TION OF RICE ALUMNI VOLUME 40, NUMBER 3 FEBRUARY—MARCH 1984

RICE AND THE SWC

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INSIDE: Cuthbertson Interviews Hobby The Strange Case of William Sidis 1984 Self Study Preliminary Report FEB.-MAR. 1984, VOL. 40/6 Full-Time Hobby BY GILBERT M. CUTHBERTSON 4 Popular Rice political science pro essor Gilbert "Doc C" Cuthbertson interviews Texas Lieuten- EDITOR ant Governor William P HobbV, Jr. '53 about Rice, Austin, and what the future may hold. Virginia Hines '78 SCIENCE EDITOR The Strange Case of William Sidis 6 B.C. Robison Billed as the "world's youngest professor" when he came to study and teach at Rice in 1915, DESIGN "boy wonder" Sidis died 30 years later in obscurity. Now, as several books by or about Sidis are Carol Edwards about to make a belated appearance, his contributions are finally being reevaluated. PHOTOGRAPHER Pam Morris BY LINDA PHILLIPS DRISKILL '61 STUDENT ASSISTANTS On Being Rice . 8 Grace Marie Brown '84 Every ten years, virFien committees of administration, faculty, staff, students, and alumni sit Joan Hope '84 down to evaluate the university, feedback from the greater Rice community is vital. Here we offer preliminary conclusions and encourage readers to let committee chairmen know how OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF RICE ALUMNI they feel about the state of the university in 1984. President, Joseph F. Reilly, Jr. '48 President-Elect, Harvin C. Moore, Love It or Leave It 10 1st Vice-President, Carl Morris '76 etbc Once again the old question is raging: should Rice throw in the towel in the Southwest Confer- 2nd Vice-President, Carolyn Devi ccahuoslae ence? In this issue professors James Castarieda and Harold Rorschach spell out the pros and Treasurer, Jack Williams '34 in his cons of keeping a Division I football team in Rice Stadium. Past President, Catherine C. Han Executive Director, Kathryn A. D tuxnater, ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE 1941- current SALLYPORT, I thought I would send in write a better paper, you will have a better ON PUBLICATIONS on Sot the enclosed information anyway. paper. If you draw better pictures but report Chairman, Patti Shelton Simon '654>S.W utIi My father, W.M. Nathan (1894-1979), en- and write poorly, you may have a mediocre Cochairman, Charles Szalkowski War tered Rice Institute's first class in 1912 and paper. I laid before me on my desk the W.W. Akers 1 duo: W.V. Ballew, Jr. '40 .e graduated "with distinction" in 1916. He was September/October 1983 issue and the June O aS C John B. Boles '65 the first editor of the Campani/e and a life- 1983 issue, and I would be hard-pressed to bask long Rice booster. say which has the 1980s graphic look. Brent Breedin S now Multiple Degrees His son, Charles C. Nathan, graduated In regard to the cover of the September/ Franz Brotzen I was interested in the story on three-generation in the class of '40 with a BS in ChE, and was October 1983 issue, how did the Apoli- Christopher Ekren '84 and. Rice families in the November 1983-January 1984 the first son of a Rice graduate to graduate. headed teacher eat part of the apple sitting Ira Gruber ii Homecoming edition. Our family takes pride in Another son, Meyer J. Nathan (1937-1981), re- on her desk? Incidentally, the drawing re- Darrell Hancock '68 playat bll having had three members take degrees in the ceived a BS in 1959, and went on to teach his- minds me vaguely of Marcel Duchamp's Harry Holmes '66 same year. Is this unusual? tory at Colorado State University until his style, circa 1920. Harvin C. Moore, Jr. '59 aarrnliee; They were M.D. Patrick Groves MSEE '64, death. Lastly, your assertion that "the new SALLY- Sara Meredith Peterson '47 heirb: tr Patricia Dodds Groves BA '64, and R.V.M. Will Nathan had three nieces and neph- PORT will lead the innovators of the 1980s" Harold E. Rorschach Groves BA '64. Pat Groves is now president of ews who graduated from Rice—Edna Leah might be a bit premature. At any rate. I hope Ewa Thompson Access Computers with offices in Santa Clara, Jacobs Frosch '35, Louis K. Jacobs '38, and Sa- you do succeed in restoring the integrity of UNIVERSITY ALUMNI GOVERN( RICE r-icalnufdeEi California; Patricia is with Information Solutions dye Rose Jacobs Goodstein '40. He also had a the SALLYPORT. Please let me know when you David Farnsworth '42 in San Jose, California; and R.V.M.(Mike) is great-niece, Diana Frosch Schoolnick, and a have done so! I wasn't aware that it had Neal Lacey '56 3asBi ,u.1d vice-president of Evans-Monical in Houston. great-nephew, Jack Jacobs, both of whom eroded. William McCardell '48 .riThdE, I am the mother of Pat and Mike Groves and graduated in the mid-1960s. JOHN P. PAPUGA '51 Louis Spaw, Jr. '40 the former mother-in-law of Patricia. I have a pnd So, in three generations we had a total of Pittsburgh SALLYPORT CUSPS 412-950) is publisl picture taken of them together at graduation in the eight graduates in my family. Not a bad track September, November, FebruarY, ai 1964. Proud of Rice, Admires Athletes record! and June by the Association of RiOi-41 to MRS. ALGIE GROVES I was dismayed to see the CHARLES C. NATHAN '40 letter m the November Alumni, and is sent free to all uni'J Quanah, Texas '83 SALLYPORT from the graduate who was Socorro, New Mexico alumni, parents of students, and t ashamed of Rice because of its football team's I am another four-degree alum: BA '76, MEE Second class postage paid at Houed •cr in w iPbct We all enjoyed the recent SALLYPORT article on performance. I find it hard to believe that '77, MS '79, PhD '81. Texas. multi-generation Rice families, since we are anyone who went there could ever be loss MICHAEL PATRICK BIENVENU on the verge of becoming a third generation o rot rn2 ac3 Falls Church, Virginia ashamed of Rice. The correspondent also William Marsh Rice University offi of graduates. mentioned withholding contributions be- equal opportunity to all applicant Thanks for the Memories My father, George Grady Cunyus, gradu- cause of her embarrassment. I plan to in- regard to race, color, sex, age, ridtfor Thanks for the interesting articles that let me ated in 1922, and my mother, Ruby King crease mine because of her attitude. ethnic origin, or physical handicd:ty'd keep up with Rice activities and people. Cunyus, in 1923. I graduated in 1951, and my I have only admiration for athletes who by son, John Grady Cunyus, will graduate at the Editorial offices for SALLYPORT are b TIM EBERSOLE '76 participate in sports at Rice, given the size of w s's Spring 1984 commencement. in the Allen Center for Business Al I Red Bank, New Jersey the school and its attitude towards athletics. Rice University, 6100 South Main ton In addition to this direct three-generation My feelings for Rice, though, are based on Houston, Texas. reo Corrects Tidelands Article line, our family has been well represented by what it is and on my experiences there, not g time The SALLYPORT is a superb publication and I my uncle, Howell H. Cunyus '30; cousin, Howell on some athletic performance somewhere. POSTMASTER: Send address chap di enjoy it very much. However, how wrong can H. Watson '33; my mother's sister and brother-in- I've always been proud of going to Rice. SALLYPORT. Office of Information Se di you be? The Rice-Texas game in 1957 was law, the late Ruth King Hochuli '28 and Paul Ho- STEPHANIE F. WRIT '68 Rice University, PO. Box 1892, Hot of played in Austin, not Houston, and Rice lost. chuli '27; my brother, Karl K. Cunyus '53, who Aiken, South Carolina Texas 77251. It was the Owls' only SWC defeat that year, left campus to enter service during the Korean Copyright 1984 by the Association 01 naerc, so you are at least correct about the champi- War; and my first cousin, Howell Cunyus's Another Owl Mascot Alumni, Rice University. onship(who could get that wrong?). This is a My roommate, a Bryn Mawr alumna, tells me daughter, Patsy Cunyus Johnston '53. sent small matter, I'll admit, but it calls into ques- GEORGE CUNYUS'51 that that institution of higher learning has an owl tion the credibility of other stories. Dallas as its symbol, if not exactly its mascot("Off- G.H. HUDSON 60 spring," November 1983-January 1984 "Through New Forum Houston Questions"New Look" the Sallyport"). Between us we have quite an In this issue SALLYPORT (Arc Your offering called "Face Lift" on the "Through impressive owl collection. gurates an opinion col More 3-Generation Alums Write the Sallyport" page of the September/October JANE CARMICHAEL '79 14inongnivoi:1 Here's one more addition to the three-generation 1983 issue suggested that the "SALLYPORT seeks New York that we hope will give ut hrtst cc Rice families. My great-aunt, Catharine Lefevre, to inform, entertain, and sometimes chal- matriculated in one of the earliest years—I913, I More on South Africa ers the opportunity to lenge its readership." You have challenged vd think—but did not graduate. Her niece(my I would like to puncture the bases of Jack ' out at some length on1 1Sinurv th this reader to take issue with your statement Schriver's protests ("Letters," November '83) con- mother), Ortrud Lefevre Much BA '38, married in the some column that "a new design by Fred Much BA '36, whose brothers Joe BA '37 cerning the alumni association's trip to South Af- of special interest to th Carol Edwards simply restores an integrity rica. He speaks of the "overriding moral and Roy '39 were also Riceites. and consistency of treatment that had gradu- Rice community. We ii I reasons" against such a trip. I wonder if he received a BA in 1963 and an MA in 1971; ally eroded." the submission of man my brother, Mark, received a BA in 1970. My 13- would apply the same logic to a trip to Mexico or ecit1 Is it not a bit of wishful thinking to assume most of the Central and South American year-old son spends a lot time playing video coun- scripts up to 1,500 worc nolc that one can restore integrity to anything with tries? What about Haiti, with perhaps the worst games in the Steam Tunnel, but I doubt that he a new design? And might it not be somewhat long with the understa on I will be attending Rice as a student. record in this hemisphere? But no, Mr. Schriver Icith specious to conclude that integrity had emphasizes that "oppression there(South Africa) ing that they cannot bf brjllj Another multiple Rice family (only two gen- eroded just because the old format of the SAL- erations, though) is Wylie '39 is particularly appalling because of its racial and Alliene Guinn LYPORT was adapted to meet changing needs knowledged or return '39 Vale, whose son, Wylie, Jr., BA '63 married character." I would submit that the victims of far of various times? Perhaps your attempt to more brutal oppression by black leaders in For a taste of our new Betty Branard BA '63, whose parents, Jim '27 and move the SALLYPORT squarely into the 1980s Mildred Howze '29 Uganda, Ghana, Mozambique, Zaire, Ethiopia, 9°).11viii(ChtjfilYlilsiioliaLe,r:triwscifecing Branard were also Rice from a graphic point of view, as you state it, ion forum, turn to pag( :n:11 grads. The Vales' other son, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Angola, to name a Shannon, gradu- is an example of putting form before sub- ated from Rice in 1977. few, as a result of being liberated from colonial- and see what professo KATHLEEN MUCH '63 stance. ism, would find his comparison meaningless. Ewa Thompson and al Houston Changing formats, graphics, and edi- In spite of apartheid, South African blacks tors i§ okay. However, if you think you are go- are by far the most prosperous on the continent. president Joe Reilly ha Somehow I missed the request in the April is- ing to make a memorable journal out of the Thousands of blacks come from the rest of Africa say about the state ofthtOWir sue for information on three-generation Rice SALLYPORT by giving it a "1980s graphic look," e in' families, but after seeing the article in the you have another thought coming. If you Letters continue on page 15 university. [JI

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rather than preferentially: the San Antonio linois, Dartmouth, MIT, Cal Tech, Rice degrees held by 68 employees. missions; the Governor's Mansion in Aus- Carnegie-Mellon, and Wisconsin. Brown, Clearly, for some alumni, there's no tin; the State Capitol Building in Austin; Columbia, Indiana, North Carolina, and place like home. "Old Red" on the UT medical campus in Rice rounded out the category on an equal Galveston; the Bishop's Palace in Galves- footing. Other schools sometimes com- ton; the Ellis County Courthouse in Wax- pared with Rice, such as Duke, Vanderbilt, ahachie; Battle Hall at UT-Austin; and Tulane, did not make the ranking. Ac- Highland Park Village shopping center in cording to Rice officials, Rice's small size is Dallas; the Elbert Williams house in Dal- sometimes a handicap in such national iNI las; Fair Park in Dallas; San Antonio's Pa- polls. It is smaller than most of the other 48 seo del Rio; the Chapel in the Woods at "national universities," but more diversi- Dore liberal is '76 etball on His Mind Texas Women's University in Denton; the fied than such top-ranked "national Trinity University campus in San Antonio; arts colleges" as Amherst, Swarthmore, Devi icholas(Guy) Lewis, Jr. '45 is Mr. Bas- .11 in his the Texas Instruments Semi-Conductor and Williams. hometown of Houston—but Building in Dallas; the Tenneco Building in Trinity is not the only Texas school to HanAcause of his accomplishments at his i. Houston; the Kimbell Museum in Ft. Worth; express concern about putting its best aca- DuOrnater, Rice. A scholarship athlete at the Mies van der Rohe addition to the Mu- demic foot forward. According to a Dallas n 1941-43, he was on two Owl squads seum of Fine Arts, Houston; Pennzoil Place newspaper, SMU officials grind their teeth ton Southwest )n Conference champi- in Houston (associate architects on the pro- every time they hear another "rich party '65,os. But, following Thanks, But No Tanks ski military service in ject are the firm of S.I. Morris '35); and the school" joke. They would prefer that such War II, he opted Although a university's first responsibility to complete his bas- renovation of the old San Antonio Lone information as the fact that the average 11 across town at is of course to education, most people fledgling Houston Star Brewery into the San Antonio Mu- SAT score for incoming freshmen rose 26 as a member of agree that another obligation not too far that school's first seum of Art(associate architects on the points to 1050 in 1983 was. in the limelight. y basketball team. down the list is to the surrounding commu- He has been at project are the firm of John H. Kell '61). In a Meanwhile, across town at the Uni- is now the University nity. From the look of things. Rice is filling of Houston ever news release announcing the results of the versity of Houston, the central campus's and his teams have the bill on both counts. The Houston Busi- dominated survey, the TSA calls Lovett Hall and the new chancellor insists that UH is not will- Play in much the same ness Journal recently catalogued the rapid way that Rice Rice campus "a melange of Mediterra- ing to settle for being the city's second best .tball teams used to and energetic rise of a number of business dominatc and nean sources reflected in ornate detail, university. "We're already better than Rice ;ome. research institutes in the area, and of the lavish color, shadowy cloisters, and for- in a number of areas," Richard Van Dorn arlier this year the eight organizations in Houston, four are di- Houston Cougars mally composed and landscaped open Houston Chronicle, although he heir twenty-fourth told the rectly connected to the university and an- consecutive SWC spaces. This is eclecticism carefully con- admitted,"We know Rice is excellent." to break a 1944-46 other is sponsored by an alumnus. record for consec- sidered, a rigorous attempt to create a new Back inside the hedges, the atmo- _sonference wins held by Shunning the cliched description " Rice teams regional expression." sphere is more serene. Recently named by R'"acluded such former tank," breed of research Lewis team- About the exhibition of photographs of the author of 100 Top Colleges: How to "think the new s as Bill Tom Closs center often funded by business as it and John Mc- the exemplary architecture, the TSA adds, Choose and Get In as possibly the school is as Id. The Rice streak began by the traditional sources, universities, when the "It is hoped that this collection of images with the best quality/cost ratio in the coun- is , under Coach Joe Davis(subbing in foundations, or grants. Like its predeces- .and will intensify public demand for a quality try, Rice no longer feels compelled to de- ublisP 1945 for Buster Brannon, who en- sor, the modern version works to bring to- I built environment by reminding us that ar- fend its turf in the verbal fray. When all the the armed services), defeated gether the scholars and the businessmen, ..tary,, Arkan- chitecture endures, and that it has the ca- competition uses you for a benchmark, pf Riy-4I to avenge a 42-41 loss the the thinkers and the doers, and to apply night pacity to influence works yet unknown." you know you have arrived. 1 univie• That was in mid-season 1944. their resources to specific community prob- The After appearing in San Antonio and and frampanile reports on how lems. Judging from the outlook for increas- it came to Bryan, the photo show is now in Corpus : Hou#id with a 53-49 loss to ing complexity in life and in business for TCU, noting, Christi and will travel to Lubbock, Austin, loss broke a continuous the world in general and Houston in par- No winning Abilene, El Paso, the lower Rio Grande y 0 of 23 straight games in ticular, the Journal concludes that the new Southwest valley, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Houston, North- „ntsOrence competition, a research institutes are the wave of the record that will east Texas, Waco, Wichita Falls, and West nalt for a long time." future. .dicciForty Texas during the year. Other locations may years from the start of the Rice Rice's position on the crest of the wave by be'added to the agenda next year. are14,k Lewis's classmates to its demise is maintained by its leadership in such or- ss MEwis's Phi Slama Jama ganizations as the Houston Area Research am gang at n S4,ton does represent which includes the en a long time' be- Center(HARC), also records--and, for University Houston, Texas A&M, and the thcnitim Guy Lewis, a of e to have had University of Texas, and was created by n basketball on his Sed• oilman George P Mitchell to help attract Hou% Homebodies il of high technology industry and encourage Fame Were there times when you were at Rice the local economy to diversify from its con- NI oils architects have voted Rice's you you could stay forever? centration on energy; the Rice Institute for ne Lovett that wished of the 20 "buildings or places that Are there times now that you wish you Policy Analysis, created by Dean Joseph nt Ise the state's proudest architectural were back on campus? For some alumni, Cooper of social sciences to bring social Jevements of all time." Rice is one of the dream came true. A number of Owls science research to Houston; the Rice Cen- universities included in ter, the city's oldest and largest nonprofit ?T iPf the Texas Soci- have apparently decided that Rice is the Architects' survey, research institute, which does analysis fttng and Lovett Hall is best place to feather their nests and can 702 four Houston landmarks to receive still be found among the university's partic- and forecasting in demographics, regional onor. An exhibition of photographs of ular version of the halls of academia, in transportation, and regional economics; iiputstanding architecture will tour If the Shoe Fits positions ranging from dean to secretary. and the Institute of Ethics. Health, and Si‘ the n through 1985. In the not-so-distant past, Rice was proud According to a count last fall, 144 Public Policy, a consortium of Rice, the Survey respondents asked alumni were on the Rice payroll as faculty Baylor College of Medicine, and the Insti- :iinate were to to call itself the "Harvard of the South." up to ten candidates for Now the albeit and staff, almost 10 percent of the univer- tute of Religion, directed by Baruch Brody thek in the inclu- shoe is on another, some- exhibit, with nominations ern- what smaller, foot. According to newspa- sity's total. An even higher percentage of of philosophy and aimed at exposing med- ? intYing an „ archetype of a particular kind per reports, San Antonio's Trinity faculty, about 20 percent, are alumni, ical students to the ethical problems raised tirchitecture; a design triumph to which University itself making Rice far and away the largest sin- by the new technology in medicine. ,r"ctitects2 is promoting as the "Rice have looked for inspiration; a University of South Texas, and school offi- gle source of degrees for its own profes- Another group, the American Produc- anological advance that pointed a di- cials are not afraid spend a lot more sors. The closest competitor, with about 10 tivity Center, is not connected with any tGriton for to future work; or a component of money to keep it that way." Trinity's presi- percent, is the University of Texas. university but moved to Houston from Dal- 1e(brilliant work of an influential master dent notes, in connection with his school's _ As of January, the top sources of de- las in 1980 when Tom Fatjo '63 offered the /-2 e6hitect Final (of • selections were made by a rigorous admission standards, "After Rice, grees for Rice faculty were Rice (106 de- APC a home at his Houstonian complex. distinguished on side of V 03urctl architects and archi- we'd be next." grees), Texas (43), Harvard (39), Princeton The APC focuses the human educators including Rice Trinity's reputation is growing. A re- (36), Cornell (33), Michigan (33), Berkeley productivity. gediarn professor T. Cannady. Other (31), Illinois (28), Yale (27), Stanford (25), Ten years ago, says the Journal, there ;or ?s with Rice connec- cent survey named it the second best "re- the project include Tom McKit- gional liberal arts college" in the country. MIT (20), Columbia (20), Wisconsin (18), were few public research organizations in k '56's service J111D1 on the TSA task force that In the same survey Rice tied for fifteenth in Johns Hopkins (17), Chicago (14), Purdue the Houston area. The university's main emented the exhibit. category, "national university." (14), Houston (13), Duke (12), USC (11), and contribution to the community was aca- as Lovett the top Hall joins the company of the Beating out Rice in the first 14 positions NYU (11). In addition, 10 emeritus faculty demic and cultural. Now, thanks to Rice's 'th", ing "must see" Yale, Princeton, earned another 18 Rice degrees. Among involvement in the new research institutes, e in examples of architec- were Stanford, Harvard, Texas, ranked chronologically California, Chicago, Michigan, Cornell, II- nonacademic staff there are a total of 78 the contribution can be practical as well. CI

SALLYPORT—FEBRUARY-MARCH 1984 3 AN INTERVIEW WITH THE TEXAS LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR BY GILBERT M. CUTHBERTSON

aving attended school with Wilt Chamberlain ties. Lieutenant Governor Hobby's office contained The questions on the future of Texas politics H and Henry Kissinger, I should have been amply a number of surprises. There were the standard pic- were a little more difficult. Political scientists are: well suited to interview Rice's most distinguished - tures of Texas politicians, as well as one of his fa- toriously poor prognosticators, and even politico; alumnus in political office, the Honorable William P. ther, the late Governor Hobby, but there were also novelists err every once in a while. In Alan R. Hobby, Jr. '53, lieutenant governor of Texas. Unfortu- framed arrowheads, decoys, and Escher prints. Erwin's The Power Exchange the lieutenant gove nately blessed with Wilt's diplomatic skills and Dr. Hobby responded freely to all questions. He nor of Texas, a Rice alumna, leads the state throb Kissinger's athletic ability, I had to make certain ad- was particularly interesting in his recollections of a secession crisis after the governor is assassinct justments in order to avoid proving the maxim that his days at Rice as a history major and three-term by a conspiracy led by an oil sheik. As far as I co political scientists are frequently taken by scientists Thresher editor. (It was a little difficult to believe that tell, this scenario did not occur in 1983 as it did in as politicians and by politicians as scientists. (Actu- anyone could survive being Thresher editor for the novel. Texas 2000 will be interesting, howeve: ally, I mistook Kissinger for a textbook salesman, three terms, but here was proof of less turbulent We already have a Rice professor as vice-preside used at that.) It was, in fact, another adage I de- days.) He named the late William Masterson as his of the United States, George Bush, a former adju: Is cided to prove, that after you have failed at all else mentor. I remember Masterson as a distinguished professor in the Jones School. (It is a little ironic al in in the world, you can enter either teaching or poli- teacher with strict notions regarding punctuality. when he was running for Congress, Bush was ur It tics, and when you teach politics, well.... You liti used to be able to set your watch in the morn- able to speak to Poli 210 because it was "too po i01 Hobby's hospitality and courtesy covered quite ing by the speed at which the freshmen in History cal," although we did have him and his assistant an a few of my deficiencies as an interviewer. His office 110 were crossing the quadrangle, since Masterson Chase Untermeyer, as guests of the Young Repil B0. staff tactfully took away the copy of the Houston took attendance and locked the doors at 8:00 A.M. cans at Rice.) Hobby may not believe in "ticket Idc sta Chronicle that I was reading, although, somewhat Hobby patiently answered all my political ancing," and is blessed with a becoming modest" hi unfairly, it had been left lying in the office on the questions. Of course, few Texas politicians reveal but when I put the question of a suitable running readers' table. One afternoon in October, accompa- their WI secrets to success. When LBJ spoke at the dedi- mate for Senator Glenn, Lloyd Bentsen was far d Pe nied by Chris Hoffman '85, who manned a tape re- cation of Rice's Sid Richardson College there were of my mind. Hobby would be a distinguished ac16 le corder (courtesy of Jeff Mischka '84), I was ushered all sorts of impertinent questions I would have liked tion to the cabinet of either President Glenn or PI' ev into the temporary inner sanctum on the third floor, to ask about box number 13 and Alice, but inter- dent Mondale, or for that matter of President to: temporary because of the unfortunate fire that de- viewers can't do things like that, at least in Texas. Reagan. None of them can win without Texas, of in t stroyed the lieutenant governor's offices in the capi- (LBJ still knows more about Texas politics than any Bill Hobby is one of the keys to winning in Texas; m c tol building last spring. Hobby's office, although man living.) Besides, as far as I know, there aren't any rate, I played Riordan to Hobby's Plunkitt of certainly no rival of mine, did a great deal to make any skeletons in the lieutenant governor's closet. Tammany as best as possible while attempting V Th me feel at home. Some of those behaviorists have Anyway, if there were bones rattling, I couldn't hear discover Myth-Power-Value in the statehouse in Yol studied offices in relation to bureaucratic personali- them. Austin.

