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14 The Arts at Rice Despite funding challenges, Rice programs in the visual and performing arts offer students many paths to artistic expression.

—by Katharine O'Connell

22 The Science of Art Over the centuries the developments of science have profoundly influenced the creations of artists, proving that science and art are not, in fact, worlds apart. —by Philip Montgomery

28 A Potter's Work Fance Franck '48 has helped raise appreciation of ceramics as art in the West. —by Polly Morrice

February / March '94 1 4 Letters

Through the Sallyport Rice art professor Bas Poulos is pooling talents with cue manufacturer Richard Black to create a signature line of sticks.

6 News International summit meets to discuss human genome research; plans for nanotechnology lab announced; Board approves new tuition program; Ken Hatfield named head football coach; and Rice hosts play development workshop.

8 Viewpoints New football roach, page 7. Should Rice develop the arts further? Two faculty members consider the question.

10 Academia The art and art history department welcomes students from all academic back- grounds and levels of experience.

12 Books, Etc. Letters of an alleged madwoman reveal details of life in a southern insane asylum; psychologist offers tools for identifying and treating job-related anxiety and other work dysfunctions; and musicology specialist examines gender bias in the Western musical canon.

34 Students A brief history of Rice radio, aka KTRU.

Life in an asylum, page 12. 35 Sports Recap of fall sports.

36 Gifts and Giving Memorial scholarship for music students established; Shepherd Society supports students and special projects of the Shepherd School of Music; and gift societies provide annual funding for university's fundamental needs.

38 Alumni Gazette Alumni Affairs reaches out to Houston-area alumni; and staying involved.

40 Sally Forth Castles, lochs and bagpipes await Rice alumni in Scotland.

42 Classnotes

64 Yesteryear Skirling in Scotland, page 40. 65 Calendar

2 Sallyport The Third Pillar Rice's intellectual foundation. In our newly revived viewpoints sec- MIAMI This issue of Sallyport is dedicated tion, Sandy Havens, drama profes- and, specifically, sor and director of the Rice Play- FEBRUARY/MAKII 1994, VOL. 50, NO.4 to the arts at Rice to the visual and performing arts. ers, and Michael Hammond, music We have included in our discussion professor and dean of the Shep- Published by the External Affairs Division music, drama, painting, ceramics, herd School of Music, debate film, photography, drawing and whether Rice should develop the Managing Editor, Greta Paules other realms of artistic activity, arts further. Art Director, Jeff Cox while excluding poetry, prose fic- Phil Montgomery's article exam- tion and other manifestations of ines the points at which the arts and Editorial Staff: David D. Medina '83, literary arts. In so limiting our science intersect. The computer, to Phil Montgomery, staff writers; the C. S. Monholland '89, copy editor subject matter, we have not meant many the supreme to suggest that there is anything icon of modern sci- Design Staff: Tommy LaVergne, photographer; painting ence, has found its 11 Christine Minuto, designer more creative about, say, ...... than about composing poetry or way, not only into the on. writing novels. Rather, we have office and home, but The Rice University Board of Governors Trustees: Charles W. Duncan Jr., chair, chosen to focus on the visual and also into the painter's Josephine E. Abercrombie, vice chair, D. Kent performing arts because these ar- studio and the musi- Anderson, J. Evans Attwell, John L. Cox, Burton comparatively cian's chamber. Com- J. McMurtry, Jack T. Trotter. Term Members: eas have received J. 0."Bucky" Allshouse, James A. Baker, III, little attention in the past, not only puters are being used E. Willi Barnett, A. L. Jensen, George R. in Sallyport, but at Rice in general. to draw, to alter pho- Miner, Paula M. Mosle, James L. Pate, Selby W. Sullivan. Alumni Governors: T. Rsibert "Bob" More than 80 years ago, Edgar tographs and to com- Jones, G. Walter McReynolds, Steven J. Shaper, Odell Lovett—reiterating the pose. They will never Stephen B. Smith. wishes of the Institute's founder— replace the artist, but n; Administrative Officers announced that Rice would dedi- in some areas of artis- President, Malcolm Gillis; Acting Provost, James cate itself to the advancement of tic endeavor,they have er Kinsey; Vice President for External Affairs, Frank TI1 B. Ryan; Vice President for Finance and Adminis- literature, science and art. Since already irrevocably al- tration, Dean W. Currie; Interim Vice President do ev- tered the creative pro- for the Institute could hardly Student Affairs, Sarah Burnett; Vice President cess. for Graduate Studies, Research and Information erything at the outset, however, it Systems, G. Anthony Gorry; Treasurer and Vice would begin "at the science end" Polly Morrice's ar- President for Investments, Scott W. Wise. building strength in literature as ticle reviews the life SallYPort Editorial Board circumstances might permit. and accomplishments Ryn Bowers '64, Paul Burka '63, Sidney Burros "With respect to the art end," of Rice graduate 57, David Butler '80, Lynda Crist '67, Sara Rice McDaniel '71, Bill Merriman '67, Rebecca President Lovett remarked, Fance Franck, an in- Udden '73, Ronny Wells '62. Ex officio: Frank would endeavor "to take architec- ternationally acclaim- B. Ryan '58, Vice President for External Affairs; ture seriously in the preparation of ed potter who is credited with Scott Biddy '86, Director of Alumni Affairs; Albert Kidd '64, President-elect, Association of all of its plans, and to see to it that helping to elevate ceramics to the Rice Alumni; Joseph Elias '93, President, the physical setting of the Institute level of art in the West. Interest- Graduate Student Association; Julia Farnham, beauty as well as of ingly, Franck did not study studio President, Student Association. be one of great more immediate utility." art at Rice. In fact, studio courses Sallyport is published bimonthly by the External Rice's interest in the arts has were not offered when she was Affairs Division of Rice University and is sent to all university alumni, faculty, staff, graduate certainly exceeded Lovett's initial here in the 1940s. students, parents of undergraduate students and concern with creating an aestheti- A university cannot be all things friends. Editorial Offices: News & Publications, the to all people. And it is not obliged Allen Center for Business Activities, Rice Uni- cally pleasing campus. While versity, 6100 S. Main St., Houston, TX 77005. arts may not yet enjoy the promi- to try. It should, however, do what Mailing address: P.O. Box 1892, Houston, TX nence of letters and sciences, ours it has chosen to do well. One of 77251-1892. Rice University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution. is an artistically vibrant university. the things that Rice does well is in- In her overview of the arts at spire its students with the desire Voluntary subscriptions to Sallyport are and drive to available for a $15 suggested contribution. Rice, Katharine O'Connell finds pursue knowledge— that much of the artistic activity artistic or otherwise—beyond the Postmaster: Send address changes to Sallyport, that takes place here falls outside classroom and beyond graduation. Office of News & Publications, Rice University, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251-1892. the curriculum proper, and that Taken together, the offerings of this extracurricular status lends this issue seem to suggest that ©1994 Rice University these activities a distinctive flavor. whatever Rice's shortcomings in an ‘,0 Sallyport is printed on recycled paper. She finds too that funding for the the visual and performing arts, in arts is in some places thin, raising this we have succeeded. concern among those members of the faculty who are committed to —Greta Paules strengthening this third pillar of managing editor

February / March '94 3 LETTERS'

The Polities of Feminism Martha Washington, Harriet Eastern Europe Revisited Tubman, etc. What he got was a Sa//ypores journalistic standards room run by senior undergrad en- The article "The Transformation of appear to have followed Amtrak forcers who stopped people in Eastern Europe," published in the into that Alabama bayou, because, mid-sentence to criticize their Sallyport's October issue, was brim- unlike your fine piece on athletics choice of words and even the fact ming with logical inconsistencies a while back, the authoress of your that women wore makeup. The and factual mistakes. Although the ludicrous puff piece on women's graduate teacher made up phan- author of this piece, David D. ("womyn's?") studies clearly had tom statistics to bolster her con- Medina, based his writing on The an ideological ax to grind. tentions that lesbianism was supe- Walls Came Tumbling Down, a Women's studies partisans would rior to heterosexuality. When the work of highly regarded Rice his- have you believe that the essence man criticized the teacher out tory professor Gale Stokes, of their mission is to make the loud, he was shouted down and fi- Medina's article only served to per- woman's perspective as crucial as nally expelled from the class. De- petuate myths about the transfor- the man's in fields ranging from spite letters of support from class- mation of Eastern Europe. medicine to history. This goal is mates, the administration did not Apparently, the initial purpose of certainly laudable, but it's a little reinstate him. The graduate teach- Medina's article is to explain the like saying the Communists were ers quit the program, saying the current situation in Eastern Europe primarily interested in reducing man should be dismissed from the after "one of the greatest political unemployment. university because his critiques and social upheavals in modern his- The fact of the matter is that were tantamount to rape! tory." Unfortunately, the writing women's studies departments are Obviously, these folks don't take doesn't express the pace of changes born not of a scientific imperative criticism well. They evade the rig- in this part of the world. For ex- but of a political one. Unlike most ors of peer review by establishing ample, Medina compares "the disciplines, in this area they begin their own discipline, to which only newly formed Republic of Czecho- with an ideological framework and the like-minded are admitted (no slovakia" to the newly created then seek to conform the facts to conservatives need apply). External Slovakia several times. The forma- it. So, for example, the Rice cata- critiques are dismissed, as by your tion of new Czechoslovakia is an log lists a core women's studies authoress, as "inflammatory," es- event of 1918, and today there is course taught from the "feminist pecially if they come from men, no such country. Medina, quoting perspective." Feminism is a politi- like Dinesh D'Souza. It is, on the Stokes, further writes that "Slovakia cal movement, one that defines its other hand, not inflammatory . . doesn't. understand capitalism" idiosyncratic vision as the universal when Andrea Dworkin says that because it "has an unemployment female perspective. However, this causing women pain is an integral rate of about 11 percent." On the movement is under serious attack part of male sexuality. Or when another hand, Poland, with unem- from many female critics. If femi- other feminist "academic" begins a ployment approaching 14 percent, nism is the universal female voice, book by saying that when you are appears to Medina as the most pro- how can women be criticizing it? little, your father holds you down gressive country of the region. The That's right, they're "not real so another man can basically rape high unemployment figures of both women," the phraseology used by you. countries are the result of the west- Gloria Steinem and Annie Potts to Traditional disciplines certainly ernized economic policy, in which describe the candidacy of Kay need to integrate women's per- state-subsidized, unprofitable com- Bailey Hutchison for Senate. Did spectives into their areas, prefer- panies are closed. However, what is she fail a chromosome test, or just ably within already established good in Poland is criticized in the an ideological one? Women's stud- courses. What neither Rice nor any case of Slovakia. According to ies, then, excludes many of those other university needs is a depart- Medina, Stokes also voices the criti- whose former lack of representa- ment dedicated to, as a prof in cism that "the newly formed Re- tion they propose to correct. California put it, a "spiritual trans- public of Czechoslovakia is more A recent PBS special dramatized formation" that causes people to educated, more urban and more several instances of gross intoler- rebel against the "patriarchal soci- secular than the Republic of ance and suppression of speech ety" and its norms. That is not sci- Slovakia." It is true that Slovakia is perpetrated by these people. ence but propaganda. It does not more religious than its neighbor; There's the Goya nude that was encourage independent thought however, I question the legitimacy successfully declared to be sexual but intellectual zombiism. Rice of using the degree of religiousness harassment by an English prof at must remain, as it was 10 years in a country as a criterion of eco- Penn State. The scariest example, ago, a bastion of free and creative nomic progress. however, was that of a thoughtful thought and speech. The Czech Republic (though in- young man who took a women's correctly called the newly formed studies course at the University of Stephen Sokolyk '84 M.D. Czechoslovakia), gains the full ap- Washington, hoping to learn about Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin proval of Stokes and Medina. Nev-

I Sallyport ertheless, the leader of this nation, Vaclav Havel, became the danced around the prospect of •n of president in 1989, not 1990 as teaming up to create a signature the Medina asserts. Furthermore, line of pool cues that could com- oh Stokes is quoted as saying that mand four- to five-figure prices the Czech privatization method Pool Cues as Art from serious stick collectors. the "was widely successful." The For Black, the idea of pool cues Czech privatization is truly very Rice artist Bas Poulos has taken a as an art form was a natural—he he advantageous, but the people cue from his early days of fre- has been manufacturing sticks still own only the vouchers, not quenting pool halls and his love of since he dropped out of corporate s- the stocks, and the possibility of fine art. life 20 years ago. He lobbied free trade between the vouchers' Poulos, the chair of Rice Poulos to join forces, constantly per- holders isn't clear. But Medina's University's art and art history de- calling the artist during their five- )r- description of Czech economic partment and a professor of studio month courtship. reform principles isn't correct art, is collaborating with Houston- Poulos, however, struggled with e of also in another point—the area pool cue manufacturer Rich- the concept. vouchers weren't given by the ard Black to fashion a line of or- "I had to come to grips with ope government but were individu- nate sticks. They unveiled the first two things," he says. "First, what al ally purchased by each citizen. of their collection at a pool con- could I contribute as an artist, and his- Perhaps this economic reform vention last October in Baltimore, second, since as a kid I had played may be successful in five to ten Maryland. pool in South Carolina and later as iges years, but it is premature of Poulos holds up a pool cue and a student at the University of Stokes to extol the success now. points to brightly colored designs South Carolina, it was a cultural There are several other ques- painted on the stick. thing. ho- tionable claims in Medina's ar- "These intense colors provide a "The two didn't seem to fit, but ticle, but pointing out all of psychological charge," he says, the idea was a- them would extend the length slowly spinning the stick in his real interest- of my letter beyond a reasonable hands. "There's nothing else like it ing to me." is point. Nevertheless, I must com- out there. There's a whole arena of Once they rig ment on Medina's belief that possibilities and a wonderful syn- formed the tkia people of Eastern Europe "don't thesis of two attitudes I want to partnership, m" consider themselves Eastern Eu- portray, since I am a person with they began it ropean but rather Central Euro- the flavor of the pool halls and an exploring the pean or simply European." Con- artist." potential re- sidering that there is a surge of The one-of-a-kind sticks are wards of cou- at, nationalistic feeling in every fashioned from a variety of woods pling Poulos' oro- country of the region, I am sur- and painted with bright, geometric artistic flair 'he prised to see such a view. I hope patterns. Prior to the unveiling last with Black's oth that the errors are only in fall, Black, who has supplied pool manufactur- st- Medina's interpretation of cues to some of the country's most ing capabili- Stokes' work. Otherwise, Stokes ties. Black pro- :h talented professional players, in- Poulos' rues break with pool hall tradition. ,m- wasted "seven weeks traveling cluding Steve Mizerack, guarded duces about .t is through Eastern Europe." the creations in his Lake Houston 150 sticks each IC studio. year. Marian Pistik He worried that word of Poulos' Neither Poulos nor Black ex- 'ti- Class of1997 designs would leak out before pects instant riches from their cre- Zilina, Slovakia their trip East. ations, but their signature line of "I will let only select people sticks won't sell cheaply. come to my place and see these "As a professional artist, I don't sticks," Black said. "I don't want see how I can participate in a col- is anybody talking about them until laboration and spend my time on Sallyport encourages readers to they see them." works that don't reflect [in price] send cy in their comments. To be con- Poulos and Black met in Febru- my abilities," Poulos says. "And eSS sideredfor publication, letters ary 1993 at a pool cue design con- I'm sure Richard feels the same must concern topics covered in a test, where Poulos was a juror. way. I really want these cues to be recent issue ofthe magazine; be Poulos convinced his fellow ju- seen as art pieces rather than as n- addressed to Sallyport or to the rors that Black's ebony and ivory commercial sticks." editor; and be signed. Letters may of show. be creation deserved best editedfor clarity and length. After that encounter, they —Michael Cinelli v-

February / March '94 5 Human Genome Summit Meets at Rice New Tuition Program Approved Researchers and government officials from 13 countries met at Rice from January 19 to 22 to discuss the coordination of international research on The Rice Board of Governors has the human genome. The summit was sponsored by the Human Genome approved a tuition program tied to Organisation (HUGO),a nonprofit scientific organization devoted to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) identifying and sequencing all 100,000 genes possessed by humans. Col- that will make it easier for parents lectively referred to as the human genome, these genes make up the mas- of students to plan for the expense ter blueprint that guides the creation of each individual. of a college education. Rice president Malcolm Gillis announced the new program January 13. Under this program, students in Rice to Build Nanotechnology Lab each entering undergraduate class are assured that their tuition will Rice University will build a research and teaching laboratory to support not rise, in real terms, from the interdisciplinary research in the emerging field of nanotechnology. time they matriculate until the time Nanotechnology is the science of creating materials and machines at the they graduate. atomic and molecular levels. The program in nanotechnology will coordi- The program takes effect with the nate the ongoing research of approximately one-fourth of the Rice faculty freshman class entering this Septem- in the schools of natural sciences and engineering. ber. Those students, and any trans- In addition to the research laboratories and special instrumentation re- fer or visiting students, will pay quired for the nanotechnology program, the new building will house the $10,400 in tuition for the 1994-95 headquarters and teaching laboratories for the academic year, with the rate of in- university's Department of Chemistry. Ap- crease in future years to be deter- proximately half the faculty of the chemistry mined by the change in the rate of department will eventually reside in the new inflation as measured by the CPI. building. The new building's site on campus Inflation rates since 1990 have has not yet been selected. averaged slightly less than 3 per- "This research initiative draws on outstand- cent a year. ing strengths Rice has in physical chemistry, The Rice plan is expected to keep engineering, computing and biotechnology," the share of the university's rev- said Charles W. Duncan Jr., chair of the enues from tuition in the same university's Board of Governors. "It will put range that it has been for the past Rice in the forefront of research and education 20 years—under 25 percent. At the in this revolution in science and engineering same time, Rice's tuition will con- and keep us there for many years to come." tinue to remain well below compa- Rice chemist Richard E. Smalley will play a rable private universities. major role in the leadership of the new pro- Richard Smalley For example, last year Princeton gram. University's tuition neared the "We are especially fortunate to have a scientist of Rick Smalley's distinc- $18,000 mark, while Duke Univer- tion take a leadership role in this work," said Rice president Malcolm sity recently announced a tuition in- Gillis. "His research and his commitment to Rice will help us attract fac- crease for the 1994-95 academic ulty and students who are second to none." year that will charge incoming "The transfer of faculty to the new laboratory will also make space avail- freshmen $18,590. able to meet critical needs elsewhere in the university, especially for the li- "Our tuition remains about half brary and for the humanities. Renovation of the vacated space will, of that of comparable private universi- course, be essential." ties," Gillis said. "Our relatively low The program in nanotechnology has been under discussion for several tuition, coupled with a financial aid years. It evolved from the Rice Quantum Institute, the first of six interdis- program that is second to none, ciplinary institutes that have been created to take advantage of Rice's size means that the net cost of a Rice and special strengths. education is within reach of all The nanotechnology program will draw on the research interests of ap- qualified students. We remain com- proximately 50 faculty members in six departments, including physics, mitted to affordable education and chemistry, biochemistry, mechanical engineering and materials science, to moderation in tuition growth." electrical engineering and chemical engineering. As with other interdisci- Freshmen entering Rice this fall plinary centers, the program will be staffed by faculty members who are paying $10,400 will see tuition in- hired with an eye to their interest in collaboration. crease only $312 for their sopho- Six positions currently open in the natural sciences and engineering will more year (1995-96) if the CPI be devoted to the nanotechnology program, said James Kinsey, interim rises 3 percent. provost and dean of the Wiess School of Natural Sciences. The CPI is a measure of the aver-

6 Sallyport age annual change in prices paid by Ken Hatfield Named Head Football Coach urban consumers for a fixed basket of goods and services. Ken Hatfield, formerly of Clemson University, has been selected to succeed as Rice also remains committed to of- Fred Goldsmith as Rice University's head football coach. Hatfield was named to fering a college education on a need- to the position on December 22, about one week after Goldsmith resigned to blind basis, meeting 100 percent of become head coach at Duke University. ts demonstrated needs of all students Rice president Malcolm Gillis describes Hatfield as a coach who "is deeply itse who meet the academic requirements concerned about all aspects of the lives of his student athletes." Gillis com- ii- but lack the financial resources to at- ments further that Hatfield is committed to continuing to recruit students the tend Rice. who can compete successfully in the classroom as well as on the field. The university's financial aid pro- Hatfield, 50, is a native of Helena, Arkansas, and a graduate of the Univer- in gram is among the most generous in sity of Arkansas. He was ss the country, with 80 percent ofits an all-America selection student body receiving some form of for Arkansas in 1964 and financial assistance. About 40 percent led the Southwest Con- ime of the university's tuition is returned ference in punt returns in to students through financial aid. 1963 and 1964. In 1978 the "Affordable education in 1994 he became head coach at tern- means that those students at Rice the Air Force Academy, ns- who pay full tuition—and most stu- where he was named na- dents do not pay full tuition—are tional coach of the year .95 paying under 25 percent of the cost in 1983 after leading n- of a Rice education," Gillis said. the Falcons to successive "Endowment income covers about bowl trips in 1982 and of 40 percent of the cost, while annual 1983. I. gifts, grants and contracts and over- In 1984 he returned to head recovery covers the rest. This Ken Hatfield with wife, Sandy, at press conference the University of Arkan- pattern should continue at Rice for where he was named head football coach. sas and took the Razor- some time to come." backs to six bowl games eep During a transitional phase, tuition in six years, clinching the third highest winning percentage in Southwest for current continuing undergraduate Conference history (55-17-1 for 76 percent). In 1988 he was named SWC students—sophomores, juniors and coach of the year, and in the 1980s the Houston Post named him Southwest St seniors—will increase $500 each year Conference coach of the decade. the for the remainder of their stay at In his four years at Clemson University in South Carolina, Hatfield com- n- Rice. The average tuition rate will in- piled a 32-13-1 record, topped by a 10-2 record in 1990. He finished his pa- crease 7 percent for the 1994-95 aca- final season 8-3. demic year. Within days of joining the Rice program last December, Hatfield named his on Tuition increased $800 annually entire staff of nine assistant coaches. during the past five years, reaching With the coaching team in place, he began the new year by traveling to sev- ver- the $9,300 mark for the current aca- eral Texas cities to look for players with the academic strength to succeed at in- demic year. Rice and the athletic talent to win championships. Graduate students will pay "Our recruiting philosophy is that number one, we are looking for players $11,300 in tuition for the 1994-95 with character, someone who will care for his teammates on and off the academic year, up $1,000 from this field," Hatfield said. ilf year. The tuition indexing program The Owls need a quarterback, a running back and defensive and offensive rsi- does not include graduate students. linemen. low aid Play Development Workshop Comes to Rice

During the month of February, Rice will host an Equity New Play Development Workshop and a production of Se- crets by Rice's playwright-in-residence Bren Dubay. The workshop will culminate in public performances in nd Hamman Hall March 9-12. This workshop is being partially funded by the Office of the President and by the Dean of Humanities in support of the educational functions of the project. Friends of Rice Players and other supporters Ill of theater at Rice have provided additional funding. The workshop will be directed by Terence Lamude, a profes- in- • sional director. The emphasis will be on developing the script for a professional production. Rehearsals will be open to faculty, staff and students interested in the opportunity to observe professionals at work in this process. Lamude has also agreed to present acting/directing workshops for Rice students while on campus and will be available to classes in ver- theater and to drama classes in the English department.

February I March '94 7 IEWPOINTS Should Rice Develop Its Artistic S

Should Rice pay more attention to the viewed as somehow determining beside my student designers and arts? Should weformalize the study of one's future career. Every humani- technicians as they explore solutions drama as we haveformalized the ties major is familiar with "But what to limitations of space and time, the study of music? Or do college theatri- will you do with a major in truculence of physical matter. Join cals, the campus's proximity to the There is also an unfortunate ten- engineers and architects, history and museum district and existing art dency to view those interests and English majors, students of natural courses offer interested students suffi- skills encompassed in a major as the science and political science, French cient exposure to the arts? exclusive preserve of those majoring. majors and computer jocks as all of Science majors don't do English. them play together doing art. Learn English majors don't do math. Math with us. don't dance. If Rice had drama ma- Should Rice pay more attention to Many theatergoers in Houston assume jors, would anyone else do drama? I the "art end" of the university? Ab- that Rice has a department of theater. remember when choral singing was solutely. Rice should commit to ful- They are surprised to learn that we do one of the principal extracurricular filling its dedication to art as it has not. We look like we do. Audiences activities at Rice. Each of the col- to science and letters. Should we attend Rice Players' productions, leges had its own choral group, and formalize the study of drama as we which are generally of a high caliber, they all engaged periodically in in- have formalized the study of music? and the obvious conclusion is that the tramural choral festivals. Is it only I don't think so. student performers, designers and coincidental that as the Shepherd technicians are "drama majors." And School of Music has grown those Neil (Sandy) Havens what of the proliferation of plays and choral groups have vanished? It is Drama professor musicals being presented by the vari- not my intention to criticize the Director, Rice Players ous residential colleges? Each year Shepherd School of Music; I rejoice there are a dozen to 16 theater pro- in the presence on our campus of ductions presented on our campus— that fine school, but I count the dis- so many that they frequently overlap. appearance of campuswide participa- For instance, over the past several tion in music a clear loss. The growth and expansion of Ameri- years, on one particular weekend in Just a few nights ago I had a con- can universities from the late 1940s March there have been routinely as versation with a person active in through the 1970s have left very few many as three and sometimes as many Houston theater. She told me she aspects of our professional and cul- as five plays or musicals in perfor- chose not to attend Rice because she tural lives untouched. Literally hun- mance at the same time. This year, in wanted to major in drama. There are dreds of career pathways have been re- recognition and support of that occur- probably many such. But over the routed from what was formerly a vast rence, Friends of Rice Players is invit- years what I have heard more is "I network of small, freestanding private ing alumni to return on that weekend came here because Rice doesn't have schools engaged in the preparation of for what we hope will become an an- a drama department." Instead of millions of young people for a variety nual Spring Theater Festival at Rice. I drama being the exclusive preserve of fields, such as teaching, business, know of no university in this country of drama majors, everybody does nursing and engineering. Now virtu- where enthusiasm for producing the- drama at Rice. Or at least everybody ally all roads lead to the universities, ater runs higher. If that is the case, does who wishes to. Does the fact some of which have surrendered im- shouldn't the university establish a that it is extracurricular diminish the portant aspects of their educational major in drama to satisfy that interest? seriousness of the endeavor? Reduce coherence to become the necessary After all, most colleges and universi- it as an educational enterprise? port of call for a very substantial por- ties do have a formalized course of There is teaching and there is learn- tion of the high school-leaving popu- study in theater and drama. Why not ing; they are not necessarily con- lation. We call these multiversities. at Rice? nected. I know from personal expe- In some cases, institutions that had To the best of my knowledge, no rience that it is possible to pass un- begun with a fairly narrow educational one at Rice wants a major in drama. touched through an academic course focus transformed themselves into Not me. Not any of the students with that was perfectly well taught. I am more broadly structured universities. whom I have worked. Not the admin- also deeply grateful for the life- For instance, many of the nation's istration. I can make a strong argu- changing effect fine teachers have normal schools, primarily teacher ment that Rice would be well served had on me. And I know that much training institutes, have gone through (and would serve well) to create a of what is most valuable in the de- a complete metamorphosis, now en- graduate program in theater arts, but velopment of mind and spirit and rolling thousands of students in hun- an undergraduate drama major is an- skill of hand cannot be taught; it dreds of disparate programs under the other matter. It is probably unfortu- must be learned. Join my student ac- mantle of one of the many large state nate that there is a tendency in our so- tors as we go through that intensive university systems. ciety to view undergraduate education and highly creative research mistak- In no field has this altering of our as job training—one's major being enly known as "play practice." Work educational geography been more

