, heating and some 100 postdocs has been documented in ates have carried out both mass spectrometric and melting metals by means of an electromag- more than 485 scientific publications. Number 500 and optical spectrometric studies of more than netic field. Levitation eliminates the need for con- should appear in 1986. 100 metal fluorides; they have also studied the tainers. This is an advantage since at the high Chemical hazards reaction dynamics of elemental fluorine with a temperatures required to melt the metal under Wide variety of substances. Margrave has a par- study, there would be extreme reactions with the Being an internationally known chemist is not ticular interest in a compound that his group walls of any container. without its minor hazards, however. Margrave was Synthesized, known as "CFX." This is a solid flu- "I like to call this 'chemistry without contain- returning once from a lecture tour in Europe and orocarbon that is much more heat resistant than ers,'"Margrave says. "Once we suspend the metal had to pass through U.S. Customs in New York conventional fluorocarbons with some interest- and melt it, we can then measure directly such City. The customs agent discovered a jar of white ing applications. properties as heat capacities, heat contents, heats powdery "CFX" in Margrave's luggage. Instantly CFX is what Margrave calls a super- of fusion, densities, surface tensions, and viscosi- suspicious, the agent stuck his finger in as if to stoichiometric compound, that is, it combines ties at high temperatures. We have studied about taste it. carbon and fluorine not in the usual ratio of 15 metals this way, such as iron, cobalt, nickel, ti- "That's a jar of fluorocarbon powder," Mar- small whole numbers, but as one carbon to tanium, niobium, molybdenum, platinum and grave told the official. "No one has ever eaten it more than one fluorine, up to an average of 1.3 tungsten. I read an article in 1963 that said electro- before. Let me know if you get sick." fluorine atoms per carbon. This is denoted in magnetic levitation calorimetry was impossible," "The customs official was not amused," Mar- Chemical terminology as CF()+x) or "CFX." Margrave said. "In 1968, we did it." grave says. "But he finally let me through."

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by Suzanne Johnson and Patti Lipoma

Editor's Note: When On the Corner of Main and Texas: Houston residents that peppered A Houston Leg- A man's world A Houston Legacy was published a few months ago, it acy, for example — she discovered through re- was only the latest effort of author Marie Lee Phelps search. Others came from the colorful patchwork Galloping down Montrose and penning adventure McAshan '31 to help preserve the history of her native of her own memories. Though she grew up in an stories was not exactly the behavior expected of a state and her hometown of Houston. McAshan, a era when women were more sheltered, the little young woman in early 20th century Houston, how- former columnist for the Houston Post, led efforts that girl who rowed to the edge of the world always ever. resulted in establishment of the Harris County Heri- seemed to be in the middle of a flurry of activity. "In my 70s now, I can look back on what has tage Society in the late 1950s. This article, tracing been to me a festival of life," McAshan says. "But some of McAshcrn's activities Her first outing, for example, was in a fringe- and memories of Hous- the Houston of my childhood gave little inkling it ton, is second in the Sallyport series commemorating topped surrey pulled by a horse named Red Jim, a Texas' and Houston's sesquicentennial. wedding present to her parents from her grandfa- would turn out that way. It was an era when men ther. "Red Jim was stolen in front of Sauter's restau- knew all the answers and all about the needs of rant downtown," she says. "The sheriff and my women they cared to know. The woman may be a One afternoon in 1916, Gabriel Lee went in search father took after the thief on the train. They caught matriarch in her own house, but beyond the front of his 7-year-old daughter, Marie, only to spy her him in Madisonville. The sheriff wanted to sleep gate it was a man's world." floating in a rowboat far out in Galveston Bay. on the train ride back to Houston so he chained the The career-minded women had few choices, "I got the first spanking he ever gave me," she horse thief to my father." In those days, she noted, McAshan says — dressmaker, teacher, nun, or she says, recalling the incident. "Then he asked, horse thievery was a hanging offense. could run a boarding house or restaurant. When 'Why? For God's sake, why?' I told him that like the Living in an era of change, McAshan also re- women were finally allowed to vote, McAshan was bear that went over the mountain to see what he calls Houston's earliest automobiles and sky- 11. could see, I sailed out in a boat to the edge of the scrapers. "When I was 2 years old, my parents "But it always seemed to me that the woman of world to see what I could see. Then he gave me bought their first auto — a lugubrious machine this era chose to keep her world restricted," another spanking." called a Parry," she says. "I remember my mother's McAshan says. "She looked at life as through the The same indefatiguable spirit still sparkles brimmed white hat and long veil blowing in the stereopticon on her library table. The reality of in the eyes of Marie Lee Phelps McAshan '31 who, wind and exhaust smoke and my own white taffeta sex, she would have denied had it been at all pos- now in her 70s, has successfully fought battles in bow standing straight up in the middle of my sible. When Rudolph Valentino took Vilma Banky her hometown of Houston to keep its past alive. bobbed straight hair. It seemed to me that my into his tent, our mother marched my younger Author of the recently published On the Corner of whole childhood came to be fenced in by that per- brothers and me right out of the Zoe Theatre. And I Main and Texas: A Houston Legacy, McAshan is ennial white satin bow, long-legged union suits, was already old enough to have babies!" bullish on the subject of Houston history. long black or white cotton stockings, picture Never one to accept such things at face value, "Houston provided a child a world without shows I wasn't allowed to see to the end, and McAshan remembers questioning her mother on fear, and it fed the imagination," she says. A quin- books I wasn't supposed to read. matters of etiquette. "The Blue Book of Manners tessential modern-day storyteller, her imagina- "But I had all of Houston to roam in. I galloped lay on the bedside table of early Houston ladies," tion these days is fed by images of Houston as it my horse down the esplanade on Montrose Boule- she recalls. "One of its gems was,'A lady is known was before the advent of stacked freeways and vard, rode my bicycle out San Felipe and wrote my by her boots and her gloves.' When I asked,'How mirrored skyscrapers. own wild stories in my long brown spelling can you tell?' my mother answered with the omni- Many of the images — the stories of early books." science of a palm reader,'One simply knows.'

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"In 1929, the stock market may be crashing, fa- tainly should have. We counted on making it all on The Heritage Society held its first ball at the thers going broke, but they saw to it that their ticket sales. It proved to me for all time that no Shamrock Hilton and by February 1956 restoration daughters were introduced at the Allegro Ball and matter what the odds, what the era, many women had begun on the building's exterior. "Then the kept on dancing, so it was hoped, right on into who refuse to recognize the possibility of failure money ran out," McAshan recalls. "No work had marriage, children and prominent males in the can do anything." been done on the interior. The society had a $6,000 Houston scene." As the night of Dali's lecture arrived, Houston's debt which had to be paid in 10 days. I don't recall At least one debutante wasn't ready to settle Sidney Lanier Auditorium held a full house. how we did it, but we did." down."My parents didn't know what to do with "Amidst flashing lights, he strode on stage in a A month later, a fire set by a vagrant de- me," she says. "I hadn't been equipped for any- black cape, twirling his cane," McAshan recalls. stroyed a portion of the house, and the incident thing. So after the ball was over, I enrolled in Miss "His famous, long black moustachios were freshly dealt a severe blow to the fledgling society. Rosenbloom's Business School on Main. With di- waxed — I knew, because he ordered me to Wal- "Purses everywhere went suddenly empty," plomas in shorthand and typing, where was I sup- green's for Ze'Wax." The big screen lit up with one McAshan says. "The late John Blaffer was not posed to go from there? Who wanted to hire a of Dali's surrealist paintings, and the audience noted for his philanthropy, save to the Museum of frivolous-looking ex-debutante like me? My father broke into applause — the last applause of the Fine Arts. But dancing with him one night at a certainly didn't. He didn't actually fire me. He just evening, McAshan said, because the one-and-one- very gay party, I asked,'Why don't you give $5,000 smoked too many cigars trying to figure out his let- half hour lecture that followed was in Castilian to our new Heritage Society?' He said quite hap- ters from my shorthand." Spanish. pily, 'All right, I will!' I wished I had said $10,000. "Weakly, I gave him his check for $1,000," she "The next morning, sure that he had forgotten, College life laughs. "He appeared jubilant over his entire per- I received his call saying,'Come and get the check One thing the future held was study at Rice Insti- formance. For some reason, I had to know the you had a helluva lot of nerve asking me for at that tute. "We were so bad — just terrible," she laughs, name of the first slide. Kissing my hand, he mur- party!'" recalling her antics with Rice classmates. "I re- mured,'Average Atmospherocephalic Bureaucrat member there was a history teacher whose class in the Act of Milking a Cranial Harp.' That cer- With pen in hand we would deliberately talk in because we thought tainly figured." McAshan's life has not been built entirely around he was boring. I don't think I felt sorry for him until preserving Houston's history, however. For exam- about 20 years later. Preserving the legacy ple, in the late 1950s, she decided to go to cooking "It really seems to me that we were sillier and It was in that same year that McAshan began writ- school."When I told my husband that I was going to took education much less seriously then," she says ing a column for the Houston Post on Houston soci- live on the Left Bank of Paris and go to Maxim's reflectively, adding that she went back to Rice for ety (past and present) and the arts. Decades later, first cooking school, he echoed my father — 'For several courses in the 1940s as a married mother of those colums would form the groundwork for her God's sake, why?'" she laughs, adding that her two. "The funniest thing that happened, I never book, A Houston Legacy. At the time, however, the answer at 49 was similar to her answer at 7: "Be- Will forget," she says. "Dr. Slaughter gave a lec- columns were making an impact in Houston in cause I want to see what it's like to live on the Left ture once a year on sex. I was already married and other ways. Bank of Paris." had these two little children, and I was pretty "I tried to write those columns to the people Writing — not cooking — eventually claimed Prissy. He said he would give young men the same who were looking the other way as historic build- McAshan's heart. She divides her writing time be- advice that Ben Franklin had given to a young ings and early homes began crumbling under the tween her home in Houston, which has been fea- man he knew, to get himself an older woman. I wrecker, depriving future generations of their tured in Texas Architect and won a design award stood up and said,'Dr. Slaughter! I would never past," she says. from Progressive Architecture magazine, and her give my son that advice!' He said,'No, you One column dealt with the planned destruc- farm near Brenham. The farm, she said, consists Wouldn't tell him a damn thing!'" tion of the Kellum-Noble House, built in 1847 and of the main house, a reconverted railroad station Social life during her college days included the only building its age in Houston still on its she had moved onto the property to save it from trips to Sylvan Beach at LaPorte, where popular original site. "It was about to be demolished by demolition; a German house she brought from 20 dances were held. "They always had good orches- the city," McAshan recalls. "The house was con- miles outside Brenham for her son, Stuart Phelps tras and the pier was out over the water," she says. demned — tramps slept in it and it was in horrible Phelps; and a guest house, a 100-year-old struc- Other times, with Houston's arts community not shape. At one time, the Houston Zoo even used it ture moved from Independence for her daughter, developed as it is now, the students made their to put some of their animals in." Maria Phelps Penn. own entertainment. "We'd get in the car every After the column ran, an anonymous caller What with moving houses, saving houses, afternoon and go as fast as we could. There was a suggested trying to save the house. Out of that and other writing projects, McAshan says it is no hump — a railroad track — that went across Mon- phone call came the seeds of the Harris County wonder she has been working on A Houston Leg- trose Boulevard. The boys would drive as fast as Heritage Society. acy "forever." A long-time collector of local stories, they could over that hump, and we'd all be thrown "It wasn't a popular idea, not even to the city she says the book — which paints a colorful up into the top of the car. I don't know why we councilmen," McAshan says of the attempts to character-laden picture — contains only a fraction Weren't killed." save the house. "Nor was there any outcry that the of her material. proposed Allen Parkway cut in half historic Sam She supplemented her library research with An expensive lesson Houston Park, which Mayor Brashear had set a- personal interviews. "I talked to a lot of people Afternoon racing was fine for the college kids but, side in memory of Texas when it was a Republic who were old-timers in Houston over the years," OS an adult, McAshan was determined that Hous- and had a president instead of a governor." she says. "Of course, they're gone now, and their ton offer more in terms of entertainment. One of McAshan and her preservation-oriented houses are gone, but I talked to them." her favorite, if most expensive, memories involves friends garnered the support of some 200 Houstoni- One of her favorite stories has to do with the bringing noted surrealist Salvador Dali to Hous- ans to save both the house and the park. That Milby House, original home of Texas Navy Com- ton. year, in 1954, the Harris County Heritage and Con- modore John G. Tod. "It was a marvelous house, "In 1954, the late Dottie La Cour Olsen and I servation Society was born. and I went in it just before the demolition experts organized the first series to bring writers, artists Today, the society has one church and five got there," she says. "They had offered the house and philosophers to Houston," she says. Tickets houses(including the home of William Marsh to our new Heritage Society, but we didn't have any for "The Humanities Lecture Series" were $7.50. Rice) that have been restored and moved to Sam money to move it." The house came down. "That we had no money and no experience Houston Park. Restoration awaits the 1890 Stati Even as McAshan is working on another book, didn't seem problems to us. I just went to New York House, and a small museum (designed by archi- the story of Monroe Edwards, a "colorful character and told one of the top agencies that we wanted to tect Barry Moore '62) is exhibiting artifacts that who had a plantation outside Houston," her story ,sign up Carl Sandburg, the Will Durants, Louis will eventually go into the $25 million Museum of of A Houston Legacy is spreading. Each year, she untermeyer, James Michener and Salvador Dali. Texas History and Technology that is in the plan- says, Houston and Stavenger, its sister city in Nor- The agent, apparently under the spell of Texas, ning stages. way, exchange gifts. "This year, Houston sent cop- handed them over at $250 each, except Salvador Saving the Kellum-Noble House was not ies of A Houston Legacy," she laughs. "Now, don't bctli — he cost $1,000. It didn't worry us as it cer- enough — it had to be restored to its original glory. you just love that?"

Sesquicentennial at Rice The following Rice activities related to the Houston and '27. Julia Ideson Building of the Houston Public Library. A May 9-10 Texas sesquicentennials are scheduled in the coming special lecture will be held on the 15th at 7 p.m. in the RAY MILLER'S GALVESTON: onths. An updated calendar of sesquicentennial activi- Ideson Auditorium. Co-sponsored by the Houston Public A TOUR OF THE ISLAND CITY Sallyport in 1986. Library's Metropolitan Research Center and the I 'les41f will be published in each issue of Houston Visit points of interest in Galveston with Ray Miller. Of- ormation on continuing studies programs may be American Institute of Architects. fered through the offices of continuing studies and spe- obtained by calling 520-6022 or 527-4803. cial programs. 11 April 25-27 WALTZING ACROSS TEXAS Through mid-May pril 15 Join Ray Miller and John Coffman for a three-day tour of FONDREN LIBRARY DISPLAYS 74RviN C. MOORE, HOUSTON ARCHITECT sites important in the drive for Texas independence. Of- From now until mid-May, Fondren Library will feature 41. 1exhibition of architectural drawings and other mate- fered through the offices of continuing studies and spe- displays on Texas heroes, myths, literature, history and illustrating the career of architect Harvin C. Moore cial programs. ethnic groups. SALLYPORT—APRIL-MAY 1986 9 L -/J that /1The Ovid Roars

Rice's KTRU-FM might be making plans to move out of the underground (their underground studios, that is), but the format that's getting them noticed in Houston is here to stay. i00 by Scheleen Johnson

Driving through Houston on any given day or afford wide distribution. That's where KTRU comes band. On May 20, 1971, after an extensive applica- night, the casual listener playing with his car's FM in. They send us records because they know that if tion period and a huge campus campaign to in- dial might hesitate when the needle hits 91.7, anybody will plug them, we will." crease the student blanket tax for support, Rice KTRU. Located on the band between the Christian Since one man's art is another's trash, the fact radio signed on with its third set of call letters. music station KSBJ and "easy listening" station that KTRU's air fare is left primarily up to the DJs Since the KOWL name was already being used by KYND, KTRU's playlist of music by groups with makes for a very diverse mixture. During a three- a commercial station, the new FM station called it- such names as Squirrelbait, Zeitgeist and Gang hour shift, listeners might hear anything from self KTRU. Green is, if nothing else, an attention-grabber. blues to hardcore punk, from '60s folk to avant- Attention is something this small, public radio garde '80s electronics. The campus news source station no longer lacks. As Houston's only all- KTRU is also one of the few Houston stations Scott Hochberg '75 came to Rice as a freshman the student radio station on the air 24 hours a day, where the request line is not just a terminally busy following fall. He and fellow freshman Tag seven days a week, KTRU has a rapidly growing number. Listeners call in and talk to the DJ on Borland "happened to be in the wrong place at the following that is just as diverse as the music it duty, and requests fill about 15 minutes per hour wrong time," and found themselves installing a plays. Young Urban Professionals working in the — by design, not by a lack of calls. As often as console for KTRU. Soon, the two engineering stu- local business community join members of the Ur- they ask for callers, DJs can be heard begging lis- dents were part of the new station's team. ban Animals(a gang of roller skaters who roam teners not to call because of an overload of re- In the early days, Hochberg says, the station the streets of downtown Houston) and 14-year-old quests. had a reputation as the campus news source."We high school students in listening to "the voice of KTRU also has a playlist denoting music to be used to do extensive coverage of the space shots, Rice University." played on heavy, moderate or light rotation, and a he recalls. "We would broadcast continuously dur- The 650-watt station, completely run by stu- variety of special programs air during the week. ing the space launches, 24 hours a day with no dents and alumni, features a staff of some 75 peo- Humble beginnings commentary. We just hooked up a little mixing ple, mostly music fans or engineering students board down at NASA and, via telephone, they'd who "wandered by, looking for a good time." Good Today, KTRU centers around its music, and though send us continuous air-to-ground coverage. During times are all they receive for their efforts. Since no some of its personnel might shudder at the the Masterson crisis, the station was the only leak one at KTRU, as most of the disc jockeys are quick thought, it has a distinct low-key professionalism. anybody had to what was going on. Rice was to point out, gets paid, it is not uncommon to hear When Rice radio began some 20 years ago, how- never really a radical place but during that time it a DJ apologize for a missed cue with KTRU's stand- ever, that wasn't the case. was as radical as it became." ard catch-phrase,"What do you want for nothing?" KTRU had its seeds in a homemade transmit- The early '70s version of KTRU also transmit- ter set up by a Hanszen College engineering stu- Altitudinal changes ted a lot of outdoor broadcasts — baseball games, dent in 1967. KHCR (Hanszen College Radio), theatrical productions and elections. Currently, KTRU is literally an "underground" sta- which sent "broadcasts" through the college's in- Hochberg noted that the 10-watt station had nr tion, located in the basement of the Rice Memorial tercom system, was such a success that the engi- very limited range and was simulcast on the old Center. By mid-summer, however, the station's vol- neers decided to expand their broadcasts carrier-current system. "At night, we had an auto- unteers will pick up the two turntables and move campus-wide. mated jukebox on the carrier current," he laughs. to the newly renovated second floor of the Ley Stu- By hand-converting an old radio transmitter "It was a huge, clunky, automated album player dent Center. that had been moved to the RMC basement, the in- with 50 albums. When we signed off on the FM The change in altitude does not mean a novators strung a wire antenna between Brown side and nobody was there, we would leave this change in attitude. KTRU staff members say they and Jones colleges and began transmitting a sig- on continuously so it would play all night. It used will continue to bring their fans(and the casual nal onto the air at 580 AM. KOWL was born. to grind the records because it played them verti- listeners who stumble past) the same alternative, Before long, however, someone realized there cally and the tone arm would come up with about "underground" music they expect. was just one problem — without a license, the five pounds of force and hold itself there. You'd lit- What qualifies music as "underground?" As transmissions were blatantly illegal. Appealing to erally have to come in every morning and clean current KTRU general manager Alex Malinin, a the dean of students, the engineers were allowed record-shavings out of the bottom. It was awful senior in architecture, explains,"We play a lot of to go to a carrier-current system, laying cable stuff, but a lot of people woke up to it." music you can't walk into Sound Warehouse and through the steam tunnel. buy. The Indies(independent record labels) send Since the carrier-current system proved unreli- Power plays us a lot of material that is really good music, but able and was limited strictly to campus, students In October 1973, KTRU made the change from mon' because of the bands' limited budgets, they can't decided in 1969 to try and get the station on the FM aural to stereo operation. During the following