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_JINN Rice is certainly proud to have you as its most balanced and strengthened by the inclusion of a aside, we face a teacher shortage. Texas, inci- distinguished alumnus in political office. Let's Texan as a vice-presidential candidate in the dentally, has the lowest pupil-teacher ratio of any start with some of your recollections from Rice. same way that Reagan's was strengthened by the large state. Whatever the faults ofour public Chris was asking, for example, what was your presence of George Bush? school system, pupils in Texas do get more indi attention. major? Your question assumes the conventional wisdom vidualized whole problem. That is an interesting question. I started out as a of the merit of balancing the ticket ideologically That is by no means the concern over the quality of teach- mathematics major, but at the very pointed sug- or geographically or whatever. I am not sure that There is great profession. All over the country gestion of Dr. Bray I became a history major at is a valid concept. This was what Reagan tried to ers entering the 20 years SAT scores have been declin- the beginning of my sophomore year. Dr. Master- do seven years ago by announcing to the conven- for about erosion, but very steady son was my mentor. tion in advance of their vote his selection of Sch- ing. It is not a precipitate is criticism of the SAT weiker, the liberal Republican. This very properly and persistent. I know there achievement, but I was very fond of Dr. Masterson. That means caused widespread feelings of dissatisfaction as a measure of educational us a message. They give us an- You were deeply into American history. Did any- among the Reagan supporters. In other words, if the numbers give prospective teachers, edu- thing particular in the "Rice experience" influ- you support Reagan, are you not going to sup- other message about whose scores are 50, 60, 70 points ence your political views? port Schweiker? cation majors, declining average of all SAT don't know about any effect on my political Is it a valid concept that a presidential candi- below the already obvious concern that we are Views. One thing about Dr. Masterson, I was in date from one wing of whatever party should, in takers. There is an of less academically his History 110 survey course, American history, the interest of balancing, select a vice- putting a high percentage classrooms. and when I was a freshman I had spent the sum- presidential nominee from another wing? The ef- able people up in front of the and large, contrary to mer before in Mexico and apparently contracted fect of it is that the will of the voters who vote for Teachers' salaries, by teachers' groups will tell hePatitis, so I was out for about six weeks. Dr. the presidential candidate because he espouses what TSTA and other inflation in the past ten Masterson would come by my home two or three a particular philosophy could be negated by an you, have kept pace with haven't kept pace with is the times a week. He came to see me and would sit "act of God," or whatever. John Glenn is not at all years. What they ago the only professions open to down by the bed and start to talk. What he was persuaded by the conventional wisdom of ticket fact that 20 years well-educated woman were teaching doing, it took me 10 or 15 minutes to realize, was balancing. an able, goodness that is no longer ny- the lectures that I had missed. So, of So if I could, I would like to respond to a and nursing. Thank course, I finally picked up a pad and started tak- slightly different question. Yes, there are all kinds the case. log notes. Bill Masterson is the central figure in of people in Texas, Lloyd Bentsen being the most Perot is considering is main- my mind. obvious one, who are of presidential caliber, and One of the things an appropriate balance between aca- I would hope that Glenn, Mondale, or whoever taining Today Rice students are characterized as apa- athletic participation. As you the nominee is, will select his running mate on demic quality and thetic. Was there a difference in the political at- one of the matters that Rice is fac- the basis of who would be the best man to suc- know, this is titudes of students in your day? now. Do you have any comments or ob- ceed him as president of the United States should ing right Your question reminds me of the time several he die in office. And certainly Bentsen fits those servations? Years ago that Fredericka Meiners, the young criteria. The first specific change resulting from the com- lady who wrote the history of Rice, came inter- mittee will be an upgrading of academic stand- program was to in- viewing. Part of her research Texas has been critical to every successful pres- ards for athletes. Under current rules of the terview I suppose on the former Thresher editors, idential coalition in the past 25 years, and I am University Interscholastic League, a student can theory some higher aware- that they might have sure that no matter who the candidate is, he continue to participate in extracurricular activi- ness. list of questions about She went through her will pay a good deal of attention to Texas. Let ties and play football as long as he is passing Political that I didn't have a attitudes, and I found ask you a question about the Houston Post. three courses, passing being defined as a D. You Whole go over to me lot of recollections. I said, "Let's Since it has maintained such a long tradition of can get three D's and two F's. Now the UIL is talk- Rice out the Thresh- and go to the library and pull responsible political journalism and public ing about really upgrading it. You are going to ers for editor." I was in effect the years that I was service, do you foresee any major changes in have to have four D's. So a little bit is being done editor for did that, and I didn't three years. We this tradition as a result of the sale? there, not, frankly, very much. recall much going on because, in fact, not much of responsibility. I More important than how many D's or F's is went on. No, certainly not in the tradition would anticipate some changes from the pub- the practice of letting school out early so that the to the football Well, perhaps that's the way it ought to be. lisher of the Toronto Sun. His record is very suc- band and the pep squad can get into in- Some people say that Rice students come in cessful not only in Toronto, but also in Calgary. game. I guess it's bad that that intrudes it very conservative, end up very liberal, and then His trademark is a much breezier style of journal- structional time. Equally bad is the message football or years later are very conservative again. So ism, which is not at all to say less responsible. He gives, that it is more important to play 29 That is it S hard to tell if the Rice education has that will make some changes in character but not in play in band than it is to learn algebra. much political influence upon anyone. responsibility. clearly the message that the system now sends, the message pretty well represents the val- Not in my case, nor in my observation. and I had the pleasure of hearing you speak at the ues in our society, which need to change. Let me jump from your connection with Rice in River Oaks Rotary Club, where you discussed question about Rice. You come from the past to the direction of the future. Looking at future problems of Texas, pinpointing schools, One more one of the most successful political families in the immediate future of Texas politics, one of prisons, and highways. It is sort of rare when the state. Is there a "Hobby success formula," the most interesting races is the Glenn cam- you remember what a politician says so vividly, and do you have any advice for current Rice stu- Ltics '?chg. What do you think Glenn's prospects are but those points came across very effectively. dents thinking about going into politics? ; are in the Democratic primary in Texas? That is about 80 or 85 percent of the whole Mica' Well, get in there and get after it. I think that if Glenn is nominated, he will be speech. R. elected. The question is, can he get the nomina- gov6 what new Do you think that Rice students should be involved tion? There is no doubt that Mondale has a much What sort of progress do you see or throtl schools, and seek political careers? longer history of activity in the Democratic party problems have been emerging in sinatt what they want to do. I guess my advice clnd a much wider acquaintanceship in the party. prisons, and roads? If that is s I c0l be, don't run for public office unless your de- I have known Fritz Mondale since he was attor- I don't know that there is much new under the sun would lid 10 sire to do so is such that you will never forgive your- ney general of Minnesota, and to know him is to in any of those fields. Let's talk about public Neve: self if you don't. If your feelings are that strong, then like'Am. Nobody I know dislikes Fritz Mondale. education—not higher education, but the second- 7esicV ary and primary schools. I chaired a study that fo- do it. adju' s the Glenn campaign making good headway cused primarily on financing public education. It is nic til I in Texas? absolutely a stroke of genius on Mark White's part to William P. Hobby, Jr., earned a BA in American his- ur Rice, where he was editor of the It is. There is no question in my mind that John get Ross Perot to chair his study, which focuses on tory in 1953 from polit: Thresher. The son of a prominent Democrat and Glenn enjoys greater support among all Texans quality of education rather than on finances. The istant former Texas governor, he has served as lieutenant ciTh.nd among Texas Democrats than anybody else. political climate, and this is nationwide, shows a iepul I think cre- governor of Texas since 1973. The Hobby family has who is defined as a Democrat? Under our concern for the quality of education that ket lac a close association with Rice. Lieutenant Governor state election code, it is a person who presents ates an opportunity to make some significant im- Ddest, a Hobby's mother, former Eisenhower cabinet mem- himself or herself at the primary. Now the people provements that comes along not more than once ining ber Oveta Culp Hobby, is a Rice trustee emerita. His who vote in the primary are neither the same generation. Perot is a man absolutely in the right far 0: to wife, Diana, earned a PhD from Rice in 1982 and lpeoPle.nor a subset of the same people who se- place at the right time. He has a greater ability d adV I can serves as associate editor of Rice's Studies in En- lect the delegates to the senatorial district and dramatize issues than just about anybody that or Pt glish Literature. The family also had a long associa- eventually to the state convention. The problem is think of. .t tion with the Houston Post until its sale this fall. lo motivate the supporters to qualify to participate We have about 2.75 million students in our as, al: Gilbert M. Cuthbertson has taught political sci- ln the precinct conventions by voting in the pri- public school system now, and will have 3 million axas. mary by the end of the decade and 4 million by the end ence at Rice since 1963 and has a special interest in itt of of the century. Since the late 1960s the number of both Texas politics and Rice history. He is resident ing l‘ received four The next question may be a little bit unfair. Do college students enrolling in teacher education associate of Will Rice College and has se in You think that the Glenn ticket would be well- has declined. So, leaving all other questions George R. Brown teaching awards.

SALLYPORT—FEBRUARY-MARCH 1984 5 I

BY B.C. ROBISON AND VIRGINIA HINES

One of the enduring—if less publicized—traditions at either to his astronomical IQ or to the "Sidis method" that New England to enroll in Harvard Law School at the end Rice is that of the great eccentric. Perhaps the most noto- spawned his amazing intellectual hypertrophy. of the year. His replacement was a man who, though less rious Rice character is the late, Howard Hughes '27. But In 1915 one Boston paper devoted an entire page to notorious, ultimately made a more permanent place for in his own day another world-class eccentric attracted the story "HARVARD'S BOY PRODIGY VOWS NEVER TO himself at Rice; as Evans wrote Huxley, "our new fellow to as much curiosity and attention as Hughes ever did, when MARRY." Calling Sidis "the most remarkable youth in the take WJS's place on the stem of the rose is a man named he arrived here in the fall of 1915 under the billing "the world," it recorded the day in history—August 16, 1912— Bray from Harvard." world's youngest professor." That man, fresh from Har- when he took a vow under an oak tree in Cambridge From all appearances, Sidis's stay here would not vard, was 17-year-old William James Sidis. never to marry, and had a silver medal struck commemo- seem happy. When a man wrote the university for infor- It is ironic that the biography of Sidis—a man who rating the occasion. At the same time he adopted a rigid mation on Sidis in the 1950s, he was told that "no one who ii spent a good portion of his life fleeing journalists—must in code of 154 rules—his original personal philosophy—to knew Sidis is willing to talk or write about him." But sur- great part be recreated from accounts in the popular govern that and all other aspects of his life. prisingly, Sidis's sister, Helene, tells SALLYPORT, "Billy en- press. In fact, it was the newsmen who drove Sidis to "Whenever I am in doubt about anything I draw out joyed his year in Texas and always spoke well of the ti Houston. Hoping to help his son escape their relentless in- my rules and glance them over. The guidance is sure to be Rice Institute. His memories of that period were good quiries(some called it persecution), Boris Sidis contacted there," he told a friend. ones." She recalls that he joined the French Club be- tl- a family friend and fellow Harvard man, Griffith Evans, The reporter pried relentlessly into every corner of cause it offered the only French spoken in Houston and about a position for William in the mathematics depart- young Sidis's life: "He is an egotist; has the gift of concen- that he was particularly interested in the 1900 storm in ment Evans headed at a promising new university in tration to an abnormal degree; is apt to be absent- Galveston and sought out survivors of the disaster. Si Texas—the Rice Institute. Evans agreed, hoping the expe- minded. He can figure out a mathematical problem with Although his progress may not have been evident rience would do the shy young man "some good." amazing speed. He prefers to work mentally rather than to those around him, Sidis did not waste his year at th It was not the first time the elder Sidis—a distin- with a pencil and paper. Once he was asked on what day Rice. The following summer, back at the Sidis Institute, guished psychologist and director of the Sidis Institute in Christmas would fall in the year 2011. He put his hands to he wrote Huxley, "How has everything been this sum- Portsmouth, New Hampshire—had decisively influenced William's future. The boy was born April 1, 1898, and named for his father's friend and colleague, William James, who would soon pronounce his namesake "the greatest mental marvel of all time." Before long Boris Sidis began zealously applying what came to be known as the "Sidis method" to his son's education. Boris's skills as an educator were already proven. At 20 he immigrated to America from Russia, taught himself English, and soon graduated from Harvard. His wife, Sarah, "came to the United States an illiterate Russian im- migrant and became a noted psychiatrist," the New York lit Times said. Boris taught her to read and write. la The story of William's rapid mental development has tio often been told. By the age of six months he was said to ce: have mastered the alphabet. At two he could read and so( write, and by four the preschooler was typing original ot.5. compositions in French. At five little William devised a for- sh, mula that named the day of the week for any date in his- tory. It ne was also about this time that he first became Camille Waggaman Sidis at 16 The Bachelor House bu interested in mass transit—a lifetime preoccupation. an his head, walked back and forth you? Then it was time to tackle elementary education in the a minute, and gave the mer with I myself have been writing out that the- Sc Brookline public schools. Grades one through three were correct answer. He has. a positive dislike for flowers and ory of mine regarding the second law of Pr: easy—William had music. His favorite diversion is what he calls 'trolling,' that thermodynamics." finished them when his mother came rho to pick him up for lunch on opening day, and his teacher is, riding around in a trolley car. His favorite food regime This casual statement is the earliest reference to tioi conceded that the little boy knew more about fractions is: crackers and milk for breakfast, crackers and cheese what is now considered William Sidis's great contribu- ret, than she did. The next four grades took a little longer—six for luncheon, crackers and milk for dinner." tion to science. In the early 1920s he published The An- months—to Enough, Boris Sidis declared, was enough. He wrote imate and the Inanimate, which complete. posits the reversibility an When he was eight, the always inventive William Griffith Evans and plans were soon underway for William of the second law of thermodynamics(the "entropy tior postulated a logarithmic table based on the number 12. to move to Rice. He would be a graduate fellow in mathe- law" that says that all matter naturally evolves toward Bor By nine he was ready for college, but Harvard balked at matics and teach euclidean and noneuclidean geometry. a state of less energy and greater molecular disorder) ha( the idea, so William cooled his heels His arrival, although noted in the local press, apparently and postulates the results of such a -reverse for two years until universe." shil the more decorous age of 11, then enrolled as a special did not attract undue attention. At the time, Sidis's purely theoretical work did not at- lesz student. The next year he matriculated into the Class of tract the attention of the scientific community. But '14. He did not, as was often reported, enter Tufts at age n view of William's youth, Evans decided it was best when the late Buckminster Fuller, who had been at I old ten. That rumor grew from the frequent confusion (even to keep him under the wing. The teenaged prodigy thus Harvard with Sidis, received a copy from Sidis enthu- Call Julian Huxley was guilty of it) of Sidis with fellow prodigy made a rather incongruous fourth to the illustrious trio en- siast Dan Mahony in 1979, his reaction was different. Norbert nal] Wiener. sconced in the famous bachelor house—"the bach"—at "Imagine my excitement and joy on being handed Prh Not surprisingly, William made good use of the two 5302 Austin Street. His roommates were Evans, Julian this xerox of Sidis's 1925 book, in which he clearly pre- years before he entered Harvard. Huxley, and the Welsh physicist Arthur Hughes, a cul- In his spare time he dicts the black hole," he wrote a friend. "In fact, I find hall mastered French, German, Russian, Latin, Greek, Arme- tured and congenial lot who shared a love of flower gar- his whole book to be a fine cosmological piece. I find nal; nian, and Turkish. Soon after he began his studies at the dens, music, and good company. him focusing on many of the same subjects that fasci- ernI university he was invited to lecture before the faculty The match was not hand in glove. According to re- nate me, and coming to about on the same conclusions as edl} the mathematical theories he was studying. Wearing vel- ports, Sidis typically left the house when his roommates those I have published in Synergetics, and will be one vet knickers, the 11-year-old discussed "fourth dimen- had company. His antiwar sentiments made him unpopu- publishing in Synergetics Volume II. As a Harvard Plet sional bodies" with such aplomb lar, and his youth and notoriety made discipline in the man of a generation that he left his audience later, I hope you will become as had shaking their heads in disbelief. The performance classroom difficult. excited as I am at this discovery that Sidis did go on af- offei prompted MIT professor Daniel Comstock to predict that Then there were the girls. William's misogyny had not ter college to do magnificent thinking and writing." too , William would grow up to be a great mathematician and escaped the notice of the Rice community, and soon many As Fuller says, The Animate and the Inanimate hey, scientific leader. of the girls in his classes were feigning uncontrolled pas- predicts the phenomenon of black holes—collapsed was Sidis—now in long pants—graduated from Harvard sion for the indifferent mathematician. Compounding the stars with a density so great that not even light can es- nev, cum laude as the youngest person ever to earn a degree problem was the fact that some claimed to detect in the cape their immense gravitational pull—that has only whe from the university, and the next year continued his edu- young professor a secret longing after the beautiful tennis fairly recently been discovered (Sidis called them "per- cation in the Graduate School. But the press star Camille Waggaman '18, a woman so attractive and fectly black bodies"). As the letter to Huxley shows, had gotten he COUZ their teeth into his story and would not let go. They self-possessed that she sometimes served as the univer- began work on his theories as a teenager—perhaps at the E seemed intent on recording—and often misinterpreting— sity's escort to distinguished visitors; rumor has it that on Rico only a few years after Einstein (by a different ap- hire his every move. What in other children his age would one such occasion she asked the Archbishop of Canter- proach) became the first man to imagine that black have been the usual teenage growing pains became, in bury, "May I call you Archie?" and he readily agreed. holes might even exist. Pron Sidis, wild deviations from the norm that were attributed Few were surprised when Sidis decided to return to But, if the popular press is to be believed, Sidis's

6 SALLYPORT—FEBRUARY-MARCH 1984 departure from Rice was made in haste rather than in tache. His light hair falls down over his brow....He triumph. No sooner had he returned to Harvard yard— seems to have difficulty in finding the right words to ex- sporting a new moustache—than headlines screamed, press himself, but when he does, he speaks rapidly, "TEXAS GIRLS TERRORIZE HARVARD CHILD PROD- nodding his head jerkily to emphasize his points, ges- IGY,""HARVARD'S INFANT PRODIGY FINDS TEXAS turing with his left hand, uttering occasionally a curi- GIRLS BOLD,""UNKISSED HIGHBROW'S A JOKE TO ous, gasping laugh. He seems to get a great and ironic TEXAS GIRLS." enjoyment out of leading a life of wandering irrespon- "Puritanical Boston was shocked a few days ago sibility after a childhood of scrupulous regimentation." when William James Sidis returned to that center of Sidis told his interviewer, "The very sight of a mathe- culture and codfish from Houston, Texas, where he matical formula makes me physically ill. All I want to had been a teacher of mathematics at the Rice Insti- do is run an adding machine." tute, and told his friends he was practically forced to The New Yorker's portrait of a sordid end to a resign his professorship and flee from Texas because once-promising career is typical of the media stereo- the girls of the Lone Star State were besieging him type of Sidis's fate. But that version is not the whole With proposals of marriage," New Yorkers read. truth about the later life of William Sidis. He sued the magazine over a number of errors in their story— In Boston they heard it this way, quoting Sidis: "It's preparing his own briefs in the case—and they settled RICE RECALLS SIDIS 1 terrible in Texas. They want to naturalize you and the out of-court. H. Lel Red '16: "I was one of the girls who ran after SS best way they can think of is to get you married to one A conversation with Helene Sidis yields a different of their girls. Gosh, it's fierce! The girls even proposed picture. The William—or Billy—whom Helene remem- him. It was a joke. We didn't really want to hurt him, we to to me in public. It was awful." When asked how he bers was friendly and always mentally active, if not simply wanted him to come out of his shell." liked Texas girls, Sidis responded, "I don't, they flirt too ambitious in a traditional mold. J. Emmet Niland '17: "He mostly stayed to himself, but much. It was very annoying. But I am happy to say Billy Sidis the author and editor coined a word for occasionally tried to mingle with the rest of us. He only that article 32 of my constitution, which prohibits kiss- those who, like himself, were fascinated with public had one suit of clothes, the sort of heavy, rough woolens ing or familiarity with females, is still unblemished. transportation and the lore of transit transfers: peridro- worn by Englishmen. Most of us felt sorry for him." . Another full page story in a Boston paper— mophile. Under the pen name Frank Folupa he wrote .Andrew B. Bryan '18: "I once went to dinner at the illustrated by a cartoon of Sidis fleeing a lariat- the peridromophile's Bible, Notes on the Collection of Bachelor's House when Sidis was there. He behaved like swinging Texas cowgirl with a preacher in tow—told Transfers; founded several organizations for peridro- TI - a child—he ate his dinner and dessert quickly, then left. the saga of "How the Bold Young Women of Boston and mophiles; and produced a series of monthly peridro- Evans talked to him like he was a little boy. People al- Texas by Constantly Proposing Marriage to the Wary mophile newsletters. It was said that he could give ways played jokes on him. He kept his watch set on east- William James Sidis, Boy Prodigy of Harvard, Prove directions for reaching any street in any city in the ern time, so people always asked him the time as a joke. the Old Belief That the Feminine Heart Longs to Con- country on a single streetcar fare. :nd And the girls pretended to be in love with him." in quer Masculine Indifference." He was also intensely interested both in the lan- Naturally, the "bold Texas women" did not accept guage and in the political systems of Northeastern Pickens Coleman '18: "He was absent-minded, not a Sidis's 3nt judgment without a fight. One alumna huffed to American Indians, and frequently hosted or addressed man about town. Dr. Evans had to make him shave and Huxley, "The little toad, he isn't worth noticing; even gatherings of those who shared the esoteric hobby. bathe, and his hair needed cutting." the fact that one has to ignore him is too much." Another pasttime dating back to his days at Rice was Blakely Smith '19: "I took freshman trig from Sidis, but In up his study of languages, New York a Dallas girl, interviewed as she re- meteorology And he kept we never studied math because at the beginning of every turned vir- from a horseback ride, set the record straight. learning literally hundreds. He mastered not only class two or three boys would tease him about girls and :Ask the also numerous Texas girls who met this gentleman how they tually all the world's major tongues, but his hands would start to shake. He would put his hands liked him It will be a sad story, I bet. I have nothing obscure dialects. He even invented a language or two but over his face or hold his arms out in front of him and his contempt for his statement. It is untrue and not of his own. hands and arms would tremble violently. I think he had a Worthy of be shy and reclusive, he notice. I bet that he is a sissy, sports a wrist Although Sidis could crush on Camille Waggaman, a real blonde beauty, but watch, and lacked for friends. His sister recalls a "cult" of Si- wears his handkerchief in his sleeve. The never didn't have the brains to do anything about it." truth is that Texas girls discovered he was a 'Nancy' dis admirers. His wide-ranging intelligence naturally Who had never been kissed and they kidded him and attracted him to a,certain category of intellectual with Campanile: "Heard at the Bachelor's Home: William, he took it seriously If you should see William James Si- a similar bent. With his socialist leanings, he also took put down that knife. William, it is time to go to bed. dis, give him my regards and tell him not to let his pleasure in communion with the common man. Ac- William, you really need a shave and a clean collar. wrist watch run down." cording to Newsweek, "Later in life he went to the mov- William, you haven't gone calling in a long time." . The next time Sidis's name appeared in the head- ies and liked to hang around and talk," an action Kathleen Wilson Henderson '35 (daughter of Harold lines, the matter was more serious. He had recently left apparently considered bizarre only in the case of an Wilson, founding chairman of the Department of Phys- law school without obtaining a degree. A conscien- erstwhile child prodigy ics): "Sidis lived by a constitution that regulated when he tious objector during the war, and more a man of con- got up and when he went to bed, etc. When the faculty cepts than of realities, he was now an outspoken When Sidis died, a friend wrote a Boston paper to were invited to my parents' house, Sidis would sometimes socialist and was arrested in the Roxbury May Day ri- reveal the other side of the one-time prodigy. "His nu- take a knife and divide the cake on the tea table in half ots of 1919, accused of carrying a red banner and merous friends do not like the false newspaper picture and eat the whole half. I don't know if that was in his shouting "to hell with the American flag." On the wit- of him as a pauper and anti-social recluse," it began. constitution or not!" ness stand Sidis denied insulting the American colors "Bill Sidis paid his way; he was no burden on society. Julian Huxley (founding chairman of the Department but admitted to carrying the red flag, being a socialist, Sidis had plenty of loyal friends. All of them found his of Biology and Sidis's roommate, in Memories): "He was and favoring the form of government practiced in the ideas stimulating and his personality likeable....Wil- he- brilliant at mathematics, but in all other subjects he was Soviet Union. He was sentenced to 18 months in liam Sidis had one great cause—the right of an indi- childishly ignorant; he spent his time mooning about and prison, but never served the time for reasons vidual in this country to follow his chosen way of life. that re- prattling to the Tsanoff's infant daughter. He was also main obscure. According to Helene, Boris's interven- He had never been able to do this for himself, first be- tion untidy and rather dirty." tbu- was somehow involved, but William could not cause his father made him an example for psychologi- An- return to Massachusetts for several years. cal theories; then because the public, through Albert Leon Guerard (chairman of the Department of Mlity With this the Sidis family—Boris, Sarah, William, newspaper articles, insisted that he was a 'genius,' ab- Romance Languages, in Personal Equation): "The boy and Helene—moved to California, the choice of loca- normal and erratic.... Bill Sidis was a quiet man who was healthy, sane, and, I believe, normal in every re- -ard t_tan somewhat being influenced by consideration for enjoyed the normal things of life. His friends respected spect. He was the victim not of the intensive education .106oris ler) s failing health. For several years they moved him and enjoyed his company." given him by his father, Dr. Boris Sidis, not of the roman- back rse." and forth between California and New Hamp- Just as William Sidis was intellectually old before tic curse called Genius, but of the thoughtless cruelty of hire, where Boris died from a stroke October 24, his time, so did he die before his time. At only 46 he the public. He was treated like a two-headed calf. His at- less 1923, than two weeks after his fifty-sixth birthday. succumbed to the same series of ailments of the circu- boyish singularities—and what lad of 17 is a pattern of it The 1920s marked a turning point for Sidis. Too latory system that had claimed the life of his father 20 mellow wisdom—were mercilessly exposed and ampli- °1°I, now, to remain the "boy wonder" and too ideologi- years before. Sidis had a paralyzing stroke in his fied. Because he blurted out that he had never kissed a hu- cally nt. unpopular to remain a darling of the press, he fi- rooms in Boston and lay in a state of intermittent coma girl, he was made the butt of endless practical jokes." aded na.11Y began to gain a portion of the anonymity and for four days until his landlord summoned a doctor. Albert Joseph Guerard (novelist and literary scholar, privacy pre- he had always wanted. Pneumonia set in and on July 17, 1944, William James son of A.L. Guerard): "Sidis lived across the street from In id later years reporters would look back on the last Sidis died. Because he was young and because of his us. My mother felt maternal toward Sidis, who was very nd n°If of Sidis's life and sum him up as a "burned-out ge- eccentricities, many erroneously thought him a suicide. shy. He would not indulge in any entertainment, but was nius, sci- and it was true that he pursued only the simplest In the end, his fame did not desert him. According willing to have a good time in an academic ambiance: he ns as ern„PlaYment, often working as a clerk(he could alleg- to Helene Sidis, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital had played charades with the French Club. Once he refused 'iy operate two adding machines simultaneously, never received so many inquiries about a patient as normal refreshments (ice cream, ice tea), loptileetely but my mother with each hand, at tremendous speed), and com- when her brother was there during his final illness. felt he wanted something. She offered him porridge, as shunned the academic world where earlier he Major obituaries ran in Time, Newsweek, and the New which he welcomed. At one gathering he come out to the 11,9a found spectacular success. He turned down many York Times. af- ot ifers kitchen to play with me and my sister, perhaps aged four of gainful employment because they required. Today 40 years after his death, one might think and eight. The family legends:(1) He pumped us up in °° much time or attention. He became overweight. He the publicity about Sidis had died down at last. In- lte wIlever our swing, using a different language for each number; ed married, although, according to his sister, there stead, it is poised to begin anew. At least two biogra- (2) He borrowed the book on international languages my °S a woman once whom he greatly admired. He phies of him are in progress. One of his several n es- 'lever father had written and the next day returned with a long >nly lived up to a single one of the predictions made unpublished, book-length manuscripts, The Tribes and essay in esperanto, showing how American culture when he "per- was a boy. the States, is about to be printed by the Indian nation it reached Europe or vice-versa via Atlantis. My parents' c With s, he a little help from their book editor, Sidis's first studies, the Wampanoags. His 300-page Notes on the memories were indulgent and affectionate." ,pe cit „°usln Clifton Fadiman, the New Yorker tracked down Collection of Transfers is set to be reprinted, and his ;Ile nt aP' elusive genius for a "Where Are They Now?" fea- scientific work is finally being reexamined. , ck j-:August, 1937. The portrait was not flattering. If the life of William Sidis was not a typical study in SALLYPORT extends special thanks to Helene Sidis, Dan :trta Sidis at 39 is a large, heavy man with a the flower of genius, neither was it a typical study in Mahony, and Isabel John Evans '17 for the information prorninent jaw, lis's a thickish neck, and a reddish mous- failure. IJ and illustrations they provided for this article.