8 Sallyport cannot be practiced or studied at a ter 300 nonmusic majors enroll in high level without a very serious Shepherd School courses. One hun- ;tic Side? commitment of time and energy, day dred and thirty-five take private les- by day over many years, to develop- sons for credit. Many participate in ing and maintaining technical disci- the school's ensembles, and last year, marked than in the arts. Since World plines that involve the body, mind 55,000 persons attended concerts, ms War II at least 1,000 conservatories, and imagination. As a great violinist operas and other events at Alice Pratt he drama and dance academies, fine arts said, "If I don't practice for a day, I Brown Hall. a institutes and film schools have either know. Two days, and my colleagues What, then, are some of the steps nd closed their doors or merged with a know it. But three days, the whole that could move us closer to fulfilling il public or private university, finding a world knows it." Dr. Lovett's vision of art as central to ch stable home there and enriching the Thomas Jefferson (as usual) aside, the educational and cultural life of af educational and cultural life of their architecture, too, must be learned Rice, together with literature and sci- rn own students and those of the host under rigorous professional tutelage ence, as he broadly conceived them? institution. Johns Hopkins and the and constant critiquing from ac- Here are a few thoughts. to Peabody Conservatory, for instance, knowledged masters. How else can One of the goals, nationwide, in b- have been off-again, on-again part- the aspirant know what is demanded? bringing the arts into the university al- ners over recent years. Theater is quite another story. By was to enhance the aesthetic educa- This American development is the time we go to college, we all tion of all students. If we are to pre- probably unique in the history of have a considerable verbal and physi- scribe courses for all in math/sci- higher education in the world, but it cal culture, full of nuance and dra- ence, social science and the humani- c? has already had a strong impact on matic potential. Even if we have not ties, then it seems to me equally im- university planning in many coun- seen many plays, movies and televi- portant to be concerned about a tries, from Singapore to India to Tur- sion have exposed us to a rich variety minimal level of artistic knowledge/ ens key to Mexico to Germany. Here at of dramatic art, and in school we all experience as part of a liberal educa- 'SSOr home the process still goes on: read Hamlet and a few more. Some tion. It can be done, and already yers U.C.L.A., that bastion of the study of us have built sets, made costumes, many Rice students avail themselves of music in the absence of music, has fiddled with lights. And, of course, of the opportunities that are available recently announced a major new per- playacting is one of our stocks-in- in music, theater, painting, sculpture, formance program. trade from childhood on if we have dance and poetry. Many, however, Rice offers one of our nation's survived into the college years. do not, and this is to miss out on a eri- most interesting and coherent ex- Accordingly, many universities are stimulating beginning to what can be )s amples of institutional transforma- hotbeds of theatrical activity, all non- a lifelong source of pleasure and Few tion. While it has changed and ex- curricular. I think of Oxford, grace. Many generations of students panded constantly since its founding, Harvard and Rice as premier in this at Harvard built for themselves the in- it has been guided by a clear vision of regard. With intelligence, imagina- foundation of a rich personal musical n re- itself, its unity, size and commitment tion and often a lot of untutored culture on the basis of G. Wallace vast to quality. It has not, in short, be- skill, nothing stands in the way that Woodworth's famous Music I vate come a multiversity. It has, however, can't be overcome by a sense of ad- course. With limited additional n of it seems to me, continued to seek venture and the pleasure of discov- resources in the arts areas generally, iety that noble balance among the great ery. And unlike writing, painting and a little policy support, something inquiries and expressive traditions of and playing the piano, theater is a valuable could be achieved for every- rtu- humanity that Edgar Odell Lovett group effort and provides a diversion one. es, wove into the fabric of Rice from its from the study carrel and the lab and Finally, a few questions to prepare m- very opening session. offers the stimulation of seeing oth- the ground for a larger discussion of al With regard to the arts, do we have ers grow and develop with you. It is the arts. As we think about issues of it right at this point? I certainly be- one of Rice's glories. aesthetic grace, beauty, form, imagi- lieve that the creation of professional Recently at a publisher's party in nation and the discipline of artistic pu- schools of architecture and music, New York City, a fine young play- craft, however rudimentary, in the s. both small and of very high quality, wright told me that her new work lives and educations of all liberal arts had was the best way to commit the had just been given a first reading at students, shouldn't we begin to ask: ional university's resources in the arts. Rice. For that a theater school is not what is a liberal artist? What is his/ Equally, I believe that theater is ap- needed. But for better or worse, the her craft? Artistic material? And es. propriately (and remarkably) nour- major works of Bach, Mozart, mainly, what is the performance of ished at Rice as an extracurricular un- Brahms, Stravinsky and Paul Cooper the liberal artist in the world? How dertaking, with the visual arts occu- are not likely to be attempted here are the standards of the performance ugh pying a kind of halfway house be- unless something very like the Shep- set, and what is at stake in achieving fl- tween these poles. herd School is at hand. them? What is it, in our time, to be un- It is not because of my connection The differences among the arts in a cultured person, beyond manners, • the With the Shepherd School that I be- this context are fundamental, and at the core? How is this achieved? :ate lieve these things. Rather, my views Rice has done well by recognizing How expressed? derive from the differences between and institutionalizing them. Both Michael Hammond ur the arts themselves. It is simply a the university and the city of Hous- Music professor fact, often a painful one, that music ton have been enriched. Each semes- Dean, Shepherd School of Music

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The Intuitive Edge be modified in 1994-95. of fine arts. In this program, stu- Poulos believes the program dents with a B.A. may study an ad- Basilios Poulos, chair of the art gives students a well-balanced mix ditional year, during which they and art history department, be- of scholarship and practice. Art concentrate exclusively on gaining lieves that all students at Rice Uni- history majors need studio experi- studio experience. Students must versity could benefit from taking a ence, he says, because by creating submit a portfolio when applying creative art class. art, they are experiencing how to to the B.F.A. program. Also avail- Learning to create visual art produce the objects they are able is a master of arts in art his- sharpens a student's intuition so studying. tory with an option to study classi- that he or she can deal more effec- "On the other hand, a studio cal archaeology. tively with making decisions be- person needs to have some The professors in the art and art yond the class- knowledge of what has transpir- history department represent a vast room, he says. ed before in their attempt in art and varied body of knowledge and "In a basic activity." skills. The faculty includes an ar- drawing class, Courses in art history range chaeologist, a medievalist, an Ital- you are dealing from Greek art to Renaissance ian art specialist, an 18th- and with trying to set and baroque architecture to con- 19th-century American art expert, up some premise temporary artistic movements. an Asian art specialist, a baroque of engagement in Painting, printmaking, sculpture architecture specialist and an ex- which a student and drawing are offered as studio pert in 20th-century art, along has to make a art. Students can also take film- with a printmaker, several paint- value judgment," making and basic photography ers, a sculptor, a filmmaker, a he explains. "So along with theater courses in act- photographer and a media studies engaging stu- ing, playwriting and stage design. specialist. dents in the in- Basic drawing, offered in sev- While the scholars actively re- tuitive process eral sections, is one of the more search and publish, the visual of art making popular classes, attracting stu- artists practice what they teach, should not be dents from other majors such Poulos says. All of them have their seen as any less as architecture and mechanical own studios and regularly exhibit important than engineering. their works at Rice, in Houston the engagement Special courses that take stu- and across the country. of a science lab." dents on archaeological digs and Poulos, who is a professor of stu- The art and photography trips to Mexico have dio art and has a painting studio in art history de- been offered through the depart- northeast Houston, says that pro- partment, Poulos ment. One of the most interest- ducing art has helped his teaching. says, welcomes ing courses is the 16-day Greek "My teaching has changed in line all students, in- studio program, designed to pro- with my artistic development. My cluding those vide art students with a chance to teaching is as alive as my paintings not majoring in respond to an environment be- are in my studio." art. "We don't yond a Rice University studio and In teaching art, Poulos does not ask students to the Houston scene. insist that his students draw exactly come in toward a vocational end. Poulos selects a small group of what they see. Rather, he prefers We are not training them to be- Rice students (up to six) and that they draw what they perceive come professional painters or pro- takes them to his father's ances- to be important. He wants his stu- fessional artists. We're giving the tral village of Kane in southern dents to learn to emphasize the Rice student an opportunity to re- Greece. There, students paint and components they feel should be flect that there might be a lifelong draw the surrounding landscape. emphasized. He wants them to be decision to be in the creative arts." Museum internships are also engaged in discovering what he The department offers courses available to students who wish to calls a relationship of formal values. in three areas: history of art; stu- pursue careers as curators. The "Students leave my class perhaps dio art, which consists of painting, program is run by the Sewall Art with a little knowledge about how drawing and sculpture; and pho- Gallery director, who places stu- to draw," he says, "but, more im- tography and media studies. dents in internships at the Mu- portant, they come out with a sys- Students must take 38 semester seum of Fine Arts, the Menil tem in which they can trust their hours for the full major, including Collection, the Bayou Bend Col- intuitive decisions. That engage- at least 11 semester hours in the lection of American Decorative ment is ofimmense value in this history of art and nine hours from Arts and the Sewall Art Gallery. era." either studio art, film or photogra- In addition to the bachelor of phy. Department requirements will arts degree, Rice offers a bachelor —David D. Medina

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• Letters from the Asylum At the time of her institutionaliza- known drug a ict, and, as er tion, she was 41 years old and had letters reveal, she was quick to an In July 1890, Andrew Moore never married. More important to ger and even physically abusive. Sheffield was put on a train in her story, however, she "never She employed sarcasm effectively. Guntersville, Alabama, and shipped managed to conform to standards In spite of her extended incar- to Tuscaloosa's Bryce Hospital—also of ladylike behavior and never suc- ceration, however, Sheffield never known as the Alabama Insane Hospi- ceeded in pleasing the men of he submitted to the sanction of social tal. She died there 30 years later on prominent family." control represented bv 19th-cen- March 5, 1920, and was buried a Sheffield's trip to Tuscaloosa be- tury insane asylums. She remained ward of the state in the hospital's gan slowly. In 1890, while living an independent-minded, aggres- graveyard. No family member at- alone in Warrenton in rural north- sive, and uncompromising person," tended her burial or witnessed the ern Alabama, she had an affair Hughes writes. But do these traits, placement of her headstone. unfeminine as some might think During the 30 years other con- they are, prove insanity? One finement, Sheffield wrote many governor of Alabama, William C. Oates, to whom Sheffield sent many missives, wrote the hospital superintendent that "if she is insane a good many people outside of the Hospital would be blessed by a with Dr. May, her physician, who streak of insanity when it comes to was treating her for poor health writing letters. She writes splen- resulting from a failed love affair. didly and with great intelligence." During her treatment, Sheffield Early in her incarceration, became addicted to chloral hy- Sheffield turned her attention to letters, proclaiming her sanity and drate, a sleep aid, which was freely trying through correspondence to alleging her wrongful incarceration prescribed and paid for by May. win her release from Bryce and a in a mental hospital. John S. May, who was alcoholic and transfer to the women's peniten- Hughes, who received his doctorate abusive to Sheffield, frequently tiary. These efforts %Nitre unsuccess- in history from Rice in 1982, has threatened to expose her addiction ful. Later letters reflect her increas- collected, edited and analyzed nearly and their affair to her family if she ingly narrow perspective on the 90 of Sheffield's surviving letters in did not do his bidding. At one world and deal pri madly with The Letters ofa Victorian Madwoman point, May asked her to burn post-bellum Victorianiasylum life (University of South Carolina Press, down the home of a neighbor in one state in the Deep South. 1993). In a lengthy introduction, with whom he was at odds. In her After the death of her father in Hughes brings his expertise in attempt to perform the deed, 1892, Sheffield's contact with her American legal and medical history Sheffield was caught and jailed. remaining family diminished. Her to bear on the 19th-century legal, Shortly after this, Sheffield's father final guardian, a nephew, respected medical, gender and Southern issues came to Warrenton, briefly argued her wish to be buried on hospital Sheffield's case with May, then shot him dead. grounds. It had always seemed an represents. Popular sentiment decreed that appropriate burial place for her, Andrew the killing was "justifiable homi- Sheffield told one of her physicians, Moore Shef- cide." "Because in looks, it corresponds field was an Sheffield's father and half- with my feelings—is the most intelligent brother decided that institutional- desolate, gloomy, lonely, neglect- woman with a ization in a mental hospital would ed, uncared for and tbrsaken look- man's name, be more socially acceptable for ing place that I've ever seen—" which may Sheffield than imprisonment in a These letters present an uncen- have con- women's penitentiary. Long be- sored view of asylum life in the tributed to fore her arrest on arson charges, tin-dc-siècle South and were not "unresolved Sheffield's family had been embar- intended for publication. That is gender is- rassed by her deviation from the the main reason they are so valu- sues in the 19th-century norm of Southern able. As Hughes aptly puts it, shaping femininity. At a fairly advanced Sheffield's history was not just of her age, she was neither married nor that of a mad person. "It was, identity," living within the confines of a above all, the history of a mad accord- nuclear or an extended family. She woman." ing to was involved in an extramarital Hughes. sexual relationship. She was a —C.S. o nholland

12 Sallyport approach for assessing and treating standard repertoire. an- different types of work dysfunc- Musicology specialist Marcia J. WORK DYSFMONS tion, which he defines as a psycho- Citron, an associate professor at the logical condition caused by the Shepherd School of Music, analyzes impairment of the capacity to the plight of the female composer work. His book explores patterns Yer in Gender and the Musical Canon of dysfunction associated with (Cambridge University Press, undercommitment, overcommit- 1993), a book-length essay on the ment and work-related anxiety criteria for professional and public and depression. musical acceptance. His target audience consists of Canons in any discipline are sub- mental health practitioners (psy- jective groupings influenced by chologists, psychiatrists, social seemingly endless elements. They workers, mental health counselors) are, according to the author, improve their ability C.4 who want to "flawed, imperialistic, and power to diagnose and treat those suffer- hungry," but they are also a fact of When Work—Doesn't ing from job problems. academic life. Citron accepts this "I find much of the career and point and concentrates on reform- tsaile Thomas Edison once said that the work counseling literature oddly ing the system instead of abolishing work is better than whiskey for unsatisfying," Lowman writes, it. "The answer," she states, "lies curing personal miseries. Work, es- S to "because it offers too little case or in modifying our desires as to what pecially work that is fulfilling, does other illustrative material that we want [canons] to represent." contribute to mental well-being, matches the complexity of the Citron does not argue that and like sex it's a natural part of kinds of career and work issues women's works should be studied life, says Dr. Rodney L. Lowman, that most clinicians encounter in in equal numbers with those of a psychologist who specializes in to day-to-day practice." men, only that they should be career and work issues. a judged on the same merits, a con- In his new book, Counseling —David D. Medina sideration that society has not al- and Psychotherapy of Work Dysfunc- ess- lowed. She devotes two chapters to tions(American Psychological As- as- the obstacles female composers sociation,1993), Lowman tackles have faced in gaining critical accep- the problem of how to keep em- tance of their work and even in gar- ployees happy at their jobs. fe nering societal recognition as pro- Lowman is CEO of The Devel fessionals of the musical craft. opment Laboratories in Houston Is there a distinctive female style and an adjunct professor of psy- er of musical composition? This ab- chology at Rice University. He is er stract point is "difficult and elu- president of the Society of Psy- ted sive," according to Citron, "but chologists in Management. He is fundamental to questions about ii also the author of The Clinical Lfl how music becomes a part of the Practice of Career Assessment: In- canon." Composition, she allows, terests, Abilities, and Personality ans, "is basically a technical discipline and Pre-Employment Screeningfor whose language is available to men Psychopathology: A Guide to Profes- and women alike," but "certain sional Practice. tendencies, perhaps related to sub- Work, Lowman writes, like mat- ject positioning or socialization, ing and reproduction, signifies a Music and Gender seem to manifest themselves in transition into adulthood. Work is many works by women." She is a source of self-esteem and should A musical composition, like a quick to add, however, that "such be a birthright of all adults be- painting, poem or novel, is at tendencies are also available to cause without it life can be pretty many levels a product of its social men." miserable. and cultural environment. That Citron freely admits that her "It is to employers' advantage environment has long been male- work "raises as many questions as that workers be well-suited and dominated, a factor that has cre- it answers," since her ultimate well-adjusted to their work and ated a dearth of critically ac- purpose in writing is to encourage that people experiencing work-reclaimed compositions by women. discussion. This intellectually lated difficulties receive relevant Few, if any, works by women are stimulating discourse should do assessment and effective interven- readily included in the canon of just that. tion," he writes. Western music taught at universi- —Kenneth H. Williams Lowman provides a systematic ties and performed as part of the

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2very night last spring, after a long day of work volvement that larger universities might not and classes, Anneliese Davis, a history major in offer. Sid Richardson College, retreated to the Sid However, many students struggle in their basement to rehearse the student production of pursuit of creative experience. Limited funding Man ofLa Mancha. As director of the college and facilities restrict the number of classes avail- musical, she led rehearsals and scrounged around able in some areas. Those who become interested for costumes and lighting equipment. What she in theater or dance through introductory courses couldn't borrow she purchased on the tiny bud- and wish to continue their studies may find that get allotted to her by the college. When the set Rice does not offer advanced classes. Sometimes crew left for spring break, she and her assistant the only way to learn more about a subject is to director began building the set themselves. The become involved in extracurricular activities. This show was a major success and had several sold- can be difficult for students with major con- out performances. straints on their time. While those with real dedi- Davis' mother attended one night, and her cation to the arts can find the training they need first comment was, "Anneliese, aren't those your at Rice, others with less motivation may not de- shoes that girl is wearing?" They were indeed. velop artistically. "That's the thing about college theater," Davis Students face similar struggles with arts says. "You have to make something out of abso- education at the elementary and secondary lutely nothing. A stage just appears in the com- school levels. In 1988, the National Endowment mons or the basement, and costumes work out for the Arts released a report on the state of arts even if you have to lend out your clothes." education from kindergarten through grade 12 in All over campus, students like Davis are the United States. Entitled "Beyond Civiliza- pursuing their artistic passions. They act in col- tion," the report is less than rosy. The researchers lege theater, choreograph and dance in their own state, "In general, arts education in America is pieces, sing in choirs, paint, sculpt, photograph characterized by imbalance, inconsistency and and even make their own films. Rice is the site of inaccessibility....Because of the pressures of the much creative activity, and the university's small school day, a comprehensive and sequential arts size provides opportunities for a degree of in- education is inaccessible except to a very few and

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16 Sallyport often only to those with talent or a special "We are getting students of a higher profes- interest." sional caliber every year," says Samuel Jones, During the past 20 years, schools have in- founding dean of the school. "From the outset we creased funding for innovative science and math wanted it to become one of the top 20 music programs in an effort to boost science and math schools in the country within a generation. I think test scores. As more time and money have been we're getting there." devoted to these programs, fewer resources have With its new concert halls, the Shepherd been available for arts education. School also attracts performing groups from out- Federal budget allocations mirror the side the school. Performances by Da Camera, country's educational priorities. In 1992, the Na- Houston's leading chamber music organization, tional Science Foundation received $2.5 billion. the Houston Symphony Chamber Players and That same year, the National Endowment for the other touring ensembles expose the Rice commu- Arts received $175 million. Such differences in nity to high-quality performances and have helped numbers can be explained by economic impera- make the Shepherd School a major presence in tives. Scientific research enables the United States Houston. to remain at the forefront of modern technology. Professors in other areas of the arts point to More job opportunities are available in scientific the Shepherd School as an example of what can fields than in the arts, and these jobs contribute happen artistically at Rice when the proper facili- significantly to the economy of the nation. Still, ties are available. many would argue that the development and Chairman of the art and art history depart- preservation of the artistic life of our country de- ment and professor of studio art Basilios Poulos serve a greater economic commitment. dreams of having an arts center where several art disciplines could come together. "I would like to see a gallery where student

WWI ik(ichael M. Carroll, dean of the George R. Brown art and objects in Rice's permanent collection IMMO qir School of Engineering (and a playwright), ad- could be exhibited all the time," Poulos says. dresses the balance of science and art as it relates "Students could walk in and see art any time they to Rice. wanted. We could have a theater space where the "Obviously this is a tight time for everyone Rice Players and Rice Dance Theater could per- economically, Rice included," Carroll says. form. More collaboration between the disciplines "We're having to choose projects very carefully. I could occur then. It would bring more cohesive- consider a proper balance between arts, letters ness to the programs we already have and make and science to be important, but there needs to students aware of the presence of art on campus." be simultaneous enhancement of both the arts Making such an idea a reality will take a long and the sciences. Engineering can't stand still time, but Poulos is hopeful. "Look how long the while the arts catch up, or we'll lose ground to Shepherd School spent trying to get their building. the competition." The time to start planning is now. It's a long pro- The Shepherd School of Music is an excess, but I don't think it's an impossibility." ample of a Rice program that has come very far Poulos' idea is grounded in need. Many areas in a short time. Not long ago, music students of the arts at Rice would benefit greatly from ex- were practicing in the basement of the Herman panded or improved facilities. The Sewall Art Gal- Brown math building and performing in the lery, whose mission is to provide multicultural, in- Bonner Nuclear Lab. At performances, audiences terdisciplinary programs in the arts, is much joked about "glowing cellists" and wondered utilized by the Rice and Houston area communi- what kind of music school Rice had. Musicians ties, but the gallery is too small to exhibit perma- who might have been discouraged by the below nently selections from the university's 2,000-piece par performance spaces of the past now enjoy art collection. playing in one of the finest halls in the country. Stella Dobbins, director of the gallery, be- The improved facilities have also helped attract lieves that more space and an additional staff mem- better students. ber would make the gallery a more useful resource.

February / March '94 17 "A part-time registrar could maintain com- Society provide crucial support to some of Rice's puterized records on the art we have in storage, curricular and extracurricular art activities. Friends which would make art donated to the university of Sewall, for instance, sponsors exhibits and con- by alumni, alumnae and friends more accessible tributes to Rice's permanent art collection. Still, to scholars and students at Rice and other institu- these support groups cannot meet many of the tions," she says. university's fundamental needs in the arts. Linda Phenix, director of Rice Dance The- ater, also wishes there were better facilities. Rice Dance Theater is an extracurricular dance group /unding for the arts is an issue at many universities, made up of dedicated and experienced student particularly in this period of economic recession. dancers. The group used to perform to large au- This situation is compounded at Rice by the diences in Hamman Hall, but competition with university's commitment to remaining relatively other groups for rehearsal time and difficulties small. Edgar Odell Lovett, Rice's first president, with setting up lighting equipment forced the set a difficult task for the university when he prom- dancers to hold their annual concert elsewhere. ised to "keep the quality up and the numbers They now perform in the dance studio in the down." Maintaining a low student-to-faculty ratio gym. and a high standard of excellence in academics "Many of the Rice dancers spend 12 hours meant that Rice had to choose its areas of focus a week in technique classes and rehearsals, but carefully. To satisfy all the interests of every stu- despite our efforts and support from the student dent would be impossible in a university Rice's body, our audience size is limited to 80 people size. squeezed onto risers borrowed from the swim Rice initially focused on science and engi- team," says Jennifer Olson, a sophomore bio- neering in part to meet the needs of growing in- chemistry major and one of the group's core dustries in the Southwest. It quickly built a na- dancers. Olson graduated from the High School tional reputation in those areas, a reputation that for the Performing and Visual Arts with a focus continues to rise. on dance. "I invite people to come, and it feels As Houston became more metropolitan and embarrassing to tell them to come to a concert in developed into one of the cultural centers of the the gym," she says. South, Rice expanded its programs in the arts and Phenix believes that a few additions to the humanities. Its School of Architecture is now ac- dance program, such as additional course offer- claimed for its dual commitment to teaching and ings, would benefit many students. Above all, she research, and the Shepherd School of Music has would like to be able to hire a technical director achieved international recognition in the 17 years to teach lighting and set design. Sandy Havens, since it was founded. Rice also created other arts director of the Rice Players, would also like to see programs that have remained comparatively small that happen. but are nonetheless staffed by highly regarded "I know there is a lot of interest in the sub- faculty. ject," Havens says, "and there isn't anyone here Some faculty members have suggested that right now who could teach it." Rice could enhance its art offerings without a Brian Huberman, an associate professor in marked increase in funding by creating an area ma- art and art history who teaches film and coordi- jor in media studies. Brian Huberman sees many nates the Rice Media Center, also expresses a possibilities for enriching the media program need for more resources. "Several years ago, our through collaboration with people in science, the photography equipment was so bad I told stu- arts and the humanities. dents not to take the class," he says. "If they were "Film is interesting in that it has artistic ex- going to put all that work and excitement into pression but also a social agenda," Huberman ex- learning the stuff, it would have been horrible for plains. "It takes information to the world but also them to have it ruined by bad equipment." explores the world. I would like to form an area Groups such as Friends of Rice Players, major where we could pull classes from art and art Friends of Sewall Art Gallery and the Shepherd history, anthropology and science as well as theater

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20 Sallyport and film. There are tremendous possibilities out theater if he hadn't gone to Rice. there." "I didn't do theater before I came here," These departments began meeting last fall says Sharoff. "Rice was great for someone like me to discuss the area major. The recent hiring of as- because it allowed me to explore theater in a low- sistant professor of film studies Hamid Naficy pressure environment. In my first acting experi- helped inspire the idea of creating an area major. ence I got the lead role! You wouldn't see that "I see things really moving forward," happening in a big school with a theater major." Huberman says. "Naficy is a big name in media Sharoff has also written plays that have been studies. He's in a position to host conferences performed at Rice. here and bring a lot of new opportunities to "If you are really interested in something Rice....Adding someone in film and television here," he says, "you can make it happen." studies gives us that academic depth we needed Even students who don't plan to pursue ca- to boost the artistic side of the film and photog- reers in the arts often discover new dimensions of raphy department." their personalities as a result of their artistic expe- riences. Anneliese Davis says working as a director has given her newfound confidence. 2yen without the area major, students have been "I did so many things in college theater that making things happen on their own. Rice has a I never thought I could," she says. "I couldn't rich tradition of extracurricular arts activities, and believe I used power tools to build a set. It made students take advantage of opportunities to act in me realize that I could do almost anything I put college theater and submit photographs and art my mind to....I also think I learned how to be a work to University Blue, Rice's student literary leader, how to deal with a group and make things and visual arts magazine. Most participate in the happen. And that's a skill I'll use no matter what arts for the sheer pleasure of it, but some stumble career I decide on." onto new career paths in the process. "Art gives us different perspectives that al- Math major Julian Altschul began singing in low us to apply knowledge in innovative ways," college musicals just for fun but soon developed explains Linda Phenix. "For example, in dance, an interest in singing professionally. the choreographic process involves creativity, "Being in college musicals fueled my inter- leadership and critical thinking." est in becoming a music major. Right now I'm Michael Carroll believes the arts are impor- applying to get a master's of music here, and I'm tant to students in the sciences as well as in the studying with voice professor William Murray." humanities. Stephanie Smith '92 decided she wanted to "Some engineers mistrust art because there do museum work after participating in the Rice is no one answer to a creative problem....But I Museum Intern Program. As part of the program see the arts and sciences as the attraction of likes, she interned at the Contemporary Arts Museum not of opposites. Science has become more com- in Houston, where she now works full-time as a plicated, and people who can take a creative ap- curatorial assistant. proach may do better in the long run." "The class was enough to let me know that Achieving balance among letters, science I wanted to work in a museum," Smith says. "It and the arts, while remaining small, is an ongoing really broadened my horizons." commitment and challenge for Rice. By establish- Several students in the Rice Players have ing numerous curricular and extracurricular pro- gone on to graduate school to study theater, and grams in the arts, the university has moved to ful- a number of alums act professionally in fill Lovett's vision of balance among the three Houston's Main Street Theater, which was domains. As we move into the 21st century, founded by Becky Udden '73, a Rice Players vet- achieving and maintaining this balance will be all eran. Peter Sharoff, an actor with Rice Players the more crucial and all the more difficult. For as and a playwright, hopes to pursue a career in pro- we struggle to keep abreast of technology, we fessional theater as a writer or an actor. He feels must constantly find new and creative ways to in- he might not have developed a career interest in terpret our world.

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From X rays to computers, 7_ scientific developments have fimnd their way ii into the world of art.

by Philip Montgomery

22 Sallyport [urious architecture students line the balcony explore music without musicians and to demon- in Anderson Hall and stare down into the strate the play ofwinter light in a room designed by darkened room where graduate student Boon Le Corbusier. Ong,surrounded by computer monitors and Roald Hoffinann,cowinner ofthe 1981 Nobel audiovisual equipment, unveils a mix of art Prize in chemistry and author of two books of and science called liquid architecture. poetry, thrives on the creative sparks between sci- Liquid architecture, Ong explains, is a ence and art. Hoffmann, who teaches at Cornell, graphic representation of information stored gave a lecture at Rice last fall in which he demon- in computers. Architecture is frozen in time, but by strated the beauty and emotional appeal ofchemis- adding music Ong gives architecture fluidity. To try by reciting his poetry about the nature of make his point, he plays a cocktail blend ofjazz and molecular structures while colorful graphic inter- classical that a computer translates into fluid struc- pretations of molecules flashed on a screen. During tures on the screens dotting the room. an interview for Sallyport, he explained that art and The structures shift with each note, each science have many things in common. pause in the rhythm of the song. They resemble "Both the artist and the scientist create things buildings shifting to waves ofjazz. that weren't there on Earth be- They seem to surge out of the fore," he said."They create these screens as their inner rooms heave things with craftsmanship. There through the outer walls, then re- science is a lot ofattention to detail. It is cede and billow to the synthe- For and very easy to tell good art from sized music. art there is an bad art and good science from The young architecture stu- bad science,starting at least with dent claims his creation and the economy of craftsmanship. For science and creations of other liquid archi- statement. A art there is an economy ofstate- tects have unleashed a new realm ment. A good scientific law or a of creativity. good scientific good painting or poem expresses Liquid architecture is the law or a good things very intensely.Science and building science of cyberspace, a art are all trying to communi- computer-generated environ- painting or poem cate to people." ment where data appear as three- expresses things There are many examples dimensional objects that can be of artists using scientific discov- manipulated by an individual us- very intensely. eries in their work. During the ing a computer. Liquid architects Italian Renaissance, two impor- create images that impose struc- —Roald Hoffmann tant scientific developments in- ture on the confusing, loosely cowinner of the fluenced the work ofartists, says defined world of cyberspace and Nobel Prize in chemistry Joseph Manca,an associate pro- allow the public easy access to fessor of art and art history at more information. Rice. The first was the geomet- Michael Benedikt, the di- ric concept of single-point per- rector ofthe Center for American Architecture and spective, and the second was the study of natural Design at the University of Texas at Austin, com- conditions. These developments originated in the ments in the architectural magazine ANY(Novem- human need to understand the nature ofthe world. ber/December 1993), "Cyberspace will require Leonardo da Vinci, painter, sculptor, inventor, constant planning, and the structures proliferating architect and engineer, was influenced by both within it will require design. The people who design developments. these structures will be called cyberspace archi- "I think the studies of Leonardo and studies tects." of perspective are science," says Manca. "In his Science and art are often thought of as two studies he was looking at nature and trying to very disparate worlds, but,like jumper cables carry- understand the world around him." ing negative and positive electrical charges, science Da Vinci dissected cadavers to understand and art spark when they come into contact. Those human musculature better,then applied that knowl- sparks of creativity have resulted in methods to edge of anatomy to heighten the realism of his art. transform information into fluid architecture, to His studies of nature were not limited to human decipher the secrets of medieval stonemasons, to anatomy.

