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12 The Insatiable Student

Started 25 years ago as a selection of engineering refresher courses, Continuing Studies now boasts the largest enrollment in non-credit humanities courses in Texas. Now,as then, the only admission requirement is a passion for learning. This year, 10,000 Houstonians are expected to sign up. by Maggi Stewart

18 Writing Out the War

The author of the best-selling World War II novel Von Ryan's Express, which was turned into a movie starring Frank Sinatra, has written his 16th book. David Westheimer returns to his service days in Sitting It Out, a compelling memoir chronicling the time he spent in prison- war camps in Italy and Germany. by David D. Medina

23 Owl Things Considered

Oh,sweet raptors of bliss! Owl is not lost if you can't place these pictured birds in their proper settings. Feathermore, puns are intended to help in this quizzical look at architectural owls. by Maggi Stewart

26 Out of the Red

Poland was the first Eastern European country to shed the economic safety-net of communism and venture into the free market. Jacek Koronacki of the Polish Institute of Computer Science is working with Rice statistician James Thompson, an expert in quality control, to ease Poland's painful transformation. by Barbara Burgower Hordern

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April • May '92 • 1 DEPARTMENTS

4 Letters

5 Through the Sallyport Rice might need to hang out a shingle for a new campus department—an agency for television game show contestants.

6 News Forbes names the Jones of School of Administration one of the top-10 values for MBAs; the Athletic Review Committee releases its report; the National Academy of Engineering inducts math sciences professor Richard Tapia; a vice president for research and information technology is appointed; the acting dean of architecture dies; and more.

9 Academia After a nationwide search, the Shepherd School of Music has commissioned the perfect organ; at the Rice Institute for Policy Analysis, researchers are answering 911's call for help. Page 10

10 Viewpoints Beer-Bike: Spokespersons debate the merits of the free-wheeling good old days versus the modern fast track.

30 Books, Etc. Alumnus Patrick Nicholson writes on William Ward Watkins; alumnus George Dawson tells how to get a business loan; and alumna Elizabeth Moon publishes her latest science-fiction novel.

31 Students Running back Man Green's singing career alternates practice on the football field with practice in the rehearsal room.

32 Sports Wayne Graham, the Rice Owls new baseball coach, combines love and discipline into a winning philosophy.

33 Sally Forth Professor of Slavic Studies Ewa Thompson provides a guided tour down the waterways of Russia.

34 Gifts and Giving Alumni remember Radoslav Tsanoff through several endowments, establish a memorial fund for Konstantin Kolenda and support theater through the Friends of Rice Players.

36 Alumni Gazette A San Francisco reception attracts Bay Area alumni; the literary societies meet for a reunion luncheon; Linda Cherrington volunteers on the alumni board; and the Rice Engineering Alumni announce their spring barbecue.

38 Classnotes Page 33

48 Yesteryear Ten-year retrospectives from the history of Rice.

49 Calendar Upcoming events on the Rice campus.

2 • Sallyport FOREWORD

SAMPORI Continuing Excellence At the opening ofthe Rice Institute, APRILMAY 1992, VOL.a NO.5 founding president Edgar Odell ...... Lovett declared the new university Published by the Office of External Affairs ...... would reach out to the citizens of Houston. Executive Director of News & Publications, scope was ambitious. Michael Benyhill Lovett's He wanted Rice to stimulate Consulting Editor, Gabrielle Cosgriff Houston's college graduates and An Director, Jeff Cox Assistant Editor, Deborah Schmidt '89 school teachers, "to tempt business and professional workers to at least Editorial Staff: Keith Maids, David D. Medina occasional excursions into the aca- 83 and Maggi Stewart, staff writers; Amy Keener '92, Kristen Pauley '93 and Tom Sims demic atmosphere." He wanted 92, student writers. "to bring all the people of the city Design Staff: Michael Sawyers, seniorgraphic and community into more intimate designer; Tommy LaVergne, photographer; touch with the academic life of the Christine Minuto,graphic designer; Margaret university, and to carry the influ- Edgar OdeU Lovett Pharr '94, photographic assistant...... ence of that life directly to many homes not represented on the rolls and intellectually vibrant. The Rice University Board of Governors Trustee:. Charles W. Duncan Jr., chair, of its undergraduate or postgradu- In the Woodson Archives of Josephine E. Abercrombie, vice chair, D. Kent ate students..." Fondren Library, librarian Nancy Anderson, J. Evans Attwell, John L. Cox, Bur- The task would be accomplished Boothe, a 1952 Rice graduate, re- fl I. McMurtry, Jack T. Trotter; Term Mem- bers: J.D. Bucky Allshouse, E. William Barnett, by a "regular series of public cently laid out a series of postcards James W. Glanville, William P. Hobby, lectures...offered without matricu- that Rice used to send out for these George R. Miner, James L. Pate, Louisa Stude Sarofim, Thomas D. Smith, Selby W. Sullivan. lation fee or other form of admis- talks. Some of the cards had print- Alumni Governors: Carolyn Douglas Devine, sion requirement. These perfor- ing orders for 1,400 copies at- T. Robert "Bob" Jones, Albert N. Kidd, mances are to be authoritative in tached, not a bad mailing list con- G. Walter McReynolds. character, but as non-technical and sidering that Houston only Administrative Officers P popular in treatment as their sub- measured about 100,000 souls. resident, George Rupp; Provost, Neal Lane; Vice President for External Affairs, Frank B. jects permit. From the domains of Some of the lectures would fit kan; Vice President for Finance and literature, history, science, art, phi- perfectly into today's Continuing A Currie; Vice Pdtninistration, Dean W. will For example, in resident for Ronald F. losophy and politics, subjects Studies program. S Student Affairs, tebbings; Vice President for Graduate Studies, be chosen of current interest as 1924, Rice offered a lecture on Research and T Information Systems, TBA; well as those of assured and perma- psychoanalysis and literary criti- reasurer, Scott W. Wise. nent value." cism. A year later the famous Yport Editorial Board By the time Lovett published his French composer and teacher, JIifl Asker '74, John Boles '65, Ryn Bowers '64, intention in The Book ofthe Open- Nadia Boulanger, offered lectures Raul Burka Burrus '57, Linda Crist 67, '63, Sidney Mat), McIntire Ph.D.'75, Bill Merriman ing, he could point to a series of on Debussy, Stravinsky and mod- \-'1, Ronny Wells '62. Ex officio: Frank B. Ryan lectures by Rice professors in the ern music. There were lectures on '58,Vice President for External Affairs; George Miner 'SO, President-elect, Association of Rice academic year 1914-15 that were European history, the geology of AjA _urnni; Dirk Valk, President, Graduate Student drawing from 30 to 500 visitors to Texas, stellar astronomy and "cre- ^ss ociation; Mitra Miller '92, President, Rice the campus. English professor ative" chemistry, as well as a bo- Student Association. Stockton Axson's lectures on tanical trip through Brazil. Some of Sall Von-(USPS 412950) is published bi- Charles Dickens, William the lectures were offered off-cam- '''°uthly by the Office of External Affairs of Rice University and is sent to all university Thackeray, George Eliot, Matthew pus because Rice lacked a large altuuni, parents of students and friends. Edito- Arnold and Walt Whitman proved enough lecture hall. rial Offices: for News & Publications, Allen Center so popular that extra street cars had Now, Continuing Studies is Business Activities, Rice University, 6100 S. ,'11911 1 St., Houston, TX 77005. Mailing address: to be added to the South Main overflowing with students studying Box 1892, Houston,TX 77251. Rice Uni- trolley line. languages, politics, the arts, busi- vrsity is an Opportunity/Affirmative Ac- tion Equal Institution. Some 80 years later, the crowded ness, writing and much more. v streetcars have been replaced with Lovett would be proud, I think, of oluntary Sallyport av subscriptions to are crowded parking lots, but the story how Rice is continuing a tradition ailable for a $15 suggested contribution. is much the same. Continuing he set in motion. nst rnaster: Send address changes to Sallyport, Studies, as our cover story shows, t?ffice of News & Publications, Rice University, .0. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251. draws just the kind of people —Michael Berryhill Lovett wanted to attract to Rice Executive Director, (°1992 Rice University with courses that are both practical News Publications

April • May '92 • 3 LETTERS

In Defense of a simultaneously embraced and lege see as master a gay person and Common Heritage epitomized qualities of goodness, his/her partner? An unmarried kindness, fairness, gentleness and couple? A single parent? Some- Your article on "multiculturalism" compassion. where amidst your faculty must was timely, but skirted the biggest Konnie, as he was affectionately lurk an alternative lifestyle. danger of this movement. For known, never, despite his many Thanks in part to George Rupp's 200 years there has been a commitments, put off the needs of calm sanity, a more multicultural social compact to which gen- others. He was never too busy to education seems likely to win its erations ofimmigrants, listen, to encourage, to support or way into the curriculum. Why up- having voluntarily left their to suggest and was a strong be- date and expand educational pa- homelands, have subscribed. liever in cultivating and encourag- rameters and not social ones? The This compact has been based ing minds to grow, develop and college system is too important a on a common history, discover and never disparaged, dis- facet of Rice to be left wallowing in heritage and language. Thus, couraged or deprecated the ideas the Good Old Days. as a son of Ukrainian and or talents of others... German immigrants, I lay no There were so many works which Jonathan Reeder '84 national claim to Rousseau, inspired Konnie and especially Amsterdam, The Netherlands Locke or Plato, but I now, I reflect on his "Philosophy acknowledge their in Literature" course and subse- significance in America's de- quent book of the same title, Davies: A Devoted Teacher velopment. Conversely, I claim the wherein he selected one of his favorite passages from Rainer Maria heritage of Goethe, Shevchenko Frank Ryan's foreword in the re- and Mykhailo Hrushevsky, but I Rilke's Duino Elegies, which addresses the transitory nature of hu- cent Sallyport brought back fond concede their lesser relevance to memories of Joe Davies. I remem- the American experience. I speak man existence: "We live our lives, forever taking leave..." ber many Ukrainian and German, but En- examples of glish is the national language. I am writing this letter to you posthumously, Konnie, and for Professor Now, various groups are out to Davies' destroy this structure. They de- myself as well, as I know that the only solace I can find, at this time, dedication mand the government promote a to learning. separate heritage for each, resulting is to focus on the life you created for yourself and the impact your A personal in an artificial historical reduction- one was ism (viz. "women's studies"), as if life has made on so many others, like myself. when he all these groups lived in separate took this universes. In the case of blacks, we Joseph Davies academically have seen versions of"Afrocentric" Regina Pappas Seale '79 Houston green history that border on fiction. student-athlete under his wing and Most perniciously, some groups, made him beekeeper of The Rice notably many Hispanics, dispute Does Father Still Institute. Stimulating conversations the primacy of English, and they Know Best? with a devoted teacher and have succeeded in elevating Span- intriguing work with the bees were ish to quasi-official status (checked The December 1991 Sallyport the abundant rewards. In the your ballot lately?)... shows Rice University at its di- process, Dr. Davies nurtured a The legitimate contributions of chotomous best: a liberal-minded sustaining interest in life science. all sectors of society to America's community prepared to intelli- Whether a student is academically development must be recognized, gently tackle "multi-culturalism" in mature or naive but capable, Rice, but within the framework of a education, while stodgily perpetu- then and now, was and is a special common heritage... ating the college master system de- place for learning. vised generations ago. Stephen Sokolyk '84 The university—or the colleges Dale W. Spence '56 Edina, Minn. themselves—seem reluctant to up- Houston date the "Father Knows Best" syn- drome of choosing masters, as Sallyport welcomes your comments. A Tribute to Kolenda though that nuclear-family ideal is Please write to: Sallyport, Office of still as sought after as it was in News and Publications, Rice Univer- I, we, mourn the loss of Konstantin 1956. Lovett College is now under sity, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, TX Kolenda. He was the consummate the competent leadership of an un- 77251. Letters are subject to editing scholar-educator-philosopher who married woman—when will a col- for length and style.

4 • Sallyport THROUGH•THE• S ALL YPOR T

The Television Personalities seconds and eight pull-ups in 30 100 postcards for the drawing. Clearinghouse seconds. But those tests of athletic The written test consisted of 50 prowess, chickenfeed for Traylor, questions. Monitored by video "The screens around the room, partici- The William Marsh Rice Talent eliminated many others. pushups knocked out so many of pants were given seven seconds to Agency: It does have a certain ring. answer each question. look into it, since the contestants," she says, "we Maybe we should "They told us that Houstonians all over the didn't have to do the pull-ups." alumni are popping up scored extremely well on the boob engaged in Traylor especially relished the tube, and not just written test, but they chose Unless you cheers of the Rice faction that cerebral pursuits. only 15. When my name wasn't and team speckled the Summit crowd of consider game shows one of the first called, I didn't think combat cerebral, of course. approximately 12,000. "It felt great to be in front of all I had made it," Walker says. those people and to hear them In the next round of cuts, a chanting 'Let's go Rice!'"she says. mock game show, the group The Gladiatrix shrank from 15 to six. Contestants are given four to six Beyond the hedges, 1991 graduate weeks' notification prior to the Cherrise Traylor has realized the show's taping. Walker paid for her world presents its own challenges. ticket to California herself. Out there, she's strapped with tests In Los Angeles, the contestants of ability named The Assault, The practiced in Wall, Powerball, Atlasphere,Joust another mock and The Eliminator. It's enough to show. They intimidate the most prepared alum. walked around But Traylor, a former varsity the stage, stood athlete, vanquished every adversary behind the podiums and the American Gladiators experimented with the ringers. unleashed in the Walker arrived on the Houston Summit "Jeopardy" set November 13. The January 26. Traylor show is filmed just two times a out-threw, out-ran, week, five times a day. Walker overpowered, out-muscled and played in the fourth game of the generally demolished the female day and made it into Final gladiators Ice, Blaze, Jazz, Jeopardy, where she bet $701 of Diamond and Zapp, as well as five her $7,300 winnings. by T Lewis Other Houston participants. Illustration Her defeat came straight from For her labors, she won a trip to the pages of history. In the U.S. the May nationals in Atlantic City, Category:"Jeopardy" President category, the question Where she will compete against the Fanatics for $100 read,"One of four U.S. presidents is 200 other finalists chosen on the who never had a vice president." shows seven-month U.S. tour. Nancy Ellen Walker lost to a Los answers c "One of the correct Forty-eight contestants will be Angeles cop in the final round of flashed before my eyes," she says, chosen for the upcoming season. the "Jeopardy" show that aired "but in the end I hurriedly wrote , "Depending on how I do in At- February 6. down an answer that I knew was 'antic City, there is a chance I'll be "I had the highest score going incorrect." Walker wrote Lyndon on national TV," Traylor says. into the final round, but I lost it in B. Johnson. Traylor, who played volleyball Final Jeopardy," says the 1979 grad. As a consolation prize, she won a 'Cr first two years at Rice and In "Jeopardy," a daytime TV computerized stair stepper. s'witched to track her last two, is game show, contestants are given The Final Jeopardy question had currently training for the U.S. the answers to questions in certain 56 four possible correct answers. If °IYmpic track team. With her pro- categories. They score points by you guessed that Presidents Millard -on f essional agility, speed and upper providing the questions. Fillmore, Andrew Jackson, Chester body strength, she breezed The real fun, she says, came in Arthur or John Tyler never had a through the tryouts held two going through the tryouts. vice president, maybe you should weelcs before competition. "Jeopardy" had allotted space for r- the start stocking up on postcards for In the women's elimination, the 300 randomly selected Houstonians the next "Jeopardy" drawing. 1,600 gladiators-to-be were given to take the written test last July. —Kristen Pauley three tests: 30 push-ups in a min- The Houston copyright lawyer took ute, the 40-yard dash in under 5.5 the search seriously: She mailed in

April • May '92 • 5 111112ft.—__ wilier' II

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Survey Says Acting Dean Honor Council Penalties OK of Architecture Dies

The Honor Council's January 30 Jack Mitchell, acting dean of the survey showed student support for School of Architecture, died at his current consensus penalties, for home of a heart attack February 18. keeping violators' names confiden- He was 60. tial and for collecting statistics on Mitchell had been a professor of violators. However, the survey architecture at Rice since 1966. He found little student agreement on was director and then dean of the whether violations should be indi- School of Architecture from 1974 to cated on a student's transcript. 1989, and was appointed acting Nine hundred and forty-five dean at the beginning of the semes- undergraduates and 144 graduate ter to fill the vacancy left by Alan students responded to the poll, Balfour's departure. His professional which went to all students. The work focused on urban design and poll was taken in response to stu- planning consulting in numerous cit- Jack Mitchell, 1931-1992 dent and faculty concerns over the ies, including Houston, San Anto- increased number of honor-code nio, Dallas and New Orleans. violations last semester. His most recent project was to design a comprehensive parking plan for The results showed strong sup- Rice, which he presented last fall. In addition to his university service, he port for current consensus penal- was active in numerous community and professional organizations, includ- ties, with more than half of the re- ing serving on the board of the National Architectural Accrediting Board, spondents indicating the penalties the Rice Design Alliance, the South Main Center Association and the are fine as they are. The remaining Greater Houston Preservation Alliance. responses were evenly divided. He received two master's degrees, one in architecture and another in city Students overwhelmingly en- planning,from the University of Pennsylvania in 1961, and a bachelor's of dorsed keeping violators' names architecture from Washington University in 1954. confidential, with almost 80 per- He is survived by his wife, Carolyn, and two sons, Mark and James. cent agreeing that the Honor Council should continue its current practice of not revealing names. Responses were evenly split over whether or not an honor code violation should appear on a student's Athletic Review Committee Releases Report transcript. Currently, violations are not recorded on transcripts. The Athletic Review Committee (ARC) has concluded its year-long study Students also voted on whether of the academic and financial impact of athletics on Rice, but could not the Honor Council should collect agree whether the university's athletics programs should be changed. In- statistics on violators, including instead, the committee advocated further research and discussion on athletics. formation on their major or activi- While Rice spends less on athletics that most other members of the ties. About 40 percent of students Southwest Conference (SWC),its net cost is the highest, the ARC found. believe the statistics should be col- The athletics program is projected to operate on a deficit of about $3.7 lected, although students were million for the 1991-92 academic year. sharply divided over whether, if sta- Academic standards and graduation rates for Rice's scholarship athletes tistics were collected, they should are far higher than those of other Southwest Conference schools and rank be made public. in the top 15 percent of the 106 universities participating in NCAA The Honor Council has not de- Division 1-A athletics. cided what actions, if any, to take Rice spends a reasonable amount of money on athletics to stay competi- following the survey. tive, the ARC concludes, but "the net costs are extraordinarily high and, because of Rice's small size, are disturbingly large when considered as a fraction of resources available for university operations." Because of a national shortage of athletes with high academic qualifications, Rice could not raise its academic standards and remain competitive with other SWC schools, the report states. A full-length feature on the Athletic Review Committee report will run in the June/July issue of Sallyport. 1

6 • Sallyport Professor, Alumnus Inducted into NAE

Richard A. Tapia, Rice professor of mathematical sciences, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. E. Linn Draper, a 1965 Rice graduate, was also elected to the NAE. Tapia was chosen for his distinguished contributions to the field of engineering science. The academy particularly noted his contributions in computer mathematics and his creative leadership in minority education in the mathemati- congratulates National Academy of Engineer- cal and Dean of Engineerring Michael Carroll, left, computer sciences. ing inductee Richard Tapia, the Noah Harding professor of mathematical sciences. Tapia's research focuses on de- signing numerical methods that supercomputers can use to solve the Noah Harding chair in Math- consultant to more than 30 utility complex problems in science and ematical Sciences, and students companies, several federal and state industry, such as how to more effi- voted him the George R. Brown agencies and a number of industrial ciently recover oil from reservoirs. award for superior teaching. concerns. According to Tapia, he is the Tapia holds the university posi- He is author or co-author of first Mexican-American elected to tions of associate director for mi- more than 70 technical publica- the National Academy of Engineer- nority affairs in the Office of tions and is the editor of two ing. "While I consider election to Graduate Studies and director of books. His specialization is nuclear- the National Academy a great per- education and human resources for waste management. sonal honor, I would prefer that it the Center for Research on Parallel Draper is a member of the board serve as recognition to the entire Computation. of directors of Pacific Nuclear Sys- Hispanic community and as moti- The NAE cited Draper for the tems, Texas Commerce Bank-Beau- vation for young minority schol- significant contributions he has mont and the Texas Research ars," he says. made to nuclear power develop- League. He serves on the board of In 1990, Tapia was named one ment through research, engineering regents of Lamar University and on of the 20 most influential leaders in innovations and management. the University of Chicago board of minority mathematics education by Draper, who was chairman of governors for Argonne National the National Research Council, a the board of Gulf States Utilities Laboratory. federal agency in Washington, Co., left that position February 29 He received a bachelor of arts in D.C. Later that year, he received to become president of Ohio-based 1964 and a bachelor of science in S. the Hispanic Engineer National American Electric Power Co., one 1965 from Rice, and a doctorate in Achievement Award for Education of the nation's largest utilities. nuclear engineering from Cornell from Hispanic Engineer magazine. Draper has been active in nuclear University in 1970. In 1991, Rice appointed him organizations and has served as a

German President to Give Commencement Address

The president of Germany, Richard von Weizsacker, will address the 1992 graduating class of Rice University. Von Weizsacker's commencement address May 2 will follow an official state visit to Washington, D.C., where he will meet with President George Bush and Secretary of State James Baker. "President von Weizsacker has been a leading figure in the moral, intellectual and political life of Germany since the mid-1960s," says Rice Presi- dent George Rupp. "In this time of great ferment in middle Europe, we are most fortunate to have the opportunity to hear from a central participant in current developments." Von Weizsacker's address at Rice will be the major speech of his good- will visit to the United States.