SALLYPORT—FEBRUARY-MARCH 1984 7 Sh qu Ile: thE thE Sc. Int •Th go cel stu Fu 1984 Self Study.:-;,crirDn,crE

BY LINDA PHILLIPS DRISKILL '61 Linda Phillips Driskill '61, who holds BA, MA, and PhD de- communication will be necessary if Rice is to offer an un- and oil and gas investments. grees from Rice, is an associate professor in the Depart- dergraduate education second to none and maintain a vi- • Investments other than marketable securities do not ment of English and a member of the Self Study Steering able research program. The challenge of "being Rice" in have immediately ascertainable market values, but it Committee. the turbulent environment anticipated in the panels' re- is clear that some of those properties are worth signifi- ports will be exhilarating. The Thresher has published the cantly more than the balance sheet amounts. These as- Th Accrediting agencies require member institutions to sub- complete preliminary reports, and they or committee sets should be evaluated regularly in order to see if the crE mit thorough evaluations of their performance and plans chairmen will send copies to anyone requesting them. returns therefrom are sufficient. Regular consideration thE for the future every ten years. In 1983-84, Rice University is should be given to whether or not these assets should lat preparing such a review, called the Self Study Program, Administrative Services be held, sold or managed so as to provide higher cur- g0 for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. A Chairman: E. W. Kelley, Jr., Board of Governors rent returns. 11S] self study is not just a report by a university's administra- A major need of the university is bu tion; participation of the entire university community is re- an open system to guide its pro- Athletics trn quired. Under the direction of Provost William Gordon gress. An important part of plan- pr Chairman: David Brady, political science . and a steering committee, nine broadly constituted panels ning activity should be Th The findings have been meeting since September to study undergrad- establishment of priorities in pro- of the panel on ath- thE letics are still being compiled aridt uate education, graduate education, student affairs, ad- grams and facilities consistent sh( will be released in early March. missions, the library, administrative services, community with the university's stated goals. On There will be a public meeting relations, athletics, and computing. In addition, the planning system for with the full panel present on Most of the panels have had at least one public meet- should be open to information to ( campus at 6:30 Pm. Thursday, ing to gather information and opinions. All but the ath- and opinions of many members of the university commu- rric March letics panel have submitted preliminary reports and held nity, closely linked to funding and budget decisions, and 22, in Hanszen College th( to allow alumni, students, fac- public forums for the discussion of their findings and rec- adaptive to changing circumstances and opportunities. sh, ulty, staff, and interested ommendations. Alumni are strongly encouraged to par- • A formal, continuing mechanism for long-range plan- sh friends to hear and to discuss the results and offer their ticipate and should direct comments to the appropriate ning at Rice University should be established. It should Cc own views on the issues under consideration. committee chairmen. include a long-term plan for the university's projected IF The Self Study Program is more than a review of past capital needs, so that the board can anticipate these ve performance; it is an opportunity for the university to needs and take actions to meet them. The planning ho- Admissions Plc make plans for the decade ahead. President Hackerman rizon should be short enough to enable the university IF Chairman: Alan Grob, English expresses the mission of the Self Study Program in this to adapt to threats and opportunities presented by its e From the earliest years way:"We should not seek change merely for the sake of dynamic environment today; consideration should be an out- Hi standing undergraduate student change; the real challenge is to find new ways to continue given to a five- or six-year planning horizon. While the im Th body has been one being Rice in the face of rapidly changing circum- plan should be updated annually, it is important that of the most bu stances." the major thrusts that guide the university not be prized assets of Rice University, fa/ and maintaining the high quality The panels' findings document a number of strengths eroded. A planning mechanism alone cannot provide ne of the student body is plainly in- • that should be gratifying to a fine, small university: the university the sense of direction and progress that Pc dispensable to any program for • The Admissions Office and the Committee on Admis- our panel's interviews found that many members of the ne excellence at Rice. By almost all . sions have not only remedied problems identified in university community feel is lacking. Hence, an impor- of the criteria used for measuring the self study of 1974, they have recruited a student tant feature of the planning process is the involvement IC success in undergraduate admissions, the academic pro- body that by almost any standards must be judged of members of various segments of the university com- 7:1r file of the class that entered Rice in 1983 among the best in the country. munity in an advisory capacity. would have to rank among the best in the nation. The disturbing trends • Strong, responsive, and fiscally sound administration • Formal mechanisms for feedback of key decision infor- in admissions(fewer applicants under the guidance of President Hackerman has given mation should be developed or improved. with lower qualifications) identified in the self study of 1974 for the university a much healthier financial position than • Operating goals to guide administrative services the most part have been corrected and reversed. it had in 1973. should be developed by each unit providing these The committee on admis- sions has the following findings • The panel on administrative services praised the uni- services(personnel, physical plant, etc.) to supplement and recommendations: versity's internal leadership for efficient handling of the the goals stated in the 1976 resolution. Some form of • Undergraduate admissions remain strong and the de- straight administrative function. management by objectives appears useful in setting cline in student quality noted in the 1974 self study re- • Strong student commitment in several student activi- these goals and appraising performance of units in port has been reversed. ties, such as the MOB, the Rice Players, and the foren- goal attainment. The elements needed to develop a • The applicant pool is relatively small compared to rnOV jr sic society was reported With appreciation and program to define goals in a more operational and other universities with highly selective admissions. Cc11)(2[1 recommendations for greater support. concrete manner are described in the October 1981 re- • More funds need to be allocated for recruiting students lot"ovE • Alumni of the graduate programs rated faculty accessi- port distributed by the provost, "Rice University: The with outstanding academic promise. They should be TiIe C bility as one of the major advantages of their graduate Goals Manual." more widely contacted than they are now. The litera- • To study at Rice. • A procedure for succession planning for the university ture sent out by the Admissions Office ought to be im- sit • The Institute for Computer Services and Applications is president and other administrators should be adopted. proved, made more informative and more attractive. de ranked as one of the country's leading computer cen- • Hiring and training of personnel responsible for the se- • Rice should continue merit-based scholarships. in ters among universities. lection, distribution, maintenance, planning, etc. of • The present policy of having each application read by " To • The Office of Continuing Studies has offered high qual- physical resources should be made more consistent five committee members, though cumbersome, should co ity programs that made the intellectual and physical with the quality prescribed in planned objectives. be continued. th( resources of the university available to the community. • Information about resources, services, and funding • Geographic quotas should be eliminated. Current • To • The Association of Rice Alumni has provided outstand- procedures should be made available to the Rice Uni- practices of the Admissions Committee in using geo- co ing service to alumni in the Houston area with Home- versity community in a manner that will encourage ef- graphic quotas to admit students into academic, sci- efi coming activities, the Alumni Institute lectures, and ficient and responsible use. ence, and engineering divisions are not in keeping orc travel programs. • In view of the great disparity between Rice University's with university policy. le fc • During a period not considered favorable for private tuition and that of comparable universities, the board mi The high school records of all students admitted on ath' 'A universities, Rice has expanded its programs in admin- may want to consider raising the Rice tuition as a letic scholarships should be reviewed by the Admis- in istration and music and has added several buildings to source of funding. sions Committee. dE its campus. • The university's equity portfolio is probably one of the • Athletes admitted to Rice should show evidence of Pt While viewing accomplishments with pride, the panels largest in the country under the control of one man- greater academic achievement in high school than rn also identified significant problems(described in the ager. It may be prudent to consider splitting the portfo- they do at present and a minimum SAT score of 1000 11 A summaries)that will offer enormous challenges to the in- lio between different managers or allocating new should normally be required of those offered athletic Co stitution. As President Hackerman notes, rapidly chang- funds to another manager. scholarships. of ing circumstances will confront Rice. The demand for • Consideration should be given to further diversification • Though the Shepherd School must be the final judged ci( computing services in courses, in support services, and in of the university's investments to attempt to provide the abilities of applicants, recruiting and admission of Or virtually all phases of university life will create large fi- greater income and long-term capital gain potential. students to the Shepherd School should be more 'TI nancial demands and require careful coordination. Stra- Avenues that might be investigated include venture closely coordinated. tegic planning and strong visionary leadership plus open capital and increased income-producing real estate • The academic qualifications of those admitted to the

8 SALLYPORT—FEBRUARY-MARCH 1984 Shepherd School are considerably lower than the ized department for the management of shared hard- always to go to other institutions. qualifications of most students admitted to Rice. Some ware and software and other computer services; a staff • Even if all nonlibrary functions are removed from the li- ' flexibility in admissions should be allowed to build up and operating budget should be provided that is con- brary building and concentrated storage employed for the school in its early stages. At the end of five years sistent with the responsibilities of the department and lesser-used materials, shelf space will be exhausted the admissions policies and practices of the Shepherd independent of outside income. within a short time, probably within five years. Plans School should be reviewed by the Rice faculty. A mini- • A thorough assessment of the computing needs of en- should begin immediately for an expansion of the mum goal of 1000 on the SAT should be established. gineering should be made as quickly as possible and present building. • The panel endorses the intent of the policy of seeking high priority given to upgrading research and educa- greater diversity among students by admitting 5 per- tional computing capabilities in engineering. Student Affairs cent of the entering class by this criterion. Further • The university should develop and implement a five- Chairman: Katherine T. Brown '38, art and art history m study is required to see how this policy has worked. year computing plan that addresses the most immedi- The extensive report by the Stu- 11. Funding of the graduate program needs to be in- ate computing needs of the university and provides an dent Affairs Committe examines creased so fellowships and grants will be competitive. aggressive first thrust toward achieving the principal 11 areas of university life. Since . computing objectives outlined in this report. The sug- the conclusions are too lengthy to y: ,°nununity Relations gested thrust of the five-year plan is toward getting be summarized effectively, any- nairman: John B. Boles '65, history more terminals and microcomputers around the cam- crne interested should contact the Community relations is becoming pus for general use, implementing a Rice Computer chairman for the full text of their increasingly important to fund- Network for communication among members of the report, which studies: raising, attracting high caliber Rice community, and raising funds for assimilation of modern information technology. faculty and students, and main- • Academic advising taining the university's academic • Extraclass activities esteem. The Community Rela- Graduate Education ot • Student services tions Committee has the fol- Chairman: Franz Brotzen, mechanical engineering and ut it • The Honor System lowing findings and recommen- materials science • Student discipline nifi- dations: The panel on graduate education as- • Student government Se The Development Office professional staff should be in- concludes that total faculty, total if the • Housing and social milieu creased by three to five and should include a liaison to students, and faculty productivity • Student financial aid Ition the recent faculty. A major capital gifts campaign should be have remained constant in • Student records .uld launched to help the university define its long-term history with the exception of cur- • Diversity g°als. Much greater effort should be expended to pub- growth in the professional • Graduate student affairs lishing in local and national publications major contri- schools and a 16 percent increase butions to Rice. The Development Office needs of engineering graduate stu- Undergraduate Education immediate upgrading of its data processing and word dents. Support and stature of the biochemistry Processing capabilities. graduate programs has fallen. There is a widespread feel- Chairman: Kathleen Matthews, panel on undergraduate ed- The Office of Information Services should be renamed ing among the faculty that Rice University's graduate pro- The ath- II the ucation examined the goals of the i Office of University Relations, and its director gram is not faring well, and that the root of the problem is and- undergraduate program, pro- rch. should report directly to the president. More writers insufficient commitment on the part of the administration. and support personnel should be hired. Responsibility Stipends in the humanities and social sciences lie signifi- grams at comparable universi- ig with for the General Announcements should be transferred cantly below what is paid elsewhere, both on a per stu- ties, trends in society to another office to give the director of publications dent basis and in total amount. implications for Rice University, y, undergraduate more time. The SALLYPORT should be expanded and and the current ege the education situation at Rice. Their fac- editor given more help. Room assignments Library Should be done by computer, and announcements Chairman: Katherine Fischer Drew '44, history report: stated goal of the uni- their should be displayed on computer terminals around The panel on the library finds • Goals: The panel agrees that the a campus. that the library's perception of it- versity to have a program of excellence comparable to rl The Office of Continuing Studies is doing its job self and the campus's perception the best universities in the country is admirable. How- . Very well. It needs more space and an office in a of the library have changed con- ever, the panel feels that the program has problems L Place more convenient to the public. siderably since the last self study with excessive class size; inadequate choice of courses r The number and variety of lectures, concerts, and report. A change in the upper for majors, particularly in small departments; and a ' distribution courses. ut- exhibits on the Rice campus is very impressive. echelons of library management dearth of appropriate of the other schools dent ii tlowever, coordination among activities is needed. has improved staff morale signifi- • Comparable universities: Many re writing by undergraduates, either in >st alumni association has a potential for problems cantly and has increased faculty studied required or of some sort of extended writing ;ity, uuilt into its administrative structure. However, so confidence. A number of problems remain, however: the form of a thesis far concern at Rice Uni- ialitY it has been effective, although more work is • The panel regards the library's most pressing tangible program. The area is of primary where little or no writing is required, particu- r in- .in needed_ on services to out-of-town alumni. problem to be security, both for the building and for the versity, and engineering majors. . for Puor maintenance of buildings and grounds has a collection. The building needs major structural repairs larly of science The panel believes that students ;t all , negative impact on community relations. in order to make it safe from fire, flood, and water • Trends in society: competence as part of their iring Computing leaks. The panel suggests an electronic security system should acquire computer education. In response to an increasing international pro- and restricted entry to the stacks to protect the collec- C in daily life, a study-abroad program :o hairman: Neal Lane, physics tion. As an interim measure, the door guard's position consciousness of exposing students to the interna- nds There have been significant im- should be upgraded. may be a means their awareness of ions) provements in computer services, • The next most important problem facing the library is tional community and increasing the interconnection of nations and their policies. A lan- ve applications, and education over the quality of the collection, which is declining, espe- guage competency requirement would also provide Us- the past decade at Rice. How- cially in science-engineering and other disciplines' aspect of society. ns: ever, the computing needs of the where there is rapidly changing research emphasis. emphasis on this more; already the Analysis of current programs: de- university have been increasing • Periodicals should not be cut back for graduate research and un- • Degree requirements for different programs and curric- ,re- far more rapidly than the capa- collection is inadequate bilities. Other universities recog- dergraduate study. The panel recommends that the ula vary considerably. Those areas where a large por- levels of the university cooper- tion of the curriculum is specified limit opportunities for 1 nized this sooner, and have been highest administrative clil'itrig faster and further in matching modern computing ate with other universities in seeking to control the es- breadth of educational experience. periodicals that are printed by • A study of 1983 graduates shows that many of them fol- -;ents bilttY with needs and opportunities for major im- calating costs of Paroverrients in administration. commercial rather than academic publishers. lowed the letter, but not the spirit, of distribution re- be The education, research, and committee set three objectives for the university: • The next problem is lack of effective communication quirements. Therefore, the panel recommends(a) that Dra- • To strive and the academic departments. courses taken to satisfy distribution requirements be re- im- over the next decade to establish Rice Univer- between the library sitY as the be receptive to departmental partici- stricted to those that are broad in scope and central to ive. leading academic center in the nation in the The library must and use of modern computing methods pation in collection development, and departments the discipline in which they fall;(b) that a review com- in undergraduate education. must make the effort to understand the acquisitions sys- mittee be established to approve and periodically re- d bY • To Place the university among the top 20 in the use of tem and insist on their own input. view courses acceptable for distribution. The panel will iould comPuting in research and other creative activities of si In the stack and study areas(except the first floor) the also consider recommendations(a) to establish foreign il the faculty and graduate student scholars. furniture should be entirely replaced, especially the language and computer literacy requirements, in ad- t To coordinate, modernize, and upgrade administrative chairs, and lighting should be improved. Tempera- dition to the current requirement for English composi- DO- CornPuter more effective and tures, which are often intolerable, should be adjusted tion;(b) to develop new, high quality interdisciplinary ci_ .rn services as required for efficient administrative services to the university. to produce a more comfortable study environment. The courses;(c) to explore other measures to improve un- to committee makes copy machines are criticized by almost all faculty and dergraduate exposure to disciplines unrelated to the g thi_e °rder implement these goals, the following preliminary recommendations: students for excessive cost and poor quality. major subject. n ath'• ft: ComPuter Planning Board, appointed by and report- • Contrary to general presumptions, the introduction of • No changes in grade distribution have taken place idn eta Lis- gta the president, should be established to formulate automation in library procedures will not reduce the since 1974. iled plans for the long-range development of com- cost of these operations and thus allow transference of • Based on student feedback, the level of instruction at f Puting on campus. The board should be composed pri- the money saved from operations to collection growth. Rice appears to be quite high. m manly of faculty. The growth of the collection, already slowed down for • Information on college courses should be recorded in )00 111 A new administrative position of vice-president for the last five years or so, can only keep up with the some central location and approval for their inclusion .?tic computing should be created to administer all aspects needs of Rice's research and educational programs if in the curriculum should follow a clearly presented, i °f computer operations, to implement long-range poli- its funding is increased. Public and endowment funds standardized, and supervised procedure. ige ,c) cies oe a member of the Computer Planning Board, are sometimes available for developing areas of spe- • The supporting services at Rice vary from poor to excel- m al arid to allocate all funds for university computing. cial need. The library should seek out the availability lent. The areas that fall short (physical facilities, class- .we Institute for Computer Services and Applications of these funds and submit proposals for them. It is un- rooms, etc.) frequently result in a variety of (ICSA)should be reorganized to become the central- reasonable to allow these library development monies impediments to study and function at the university. Ul he

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LE YE TT soy, 4scho To play or not to play—that's a tough question. Is it nobler for Rice to suffer the slings and arroi rn of SWC football, or to take arms against its sea of gridiron troubles, and by opposing end them?1113ePossi the end of bigtime football for the Owls a consummation devoutly to be wished, or would ritt° E baSk rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of? Like Hamlet, the experts Cwor1( Rice can't seem to make up their minds about the weighty issues of the day. The future of bigtir Twit 1 athletics at Rice has been perhaps the most hotly debated issue on campus this year. ence ornan full ntercollegiate football has been a part of un- players displayed great skill and performed in a cli- SAT scores below 800 (the Rice average is 1300 otraivis dergraduate life at Rice since the fall the uni- mate that would have put the boys in the Eastout in of a perfect 1600) and that one in three students cia aff versity opened, 1912. When the Southwest 15 minutes. I decided from that time that Rice was victed of honor code violations in 1982-83 was a tam, Conference organized in 1914, Rice was a going to have a football team." scholarship athlete. These and similar figures dea,) charter member. For many years the Owls "I've never regretted it, although I believe I prove, they say, that serious academics and serieteer maintained a winning tradition, capturing six have spent more time on football problems than athletics simply are not compatible in the SWC. ham' conference championships and making seven bowl anything else," he added. "The mischief is that you Even if Rice were somehow, miraculously, tohave appearances under a succession of coaches that in- have to win. The week after you win a game, every- upgrade the quality of its gridiron performance, tistay cludes two of the century's biggest names in the pro- body is happy and things go well. But when you faction adds, the cost in probable violations of fession, John Heisman (1924-27) and Jess Neely lose, they are miserable around school, and that is NCAA recruiting rules and the Rice honor code (1940-66). Over the past 21 years, however, college bad for studies." would be too high. Pulling out of the conference football has become a different sport and the once Aye, there's the rub. the only way to avoid the humiliation of either p high-flying Owls have come down to earth. None of ennial defeat or victory at the expense of integrig the five coaches who served after Neely managed There are also fears that the university will to produce a winning record. Withered Is the Garland of the War in to pressure from athletic interests and reestab No one denies it has been a long time since Rice academically "sheltered" courses for athletes si Perchance to Dream had a football team that struck fear into the hearts of lar to those offered under the Commerce Progra With recent failures on the football field an old ques- its SWC opponents. The question is whether it is that was phased out in the early 1970s. To preven tion has resurfaced: should Rice continue its Divi- possible for the Owls to be that sort of team again, that possibility, almost half of the faculty signed sion 1-A athletic program, or should the university and, if so, whether the necessary sacrifices would petition in January stating their unqualified op bow out of big-time sports? Trying to come up with a be worth the reward. The thrust of the argument tion to so diluting the Rice curriculum. The petitio solution has raised a debate beyond the confines of against remaining in the conference is that it is im- states that the signees believe "playing intercolle, the campus. In November the Chronicle of Higher possible to find athletes who can compete simulta- giate football at the level of the Southwest Confer Education gave two pages to Rice's small school/big neously in two of the most selective(and typically ence to be, at most, an ancillary activity of the athletics controversy, and Newsweek devoted a mutually exclusive) arenas in the country— university. Accordingly, we do not believe that s page to the argument in December. Southwest Conference football and the Rice class- cial curricula or courses should be introduced, rid In the 1950s founding president Edgar Odell room. As history professor John Boles '65 told the special admissions standards maintained, for the, Lovett explained his original decision to emphasize Chronicle of Higher Education, "There aren't sake of the athletic program." a football program: enough people who are big enough, talented At the same time, the faculty rejected a motid "When I first came to Houston, I was under the enough at football, and smart enough to make it to eventually establish a uniform minimum adm151 misapprehension that the universities of the East here. I really don't know how it can work." sion standard. Rice currently has no required mil were more skilled at the game of football than the Led by a group of faculty and students, those in mum SAT score, and especially talented students Southerners. But soon after I arrived, I saw a game favor of abandoning the conference cite such.statis- music and architecture, as well as athletes, are in Houston between the University of Texas and tics as the fact that 5 of the 24 scholarship football sometimes admitted despite standardized test Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College. The players signed by Rice last year had composite scores well below the Rice average. SALLYPORT—FEBRUARY-MARCH 1984 Others complain about the reported $1.2 million Hackerman also believes there are scholar- same time, for athletes, being at Rice provides a over six years that Watson Brown will earn as Rice's athletes available for Rice to discover and recruit. rare opportunity to pursue their studies as seriously head coach. The amount includes fees for appear- "We should be able to recruit 30 viable students a as their sport. ances on a weekly television show during football year who are athletic in character," he says. He Everyone in favor of continuing the football pro- season plus a salary supplement paid from a fund adds that the sort of people Rice is looking for gram at Rice agrees., if the university is going to created for that purpose with alumni donations. Al- "should come with a dual purpose, to play football make the effort, it should make it well. To this end though Brown's compensation does not equal Jackie and to get an education. They use their athletic abil- the Board of Governors directed that $300,000 in Sherrill's multi-million dollar agreement with con- ity to provide themselves with an education." contributions from athletic boosters be set aside in a ference rival Texas A&M, it has attracted some of Besides, advocates point out, the Owls may not fund to be used to upgrade the football program. At the same criticism and questions about university fi- be as far from winning as some people claim. Only the top of the list of improvements was hiring a new nancial priorities. two years ago their record was 5-6. Even the great coach who understood Rice's unique athletic and Much of Brown's salary—like Sherrill's—is gen- Jess Neely had his slump, going 1-7-2 in 1959 before academic situation. After an extensive search the erated not from the university's general fund for sal- bouncing back with bowl appearances after the university found, at the University of Cincinnati, 'Tries, but from alumni and other athletic boosters 1960 and 1961 seasons (in the latter the Owls were young Jess Neely disciple and Vanderbilt graduate w,ho gave the money for one reason: to see a win- preseason favorites for the national championship). Watson Brown. Soon to follow are upgraded train- ning home team in Rice Stadium. But a vocal group And early in the season the 1984 baseball team ing facilities and better academic counseling for of Rice faculty and students are sending a clear seems to be living up to its preseason national rank- athletes. ,rnessage that if the Owls do start to win again, it ing. As far as the scholar-athlete question is con- nad better be without violating the ideals that Prpsi- cerned, proponents of big-time football point out the Doing It up Brown (dent Lovett set out for Rice's athletic programs in the large number of Rice lettermen in successful profes- "I understand what kind of student is looking for a beginning. sional careers in medicine, law, and business. degree from Rice. As far as getting a degree and One of President Lovett's obituaries commemo- There are also fears that dropping football will playing football goes, I believe you can do both, be- rated his simple answer to the problem of athletics actually lead to a loss of prestige for the university. cause I did," says Watson Brown, the latest man to academics: "Sports he admired and attended, As Hackerman says, "football attracts outsiders. A get a crack at making believers of Rice fans once 'ut no athlete was allowed to slip by Math 100— good football program helps me get people to listen again. Brown has his work cut out for him. Toler- often described as the most difficult freshman to me." Without major division football, Rice might ance of the Owls' losing ways of late is low. But he course in any collego on the strength of a 75-yard suffer the same fate that New York Times education has the faith of the team and the university adminis- t°ubhdown jaunt the Saturday before. He was sym- editor Edward Fiske describes for the University of tration, and is literally banking on an expression of Pathetic yet unyielding in this, born of an abhor- Chicago in his Selective Guide to Colleges: that faith that he is the one man who can turn rence of anything that would detract from "The University of Chicago has perhaps the around Rice's football fortunes. _educational standards his personal integrity had in- lowest profile of any first-rate research university in If anyone ought to be able to understand Rice, terwoven into the Rice Institute." the country. One reason may be that this private it is Brown. Like his mentor, Jess Neely, he is a Van- The same dedication to the highest academic university, once a national powerhouse in football, derbilt graduate, having earned a BS in geology in standards is still present at Rice today. And for banned the sport for 30 years and thus disappeared 1973. His assistant coaching years at Vanderbilt saw Ind/1Y, scores in the classroom will always be far from the consciousness of high school students." the Commodores go from two consecutive 0-11 sea- 111"°re imPortant than scores on the football field. Another argument against dropping football is sons to a bowl game in just two years. that doing so would probably bring about the "I don't think there is much difference between baing It after the High Roman Fashion downfall of Rice's other sports programs, all of Vanderbilt and Rice," Brown says. "We just have to Others insist there is no reason the Owls cannot which are supported in part by money from foot- get out and find those good players who also value ,have the best of both worlds. With a better coach, ball. As history professor and Hanszen master Ri- a great education. At every coaching position I've better facilities, and stronger recruiting efforts, they chard Smith notes, "my concern is that we may taken, people have said I'm crazy, but I wouldn't be Rice can produce teams of above average throw the baby out with the bath water here. In here if I didn't know that strong academics and a sco houtlawrs who can compete successfully in the looking at the negative aspects of the football pro- strong athletic program are compatible." h est Conference. The additional costs would gram, we may be ignoring the positive effects of Brown and current Rice athletes agree that, for '-0w1,12_,e made up in increased attendance at games and other areas of athletic endeavor." the time being, the biggest help that the Rice com- n "pssibly television or bowl game revenues. Pointing Smith is especially concerned about Rice's munity can provide is support. "It's a two-way a successful football program at Stanford and women athletes, who, he says, "tend to be as close street," he emphasizes. "Students should be proud asketball program at Duke, they note that the as we have at this university to genuine scholar- of their football players and football players should S Worlds of t the scholar and the athlete need not be athletes." be proud of their school." rornutually exclusive. "Those of us who have been able to see wom- But given the nature of the academic environ- In fact, membership in the Southwest Confer- en's athletics and to understand what they can con- ment, it is unlikely that Brown or Rice's SWC ath- 'rice and the university's location too distant from tribute to the quality of life and vitality of this letics will be backed by unanimous good wishes imiolrrlcinY schools of similar academic orientation to find university should make sure that these and other until they have begun to live up to the high expecta- a full 300 oith vis. season of appropriate opponents in a lesser athletic programs are not subverted by the growing tions of their ideals. Until that time, the controversy ion nts can be seen as a rare oppcirtunity for Rice disinclination on the part of the faculty to support about Rice and the SWC will continue. The ques- 0 offer is a true excellence, against the stiffest possible football," Smith concludes. tions now being debated on campus will persist. ccilliPetition, in all the university's fields of en- Finally, there is the argument that sponsoring a And arguments will run along much the same lines 3SSdectvc)r. As President Hackerman says, "If Rice had major athletic program lends an important diversity that they always have. To shed light on some of the eriObeen VC. located in the marshes of New Jersey like Wil- to a campus as small and as homogeneous as Rice. complexities of both sides of the problem, SALLY- 31 to i_ictrn Marsh Rice intended for it to be, we wouldn't Having athletes on campus exposes other students PORT asked two Rice scholars to speak to the dve oce C this problem. This setting gives us a reason to to people with different talents, values, and points question of Rice's membership in the Southwest of 'clY in our division. 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SALLYPORT—FEBRUARY-MARCH1984 11 RICE AND THE SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE

BY JAMES A. CASTANEDA

n individual in large part is a product of cused primarily on football, we should all realize selling point rather than, as too often has been tli his own experience,.and my personal ex- that much of the economic support for our other case in the past, a threatening liability to many 0 perience is responsible for the great im- teams, many of which perform creditably in athletic our recruits and, unfortunately, to many of our re portance I attach to athletic competition competition and take great pride in the outstanding cruiters. within a context of higher education. academic accomplishments of their squads, comes Our current coaching staff is composed of tel As a faculty member who is proud of from our SWC membership. The schedule problems coached at individuals who have played ancUor coi his record in teaching as well as in research and I have projected for football would be prejudicial to : such academically respectable institutions as Vd Bo } publication, I cannot support any position that every aspect of our athletic program. derbilt, Stanford, Tulane, Columbia, and Duke. Rwro would advocate the termination or the deemphasis Even in noneconomic terms, I wonder if the These are colleagues of ours who know what is ii of athletics at Rice. Without wanting to downplay proponents of deemphasis understand the psycho- volved in a dual commitment to athletics and ad let the importance of the intellectual dimension of the logical motivation behind athletic competition. Just demics. They also knew before agreeing to ply tt university, I feel that at times we lead the outside as an aspiring physicist must derive greater satis- trade at Rice that ou;situation represented a spe world to think that we are rather one-dimensional faction and fulfillment from developing his skills at cial challenge, but one they were willing to acce by virtue of the fact that some of our colleagues they find enough of the right kind of student- an institution that provides the best minds and facil- If ielikebec seem to give their unqualified enthusiastic support will win back a lot of faculty, sti i ities available in the field, so does the aspiring ath- athletes, they the eat( exclusively to things academic. lete derive greater satisfaction and fulfillment from dent, staff, alumni, and community support that While my academic career is an important part his athletic development through high-level prepa- eroded during football's lackluster performance Cc of my life, it by no means is my whole life, and just ration and competition than would be the case at a over the past two decades. in; as others may find needed extracurricular fulfill- lower level. The obstacles facing these new colleagues ment in music, art, sic drama, or other areas, I find Let me state unequivocally that I am opposed to ours are imposing enough and numerous enoug hu such fulfillment for myself—and believe that it has any curricular changes that would be made solely without being compounded by a lack of internal, en been found through the years for countless Rice to provide easier courses for athletes, musicians, ar- support. Watson Brown and his staff have alrea0 co students—in athletics, not simply through physical chitects, minorities, or any other special component taken many positive steps to become fully inte- education and play at an intramural or club sport of the Rice University student body. It should be grated into the total life of Rice University. I woul( sch, level, but at the highest competitive level of which noted that, unwaveringly, since the interview stage hope that the total Rice community, in recognitid It t Rice University is capable. E preceding his appointment, new head football the diligence with which these men are striving Stt I am proud of the fact that Rice was one of the coach Watson Brown has insisted that he neither realize the aspirations that the vast majority of gra founding members of the Southwest Conference, needed nor wanted any such change in the spects and cherishes, will be willing to meet thee co that we have participated actively on a continuous curriculum. least half way to cooperate in reestablishing a di or r basis in the full spectrum of SWC athletic activities I am proud to be in my twenty-third year as a that will go a long way toward ensuring the attd since 1914, and that we are successfully integrating member of the Rice faculty, I voted in favor of termi- ment of Rice University's goal of academic and d mu; our women's programs into conference competition. nating the Commerce Program, and I am proud of letic excellence. E:1 fa( I am proud also that we have both won and lost on the fact that we expect our students to produce acr the field with dignity while operating our programs more, at higher levels, than would be expected at with integrity and under a guiding philosophy that most other institutions in this country. My answer to 111.11 clearly has put respect for academic standards our current dilemma is not to adapt Rice University James A. Castarieda, a former professional base dt:c ball player and honor graduate of Drew and Y01 above any tendency to try to win at all costs. to the inferior intellectual abilities of academically 10a] In response to an oft-heard suggestion that Rice disadvantaged athletes. The answer is to recruit universities, has recently been president both of either deemphasize its football program or that we athletes who are good enough to handle the Rice Southwest Conference and of the National Assoe withdraw from the SWC, I would like to examine a curriculum and are also good enough athletically to tion of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. He( hypothetical scenario of the results of such moves. make Rice competitive in Division I athletics. We rently serves Rice as professor of Spanish, golf In the first place, any decision by Rice not to partici- must be uncompromising in seeking out the rare coach, and faculty representative to the S WC ail pate in the SWC football championship would be student-athlete who is exceptional both on the ath- the NCAA, and has also been the Owls' assistall tantamount to implementation of the second sug- letic field and in the classroom. baseball coach. gestion, because an SWC constitutional require- Throughout my tenure at Rice, I have been dis- ment is that all members participate both in football appointed that our athletic recruitment program and basketball. was not systematically conducted on a national ba- Withdrawal from the SWC would result in the sis. While it is true that recruiters from all over the loss of considerable income that we receive as our country are lured to this area by the high quality of share of bowl and TV revenue. Last year, for exam- football played at the secondary level in Texas, it is ple, our share of conference income was $701,450, equally true that the academic reputation of most of and the SWC has just embarked on an $8.1 million our high schools has not attained a similar level of basketball television contract that will result in Rice distinction. income of $300,000 for 1983-84, $350,000 for 1984-85, Prior to the establishment by the NCAA in 1974 and $400,000 for 1985-86. of the current football scholarship limitations, Rice It has been suggested that Rice schedule its faced an additional recruiting problem in compet- athletic contests with institutions whose academic ing with institutions that continually offered far more orientation is similar to ours; I have heard such grants in aid than we were prepared to offer. Since names as Vanderbilt, Stanford, Tulane, Duke, the 1974 legislation, however, no school may have Amherst, Trinity, and members of the Ivy League. In more than 30 initial signees each year, or a total an era in which the entertainment dollar is being squad of more than 95. Because we retain until tugged in all directions, it seems obvious that the in- graduation a high percentage of those on whom we evitable combination of vastly greater travel dis- confer athletc scholarships, we rarely can sign an tances with the absence of a substantial local initial group as large as 30. I am convinced that following for many of the suggested opponents with the proper budgetary support and a recruiting would lead to a disastrous economic drain, particu- orientation whose focus is national, geared to shun larly in view of the loss of hundreds of thousands of weak schools and the academic risks they produce, dollars that would occur automatically upon with- and whose first priority is to discuss a career at Rice drawal from the SWC. University, we can attract student-athletes for whom Although the criticism of athletics at Rice has fo- our high academic standards will be an attractive

12 SALLYPORT—FEBRUARY-MARCH1984 LE VE ffono By HAROLD E. RORSCHACH

)en tii like college football. One should not criticize graduates. In short, we must operate at the same Texas Tech and Houston, were based mainly on any 0 that for which one has no taste. I have cheered level as the competition in all areas of money, facili- considerations of who would draw the biggest )ur re Rice sports for 30 years. I was secretary of the ties, recruiting efforts, special inducements, and ac- crowd. There have been continued threats of a su- Outdoor Sports Committee for about ten years, ademic programs. perconference, and these have been used to black- I . of tel attended Southwest Conference meetings Can we compete in that kind of atmosphere? I mail the smaller schools. The recent suits by the 'd at IIduring that same period, and I served on the maintain that it is not possible for a school of-Rice's CFA against the NCAA on television rights are illus- Vd committee that recruited Jess Neely's replacement, character to compete even if it tries. We do not have trations of this. The conditions of competition are be- uke. Ba Hagen. My objective in this article is a very nar- the size needed to provide the economy of scale in ing dictated by the large schools. Arkansas and at is row one. I discuss the questions can and should alumni support, money, and recruiting. We do not LSU now say they do not want to play Rice in Hous Rice id ad be competitive in Southwest Conference ath- have the diversity to provide academic programs at ton any more. They want to play us on their home ply ti letics. the proper level. And we do not any longer have grounds. Why? Because that is where the money is. a spe The first part of the question is, can we be com- the faculty that will teach the required remedial and That is where they can bring in their own fans. We acce petitive. By competitive I mean that we ought to vocational courses. In any case, the pressure at the will be forced to accept those conditions. Our mem- beat the teams we play about half the time. I would state schools will not permit them to tolerate an bership in the Southwest Conference is a historical nt- lik sti, e to review very briefly a few of the factors that even level of competition and they will do whatever anachronism, and we would be quickly replaced : that enter into competition. it takes to win. with very few tears. Inca First, consider the character of the Southwest The second part of the question is should we be Lastly, it is corrupting. Being competitive means Conference schools. These are mainly large public competitive. My point is that even if we could by there must be pressure to win. This leads inevitably institutions with diverse student bodies, low admis- some miracle achieve the conditions to compete to attempts to alter the university so that it provides .ues 0 sion ,noug standards, a large range of programs, and (maybe those who say we could are right after all), a suitable atmosphere for a winning program. We huge amain alumni bodies. These schools are subject to it would be wrong. Participation by Rice in South- can then expect the following: pressure for the cor- enormous social and political pressures from their west Conference athletics today is humiliating, de- ruption of academic programs to fit the needs of ath- :lreae c ate- onstituency. grading, and corrupting. letes; the use of recruiting methods that attempt to woult Second, the level of competition among these First, it is humiliating. We have nothing in com- persuade an athlete to attend an institution for schools is without question on the professional level. mon with the large state schools. They can admit which he is neither prepared nor suited; concentra- jnitid It ving t requires athletic ability beyond that of the normal and keep eligible athletes who could not last one se- tion on the win-loss record rather than on the edu- r of student even at schools with undemanding pro- mester at Rice. They press the NCAA and confer- cation and welfare of the student athlete; and that grams. .t thee Thus one must recruit and keep in school ence rules to and beyond the limit. It is humiliating • money, television publicity, influence, and power competitive talent irrespective of academic ability to compete under such unequal conditions. When a will become more and more prominent factors in ja tit or attce normal admission standards. team in the top 20 plays one in the bottom 20, it is no the rules of conduct of college sports. and d Third, there must be stong pressure to win. This longer a game, since the outcome is a foregone In short, we would have to mislead students to must be all-pervasive, coming from the students, conclusion. We are letting our athletes get beat up induce them to come to a place they should not be. icicultY, alumni, and the community. One must re- for money. We would have to exploit them while they are here, gard coaches and players as expendable. Second, it is degrading. We are a parasite on and we would have to corrupt the academic side of Fourth, the program must be well-funded. We the conference. We accept money that is produced the university by offering them a Rice degree in a 1base must provide the best in coaches, facilities, and in- by the reputation, performance, and fans of other substandard program. That is why I have come to !d ;lucements to athletes, including summer jobs and teams, about $850,000 per year. The conference has the conclusion that Rice cannot and should not try to )th of tc)arls, among other financial inducements. • no real interest in the welfare of the small private be competitive in Southwest Conference athletics.0 Assd Fifth, the academic programs must be tailored schools. During the time I attended Southwest Con- ?. He( ta the athlete. We must promise a respectable de- ference meetings, I saw many changes in confer- Harold E. Rorschach, Rice's Sam and Helen Wor- jolf gree. Business and physics are acceptable, but a ence rules. Almost every one of them was to the den Professor of Physics, has received numerous b VC aP achelor of football(as suggested in the Thresher) is benefit of the large public universities and to Rice's teaching awards since he came to Rice after gradu- not. Nevertheless, we must not worry too much' disadvantage. ating from MIT in 1952. He edited this article from a about whether or not the student-athlete actually The most recent admissions to the conference, talk given at the October 21, 1983, Faculty Forum.

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Nobel Laureate Speaks neering and materials science. The Jour- Bengt Samuelsson, a 1982 Nobel laureate nal of the Astronautical Sciences, the in medicine and an internationally ac- official organ of the American Astronauti- claimed physician-biochemist, discussed cal Society, had previously honored Miele ea!:Ii "Basic Research: Stepping-Stone to Con- in its October 1982 issue. The trol of Disease" in Rice's annual Brown fluen(c'ur c(?D3:7),: Foundation-J. Newton Rayzor lecture Janu- 16 a ary 17. ItIATURAL SCIENCES Co Me( Sewall Shows'40s Photos 19E; Out of the Forties, a Portrait of Texas, an New Biochemistry Chairman deb exhibit of photographs taken in the 1940s in Founding chairman of the Department of Texas as part of a nationwide public rela- Biochemistry George J. Schroepfer has re- tions effort by Standard Oil to illustrate the tired from the administrative position. His Bei theme, "there's a drop of oil in everyone's replacement as of the first of the year is chi life," is on exhibit in the Sewall Art Gallery colleague John Olson, who has instituted Bar through March 17. Photographers include new requirements for an undergraduate sp( Esther Bubley, John Collier, Jr., Russell Lee, biochemistry major and changed several lur( Edwin Rossbaum, Charles Rotkin, and Lee undergraduate courses in the department. ney and Harold Corsini. Sewall Gallery hours Cor are Monday through Saturday, noon to 5:00 PM., except university holidays. There is no admission charge. To ar- "Hii range special tours of the exhibition for groups of ten or more, call Gallery Co- 6. ordinator Jaye Locke, 527-8101 ext. 3502, tro weekdays from 1:00 PM. to 5:00 PM. Br( Ker Re ( ENGINEERING Pro ene

John Dennis Dennis Gets Chair When construction of the new Mechanical Engineering Building was ready to be- sPd1'9 iehbE gin, Rice officials took the admonition "save a tree" seriously—instead of cutting John E. Dennis, an engineer/ down the eight trees on the construction site, they hired the world's largest all- mathematician at Rice since 1979, has oipsf:rt ;11: hydraulic tree digger to move the mature trees to other locations on campus, been named Rice's Noah Harding Profes- sor of Mathematical Sciences. The ap- mostly near the biology building. The procedure involved digging 14-foot holes inc l around trees up to 28 inches in diameter. Although the process cost about pointment was effective January 1 with the; retirement of Robert M. Thrall. According 1 $28,000, Vice-President for Administration William Akers says,"These trees go fice back to the beginning. I think they are one of the main assets of our campus." to departmental chairman C.C. Wang, "the award of the Noah Harding Professorti ship recognizes Dr. Dennis's achievements! ih Friends Offer Casino, Plates trot CAMPUS The Friends of Fondren Library's Fondren and his international reputation within hist Alan Chapman discipline." The Harding professorship 101 stuc Saturday Night IV, the annual Monte Carlo cen party, will be March 3 in the library at 7:00 Chapman Text Revised endowed under the will of Blanche Hard- I ing Sewall '17 in honor of the memory of ye; Dye to Olympics PM. Proceeds benefit the Fondren Li- Alan Chapman of mechanical engineer- Whether or not any Rice athletes make it to brary Endowment Fund. Cocktails, hors ing and materials science has completely her paternal grandfather. Pre: the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, d'oeuvres and casino games are fol- revised his classic text, Heat Transfer. Now vos. MOB Director Ken Dye and four MOBsters lowed by a 10:00 PM. auction. Once in its fourth edition, the book was first pub- will represent the alma mater musically. again musical entertainment is donated lished in 1960 and has been translated into SOCIAL SCIENCES Dye, who has previously conducted bands by Bob Kuldell and his combo. several foreign languages. during Super Bowls, has been named one The Friends are also selling com- Aliens Could Cost $1 Trillion of the directors of the band that will play at memorative plates of Rice University Donald L. Huddle of economics received If the opening and closing of the games. Dye made by Wedgwood of England. widespread media coverage of his recent the and the the 1,000-piece group, which will Scenes of Fondren Library, the Campa- estimate that Americans will pay $1 trillior Put, include four members of the infamous nile, and the Chemistry Building are if the proposed amnesty for illegal aliens self Marching Owl Band, will perform for an available for $30 per plate. Proceeds go already in the U.S. becomes law. Huddle Ser estimated audience of 2.5 billion around ,to the Library Endowment. Sample calculates the cost on the basis of unem- the world. plates are on display in the Friends' of- ployment insurance provided to jobless fice, 304 Fondren Library. American workers displaced by illegal alit car 6th in Merit Scholars ens, loss of tax revenue due to underpay- Hot Rice attracted 155 National Merit Scholars Sociobiologist to Lecture ment of taxes by illegal aliens, and cost of ThE to its freshman class last fall, to rank sixth Sociobiology pioneer Edward 0. Wilson, social services provided to displaced U.S. among the nation's colleges and universi- author of the controversial Sociobiology: workers. He says, "The American public ties in new merit scholarship winners. The New Synthesis, will speak on campus must decide if we as a nation wish to pay di/E Schools ahead of Rice were Harvard/ March 22 in conjunction with the official the high cost of legitimizing illegal immi- tior opening of Fondren Library's Julian Huxley Radcliffe, 297; UT, 223; Princeton, 197; gration at a time when millions of others Per Archive. Ribbon-cutting ceremonies in the Angelo Miele Texas A&M, 172; and Yale, 156. Rice's fig- are awaiting legal immigration, and as- see ure means that two out of every nine fresh- Woodson Research Center, home of the Journal Honors Miele sess if granting amnesty will not just en- thrc men won the high academic distinction. Huxley papers, will be Friday afternoon, Optimal Control Applications and Meth- courage a further flood of illegal March 23. The only other college approaching Rice's ods, one of the nation's top engineering immigrants whose migration is-actually ProBu ratio is Carleton College, which has 85 Wilson's visit is under the auspices of science journals, is dedicating its current encouraged by their own governments' the merit scholars in a class half the size of the President's Lecture Series. His topic is issue to Angelo Miele of mechanical engi- corruption and irresponsibility." cic Rice's. "Biology and Culture." Among dignitaries ICS invited to attend the event are Huxley's cinc widow and his half-brother, Andrew. Baker Play Slated Baker College has announced its annual Texatron Gets Grant flet Shakespeare production for 1984. Measure A consortium of scientists from Rice, Texas IC for Measure will run March 27-31 in the A&M, UT, and UH have been awarded a citi Baker Commons at 8:00 PM. Bob Ives and grant from the Department of Energy to de- is Katie Sammons will direct the college's sign the proposed Texatron, a supercon- Ph( fifteenth annual Shakespeare produc- ductor super-collider, or the world's largest hot: tion. atom smasher, the scientific tool for mea- Hci suring energy released from collisions be- Rice, Apple Strike Deal tween atomic particles. The design should Rice has joined a consortium with 23 other be finished in about two years, at which tha universities to explore on-campus uses for time the DOE will decide whether or not to cop personal computers. The agreement in- fund construction of the device. are cludes the opportunity for Rice faculty, stu- The initial grant provides $1.5 million Architect's rendering of the new Mechanical Engineering Building, to be built in °or dents, and staff to purchase the new Apple to the consortium, although the total cost of the engineering quadrangle facing the Abercrombie Laboratory. Architect on the are completed in 1985, is Mace Tungate, Macintosh cmd Lisa computers at a signifi- the project, if the atom smasher is con- project, which will be Jr.'38 of CTJ & D Put cant discount. structed, will be at least $1 billion. Architects.