10 SALLYPORT—APRIL-MAY 1986 spring, an increase in power from 10 to 250 watts any other current shift. "It is truly one of those Like Sides 10 years before him, Shea takes his meant reaching the entire Rice community. things you either love or you hate," says Malinin, job seriously. "I've tried to make it a little more di- It also meant getting new equipment."We adding that, however one feels about the show one verse," he says. "I've tried to air more local music. begged, borrowed and stole," Hochberg says, ex- must admit "the hoopla about it has brought more For the playlist, I try to look at a record objectively plaining that equipment meeting FCC regulations listeners to our station." and see if it fits into the KTRU philosophy. We try was required to replace the "home-brew equip- The subject of that hoopla is generated by the to always be at least one step ahead of the other ment" on which the station had relied in the past. show's current DJs Mock, Bob "Mr. Record Man" stations. Right now, we're miles and miles ahead Mike ''Dingbat" Gladu has seen all the Fergeson, and Hope Sanford. Together with "the of them all, but some of the commercial stations changes. A volunteer engineer for KTRU since gang" that shows up at the station during the are starting to play things that only we used to 1974, Gladu says during the '70s there was usually show, these three combine punk rock with current play. The difference is, they play whatever will no more than 30 people on the staff, and most of events, trivia, interviews and random humor to maximize their listenership, which in turn maxi- those were involved in production and engineer- produce three hours of unpredictable radio. mizes their profits. We don't care about markets. ing. The idea was "creating for the sake of creat- The original show, started in the late 1970s, We're interested in radio as an art form — good ing," he says, adding that KTRU was an was dubbed the "M&M Show" by creators Mock music, not necessarily popular music. "engineering toy. Everybody was gung-ho and and Mahran Goram (alias Max Grant). "KTRU was "Listening to KTRU is like an education," Shea things sort of grew by themselves. We started off pretty much a hippie-rock station in those days," says."We have a musically educated audience. It as just another top 40 station, but as we went up in Mock recalls. "They were looking backward and is not just noise in the background to drown out power and found that people were really listening not at the new stuff. The only punk album KTRU your vacuum cleaner. Most people who really give to us, we became more concerned with our posi- owned was the Sex Pistols." Goram and Mock KTRU a chance and listen to it for about a week re- tion on the dial. We found that people really ex- brought in their own records, and the show began. ally learn to enjoy it. Nobody likes everything pected something from us, being Rice folks and Sanford, Fergeson and Mock's version of the played on the station but those who listen with an all." "S&M Show" has brought a wealth of publicity to open mind usually find that they are tapping their With the realization that people were expecting the station. In addition to frequent features in foot more often than changing the dial." to hear something different, the KTRU staff began Houston high school papers, the "S&M Show" has To keep those educated listeners listening, taking a harder look at their programming. As the been the subject of feature articles in Dallas' Xtrct Shea says KTRU must keep moving forward. To- position of music director took on new meaning, magazine, in both of Houston's daily newspapers, ward that end, he keeps track of other college ra- the time was right for Bob Sides '74. in the weekly Public News, and in Houston Style dio playlists, and this year reinstituted try-outs for Sides, now with Warner/Asylum Records in magazine. In Houston City magazine's annual disc jockeys. For the first time in KTRU history, Dallas, said KTRU helped him develop his focus at "Best of Houston" poll this year, the show was staff members this year participated in the Col- Rice. As a consequence, Sides helped focus KTRU. named best radio show in the city, beating out all lege Media Journal Music Festival in New York "I did not know why I was going to college," he its major-league commercial competition. City, where they had the chance to meet people says. "I got accepted at Rice, so I decided to go." from various record companies. II- Moving up in the world The summer before his freshman year, Sides de- With an ever-critical eye on its playlists and a cided to pursue a career in broadcasting. "Rice did The 163 hours a week that the "S&M Show" is not move from the basement to new second-floor facil- not have a communications school, but I started on the air is the domain of current music director ities, KTRU might be losing a little more of its am- asking around because I heard a rumor about this and Rice senior Ray Shea, who spends around 20 ateur status, but not its dedication — or its sense closet in the basement of the RMC with a bunch of hours a week making sure the 100 albums KTRU of humor. engineering students and a couple of whackos receives each week are listened to and all cuts "Where is KTRU going in the future?" Malinin who were broadcasting. I went to check it out." with any of the FCC's "seven dirty words" are cen- asks. "Up two floors and facing west toward the A music fan who says he "always listened to sored out. sunset." the rich kids' album collections" at boarding school, Sides soon took over as music director. It was a position he enjoyed. "I was more than happy to force my musical tastes on the mass public," he laughs. Sides, along with John Doerr '73, were respon- t- sible for the promotion of music on KTRU, and the two set up a system that is still in use today. During that time, Sides says, they began con- tacting record companies for free mailings, and in- stituted the still-used system of playlist rotation and album reviewing. Though KTRU staff received no pay, many former KTRU staff members have benefited from the experience. Sides built up a reputation for KTRU with the record companies, but he was also able to work for A&M Records as a college repre- sentative during his junior and senior years at Rice and eventually found a career in the record- ing industry. Hochberg and Bourland went on to form Logitek, a Houston-based firm that manufac- tures audio equipment for radio and television sta- tions. Former KTRU staffer Patti Bellis '79 also works for Logitek, and Hochberg notes that quite a few other former KTRU staff members have used their experience as a stepping-stone to profes- sional media careers. Hochberg's younger brother, Lee (class of '79), is a freelance documentary pro- ducer in Seattle, for example, while his fellow KTRU newsperson, Sandy Rivera '77, is now a broadcast journalist at Houston's CBS affiliate. Changing tunes During Sides' reign as music director, KTRU 'evolved from being a copy-cat top 40 station to more of a progressive station," he says. "We were looking at Houston radio at the time and there re- ally was not that much. We tried to be the album- rock station. We wanted to be the opposite of the commercial station hype. Other stations had slo- gans and things like that — we were just 'the ra- dio.' We attempted to be non-personality and let everyone in." That policy remains true today, with one nota- (named for the sometimes.' ble exception — the "S&M Show" be fun, Shea:'It can initials of founder Marilyn Mock and her former director Ray Friday music n- on-air partner, Shawn), which airs each KTRU from 7-10 p.m. and receives more publicity than

SALLYPORT—APRIL-MAY 1986 1 1 "Libraries are at one of those great turning points out of space sometime in 1986. in history, as in 1453 with Gutenberg and the print- That estimate was made based on Fondren's ing press." University Librarian Sam Carrington is then-current holdings of 1.2 million volumes and a relaxing over coffee in his office on Fondren Li- growth rate of approximately 40,000 volumes per brary's second floor, mulling over the challenges year, and did not take into account that portion of libraries are facing with escalations in informa- Fondren's 250,000 square feet not used for housing tion, technology and costs. books.(The fourth floor houses the history depart- The challenges of libraries in general, and ment, for example, while continuing studies occu- Fondren Library in particular, are something Car- pies a small portion of the basement.) rington knows all too well. As what one professor "We have a building initially designed for a called "the guts of the university," the library is student body of 1,500 students in 1948, if that perhaps Rice's one common ground, the spot many," Carrington says. "And in building the ad- where everyone — faculty, staff and students from dition in 1968, I don't think a great deal of thought all disciplines — have been, and a topic about was given to what might happen in the next 10- or which everyone has an opinion. 20-year period of growth of the university. So now Carrington knows those opinions all too well, we have a 1968 facility designed for a student- too. For some, Fondren Library is all it should be. faculty population of 1968." For others, whose complaints range from "too Carrington noted, however, that in 1968 no one cold" to a blanket condemnation of "it's a shame could have anticipated the explosion in the infor- and a disgrace," saying that there is room for im- mation industry, an explosion that has placed provement is an understatement. great strain both on library budgets and facilities. If those of the "all is well" school are right, The Board of Governors accepted the library's why are the detractors saying such terrible things 1984 proposal to extend existing space, Carrington t] about Fondren? If the critics are correct, why are says, "also recognizing the need for a major reno- some people satisfied? As with any issue about vation of the building, improving both the me- which opinions are so disparate and emotions so chanical and the physical amenities. The board strong, the truth probably lies somewhere in be- approved the proposal for such a renovation, sub- tween, its clarity muddied by as many factors as ject to raising the money from outside sources." a there are opinions and by the realization that The Rice development office, he says, is in the there are no easy answers if, indeed, answers are process of raising renovation funds in excess of $2 available at all. million. "I'm hopeful we can see something surfac- ing within the next year. As soon as the money is From the ground up assembled, we will consult with an architect and When Edgar Odell Lovett came to campus as with appropriate faculty members and the library Rice's first president, he brought along the seeds staff on questions not only of space and physical of a library, a crate of books from his own collec- needs but of aesthetics, which are just as impor- tion. By the mid-1940s, the library collection had Parovicini tant. outgrown its spot in Lovett Hall, and Fondren Li- "This renovation will cover not only redesign- brary was born. Philippe ing space — knocking down walls here and put- It is that original 1948 building (and 1968 addi- by ting up walls there — but will be concerned with tion), sitting at the foot of the academic quadran- lighting, with replacing those 40-year-old chairs gle, that comes under siege most regularly. Photos that are breaking down." "The library disserves the community most be- The renovation to which Carrington refers will cause it is a depressing place to be," says English primarily affect the first-floor public area. As for professor Robert Patten, a member of 1984 library the stack area itself, whether it will involve an ad- self-study panel and a current member of the uni- dition to the existing building or a new building is versity library committee, a group of faculty mem- anyone's guess. For now, steps to extend Fondren's bers and students with Carrington, associate shelving space are being taken. librarian James Thompson and provost Neal Lane "Even if you started today in an effort to raise .How funds for an addition to the library's physical facil- as ex officio members. "From my point of view, the building does not ities, I believe it would be conservative to say that te really serve its purpose," Patten says. "It functions the day that you could actually use such a new fa- Sc for the wholly utilitarian aspects of reading, and cility would be eight-to-ten years from now," says sti bespeaks Rice's technological bias, but who goes Popiodren library committee chairman Franz Brotzen, a pro- b€ to the library just to read a good book or to get in- fessor of materials science."We have to have th spiration from the display of past learning, as at some long-range planning. In the meantime, we• ai Yale's Beinecke Library?" can make ends meet by some drastic means." Music professor Anne Schnoebelen agrees. "I Otpomilore The "drastic means" to which Brotzen refers sil find the library very uninviting," she says. "I love involve rearrangement of the stacks and high- sh libraries, and I do not find this one a happy place density, remote storage of what the library deems ul to work." little-used materials. These measures have al- br Patten and Schnoebelen are two of many, in- ready been implemented or are in progress, and th4 cluding a high number of current Rice students both have drawn a heavy dose of faculty criticism. no and librarian Carrington himself, who bemoan a heating, cooling and lighting system set up in the Buying time rei 1940s and furniture that has suffered too many By Oct. 1, reconfiguration of the library stacks will years of heavy use. be complete — "reconfiguration" referring to the po Carrington paces one of the first-floor reading shelves being turned 90 degrees and moved closer rot rooms, pulling chairs back for inspection, their together in order to make room for more. rnE leather seats — plush in the 1940s — ripped, by Suzanne Johnson "In November 1984, I proposed that we could /TIC scarred and uncomfortable. "These chairs have extend the life of the building, based on the cur- sa: been here since the library was built," he says, rent growth rate, for perhaps another decade by thE shaking his head and taking a disparaging look at various means — first and foremost, reconfigura- bu a sagging blind. Fondren Library in 1986 — tion of the stacks," Carrington says. Stacks are be- It's just a matter of time before major renova- is it keeping up with the times, ing moved 28 inches apart instead of their former tion takes place, Carrington says, a renovation width of 32-34 inches. Based on the reconfiguration nu whose need was underscored not only by sagging falling behind the times, that has been completed to date on the second and col blinds and torn upholstery, but by the 1984 self- its time? third floors, Carrington estimates an increase in un: study's report that Fondren Library was quickly or ahead of shelving capacity of 25 percent. brc running out of space — not only space for students Sal lyport checks the mood Reconfiguration, however, has been strongly wh to study, but for its chief raison d'etre, the collec- protested by a number of faculty members. "It has sh< tions. across campus and certainly enhanced the feeling of lack of space," bui discovers the answer is, says history professor Katherine Drew '44, chair- nal Finding room to grow man of the 1984 library self-study panel, which ide A university subcommittee on space saturation, on all three counts,'yes.' recommended immediate formation of plans for an formed to study the library's rapidly diminishing addition. "One has to make a conscious effort to stack space, concluded in its March 1985 report walk without hitting the shelves." ma that, if no changes were made, Fondren would run The fact that total reconfiguration was imple- -/ 12 SALLYPORT—APRIL-MAY 1986 %sum mented without reaching a consensus among op- library's second floor to house the art and music posing faculty, Drew says, underscores what she collections. The Brown facility, funded by a special calls her "biggest complaint with the library." appropriation from the board and scheduled for "It is operated as if it were a totally indepen- completion by fall, is perhaps a prototype of Fon- dent facility on campus without any relationship dren's future. A spacious, attractive, well-lit and whatsoever to its users," she says. "For example, thoroughly modern arrangement of stacks, listen- the decision to put the stacks closer together was ing stations and reading spaces, the facility also made in spite of consistent opposition from the has its own circulation desk. faculty." That opposition, she says, included an Its security system is also up-to-date. Each outpouring against reconfiguration on the part of exit is equipped with an alarm, and motion detec- the university library committee, which, she says, tors throughout the area will signal campus police "seems to have become more of a confrontation of any movement after-hours. An electronic gate at group than a consultation group." the main entrance automatically locks and sets off "We do have a consultation mechanism," Car- an alarm if someone tries to exit with a book that rington counters. "The library committee is very has not been specially processed at the circulation important, and I have taken any major policy desk. changes through that committee, which repre- The "master plan" for Fondren library that sents the interests of the faculty and the students. Boterf Carrington hopes to begin working on in the next I'm sure there have been lapses where we haven't year — the same plan that will refurbish the first- been able to consult with all 400 faculty members, floor areas — will include allowances for such an

but we certainly make an effort." Alexandra electronic security system for the entire library, he

Brotzen says the library committee, headed at by says. that time by astronomy and space physics profes- sor C.R. O'Dell, formed its subcommittee on space Photo Going on-line saturation in order to address the options availa- Long before funds are raised for that refurbish- ble for extending the shelving space of the library an example. This would of course defeat the pur- ment another of Fondren's major projects will be until a new addition or facility could be made pose of having a common ground between the var- completed — conversion of the card catalog into a available. The subcommittee chairman was ious cultures, which a small university like ours machine-readable format. Katherine Drew. needs. It is an issue that will require considerable The computerized catalog system, called and careful study." NOTIS(Northwestern On-Line Timesharing Infor- mation System), has been in the process of instal- Beefing up security lation for the past year, with 14 library staff While the 1984 self-study underscored problems members working on it an average of five hours a 'As the faculty grows with the with the library's physical facilities, it also placed day. Each entry in the card catalog is placed on enhancement plans Dr. Rupp a high priority on improving one of Carrington's the computer and cross-referenced. By plugging has talked about, it will place chief concerns, security. an author or subject into one of the computer ter- minals set up throughout the library, for example, substantial new demands on At the time the study was done, associate li- the user will be able in a matter of seconds to see book-buying. My question is, brarian James C. Thompson estimated that per- haps as much as 10 percent of the library's collec- a detailed list of everything on that topic available will the library budget get an tion had been stolen or vandalized. According to at Fondren, where in the library it can be found, increase in funding to reflect Carrington, theft was the tip of the iceberg. and whether or not it is checked out. this growth? As a chairman, I "We've come in at 2 or 3 a.m. and found high By late March, 98 percent of Fondren's card cat- get into this problem every school kids drunk in the study rooms," he says. alog was already in the computer system. "That's time we hire a new faculty "We've found indications where people have gone something most libraries can't say," Carrington member.' in and stacked whole shelves full of books on the says, adding that the "official opening" of the on- — Ira D. Gruber,chairman floor just for the heck of it. People were 'borrowing line catalog will come in early April. history books without authorization,' if that's what you "We're very excited about it. It has marvelous want to call stealing, and last summer in the back subsystems that include circulation, in-house cat- The final subcommittee report, filed by O'Dell part of the library, we systematically went through aloging, acquisition systems, check-in systems. as part of his annual report for the library commit- and found hundreds of books that had been hid- People are going to know instantaneously if we re- tee, concluded, "Reconfiguration is not a desirable den behind the ceiling panels." ceived the last issue of Nature magazine, for ex- solution to the problem of space; should all the Much of the vandalism and "noise pollution," ample. And over the next year, we'll get important stacks be reconfigured...the library will certainly Carrington says, could be traced to the large num- enhancements from the vendor which will include become a much less attractive place to work than ber of area high school students using the library keyword search, browsing by call number, and the present. Not only is it unpleasant to walk down as a place to socialize. There were also problems dial-up access from remote locations." aisles so narrow as to induce a sense of claustro- with vagrants virtually living in the stairwells, phobia, but on the more practical side it is impos- and several Rice co-eds reported being harrassed sible to read the titles of books placed on the lower in the stacks. shelves. As reconfiguration continues, those fac- As a result, a policy of "controlled access" was ulty members who find their own area of the li- adopted early this year under which anyone enter- brary affected are certain to scream. Therefore, ing the library after 2 p.m. must present some form the committee thinks that total reconfiguration is of identification or, in the case of high school stu- 'I've never really had any not an acceptable alternative." dents, written authorization to use the library. problems finding what I need, But Carrington says both reconfiguration and "We felt this would be an appropriate policy but the atmosphere is not a remote storage — which involves moving what li- and it would still be in consonance with the terms very pleasant one to study brary personnel deem lesser-used items to some of William Marsh Rice's indenture and will," Car- In.' point outside the stack area and which has also rington says. Under that indenture, the library — Jim Rice,student roused its share of antipathy among some faculty must remain a public resource. mechanical engineering members who say they were not consulted on what Though no formal study has been done, Car- materials are actually "lesser-used" — are neces- rington feels the controlled access policy has been sary to make Fondren's existing facilities last for a success. "It's only a perception at this point, but Part of the renovation project, Carrington the decade that is needed in order to fund and we have noticed a significant decline in graffiti," says, will deal with how to best use all of the build whatever form of expansion is decided on. he says."We really don't know what pages were space that will be made available by removal of Brotzen notes that whatever decision is made cut out of books before the policy was imple- the old card catalog (which will be kept for refer- — whether for a new building or an addition — a mented, but our perception is that a lot fewer ence)from the first floor. It will also provide for ter- number of factors will have to be taken into ac- pages are being cut out. We certainly aren't hav- minals not only in the main first-floor area but at count. "Let's assume, for argument's sake, that the ing the problems of books just being stacked up points throughout the stacks as well. university contemplates an addition to the li- and down the aisles, and the noise pollution has brary," he says. "Then you have the question of decreased significantly." A change in outlook whether you should add a new building or you The controlled access policy is a stop-gap Carrington noted that funds spent between 1980- should add to the present building. Yet the library measure until the funds can be found and a plan 1985 for NOTIS and the library's automation pro- building is not as ideal as we had thought origi- approved that would provide for an electronic se- gram were not taken from its operating budget. nally when it was built, so it might not be a bad curity system, a type of safeguard already in use "Rice's library has obtained a state-of-the-art tech- idea to consider a second building. in many public and university libraries and one nology for the acquisition and delivery of informa- "Once a decision is made for a new building, that was recommended for Rice in the 1984 self- tion that will enable it to participate fully in the another problem must be faced. You say, okay, let's study. goals and targets of the Rupp administration," he make the second building cover a certain area — Such a system is already in place in the new says. let's say science and engineering, again only as Alice Pratt Brown facility being completed on the Faith that the Rupp administration's commit-