April • May '92 • 7 Professor of Gorry Named New Vice President Geochemistry Dies Rice has appointed G. Anthony Gorry as vice John Adams, professor emeritus of president for Research and Information Tech- geochemistry and former chair of nology. the geology department, died at Gorry is vice president for information tech- home of a heart attack February nology and professor of medical informatics at 10. He was 65. Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. His Adams had been a professor of work there focuses on the use of advanced com- geology at Rice since 1954 and puter technology to support information sharing was chair of the department from among biomedical groups. He will begin at Rice Anthony Corry 1965 to 1971. During his 34 years this spring but will continue his duties as director at Rice, he published more than of the W.M. Keck Center for Computational Biology, a joint 100 papers and was active in doz- project of Baylor and Rice. ens of projects and organizations, Gorry, 51,studied engineering at Yale and holds a doctorate in com- such as the Houston Philosophical puter science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He will Society, The Geological Society of work on a strategic vision to coordinate information technology for the America and the Advisory Com- scholarly, research and administrative needs of Rice. mittee of the Second Special Sym- He replaces Ed Hayes, who left Rice last summer to become vice presi- posium on Natural Radiation Envi- dent for research at Ohio State University. ronment, India. After his retirement in 1988, he started a neighborhood recycling Record Number of National Merit Scholars in Class of 1995 project, the Southampton Recy- cling Program, in his garage. Only one other university in the country enrolled more National Merit At the University of Chicago, he Scholars in its freshman class than Rice this academic year. earned bachelor's degrees in 1946 The National Merit Scholarship Corp.'s annual report shows Rice with and 1948, a master's degree with 246 Merit Scholars in the 1991-92 freshmen class. Harvard University, honors in 1949 and a doctorate in with 292, is the only school with more. geology in 1951. The number of scholars in Rice's Class of 1995 is almost 25 percent Adams and his first wife, Anne more than last year's freshman class, which had 198. Donchin, were the parents of six The other schools at the top of the list are: the University of Texas, 210; children: David, Helen, Christo- Stanford University, 159; Texas A&M,154; Yale University, 144; pher, Mary Elizabeth, Joanne, who Princeton University, 107; Northwestern University, 105; Ohio State Uni- graduated from Rice in 1981, and versity, 102; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 100; and Duke Uni- John, who graduated in 1980. versity, 100. Adams married a second time, to Tanya Streltsova. Forbes Names Jones School One of 10 Best Values for MBAs

Forbes magazine has ranked the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Admin- istration one of the 10 most affordable MBA programs in the country. Rice is the only private university included in the listing. To be considered for the list, business schools must charge less than $10,000 tuition a year, boast a "goodly number" of corporate recruiters and yield a high percentage of graduates with "good" salary offers. The ranking also incorporates some subjective criteria gathered from interviews with recruiters at public and private U.S. corporations. "(The schools) are ranked by quality and cost, and all the other schools are state schools," says Richard Trask, admission director for the Jones School. "We are the only private school that I am aware of that charges less than $10,000." According to Forbes, the Jones School ranks third among the 10 in both average scores on the Graduate Management Admissions Test(622) and average starting salary of graduates ($46,700). Trask cites an employment rate of84 percent for last year's graduating class and an increasingly competitive admission process as evidence of the school's stature. Also on the list were MBA programs from the University of California- Los Angeles, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, University of Texas, Indiana University, University of Maryland, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Pittsburgh, University of New York and Univer- sity of Georgia-Athens. 8 • Sallyport ACADEMIA

Generous Gift Secures New Pipe Organ

A resounding finale for Alice Pratt Brown Hall, the Shepherd School of Music's new building, is in the works. The Shepherd School has commissioned a large, three-manual pipe organ for its organ recital hall, says Michael Hammond, dean of the school, and Rice President George Rupp has approved a $1 million down payment. A generous gift from Mrs. Edythe Bates Old has enabled the university to sign a contract with Rosales Organ Builders Inc. of Los Angeles,"one of the preeminent organ builders today," according to Hammond. He estimates that the school will have to raise another $1 million to complete the purchase, and that it will take about two years to build the organ and another year to install it in the organ recital hall of Alice Pratt Brown Hall. The organ hall will be named for Old, a singer and pianist from Highlands who taught music in the Houston school system. The mechanical action or "tracker" pipe organ will have between 65 and 70 stops, which are controlled by some 85 to 95 ranks of pipes, and will use centuries-old construction techniques combined with cutting-edge technology, according to assistant dean Gary Smith, who is an organist. This type ofinstrument provides the organist greater control over the actual speaking of the pipes, allowing for subtle nuances in interpretation of the repertoire, he says. Professor Clyde Holloway, who teaches organ performance, toured the eOuntry in search of an organ appropriate for the Shepherd School's mul- tiple needs. In playing several organs designed by Rosales, Holloway was impressed by the instruments' excellent sounds and flexibility. "We need an instrument that is not designed specifically for any period," Hammond says. "Its design will allow authentic sounds in a range of music from baroque to romantic to contemporary." The Edythe Bates Old Recital Hall is one of four performance areas in Artist's rendition of the new pipe organ, which will ); the concert wing of Alice Pratt Brown Hall, which opened in October. combine centuries-old craftsmanship with cutting-edge technology.

"Emergency" Call Prompts New Research

When Greater Harris County 911 Network spokeswoman."We also will survey users as well as police, Emergency Network officials learned that the university had ex- ambulance and fire personnel. ce needed a review of their system, cellent resources for census track- The project is a model for the they dialed RIPA. ing." kind of research Alford would like In answer to their call, the Rice The co-investigators on the RIPA to do. "Our 911 research is Institute for Policy Analysis will project are Alford, Stein and Keith a clear and obvious kind of public- conduct a long-term evaluation of Hamm,all of the political science service mission," he says. The rs the Emergency Network's service faculty. project will have the added benefit in its seven-county area, says John As 911, established in 1986, is a of giving students real-life experi- Alford, acting chair of RIPA. The maturing service, officials want to ence in data analysis. decision for an examination was get an idea of how to maximize its A preliminary analysis of the first :ss Prompted, he says, by an increase use. They hope an analysis will re- year's data should be completed by in crank calls to the service. Alford veal the public's understanding of the end of May. els that Emergency Network offi- when and how to use 911 and how —Maggi Stewart cials chose RIPA because of its ex- the agency perceives its own func- cellent reputation and the re- tion. Then a public education plan sources available at Rice. can be developed. "We were familiar with the ex- The Rice professors plan to ana- Pettise of Bob Stein and his work lyze the origin and volume of calls, in Political campaign data analysis," and link that information with cen- says Adele Gottlieb, Emergency sus data, Alford says. Then they er-

April • May '92 * 9 lip N I E4 POINTS

Slightly more than a month before the actual event took place, an alternative Beer- Bike was held on the track west of the stadium. Called THE RACE,the competition required every participant to be an "iron" man or woman, chugging, riding one loop, then chugging and riding again. The event was organized, in part, to criticize the seriousness of Beer-Bike and as a call to return to its original format. Seven colleges and the Graduate Student Association sent teams to the February 14 event. Will Rice College won. Beer-Biket Let's Return to the "Fun Old Days"

by Todd B. Ballengee '92 and Keith Jaasma '92 THE RACE co-coordinators

If you have spoken with family or friends from other we were inspired by the foundation that our forefathers universities about Beer-Bike, they have probably re- had laid for us. Our goal was not to replace Beer-Bike, marked that it is one of the coolest things they have ever but to show how far it has deviated from its original heard. But when you explain that 10 people drink intentions. "beer" that has been watered down, flattened and We had had enough of"Beer -Bike" races that re- warmed up, while 10 other well-conditioned, well-prac- quired two very different participants: one an athletic, ticed individuals ride two or three laps around a track, well-conditioned type gliding smoothly around the their enthusiasm usually fades. Five seconds ofchugging. track on a bicycle; the other an enormous, bloated be- Two minutes of riding. Over and over again. hemoth able to inhale a large quantity of beer. In contrast, THE RACE requires a special sort of athlete, one with equal levels of conditioning and consumption. To begin THE RACE,competitors chug 12 ounces of beer that has just been poured into a clear plastic cup. Then each runs to a mountain-bike in the pit. They ride a lap around the bike track, then pull back into the pit area and up to the chug line, where they are handed another 12-ounce beer that is just as fresh as the first. Once that second beer has been drained, the competitors continue on their journey for a final lap around the track. As each finishes the second lap and pulls up to the chug line, a teammate tags the one that has just finished, chugs a beer and then rides off around the track, repeating the example that the teammate has just provided. The first team to complete this process 10 times wins. Not only does this format live up to the name "Beer-Bike," but it provides the campus with an event that is enjoyable to watch and participate in. Beer-Bike has been a long-standing tradition at Rice University, one that the students hold near and dear to their hearts. It is an event that helps distinguish Rice from other universities, and if it is so desired, a inter- hen it began in 1957, Beer-Bike was a laid-back event organized by the new colleges. college bike race can still be held. Beer-Bike, however, When the Beer-Bike race first began in 1957, it was a has become far too serious, and we must return it to its competition between two colleges, run on the inner original purpose: to have fun, and to look at ourselves loop, with the victorious college receiving a keg of beer in a less-than-serious light. from the loser. At that time, the people who rode bikes Changing Beer-Bike into a format similiar to the one were the same as those who chugged the beer. The of the THE RACE is highly desirable. We implore the Beer-Bike race of today is nothing more than an Rice University community to support any efforts to intercollege bike race where 10 inconsequential people implement this new structure, so that we can change chug between riders. Beer-Bike back into something that other universities When we decided to organize THE RACE this year, will envy.

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What Should It Be?

Competition is Part of the Fun

by Amy Keener '92 Rice Program Council Beer-Bike co-chair

Beer-Bike has evolved as a Rice tradition because cur- minded ambition to win, and black-and-white applica- rent students, graduates, alumni, faculty and staff all tion of written regulations are the most important, or continue to support the concept of the race. However, even significant, features of the race. College spirit and the tradition is not only about race day. Much of the originality have been and continue to be the most es- Spirit, involvement and rivalry is more a result of the sential elements in a successful Beer-Bike. However, a months of preparation than of the final standings in the more informal event would lead to more casual prepa- race. ration, less anticipation and therefore less involvement. College bike teams practice months ahead of the Beer-Bike now has the momentum and scope to keep race, and making the team of 10, or at least securing a enthusiasm and participation high. The large scale or- spot as an alternate, is a sought-after goal for many col- ganizational needs of the race add to the spirit, rather lege members. At many colleges, fire alarms ring sig- than detract. Without some perceived need for ad- naling a chug practice as early as first semester. Parade vanced preparation, Beer-Bike could loose its promi- coordinators plan weeks in advance to devise an inno- nence as the Rice tradition that unites colleges more vative parade float, or theme song, or chant, or mode than any other single event. of transportation to the track on race day. Team participants seek financial sponsors, design team and college t-shirts, work to determine the optimal chug technique, and hold coordination practices to ensure that a hiker starts riding precisely as the chugger finishes. Ev- ery year race coordinators hold meetings to choose team colors, to schedule practice races and to revise or change rules. The list of opportunities to become involved in Beer-Bike continues on and on. The months of anticipation, the large-scale involve- ent of the entire Rice community and the unique 2 ki.ce-ness' are a direct function of the competitive Spirit 0 of the event and the attention to detail in establishing race expectations. Certainly few other universities have worked on a comparably large scale to design r, the most effective chug can for regulation use in an all- ts canipus event. Most likely few other universities keep harts on individual chug times to measure consistency uetween chugs and gradual improvement over time. Atid certainly, few other universities train faculty and Ltaff to judge student chugs and timing coordinations. these things would all be lost in a race environment hich lacked the revised guidelines and standards of Beer-Bike today. This is not to say that severe race penalties, single-

Bikers train for months for today's highly competitive Beer-Bike race. April * May '92 • 11 At Continuing Studies, a passion for learning is the only requirement. This year, 10,000 Houstonians qualify It MIAMI STIIBENT

Story by Maggi Stewart • Illustrations by Melissa Grimes

12 • •,i111port can McCaine has a heavy class load this semester. On school is allowed to use the classrooms." Mondays, she takes a class on India. Tuesdays, she Like the overgrown hedges that surround the cam- L studies cultural anthropology and geology.Wednes- pus, the academic excellence for which Rice is known days, she learns about Roman Catholicism. And on may be intimidating. But through the Continuing Thursdays, she explores the stock market and geogra- Studies program, the university is sharing that excel- phy. But McCaine doesn't have to worry about final lence in a friendly over-the-hedges exchange with its exams or papers. All her courses are non-credit. neighbors in the community. McCaine,a 1945 Rice graduate, decided to go back Continuing Studies works with other groups to to school through the Rice offer special programs. On Continuing Studies program campus,Continuing Studies six years ago and has no plans devises courses with the Ca- to "graduate" any time soon. reer Services Center, the "I do it for my own selfish Computer Center and the pleasure," she says. Association of Rice Alumni. Bemardine Huddle is look- Off campus, it co-sponsors ing forward to graduating programs with the Houston from Rice in May. Twenty- Grand Opera, the Houston four years ago, after her sec- Symphony and the Museum ond child was born, Huddle of Fine Arts, Houston, as dropped out of the Univer- well as seminars with the sity of Arkansas just short of National Society of Fund- finishing her English degree. Raising Executives. A Continuing Studies course Last year's "Creative Part- convinced her to return to ners: Artists and their college. After completing vet- Muses," included a tour of eran teacher Bill Neidinger's local artists' studios. A re- Class on Egyptian culture,she cent offering, "Passage to thought, "I enjoy learning India: Visions Past and about this so much, I might Present," was a collabora- as well get credit for it." Fif- tion of both on- and off- teen semesters later, Huddle campus groups. The course Will receive her bachelor's degree in religious studies. was co-sponsored by The Asia Society/Houston and Newly arrived from Connecticut in 1979,engineer the Sewall Art Gallery, which featured an exhibit of Toe Brazzatti was introduced to the Rice program with photographs depicting life in modern India. a series on Texas."I wanted to round off my education While McCaine, Huddle and Brazzatti may not be With humanities courses," he says. The "poor typical Continuing Studies students, their enthusiasm immigrant's son" with degrees from MIT and Harvard for the Rice program is not unusual. Business School has been hooked ever since, studying It would be difficult to categorize the thousands of music and literature with Rice faculty members Walter participants, except for their love of learning. "The Bailey and Terry Doody. typical Continuing Studies student gets excited all over His involvement with Continuing Studies has led to again about studying," Mary McIntire says. McIntire, a broader involvement with the university. Brazzatti who has directed the program since 1981,was named has been invited into the Rice Associates, a donor dean in 1986. group, has joined the Owl Club and attends seminars, The program attracts a variety of students, from lectures and college theater. those just out ofschool to retirees. There are teachers, Perhaps Brazzatti sums up the program's success writers, those interested in career change,and the vast Lbest: "Continuing Studies is the university's way of majority who are there for the pure joy of learning. °el-rig neighborly." It's no wonder there's heavy traffic weeknights at By contrast, Brazzatti says, MIT has a different Rice entrance number seven. This year's participants attitude toward the community."They think ofthem- make up the largest enrollment in the Continuing selves as No. 1," he says. "No one from outside the Studies program's 25-year history, with final figures

April • May '92 • 13 When staff members hear an idea for a course, they brainstorm about the possibilities

expected to reach 10,000 for the 1991-92 year. Then-program director McIntire directed the new The present program harks back to the early days of series, called "Living Texas." Out ofthat came "High the Rice Institute, when President Lovett initiated a Noon," a series of noontime talks, and "Waltzing twice-yearly series of extension courses. Hundreds of Across Texas," with bus trips all over the state. Houstonians flocked to hear one-hour lectures given In 1978, Driskill and McIntire established the Rice by various faculty members. University Publishing Program, a four-week summer The Continuing Studies operation has nearly doubled seminar on book and magazine publishing that is still its student population in the last five years. The pro- going strong today. Students participate in simulated gram grew steadily over the years, but it has mush- publishing-house sessions and meet professionals in roomed in the five years since it acquired its building, the industry. the Speros P. Martel Center for Continuing Studies, That same year, 48 courses were offered, including on the south side ofcampus. four foreign languages and a Although the program beginning class in English as now has the largest enroll- a Second Language. Total ment in non-credit humani- enrollment was 700. ties courses in Texas, Con- "The program has always tinuing Studies at Rice began been on the leading edge of nearly 25 years ago with a events," Driskill says. Trade selection of engineering re- opened up in China the day fresher courses. Then-presi- Continuing Studies staffers dent Kenneth Pitzer may not mailed out brochures for the have imagined the full scope seminar they had planned in ofthe present program when anticipation of the event. he wrote in the March 1968 "It's a successful program Rice University Report:"The because it gives people from humanities are also undergo- the community the feeling a ing change and courses in of belonging to Rice," she this area will be added in says."Yes, we make diamond the future." film and do parallel process- The program was shut ing at Rice, but we also keep a down for a few years during a in touch with the people who fiscal freeze, then revived in support us. 1974 under the direction of "People are proud to tell associate professor ofEnglish me,'I took a course at Rice,' Linda Driskill. and they come back for "At that time, people from the community didn't more." Driskill and her husband are among the regular generally feel welcome on campus," Driskill says."There participants. were no regular public events, except sports and Rice When Driskill left the job in 1981 to return to full- Players performances. time teaching,the staffhad increased to eight. McIntire, "The public thought we were hiding out behind the who had worked in the program after earning her hedges," she laughs. "Many people associated con- doctorate in English from Rice, took over as full-time ir tinuing education with car-repair courses. It took us director. time to communicate what Rice meant by continuing By 1986, enrollment had reached 5,000. ti tf• education." People keep returning to Continuing Studies be- in While technically working half a day a week with a cause the selection ofcourses continually changes,with "borrowed" secretary, Driskill introduced the first classes often tied to current events. About 50 or60 new tit humanities courses. Six courses, including three lan- or revised courses are scheduled each year. "Offering di guage classes, were offered, and 200 people enrolled. new courses keeps us fresh," McIntire says. "Houston was in the middle of the boom, and In 1989, as the Berlin Wall began to crumble, people were moving down here, so we established a staffers scrambled to update a course on Eastern Eu- th series ofcourses exploring the Texas mystique," Driskill rope. A course previewing the Economic Summit says. The courses were developed from another popu- proved popular,as did one last year on the Mideast and 4vI lar Continuing Studies series,"Interpreting America," the Persian Gulf War. that debuted during the U.S. bicentennial. This year, a winter course linked to the 500th Ca

14 • Sallyport anniversary of Columbus' voyage, "1492 and After: ought to take—yoga—McIntire had to go elsewhere. The View from America," was a continuation of last Ideas come from people on- and off-campus. When fall's successful "1492: Part I: The Old World." Staff- staff members hear an idea for a course, they brain- ers also planned a spring course tied in to the Repub- storm about the possibilities. Everyone gets involved. lican convention to be held in Houston this summer. The 18-member administrative staffalso includes asso- A downturn in the economy during the mid-1980s ciate dean Kathleen Sayers. also affected the program. Continuing Studies re- The program is well-known locally. McIntire is sponded by developing a variety of career-change constantly approached by people who are taking courses courses, including one designed to help out-of-work or who would like to suggest course ideas, particularly geologists retrain to become hydrologists. early in the morning when she's jogging. The annual menu of about 200 courses covers Sometimes it's hard to get away from. McIntire music,art, history, science and loves to tell about Bill literature, as well as career de- Neidinger's experience in a velopment, investment and remote area of Nepal. financial planning, computer Neidinger rode an elephant ; training and courses for writ- into camp in the dead of ers. There is also a separate night, only to have a man Program offering courses in poke his head into the light eight foreign languages and of the fire and say, "Aren't English as a Second Language. you Bill Neidinger? I took Classes vary from one-day your Continuing Studies seminars to a series of eight class in Houston last year." two-hour sessions. Most are The quality of the faculty held in the evening,although is an obvious strength ofthe a selection of daytime classes program. Many are Rice and weekend workshops is of- professors. fered. There are three major John Boles, a 1965 Rice sessions a year, plus a summer alumnus, has been teaching session. Continuing Studies university students as well as also administers the Rice credit Continuing Studies students slimmer-school program. since his arrival in 1981. An The spring 1992 session expert in Southern history, included a course featuring he teaches in the program top Rice faculty sharing their about every other year. )r latest research. Other spring Whether it's university stu- ar Courses covered geology, geography, opera, modern dents or non-credit students,"I like to teach," he says. Philosophy, the former Soviet Union, the novels of The non-credit audience appeals to him. They're en- li- Virginia Woolf, and human development. thusiastic and eager to learn. Boles finds it enjoyable re, "We deliberately try not to compete with existing and "a nice break from grading papers and exams." ier Programs," McIntire says. Students will find no classes Tailoring a year-long course to fit into eight two- Tie In ballroom or belly dancing, macrame or basket hour sessions forces him to focus on the more popular Weaving in the Rice Continuing Studies catalog. Con- aspects of the subject. Topics he's tackled have in- tinuing Studies doesn't offer anything comparable to cluded the Old South, turning points in Southern )e- the University of Houston's certificate programs in history, the Civil War era and popular fiction in South- ith interior design, real estate, supervision or insurance, ern history. .ew for to Texas Southern University's courses in day-care Boles has made quite a few friends, too. He's ing directorship or mushroom identification. constantly meeting people from the community who McIntire and assistant deans Laura Hsu and Eclie say,"Oh, I took a Continuing Studies class at Rice." Car. Ison-Abbey develop courses in a number of disci- "People take pride in going to Rice, even if it's not Eu- Plin.es each session, drawing heavily on Rice faculty in for credit," Boles says. mit their selections. Jacqueline Simon started teaching journal writing md "We try to offer courses we'd like to take, not what and autobiography courses about six years ago.Simon, We think people ought to take," McIntire says. Ironi- who writes fiction and is now completing a novel, 0th cally, when she wanted to take a course she thought she simply wrote a letter to McIntire about her idea for the

April • May '92 • 15 Teaching non-credit students can be more difficult, but also more rewarding

courses. Both courses have attracted a cross-section of If enrollment continues its steep rise, Continuing students. They range from teenagers preparing for Studies will need a new building in the next few years. college to professional people who are ready to write Office space is running out for 13 full-time and five their memoirs. part-time administrative staff members in the former Reflecting on the popularity of writing courses,she Rice Museum, built as a "temporary" structure in the says, "People want their stories known. 'Tell me the late 1960s. Storage space is being converted into story of your life' is the oldest request in human offices. The building also lacks a large-capacity class- history." room for lecture courses or conferences. The series of courses for writers has blossomed in There are no definite plans right now for a new the last few years. Now writers can choose from courses facility, but the program is generating funds. Enroll- in children's fiction, novel ment fees cover all salaries writing, screen writing, short and fringe benefits, advertis- story and feature writing, as ing,brochures, maintenance, well as writing on the job. faculty honoraria and equip- Continuing Studies will offer ment. Surplus funds have its first general writers' con- been given back to the uni- ference May 15-16,featuring versity to improve audio-vi- seminars and workshops with sual facilities, while some are guest writers, editors and being set aside for Commu- agents. nity Action Grants, which Neidinger, a former mem- fund community education ber ofthe history faculty, pre- and service projects. fers to teach older adults. He When McIntire is jogging earned his master's degree and at 7a.m., she sometimes day- doctorate from Rice and has dreams about the Continu- taught Continuing Studies ing Studies ofthe future. The classes since 1979. That ar- Center for Community Edu- rangement gives him the flex- cation would be located in ibility to spend time in exotic the same public area ofcam- places doing archaeological pus, near the gym and the excavations. new music building, Alice In some ways, teaching Pratt Brown Hall. It would non-credit students is more be large enough to house all difficult than teaching under- the programs and to provide graduates, he says. "They're more likely to raise an classrooms for Rice undergraduate and graduate objection than a question." courses. It would be an active, vital meeting point for But it can also be more rewarding. "Adults have Rice and the community. National conferences would already had an education," he says. "They've been be held there. It would be equipped to provide public thinking and reading longer. They're really interested programming for various campus groups that reach in the subject." out to the community. There might even be a studio In the last six years,retirees Hazel and Ford Bankston for teleconferencing. Videos could be produced and have been faithful students in Neidinger's classes. The made available to schools and libraries. Rice students Bankstons have been on just about every tour Neidinger could serve internships in such areas as fund raising. has led, traveling to Turkey and Greece, Egypt, Nepal There'd be a library branch... and Spain. They've also developed some friendships Then she's brought back to reality by a fellow jogger along the way. calling to her,"Hey, Mary, I've got a great idea for a "We found life after retirement," Hazel new course..." Bankston says.