14 SALLYPORT—FEBRUARY-MARCH 1984 410 AIN cialty, the relation of language discourse to Letters(continued from page 2) MU- Houston's Hotel Meridien, is especially ad- JONES.....mmi SOL amOsi.mmom dressed to managers of emerging high memory, consciousness, and intelligence. to work in the mines. Peace and stability reign auti- technology firms. even with the racial problems. Compare that to Oxford Philosophers Visit other "liberated" African countries, which, de- Conference Looks at Economy Oxford University philosophers Derek Par- actually deal with the South The spite their rhetoric, tones School sponsored the Third An- ARCHITECTURE fit and Christopher Peacocke are visiting African mines in providing laborers, allowing nual U.S. Economy Conference February professors in the Department of Philosophy them to stay only a year so that they return 16 at The Houstonian conference center. for spring 1984. According to department home to plug their earnings into crumbling Coopers and Lybrand cosponsored the RDA Studies Press's Role chairman Richard Grandy, the scholars economies. The changes in South Africa are more so than the pace of our own meeting, which dealt with analysis of the The Rice Design Alliance and the Houston are two of the most distinguished young slow, but no 1985 desegration. Federal Budget, the international Chapter of the American Institute of Archi- philosophers in the world. They are team- debt crisis, policy economic The overriding moral issue to me is the pos- nt of monetary and tects presented "The Role of the Press/ teaching an undergraduate course and a growth, sibility that proposed Congressional legislation re- the economic outlook, and pros- Criticism in Architecture: A Symposium" in graduate seminar in which they discuss might sever relations, stop American business Is pects for His recovery in the energy industry. conjunction with the Museum of Fine Arts their own work. activity and investment, which would result in Ben F. Love, chairman of the board and .January 25. Journalists from architectural the loss of jobs for many thousands of blacks. is chief ited executive officer of Texas Commerce and mass media publications spoke at the Matusow Studies 1960s The responsible legislators, urged on by mis- bring down the only sta- late Bancshares, Inc., was the keynote event, which studied the impact of journal- Allen J. Matusow of history, dean of hu- guided moralists, could sPeaker. Senator Lloyd Bentsen gave the ism on the practice of architecture. manities, has published The Unraveling of ble African nation, whose loss would be tragic /eral to the free world. South Africa controls sea traffic ment. luncheon address, and the Honorable Sid- America: a History of Liberalism in the ney L. Jones of the U.S. Department of 1960s with Harper and Row, and the book for much of the world's oil. Strategic metals, nec- essary to our own survival, are found nowhere Commerce presented an outlook for the has received several favorable reviews. economy. HUMANITIES else. What better reasons are there for the con- Matusow studies the failure of liberals dur- tinuing attacks by Soviet- and Cuban-trained The school will sponsor a conference, ing the decade of his academic specialty to guerillas from neighboring Marxist states? Since "High Technology Finance and Manage- Copeland Gets Fulbright make a significant impact on the political Russia is second only to South Africa in gold and ment," with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell March James E. Copeland of German and lin- and social problems they confronted. diamond production, it is clear how destruction 6. President Hackerman will deliver the in- guistics has received a federally funded of South African mining would benefit them. No troduction and speakers will be Sarah Lou Fulbright grant to teach and undertake re- Poet Joins Religion Faculty less a person than David Thebehali, the elected Brown, a partner in PMM, and Regis Mc- search at the University of the Saarland in Hebrew poet and Judaic scholar Eisig black mayor of the huge all-black Soweto com- Kenna, president of Regis McKenna Public Saarbruecken, Germany, from March to Silberschlag has joined the Department of munity, fiercely denounces the American lib- Relations, Religious Studies as a visiting professor erals whose efforts to end relations between our marketers of such high tech August 1984 in conjunction with the Ful- two countries only serve to hurt his people. Products as Apple Computers. The confer- bright Exchange Program. Copeland will this semester. He is teaching a course on We can better aid the cause of those blacks ence, which will be held in downtown take the opportunity to lecture on his spe- modern Jewish thought. by continuing to do business with South Africa, while, as per the Reagan administration, press- ing for change. Whatever their faults, they are our friends. The continuing need of their friend- New Vice-Presidency Created ship and cooperation for our mutual survival in- Physics professor Ronald F. Stebbings, and John L. Margrave(advanced studies finitely outweighs the issue of apartheid. dean of undergraduate affairs since July 1, and research) as the university's top offi- FRANK RIESENBERG '45 1983, will become Rice's first vice-president cials under the president. A former master Houston iS of undergraduate affairs July 1, 1984. The of Jones College, he has been a member of I am enraged at the alumni association's Pfes- Promotion means a broadening of respon- the faculty since 1968. "South African Adventure" scheduled for )- sibilities that, according to Stebbings, will In addition to the administrative posi- September 1984. Moreover, lam shocked at th the; include supervision of the admissions, reg- tion Stebbings is engaged in scientific re- Mr. J.C. Williams's rationalization for the trip Mr. Jackson's critical letter ding ! istrar's, placement, and financial aid of- search at Rice.. "Our experiments are in his comment to fices. designed to answer questions that relate in the September/October '83 SALLYPORT g, Mr. Williams states that "these trips are for assor-, Stebbings says the reason for the shift to, amongst other things, planetary atmo- .nents in educational and learning experiences." From responsibility is to "emphasize the cen- spheres, stellar atmospheres, the inter- this comment and his debate with Messrs. in his, trality of the undergraduate activities and planetary medium, the development of Jackson and Schriver (SALLYPORT November ,p students." Placing responsibility under a lasers, and so on," he says. The author of '83-January '84), one might wrongly infer that brd- central authority will streamline the uni- about 90 publications, his most recent is a the association had advertised a trip to study of versity administration, he adds. book entitled Rydberg States of Atoms and the state racism of the apartheid system. Stebbings will be Rice's fourth vice- Molecules. He has also served on various I believe SALLYPORT readers should con- president, joining William E. Gordon (pro- national and international committees on sider Mr. Williams's comment in the context of vost), atomic physics. the full text of the description of what is dis- William W. Akers (administration), Ronald Stebbings UI turbingly entitled a "South African Adven- ture." It is obscene to pitch the "fabulous panorama of South Africa" without the slight- ICSA Offers Community Rice Computer Linkup est recognition that this regime is the most brutally infected with an official ideology of ved If You thought graduation from Rice meant staff is happy to offer their advice on which plugged the architectural firm of Caudill, since Nazi Germany. My ?cent the racial supremacy end of your access to the Rice com- PC's interface best with Rice's mainframe. Rowlett, Scott into the Rice computer. feeling is that we should respect the plea of putersystem, think again. The university's Although the community outreach Opening an ICSA account costs $32. anti-apartheid South African church leaders ens self-supporting Institute for Computer program is chiefly aimed at companies After that, users pay only for the computer who have asked for economic pressure on ddle Services and Applications(ICSA) offers a that will someday buy their own com- time they use, with no minimum or the regime as one of the last hopes for a number of services, including direct linkup puters, clients are as diverse as computer monthly bills. The total cost is significantly peaceful solution. I hope that most members of the Rice )ss with Rice's main computer, to clients off- applications in society today and include less than with comparable commercial al all' community are aware of the black political ci,ctrnPus--and you don't even have to be in children and students as well as business- services. Being an outside ICSA user not disenfranchisement, the relegation of black pay- Houston to take advantage of the service. men. One user whose association with only offers clients inexpensive access to a Dst of l'he South African families to barren "Bantu price is right, too, since ICSA charges ICSA grew into an official position with the major computer system, it also benefits the stans," combined with massive use of con- U.S. Only on a cost-recovery basis. organization, which is housed in the new university. Clients help distribute the cost trolled black migrant labor and the official blic ,. Building, is Jerry Lester. In of very expensive software needed by stu- state segregation and discrimination at al- t According to Cliff Woodruff, assistant Seely G. Mudd pay director for applications and administra- the early 1970s Lester was doing postdoc- dents and in research. "The more people most every level of life. ,mi- iPn, a typical user would be a small, inde- toral work in psychology at the Baylor Col- who use our facilities, the cheaper it is for Perhaps the ad for the "South African ers Pendent engineering or architecture firm lege of Medicine. His association with Rice everyone," Woodruff emphasizes, adding Adventure" will serve a purpose if it sparks the Rice community to review any connec- as- seelbrig access to a powerful computer began by chance: when Baylor bought a that contact with the community results in through tions between the university and our various p a personal computer in the office. new computer, he started using Rice's be- more awareness of needs, too. But local communities with South Africa. As owning your own equipment is not a cause he preferred to work with an IBM. "Rice is a small school with large com- Bishop Desmond Tutu, general secretary of thy ,P,rer with the Rice needs," he continues. "Offering our the equisite--some clients prefer to use Lester has continued to work puting the South African Council of Churches, has its' terminals available at Rice. If you de- computer ever since, and is ICSA's statisti- service to the business community helps fi- said, "We ask our friends to apply economic cide to buy your own machine later on, cal consultant for outside clients. He also nance the cost of both hardware and soft- pressure....Our last chance for peaceful 1CSA personnel will be glad to offer advice has his own practices in psychology and ware." change lies in the international community and recommendations free of charge. statistical consulting. "ICSA does not advertise its services, applying political, diplomatic, and especially Users outside of Houston can link up Other ICSA clients include alumni. To so word of mouth is our main publicity," economic pressure." Pt With ICSA computer two, most of the election predic- says Woodruff. "Tell your friends or busi- On the issue of apartheid, universities through TELENET, a name only such as ours should be leading, not apologiz- ,n_etwork that connects your terminal to tions Houstonians hear on election night ness associates about this program and 1CSA ing. I salute Messrs. Jackson and Schriver for over telephone lines. In most major were compiled at ICSA, thanks to a con- take advantage of Rice's computer your- speaking out. I do hope that the association Cities there is a local TELENET number so it nection with Jan van Lohuizen PhD '79, self. It's a way for Rice to help you and you IS will cancel its "South African Adventure" and not even necessary to pay long distance and architect Gerald Pfeffer MARU '71 has to help Rice." begin to consider possibilities for raising a Phone rates. The connection is available voice in opposition to apartheid. both to residents of the other cities and to Some recent resources alumni may find on becoming an ICSA outside user or El to receive a free sub- Houston residents who are out of town. For 0 information interesting are:"Human Rights Violations in newsletter, return this coupon to Cliff Woodruff, ICSA, P.O. Box 1892, ICSA offers a number of free services to scription to the ICSA Apartheid South Africa," The Africa Fund, the Houston, TX 77251, or call 527-4006. 198 Broadway, New York, New York 10038; Public, monthly newsletter that including a "Southern Africa: Struggle Continues," CALC discusses matters of general interest to Name. Report, December 1983, Clergy and Laity computer_ users regardless of whether they Concerned, 198 Broadway, New York, New re ICSA clients, free classes, and free Address. York 10038; and "Apartheid's New Clothes" in consultation Ore in the User Clinic. And if you City: State. Zip. Christianity in Crisis, November 14, 1983. thinking of buying a personal com- HUGH F. BRANTLEY '70 puter and becoming an ICSA user, the Phone: Rochester, New York

SALLYPORT—FEBRUARY-MARCH 1984 1 5 improve on this already outstanding re- cord. Sports Briefs Do the NCAA rules limiting the number Baseball Team Ranked 12th of coaches and scholarship athletes Pre-season ratings in major sports should help Rice? be taken with a grain of salt; still, Coach They should. They are supposed to Dave Hall's Rice baseball team seemed to bring about a degree of parity. No live up to their preseason national rankin longer can the bigger schools take 45 or as they pounded Southwest Texas State 7 50 top athletes a year as they once did. 6 over four games in sweeping a pair of Today, Rice has as many scholarships to season-opening doubleheaders, then re- distribute as any other college, and as lied on solid pitching to best strong UT- many coaches on its staff, so if we do Arlington in a Saturday doubleheader, l- our job right, we should be able to com- and 5-1. The following day, hitting pre- pete. vailed and the Owls won a slugfest with Can the Rice alumni and friends help you UT-A 15-8: recruit? Rice's veteran pitching staff of all- Well, we want help, but the NCAA has SWC Tim Englund, David Hinrichs, Dere made it difficult. For example, alumni Hoelscher, Norm Charlton, and David can't talk to prospects face-to-face unless Pavlas is behind the preseason number 1 they are on our campus. I know there have rating of the Owls, but strong offense and been many recruiting abuses nationally defense have been equally impressive. that are behind these rules, but here at Mark Machalek was the standout per- Rice we have so many interesting people former at bat in helping Rice get off to a 7- that their not being able to talk to some of start, knocking in 21 runs. the best prospects probably hurts us more Women Cagers are 9-10 than some of the other schools. But we do .Rice's women have had marginal success need help and alumni involvement within .in basketball this year—partly because of the NCAA guidelines. We can't turn the injuries to senior standout.Pennie Goff and Rice program around by ourselves. It is partly because of a strengthened schedul going to take an awful lot of people help- that includes for the first time home-and- ing us. home games with all Southwest Confer- In recruiting, who do you find that pro- ence schools. At press time, they were 9-1 spective athletes will listen to—coaches, in all games played and 3-8 in the SWC mn guidance counselors, parents? standings. Freshman Holly Jones, with a fba That's a hard question because it varies. 17.4-point scoring average and 8.1 re- lad, One may listen to the guidance counselor; bounds per game, is a candidate for con oup Brown Pleased with Coaching another may not give him the time of day. ference newcomer-of-the-year honors. Perm, The same's true with coaches, parents, 'tact Staff, Recruits friends, etc. We try to find the mature indi- viduals a prospect has confidence in and Watson Brown moved into action quickly ment to get in and see a kid, you know sell our program there, as well after landing the Rice head coaching job it's competitive. as to the prospect himself. in late November. He lured eight of his The big thing is being smart enough yourself Cincinnati assistants down to Houston and to go on to the next What kind of players were you looking prospect when find one not interested' filled in with Bryant "Tex" Pool of Tulane, you for, and what did you get? in what Rice has who had served on Bear Bryant's Ala- to offer. If a prospect is not We tried to find the 30 best players we interested in a superior education, or liv- bama staff for eight years, and Mike Nolan could without regard to ing in Houston, or something special about of Stanford, whose father, Dick, is now as- position. There wasn't time to study the university, then we shouldn't waste sisting Tom Landry of the Dallas Cowboys .Rice films in enough detail to know time and energy on after earlier serving as head coach of the for certain where him. New Orleans Saints and Houston Oilers. we'll need the most help. Next year we'll • know better and Is your success dependent on developing Everyone immediately began recruiting, be able to recruit by position. We did gain a great quarterback? with "national letter-of-intent day" coming commitments from good people-24 to be Football is a team game. A great quarter- up fast on February 8. The Houston Chron- exact—and I think some of them will back won't be very great without ten other icle gave Brown and staff credit for a job be able to play in the fall. great players on offense, and, even then, Brian Patterson well done under difficult circumstances; he can't lead his team to victory if the op- the Houston Post graded Rice's recruiting posing team isn't stopped on defense. Still, Academic All American efforts, along with those of Arkansas Were you able to use Rice's academic and quarterback is a vital position, and I per- At a time when the academic qualifica- TCU, no better than a "D." Brown himself reputation as an advantage in your sonally devote a lot of my time working tions of Rice football players are being was pleased for the most part. He com- recruiting? with my quarterbacks to assure that we called into question, Owl safety Brian Pat ments on this and other aspects of the Rice Yes. Many of our recruits are top stu- don't fall down in that department. terson has been named a first team Aca- job in the following interview with SALLY- dents in their high schools. We told them demic All-American by the College Spar PORT: that Rice spends more dollars per stu- Do you have anything in particular you'd dent on education than any other school like to say to Rice alumni? Information Directors of America. The How did you find the recruiting compe- playing big time football. Also we re- Just make them understand how important honor recognizes excellence both on the e field and in the classroom. tition? minded themthat Rice graduates al- they are to us and I think they are very i 1 wife The most difficult in my 10 years as a most as many incoming freshmen important. We need their help. We need A senior economics/managerial stuc.- ese coach. Everywhere we'd go, we'd run football players as it does regular them involved. We need them patient. ies major with a better than 3.4 average. esift into Texas or A&M. At one place, we students—best record in the Southwest And I guess they have had to be patient for Patterson joined the Owls as a walk-on ir ue the fall of 1980 and worked his way to an lush:sr were the fifth coaches in line waiting to Conference and among the top five na- a while. Don't expect too much too quickly. inible see a kid. When it gets to the point tionally. We also noted that Rice is add- And don't expect us to do it by ourselves. athletic scholarship. The Ft. Worth native where you have to make an appoint- ing two full-time academic counselors to We need their help and are asking for it. Li plans to attend graduate schoolMemorial) next fall. Ranch Plans Neely Cagers Seek SWC Host Spot Rice alumni are leading a drive to build 0 new recreation center at the Texas Hill . Coach Tommy Suitts's unpredictable bas- games will assure this; two wins will *Rice 75, Concordia (Texas)70 Country Youth Ranch as a memorial to . ketball team was about even in highs and probably bring it about. The first round Tulane 69, Rice 56 longtime Rice coach Jess Neely. The ranch lows as the season entered its final three game will be Tuesday, March 6. *UT-San Antonio 72, Rice 56 located in Ingram, Texas, provides shelter,' weeks(at SALLYPORT deadline time). Behind Rice's success to date have *Louisiana Tech 77, Rice 59 counseling, and discipline for abused and There was a win over nationally ranked been a tenacious defense that prevents *Rice 70, Texas Southern 59 troubled children, but currently has no ' Arkansas, conquerer of number one most opponents from getting good shots 'Rice 86, Austin College 46 recreational facilities. The proposed NeelY North Carolina, but there was a loss to and dogged efforts to work the ball in- *Rice 66, St. Marys(Texas) 53 Center will include a covered basketball league doormat Baylor. There were a side to forward-centers Tony Barnett and Tennessee-Chattanooga 87, Rice 61 court that will eventually be expanded to 6 pair of impressive victories over TCU, Mike Cunningham, who lead the team Mississippi 70, Rice 60 1 "Texas A&M 52, Rice 47 full gymnasium. but there were disappointing finishes in scoring. Not far behind in points Southern Methodist 71, Rice 60 To date R Association and Owl Club against SMU and Texas A&M on Autry scored are Tracy Steele, Tyrone Wash- Rice 43, Texas Christian 42 members have donated about $6,500 to- Court that resulted in losses. ington, Terrence Cashaw, Greg Hines, *Rice 63, Texas 49 ward the total projected cost of the initial The major goal now is at least a and Ivan Pettit. Teddy Johnson, who 'Texas Tech 76, Rice 68(2 OTs) phase of $43,000. Youth Ranch Director sixth place finish in SWC play so that along with fellow senior Washington Houston 72, Rice 42 George Schulgen '68 and businessmen this year's Rice team might achieve was suspended from the Owl squad a Notre Dame 50, Rice 35 Billy Ed Daniels '53, Dan Drake '53, and what no other has a host position in year ago, has provided exceptional 'Rice 65, Arkansas 62 Don Rhoden '53 are leading the fundrais- Baylor 64, the first round of the annual SWC Bas- leadership in 1983-84. Rice 52 ing drive. For more information, or to con' Rice 43, Texas A&M 42 ketball Tournament, the finals of which Rice basketball results to date are tribute to the Neely memorial, write the Hi.No are being staged in Houston this year. as follows: 'Southern Methodist 58, Rice 54 'Rice 56, Texas Christian 37 Country Youth Ranch, Box 67, Ingram, Three wins in the final five conference (*denotes home games) Texas, 78025.1=3 IF

16 SALLYPORT—FEBRUARY-MARCH 1984 Alumni Archives Needs Help

th BY RAY WATKIN HOAGLAND '36 Duld ich Do you remember when the trip to the come alive again in the crowded pages of ad to Rice-A&M game on the special football memorabilia. This is the "stuff" that history nking: train to College Station cost $1.50 round is made of,. and Rice's history is our "cup of 74. ite trip? You left from "Grand Central tea." Remember, we are nearly 75 years of Station"—tickets were sold in the Sallyport old now—a respectable age, old enough I re- on the Wednesday before. And the train to be "mellow!" trip to Dallas for the SMU game was $3 So help us remember "your" college ?r, 1- and to Austin $2, roundtrip. days—don't throw away your old college e- Do you remember the great snow on letters and souvenirs. Bring them to the rith the campus March 11, 1932, when the stu- Rice Alumni Office or call (713) 527-4057 dents bombarded Professor Altenberg and one of us will try to pick them up_ We 1- with snowballs as he entered his class in would welcome a letter of "reminiscence" )erek the amphitheatre? It worked! Class was from you. Send to Kathryn Duffie, Alumni cancelled! Director, Alumni Office, Rice University, 1 )er Or do you remember the "regular" PO. Box 1892, Houston, Texas 77251. and Saturday night dances at the University Two devoted archives committee Te. Club on La Branch at Rusk with Richard members for many years are in charge of Shannon's band—one dollar and ten cents! our collection, Chris Pope Hoover '32 and Well, the class of '34 does, no matter Marshall Robertson '33. Ray Watkin that it was 50 years ago. And all of this has Hoagland '36 and Mary Ellen Arnold '36 been preserved by Elliott Flowers '34 in his are chairman and cochairman of the com- ccess great college scrapbook, which he has mittee. We also need interested volunteers se of been kind enough to give to Rice through to come about twice a month to help ar- ff and the Rice Alumni Archives Committee. It is range displays and to gather and organize edul safely kept in the alumni board room of the the collection. Please look in your attic and [nd- Alumni Office and is full of souvenir dance call us today! We wish to make a special fer- programs, train tickets, photos, gossip appeal to the class of '34, since your fiftieth -e 9-1 columns, etc. The campus days of 1934 anniversary is coming up this fall. tVhCa m -floe Nancy Thornall Burch '61, Colleen Alessandra Jennings '51, and Helen "a Warden '38 chat with professor of architecture emeritus James "Bud" More- ?- d Lectures Probe Religion, Arms a-, who spoke at a recent meeting of the Society of Rice University Women. The con oup of alumnae,faculty, staff, and other female friends of Rice meets fre- "Critical Moments in Religious History" `broad sweep of history and culture and s. lently to enjoy programs about the university. For information on the society, and "Dilemmas of the Arms Race" are the to illuminate a few of the important ntact the alumni office. topics for the Rice Alumni Institute's two points in the evolution of man's spiritual lecture series this spring. The talks will be understanding, bringing to life-critical given consecutively on Tuesdays at 7:15 moments in the evolution of Christianity, PM. and 8:30 P.M. from February 21 to Judaism, and Buddhism, and examin- March 27 in Sewall Hall 301. Most of the ing the great religious awakenings that lecturers will be Rice faculty members. have been a part of the American expe- Admission to the lecturLs is $20 for rience. "Dilemmas of the Arms Race" one series or $35 for both in advance, will meet at 8:30 PM. to study some of the with an extra $1 fee for registration at ethical, strategic, and political choices the door. Individual tickets are $4 each with which our generation is con- on a space-available basis. For ticket fronted, touching on such concepts as and registration information, contact the "moral blind-alleys" and "crisis stabil- Alumni Office. ity," on the psychology of deterrence, -"Critical Moments in Religious His- and on the politics of fear. For details of tory" will meet at 7:15 PM. to explore the individual lectures, see Owlmanac.UI Rice Club News AUSTIN DALLAS co- Dean Allen J. Matusow of humanities The Shepherd School Symphony Orches- ig spoke at a Sunday brunch February 5 on tra gave an afternoon concert for the Rice n Pat "Why the Well Intentioned Efforts of Lib- Alumni in Dallas(RAID) February 1. RAID kca- erals to Reform America in the 1960's President Corinne Bryan made arrange- Sport Failed." ments for alums to host the approximately 90 students overnight. The next day the the e a, HILL COUNTRY symphony traveled to Ft. Worth to perform association gave former head football coach Ray Alborn '61 (left) and Hill Country alumni enjoyed dinner Febru- at the Texas State Music Educators Con- stud- eswelre Sue '62 a fond farewell party after Alborn's departure last fall. Shown ary 10 at the Inn O'the Hills in Kerrville. vention. April 1 RAID will hear Rice history esidnting coach with a token of the alumni's appreciation is association Dean Larry Livingston of the Shepherd professor Richard Smith speak on his new ent on 111 oust° Joseph F. Reilly, Jr. '48. Alborn will remain in the football picture in School was the special guest speaker and book, China's Cultural Heritage: The a an "bien, he has accepted a coaching position with the city's new USFL team, the the Shepherd School Honors Ensemble Ch'ing Dynasty 1644-1912. For details of rs. anve performed..Charles Dunn of the Develop- the Sunday brunch, contact Corinne fall. k ment Office also attended. Bryan, 349-7903(home), 363-9191 (office).0 oriasEER BIKE HELP WANTED BAR-13-0•• IP ill • The Association of Rice Alumni needs to fill two staff positions this spring. Qualified [ to NOWHERE 8111 RICE candidates should reply to the Rice Personnel Office by March 15, 1984. -/ rancl' helter Executive Director: The Executive Committee of the board of the Associa- ?d anJ tion of Rice Alumni is looking ahead and planning for the future of the organi- no zation. Our executive director plans to leave Rice and a new director will be Neeb WOUHS hired. Both alumni and nonalumni will be considered for the position. We tball confidently expect some help from alumni in passing the word to interested ed to ? AILUMEI applicants. SALLYPORT Editor and Senior Writer: Rice University seeks an enthusi- NV/TE ALUMNI OF ALL AGES TO lub astic and experienced editor and senior writer for SALLYPORT, a periodical pub- 0 to- COME EARLY TO THE BEER BIKE lished five or six times a year for alumni, parents, donors, and others. The RACE, EAT BARBECUE, AND VISIT goal is a lively, readable, visually appealing publication that fully and fairly informs these readers :tor WITH OLD FRIENDS. about people, ideas, and events related to the univer- ierl sity. The editor and senior writer must, of course, write and edit well, but must and 12:00 SAT. APRIL 14-rd STADIUM LOT also understand higher education and be a good leader and organizer, capa- irais- CALL 527-4057 TO RESERVE A ble of originating and assigning story ideas, laying out the pages, producing :o corl'J LUNCH the copy, and overseeing publication and distribution. A résumé, not more the Rt. than three writing samples(preferably clippings), and a college transcript are :m, NOTICE TO ALL ALUMNI RIDERS, DRINKERS - CALL 527-4057 required.fj /P YOU CAN PARTICIPATE IN ALUMNI 13-8 RACE.