February / March Da Vinci also used single-point perspective, cartoons,poems, songs, and public demonstrations which at the time was a relatively new way of of X rays in action," Henderson writes. looking at the world, says Manca. Single-point X rays also revolutionized the perceptions of perspective is a drawing method in which the artist artists, who seized upon the idea that the invisible places an image in a grid to ensure that the objects rays extended human sight into an unseen realm of in the foreground and the background are in a nature. X rays had a major impact on the works of natural perspective. The method is based on geo- the French painter Marcel Duchamp,especially his metric principles. painting Nude Descending a Staircase. Through the centuries,science has continued "Duchamp's Nude," explains Henderson, to affect art, often in unexpected ways. "bears a certain resemblance to the skeleton re- Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen's discovery of X vealed in a full-body X ray, particularly in the rays in 1895 captured the world's imagination and prominent pelvic cavity of the most complete view the imagination of artists, says William Camfield, of the nude at the right side of the canvas." Rice professor of art and art history. The X-ray Appropriately,the painting was shown in New machine allowed humans to peer through the body's York at the famous 1913 Armory Show associated fragile envelope of skin and see the bones and with the discoveries ofRöntgen and Thomas Edison. organs within. Today, the most obvious area where science In an article entitled "X Rays and the Quest and art spark is the field of computing. Many for Invisible Reality in the Art ofKupka, Duchamp, musicians, composers and visual artists as well as and the Cubists" in Art Journal (Winter 1988), architects are using computers to expand their Linda Dalrymple Henderson writes, "Rontgen's creativity, and educators are using computers to publication of his findings...triggered the most promote learning in the arts. immediate and widespread reaction to any scientific As in any situation where new ideas collide discovery before the explosion of the first atomic with established precepts, there is resistance, a bomb in 1945." feeling that things are moving too fast. Some artists X-ray photographs were reprinted in maga- already mourn the passing oftraditional ways—the zines in Europe and America,giving rise to an X-ray use ofcomputer- assisted drawing software instead fad with "see-through images finding their way into of paper and pencil by some architects and graphic artists, for instance. At Rice, many skeptics among the faculty embrace the computer in their disciplines for the simple reason that change is inevitable, and to do their students justice they must learn the potential of the computer and pass that knowledge on to their students. Duchamp'a Nude Descending a Arthur Gottschalk, an associate professor of Staircase (Philadelphia Museum of Art) resembles a full-body X ray. music in the Shepherd School of Music, uses computers to compose and teach. He came to Rice in 1977 to create an electronic music program—an operation that was first housed in a broom closet in

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February I March '94 25 lenging. His computer-assisted creations range est powers of magnification, the kind of manipu- from big band music, complete with artificial lation that can be done with a computer cannot be applause, to music reminiscent of the works of detected. I can take a picture of you and a picture Morton Subotnik, the American electronic com- of a meeting going on somewhere, and I can put poser born in 1933. the picture of you into the meeting, and it will be Computer technology is also being used to absolutely seamless. There will be no evidence study art and architecture. Linda Neagley, an that you were not in the meeting. assistant professor of art and art history at Rice, "That poses a whole host of problems that combined standard surveying techniques with sur- I'm not comfortable with. I lament the passing of veying software and a computer-assisted drawing straight, unimpeachable photography, but it's program to study the geometric schemes medieval passing." masons used to build cathedrals. Winningham believes that if students are "I work collaboratively," says Neagley,"be- going to be literate about photography, they will cause the kind of work I'm interested in requires need to know something about the computer. the expertise ofpeople who really know technolo- Professors also use computers to teach art gies. It is really hard for a historian to master the and architecture. For instance, some classes use technologies as well as be a good historian. I like the Virtual Notebook System, commonly known to bring architects, engineers and computer spe- as VNS. VNS is interactive software licensed by cialists into my projects." Rice that incorporates video, text, sound, docu- A negative factor for Neagley is the high cost ment reproductions, notes and assignments for of the technology. Her project was funded by the students. National Endowmentfor the Humanities in 1992, Students access VNS in special computer but funding for the project has been exhausted. labs scattered around campus. A user issues com- The use of computers raises other concerns mands to the computer through the keyboard or in the arts. Geoff Winningham,a Rice professor of by pointing and clicking with a mouse. By select- art and art history,says that computerized photog- ing an icon, a student can call up a variety of raphy jeopardizes the reputation of photography notebooks covering a range ofsubjects, including as the documentary eye, because with computers, baroque and Renaissance architecture, Aegean photographs can be altered without detection. culture and modern architecture. Each notebook "No photograph will be discernable as a is filled with computerized photos, drawings and straightforward description of a piece of the real text. Frequently, the notebooks are linked to- world," says Winningham."Even under the high- gether so that a student can point and click

Professor Linda Neagley combined standard surveying techniques with surveying software and a computer- assisted drawing program to study the geometric schemes medieval masons used to build eathedrahi.

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Steve Gutheinz, a senior in the Shepherd School of Music, uses computers to compose.

Just as the sun illuminates Le Corbusier's design, so do artists and scientists shed the light of understanding upon the unknown. In a way,the relationship between science and through photographs of medieval architecture and art resembles a strand ofDNA, the double helix,the then jump to text about a modern architect. key to the creation of life. Like the double helix, Richard Ingersoll, an assistant professor of science and art run parallel and twist one around the architecture at Rice, worked with his students and other, sharing their common properties of curios- Shisha van Horn, project manager for the Elec- ity, craftsmanship and the need to proclaim their tronic Studios in Architecture, to develop a note- understanding to the world. book about Swiss architect Le Corbusier for an The bond between scientists and artists is not architectural survey course. A student using the readily apparent, but both create things that never notebook can access text on the architect, photos of before existed. They share a bond of wonder about his buildings, paintings, floor plans and sketches of a world that many ofus ignore in our pursuit ofdaily his works. The notebook includes an animated, bread. They lead us,if only for a moment,out ofour three-dimensional representation of winter sun- indifference into the illumination oftheir worlds of light gliding across a room. wonder.•

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In search ofa glaze that would be more resistant at high temperatures than the well-known Oxblood,Rice graduate Fance Franck rediscovered a process for making a rare vermilion glaze called Fresh Red.The glaze had been invented,then lost, by potters at the Ming imperial kilns. The discovery stands among many notable achievements in Franck's career as a potter.

It is July 1972. Two women are studying Ming porcelains at the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art in London. One of the women is the curator of the museum; the other is the potter Fance Franck, Rice Class of'48. Carefully, the two remove bowls from a satchel and compare them to the 600-year-old Ming pieces. A striking similarity emerges. The early Ming porcelains are covered with a rare and beautiful glaze called xianhong, or Fresh Red. The bowls from the satchel are also covered with a red glaze, remarkably like that on the museum pieces. These bowls, however, are not early Ming or even Chinese. They are modern creations made by Fance Franck. "Young woman," the curator exclaims. "Do you realize what you've done?"

Lim Fance Franck unstacking a large porcelain howl from a biscuit firing. Rue de Bonaparte studio. Photo by Dominique Susse.

February / March '94 29 What Franck had done, in the course of devising a copper-red glaze suited to her own work, was to rediscover a process for creating the Chinese Fresh Red glaze of the 15th century. This luminous glaze was exclusively reserved for ceremonial wares used by Ming em- perors in sacrificial rites. By the end of the Ming period, the method for making xianhong was lost. Another copper-red glaze,jihong (or Sacrificial Red), was produced in the 18th century in emulation of the Ming pieces, but this process was gradually replaced by the techni- cally more facile Oxblood. News of Franck's achievement soon spread among the world's Oriental porcelain experts, one of whom called it a "spontaneous generation" in the art of ceramics. Without in- tending to reproduce the ancient technology, Franck had established a link with the imperial Fresh Red of the early Ming dynasty, a connection she modestly describes as "a natural ceramic phenomenon." Adjectives such as "spontaneous" and "natural" give the impression that Franck's momentous discovery had been mere serendip- ity, a sudden fluke. Not at all. While the resemblance between the two glazes, ancient and modern, was coincidental, Franck arrived at her version of Fresh Red after a long series of ex- acting tests. Working since 1969 in her atelier in Paris and at the French National Porcelain Manu- TOP: VASE, porcelain paste, Antoine d'Albis, Fresh Red glaze, factory in Sevres, Franck had been striving to Fance Franck. Created for Sevres, French Cultural Ministry commission. Collection: Marie-Therese d'Arcangues, Paris. create a special red glaze for her hard-paste porcelains. She sought first of all to avoid the SMIALL OVAL JAR, porcelain body composed in rue de Bonaparte studio, only Chinese and European copper-red glazes with technical and artistic collaboration ofJean-Claude Fein, chief of she knew, Oxblood and Flambe. She envi- Sevres Production Department. Fresh Red glaze by Fance Franck. sioned a glaze that would be more sober, less Collection: Ambassador and Madame Jean Daridan, Paris. shiny and more refractory—that is, able to be STEM BOWL,stoneware with gray and brown glaze. Decor: stylized fired at very high temperatures. winged-seed. By March 1972, she believed she was Photo by Roger Guillemot and Bernard Saint-Genes, courtesy of closing in on the color and texture she wanted. Connaissance des Arts, Paris. In the summer of that year, advised that Lon-

Borrow VASE AND STEM BOWL, porcelain body by Antoine d'Albis, head of don was a good place to study red wares, she Sevres laboratory. Fresh Red glaze by Fance Franck. Sevres Porcelain, crossed the Channel. The eventful comparison French Cultural Ministry commissions. of early Ming and contemporary Franck followed. VASE, Private collection, Versailles. While Franck's re-creation of Fresh Red is

STEM BOWL, decor in Fresh Red under clear glaze. Collection: Antoine a considerable achievement, it is by no means d'Albis, Sevres. the focus of her long career as a potter. Alto- Photo byJacques Dirand, Paris, courtesy ofthe photographer. gether, she has devoted less than 40 months

30 Sallyport over a 20-year period to testing and creating red art historian who wore a second hat as director ware. Franck stresses that none of her pottery— of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, as a she works in stoneware and earthenware as well memorable faculty influence. Chilton admitted as in porcelain—has been aimed at copying, her as a sophomore into his art history class, which she sees as futile. "Reproductions are life- which was normally reserved for upperclassmen. less," she says. Franck also admired Dr. Camden, a noted A glance at Franck's long list of accom- Shakespeare scholar and her faculty adviser. plishments establishes the rediscovery of When Franck was a first-semester freshman de- xianhong as one highlight in a varied and im- bating which courses to enroll in, Camden as- pressive artistic progression. Franck's works sessed her interests and recommended she take have been exhibited at the renowned Geneva French. This later led her to study in Paris, Baur Collection in Switzerland, at Oxford where she has now lived for 35 years. University's Ashmolean museum, at the Kyoto When Fance Franck discusses her art, she Municipal Museum, at the Takashimaya Gallery displays a wide acquaintance with the technol- in Tokyo and elsewhere. Last year she was ogy of kilns and glazes but points out that this is named Chevalier in France's Order of Arts and empirical knowledge acquired after Rice, where, Letters—a distinguished mark of recognition she says, "I took only the minimum amount of from the French government. science." Franck first ventured into the plastic The catalog for a 1980-81 Franck exhibi- arts after her college graduation, when she was tion that toured Japan and the United States studying at the Sorbonne in Paris. She began read, "In the past, ceramics have held in the "to do a little sculpture," as she puts it, "to West a minor place in the general appreciation make my studies in art history and aesthetics of the arts....This Western attitude is now rap- more concrete." idly changing, and contemporary ceramics are Returning to the United States, she con- receiving increasing recognition. One of the tinued her graduate work at Harvard, where she major factors in this change is the work of Fance studied English and French poetry, and at the Franck." Boston Museum School, where she concentrated on sculpture and art history. Gradually he life of Fance Franck has traced a fas- she came to feel that neither sculpture nor writ- cinating trajectory. She was born in ing was her vocation. "I didn't feel they were GNT6ew Montgomery, Alabama, and brought the means for me to reach what I was trying to up in Houston by her aunt following discover and express," she recalls. the death of her parents. In 1954, Franck moved to New York City Magazine articles have described Franck's and began teaching sculpture to children at the first intimation of her vocation as stemming Greenwich House Pottery in Greenwich Village. from a childhood encounter with an Iroquois "I hoped that working with the children might pottery jar. Struck with its shape and tactile awaken my spontaneity," she says. qualities, she determined then and there to be- The director of Greenwich House offered come a potter. Franck access to pottery facilities and advised Asked to comment on this story, Franck her to begin with hand building, which became points out that there had never been Iroquois her preferred method of working. "I felt I'd Indians in Alabama. However, if the incident found my own natural element. From that time has little foundation in truth, it does have a sort on, I have not looked back." of spiritual accuracy. Marguerite Johnston In 1957, after moving back to Paris, she Barnes, a Houston writer and a longtime friend met the soon-to-be-famous French potter of Franck's, says that "Fance was always sensi- Francine del Pierre. Franck describes the artist tive to beauty." as "a major formative influence in my under- This appreciation of art initially took the standing of pottery." form of scholarship. At Rice—then The Rice In- In 1960, Fance Franck and Francine del stitute—Franck studied literature, philosophy Pierre founded an atelier in the rue de and the history of art. She cites Dr. Chilton, an Bonaparte, Paris. Over the next few years,

February I March '94 31 Franck helped organize exhibitions for del Xianhong, however, was not used on ex- Pierre and other important potters, including port porcelains but on pieces created for the Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada. At the same emperor. Fresh Red was exceedingly difficult to time, she strove to master her craft. When control—it is estimated that only about 1 per- Francine del Pierre died in 1968, Andre cent of attempted Ming pieces resulted in an Malraux, who was then serving as French min- acceptable red. The color itself probably held ister of cultural affairs, decided to hold an ex- symbolic significance, and Fresh Red may have hibit in honor of the artist at Sevres National been one of the symbols of imperial power. Museum of Ceramics. Franck was asked to or- Zhu,the name of the reigning family, means ganize the exhibit and the catalog. red, and red was also the official color of the Along with this assignment, she received dynasty. a commission to create a piece at the Sevres Franck's knowledge of Far Eastern ceram- Manufactory in homage to del Pierre. This was ics encompasses Japanese as well as Chinese tra- the start of her fruitful connection with the ditions. In 1979, she received a grant from the manufactory, a relationship that continues to Japan Foundation that allowed her to work and this day. study for 16 months in Arita, a center of Japa- Franck periodically receives a commission nese porcelain manufacture since the 17th cen- from Sevres to create a prototype shape or tury, as well as in Tokyo, Seto and other places. group of shapes. For these she makes drawings Asked about the relation of her work to and often the work itself. She also prepares the Orient and to the past, Franck comments, glaze compositions and decides which glazing "My relationship to ceramics of a foreign cul- techniques will be used. Then, in collaboration ture, to art of the present or past, or art in with the technicians in the production depart- other media, is concerned basically with my ment, she makes the required number of perception of formal values—through which, it pieces, which she decorates, making each one is true, I seek to capture the energy and a con- different and adapting her approach as she pro- tinuum of the human spirit in its search for the ceeds. All are handmade. The resulting works meanings of life." belong to Sevres and are either sold or pre- It is possible to see Fance Franck as an in- sented to government officials and diplomats. habitant, artistically and personally, of two worlds. She is a contemporary artist who draws n important consequence of Franck's inspiration from the past. She is also an Ameri- rediscovery of Fresh Red has been her can who has lived most of her artistic life in 6.4N contact with Oriental pottery experts in France. Above all, she is a potter, a vocation China, Taipei, Hong Kong, England, that has long straddled the fine line between France and the United States. She has traveled arts and crafts. Even her working methods ex- extensively in Asia to study the archaeology and hibit a duality. Before her hands ever touch the technology of the Fresh Red glaze and to see clay, she draws a proposed piece in elevation— firsthand the early Ming pieces and related the same way archaeologists sketch pots they works. In the city of Jingdezhen, China, the have excavated. The practice, which helps guide ancient porcelain center where Fresh Red was the building of a shape, is one she learned from first made,she was asked to talk about her re- Francine del Pierre. search and works. On the status of pottery as art or craft, "In China," says Franck, "ceramics were Franck says, "It's obvious that one may be an fundamental to existence. The Chinese devel- artisan without being an artist, but true artists oped the ceramic industry and art over millen- have a deep knowledge and sense of their craft. nia. If you scratch the ground in ceramics-pro- The real question is at what level we use the in- ducing areas, you find shards like gravel—as trinsic expressive means of pottery—or of any many as cans, bottles, old tires in our garbage art, for that matter." dumps. For the Chinese, ceramics were very Despite her long residence abroad, Franck important domestic goods and export material. thinks of herself as an American. Most were mass produced." "America is my birthplace. Next in line to

32 Sallyport one's basic allegiance to humankind, I am American and, I might add, specifically a southerner." Her love of France, "another province of the one world we live in," creates no sense of conflict in her. She views her recent nomination to France's Order of Arts and Let- ters as "a token of the country's sympathy for American artists." A bit wryly, she volunteers that the same minister who nominated her for the award also nominated Bob Dylan. Franck made her most recent visit to the United States last fall to give a paper at an international symposium on Chinese porcelain, sponsored by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Her next stop was New Harmony, Indi- ana, where she presented new works to a chapel S. dedicated to St. Francis of Assisi. The chapel is a part of the extensive renovations made to the town, a former 19th-century utopian settlement, by native Houstonian Jane Blaffer Owen. Franck's pieces, entitled "Our Brother Sun" and "Our Sister Moon," are bas-relief panels executed in porcelain and stoneware, respectively. For Franck they represent an artistic departure, one she would like to pursue. "Pottery is a world of forms, infinitely varied, of course, that basically tend toward sim- plicity. I find their possibilities inexhaustible. However, I feel attracted also toward more ex- Top: STEM Bowl., Sevres porcelain, PAA body. Decor: horses in underglaze blue. Collection: Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sayles Francis, tensive ways of organizing space—architectural Walpole, New Hampshire. ceramics and ceramic sculpture as distinct from Photo byJean Vertut, Paris, courtesy ofMadame Jean Vertut pottery." Artist and artisan, deeply versed in art his- Bottom: BAS-RELIEF,entitled Soeur Lune,in the shape of the character passionate about her work, for Moon in Japanese GyOshO writing style. Stoneware with iron-blue tory and clearly glaze on unglazed white ground. Commissioned by Jane Blaffer Owen Fance Franck possesses another attribute that for St. Francis of Assisi chapel, Little Portion, New Harmony,Indiana. seems to place her in two worlds. Immersed in the visual arts, she is also highly articulate. Just TRIANGULAR CILCLIGE, PYX AND PATEN, stoneware, glazed in cobalt blue as she makes meticulous preparatory drawings glaze. Made for l Chapelle du Lavoir, Les Cartes, near Poitiers. word pictures Collection: Monsieur and Madame Dominique de Lamartiniere. of her pieces, she outlines precise Photo by Roger Guillemot and Bernard Saint-Genes, courtesy of of the philosophy that governs her art. Connaissance des Arts, Paris. All the same, when she is creating, she believes she occupies a world beyond language, where she must "think wordlessly." She muses that Westerners may resist pottery in part because "except for music and architecture, our aesthetics are often word-oriented." As Fance Franck continues to win admir- ers, this resistance to wordless art may become a thing of the past. II

February Mardi .94 33 STUDENT!

The Rise of Rice Radio KTRU's daring programming might not go over in the suburbs. But by Over the years, Rice's student-run, most accounts, the transition from a basement-born radio station has been small alternative college station to a called many things—most recently powerful purveyor of "other" music and enigmatically "Houston's Ear has gone smoothly. There have been Enema." If you've ever tuned in, you no run-ins with the FCC, and the may understand why. number of listeners calling in with KTRU disc jockeys play music no "suggestions"(KTRU does not take other station would think or dare to requests) has increased along with play—from the Dog-Faced Hermans the station's range, which now en- and Red House Painters to Sprawl. compasses cities as far away as Mixed in with this music from the Erik Benke and Jason Bill Galveston, Conroe and Humble. margins are specialty shows such as Today, KTRU is an important "The Mutant Hard-Core Flower 1971, KTRU went FM. Broadcast- outlet for independent record labels Hour" and "Chicken Skin Music," ing within an eight-mile radius of and local musicians who are eager which focus on particular genres of the Rice campus, KTRU featured for exposure. The flood of records music, like folk or blues. an assortment of speeches, inter- into the station is sometimes over- Rice radio began in 1967 when a views, campus events, music and whelming, especially when record small group of engineering students news. AM 580 was maintained un- representatives from the major labels from Hanszen College set up a make- til 1974. send such un-KTRU-like material as shift station in the college basement. During the 1970s, KTRU Mariah Carey songs. At this year's Using a buzzer system, the students played what is today considered organizational meeting, one staffer wired rooms in Hanszen and broad- classic rock—for example, the remarked that he did, in fact, play cast station KHCR (Hanszen College Rolling Stones and the Beatles— the new Carey CD—to drive the Radio) in the evenings. Record com- but the station usually played rela- cockroaches out of his house. panies honored their requests for new tively obscure album cuts rather The station is still run almost en- releases, and they were in business. than just the hits. tirely by volunteer Rice students and In 1968, KHCR moved from the In 1980, KTRU's power was alumni, and interest on campus has basement of Hanszen to the basement increased to 650 watts when a never been greater. This year alone, of the Rice Memorial Center and be- new transmitter was placed on the more than 100 freshmen applied for came KOWL,a campuswide radio sta- roof of Sid Richardson College. positions as DJs. Those who are tion. With 10 watts of power (double That year also saw the inaugura- chosen are trained in FCC guide- that of KHCR), KOWL reached all tion of 24-hour live broadcasts. lines by experienced station manag- the residential colleges but couldn't The 1980s ushered in alternative ers. Among other things, they learn be picked up off campus. The station music programming, including the how often to broadcast public ser- broadcast via carrier current on AM celebrated "S&M Show," which vice announcements and what they 580, Sunday through Thursday ran on Friday nights for 11 years. are allowed to say on the air. First- evening, for a total of about 40 hours KTRU finally moved above- year DJs often get stuck with off- a week. ground in 1986 when it relocated hour shifts with fewer listeners, but KOWL changed its name to KTRU to the second floor of the newly as they move up through the ranks, in 1969, when it was discovered that constructed Ley Student Center. they get better spots. a station in California had already reg- Still, the biggest change was yet to Now that groups such as R.E.M. istered the call letters KOWL with the come. In 1990, KTRU's neighbor and U2 have graduated from the Federal Communications Committee on the FM dial, KRTS 92.1, college music arena, KTRU has (FCC). As it turned out, the call let- wanted to increase its power. To gone even farther onto the fringes of ters KTRU were reserved by UCLA, do so, the station was required by the music scene. Co-general manag- but since UCLA had not used the let- the FCC to ensure it would not ers Jason Bill and Erik Benke agree ters since the 1950s, it agreed to let obliterate the reception of stations that that's what makes KTRU so Rice keep them. near it on the FM band. KRTS compelling. You can always find As the 1970s began, KTRU station wound up footing the bill for a something on it that you might not managers Buddy Trotter and Dan new $250,000 transmitter in normally hear. Guthrie launched "PROJECT 91.7," Humble for KTRU. The transmit- Benke isn't as concerned with an effort to gain university and FCC ter allowed KTRU to raise its making the masses happy as he is approval for an FM station. When 87 power to a whopping 50,000 with expanding the musical knowl- percent of Rice students approved a watts. edge of the listener. No one could $1.50 blanket tax increase to cover Originally there was some con- ever accuse KTRU of failing to do the costs of the changes, the dream of cern among KTRU staffers, the that. FM became reality. On April 29, university and the print media that —David H. Nathan

34 Sallyport ;ht Fall Sports Roundup a Fall sports at Rice University have turned over a new District VI Championship, behind the University of Ar- a leaf. kansas, which finished second in the nation. The Owls sic The Rice University football team completed its first also won three meets. en back-to-back winning seasons since 1960-61, the All this was done by a very young team. Six of the women's cross-country team had its best season ever, seven who ran in the NCAA will return next year, in- and the women's volleyball team clinched its best cluding front-runners sophomore Stacy Swank, fresh- ke record in three years. While the men's cross-country man Katy Eklof and junior Candace Lessmeister. squad underwent a rebuilding year, the young and inex- "I hope we can take advantage of what we learned perienced team showed great potential. and keep building toward the future," Bevan says. "I am extremely proud of the performance of our "Hopefully we can move up and take a shot at the top sports teams during the fall semester," says Bobby May, 10 in the nation." athletic director. "Quality coaches and dedicated stu- While the men's team did not fare as well, the young Is dent athletes continue to make the difference as we squad did exhibit much promise. It won the Rice Invi- work to produce programs that bring distinction to Rice tational and placed second at the Texas A&M Invita- University." tional. The Owls finished in fourth place in the South- The Rice football team finished its season on November west Conference. 26, routing the Uni- "We had a rebuilding Is versity of Houston 37- year," says head track as 7. It was sweet revenge coach Steve Straub. for the Owls, who last "Our top seven runners year suffered a humili- ended up being three ating 61-34 loss to freshmen, three sopho- Houston and taunts of mores and one junior. "Same old Rice" from The freshmen were kind opposing players. of the nucleus of the nd The day following team." Thanksgiving, when One of the biggest e, fowls are feasted upon, obstacles his freshmen br the Owls beat the Cou- faced was running gars by the largest mar- 10,000 meters, double gin in the history of the distance run in high - their rivalry. The win school competition, says gave Rice a 6-5 record Straub. and the Bayou Bucket, But he says his team the bragging rights be- Rice's gridiron gladiators celebrate their victory over the University continued to improve tween the hometown of Houston. throughout the season rivals. The victory and should be in posi- marks the first time the Owls have overtaken the Cougars tion next year to compete for the conference champi- since 1986. onship. "We laid the foundation for having a better For head coach Fred Goldsmith, who resigned in De- year next year and the year after that." 4. cember to become head coach at Duke, having a win- In volleyball, the women's team had the most wins in ning season was more important than beating Houston. three years, finishing with a 13-18 record. The team "With our level of competition, having back-to-back won two tournaments this season: the Hi-IQ Invita- of winning seasons is a real success," he said. tional in Williamsburg, Virginia, and the Lady Road- Of the 106 universities in the country that compete in runner Classic in San Antonio. Division I, only 46 had more wins than losses. "We're a very young team, but we have taken some "We're the smallest school in Division I," Goldsmith positive steps to becoming a nationally ranked pro- said, "and we're still winning." gram," says volleyball coach Henry Chen. Chen be- )t Also running up an impressive record is the women's came head coach this year after serving as an assistant cross-country track team. Assistant track coach Jim coach at Rice for two years. Bevan believes this was probably the best season Rice Of the nine returning players, five are freshmen and has ever had in this sport. four are sophomores. Sophomore Sammy Waldron, a The team finished 19th at the 1993 NCAA Division I first-team, all-conference performer, will be one of the Cross-Country Championships held on November 22 team's leaders during the next two years. in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Out of 290 schools in the Other Rice teams competing this fall were men's and nation, only 22 qualified for the meet. women's swimming, men's and women's tennis and 1 In addition, the cross-country team placed second in men's golf. All five teams will finish their seasons this the Southwest Conference and second in the NCAA spring. —David D. Medina

February / March '94 35 Bing Memorial Scholarship Supports Shepherd Society Shepherd School Students Celebrates, Supports Music Edward J. Bing, who died in January 1993, is remembered by many Established in 1978, the Shepherd Houstonians for his rich and varied contributions to the musical life of this Society is an organization that sup- city for over 50 years. To celebrate his life and his many achievements, his ports the Shepherd School of Mu- widow, Frances Bing, recently established the Edward J. and Frances Bing sic. It provides financial support Memorial Scholarship at Rice University. This generous bequest will pro- for the school's exceptionally tal- vide financial assistance to talented musicians for study at Rice's Shepherd ented performers and scholars. School of Music. Last year, the 1,030 members of Edward Bing was born in Vienna, Austria, in the society contributed more than 1904. He studied singing there with Madame $200,000 in scholarships and Charles Cahiers and with the well-known dra- awards. This year, the Shepherd matic teacher Madame Gutheil-Schoder. He Society is working to increase its graduated from the Vienna Conservatory of membership as well as its scholar- Music and then went to Italy for several years ship and award support to help of further study. In Milan he worked with two the Shepherd School continue at- celebrated masters, Cavalimi and Murati. His tracting outstanding faculty and progress was such that he made his debut at La students. The 1993-94 president Scala in the leading role of Rigoletto. of the society is Juliana Williams Upon his return to his native city in 1932, he Itz '72. competed with 300 other singers and won the Sil- On occasion, the Shepherd Soci- ver Award of Honor of the City of Vienna. His ety undertakes special projects to subsequent career in Europe took him to many meet additional needs of the music other major cities. The critic for the Prager school, such as the purchase of a Tageblatt(Prague) noted his "luscious voice of new Hamburg Steinway concert rich beauty." The Budapest press called him "a grand piano. During 1990 and mastersinger in every sense of the word." 1991, the society raised more than The German army marched into Austria in one million dollars for the new March 1938. The Bings set out for America music building, Alice Pratt Brown shortly thereafter, leaving behind all that they had Hall. The society also plans to help worked for over the years. Arriving in the U.S. in set in place a new scholarship en- early 1939, they came to Tyler, Texas, where Bing found work as a choir dowment. The goal is eventually director. As a performer he was equally at home in opera, in concert and to build an endowment that will in oratorio singing. In time, his growing reputation brought invitations to generate $750,000 a year. sing in Dallas, Houston and other towns. In 1942, the Bings became resi- Members of the Shepherd Soci- dents of Houston, and soon he was engaged as music and choir director at ety receive a calendar that lists the Central Presbyterian Church. He held this post for over 30 years, from more than 200 concerts, recitals, April 1943 to November 1973. For more than 10 of those years he per- master classes, lectures and invita- formed a similar function at Temple Emanu El. tions to events sponsored by the Edward Bing also had a private studio, and he found that his work with society. These events include the individual voice students gave him his greatest satisfaction. The success he Elizabethan-theme Madrigal Din- had with highly talented singers gave him a profound sense of joy, since he ners; the Young People's Concert; was able to influence them as musicians and personally. Among his stu- the Schubertiad, offering classical dents whose careers flourished were Dorothy Dow, Tommy Tune and music in the tradition of the 19th Pauline Stark. century; and Blaserfest, an evening Edward Bing's life in Houston is woven into the very fabric of music in of wind music celebrating the ar- this city. During the period of its greatest achievements, he sang in several rival of spring. of the annual productions of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society. He was one Levels of membership range of the three original incorporators and founding members of the Houston from $35 for an annual regular Grand Opera Association, along with Mrs. Louis Lobit and Mr. Charles F. membership to $25,000 and above Cockrell Jr., on July 31, 1955. He sang with the Houston Symphony and for an endowed membership. Gifts with the Columbia Broadcasting Company in New York. of $500 or more allow an award or In December 1973, on the occasion of his retirement from his position a scholarship to be given in the at the Central Presbyterian Church, a large gathering praised Edward Bing name of the donor. For further infor his fine music making and the contribution he had made to their lives. formation, please contact Gary Wrote one parishioner, "I'll never forget the first time I heard the Bing Smith, assistant dean of music at Choir sing Mozart's Ave Verum!So rich and full. I've loved your style. the Shepherd School, at (713) God be praised. Long live Bing!!" 527-4047. —Walter R. Kaye

36 Sallyport Thefollowing have pledged or given at the Edgar Odell Lovett and Brown Society levels between July 1, 1993, and December 15, 1993.