lh • \ilk port CLISSiS MIMI% AT TllFBINS by David D. Medina

athleen Sayers, director of language programs at dividing the ESL courses into two sections: a morning academically-bound students, and an after- S. Kthe Office ofContinuing Studies,issued a memo in session for January apologizing to instructors who had to use the noon class for students who want to learn English for teachers' lounge as a classroom. communication and professional use. Previously, the er In the memo, she added, tongue firmly in cheek, two types of students took the same morning class. ie that classes were not being held in the restrooms to Another change is the institution of on-site corpo- to handle record enrollment, as rumor had it. rate courses. When a corporate group wants to study a But, joke or no joke, Continuing Studies has a foreign language, classes are conducted at their work- Problem--one it is relishing. It has created a language place. Clients include oil companies,engineering firms Program that is bursting at its seams. and communications corporations. 11- At its start in 1974, the program offered three Businesspeople, public school teachers, geologists es foreign-language courses and a course in English as a and other professionals attend the three-hours-a-week is- Second Language (ESL). Courses were taught in the classes for a variety of reasons. Some want to learn to basement ofFondren library, communicate in countries or wherever space was avail- where business opportunities able in that building. Classes are opening up,such as in the ye averaged four students. former Soviet Union. ru- . Today Continuing Stud- "There's a great need for ies enjoys its reputation as Russia to have foreign spe- tre one of the best and biggest cialists to build a completely non-credit language pro- new economy and society," ich grams in the state, offering says Albina Nikolayevna Hill, on classes in eight foreign lan- a Russian teacher. The rush guages—Spanish, French, to capitalize on the nascent ng German, Italian, Russian, free-market system has led to a quadrupling ofRussian stu- ay- Arabic, Mandarin Chinese and dents, to 60 from 14. riu- Japanese—and up to „ seven levels ofESL. Students Russian now ties with he from more than 35 countries French as the second most take the classes every year. popular foreign-language in Sayers attributes the suc- course. Spanish is first, with cess to the small size of the about half of the total the classes, which average eight Kathleen Sayers, left, and Mary McIntire enrollment. The free-trade lice students,the excellent teach- agreement between the ,uld ers,and the flexible curriculum,which is designed to fit United States and Mexico may have also contributed to all Students' needs. the increased demand for Spanish. Enrollment in the Tide "We have a wonderful office staff; they are very January session jumped to 300 from 197 a year ago. program," sate patient and understanding, particularly with students "The politics of the world do affect our who Sayers says. Sayers says."We can take the pulse ofa foreign country for speak little or no English," The enrollment boom began in 1987, the year by looking at the number of students in our classes." Continuing Studies moved into its present quarters at Some students take courses for less practical pur- blic the Speros P. Martel Center, a 12,000-square-foot poses. They want to maintain the Spanish they learned :ach facility on the south side of the campus. in college, or they want to learn a language that's jdio "When we moved it was like a dream. We had so romantic. Others are planning to travel abroad. and .In uch space," says Marie-Josephine Larsen, a French Margaret Hildebrandt goes to France every year ents instructor."But the dream didn't last long,because the with her husband,1955 Rice alum Melvin Hildebrandt. ing• building became too small." She has taken three sessions of French and plans to Since 1986, the annual enrollment in language continue taking French indefinitely. She even got two gger courses has more than tripled, rising to 1,803. Sayers friends to enroll. unusual to find students learning more for a expects the growing trend to continue through 1992. It's also not Por example, this January the shortage of space was than one language. Jose Gonzalez, from Barcelona, exacerbated when the number of Russian classes shot Spain, came to Houston for medical reasons and up to seven from three the previous session. decided to enroll in English as a Second Language. He Continuing Studies Dean Mary McIntire believes also takes Japanese. His girlfriend,Dolors Martin,does one of two things can be done to solve the space the same. She takes ESL and French. Problem: Put a cap on enrollment or construct a new "The best thing to do when you're staying in building."Needless to say,I prefer the latter," she says. another country is to study its language," Gonzalez Although a new building is still a fantasy, Sayers is says. Apparently, a lot of people agree with him. already tackling the space problem. She found some by

April • May '92 • 17 OUT THE Best-selling author David Westheimer returns to his World War II days in Sitting It Out, a compelling memoir chronicling the time he spent in prison-war camps in Italy and Germany

by David D. Medina

David Westheimer still remembers the day II novel, Von Ryan's Express, which was turned 55 years ago when his favorite English into a movie starring Frank Sinatra. professor read his essay to the class. As a senior At 75, he is still cranking out copy. From chemistry major, Westheimer took a creative his West Los Angeles home, Westheimer has writing course taught by the legendary George returned to his World War II experience to Williams, who required that all students sub- produce yet another book. Sitting It Out is a mit a writing sample. Westheimer handed in compelling memoir chronicling the two years, his magnum opus, an essay he had written in four months and 18 days he spent in prison-war freshman English class. camps in Italy and Germany. Rice University "A pale and leprous moon shone coldly in Press will release the book in May. the window," began the overwrought piece. Appropriately, the professor who critiqued Westheimer believed he had written "some Westheimer's first attempt at creative writing pretty darn good stuff" until Williams has written the foreword for what may be delicately trashed it. Westheimer's last book.(From now on, "It kind of shook me up," Westheimer says. Westheimer says, he will stick to script writing.) "But Williams didn't give my name, and he is a Williams praises Sitting It Out as a unique very warm man. When he made fun of you, prisoner-of-war story. "The book is as sus- you weren't devastated." penseful as a detective story," he writes in the The criticism may have helped the 1937 foreword. "The suspense is ready-made and Rice graduate. Westheimer went on to be- built-in: The reader hangs on through throng- come an entertainment reviewer and then a ing details and episodes." columnist for The Houston Post, a prolific novelist, a TV scriptwriter and a playwright. In some 40 years, he has produced 15 books David Westheimer, right, takes a break from his computer at the of serious and popular fiction. In 1964, he beach near his West Los Angeles home. Photo by Robert Lindsay. topped the best-seller list with his World War

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Westheimer, seated second from left, passed the time at Stalag Ill playing poker with other American and British prisoners.

The crew earned the dubious honor of being aboard the first American bomber shot down attacking Italy, and possibly the first ever shot down by Italians. Thus began his POW odyssey. Westheimer was taken to a jail in Salerno, in southern Italy, then transferred to Campo Concentramento Prigionieri di Guerra 21, a prison east of Rome. PG 21, as the British and American prisoners called it, later became the scene of Westheimer's most famous novel, Von Ryan's Express. The Italian guards, like the Germans later, seldom mistreated the captives. Sometimes they even bent the rules to accommodate them. The Americans' real enemies were the mean estheimer began writing his living conditions and the scarcity offood. memoirs after he was dis- Westheimer endured pumpkin soup twice a day, charged from the military in cold showers, boredom and chilblains, a painful W 1946. Originally planning to swelling of the extremities caused by exposure to write a novel, he sat down in front of a manual the cold. typewriter to record his raw notes. In a matter of Westheimer kept busy. He signed up for weeks, he poured 200,000 words onto 600 pages. courses in a makeshift university set up by British Two years ago Westheimer traded in his prisoners. He took French, German, ancient, manual typewriter for a word processor. With- modern and medieval English, military history, out the computer, he says, it would have been literature, political economics and philosophy, "a helluva job" to rewrite the manuscript, put but dropped the courses after a while. He took a it in chronological order and cut several hun- clandestine course in how to commit acts of dred pages. As with most of his other books, sabotage. He learned to whittle. He began his Westheimer completed this one in three months. first efforts in short-story writing and became a (That's not his record, though. The Magic Fallacy voracious reader. He spent long nights playing took him only 11 days to write.) poker for cigarettes. The result is a 345-page book that spans The busy Brits did much to counter the mo- the 28 months from the time he was taken notony. They formed a theater for full-scale plays prisoner December 11, 1942, to his liberation and jazz concerts. Westheimer took the part of a April 9, 1945. Chicago gangster in a humorous skit. V The book opens with a splash. A 25-year- The prisoners lived for the arrival of Red Cross fi old Westheimer is navigating a B-24 Liberator and personal parcels sent from the United States bomber named Natchez to Mobile, Memphis to St. and Great Britain. The packages contained much- Jo. The plane has just blasted Naples with a load needed items, such as chocolate, coffee, toilet ar- of bombs and is roaring home to Libya when two ticles, books, clothes and cigarettes, all of which enemy fighter planes give chase. The Natchez to could be traded inside the prison. Mobile takes several hits, losing two engines. When the Italian government capitulated to When a gunner announces he has run out of the Allied forces, German troops took over PG ammo,the pilot turns and says,"Don't worry 21. They packed the American and British about it, Barnsie. We're running out of engines." prisoners into rickety trucks and began the long The plane crashes into the sea. Three of the haul to Germany. After a layover in a squalid 10 crew members die, and three suffer serious Italian prison, they continued in boxcars. wounds. Westheimer, unhurt, helps the bom- In one of the scariest scenes in the book, bardier save the life of the sergeant by shoving Westheimer describes the horror of being him through the escape chute. bombed by American planes. Pandemonium While the plane sinks, two row boats with broke out as guards and prisoners alike sought Italian policemen pick up the survivors. "Not shelter in a small town. They arrived at Stalag much like the movies...with fast boats coming VIIA, a prison camp near Munich, where 50,000 out with Nazis on their decks with machine prisoners from 22 different nationalities awaited pistols, ready and eager to spray any airman reluc- the outcome of the war. tant to be picked up," Westheimer writes. "It was kind of embarrassing."

20 • Sallyport Later, Westheimer was moved to Stalag III, an "He taught us about poetry and writing, but officers' camp surrounded by pine woods. There mostly he taught us to think about life and he passed the time swimming, walking, reading human values," Westheimer says. and making plans for his civilian life. The self- Westheimer took a mild interest in writing confident German guards were even friendlier and became a member of the Rice Writing Club, than the Italians—an irony since Westheimer is which met at Williams' house every other week. Jewish. "The question of my religion simply Gifted writers such as 1937 Rice graduate never came up," he says. William Goyen, 1942 graduate John Graves and With the Russian troops advancing, the Ger- 1941 graduate J.P. Miller would attend the club mans forced the prisoners to walk several days to read their literary works and seek guidance toward Stalag VITA. They trekked through bitter from their mentor. weather, lugging what goods they could carry Williams doesn't recall Westheimer being an and sleeping in barns and in a factory, before extraordinary writer. It wasn't until many years climbing into boxcars for the rest of the journey. later, when Westheimer returned from the war At Stalag VIIA they were liberated when a and began writing novels, that the two developed U.S. Sherman tank broke through the gates. a lasting friendship. Judging his work today, In his typical understated fashion, Westheimer Williams says,"David is a good writer. He can writes: "We went to the main street. Just as we tell a very good story. He tells it clearly and with 0 reached the mob there, the cheering began. An suspense." The 90-year-old professor retired American flag was flying from the steeple of the from Rice in 1968. Village church. It was over." Westheimer graduated in 1937 with a chemistry degree that he used only once, he says. In a movie review for The Houston Post, he wrote, warthy, with black curly hair that is with authority, that the villain had used the now graying, Westheimer is Jewish of wrong chemical to decompose the victim's body. German ancestry. Westheimer Road, After Rice, he worked at a series ofjobs: as a 5now one of the biggest thoroughfares cashier for a produce company, as a clerk for a in Houston, was named after his great uncle, Falstaff Beer distributor and as a truck driver and M.L. Westheimer, who settled on a farm where ice-cream maker for a creamery company. the road originated. He landed his first writing job at The Houston David Westheimer was born in 1917 in the Post in 1939 as an assistant to the entertainment Second Ward, a Houston neighborhood that editor, Hubert Roussel. He made $12.50 a week ys eventually turned Hispanic. His father, an reviewing night club acts at such places as the a insurance salesman, died when the young then-elegant Rice Hotel. He also reviewed Westheimer was 11,leaving his mother to care cabaret acts, movies and an occasional symphony. for her three sons. The Westheimers got by with "I hated to cover a symphony concert," he es money from his father's insurance and army says. "I didn't know the first thing about music." ch- Pension fund, family savings and rent from the second floor of their duplex. He attended San Jacinto High School(now the main campus of the Houston Community College) and entered Rice in 1933. He intended to major in chemical engineering but dropped it When he realized he couldn't draw the designs. "I didn't know what a chemist did, but I switched into chemistry," he says. Westheimer met Williams in a sophomore laglish quiz section. He liked the professor so Much, he took Williams' contemporary American .11(1 British poetry class the following year. And in his senior year he enrolled in Williams' creative Writing class. )00 ed General Dwight D. Eisenhower, standing, visited the center at Camp Lucky Strike, France, where Westheimer, seated, was sent after his liberation from the Germans.

April • May '92 • 21 Just a month before they were shot down, the crew of the Natchez to Mobile, Memphis to St. Jo posed for this photo, taken after a successful night raid on Tripoli. Westheimer is standing second from right.

years he struggled to publish another book. He left the newspaper in 1960 to move to Los Angeles to pursue a literary career. He was out of a job, with two kids, when he sat down to write what would become his best book. He borrowed money from his life insurance to stay financially afloat. Von Ryan's Express, an action-packed novel about a hard-nosed colonel who leads his troops to freedom, was an instant success. Westheimer received $75,000 for movie rights, $40,000 for the paperback and another $15,000 for foreign- book rights. In 1964, that was a lot of money. "That was the first time I went to buy a tie, and I didn't ask the price," he says. "Nineteen He managed to fool his readers by being eva- sixty-five was a spending year. We went to sive, he claims, until he recruited a music-savvy Europe for three weeks, stayed at the best hotels, business reporter to do the reviews. and my wife bought a diamond watch." The military draft interrupted his journalism The manna from Von Ryan's Express subsidiz- career in 1941. Poor eyesight prevented him ed his future books. He wrote nine more, among from becoming a pilot; instead he became an them a play, My Sweet Charlie, which ran for a airplane navigator. He had been in the U.S. month on Broadway. Army Air Corps, the forerunner of the U.S. Air Between 1984 and 1988, he pulled his last Force, for about a year and half when he was stint at the Post. His three-times-a-week column taken prisoner. written in Los Angeles dealt with growing up in Being locked up for more than 28 months did Houston, his war experience, social issues and not make him bitter. food. A few years ago, he wrote a TV-movie "The war was good to me," he says. "I came script called A Killer Among Us. out with all my faculties, and I got all this ma- Today, he lives in semi-retirement near Brent- terial to write three books." People who know wood in his apartment of 31 years. He spends him say that Westheimer, as reflected in his much of his time writing letters and reading mys- books, has a buoyant and upbeat attitude. tery novels. He's working exclusively on movie "Being a prisoner of war deeply affected him," scripts, because, he says, it's easier, and it pays says Al Shire, former assistant managing editor of more than novel writing. The Houston Post. "But nowhere did I feel he was "I don't plan to write any more novels. I'm all discouraged or felt sorry for himself. He has a out. The only way I would write another book is wonderful outlook on life." if a publisher offered a lot of money," he says. When the war ended, he returned to his old "And that's almost impossible to happen." job at The Houston Post and married 1942 Rice The publishing business, he says, has become graduate Doris Rothstein. Restless to write very commercial, only interested in those books fiction, he took a six-week leave of absence from that promise major bucks. the Post to take summer courses in creative Westheimer has come a long way from the writing and radio writing at Columbia University. overwrought piece he wrote at Rice. His talents The creative writing class taught by literary have yet to hit a plateau. "My major improve- critic Martha Foley proved useful: He published ment is simplification," he says. his first short story in the American Mercury Professor Williams certainly thinks so. In magazine. the foreword to Sitting It Out he describes With accumulated back pay from his war Westheimer's writing as "unpretentious; flowing; prison days, he was able to take off a year from direct and simple, even bare; obviously honest, his job and write fiction full-time. His first novel, sincere, factual." Summer on the Water, was published in 1948 to It's a model for any writer to follow, Williams critical acclaim, winning the Texas Institute of says. "If I were teaching that old Creative Writ- Letters award for best first novel by a Texan. ing class today, I would suggest that my students He returned to the Post to review TV and read some pages of this new book of David radio shows. In his spare time, he wrote a second Westheimer to find out how they ought to write!" novel, The Magic Fallacy, but for the next 10

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1. Feathers in his Cap: This owl is no stool pigeon, or is that pigeon stool? He's got a fine physique.(See previous page.)

2. Chiseled Features: This stone-faced creature is fond of perching between two windows.

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5. Fini-Owl: Wooden you like to know where this owl is physically perched? Wish we could shed some light.

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7. Bronze Sages: Where do these wise old owls reside? William Marsh Rice's favorite charity began back at home.

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10. Wing Tips: Edgar loved this owl so much, he placed it before all others.

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446.1 """s""° '6,,pung sp.sAyd C ueTUOJ .6.pCng S>osAyd April • May '92 • 25 Illustration by Michael Sawye A friendship formed at Rice convinced Jacek Koronacki that quality control is the key to Poland's economic future

by Barbara Burgower Hordern

When Jacek Koronacki arrived in Houston in the fall of communist prime minister, the statistician began con- 1985,he was looking forward to a pleasant,productive templating how he might use his talents to assist his semester ofteaching at Rice and maybe working on his country. "I decided to leave my previous work to book on algorithms.The Polish statistician had no idea colleagues," he explains. "I wanted to work on some- that he was embarking on a journey that would lead thing more applicable to the new economy." him to shift the entire direction ofhis career,and would He began to study actuarial accounting. Very few immerse him in his country's exhilarating, terrifying Poles were familiar with Western accounting methods, transformation to a free-market economy. and Koronacki knew there would be a Though he had traveled outside Poland demand for these skills. He took a visiting frequently since the early 1970s, this was professorship at the University of New Koronacki's first opportunity to teach in South Wales in Sydney, where a colleague the United States. He knew that Rice was tried to interest him in developing statisti- among the top American universities; he cal software for market analysis.That looked had good friends there. James Thomp- promising. But about that time, James son, a professor of statistics at Rice, had Thompson began bombarding him with been working with Koronacki's mentor, electronic-mail messages, urging him to Robert Bartoszynski, at the Polish Insti- get involved in quality control."I realized tute ofMathematicsin Warsaw since 1978. he was right," Koronacki says. "Jim Bartoszynski and Thompson were both Thompson convinced me that improving leading statisticians involved in cancer our shoddy products was the very best research. Koronacki also knew Ewa thing I could do." Thompson, James Thompson's wife, a Thompson is indeed persuasive on the Professor of Slavic studies at Rice. subject. "There are two ways to get qual- Ultimately,these friendships would inspire Koronacki ity," he explains."One is to buy the newest equipment; to focus his energies on methods of greatly improving the other is to use statistical-process control. It's like Productivity as Poland began its struggle to convert hardware versus software. In the United States many from communism to a free-market economy. companies try to avoid an orderly quality-control para- "All I've ever hoped," he says,"is that our kids would digm by using the latest technology. In Poland,it's as live in a free Poland. My wife and I never dreamed that if, now that the communists are out ofthere, the house we would." has been robbed, down to the plaster on the walls. But Eastern Europe had already begun its historic They're left with nothing but a well-educated, highly transformation, inspired significantly by Poland's motivated work force. They don't have the money for struggles for democracy. As that country's economic capital investment; they need to rely on human inter- Conditions deteriorated under communism, price in- vention in an intelligent fashion." creases and onerous wage incentives prompted worker The Deming approach, as Thompson calls it, is riots in 1970 and again in 1976.That's when Koronacki named for W. Edwards Deming, now 91, who devel- 1.10d his wife, Renata, a physician, began their involve- oped a paradigm by which the output of an industrial Illent. In 1980, as the economy collapsed, Solidarity process is regularly measured—statistical process con- arose. For the first time in the Soviet bloc,workers won trol—so that from small samplings and continuous the right to form independent trade unions and to monitoring, adjustments can be made to improve the Strike. In 1989, when Poland elected its first non- production system. The technique works particularly

April • May '92 • 27 well with mass production, and though computers new businesses have been created. often simplify the work,line workers can measure parts Inflation is down, however, to a more manageable and create control charts using simple hand calculators. 40 percent. Lines so characteristic of Soviet nations "The Deming approach enables workers to optimize have disappeared, and far better goods are now avail- the production ofgoods without having to use expen- able. Kiwis, bananas and citrus fruit abound in the sive, technical equipment," Thompson says. "This is farmers' markets that have sprung up throughout the what the Japanese tumbled to in the'50s." It's also why country. Good meat is available, along with good the Model T performed so well, he points out. Henry clothing and every kind ofelectronic equipment."It is Ford developed modern quality control before World expensive," Koronacki says, "but it is at least there." War I. He discovered that machines, Koronacki is convinced that the prob- unlike people or animals, perform as lems will eventually work themselves they're supposed to, predictably, over out,provided Poland produces the kind long periods. of quality goods which will sell in a competitive market. And thanks to Thompson, he has been able to estab- In January 1990, the Polish govern- lish a team ofquality -control experts to ment imposed what has been called work with Polish companies. "shock therapy" on an economy that In 1990, with Thompson's encour- Koronacki insists had been dominated agement, Koronacki left the Institute by "nonsense." In an effort to control of Mathematics to head the Depart- at an inflation rate that had soared to ment of Applied Statistics in the 2,000 percent,the government worked Institute of Computer Science, where it NV, out a plan with the International Mon- he could begin work on industrial ap- Jacek Koronacki re etary Fund. Prices,kept artificially low plications for statistics. He then began by the government, were allowed to translating Thompson's industrial short cc rise to market levels overnight. Subsidies for essentials course notes on quality control into Polish, as he and were eliminated,and credit was tightened. Poland also Thompson worked out the best way of introducing reached an agreement with the Soviet Union,its major quality-control techniques to Polish workers. The two Li trading partner, to do business in dollars and pay professors also began work on a book oftheir own,to th world prices. be published by Chapman-Hall later this year, titled The result was chaos. The New York Times reported Process Controlfor Quality. Koronacki agreed to return sta that 60 percent of the 8,000 state-owned businesses to Rice for the Fall 1991 semester to teach multi- (most of which employ more than 100 people) proved variate statistics and work on the book.

Koronacki is confident that the problems will eventually work rettto.rehr'ta, themselves out, provided Poland produces the kind of quality goods which will sell in a competitive market

t to be insolvent, prompting a budget crisis. Unemploy- Thompson went to Poland last May to meet with ment, nonexistent under Communism, now tops 10 Koronacki and see what support the two could gener- percent and is expected to reach 17 to 19 percent by the ate for a Quality Control Task Force to work with vwwtwg-rhar'1):: end ofthis year. Banking scandals, budget deficits...the Polish industry. During his visit, he went to see Kevin list seems endless. McDonald, director of the International Team for The retail trade is privatizing, but most workers are Company Assistance (ITCA) in Poland. McDonald, pni employed by state-owned factories, which are fast who holds an MBA from Northwestern, founded an, collapsing. Buyers are difficult to find for companies ITCA to distribute grants from the United Nations to whose assets can't be determined. And complicating Polish companies struggling to privatize, and to aid in matters is a housing shortage in urban areas where most their reorganization.