SALLYPORT—FEBRUARY-MARCH 1984 1 7 Ryons Gave All to Rice Iv j ece BY LOUIS SPAW '40 4e4RiceAdlos04 moo Students and recent graduates of Rice eerii know there is a building in the engi- nee neering section of the campus that ngin bears the name "Ryon." But I wonder ar how many know about the two wonder- .01 ful people who, in life and death, gave the Bequest Program Inaugurated all they had to Rice. hi The Rice University Bequest Program is spective Class Bequest Honor Rolls that Professor Ryon taught civil engi- formally inaugurated in this issue of SALLY- will be printed in SALLYPORT. The fiftieth neering at Rice for 41 years. He was an 0,0c excellent teacher and a very competent PORT. Bequests have been of inestimable year class and beyond will also appear anti value to Rice from its founding to the in the September issue of For Rice's professional engineer. He was honored 9,00 present. To encourage alumni, parents, Honor. by his peers in the Houston area as En- uipt and friends to continue this tradition, the Rice is pleased to inaugurate this pro- gineer of the Year in 1962. Bequest Program provides information gram Ryon was a friend to his students. anti, with the classes of 1934 and 1939. 0,001 about creating such gifts He helped them find jobs that fit their ca- and a visibility Members of the classes of 1944 and 1949 Mae and Lewis Ryon in 1961. 'id ju and platform for bequests. A bequest is will appear in the April SALLYPORT and pabilities and counselled them on per- savings and retirement income from any prospective gift to Rice through the members of 1954 will be in the June sonal matters as well. I recall his telling oker Rice until 1980. SI!10,00( donor's will, a life insurance policy, a issue. me that castor oil was the best laxative, she died in October bequeathed valued at .jb. atm testamentary trust, a life income plan, Rice salutes these members of the that Equitable had the best life insur- all her estate, or any other form of deferred gift. classes of 1934 and 1939 and encour- ance, and that brunettes made the best about $880,000, to Rice. Complying 40,00c Members of the fiftieth, forty-fifth, ages other members of these classes to wives. As a matter of fact, I followed Mae Ryon's expressed wishes, the Rice._ Board of Governors created an endovrw fortieth, thirty-fifth, and thirtieth reunion join the Bequest Honor Roll. New mem- those three recommendations with good ment, the income of which has been 13,00c classes who have advised Rice of their bers of classes will be routinely added results. eerin, dedicated to positive intent will appear in their re- and acknowledged in SALLYPORT. Mae Ryon was a sweet, quiet, most building maintenance crial frugal homebody who spent most of her for approved equipment needs of the Department of Civil The following members of the class The following members of the class time in the garden, where she produced Engineering. Han L la15 of 1934, in their golden anniversary re- of 1939, in their forty-fifth reunion year, vegetables and fruit not only for her Lewis and Mae Ryon made a ,000' union year, have made or are planning have made or are planning to make a own table, but also for faculty friends contribution to my life, both before a to make a gift from their estate to Rice gift from their estate to Rice University: and neighbors. A few civil engineering after graduation. Their gifts to Rice Ufr'"d versity to the Iiirl°2th00 University: Lee Blocker grads who dropped by around Christ- continue contribute to W. Darwin Andrus Edward S. Bromberg mas always received a jar of delicious of engineering students and to the Lnci. E. Dell Butcher Joseph S. Finger fig preserves or a little box of pecan greatness of our alma mater. Frank C. Dill lbect Fc Mrs. James G. Gibson candy. 10,860 John J. Dvorak (Mary Elizabeth Henry) In October 1961 Professor and Mrs. Ed. note: Lewis B. Ryon served on the, l . A.C. Lederer, Jr. T. Franklin Glass, Jr. Ryon gave all their cash, stocks, and Rice faculty from 1917 to 1958, inclucl-t thmene u Haylett O'Neill, Jr. Donald M. Greer bonds-about $760,000-to Rice to un- a term as chairman of the Departmer Mrs. Charles E. Smith R. Clyde Hargrove (Martha Jane Claypool) Mrs. Schaefer Kendrick derwrite most of the cost of a new civil of Civil Engineering. Louis Sperw ,,ixs'or rou Edgar Q. $mith (Mary Evangeline Bethany) engineering building that was dedi- earned a BS in civil engineering, buirld Earl W. Watson Edward P Offutt, Jr. cated in November 1965. Professor Ryon successful engineering firm with his P 'e ec Talbott Wilson Mrs. Edgar Q. Smith died August 27, 1972. Mae continued to low alumnus, Frank Glass '39, and ioi Anonymous(5) (Emma Louise Ashley) work in her garden and manage her serves on Rice's Board of Governors. 0,665 Year VIII: The 1983 Brown Challenge Report k ,ifts e , Although there are 12 years yet to run, it is participation rate stood at 39 percent and other $18 million (not including 1983's earned the respect and commitment 01 s'a evident that the two decades of the Brown the university ranked fifth in the nation match, yet to be determined). friends such as these. To them all we 0'4°rge A, Foundation Challenge, 1976-96, will distin- among major private universities, behind Of particular interest to alumni should a great debt of thanks-Rice will encluits• Lind guish themselves as momentous years in Dartmouth (60 percent), Lehigh (46 per- be their success in the various Brown and continue to be strong because her 510, ha the history of Rice University Carefully cent), Princeton (44 percent), and Cal Tech Challenge incentive programs detailed in alumni and her friends have demon- ,:Plurri conceived to nurture the university's two (40 percent). the chart below. The five youngest classes strated that the university will not lack rcitfield fundamental resources, the general en- The percentage of increases over the exceeded their goal and qualified for an sustenance." Ul eh,* v dowment and annual revenues, the Brown years suggests the magnitude of the award of $200,000 from the Brown Founda- THE BROWN CHALLENGE 1983 kin* Challenge from the first made such exact- Brown Challenge's influence on Rice. The tion; the reunion classes were successful in ect Ri( ing and increasing demands on the uni- number of alumni participating in the an- qualifying for a combined BROWN AmOvcor rec $150,000 award; CATEGORY RAISC ' versity's fundraising efforts that in 1976 few nual fund has increased by 33 percent a record 27 classes reached 50 percent GOAL __As, hors individuals-save, perhaps, George R. from 6,074 in 1976 to 8,091 in 1983. The participation and thereby qualified for Alumni $ 740,000 $1,561 erno Brown himself-thought that Rice would number of corporations supporting Rice $135,000; and 589 alumni made gifts of Board of be able to meet the requirements in full for has increased 153 percent, the number of $1,000 or more and thus qualified for a Governors 750,000 2,10 many years. nonalumni friends by 233 percent. Even match of $147,250. Corporations 960,000 2,405 But meet them it did-in full and from more dramatic is the number of classes In addition to the thousands of alumni Nonalumni that first year onward-until, eight years. reaching 50 participation-a 450 percent whose contributions made these achieve- Friends 200,000 1,026 later, we can see that what George Brown increase from 6 to 27. ments possible, particular note should be Totals $2,650,000 $7,096 had hoped for has occurred. The Brown All these growth percentages trans- taken of the hundreds of Annual Fund Challenge has sparked the most remark- late into greatly magnified support levels. leaders and volunteer workers, including ALUMNI INCENTIVES able surge in annual revenues in the his- The amount of giving from alumni has in- current students. Their efforts in the form of 1. Five recent -1978, 1979. tory of the university, in turn earning many creased 236 percent, from corporations 367 class letters, personal notes, and tele- most classes 1980, 1 98 1, 1982 raise millions of matching dollars for the perma- percent, from nonalumni friends 309 per- phone calls, and their leadership in nu- -needed to nent endowment. cent. Support from members of the Board merous ways in their classes ctnd to qualify for a $200,000 match. These fijild It will surprise some that in 1974-75, of Governors has increased a magnificent communities, are vital to Rice's success in classes raised $61,883. before the challenge began, the Annual 1,241 percent. In 1983 Rice raised presenting its case to alumni and friends of 2. Direct awards of $5,000 for classes o'fip Fund involved only 18 percent of Rice's $7,096,950 toward the Brown Challenge (a the university. 50 percent participation*-27 classes alumni. That figure has more than dou- 391 percent increase over the first year's W.W. Akers, vice-president for admin- fled: 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1q9u2c,6 1.09Rer R f f bled in the intervening years, until today it revenue)for a total over the eight-year istration, summed up the feelings of all as- 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1 giei Reoic hovers between 36 and 40 percent. In 1981- period exceeding $37 million. At the same sociated with Rice in expressing his 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934,_lA ghivaecisylnno,: 82, the last year for which comparable fig- time, the Brown Foundation matching pleasure at the results of the Brown Year 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1943, 1 cillinc,P:irtlyci ures are available, Rice's alumni funds paid into the endowment total an- VIII: "Rice is fortunate, indeed, to have Highest previous participation was 25 cl3Z_The( *Participotion percentages include alumni bo0 g coi BROWN CHALLENGE COMPARATIVE REPORT, 197610 1983 members. 'Rid TOTAL *RAISED BROWN MATCHING GRANT PAID RICE GIFTS PLUS BROWN MATCHING GRANT PAID Mr 10TH, 25TH, AND 50TH REUNION CLA“:65„,11; f Sr Let''3s cii 1976 $ 659,184 $169,303 $ 654,260 $ 331,576 $ 1,814,323 $ 1,503,226 $ 3,317,549 mon 1977 758,901 353,107 941,054 256,311 2,309,373 1,778,757 4,088,130 1933 $48,562 1978 914,697 625,810 1,221,350 391,677 3,153,534 2,233,862 5,387,396 1958 28,420 ALof the 1979 991,334 1,254,332 1,359,900 421,504 4,027,070 2,496,369 6,523,439 1973 27,107 3'rnors 1980 1,280,833 1,721,453 1,538,645 696,688 5,237,619 3,483,810 8,721,429 Direct awards of $50,000 per class for 1981 1,392,247 2,951,775 2,854,157 710,519 7,908,698 3,492,175 11,400,873 corkrrniric bined effort of tenth, twenty-fifth, and fif'Provid, 1982 1,588,825 1,159,472 2,592,747 799,444 6,140,487 3,410,122 9,550,609 reunion classes. 1983 1,561,892 2,102,313 2,405,839 1,026,861 7,096,905 ** *"* 7,096,905 Direct award of $250 for each alumnus.; Totals $9,147,913 $10,337,565 $13,567,952 $4,634,580 $37,688,009 $18,398,321 $56,086,330 $1,000 or more-589 alumni qualified fr's kend *Gifts for current operations only. **Undetermined at this time. *""Reflects 1983 Rice gifts only; matching grant undetermined at this time. this bonus award.

18 SALLYPORT-FEBRUARY-MARCH 1984 Major Gifts Giving Clubs Enroll New Donors —.)19cent major gifts to the university include the following: 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 6,11teco Foundation Halliburton Foundation current operations. Membership is on an annual basis 4,453 for three fellowships in chemical engi- $20,000 for Brown & Root Chair in Engineering (July 1 through June 30) and in- eering, mechanical engineering-materals sci- and $5,000 for the Jesse H. Jones Graduate cludes the individual and his or her spouse. Names listed below are first-time members nee, and environmental science and School of Administration. from October through December 1983. ngineering. Mr. and Mrs. John F. Heard '40 Founder's Club Miss Elaine E. Dippel '47 Mr. Bruce F Nauman '75 r. Mrs. Joe T Wells, Jr. '27 and Mrs. Wiley N. Anderson, Jr. '46/'48 $10,000 for unrestricted use. Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. McIver '47/47 Mr. Mark Francis Olender '75 Mr. & Mrs. Harry 20,000 in memory of Cornelia and 1.0. Ehlinger W. Witt '34/36 Dr. & Mrs. Dewey W. Peace, Jr. '47 Mr. James Robert Gallman, III '76 the Mr. Seth Irwin Morris '35 Rice Associates and the School of IBM Corporation Mr. & Mrs. William P Schultz'47 Mrs. Carolena Houze Herring '76 rc $25,000 to the Mrs. Hugh M. Patterson '35 Mr. Hundley V. Rankin '48 David Tipton Moody, MD '76 hitecture. Department of Electrical Engineering. Mr. George E. Pike '35 Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Attwell, Jr. '49 Mr. Bevans Callan Welder '76 Mr. Richard L. rthur Andersen and Parsons '38 Mr. Frank Joseph Biagi '49 Mr. Daniel Roy Adams '77 Company Miss Doris Lee Schild '38 0,000 for D.E. Norgaard Estate Mrs. Joseph W. Coddou '49 Mr. & Mrs. Gregory C. Alexander unrestricted use. Dr. Thomas P. Wier, Jr. '40 $34,844 for the unrestricted endowment fund. Dr. & Mrs. Robert Lindsay '49 '77/78 tlantic Richfield Company Mr. & Mrs. Raleigh W. Johnson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Glen Fuller Collier '77 9,000 Schlumberger Well Services '49/49 Mrs. Ralph Berkeley '51 to chemical engineering for purchase of Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Garrison '51P52 Mr. Daniel L. Hawkins'77 1.11Prnent. $16,000 for fellowship in electrical engineering. Mr. & Mrs. Carl H. Schulse '51P54 Miss Mary Julia Arnette '78 Mr. Robert J. Varty '51 Mr. James T. Longineau '51 Mr. Peter Wei-Man Khoo '78 !antic Dr. John E. Merwin '52 Mrs. Georgia Hink Goeters'52 Richfield Foundation Schlumberger Foundation Mr. Ross Grady Baker, Jr. '79 0,000 Ms. Patsy S. Mr. Robert L. Hill '52 to chemical engineering for fellowships $15,000 for fellowship in mathematics. Chappelear '53 Mr. John August Dobelman '79 trid Mr. Joseph B. Mr. Louis James Hayes, Jr. '53 junior Wolens '53 Diane Gray Edmondson '79 faculty support. Mr. Morin M. Scott Mr. William N. Sick, Jr. '57 Mr. Gus T. Panos '53 Dm Miss Louise Marion Fickel '79 aker & $3,762,390 Mr. Alex Trevino, Jr. '58 Mr. & Mrs. Arthur E. Nall, Jr. '54/'58 0. Botts toward acquisition of the property for Mr. Lawrence Jude Fossi '79 sb10,000 Mr. & Mrs. James Robert Doty '62 Mr. Edward D. Jackson '55 for unrestricted use. the Graduate House. Mr. Michael Summer Kohn '79 Dr. Ho Yi Huang '66 Dr. & Mrs. Charles V. Briscoe '57 i 1,tp. Mr. Dale Frederick Shuck '79 Butcher Shell Companies Foundation Mr. & Mrs. W. Robbins Brice '67/70 Capt. Robert Lee Leuschner, Jr. '57 '34 Mr. Andrew Craig Warford '79 19.1'1'50,000 to $80,000 to the departments of Dr. George David Walraven '70 Dr. & Mrs. Bennett McCallum the Rosadel and Dell Butcher Fund. chemical engi- Mr. Mark Anthony Cavazos '80 Mr. Douglas L. Williams '71 '57/.62 dovio, neering, chemistry, electrical engineering, me- Mr. Harold Jay Chemical Company Foundation Ms. Janice L. Robertson '73 Mr. Timothy W. Watson '57 Marcus '80 Id,000 chanical engineering-materials science, Mr. Gregory Keith to the departments of chemical engi- Ms. Dana Ann Whitledge '73 Mr. Thomas C. Cady '58 Cranford '81 ?en _ physics, Jones School, and the president's dis- Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Thomas Foil '81r81 g, Mr. Alan Douglas Mut '80 Dr. Arthur C. Thorsen, Jr. '58 ce mechanical engineering, and electri- cretionary fund. Mr. Farley Daniel cl len Mr. Alan Jay Hirshberg '82 Mr. Arthur P. Veltman, Jr. '58 Grissett '81 gineering and to the general fund, School Mr. Harold Ardell [ the [Engineering. Mr. T Louis Austin, Jr. Mrs. Rosemary Hayes Reifel '59 Nelson '81 Standard Oil Company Mr. John C. Clymer '60 Mr. David Charles Scheinerman '81 • Mr. & Mrs. A.W. Bally lian H. and $10,000 for fellowship in chemical engineering. Dr. Robert Lee Fulton '60 Mr. Donn Martin Baumgartner '82 lcir 5 C.W.'Duncan Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Dean J. Blackwell ,000 for unrestricted use. Mr. J. Sage Burrows Mrs. Russell E. Miller '60 Mr. Charles Estill Bludworth '82 'e an Albert K. Smith '31 Mr. & Mrs. Sheridan Berthiaume '61 Mr. Denis Drew Calabrese '82 :e 1J4r. and $32,343 to Ms. Ruth Gonzalez Mrs. J. Thomas Eubank '51/'55 the Smith Fund in the School of Mr. Josephus 0. Parr, III '61 Ms. Karen A. Easley '82 0,000 Architecture. Dr. Joe W. Hightower d to the Rice Associates, Founder's Club, Mr. & Mrs. Peter C. Quoyseser Mr. Robert Samson Singer '61 Ms. Liana M. Gasparini '82 '11 nd the Ms. Patricia J. Fonarow '62 Mr. James Andrew Ginty '82 Le tincj. Nancy and Thomas Eubank Endowment Seldon D. Steed Dr. Joan E. Strassmann Dr. & Mrs. Russell G. Williamson Mr. & Mrs. John T Graham '62/64 Mr. & Mrs. Calvin Monroe Jackson, $25,000 to the Richard D. Steed Scholarship Mr. Lamar Allen, III '63 III '82/82 ___11besganestiel Estate endowment. President's Club Dr. Walter Carroll Pusey, III '64 Ms. Pamela Jean Kelly '82 Mr. George I. Goodwin '16 Mr. Wayne Allen Bertsch Mr. Lynn 11 the,1 for the endowment of the Albert Fanes- Texaco, Inc. '65 Alan Lednicky '83 chA :rnorial Dr. Edmund B. Middleton '18 Dr. Hugh Duncan Mason '65 Mr. Robert Scott McKinnell '83 Scholarship in Engineering and $14,300 for fellowship in chemical engineering. Mrs. Thomas Verner Moore '25 Dr. Robt. Holmes McNeely '65 Ms. Eileen Baerst Sudela '83 '11 unrestricted endowment fund. Texas Eastern Corporation Mrs. David A. Hagerman '29 Mr. & Mrs. J. Timothy O'Connell '65 Ms. Lynne Marie Thomas '83 uor Mr. Arthur Bradford Austin '31 Dr. James Alan Sprague '65 Mr. John C. Allred .c Foundation $10,000 to the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of kur:000 for Mr. David G. Grauer '32 Mr. Baylor Bunting Triplett '65 Mr. & Mrs. William R. Avella fld fellowships in chemical engineering Administration. Mrs. S.G. Dickinson '33 Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Timor Mr. George W. Busby, III his electrical engineering. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred B. Williamson Mr. Robert G. Summers '33 Yaworski '65 Mr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Caldwell nd riC1L;,f Mr. Howard W. Mays Dr. Kenneth Mr. & Mrs. $15,000 in memory of Alhe Autry Kelley Ditmar, '34 Earl Dahlberg '68 William T. DerGarry horS•0 ,665°° for a Dr. Ben F. Arnim, Jr. '36 Dr. & Mrs. C. Frank Starmer, Jr. '68 Mr. & Mrs. J. M. Desmond fellowship in chemistry. W. McIver Streetman, and Harold Moore. Mr. Charles H. Von Rosenberg '36 Dr. Michael Joe Casey '69 Mr. David H. Dodd Mr. & Mrs. Hermann B. Wobus '36 Dr. Steve Montoya, Jr. '69 Mr. Charlie Gill Mrs. Willie L. Dunaway '37 Mr. Peter Clyde Taaffe '69 Mr. & Mrs. Hans L. Hansen, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Tiffin Elmore Johnson, Dr. David Barry Carroll '71 V. F. Hill kholarships Jr. '38 Donna Lane '71 Mr. & Mrs. Wann S. Huang lths es Mr. & Mrs. Willis P On '38/38 Mr. Gregory Randall Sporak '71 Mr. & Mrs. James C. Keavney Dnt tablishing scholarships have recently been received: Mrs. Harold L. Stem '38 Mr. Douglas Wayne Steadman '71 Dr. & Mrs. Ming-Shyong Lee we 0111°r9e Mrs. Frances Merrill Terry '38 Miss Jan Brenner '72 Mrs. Peter C. Licea Alva Chatfield Scholarship Mr. .aridl,&s. Frances Black and Raymond H. Moers Scholarship Jack Patterson '39 Dr. Stephen S. Burkhart '72 Mrs. Milton Lottman Linda Chatfield Baker '74 of Yorktown, Vir- Raymond H. Moors '30 of Houston has endowed Mr. Gladyes M. Nagai '40 Dr. Robert R. Cartier '72 Mr. Frank E. Muellner e her: 119. has endowed an undergraduate scholar- a scholarship that will provide an annual under- Mrs. Robert Beresford '41 Mr. David Irving Rosenfield '72 Mr. & Mrs. Franklin W. Neal 'memory of her grandfather, George Alva graduate award. Selection of the recipient will Mr Edward L. Mitchell '41 Mr. Joseph Trent Siff '72 Mr. & Mrs. Edward F Pabst Ptfield. Mr. George Mr. lack be based on demonstrated financial need and M. Flint, Jr. '42 & Mrs. Edward Hugo Koehler, Dr. & Mrs. Donald W. Peaceman Dr. Charles M. Gaitz'42 Jr. '73/75 Mr. & Mrs. Robert K. Poison 6%1 scholastic achievement. Vincent McEnany Scholarship Mrs. Robert Gardner '42 Gale Elane Morrow '73 Mr. & Mrs. William H. Price, II e 6c1rnily of Mr. Frederick B. McDonald, Jr. '43 Dr. Jerry Max Rovner '73 Mr. & Mrs. Sejfi Protopapa ed Michael Vincent McEnany, Jr., who United States Steel Foundation Scholarships Rice in including Mrs. H. Joe Nelson, Jr. '43 Dr. Larry Edward Yeager '73 Mr. Wayne R. Rodgers ADAMOistft_or,, several capacities, pro- A $150,000 grant from the U.S. Steel Foundation Mr. Wm. M. Schleier, Ms. Bonnie registrar, Jr. '43 C. Hoskins '74 Mr. & Mrs. Calvin H. Sugg and dean of undergraduate of- has been received for the endowment of a schol- Mr. Hugh Leroy Bell, Jr. '44 Miss Marilyn F. Miller '74 Mr. & Mrs. Fortunato 0. Sunio established an annual scholarship in arship fund for undergraduate students major- 1 ,5 6 1I nlernory. Miss Rosemary B. King '44 Mr. Arnold G. Gandy '75 Terry Thompson ing in engineering and earth sciences. Mr. Bruce Holmes Bradbeer '46 Mr. Richard Michael Harper '75 Mr. & Mrs. Howard P Zweig 2,1 2,405

026 :$7109_ 6 Attention Class of'29 An apparently stolen Rice ring, class of '29, has been recovered by police in a pawnshop in Georgetown, Texas. The ring is in mint condition and seems to be , 1979 engraved with the characters "E III." If this is your ring, or if you think you know who it belongs to, contact Assistant Rice Police Chief Mary Voswinkel, Rice )ese Campus Police, 527-6000. GI

Isses ‘•^1' ;es q tic a, 192, up friends and classmates on does, and supersonic aerody- Casualty and is still active. The until recently, when he moved to of CRS and former associate direr- 06 his activities. Far from taking it namics. His work has resulted Davises live in Houston. North Texas State University in tarot Rice's School of Architecture 127, 1 'tel Red celebrated her nintieth easy, Kendall is a staff engineer in over 30 patents. "If I hadn't Mary Louise Ford Knight writes Denton, and that one of his daugh- [34, 1911clay on ters campus in January in the instrumentation section of been working. I wouldn't have that her family—including such is named after Dr. McKillop's )43, I 91.c7 Party in the Rice Memorial Cal Tech's Jet Propulsion Labo- had any of that travel," he says. alumni as her sister, the late Fan- wife. "I have been surprised that HOPet The 32 event was planned by ratory in Pasadena, California. "I may retire soon, but I dread nie Ford Sanders '18, and no scholarship has been named in F.F. "Flip" Calhoun was profiled alumni relatives, in- His specialty since about 1965 is the idea of resting. Now I have cousin, Helen Batte Copeland Dr. McKillop's memory," she adds. in the November 7 Plainview, boof4ing Scott interesting things to do, like tra- "lam sure that he had a great in- "lie Red, Jr.'76, solar energy, and his project is '32—are descendants of the fam- Texas, Herald. When he left Rice, Red '25, David an instrument for measuring vel." The thing that stands out ily in Yorkshire that owned the fluence on many former students and Mr. Red Flip entered the oil exploration Sr. and Mrs. Scott sunshine, which would have ap- most in his mind from Rice was house where the title character at Rice. Let's get a ball rolling for field, but after World War II he be- '38. Also present were plications in meteorology and in the parade of interesting speak- lives in Charlotte Bronte's novel him!" gan farming in Plainview. He has CLASS Lel's c ers on campus, who in Kendall's On lassmates who live in space. His work on the project Shirley. The Bronte connection is been active in conservation efforts — frequently, day included R.A. Millikin, Ju- 'land nargaret Amy Wa- takes him abroad especially appropriate because since 1953, when he was first ap- Bayard lian Huxley, and Herbert Hoover. the T. Gross, men- and also to the world's largest her favorite professor at Rice was pointed to the county soil and wa- Rice Board of solar energy plant in Barstow, Bronte specialist Dr. McKillop, 31 ter conservation district. Other *lots, over Ay 200 friends and California. He notes that the thanks to whom, Mary Louise says, Hermon Lloyd and his partners activities include his church and es. and the 3 for High School for German he studied at Rice has "I acquired a love of the early En- in Lloyd Jones Brewer Architects sailing on a nearby lake. His two COrilLerfOrinllig Arts String come in handy when traveling. glish novel that has lasted to this were noted in a November series and fifl"' Band, children include Arthur Fryer Provided entertainment. Although he has been at JPL 26 day. I was 81 in November." A resi- in the Houston Post on award. Calhoun '64. over 20 years, Kendall has had a Murray Hendrix Davis, Jr., dent of Laramie, Wyoming, Mary winning architects. Principal Ben diverse career that also in- and his wife celebrated their fifti- Louise notes that Thomas Pres- Brewer'55 was quoted in the mrwsg? oes cludes work on radio transmit- eth wedding anniversary Novem- ton PhD'60 was head of the De- feature, as were James Gwin ilified Kendall 33 tPOHT dropped by the ters, development of hi fi, ber 6. Murray just completed his partment of English at the '68, an architect with Golemon & Mary Coffman Key retired from office recently to catch geophysical research, torpe- fifty-fifth year with Aetna Life rmr3 University of Wyoming in the city Rolfe, and Paul Kennon, president teaching and lives with her hus-