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Mr. and Mrs. Bill Barnett Mr. and Mrs. Joe B. Alexander Dr. and Mrs. David W. Kisker Mr. and Mrs. H. Russell Bowers Mr. and Mrs. Kingsland Arnold Mr. and Mrs. Leo P. Kleiber Mr. and Mrs. John Dudley Burns Mr. Fredric J. Attermeier Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence E. Kuhlken Mr. and Mrs. Gordon A. Cain Mr. and Mrs. Khleber V. Attwell, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Walter Loewenstern, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Leslie Cookenboo Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Baillio, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Charles Lucky Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Crawford Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Noel Barron Mr. and Mrs. William M. McCardell Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Dalton, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Rice Bethea Drs. Larry and Mary McIntire Mrs. James H. Degnan Mr. Larry Blake and Mrs. Charles McKean Mr. Reginald Eugene Dugat Dr. Katherine A. Cowan Dr. and Mrs. Charles S. Matthews Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Duncan, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Bracht Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Meyer, III Mr. and Mrs. John W. Elsenhans Mr. and Mrs. W. Robins Brice Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Miller, Jr. Mr. P. Stinson Gibner and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond D. Brochstein Mr. and Mrs. George J. Miller Ms. Le Thuy Thi Dao-Gibner Mr. and Mrs. Brad Bucher Mr. and Mrs. John W. Millington Mr. and Mrs. Hugh E. Gragg Mr. Bruce L. Bush and Mr. Burton L. Mobley Mrs. Shirley Laughlin Hamner Dr. Judith Lynne Johnston Dr. and Mrs. Richard S. Moon Mr. Carl E. Isgren and Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Campbell Mr. and Mrs. John G. Mott Ms. Kathy Emre Mr. and Mrs. Emory T. Carl Mr. Stephen R. Mut Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Jackson Mr. and Mrs. W. Michael Carter Mr. and Mrs. Stuart C. Mut Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Jenkins Mr. David A. Collins Mr. and Mrs. Peter C. Overbaugh Mr. and Mrs. Jack Joplin Dr. Dana Derward Copeland and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Reilly, Jr. Mr. anti Mrs. Albert Nicholson Kidd Ms. Martha Ann Webb Mr. Edward (Ted) R. Richardson Dr. anti Mrs. Joel B. Kirkpatrick Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Derrick Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Rudy Mr. Michael R. Lynch and Mr. and Mrs. James H. Elder, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Roland W. Schmitt MS. Susan L. Baker Mr. Harris B. and Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Peter Segner, III Mr. Jay R. McLure, Jr. Ms. Kay Preston Forbes Mr. and Mrs. Dexter Senft Dr. and Mrs. Burt McMurtry Mr. Thomas S. Fornoff and Mr. and Mrs. Steve Shaper Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Massey Ms. Valerie J. Luessenhop Mr. and Mrs. William Norman Sick Dr. and Mrs. Robert R. Maxfield Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Glasscock Mr. and Mrs. Ray E. Simpson, Jr. Mr. William James Murray Mr. and Mrs. Matt Gorges Mr. and Mrs. Stephen B. Smith Mrs. Elouise Lucy Nazro Mr. anti Mrs. James P. Heard Mr. and Ms. William P. Starnes Mr. and Mrs. Jack Newport Mr. and Mrs. James D. Henry Dr. and Mrs. Herbert L. Stone Ms. Macon& Brown O'Connor Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hermance Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Tudor, III Mr. and Mrs. M. Kenneth Oshman Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Hindman Mr. and Mrs. John Van Ness Mr. and Mrs. W. Bernard Pieper Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Hollingsworth, Jr. Mr. James T. Wagoner Mr. William J. Rapson, Jr. Mr. Fred G. Hollins Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Weichert, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Leighton Read Mr. and Mrs. Gerald T. Holtzman Mr. and Mrs. Hugh T. Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Rogers, III Mr. Vester T. Hughes, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Richard 0. Wilson Mr. and Mrs. John F. Sorte Mr. and Mrs. John C. Jackson, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. Yates, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Roland B. Stelzer Mr. and Mrs. Al Jensen Mr. and Mrs. John G. Yeager Mr. Selby W. Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. C. Boyd Kilgore Mr. and Mrs. C. Payson Todd Mrs. Wesley West Mr. and Mrs. R. Howard Wilson The Edgar Odell Lovett Society and the Brown Society provide annualfunding for scholarships, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Woodrow Wilson financial aid,faculty salaries, library acquisitions and equipmentfor laboratories. Membership Mr. Samuel A. Winkelmann in the Edgar Odell Lovett Society, named for Rice's first president, requires an annual unrestricted donation of$10,000 or more to the Annual Gifts program. Membership in the Brown Society, named in honor of George R. Brown and the Brown family, requires an annual unrestricted donation of$5,000-$9,999 to the Annual Gifts program. Contributions received by June 30, 1994, will qualify donorsfor membership during the 1993-1994fiscal year.

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--...011111116. Alumni Office Works In her new position, Buenker Helping Buenker keep local to Strengthen Ties with will serve as the chief contact for alumni engaged with the university Local Alums the various Rice alumni organiza- will be Ann Greene. Greene has tions in Houston. She will also served as an ARA board member In recent years, the Rice Office of work with Lynn Vocke Lednicky since 1992. She too lived in Alumni Affairs has reached out to '85, chairperson of the 1994 Brown, where she served as col- alumni living and working outside Homecoming Committee, and lege president during the height of the Houston area by offering more will develop a mentor program for campus protest over the Vietnam events and activities that will keep undergraduates through the Stu- War. Rice's ever-expanding community dent/Alumni Liaison Committee. After receiving her B.A. in En- connected to the university. As In addition, Buenker is research- glish, Greene earned a master's de- these plans take shape, the office ing the possibility of creating an gree in guidance and counseling has also begun work to strengthen alumni college. As currently envi- and a law degree, both from the ties with local alumni. sioned, the "college" would be a University of Houston. She has This effort will be led by Pamela three-day program of classes, field worked as a research attorney on Behrend Buenker '86, the newly trips, workshops and social events. the 14th Court of Appeals and for appointed assistant director of Alumni would participate in the a private firm. Her husband, Tom Alumni Affairs, and Ann Patton various sessions and activities while Greene '71, is an attorney in Greene '71, who was recently staying on campus in one of the Houston. named chairperson of the Houston residential colleges. Similar pro- Although she still does some le- Area Activities Committee. grams have had tremendous suc- gal work on a contractual basis, Buenker, who joined the Office cess at other universities—includ- Greene says she has "temporarily of Alumni Affairs in November, ing Harvard, Dartmouth and retired." This will give her plenty will coordinate the dozens of clubs Amherst. of time to focus on the new Hous- and organizations that involve Buenker says she is excited ton Area Activities Committee, Houston-area alumni. As an un- about returning to Rice and build- whose mission, she says, is "first to dergraduate at Rice, Buenker ing on the ties between the uni- inform people about what's hap- served as a coordinator for Orien- versity and its local alumni, who tation Week and as the sports rep- make up one-third of all living resentative for Brown College, of Rice alums. which she was a member. After receiving her degree in managerial studies, she went to work for the U.S. Olympic Festival, which was held in Houston in 1986. As assistant participant-services coordinator, she managed hospitality services for the athletes, including housing. She subsequently worked as a legal assistant in the law firm of Butler and Binion, where she specialized in commercial litigation and torts. She is married to Joe Buenker '86, an attorney.

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38 Sallyport pening on campus and then to Staying Involved With Rice ity involve them." To this end, Greene has proposed publishing Rice alumni can stay involved with the university through a number of ARA a calendar each semester that programs and campus organizations. A few of these opportunities are highlighted would list the activities of various below. For a complete list of ways to stay involved, call the Alumni Office at groups and organizations involv- (713) 527-4057. of ing Houston-area alumni. In addition to informing Friends of Rice Players provides ongoing financial support for Rice theater alumni about the smaller fimc- facilities and activities. The group's membership includes alumni of the Rice tions held regularly on campus, Players, faculty and staff. In the past, the Friends have underwritten residential Greene's committee will attempt college productions and invited noncollegiate acting troupes to campus. Call Joe to draw people to events on a Lockett at(713) 527-4027 for additional information. grander scale. Shepherd School concerts for Houston alumni Black Alumni Association sponsors programs and events for black alumni and (such as the one held last No- students. Call the Alumni Office at (713) 527-4057 for additional information. vember), productions of the Rice 1 Players and Rice athletic events Rice Business Networking organizes seminars on business-related topics and are some of the attractions that publishes a networking directory for members of the Rice community. Call the Greene hopes will bring more Alumni Office at (713) 527-4057 for additional information. alumni back to campus. By providing Houston alumni Rice Gay and Lesbian Association sponsors programs and social activities for gay, with as much information as pos- lesbian and bisexual Rice alumni and their families and provides support to the sible, Buenker and Greene hope student group Gays and Lesbians of Rice (GALOR). Call Anderson Brandao at s- to keep alumni more closely in- (713) 797-1732 or Don Baker at (713) 285-5491 for additional information. volved with the university. As to they begin tackling this project, Houston Area Activities Committee organizes activities and events designed to they encourage anyone with sug- keep Houston-area alumni and parents of current students involved with Rice. gestions on how to make the Call Pamela Behrend Buenker at (713) 527-4694 for additional information. committee successful to call them at the Office of Alumni Affairs Rice Design Alliance stimulates public awareness and discussion of the urban (713) 527-4057. environment through seminars, a lecture series, design exhibitions and an annual —Sean O'Connell architectural tour. Membership includes two issues of Cite, a magazine that spot- lights important issues of city life and provides a forum for architectural critique. Call Linda Sylvan at (713) 524-6297 for additional information.

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40 Sallyport Scotland—Castles and the throne was put to rest with the Coastlines defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie by the Duke of Cumberland. A short Few landscapes claim so rich a distance away are Cawdor Castle, spectrum of images as that of Scot- with its Shakespearean associations land. The enchanting, moody and its dramatic drawbridge and scenery of the western Highlands tower built around a tree, and contrasts with the rugged beauty Brodie Castle, ancient seat of the of the central mountains, which Brodie family. gives way to the gently rolling es- One of the highlights of this tates of the east. The country's portion of the trip will be a visit to dramatic landscape hosts a rich and the Isle of Skye, largest of the vibrant culture steeped in history. Hebridean Islands. With only Castles, ruins and country houses 8,000 inhabitants, much of the dot the countryside, each with a landscape of wild and craggy peaks story to tell. surrounded by coral beaches and The Association of Rice Alumni sheer cliffs is wonderfully undis- invites Rice alumni and friends to turbed by civilization. join a tour of Scotland, which de- What trip to Scotland would be parts Houston August 15 and re- complete without a visit to Loch turns August 25. The trip has been Ness and a chance to search for its arranged especially for Rice by re- elusive monster? Departing from nowned tour operator Abercrom- Inverness, we will board a cruise bie & Kent. Michael Carroll, dean boat to explore the 24-mile-long of the George R. Brown School of loch, which is 900 feet deep in Engineering, will accompany our places. The boat will make a stop group. at the ruins of Urquhart Castle, A traditional Scottish bagpiper where most sightings of the Loch will greet us in Glasgow as we Ness monster have occurred. board a motor coach bound for CASTLES, RUINS Our Scottish sojourn will come drive, a to a close with a stop at an excel- Edinburgh. During the AND COUNTRY guide will provide a thorough in lent smokehouse and a visit to to Scotland. HOUSES DOT Inveraray Castle, headquarters of After settling in at Channing's the Campbell Clan since the 15th Hotel, we will enjoy an orientation HE COUNTRYSID century. Our group will enjoy fine tour of the city. The following day, accommodations at the Cameron WITH A members of our group will be free EACH House Hotel and Country Club to explore the city at their leisure, STORY TO TELL on the banks of Loch Lomond, visit galleries, shop and go sight- the queen of Scottish lakes and the seeing. largest expanse of fresh water in Heading north from Edinburgh Britain. A gala farewell dinner the next morning, we will receive should make this last evening of an enticing introduction to the The next day we will pass the journey among our most countryside and the castles that through the mountainous coun- memorable. chronicle the country's history. tryside of Glen Shee to Royal Golf enthusiasts may want to be- Our first stop will be Stirling Deeside and drive along the "Malt gin their trip a few days early so Castle with its magnificent views. Whiskey Trail," stopping for a tour they can play some of Scotland's We will also visit Scone Palace, and a tasting at a distillery. The famous courses—St. Andrews, where 40 kings of Scotland were day's journey will end in Inverness, Gleneagles or Turnberry. crowned. The palace houses an ex- capital of the Highlands and our tensive collection of art and an- group's base for the next four tiques. days. After a glimpse into the medi- In Inverness, we will enjoy es- eval past in the small town of corted tours to surrounding sites For more information, contact Dunkeld on the banks of the River and will have ample time to ex- Rose Sundin, Office of Alumni Tay and a visit to Blair Castle, our plore independently. Nearby is the Affairs, Rice University, P.O. group will stop for the night in a historic battlefield of Culloden, Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251; deluxe country house hotel. where in 1746 the Stuart claim to telephone (713) 527-4678.

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tute. She was a member of 1989. He was certified by she and her late husband the Junior League, the the American Board of Plas Carl Halla moved to Abi- Houston Country Club,the tic Surgery in 1946. lene. She is survived by one 1914 Bayou Gardeners and the Cronin was in the U.S. brother, one sister, three Friends of Bayou Bend and Army Medical Corps for children and a host of other The following (edited) Sr. Luke's United Method- three years in World War 11 relatives and friends." obituary appeared in the ist Church. She is survived including two and one-halt The 1929 Campanile Houston (Texas) Chronicle by a host of loving relatives years in the European Thu lists as Mary's activities the on Nov. 17, 1993: and friends. atcr. Upon his return to Rice Dramatic Club, 1926- The Campanile of 1926 Houston in 1946, he WA 29, and the French Club, lists as Shepherd's activities cochair of the Dept. of Plas 1926-27. PALS., 1922-26; council- tic Surgery at Jefferson man-at- large, 1924-26; Davis Hospital. Among his Lawrence Plummer sends Y.W.C.A., 1925-26; May academic appointments wo the following (edited) Fete, 1923-26; senior duch- clinical professor of plasti, Margie Thiel Turrentine obituary for Florence M. ess, 1926; class vice presi- surgery at both Baylor Col Brown Plummer, with the dent, 1924-25; junior prom lege of Medicine and the UT in Houston. Her husband of comment that "she always comm., senior ring comm. Health Science Center. He 57 years, Gordon Henry had a great love for Rice and and final ball comm. was on the staffs of St. Jo- Turrentine, died in 1986. all that it represented." seph Hospital, St. Luke's Survivors include one Episcopal Hospital, Texas daughter, Noclie Turren- Children's Hospital, tine Jacobs '54; one son-in- Hcrmann Hospital (as chief law; two granddaughters of plastic surgery at the lat- and two great-grandchil- Alex Frosch ter three), Methodist Hos- dren." pital, Twelve Oaks Hospital The Campanile for 1928 and Memorial Hospital. He lists Margic's activities as "Alex Frosch died Nov. 15, was president of the Ameri- E.B.L.S., 1925-28; vice 1993. He is survived by can Assn. of Plastic Sur- president, 1928; Woman's many loved ones and geons, the Texas Society of Council, 1927; secretary, friends. For those who wish, Plastic Surgeons, the Hous- Honor Council, 1928; the contributions may be made ton Surgical Society and the Thresher staff, 1925-28, in- to Fondren Library." The Houston Society of Plastic cluding coed edition, 1925- 1924 Campanile lists Surgeons. He was also a 28, and society editor, Frosch's activities as the member of many other 1927-28; class vice presi- Menorah Society, 1920-23, medical associations and re- dent, 1925; sophomore Florence Brown Plummer and the Engineering Society, ceived many special awards dance comm.; French assis- 1923-24. for his outstanding scientific tant, 1927-28; and May "Florence M. Brown contributions to the devel- Fete, 1928. Plummer, 86, of Camden, opment of plastic surgery. Maine,and a longtime dean He was named Clinician of of students at Beaver Col- the Year by the American lege in Glenside, died Sept. Assn. of Plastic Surgeons in 14, 1993, in Camden. Born 1916 Thomas Dillon Cronin 1979. and raised in New England, Cronin was the author of Plummer attended Rice U. Dr. Thomas Dillon Cronin 112 published articles and in Houston, graduated from died Fri., Oct. 22, 1993. chapters in plastic surgery The Abilene (Texas) Re- the U. of New Hampshire Internationally known and journals and books. He was porter-News carried the fol- and earned a master's degree respected by his colleagues guest speaker at plastic sur- lowing (edited) obituary on from Curry College in in the field of plastic surgery, gery congresses all over the Oct. 12, 1993: Milton, Mass. She taught at Cronin was one of the first world. Among his multitude Grosse Point Country Day pioneers in plastic surgery in of honors from numerous Schools in Mich. and the Houston. He was born April organizations was the estab- Emma Willard School in 8, 1906, in Houston, and lishment, in 1987, of a Dr. Troy, N.Y. married Anne Hcyck Thomas D. Cronin Chair in "Plummer then earned a Cronin '30 on Nov. 6, Plastic Surgery at the uT second master's degree at 1939. After attending Rice, Health Science Center in Columbia U. and served as he received his M.D. degree Houston. dean of residence at Salem from the UT Medical Cronin is survived by his Academy in Winston-Salem, Branch in Galveston in wife and a host ofother rela- N.C. She was dean of stu- 1932, then interned at Kan- tives and friends. dents at Beaver College for Marjorie llfrey Shepherd sas City General Hospital, 19 years. She taught out- The Kerrrille (Texas) Daily Mary Brown Balla Marjorie Evelyn Ilfrey Kansas City, Mo. He served door cooking to camp coun- Times carried the following Shepherd died Oct. 17, a residency at St. Joseph "Mary Margaret Brown selors in Maine and pub- (edited) obituary on Oct. lished 1993. A lifelong Housto- Hospital in Houston; a fel- Halla,85, of Abilene, Texas, several articles on 14, 1993: nian, Shepherd was born lowship in plastic and oral died Oct. 10,1993. She was 'The Art of Living Outdoors "Margie Wilma Thiel in Aug. 3, 1904. She was a surgery at the Mayo Clinic born in Houston, and after Maine.' Turrentine died Oct. 12, graduate of Central High in Rochester, Minn.; and her graduation from Rice "Survivors include her 1993,in Kerrville, her home School and The Rice Insti- was active in the practice of she taught for H.I.S.D. husband, three stepchil- plastic surgery from 1939 to for 15 years. She was born "After her retirement, dren and live grandchildren."

42 Sallyport She taught world history for Dr. Thomas P. Lyon Sr., 32 years. After graduation M.D., of San Jose, Calif.; from Rice, she married and Thomas P. Lyon ofCol- 1930 James L. Hartfield, a Rice lege Park, Ga. professor who taught elec- Class Recorder: trical engineering. Sadly, he Class Recorder: Lucille Davis Rulfs died when they had been Willie Mae Chapman Cole 3304 Albans married for only eight years; 2414 Chimney Rock Houston, TX 77005 their son was only five years Houston, TX 77056 old. Genevieve also has a (713) 782-9509 Class recorder Lucille Davis master's in psychology. In Rulfs writes: 1943, she was asked by the Class Recorder: mayor of Houston to be su- Chris Hoover pervisor ofa juvenile bureau 5318 Meadow Lake Lane for Houston. She had to Houston, TX 77056 take the civil service exam Webber Tryon Robinson and was interviewed by b, Genevieve Pyle Demme Class Recorder: judges and the FBI. She '55 (MA., 1958) and her Elliott Flowers "Webber Tryon Robin- served in this demanding husband Roy have joined 3330 Del Monte son, M.D., passed away at job for eight years, establish- the newly formed West Uni- Houston, TX 77019 his home of 43 years in ing the bureau, which was versity (Texas) Historical (713) 524-4404 Bellaire, Texas, on Nov. 22, to help troubled set up Society. Residents in the 1993. He was born in the youths. She wrote books for West University area since Class recorder Elliott Flow- Houston Heights on July reference, which were ys 1940, they are working to ers writes: 27, 1912. After graduat- widely used. After resigning preserve the town's history. A while back Frances ing from Tulane Medical from this position, Gene- In Nov. 1993, the society Louise Christian Reid and School, he became a major married Howard Will- vieve and the Greater Houston I discussed grandchildren in the U.S. Army Medical has been widowed Marjorie Nicks Carothers iams but Preservation Alliance hosted and great-grandchildren, Corps and served four years for 20 years. its first public showing of and we thought it would be in the Pacific. He completed World War II, the We arc all saddened by After oral histories and artifacts at nice to run a contest to see his training in urology at the from Greece, a the death of Marjorie minister the West University Com- who had the most in each U. of Penn. in Philadelphia. asked Genevieve for Evelyn Nicks Carothers in woman, munity Center. Both category. Recently I received He practiced urology in help to see what America Oct. 1993. At Rice she was Genevieve and Roy Demme a note from Bruce Breed- Houston for 37 years and could do to help 28 youths, active in the Dramatic Club are quoted extensively and ing '74 (Baker; M.A.M.S., was president of the Hous- boys and girls who had been (1928-30) and the Glee pictured in an article on the 1976),the youngest child of ton Surgical Society in captured during the war by Club(1928) and was a Maid historical society, "West Clark and Edith Simpson 1976-77. He was founder the Bulgars, who had slain in the May Fete (1927). She University residents try to Breeding,and he advises me and chief of staff at Sharps- the youths' parents, an act had been a longtime teacher keep bulldozers from plow- that Clark and Edith have town General Hospital. He the youths witnessed. They in the Houston Indepen- ing up history," which ap- four children, 14 grandchil- served for years as the vol- were held prisoner for four dent School District, and peared in the Houston Post dren and eight great-grand- unteer health officer for the years befine being rescued she was a very pretty, lovely on Sept. 30, 1993. children. Furthermore, two city of Bellaire. He was a by U.S. soldiers. Genevieve person. We commiserate additional great-grandchil- member of the American contacted many organiza- with Durell on his loss. dren are expecting. They Medical Assn., the Harris tions and arranged for the A very busy couple, have outstripped everyone I Co. Medical Society and the Greek minister to speak to Johnny Fay Lilly Barnette can think of at this time. South Central Urological them. Many organizations and L.A.M. Barnette '32 Dorothy Daley and I Society. He loved his wife, gave money. Genevieve re- had just returned from a 30- had a long chat recently. She his family, oak trees, roses ceived things from hardware day trip to New Zealand and tells mc that she is still work- and the Galveston Bay. He stores and sewing machine Australia when I contacted ing and enjoying herself. She was a great storyteller. He is companies and went to Aus- them this month. They had is in the process of helping survived by many loved ones tin to collect discarded text- a wonderful time, but the close out the estate of E.J. and friends. For those desir- books from the state. Lykes highlight was a visit with ("Bear") Gracey, one of the ing, contributions may be Steamship Line, through Bernice Copeland McKean pioneers in the oil business. made to Fondren Library." class' Buddy Lykes, '27 and Jerry McKean '31, our She has been too busy to everything to who have lived in New shipped volunteer in alumni affairs, She was then invited Zealand many years. The Greece. but whenever she completes Washington, D.C., by J. Barnettes have two sons; to her work with the Grace), Hoover, where she one lives in Katy, Texas, and Edgar estate, I hope that she will quite a reception one near Dallas. They also received come out and help us on the 1E135 enjoy four grandsons and from the FBI. archives committee. leads a very four granddaughters (three Genevieve Ernest P. Hickey The vote has been unani- active life, which I'll tell you Class Recorder: by marriage). Johnny Fay mous in favor of having a William Storey about later. Ernest P. Hickey, 92, a enjoys oil and pastel paint- luncheon at our 60th re- 8600 Skyline Drive Pasadena, Texas, resident, ing. She will have some union next year, so we are No. 3215 died Oct. 9, 1993. He reprinted in the Sheltering proceeding to that end. It Dallas, TX 75243-4158 tired as an engineer from Arms calendar for 1994. will be held at noon on Nov. (214) 503-1931 L.A. retired from Humble Arco in 1963 after 40 years 3, 1994, in the Farnsworth (Exxon). They now are part of service. Hickey was a Pavilion of the Rice Memo- of the ZIP, program in member of Toastmasters rial Center. More details will H.I.S.D., giving talks to stu- and the Pasadena Down- be announced in a later col- dents on animals and rep- Class Recorder: town Lions Club. He was umn. preceded in death by his 193 tiles, she on sea shells, na- Anne McCulloch ture and ecology. They also 2348 Shakespeare wife, Nola Hickey, and his On Nov. 25, 1993, the Class Recorder: have a vegetable garden at Houston, TX 77030 son Charles. Hickey is sur- Houston (Texas) Chronicle Beulah Axelrad Yellen their home in Bellaire. vived by two sons, two carried the following (ed- 9406 Cliffwood Drive I enjoyed talking to Mary Morris Lyon died daughters and numerous ited) obituary: Genevieve White Williams Oct. 23, 1993, in College grandchildren and great- Houston, TX 77096 and hearing of her busy life. Park, Ga. Survivors include grandchildren. (713) 723-7318