28 • Sallyport Henry Ford discovered that machines, unlike people or animals, perform predictably over long periods

Thompson, who has worked with Texas companies As a result ofall the uncertainty,funding to the ITCA original 10 companies,three went le for a decade,explained to McDonald how the Deming has dried up. Ofthe Paradigm could improve the quality of products in bankrupt and one closed. Koronacki's people continue Poland."Instead ofmonitoring just the end product of their work, however, at the six that remain. In spite of are now being paid by the ie tractor engines, for instance, we put in monitoring severe cutbacks, most devices at various stages of production. We take a factories they are aiding, and Koronacki is confident that have worked so well to )cl sample, measure it and keep track of deviations that that the same techniques will work in Poland. is cause defects. When we find a defect at any stage, we improve products in Japan find the production cause and fix it," Thompson says. Kimmel plans to return to Poland in the summer and work further on the quality-control project. b- McDonald was excited about these simple quality- hopes to with great optimism to re- 'es control techniques and decided to require quality Thompson looks forward to help assess the situation. rid control ofany company his agency sponsored. He told turning this May, the gravity of Poland's problems, there are L a Thompson to round up 20 graduate students so they Despite of improvement. According to The to could get to work right away. some indications Times, real wages actually rose by three Lb- Thompson laughed. "We don't have 20 graduate New York and the economic reforms have to students in our whole department," he says now. But precent in 1991, he could offer two more skilled scholars from Rice: touched offa private-sector boom that will,ifit contin- investment and better jobs for the majority ar- Marek Kimmel,an associate professor ofstatistics, and ues, mean ite Martin Lawera,a graduate student earning his doctor- of Poles. Thompson also points with satisfaction to the news, Lrt- ate jointly in business and statistics. announced in February,that General Motors is under- :he Kimmel is Polish. He earned his statistics doctorate in ere Poland and became a world-class bio-statistician, taking a joint being venture with ap- working at Sloan Kettering in New York before ;an recruited to join Rice's Department of Statistics in Poland's FSO company to Lort January 1990.He had previous experience with quality md control and was preparing to teach a course on make Opel cars the ing subject. for the Euro- :wo Lawera graduated from the Catholic University of pean market. ,to Lublin in Poland, the only independent university in "It's an enormous deal," he tled the Soviet bloc. He came to Rice in 1988 to pursue a n doctorate in philosophy,then switched to business and says, referring statistics. He,too, was interested in quality control. to G.M.'s $75 :Throughout last summer,each ofthe Rice trio made million-dollar trips to Poland,so that at least one ofthem was always investment, there, working with Koronacki, as he put together a which is sched- Left to right: Marek Kimmel,James Thompson and Martin team of 10 Polish Ph.D.s to form a Quality Control uled to reach Lawera. Photos by Tommy LaVergne. Task Force. According to Thompson,that's the largest $300 million in group of Ph.D.s working on quality control in the three years. He has approached G.M. with a proposal World. The team gave a seminar to representatives of for Koronacki's quality-control team to train the work- the ITCA and went on to work with managers and ers at the plant. "I'm the salesman for the team," he f laughs. "If we're lucky, we'll get in." wit"• oremen in 10 Polish companies. All ofthe companies Were G.M. invites them in or not, Thompson :ner- meclium-sized,employing between 500 and 2,000 Whether w feels confident that Poland is on the road to economic with orkers, and produced a wide variety of goods, from valves to viability. He recalls, on his latest visit to Warsaw, :evio cranes to shock-absorbers. •When Decemberfrom looking at little stalls selling software offMarszalkowska for Koronacki returned home last iS -communist Street. "When I got to 150 stalls," he says,"I stopped nald, semester at Rice, Poland's third post time taken office, counting." nded Minister, Jan Olszewski, had just fan(' was ofpersuading his ns to faced with the daunting task elbow of reforming mid iO Poles that the pain and confusion the economy would be worthwhile.

April • May '92 • 29 B OOK S•E T C.

An Amiable Biography of the Architect Who Shaped the Design of Rice

Visitors to the Rice campus are always struck by the stately architecture, and even a cursory glance at a campus map reveals the symmetric layout of the buildings on this irregular, 300-acre plot of land. In William Ward Watkin and the Rice Institute, 1942 Rice graduate Patrick J. Nicholson brings to life the foresight, planning and ingenuity of one of the Authentic Fantasy architects behind the design. Watkin was 24 in 1910, when he came to Hous- Imagine a ton as the personal representative of the firm Cram, ELIZABETH medieval Goodhue & Ferguson of Boston, the architectural MOON world inhab- mastermind of the Rice Institute. Watkin oversaw construction on the first ited by peas- buildings of the Institute, then, instead of returning to Boston as he had 4;• ants, magi intended, stayed on for 40 years to build an architecture department. and immortal Watkin served as the first chair of the Committee on Building and elves, where Grounds, which chose to plant the live oaks that have become a campus travel by trademark. In addition, he was the first chair of the Committee on Out- magic to a door Sports, which not only brought the legendary John Heisman to Rice secret land is as a football coach, but also enrolled Rice in the Southwest Conference. possible. Nicholson's book surveys, in an amiable, conversational tone, the crucial It's fantasy, but 1968 Rice role that Watkin played in developing both Rice and Houston. graduate Elizabeth Moon brings —Amy Keener military and historical authenticity to the world of her novel, Liar's William Ward Watkin and the Rice Institute, by Patrick J. Nicholson Oath. Moon, a former Marine (Houston: Gulf Publishing) Corps First Lieutenant, is also well- versed in medieval history. Liar's Oath is the story of Luap, Practical Advice for the Business Borrower illegitimate son of the Mage-King and a peasant woman, and his BOR ROWING In the second quarter of 1991, 11.8 percent of the struggle with an oath he made to FOR DUH BUSI N ESS banks in the United States were unprofitable, and an- follow a peasant leader. other 33 percent showed an earnings decline from the Winning. the Softie. Luap has sworn to serve Gird, I.. the IllanlkorY Wes" previous year. By the end of the year, approximately who led the peasants' revolt against 200 more banks are expected to have failed. their Mage-born rulers. Although With a national recession compounding the bank- Luap has renounced his heritage, ing industry's problems, 1959 Rice graduate George when he discovers a distant land, M. Dawson's "how-to" .1010.• guide for securing a small- WM •••• IIVAN. MO 111. 11•1•1.11•1 reachable only by magic, he thinks business loan is more timely than ever. Dawson's 30 he can forsake his oath and claim years of banking experience help him take loan appli- the kingdom. cants through a step-by-step process that begins with In this sanctuary abandoned by approaching the right bank and continues past securing the loan. the older races of magi and elves, The key, Dawson says, is preparation. Solid ventures are turned down Luap and his followers find that daily because the borrower doesn't make a good first impression. there are consequences for break- "Getting a loan is like making a sale," he writes. "You cannot make a ing an oath. sale if you do not understand the buyer's needs, motivations and limits." Moon is also the author of The A loan officer's primary need is to feel that the borrower is a good risk. Deed ofPaksenarrion trilogy, which To convince the banker, a borrower must know the answers to seven major includei Sheepfarmer's Daughter, questions—and must have those answers in hand before the banker asks. Divided Allegiance and Oath of From "How much money do you want?" to "How will you pay it back?", Gold. She co-authored (with Anne those questions help the banker assess how well the borrower has planned. McCaffrey) the best-selling Needless to say, well-developed proposals are most likely to succeed. Sassinak and Generation Warriors. Once the loan's has been completed, the borrowing relationship contin- Liar's Oath is due in bookstores ues. Smart businesses, Dawson writes, start preparing to renew their loan this May. the day after it's made. —Maggi Stewart —Deborah Schmidt

Liar's Oath, by Elizabeth Moon Borrowingfor Tour Business: Winning the Battlefor the Banker's 'Yes," (New York: Baen Books) by George M. Dawson (Dover, N.H.: Upstart Publishing)

30 • Sallyport S TUDENTS

Football and Music Make a Rare Combination

Alan Green is a 6-foot-1 Rice foot- lot of work, and that's what I came ball player with a Terminator 2 to do," Green says. body. He's also a singer. Before arriving at Rice, Green A running back with the voice of was already working hard to culti- an angel seems an unlikely phe- vate his musical talents. Last sum- nomenon. When Alice Dorman, a mer he recorded his first solo al- 1986 Rice graduate and football bum,"Sweet Jesus." fan, heard that Green would be The record, available through singing the national anthem at the mail order at the Rice bookstore, is homecoming football game, her a collection of 10 gospel songs plus initial reaction was,"Why can't one song that encourages teenagers they get a person who can really to stay in school. It was produced sing?" she recalls. by Green and his father under the ial Her opinion changed after hear- label SongGreen. ing Green. "I didn't expect such a Also last summer, Green won ter mature, well-developed voice from first place in the Vocal 1 competi- One who spends so much time on tion of the Christian Artists Music football and classes," she says. "His Seminar of the Rockies in Estes voice is really beautiful." Park, Colo. Music and football are a rare He beat out 100 vocalists from Combination at Rice, where Green the United States and Canada to may be the only football player to take the top prize of $300 in cash, ever pursue a music degree, says a scholarship to return to the Julie Griswold, academic coordina- Christian Artists seminar this com- n- tor for student athletes. ing summer, and a second scholar- the In fact, because of the significant ship to tour the world with the time conunitment outside of class, Christian singing group Continen- there areonly a handful of players tal Singers. k- in the United States studying mu- Earlier this year, Green was fea- ;e sic, she says. tured on local television. He sang At the request of Green's father, the theme and appeared in a vi- 0 Homer Green, Griswold mapped a gnette on Channel 26's new sta- four-year plan that would avoid tion identification campaign, called th scheduling conflicts. Rice was so "For Our Children's Future." He „eeommodatinga that Green chose also co-starred in a 50-minute t‘ice over Stanford, Duke and Christian video called "A Moment Baylor. of Truth," to premiere in churches Football practice twice a day, a in Houston and New York. He challenging course load and choral plays the role of a football player k. rehearsal can take a toll on anyone. who shows that the gospel can be ajor tut the 18-year-old freshman is shared with peers. taking it in stride. His first semes- Spreading the gospel plays a vital ter, he mustered a 3.91 grade point role in his life. His dream is to be- ed. average while tackling a second come a contemporary-music artist major in political science. Like and tour the world. "I might be a tin- post college players, he sat out lawyer or a supreme court justice, Year, though he still had to hisrst but ultimately, I want to pursue train with the team. singing," he says. "I feel it's a gift maidt "Coming off the football field God has given me. I just use my ,a nd going into a rehearsal room voice in his honor and give back , tate at night Seems • is very hard, but it what he has given me." ms like everyone here is doing a —David D. Medina SPOR

Stepping Up to the Plate

Years of pondering human nature have produced a winning philosophy for Wayne Graham, Rice's new head baseball coach. "I'm eternally fascinated by human beings," he says in a raspy Texas drawl. "If you're not a student of human nature, you shouldn't be coaching." His fascination has earned him a phenomenal record. Wayne Graham, center, mixes discipline and lore for (I winning philosophy. Players such as, left to right, catcher John Rodgers, infielders In 11 years at San Kennedy Glasscock and Jason Choate and outfielder Jason Ogden say Jacinto Junior College, they respond to that attitude. where Graham previously coached, his teams won people you coach." And you have bachelor's in physical education 83.6 percent of their to be sincere about it, he says, be- from UT in 1970 and a master's in games, with a record- cause today's players are too so- physical education from the Uni- breaking five junior col- phisticated to be fooled. versity of Houston in 1971. lege national champion- That's one reason Athletic Di- He began coaching at Scarbor- ships between 1985 and rector Bobby May hired Graham. ough High School, where he won 1990. Graham was named "The kids who play for him really seven district titles before moving coach of the decade for respect him and want to win for to Spring Branch High School. In Coach Graham the 1980s by Collegiate him," May says. 1981, he became head coach at Baseball magazine. Brown College junior Kennedy San Jacinto Junior College. The former professional ball Glasscock, a pitcher and first Graham has honed his winning player comes to Rice at a time baseman, believes Graham has al- philosophy down to a handful of when the Owls could use some ma- ready turned the team around tenets. First, inculcate a positive jor-league help. Last year Rice suf- "180 degrees." He's stern but car- attitude among the players—some- fered its worst season in 20 years ing, says Glasscock, and encourages thing he's finding easy at Rice. a with a dismal 16-34 record. But the players to help each other."He "The guys surprised me," he Ii Graham is turning that around. told me not to get down on my- says. "They were ready to go. They On the road this year, the Owls self," Glasscock says. "He said I were hungry." beat the University of Texas-Pan will have the opportunity to play if He emphasizes being good in all American at Edinburg in the sea- I only listen to what he's saying." aspects of the game, to be able to son opener—a task at which the Graham, 55, learned baseball bunt as well as field a line drive. Owls have struck out three years in from his long career in the sport. "I don't think you have to excel a row. The team completed the He was born in Yoakum,Texas, in every phase of the game to be an series with wins in three of the four but grew up in nearby Houston. excellent team," he says. "Being games. In his Southwest confer- After two years playing third good in every phase yields a great ence debut, Graham led his team base, first base and pitcher at the team." to a 3-1 victory against Texas University of Texas, he joined the He stresses mental fitness. Con- A&M,which is ranked in the top minor leagues in 1956. He spent 10 ditioning the mind to remain posi- 25. The Owls took the three-game years as an outfielder and third base- tive and calm when an umpire series against the Aggies. man with farm teams for the Phila- makes a bad call is essential, he says. )1 How does he do it? delphia Milks and New York Mets. Then he quotes an oriental ad- Graham talks about winning as if In 1963, he played a partial sea- age that hangs in his home:"Con- he's on a spiritual mission. His phi- son in the majors, batting .182 in trol the things you can, and don't losophy combines common sense, 10 games with the Phillies. In let the things that you can't control it self-discipline and love, with a bit 1964, he was called up again to bother you. And be smart enough of oriental philosophy thrown in. play 20 games with the Mets. to know the difference." ci Knowing the game is only a part "I wasn't a great major-league —David D. Medina IT of good coaching, he says. Know- player," he says, "but it was an ex- le ing the players is just as important. perience." "You've got to care about the He returned to school after his IT professional career and received a fc IT

32 • Sallyport S ALL Y F OR TH

Between the 19th and the 21st Centuries

by Ewa Thompson

What can one expect from a country that has recently In addition to viewing the oriental splendor of shed its communist past to embrace capitalism and Russia's architecture, we will step back into the 19th western tourists wholeheartedly? A trip to Russia is century once we leave Moscow and St. Petersburg. Vil- clearly not the usual "shop till you drop" experience— lagers use streams and rivers for washing clothes, and although the country's exquisite miniature lacquer women and men dress in unfamiliar ways. They are boxes will be a temptation. Until recently, Russia was very inquisitive, and, now that the restrictions on con- the center of an empire, and its charms are related to versations have been lifted, we will have plenty of op- that fact. Our itinerary starts in Moscow, the hub of portunity to chat. Since few people take our route tremendous change. (tourists tend to stay in big cities), we shall be a curios- in The most striking aspect of Moscow and St. Peters- ity to the villagers as much as they are a curiosity to us. burg (formerly Leningrad), the cities on our itinerary, To American palates, food will appear elaborate and is the size of the buildings, squares and public places. rather on the heavy side. "Salad" in Russian means Unlike European cities, which are compact and cozy by cooked vegetables and meat smothered in mayonnaise a Comparison, Moscow and St. Petersburg are larger- (bring your own lettuce). These are balanced by won- than-life. It seems that the cities' architects built to derful soups and dark rye bread, plentiful wine and show the awesome beauty of power, rather than to vodka (for those who care) and, occasionally, by caviar make life easier for ordinary humans. To walk around feasts. One of the finest meals I ever had was served in the Kremlin takes hours, and the squares of St. Peters- a forest lodge near Lake Baikal, where caviar was ladled burg seem endless. out by the pound onto our plates. That happened dur- In St. Petersburg, I was pleased to learn that we shall ing the 1985 ABA trip to Russia and Mongolia, and stay at the Hotel Astoria. This old building was con- the caviar was accompanied by mouth-watering, sweet, IC- verted into living quarters for the Party nomenldatura poppy-seed rolls, which we ate separately. I expect a after the October Revolution, then reconverted into a similar feast somewhere along the waterways. hotel in the late 1920s. But renovation did not mean Last but not least, trips to Russia generate excellent icy Modernization, and everything, from beds to room camaraderie among the participants. We celebrated our keys, remains as it was before World War I. I lived last trip for a long time, with yearly dinners accompa- all there for a couple of days in 1971, nied by showings of memorabilia. I expect this trip to o and I still remember my room key: It be exotic yet warm, restful while on the waterways and weighed a couple of pounds and was a bit chaotic in big cities, where waiting in museums cel made of shining brass. Beats living in and restaurants is inevitable. Russia is going through a an a castle. historical transition, and our trip will take place at a Apartfrom the two big cities,our trip time when the Russian government is turning a corner. it will be serene and peaceful(famous last words). We shall visit the very heart of on- Russia, Old Muscovy, which arose in Ewa Thompson is a professor ofSlavic studies at Rice psi- the sixteenth century in defiance ofthe University. Her most recent book, The Search for Self- Mongol occupiers. The psychology of Definition in Russian Literature, was simultaneously ys. the Russian people was formed there, - published by Rice University Press and John Benjamins amidstskimpy northern vegetation and Publishing Company in 1991. the Mongol czar who memories of Thompson will accompany travelers on the Great Wa- once ruled these lands from his capital in v.. terways ofRussia trip June 22-July 2. Following a three- Kazan. As we travel westwards along the waterways of in Shannon, Ireland, alumni will spend two ussia, we shall see melancholy northern towns, and day stopover !lurches and monasteries of great beauty. Russia is tre- nights in Moscow before cruising the waterways linking lint; imendously underpopulated, which makes it akin to the the Black Sea to the Baltic. The trip will end with two _ess inhabited areas ofsouthwestern Canada. The Vikings nights in St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad). For more _would have felt at home there, and, indeed, one Russian information, call Alumni Relations at (713) 527-4057. ToYth says that they traveled as far as today's Ukraine, unding that state long before Muscovy appeared on the Map. St. Basil's Cathedral in Red Square, Moscow

April • May '92 • 33 GIFTS.AND•G I V INC

The Tsanoff Endowments

"To our teacher and friend, in gratitude...for showing how life should be lived, in devoted pursuit of wisdom and joyful service to others." These words were written by alumni in honor of a beloved Rice professor, Radoslav Tsanoff. Tsanoff, the first faculty member to receive the Gold Medal Distinguished Service Award in 1970,founded the department of philosophy at Rice and guided it through its first 60 years. Teaching was Tsanoff's first concern—encouraging young scholars, opening doors to schools of thought, advocating an integrative education in which the student was not limited to the narrow parameters of a "major." The integrity of his pursuits was summarized by his colleague, James Street Fulton, in Insight and Vision, a book of essays honoring Tsanoff: "The vastness of his learning is focused and refracted by an active mind onto the pages of his work and built into the texture of his daily life...great insights of genius in at least al eight languages...an absolute bulwark against one-eyed wisdom, ai rigid factionalism, sectarian simplification." fr While teaching, Tsanoff enlarged his scholarship, publishing an impressive number of books and articles. Active in both the campus community and the larger community, he was instrumental in building the Fondren Library collection, founding the Rice chapter '444 of Phi Beta Kappa and developing the Houston Symphony and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Shortly before his death in 1973, a group of his former students, led by 1943 Rice graduate Jim Hargrove, established the Tsanoff Memorial Fund. That endowment, which has grown to more than half a million dollars, in part supports the Tsanoff Lectureship cur- Radoslav Tsanoff rently filled by Houston's former mayor, Kathryn Whitmire. The fund also provides scholarship support for students in the humanities, with one reserved for a major in philosophy. The Moser-Tsanoff Scholarship was funded by 1927 Rice graduate Eliza- Teaching was Tsanon'sfirst concern— beth Lurie Moser as a tribute to both Tsanoff and her late husband, Frank Moser. Elizabeth Moser credits Tsanoff with being the greatest influence of encouraging young scholars, opening her undergraduate years, during which he was still the entire philosophy department at Rice. Moser went on to teach philosophy and later became a doors to schools ofthought, advocating social worker. "Establishing the scholarship seems the natural response for the education and enjoyment of life I received [from him]," she says. An- an integrative education in which the gela Lynn Dunmire, a junior from Garland, Texas, is the current recipient of the Moser-Tsanoff Scholarship. student was not limited to the narrow The Tsanoff Chair in Public Affairs, designed "to encourage the study of and participation parameters ofa "major." in public affairs," was endowed by 1928 Rice graduate Walter Hall. Hall believes strongly in the importance of active citizenship; he has a long history ofinvolvement in political and civic matters and has been described as "citizen first, banker second." He traces that activity to his philosophy classes. "From [Tsanoff] I learned tolerance, and it has helped me all my life," Hall says. "You need tolerance for other people's ideas, beliefs and opinions...[you need to extend] to other people and their opinions the same tolerance you beg for yourself." The current holder of the Tsanoff Chair is the former lieutenant governor of Texas and a 1953 Rice graduate, William P. Hobby Jr. Hobby fit in well with Hall's hope atacil that the Tsanoff chair be filled by a scholar interested in Texas. ears. The Tsanoff endowments are a fitting tribute to a remarkable Rice professor. Tsanoff's lifelong pursuit of philosophical and spiritual values continues to inspire Rice scholars and to reinvigorate teachers and lecturers. —Dina Hort;

34 • Sallyport Memorial Fund Established

A memorial fund has been estab- associate of Will Rice College. losophy, Edythe Fulton, and Allen lished for Konstantin Kolenda, the He is survived by his wife, Matusow, dean of humanities. former Carolyn and Fred McManis Pauline Kolenda of Houston; a Contributions have come from Professor of philosophy and a Rice son, Christopher Kolenda, daugh- across the country as friends and faculty member for 38 years. ter-in-law, Carol Howland, and former students learn of the death Kolenda died of a heart attack De- granddaughter, Cassandra, of Rich- of this well-loved teacher and col- cember 5, at the age of68. mond; a daughter, Helena Kolenda league. Donations can be sent to Kolenda came to the United of Beijing, China; and a sister, the Rice Development Office. States from Eastern Poland in 1946 Pelagia Bailie, in Poland. Checks should be made out to Rice tinder the sponsorship of George A memorial service was held De- University and designated for the Hill, a Houstonian and indepen- cember 8 in the Rice Chapel, Kolenda Memorial Fund. dent oilman. He received his where a large gathering offamily —Mary Lee Burrus bachelor's degree in philosophy and friends heard tributes to and German from Rice in 1950 Kolenda by his wife, children and and his doctorate in philosophy colleagues, including James Street from Cornell in 1953. He was an Fulton, professor emeritus of phi-

US er Le Friends of Rice Players

s, Neil "Sandy" Havens, a 1956 Rice tradition by providing ongoing fi- graduate, celebrated his 25th anni- nancial support for Rice theater CI versary as director of the Rice Play- activities and facilities, especially ers in the fall of 1989. To honor for, but not limited to, Rice Play- the occasion, a group of ers." former Players and sup- In two years, FORP has built a porters of Rice theater small endowment,funded master za- formed the Friends of classes in acting and installed new Rice Players. Already, masking drapes on the stage in of FORP has grown to more Hamman Hall. In addition, the than 200 members. group contributed to the residency e a Havens reminded those of English actor/director Geoffrey attending the annual Church, who is directing this homecoming meeting that semester's Baker College produc- the tradition of theater on tion of The Tempest, and they co- the Rice campus predates produced Vincent Dowling's one- of his tenure as head of the person show, My Lady Luck, with Players. "For several de- Main Street Theatre. The group cades as the Rice Drama also publishes a quarterly newslet- Club, for the past 40 years ter and a membership directory. as Rice Players, and more To become a member or to find recently through the ef- out more about the Friends of Rice forts of the various college Players, contact Havens at(713) theaters, Rice students 527-4027. have consistently pre- —Brenda Dubay sented some of the most and challenging theater in „ Y Haven J Pars. s has directed the Rice Players for 27 Houston," he says. The president of FORP, 1975 Rice graduate Roxanne Shaw, explained that the mission of fort/ the group is "to encourage the continuance of this Rice theater

April • May '92 • 35 1 I I 11 \ I • tIF I I I.