SALLYPORT—FEBRUARY-MARCH 1984 19 las for the American Museum of breakfast meeting of the associa- Stovall likes to use his boat ti Natural History in New York and tion in Ft. Worth in October, where for shrimp and oysters. W.D. she went around the world twice they discussed the interpretation an Op within 72 days in 1978. She has two of Hamlet. Helen is on the English Orier daughters. faculty at the University of base( Virginia Sue Green Woolley Houston. 46 Chi/14 and her husband live in LaPorte, and, Texas. She has served as president Is a d of numerous civic and social orga- and F nizations both in Houston and in 39 Carr( LaPorte and also worked for Hous- John C. Martin writes that he re- uatio ton Natural Gas for ten years. tired after 30 years with Wes- tinghouse in Pittsburgh. He and Charles F. Montgomery is re- his wife have three children, two tired and lives in Hindsville, of whom went to Rice. He says that Arkansas. He was the CEO of an 511 he "has an intense love of white- independent oil company. Will water canoeing and kayaking and featu; Charles D. Nathan is retired is a wilderness camper par excel- 'fleeti and lives in Houston. The past lence. I have just taught myself ar- Exchr president of Nathan's of Houston, chitecture by scouring the dent which under his leadership ex- Pittsburgh libraries and designed State panded from one to ten locations and drew up the complete blue- since between 1964 and 1980, he has prints of ill retirement home in the been active in numerous civic and Texas HilICountry near Ingram. I modesth professional organizations over Glen E. Journeay am building it now and plan to "It is not often that I do anytd 5 the years. He is the father of two. come back home to live in 1984." that I feel might be of intere Aline Lucy Bowles lives in Lyn- Robert S. Cooke tells class- my old classmatds." But in Id chburg, Virginia, where she is in- mates, "I completed about two bar Glen was inaugurated al volved with several volunteer years as manager of engineering ident of the Texas AcademYt groups. She is the mother of three. for Union Oil Company of Great Family Physicians. In additii Melton "Bubba" Koch was em- Britain, elected to retire the first of his chemical engineering de ployed by General Motors Accept- the year, and after a few months of from Rice and his MD. Glen ance Corporation of Dallas, travel will reside in Midland, holds a PhD in organic cher!, Frigidaire Corporation of Ft. Texas. We had a great two years in from UT. He is on the editoritl Shooting for the Stars Worth, and the City of Houston. He England, visiting much of Europe board of Texas Medicine and retired and moved to San Antonio in addition to enjoying the beauty has a number of papers and James E. Gunn '61 has more spare time to study the physics of the very in 1976. He has a son and three of Great Britain, the London the- ents in the chemical field. lit early universe these days, thanks to a MacArthur Fellowship awarded grandchildren. atre, and especially the pubs!" lectures in biomedical engird him last July. The prize means that Gunn, Evelyn Bybee Fales of Houston at UT and is listed in a numb Princeton's Eugene Higgins Pro- considers her family, church, and directories of prominent sciel fessor of Physics, will receive unrestricted stipends totaling $220,000 over work in several patriotic organiza- His special interest is in entl the next five years to finance whatever projects his creativity envisions. tions to be her most significant ac- 40 mental health and industrial complishments. She is also a Jack Heard, sheriff of Harris cology. The father of five and The MacArthur Fellowship program was established to give especially member of the Rice Founders County since 1973, has announced grandfather of six, Glen has,' Rich, promising individuals freedom from economic pressures so that they can Club. that he will seek reelection. His ca- been very active in work wit' presi( Boy Scouts. concentrate on their own Edgar A. Farris, Jr., lives in East reer has also included service as la No, interests. Houston police chief and on the Until they are notified that they have been awarded a Brunswick, New Jersey, where he leans MacArthur is vice-president of Ray Consulting Texas Commission on Jail Stand- Step} grant, recipients do not even know that they were nominated for one. Company. Edgar served as the ards, and he was a mayoral Candi- 01 the Rice representative at the inaugu- date in 1981. He says his main 48 Nominations are made anonymously, and individuals cannot send in Jim Jones presented a watt 1itob.,,, e ration of Rutgers University Presi- outside interests are reading and their own applications. travel. demonstration in October -a7en dent Bloustein. He is also active in -timed -m'1.E't "Speedy" Moore's arrival ens, Texas. Now a full Despite the MacArthur, Gunn is still too busy to spend much time his church and has two daughters. W.C. inif --(Dust in Houston for a memorial dinner Jim began his art career catching up on early universe physics, a William Retzer Long retired watercolor st Posit. subject he regrets having in honor of late Houston Chronicle and has taught from Brown & Root's accounting resident, kit Pan,' "passed by." His many previous commitments include a position as dep- columnist Morris Frank November 1967. The Dallas department, is currently secretary for his realism and interest uty principal investigator for the primary camera that will go up on and treasurer cf the Nutrition Edu- 12 was duly noted in the local press. He now lives in California. Southwest landscape, has so NASA's space telescope when it is launched in 1986, the "wide field/ cation Association, and is active in merous awards and held set 51 planetary camera." civic work. Bill lives in Houston one-man shows. Jim says he A and has two sons, including Wil- "to express my feeling for tilt Rex I Gunn says, "What I really need now is time more than money. To a liam Y. Long '58. God reveals in nature" throa Shatz Teach Margaret Crain Lowery has 41 sign and color. certain extent money can buy time, but not as efficiently as one might like. tram t been selected to assist in services Probably until the space telescope flies, Lawr, finding time to do any of the at St. Mary's Catholic Church in things I would like to do is going to be very difficult." Another of Gunn's Victoria, Texas. She is also active DePtu in local service and historical Shu major projects, ongoing for the past four years, is the electronic camera 49 Cone, groups. A fifth-generation Texan, Bill Leifeste has opened a mounted on the Hover telescope at Palomar Observatory, which, he says, "will she is an owner and director of her as an independent landmas easi allow one to take pictures of fainter objects than have family ranch. Margaret has four energy consultant in Midlcult ever been possible leave before." daughters and ten grandchildren. has 30 years professional eOi ence in West Texas. book After graduating from Rice with a BA in math and physics, Gunn SYStel earned reeeiN his PhD in astrophysics from Cal Tech in 1966. He served two HUrn, years as a captain in the Army Corps of Engineers at NASA's Jet Propul- 35 Joe Lagow was featured in the 51 sion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where, as a senior space scien- Baytown, Texas, News-Sun in Sep- Richard P. Leach has beet tist, he first added an interest in modern astronomical instrumentation to tember. He lives on a private wild- elected second vice-chairm°, fowl refuge near Anahuac, Texas. of his strictly theoretical training. the American Association J.D. Joe has made a career of manag- Obert L. Nordin, vice-president Authorities. He will be chaill ing ranch and farm operations and past ft been Gunn joined the Princeton faculty in 1968 and studied the recently and senior advisor for GH- 1987. He is immediate mg fp discovered phenomenon of pulsars. In 1970 he returned to Cal Tech and is a widely recognized conserva- Thornhill Craver, has been named dent of the Gulf Port Associa: tionist in the Southwest. execut0 'Sents. a 1983 recipient of the American and a member of the Corp, began exploring quasars and the relation between redshift and the Internation‘ Society for Testing and Materials committee of the forme sociation of Ports and Harbot brightness of distant galaxies. There he began work in conjunction with Award of Merit. Accompanying the cluton J.B. Oke on the Hubble Diagram, which astronomers hope will reveal honor is the title of fellow in the so- chard joined the Port of HoM 37 ciety, which he has served in sev- Authority in 1957 and has 10 whether the universe will continue expanding, as it is now, forever, or A. Burke Haymes has been eral capacities since 1961. A ecutive director since 1979. stop at some time in the far distant future and undergo violent collapse. named an honorary fellow of the GH-Thornhill Craver employee Texas Society of Certified Public In his work with telescope instrumentation, Gunn also built a number since 1943, Nordin has worked in Accountants. He has been presi- the area of petroleum equipment The fi dent of the TSCPA and its Houston of instruments for the 200-inch Hale telescope, including a digital-image most of his professional life. 53 MUrt chapter, served six years on the vidicon spectrograph; a real-time cross-correlation spectrometer, to mea- Ment Texas State Board of Public Ac- reviel sure stellar radial velocities; and an electronic camera that has recorded countancy, and has also been pres- Proda ident of several local images and spectra of the faintest objects measured to date. ertal C organizations. 42 Gunn accepted the Higgins Professorship and came back to Princeton Ann Quin Wilson's new book, David Westheimer was featured Native Houstonian: A Collective in 1979. He is married to Gillian R. Knapp, a research astronomer and lec- in the Las Vegas Review-Journal in Portrait, was the subject of a De- October. The author of such novels turer with the rank of associate professor in Princeton's Department of As- cember feature in the Houston 6' as Von Ryan's Express and My trophysical Sciences. Chronicle. Ann's husband, Austin Sweet Charlie, David had a re- %qui C. Wilson '43, and alumni —Joan Hope- union in Las Vegas with a man cindr, Frank Glass, Jr.'39 and 'flap, who saved his life in an air battle Frances Chapman Glass'40 over Naples in World War II. Schoc West- also were mentioned in the article. soy 01 heimer was later captured and the fa, band on their ranch in Halletsville, ing and Urban Development in serving as director of several na- spent 28 months as a POW. The tribut, Texas. She says she "resisted get- Washington, D.C., and divides her tional, regional, and local corpora- meeting happened during the re- City p] ting involved with the Houston time between Washington and tions. The father of four, union of the 98th Bomb Group in he has I' traffic to attend the golden anni- Houston. also been director of the Sherman October. 43 William H. Watson has Thomas Stovall, who recently re- given the Texas Christian LI,°, He is ] versary reunion." Class reporter Gardner Chamber of Commerce. Soule of tired as judge of a Texas state dis- sity Chancellor's Award for devell Ruth Provine Raatz and her New York City really enjoyed the Lois Dawson Steude lives in trict court, in November was guished Research and Crenjt Prof husband, Fred Raarz '32, have golden reunion. "It could not have Houston and made "the best and appointed presiding judge of the Activity. Chairman of the Profe, moved to Panorama Country Club been improved on," he says. "I feel Penn. most beautiful" wedding cakes for 38 Texas Second Administrative Judi- partment of Chemistry. Wald' in Conroe, Texas. They are enjoy- the occasion and dinner were so over 50 years before retiring as Helen S. Thomas's critical edi- cial District for a term running was the National Academy Mery ing the benefits of retirement, great that I never need to attend owner-manager of Cakes by tion of Lusty Juventus was re- through 1987. A resident of Sea- ences Exchange Scientist to vtoe-p spending their time playing golf another one; no later one will Steude in December. Over the viewed by the South Central brook, Texas, Stovall is known for ern Europe in 1973-74, and! Moore and bridge. match it." years the well traveled Lois has College English Association's his sense of humor and his disdain published more than 170 re5et rently Marjorie Meyer Arsht says she Roy C. Sewell is president of the also worked in 29 trips to Mexico South Central Bulletin. Helen and for wearing the traditional black papers in 28 different journcd El pas has taken a challenging assign- Urban Land Company in Sherman. with her husband to collect butter- husband Rice professor emeritus robe of office, which he calls a latest honor includes a prise Pony ment with the Department of Hous- Texas, after a career that includes flies, moths, spiders, and tarantu- Joe D. Thomas were featured at a "Zorro suit." In his spare time $10,000. the ut

20 SALLYPORT—FEBRUARY-MARCH 1984 is boat t( :s Carraway has been named "With an international corps of Kenneth E. Dahlberg is a re- area who would be interested in Gale Morrow has moved to Hon- an operations manager for Sun dancers, Ballet El Paso is emerg- 66 search specialist with Exxon Pro- getting together." duras from Sierra Leone, West Af- Orient Exploration Company, ing as one of the top companies of duction Research. He and his Gary A. Anderson has been Eric Lautzenheiser writes that rica. "At present I am the Peace based in the People's Republic of the Southwestern United States," family live in Houston, where Ken named assistant vice-president in "after 18 months in Tulsa, I have Corps director for health," Gale China and formed to explore for oil Mervin says. is active in church work. charge of engineering for Sonat moved to Denver. I now work for writes. "I'll be in Honduras for the and gas in the South China Sea. It next two years." is a Exploration Company. He has Kay Mills Scholl lives in Bel- Rogers Nagel Langhart, an division of Sun Exploration laire, Texas, where she and her and worked with Sonat since 1970. architecture/interiors/planning Darryl B. Dobras was named a Production of Dallas, where husband own CommServ. The William D. Broyles, Jr., re- firm, as a project manager. lam Distinguished Citizen by the Uni- Carraway has worked since grad- mother of two, she has also been a versity of Arizona Alumni Associa- uation signed his position as editor-in- enjoying the shift to the west; have from Rice. teacher. chief of Newsweek in January, run into some members of the Rice tion in October. The honor saying he wants to pursue other Gerald Holtzman is a partner in community, including Gary Long, recognizes community, educa- creative and entrepreneurial inter- the Houston law firm of Holtzman formerly on the architecture tional, and career service. Dobras, 55 ests, including, reportedly, work and Urquhart. He earned a ID from faculty. who also received a degree from on a novel about his experiences UT and has served as chairman of Jack Lippincott is an internal au- UA, is a prominent businessman in ,William R. Gaskamp was the Broyles, who had the Houston-Galveston Area ditor for Mobil in Houston. The fa- southern Arizona. Matured in Vietnam. speaker at a September worked for Newsweek for 16 Health Commission and adjunct ther of two, he is president of the John I. Allen is now a staff physi- Meeting of the Brenham, Texas, months, was interviewed about professor at the University of Hous- Kentwood Manor Civic Club and a cian at the VA Medical Center and Exchange Club. Gaskamp is presi- ton. He is a member of the Owl dent that job in SALLYPORT a year ago. member of Rice's Owl Club. assistant professor in the gastro- of the Washington County Club and has worked on corporate James Maynard recently sang enterology section at the Univer- Slate Bank, where he has worked fund-raising for Rice. sity of Minnesota Department of since 1968. the role of Dr. Bartolo (bass)in the Edinburg, Texas, Music Depart- Suelen Palmer Wedenburg 72 Medicine. John writes, "I attended iodesth ment Opera Workshop's production lives in Houston and has one child. my tenth reunion October 21 and Bruce A. Finlayson has been of scenes from Marriage of Figaro. enjoyed renewing friendships. o anyth given the 1983 William H. Walker William E. Boone lives in intere6 He is a mental health counselor Thanks to Ellen Horr and every- Award of the American Institute of Spring, Texas. He is a geophysicist 56 and hypnotherapist in Edinburg one who planned the party. If any- 3ut in 14 Chemical Engineers. Bruce is a for Amoco and in his spare time and has also performed publicly in one is ever in Minneapolis, please rated a[ professor of chemical engineering coaches Little League. both voice and instrumental re- call." IdemY and applied mathematics at the Robert Mylar is in purchasing at additi; citals. University of Washington, Seattle. the San Jacinto Hospital in Bay- iring de He received his doctorate from town, Texas. Glen( Minnesota in 1965. The honor in- chern Vicki Chamberlain has been ad- ic cludes a cash prize plus a travel 74 editori0 mitted to the partnership of Arthur Environmental lawyer Jim stipend and is one of two AlChE Andersen in Austin, where she has Me and 67 Blackburn was recently featured awards to recognize outstanding a tax practice. She has worked irs and] Kenneth Kennedy, Jr., profes- in an article in the Houston Post by contributions to literature of the there since 1981 and is active in :ield. sor of computer science at Rice, SALLYPORT science editor B.C. Ro- discipline. several professional and civic ii engin' was cited in a December article on bison, a PhD student in biology at organizations. a nurri computers in the Houston Chroni- Rice. "Very few attorneys in private ant 5660 cle. "We've only begun to scratch Mike Journeay is a marketing practice work in this specialty," ; in enll the surface of the computer's po- manager for Cameron Iron Works Walter Ray Richardson has Blackburn says. "There are per- dustrici 62 tential in education," Kennedy in Houston. He holds an MBA from been named president of I.A. Na- haps six of us in Texas." In addi- Eive and Charles R. Williams negotiated says. Harvard and is the father of two. man & Associates of Houston, one tion to his legal practice, Blackburn works with local conser- len has' the merger of four accounting firms Jim Lomax is an associate pro- Pat Lesko is a chemist with. of the largest consulting mechani- Richard B. Stephens was named ork wit[ into Smitherman-Williams & Com- fessor of psychiatry at the Baylor Rohne and Haas in Lansdale, cal and electrical engineering vation groups and teaches envi- president of McMoRan Oil and Gas ronmental law and urban planning in N pany, P.C., of which he is president College of Medicine. He and his Pennsylvania. firms in the Southwest. The an- ovember. A former New Or- nouncement was made by fellow at Rice. leans and CEO. He lives in Houston. wife, the former Nancy Robinson Donald P. Golden, Jr., is man- alumni area chairman, alum LA. Naman, who becomes Roberta Thompson Manning have two daughters. The Lomaxes ager of southwestern engineering Dave Kisker catches classmates Stephens is also a former member chairman of the board. Richardson of the was honored by the American His- live in Bellaire, Texas. with Wild Heerlarugg Instruments. up on the last ten years of his life. Rice Fund Council. has worked with Naman since his _ wcite torical Association for her book, Bernard W. Giesen, II, earned The father of two, Don lives in After graduation he moved to Ore- Robert W. Burgess, Jr., has graduation from Rice. His projects gon to join the electronics revolu- ' been The Crisis of the Old Order in Rus- an MBA from the University of Richmond, Texas, and is espe- elected a vice-president and have included major buildings in went to Stanford's ober i° sia: Gentry and Government, in Pennsylvania-Wharton School and cially proud of his work designing tion. In 1977 he 1-timed Hdirector of Cambridge Royalty of downtown Houston and in the Mid- the category of outstanding work is now self-employed in real estate good software systems and in sup- Department of Materials Science, ser in ouston. He had previously held dle East. where he found fellow alums .coior on ancient, medieval, or early in Houston. He and his wife, the port of the Skylab medical t. Positions with a variety of oil corn- Pharr, Martin Scott, modern European history to 1600. former Karen Nelson '66, have research. Tim Thurston writes that he mar- George fent, ltif Pahien. She was one of ten scholars hon- two sons. Karen stays busy with ried in 1978 and now has a son. Warren King, and Dave terest ored at the group's annual administrative work for perform- "Matriculated in the Stanford MBA Barnett. Dave earned his PhD ',has vf meeting. ing arts organizations. program in the fall of 1983," he from Stanford in 1981 and went to ield set says. "Other first years from Rice the Max Planck Institute in Stutt- Ronald L. Filler was transferred ;ays he 57 J. Robert Bacon is president of X are Brad Martin '79 and Paul gart, West Germany, for postdoc- Rex from the Southwest Regional Fed- Soft, Inc., and treasurer of Heath 69 g forth Martin received the Byron T. Arango '80." toral work. During this sojourn he eral Aviation Administraton office User's Group. He has also been i" thr01 Shutz Award for Distinguished also got married. "We are now set- T in Ft. Worth to Long Beach, Cali- president of Syscon (U.S. Consult- eaching on Economic Systems tled, for the moment at least, in the from fornia, where he is a flight test pi- ants)for 11 years. the University of Kansas at New York area, and my position at lot. He writes, "Would enjoy Lawrence, where teaches in the Bell Labs is proving to be the most De he hearing from old friends if there 73 partment of Philosophy. He gave rewarding of all," he concludes. a Shutz are any in the area." Peter M. Tobias was called on Co Award Lecture on "Three , for his expert opinion after the Todd J. Thorson has joined Rich med nceptions No of Equal Opportunity' Grenada invasion last fall. Now at & Company CPA firm. ndmas' vember 15. a Martin also received 68 Rockford College in Illinois. Tobias Cathy Keneda earned an MBA cash prize. This year he is on David Bailey and his wife, the leave researched Grenada as a graduate from UT last summer and now mal et1 from the KU faculty to write a former Nancy Meffert, live in book on 64 student at Rice. He told the Hous- lives in Dallas, where she is a cor- political philosophy, A E. Linn Draper, Jr. received the Houston, where Nancy is in her auditor at Texas Instru- System of ton Post that the Grenadians are porate Rights, for which he has Clyde A. Lilly, Jr., Award given an- second year of law school at the very pro-capitalist" ments. "I'll miss Austin, but look received a "traditionally Rockefeller Foundation nually by the Atomic Inclustial Fo- University of Houston. She is the and were likely "tickled pink" by forward to new challenges in Big Humanities Fellowship. rum. Linn is senior vice-president UH representative to the American the U.S. invasion. D," she says. of external affairs for Gulf States Bar Association/Law Student Divi- The former Katie McDonald and W.S. Shadrach, Ill, and his wife IS bee Utilities in Beaumont. He is active sion. David earned a PhD from and her husband, Wayne Baisley moved to Kansas City, Missouri, in the field of public understand- teaches at UH. Daniel M.Crane has been '76, had their first child in June. where he is director of marketing rtion of 59 ing and acceptance of nuclear J.D. William H. Howard,Jr., is a named marketing manager of "It's kind of funny to think that she for Sunshine Biscuit, in July 1982. e chef "Don" Winslow, Jr., has energy. been CPA-tax partner with Arthur An- printers, with full responsibility for might be in the freshman class of Shadrachs have two daugh- past f, named manager of engineer- The ing for R. Dennis Hamill is a partner in dersen in Houston. He has two printer product development and 2001," Katie being born in kssocid; the equipment and instru- says. ters, the latest ments the Medical Clinic of Houston and daughters. marketing at Toshiba America in exece group of Petrolite Dexter E. Senft has been named September. Cor . a clinical associate professor of Tustin, California. [-nation' poration in Houston. He was Robert B."Rocky" McAshan, a managing director of the First medicine at the Baylor College of Joel J. Elliott has been promoted Harbof formerly director of computer- III, and his wife, the former Jane Boston Corporation, an interna- Medicine. Dennis and his wife, the of Hon$ automated design and Duke'70 live in Houston, where to tax principal for Arthur Young in tional banking firm headquartered drafting. former Mary Grace Wisch- has be' he is an assistant vice-president San Antonio. He joined the firm in in New York. Presently head of 75 meyer'69 live in Houston with 1979. for Cullen Bank and she is a sales Houston in 1975 and moved to San fixed income research, Dexter spe- Tom Gehring and Cathy their two daughters. representative for Computer Age. Antonio in 1979. cializes in quantitative market Moore '76 write,"We finally bit 60 Elizabeth Baird Saenger The McAshans have two children. Cristina Abdella PhD earned an analysis. the bullet and married in San Diego July 3. Cathy is in her sec- The film writes, "two big events for me this Richard Nunn is vice-president MBA from Rutgers in May. She version of Larry Mc" fall: I began a new job, teaching lives in East Brunswick, New Jer- ond year of a psychiatric resi- MuirtrY MA's Terms of Endear- and treasurer for Criterion Group. dency. Tom is going to be engineer ment ethics to children at Fieldston The father of sey. continues to gamer favorable two, Dick has served on the nuclear submarine P067. reviews School, a most civilized and chal- and large crowds. The on the Rice Alumni Executive Linda Wald Gibson earned an Look us up if you're in the San lenging place. Also, I mastered Board and the Rice MEd in counseling and psychology Production has also received sev- Fund Council. Diego neighborhood." eral enough Hebrew to be called to from North Texas State University, Oscar nominations. Jeff Ray Gibson holds a senior Ron O'Gorman was featured in read from the Torah, making me and now lives in Temple, Texas, staff position with the Scott and an article on emergency room the oldest Rice alumna bat mitz- where she stays busy with civic White Clinic in Temple, Texas. He practice in the Houston Post in Jan- vah on record (at least this is what activities and her two children. 61 I suspect). Our sons approach col- earned an MD from Southwestern uary. He is a third-year resident at lege age. All is well." Elizabeth Medical School and is also an as- Ben Taub Hospital in Houston after sistant professor of anesthesiol- William C. Murphy, founder lives in Mamaroneck, New York. earning a BA and PhD from Rice and ogy. He has two children. and his MD from Baylor. mop,managing partner of Data- teaches at the Graduate James C. Marrow is a partner in 70 Thomas M. Jackson says, "Bar- School of Fine Arts of the Univer- charge of health care practice with William Goggin, his wife, ring nuclear war I'll receive my sity of Pennsylvania and is one of Ernst and Whinney in Houston. He Cheryl, and their son live in Hat- law degree this spring from St. the also has an MS in health care ad- tr foremost developers and dis- 65 tiesburg, Mississippi. The Gog- Mary's. With any luck at all be ibutors of computer software David Yawn is director of the ministration from Trinity Univer- gins write that "Bill teaches able to avoid returning to Houston city for Phillip D. Keener says he re- planning and urban design blood bank of Houston's Methodist sity in San Antonio and is active in clinical psychology at the Univer- to pursue my legal career, as San has h° cently left active naval service as Pplications in the United States. Hospital. A December edition of church work. sity of Southern Mississippi and Antonio remains the most pleasant tian LI° aHe a Supply Corps officer and has en- in Particularly interested in the the Texas Medical Center News in- Mauda Kelton Palmer is a they bought a house this summer. of the major Texas cities." rd for V dev tered the investment brokerage elopment of city planning as a cluded David's comments on the flight attendant with Eastern Air- Both have PhD's from Indiana Uni- business as an investment execu- Laurie Reynolds-Stickney I Crealj Profession and is active in several Baylor Repeat Auto Transfusion lines and lives in Newnan, Geor- versity, Bill in clinical psychology tive with Stifel, Nicolaus, and Co. writes, "After six cold winters in the '11 Professional system, which can reduce the de- gia, where she is a member of and Cheryl in art history Watt Penn. organizations at in Milwaukee. His wife and three Boston and marriage to a Yankee, I y. mand for fresh blood in some pa- several civic groups. She has (medieval)." demY Mervin kids are doing great in the Mid- got another bachelor's degree in Moore writes that he is tients by up to 50 percent. served as an escort for adoptive Meg Grant has been in Denver west, but he does still miss the third stream voice from the New ;fist0 vice- a Presid of Fouts Gomez John Boles, a Rice professor of children from Korea. Mauda has for seven years, with the last four trees of Houston and Rice. He says England Conservatory and con- and' h aore, Inc., one son. [70 re5e, Architects, and cur- history and editor of the Journal of spent in her own private psychiat- hello to all past Lovett and Ri- vinced said Yankee that moving rently serves journai El as president of Ballet Southern History, was featured in William E. "Mike" Ross, Ill, is ric practice. "There are currently chardson college friends and asks was the thing to do. Back to Texas, Paso, a professional dance cam- the October 2 Houston Post reflect- a chiropractor in Houston and three people from Rice that I know them to drop him a line, lament- in Denton where Kim is managing a prize' Posy in the U residence for 24 years at ing on the myths and mystique of serves as president of the Memo- in Denver," she writes. "I would ing, "There are very few Owls up computers and starting his PhD niversity of Texas at El Paso. .the South, his academic specialty. rial Lions Club. like to hear from Rice grads in this this far north." and I am looking for something to