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Class recorder Beulah cer, Dunaway, Jones and Axelrad Yellen writes: Smith Inc. He also taught So sorry to report that architectural design and city James Karl Dunaway died planning at Rice for 25 Nov. 17, 1993. years. He was a member of On Nov. 11, 1993, Tat- the City of Houston Plan- tended a reception and con- ning Comm. and of the na- cert. Rice president Mal- tional, state and local chap- colm Gillis gave a very ters of the American interesting talk, which was Institute of Architects, hav- followed by a question-and- ing served as secretary ofthe answer period. We were en- Houston chapter. Dunaway tertained by the Shepherd is survived by two daughters School of Music. and their husbands, a son On Nov. 28, the Tree of and his wife, two grandsons Hope had a gala benefit for and three nephews. Contri- the Star of Hope Mission. butions may be made in his Joining the festivities were memory to Fondren Li- Carloss Morris and Doris brary. Poole Morris '37. Please let me hear from On Sept. 1, 1993, the you. Merry Christmas and Williamson County Sun of Happy New Year to all! Georgetown, Texas, reported the retirement of Dr. Frederick Huston Ayes, Robert Gamble in a long M.D., 78, died Oct. 24, article entitled "George- 1993. Born Feb. 24, 1915, town dentist throws in the Mary Jane Hale Rommel interviewing prospective Rice students last spring. Amy in Galveston, Ayes was a pick after 52 years." Gam- Caleote, standing, is a freshman living in Brown College this year. graduate of Rice and the UT ble, who was pictured in his medical school. Ayes served office surrounded by vintage Jones '38 and Gordon iting with the president of in the U.S. Army for five dental equipment,set up his Jones, Peggy Sims Bring- the Association of Rice years as a lieutenant colonel. first Georgetown office in hurst '36 and Jack Bring- Alumni, Lydia Asselin '79, He is survived by his wife, 1941 after finishing dental hurst '33, Mary Margaret who lives in San Francisco two daughters and grand- school and practicing for a 1937 Raymond Mayfield '40, and commutes between that children and numerous year in Houston. Besides June Dunlop Farren '40 city and Houston to attend nieces and nephews. rural customers, Gamble Class Recorder: and Paul Farren, and Mary alumni board meetings and served businessmen, politi- Mary Jane Hale Rommel Crain Williamson '36 and other activities. cians, preachers and others. 504 Fairway Dr.—Riverhill Joe Williamson '34. Next was a trip to Lovett He is especially proud of Kerrville, TX 78028 I learned about a recent Hall and the Admission Of- having treated four South- (512) 896-4310 honor bestowed upon Mary fice to tag base and visit with western U. presidents— Crain Williamson. She re- admission dean Dick Stabell James Samuel Barcus, Class recorder Mary Jane ceived the "Woman of the and Anne Brice, a most ef- J.N.R. Score, William Car- Hale Rommel writes: Year" award for her long and fective assistant in that of rington Finch and Durwood Rice Homecoming '93 devoted service with the flee. For several years I have Fleming. was a sheer delight—once Women for South Texas had the pleasure of serving One customer, Pat Gidd- again the privilege of tour- College ofLaw in Houston. as Rice interviewer for pro- ings, when she first moved ing the impressive campus Her husband Joe has long spective Rice students in the to Georgetown, was con- and visiting with old friends. been associated with the col- Texas Hill Country. This has cerned about having to Harriet Allen Fouke '36 lege, which hc has served as proven a most enjoyable task commute back to Houston and I made all the events of a past president and is now for me. I meet many engag- to visit her dentist. But when the weekend, including the dean emeritus and acting ing young students and keep she told the Houston den- football game. professor. in touch with what's going tist where she was moving, Starting off with the Carolyn Tomek Dessain on at Rice. I strongly urge he set her mind at ease. Golden R Coffee, where '43 is devoted to promoting other Rice alumni who live James Karl Dunaway Giddings said he told her, alumni from all classes that the Rice Literary Society in communities where Rice "You're going to where have celebrated their 50th luncheon held annually at is not represented to assist James Karl Dunaway died there's one ofthe finest den- reunion gather, we had the the Cohen House. At the the Admission Office in Nov. 17, 1993. Born in tists in the United States." pleasure of greeting and Golden R coffee she asked seeking out qualified high Smithville, Texas, on Jan. The dentist told her that sharing memories with many me to spread the word about school students who might 25, 1915, he moved with his Gamble often gave lectures good friends and our own this popular alumni activity. consider a career at Rice (see parents to Bellville, Texas. to university students in classmates. All former literary society photo above). He graduated from that Houston. Giddings was also It was so good to see members, former students The next gathering of the city's high school in 1932 as surprised to learn that Martha Bartels Green- and friends of Rice are in- day was the convocation and valedictorian and received a Gamble had played in the wood '38 and Ben Green- vited to attend. The next luncheon held in the stun- BA. in 1936 and a B.S. in Rice band with her husband, wood '35, who have luncheon meeting will be ning Alice Pratt Brown Hall. architecture in 1937 from Wallace M. Giddings '38. recently married; Ed Op- held at Cohen House on At our table we enjoyed see- Rice. In 1941, he received In 1981 the Georgetown penheimer '35; Ballard March 12, 1994, and our ing Audrey Moody Ley'35 an MS.in architecture from Chamber of Commerce Jared '36; Eleanor Norris new Rice president, and Wendel Ley '32, long- Columbia U. While at Rice named Gamble Man of the Adams '34 and Dick Malcolm Gillis, will be the time generous benefactors he met and married Jane Year. Adams '33; Ken Jones'33; featured speaker. Interested of Rice; Annie Ray Watkin Stockton Dunaway '38. Fred Alter '34; Lib Knapp people should contact Hoagland '36 and her hus- With William Paul Jones, his Gayle '42; and King Carolyn Dessain, Chair, band; Eleanor Norris friend and partner for over Arnold '36. 4402 Merwin St., Houston, Adams '34 and Dick 25 years, he practiced archi- Also circulating among Texas 77027; telephone Adams '33; and John tecture at the firms of the crowd were Peggy (713) 963-9182. Wallace '37 and his wife Dunaway and Jones, A.I.A., Morrison John, Nell Poole At the coffee we had the Ann. and more recently at Spen- Wood '42, Grace Griffiths pleasure of meeting and vis- Our table was next to

44 Sallyport that offormer Rice president ation from Rice with a de- Class recorders Margaret under the oaks in front of Sam and Frances Flanagan George Rupp and his wife gree in Mech. E. He and Millsap Dunlap and Henry Lovett Hall, brightened the Bethea Nancy and incoming presi- Johnny married the day af- Dunlap write: place settings at each table. 309 Burnet Dr. dent Malcolm Gillis. We said ter he graduated from Rice. At the 55th anniversary The Sat. morning Gold- Baytown, TX 77520 a sad goodbye to the Rupps Moore's primary service to reunion luncheon on en R Coffee, hosted by this and received a "How do you the world community was in Thurs., Oct. 21, 1993, our year's Golden Class of 1943, Marian Smedes Arthur do?" and warm welcome education. After the success class was pleased to have the attracted some 15 or 20 of 5806 Glen Falls Lane from Dr. Gillis. of his first efforts to take new Rice president, Dr. our early risers. Katherine Dallas, TX 75209 It was great once again to crooked hole drilling tech- Malcolm Gillis, and his wife Clarke Blair assisted the '43 attend a Rice football game. niques to the field, he built Elizabeth drop by and ex- hostesses in greeting guests. Floy King Rogde Even though A&M won, it a "Little Red School tend greetings. We found At round tables with lovely 7480 Beechnut #337 was a good show and a thrill House" on Drilco's Mid- them to be cheerful and en- bouquets of fresh flowers, Houston, TX 77074 to see so many in attendance land property for the pur- thusiastic, apparently quite we sipped our juice or cof- in the still awe-inspiring Rice pose of holding training ses- at home in their new setting. fee, sampled fresh fruits and Class recorder coordinator Stadium. sions for the oil industry. The Gillises were not the muffins and continued con- Dorothy Zapp Forristall- Sun. morning we at- Later he partially funded the only VIPs at the luncheon. versations begun on Thurs. Brown writes: tended the service at the School of Drilling Technol- For our clam the VIPs of the Then the convocation of Rice Homecoming 1993 beautiful Rice Chapel at the ogy at Harris Co.(Texas) Jr. day were reunion chair(and alumni gave us a chance to has come and gone. How Rice Memorial Center and College in Houston. He member of the Rice Board visit the Alice Pratt Brown fortunate for all that we the following alumni started the forerunner ofthe of Governors) Helen Saba Hall, home of the Shepherd had absolutely beautiful brunch. A special treat was School of Drilling Technol- Worden and cochair Grace School of Music, opened in weather—it couldn't have a visit with good friend ogy conducted by the Petro- Griffith Jones (who has 1991. Gold Medals for Dis- been nicer. I am writing this Caroline Foulks Morrison leum Extension Service of handled reservations for all tinguished Service were pre- one week later, and we are '35, who gave us a good re- UT. He was a member ofthe of our reunions through the sented to former Rice presi- waiting for a freeze. port on her interesting fam- board of governors of Rice years). Our thanks to them dent Dr. George Rupp and As you know, our class ily, some of whom also went and the advisory council of and to the other reunion his wife Nancy Rupp. Mrs. met for our annual Home- to Rice. the College of Business committee members. Rupp's acceptance speech coming dinner at 6:30 p.m. Admn. at UT. In 1969, he Helen introduced Hous- was graceful, with many sug- on Oct. 22, 1993, at started the Wildcatters' ton VIP and '38 classmate gestions to alumni for ways Kaphan's Restaurant. Those Comm. of the Petroleum Judge Phil Peden as master to help Rice. present were David and Club. Moore died in Nov. ofceremonies. Phil called on The traditional Home- Gene Keck, Sam and 1985. Rice professor(of computa- coming luncheon, also in Frances Flanagan Bethea, tional and applied math) Alice Pratt Brown Hall after John McCulley and Laura Paul Pfeiffer, who is also an the convocation, was lavish Stone McCulley '41, Boyd ordained Methodist minis- and well attended. In the and Pauline Kilgore, Bob ter, for the invocation, then stadium parking lot outside, and Evelyn Junker Purcell, introduced each guest excited Aggies assembled for Dorothy Zapp Forristall- present. There were 71 VIPs tailgate picnics. And al- Brown and Bill Brown,Ploy present: 50 Houstonians, 17 though once more the King Rogde, Kitty Lever, from other parts of Texas Aggies claimed the victory at Bill Berry'40 and Jeanette and three from out of state. the Rice Homecoming Stephenson Buschardt As we connected names with game, I am sure that every '40, Lee Blocker and Jean faces, it was like leafing Owl who came back to the Lilliott Blocker '38, Dick through a 55-years-later edi- campus felt that it had been and Thelma Leigh, Philip James Haines Delman tion of the Campanile. a fine weekend. and Jimmy Shepherd Wa- There were football stars One classmate, when ters, Herb and Helen Jack- James Haines ("Jim") and class beauties, May Fete greeted at the luncheon with son, Clay Waters '36 and Degnan, 77, died Nov. 26, royalty and Phi Beta Kappas, "Good to see you!" ex- Laurie Attkisson Waters, 1993. He was a veteran of a cheerleader (who was pressed the sentiment of us Louis Hirdler '40 and Ada World War II, and he retired also the Thresher editor), all with his reply: "Good to Frances Miller Hirdler, from U.S. Steel in 1976. He Joseph Clifford Much BMOCs and BWOCs as well be here! Good to be any- Billy and Loretta Kendall, is survived by his wife, Bar- as those of other sizes—all where!" If you share this sen- Bill and Mary Frances bara Allen Ryman Degnan Joe W. Much writes: "My of us VIPs because we were timent, why not write to us Carter Lewis, Al and Vir- '40, two daughters and one father, Dr. Joseph Clifford accepted as a part of Rice. a few of your reasons? ginia Sterling, and Gardner son and five grandchildren. Much, died on Oct. 27, Phil extended special wel- and Alice Jean Winters. We A memorial service was held 1993, here in Salem, Ore. comes to Judy Taylor Dill received cancellations from Nov. 29, 1993, in Tulsa, He was a member of the un- '40 and to Ploy King John and Peg John, Rober- Okla., where they lived for dergraduate Class of 1937." Rogde'39, whose husbands ta and Charles Wilson and the past 24 years [at 7009 The Campanile for 1937 Clyde Dill and Bill Rogde Mary Beth Morris Peters. S. Atlanta Ave., 74136- lists Much's activities as were loyal supporters ofclam 1939 Evelyn Junket gave me a 43081. Memorial contribu- freshman football, 1932; activities through so many of note with the following in- tions may be made to dance comm., 1937; senior our Golden Years. We miss Class Recorder Coordina- formation: "Because of our Fondren Library.[For more banquet comm., council- Clyde and Bill and all of our tor: mini-reunion communique, on James H. Degnan, see man-at-large and Student 100 classmates who have Dorothy Zapp Forristall- Sybil Hunter Randel called Classnotcs for 1940.] Assn., 1937;and secretary of now passed on. Brown from Pickens, Miss. She re- the Pre-Medical Society, Phil then introduced our 1250 Oakcrest Circle grets that she cannot be with Johnny B. Moore sent a 1937. special guests, Rice history Beaumont, TX 77706 us but will look forward to copy of a long article that professor Dr. John B. Boles (409) 892-1048 our big 55th next year." She was published in the Mid- '65 (Will Rice) and his wife also heard from Virginia and land (Texas) Reporter-Tele- Nancy. Dr. Boles spoke on Class Recorders: Butler Perryman from Ca- gram on Oct. 15, 1993,de- "A Brief History of Rice," Lee Blocker lif They regretted that they tailing the life of her late which summarized his 125 Sailfish could not be with us as But- husband Stanley C. Moore. RIO booklet A University So Austin, TX 78734 ler is recuperating from qua- Moore held six patents for Conceived, the only history druple bypass surgery. oil field tools and methods Class Recorders: of Rice still in print. Gift Bob and After receiving Boyd's and went to work for Evelyn Junker Margaret Millsap Dunlap copies of this 104-page Purcell invitation to our'39 Home- Hughes Tool Co. in 1937, and Henry Dunlap booklet, with its pretty cover 5102 coming dinner, many called immediately after his gradu- Valerie P.O. Box 79 photo of azaleas blooming Bellaire, TX 77401 or sent notes to Frances Wimberley, TX 78676

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Flanagan Bethea. Frances ing. The tables this year at Rice. Even though we lost, the Classmates will be proud read the following informa- were set for eight, and we all Jeanette Stephenson weather was perfect, the to hear about Carl Wood- tion at our dinner and then seemed to like this arrange- Buschardt's new address is band music great, the excite- ring's latest publication, gave the information to me ment better than the two 7480 Beechnut, No. 219, ment and expectation could which he reports in the fol- for this column. "Dorothy long tables. Houston, Texas 77074. be felt, and we were with lowing letter of Oct. 29, Walthall Hill and husband I made a pest of myself Billy and Mary Frances good friends. After the 1993. Dr. Moore Hill live near by passing out blue slips of Carter Lewis live at 3206 game, we went to Chur- "When I started reading Kilgore in the beautiful paper asking for names and Indian Trail, Baytown,Texas rasco's for dinner and then the 1940 column in Sally- woods where a quarter-mile addresses and asking that 77521. They wrote: "We over to Pauline and Boyd's port, which arrived today, I walk to the mailbox is a fun each write something about love to travel—drove pretty home for dessert. thought of writing to thank walk. They are happy and themselves or their family, 10,000+ miles to Alaska last Boyd and Pauline have two you for keeping us in- enjoy their surroundings, etc., for the next Sallyport summer on the Alaska High- beautiful and talented formed. I opened it again to children and grandchildren. column. I didn't get infor- way. This month [Oct.] we daughters. copy your address before I Jimmy Barnard and Poky mation from everyone, but went to Big Bend with We missed all of you who came to the flattery at the had a visit to their children I really appreciated getting Frances and Sam Bethea— could not be at Homecom- end. planned. Frank Glass and the following material for wonderful trip—beautiful ing. I hope and pray that all "Margaret Millsap Frances Chapman Glass this column. Some promised wildflowers, lots of wild- of our class will be able to Dunlap '38 and Henry '40 were sorry they were to write later. I truly hope life—even a black bear on be together at our 55th next Dunlap '38 have called unable to attend this year. they do. No news, no col- our hiking trail one day." year. more than enough attention Valerie White Fite and umn! Later, Sam showed us pho- to my books in recent years. Martha Picton Hines In the Oct./Nov. 1993 tos of the trip including But this month Columbia called and said they would column I know you saw that some of the bear. U. Press is publishing a vol- like to have a luncheon next David Keck had recently I received a note without ume (copyright 1994) for time. Alex Fish of Boerne, married Gene Henderson. a name. Please write or call which I feel an enormous Texas, sent his greetings, but David wrote on his slip:"My and tell me who wrote this: obligation to my fellow au- he and his wife had planned wife Gene and I have en- "We celebrated our 50th thors. The book, The Co- a visit to their daughter joyed three nice honeymoon this year. Later we spent a lumbia History ofBritish Po- and family in Md. Though trips since our marriage in couple of weeks at our place etry, with me as editor and retired, Alex still does tax ac- March. Gene was the widow in Colo.,our favorite state— James Shapiro of Columbia counting for three small cor- of one of my Harvard Ad- after Texas." A late Happy as assoc. editor, has chapters porations and four busi- vanced Management Pro- Anniversary to you both written by 26 contributors nesses. Harry Glauser and gram classmates in 1964. We from all of us. from universities in the U.S., his wife could not come be- met again at a continuing Helen and Herb Jack- Canada, England, Scotland cause their children were education seminar at Naples, son-10002 Ella Lee, Hou- and Northern Ireland. Very giving them a party. Dor- Fla., last March and decided ston, Texas 77042: "Helen few have written or read lit- othy Huckett Stebbins that we should finish this and I are settled down for erary history lately; this may hopes to come next year. one-way trip called 'life' to- the 'duration.' She raises be the first history of Brit- She sounded great. Betty gether." miniature roses, among Mildred Perkins Chapman ish poetry in 30 years. Schwinn regrets not to join Dick Leigh didn't let me other things, and is very in- "A period of bad health us; however, she is very down. He wrote, "Still volved in genealogy. I vol- Mildred Perkins Chap- kept Jess Bessinger '43 thrilled about being in the Working." You read about unteer once a week at a man, 75, died Oct. 21, from writing the opening golden triangle of India, John McCulley and Laura nearby hospital. Most of my 1993, in Austin, Texas. She chapter on Old English, but Delhi, Agri and Jaipur, then Stone McCulley's grand- time is spent piddling was a graduate of San Roberta Frank of Toronto to Katmandu on safari to daughter being an exchange around in the shop/garage Jacinto High School. At got us off to a good start, Tiger Tops. She is sure she student from Rice to the U. making picture frames from Rice, she was a member of and Edna Longlcy of Belfast will return with a good pic- of Dunedin, New Zealand, scratch, handloading bullets OWLS. She was also a brings us to a fiery end on ture of the Taj Mahal but in the Oct./Nov. Sallyport, and target practice at a longtime member of St. poets since 1920 in Scot- not sure of one of a live ti- but at the dinner I also nearby rifle range. We go to Mark's Episcopal Church, land, Wales and the 'two ger. She will ride an el- learned that her younger the beach whenever we get where she belonged to the Irelands.'(Jess and I took a ephant. Mary Beth Morris brother Dan is a freshman at the chance. We are looking Altar Guild and the Women Beowulf course under Alan Peters called to say that she Rice (Jones) this year. forward to spending New of St. Mark's. She taught McKillop, who taught ev- had missed her flight to In the last column I told Year's Eve at Gulf Shores, many Houston children at erything; with Jess it really Houston and was so sorry to you about Pauline and Boyd Ala., at the State Park Re- the Oaks Preschool. took. [ Editor's note: For miss our party. She said Kilgore's trip to visit friends sort Hotel there. Recently Chapman is survived by one more on Jess, see the please to tell you to come in Aberdeen, Scotland, we spent time with a friend daughter, two sons and Classnotc for 1943 below.] see her if you are near or in whom they met when they at her beach house on many other family members. My own chapter on popular Taos, N.M. Her address is lived there in 1977-78. Galveston Island. Our sum- poetry, "From Ballads to P.O. Box 289, Arrayo Boyd is retired from consult- mers are delightful since we Betjeman," treats poems Hondo, N.M. 87513. She ing engineering but still have a backyard pool and that authors on a higher said she was looking out her stays busy with a few entertain grandchildren. road could find no space for. window at the new snow projects (computer simula- (The pool makes a great Several chapters give notable on the mountain tops and tion programs). Their ad- playpen for the youngsters.) 1040 space to women poets, many "the aspens were beginning dress is 4802 N. Braeswood, I would rather be out sail- of them once popular but to show color—just gor- Houston, Texas 77096; ing, but I sold myself ignored through most of Class Recorders: geous." telephone (713) 558-8076. ashore." this century. A professor Julia Taylor Dill We were all saddened to Laurie Attkisson Waters At the end of the dinner, 7715 Hornwood asked to assess the prospec- have lost our class president, and Henry Clay Waters III Boyd read the names of tus of an anthology to be Houston, TX 77036 Dan Moody. I know you '36 wrote:"We finally made those who had passed away edited by Shapiro and me, (713) 774-5208 read about this in the last it'Down Under'—touching since our last meeting. Our to go with the history, de- issue of Sallyport. As Frances down on both North and class was very close, and clared us admirable for pay- Wanda Hoencke Spaw was vice president of our South Islands of New these friends will always be 5614 Inwood ing attention to women po- class, she is now our leader. Zealand. The autumn leaves in our hearts. ets but warned that we were Houston, TX 77056 She had seen to all the de- were so gorgeous, and we Bill and I had other plans proposing to go overboard. (713)622-9845 tails of the dinner and had even got in a blizzard com- and did not make the . . . Best wishes, Carl W." the tables decorated with ing down Mt. Cook—mak- Homecoming luncheon this We're so glad to hear Class corecorders Julia Tay- pretty colored mums. Dur- ing the evening TV news." year. But we did meet from Carl. He will let us lor Dill and Wanda Hoen- ing cocktails, the room was I found out that Clay Wa- Pauline and Boyd Kilgore know when copies of his cke Spaw write: abuzz with everyone visit- ters tutored Math 100 while for the A&M-Rice game. book will be available in

46 Sallyport Shell Oil Co. after graduat- Elizabeth Land Raderli is ing from Rice. His early ca- now class recorder for the reer centered around re- Class of 1943. She hopes search involving Shell's first members of the class will From the 1942 Classnotes: waterfloods and in develop- write or call her with their ing methods for interpreting news. She looks forward to transient well tests. During hearing from each and every that we his career at Shell he was one of you. Here's a reminder to all of our classmates both director of research will hold the next class mini-reunion at Autry and manager ofengineering. Mary Olivia("Liv") Fuller Matthews is a member of Orfield writes: "I want to House on Tues., Feb. 15, 1994, at 1 p.m. Every- the National Academy of share with our classmates my Engineering and has given exciting discovery of this one is invited, so let's have a big turnout for this expert testimony before the book by one of our class- U.S. House of Representa- mates—Heroic Poetry in the meeting! tives. He has appeared on Anglo-Saxon Period: Studies PBS's "McNeil-Lehrer Re- in Honor ofJess B. Bessinger, port" and has written ar- Jr., published by the Medi- Oscar N. Hibler Jr. ticles for National Geo- eval Institute Publications of graphic, Barrons, the New Western Mich U. It consists York Times and Newsweek. ofessays presented at Medi- He has written more than 20 eval Congress sessions ex- articles for SPE journals and tending over four days this was coauthor ofthe first SPE year[1993] and begins with Houston. Jim and Barbara were very years late in 1991. Only monograph, Pressure a 'Biographical Preface,' One of the highlights of active Rice supporters and those who have had that Buildup and Flow Tests in from which I quote: 'The Rice Homecoming '93 was seldom missed Homecom- misfortune know the emo- undisputed highlight of the the return of former presi- ing and other major events. tional changes that must be Matthews is cited "for Congress was [Bessingcr's] dent George Rupp and his Their second home is in confronted each new day. important contributions to Plenary Address on May wife Nancy to receive the Houston, and they main- "I have two fruit or- petroleum engineering tech- 10th on 'The Oral Text of Gold Medal for Distin- tained an address at 4100 chards and two pecan or- nology that have increased The Wanderer,' delivered guished Service. It was good Greenbriar, No. 239,Hous- chards. Those projects keep understanding ofoil and gas without notes or a text. He to see them and to learn all ton 77098.[For more infor- me busy year-round, so to reservoir performance; and recited the poem a few lines is going well with them at mation on James Dcgnan, make it more interesting I for his commitment to at a time, gave his transla- Columbia U. see the Classnotc for 1937.] also raise a small herd of worldwide information dis- tion,and then suggested the The Class of '43 pre- That's all this time. Have cattle and Angora goats. semination efforts in the significance of each pas- sented its Scholarship a "Happy New Year!" And Believe me, I don't have engineering and scientific sage in an interpretation Pledge, which was the first include us in your resolu- time to get into mischief community." that.. held an audience of to exceed our own '40 tions to write us—your story "In April 1991 I was op- nearly one thousand col- Fund. After the annual is "Prime Time" for us. erated on for a four-way leagues in rapt attention. meeting,lunch was served in heart bypass. In April 1992 ...New York U. named him the Grand Foyer of Alice Raymond H. Brogniez came the aneurysm, and in a 'Great Teacher' in 1989. Pratt Brown Hall. There, writes: "Back in Oct. we April 1993 came the discov- ..He embarked on a project John and Elly Heard joined went to Kerrville to sec my ery of prostate cancer. As the 1142 to produce a concordance to the Spaws and we saw the niece Gcane Brogniez new calendars come in I am all Anglo-Saxon poetry by Hudspeths, Meyers and Jeffery '46 and her husband removing the month of Class Recorder: use ofcomputer technology others attending. Leonard Jeffery '50 and April. Maybe that will help. Oscar N. Hibler Jr. at a time when...personal Julia Taylor Dill writes took advantage ofthe trip to Whenever I depart this 10306 Sugar Hill Drive computers were ten years in that at Homecoming she look in on Ed Letscher, world, either up or down, Houston, TX 77042-1546 the future....Jess Bessinger's enjoyed so much visiting who has not been well, to they should let me in be- (713) 782-4499 advice was bold, innovative with Mary Margaret Ray- see how he's getting along. cause I'll have all new parts. and prophetic. His own mond Mayfield. She lives in Am happy to say that recent "I love Rice U. and have Class recorder Oscar N. work using computers Kerrville and is active in the treatment and medication great pride in having gradu- Hibler Jr. writes: culminated...in his two Rice alumni club there. Julia have been beneficial. We ated from that outstanding Here's a reminder to all much-admired reference also talked to George Lloyd went with Ed over to see Joe educational institution. I sel- ofour classmates that we will tools, A Concordance to John, M.D., who now lives Finger '39 and his wile, and dom get the opportunity to hold the next class mini-re- Beowulf(1969) and A Con- in Austin. No longer in pri- while there we phoned Jack visit the campus with its union at Autry House on cordance to the Anglo-Saxon vate practice, he serves on Clemens '42 to come and many changes. Some day Tues., Feb. 15, 1994, at 1 Poetic Records(1978). the medical board that re- join us. So we had a dandy soon I hope I can make a p.m. Everyone is invited, so "His research has been views cases for disabilities for reunion. Joe is recovering class reunion. In the mean- let's have a big turnout for recognized and supported Social Security. He finds his nicely from hip surgery, and time, I keep in touch this meeting! by a number of foundation work interesting and enjoys his charming wife Julie saw through the Sallyport." I need information from grants...[and] the many re- living in Austin. to it that the beer supply Since Earl doesn't visit Rice classmates on what you have cordings he has made, As we write, we read a was adequate." Raymond often, perhaps his Rice been doing so I can print it mainly on the Caedmon la- notice in the Houston can be reached at Box 7941, friends can visit him through in the next Classnotes. bel, of Anglo-Saxon and Chronicle that James H. Horseshoe Bay, Texas the mail at his home—at Please drop me a note and Middle English poems. Degnan '37 died Nov. 26, 78654. Route 1, Box 223, Gates- give me your latest news. "Jess is now retired from 1993. "Jim," as we knew vale, Texas 76528. teaching at NYU. His cur- him for years, married class- rent address is 303 Valley mate Barbara Ryman in At the 1993 annual meeting Road, Apt. 313, Middle- March 1941. They have a of the Society of Petroleum town, R.I. 02840." Or- son, James Nyc Degnan of Engineers in Houston on field's address is 11706 Austin; two daughters, Oct. 4, 1993, Charles S. Longleaf Lane, Houston, Nancy G. Degnan Davis Matthews (M.S., 1943; Texas 77024; telephone '65 (Jones) of Fort Worth Ph.D., 1944) was recog- (7131 782-5189. Earl Glassie Jr. writes: "I Class Recorder: and Mary S. Degnan Ames nized for his career achieve- haven't written in a few Elizabeth Land Kaderli '75 (Jones) ofSan Antonio; ments. Matthews spent years, so, if! may, this is an 4693 Adra Way and five grandchildren. Both more than 40 years with update. I lost my wife of 47 Oceanside, CA 92056-5143