Lits All Gather Sa

A bit of Rice history was evoked at Dessain says. "This is the first time Or 'he Rice Engineering a luncheon of alumnae and their all eight his were together. The th( Lhunni will host their friends February 8. An event that room was full of excitement." for could be called a gathering an nnual awards presen- of the The lits were student literary so- tribes took place in the Cohen cieties popular on the Rice campus ation and spring bar- House Faculty Club. from the 1920s to the early 1960s. ecue on Saturday, It was a reunion of the Rice liter- The first lit, the Elizabeth Baldwin kpril 18, at 4:30 p.m. ary societies, or "lits." The "First Literary Society, began in 1917. n the engineering Annual Lit Luncheon" was orga- Lits were women's groups that nized by the last of the lits, the corresponded to the men's debat- luadrangle. Cash Owen Wister Literary Society ing societies, Dessain says. Ostensi- wards, ranging from (OWLS). Actually it was the bly, lits were study clubs that 50 to $1,000, will be OWLS Alumnae who arranged the would meet, read and discuss ;iven to undergradu- affair, since the OWLS, which was works by the great authors. To established in 1924, were officially comply with university rules regu- des who have excelled disbanded as a campus organiza- lating them, student organizations n their engineering tion last year. had to have an academic purpose ield. All engineering More than 225 people came to for existence. wkg dumni and students are the luncheon, including Rice Presi- "We did read a little bit," e,Lef dent George Rupp and Dean of the Dessain says, "and we put out the Plum, nvited. Shepherd School of Music Michael student directory. But the main 41,1 au Hammond. thing is we were a social club. We Carolyn Dessain, a 1943 Rice had dances. This was during the graduate and president of the time of the big bands and swing OWLS Alumnae, was the driving music. It wasfun." Il force behind the event. She deflects After the college system was the credit, however, saying that instituted in the mid-1950s and so- members of the other lits were re- cial styles changed, the lits gradu- sponsible for the reunion's success. ally dwindled and disappeared. "This was a very big happening," As an alumnae group, the OWLS Alumnae now raise money for Fondren Library and for a scholarship fund for the Shepherd School of Music. Proceeds from the lits' luncheon went to those causes. "We have stayed active for 68 years," Dessain says. "It was a very important part of our student life. There's something that's kept us together, something magical." Some of that magic was dis- pensed at the luncheon. "We've become so elated over this," Dessain says, "we're acting like college girls, even though we're all grandmothers. As one of the girls said,'What a keen idea.' On Sunday, January 19, Rice alumni volunteers and staff members turned out And it was." to fete the residents of the Hallmark, a Houston retirement community that is Planning for next year's lun- home to many Rice alumni and friends. A smashing success by all accounts, the cheon, to be held March 6,is al- evening included a buffet dinner and a performance by the Sallyport Singers. ready in the works. Interested par- Pictured above are 1927 Rice graduate Mary Louise Estill, 1922 graduate Ea ties can call Dessain at(713) ni( Nunn and 1932 graduate Cornelia Smith, Hallmark residents who helped plan 963-9182. do the event. —Keith Matig 111;

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36 • Sallyport San Francisco Reception

On January 7, alumni gathered at Francisco landmark since 1875, "Letters, Science and Art," a the Palace Hotel in San Francisco provided a stunning backdrop for video presentation put together by for a dazzling evening of dinner the occasion. The hotel, which was 1970 Rice graduate Doug Killgore, and companionship. damaged in the 1906 San Fran- was shown, and Rice President The historic Palace Hotel, a San cisco earthquake and then rebuilt, George Rupp spoke to the group had recently been renovated. about the university. More than 160 alumni came, Rice Board of Governors mem- most of them from around the Bay ber and Distinguished Alumnus Area, including some from as far as Burt McMurtry attended with his Palo Alto. Guests were given cham- wife, Deedee. Both are 1956 pagne on their arrival, while a jazz graduates. Representing the Rice trio played in the background. Office of External Affairs were The master of ceremonies for the 1958 Rice graduate Frank B. Ryan, evening was 1973 Rice graduate vice president; Mark Kimbell, di- ;u- Leighton Read. The San Francisco rector of development; Tim Area Club leader, 1979 Rice Kubatzky, development officer; ;e graduate Lydia Asselin, made a and 1977 Rice graduate Donna brief announcement about upcom- Yeager, stewardship coordinator. °111( the 160 alumni attending the reception ing area club activities. .1' left to right, 1981 graduate Keith he ?",aa and his wife, Leslie, and 1980 "ale Geoffrey Walne and his wife, Sara. Ve

Profile: Linda Cherrington

so- °flce a Rice student, always a Rice the ARA,a committee dedicated to u- alum, so the saying goes, and 1972 increasing the ties between past Rice alumna Linda Cherrington and current students. Recently, the VLS eenainly serves as an example of committee worked to promote the attachment many graduates feel alumni interest in the annual Rice lar- to the university. student-art show held around com- Dol "I am very appreciative of the mencement each year. s' education I got here and would As a Houston businesswoman, like to do something to contribute Cherrington also participates in the to the continuation of alumni sup- undergraduate-extern program. cry Port and involvement with the uni- The extern program, coordinated fe versity," she says. through the Career Services Cen- is Cherrington is serving her see- ter, allows students to gain expo- year as a board member of the sure to the business world by work- `Issociation of Rice Alumni. She ing with a Rice alumnus for a week s tresses the importance of commu- during spring break. n ication in her role. "That gives me the opportunity "The most important aspect [of to know more folks from Rice," communication as the , Linda Cherrington stresses ARA]is the emphasis on area she says. "That has been the most Association of Rice Alumni's goal. Clubs, which have grown tremen- rewarding part of my involvement." dously in recent years," she ex- Since 1986, when she started P.lams, citing the regional associa- LKC Consulting, she has mentored Cherrington worked with ft"Is as a productive way for Rice a number of undergraduates, in- METRO,the Houston mass transit `° communicate with alumni. cluding four who have worked agency, for 10 years before starting There is never enough commu- for the company past the extern her own firm. 11,,ication with alumni," she says. period. Cherrington also serves as the ;rhere is always something we can LKC Consulting is a national class chair for the Rice Fund Coun- uo to improve it. That is the ulti- firm serving the transportation cil and is both a member of the nlate goal of the association." industry. committee to plan her 20th home- c tut Cherrington's emphasis on "Our clients are cities and trans- coming reunion and the chair of rimunication does not stop with portation authorities that provide the nominations committee. agsuttirli. Cherrington also serves on public transportation," she ex- —Amy Keener ''"c student/alumni committee of plains.

April • May '92 • 37 CLASSNOTES

Scripture and pray to the Lord self-employed and lives in fund-raising drive for years with thanks for His direction. California. Her older daugh- and I finally decided that 1921 Sunday is Sunday School, ter, Page, is married and has 1934 younger people,such as Jack morning and evening. For 20 two daughters. She teaches Williams, should be doing Wilhelmina Kuenstler War- years, I have been a member at a private school in Bir- Class Recorder: that work. After I was free of Is ren and her husband, ofSCORE (Service Corps of mingham,Ala. Her husband Elliott Flowers that obligation my forme Fletcher, recently celebrated Retired Executives) spon- is on the faculty at Auburn 3330 Del Monte employer prevailed on me to their 70th wedding anniver- sored by the Small Business University. Laurine spends Houston, TX 77019 help in the annual United sary. They spent more than Administration, which gives lots of time at the St. James (713) 524-4404 Way drive. For the last three 40 years in the U.S. Foreign free counseling to individuals House counselingothers.She years I have devoted three 3. Service before retiring in 1961 who are starting a small busi- is a life-long Episcopalian. Class Recorder Elliott Flow- months a year to helping the to Greenville, Texas. ness and having trouble. For After Ruby Grisham Ar- ers writes: United Way.So look out—if nearly 20 years,I have been a cher married,she moved east Your class recorder finds it Jack doesn't get you, I will! member of the board of di- because her husband, J.C., more and more difficult to rectors of the Kerr County was employed by the United obtain information from our ar Day Care Center,which takes Gas Co., which became classmates. As a result,I went 1930 care of small to the telephone and children for Ebasco Service. While there, much less than commercial she traveled with her husband contacted several who volun- 1936 Class Recorder: . rates. I have been a member all over the Eastern seaboard. teered under pressure to share in Mildred Ogg Fisher of the Kiwanis Club of They returned to Texas in their present activities. I say Class Recorder: an 2410 Memorial Drive/ Kerrville for about 20 years, 1941 and now live in west "under pressure," because I Beulah Yellen WI Walden Apt. 109-B str president one year, and now Houston near the Village.She told them I would make 9406 Cliffivood Drive Bryan, TX 77802 attend our weekly meetings. has two cats, does some something up if they didn't. Houston, TX 77096 ne (409) 774-7217 are I help in cleaning up two church work and plays bridge. Alden Lancaster,a veteran (713) 723-7318 miles of highway toward She travels when she can, par- of more than 50 years in the fee Class Recorder Mildred Ogg Fredericksburg and enjoy the ticularly in the western states. insurance business, was re- Class Recorder Beulal for Fisher writes: fellowship. Once a month, Morris W.Baynes studied cently awarded the Grant Axelrad Yellen writes: wa I apologize for failing to Louis Burton, our Sunday engineering at Rice for a year. Jones Award at a meeting of We hope that everyone ha< prepare a column for the Feb- an, School class teacher, and I He went to work for Torison independent insurance agents a wonderful holiday and tha ruary issue. The deadline was make an evening of visiting Balance,which became Grav- in Abilene. This is the most the New Year will bring us al December 1, and I was over- cat several members of our class ity Meter, a geophysical ex- prestigious insurance award back together again for ou whelmed with Thanksgiving or other members of the ploration company, and in West Texas.Alden has been 56th reunion. John Hill an' Th and Christmas preparations. church. Every evening at eventually became the owner listed in Who's Who Among his wife, Nikki,sent a beauti Prc I did receive a good many Ma 5:00,1 feed about 20 deer in of the company. His work Insurance Agents and the ful card with the note, "W( Christmas cards—some just nt the feeding area about two took him many places,and he Who's Who Registry,Platinum have built a new place ii signed, such as David and i blocks from our home. Then enjoyed the traveling very Edition,1992. As Alden says, Kerrville, which is chock-ful Lucile Riffs',some with brief Wi there are the two which come much. I asked Morris what "A couple ofrather nice things of Rice grads. Noticed in th4 notes and some with long, ter to the front yard and beg he does now, and he turned happened to me during my Sa//yport that Mary Jam typed letters. Mary Elizabeth win outside the kitchen windows. to his wife,who said,"You're 80th year." Hale Rommel'37 had a parP Wright fell June 6 and broke Bell How can!ignore them? Wild a honey-doer—honey, do Fred Alter owns Alter for 18 of her classmates wh< her hip. She was in the hospi- slot turkeys, squirrels and deer this, honey, do that." Outdoor Advertising Com- live near where we are build tal for a month and is still wyk compete for the droppings Webster's dictionary defines pany, a small but active ad- ing in Riverhill Country Club using a walker. Pre, from the bird feeder in the "doer" as "one who accom- vertising company. He plays Nikki and I arc thinking tha Lawrence and Helen in 1 front yard. As many of you plishes a great deal." tennis as avidly as he did when it is now about time for an Starkey Johnson have been know, my parents were mis- he wasco -captain ofthe tennis other Christmas in Austria "CI traveling as usual—to Oregon 8, sionaries in the 1890s,in the Elizabeth Nye Sorrell spent team in 1934. This means which I think would be fun for a foliage tour and to the Belgian Congo, now Zaire. 48 years as head ofthe English once a week! (John is referring to the nil Northeast (Bar Harbor, tent Several times each year,!share department at a high school Jack Williams,a conscien- we took in 1986 with oui Halifax, Quebec, Montreal). ebra the curios they brought back and nearly 30 as society editor tious alumni's,still works for Rice faculty escorts, Dr. an, They visited children along est v and retell some of their for a weekly newspapers. At Rice during the annual fund- Mrs. Niels C. Nielsen---- the way. Next year, Helen buff dramatic experiences." 82, Liz is still writing. Her raising drives. Aside from the most delightful trip.) Sorry I plans to teach in a 20-church Mrs I'll try not to skip another son,Sterling N.Sorrell '59, normal complaints from missed the recent mectit4 adult English language class. Ui issue. is an attorney in Colorado people our age, Jack is doing ofthe Class of 1936, but sell Lynn and rnos Pauline Mead- Springs. well and looks forward to our make the next one." ows Bourdon have added rTios 60th reunion. Charles and Christini and, another twig to the family Lucian Wilkens retired as Hall Ladner were pleased tc Mrs tree, a fifth great-grandchild. an accountant nearly 10 years have their son, Robert '66 Lynn still practices medicine. 1931 ago. He tells me that his come with his daughter,Mal 'un-( Lillian Horlock Illig then 1932 hobbies run the gamut from garet,for the 25th reunion 01 frier, writes, "Promise me you Class Recorder: gardening to sit-corns. He the Class of 1966. Charle rato, won't put this in Sallyport. Anne McCulloch Class Recorder: and Wilma are doing well. and Christine arc hoping thal who We have had enough public- 2348 Shakespeare Chris Hoover Joe Williamson carries a Margaret will be a third get" Pro ity." But this is different. At Houston, TX 77030 5318 Meadow ], Lake Lane full teaching load at the South eration Rice graduate. rn St. Martin's Episcopal Houston, TX 77056 Texas College of Law as Now, all of you member' (;er Church,there was an exhibi- Class Recorder Anne professor and dean emeritus. of the Class of 1936, plea" UT tion of photographs of 45 McCulloch writes: Prior to this, he taught at the write tome so that lean rela, flower arrangements by Laurine Wade Doyles ,dePa University ofHouston School your news to everyone. itolic Lillian photographed by her graduated with us from Rice of Law. Joe has been sought son, Dale, who took the pic- on that June day long ago 1933 after as a teacher since his fond tures at our60th reunion lun- (count the years). Ifyou knew retirement as an officer and cheon. Lillian says a lot more, Class Recorder: Partr her, you will remember her director ofShell Pipeline Co. '73, but I'm afraid to print it. I beauty and graciousness. I Willie Mae Chapman Cole In addition to his other duties, 1937 Ar must add, however, that The learned soon after graduation 2414 Chimney Rock Joe is on the board of River Texas Gardenerhas published that she had Houston, TX 77056 Class Recorder: nlas moved to Oaks Trust Co. frien, an article by her,"My Texas Baytown, married, had two (713) 782-9509 In general, I think the Mary Jane Hale Rommel Japanese Garden." Drive—Riverliti act°, lovely daughters and was wid- members of our class should 504 Fairway ton, I received a long letter from owed. She taught school in be proud. We have managed Kerrville, TX 78028 Egerton Robb telling about kao Baytown and at Cedar Bayou. to stay busy, and everyone I (512)896-4310 ter, his many activities. "Every Now she lives at St. James talked to appears to be happy. Calif( morning except Sunday, I House in Baytown. Her For myself, as many of you that have a quiet time to read some younger daughter, Susan, is know,!worked in the annual

38 • Sally-port table Christmas Day. Mary The Women's Guild of Clad Recorders: writeup in the October hat Fosselinan wrote that Dot's Wimberley Chapel-in- the - Lee Blocker Sallyport didn't include any ack dinner was great, especially Hills learned a lot about En- 125 Sailfish word about Rev. Margaret ing the pecan pie. glish cathedrals when Shirley Austin, TX 78734 Ellen Williams Crockett- of Class Recorders: From California, David Nyberg McArthur '47, a Dickerman. On a visit to the ner Margaret and Henry Dunlap Westheimer'37 wrote about part-time Wimberley resi- Bob and Evelyn Junket- Boston area this fall, my ex- to P.O. Box 79 how pleased he is that George dent,spoke on"Great Houses Purcell Bostonian wife, Vera, had ted Wimberley, TX 78676 G.Williams '23, our creative of Worship." She showed 5102 Valerie some heart trouble, and we It-cc writing teacher, had written impressive slides that she and Bellaire, TX 77401 had to spend an extra three Wee Zelda Keeper Rick the introduction to David's husband, Bishop Earl N. weeks there before flying back the 3219 Las Palmas forthcoming book,Sitting It McArthur Jr. '48, took on Sam and Frances Flanagan home. I took advantage of Houston, TX 77027 Out, which will be published two visits to England during Bethea the time for a reunion with ill! by the Rice University Press the '80s. They visited cathe- 309 Burnet Dr. Margaret after 50 years or so. Class Recorders Margaret in May. drals in Durham,Canterbury, Baytown, TX 77520 She was the first unknowing and Henry Dunlap write: We were glad to hear from Lincoln, Peterborough, object ofmy puppy love when From Wimberley and the Margaret Blackwell Davis Wells, Salisbury and Coven- Marian Smedes Arthur we were in 4th and 5th grade Texas Hill Country, we '22, who in December cel- try. After his appointment as 5806 Glen Falls Lane at MacGregor Elementary Du/daps send spring greet- ebrated her 91st birthday at Suffragen Bishop of West Dallas, TX 75209 and went on through ings. Though as we write, we her home in Houston. Texas, the McArthurs left Johnston Junior,San Jacinto are wondering if more rains From New York, Doris their home in Wimberley, Floy King Rogde and Rice, where she gradu- Will bring our rivers and Schild wrote that she looks where he was the very dy- 7480 Beechnut #337 ated a year ahead of me. She streams up even higher, we forward to a tour/cruise to namic rector ofSt. Stephen's Houston,TX 77074 told me of her first marriage note that bluebonnet clumps Brazil, Argentina and Uru- Episcopal Church, for head- to James Underwood are already ankle high and guay in February. quarters in San Antonio. Class Recorder Coordinator Crockett, who did the "Vic- feel sure that a record season From Davis, Calif:, Vir- From Conroe, Margaret Dorothy Zapp Forristall- tory Garden" program on slab for wild flowers will be under ginia Sprague wrote that she, Stozier Lewis wrote that she Brown writes: PBS in the '70s and who way as you read these notes. who was born seven months had joined the Society ofRice I heard from Cape DeWitt wrote many books on the had Why not drive up to see them, before the Russian Revolu- University Women,and that that Charlie Moser had quite subject. After helping with and that drive by to see us? tion that overthrew the czar, she, Francis Muse and a bout in the hospital this that, she began courses at us all December was a busy, is pleased to have outlasted Martha Bartels Lilliot summer.I called Charlie,and Harvard Divinity School and our calorie-laden month for us. the communist regime that Greenwood were meeting he is recovering from his went on for her D.D. after he land There were parties and prevailed thereafter. Virginia for lunch January 4 and then operation. Charlie was one of came down with cancer, Programs auti galore. Our friend, writes,"On Saturday evening attending a campus seminar George's best friends, so we which proved to be fatal. Now "We Margaret Lewis Babas '43, of the August coup, I, and a on "Women from Cradle to had a good visit over the she is living in her beautiful met :e in herself coming and go- capacity crowd of Davisites, Grave in the Muslim World." phone. I'm sure he would home in Concord, married „ing•.. She sang with the listened to a concert orSmiles Mary Fosselman, who at- enjoy hearing from some of to a local retired gentleman n the Wimberley Chorus at its win- professional tended the same seminar, you. His address is: 720 and ministering to a ter of Friends,' a Jane concert and performed five musicians from wrote that the speaker stressed Chimney Rock, Houston, congregation in nearby With band of part?' the Chapel-in-the-Hills Uman in the Ukraine, the how much Iranian women 77056. Charlie told me that Framingham. If she did not who Bell Choir on several occa- sister city ofDavis, and to the like living in Iran. "He said Dan Moody had a slight have children back in Texas, sions, then felt frustrated Davis band 'Blues to Uman,' he couldn't touch his wife's stroke but is doing fine. You I'd suspect her of having be- when Club. high water in a gully which had just returned from dowry, that women there can get in touch with Dinky come a complete damn g that prevented her participation Uman after playing concerts could drive,that his wife liked at the Forum,at the intersec- yankee convert. With memo- in the it- an- Wimberley Chorus there. Both groups had left his taking all responsibility, tion of I-10 and Loop 610. ries and old snapshots, it was 'Christmas Fa-La-La.” Moscow to travel to Davis on etc. When one ofthe women In a lovely Christmas card, a delightful visit." e fun. Besides the festive affairs in Monday, without knowing asked him if women there Alene Woods Treadwell Wi ic triP mberley, the Dunlaps at- the coup was in progress.The were sometimes stoned, he wrote that there was a happy Class Recorders Bob and tended holiday cel- Treadwell Evelyn Jimker Purcell write: h our e several Uman band returned home had to admit they were. I gathering of the r. and brationsin Austin. The larg- to give us clan in Austin last year, when Out of the blue comes a est to a different world." think he was trying en-4 was the gala reception and From Dallas, Reiko Marsh a good impression of Iran, the state awarded them a cer- great letter from our long- ;orry 1 buffet dinner which Dean and writes that her husband, Nat but I don't think any of us tificate for 100 years of con- time friend, Armin Wilson, ettlig5 _ Woodson hosted for the Marsh,was ill in August and were fooled. He made a very tinuous working and living and his wife, Evie. It has been Ut Will engineering faculty.Their September, is OK now, but nice appearance and spoke on Roadside Ranch. delightful to be brought up- 'nnst distinguished guests "likes to stay in bed a lot." English very well, but he I called Sam and Frances to-date on the many and var- lust istinc have been former UT Nat and Reiko attended our wasn't very convincing." Flanagan Bethea to see if ied activities of the Wilsons Bed to ,nciformer Rice President and 50th reunion celebration in We extend belated sympa- they had any news of our during the past 50 years. rt Norman Hackerman, 1988, though Nat was in a thy to Katherine Clarke classmates. First, the happy Armin is retired from a career ‘s r, Mar. nrfounded by a host of old wheelchair. We wish them a Norbeck on the death last news: Marjorie Ann and in teaching and research. Evie ipends. tioflot We missed Henry's good 1992. August of her husband, Ed- Cape DeWitt celebrated 50 retired about a year ago from inend harle and research collabo- From Houston, Alberta ward Norbeck. years together December 13. Rutgers, where she was both r4w,i ng th'3 'ae, Myron Dorfman '46, Ries= '34 flew with her Don't forget your invita- I don't know how they cel- teacher and administrator. no -d gen' has had severe health brother and sister-in-law to tion to drive to the Hill Coun- ebrated,but perhaps they will She is now active in improv- Problems since we sat with Tulsa for a family Christmas try. If you can't come, drop write and let us know. Laura ing urban education around him at embeo the dinner a year ago. gathering. us or Zelda a note with your Stone'41 and John McCully Highland Park, N.J. Armin Ciet well volunteer work , pleas' UT soon, Myron. The From Austin,Ruth Booker class news at the addresses were married 50 years Janu- does a bit of in rela‘ Petroleum-engineering wrote about a pleasant listed above. ary 10 and celebrated with a in a local soup kitchen. He e Partment had its usual pre- Thanksgiving with 14 at the party at the Houston Yacht says, "I wind up a cynical Lnohday luncheon, where we table. Club. Mary Lillian Patterson optimist writing poetry."The ioYed both the wonderful From Ann Arbor, George and David Keck celebrated women of the Class of 1939 ,pnod and the dry wit of de- Piranian '41 wrote that he their 50th January 31. should be pleased that Armin tment chair Larry Lake and his wife, Louise Mills 1939 The sad news is that Jerry is on "our" side. He is very who presided. Piranian'43, spent 9 days in Brown Goodell died supportive of the women's rti?_nlong the joys of Christ- August on a fine hiking vaca- Class Recorder Christmas Day. Jerry was a movement and expresses his Were the Coordinator: VVister support through his poetry. friend greetings from tion in Glacier National Park. member of the Owen unel around the earth and In September, Louise took a Dorothy Zapp Forristall- Literary Society. She had a They have visited Italy for crluI across the .is ton, years. From Hous- bicycle tour through East Brown daughter and two sons. varying periods over the past Dorothy Zylicz Bow- 1250 Oakcrest Circle few years. Armin and Evie er11 Anglia, where,in addition to 7 wrote that her daugh- exercise,she got information Beaumont, TX 77706 Class Recorder Floy King have two sons. caii , was home from on the architecture of En- (409)892-1048 Rogde heard from Sam Polk Elder hosteling is high on roenia that for the holidays and glish parish churches, some '40, who wrote: "I was sur- the activity list for many in they had 11 singles at the of them very old. prised that your long class our class. The Wilsons report