SALLYPORT—APRIL-MAY 1986 13 ment to the library will lead to a greater level of The materials budget is divided into alloca- overall support than that provided in the past is tions for individual disciplines. "Each year, my echoed across campus by a number of faculty staff reviews the spending patterns of the various members. One, history professor Francis disciplines over the past two or three years," Car- Loewenheim, a 26-year veteran of the Rice faculty rington explained."We project what their needs and admittedly one of the library's strongest crit- might be, taking into account new faculty. We con- ics, doesn't mince words. "I have no doubt that a sult our vendors, and publishers in general. We large part of the Rice library's problems are — and search the literature and try to project the inflation have been for the past decade or so — financial," rate, discipline by discipline." he says. "For years, to put it bluntly, the university That inflation rate varies, Carrington says. has suffered from its equivalent of the Gramm- For example, two years ago the inflation rate for Rudman madness. Its operating philosophy — a engineering journals was 13 percent, while scien- kind of academic bullionism — was to starve the tific journals had increased 10 percent and social campus...of desperately needed funds, while run- science journals 6 percent. ning up large budget surpluses and impressive- "We also have to just guess at what the for- looking endowment figures. eign exchange rate is going to be, because we or- "That may be the approved way to operate a der a significant amount of material from Europe. Fortune 500 corporation," Loewenheim says. "But it So if the dollar goes up, we're in gravy; if it goes is not, I submit, any way to operate a first-rate uni- down, we've got problems." versity, and certainly not Rice." Other components of the library's budget go Both Loewenheim and Patten, who in 1984 tes- for acquisitions but are not divided among the dis- timony before the self-study panel likened the li- ciplines, Carrington says. For example, the library brary to "a World War II battleship — ugly, tested, has a general reference budget that covers some and minimally functional," echoed a widespread journals and monographs. commitment acquisitions from en- belief in the current administration's "You keep going through these cycles that are The library also receives era funds, which Carrington says have to the library. "Under President Rupp, a new not so much the case in science or engineering. dowment says."A first- of less than $200,000 a has hopefully begun," Loewenheim I'm not sure what you could do about it." grown from a market value rate university with a third-rate library is an ab- year in 1979 to $1.65 million in 1985. Still other These cycles, Drew says, are a way of life. surdity. No one knows what it would cost to bring funds are acquired through the work of the Friends "The history collection has been developed in reasonably adequate stand- of Fondren's successful gifts and memorials pro- the Rice library up to those areas where we are actually teaching and staff, service. funds which Carrington says are earmarked ards, in terms of building, holdings, faculty members are doing research, but a con- gram, enhance the collections beyond what can be It is an expense, however vast, that the university scious effort has been made not to acquire across to vaunted must face up to, or forget about its other the board," she says. "And that means that in a done within the operating budget. dreams or ambitions." good many areas, we have a really first-class col- Rice provost Neal Lane says a new subcom- lection here. But, in the case of history, you could fu- mittee has been formed to discuss the library's move just 10 years off and we wouldn't have any ture, particularly how President Rupp's plans for collection at all. So, yes, we have these marvelous enhancing the faculty by an estimated 25 percent pockets of well-developed library acquisitions, but will affect both the library's budget and space lim- 'I've seen no significant im- not across the board. At a place the size of Rice, I provements of any type in the itations. That committee, headed by history pro- don't see how you could collect across the board." four years I've been here. The fessor John Boles, will be making its study in the Where collections fall short, interlibrary loan mem- place is very dreary, has un- coming months, at which time committee comes into play, and Rice also has a cooperative discuss their bers will meet with Rupp and Lane to agreement with the Jesse H. Jones Library of the comfortable furniture and findings. University of Texas Medical Center. It is a system bad lighting.' There are many among the Rice faculty and that seems to find favor with most. "I use the Uni- — John C. Lane,student library enhancement plans students who hope any versity of Houston library for some items and inter- biology im- will include larger departmental budgets to library loan provides others. One always has to 'In my field, there is a severe prove and increase collections. consider the resources of an entire city," says lack of new and updated School of Humanities dean Allen Matusow, while psychology professor John Brelsford says, "If you books. They definitely need can get material that we don't have from some to keep up with the current UI technology, which is con- other source, it really doesn't matter if it came from 'I think there's significant Fondren or from the Jesse Jones Library. We're stantly changing.' room for improvement in our lucky we have that available to us." — Wei Ling Wang,student library — you'd always like The area of cooperation works both ways, Car- computer science to see it bigger, better, and rington says, noting that Fondren is a founding better-funded. But I wouldn't member of the Houston Area Research Library The discretionary funds, Carrington says, point my finger and say this Consortium whereby there is "reciprocal borrow- have allowed the library to make special pur- whose budgets could not person or these people are ing protocol" among its seven members. Fondren chases for disciplines is the only U.S. patent depository in the Houston absorb the costs — purchases that vary from Con- doing a bad job. The librari- area, and is also one of the selected depositories federate Imprints to past New York Stock Exchange ans have done as good a job for government documents — an area for which it 10K reports. as they can given the budget- this year received a coveted certificate of merit af- ary constraints they have to ter inspection by the Government Printing Office. Cost accounting work under.' The Regional Information and Communica- Still, Carrington admits, inflation has taken its toll — William C. Martin,chairman tion Exchange (R.i.C.E.) program, using both Fon- on how far the departmental budgets — and the sociology dren and worldwide resources, provides technical discretionary funds — will go. reports, monographs, journal articles, patents, "We have all suffered from inflation over the At present, opinions on the holdings at Fon- conference proceedings and other requested items last two decades to a very high degree, and li- dren vary. As chairman of the library committee, to corporate and private clients. R.i.C.E., Car- braries have suffered far more than the rest of us," Franz Brotzen hears most of them. "In my field, the rington says, is one of the largest such operations Brotzen says. "For one thing, journals — particu- library holdings are excellent," he says. "I know, in the United States that is associated with an aca- larly journals abroad — have increased their costs however, from contact with faculty that this does demic library. enormously — doubled, tripled, quadrupled. In not hold for all fields, though it does hold true for addition, the number of journals that spring up is many. Though we do quite well in the science and The matter of money unbelievably high. engineering area, this is not always true in the lib- Community interaction aside, the size and scope "Almost every week I get an announcement of eral arts." of Fondren's own collection is determined by avail- a new journal that is in my area or close to my area There are reasons for the disparity, he says. able budget and by faculty input. and, quite frankly, yes, I would like to see them "Obviously, the liberal arts areas are far more The library budget, Carrington says, is di- here. But we can't realistically expect to buy every- library-intensive than the science-engineering ar- vided into three areas — salaries, equipment thing. We are being hit by a double whammy here eas. Let's say we have a professor in English, for (which includes everything from paper to mainte- — the rising cost of journals, and more journals." example, and he has over the years ordered a lot of nance contracts) and materials. The materials Psychology's Brelsford agreed. "As far as psy- things for the library in his particular field. Now budget, which accounts for some 42 percent of the chology is concerned, I think the library is in suppose this professor retires, or dies, or moves library's total, goes for acquisitions. This figure, pretty good shape," he says. "We've all suffered away. We still have these holdings, and it is good Carrington says, is higher than that for most of cutbacks in the past few years, and we systemati- that we do. But the next person who comes in Rice's sister institutions in the Association of Re- cally try to reduce the things we order. I've been might have no use for those holdings, and starts search Libraries, which average around 30 percent here 15 years, and I find that somebody over the building up the collection in his or her field. for acquisitions. years has tried to maintain the relevant literature

14 SALLYPORT—APRIL-MAY 1986 that we need for research." ily in microforms than most of its ARL counter- Opinions about the adequacy of departmental parts. budgets vary with the departments, and, as Brot- "We have acquired, or in the process of acquir- zen noted, it is often a "sticky point." ing, all printed material in England and the "Some departments, of course, feel they're be- United States before 1801, for example. We are ac- ing had, and other departments do not necessarily quiring a substantial collection in 19th century take advantage of the funds available." American periodicals. But I can't count any of Once the budget is received within the depart- these as volumes because they're on microfilm," ment, it is the responsibility of individual faculty Carrington says, adding that Fondren currently members to make their book purchase needs has approximately 1,700,000 microforms. known to the department's library liaison. "The book is never going to disappear," Car- How well the system works depends on the in- rington says, "but we are in the age of information dividual faculty members. Drew, who acts as the — not the age of the computer, but the age of infor- library liaison for the history department, says mation. We're not trying to be experimental, but history is a good example of how cooperation of we are trying to be responsive. We're more ad- faculty varies. "An attempt is made to equalize the vanced than a lot of them, but the move toward mi- availability of funds between different faculty croforms and electronic storage media is occurring members," she says. "But then one runs up rapidly in research libraries all over the country." against the problem of some faculty members Yet another factor not reflected by ARL rank- never doing anything about ordering books, while ings Brotzen says, is Rice's idea of a professor's others are working very hard to locate recent role. "I do not know of a single other university in publications and acquire them. So you just have to the country where the idea of a professor is the try to juggle between these two extremes." same as that at Rice," he says."We expect a pro- Still, with inflation, the budget only goes so fessor to be both an undergraduate teacher and a far, and Drew noted that the history department scholar. You can maintain a very fine college with- make this library a major depository in German has already depleted its budget for the year. "We out any graduate programs and without any ex- would be very difficult. German is a peripheral always spend what we get, but we ran out earlier pected scholarship and still have a very fine small area, and we'd need to at least double the hold- than usual this year," she says. library. At Rice, we are in a sense sitting some- ings to make it a German research library — I'm Both Brotzen and Carrington say that, while where in between." not sure there is the want and the need for such a departmental budgets might fall short, requests Are the low ARL rankings meaningless for thing in Houston." for purchases made from the discretionary funds Rice, then? "No, they do reflect something," Brot- Whether or not faculty members consider it a are honored as often as possible. zen says. "I'm not saying they are the most impor- research library, Fondren is nonetheless one of "I do not know of the library turning down any some 101 members of the Association of Research reasonable request for purchases of books outside Libraries (ARL). Looking at ARL statistics alone, the limitations of the allocations to the various dis- the fact that Rice has consistently ranked at or ciplines," Carrington says, while Brotzen noted near the bottom in the organization's annual rank- that often, faculty members, not aware that the ings does not sit well with some. IM special funds are available, just assume there is There are a number of factors, however, that no money for extra purchases and do not try to ob- the ARL statistics do not take into account, Car- 'It's up and down. People tain them. rington says. have been able to carry on Collective values The ARL rankings, based primarily on the important research, but it's number of volumes in the library, do not reflect not a major research library While the library and different disciplines are Fondren's policy of not buying duplicate copies — by any means.' struggling to live within their budgets, many if another library has 10 copies of a book, for ex- within those disciplines are nonetheless express- — Alan Grob,chairman ample, ARL counts it as 10 books. Also, Carrington ing concern over the quality of the collections as a English says, Rice is competing against older, larger whole. schools, many of which have library-intensive The 1984 self-study, Patten says, concluded medical and law programs and more degree pro- tant barometer of the quality of our library, but that the quality of the collections was declining as grams overall than Rice. they are significant. As a member of the Associa- older books deteriorate and budget constraints But most significantly, he says, the statistics tion of Research Libraries, we have an obligation make keeping up with new publications difficult, only reflect printed material and not microforms. as far as holdings and other aspects are con- and for the first time ever, he says, students were Being a newer library particularly by East Coast cerned, and I believe an effort is made to maintain standards, Fondren has invested much more heav- this standard." Still, the sight of Rice at the bottom of the ARL heap rankles with some. "Rice's library is consid- erably smaller than Dartmouth's, which has only nine doctoral programs," Patten says, noting that 'We have a big hole where Rice is also ranked lower than Oklahoma State books were not ordered, but and Howard universities. "I'm sorry, but I think Rice should have a better library than OSU or Ho- we do have the periodicals ward," he says. we need. Our holdings have "President Hackerman used to argue that the improved substantially in the library could eat up any amount of dollars we were last few years.' willing to put into it. That's true, but I strongly be- — W.E. Billups, professor lieve that if we were to incrementally add a rea- chemistry sonable amount of money we could move up in the ARL ratings. We don't have to be in the top 10, but expressing dissatisfaction with the collections, there is no reason we should not be or can't be 75th though their chief concerns were still amenities or even 60th. Our goal should be not to aim at such as hours (too short), temperature (too cold), some statistical ranking, but to fill out our collec- and copiers (too expensive). tion, add rare books and manuscripts, and try to While most faculty members still seem satis- meet more of the information needs of our faculty fied with the collection for undergraduate study, and students." many expressed concern about its value as a tool for graduate.study and research. Looking ahead "The library is doing as good a job as can rea- Despite problems, most people remain optimistic sonably be expected in meeting the narrower about the future of Fondren. Praise is not lacking range of undergraduates' needs, but it serves less — the open stack system and overall staff coopera- well the needs of graduates," Patten says. "Fon- tion are mentioned as frequently as shrinking dren is not a major research library. We're just not shelf space and cold reading rooms. in that business, and it's not clear we ought to be." Loyalty lies at the core of high emotions and Patten says his concern for graduate study had as varied opinions. "I'll admit, I'm very bullish about much to do with a paucity of carrels and study the library," Brotzen says. "I'm optimistic about it. space as with the collections themselves. We have problems, yes, but I think most people re- "For teaching purposes, this library is quite alize that the library is in many ways really the excellent, but there are serious deficiencies in par- guts of the university. ticular areas for research and graduate training," "We could do without a number of things here says German professor Michael Winkler. "But to at Rice, but we could not do without the library."

SALLYPORT—APRIL-MAY 1986 15 Stwah 014

A reflection on 'Condos and Cuisinarts'