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through to see the little bal- Columbia in '48, Joy mar- land, the South Pacific, Aus- lerina, grandchild Ashley ried Normal Kittrell, UT tralia and New Zealand. In Anderson, dance The Nut- petroleum engineer and the 1980s, he formed his cracker. brother of Lida, now a re- own company and rode the To continue where I left tired Texaco executive. They ups and downs of the oil Class Recorder: off in this tale of reunions. have three children: chem. business. Now they enjoy 13 Larry Hermes ...After Rice, Paul R. engineer Norman G. Kit- grandchildren. 2028 Albans Road Allison got his B.S. in trell IV '74 (Wiess; M.C. More to come. Houston, TX 77005 Mech. E. at A&M, went to E.); Katherine, UT journal- (713) 529-2009 work at Hess and spent the ism major, currently in UT next 50 years in various law school; Susan, with a Class recorder Larry Her- phases of the oil business, B.S. from the U. of Conn. mes writes: retiring last year as president and her C.P.A. from U. of Great progress has been of Houston Fuel Oil Termi- Colo. Joy and Norman en- 1117 made in our Golden Anni- nal. Wife Peggy is a Baylor joy their five grandsons, versary Scholarship Drive grad who credits her mil- bridge and reading and their Class Recorder: lion-dollar cookie sale as the Sugar Land home, along Fund thanks to the efforts Helen Mart Emily Butler Osborn of the fund comm. and the highlight of her 30-year vol- with traveling: Europe, Asia 54 Lake Rd. generosity of many. The unteer career with San and Australia. They now voted supporter of Rice, P.O. Box 537 drive ends next June, with Jacinto Girl Scouts. Oftheir summer in Breckenridge, Helen was honored in death Lake Jackson, TX 77566 our current goal being three children, one is a Colo. Favorite Rice profs by many friends' gifts to $600,000 to enable the Baylor grad, one is a North were Dr. Lear, Dr. McKil- Fondren Library." Helen's Class of 1944 to have the Texas grad. Paul Jr. opted to lop, Max Freund, Dr. Da- will provided a generous gift distinction of providing the become a mechanic and a vies, with Mr. Williams as to the Golden Anniversary largest Golden Anniversary machinist. In retirement, tops. But the good and last- Scholarship Fund. Scholarship Fund. Paul enjoys consulting for a ing friendships from Rice The Campanile for 1944 John Sellingsloh con- company in the Grand Ba- mean the most, she adds. lists as Helen's activities tributed the following:"On hamas, which allows a Bruce H. Bradbeer Pallas Athene Literary Soci- Class Recorder: May 30, 1993, Msgr. Joe chance for travel, fishing and writes from Fallbrook, Ca- ety, sergeant-at-arms, 1942- Elleanor Graham Tyng Crosthwait and five other playing. It must be fun to lif., where he is retired from 43; vice president, 1943-44; 3455 Overbrook Catholic priests who were visit the Allisons, because he General Electric after 38 and senior picnic comm. Houston, TX 77027 ordained with him in La reports that 13 family mem- years. Widowed repeatedly, (713)622-5241 Porte celebrated the 40th bers spent weeks with them his wives died in 1976, 1982 anniversary of their ordina- the other spring. Was that in and 1990, but his first the Bahamas, Paul??? union, with Gladys Wallace, Class recorder Elleanor tion on a cruise off the Fla. Graham Tyng writes: coast. He is presently serv- As if a Rice BA. in math was blessed with four chil- Wonderful three party ing his 14th year as pastor weren't tough enough, for dren, all of whom attended 11145 Lida Kittrell Barrett (Dr. Rice, all are married, and daze for our '45 reunion. of St. John Vianney Church Some of the out-of-towners in the Memorial area of Bray and Dr. Ulrich were her Bruce now has four grand- were Hundley and Betty Houston. Father Joe was Class Recorder: favorites), she went on to children. He enjoyed re- Rankin from Fort Worth; originally in the Class of Jack Joplin get her math M.A. at Texas cruiting at Rice for GE, has 5001 Woodway Drive, Ph 1 and a Ph.D. at Penn., be- lived in 12 homes all over Oscar Noel and Billie 1944, but due to wartime Barron from Conroe; Jim military service, he did not Houston, TX 77056-1707 coming—you guessed it—a the U.S. and Mexico City in Cotton from Austin; Ches- receive his degree from Rice (713) 960-1582(home) math proP Utah U., dept. his career, and now likes the ter and Pauline Strunk from until 1948." (713)498-6331 (office) head at the U. of Tenn., great outdoors, music, Pearland; Ray(M.S., 1949) Dr. Henry P. Hare Jr. assoc. provost of Northern travel, politics and "low-tech and Wini Judson Living- was honored on Nov. 29, Ill. U., dean of arts and sci- engineering," as he calls it. ences at Miss. State U., cur- Mary Dee Miller Brad- ston '79 from Kerrville; 1993,as the recipient of the Roy Boy Howell from Dal- first annual Clinical Faculty rently at the National Sci- ley writes briefly from Aus- las; Steve and Frances Award for Exemplary Con- ence Fdn. in D.C.(I visited tin to say she married Bryant Walters from Bay City; Jim tribution in the Dept. of 1M6 with her at the Cathedral W. Bradley after her B.A. in and Louise Wilhoit from Psychiatry at the UT Health when we were in Washing- English and has four chilton to view the needlepoint dren, all college grads, and Versailles, Ky.; Maryallen Science Center in San Anto- Class Recorder: Collins Estes and Bruce nio, ornaments on the tree in the two grandchildren. Texas. Doris Ehlinger Anderson Estes from Burnsville, N.C.; Cynthia Manning Joost White House with the Ernest B. Brown went 5556 Cranbrook Don and Velda McKinley writes: "A group from the Saintly Stitchers). Lida's late on to get his 13.5. in '49 Houston, TX 77056 from Pearsall, Texas, where Class of 1944 and the husband John was also a from the U.S. Naval Acad- Class (713) 871-8099 he is the fixed base operator of 1946-47 mathematician, with a Ph.D. emy and enjoyed a 36-year has met at the at the Pearsall airport and is Emil and Cynthia Joost at Texas in '51 with a teach- career with the Navy but still Class recorder Doris Eh- also in the water well drill- ranch at Cypress Mill, Texas, ing career. Children, three remembers with nostalgia linger Anderson writes: ing business; and Jack and for the Rice college grads: John is a res- the beautiful Rice campus. -Texas weekend I feel as if I had a split Jeri Nixon from Wheaton, every other year since 1947. taurant owner and UT grad Billie Louise Bradford personality....I know you Ill. A few of the Houston Attending this with two boys; Fla. Interna- Brown is reminded of Rice year were will be reading this in balmy group included Dorothy John Sellingsloh and his wife tional for Maidel; Mary Lou by the springtime gardenias Feb., but lam writing it as I Freed Furman and Harry Joeanne, Jack has a degree from Miss. cultivated by the gardener, Moody '47, prepare to take off for At- Brochstein, Paulie Abbey Mary State U. in special ed. and Tony. After Rice, Billie Inez Powell Brown- lanta with a forecast of one Carlson and Bill Carlson, lee, Miles McInnis and his one child, Nathan. Lida is worked for a few years and ofthe coldest Thanksgivings Mary Louise DeAnda, wife Ann,and Al Poujol and past president of the Math earned her Ph.T. (Putting that we have had. It will Claxton and Gretchen Ray- his wife Tess." Assn. of America and active Hubby Through), while her not be "dinner in the zor, Don and Eve Stilson The following was rein math education reform. husband Glenn W. earned diner...nothing could be and Jim Moore '49 and his ceived from Suelen She now enjoys swimming his Ph.D. in psychiatry at U. Palmer finer than ham and eggs in beautiful daughter Eleanor. Wendenburg '68 (Brown), and travel—notably to an Is- of H. Then she raised six Carolina," as we used to sing Curtis and Geri McKal- a niece of Helen Alida Pal- raeli archaeological dig children (one girl) while he about the Chattanooga lip's Sunday party was a mer: "Helen Alida Palmer, while at MSU. followed a 25-year career as Choo-Choo. . .but a sleek sparkling success. A thou- a native Houstonian profes- It seems appropriate to medical representative for silver bird that sometimes sand thanks to them and sionally associated with the skip over to Joy Joyce Lederle Laboratories to just sits there on the ground Joe's fabulous committee of airline and travel industry, Kittrell. With a BA. from early retirement. They trav- if the weather is inclement. 20! They're cutting me off!. died May 29, Rice and an M.B.A. from eled for awhile: Europe,Ire- 1993. A de- Like the mail, we must get More later—Ellie.

48 Sallyport Woodmansec is survived by from the survey as well as Well, do any of you girls of the Rev. Claude Edward In one daughter,two sons, one created graphics to present remember that lone boy in Payne (B.S., 1955) as sister and several grandchil- some of the data; to Dor- your English 100'class? Ifso, bishop coadjutor of the he dren. othy Kelly McGee and let's hear from you. Episcopal Diocese of Texas oil The Campanile for 1950 Maydelle Exley Burkhal- It was a great time. The in the article "Episcopalian 13 Class Recorder: lists as his activities Student ter, who worked on decora- 40th reunion of the Class of diocese consecrates Rev. Marty Gibson Roessler Council, 1947; sophomore tions; to Martha Hodge 1953, the 40th class gradu- Payne." The elaborate cer- 4040 San Felipe class president, 1947; Rally Strawn and Bob Strawn, ated from Rice—this had to emonies were held at the no. 229 Club, 1947-50,sergeant -at- who took pictures at the par- be a special occasion, and it George R. Brown Conven- Houston, TX 77027 arms, 1949; head usher, ties; to Therese Arnold was. If you were unable to tion Center. Payne, 61, (713) 963-8595 (home) 1950; Sextant, 1947-50; Cain, who kept track of the be there, please drop a line former rector ofSt. Martin's people (713) 782-8400 (work) secretary, 1947, president, money;and to all the and let everyone else catch Episcopal Church in Hous- 1950; Navy rifle team, who worked on the mailings up with your life. ton, will automatically suc- The Dallas-Fort Worth Hos- 1946-48; N.R.O.T.C. co. and prepared delicious ceed current diocesan pital Council announced at commander, 1949, 1950; things to eat. Betsy Parish, in her column Bishop Maurice M.("Ben") thank you in its Annual Awards Lun- senior dance comm., 1949; The heartiest the Houston Post of Sept. Benitez when Benitez retires cheon the recipient of its Engineering Society, 1950; must go to Julia and Bass 12, 1993, says: "With no or resigns. The Diocese of highest honor, the Distin- and outstanding senior Wallace, who provided the apologies for stealing 'intel- Texas is one of the largest in this big lectual guished Health Service nominee. leadership for property' from either the nation, with 70,294 of NBC or Award, to Clinton H. project. They gave freely David Letterman, a members and 150 parishes and ef- self-described Howard,who served as the their time, attention 'nefarious' and missions. motivating group of Rice University's founding president of the fort in inspiring, Former president George large Class of '53 Irving Healthcare System and coordinating this is circulating Bush and his wife Barbara among and continued as a trustee group of volunteers so that classmates the 'Top Bush were present for the Ten Reasons for 25 years. 1153 we could have a wonderful Not to Come consecration of Payne, who celebration. to Your 40th Rice Reunion.' John Carver, chair of the 40th reunion was formerly their rector. Suffice it to say those Owls Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Class Recorder: Well done! Payne, a native of Abilene, crowd: have created an excuse list Council, stated, "Clinton Jackie Darden Rundstein Faces in the worked as a chemical engi- the that's a hoot...." Howard has been the driv- 10702 Willowisp Dr. Among those coming neer in Victoria before en- were ing force to put a medical Houston, TX 77035-3522 longest distances tering studies for the priest- from Norman G. facility within reach of the (713) 723-5291 Carolyn Coy Wiley Einspruch hood in 1961. He was Varnell writes: "Was unable citizens of Irving." Michael Tokyo; Pat Lyford to at- ordained in 1965 and has Ala.; tend the 40th reunion but O'Keefe, president of the Class recorder Jackie Dar- from Anchorage, been rector of St. Martin's from Yuma, was in Houston the follow- or Irving Healthcare System, den Rundstein writes: Ralph Williams Church since 1983. Walsh La- ing week representing the presented Howard with a Does our alma mater Ariz.; Chaille City; U. of Miami at ty painting by artist Susan have pull, or what? The most tham from New York President Gloria M. Shatto (Ph.I)., Corval- Gillis' inauguration." n. Buxton that portrayed gorgeous weather of the Pat Kemp from 1966) has become president Ore.; Dick Thomas He sends the following, of Berry :rS Howard and symbols of the whole year occurred on the lis, College in Rome, Breckinridge, Cob.; which appeared in the ty companies, schools and ac- weekend of Oct. 22-24, from Wall Ga. An economist, she also from El Street Journal on Sept. h; tivities with which he has 1993,just for our class' 40th George Staten 23, serves on several corporate and Elwyn 1993. "Norman ic been associated during his reunion celebration! It was Paso, Texas; G. Ein- boards, including those of Durham,N.C. spruch, 61 years old career. the glorious backdrop for Simons from and a Georgia Power Co., South- From our "Lost Classmate professor of electrical and ern :5- Howard is the founder such an entertaining series Co., ICmart Corp.,Texas James A. Baker, computer rn and president of Royal of events on the Rice cam- List" came engineering at the Instruments Inc. and justice on the District U. of Miami and senior 9) Bodycare Inc. of Dallas, pus—a traditional bonfire, now a fel- Becton Dickinson and Co. Appeals in Dallas. low in science and g_ Vancouver, Toronto and the game (unfortunately, Court of technol- She formerly was a member From our "Reclaimed Class- ogy at the school, c; Pachuca, Mexico. He is Rice lost, but at least we lost was of the board of C&S Bank mate List" came Tom Tay- named a director of Pcnril of li- founder and former presi- to the winner of the SWC), Georgia. lor '54 and his wik, Joan Datacomm Networks Inc. of es dent of Carrington Labora- our class' buffet dinner and Berry College has its own Wilson Taylor '55. By the Gaithersburg, Md., maker of tories Inc. of Irving, Texas. a wonderful brunch on Sun. water system and road main- presentation data rn at the home of Erminie way, the slide communications equip- tenance office. It grows and George ment,test Chambers Chapman and that Tom Taylor and measurement cattle, operates a dairy, put on for the brunch instruments and cc Dave Chapman. Staten uninter- weaves cloth, runs its own all. ruptible 1; Many thanks to all those was greatly enjoyed by power supplies, in- day care center and provides memories those pic- creasing the number of ey who worked to make this What di- about 120 jobs for its 1,675 tures revived! rectors to six." students. "It's a mini-con- re reunion celebration the Special awards go to Einspruch can be reached glomerate with about Or most successful one ever! a $32 Ralph Williams and Bill at the College of Engineer- million budget," says is Special thanks are due to ing, U. of Miami, P.O. Box II- Bruce Wallace, who wrote Hardin for their most inter- Shatto. "At Berry, I do on a 248581, Coral Gables, the first letter; to Bill esting answers to the survey. Fla. very small scale what the off-the- 33124-8581; telephone Rapson, who contributed Bill had the most CEO of a business does." (305) 284-3812; fax (305) the card "Ten Reasons Not wall replies, and Ralph This profile of Shatto, en- 284-3810. to Come" and made the needed four typewritten titled "Berry College presi- which ry guest name tags; to Boo pages for his replies, dent combines worlds of ey Odem, who prepared the were really interesting read- business and academia," ap- n, class roster and name tags ing. Here's an excerpt: peared in the Atlanta Con- a, even though he lives in Ger- "Most unusual situation: stitution on Oct. 21, 1993. y- many; to Jackie Darden Picture a shy kid, just finish- in Ernest Roy Woodmansee Jr. Rundstein and Julia Picton ing three years at an all-male 1954 iis Wallace, who created the college preparatory school. Ernest Roy Woodmansee survey forms, and to Jackie, He arrived as a freshman at Class Recorder: Jr., 65, of Houston, Texas, who tabulated and pre- Rice looking forward to hav- Mary Anne Collins a passed away Oct. 12, 1993, sented information; to ing some girl acquaintances. P.O. Box 271 at the Veterans Hospital in Beverly Ward Baker, who His freshman English class Hunt, TX 78024 id Houston. He was born April allowed her Campaniles to consisted of about 20 girls 3, 1928, in Chicago, Ill. He be cut up for the displays; to and himself. I was the guy. I The Oct. 10, 1993, edition was a graduate of Rice and Don Gaucher, who dis- felt fortunate. Do any of the of the Houston Chronicle served in the U.S. Navy. played the data gathered girls remember?" highlighted the consecration

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1957. Promoted to senior crowd. Hondo has seven organic chemist in 1958, he children, five grandchildren was named a corporate and then the newest great- 1E5 trainee in 1962. In 1964, he 1E7 grandchild. When he has became a staff assistant to time to practice criminal law the executive director of Class Recorder: is a mystery, but he does just control. That year he was Dixie Sick Leggett that in Houston. transferred to Eli Lilly Inter- 13411 Kingsride Mary Jo Baker Perkins national Corp., the subsid- Houston, TX 77019 and Dimmit are in Houston iary responsible for pharma- (713)468-5929 where Mary Jo teaches sec- ceutical and agricultural ond grade. operations outside the C. Wayne Bardin, M.D., Nell Jennings Schad United States. He served as vice president of the Popu- was named the Citizen of managing director of Lilly lation Council and director the Year of 1990 in Ope- research activities in En- of the Center for Biomedi- lousas, La. An ever energetic James Eugene Hart gland, spending the next cal Research, assumed the widow, Nell stays busy lob- six years in that country. presidency of the Endocrine bying, working with the lo- "James Eugene Hart, Perelman was elected a vice Society for 1993-94 in July cal Chamber of Commerce, 59, of the Azle area, died of president of Lilly Interna- 1993. During the past year and she even has time to take cancer on Nov. 6, 1993, at tional in 1969 and became he served the society as horseback riding lessons. a Fort Worth hospital. Hart executive director of facili- president-elect. He has also Her beautiful red hair has was born in Chicago and ties and operations planning served on the Endocrine become naturally blonde, Richard B. Clark lived in New York before for the parent company in Society Council, the Post- and she says she is having moving to Fort Worth in 1970. He was named vice graduate Education Com- more fun. Richard B. Clark, M.D., 1944. He graduated from president of developmental mittee, the International Fisher Reynolds and his writes: "I retired in July North Side High School, research and services in Congress Committee and is wife Suzanne have five chil- 1993 from the U. of Ark. attended Rice and graduated 1972 and vice president of currently a member of the dren, two of whom gradu- College of Medicine. I was from Texas Christian Uni- corporate facilities planning Central Committee of the ated from Rice. Fisher heads director of obstetric anes- versity with a degree in and services in 1974. He was International Society of En- up Linbeck Construction thesia for 28 years and a pro- mathematics. He had been elected president of Lilly docrinology. Co. fessor of anesthesiology and a computer systems analyst International in 1976. Kathy Wunsch von obstetrics/gynecology. I am at General Dynamics for 31 A native of Omaha, Neb., Fischer is a psychotherapist not an F.O.B. (friend of years. Perelman received a B.S. in practicing individual, couple Bill), but I am an F.F.O.B. "For the last 12 years, chemistry from Northwest- and family therapy in San (friend of a friend of Bill). Hart lived in the Azle area, ern U. in 1952. In 1956, he Francisco, Calif., across My retirement plans are 1) where he raised horses and earned his Ph.D. in organic 1E11 from the Golden Gate sleep until 7 a.m, every showed them in Texas and chemistry from Rice, which Bridge after having lived all morning; 2) work on the Okla. He was a member of was followed by a year of over the world. She began Class Recorder: house, yard and garden; 3) the American Quarterhorse postdoctoral research at the her studies years ago in Lon- Phyllis Phair Walton write on the history of medi- Assn., the American Paint- Federal Institute of Tech- don. Kathy is most pleased 4233 Harpers Ferry Road cine; 4) fish. My current horse Assn. and the Palo- nology in Zurich, Switzer- that she is finishing her dis- Birmingham, AL 35213 (and only) wife, Nancy, and mino Assn. He is survived by land. sertation in clinical psychol- (205) 870-0332 I are the parents offour chil- many loved ones and Perelman is a member of ogy. dren: Murray (U. of Ark. at friends." the board of directors ofPSI Linda Davis Hill is still Class recorder Little Rock), Raymond (U. Resources Inc. and PSI En- Phyllis Phair in Dallas, where she contin- of Ark. at Fayetteville), ergy Inc., electrical utilities. Walton writes: ues running her meeting, Diana (U. of Texas—gad- He is chair of the founder From beginning to end, convention, and parry plan- zooks!), and Louis (Louisi- board of the Indianapolis the 35th reunion of the ning business. ana State U.—zounds!). Zoological Society. He is Class of 1958 was superb! Harriet Dorman Foster None were encouraged to also a member of Alpha Chi Jim and Cody Caldwell and her husband Joe live in attend Rice—too many Sigma, professional chemis- Greenwood, reunion chairs, Houston, where he heads up memories from the 1950s of try fraternity; Beta Gamma did an outstanding job! The Newfield Exploration Co. reunion all work and no play. No Sigma, business scholastic committee, Luann Harriet has three living chil- grandchildren yet. My ad- honor society; Delta Mu Rice Briscoe, Jim Caulcy, dren and four grandsons. dress is #27 Sherrill Heights, Delta, business administra- Joan Fcild Fox, Henry Eleanor Warden Shu- Little Rock, Ark. 72202." tion honor society; Phi Beta Gissel, Ben Orman, Don binski Mosser is an enthu- Kappa, scholastic honor so- Ruthven, Frank Ryan and siastic volunteer. She and her ciety; Phi Lambda Upsilon, Joan Busby Ryan, Annita husband Dick, who have chemistry recognition soci- Fite Schwartz, and Steve been married two and one- ety; and Sigma Xi, scientific Shaper, thought of every- half years, live in a Washing- research society. thing to ensure that all par- ton, D.C./Va. suburb. In 1956 Perelman serves on the ticipants had a great time. this new marriage, Eleanor Indiana U. president's coun- Treasurer Alice Carmichael inherited five children and Melvin Perelman cil; Indiana U. School of did a wonderful job as well. 11 grandchildren. Eleanor Class Recorder: Beverly Taylor Hutchison Maurine Bybee Medicine board of advisors; also has two daughters in Melvin Perelman (Ph.D.), was helping everywhere 3800 Chevy Chase U. of Calif. at San Diego, graduate school. named an executive vice each night—many thanks to Houston, TX 77019 department of chemistry in- One who took much rib- president of Eli Lilly and Co. you all! (713)622-3705 dustrial advisory board; and bing with enthusiastic grace and president of Lilly Re- the boards ofdirectors of the The home of Joan Busby was Carlton Evans. He lives search Laboratories, a divi- Ryan and Frank Ryan was The Azle (Texas) News Ad- Institute for Science in So- in Las Cruces, N.M., where sion of Lilly, on Dec. 1, the scene of the Fri. night vertisercarried the following ciety (ISIS), the Conner he is a math analyst at White 1986, retired at the end of bash. Thanks to the Ryans (edited) obituary on Nov. Prairie Pioneer Settlement Sands Missile Range. He 1993. He has been a mem- for sharing their beautiful 11, 1993: and Museum and the Hu- does clectro-optical analysis ber of the company's board mane Society of Indianapo- home. (which means he tests sights of directors since April lis. He was recently named A prize ofsome sort goes with lasers). Thc fun began 1976. chair of the Indiana U. to Ellis ("Hondo") Mc- when he made it abundantly Perelman joined the Lilly School of Medicine's Capi- Cullough, who was the only clear that he is a "wide- firm as an organic chemist in tal Campaign. great-grandfather in the eyed" liberal who hates Rush

50 Sallyport yen Limbaugh's program and a history professor at lren ideals. What an uproar he Wittenberg U. for eight eat- caused! Seriously, Carlton years. She is in charge of From the 1955 Classnotcs: has taught math for 30 years and property acquisition and law had one of his students go rentals for the university. just on to Harvard and then be- Caty has four children and come a Rhodes Scholar. two grandchildren and has I was director of obstetric anesthesia for 28 years ins (Just like his hero, Bill acquired a cute midwestern on Clinton.) He'd love to de- twang. and a professor of anesthesiology and obstetrics/gy- cc- bate anyone about politics— Dixie Deer Louis is still so give him a call! in Dickinson,Texas, manag- necology. I am not an F.O.B.(friend of Bill), but I sad Mary Lou Hertenber- ing husband Ed's medical am an F.F.O.B.(friend of a friend of Bill). My retire- of ger Laubach livened up the practice office. They have pc- program Sat, when she and two daughters and a son as ment plans are 1) sleep until 7 a.m. every morning; etic Carolyn Dearmond Cad- well as a granddaughter. lob- des sang an original song Nancy Head Bowen is a 2) work on the house, yard and garden; 3) write on lo- chronicling our Rice days. professor of history at Del- the history of medicine; 4)fish. rCC, But then, Mary Lou livens mar in Corpus Christi, take things up wherever she goes. Texas. She chairs the Dept. Richard B. Clark She and Bruce'55 currently of Social Sciences and par- has live in Dallas, where Mary ticipates on many other aca- ode, Lou is the office manager for demic committees. Relax! a medical group and runs an She's still "Nancy." ambulatory surgery center. Donald Ruthven and his his They are planning to move wife Becky are in Houston, the class with previously se- NASA. He's into foreign tor of the White House, the :hil- to the College Station/ where he has practiced den- cret tales of the champion- coin exporting. His wife of Brewers often have been in du- Bryan area soon. Bruce, an tistry for 30 years. ship season of 1957. He 36 years, Jeanette, is a nurse, Washington. Both architects ads anesthesiologist, may work Louis Macey '59 is in took Frank Ryan to task, music teacher and chorale are gifted and busy. Carolyn ion or retire, but Mary Lou has commercial real estate in gave Jim McCauley a hard director. is business development of- big plans to take every Houston and insists that the time, and in general had a Ann Page Griffin lives ficer for her firm. course at A&M that inter- reason he works so hard is ball exaggerating many sto- in Greenville, N.C., where Many thanks to Jay pist ests her, from foreign lan- because he has to pay his and ries. Wife Patty just looked she and Bob have three chil- Elston, who helped me !plc guages to geology. Mary Ann's ongoing and on adoringly. dren and three grandchil- gather information and who San Cal Barnes is in Hous- enormous dental bills to Dr. Don Bell reported that dren. Ann says she married generously shared it. a Rally OSS ton marketing petrochemi- Ruthven. he had literally been "swim- Clubber and life's So much had to be left ate cals. He is newly with H&H Certainly all would agree ming with the sharks" on a been a "bum's rush" ever out due to column space re- all Chemicals, although he's that the special event of the shark feeding scuba dive on since. Seriously, Ann began straints. But the reunion was Tahiti. Don lives in Green- a dental supply and patient grand,and I hope to see you ,gan been peddlin' petros all of reunion was a remembrance on- his career. of our days at Rice by Joan brae, Calif. education company "by in '98!! ised Katie Hunter Young- Feild Fox. Joan has taught Park Weaver recently chance," and it has grown iis- blood and Jim live in Clear for 25 years and has done completed his first sky dive. into a company that employs Jay W. Elston writes: "Bur- (hiol- Lake, Texas, where Katie two one-woman shows, so Park is the president of Park 29 folks, including her three ied in the advertising of the teaches family medicine at you know how very gifted Weaver Realty in Phoenix, children. She and Bob, who 1958 Campanile is this still UTMB. she is. Well, her unique abil- Ariz. retired from Proctor and quote from Woodrow Wil- tin- Jim Cauley and Pat Ivy ity to "put us back in our Alice Carmichael Roy- Gamble several years ago, son: ing, Cauley '59 of Baytown, pinafores and beanies" alty, our esteemed treasurer, are overwhelmed with their "'Do not forget, as you Ian- Texas, have three sons and, worked like magic as she has been a librarian for 6th blessings. walk these classic places, why at last, a granddaughter. unlocked our memories of to 8th graders for 22 years. Ed Olmstead of Chicago you are here. You are not iter Jim's business, Document events, professors, attitudes Alice and Max '57 live in admitted to having been on here merely to prepare to t! in Duplicators, gives Jim the and friends of days gone by. Lake Jackson, Texas. the faculty of Northwestern make a living. You are here sup Opportunity to copy without Her descriptions brought Wouldn't you know it? for 30 years but confided in order to enable the world Co. fear of breaking any honor laughter and tears simulta- Bob Malinak (an otherwise that this group is the only to live more amply, with :hil- code. He,too, took a lot of neously. However, Joan only sane Houstonian) quarter- one that is aware of his true greater vision, with a finer s. ribbing for his generous wants to be remembered as backed the last survivors of age.(And Ed could get away spirit of hope and achieve- hu- head of white hair. Jim's re- an "almost grandmother," the "Outlaws" Intramural with it, but don't tell him.) ment. You are here to enrich :hu- sponse was that at least he which by now surely is Champions (Tom Terrell Allan Zama is still in the world, and you impov- hcr has hair. "grandmother." Thanks, and Bob Mitchell) to vic- Houston working for Shell erish yourself if you forget ave Lovene Peterson Goins Joan, for wonderful, warm tory over the "Nerds": Oil. He has two Aggic kids the errand.' ne- is an English professor at and tender reminiscences. Shelby Starr, Carlton Evans and four granddaughters. "I suppose I read it at the ng- Brazoria College. Don Caddes and his wife and Howard Kirby. The His wife, Nancy Connor time; I'm sure I never really In It was good to hear that Sheila live in Menlo Park, Outlaws are still undefeated Zama '59, was his college thought about it before unor Carolyn Dcarmond Caddes Calif. Sheila recently sold after 38 years. This game sweetheart and still is! now, and probably none of and is compiling another book. her San Antonio boutique; was played on Oct. 23, Ben Orman and Janet my classmates at our 35th nor This time she will chronicle and Don,at the time of the 1993, and all were at each are in Houston, where Ben reunion had done so either. ; in the lives of Calif. winemak- reunion, was "evaluating event looking healthy, fit, practices at the Sunset Medi- "When asked to com- ers in photographs and new opportunities for mean- athletic and no worse for the cal Clinic. The Ormans ment to the group on rib- prose. Can't wait! ingful expression of his wear. were just back from an ex- 'What's Happening to the race John Coleman '59 has many gifts and talents." Tom Terrell, whose wife tended vacation in the Class of 1958?' I felt a little lives retired from DuPont and Howard Kirby manages Elaine cheered him in his Mediterranean. disconcerted that I had not ere has formed Breen Consult- a telemarketing company in team effort, brought won- WOW! Carolyn Satter- 'accomplished' more in hite ing Firm. He and Sally travel Chicago, while his wife, Jean derful sweatshirts com- white Brewer and her hus- three and a halfdecades, that He a great deal as John consults Anne, lives in Dallas. This memorating the Class of band Ben '55 were off to I didn't have a catalogue of ysis literally all over the world. works very well for them. '58. He may have some left, the White House for a meet- distinguished honors, mean- ghts John and Sally are moving Matt Gorges, chairman and you can call him in ing right after the reunion. ingful awards,exotic travels, :gan back to Memphis. and CEO of Gorges Food- Kerrville to order one. The During President Bush's a fat investment portfolio, or ntly Caty Caldwell Ortquist services of Harlington, had sweats were $20, I believe. term, Ben was assigned to even humorous stories to de- lives in Springfield, Ohio. a wonderful part on the pro- Billy Chase recently re- work on the President's describe my life. ush Her husband Dick has been gram Sat. night. He regaled tired from the USN and Park. As friends of the cura- "So in our class events I