SALLYPORT—FEBRUARY-MARCH 1984 21 sing. Stop by if in the neighbor- French Quarter. She writes,"When Sara K. Rex is a staff accountant hood or if producing an opera." moved to New Orleans four years in the Tax Division of Arthur An- William L. Shea has written The ago, I had no idea that the 'Univer- dersen's Houston office. IN MEMORIAM Virginia Militia in the Seventeenth sity of Bourbon Street' offered such Century, which was published by an enlightening curriculum; how- the LSU Press in October. ever, I have certainly earned an- Eleanor Bennett Pridgen '17 of Lionel Charles Badeaux, Jr. Watkin, Jr. '41, and step-mother other degree in sociology." She San Antonio on December 21, 1983. '30 of Houston on July 16, 1983. Mrs. William Ward Watkin, Clark Guest earned his PhD in 81 adds that alum "Lew Hancock engineering from Geor- Frank L. Gerlach '21 of Abilene Elizabeth Smith Hulcy '30 of Jean Bratten Jackson '39 of electrical just joined the CPA firm that does gia Tech in December. Faculty ad- on January 15, 1984. Cleburne, Texas, on November 10, Houston in May 1983. Survivors in- our accounting." clude brother John L. Bratten '42. visor on the project was Georgia James Lewis Caldwell McFad- 1983. Tech professor Thomas K. Gay- din '21 of Beaumont on January 6, Harold Ramsey Allison '32 of Karl D. Johnson '40 of Houston lord PhD '70. Clark has now ac- 1984. The son of the owner of the Houston on December 23, 1983. on December 14, 1983. cepted a faculty position at the land on which Spindletop was lo- George Robert "Doc" Gray Wiley Cooper Mohrman '41 of University of California, San 78 cated, he was a lawyer and Beau- PhD '32 of Bellaire, Texas, on No- Houston on December 19, 1983. Diego. Rick Keating and his wife had a mont civic leader. vember 15, 1983, Willard Ray Scruggs, Jr.'41 of baby girl last March. "We're still in Russell McRae Hunter'22 of Louis Hassell '33 of Houston on Houston on December 1, 1983. the St. Louis area; I'm working for Houston in November 1983. Survi- November 17, 1983. A former Rice Edward F. Zagst'43 of Wimber- Petrolite," Rick says. vors include daughter Katie Hunter 76 football star, he had served on the ley. Texas, on November 4, 1983. D. Michele Bonilla held a show Youngblood '58. Craig Beale MArch has joined Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl Selection Survivors include sister Sister of her fine jewelry and enamel Morris/Aubry Architects' medical Fanny Black Kay'23 of Edin- Committee, the Houston City Margaret(Anna Louise works in Houston this winter. Thomas facilities group. He has extensive burg, Texas, on October 12, 1983. Council, and as a regent of Pan Zags°'45. experience in planning and man- Debra Ng Jee has worked with Robert Craig Reed '24 of Hous- American University. He was also aging major hospital projects. the Comptroller of Currency as a active in Rice sports organizations Melvin H."Buddy" Gertz'45 Brian McGeever writes that he ton on December 1, 1983. Survivors national bank examiner since throughout his life. of Dallas on October 20, 1983. He Randy G. Piel has been ap- and his wife have moved to Aus- include brother Arthur Reed '28. graduation. "I was recently reas- was president and chairman of pointed sales manager of South- where he is an athletic trainer Frederick Ray Trammell'33 of Et signed from our Dallas district of- tin, Clarice McIntire Hook '25 of Boundary Oil and an original western Life Insurance Company's for the Austin Independent School San Antonio on November 7, 1983. Midland, Texas, on December 16, fice to our London office. This will owner of Guam Oil Refinery, new Houston II Agency, where he District. Brian earned an MS in 1983. Iii be a two- to three-year assign- Joseph G. Heyck '26 of Tampa, will be responsible for agent re-. sports medicine from Texas Tech. Danesi Mummert Wortham Margie Armstead Lewis'48 of cruitment, training, and supervi- ment," she says. Florida, on December 28, 1983. Sur- Houston on December 4, 1983. Sur- David Paul Bernstein is at Chi- vivors include sisters Frances '34 of Lufkin, Texas, on January tic sion. Randy, his wife, and two Jeanne Brufke has graduated 19, 1984. Survivors include hus- vivors include husband Carroll A. cago Medical School. Heyck '37 and Anne Heyck Cronin cic children live in Stafford, Texas. from medical school and is doing band Maxwell Wortham '30 and Lewis, Jr. '49. Gayle Greer spent the summer in '30, and son Thomas Heyck '60. Carol Garner writes, "I'm still in her internship at Doctor's Hospital sister Mordine Mummert Green '37. Angus G. Pearson MA '48 of S Graz, Austria, as principal violin- Sanders Martin '26 Crownpoint, New Mexico, and in Columbus, Ohio. Margaret Austin on December 4, 1983. He ist for the American Institute of of Houston on November 9, 1983. John Robert Greer'35 of Hous- have adapted quite well to the 60- Joanne Adams, an aide to Hous- Musical Studies. In October she ton on December 20, 1983. was a retired professor of com- za mile (one way)drive for groceries ton mayor Kathy Whitmire, has R. Clifford Teague '26 of Hous- puter sciences at UT. Survivors in- won an audition, and she is now a Raleigh R. White, III '35 of in or any other shopping. Am active been named the mayor's new di- ton in December 1984. clude wife Erna H. Pearson '46. member of the Portland, Maine, Temple, Texas, on January 1, 1984. to, in local environmental politics. I'm rector of communication. She has George C. Berly'27 of Houston Symphony Orchestra, and also He was a well known surgeon and David G. Gunn '49 of Weimar, clE also a HAM operator now, N5FYZ, served Whitmire as an assistant freelances in Boston, where she on December 22, 1983. former head of the Texas State Texas, on January 16, 1984. Survi- hearing since the mayor and would be interested in for cultural affairs lives. Pearl Hooker Dryden-Smith Hospital Board. The author of 100 vors include son Henry Gunn '74. th, from other Rice HAMs. I'd be took office in January 1982. Joanne '27 of Cincinnati, Ohio, on Octo- had th( Frank Williford has moved to medical publications, he Clarence L. Raver'49 of Hous- happy to show folks Navajo coun- has been active in Democratic ber 3, 1983. served as the president of numer- try if they wanted to visit." party politics for about ten years. Beaumont. ton on January 13, 1984. Albert George Laverty has Marian Spencer Johnson '28 of ous professional organizations. Wayne Hale and his wife an- Beverly McCollough Ellis '50 hi; moved to Evanston, Illinois. Covington, Louisiana. on May 20, William M. Harp '36 of Bay- eic nounce the birth of a daughter in 1983. town on December 27, 1983. of Houston on December 23, 1983. March 1983. "Am still working at Robert Judd and Cristle Collins Martin '28 of Al- William C. Harris'50 of Hilltop Po NASA on the space shuttle and lov- '83 married October 1 in Christ Alexander L. Ruth Holt La Verne '37 of Hous- 79 vin, Texas, on November 1, 1983. Lakes, Texas, on October 19, 1983. Ur ing it," says Wayne. Noel Shenoi says he married in Church Cathedral, Oxford, En- ton on December 22, 1983. gland. Bob is completing PhD work Survivors include son A.L. Martin, Derwood Anderson Lee '50 of Louis J. Marchiafava PhD was India in May, and he and his wife Edgar Nirken '37 of Houston on at Oxford and Cristle is a post- III '59 and grandson Houston Mar- Audubon, Pennsylvania, on July 4, ric a member of a December panel now live in Houston, where he en- November 7, 1983. The owner of Ed graduate student at King's Col- tin '87. 1983. Survivors include wife Betty discussion of oral history spon- joys his job as an operations engi- Nirken's University Men's and Po lege, London. Jake S. Radoff '28 of Houston on Joplin Lee '50. sored by North Harris County Com- neer with Texas Eastern. Boy's Shop, a popular shopping of Kathryn Vick says she is en- November 30, 1983. spot in the Village for Rice stu- Albert F. Sundermeyer'53 of munity College and the Houston Michael Cruess married in July sci Public Library/Houston Metropoli- and the couple has now moved gaged and will marry in June after Henry C. Sherrod, Sr.'28 of dents and alumni for decades, he Houston on December 24, 1983. tan Research Center. into a new home in southwest graduating with a masters in city Galveston on March 11, 1983. was also president of the Village Michael K. Russell '75 of Dallas thE and regional planning. After the Association. taç. Charles L. Newell has moved Austin. Sam E. Dunnam, Jr.'29 of on January 6, 1984. wedding she will live outside of Florence Rosemary Watkin from Long Beach, California, to Art Legate graduated from medi- Houston on November 2, 1983. He Damon H. Williams MA '77 of Philadelphia. Barrick '38 of Lubbock on Janu- Bellaire, Texas. He is a lieutenant cal school in 1982 and is now as- was an independent oil operator, Houston on September 5, 1983. sa/ in the Navy. signed to the 82nd Airborne Joel Lynn Brezeale has moved active in the Houston oil business ary 18, 1984. The daughter of Wil- to Chelmsford, Massachusetts, liam Ward Watkin, founder of Correction: Albert Crutchfield qu. David Au is now living in Riyadh, Division in Ft. Bragg, North Caro- for over 50 years. Survivors include lina. Art was nominated for three and works for Apollo Computer as son Samuel E. Dunnam, IV '59. Rice's School of Architecture, she Moore '43 was erroneously listed in Saudi Arabia. a software engineer in the re- was active for many years in the the "In Memoriam" section of the medals, including a Bronze Star, Farnsworth Moore'29 search and development group. Jessie Lubbock Theatre Center. Survivors last SALLYPORT According to his as a result of his involvement in on July 7, 1983. of c the Grenada invasion last fall. He include husband Nolan E. Barrick brother, Pat H. Moore '52, Albert Henry J. Studney '29 of Hous- '35, sister Ray Watkin Hoagland is alive and well in Raleigh, ale 77 has been selected for a residency tha in urology in San Antonio next ton on November 3, 1983. '36, brother Gen. William Ward North Carolina, year. 82 gei August Holverson is at Leroy Williams, II, was a candi- Jon the Cambridge working on a PhD in date for a position on the Houston September on( City Council in last fall's election, social anthropology. In he led an expedition to Borneo and ThE backed by Lyndon LaRouche's Na- he was also elected president of Clre tional Democratic Policy Commit- 1444441 Cambridge University Gradu- tee. Williams, a design engineer the C1r1( ate Union. and assistant minister in Houston, also recently addressed the La- Nancy Rapoport is one of 29 stu- Enjoy keeping up with friends and classmates in the Classnotes section? Why not re- Qgc Porte Community Civic Club. He is dents in her second-year class at married and the father atone. Stanford Law School to be admit- turn the favor-drop us a line and a (preferably black and white) photo at the Asso- baC ted to membership in the Law Re- Pat Harkins has a busy spring ciation of Rice Alumni, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, Texas 77251. wh: view. Nancy gained the honor after planned. She writes, "In May I will casr competitive work- receive my MS in mechanical engi- completing a O Married? Li New Job? Ei New Baby? eel.) shop. "I would love to hear from neering, specializing in biomedi- Trip? 1:1 See a Classmate? the area," she adds. Promoted? Take a ner James S. Turley has been named cal engineering, from MIT. Then in people in U Moved? D Back in School? D Other? audit manager of the Privately June I will marry Jeff Stanets '80 Laird A. Parker has a new job Owned Business Group of the St. and move to Austin or San Anto- with General Dynamics Ft. Worth cies as a software engineer in the F-16 tion Louis office of Ernst & Whinney, nio, After 4 years of letters, phone Send us details: the third largest accounting firm in calls, and visits between Boston Flight Simulator Laboratory. Pos the United States. Jim has been and Texas, we finally made it!" troc with the firm since 1978. Walter D. Murphy, Jr., has be- our J. Martin Stewart graduated come an associate in the firm of from med school at the University William T. Cannady & Associates 83 entE of Texas in Houston in June and in Houston as a project architect on started his residency in radiology residential, institutional, and com- forn at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, mercial buildings. In the past he fifth Minnesota, in July. He recently re- worked as project architect for ceived both his Texas state engi- Paolo Riani Architects in Florence, nott neering license and medical Italy. Att, license. Jerri Reynolds Nelson is a fel- hist( low at the Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Fogg Art 80 8Y ti Museum, Harvard University, John W.Joyce married in Sep- cola] where she is working on an MA in tember. John earned an MBA in arra art history and diploma in art con- management information systems Name lug servation from NYU. She writes, "I from the University of Dallas and Viso am looking forward to having more works as a consultant for Price Wa- Class College__ degrees than my husband, Rich- terhouse in Dallas. CIS ti ard Nelson BS 76, MME 77." Pamela D. Rogers is a staff con- Amr Ejel El-Kouatli lives in Address( New?) tuna Saudi Arabia. Debbie Had jes was chosen by sultant in the Information Consult- cour Peter M. Ryder PhD is a staff the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of ing Division of Arthur Andersen's stud North and South America to repre- Houston office. consultant in the Information Con- sent the youth of her church at the Cynthia Belle Somervill mar- sulting Division of Arthur Ander- theit World Fellowship of Orthodox ried a law school classmate in sen's Houston office. fcIsh Youth Organizations. The appoint- March, graduated from UT Law Chris Shoppa married Laura E. Reporters Needed Ng) ment included a trip to Crete for School in May, and moved to At- Wright'84 in August at First Class wou the August event. Debbie is now lanta in June. She writes, "I passed Baptist Church in Houston. Chris The alumni association is looking for class reporters to compile news of classmates for sciet works at Texas Commerce Bank an amateur gerontologist, instead the Georgia bar exam and am now SALLYPORT on a regular basis. If you have a little free time, are interested in being ii encE of a full-time professional, and employed as an attorney with while Laura completes her final owns a Creole gourmet shop and a Ragsdale, Beals, Hooper & year at Rice. The couple enjoyed a the know, and want to help out, drop a line to SALLYPORT and tell us your name, Pets, graphics gallery in New Orleans's Seigler." Carribean cruise honeymoon. address, and class year. Thanks! ED

22 SALLYPORT-FEBRUARY-MARCH 1984 What Is the Relation between Alumni and the University? BY JOSEPH F. REILLY, JR.'48 Joseph F. Reilly, Jr. '48 is president of the Association of Rice Alumni. Fascinating question, eh? I'm sure there abreast of all sides of the major issues on are some who say, "Does anybody really campus, including the rationale for the fi- care? After all, the resolution of this ques- nal decision. Some say the alumni should of tion really isn't going to change the course not be needlessly "stirred up," or "we have of too many lives or the outcome of many enough factions in this argument already." Core Curriculum: Cause or Cure major decisions." The alumni are intelligent, experienced, I care and I care a lot. I work for Rice and, in general, supportive. They are for the New Barbarians? through the alumni association, and if that good additions to most debates. association is to be effective in its efforts on Some assess the cost and difficulty of BY behalf of the university, and the members communicating with the alumni in terms of EWA M. THOMPSON of the association are to accomplish some- what such communication will bring in thing and be proud of it, then the question contributions to the Annual Fund Drive. I Ewa Thompson is a professor in the Department of German and Russian. of the relationship between the alumni as- don't think that's the right argument. The In recent years a great deal of time has Insofar as current Rice courses are re- sociation and the university needs to be argument as I see it is what will such com- been spent discussing university educa- lated to a student's future profession as an answered clearly and directly. munication yield in overall alumni support tion. The debate has often centered on the engineer, scientist, or physician, they per- It's not an easy question to answer. I've and contribution to the university. Knowl- declining ability of universities to impart to form their tasks as well as ever, and that thought about it a lot. Some background: edge of what is going on at Rice often students fundamental knowledge of the means very well indeed. But the civilizing There are four components to the uni- leads to involvement and support. I would events, ideas, and values of Western civili- aspect of our undergraduate curriculum is versity community: students, faculty, ad- say there is a strong correlation between zation. Instead, universities seem to instill no longer satisfactory. This decline in core ministration, and alumni. Each has a knowledge, involvement, and contribu- in students a profoundly negative attitude education at Rice is not due to a diminu- mission or a purpose that is usually rather tions. Rice has a lot to be proud of, but the toward Western culture. Parallel to these tion in the proportion of courses that stu- well understood for the first three, but is message is not being effectively presented developments was a precipitous drop in dents must take outside their majors; the not so clear for the alumni component. to its largest group of friends—the alumni. the 1970s of enrollment in those courses ratio has actually increased. Nor is it due The alumni are organized through the Whatever the mechanism, the alumni that used to be carriers of the civilizing to a decrease in the number of humanities Association of Rice Alumni. This associa- need to be better informed in order to be- Mission of a university: surveys of world courses at the university; on the contrary, tion is financially supported by the univer- come more involved. 0 history, the Great Books courses, and for- they have multiplied. It is due to a dra- sity, which says a lot about the I think the alumni should become in- 3. eign language courses. The solution pro- matic drop in the "basic fare" courses that relationship. Rice does support its alumni volved, through their association, in the top Posed by many has been to reintroduce at have almost faded out of existence owing activities. According to the association's major issues of the day. Managing an im- 83. universities a core curriculum. to declining enrollments, while "dessert" constitution, "The purpose of the Associa- portant university is a tough job, requiring of When Rice alumni speak of a core cur- courses have done rather well. For in- tion of Rice Alumni is to provide the means all the resources of the university commu- 4, riculum, stance, enrollment in of a continuing relationship between the nity. As Rice looks at the questions of size, .ty they generally have in mind the the survey of Euro- Pre-1970 Rice curriculum, which was a mix pean history (History 101-102) declined university and its former students. To help curriculum, emphasis on undergraduate of achieve this purpose, the association or graduate education, faculty recruiting of courses in history, languages, and the from 663 in 1969 to 63 in 1982. sciences serving to introduce a student to So I am advocating that this university sponsors distinguished programs meant to and retention, student recruiting, funds, Ilas the basic facts and ideas of his or her heri- consider reintroducing a mix of core stimulate intellectual and social participa- physical plant maintenance, and the tage. I believe this core served the civiliz- courses in history, the Great Books, foreign tion of all members of the association and maintenance of overall excellence, the of ing mission of the university well and was languages, and the sciences. to enable them to contribute to and share alumni should be included. They often suPerior to the present "distribution re- Among the obstacles to such a core, in the progress of the university. In addi- are, on an individual basis. But Fin talking quirements." With some updating, it could two important ones stand out. The first is tion, the association will endeavor to foster about recognition of the Association of din assume this civilizing function again. the much overlooked fact that courses that deeper concern among its members for the Rice Alumni as a vehicle for formal inclu- Le The reasons for reintroducing this kind would benefit students most are those that welfare of the university, to strengthen the sion of the alumni in university affairs. of understanding be- Lert curriculum seem compelling enough to many professors least like to teach. It is not bond of sympathetic As substantive issues arise, the roe. I am continually shocked by the fact easy to teach, year after year, a chronolog- tween the university and the community, alumni association should be contacted for that so many Rice seniors, highly intelli- ical survey of world history or a Great to encourage gifts, to attract outstanding its views and the participation of its mem- gent and professionally prepared though Books course that stresses reading and students and faculty, and to contribute to- bers in whatever deliberative body is be- they be, are ignorant of the great ideas writing. For many faculty members, it is ward maintaining Rice in keeping with the ing assembled. This is the answer to the and events that have formed our culture. much more rewarding to teach students ideals and aims of the founder." question of the relationship between the They have learned to criticize it, but they something "new," something that "has This is a good statement, which also alumni association and the university. are unfamiliar with its roots and.its slow never been taught before"; to offer them says a lot about the relationship. The Once this spirit and policy are in place, de- and laborious rise over the millenia. snippets of various texts and subject them alumni do support their university. But tails of the relationship can follow. Universities used to provide a barrier to the interpretation of the day. However, how do the alumni and the university, as Faculty, students, and administration ai_gainst such ignorance. They supplied a ingenious ideology-based anthologies of separate entities, work together? Is the may come and go, but the alumni remain. u°0Y of cohesive ideas and values without history and literature make for an exciting alumni association an arm of the Rice ad- They are the "forever" component of the Which a society could hardly survive. This course description but do not provide a ministration? Most alumni are uncomforta- Rice community. Therefore they should be asPect of university life has declined in re- broad base of common ideas and values ble with that concept. There is also the thoughtful in perceiving the needs of the cent years. I think it should come to promi- that a core course should possess. view that since the association is a sepa- university and responsive in meeting nence once again. Another related danger in the adop- rate Texas corporation, it should stand them. They should seek to understand Karl Popper once remarked that if you tion of a core is the possibility that those in apart from the university and act indepen- what is best for the university and support destroy a tradition, you destroy a civiliza- authority might institute a kind of anti- dently of it. But this is difficult to maintain, those things. This precludes blind or emo- n°n• A cavalier neglect of the study (as op- core, i.e., a core that is farther removed considering the purpose paragraph of the tional adherence to poorly conceived cam- posed to reinterpretation) of Western from the mainstream liberal arts program constitution and the financial support re- paigns for change, regardless of from tradition seems to me to be a fatal flaw of than even the present distribution require- ceived from the university. which segment of the university commu- our times. When high school graduates ments. The advocates of fundamental The relationship as perceived by most nity they arise. The alumni must be con- enter a university, they are generally un- change in our society welcome the idea of alumni is that the alumni should support structive, competent, and effective in what aware of the ideas and actions that trans- such a "core" because they feel it could be the university in many ways, while main- they do on behalf of the university. f°rrned the European barbarians of the used as a means of achieving that change. taining the freedom to critique university The university as represented by its lith and sixth centuries into the civilized They say that our culture is vastly unsatis- policies and procedures as they see fit. It is administration, on the other hand, ought n,ations of modern Europe and later of factory and in order to change it, new understood that any such critique must be to recognize this constructiveness, compe- Pune/Ica. ways of thinking about it have to be taught done thoughtfully, temperately, and even- tency, and effectiveness and ensure that h. To impart such knowledge, courses in to undergraduates. Our culture has to be handedly, with great respect for those on the largest segment of the university com- bisi°rY and the Great Books are essential. reinterpreted by those intellectuals who the other side of the argument. It is also munity is kept informed and involved in all uY that I do not mean nonchronological understand our hidden ills, and these rein- understood that any critique must be major policy decisions through the alum- courses where snippets of great texts are terpretations have to be passed on to un- based on a good understanding of the ni's elected representatives, the Executive rranged in an order that suits the grind- dergraduates in a hurry. available facts. Board of the Association of Rice Alumni. In `ng of some professional ax. Rather, I en- The pre-1970s core was essentially For those of us who work for the uni- many ways the alumni are the university. visage core courses in history that will act nonideological. Events and ideas were versity regularly, it is easy to assume that They serve as its trustees, governors, ad- as the bearers of memory—political, cul- presented in a more or less chronological others know all that we do. It's not so. It's ministrators, and faculty. They contribute tural, and ethical. In the Great Books order. A student was free to put his own in- surprising how little the alumni know time, energy, money, ideas, and support. courses, I would likewise prefer to allow terpretation op the positive and negative about student life, the curriculum, admin- Because of these contributions, the alumni !udents to encpunter the great texts on aspects of our civilization. A completely istrative policies, research programs, the are a major resource. ‘`neir own, without the barrier of some new "modem" core at Rice would quite use of funds, planning for the future, etc. The alumni are a part of the univer- fashionable methodology that a teacher possibly be highly ideological. We have It's hard to relate to an institution if you sity, a resource for the university, and good rnight wish to offer. This essential core already witnessed the highly corrosive ef- don't know what it is up to. friends of the university. Therefore the rela- Would then be accompanied by such basic fects of such a "core" in many universities lithe alumni are to be informed, a tionship between the alumni and the uni- science courses as designated by the sci- during the 1960s and 1970s. Hopefully, Rice commitment must first be made. Then the versity needs to be understood, respected, nce faculty, and by a requirement of com- will not find it necessary to repeat the mis- commitment must be supported by the re- and nurtured. We're all working together Ipetency in a foreign language. takes of others. C.)- quired resources to keep the alumni and we all want to be successful.

SALLYPORT—FEBRUARY-MARCH 1984 23 Mar. 13 Mar.8-10 Tokyo String Quartet SWC Tournament, Hofheinz Pavilion Rafael Hillyer, viola; with Houston Friends of Music Mar. 15 Faculty Recital Mary Norris Mar. 16 Kathi Kurtzman From the Great Revival to Billy N 0 T ICE Mar. 19 Graham Shepherd Symphony Orchestra John Boles history CONTINUING STUDIES Mar.21 The Office of Continuing Studies and Spe- Mar.27 Chinese Buddhism and the "Great SYZYGY cial Programs offers courses in a variety of Jan DeGaetani, Gilbert Kalish popular and academic subjects, plus for- Persecution" of 841-45 A.D. eign language instruction, throughout the Richard Smith, history Mar.28 year. Call 520-6022 for information. Shepherd Symphony Orchestra BASEBALL EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT Mar.30 Mar.3 Texas Lutheran The Jones School offers management Shepherd Symphony and HMTA Mar.4 Stephen F. Austin courses to the community throughout the Concerto Contest Winners year. For details contact the Office of Exec- With Houston Music Teachers Association Mar.9 a Mary's utive Development. Apr. 12 Mar. 10 a Mary's Rice Chorale Mar. 11 Baylor A R T St. Paul's Methodist Church Apr. 16 Mar. 17 Houston (2) FARISH GALLERY Shepherd Symphony Strings Mar. 18 Houston Through Mar. 18 Mar.24 at Arkansas World's Columbian Exposition, TR A VEL Chicago, 1893 Mar.25 at Arkansas For information of alumni travel programs Photographs by C. D. Arnold from the DILEMMAS OF THE ARMS RACE Mar.28 Dallas Baptist (2) Avery Library contact the Alumni Office, (713) 527-4057. Mar.6 May 1984 Mar.31 Texas Tech (2) The Evolution of U.S. Nuclear Spain and Portugal Texas Tech Strategy Apr. 1 15 days concentrating on Spanish art, ar- Richard J. Stoll, political science chitecture, and countryside. $2150. Apr.4 at Lamar Mar. 13 June 1984 Apr.6 at Baylor Soviet Perceptions of the Current Austria and Oberammergau Apr.7 at Baylor Impasse 14 days in Austria, including the 350th an- Joseph L. Nogee, director of the UH Rus- nual performance of the Passion Play in Apr. 11 Lamar sian Studies Program Oberammergau. $2995. Apr. 14 TCU Mar.20 June 1984 TCU The Arms Race in the Politics of Scandinavia by Sea Apr. 15 Election Year 1984 Denmark, Sweden, and Norway aboard Apr. 18 New York Tech David W. Brady, political science the M.S. Lindblad Polaris. 10 days. $2950- $4200(depending on cabin choice). Apr.20 Texas(2) Mar.27 Texas Retrospect and Prospect: On Apr.21 National Security in the Nuclear Apr.24 at _am Houston State Age Stephen L. Klinebera. sociology Apr.27 at Texas A&M SEWALL GALLERY RICE DESIGN ALLIANCE Apr.28 at Texas A&M Through Mar. 17 Tickets to the lectures, which are held in Out of the Forties association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Photographs of Texas from the Standard are $6 general, $4 for RDA or MFA mem- Oil Collection bers. and $2 for students with identifica- Mar.28 -Apr. 22 tion. Lectures are at 8:00 PM in the RICE PLAYERS museum's Brown Auditorium. Tickets to Rice Players productions are $6 The New Orleans Post-Columbian ($4 for students). Showtime is 8:00 PM. in Fair 1984 THE AMERICAN CITYSCAPE: Hamman Hall. For information call NEW DIRECTIONS IN CIVIC ART 527-4040. Mar.7 L EC TUR E Apr.9-14 Monuments for Our Time New play to be announced Barbara Rose PRESIDENT'S LECTURE Mar. 14 Sept.-Oct. 1984 BAKER SHAKESPEARE Mar.22 Artful Lodging South Africa Mar.27-31 Biology and Culture Hugh Hardy The cities, the countryside, and the wild- Measure for Measure Edward 0. Wilson, author of Sociobiology: life, with an optional extension to Victoria Baker Commons, 8:00 PM. tile New Synthesis Mar.21 Falls. The Dallas Fine Arts District ALUMNI INSTITUTE Philip Seib The Rice Alumni Institute is sponsoring two SPOR T lecture series on Tuesday nights this spring Mar.28 in Sewall Hall 301. For ticket information, New Orleans's Post-Columbian Fair MEN'S BASKETBALL contact the Alumni Office. R. Allen Eskew Mar.3 Baylor (3:10 PM.) CRITICAL MOMENTS IN RELIGIOUS HISTORY (7:15 PM ) MUSIC Mar.6 SWC First Round Mar.6 Mar.9 are The Destruction of the Temple and Unless otherwise noted performances SWC Quarterfinals, the Summit the Rise of Judaism at 8:00 PM. in Hamman Hall. *Denotes Baruch Brody, philosophy admission charge. For more information Mar. 10 call 527-4933. SWC Semifinals, the Summit Mar. 13 Mar. 11 The Transformation of Mar. 1 WIESS TABLETOP THEATRE Fundamentalism between the Shepherd Singers SWC Finals, the Summit World Wars Rice Memorial Chapel Mar.21-24 William Martin, sociology WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Hello, Hamlet! Mar. 11 By George Greamas '70, at 8:00 Pm. fri Baylor Mar.20 Tokyo String Quartet* Mar.3 Wiess College. For reservations call 527- The Beginning of the Bible Belt: With Houston Friends of Music Mar.5 at UT San Antonio 8101, ext. 2308.

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