by Shirley Armstrong Emerson '53

Your article some months ago on "Yuppies"("Condos, then was that one lived under parents, as in high school; previously felt that counselors only understood "touchy/ Cuisinarts and the Core Curriculum," February 1985) it is hard to become autonomous when one has curfew. feely" stuff, not Plato or Proust. Having taught myself caused some memories and reflections. All you need to Having no diamond on the third finger left hand, I opted how to study as a freshman, I was able to help others make your day is the ranting and raving of an "old grad" for graduate school. learn the "how to" — many of my counselor colleagues with a point of view. I know what the stubborn opinions A Rice degree opens lots of doors, without even the never have needed to learn. I was selected to start and of those of us who have lived a while can be: stubborn turn of the handle. The University of Michigan opened administer a developmental education department at and opinionated. Nevertheless, I got a bit excited about wide and provided a resident-advisor position to house the college. I had never taken a course in administra- your article, which covered Yuppies, ethics, lifestyles and feed me. I enrolled in the counseling program in the tion, but I did it, and today it is still going, carrying out and curricular requirements, a subject I should like to college of education. By the end of the summer, I had no most of the objectives we set almost a decade ago. expound upon... idea what I was doing, so I switched to law school — The value of Education, as differentiated from Train- How to explain what is on my mind without being very prestigious. By the end of that year, I still had no ing, became dramatically clear for me as I set those ob- "too personal" or boring? It probably cannot be done, so I idea what I was doing, and worse, why. I did know, how- jectives. A hands-on training program in beg your indulgence to back up 33 years, plus four. ever, that I had met a chemistry student, a Dartmouth "administration" would not have had the same impact on Those four formed the foundation for all that followed. grad, who promised to take me away on his white horse me, nor encouraged the breadth of vision needed to Yes, I received a B.A. from Rice in 1953, the lethargic — as soon as he got his Ph.D. That seemed much more build a new program to fit in existing parameters. '50s, as the era has been labeled. My major? Philosophy. in my script than courtroom procedures, so I agreed to But all good things change. Michigan suffered a tre- What does one do with a B.A. in philosophy? One is su- marry him and to earn a living until he finished. I did, mendous economic recession. My husband was a full premely well qualified to contemplate one's navel, not on both counts, no doubt the best decision of my life. professor of chemistry, and dean of the college of arts, necessarily understanding what one sees there. One is But, unlike the Brothers Grimm's, life stories do not science, and literature(ask him about the value of a hu- not necessarily "employable." With 30-plus years' per- end with "happily everafter." We live the everafter. We manities background, along with the highly specialized spective, then, would I do it that way again? You bet. moved back to the Houston area, Dave took a job with chemistry major). Spending his time lopping the heads Why? I thought you would never ask. Nostalgia, here we Shell Oil Company, and we formed what was then the off his colleagues, he decided, wasn't really fun. The go. Yuppie group, with the man moving up in his career and University of Nevada-Las Vegas wanted a dean of sci- 1949. Fresh out of Lamar High School, sopping wet the wife raising the beautiful children and doing good ence, math, and engineering, and their big plans for a behind the ears, I matriculated at Rice. Why? God only works in the community. Those were good years, and top-notch engineering school required a leader who un- knows. My parents thought it would be a great idea, while some said we do-gooding women in the commu- derstood all those things and could also get along with Rice did not require me to take an exam (thank God!), nity were not "using" our college educations, I think we artists, English professors, casino owners, symphony there was no tuition (first year costs —$110), and the were. I read; I taught a foster child to read(my education conductors and wealthy gamblers. "right people" were going there. What to major in? courses had not given me the "methods" but my overall A good liberal arts background teaches one, admit- What's a major? Philosophy? I honestly did not know education had taught me that reading was too vital to let tedly obliquely, many things. There is no course on what the word meant, but when told it had to do with him slip away illiterate). proper etiquette at Mafia luncheons, but studying his- ideas, that sounded as good as anything else. After the third baby, I got to thinking about the fu- tory and literature helps one to understand differing Then I met Professor Tsanoff. Life would never again ture, not just diapers and formulae. About that time, people, no matter what their occupation of the moment. be the same. He suggested that ii! wanted to be a phi- Dave decided that corporate life was fine financially, but He took the job. I had none. I chose to move with him, losophy major(he was far too polite to ask why), I should not so fine creatively, so we moved to Michigan where he however, and a broad background again came to my res- study literature, Great Books, history and ethics. Being a took an assistant professorship, dramatically changing cue. When a community counseling agency needed a di- totally obedient child at that stage, I did exactly as he suburban affluence to urban paucity. I retreated into my rector, I moved in. suggested. tiny house, my three pre-schoolers and older foster child, The agency was provincial, struggling to become "Math 100" was already part of my life and my night- frozen in by the snow outside and the mental stagnation professional. They had experienced an embezzlement by mares, but I knew it had to be done, so I did it. History? inside. Three-foot-high children are a delight; they are the previous management and were not even aware of Bill Masterson brought it to life and changed my life. not into discussing Aristotle. Neither were my factory- what had happened or how; some of the staff were lazy Without the requirement, I would never have gone near worker neighbors. and afraid of change. A smattering of accounting, plus a that classroom. Literature? I had never taken time to re- I briefly contemplated murder, then suicide, then a firm grounding in ethical deliberations (I don't sleep well ally "read," but when Dr. McKillop required it, I read it, return to school. The stimulation of one evening a week when faced with firing people)and an openness to and began to enjoy. Religious differences and perspec- studying Elizabethan literature at the local university change can help one to learn a new position, to take tives? The narrow view from Sunday School was all I had saved my life and my family's, both mental and physical. charge, set some attainable goals, and get an organiza- considered. Professor Neilsen fixed that, and my per- Mom was back in the world of ideas, tuned in and turned tion back on track. It was fun; it was hard work; it was spective was no longer narrow, nor firm. on, as they then described us Old Broads returning to frustrating. Without the confidence that a good ground- Names and activities from the dim past. Some are, school. A master's degree in English later turned me ing in life, as I like to think of a liberal arts education, I regrettably, no longer with us, but their influence is im- loose on the local community college where I happily would never have attempted it. Two years later, I ac- mortal. What am I trying to say now? Without require- taught English composition for the next eight years. As cepted a position on the faculty of the University of ments, I — and I suspect many of my contemporaries — much fun as that was, boredom and frustration reared Nevada-Las Vegas graduate department of counseling would not have tackled mathematics or literature in ugly heads, so back to school again, this time a full cir- and educational psychology. So what? depth, or foreign languages, or anything else that was cle swing back to counseling. Four years and a Ph.D. ...Since I believe so strongly in the firm foundation "hard." I came to Rice because that's where all the eligi- later, into a community counseling department, and be- that I was so fortunate to receive at Rice, my husband re- ble young men were, and true to my generation, I ing the old lady on the staff, I assisted frustrated house- ceived at Dartmouth, and our daughter experienced at wanted fun (and found it!), followed by marriage. wives, widows and divorcees of both sexes to work their Carleton, I want to begin to pay a huge debt, by adding So what, you may be asking, has this to do with to- way through the college catalog, opening up new career a tiny voice of support to those at Rice and similar day's higher education problems? If you will now label horizons while reviewing and rebuilding their personal schools to stick to your principles; insist on a core curric- me a generic student from the '50s, I should like to tell lives. ulum which includes what we euphemistically call "lib- we you what happened in the 30 years that followed, and It was perhaps in those years that I began reflecting eral arts." Students may protest(we would have, had why I am now urging, begging, screaming, that a man- on how much my broad-based education at Rice really not been so lethargic and so obedient). Is it not the duty dated core curriculum including mathematics, science, meant to me, and how much it was influencing my every of educated persons to lead firmly those who wish also humanities, political science, ethics and history should decision on the job. My counselor colleagues had, to a to be educated? And if one is not educated, how can one — indeed, must — be the foundation of the truly edu- person, gone into counseling to avoid math and science. know what needs to be learned? cated person. Both were required at Rice. When the continuing educa- A depth and breadth of real education is truly a lux- I fear if Rice stops requiring such a foundation, edu- tion division wanted someone to work with math- ury, regrettably not accessible to all, but a necessity for cation as we have known it will soon disappear com- anxious students, I established the math anxiety at least some. One learns to do a job starting the first quality of pletely. I know it may sound like "that's the way it was in program. I had certainly struggled in Math 100, but I day on the job; one learns to live by living. The my time, so it must be right for today," but that is not the knew what it meant to conquer calculus (well, at least that life is directly proportional to the breadth of one's basis of my reasoning. My basis is more wondering with a C +)and so I could encourage others. I knew how understanding of life. Education provides understand- open for coming where I would now be if Rice and its broad requirements some mathematical understanding had helped me ing. Keep access to that understanding generations of Rice students. had not been part of my life at such a crucial time. through graduate statistics, where many of my fellow So, I received my degree, hoped no one would real- students fell. Shirley Armstrong Emerson '53 is a faculty member in ize how truly ignorant I was, and looked for a way to get My background in literature and philosophy en- counseling and educational psychology at the University away from home. One disadvantage of going to Rice abled my work with faculty in those disciplines who had of Nevada-Las Vegas.

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16 SALLYPORT-APRIL-MAY 1986 .000 Owls face first spring practice Head football coach Jerry Berndt, his new line coach (from Texas A&M); Dino Folino, staff and Rice football players completed defensive backs(from Penn); Scott O'B- their 10th day of spring practice on April 1 rien, outside linebackers (from Nevada- and were pointing to the wrap-up on April Las Vegas); Kurt Cignetti, quarterbacks 19 at 1:30 p.m. in Rice Stadium. coach (from Davidson); Rick Dykes, run- Berndt, participating in his first-ever ning backs (former Rice graduate assist- spring football practice at Rice, has been ant); Tyrone Willingham, receivers (N.C. Rice busy in spring sports particularly high on the defensive play of State); Dave Borbely, offensive guards- In spring sports, tennis standout Wendy meter run (for eighth place) and her his inherited squad. centers(Tennes see); and Tim Keating, re- Wood and Olympics track hopeful Regina teaming with freshmen Michelle Barz, He's also high on his coaching staff, cruiting coordinator (Penn). Cavanaugh continued their winning Kristen Aure, and Maureen Stewart to set which consists of the following: Milan One change in the 1986 football ways in bringing glory to Rice. a Rice 3,000-meter relay team record of Vooletich, assistant head coach (from schedule will move Rice's home game Wood, with a 24-3 record in dual 8:42.18 (for sixth place). In two outdoor Michigan); Don Dobes, offensive coordi- with the Air Force Academy from Septem- meets and special tournaments through meets in March, redshirt freshman nator (from Penn); Jeff Henry, defensive ber 20 to November 22. the month of March, was ranked fifth na- Catherine Spradley set school records tionally among women NCAA Division 1 in the 5,000 meters (16:53.86) and performers and included among her vic- 10,000 meters (34:19.65), qualifying for the tories a 6-2, 6-3 triumph over UT's Beverly NCAA Outdoor Championships with the Volleyball Club plans reunion Bowes, who ranked number one in the na- latter. Those who tion at the time. The Rice University Men's Volleyball Club participated in the club In men's track, senior Gawain Guy is having its first reunion the weekend of and who Cavanaugh won her third consecu- are interested in attending was unable to successfully defend his June 21-22. The schedule of events in- should tive NCAA indoor shot put title with a per- contact Jimmy Disch as soon as NCAA indoor title in the 1,000-meter run cludes men's and coed play on Saturday, possible at the sonal and NCAA Indoor Championship Rice Physical Education despite breaking his own collegiate re- a party on Saturday night and a sand Department, PO. Box 1892, Houston, TX record of 57 feet, 11 and 3/4 inches, toss cord in the preliminaries. In the finals, before moving outdoors. tourney on Sunday (weather permitting). 77251,(713) 527-4058 or (713) 660-6695. the former Jamaican Olympian came in The women's tennis team has not third with a time of 2:19.41. In the outdoor fared as well as its superstar. It pos- season, senior Jerry Capps set a new sessed a 5-6 record (0-2 in the conference) school record of 7 feet, 0 inches, in the Cager season a let-down on March 31. The men, with Scott Melville high jump at the Texas Relays. (ranked 68th nationally) leading the way, Rice defeated eventual Southwest Con- 27 of the 28 games despite nagging were 12-5 (0-2 in the SWC)at the same Coach Jim Castaneda's golfers were ference Basketball Tournament Cham- sprains that slowed him on occasion. His time. Best win was 5-4 over 20th ranked 2-0 after dual meets with Penn State and pion Texas Tech, 52-50, in Lubbock on 6.4-rebound average led the Owls and his only to University of Michigan. Toledo at the Houston Country Club, hav- Feb. 8 to snap a six-game losing streak, 13.9-point average was second game. The women's track team tied with ing earlier given respectable accounts of then promptly lost six more games to fin- junior Greg Hines' 16.7 points per Florida for 10th place in the NCAA Indoor themselves in the Miami-Doral Park Invi- ish last in league play (2-14) and 9-19 The only other senior was guard Ivan Championships in Oklahoma City, tational (10th of 18), International Invita- overall, including a 78-59 shellacking at Pettit. the hands of TCU in the tournament. thanks in part to sophomore Pam Klas- tional in Monterrey (4th of 18), and Baylor Women cagers finish 7-19 sen's school record 9:33.23 in the 3,000- Invitational (4th of 17). Coach Tommy Suitts' fifth season as head basketball coach was perhaps his Like their counterparts on the men's team, most frustrating ever. Though the youth- Rice's women cagers finished 2-14 in fulness of his squad was a handicap (six SWC play, with an overall record of 7-19. Swimmers set records of seven newcomers were teen-agers), the Lone SWC wins were at home against conference was weaker than it had been Baylor, 50-46, and TCU, 87-59. Rice University's women swimmers Jones, Burch, Carol Snell, and Kathy in years and Rice's competitiveness did Junior Holly Jones was Coach Linda probably had their best year ever, Jenkins set a school record in finishing not live up to expectations. Tucker's superstar, leading the Owls in setting 11 Rice records and scoring 233 third. In a NCAA Division I SWC Champi- Looking ahead, a major loss to the both scoring (17.6 points per game)and points in the Women's NCAA Division II onship meet two weeks earlier. Jones' team will be senior center-forward Ter- rebouds(9.6 average). The squad's only National Championships in Orlando, fifth place in the 100-yard butterfly, and rence Cashaw, who played and started in senior was Sandra Tilden. Fla., for a seventh place finish. High five sixth place finishes in the relays point of the Mar. 12-15 meet for Rice was added up to the best Rice could do. Tammy Burch's first place in the 400-yard Even so, Rice's nonscholarship men's individual medley in national and school swimmers fared far worse in the SWC Baseball team hits slump record time (4:29.52). meet. Top Rice performance was Rob Ko- Rice's 20-3 nationally ranked baseball runs-batted-in (37). Other .300 hitters are Stacy Jones and Burch finished two- ger's 17th place finish in meets the Owl team entertained Nichols State on March second baseman Ben Mathews (.351), out- three in the 200-yard individual medley, swimmers were 1-7; only win was over the 7, falling 5-2 to launch a 12-game losing fielder John Cagelski (.333), and first and the 800-yard free-style relay team of University of Arkansas at Little Rock. streak that included 3-game sweeps at baseman Paul Dishman (.304). Mathews the hands of Arkansas and Texas Tech. has stolen 23 bases, and Dishman has hit Owl wins over Schreiner, Minnesota 11 doubles to lead the Owls in those de- and Baylor, coupled with losses to Lamar partments. Dotting and dashing and Baylor (twice), left Coach Dave Hall's Rice's pitching staff has taken a with Bill Whitmore promising team with a 23-18 record as pounding in several games, in particular March came to an end. in a return series at Oklahoma State, 31-3 By now, most of you will have had a April 13, for the tennis doubleheader at Currently in last place in the confer- and 21-5, after having defeated the na- chance to enjoy all the activities on cam- Hess Stadium. The fine Rice women's ence (1-8), Rice will entertain TCU, Texas, tionally ranked team two out of three at Pus during the April 4-5 weekend, includ- team under Coach Paul Blankenship will and Houston in three-game series and home. Starters Ed Holub (6-5 with an ing baseball, as Rice hosted the TCU host the Texas A&M women's team at 11 visit Texas A&M in April in hopes of sal- earned run average of 3.92), Pat Combs Horned Frogs in a big SWC three-game a.m. It is an early start to clear the way vaging a record good enough to make the (4-5 and 5.14), Ken Sorensen (2-4 and 5.92), series at Cameron Field; the infamous for a men's team clash with the powerful SWC double-elimination tournament in and Todd Ogden (3-2 and 6.48) have Rice Beer-Bike Race; Rice's spring University of Texas men's team at 2 p.m. May. pitched most of the innings, with the ex- football scrimmage under new leader on April 13th. Rice outfielder Jay Knoblauh leads ception of reliefer Steve Blackshear (3-1 Jerry Berndt and staff; and men's tennis, SWC AT RICE the team regulars in batting (.381), runs and 2.19), who is credited with saving 6 of With Rice facing Texas Tech. The highlight of the entire spring sports scored (45), hits (61), home runs (7), and the 23 games in which he has appeared. As is always the case when the season on campus for Rice, however, is there are Spring schedule gets crowded, due May 17-18 after school is out and unavoidable conflicts. Rabid track fans graduation is over. But Owl track coaches bypass among owl exes probably had to Steve Straub(men) and Victor Lopez all the April 4-5 activity in order to see (women)hope a lot of students and exes action at both the fine men and women in stay around or return to the campus on a "blue ribbon" event, the traditional those dates. The occasion is a rare in- Texas Relays in Austin. stance for Rice to host the annual South- west Conference Track and Field BIG SPORTS WEEKEND COMING Championships for both men and women. Those who couldn't make it for the big A lot of work will go into having the April 4-5 weekend will get another chance Rice Track Stadium (and competition fa- the weekend of April 11-12 when Coach cilities) in tip-top shape for the occasion. David Hall's baseball team plays their The SWC meet is awarded to the nine biggest home series of the season against SWC members on a rotation basis, so the the Texas Longhorns at Cameron Field. Owls are due to be host only once every They visit only once every two years for a nine years. They want to have great three-game SWC series, and this year crowds and great competition for 1986 at Will see the first Rice-Texas game at night Rice University. It is an ideal occasion for in Houston under the arcs on Friday, April exes who have not been back for a while 11. The Saturday twin-bill starts at 2 p.m. to come back and enjoy a stellar event Hang around the following Sunday, while seeing familiar old haunts.

SALLYPORT—APRIL-MAY 1986 17 THE BROWN CHALLENGE 1985 BROWN AMOUNT CATEGORY GOAL RAISED Alumni $ 690,000 $1,845,537 aegefruyi Board of 4?o4 Governors 750,000 1,348,894 I Corporations 960,000 2,346,352 Non-Alumni Brown Challenge marks end of its first decade Friends 200,000 1,104,613 $2,600,000 $6,645,396 In 1976, the Brown Foundation, a philan- mendous support Rice has seen since be- $190,000; the 10th, 25th and 50th reunion thropic organization founded by the late ginning the challenge, raising $6.65 classes qualified for a combined award of ALUMNI INCENTIVES George R. Brown '20, issued a challenge million from 10,541 contributors from $150,000; and 640 alumni who made gifts to Rice University through a carefully among the alumni, board of governors, of $1,000 or more qualified for a match of 1. Five most recent classes-1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984 conceived matching grant program corporations and non-alumni friends. $160,000. The five most recent classes -needed to raise $50,000 to qualify for a $200,000 match. These five classes raised scheduled to span 10 years. Thirty-eight Rice alumni classes (1980-84), which needed to raise $50,000 to $61,344. Highest previous raised was $64,837. By 1982, the original $20 million, 10- reached the goal of 50 percent participa- qualify for a $200,000 match, raised $61,344. 2. Direct Awards year Brown Challenge had proven such a tion in the challenge, topping the pre- Over the 10-year period, Rice has Classes with 50 percent participation*-thirty- success that the foundation extended it to vious record of 28 classes. Each class raised more than twice the funds re- eight classes qualified: 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1995. with 50 percent participation qualified for quired under the challenge, resulting in a 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1985 saw a continuation of the tre- a $5,000 award for a total match of total of more than $76 million to Rice. 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, re:ctloi cohInlilaveivfa:, Ilias 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1953, 1955, 1958, 1962, con BROWN CHALLENGE COMPARATIVE REPORT, 1976-1985 1963, 1964. jar , RICE GIFTS Direct $5,000 award for each class with 50 percent PLUS BROWN pa rtici potion. BOARD OF NON-ALUMNI TOTAL BROWN MATCHING MATCHING Highest previous participation was twenty-eight ALUMNI GOVERNORS CORPORATIONS FRIENDS RAISED* GRANT PAID GRANT PAID classes. 659,184 $ 331,576 $ 1,503,226 1976 $ 169,303 $ 654,260 $ 1,814,323 $ $ 3,317,549 "Participation percentages includes alumni Board 1977 758,901 353,107 941,054 256,311 2,309,373 1,778,757 4,088,130 members. 1978 914,697 625,810 1,221,350 391,677 3,153,534 2,233,862 5,387,396 1979 991,334 1,254,332 1,359,900 421,504 4,027,070 2,496,369 6,523,439 10TH, 25TH, AND 50TH REUNION 1980 1,280,833 1,721,453 1,538,645 696,688 5,237,619 3,483,810 8,721,429 CLASSES: 1981 1,392,247 2,951,775 2,854,157 710,519 7,908,698 3,492,175 11,400,873 1935 $38,484 57.0% 1982 1,588,825 1,159,472 2,592,747 799,444 6,140,487 3,410,122 9,550,609 1960 27,805 40.2% 1983 1,561,892 2,102,313 2,405,839 1,026,861 7,096,905 2,547,250 9,644,155 1975 23,637 30.5% _ 1984 1,697,179 2,624,153 2,572,578 1,275,021 8,168,931 2,567,000 10,735,931 Direct award of $50,000 per class for combined 1985 1,845,537 1,348,894 2,346,352 1,104,613 6,645,396 ** 6,645,396 *** effort of 10th, 25th, and 50th Reunion Classes. tiSwhloehpP5oaroil'es Totals $12,690,629 $14,310,612 $18,486,882 $7,014,214 $52,502,336 $23,512,571 $76,014,907 iandnfl' Direct award of $250 for each alumnus gift of *Gifts for current operations only. $1,000 or more. **Undetermined at this time. 690 alumni contributed $1,000 or more *"*Reflects 1985 Rice gifts only; matching grant undetermined at this time. qualifying for this bonus award. staa