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that weekend. "I do not intend this self- adulation of the Class of From the 1958 Classnotes: 1958 to be unrealistic. Like everyone, you could scratch us a little and find all the Class Recorder: For me and my classmates, Keats described what it means to us to pains, frustrations, sorrows, Carol Nasby Brown be fifty and in the Class of 1958: failures and tragedies that 7712 Hermanson N.E. befall any group of people. Albuquerque, N.M. 87110 Myfiftieth year had come and gone, Death, divorce, debilitating (505) 293-0257 I sat, a solitary man in a crowded London shop, disease, frustration with children and 'things that just An open book and empty cup on the marble table top. Johanna Clevenger, M.D., didn't work out' were re- writes: "Since May 1993 I While on the shop and street I gazed, ported this weekend. have been the chief physi- My body ofa sudden blazed, and twenty minutes, more or less, "Yet at least among the cian of the alcohol and sub- attendees, there was a resil- It seemed so great my happiness, that I was blessed stance abuse program ience, an inner core that had branch within the Indian and could bless. sustained us at those times Health Service in Rockville, and that enabled us to show Jay W. Elston Md." Clevenger may be up now and be counted. At reached at home at 5480 least for the weekend we fo- Wisconsin, Apt. 1611, -1111.1Mir cused on the blessing of our Chevy Chase, Md. 20815; lives, and we shared that telephone (214)652-1928; with great care with each or work at IHS, ASAPB, listened more and talked area as well as receive). Re- were not nearly as important other. 5600 Fishers Lane, room less. After some time and altors, authors,financial ad- as the signs of maturity I "I attribute our ability to 5A55, Rockville, Md. much pondering, I decided visors, performers math-ors saw. There was a mellowness do this to our age. No mat- 20857; telephone (214) that, while I had nothing so and other (either?)'ors.' (still an acceptable word to ter how precocious the en- 443-4297. unique or grand to report as "And, of course, archi- our generation) and a kind- tering freshman, we are all an acquaintance, an astro- tects. We have lots of archi- ness and a gentleness that now over fifty. It is a won- naut, who can truthfully say tects. Admired by academs welcomed all who came with drous age. We have gone he is the 'Last Man to Walk as well as by the science-en- a warm sharing of deep feel- from `I knew what I was on the Moon,' my class- gincering crowd for their ings. supposed to do,and I did it' mates and I can be satisfied creativity and chaos(anyone "What was not there to 'I know who I am, and I that we have indeed `en- who had an architect for a were the pretensions, the am willing to be him.' riched our world.' roommate knows what I facades and the insecurities "The fifties can be a "The Alumni Office lists mean), their accomplish- we acted out of as we ma- changing time, and I espe- Class Recorder: slightly more than 500 in ments are so tangible. On triculated and traipsed cially like hearing how some Galloway Hudson the Class of 1958. About this weekend the decora- through our time at Rice. It in the class are adding to 922 Autumn Oaks 100 are without addresses, tions had an architectural seems somewhat incredible their lives now, not getting Houston, TX 77079 and we are aware of 23 who touch. that we have been out of ready to end them. It was (713)932-9088 (home) have died. Each one ofthem "'What would the world Rice seven or eight times as exciting to hear about the (713) 753-4295 (work) was well remembered by us be, once bereft...' of archi- long as we were there. We unique things being done: at our Sat, night dinner. tects? apparently need a lot of time high school football referee, Class recorder Galloway They were special people. "As one of our sages said for it all to sink in. Now, af- serious participant in the Hudson writes: Yet the number is fortu- Fri. night, 'We knew what ter 35 years, here we were, Senior Olympics, the man Hey, Class of 1960. Hal nately small; it seems to me we were supposed to do,and warts and all, but at least no who gave away his house to Gosnell (Hanszen) came we are a class blessed with we did it.' I think we did it longer 'raw.' (A class song create a day care center, the through with the lowdown health. well. Maybe we did not fos- was created tin the occasion baseball card wholesaler, the on several of his fellow ge- "We are blessed because ter rebellion, but we did cre- that reminded us of just how new novelist, all doing ology majors, as promised in none of us have been killed ate stability, a base from unformed and 'RAW' we things not part of the 'job,' the last issue. Many thanks in war; at our age it seems which the '60s, the '70s and were 35 and more years doing things we hadn't done to Hal. He's really doing a unlikely that any of us ever the '80s could develop. ago.) before. This generation, the great job for his colleagues. will be. Classes before us and While some of us may have "While people who see product of the '50s and now Any volunteers out there to after us cannot say the same voted for Nixon, we also each other only every five in our fifties, is generating. do the same for other ma- thing. were flexible enough to sup- years can hardly be called For me and my classmates, jors? (See the Dec./Jan. "We were an easy-going port the changes that have close friends, yet there was Keats described what it 1993-94 Sallyport for Hal's class; after all, it was the created the '90s. acceptance, respect and means to us to be fifty and suggestion for a Class of '50s, the `Happy Days.' Ad- "What was pervasive this openness that made it a in the Class of 1958: 1960 "network.") mittedly, we were not out- reunion weekend was talk of confluence of intimacies, Myfiftieth year had come To prove that he knows spoken and rebellious. Yet children. We have progeny and a state of graciousness, and gone, some people other than what we have proved to be all over the place, from respectful of the human dig- I sat, a solitary man in a geos, Hal writes that he saw are persons of substance. preschoolers to adult chil- nity we honored in each crowded London shop, Barton Parks (Hanszen) "In looking over the at- dren fully accomplished in other. It was a class act, this An open book and empty last Oct. in Greensboro, tendees, I saw a good rep- their own right. We even reunion weekend. cup on the marble table top. N.C., where he is a faculty resentation ofall the profes- have a great-grandfather "I would like to call at- While on the shop and member at Guilford Col- sions: many doctors; too among our class. (Think tention to the 'outsiders' street Igazed, lege. Barton got his doctor- many lawyers; teachers at all about that.) There is no who were there,the spouses, My body of a sudden ate in sociology from levels, from elementary doubt that in our parenting dates, friends, all observers blazed, and twenty minutes, SUNY-Buffalo and moved school to graduate school; we have contributed in a of a piece of our roots. I more or less, to Greensboro to teach. He engineers running things, special way,and we have en- thank these people for be- It seemed sogreat my hap- is currently on sabbatical, from Calif. to Del. and all riched the world uniquely, ing there, and I hope we did piness, acting as the unpaid direc- points in between, as well as passing on, we hope, the not bore them with too that I was blessed and tor of a civic task force that around the world and off of best of ourselves. much inside humor and ref- could bless. is looking into the commu- it (NASA). Public servants "During Fri. and Sat. I erences to the past. It nity fabric, trying to head off and private entrepreneurs, saw much grey hair, a few seemed they were interested negative trends and develop and psychotherapists (obvi- extra pounds, some slower and freely participated. They programs that will enhance ously we need to give in that steps. But these signs of age clearly enriched our world the positive aspects of the

52 Sallyport community. Greensboro is tween then and now he mar- now working almost full business without running it have visited, as have Robert usually rated near the top of ried Anne (a real charmer time in Denver. She has con- (Sr me in the ground. After Estill '61 (Hanszen)and his the "Desirable Places to and a fun lady) and worked sulting stints that take her all my tour in the U.S. Marines, wife Susan. We would love Live" list, so Barton must be with DARPA on developing around the U.S., but she I went to the U. of Va. tor to see any other old(er) doing a good job. He met methods to detect nuclear really enjoys living in an M.B.A. I followed Ed Owls." his wife Evelyn while doing tests around the world. The one home instead of two. Luedtke (Hanszen), Jerry That's the end of the gco graduate work at UT. Filsons' daughter Mary is in Pete and Lila's older daugh- Wilmot (Hanszen), Kent news, but Hal promises Now, the promised gco graduate school in biology ter, Kristen, married in Nov. Anderson (Hanszen) and more next time. He also says 1 news, which is all courtesy at the U. of Minn., while son and lives in Missoula, Mont. Betty Sue Hamner Pea- that the Kitchells are living of Hal Gosnell, down Alex is an engineer with a Lauren, their young- body'63 (Jones) as the one in England, and he'll pro- through the part about him- startup company in Cor- er daughter, graduated Phi Rice grad per year in the Va. vide their address as soon as D., self (roughly eight alums vallis, Ore., that applies Beta Kappa from the U. of M.B.A. program. I guess I he gets it. 31 below). computer controls to dry Ariz. and is now studying broke the mold, as there was Gerry Preston '61 Psi - "There was a geology lumber more efficiently and law at UT. a drought after me. Follow- (Baker), who is now living b- class reunion three years ago accurately. "Ramil Wright (a.k.a. ing a brief stay in backwater in Garland, Texas, says that for the geos of the Class of "Pete Laux (Will Rice) Ramil ofthe Jungle)(Wicss) Miss., I went to work for he for one is glad to see the an 1960. We defined thc class and his wife Lila Carol works for Exxon Production IBM in Richmond, Va., in class recorder position res- lie, rather loosely: anyone who Fitzgerald Laux (Jones; research in Houston and still 1972. I left IBM to join a urrected. "Perhaps now we be went to geology summer Ph.D., 1986) are now living enjoys going to work every computer leasing company can hear about some of the -80 camp and who did, could or in Denver and enjoying both morning. After graduation started by a friend and antics of our classmates that !I, would have graduated -in the locale and life in general. from Rice in 1960, Ramil stayed there eight years. In would otherwise have gone 15; 1960 was included. Two After completing his Army headed for the U. of Ill., 1980 we moved to Ga., unreported," he writes. "Af- 28; classmates, Dan Devlin '61 tour at Fort Bragg, N.C., where he obtained both his where the leasing company ter retiring from the U.S. B, and Jon Schnable '61, have Pete got a master's degree Ph.D. and Mrs. Wright. bought a furniture manufac- Navy as a capt. in 1987, I IM passed away, and the 13 Fos at UT and then worked in Cynthia is also a Ph.D. ge- turer that was becoming in- moved to the Dallas area d. remaining established an the oil patch from 1965 to ologist, so it's Dr. and Dr. solvent. After a year of re- with nay wife Mary from 4) endowed scholarship in their 1992. Employed both in Wright at their house. Hav- cession and management Washington, D.C. I worked memory. If any classmates Europe and domestically, ing deferred his Army turnover, we shuttered the in the defense industry for would like to add to the en- Pete worked for two majors ROTC military obligation plant, and I started my own several years until cutbacks dowment,they may do so by and several small indepen- until after graduate school, business. I specialize in ap- made it obvious that I would sending a check made pay- dent companies. Now semi- Ramil went on active duty plications of bar codes for either have to relocate or able to the Rice Develop- retired from the oil indus- in 1963. With the specter of manufacturing and distribu- find a new career. So in early ment Office with a note that try, he is working with the Vietnam hanging over his tion companies in the 1992 I went to work for it is for the Devlin-Schnable Colo. Dept. of Health, set- head, Ramil was sent instead Southeast; occasionally, to Paine Webber as an invest- Memorial Scholarship. ting up and helping compa- to the Army Corps of Engi- my surprise, we make a ment executive in their "Ken Kramer (Will nies comply with solid waste neers Waterway Experi- profit. I married Mickey North Dallas office. Invest- Rice), after spending an ex- regulations, including every- mental Station in Vicksburg, while in Richmond, and we ing had always been a hobby, tra year at Rice so that he thing from how to dispose Miss. After the Army, the have three children: so I jumped at the chance to could be in the first class to of wastes to environmental Drs. Wright went to Argen- Nichole, a junior at Agnes get into it as a profession. graduate from Rice, went to It's been a big change, but graduate school at Ha. State, I've enjoyed every moment where he joined a small Rice of it. Incidentally, my son, ay alumni group as a geology From the 1960 Classnotes: Michael Edward Preston graduate student. He re- '93(Jones), has been at Rice [al ceived his Ph.D. in 1967 and the last five years, graduat- me joined the faculty at Wright '61 and Jon Minable ing in May 1993. We're State U. in Dayton, Ohio. Two classmates, Dan Devlin naturally glad (no, relieved!) He ge- is still there, teaching '61, have passed away, and the 13 geos remaining that he finished but will miss i in geochemistry. Wright State trekking to Houston every nks has a large graduate pro- established an endowed scholarship in their memo- year for campus visits." gram, which keeps Ken chal- Gerry and Mary celebrated ; lenged and busy. ry. If any classmates would like to add to the en- their les . tenth wedding anniver- to "John Filson (Wicss) is dowment, they may do so by sending a check made sary in mid-Nov. 1993. 1.1 with the U.S. Geologic Sur- Clifford Cantrell( Han- vey in. and lives in Reston, Va. payable to the Rice Development Office with a szen) writes from Tulsa, his Among other efforts, he is hometown, where he has of advising the government of note that it is for the Devlin-Schnable Memorial spent most of his time since Armenia on steps they obtaining an M.S. in me- \as should be taking to avoid a Scholarship. chanical engineering at an recurrence of the destruc- Hal Gosnell the U. of Cincinnati in aaa tion and loss of life result- 1965. Cliff has enjoyed ing ) from the massive earth- reading about some of the quake they had about five old gang in Classnotes, say- ity years ago. John has made ing,"I have been very remiss ol- seven trips to Armenia since in keeping in touch, but the or- big quake. He reports cleanups. Since Colo, has a tina for postdoctorate work. Scott College in Decatur, maybe now things have Ga.; am that the visits are no picnic high level of environmental They really enjoyed the Shannon,a freshman at slowed enough to catch up. (no Converse ,ed water, no heat, no elec- consciousness, this keeps Spanish culture and lan- College in Spar- Let's see, I guess I can hit tanburg, He tricity) and that the Marine Pete busy. It also lets him guage, which Ramil speaks S.C.; and Nelson, some of the highlights. I Corps taught a sophomore :al, prepared him well for visit such beautiful spots as fluently. Ramil at in high school. have been marketing and cc. that aspect of his trip. John's Steamboat Springs and Win- Beloit College in the late Being in the emptying nest sales manager for Nutter En- hat travels have taken him all ter Park on a frequent basis. '60s and '70s and then at syndrome definitely has its gineering in Tulsa for some 1(1- over the world, including (For this he also gets paid?) Ha. State for five years be- pluses. We'd love to see any seven ycars, doing a lot of off eastern Siberia last Aug. After being half of a com- fore being attracted back to classmates that happen to international travel. Nutter lop (where, he says, they at least muting couple for four Houston by Exxon. pass through northwest Ga. has established outposts ace have heat). John received his years, Dr. Lila Laux recently "As for me ( Hal Gos- Jim Kitchell'61 (Hanszen) throughout Latin America Ph.D, the in geophysics from resigned her positions at nell), I am living in Rome, and his wift Sherry Lund- and Asia, and this translates UC Berkeley in 1968. Be- Rice and Baylor Med and is Ga., trying to run nay own strom Kitchell '64 (Jones) to about 350,000 air miles

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per year for yours truly." You tam contact within the Class job. Career moves took us ond Start-Up? or, What is may remember that Cliff of 1960, volunteering his to Fort Worth, Houston and Echelon All About?" Kenny married Patricia Joyce services and also those ofPat finally back to Dallas for 21 and his wife Barbara created Brown (Will Rice) after Brown Wade. (Is that O.K. years. Since Dec. 1990, 152 the Oshman Scholarship graduation from Rice. He with you, Pat?) Cliff says, we've been in Houston, Fund for Women in the says that they amicably split "My best to all, and I hope where I've been working as Class Recorder: George R Brown School of in 1975 and are still good anyone visiting Tulsa will an attorney for Marathon Eleanor Powers Beebe Engineering in 1981. friends. I haven't heard from give us a call. We're good for Oil Co. We have three mar- 2908 Ella Lee Lane On the Leadership Pat yet (it's now Pat Wade), a drink and a meal any time ried children (two sons and Houston, TX 77019 Comm. for the Baker Insti- but Cliff gave me an update I'm in town." one daughter). They have tute is Susanne Morris on their children. Daughter Finally, Joe Binford provided us with two grand- Class recorder Eleanor Glasscock (Jones). Susie Hollis graduated from Okla. (Wiess) is alive and well and sons (four and six years old) Powers Beebe writes: and her husband Melbern State U. last year and is liv- living in Houston, which is and a four-year-old grand- Joyce Rowland Mar- Glasscock '61 (Sid Rich; ing and job hunting in Tuc- not as flippant as it sounds. daughter. Pat was adult edu- shall ( Jones) and her hus- M.S.) head up a petrochemi- son, Ariz. "We are, of Joe had a bout with colon cation minister at our band Gene Marshall '63 cal marketing firm, Texas course,suggesting marriage cancer about three years church in Dallas for the last (Baker) returned recently Aromatics Inc. Susie writes: and grandchildren, but no ago. After a year of chemo- five years prior to our move from a vacation in Spain, "I am serving as the tour go, yet. I can't understand therapy treatments follow- to Houston. This followed sightseeing in Madrid, To- chair of the Bayou Bend why they won't do what we ing surgery, he's been can- years of volunteer work at ledo, Seville and Granada. docent organization as we want." Their son Clifford cer-free for two years. He schools and church as well Joyce, whose major was bi- reopen the house to the III (Tres) has returned to says this helps him to under- as part-time jobs ranging ology with a minor in public after the two-year rcs school to finish his educa- stand the hopes and fears of from doctors' receptionist to French, is now a C.P.A. She toration—and invite all tion "after three years of the patients at M.D. Ander- high school teacher of received her master's in ac- classmates to make a point counting and taxation from of visiting this national trea- the U. of Houston in 1985 sure sitting in our midst." and passed the C.P.A. exam Robert ("Quin") Mc- the same year. For two years Whiner (Hanszen) and his she has been with Landmark wife Marti live in Houston, Graphics, a software com- where both are active mem- From the 1962 Classnotes: pany specializing in inter- bers of St. John the Divine preting oil and gas drilling Episcopal Church,especially data. Joyce is now the head in the music ministry. Quin Barry Moore (Wiess), an assoc. professor of of their tax dept., world- is manager ofdistrict opera- wide. Gene is senior coun- tions for Houston Lighting architecture/design at the U. of Houston, was sel with Phillips Petroleum. and Power Co. He has been active over the years in a Award in Sept. Their daughter Laura is a honored with the John G. Flowers paralegal with Mayor, Day number of church and corn 1993. Given by the Texas Society of Architects, and Caldwell. munity groups, including Jim McCullar (Baker) the Texas Chamber of Com- this award recognizes architectural contributions was married on Oct. 9, merce, Houston Metropoli- 1993,to Daryle Gabbard of tan Ministries and St. James made in journalism. Long Island, N.Y. Daryle is House of Baytown. Quin's music, and he is a Eleanor Powers Beebe a special education teacher hobby is in the New York City school founding member of Goose system and has a daughter, Creek General Store Band, Justine, nine years old. The now in its 20th year, which McCullars live in Bellcrose plays bluegrass, gospel and Village, Long Island. Jim's 1950s and 1960s music. The architectural firm, James band performs for banquets, goofing around internation- son Hospital, where he vol- French and drama. Pat is McCullar and Associates, conventions and churches ally as a '60s flashback. unteers through his church, now a volunteer chaplain at specializes in affordable and opened for Ronnie Found he couldn't support South Main Baptist, as a M.D. Anderson Hospital." housing and urban redevel- Millsap recently. They have his champagne tastes on a chapel visitor one night a We all rejoice with Joe that opment in the New York also performed at Astro - beer budget. They are both week. "Relying on old re- he's beaten the Big C and City area. world and in Washington, really good young adults, sumes," Joe provides us a commend him and Pat for Our Class of 1962 is rep- D.C. Classmates may re- and we count ourselves glimpse of his past 30+ their compassionate minis- resented on the Leadership member the Hanszen quar- among the very fortunate in years. "Following com- try to others. Maybe some Committees oftwo very sig- tet, made up of Quin, John that department." Cliff re- mencement at Rice in 1960 of the rest of you out there nificant areas of develop- Fowler (Hanszen; B.S., married in 1978 to his "best and summer employment at have similar stories you'd ment at Rice—the Rice U. 1961), Bill Krivan (Han- friend, name of Diane,local the shade factory, I departed like to share. Computational Engineering szen; B.S., 1963) and Jim and part wild Indian." Cliff for Columbia U. law school. And that's all we have to Campaign and the Baker Orchard (Hanszcn; B.S., retired a full colonel in the The city gave me an educa- share this time, but we still Institute for Public Policy. 1963), singing Four Fresh- U.S. Army Corps of Engi- tion, and the university gave haven't heard from most of On the Leadership men songs in Hamman Hall. neers in 1991 after 30 years me book knowledge. I re- you, so "keep those cards Comm. of the Computa- So, Quin, John, Bill and Jim, on active and reserve duty. turned to New York in Sept. and letters coming." tional Engineering Cam- how about a couple of en- He misses the people but 1961 with my new bride Pat paign are D. Kent Ander- cores at our 1997 reunion? not the bureaucracy and Peck Binford. After a week son (Hanszen) and M. Jim Orchard (Hanszen; confusion endemic with a she went back to Dallas, Kenneth Oshman (Wiess; B.S., 1963)is back in Hous- large organization. Cliffsays where she was in graduate B.S., 1963). Kent is cochair ton on a permanent basis for he is fighting the battle of school at SMU. I remained of the comm. Additionally, the first time since 1968. Jim the bulge every day with rac- for one more semester at Kenny was awarded the is with Exxon and has had a quetball, running and golf, Columbia before transfer- Outstanding Engineering number of technical and when the Great Plains ring to the SMU law school, Class Recorder: Alumni Award from the operations positions in the weather permits, golf being from which I graduated in Nancy Burch Rice Engineering Alumni U.S. and overseas. He re- his favorite of the three. He May 1963. Pat earned her 3311 Stoncy Brook last fall. In conjunction with turned to the States in 1991 enthusiastically endorses Hal master's degree in English Houston, TX 77063 that award, he spoke to the after an eight-and-one-half Gosnell's idea of "regional literature in 1964. In July (713) 781-3634 group on "Why Do a Sec- year assignment in Malaysia. scribe" or the like to main- 1963, after I passed the He and his wife Eunice have Texas bar exam, we moved to Albuquerque for my first

54 Sallyport ; is a three-year-old son, Charles Carl Mount (Will Rice) ing. She is responsible for ematics and Science Educa- network design and engi- tion Network. Bright began my Evans, who was born in writes from Lost River, ted Eunice's hometown, Kuala W.Va.: "My three children neering, infrastructure pro- working with two groups of ip Lumpur. Jim has three live in Houston: my oldest 1963 gram management and capi- 30 teachers in grades 3-5 :he grown children: Alison daughter has a four-month- tal planning. Morehouse, and 6-8 during the summer. I of (UCLA '87) resides in San old baby girl, my only son is Class Recorder: who has been with MCI All are from the Greensboro Diego, Calif.; Amy '89 in the stock and bond mar- Kathleen Much since 1982, previously area. He will continue the p (Hanszen)lives in Houston; ket and my youngest daugh- 128 Hillside Ave. served as vice president of project with in-service edu- sti- and Adam (UT-Austin '92) ter is in her senior year of Menlo Park, CA 94025 - network administration and cation during the 1993-94 ris is continuing his studies in high school. 6538 has held positions in net- year. [sic Austin. "Six years ago, while (415) 854-8968 (home) work management, network frn Do you remember the working in the construction (415) 321-2052 (work) capacity planning and business ch; fellow at the piano for the business in the Washington, email: kathleenecasbs.stan- planning and budgets. mi- EBLS melodramas and the D.C., area, I met an out- ford.edu Prior to joining MCI, she xas PALS burlesques—Tom standing lady whom I mar- was a senior consultant with tes: Graham (Hanszen; B.S.)? ried a year later. She has a Coopers & Lybrand in )ur He still gets great pleasure second home in the moun- Washington, D.C. ;nd out of playing the piano. tains of W.Va., where we we After receiving his B.S. in have spent all of our week- the electrical engineering from ends and holidays. As a re- 1964 rcs- Rice, he earned an M.B.A. sult of my fascination with from Harvard in 1965. He the beauty and sereneness of all Class Recorder: is with Exxon Coal and Min- W.Va., I have begun a con- Sint Gentry Miller erals Co., which brings op- struction co. here, building Dale ca- Chadbury Park Drive portunities to travel, most vacation homes for residents 20406 Katy, TX 77450 Class Recorder: 4c- recently to Japan. He and his of the D.C. area. I have al- Judy Maki Ragland his wife, Rose Phelan Graham ways been charmed by the 209 Palm Aire on, '64 (Jones), took a fall trip beauty of the Appalachian Friendsvvood, TX 77546 T. Joy Collins :m- to Germany and Austria. Mountains, and now I have They visited Beyreuth and the joy of living here every Kendra Jensen Belfi, M.D. T. Jay Collins (Baker; Salzburg and attended op- day." ally (Jones), has been elected to M.C.H.E., 1969) was re- eras in both Wurtzberg and The Class of '62 Tele- uin Fellowship in the American cently named senior vice Heidelberg. They traveled fund workers concentrated fra- College of Physicians president and chieffinancial down the Rhine by boat, their efforts on one evening, The following is from the :ing (ACP), the professional or- officer for Occaneering In- then visited other regions by and Dick Wright (Wiess), New York Times (Oct. 5, een ganization of internists. Dr. ternational Inc. Collins of- car and train. Rose had the Bill Anderson (Wiess; 1993). n a Belfi is in group practice ficially assumed his duties on opportunity to brush up on B.Arch.), Linda Day(Jones; "Governor Mario M. mill- with a Fort Worth clinic. Oct. 1, 1993. Collins was her German while there. She M.A., 1965), Anne Cuomo today appointed ing Fellowship in the ACP is an formerly with Tcleco is learning German in con- Shamblin Baillio (Jones), Eugene J. Keilin [Wiess], honorary designation recog- Oilfield Services Inc., in nection with her position as Ed McDonald (Baker; a Manhattan investment oli- nizing scholarly and profes- Meriden, Conn., where he original cataloguer at M.A., 1964), Vic Edwards banker and longtime associ- TICS sional achievements in inter- served as executive vice Fondrcn Library. Rose re- (Wiess), Dennis Sullivan ate of Felix G. Rohatyn, to in's nal medicine. Dr. Belfi, a president of finance and ad- ceived an M.L.S. from (Wiess) and I had a mini-re- succeed Mr. Rohatyn as is a specialist in internal medi- ministration and previously Simmons College in Boston. union in the alumni offices. chairman of the Municipal ose cine and geriatrics, earned a senior vice president of op- Tom and Rose serve on the Jim Fox (Hanszen) and Assistance Corp." medical degree from the erations. Prior to working hospitality comm. of Hous- Charles Giraud (Baker) iich UT Southwestern Medical for Teleco, he held several ton Grand Opera and will helped on other nights. For and School in Dallas. She then executive-level positions host the artists performing those of you who have not The trained as a medical resident with Sonat Inc., including La Traviata here in April. participated in a Telefund, I lets, at the Dallas VA Hospital senior vice president of fi- Barry Moore (Wiess) an would like to encourage you .hes and at Parkland Memorial nance at Sonat Offshore assoc. professor of architec- to volunteer in the future. nie Hospital in Dallas. Dr. Belfi Drilling and president of ture/design at the U. of It's fun! lave is a member of the Tarrant Houston Systems Manufac- Houston, was honored with During the Tclefund, one :ro- Co. Medical Society. She is turing Co. His operational the John G. Flowers Award of my calls was to John :on, certified in internal medicine experience with Sonat Off- in Sept. 1993. Given by the Germann (Hanszen). John re- with added qualifications in shore Drilling includes inter- Texas Society of Architects, lives in Chattanooga, Tenn., uar- geriatrics by the American national management in this award recognizes archi- and is vice president of Dim Board of Internal Medicine. Venezuela, Singapore, tectural contributions made Provident Life and Accident Egypt and the Ivory Coast. in journalism. Barry writes Insurance Co. He has been Ian- Dr. George W. Bright (Will Collins began his career in a weekly column for the active in the First Centenary Jim Rice; MA.,1969), a profes- Houston with Shell Oil Co. Houston Press. He has pub- United Methodist Church l.S., sor in the School of Educa- after receiving his Rice de- lished several articles this and produces a television csh- tion at the U. of North gree and an M.B.A. from year in the local news media program every Sun. of their jail. Carolina at Greensboro, has Harvard. Jim, about historical aspects of church services. He also received two grants totaling Houston, notably an article helps with interviews for the more than $23,000 to pro- on? in the West University maga- Admission Office at Rice. vide in-service training for zen; zine about the history of Dr. Dennis Sullivan has teachers on the use of DIAS- West University Elementary been practicing dentistry in handheld calculators to Houston for the past 25 S for School and an article in the teach mathematics. Both Houston Post about three years. His wife, Susie Heyne awards, for $12,928 and Jim Sherry Morehouse ad a generations of dating cus- Sullivan '63(Jones), is also $10,928, were made and toms in Houston. Barry's his business manager, main- through the UNC Math- (Jones) the firm, The Mathes Group, is tenance person and dental Sherry Morehouse When they take has been named by MCI as re- designing the $15 million assistant. net- 991 building to be constructed, time away from the office, senior vice president of half beginning in Dec. 1995,for they enjoy their hideaway work planning and engineer- ysia. the U. of Houston School cabin in Kerrville on the ;lave of Music. Guadalupe River.