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they enjoy it and Artie and Leaf Cluster) and the SAC the White Mountains and lake dence in Irving,Texas, where Earl Wallace headed off to Distinguished Education regions in the state, and en- he serves as CEO of Dallas Arizona for an elder hostel Achievement Award. He and joys Boston's restaurants,the- Gas & Electric. He married experience. Keep those let- his wife traveled extensively aters and other entertain- Ruth Katherine Ford and, ters coming. in Europe and the U.S. and ments. while working in the U.S. We know you really enjoy have settled down to garden- Howard Harrell Hiegal and Venezuela, he became reading about the members ing in Fricndswood. owned and operated three president of Chevron Co. in ofour class. They would also Jack F. Heard, a native theaters in Dallas and a drive- 1964. He continued in oil enjoy hearing about you. The Browning Plantation Houstonian, is the son of in theater in Kerrville, Texas. exploration and producing Please keep in touch. Percy F. Heard, who was He married Loma June,who interests in Libya and Indo- "going concern" as a bed- twice the Chief of Police in went to UT. They have two nesia and was a director of and-breakfast. Together,they Houston. Jack married Faye children, Walter and Lorna Chevron oilfield research. He plan weddings, receptions, Mitchell; they have six Gaye. retired from Chevron in 1984 parties, lunches and group children. After serving in the Louis C.Hirdler and Ada and started a consulting busi- tours (call 409-836-6144). U.S. Air Force, Jack became Frances Miller Hirdler '39 ness. He and Ruth have three Dick calls this restoration a Chief of Police in 1954, married in 1939.They have a daughters and one son, all Class Recorders: labor of love for posterity. having joined the department son, Arthur, and a daughter, college graduates. Julia Taylor Dill Helen Frances Nolen in 1948.He served as assistant Ann Louise,who both gradu- Elisabeth"Wissie" Kelley 7715 Homwood Greve and Thomas E.Greve director ofthe Texas Depart- ated from Louisiana State Johnston and David Houston, TX 77036 '38 have a daughter,Cynthia, ment of Corrections from University. In 1965, Louis Johnston have enjoyed a (713) 774-5208 who graduated from 1956-71. He later became completed the Mid-South rewarding life doing years of Wellesley. Helen and Tho- Sheriffof Harris County and Executive Development Pro- community and volunteer Wanda Hoencke Spaw mas still live in Houston at served from 1973-84. He was gram at LSU. He and Ada work. Dave was with Down, 5614 Inwood 5000 Longmont #14. Tho- a member of numerous have a fishing camp on To- moving from engineering to Houston, TX 77056 mas founded and owned professional and civic organi- ledo Bend and spend many production management, (713)622-9845 Greve Electric from 1947 to zations. He received many happy hours fishing and hunt- then to safety coordinator the present. Helen partici- honors and outstanding ser- ing there. until his retirement. Wissic Lorena Ramin Stcaldey pated in civic and school ac- vice awards,one ofwhich was We were saddened to hear writes that the highlight of 1901-B Potomac tivities, church work and the Certificate of Service in that Orren A.Holt died Sep- her business career was Houston,TX 77057 teaching. She was a member 1965 from the ABA. tember 30. He was married owning and managing the (713) 783-5445 of Chautauqua Study Club John F. "Buck" Heard to Dorothy Ruth Holland Magic Doorway, the only ofHouston, past president of lives at 674 Shady Hollow in Holt'42, and they have five bookstore in Montgomery Class Recorders Julia Taylor College Women's Club of Houston with his wife,Elly, a children, all Red Raiders, County,Texas, for three -and - Dill,Wanda Hoencke Spaw Houston, treasurer and sec- graduate of UT. They have Teasips and Aggies. Orren a-half years. They have two and Lorena Ramin Steakley retary of the Society of Rice two sons and three daugh- served on Navy heavy cruis- boys and two girls. Wissic write: University Women. She has ters. John served as president ers and submarines during and Dave enjoy We will continue with a few walking, supported Rice in many ways of the Rice Alumni Associa- VVVVII and visited many Pa- reading, gardening,listening mini-sketches from our and has audited many courses tion in 1971-72 and was a cific islands during those to music and traveling. Wissic Golden Anniversary—Book of in the religious studies member of the Fondren Li- years. He was elected school was especially active in church Memories and Histories, department.For several years, brary Board ofDirectors. He trustee for the LaMarque In- choir and the League of which is still available from Helen interviewed prospec- served at sea in the Navy in dependent School District for Women Voters. She served Carolyn Mats in the Associa- tive Rice students. WWII and during the Ko- nine years and pursued an on the board and was Repub- tion of Rice Alumni. Frank D. Guernsey lives rean conflict. His current pas- engineering career. He at- lican County Chair in Upton Mildred Dattner Ganch- at 362 Merest in Houston time is genealogy. tended our 50th reunion and County when Eisenhower an and Richard P. "Dick" with his wife, Phyllis. They Carl Milton Hess lives at anniversary banquet. Our was elected. Dave's hobbies Ganchan have four children have two children,Sandy and 15 Royal Crest Drive in sympathy to Dorothy and are photography, guns, and 10 grandchildren. Cathy. Frank has worked with Nashua, N.H., with his wife, their children. electrical-kit building and rug Mildred has been an active Chas. P. Young Co.of Hous- Rose, who attended Boston C.M."Hank" Hudspeth hooking. They live in homemaker and volunteer in ton—financial,corporate and University. After graduating and wife,Demaris De Lange Houston, in the 12th house church, St. Luke's Hospital, commercial printers—since from Rice, he received his Hudspeth '42, live on Sun- they have bought since 1945. Holly Hall, the blood bank 1954. He served as a fighter master's from the Columbia set Blvd. in Houston. In ad- We are amazed and inspired and scouts.She and Dick have pilot during WWII,then lived University Graduate School dition to a bachelor's from by the lives ofour classmates, lived in many places in the in New York for eight years. of Business. He attained the Rice, Hank received his J.D. who have achieved so many U.S. and traveled widely in Frank was the NCAA singles rank of major before leaving from UT. He practiced law oftheir dreams.We hope you Europe. Dick spent five years tennis champion in 1938 and the service in 1946. His for 44 years and is now of enjoyed our reviews. Don't in the U.S. Army Air Force 1939 and SWC singles cham- business career included two counsel with De Lange, miss the "rest ofthe story" in and worked for GulfOil,Stan- pion in 1938,1939 and 1940. years as a junior executive Hudspeth and Pitman. He is the next Sallyport. dard Brass Manufacturing He received the Bob Quinn with American General Life also director of Stewart In- Co.and Automotive Rubber Award,is in the Rice Athletic in Houston, four years as a formation Services and sub- Co. He was president ofVVier Hall ofFame and headed the financial analyst with Shell Oil sidiary companies,was a Rice Homes and owner of Auto- committee to finance the Jake Co., four years as an officer University lecturer from motive Sounds and Synco Hess Tennis Stadium. His with Chase Manhattan Bank 1947-90, a member of the 1942 Construction Co. As presi- hobbies are golf,hunting and in New York City and 20 Board of Governors at Rice dent of the Downtown fishing. years in executive positions from 1980-89 and a Trustee Class Recorder: Kiwanis Club,hc brought the William W.Nana lives at with several leading Wall from 1983-89.He was trustee Oscar Hibler "Freedom Train" to Hous- 15435 Blackhawk Blvd. in Street investment firms. Carl and vice-president of The P.O. Box 771745 ton. Mildred and Dick re- Friendswood,Texas, with his was awarded the Bronze Star Brown Foundation, Inc., Houston, TX 77215-1745 cently celebrated their 50th wife, Kitty Lee Myers. They and several campaign medals from 1983-89. Hank and (713) 782-4499 wedding anniversary with celebrated their 50th wed- in service in WWII. He was a Demaris have two sons and their children during a memo- ding anniversary May 31, member of Beta Gamma one daughter. Hank received Class Recorder Oscar Hiblct rable trip to New Orleans, 1990. They have three sons Sigma, an honorary scholas- the Gold Medal Alumni writes: where Mildred was "queen and five grandchildren. Will- tic business fraternity, and Award in 1986.Hc is a formcr Here are a few more class- for a day." iam retired as Lt. Col. in the numerous financial and secu- president of the ARA and is mate profiles in connection When they're not at home Air Force after 26 years and rity analyst groups. He ap- still active with the Shepherd with ourforthcoming Golden in Houston, they can be worked with Superior Oil Co. peared for a number of years Society, Rice Associates and Anniversary Reunion. If you found at the Browning Plan- for seven years, retiring in in Who's Who in Finance and the State Bar ofTexas. Hank haven't sent me your "What tation at Chappell Hill, Texas. 1984. He is now with Mobil Industry, Who's Who in the enjoys teaching,reading, gar- have I been doing for the past This ante-bellum home, in Oil. He received many hon- East and in the Dictionary of dening and travel. 50 years" story, please let me the National Register of His- ors and awards when in the International Biography. He T.Hardy Jackson Jr. lives hear from you as soon as por toric Places, which they have service,such as the AF Com- resides in Nashua, N.H., in primarily in Atherton, Calif, sible,as we wish to have these restored and furnished, is a mendation Medal(First Oak close proximity to beaches, but maintains a second resi- printed in book form in time

10 • Sallypnrt :re for our reunion. tion accounting department Holt writes: "In exploring students of the high school, at the committee meeting las A.D. Reiehle writes from of the Humble Oil 8c Refin- the time capsule of memory being selected by honor sounded great, and I hope ied Baton Rouge,"After gradua- ing Co. Clint bounced darkened by the shadows of graduates for membership in that all you can attend. .d, tion in June 1942, I stayed around the South Pacific for 50-plus years, I find that the Who's Who in American .S. on at Rice for a year for an a couple of years on a de- Class of 1942 was a special Teachersand being elected to ne Master's and then headed for stroyer. In May 1944, with a one indeed. Many ofour class- an international honorary in Shell Development Co. in stint of shore duty in pros- mates graduated in absentia, teacher's society. I gave my full measure of best. 1943 oil California, along with five pect, we married and headed giving the last Other Rice graduates: War- to Mare Island Navy Yard in devotion salvaging demo- "I have became painfully ing Class Rscorder: ren C. Simpson '41, Tho- San Francisco, where we en- cracy for the rest of us and aware since the death of my Peggy Johnston Gibbons of mas P. Wier'40, Charles S. joyed 18 months ofNavy life. leaving diplomas unseen by husband of48 years that there 629 Sandy Mountain Dr. He Matthews '41, W.M. In 1945, young Clinton was their eyes to posterity. are nightmares from which Sunrise Beach, TX 78643 84 McLamore '41 and Mayer born in Mare Island Navy "Who can forget an early one does not waken and that (915) 388-6659 si- 8. Goren. That was a busy Hospital. sex-discrimination event at daytime shadows do not al- Year for me—graduation, a "From 1946 to July 1948, Rice, when J.P. Miller '41 ways disappear with night- 7CC Class Recorder Peggy all California job, marriage to we lived in Austin,while Clint (Days ofWine and Roses)ran fall. I hope that the quotation Johnston Gibbons writes: Ercelle Hardcastle of Port attended UT Law School and for May Queen,won and was to be placed on my husband's Word of Bill Vernor's Rey Arthur and then joining the Mary Frances supported the disqualified because he was stone will equally apply to death in California on March rid U.S. Navy at Ft. Schuyler. family as secretary to the head male? Another vivid memory me: `If you seek his monu- 7,1991,first reached mefrom :la "After the war,I spent two ofthe UT math department. is that of Tony, our courtly ment, look around you.'" Jack Patillo's wife,Jane, who ; of Years at the University of "Following graduation, gardener, who delighted in From Cincinnati, Robert learned ofit from John Ken- cer Wisconsin getting my doc- Clint joined the Andrews, presenting gardeniasfrom the L. McLaurin writes: "I was neth Jones, who had been 3n, torate, then headed back to Kurth firm in Houston. He beautifully manicured hedges fortunate in being accepted contacted by a representative ;to California for a career in has been associated with that to coeds. And who was the at Harvard Medical School in of Bill's estate seeking Rice's :nt, petroleum-process develop- law firm since. guilty party who took the 1941, and therefore did not address. Subsequently, the tOr ment. After 10 years with "Mary Frances taught in horse upstairs in the boys' graduate with the Class of Rice development office an- 5SiC Shell and several with Phillips, the Houston Independent dorm? 1942.The Institute(as it was nounced the establishment of of I moved to Baton Rouge and School District until we had "An indelible memory is then) graciously gave me my the William H. Vemor Jr. vas the Exxon Research and De- amassed the down payment that of our brilliant, degree when I completed v endowed scholarship fund,to the elopment laboratories, on our first home. There- empathetic president, Dr. medical school in 1944. provide scholarships for un- nly Where I remained for 31 years, upon, she took on the re- Lovett,who knew all students "Subsequent to a stint in dergraduate students in the ;cry 'crying as engineering advi- sponsibility of running the by name and SPA, not by the Amiy,I obtained my post- Shepherd School of Music. nd- sor since 1971. This was a homestead. In 1952, Allison political largesse. We were graduate training in Representatives of Bill's es- :vvo rewarding and fun career for was born, and in 1959, Sara blessed by his guidance. We neurosurgery at Yale and at tate, Mr. and Mrs. Tom ssie "se, thanks to the gifts of an showed up. The spacing of were privileged to have Dr. Harvard and entered the prac- e Whittingslow, arrived from ng, xcellent engineering foun- seven years between each of McKillop as mentor. How he tice and teaching of California and made the gift ing dation and the high standards the three children allowed us made literature live as he lec- neurosurgery at the Univer- presentation to President ssie of the Rice faculty. Our two to get one child through col- tured while switching from sity of Cincinnati in 1953. I d George Rupp and Dean itch aughters grew up in Baton lege and graduate school be- 'reading glasses' to 'seeing have been in that capacity up Michael Hammond of the of Rouge, but now live in Tuc- fore college tuition com- glasses.' Who can forget the to the present time. For 28 Shepherd School of Music rved son and Knoxville,both great menced for the next one. On histrionics of Dr. Bourgeois, years, I was chair of the January 16. The west coast areas for regular winter and the other hand, this timing the dry wit of Dr. Camden, department of neurosurgery visitors were given a tour of Pqon sununer visits. Ercellc died in required Mary Frances topar- the clever lectures of Dr. at our medical school. the campus,and the occasion )wer ea:4'1990 after a long illness. ticipate in the elementary Davies, or the cruel and un- "Fortunately, we have five was further celebrated with a bies "A special treat in June school PTA for 21 consecu- usual punishment of Miss children, all of whom have dinner and concert honoring uns, 1990 was seeing a grand niece tive years. Dean's awful class,Math 100? had post-graduate education the Whittingslows and at- i rug 1.1e1 grand nephew (sister and "The law firm gave Clint "My life since graduation and are successful in their tended by Catherine in brother) graduate from Rice some interesting assignments. has been busy, full and re- fields. Three of the five Coburn Hannah, Rice's nise t°8ether. In the mid-1950s,he worked warding. My husband,Orrai continued the medical trend steadfast ambassador ofgood 945. "The past year has been a on the construction ofPacific A. Holt '40, and I were in the family and obtained will, Susie Stalcup, director pired "sY and exciting one. In Northwest Pipeline. His job blessed with five wonderful their M.D.sfrom the Univer- of planned giving, and Tim iates, Ntwember 1990, I married was to coordinate the work children, graduates of uni- sity ofCincinnati. One ofthe Moloney'90 (Hanszen), also nanY Marsha McCormick ofBaton oflocal attorneys in right-of- versities who are active in such physicians, daughter Ann from the development office. you kcinge, and shortly thereaf- way acquisition and condem- varied professions as manage- Norris McLaurin Meeker ter The current twelvemonth )on't both she and I retired nation proceedings from ment engineering, law, '69,obtained her bachelor's has seen most of us arrive at y"in our full-time jobs. It northern New Mexico to the teaching, sales and toxicol- from Rice and was home- that wondrously extraordi- took us only a few days to Canadian border north of ogy research. We have seven coming queen her senior year, nary, incredible age of 70, switch gears from our long- Seattle. During the 1970s and grandchildren. I feel as which was obviously not a and some of these landmark tern professional careers and 1980s, Clint spent most of Cornelia did—my children paternal influence. s events have been celebrated . art to 'run and play.' I still his time on the firm's work are my jewels, my gift to pos- "About five years ago,after "aro a with great fanfare. The invi- bit of engineering. We for Hughes Tool Co., for terity. terminating the offspring e tation to John Leedom's away from home about a which he served as general "In my travels, I have left from the payroll, I elected to third birthday party, hosted by an of the time, seeking counsel. For the 15 years prior footprints in the sand of all go to law school. I continue a assortment of Dallas friends, remote and beautiful spots to retirement in 1986, Clint the continents in marveling to do neurosurgery and also was a hot pink folder featur- ,ccessible by foot, bicycle, served as administrative part- at the Parthenon,staring back to practice law,each endeavor ing a cartoon sketch of the "ne, raft or mule, with oc- ner of the firm. Now his at the Sphinx, walking the taking about 50 percent of honoree,and the affair itself, 745 !si°nal backpacking. But we responsibilities consist prin- Via Dolorosa, gazing from my time. according to Jane and Jack "rne into the cities for art cipally in representing the firm scary heights at Blarney "The practice of law has Patillo, was "the greatest." !al,lerie-s, museums, gardens in charity golf tournaments. Castle, holding a koala in proved to be challenging and So, how did your day go? tibia -:tIls! books. At home, we "Following retirement, we Australia, riding the white interesting, since I am in- Department of Who's frtrwe on leisurely visits to a high-rise, so we water in Alaska,spending two volved mainly in defense work with moved Who: Rice has given Dallas class- a_''sels and families in Louisi- can hit the road without weeks near the Black Forest in medical malpractice and two of its civic leaders in re- ction se"ha_and east Texas, our worrying about the lawn in Germany in a friend's an- personal injury litigation." es- cent years. A. Starke Taylor ilden • "al service work and getting mowed or the azaleas cestral home dating from the We recently held the first try- served two two-year terms as f you ,‘1118 to stay in shape for turning yellow. Conse- 12th century,and touring fas- meeting of the Reunion ',eat trip.” the mayor, 1983-87,following a What quently, we have toured the cinating Caracas, Venezuela. Committee that will arrange Fr stint as city councilman. le past CHn Clint and country from coast to coast "In order to pay my rent our Golden Anniversary Re- Mary Annette Louise Greenfield let rile Dunnam Morse: and border to border. It is for time on Earth, I taught union.You have probably re- 1 Strauss '44 also served on s pOS- .,..r.°11s3w ng graduation,Clint mean, dirty work, but some- school for 28 years. I claim ceived in the mail specifics of '1!tned the city council and succeeded :theS r the Navy and one has to do it." bragging rights for having the Reunion by now, but I Mary Stark as mayor 1987-91. I &Me ranees joined the produc- Dorothy Ruth Holland been voted No. 1 teacher by would like to add that the tentative details we went over

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Thanks to my Dallas corre- health problems in May that three-year term. Bruce is at Rutgers University in New Poll' spondents who came through required surgery and chemo- Rehnberg Professor and chair Brunswick, specializing ill nity for this issue. Let me hear 1954 therapy through October. of the chemical engineering international relations. Nir and from the rest of you. She spent November and department at the University wife, Patricia, is an English high Class Recorder: New Year's in Europe, so I ofWashington, where he has professor at John Jay College clatq Mary Anne Collins would say either her treat- taught for 24 years. In 1983, in New York,and our dough - You P.O. Box 271 ment was remarkably effec- he received the William H. ter, Virginia, is 15. Teaching chik Hunt,TX 78024 tive or Pat is unbelievably in- Walker Award from the is still fun after 20 years— treat 1944 domitable. We all wish her AlChE for his contributions keeps me young talking about ing Gloria McDermith Shatto continued vibrant health.Sev- to chemical engineering lit- American foreign policy to a Year; Class Recorder: has been elected to the Board eral years ago she bought a erature. generation that has no per- pub] Larry Hermes ofDirectors for Texas Instru- home in New Orleans, where sonal experience prior to the brea 2028 Albans Road ments.Since 1980,Gloria has she spends a lot of time play- Reagan era, although it was riled Houston, TX 77005 been president of Berry Col- ing the Southern "hostess very inconsiderate of the Mad (713) 529-2009 lege in Rome, Ga. with the mostest." She spe- Soviet Union to dissolve while and cializes in serving her guests 1963 I was teaching about it. Myj advit that"down-home" Southern research includes the book' enjo cooking that is s000 good— Class Recorder: Political Power and the Arab got, fried okra, greens, biscuits, Kathleen Much Oil Weapon (University of hit 1945 1956 1065 Greenwood Ave gravy and ham. I think I hear California Press, 1988) and slecli New Orleans calling. Palo Alto, CA 94301 the Class Recorder: Class Recorder an edited book, When Pettily Bladdedge (415) 328-9779 Jack Joplin Maurine Bybee Woods, Killing Stops:How Civil Wars a true scribe in our class, sent (415) 321-2052 5001 Woodway Drive, Ph 1 3800 Chevy Chase End (New York Universin' Illi some of her articles from Houston, TX 77056-1707 Houston,TX 77019 the Press, 1992). Long Beach Press-Telegram. I Class Recorder Kathleen harrowing ex' I- (713)960-1582 (home) (713) 522-3705 "My rather laughed until my sides Much writes: (713)498-6331 (office) hurt, perience at Rice had its ad- yet the messages have a great Dick Heiser(Baker) writes vantages. I stress it when ad- ,I.iiir ; from California, "This fall, Jim Thomen writes: "You deal of"bite" to them. Erma vising undergraduates,trying „lire' Bombeck had better watch I've been a long-term substi- to reduce the fear of failure may be interested in the fact tute teacher at Fairfax High that John Wiley published 1957 out—Penny's in print, and that I recall so vividly. It who knows what will hap- School in Hollywood, which nice to hear that the school w. as, Leadership in Saftty Mana,ge- may be the best high school stud mentthis fall. I authored David Lang "is enjoying four pen? You ought to call her has become a little more user- this in Los Angeles. Teaching the still g!Ast. book. After 32 years with grandchildren, doing space- and demand copies of your friendly. On balance, I own. You'll have a ball read- same kids everyday is really in tning DuPont, I retired at the end tether dynamics consulting bears grudge toward the ing her pithy, different compared to float- warin s°hcIe of 1985 and have been for NASA and playing accor- priceless and stitution, despite provoking commentaries on ing from school to school— lac- thrIcril consulting on safety manage- dion in a Cajun/Zydeco band memories of friends and life in the '90s. it's exhausting! sis n mentthrough DuPont,which in Seattle." You can truly ulty. As an alumnus of relate to her observations con- "Two geometry classes are offers such services. I was a colleges and universities, I can rect( cerning children going extremely well. Ironi- ass() plant manager for DuPont who return say that the Rice alumni cally, my own math grades shoulders for 18 of those 32 years." to the nest (bungee-cord ciation is head and kids—they keep bouncing from 30 years ago were so above its competition." 1 1958 back); her turkeyless Thanks- low,they almost disqualified giving dinner;and howyoung me from teaching math. Mis- conceptions about high- Class Recorder: females pursue young males Alan 1947 Phyllis Walton in the'90s (she has two sons). school teachers—that teach- been 4233 Harpers Ferry Road Too much!! ers are underqualified, 1964 and - Class Recorder: Birmingham, AL 35213 underpaid and in short sup- fe„ (M.S.' Emily Butler Osborn (205)870-0332 Fred Erisman (Wiess) was a ply,and that teaching is easy— Joseph N. Goodell th, training and 54 Lake Rd. 1991 recipient of the astonish me: I'm also teach- applies "the superb P. 0. Box 537 Class Recorder Phyllis Burlington Northern Faculty ing an economics course and of Rice to manufacturing the can, Lake Jackson, TX 77566 Walton writes: Achievement Award at TCU, two classes of basic math. projects and to teaching Why not sit down and send where he is Lorraine Sherley Basic math is still as boring math—currently with rico Class recorder Emily Butler me a note so I can share with Professor of Literature. He and toxic for students and commercial aircraft prograifo eZena, Osborn is patiently awaiting everyone what is going on in joined the faculty in 1965. teachers as it was 55 years at McDonnell Douglas aini news from classmates. Write your life? You know you like ago, when my mom had to at Golden West College ill soon to get in the next edition to read about others,so let us teach it. I'd rather teach'new Southern California." - of Sallyport. in on your news. Besides, it math':scientific visualization, will make me look good to fractals, electronic spread- have a column regularly. 1959 sheets, charting, computer Bob and Ann Page Grif- graphics, math modeling and fin won't ever slow down. Class Recorder: simulation. Or chemistry,if I 1948 Bob semi-retired from Proc- Tommie Lu Maulsby can find a job opening. tor & Gamble but couldn't 2256 Shakespeare "Loretta has more cello stu- Henry L.McCorlde recently stand the inactivity, so he is Houston, TX 77030 dents, more gigs, more en- retired as physician at the Fort president of his local Cham- (713)664-5042 ergy, more fun. She wants to Detrick Health Clinic in ber ofCommerce, while Ann ride in a cattle drive in Mon- Maryland. He is at home in is still busy with her own com- tana in April. Our new tele- Thurmont, Md., with his pany. Their daughter, Page, phone number is(310) 645- wife, Nancy, their children, receives her master's in May. 2149. Give us a call." grandchildren and a basement 1961 • She's the last of their three full of .027-gauge model children, and Bob reports Roy Licklider (Hanszen) Class Recorder: trains. Henry says, "With they'll be through educating writes from New Jersey,"Af- Sue Wheeler (Jones) writ Nancy Burch those trains, I've been offspring then. Maybe they'll ter flunking out of Rice in "For the past 20 years I ha 3311 Stoney Brook through my second,third and even visit Houston again. 1961, 1 finished my under- been living on Lasqueti Houston, TX 77063 fourth childhoods." Russell and Maureen Polk graduate work at Boston land, British Columbia. M Cias, (713) 781-3634 Smith are about to become University, where my former partner, Peter, and I have 209 grandparents for the first roommate,Jack Calfee,now organic garlic farm and gro Bruce A. Finlayson (Will Frier time. They enjoy their teaches. I got a doctorate in most of our fruits and vc Rice) has been elected direc- (713 Annapolis home and stay busy international relations from etables. We enjoy kayak' tor ofthe American Institute (71,3 in academia. Yale in 1968 and am now and bird watching and have of Chemical Engineers for a Pat Sides Moreland had professor of political science lively social, intellectual a