'Apci19rillrieSuiga8Irngld6i:1 Telefund results deemed Giving clubs enroll new donors Bayl bY cc 'extraordinary' 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 I Champagne and cheers were the order of said. "Their enthusiasm and generosity current operations. Membership is on an annual basis (July 1- June 30)and includes the ing d the evening as students and volunteers were gratifying, and bespeak clearly the individual and his or her spouse. Nameslisted below are first-time for January 1986. celebrated the success of this year's Rice breadth of support Rice enjoys. Special telefund at the annual telefund dinner, thanks go to our wonderful alumni and Founder's Club Dr. Fred P. Frenger '68 Renita Denise King '84 held Feb. 27. student volunteers who so cheerfully and Dr. Robert A. May '68 Chrissie Romsdahl '84 Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. irlif:Cirtc: Cynthia Ann Brown '69 Ellen Therese Spraul '84 The two-week effort, held Jan. 21-30, effectively took to the phones for Rice. Andrews '34 Dr. Mary Sandra Carberry '70 Douglas W. Strain '84 raised more than $218,000 in pledges from Hershul T. Jones '36 None of these extraordinary results would Dr. James J. Harbrecht '70 Marcella White Dawson '85 Mr. and Mrs. J. John across the country, a 67 percent increase have happened without them." Dr. Chen-Yao Ho '70 Elsa Sanchez De Hernandez'85 Carter Jr. '41 over last year's $130,000, and a five-fold Alumni pledges and student volun- Dr. Donald E. Castleberry and Amanda Lee Gerdeman '85 Barbara Jean Divine '71 t.orh Julie Claire Castleberry '71/69 Matthew C. Jones '85 increase over 1984's $44,000. teers raised the most dollars and received and Paul J. Gregor Dr. Abraham Delgado and Dr. De- Scott M. Schuetze '85 More than 300 the most pledges. Alumni Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. alumni and students winning prizes borah Harvey Delgado '71/73 Joseph R. Buccheri Einkauf '79 were involved in the campaign, which for their efforts included Ted Litton '65, William F. Fenley Jr. '71 Dr. Marco A. Ciufolini Susan Mezynski Fratamico '79 Walter J. Pagel '71 Mr. and Mrs. Gioacchino Coniglio was headed by Mary Lou Rapson '54, Ann Green '71, Ben Mayberry '73, Myrna Ben Mayberry Dr. Kirt Walker and Mary Mr. and Mrs. Tung Van Dinh chairman, and Edgar Odell Lovett '79, Dozier '61, Jackie Murphree '42, Rives Tay- Robert A. Moomaw Lewis Walker '71/71 Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Eggert vice-chairman. One measure of the suc- lor '82, George Miner '50, Al Jensen '52, Jay H. Heck '72 Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Epstein cess of this year's telefund can be seen in Bebe Carroll '77, Myrven Cron '44, Mar- President's Club ::CCII11 Katherine Tome Kobayashi '72 Kathleen Gammill iii:CoOehhfaiizaerriaRirRbhi(jeFec. the sheer volume of letters sent out to cella Dawson '63, Jessica Blair '35, Randy Helen Roney '21 Philip P Sun '72 Thomas J. Gotliboski alumni making or considering pledges- Wile '83 and Jim Michalek '81. Ethel Nell Crossley '28 Cecilia Ann Irene A. Kent Graham Mary Madeline Heard '37 Browne-Gomm '73 Mr. and Mrs. Michael F. Graham 4,080, compared to last year's 2,424. Prizes were made possible by gifts James L. Henderson '37 Lynda Myska Irvine '73 and Dr. and Mrs. Jon Erik Gustafson Staff direction was provided by Wil- from the British Market, BoKay Shop, Ira Wilson Fariss '38 John A. Irvine Mr. and Mrs. William L. Guthrie sc,149c,u liam Taylor, director of the Rice Annual Main Street Theatre, Irish Shop, Village James L. Barnard Sr. and William H. Jones '73 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Hardin Lo tiA1141-YviniionisMEsi' Fund, and Alice Harden, assistant direc- Greenery and Morningside Cafe. Frances Katherine Thomas K. Burgess '74 Mr. and Mrs. J.N. Hellmuth tor. Sid Barnard '39/40 Gloria Ann Guilford '75 Dr. and Mrs. Thomas T.C. Hsu For the second consecutive year, Dr. John B. Bates '41 Cash Tilton '75 Mr. and Mrs. Paul V. Hyer "This was the first year the telefund Richardson College received a check for James G. Drew '47 Mr. and Mrs. Larry J. Keller John E. Banks Jr. 76 nr has gone nationwide in contacting raising the most money, followed by Otis L. James Jr. '50 Terrence E. and Kathleen Drs. Subram G. and Elizabeth alumni for their support of Rice," Taylor Brown and Wiess colleges. Thomas H. and Ann Frances Bendel Ciliske '76/79 Krishnan Cruikshank '52/52 Dr. Patricia Ann Norwood '77 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Lynch Bernard W. Miner Jr. '53 Robert W. Bainbridge '78 Mr. and Mrs. Wesley H. Mathews Curtis H. Goedecke '55 Jeanette DiCorcia '78 Mr. and Mrs. Argyle D. McKee Dr. Charlotte Dykes Pigg '55 Shelley Pennington '78 Jean-Louis Menin 'b:i'‘:?1b f 1.l'7b44°' 111ryc 18:vrrn1P tnri Ye PkdiehtY Charles J. Ritchie '55 Mark D. Richardson '78 Mr. and Mrs. Roy Nelson nhh'EFnAY1Iii' Sheldon N. Robinson '55 Jan Carol Swenson '79 David A. North 764,,,,,,,;^:),Ville Dennis A. Wilkie '55 and William D. Katz Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Paramofe obeesi. ri,Gn, et 1,. James C. Tippens Jr. '58 Alan S. Miller '79 Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Ty Queng Daniel R. Schomer '59 Kurt V. Berger and Nancy Mr. and Mrs. John Sargent Dr. John R. Crider '60 Elaine Swystun '80/81 Mr. and Mrs. Sam Shapiro Donald N. Jordan '60 Timothy G. McIntyre 'BO Mr. and Mrs. Roy 0. Smith Frank Van Orden '60 William C. Walker '80 Richard M. Spivak 11/ies R. Douglas Roberts Jr. '60 Dr. Michael A. Caplinger '81 Dr. John C. Stormer H :,rszltyd nii.in ues a Nancy Lynne Stoetzer '61 Nancy Sweet George '81 Betty M. Streiffer n:(r Theresa Lindsey Arrington '62 and Robert E. George Mr. and Mrs. William D. Stubee W. Brooke Hamilton Jr. '62 Randall C. Weir Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. C. Ian Sym-Smith Dr. Mark Bowden '63 Lorna Wiehweg Weir '81/81 Dr. Manik Talwani :Lv''s oNI, r11l tf rai inyEcliu cal.Ds diRme tuczi,,i Dr. Howard M. Einspahr '64 Daniel D. Hu '82 Mr. and Mrs. James D. George E. Elam Jr. '65 Dr. David). Scheibner and Susan Thornburgh Theodore K. Jackson III '65 Makinson Scheibner '82/82 Dr. and Mrs. Wilfred C. ?III Eliz Kawi and Pat Kambhu '65 Kenneth I. Sill '83 Uecker 'llry6 Si Beverly Sue Rose '65 Katherine Ann Snell '83 Mr. and Mrs. Clifford G. Garrett Boone '66 Anne C. Hutton '83 Venier Ronald M. Hays Jr. '66 Jonathan D. Jordan '83 Lenore M. Walker Dr. Richard E. Darilek '67 Scott H. Lushbough '83 Thomas E. Wendel ,,l()Yd zai Michael C. Derkacz'67 Mary Ann R.F. Burmester '84 Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Woemer Jones College telefund chairman Baxter Montgomery accepts an award for the Robert W. and Brenda Barry Brian and Martha Garcia college's telefund efforts from telefund chairman Mary Lou Rapson '54. Tanner '67/66 Harkins '84/84

18 SALLYPORT-APRIL-MAY 1986 1986 41witfrii Distinguished Homecoming plans under way Alumni Initial plans are under way for Rice's 1986 homecoming game. named homecoming, scheduled for the weekend More details on homecoming plans of Nov. 14-15. will be featured in Sallyport as they be- Chairmen of the five-year reunion come available. classes have already met, and a number Heading up the homecoming plans, of the successful special events held at in addition to Eubank, are Dan Steiner last year's homecoming are being tenta- '77, athletics; Guinn Unger '71, band re- ?, tively planned again this year, including union; Carolyn Woodruff '68, cheerleader 3, classroom visits and special sporting reunion; Pat Zumwalt '43 and Margaret 5, events. Though no alumni art show is Clegg '52, class reunion co-chairmen; 4, Planned this year, it is hoped that home- Hardy Morgan '80, college event coordi- The Association of Rice Alumni has cations, including the AM Journal. 2, coming weekend will coincide with a ma- nator; Mary Lou Rapson '54, concert; Todd named architect John Milton McGinty '57, Arguing "entombment is not preser- jor opening at a campus gallery. Giorgio '86, graduate students; Nancy educator Carl Woodring '40(M.A. '42), vation," McGinty's testimony influenced nt General chairman for this year's Mafridge '59, luncheon; Lucy Moore '80, author Larry McMurtry M.A.'60 and chem- Congress on its decision to restore the homecoming is Nancy Eubank '55. publicity; Tom and Pam Smith '51/55, reg- ist Marshall D. Gates Jr. '36 (M.S. '38) as west front of the U.S. Capitol rather than ht The new addition to the Rice Memo- istration; Evelyn Powell Payne '56, shuttle its 1986 Distinguished Alumni of Rice Uni- extending it by building a marble wall, a rial Center will be open in ample time for service; Bill Ballew '40, Thresher reunion; versity. rival plan presented by the architect of rd homecoming, and a formal dedication Elizabeth and Matt Wareing '81, young McGinty and Woodring will be the capitol. Will be held on Friday, Nov. 14. On Nov. alumni; and Harriet Talbot '36, Golden R present for recognition at Rice's com- Though author Larry McMurtry owns 15, the Rice Owls will face Baylor in their Coffee. mencement ceremonies and at special a bookstore in Washington D.C., he is functions during commencement week- best-known for his works of fiction, which end, May 10. McMurtry will select a repre- over the years have earned him Texas sentative to accept his award in his Institute of Letters awards, a Guggen- Special reunions planned stead, and Gates will accept his award heim Award, a Stanford University Special reunions for former Rice cheer- MOB for the homecoming game Nov. 15 belatedly at 1987 commencement. Fellowship in fiction, and a reputation as ed leaders, MOB members and Thresher edi- against Baylor. Guinn Unger '71, who is Chemist Marshall D. Gates Jr., cred- the Texas writer. tors are being planned for Homecoming making plans for the band, is interested ited with the discovery of a method to To date, three of McMurtry's works, or 1986 weekend, November 14-15. in hearing from those interested in partic- synthesize morphine — a task other sci- Horseman Pass By ("Hud"),The Last Pic- Like the other reunions, the cheer- ipating, as well as input on whether or entists had attempted for many years and ture Show, and Terms of Endearment, leader reunion is still in the planning not to plan a social function for "alumni failed, is a professor emeritus of chemis- have been made into films, and his most stages, but all former cheerleaders(wear- band" members before or after the game. try at the University of Rochester; mem- recent novel, Lonesome Dove, a critically ing their original uniforms if possible) Unger may be reached by calling (713) ber of the National Academy of Science; acclaimed western, moved him, as one Will be urged to participate in activities 495-5405 or 933-2350, or writing him at and fellow, New York Academy of Science. critic noted, "from popular author to clas- during the homecoming game against 12904 Wirevine Lane, Houston, TX 77072. Gates, who earned a Ph.D. from Har- sic." Saylor. More information can be obtained Finally, a special Thresher editors re- vard in 1941, has also served as assistant McMurtry's other work has included by calling Carolyn Woodruff at 665-7020. union is being planned for Saturday editor of the Journal of the American Leaving Cheyenne, All My Friends Are An "alumni band" is also being morning, Nov. 15. Those interested Chemical Society, a Welch Foundation Going To Be Strangers, Cadillac Jack and ce's Planned for alumni interested in perform- should contact Thresher reunion chairman lecturer, and a member of the Presidents' Desert Roses. the ing during the halftime show with the Bill Ballew at 229-1436 for information. Committee National Medal Sciences. Carl Woodring, a professor who John Milton McGinty, who also holds holds an endowed chair in English at Co- an M.F.A. in architecture from Princeton, lumbia University, has been described as is president of the McGinty Corporate "the most eminent of Rice's academic hu- Looking for alums in all Group, parent holding company of The manists." McGinty Partnership, Architects Inc., and Holding a Ph.D. from Harvard Univer- City Associates Inc. of Houston. sity, Woodring is a Guggenheim Fellow, 5 the wrong places A fellow of the American Institute of American Learned Societies Fellow, and a That's what we've been doing with these "lost alumni" from the classes of 1936 and 1946. Architects, he has won top awards both member of the Modern Language Associ- Information on the whereabouts of these alumni should be directed to the Association from that organization and from the Texas ation, International Association of Profes- of Rice Alumni, PO. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251. Society of Architecture. McGinty is na- sors of English and Grolier Club. tional president of the American Institute In addition to serving numerous edi- glio CLASS OF 1936 CLASS OF 1946 William Lee Hough Elmer L. Provence of Architects — the youngest president in torships. Woodring is author of five Evelyn Winston Baggett Allan Blakely Adams George Atherton Howard Jack H. Puckett it that organization's 120-year history — and books, including the award-winning Poli- .601 Black Douglas Dean Allmand Charles Worth Howell Charles R. Quinn has published articles in numerous publi- tics in Romantic Poetry. Chase J. Brook Jr. Donald Arthur Andacht Calvin E. Hubert D.G. Redgrave Charles W. Browne Joseph Robert Ault Lloyd A. Hunke John T. Rickert ,I%zabeth Louise Collins William J. Bailey Robert Wesley Hutchison Howard C. Rodgers am iohn R. Cook Billie Wayne Baker Robert Orr Jaynes Wilbur V. Rogers karshall Francis Crawford Oliver R. Barnes Hugh M. Johnson Elliott J. Ruschuni Area clubs have busy spring rry May Crisp Danforth Billo Roy N. Johnson Norman Rosenberg rie James ..ga41 Lorane Douglass Branton B. Blount Walter Harland Jones Daniel L. J. Salisbury NEW ORLEANS Cookoff" at Redwood Regional Park, Oak- Nvin Ernest Dugat James F. Bobo Paul James Jordan Gerald Lee Sanders Rice President George Rupp met with land, on July 19. ktilous Dow Elliott Robert S. Boyd Gene Charles Jorgensen Ralph S. Schnitzer Jr. ,elen4 Faye Emerson John William Boyles Wallace E. King Forest Clayton Scott New Orleans area alumni and friends on March 20 at Arnaud's Restaurant. The AUSTIN ',Loyd Ford Ewing Jr. William M. Brooks Bartley Hoyt Kinney Jr. Glen N. Seabury Austin Rice Club sponsored a concert 'runis Edna Flood James Charles Carrell George Lee Kitchen Rudolph William "Meet the President" dinner was de- The geph Arthur Frederick Timmins Ruben Wesley Knowles Selbmann signed to acquaint the guests with Rice's by the Shepherd School Symphony Or- „uorothy Irene Gray Corbett Clark Jr. Joseph Walter Kucera Murris W. Sheffield new chief executive, create a heightened chestra at UT's Bates Recital Hall on Feb. kaph Albert Guess Ernest C. Coffman Hugh D. Landrum Blakely Smith Jr. ews awareness of the university as it is today 13. The conductor and orchestra members 64caney Mack Haley James B. Cotter James Elder Lawson Robert B. Smith joined the audience afterwards at a re- 7Icrry Elizabeth Henry John W. Cronin Jr. Anita George Lekas Thomas Cole Spencer and provide a forum for discussion. Also ron Homer Clayton Edward Dark Stanley Leon Lemmons Weldon B. Springer participating in the dinner meeting, ception. The audience of approximately Zgyne Segar Houck Paul R. Davis Bertram Levine James Edward Startzell sponsored by the Rice development of- 100 included prospective Rice students ,more ,?rville Pritchard Huntley Percy R. Dillon Ezra Cordell Lundahl Otis R. Stewart from the area. rank Earl King Earl Downey Warren Winston Lynchman Bert Wynne Stokey fice, was development staff member Wil- 3 Llohert Monroe Layton James R. Duquette Myrtle O'Neal Maddy Jesse R. Talley liam L. Taylor. Susan Diane Halter '75, a Zilbert Raymond Luce Henry William Egan Elmer Martin Mantey Robert White Talley faculty member at Delgado Community Lilos G. Masterson Jr. Kenneth Daniel Erhardt Josue P Marroquin Willis V. Tanner Jr. College in New Orleans, was in charge of Orion Helen Mathes Duane Marvin Feeley Lopez Raul Martinez Forest James Tarrh Jr. ;:lfhes H. Morgan James Edward Ferguson Ernest Peter Mauk Jr. George H. Taylor local arrangements. Notice 1,rainand L. Rexer Jr. Cecil Mack Gallaspy Henry C. McCall Jr. George Hamilton Traylor E. Ross Garrison Aubrey L. McClellan Jr. Jo Whitson Tucker In the ballot for positions on the Asso- bee Joel R. SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA anie Aaron Schultz Jane Garwood Robert Gary McCuistion Robert B. Tully ith The San Francisco Bay Area chapter of ciation of Rice Alumni board recently Ilgustus Sellingsloh (Mary Janette Crow) Billy Bob McDonald Eugene Preston Twyman lc) mailed to alumni, part of the informa- tly Deboys Smith Miriam Goldman John Barnes McDowell Robert C. Updegrove the Association of Rice Alumni hosted a ,rtalcie Lorraine Swain Jack Boyd Golson Jane Elizabeth Miller Clarence William Walker reception for Kenneth W. Kennedy, chair- tion on candidates for position four T. Swilley Ennis Edward Grantham Marion N. Monnin James P Walsh man of the Rice computer science depart- was incorrect. 76ta Elizabeth Taylor Arthur A. Green Joseph B. Moore William G. Walston ment, at the University faculty Although the information indi- Way Stanford hry Stephen Thompson Eunice Johnson Grey Donald T. Morrison William James cated that both candidates were em- lr\illiam E. Wilks Clarence A. Gunn Charles Edwin Mueller William Francis Webb club on Feb. 12. The event was sponsored 4L°hald M. Williamson Dalhart Meredith Handrop Innes Armistead Nelson John T. Wells by John and Ann Doerr, and featurkd a ployed at the same firm, David Speed Young lames G. Harriss David L. Ormond Carroll Thomas White short presentation by Kennedy. Elder '72 works at Sewell & Riggs. Joseph erner LloYcl Zapp Dalton George Hodges Oshman Donald E. Wilson The Bay Area group plans an "Archi- Alan H. Raynor '70 works with Re- Lee Wimpress James Gordon Holbrook Jimmie Pharris John Kenneth tectural nolds, Allen & Cook Inc. Emmet Wayne Holland James Crawford Pittard Lloyd Grady Winston Walking Tour" in San Francisco Arthur Edward Holtz Robert Frank Pool Richard Daniel Zuefeldt on May 18, and a "Picnic and Chili

SALLYPORT—APRIL-MAY 1986 19 in remedial education for athletes was fired school song. As Hamlet remarked of his tended for the benefit of classmates and Letters (Continued from page 20) for refusing to raise athletes' failing grades mother, "Methinks the lady doth protest too friends, so that those alumni can recognize enough for them to retain eligibility. She much." the names and follow the good example. I sued and was awarded several million dol- was not Mrs. Albert R. Garber when I at- ble was largely voluntary, I found what I A.W. Uhl '23 lars in damages. Athletic department wit- tended Rice; I was Terry Ellen Eschen. My deemed to be a fundamental conflict. Ath- Tarpon Springs, Fla. nesses testified that since their remedial married name is probably not meaningful letes' mornings were largely taken up with education course was generally successful to most of my classmates. I certainly saw classes and their afternoons were wholly Equal billing in teaching athletes to read and write, the other alumni couples of my Rice years given to strenuous practice. I found that My husband and I wish to protest the man- way was opened for them to become, for ex- listed, where I might have recognized the they had nothing left for evening study peri- ner in which all the double-alumni couples ample, letter carriers versus being garbage wife's name as a student but had no idea ods. Maybe I should have tried to get them were listed in the Founder's Club and Presi- collectors. who she was now. up at 3:30 a.m., but they might have fallen dent's Club enrollment lists in the February- Rice may have kidded the "TRG's" asleep during practice. I'm inclined to re- The Southeast Conference seems to al- March 1986 Sallyport. Each couple was while we were students, but we were recog- ject the possibility that my presentations ways have members on probation for viola- listed as "Mr./Dr. and Mrs. Husband's nized for our accomplishments. That recog- were so dull that sleep was inevitable, but tion of NCAA regulations. It is my Name," with no separate mention of the nition should not stop simply because we maybe it can't be ruled out completely. impression that the Southwest Conference wife as an independent Rice alumna. chose to marry another Rice alumnus! Hoffman mentions the demise of the has a somewhat similar record. Maybe a I did not earn a piece of my husband's "commerce major" for jocks and current ef- little better, maybe worse. degree at Rice; I earned my own. Our dona- Terry Ellen Eschen Garber '71 forts to bring it back. The "commerce major" Let's grant that Rice may live up to the tion reflected the combined amount each of Columbia, S.C. wasn't Rice's first attempt to evade its edu- NCAA's not-too-stringent regulations, but us wished to give to the university, out of Editor's note: William L. Taylor, director of cational responsibilities for its graduates. what about the other members? Is there any funds that each of us earned at jobs for Rice's annual fund drive, replies:'We are After my time, but still in Institute days, basis for hoping for 100 percent compliance which our Rice educations helped to pre- delighted to welcome both Albert and Terry there was a physical education major for with NCAA regulations? If not, isn't Rice's pare us. When we submitted our donation, Ellen Eschen Garber to the President's Club. jocks. There may have been other such; I honor sullied every time it plays an of- we asked specifically that each of our While we can find no record of having re- hope not. fender? Can Rice continue to play in South- names be listed separately. That wish was ceived a request for separate listings, we It may be pertinent to recall athletic de- western Conference muck and not be soiled not honored. are glad to have it now. Such requests are partment testimony in a recent Southeast by it? The listing of new Founder's Club and routinely honored by the university. We are Conference case. A state university teacher Maybe we need to commission a new President's Club members is no doubt in- sorry for any misunderstanding." Clca/mola Now there's a choice! With this issue's classnotes, many will find the name of a class recorder listed beneath their class year. These recorders have volunteered to help keep track of fellow classmates and send regular reports to Sallyport. News of your activities(other than changes of address) may now be sent either to your class recorder or, as in the past, directly to Sallyport. If there is no class recorder listed for your year, classnotes should be sent to Sallyport. If you wish to volunteer as the recorder for your class, please contact the alumni office at 527-4057.

Beverly Van Zandt University of Houston School of Ar- there is an opportunity to see old PO. Box 27266 nity service includes his member- 218 Shoreacres Blvd. chitecture building. friends, The '38 roster includes: Houston, TX 77227-7266 ship on the board of the Jewish 1916-18 Houston CLASS RECORDER: La Porte, TX 77571 Pauline Reuter Benner, Naomi (713)612-7272 Federation of Houston, the of Mrs. W.H. Jameson (713)471-0827 Harrison Brown, Nancy Nagel Food Bank, and his presidency Devel- 2425 Sage Rd., #82 Carter, Frances Burrell Che- the Reading Education and Houston, TX 77056 36 nault, Mary E. Fosselman- opment Council of Houston. (713)621-6052 Tom Polk Miller sends in the fol- Grace Griffith Jones. Marie lowing news:"The Texas Civil Lib- Burns Liverman, Ortrude Le- 44 32 erties Union recently celebrated its Fevre Much, Helen Scarbo- CLASS RECORDER: CLASS RECORDER: 20th anniversary with a dinner in rough Thomas, Betsy Brown Larry Hermes 47 Austin, attended by more than 500 28 Chris Hoover Wynn, Kathryn Turbeville 2928 Albans Road On a recent visit to the Rice cam- civil libertarians from around the 5318 Meadow Lake Lane Wilson, Mary Alice Cooper Houston, TX 77005 pus, Richard Charles Henshavi state. Besides the two principal Houston, TX 77056 Winburn and Helen Saba Wor- (713)529-2009 Jr. stopped by the Sallyport office honorees(Judge William Wayne (713)621-5318 den. for a visit. Henshaw is currently a Justice and The Texas Observer), 21 science "Zelda Keeper Rick left Vic- professor of management members from the 15 ACLU chap- toria, Texas, in 1973 to attend at Michigan University and ters in the state were recognized State Texas A&M. There, she earned a is the co-author of The Executive for their continuing participation nt doctorate in educational adminis- 45 Game, a book of top manageme in the civil liberties effort over the John L. Cox, a consulting engi- tration. Immediately upon gradua- computer games. 33 years. I was one of these 21, partly tion, she took a position as director neer and oil operator in Midland, CLASS RECORDER: because of my work on behalf of of continuing education at College was elected chairman of the Willie Cole conscientious objectors (I was a of the Mainland in Texas City. In boards of trustees of the Scott and 2414 Chimney Rock c.o. myself in World War II), and that position, she directed the sen- White Memorial Hospital and Houston, TX 77056 partly because of statements on ior adult program and was pub- Scott, Sherwood and Brindley 49 (713) 782-9509 civil liberties issues that I have list,er of Sidewinder, a literary Foundation. In addition to his posi- CLASS RECORDER: written in various publications. journal that publishes poetry and tion as director of the Texas Na- Mary Lou Douglas The one I enjoyed the most was a short stories. Zelda remained in tional Bank board of Midland, Cox 5531 S. Kimback letter-to-the-editor which gave me is also a member of the board of Chicago, IL 60637 Robert F. Loughridge, president that position until the fall of '85, at the chance to use the Rice trivium: governors of Midland Memorial (312)752-1186 of Fort Worth's ESCO Elevators 34 which time .3he became executive The free mind is traditional Hospital, the Rice University Fund president of Inc., was presented the Distin- CLASS RECORDER: director of Houston Center for Hu- After eight years as here, and our spectacular ad- Council and the Rice board of gov- Mesquite, guished Service Award from the Elliott Flowers manities, with offices at Autry Eastfield College in vances in letters, science and art ernors. recently an- National Association of Elevator 3330 Delmonte House (522-8147). She serves on the Texas, Eleanor Ott are the result.'"Miller lives in retirement. She pia° Contractors for his leadership and Houston, TX 77019 board of directors of the American Glen E. Journeay (B.S. '47) has nounced her Denton, Texas. clothing com- many contributions to the elevator (713)524-4404 Civil Liberties Union and is a been selected as the recipient of to start a women's industry. The award was given to member of the steering committee the 1985 Family Practice Award for pany. Loughridge during the annual of the Buffalo Bayou Coalition. Excellence in Oncology. The NAEC convention in Hollywood, Zelda and her husband, Robert award, given by the University of in Houston, and Fla. Loughridge founded ESCO in 37 Rick '36 live Texas M.D. Anderson Hospital and 35 and eight 1932 to service elevators in West S. I. Morris, who founded the CLASS RECORDER: have four children Tumor Institute, recognizes family 53 of Texas. The company's big break Houston firm of Morris/Aubry Ar- Jane Rommel grandchildren." physicians who have made signifi- Norman G. Einspruch, dean the came in 1938, when a friend who chitects 48 years ago, retired as 504 Fairway Drive, Riverhill cant contributions to the preven- the College of Engineering at Phil Peden celebrated his retire- owned Wolf Brand Chili Products partner in 1984. He continues to Kerville, TX 78928 tion, detection, treatment and University of Miami, has been CI°. ment in March 1985 with a party at Wash- in Corsicana called on ESCO to re- serve as an adviser to the firm, (512) 896-4310 rehabilitation of cancer patients. sen to receive the George the Westin Galleria Hotel in Hous- place an old hand-powered lift. In- which was recently selected by the Journeay has practiced family ington Honor Medal from the ton. The party, sponsored by the stead, Loughridge designed and public library board of Charlotte medicine in Austin for more than Freedom Foundation at Volley Houston Bankruptcy Conference, installed one of the world's first hy- and Mecklenburg County to design 20 years and is a member of the ed- Forge for excellence in the cate- was held in appreciation of Peden's draulic elevators with push-button the renovation and expansion of itorial committee for Texas Medi- gory of economic development. outstanding judicial career span- recipient: controls. Today, ESCO is one of the the main library in downtown 38 cine. Einspruch and fellow RECORDER: ning more than 33 years. Following busi- largest suppliers of hydraulic ele- Charlotte, N.C. Recently, the com- CLASS Hershel M. Rich has been named Jack R. Borsting of Miami's a 14-year tenure as associate jus- estab- vators in the industry. ESCO also pany changed its name to Morris Jane Dunaway chairman of the new southwest re- ness administration school, tice of Houston's First Court of Civil produced the first escalators used Architects, which reflects the res- 415 Blalock gion of the American Society for lished a course entitled "Dean". Appeals/First Court of Appeals, in Fort Worth. Loughridge and his ignation of the firm's former man- Houston, TX 77024 Technion-Israel Institute of Tech- Seminar — Entrepreneurship,' in Peden retired in 1982 but later that wife. Anna, live in Fort Worth, and aging partner Eugene Aubry while (713) 529-2009 nology, Israel's only technological which they taught business and year accepted an appointment as a are active in fund work for the continuing to acknowledge the Class recorder Jane Dunaway university and oldest academic in- engineering students about the judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court Southwestern Baptist Theological firm's founder. The firm is best sends in the following news: stitution of higher learning. Presi- planning, financial concerns al?0 in Houston. He retired from that starung Seminary, Union Gospel Mission, known in Houston for projects such "Notice has been short, but I dent of H.M.R. Consultants, legal issues involved with bench in February 1985. Texas Wesleyan University and as First City Tower, Four Seasons' can at least call to your attention specializing in real estate develop- a business. many other organizations. Inn on the Park Hotel, the Houston the Society of Rice University ment, computer software program- Central Library and Memorial Women. This is the first year that I ming and investments, he is a Rice Southwest Hospital, as well as for have been able to attend the meet- University Associate, member of its relationship with Philip Johnson ings and seminars, which are led 42 the Rice Fund Council and past 54 head 29 in creating the award-winning by members of the Rice faculty. CLASS RECORDER: president of the Rice Engineering Dean Small is currently CLASS RECORDER: Pennzoil Place, Transco Tower and They are not only excellent, but Oscar Hibbler Alumni Association. His commu- basketball coach at West Central

20 SALLYPORT—APRIL-MAY 1986 isEIN011°°' Martial Arts and Medical Arts: MIND AND MATTER by Suzanne Johnson and Andre Fox

As a 12-year-old in Houston, Kelly Hill became is a word-of-mouth program that does not ac- the youngest person ever to make Eagle Scout. tively seek new students(though they do wel- The drive and determination that fueled the come those of "like mind"). He notes that the achievements of that youngster in 1963 has kept idea of unifying mind, body and spirit holds the 1973 Rice psychology graduate busy ever true for success in any field, from music to ath- since. His only regret is that there aren't more letics. Mental and spiritual preparation hours in a day. supplement desire and physical preparation. Hill is something of an anathema in the This belief has helped Hill expand his field modern medical community, when the village of expertise to include both stress management medicine man is no longer expected to be a and sports medicine. great warrior. His "village" is metropolitan An interest in treating athletes dates back Houston, and his fellow medicine men fight to Hill's medical school days at Baylor, when, their "battles," according to popular conception, as a competitive powerlifter, he went to a doc- on the golf courses, racquetball courts and jog- tor after experiencing hip pain during certain ging trails. lifts. Though he had been working hard several On a free afternoon, however, Hill will more hours a day for three years to get to a highly likely be found racing to the scene of a stakeout competitive stage in powerlifting, the doctor's as the medical liaison for the Houston Police only advice was to "lay off for a while." Follow- Department's SWAT team or teaching his stu- ing such offhand advice, he says, could cripple dents in ninjutsu how to size up an opponent. Dressed for ninjutsu: Kelly Hill and son, Michael an athlete's competitive abilities. For Hill, there is no contradiction in terms "At that point, I made up my mind that between his role as healer and his role as per- Kelly Hill '73 is a Houston physician. when I was a physician I was never going to petuator of the ancient martial art of ninjutsu He's also an expert on ninjutsu, a give anyone such asinine advice," he says. (and a particular specialty on which he recently bestselling author, a Green Beret, "The important thing is to recognize that an wrote a martial arts bestseller, ninja knife - athlete with a hurt knee does not just have a fighting). Rather, the roles are complementary. the Houston P.D.'s unarmed knee problem — it is both a physical and social "I find that, medically, I can be more open combat instructor and (whew!) problem and must be dealt with accordingly. and receptive to people on all different levels by Unfortunately, a lot of people in sports medicine experiencing very basic problems such as peo- a husband and father. He somehow are orthopedists who are concerned with joints ple punching at me — fears that are far more finds time between surgery and and bones and they forget that there is a head primitive than the problem of facing an angry rappelling from the Astrodome roof attached." patient," Hill says. "Once you have confronted That practical approach extends to his these kinds of basic fears, the other ones are to talk to Sailyport. work with patients in stress management. easier." "First, you have to look at the idea that stress is The unity of body, mind and spirit that Hill finds in ninjutsu, he something you do to yourself," he says. "People who say that stress is a says, also helps him better understand his patients' fears. "To do any- problem of the 1980s are being a little too kind to those of us who live now. thing well you must have compassion, and you cannot have compassion Personally, I think that being hungry, having intestinal worms and be- if you are afraid of the world. There are a lot of people who behave to- ing chased by a large carnivore on the plains after our ancestors just ward the world in a very aggressive fashion to hide a scared person on descended from the trees was probably a greater stress than having a the inside," Hill says."When you become sensitive to things at a very boss yell at you. basic level, you become sensitive to the body language people use "Today, we are more cognizant of the aspects of stress, and it is im- when they are afraid or when they're not telling you the truth." portant to realize that stress can be used in adaptive ways. You should Hill's martial arts training (in ninjutsu, he trained with the Grand manage stress, not sedate it. You shouldn't tranquilize people; you Master) also helped him succeed in his interests outside his medical should try to help them use their abilities to solve their problems." practice — interests that include law enforcement (he has been a com- While he's helping people solve their problems, treating their ill- missioned law enforcement officer since his days at Rice) and the mili- nesses, teaching the art of ninjutsu, writing, working with local law en- tary. When he entered Army Airborne School at age 32, for example, he forcement and even serving as a Green Beret with the Army Reserve, faced a program so physically demanding that a third of the entrants — Hill is also a family man. Rather than his activities separating his fam- mostly 18- and i9-year-olds — dropped out. Hill made it with no prob- ily, they act as a unifying force. lems, a fact he credits as much to internal discipline as to physical con- Hill's wife, Ellen, works with him in his medical practice. Though ditioning. she is not involved in ninjutsu, his 6-year-old son, Michael, has been That internal discipline, ho said, is something on which ninjutsu fo- training since age 2. In a few months, I-and-1/2-year-old daughter Pa- cuses, and it is that concentraiion on unity of mind, body and spirit that mela will begin ninjutsu. makes Hill prefer the 800-year-old art of ninjutsu over more "traditional" "The training is not like you think, though," he explains. "Every- (though sometimes newer) martial arts based on Samurai tradition. It is body gets a picture of training as being standing in rows in white pyja- not a comparison he makes without knowledge — he also holds black mas, yelling funny gutteral foreign sounds and snapping limbs in the belts in karate and tai kwon do. air. The training for a young ninja like these kids involves play — climb- "Ninjutsu is basically a philosophy of life that deals with the idea of ing and running and jumping and hiding in little holes — things kids how to approach the problems one encounters in life using the physical like to do anyway. We just show them how to do it a little better." model as a training tool," he says. "An art that ends with only a piece of Becoming better — as people, not just as "fighters" — is what the jg cloth tied around your waist and a stack of plated plastic trophies training is all about, for children and adults. "Most of us have arranged doesn't. You ought to, at the end of each year, be a better person than our lives so that the ability to fight well physically is not essential," Hill you were the year before." says. "I don't come to the office every day and have to duke it out to get Hill stresses the self-improvement theme to students in his ninjutsu up the stairs. But you do have things you encounter in your daily life, training program — not actually a "school," he said, in the sense that it and it helps you deal with them."