42 • Sallyport New Political life in the commu- New Class Recorder Judy 1968), but in the fall of1992, spent searching for toilets,we nitY. My two sons are grown Malo Ragland (Jones) I will assume office as the were able to sees few items of My and my stepson just finished writes: national president ofPi Delta 1975 interest." glish high school.I have one grand- Howdy to all my friends Phi, the French Honor Soci- liege daughter, 3-1/2. To all of and Class of1968 alums. I'm ety. I look forward to the Steve Hurder (Lovett) ugh You who don't have grand- excited about being our class challenge." writes: "It's been 17 years hing' children yet: You've got a recorder. since leaving Rice and Hous- ars—. treat ahead! I have been writ- I've always felt that it's the Ronald Zweighaft (Baker) ton, so it must be time to write. My wife, Anita, and I bout ing Poetry for the past three fun things we do in life,along has been selected "Chief-of- to a Years and am beginning to be with what we give back to the Staff-Elect (for 1992) of have a 7-year-old daughter, per- Published. In 1990 I had community,that really define Memorial City Medical Cen- who is thoroughly enjoying the breast cancer. I had the whole who we are. I encourage all of ter Hospital.Also just elected being a kid. Anita has was medical bag oftricks and have you to "share the fun" with secretary-treasurer of the developed an interest in the the made big changes in my diet the rest of your classmates. western branch, Harris saxophone during the last few vhile and my priorities. I would I've been continuing the County Medical Society. I've years and has joined a concert MY. advise everyone to learn to fun that my husband Bill and been practicing neurology in band that hopes to get some book enjoy each day as all you've I shared before he passed away the Memorial area of Hous- gigs for next summer. (This her Arab, got, without needing to be four years ago. I serve on the ton for 10 years." is not much related to training in statistics!) y of hit over the head with a communications committee University ) and Sledgehammer to realize it." of the Houston Livestock Robert L. Davis(Hanszen) "I was named a Rick R. Behrend (Wiess) n the Show & Rodeo and in is partner and shareholder at Scholar at the University of writes: "I have joined the Wars February completed my 10th Fabyanske,Svoboda, Westra, Illinois at Chicago this fall, a Capital Markets Group as a 105 year riding on the Salt Grass Davis & Hart,in Minneapo- pleasant reward after six years vice president in the institu- Trail Ride. I've also served as lis, Minn., specializing in of service in Chicago. This tional/corporate securities g ex. chair of the Parks & Recre- banking, financial transac- spring I will use my sabbatical sales group at Texas Com- ; ad' ation Board for the City of tions, real estate, commer- leave to visit universities on merce Bank, Houston. After Shirley J ad-, ones Hayes( Jones), Friendswood,and chaired the cial, corporate and securities the east and west coasts ofthe 10 years ofcommercial lend- yin director of development for Galveston County Extension law. U.S. and also make trips to ing at Texas Commerce, the ilur/ the College of Business at Service Executive Planning Rio, Oxford, Paris and opportunity to sell fixed-in- It's Florida Atlantic University, Board. Currently,I'm enjoy- Santiago, Spain. come securities, including hool was with a group of business ing my term of office as an "Yo! Lovett! Where are the mutual funds, will be a new s user tudents in Russia last Au- Area Governor for Toastmas- rest of Lovett classes '74 and but hopefully rewarding chal- gust. I still Their contingency plan- ters International, and even 1972 '75? Like the cicadas,it's time lenge. If you or your com- 'Sing had not included "what to check in!" pany have excess cash to in- le in- to find time to participate on v a r dowhen caught in a coup." my company's BBQ/chili/ Scott M. Perry (Wiess) vest, give me a call at (713) fae- Shirley reports that those gumbo cook-off team (look writes:"Became co-owner of 236-4145." three if si days were an unex - for us at the March of Dimes Archetype Typography at the I c Petted learning experience. Walkathon at Rice in April). beginning of September, after having worked there for 1977 asso- To support my avocations several years.So far,so good." and my 17-year-old daugh- Gregory Alexander (Wiess) ter, Mary Sue, I work as the 1978 and Lisa Breier Alexander administrator for the engi- 1007 '78(Brown) write: "After 2- William T.Shearer (Lovett) neering department at M.W. 1/2 years in Brussels, Bel- writes: "I was recalled to ac- Alan Kellogg Co. in Houston. We C.Shapiro (Wiess) has 1973 gium,we are returning to our tive duty by the U.S.Air Force have several Rice engineers een appointed the Ivadelle former residence near St. 1991 and spent here at Kellogg,and we often in January nld Theodore Johnson Pro- A. Neal Mangham (Ph.D.) Louis. Greg's work experi- Arabia share our thoughts on the five months in Saudi M.S.) lessor ofBanking and Finance writes:"In July 1991,my fam- ence at Monsanto's Europe- the GulfVVar. Rice Owl teams and Rice's during and after the Department ofFinance ily and I moved from South- Africa technical center in While there, I performed le- ming and recent acclaim as the best Business Economics at ern California to Vermont, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, bases near u ring value in higher education. gal duties at the University of Southern where I have taken an ap- was personally and profes- Riyadh and was hingl C Please join our network,Class Shahran and alifornia. He is currently pointment as president of a sionally rewarding. Lisa gave promoted to major. Now a no4 cres of 1968. Let us hear from earching the links between small college. Our very best up chemical engineering again, I'm in school you. civilian "tporate to friends and classmates." some time ago to pursue in- ; rate finance and corpo- in England for a year until strategy. terests in management (at 1992, when I'll get En- ge Lt. Cmdr. Charles S. Riv- July home)and singing. Now hav- glish legal qualifications." ers Jr.( Hanszen ) retired from ing 'studied singing in Eu- the U.S. Navy and is now rope'(from a New Zealand teaching math at Ocoee 1974 pianist) she looks forward to Ocoee,Fla. Middle School in resuming studies with her Robert M. Secrest former teacher. Vacationing 1979 (Hanszen) has a new job in in Europe with Benjamin and Austin with Schlumberger,in Nicholas, our 7-1/2- and 6- Sally Allen Chew (Jones) their workstation products year-old sons,was also stimu- writes:"Steve '82 (Sid Rich) support group. lating. In between the times and I have been living in 1969 George Nagel(Wiess) writes: "I've been back in Alaska for Class Recorder: two years. I have worked at Kathleen Callaway nine different jobs, all of rue Leon Blum 8, which were both temporary 33400 Talence and part-time, none ofwhich France paid enough to support me (i.e., aerobics instructor,play- I #410'09 ground attendant, legislative II l' year Class aide). During the school Recorder; I take miscellaneous gradu- ave Malo 1970 undergraduate classes; gro4 Ragland ate and rain, Aire J ve Rolande L. Leguillon during the summer I play (771lii),ds 4.`"8 .02.530d T6X( softball. I live a few blocks aki 77h) 546 (Ph.D.) writes: "I am still from my parents. Even in the _ have teaching French at the Uni- '3) 753-2604 middle ofAnchorage, moose Chemistry lab partners Jim {. ining, left, Gretchen Vu al ad (o) versity of St. Thomas (since wander through my yard." and Jack Vexler were reunited lastfall, during the 25th reunion of the Class of 1966.

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Maplewood, N.J., since New York University. My software architectures for en- 1986,when I was transferred wife, Linda, has her own pri- abling large-scale network 111 here by Exxon. I will soon vate practice in dentistry. We computing systems (finally return to work for Exxon would like to hear from all getting a chance to use that Research & Engineering in Rice people at (212) 263- econ/poli degree some- Florham Park, N.J., follow- 5597,orat home,(212)532- where!). Daughter Emily is ing my maternity leave. Our 4854. We are at 312 E. 30th near starting gate of the ter- daughter, Laura Elizabeth, St. Apt. 4A, New York, NY rible twos. Plan to add a sib- was born October 12. Steve 10016." ling to the brood soon after is CAD supervisor and project moving to Portland, but in captain at Rogers, Burgun, Joel West(Will Rice)worked planning stages only. Invite Shahine & Deschler Inc. ar- at Ross Hill Controls for 18 any ofour Rice associates who chitects in New York." months as an electrical test might be traveling through engineer after graduation. He the area to give us a call. We Peter Schwab (Lovett) was would like information from can be reached at(503) 292- promoted to partner at Ernst other alums on openings in 8285." 8c Young October 1. He says electrical controls or eketri- he, Jeannette and Kirsten, 2, cal power. J.Matthew Leslie(Will Rice) still long to be back in Texas, has been named associate with Touring Japan with the 1991 Mantovani Orchestra are despite moving to a new David C. Holmes (Lovett) Payette Associates,Architects 1982 Shepherd School graduate Pamela Glasser, left, RoI, house in Darien, Conn. was recently elected partner and Planners, of Boston, Yong-Chun Li, bottom,and 1988graduate Carol Laube, Writ in the law firm ofHonigman, Mass.Since he joined the firm right. En route to Tokyo, they met 1989 graduate Joe mot Miller, Schwartz and Cohn. in 1986, he has worked on Staples, top, who teaches English in Sendai. Posii projects at Rutgers Univer- for r sity, University ofNew Jersey 9uat 1980 and Princeton. The new year will find them iams & Connolly in Wash vice living in Stuttgart, Germany. ington, D.C. mn2 Class Recorder: 1982 "John Offiat(Baker) and tine Richard Morris Jane drove down from Francois-Paul Briand siste 9555 Cloverdale Rachel Dvoretzky (Baker) Toronto, Canada, with their (M.C.S.) has been named cha, San Antonio, TX 78250 writes: "January marked one 1983 bouncing baby boy, Eric. president of North American W011 (512) 523-1820(home) year in my 75-year-old John is a real estate developer Morph°Systems Inc.,a corn send (512) 342-6063(work) Heights bungalow,the 'Casa David H.Gay (Baker) writes: and broker, and Jane has a pany specializing in auto Gra, Cojones.'Since I began lock- "Howdy!After eight years of private law practice. mated fingerprint identifica Reesa D. Hedrick (Jones) ing the cat door at night, the reading the classnotes section "Edward Keller (Baker) tion systems (AFIS). He ‘4,1' writes:"Received J.D. magna raccoons and possums no with interest,I've finally man- and Shelley received the elected director and CEO in Clic cum laude from South Texas longer come into the aged to put together some bor jetsetter award by coming 1990. .pvc College ofLaw in May 1991. kitchen." info. It should help fill in from their current home Licensed with the State Bar some long-lost friends on down under in Sydney, Aus- David Norton (Hanszer0 now ofTexas in November 1991. Eddie M.Harris Jr.(Wiess) what quite a few of us have tralia. Ed works with Leo writes: "I have recently been Currently serving a one-year has left his position as direc- been up to. Burnett in advertising and appointed to the Alaska State Shei appointment as briefing at- tor of grants and research at "My August wedding to Shelley with Booz Allen in Water Resources Board 11 Alieg torney to Chief Justice J. South Texas College of Law Alena Skala in Chicago pro- consulting. While on honey- Gov.Wally Hickel.The boart' of E Curtiss Brown of the 14th in Houston and is currently vided a great opportunity for moon, we visited the IC:Hers advises the governor on No Court of Appeals." director of development a reunion offriends from the at home between skiing the ter-policy issues and overseo Chr research at Baylor College of Class of 1983. Southern Alps of New activities of the state depart `vritt Medicine in the Texas "Classmates came from all Zealand and scuba diving on mentsofnatural resources anti lion Medical Center. over to be a part ofthe happy the Great Barrier Reef. environmental conservation ceut live. event. Tony Liu(Baker) and "We have been living in "I returned to Alyeska Pipe 1981 Susan Stone Woodard wife, Alisa,came from Hous- and , Glen Mills, Penn., since I line, operators of the Tra05 (Baker)writes: "We enjoy life ton, where Tony now works received my call. Class Recorder: doctorate in Alaska Pipeline,in 1988 aft in beautiful Kentucky but for Shell Development after munici B. David Brent chemical engineering from several years as the wish we could see friends and getting his doctorate in the University of Wisconsin engineer for Anchorage. In Ai 333 Julia Street, #310 lo family more often. I have left chemical engineering at Wis- in 1989. I work for DuPont "I recently completed tt New Orleans, LA 70130 zoom my career as a radio consin in 1989.Alisa is a nurse Polymers in Wilmington, (504) 581-1805(home) stint as project manager personality, at least tempo- practitioner at M.D. Ander- Del., as a specialist in process beer (504) 588-5314(work) an expansion of Alyeska rarily,so lean stay home with son Hospital. simulation and control.Alena ballast water treatment pl travt soot. our new son. I am starting a "Also in attendance from is a designer and project man- termin New Class Recorder David at the Valdez oil home business that involves Texas were Sara Benson ager with the architecture firm Leslie Bush '92(Hansze# Gull Brent (Will Rice) writes: ehe matching college students (Brown), now a systems en- Interspace Inc., in Philadel- also an In 1990, I completed my Alaskan, worked with financial-aid opportuni- gineer with NeXT comput- phia. We would IPPit residency in ophthalmology love to hear last two summersfor me as ties." ers in Houston, and Eric from classmates with whom Thai at Tulane University Medical engineering aide on eh Bauereis'82 (VViess), who is we have lost touch." Center,where I served as chief project. Mitchell T.Shults (Sid Rich) a device engineering manager "I am currently engin Mai residentfrom January to June writes: "After 12 years, we're for Motorola in Austin. Eric Writ of that year. Jonathan Morgan (Lovett) ing coordinator for pipe fror, finally headed back home to actually arrived for the wed- recently joined Cameron Iron I am presently in the sec- corrosion projects." veril Portland, Ore. Spent eight ding direct from a vacation in Works/Cooper Industries as ond year ofa two-year vitreo- got years at Andersen Consult- Switzerland. a marketing manager. He retinal fellowship here at frien ing in their Houston office, "Nancy Noever (Baker) graduated in December 1991 Tulane. Austin will become (Bak where I worked with a num- came from sunny Tampa,Fla., with a MBA from the Uni- my home in July 1992, when (Sid ber offellow Rice alums. Left where she works as a techni- versity of Houston. 1985 I join the Texas Eye Center Andersen in 1990 to join cal writer for Talbots while Mar old , located there. I would love to Business Systems Group,then launching her career in Class Recorder: hear from any former class- a small systems-consulting screenwriting. David Phillips iltrr hani mates who live in the area. startup in Houston. BSG is "Doug Gardner (Wiess) 6013 Ridgeview Drive tht now a larger, very successful and Alison Bober (Baker) 1984 Alexandria, VA 22310 tow, Hiep Nguyen (Will Rice) systems-integration firm. flew in from Los Angeles, (703)960-9249 writes:"My wife and I moved Have now accepted a position where Doug works as a sys- Lynda Lee Homerding to New York City earlier this at Intel Corporation in tem programmer at JPL and (Jones)has recently accepted Kyle Self(Sid Rich) rear) Wee] year. lam a fellow in thoracic Hillsboro, Ore., working to Alison is assistant to a pro- a position ass litigation asso- moved to California to Gua toll and cardiovascular surgery at develop system hardware and ducer for Columbia Pictures. ciate at the law firm of Will- tend graduate school at V Santa Barbara.

-14 • Sallyport returned to California. The ing a baby in June 1992." was at Christ the King Lake in the evenings and am skiing season has begun, so Robert W. Herron Jr. Lutheran Church,some 100 working at Price Waterhouse 1986 expect to see me at the slopes (M.A.) has authored Mark's yards from the Beer-Bike in the reorganization and liti- all over the west from now Account ofPeter's Denial: A track. Several illustrious Rice gation services department, until April." History ofIts Interpretation. alumni participated: Kristine where I was promoted to a Hain Rollinson '89(Jones) professional assistant in No- David Wiley (Hanszen) Karen Oehler (Jones) and and Paul Tsien-Shih Lee vember. I hope to get my writes: "Last June I stopped Alan Gatherer were married (Baker) as ushers, Laura MBA in a couple of years." handling drumsof toxic waste in Austin September 21. On McRae '88, Laura Heisy in a chemical plant in Texas hand to celebrate were David (both Will Rice) and Jim StuartShippey111 (Sid Rich) City and began the equally Dankworth '86, Pamela Rollinson (Jones) as atten- is still in the Navy. He mar- odious task of dealing with Williams Dankworth,Kerry dants. For a wedding that ried Kirsten Poole '89 regulations at the Environ- Go (all Jones), Spencer was expected to be rather (Jones) on July 27. mental Protection Agency in Greene '88 and Kim Jung small, we had quite a few Washington, D.C. If you're '87(both Sid Rich). alums as guests, including Simon Madorsky(Hanszen) visiting the area, call me at Donna McDougald(Baker), writes: "I am finishing my (703) 553-8623. I often see Jennifer L. Gabel (Brown) Michael Johnson '89 (Sid second year of general sur- Paul Talley '87 (Hanszen), has been an assistant district Rich),Kevin '90 ( Baker) and gery at UC-Irvine, with four who works for American Air- attorney with the Dallas Laura Magee'90 (Hanszen), more years ofotolaryngology, ire lines and lives in Baltimore County District Attorney's Diana Hardesty Fowler, head and neck surgery resi- except for fi• Roland Nghicm (Jones) when he's not crisscrossing Office since graduating from Lawrence Herrera, James dency left. I love it, writes: "I was recently pro- the globe. Keith and Alice UT Law School in May 1990 Vera,Jacquie Lentz(all Will the sleepless nights and long moted married Of? to a staffdevelopment Parks Sartain '85 (both and passing the bar in No- Rice), Emily Nghiem '88, hours. I am getting position at IBM,just in time Hanszen) have moved to vember 1990.She is assigned and Robert Duffield (both here in Orange County May toe Christmas, after adding a Dallas, where Keith is an ac- to juvenile delinquency pros- Baker). We were also pleased 24." qu arter-million dollars to ser- tuary and Alice, having gradu- ecution and really loves the to see Doc C from Will Rice Wash vice revenue, despite the ated from Texas A&M,is now job, "though all those baby there. Not being content with Catherine Hardekopf tough economy and competi- scary at one such group, we held a (Jones)was married to Oliver tive a veterinarian: Their big news criminals can be marketplace. IBM is per- is the October 4 arrival of times." Jennifer is planning second reception in Califor- Freudenreich of Heidelberg, Hand sistent and resilient. For pur- William Alexander Sartain." an April wedding to Michael nia. We discovered a lot of Germany,Aug. 4. Attending tamed 'hase tips on solid UNIX and Perez,a "wonderful non-Rice alumni in the Bay Area who the festivities in Los Alamos, cricaa w orkstation products, just Windsor Thomas(Will Rice) guy who happens to be a can't resistfree beer,like Greg N.M.,were Mike Morehead conl '.end a postcard to: 1411 writes:"After driving subma- probation officer." He is cur- Keaton (Baker), Syd Polk and Susan Moore (both auto liraey Farms Lane #81,Aus- rines for 5 years, I woke up rently working toward a (Hanszen), Krista Polk '89 Jones). The happy couple is tifica tin, TX 78758." day and realized there master's in social work at UT- (Brown), Jeff Erickson (Will now living in Durham,N.C., leWi one anyone to play with Arlington and plans to be a Rice)and Paul Lee (he's ev- where Catherine is working ii wasn't EO Clifford(Sid Rich)and Alice anymore. I got a job at Corn- therapist. Jennifer's wedding erywhere!). on her doctorate in microbi- barman (Will Rice) write: ing in Wilmington, N.C., plans include Jennifer "As far as the rest of our ology and Oliver is finishing ``We're both out ofthe Navy making fiberoptic cable. Kavinsky Jannifin '86 lives, Mark is trying to finish medical school. ssze now and have moved back to Write meat: 1122 Two Mile (Jones),Evelyn Terrell '88, a doctorate in math at UC- be Houston. Cliffis working for Wright Driesen '86, Berkeley,and I'm working as Elizabeth N.Farley (Lovett) Shell Circle West,Wilmington, NC Nancy a Sta Development Co., and May Cahill '87 (all Brown) an assistant systems manager writes: "I just completed my ice 28405." irdl is working in the Office and Jerry Corcoran '85 (No! It has nothing to do first semester at Notre Dame of External Affairs at Rice." Carole Ann Lockhart has (Baker). Jennifer writes, "I with computers!) at Trans- Law School. I am planning to married Bernhard Alois Bass, have stayed in touch with all Box Systems, a small courier get married this summer to a e_hris Kohnhorst(Sid Rich) and they currently live in ofthem, and they are all do- company. In lieu ofchildren, Mr. Andrew Parsons." Lep nntes:"I am now working in Germany. ing resoundingly well, as we have two neurotic cats H Bonn, :es ouston for Pfizer Pharma- should be expected. If any- with Italian names.Take care, Becky Abernethy (Jones) ce ratio uticals ass sales representa- Karin Murphy (Lovett) one gets to Dallas, I'm in the all." recently married Chad tive. I a Pi live on the west side "My new address book!" Harrell. The Rice folks who and writes: encourage old friends to (through June) is P.O. Box made the trek to Chicago for 8 afte:l During the five years of 5349, Kiryat Shmoneh, Is- Lynn Williams Schlatter the wedding included brides- nICIP Navy career,which ended rael 10200. After four-and- (Will Rice) and Mark maid Ashley Wisner, Lance toAugust, I was lucky enough a- half years working in pub- Schlatter (Baker ) write: 1908 Benedict '89, Scott Lovie, !tcdjt travel through eve time lishing in Boston, I took a "Since we've made it through Dan and Tanya Huang jcr zone1,... in E. Guerra (Baker) the world anEtiy have year offto do something dif- the half-year mark,we've de- Richard Jasica and Marco Temaner •,evri • "I am studying to get 'eska tri 48 states—anyone ferent. I came to Israel,spent cided it's safe to tell the crowd writes: '89(all Jones).The archi con- plan "4 ehng UH - Clear t to Maine or Alaska four monthslearning Hebrew we're married. Our wedding my MBA from tingency consisted of Steve minai nac43.,n2 I was in the Persian and working on a kibbutz. I (Baker) and Misha Laird Iszca Ps lit but the came back before currently teach English and Klimas (Hanszen) and ed ,t War,and 1 visited the Phil- do community work in Kiryat Rodney Collins (Sid Rich). as An ZPines, le Singapore,Sri Lanka, Shmoneh,a small town in the n the hailand and Bahrain." north.I did see Ronnie Segal Benita Falls( Brown) moved (Wiess)when I visited Jerusa- to Dallas and is practicing as 'inccor4 Mae, os Frid (Sid Rich) lem, but don't think I'll see an environmental attorney ipeli froIes: "I was in Houston grads until I with Akin, Gump, Hauer & , any other Rice October 31 until No- return to the States in the fall. Feld.She is engaged to medi- v:M3 for homecoming. I Ifanyone is in Israel and wants cal student Glenn Harper, I°8ether with my best see Mt. Hermon, let me who is at Baylor Med School (11.1.1c1s, to Billy Bickford '87 know!" in Houston. (,..cr.)and Manuel Novoa 41,1•Rie ch)and his wife, Anna Marie Traham Barnett otr We relived the good (Lovett) writes: "I spent seven days Bi by having dinner at great months in Costa Rica aPoretti's (our eternal 1987 last year teaching English. thlout place),shopping at When I returned to the U.S. t n Gay '83 (Baker), center, married Alena Skala in alleria, driving around Paul Arceneaux (Wiess) David H. I started as a grad student at August. Attending the wedding were, clockwise brnc and having dessert at writes:"I was married in June Chicago this USC's film school. I'm now upper left, around the bride and groom, Nancy e 8C Freddo. After a fun 1988 to Shari Nelson. I am from the in my second semester. It's !cendf (Baker), Alison Bober '83 (Will Rice), Jane eeltend, Billy returned to currently a graduate assistant Noever '83 been very challenging. I'm to 2cl. Ferguson, Alisa Herman-Liu, Sara Benson '83 (Brown), t:_nretuala, Manuel returned track coach with the Indiana assistant director on an ad- Shelley Keller, Edward Keller '83 (Baker), Tony Liu '83 northwest Houston,and I University track and cross- Offutt '83(Baker), Doug Gardner'83 (Wiess) country team. We are expect- (Baker),John and Eric Bauereis '82 (Wiess). April • May '92 • 45 CLASSNOTES