SALLYPORT—APRIL-MAY 1986 21 High School in Francesville, Ind. surgery quite unexpectedly and Smith, Hawaii. two children. Karl, 14, and Kristin, a seat on the Texas Railroad Com- other year or two, and she would Small is in his 15th year as a var- 'President Ann' gladly became Gerda Hansen Smith (Jones), 11. mission. He currently chairs the like to see old friends from Rice sity coach, with 205 victories and 'Nurse Ann' for a while. Bob has re- dean of instructional television Judith L. Johnston (Jones) is the House Committee on Energy and is who are passing through. 99 defeats. He is also a guidance covered nicely and Ann is off on and professional development at president of the Women's Caucus a member of the Texas State Legis- counselor in grades K-8. On Jan. Michael R Webster(Hanszen) is her hectic schedule once more. Houston Baptist University, re- for the Modern Languages for 1986. lature's Committee on Transporta- 11, Small received a special the president of Webster Co., a "Their daughter, Page, is a cently received a doctor of jurispru- She teaches 20th-century literature tion. In addition, Emmett is plaque and the "game freshman at real estate development manage- ball" after Wakeforest, and their dence from South Texas College of and women's studies at Rider Col- executive director of the North winning his 200th career victory. other son, Brad, is in ment and commercial consulting Wilmington, Law. lege in Lawrenceville, N.J., which Houston Association, a develop- Del., working firm in Houston. Thomas J. Taylor serves as vice for General Motors. is 25 miles south of her home in ment organization with interests in president of marketing in the flat -Okay, it's your turn! I'll be ex- Highland Park. Harris and Montgomery counties. rolled products division of ALCOA pecting nice, fat letters from you He and his wife, Gwen, have four any day!" Paul L. Robison Jr.(Wiess) is the in Pittsburgh. chief financial officer for indepen- children and are active in King- 74 wood church and dent oil operations and invest- community af- Russell J. Cox (Will Rice) was re- fairs. ments for the Stroke Foundation in cently certified by the American Houston. John Kent Lydecker (Hanszen), Board of Pediatrics and has be- 56 59 who is presently completing his come a fellow of the American CLASS RECORDER: CLASS RECORDER: doctorate in Italian Renaissance Academy of Pediatrics. He is cur- Tommie Lu Maulsby Maureen Bybee art and history at Johns Hopkins rently in private practice in Gasto- 2735 Pittsburg 3800 Chevy Chase 69 University, was recently appointed nia, N.C., where he is the chief of Houston, TX 77005 Houston, TX 77019 Joyce Ilse Pulich (Brown) re- executive director of the depart- pediatrics at Gaston Memorial (713)664-5042 713)527-0444, or signed as city manager of Port ment of museum education at The Hospital. Aransas, Texas, to take a job as as- Art Institute of Chicago. (713)622-3705 He for- Lt. Cmdr. Jeffrey J. Crews(Lov- sistant director of community serv- merly Burton McMurtry and his wife, served as curator in charge ett) recently returned from the In- ices with the City of Austin in Ann "Dede" McMurtry, live in a of public programs at the National dian Ocean and West Pacific on 60 February 1986. Her husband. Gallery "hilltop house near Stanford Uni- Wayne A. Bertsch (Wiess) has War- of Art in Washington, D.C. the first overseas deployment of CLASS RECORDER: ren Pulich '71 (Ph.D.), works (1 versity with a superb view." Mc- been elected to the board of direc- for the the U.S. Navy's newest fighter, the Barbie McKittrick University of Texas at Port Aransas Murtry is a venture capitalist in tors of Uro-Tech Management F/A-18. After having been a flight 1 l 1 Guinea Drive but is hoping to relocate to the Menlo Park, Calif. News of the Mc- Corp., a Houston healthcare man- instructor for the F/A-18, he is now Houston, TX 77055 Austin area. They have three Murtrys was sent in by Kathleen agement company. In addition to chil- a member of the first operational (713)465-4827 dren, Michelle, 13, tl Much '63. his new post, he is also vice presi- and twins Mark squadron, VFA-I13, of which he is Harry Reasoner (Baker) is an at- and Jennifer, dent, treasurer and chief financial 8. operations officer. Crews writes torney with Vinson and Elkins in officer of the company. Previously, that he is also a new member of Houston, where he is representing Bertsch was with Lifemark Corp., the Rice President's Club and says. Pennzoil in its battle with Texaco. 58 serving as divisional vice presi- "I'm glad to bean the team!" News on Reasoner was sent in by dent of finance and administration 70 c, CLASS RECORDER: James Patrick McGee (Baker) Kathleen Much '63. as well as vice president Having recently completed her Phyllis Walton of corpo- and his wife, C. Darcy Fowler rate development. He is a certified doctoral thesis in art history at the 4233 Harpers Ferry Road Institute of Fine Arts, New York Un- '80(Baker), have moved to Los Al- a public accountant in Texas and a amos, N.M., Birmingham, AL 35213 iversity,Susan J. Barnes (Brown) where McGee is work- L, member of the American Institute ing at (205)870-0332 61 has been named assistant dean of Los Alamos National A of CPAs, Texas Society of CPAs and Laboratories doing work Class recorder Phyllis Walton Karl Ludwig (Wiess)and his the Center for Advanced Study in in com- E( the Houston chapter of the Texas puter writes, "It's been for too long since wife, Ann Kriegel Ludwig the Visual Arts at the National graphics. He plans to con- society. Robert S. Martin (Will Rice)sent tinue our class has been able to keep up (Jones), live in San Francisco, Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. his Ph.D. work on apart-time cc in the following information re- with one another via the Sallyport, where he is a pediatrician and she basis, and expects to receive his flecting some of his activities in apart from company press releases is a freelance writer/editor. News doctorate in about five years. D, the past few years: He received the and an occasional report from of the Ludwigs was sent in by Harold Platt(Ph.D.), a professor St 66 Kate Broocks Bates Award in His- some brave soul. It was evident at Kathleen Much '63. of history at Loyola University of AI A seven-part personal commentary torical Research for 1985 for his our 25th reunion that we do care Chicago. recently participated in a on war from Canadian journalist book. Maps of Texas and the South- about one another, and I hope you program at the University of Hous- Gwynne Dyer was recently aired west, 1513-1900. Winner of the Jus- will break down and send me an ton entitled "Dumps, Landfills and on PBS-TV. The documentary was tin Winsor Prize of the American update on your life so that we can the Neighborhoods: Human Impli- 63 the biggest ever produced by the Library Association in 1983. Martin all enjoy the direction it has taken cations of Waste Disposal in Hous- Vern Karl Benson (Will Rice) National Film Board of Canada has co-authored two books on these past years. Many of you have ton." He was a panelist discussing married Lyla Lee Carlson in Sep- and was filmed on location in 10 maps of Texas and the Southwest distinguished yourselves in busi- "Waste Disposal and Urban Neigh- tember 1984 and was elected vice different countries and with the and has published articles in sev- ness, law, medicine, the arts, and borhoods: An Historical Perspec- president of information systems armed forces of six nations, includ- eral geographical and historical in the academic world. Some of tive." at Snyder Oil Co. in Fort Worth in ing the U.S.S.R. Dyer's interna- journals. In February 1985, he was you have found yourselves living a Rich) October 1984. tional affairs column appears in appointed first assistant director Thomas R. Popplewell (Sid less than spectacular life, just tak- Kathleen Much (Baker), who is more than 200 newspapers in 50 for special collections at Louisiana has recently relocated to Dallas ing each day as it comes. Regard- living in Mountain View, Calif., re- countries, and he is a senior lec- State University's Middleton Li- and is practicing law with Locke, less. please take a minute to write cently sent in the following:"What turer in war studies at Britain's brary. Prior to coming to LSU, Mar- Purnell, Boren, Laney & Neely. a note (please, no pictures of Following a nationwide search, a surprise to read in classnotes Royal Military Academy. tin served as a lecturer with the grandchildren, as they cannot be Cynthia Plaster Branch (Jones), that Merritt Ruhlen '66(Wiess) School of Library and Information featured!). Gretchen Vik's(Brown) book, vice president of financial plan- is from Rice — when I came to Cal- Studies at the University of Wis- "Dick and I have been in Bir- Communicating Through Writing ning and analysis at Bank of Amer- ifomia in 1984, the first book! and Speaking in Business, 9th edi- ica, has been named San consin. 75 mingham, Ala., 12 years, and it edited for Stanford University Randall Blair Isenberg (Hans- truly tion, was published in January by Francisco Ballet Association's Bruce Williams (Will Rice) has is a beautiful city and the Press was his Guide to the World's zen), assistant district attorney in best-kept secret of the South. Our Richard D. Irwin Inc. Co-authoring controller/treasurer. Recently hon- been promoted to executive vice Languages(but they didn't tell me the book were Vik's University of ored by Bank of America for suc- president of Zapata Exploration Dallas since 1980, has been ap- three children are scattered in the author's provenance). The tome pointed judge of Dallas County schools, but soon even a graduate Florida professors, C.W. Wilkin- cessful systems implementation Co., the oil and gas exploration is destined to become indispensi- Criminal Court 10. Poi degree will be obtained and we son and Dorothy Wilkinson. Vik and "ideas in action," Branch will and production subsidiary of Za- ble for anyone working on linguis- Lucky Smith (Hanszen) has of can breathe that wonderful sigh of currently lives in San Diego, Calif. be responsible for the finance, ac- pata Corp. tic classification." Much also said joined the Willacy County Hospital est relief. Currently, lam in seminary counting and data processing/ she gathered some news of the fol- staff and will be opening his office an( getting a master's in biblical coun- management information systems lowing Rice alums at the Novem- in Raymondville, Texas. Having the seling. which I will receive just that support the San Francisco Bal- ber meeting of the San Francisco worked in the department of family prior to my Social Security, it 67 let Association's $9.5 million 72 ket Bay Area Rice Alumi. practice at the University of Texas the seems. To stretch and grow is al- budget. An employee of Bank of Mary Burnside (Brown)finished Health Science Center in San Anto- ways good, and this evangelical Fryar Calhoun (Baker) is a America since 1980. Branch worked her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Urn nio and the Emergency Physicians Air reform seminary has put me to the freelance writer/editor in Berkeley, as a line officer in their world the University of Houston in 1980 Association, Smith is also involved Par test. (It keeps me out of trouble, at Calif., with a book on whitewater banking division, followed by ex- and spent the next five years at in the Port Mansfield Emergency Ira least.) rafting and many articles to his tensive tours of duty in the cash- Baylor College of Medicine doing Ambulance Volunteers and the Sen "Bob and Ann Page Griffin credit. iers division departments of research on drug abuse preven- Raymondville EMS volunteers. inc (Hanszenlones) live near Green- Sam Hughes(Wiess), who is an financial accounting and financial tion. In the past year, she has be- Inc ville, N.C., in Grimesland, where architect in Albany. Ga., married analysis and planning. While gun her own full-time private Bob is with Proctor and Gamble. Patti Gamer Oates on July 20, 1985. there. she was responsible for practice with two good friends and Aft( Bank of America's internal funds- wit Ann is president of Practicon Inc., Frank Kelly (Lovett) has been is "thoroughly enjoying the experi- transfer 76 as well as dental health educa- elected a fellow of the American pricing system and for de- ence of being my own boss — even (Wi velopment and implementation of John Merkling (Hanszen) is a In-I tion, patient relations coordinator Institute of Architects. His firm, if lam a hard taskmaster!" Her the bank's new float system. registered patent attorney working and office manager of a private pe- Sikes Jennings Kelly, recently husband, Bruce Anderson '73 for • out of Salt Lake City and his wife- Inc, diatric dental practice in Green- moved into a building they de- Matt Hoffman (Baker) practices (Wiess), has developed his own which Kate Jones Merkling '74 ville. She is also a clinical signed at Westheimer and West law with the firm of Hirsch & Wes- consulting business is pri- marily involved in the areas of con- (Hanszen), has been teaching com- assistant professor at East Caro- Belt in Houston. theimer in Houston and his wife, systems and puter programming at the commu- lina University School of Medicine, David Weiser (Baker)and his Kaaran Thomas, is with the firm of trol Woody Tompkins(Baker) is pres- marketing/business plans for nity college in Orem.(Also see and a member of the Maxillo- wife, Helen, who were married this Vinson & Elkins. Describing their ident of an outdoor recreational small businesses. "New Arrivals.") Facial Evaluation Team at Pitt past summer, are living in West relationship as "Lawyers in Love," They have two equipment company in San Jose, children, County Memorial Hospital. Vancouver, British Columbia. 1986, Hoffman says, "We work hard and Hunter, 5, and Chase,8 David A. Wilkens (Wiess) re- Calif. months. -How did all this come about? which marks the 10th anniversary play hard. Took a recent trip to Ha- cently joined Texas Commerce estate Ann just happened to live next of Weiser's architectural firm, fol- waii, preparing for our sixth tria- Bank-Houston as a trust real door to a pediatric dentist who lows a very successful year in thalon — not 'iron man,' just 'tin officer in the asset management asked her to come work for him. 64 which he received British Colum- 73 division of personal trust. He Since Ann has a love for children, bia's 1985 Award of Excellence for writes, "This is a tremendous op- Donald K. Lewis (Lovett) has Stan she accepted the job without real- Interior Design and the commis- Joynton (Will Rice) has portunity for both professional and been appointed as the 10th mem- New izing that she would pioneer the sion to master-plan the downtown been practicing law in San Angelo personal growth."(Also see - ber of the newly created associate since dental health educator training revitalization program of West 71 1978 and was married in Arrivals.") board of directors of Texas Na- Danny Bice (Hanszen) has been 1981. He would field, teaching causes of dental Vancouver in time for the May like to hear from tional Bank of Waco, charged with named senior project specialist in any of his disease and preventive measures. opening of Vancouver's EXPO '86. Rice friends.(Also see assisting the Texas National Board environmental engineering As she moved from in-office pre- Weiser's work was also the subject the "New Arrivals.") kir with input on the economic devel- Chemical U.S.A. ventive educator to community re- of recent feature articles in the group of Dow John W. Mikus(Wiess), Dean H. 77 elec opment and quality of life in the source person, the dental Vancouver Sun and North Shore Texas Operations. He has been Fisher (Baker) and Marvin L. Pat O'Donnell is a senior spe- community. Lewis, who completed acq. community became interested in News. one of the leaders in the planning, Readhimer'74 (Wiess) recently cialist, MIS., with Pennzoil's In- She his medical studies at Southwest- her work and she was asked to designing and permitting process announced the formation of a gen- formation Center in Houston. over em Medical School, practices med- for a new hazardous waste rotary give programs and seminars to eral law practice, Mikus. Fisher & "I've hwc icine in Waco. kiln for Texas Operations and for- Mark Stoll (Lovett) writes, various groups. Then she was Readhimer, at 3/D International wrote Sad merly served as been pretty busy since I last asked to speak at the annual meet- 68 manufacturing Tower in Houston. brief! men representative on that project. to classnotes. so I'll try to be ing of the American Academy of Marlowe Donaldson (Brown) Yvonne Senturia (Jones) has fin- I left for India in 1980 to see the ShR Pediatric Dentistry and suddenly 65 completed child psychiatry train- The work of Bobby Duncan (Will ished her M.Sc. in epidemiology eclipse of the sun and stayed on ncn she was finding invitations coming ing in June 1985 and is starting a Rice) was among the original art "with a mark of distinction," had a the subcontinent for eight months. bat( in from all over the country. Thomas H. Griffith (Baker) has private practice in Austin in addi- featured at the Avanguardia Ex- paper published in Lancet, started traveling about, studying South In' clad hibit in "She incorporated 'Practicon' retired from active duty in the U.S. tion to serving as staff psychiatrist Houston that ran from Feb. anew job as clinical lecturer at the dian classical flute, learning lan- Joel 22-March 28 in 1982 and in 1984 her son, Scott, Marines after 20 years of service. for Austin Child Guidance Clinic. at Artigiani. Institute of Child Health, and guages, meditating with the chie joined her. While all this was go- He most recently served with Fleet Donaldson is married to Dean Ed Emmett(Lovett), Texas State moved to a new flat. She and her monks in a Sri Lanka Buddhist Offu ing on, Bob had to have bypass Marine Force Pacific at Camp Niemeyer, a pathologist; they have Representative, is a candidate for family will be in London monastery, pha He for an- doing writing and - ie•B 22 SALLYPORT—APRIL-MAY 1986 tography, and seeing the sights. I mudslinging and Bay Area Symphony League in cheating of the Texas' 25th District, returned to San Francisco. where I SWC. Nebraska fans are worse February. In addition to teaching, 83 84 am systems manager at a typogra- than Aggies! They complain when Smith is currently performing with Keys A. Curry III George Brooks(M.A.) is a finan- Janelle Freeman (Brown) is cur- (Jones) was phy house. I got interested in let- the scoring margin is only 40 the Texas Opera Theatre, TUTS, named a staff accountant in the cial analyst for Enterprise Develop- rently working on a master's de- terpress printing, and produced a points. At least the Aggies only Houston Grand Opera Orchestra audit practice of Arthur Andersen ment Co. in Columbia, Md. He gree in electrical engineering at limited edition book that was ex- care about win or lose. Marsha and a marimba quartet known as 8z Co.'s Houston office. writes that his -boss is fellow Rice Georgia Tech. She spent the pre- hibited at a show at the Metropoli- (Marsha Ness'80, Baker)is cur- the Rag Street Rascals. graduate Barbara Shuman." vious year studying in Munich, tan Museum of Art in New York in rently a resident with the depart- Dennis Friessen-Carper is the Germany. December 1985." Stoll was married ment of pathology at the University Paul Godec (Lovett) is finishing music director of the Pasadena in September 1984 and he and his of Nebraska Medical Center. She his last semester of law school at Elif Selvili (Brown) received an Philharmonic Orchestra. Washington University in St. Louis M.S.E.E. from UCLA in March. She family live in Mill Valley, Calif., found two other Rice Exes here, Dr. Thomas Little 81 by doing legal research in Wash- writes, "I am currently looking for (Wiess) is a gradu- "across the Golden Gate Bridge William Vaughn '68 (Hanszen), ate student in Richard D. Bell (Will Rice) re- ington, D.C., for Sen. Gary Hart(D - a job but I have no idea where I'll music theory at the from San Francisco.- (Also see head of the bone marrow trans- University of Texas at Austin. "New Arrivals.") plant program, and Charles An- cently completed the phantom re- Colorado)as one of 12 members of end up. Everybody passing Stoll also sends a "run-down" drews, chancellor of the placement aircrews course a congressional clinic program. through L.A. is more than welcome Beth Sinclair (Jones)is a program on some of his fellow alumni... University of Nebraska Medical conducted by the U.S. Marine Thomas Ward Gill (Will Rice) is to visit." analyst for Peat, Marwick, Mitchell "Jim Cads (Lovett) was in San Center. We live with a cat, Leto, Fighter/Attack Training Squadron in his third year at Baylor College Robert W. Stone (Jones) has re- & Co. in Washington, D.C., and Francisco for the AIA convention; and a doberman, Allison, and plan 101 at the Marine Corps Air Station of Medicine.(Also see -New Arriv- cently transferred from Houston to Mark A. Morgan (Ph.D.)is a sen- he's in Memphis working for Holi- to return to Texas. I suffered in Yuma, Ariz. Bell joined the Ma- als.") work as an advertising sales exec- ior research analyst at Decision rine Corps in 1981. day Inn's franchise architecture di- through the 59-17 defeat to Air Andrew Levin is currently music utive for theAsian Wall StreetJour- Resources Corp., also in Washing- vision. Greg Rasure (Lovett) lives Force this year. Since I wear Air Karen L. Braitmayer(Brown) director of Symphony North, a 60- nal in Hong Kong. ton. They write,"We are engaged. in San Jose and works for the Force Blue, please tell our new has completed her master's in ar- member orchestra covering north No date yet. We'll let you know." county. Lee Ivy (Lovett) designs coach that it's imperative to beat chitecture at the University of Houston and north Harris County. Denise A. Taylor (Jones) was software in Santa Cruz. Jeff Cook Air Force. They will Houston and is now employed by never recover. I David Lorance (Jones) recently named a staff consultant in the (Lovett) lives a block from Venice still can't believe their scoreboard Ray Bailey Architects in Houston. graduated from the Air Force Offi- management information consult- Beach in Los Angeles; when he's printing "Nuke Rice." She recently attended the wedding cer Training School as a second ing practice of Arthur Andersen & not surfing, he's working on his of classmate Janet Geisz '81 85 lieutenant and is assigned to Charles F. Caldwell (Wiess) is a Co.'s Houston office. Taylor was a Ph.D, and designing software for (Brown)and Mark Rowden in St. Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, with legislative assistant for Congress- member of the Rice women's soccer the military. And Kevin Hinds Louis. Also attending the wedding the semiconductor research lab. man Michael A. Andrews in Wash- team and the Rice Chorale, and is '80(Lovett) lives in San Diego and were Anne Lau '82(Brown) and (Also see "New Arrivals.") ington, D.C. Andrews represents a native of Shreveport, La. is a programmer for the govern- 79 Carolyn Choi '81 (Brown). ment. CLASS RECORDER: LC. Puckett Tori Byrne (Hanszen) has gradu- Donna Yeager(Brown) recently 435 E. 70th, #6-F ated from Indiana University completed work in the mini-series, New York, NY 10021 School of Medicine and began "Strong Medicine," by Arthur (212)872-6711 (daytime) work on a Master's of Arts in cin- Hailey. She completed postgradu- ema studies at New York Univer- NEW ARRIVALS ionize Cain (M.A., Ph.D. '79, ate work at the Drama Studio of sity in January. She hopes to begin Chip Matthews'70 (M.Acct. '75, are living in London. Mark Stoll '77(Lovett) and his London and now resides in Britain. Jones) published an article, "On a residency in psychiatry this July Wiess)and Laura Wise Mat- Kenneth wife, Lyn, announce the birth of a As a member of the British Actor's Hegel and Unity: Using the Dialec- in either the Los Angeles area or Stilwell '75 (Baker) thews'78 (Hanszen) announce and his wife, Laura, had their first son, Alex Morgan, on Nov. 1, 1985. Equity Association, Yeager works tic Method in Teaching Literature San Antonio. She writes, "I would the birth of a son, Robert William, child, Thomas, on Aug. 9, 1985, in The Stotts live in Mill Valley, Calif. Professionally in stage, film and and Language," in the Winter 1986 like to thank all the teachers and on July 21, 1985. The Matthews live Longview, Texas. Candace Barrington Waldrop commercial productions. "Strong issue of English in Texas. Cain, a students who made my years at in Houston. '79(Brown) and her husband, T. Medicine," which stars Dick Van resident of Corpus Christi, writes, Rice so wonderful. It was great!" John Merkling '76(Hanszen) Dyke, Patrick Duffey and Pamela "I am an adjunct English professor David Speed Elder'72 (Will and Kate Jones Merkling '74 Brant Waldrop, announce the birth Rice) and his of their first child, Sue Martin, will bean British and at Del Mar College and am raising wife, Melinda, an- (Hanszen)announce the birth of Thomas Brant Jr., on American television this summer. my 1-year-old son." nounce the birth of their son, Mi- their fifth son, Owen Richard, on Dec. 19, 1985. The Waldrops chael Speed, on Jan. 20, 1986. The live in Lamesa, Texas. Jamie Strauss Larsen (Hanszen) Jan. 8, 1986. The Merklings live in is currently on a "sabbatical of Elders live in Houston. Utah. Thomas Ward Gill '83(Will motherhood" with her 2-year-old Stan Joynton '73(Will Rice)and David A. Wilkens'76 (Wiess) Rice) and Julia Jeffreys Gill '84 78 daughter and 5-week-old son. She his wife, Lynne, announce the and his wife, Patricia, announce (Will Rice) announce the birth of is working as a freelance writer, birth of their first child, Carrie the birth of Matthew Robert on Dec. Thomas Ward Jr. on Aug. 21, 1985. has published two technical soft- Alice, in September of 1985. The 24, 1985. "As other new parents can The Gills live in Houston. ware manuals, and has recently Joyntons live in San Angelo, Texas, attest, there have been numerous David Lorance '83(Jones) and completed her first novel, Life- Yvonne Senturia '73(Jones) and adjustments made and will con- his wife, Melissa, announce the dreams. Larsen lives in Raleigh, Ron Henkoff announce the birth of tinue on said course forever," he birth of their first child, David N.C. their first child, Sarah Emily Sen- writes. The Wilkens live in Bel- Keith Jr., on Jan. 22, 1986. The Lor- Richard Morris (Ph.D.), vice turia Henkoff, on Dec. 7, 1985. They laire, Texas. ances live in Fairborn, Ohio. president of the nonprofit Texas Re- search and Technology Foundation in San Antonio, is leading the ef- Charles Griffey(Wiess) and fort to recruit the city's private in- Nancy Edmonson IN MEMORIAM dustry into the foundation's Texas (Hanszen) were married on July 27, 1985. They Research Park. Prior to coming to Pierson DeVries, former Rice ' las in January of 1984. N.C., on Sept. 2, 1985. are moving to Austin where Cha- San Antonio, Morris spent five staff member, of Houston on Jan. rles will take a job as an economic Elizabeth S. Tompkins'33 of Dorothy Bailey Hardy '44 of years in Philadelphia developing 19, 1986. analyst for the Public Utilities Houston onion. 16, 1986. Houston on Jan. 17, 1986. the country's first urban research Gladstone Bering Heisig '17 of Commission and Nancy will begin Jack W. Knostmon '34 of John B. Mackenzie '44 of Cin- park. West Rush, N.Y., on Jan. 17, 1986. Vivian Caudle has been ap- work on her Ph.D. at UT. Fulton, Texas, on Feb. 20, 1986. cinnati, Ohio, on Feb. 14, 1986. Painted an agency vice president John Nicol (Sid Rich) has moved Colette Marcellin (Hanszen)is May Speer Whitaker'19 of Frances Thomas Lascoe '34 of of Tracy-Locke Inc., Denver's larg- to Austin "to pursue the things Fred E. Edmondson '47 of Hous- presently working as a hospital Wayne, Pa., on June 22, 1985, Houston anion. 14, 1986. est advertising, direct marketing which make me happy." He left in ton on Jan. 26, 1986. administrator in Nairobi, Kenya, Joseph L. Mears'20 of Pasa- Janice W. Sollberger'34 of and public relations agency. She is March for a three-and-one-half Jane Farnsworth Smith '47 of where she will be employed until dena, Calif., on Jan. 18, 1986. Feb. 5, 1986. the account supervisor on several month trip to Europe with his Houston on this summer. Corpus Christi an Feb. 1, 1986. key consumer accounts including girlfriend. Wendell Phillips Ward Sr.'21 Edward S. Dorsey '35 of Crock- David Pendarvis (Wiess), after John Bunyan Corbly Jr.'48 of the Colorado Board of Tourism, John Stroman (Lovett) is "in of Waco in January 1986. ett, Texas, on June 28, 1984. graduating from the University of Falls Church, Va., on Dec. 18, 1985. United Banks of Colorado, Frontier search of any and all former Rice Edwin E.S. Weldon '24 of Lees- C. Patrick Powell '35 of Noroton Texas Law School in May 1984, Airlines and Public Service Com- athletes interested in getting to- burg, Fla., in 1980. Heights, Conn., in November of Catherine Clarke Peters'52 of served as a law clerk for U.S. Dis- San Antonio onion. 10, 1986. Pany of Colorado. Caudle joined gether weekly (or so) for basket- Bernice Tayler Barnett 1985. trict Judge J. Lawrence Irving in Laura Tracy-Locke Denver in 1984 as a ball, racquetball, running or other Lewisville, Texas, on Jan. 17, F. Frederick Jr.'37 of New George F. Griffith '59 of the Southern District of California. '28 of Ben senior account executi-s, follow- activities. Afterwards we'll go to Orleans on Jan. 2, 1986. Middleburg, Va., on Aug. 12, 1985. He has now joined the San Diego 1986. ing employment with Admarketing Kay's and get serious." He can be office of the law firm of Gibson, Leo Meneley '29 of Sacramento, Richard E. Stout'37 of Houston David Michael Martz'59 of Inc. of Los Angeles. reached in Houston at 666-8910 Dunn & Crutcher. He writes, "I ren- Calif., on Oct. 19, 1966. on Feb. 2, 1986. Houston onion. 8, 1986. After practicing law for four years (work)or 660-8627(home). Stroman dezvoused with Keith Meehan Dorothy Kuhlmann Theisinger East'40 of San with a Denver firm, Brian Cole is the president of Rice Roofers, Norman R. Russell Charles Holden '73 of (Wiess)and Cly Walker'80 '29 of douston on Jan. 9, 1986. decided to Carlos, Calif., on Aug. 22, 1983. Heerndon, Va., in November of (Wiess) has "try going Nancy Ellen Walker (Hanszen), (Wiess) in mid-January for fun and in-house" and has begun working Arland J. Mangum '32 of Katy, Herschel R. Winslett'41 of 1985. who will graduate from the Univer- adventures while nostalgically for the law department of Pizza Hut Texas, recently. Houston on Feb 17, 1986. sity of Houston Law Center in De- raising toasts to days of yore." Darryl Eugene Hughes'75 of Inc. in Wichita, Kan. cember 1986, married Jim Mozola Milton L. Silberstein '33 of Dal- Robert R Kinney '42 of Tryon, Yuma, Ariz., in January of 1986. Paul A. Race (Sid Rich) graduated on March 8, 1986, in a small cere- from the University of Texas Medi- mony in Houston. The maid of cal Branch at Galveston and mar- honor was Claire Michele riedTheda Marcelle Daniels Rimlinger'77 (Baker). '83(Baker) last May. Rice grooms- men were James Roberts'82 Cla440.01e4. (Sid Rich)and Richard Carper 80 (Lovett). The maid of honor was Enjoy keeping up with friends and classmates in the Classnotes section? Why not re- Yvonne Denkins'80 (Hanszen) Les Doss(Wiess) designs control and Jane McKee (Baker) was a turn the favor—drop us a line and a (preferably black and white) photo at the Asso- systems for solar and alternate en- bridesmaid. Paul is presently serv- 77251, .190k ergy systems for the Acurex Corp. ciation of Rice Alumni, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, Texas ing his first year of a four-year resi- energy and environmental divi- dency in obstetrics-gynecology at o Married? 0 New Job? 0 New Baby? sion in San Francisco. He writes State University of New York Up- El that his first album of original mu- Promoted? 0 Take a Trip? 0 See a Classmate? rs° state Medical Center. Theda com- sic, entitled "Mysteries," was re- Moved? pleted a master's degree in 0 Back in School? 0 Other? cently released by Rooftop Records electrical engineering from Stan- and is available in Houston. Mar- Annise Parker (Jones) was ford University and is now pursu- ried on June 8, 1985, Doss and his Send us details. elected president of the Houston ing her Ph.D. at Cornell. The Gay Political Caucus in January. wife, Mary, reside in San Fran- cisco. couple has also started a network She writes, "This position crowns marketing consulting firm, Race & aver 10 years of gay activism and Temple Ligon (M.Arch.) was re- i Daniels-Race Associates, in Syra- nvolvement, beginning at Rice cently featured in the Houston cuse. and including being a founding Chronicle as an architect special- °leather of the Rice Gay/Lesbian izing in renovating garage apart- Support Group." GPC is one of the ments to accommodate nannies nation's largest gay rights orgcrni- and housekeepers for young, "up- 82 wardly mobile- Houstonians. kations, with 400 voting members Clinton R. Hicks (Baker) is a tech- Name cind 15,000 mailing list members. Lovie Smith (Brown), a profes- nical writer with JMM Consulting Joel Slade (Baker)is currently sional percussionist who teaches Engineers, an environmental engi- Class College Chief of the Primary Care Clinic at at the University of St. Thomas and neering firm in Pasadena, Calif. Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. Houston Community College, pre- He writes, "I'd enjoy hearing from Address( New?) he writes, "Life gets tedious here sented a program of marimba mu- classmates who live in the Los in Big Red' country. I miss the sic for the general meeting of the Angeles area." • SALLYPORT—APRIL-MAY 1986 23 0101litanae

open for credit to Rice students and EV EN T S May 7 A R T students from other universities. All *New World String Quartet courses are taught by Rice professors. With David Shifrin, clarinet.Houston Apr. 14 For further information contact Maria Friends of Music. FARISH GALLERY SRUW GENERAL MEETING Teresa Leal, c/o Department of Span- Speaker: Jane Chance of Rice's English ish,-P.O. Box 1892, Houston 77251. Through April 19 department,"Woman as Hero in Antonio Sant Elia: Italian RICE BUSINESS Anglo-Saxon Literature." Refresh- AND T R A V EL Futuristic Drawings ments, 10 a.m. Meeting, 10:30 a.m. PROFESSIONAL WOMEN SEWALL GALLERY RMC Grand Hall. The new Rice Business and Profes- ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PROGRAMS sional Women's club is aimed at the Through April 12 For information on 1986 alumni travel/ Visions April 15 professional women in the community, of a Third Eye: study programs, call the Alumni Of- Photographs J.R. BARKER RETIREMENT PARTY and membership is open to all alum- from the Rice fice, (713) 527-4057, or write the University A retirement party for J.R. Barker '49, nae and friends of the university. Cur- Association of Rice Alumni, P.O. Box Art Collection director of intramurals and sports club rent Rice students may join at a 1892, Houston, Texas 77251, to receive Selected by Gallery Director Marion programs at Rice and a staff member reduced fee on an associate basis. For detailed itineraries. Prices are approx- Grayson from a large collection of pho- in health, physical education and rec- more information, contact Judy Jo imate. tographs owned by Rice University, the reation since graduation from Rice in McGlaun at 659-1988. exhibition is organized with the collec- 1949, will be held April 15 from 3-6 p.m. CONTINUING STUDIES July 16-23 tor or would-be-collector of photogra- in the R Room. Whitewater Float The Office of Continuing Studies and Trip, phy in mind. Salmon Special Programs offers classes River, Idaho Float five nights May 1 throughout the year in the arts, fi- and six days(110 Through April 12 NEW ALUMNI PICNIC nance, literature, science, photogra- miles) through the 1.25 million-acre Hispania Nostra's Monumental Formerly the Senior Picnic, this event phy and foreign languages. A wide Idaho Primitive area. The middle fork Spain has been expanded to include all range of professional courses also are of the Salmon River is considered the An educational photographic exhibit graduates. Young Alumni also invited offered. For more information and a finest whitewater float boating in illustrating various architectural res- to attend. Ray Memorial Courtyard, free catalog, call 520-6022(527-4019 for North America. No prior whitewater toration and preservation projects in RMC, 5-7 p.m. Music provided by the languages). experience is necessary to enjoy this spain. A traveling exhibition under the Dana Cooper Band. Young Alumni summer adventure. $1,200. auspices of the Spanish government, wishing to attend should contact the EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT the showing in Sewall Hall has been alumni office, 527-4057, by noon, April The Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Aug. 11-25 made possible in part by support from 29. Administration offers management Barging & Ballooning the National Tourist Office of Spain. courses to the business community in France May 3 throughout the year. For details con- Tour of the French wine country, in- April 22-May 10 cluding a seven-day, six-night cruise Art Students ALUMNI SOFTBALL GAME tact the Office of Executive Develop- Exhibition aboard the cruise barge "Janine" and The 23rd Annual Rice Art Students Ex- Young ment at 527-6060. Alumni (those who have gradu- an optional balloon excursion. $3,695 hibition consists of the best works in ated in the past 10 years will take on from Houston. Deadline for reserva- all media produced in the studio fellow alumni in a softball game at tions is March L Call the alumni office classes of the art and art history de- Cameron Field. Time to be deter- MUSIC for more information. partment during the 1985-86 school mined. For more information, contact year. The works are selected through a the alumni office, 527-4057. Unless otherwise noted, performances September jury process and special awards are Adventure in Africa are at 8 p.m. in Hamman Hall. * De- presented for outstanding examples Exciting African safari will begin in May 7 notes admission charge. For more in- through the generosity of the Art Sup- FRIENDS Nairobi, Kenya, after which OF FONDREN formation, call 527-4933. partici- ply Company, the Texas Art Supply, the ANNUAL MEETING pants will travel to the Aberdare Na- Christine Croneis Sayres Memorial Professors John L. Margrave, Michael April 9 tional Park, Samburu Game Reserve, Fund and the Mavis C. Pitman Memo- J. Berry, F. Barry Dunning and Frank K. Rice Concert Band and Mount Kenya, Tscrvo West National rial Fund. A preview reception open to Tittel will speak on "Lasers in Our Jazz Ensemble Park, Amboseli National Park and Ma- all, sponsored by the Friends of Fon- World Today," followed by annual Ken Dye, conductor. RMC. sai Mara Game Reserve. Optional ex- dren Library and the Association of meeting and reception. 7 p.m., Kyle tension will allow travelers to engage Rice Alumni, will be held April 22 from Morrow Room, Fondren Library. April 15 in a trip through the best of Egypt. De- 7-9 p.m. Shepherd Symphony Orchestra parts Aug. 31. $3,790. For more infor- May 10 Mahler's Second Symphony. Benjamin mation, contact the alumi office at the COMMENCEMENT Zander, conductor. First Baptist number provided above. Rice's 73rd Commencement ceremo- Church. T HE A T ER nies. 9:30 a.m., academic quadrangle. April YOUNG ALUMNI 16 CONTINUING EDUCATION Blaserfest III April 14 Plans are in the works for informal PROGRAMS Shepherd Society members and Rice Players "happy hour" mixers for Young Alumni guests. Robert Ray The following travel programs are be- Presentation of Harold Pinter's Be- on April 17 and May 22. Courtyard, RMC. 7 For more infor- ing offered by the Office of Continuing trayal, Hamman Hall, $6; Rice faculty mation, p.m. contact the alumni office at Studies and Special Programs. For and staff, $5; students, $4. 527-4057. April 17 more information call 520-6022. SPRING COLLOQUIA Syzygy Scientia, an institute for the history of Song Cycles by Paul Cooper, Brown June 7-22 science and culture founded by Salo- Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts. The Bible on Location mon Bochner, concludes with an April Combine literature and archaeology SPORTS 22 lecture by William E. Gordon, April 21 on a journey to the ancient Near East with Don "From Gutenberg to Video." Kyle Mor- *Guest Artist Series C. Benjamin of the religious BASEBALL studies row Room, Fondren Library, 4:30 p.m. Folger Consort department. Read the litera- ture Wine and cheese reception follows. of ancient Israel in the lands April 8Lamar April 22 where the Bible was born. Campanile Orchestra April 11 Texas July 25-Aug.8 April 23 April 12 Texas NO T ICE Shepherd School Percussion Aug.8-23 Ensemble Trips to Greece and Turkey April 15 at Lamar William Neidinger will lead consecu- SPAIN '86 Richard Brown, director tive two-week tours of Greece and Tur- April 16 Sam Houston State The Rice University Summer Program April 24 key. Enroll in either or both tours; of Hispanic Studies is offering nine Shepherd Singers special reduced price for those enroll- April 18-19 at Texas A&M courses in Spanish language, litera- ing in both. On July 25-Aug. 8 will Gwyn Richards, director. RMC. be April 22 Texas Southern ture and culture in Malaga and Se- "Aegean Odyssey: The Glory of An- ville, Spain, from June 2-July 12. April 25 cient Greece;" "East of Istanbul: A Jour- April 23 at Sam Houston State Courses may be audited by anyone in- Shepherd Symphony Orchestra ney Across Turkey" will span Aug. terested in non-credit study, and are Concerto Concert 8-23. April 25-26 Houston