vanced project this term. I '87, Joe Vradnik '87 (all sion of the Clorox Co. I am see Perry Glanzer '89 (Sid Will Rice), Jon Warren '88 based in their division office (Jo Rich) at school frequently. (Jones) and Shawn Smith in Louisville, Ky., where I am Ric He's getting a doctorate from '88 (Sid Rich). Of course, completing my training in thc the Department of Religious Prof. Ian Duck of physics their management develop- Mi4 Ethics. Weather is great as played the grand role of fa- ment program. Afterward, I usual." ther-of-the-bride. Hada great will be assigned to one of Sus party afterward atop the their manufacturing plants. (Ea Warwick Hotel and honey- Right now, I am enjoying ann mooned at Lake Louise in some business travel. It is a SOn Canada(great skiing).Thanks great way to see the country. her 1989 to all ofour friends for being I participate in a volleyball there. Rich will be finishing league and volunteer at jun- Job Heidi Dastmakhian( Baker) up his Ph.D. in planetary sci- ior achievement high school Kat married Steven Burnett (an ence at CalTech in a few years. programs. My independence (Jor 7he Rice Young Alumni Business Network Assocation pro- Aggie!)October 25 in Hous- In the meantime, Lydia is and self-confidence have sky- pro of duced a directory and has sponsored several Networking ton. Attending were Linda gaining experience working rocketed since living on my Sept Directory pickup functions. Next year, the Business Net Colton, Peggy Graham with severely emotionally dis- own (not to mention my liv- SiSte work Association hopes to expand to include alumni nation Crist, Mary Lynn Alton, turbed children in a residen- ing expenses!). However, I wide as well as alumni of all ages. Byron Marsales, Lisa Clark tial treatment center in sometimes feel like the lone Mic Front row,left to right: Andrea Sinden Ehlers '88(Will and Tom Blasey '88 (all Pasadena." Rice alumna in this part of Wer, co-chair; Helena Zodrow '79 (Brown), co-chair; HannahRice)' Baker). After a fantastic 16- the country.So, ifyou're trav- (hot Baker '86 (Ilanszen); Catherine Rinslinger day honeymoon in France, eling this way, look me up." '83 (Baker); that they settled in Houston. Melanie Levine '91 (MBA); Bruce Pounder '85(MBA); and was Greg Staten '91 (Will Rice). Stephanie Antezana (Will Mad Back row, left to right: John Zodrow '78 Val Heitshusen (Jones) 1990 Rice) writes: "I am currently (Lovett); Lynn* Clark '90 (Lovett); Jabir Al-Hilali '77(Sid Bug writes: "Surprising everyone working as a designer for a Rich); Inc Hartman '81 Rich); George Diaz-Arastia '80(Wiess); who knew me well, I married Class Recorder: packaging company in Sugar (sid share Bob Baig '91( MCS); and Roger Moore Garry Young(A&M gradu- Jennifer Cooper Land (I'm living in Hous- '82(M.A.). freY ate and Rice doctoral candi- 912 Peden ton). I'm also enrolled in a and date) December 21 at my Houston, TX 77006 year-long commercial art pro- Michael, September 27. He Rice; parents' home in Houston. (713) 523-6549(home) gram at the Art Institute of joins Matthew,5, and Sarah, We met while I was pursuing 'Ferri Houston. I attend classes at New Arrivals 2. In November, Kim ac my master's in 'as( political sci- Gigi Kiperman (Jones) night and will graduate in cepted a regional controllc ence at Rice. Bridesmaids, band writes:"I moved to New York June. I also do some freelance position with Affiliated Cons who traveled MANY birth miles to City in August 1991.1 began graphic design for packag- James C. Orchard '62 putcr Systems Inc. attend, were Emily Hanson my doctorate at Columbia ing. In other words,I've been (Hanszen) and his wife, and Maria Portela (both Jame University in sociomedical keeping myselfvery busy,but Eunice, celebrated Charles Michael Smith '77 an, Jones). Also in attendance sciences. Other Rice people I I've still had some time to see Evan's first birthday Novem- Phyllis Smith '81 (boil Rich) were Eric Heineman keep in touch • (imps with are Oscar friends from our class at Rice. ber 24. Baker)announce the birth 0 (Lovett),Ellen Foreman'92 r noun, Mangini '86 (Hanszen), I have a cool boss who let me Stephen Anthony Septembe (Jones)and many faculty and r Kim Rector(Jones) and Kim take off for a long Christmas Helen Jameson Moulton 30. Stephen has an oleic graduate students broth from the Forester. Rice people in NYC vacation, so I went skiing in '74(Jones) and her husband, brother, Justin, 4. political science and econom- give me a call at (212) 864- Colorado with Wes Gere(Sid Cliff, announce the birth of ics departments at Rice. Miss- 0647." Rich) and his family. Sylvia Daniel Jameson Moulton Carmen R. Eggleston '7i ing guest Bill Viereck(Jones) andhi Roch (Will Rice)is going for April 9. He joins Laura, 6, (Jones) had a baby boy gave us the most interesting Johanna Talavera (Lovett) a doctorate in industrial/or- and Jerry, 5. Michael Joseph Adamski, Jul'• the bi gift—a chia pet. We honey- is attending Boston Univer- ganizational psychology at 19.She was promoted to part l)ceet mooned at a ski resort in Utah. sity School ofMedicine, phar- A8cM.She doesn't much like Judy Rocket Zaunbrecher ner at Price Waterhouse "I am currently pursuing macology Ain't department, and being an Aggie,so she comes '75 (Brown) and Richard the restructuring and kip my doctorate in political sci- writes, "Things are going down to Houston to visit a Zaunbrecher'74 (Sid Rich) tion support group July 1. ence at Stanford while Garry well!" lot. I've heard from Alice announce the birth of berhtt finishes his at Rice. Emily Chen(Lovett), who is travel- Rebecca Jane November 23. Robert Jenkins '79(Bake the bil Hanson, my current room- in Atli Adrian Treves (Lovett) ing around the world on her She joins sister, Ginny,9. and his wife, Elizabeth, an mate, is enjoying her job in writes:"I'm braving Harvard Mark Watson Fellowship. She is nounce the birth oftheir firs, the sales department at a four- (the Rice of the Northeast) researching endangered birds Ward Turner '76 (Wiess) child, Graham Scott Jenkins '`cadc star hotel in Palo Alto. Maria graduate school so I can spend and just and Denise Buchanan finished a 3-1/2- born June 11. Evelyi Portela is working hard as months stumbling through month stay at St. Vincent (in Turner '76 (Brown) an- usual for Goldman Sachs in African forests in the sum- the West Indies), studying nounce the arrival of Peter Valerie Luessenhop'79 an nei, h, London. My husband and t I mertime. My opinion of the St. Vincent amazon. Now James May 18. He joins Tom Fornoff '78 (boti "KPat hope to soon be living to- birth Harvard—Rice was tougher! she's on her way to Australia Andrew, 8, Debbie, 6, and Baker) are delighted to an gether in California; presently 4cpa, Drop by or drop a letter to: and the Far East and won't be Martha, 4. flounce the adoption 01 we are the best customers big of Apt. 1006, 10 Magazine St., back until July. Sarah Leedy Suzanne Dorothy, born Sc sisi Continental Airlines. Believe Cambridge, MA 02139, (Will Rice), as you probably Robin Falkenstein Fall '77 tember 11.Suzanne joins br°the it or not, I kept this insane (617)868-0668." know, has moved to Europe (Sid Rich) and Donna sister, Carolyn,a very gro last name, so take note, to live with her family there." Rittenhouse Fall'78 ( Jones) up first-grader. friends, you still have to re- announce the birth ofCarolyn and h, member how to spell it." Catriona Stadtler (Lovett) July 20.She joins sibs Megan, David Hanson '80( Love an1out and Jeff Ayer (Baker) an- Scott and Matthew. All are and Deborah Willifor Lydia H.Duck-Dissly (Will 1991 happy and busy in Roseland, nounced their engagement Hanson '80 (Brown) 30. Rice) writes from Pasadena, Christmas Day. N.J. nounce the birth of Ebe'l thcv Calif, to report that Richard Class Recorder: Ross Goldberg daughter, Lisa Marie, Oct', wher'e Dissly '88 (Will Rice) and Stephanie K. Green Tom Kauffman'77 ( Lovett) 1001 Quill Lane ber 25. she were married in March (Hanszen) was recently pro- and his wife, Melanie, an- 1991.They had the ceremony Oreland, PA 19075 moted to ensign and is serv- nounce the birth oftheir son, Eric Powers'80 (Lovett) in the Rice Chapel and were (215) 233-4508 ing at the Naval Aviation Elliot Charles,May 30. Elliot his wife, Kathi,announce t11.1 surrounded by lots ofold Rice Schools Command,Naval Air has a big sister, Alana. birth oftheir daughter,Etit friends. "Rice alums in the Vicky Sanchez (Brown) Station, Pensacola, Fla. Alexa, November 23. Ent° wedding party were Sarah writes:"lam working for the Kim Noland'77 (Wiess) and Kingsford Products Co.(yes, joins big brother, Seth, 3, Duck '86, Nancy Jenkins his wife, Kathy,announce the Th0,4 von Minden,Royce Ray III they make charcoal!), a divi- birth of their son, Sean

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Susan Rhymes Fiddin '81 nounce the birth ofa daugh- Emily T. Williams '34 on Friends/Former Faculty/ Raymond D. Holder on (Jones) and her husband, ter, Chelsea, May 20. Tris January 11, 1991 Staff January 11 Rick, announce the birth of completed nuclear power Wilbur E.Hess '35 on Janu- Robrt C. Lazell on January their first child, Kelley school and is now a Lt. j.g. on ary 27 Catherine Broyles Bell in 5 Michelle, April 26. the Car/ Vinson, which is in George Herder Allen '36 January Donald Norman Levin on Bremerton, Wash. on December 30 Voreece M. "Voe" Cam- November 23 Susan Stone Woodard '82 James Thompson Lee '36 eron on December 10 Ben Mayberry on Decem- (Raker) and husband, Rex, Laura Magee'90 (Hanszen) on November 1 Lewis Z. "Lew" Carey on ber 28 announce the birth of their and Kevin Magee '90 Jerry B.Hankamer Goodell December 10 John E. McCleary Jr. on 5On, George Dane, Novem- (Baker) announced the ar- '40 on December 25 Reagan Cartwright on De- December 20 ber 1. rival of a son, Joshua, in the Ralph Mason Pritchett'41 cember 26 Don E. McMahon on De- December Sallyport. Joshua on October 29 Alice P. Cate on Decem- cember 25 .„Julul Estes '83 (Wiess) and was born October 13, 1990, William Parker Redmond ber 4 Mildred B. McStravick on 'athy Stewart Estes '83 not 1991. They are expect- '41 on January 2 Daisy Martin Coe on De- January 7 (Jones) announce the birth ing their second child in June Daisy L. Cookenboo Sims cember 30 Maymee Meeks on Decem- w- of Alexander Stewart Estes 1992. '41 on November 12 Miriam McDorman Cooley ber 21 ing/ September 9. He joins big Hoyt Vernon Baird '42 in on December 16 M.W."Bill" Parse on Dc- Vet- sister, Rachel Elizabeth, 2. Melissa Snyder '91 (Wiess) January Harold C. Dillee on De- cemberl 3 on- and Sarmad Adnan '89 Warren C. Green '42, date cember 1 Otto August Reidelon Janu- Michael J. Scott '85 and (M.S.Mech E.) announce the unknown Elizabeth B. Dohoney on ary 1 ce Wendy S. Covey-Scott '85 birth oftheir first child,Taahir William Martin Koch '42 December 2 Maggie Schleifer-Nachim- mis (both Will Rice) announce David Ahmed, May 8. on January 9 Duane F. Emmert on De- son on January 14, 1991 er): that "Madeline Rose Scott Charles E. Myres '42 in cember 18 Benjamin K. Smith on De- Ind Was born October 3. 1991 Doris C. Fatjo on Decem- cember 2 Madeline joins her older sis- Madlyn E. Newsome ber 29 Sally Walsh on January 12 nne ter, Caitlin Marie,2, in Sugar Cummings '43 on Novem- William D. Gillingham on E.L. "Pete" Wehner on Big Land, Texas. Madeline will In Memoriam ber 30 January 26 December 15 as); share her birthday with Jef- Harvey Lee Mitchell'44 on Ronald H. Greenfield on Gladys M. Wheat on De- fteY Matthews '86 (Jones) December 9 January 17 cember 29 an„,.d Daniel Price '87 (Will Rice Alumni Vernon C.J. Newton '48 Earl Harris on December 4 Samuel Calhoun Wilson on He Rice)." on November 8 December 22 rah, John Holland Harp '18 in Glenn David Robertson'49 Teeel• aC- „ Herrmann Sitorius June on December 6 >Het 'aS (Hanszen) and her hus- Pierre Nurna Almeras '21 Konstantin Kolenda'5000 inn" band, Patrick, announce the on November 3 December 5 birth of Shelby Ruth April 3. Idawynne Howard '21 on Tim H. Weakley '52 on January 14 December 7 and Lantes Thompson '85 (Sid William Addison McElroy Sandra L. Swickard Myres ',Oth 11)and Susan Drott Th- '22 on December 22 '5400 October 16 .h of (unPson '83 (Lovett) an- Flossie Brown Spangler'22 Codie Shaffer Wells '55 in nber njounce the birth of Michael on October 24 October haines April 13. Michael joins James Brooks Leftwich '23 Arthur W.J. Ullman'64 on ilde( r other, Matthew, 3-1/2. on January 17 July 23 Zuline Bennett Rogers'23 Michael Eric Doman '67 Pa '78 ul A. James '86 (Baker) in 1991 on December 11 Bechenback'25 boy, 'tind‘ .s wife, Maria,announce Charlie G. Nicholas Caruso '70, date ,Ju'lY 1)-k °Lrth of Christine Maria on January 7 unknown par, eeember 25. Benjamin Starr Melton'25 John Christian Lane'74 on on January 20 Febuary 7, 1991 sg il Ai Riga' a 'nee Breedin Twaro- Kathleen Houseman Moore James Eberle Adams'93 in y 1. h?wski '86 (Hanszen) and '25 on December 4 1991 trhusband,Mark,announce Frances N.Allums Wier'26 laker) birth of Lindsay Fielding in 1991 arr mr' August. Both Aimee and Edward Armstrong Elkan r first, A ark teach at Denver '27 on November 8 vadernY, Elenora C. Alexander '27 on January 6 Rv j e-Th Rosa! McFaden '88 Harold Duggan McKellar 79 aii,j 'Ivincciher '28 on December 16 It us hear from you husband, Frank S. both hI F5den III, announce the Genevieve Alpha Pittelkow o hicrtvb of Liana Cristin '28 on December 1 keeping up with friends and classmates in the Classnotes section? Why not return the ,n aden August 2.She joins Edward James Smith Jr.'29 Enjoy Se, t,18 black-and-white photo at Sallyport, Office of News a sister, Elissa, 5, and big in December favor—drop us a line and a (preferably) ns br4 submissions 'other, Frank IV, 1-1/2. Halsted R. Warrick '29 on & Publications, P.O. Box 1892, Houston,TX 77251. The deadline for classnotes roWtr bi August 30 is June 1 for the August/September 1992 issue and August 3 for the October/November ant Barnes '89 (Jones) Dorothy A. Dreaper Hild 1992 issue. Classnotes received after those dates will appear in the following issue. Sallyport 'alnd her '31 on December 17 husband, Michael, reserves the right to edit classnotes for length and style. overt/ ,N41 t1°11rice the birth of David Virginia Reed Tackaberry gore 4. Ichael Ready, born June '31 on December 20 IT Claire Allen Douglass '32 i) a Wc,k"Wines five- years and six 0 Married? 0 New Job? 0 New Baby? November 30 f the' ahead of schedule." on 0 Promoted? 0 Take a Trip? 0See a Classmate? Octa wii!Y are still in Houston, George W. Hewitt '32 on 're school December 9 0 Moved? 0 Back in School? 0 Other? get Michael. is in ting science hours for Lillie Rice Hubele '32 on j edi January 5 worijnal school and Diane is details. Ice dl' Sis.. on her master's the- Louise Freridis Whittemore Send us '32 on November 18 En Jarnes William 0. Capehart '33 6 h, 3. '89(vv "Tds" Thompson on January Thr, 1ess)and Nellie Black Elbert V. Pollan '33 on "411Pson '90 (Baker) an- December 12 Name College Class Howard I. Mason Sr. '34 on January 11 Address(0 New)) YESTERYEAR

March/April May April/May 1 lBikarnu.meenenve.rnadvertised Bicycles were once again Just as the springtime eers in style for travel and showers drenched cam- 922 advertised for the Second 1042 romance at Rice. The 1002 pus, a record 3,000 ap- Biennial Engineering Show March campus began to acquire the atmo- plications poured into the admis- 31 and April 1. At night, a billion- sphere of a bygone decade as the sion office. A Time article extolling candle-power searchlight acted as a war-time shortage of tires and au- the virtues of the university on the majestic exclamation point to the tomobiles made itself felt. An esti- swamp—which,incidentally, affair, which drew more than mated 400-percent increase in the charged no tuition—prompted the 10,000 people during the 16-hour number of cycles at the institute applicant increase. The article also period. The show was a painstaking afforded the spectacle of bicyclists revealed the surprising fact that effort to acquaint the people of pedaling through the streets and Rice taught liberal arts. Houston with the instruction gravel walks of Rice at all hours. offered engineers and scientists at April/May the Rice Institute. April 1 Sinotcece r a‘t roa ns April I rolledThe in idnutos t r i a le rsev o dleuntit o n aTleyll -bu t oownn tu 972 the Rice campus it was Co-ed proponents of the 952 lounge with two new still an underground sport. In a cotton dress ruled the additions: the campus' first public plea to the student body for better 1032 campus for the annual television and a "Kwik-Kafe" ma- attendance at games, one player Cotton Dress Day April 18. The chine. One student labeled the compared the Rice soccer team to Woman's Council urged every television as "typical of the decay of the Rice Band—both were a some- woman to wear the fabric in sup- American culture." Concerning the what unorthodox, but well-trained port of Texas products and farmers. glorified percolator, a professor and coordinated, group of players. "Cotton dresses are both practical thought the ominous hum and In 1972, Rice sent three men to and smart," stated the council blue glimmer of the ultraviolet cup the All-Star soccer team, one of president, "and we hope all Rice receptacles was a hoax performed whom scored the only goal in the girls will wear cotton dresses, not with mirrors. More optimistically, a North-South All-Star game. only on April 18, but on many student said of the coffee robot, spring days." "It's ugly, but [coffee] costs only a April nickel." President Norman Hackerman's decision 1982 that Wiess College implement co-ed living provoked a storm of student protest. About 800 people signed a petition against the administration's decision-making process, which ignored student opinions. There was slightly less protest about the idea of integrating women into thc traditionally male college. Photog- rapher Geoff Winningham, then master of Wiess, said, "Over fifty percent ofincoming freshmen at Wiess have expressed a preference for co-ed living." At the time, Sid Richardson and Brown Colleges remained the only single-sex colleges. —Tom Sioi

Students and faculty work on a radio-controlled car for an entry in a 1920's Engineering Show.

48 • Sallyport m- CALENBAR ,p- is- April 1992 The calendar covers major events ling April 9-10—Spring Recess. on the Rice campus. Please verify the dates and times with the sponsoring April 16-May 2-28th Annual organization. For information the Rice Student Art Show, sponsored on other lectures, concerts, recitals, lso by the Friends of Fondren Library films, etc., please contact thefollowing: and the arts committee of the Association of Rice Alumni. Sewall Alumni Relations, (713) 527-4057; Art Gallery hours are 12-5 p.m., Athletic tickets, (713) 527-2441; Tuesday through Saturday; 12-9 Continuing Studies, p.m., Thursday. For information, (713) 527-4803; sin call 527-3470. Media Center movie information, (713) 527-4853; 'as April 17—Final Day of Classes. Rice Design Alliance, (713) 527-4876; net May 1992 Rice Players, (713) 527-4027; May 2—Rice University's 79th Rice Student Volunteer Program, to Commencement. (713) 527-4970; 011e - Shepherd School of Music concert ined May 15—Summer School information,(713) 527-4933. rers. Application Deadline. Middle and :o high school students can choose from more than 90 courses taught the by Rice teacher trainees and master teachers. The courses, which cover both traditional and offbeat topics, run from June 9 to July 17. For information, call (713) 527-4967.

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Last year, the Wiess College "War Pig" was the most visible sign of team spirit at Beer-Bike. This year, rain grounded the 40-foot-long pig and forced officials to postpone the races to Friday, March 27. Brown won the women's race, while Jones College took the men's prize. Hanszen College beat its only com- petitor, the Graduate Student Association, to win the alumni race. Photo by Tommy LaVergne

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