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Philip A Garon (Hanszen) Dr. Joseph Johnson Gu- dents at the university and back in the heartland of sends the following (edited) genheim Jr. (Will Rice) in the sciences. When he ar- America and out of a bun- obituary from the Nov. 10, married Judith Seymour rived at Southwestern in ker five stories below 1993, Washington Post: Cleveland on Sat., Sept. 18, 1985, the school had 8.2 ground and back in the 1993. Dr. Gugenheim is in percent minority enroll- 'mud' with an Army divi- practice with the Fondren ment. At the end of 1992, Class Recorder: sion." Jindra's new address Orthopedic Group in Hous- minority enrollment was 18 Tim Thurston is 2105 Farmingdale Court, ton, Texas, specializing in percent. 1944 Arlington Ave. Manhattan, Kan. 66502- Ilizarov and pediatric ortho- Villa's election as 1993 Columbus, OH 43212- 2114; home telephone pedic surgery. The bride is U.S. Professor of the Year 1038 (913)776-1397; work tele- assistant manager of system was profiled in USA Today (614)486-4846 (home) phone (913) 239-2424. administration at Methodist (Sept. 21, 1993), the Aus- Hospital. tin (Texas) American-States- David L. Hench (Ph.D.) is Howard Mitton Prichard man (Sept. 21, 1993) and vice chair of the Los Ange- (M.S.) writes: "I am now a the Georgetown (Texas) les Council and has served senior scientist with Auxicr Williamson County Sun on the council as secretary & Associates, a health phys- (Sept. 22, 1993). and treasurer. He is a past ics consulting firm." chair ofthe Orange Co. Sec- Prichard can be reached at Charles Webb (Will Rice), tion and the Signal Process- 2413 Chimney Ridge, a member of the Calif. State ing Chapter. As chair, he Knoxville, Tenn. 37923; Class Recorder: U. at Long Beach Dept. of recognizes that the local home telephone (615)539- Kathleen Callaway English since 1984,recently electrical engineering pro- 1539; work telephone(615) won the CSULB Distin- 531-3664. James Osborne Denney 8, rue Leon Blum fession is in a period of rapid 33400 Talence guished Faculty Scholarly change. He hopes to provide France and Creative Achievement continuing support for the Gayle Woodson (Jones) "James Osborne Den- Award. Webb's published efforts that the council has writes: "I was elected on ney [Will Rice], 46, a legis- works include a novel, three made in response to these Oct. 2, 1993, to the board lative assistant for environ- collections of poetry and a changes. These include the ofdirectors of the American ment and agriculture in the book of poetry and psychol- Consultants' Network and Academy of Otolaryngolo- office of Rep. George E. ogy, with two more books the Skills Bank. High prior- gy/Head and Neck Surgery. Brown Jr. (0-Calif.), died of poetry and an anthology ity will be given to forming I'm the first woman to serve Nov. 7 at George Washing- accepted for publication. a liaison with industry and on this six-member board. ton U. Hospital after a Additionally, he has pub- to providing meaningful We moved to Memphis in stroke. The Crockett (Texas) Cou- lished hundreds of poems, continuing education Jan. 1993—my husband was "Denney, who lived in rier of Sept. 2, 1993, pro- short fiction and essays in through the IEEE. recruited as the chair of the Washington, was born in filed Dr. Linda Faye Will- literary periodicals such as otolaryngology dept. I am Pineville, Ky. He graduated iams Gomes (Jones), who the Paris Review, the Black Lt. Col. Michael S. Jincira also now a full professor at from Rice U. and received a was a graduate of Lovelady Warrior Review, the Antioch (Will Rice) writes: "This past the U. of Tenn. medical master's degree in horticul- High School and a National Review and the Michigan summer we moved back to school." Woodson lives at ture from Texas A&M and Merit Scholar. She was also Quarterly Review and has the U.S. after spending four 1572 Central Ave., Mem- one in linguistics from UT the first black student to given over 200 public read- years in two NATO postings phis, Tenn. 38104. at Austin. graduate from Rice (in ings of his works. Webb is in Europe. During our three "He was fluent in Arabic 1970). She received her doc- also a licensed marriage, years at Supreme Headquar- and in 1985 worked as a torate from the U. of Chi- family and child therapist. ters Allied Powers Europe, horticultural consultant at cago and has taught at we were participants in the the King Khaled Interna- Cornell, Howard and Har- Gulf War (on the Turkish tional Airport in Riyadh, vard universities. She is cur- and Israeli end) and eyewit- E3 Saudi Arabia. In 1992, he rently teaching at the U. of nesses to the reunification of received a doctorate in plant Md. Germany, the dissolution of physiology from the U. of the Warsaw Treaty Organi- Calif at Davis. He also had Vincente Domingo zation, the unraveling ofthe studied at the American U. Villa (Ph.D.), 52,of South- Virginia Ann Burkett Sall former Soviet Union and the in Cairo. western U. in Georgetown, (Brown) has been named an formation of the North At- "In 1992, Denney Texas, was chosen by the honorary alumna of the U. lantic Cooperation Council. [went] to Washington on a Council for Advancement of North Carolina at Chapel We were able to tour most Congressional Science Fel- and Support of Education as Hill School of Nursing. Sall of Western Europe (to in- lowship of the American the U.S. Professor of the has been a member of the clude Barcelona during the Society for Horticultural Year for 1993. He was cho- UNC-CH School of Nurs- Olympics) and even to visit Science and was assigned to sen over 390 nominated in- ing Foundation board ofdi- Saint Petersburg, Moskva Brown's congressional of- structors. Villa received a rectors since 1991. Her ser- and Praha—along with fice. On the completion of $10,000 cash prize contrib- vice has included fund- other family excursions to his fellowship, he became an uted by the Carnegie Foun- raising and representing the more 'settled' areas of the administrative assistant. dation for the Advancement school in related activities. world (like Israel—shortly "Survivors include his fa- of Teaching and a trip to Sall is also a leader and dis- after the deportation of ther, Glenn E. Denney, and Washington, D.C., to de- trict adviser for the La Leche members of Hamas into his stepmother, Marion C. liver a lecture at the League. She was a member Lebanon). I was promoted Denney, both of San Anto- Smithsonian Institution. Larry Mauldin of the media advisory panel to lieutenant colonel and nio." The 1968 Campanile Villa grew up in Laredo, to the Governor's Commis- received Army Commenda- says that Denney received a Texas, and was the first in- Larry Mauldin (Baker) has sion on the Reduction of tion, Joint Service Com- B.A. in Spanish and was con- dividual in his family to at- been appointed regional Infant Mortality. mendation and Defense tributing editor to the tend college. After earning sales manager of AudioSci- Meritorious Service medals Thresher, 1967-68; a mem- his doctorate from Rice, he ence Inc.(OTC), a Minne- during those two tours. ber of Canterbury, SCAP, taught at the U. of New tonka, Minn., manufacturer Now I'm assigned to Fort SCEP and the Will Rice Mexico. When he went to of high-tech hearing sys- Riley, Kan., as the division Chorus; program comm. Southwestern,one of Villa's tems. Mauldin will be re- chemical officer of the First chair for 1968; and on the missions was to help increase sponsible for the sale of Inf. Div. (Mechanized). It's Honor Roll. the number of minority stu- company products in the good to be back in the U.S., Central Region as well as the

56 Sallyport training and education of minutes before we figured the Top," featured Zig and works included in the chemistry, developmental the AudioScience field sales out that we actually knew Ziglar and appeared in the Best American Short Stories anatomy and histology. organization and authorized each other when he was a Sept. 1993 issue. and Twenty Under Thirty. dispensers of the company's grub at Brown.(His hair is hearing systems. much shorter now!) Keimi Harada (M.A.R.U.) "Classmates passing writes: "I worked as the sec- through Cincinnati are en- retary-general of IFYA couraged to call." Lightner KOBE '93 (International 1000 may be reached at the U. of Forum for Young Archi- 10711 Cincinnati, College of De- tects), organized by IAA Class Recorder: 1174 sign, Architecture, Art, and (International Academy of Class Recorder: Richard Morris Planning, School of Plan- Architects, where Tange, Frank Duca P.O. Box 1830 ning, Cincinnati, Ohio Kikutake and Maki are 3345 N. Broadway Bellaire, TX 77402-1830 a 45221-0016. members in Japan and Meier Boulder, CO 80304 (713)667-5944 :r and Pci are members in the (303) 447-3822(home) s- U.S.) with great success in (303)673-5816 (work) Aug. 1993. Sixty-one young at architects from 19 countries participated in the workshop 3; on waterfront development in Kobe, under the direction dis- i) Gaylyn L. Cooper (Han- of nine internationally 111 szen) was appointed by the tinguished professors." Harada can be reached at Texas Water Development Class Recorder: Space Endeavor Collabo- s) board of directors from the Dr. Thomas N. Pajewski rates, Seno Bldg. 4F, 3-14- in Lower Neches Valley Au- 3023 Watercrest Drive 9, Roppongi, Minato-ku, thority. Cooper replaced Charlottesville, VA 22901- in Hallmark, whose term Tokyo 106, Japan. Tint Gunther Dan 7224 expired in July 1993. Coo- (804)974-7832 (home) Y. per is currently a partner (804)924-2283 (work) Tim Gunther (Lovett) Kenny Baldwin ve with the law firm of (804) 982-0019 (work fax) -d. writes: "On July 1, 1993, I Bernsen, Jamail and Good- was promoted to senior vice in son in Beaumont, Texas. Dian L. Hardison '80 Kenny Baldwin (Sid Rich) as president of 3D/interna- 1077 of the Houston office of (Brown) writes: "Having no he tional and Hoover & Furr The following appeared in Andersen Consulting has Architects." Gunther can be inclination towards drop- the Raleigh (N.C.) News John 0. Niemann Jr. ping kids been admitted as a partner reached at 2100-J Com- myself, I've spent at and Observer on Sept. 1, (Baker; M.A.C.C., 1978) the past year plus as mentor ofAndersen Consulting, the al monwealth, Houston,Texas 1993. has been named deputy re- U.S. partnership, and as a 77006-1867. for 11 girls (it started with at "Dr. Dean Ornish gional managing partner, two but sort ofsnowballed), partner in Arthur Andersen [Hanszen] is the author of Southwest Region (U.S.)of ages & Co. SC. The SC is the Brenda Case Lightner 10 to 13, who've been a new book entitled Eat Arthur Andersen 8c Co. and identified as 'underachiev- coordinating entity of the (Brown; M.Arch., 1977) More, Weigh Less. The book partner in charge of the Arthur Andersen Worldwide writes: "For the past three ers.' I'm proud to report combines his low-fat phi- firm's Metro Houston Tax that all of their grades, not Organization, which in- years I have been an asst. losophy with recipes from Division. He was previously cludes business units professor in the School of to mention their ambitions, eminent restaurateurs like partner in charge of the have improved drastically— Andersen Consulting and Planning at the U. of Cin- Bradley Ogden, Alain Houston office, Special Ser- Arthur Andersen. Currently, cinnati, following a long some of them intend to aim Rondelli and Wolfgang vices division. He also pres- for Rice! there are 2,570 SC partners residence in Boston that was Puck. It is near the top of ently serves as a member of worldwide. capped by my year at the "I've also written an ar- the best-seller list. Mutual the chairman's advisory ticle, 'On the Parallels Be- Baldwin, 35, joined An- Harvard Graduate School of of Omaha, the country's council, the long-range dersen Consulting in 1981 Design as a Loeb Fellow. My tween Religion and Drug largest provider of health in- planning committee and the Addiction,' which was well after receiving math and husband, David Scheer, and surance, has agreed to reim- North American Manage- received by the Fla. chapter business degrees from Rice I had a busy year: we mar- burse patients who partici- ment Committee of Arthur and after a short professional ried, of Freethinkers and may be bought a house, had a pate in his diet-oriented Andersen. Niemann can be baseball career with the Los baby (Carlotta Rose, who accepted for publication in heart disease prevention reached at home at 5727 the national Angeles Dodgers. Baldwin was born May 26, 1993) journal. program. And health care Garden Point Drive, King- "On the specializes in serving oil and and completed the house down side, as reform officials, from Hil- wood, Texas 77345; tele- most gas clients. During his ca- renovation just in time for of you know,the space lary Rodham Clinton down, phone (713) 360-0689; or program is in serious reer, Baldwin has served our first anniversary. Car- have been consulting with at work at Arthur Andersen more than 20 energy com- lotta Rose joins her half-sis- trouble, and there are days him on how such preventive & Co., 711 Louisiana, Suite that I'm convinced that panies. He is currently work- ter Casey Lightner, who at approaches can help cut 1300, Houston, Texas ing with YPF (formerly the 11 is smart as a tack and NASA does it to themselves. health care costs." 77002; telephone (713) Those of you in politics, Argentine national oil co.) beautiful, too. 237-2821. leading a variety ofinitiatives "Careerviise, I am writ- hurry up and run for president!" related to their recent ing, teaching and practicing Kate Lila Wheeler (Jones) privatization (the June IPO urban design. Look for my published a new book en- Carlos Alberto Herrera raised in excess of $3 bil- 1 book Design Review: The Started lion). titled Not Where I (Lovett), a candidate in Role of the Aesthetic in City From: Stories (Houghton Baldwin has been active Planning, which is sched- 1994 for the M.D. degree at as Mifflin, 1993). This debut the UT medical school, rein a number of charitable al uled to be published this and civic organizations in John Anderson (Baker) is collection of short stories ceived a $1,000 scholarship spring by Chapman and the Houston area. He has a the senior editor for a new follows an 0. Henry Award, from the Hispanic American Hall. The Rice contingent in long history of working with magazine entitled SELL- a Pushcart Prize, a Xerox- Medical Assn. of Houston at the design college here in- Special Olympics, where he ING. Anderson is coordi- American Short Story Prize the 1993 Hispanic Doctor's cludes alums Tom Bible'73 has coached teams in basket- nating a long-term project Day Gala. In medical school, (Wiess; M.C.E.) and Jim ball and track for more than on the role of motivational Herrera received thc Out- Postell '80 (Sid Rich; 10 years, and he served as an programs in the business standing Academic Award in B.Arch., 1982). I ran into officer in the area executive world. His first contribution 1991 and Outstanding Per- Tom on faculty orientation committee. Baldwin is a na- to the series, "Welcome to formance Awards in bio- day, and we talked for ten tive of San Antonio.

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Simone Frey Kid ( Baker; Loren Jacobs Watterworth M.E.S., 1988) recently (Brown) writes: "My hus- joined the Fort Worth engi- band Randy, my two chil- neering firm of Freese and dren, Jeffrey and Nicole, Nichols Inc. as an environ- and I have moved to Tem- From the 1986 Classnotes: mental engineer. Kiel has ple, Texas. We are enjoying held similar positions with small-town life, including Environmental Resources short commutes, a slower George "L.A. Law" Hampton Management Inc. in Deer- pace of life and good (Wiess) is out in field, Ill.; Skidmore Owings schools. We have a wonder- Newport Beach baggin' rays and surfing between & Merrill Inc. in London; ful home in the country and several engineering complete with two dogs, court dates. George—what up? Hope no lawyers firms in the Houston area. two cats and three horses." Watterworth's new address are harshin' on your mellow out there. Nicki, call is Rural Route 1, Box 149- H,Temple, Texas 76501. me if you are still alive. 1181 Scott T MacDonald

Class Recorder: B. David Brent, M.D. 4804 Toreador Drive Austin, TX 78746-2413 Karen E. Streplar (Jones; M.A.T., 1989) writes: "I ccntly purchased a home who almost charmed Ms. Ward Broom (Will Rice), have been promoted to near Rice and are busily pre- Richard and Mr. Young into currently working as a sales headmaster of Weise Acad- paring for our first guests at reconsidering their childless representative for Rolm in emy, a small, private high Thanksgiving. We keep up state; Vincent Uher '86 Houston, was profiled in the school. Weise Academy pro- with many Rice (mostly (Baker), who is now an Epis- Rosenberg (Texas) Herald 1M2 vides a monitored, drug- Lovett) folks, among them copal priest in Lufkin, Texas; Coaster on Oct. 12, 1993, free, multisensory learning Tom Nyiro '83 (Lovett), and Jen Cooper '90 (Will in "Lamar's dream team of environment for 'at risk' who is completing his Ph.D. Rice), who recently began '79." Cederick Johnson (Baker) at Yale; Patti Gallagher her own desktop publishing and Charlie D. Phillips Jr. children. I can be reached at Caddell '88 (Lovett) and company in Houston called Anne Sadie Essmeier are co-owners of an innova- 7904 Simpkins, Plano, Texas 75025." Chris Caddell '86 (Sid Jendesign; all wended their (Baker) married Andrew tive new Houston, Texas, Rich), who are currently re- way to Castine, Maine, in Dryden Lillie on Oct. 23, company—Mobile Fitness siding in Hong Kong; July for the wedding of 1993. The bride is employed Inc.—a gym on wheels. Chris Wagner (Hanszen) writes: "Began a new job as Rafael Longoria '82(Lov- Jeanne Cooper (Lovett) by American Airlines. The They drive a gym to their ett), who has been replaced and Ian Hersey (Sid Rich). groom is a graduate of the clients' locations in a fully a relationship manager for Wells Fargo Bank's commer- in our affections by his wife As Uher, who officiated at U. of Fla. and received his equipped van. and kids; and our neighbors the wedding, noted, It was M.B.A. at Northwestern Initially, Johnson and cial lending office in Oak- land, Calif." Wagner's ad- Brent Nyquist'83 (Lovett) an event that we had all been U's Kellogg School of Man- Phillips, both certified per- and Sarah &Heck '84(Lov- awaiting for many years.'" agement. He is employed by sonal trainers as well as top dress is 1207 Melville Square, #113, Richmond, ett). We've become avid Monsanto. collegiate athletes, wanted baseball and opera fans, with Coleen Wade Young (Will to establish a traditional Calif. 94804. Bev running a fantasy base- Rice), president of Coleen Boris Jezek (Weiss) writes gym. But after a look at the ball league during the sum- Young Consulting in Carls- with his new address— competition, they knew they mer and Crystal managing bad, N.M., has been named Gartenfeldstrasse 49, were going to have to come the sales for Houston Grand a Fellow of the Society of 68169, Mannheim, Ger- up with something different Opera's boutique when Actuaries(FSA). She earned many. to succeed. Johnson, Phillips she's not working at Baker. the FSA designation by suc- and their business were pro- We're always happy to hear cessfully completing a series Christine Brister Lagerlef filed in a Sept. I, 1993,story from old friends, Rice or of examinations adminis- (Jones) writes: "I've never in the Houston (Texas) Post. Class Recorder: otherwise. Our new address tered by the society. FSA written to Classnotes since Kathleen Robertson Stewart is 8506 Blucgate, Houston, candidates are tested on graduating from Rice, so The San Diego Union-Tri- 15 Eden Drive Texas 77025; telephone mathematics and statistics here's an update. car- bune on Sept. 16,1993, Rome, GA 30165 (713)432-1248. Bev is also underlying actuarial science "After Rice, I returned to ried a lengthy profile of Jim (706) 234-3207(home) on the Internet at black- and their applications to my home state of Alaska to Newman (M.S., 1982; (706) 290-5296 (work) wodepop.rice.edu. Let us technical actuarial problems. work for Standard Alaska Ph.D., 1984). The story, hear from you—Anna Little Actuaries design and evalu- Petroleum Co.(later known entitled "It's 'space surfing' Bev Blackwood (Lovett) '87 (Lovett)!" ate financial programs by as BP). My work encom- for La Jolla grad," chron- writes: using statistical and eco- passed chemical engineer- icled Ncwman's dream, "It's finally time to do Gwen Richard (Lovett) nomic techniques to analyze ing, corporate negotiations from the age of 12,of being this thing—News of Bev writes: "Lured by descrip- risk and probabilities and to and reservoir engineering. I an astronaut. Blackwood and Crystal tions of a surfeit of New evaluate the implications of spent a lot of time with rep On Sept. 16, 1993, mis- Davis '87 (Lovett): We England quaintness and an future events. resentatives from other sion specialist Newman were married at the Rice abundance of discount companies and even met rri. stepped out of the space Chapel in 1990 and cel- clothing stores, William husband (an Arco engineer). shuttle Discovery for a sched- ebrated our third wedding Mark Young '85 (Jones) We were married in June uled six-hour spacewalk, anniversary in Oct. 1993. and I were married in Hous- 1988. His name is David. during which he hurtled Crystal is a C.P.A. and has ton in 1990 after both com- "Our first child was born around the Earth at 17,500 been working for Baker Per- pleting law school at U. of in March 1991. Stephanie mph while attached to the formance Chemicals in H.; Devorah Knaff (Lov- was a whopping 10 lbs.9 ozs orbiter by a thin nylon Houston for almost three ett)—who since last appear- Class Recorder: and 21-1/2 inches at birth. tether. Newman's career and years. Bev is working as a ing in these pages married a I returned to work in a part- accomplishments were also systems David Phillips analyst for Rice, af- non-Rice alum (gasp!), fin- time engineering position at highlighted on Sept. 13, ter the job market for com- 23 Fendall Ave. ished her doctorate in an- Alexandria, VA 22304-6328 BP. After 5-1/2 yrs with BP, 1993, by the Orlando(Fla.) mercial pilots went belly up thropology and gave birth I took a promotion to be- Sentinel. this past summer. We re- to a daughter, Gweneth,

58 Sallyport ing a full-time mom and Ramser (Will Rice), Keith ski, ski, ski. I have been throw a helluva party. Dan Medicine. She participated wife. Staying one step ahead Vassallo '85 (Will Rice) and mountain biking, hiking, Schnurman '87 (Wiess) in the Rural and Under- of Stephanie, educating Bill Tucker'78 (Will Rice). and in-line skating this sum- called me a couple of weeks served Opportunities Pro- Stephanie and guiding mer and have gotten par- ago at my old law firm; I gram, where she used her Stephanie's development Hannah Baker (Hanszen) tially acclimated to the alti- wasn't there—Dan, I don't fluency in Chinese to work have been very writes: "1 am sad to an- tude (9,100 ft). Yes, as sonic have your number, get in at the International District "It is with joy that we nounce the end of my part- other alum wrote in her cor- touch. George "L.A. Law" Community Health Center announce the birth of our nership with Anne Lewis. I respondence to Classnotes Hampton (Wiess) is out in in Seattle. She continues to second child, Meagan Lind- am beginning a new career recently, the weather here Newport Beach baggin' rays work at this center. Linda sey. She was born June 25, in human resources at Solvay isn't really that great (not). and surfing between court plans to continue working 1993, and was a mere 9 lbs. America, the North Ameri- "Have kept in touch with dates. George—what up? with underserved popula- 10 ozs and 21 inches at can affiliate of a Belgian - Bill Stockton '85 (Lovett), Hope no layers are harsh- tions and using her back- birth. based chemical company." who is in Cambridge getting in' on your mellow out ground in health policy to "Our family has traveled his Ph.D. at MIT, running there. Nicki, call me if you become active in state and to Houston at least once a Scott T. MacDonald (Lov- the MIT radio station and are still alive. national family practice or- year since my graduation ett) writes: "This is my first selling sunglasses, umbrellas "For those of you whom ganizations. from Rice. First it was re- communication 'through and rubbers (the kind that I haven't mentioned/seen, cruiting for BP, and lately the Sal/sport' to all my go on your feet—I think)on don't be slighted, instead— David has had annual busi- friends, lost and known,and the streets of Boston to pay call me. Hope life's treating ness trips. We hope to be rather than drone on for- those hefty tuition bills. you as well as it is me. Ad- back down in Jan. 1994. ever, I'll try to keep it short Andy Matjasko '87 (Lov- dress 0034B Cartier Court, "We consider ourselves (is this satire, Dr. Piper?). ett), sorry 1 never wrote you Dillon, Colo. 80435; tele- 19[17 blessed in so many ways,one "1 went straight from back! Are you still a stylin' phone (303) 468-5139 (home of which is by living in Rice to UT law school with architect in San Antonio? )/468-4331( work)." Eric Glenn Graff (Will a line— e), Alaska. Several Rice friends some other guileless (then) Scotland? Drop me Rice) married Kathleen Basil Linda Mann-Chien Lou ples have visited over the years, Rice grads, and after a great I owe you one. Saw Anne Roux on Oct. 23, as he (Jones) is a third-year stu- in and we welcome any others three years of dedicated Nicos'84 (Jones) daily 1993. Graff earned an to Mayor, dent at the U. of Washing- he give us a call if you're studying during all my wak- worked with me at M.B.A. from the U. of St. ton. Id planning a trip up—(907) ing hours (just like at Rice, Day as a crack bankruptcy Following graduation Thomas and is currently Summit from Rice, Linda spent a 3, 696-2472." mind you),! landed a job as lawyer. Hi Basil, employed as an analyst at of a year as a VISTA of a litigator with the Houston Co. is in desperate need volunteer. Transco Energy. The bride Transport She then attended Greg Vint(Will Rice) chal- law firm of Mayor, Day, decent Spock. Harvard is employed as an account lenged incumbent Ron Caldwell & Keeton, having here immediately with Lt. School of Public Health and executive for AT&T. ier Franklin of District 7 for the been sucked into the vor- Karen. Jon Vanderpool received her master's degree in health ew position of HISD board tex of big firm recruiting— (Will Rice) is having his policy and manage- Andrea Pinson (Jones) out on ment. She Z3, member in recent elections. Texas style. Yes, it's all 30th! birthday party received the writes: "I was married April 28-30, award for eel Vint is employed by Exxon true: the money; the free Lake Mead this Oct. the top first-year 22, 1993, in Mexico City to he Co. and is currently both a lunches, dinners, concerts with houseboats, ski boats student in the degree pro- William Hanhausen. My sis- beer gram and was the board member and treasurer and booze-laden black-tic and, of course, lots of an admissions ter CC (Cecilia Carolina) wa- committee his for the Briarmeadow Home- events; the kickbacks; parties and food. Will be there representative at (Baker) was maid of honor, Harvard. :rn owners Assn. He is also in- with professional women ter skiing for the last time Upon graduation and Susan Thomas '86 from n- volved in the group Action (not attorneys); massive butt this season and will hope- Harvard, Linda was (Will Rice) was a brides- by for Better Community kissing on both sides of the fully be joined by Scott selected as a Kellogg maid." Schools. recruiting fence; and excel- Schmid (Will Rice), who is MATCH fellow and worked mar- at the Sea lent training on how to write a banker in St. Louis, Mar Community Jeff Skiba (Baker) writes: Health ites short, concise sentences. ried and father of a no- Center in Seattle, "Kelsey Bowles Skiba and I daughter. Wash. She While Mayor, Day (as it is doubt darling continued her were married Aug. 14, career as 19, affectionately known) was a Scott is, believe it or not, a program coordi- 1993, at Trinity Episcopal medical nator tbr the Cr- great place to work if you contemplating Northwest Re- Church in Houston. Rice gional wanted to do what I was school—any guesses on area Primary Care Assn. graduates who attended in- Because of doing there, I didn't. So I of specialty? Last I saw John her strong inter- cluded (see photo below, left was est in medicine, she lef Class Recorders: quit. My plan was to move Reeme'88 (Lovett), he entered to right, front row) Bob er Alice Lippincott Dorman to Denver, take the bar, and in Houston, looking very the U. of Wash. School of Bowles'51, the groom and cc and Cliff Dorman take off for awhile, and mellow, as always, and em- so 3315 Quiet Lake Drive then.... You see, I learned ployed doing something Katy, TX 77450 how to ski my first year of mathematical of which I to (713) 395-2168 (home) law school and have been in have absolutely no compre- p to (713) 527-4649 (work) love with the sport ever hension. Bumped into Jean ska (713) 493-8484 (work) since. So after networking Frizzell '87(Wiess) both in pwn 'til blue in the face, I packed law school and while prac- pm - Class corecorders Alice Lip- my bags to head for Denver. ticing in Houston. In law Per- pincott Dorman (Will Two days before I left I re- school we spent sonic Rice) and Cliff Dorman ceived three quite different memorable down time in g. I (Sid Rich) write: job offers, so I took one. our gracious neighbor coun- ep- Cliffand I recently spoke Three days later, I was in try to the south. In Hous- he r with Rod Johnson (Han- Keystone, Colo., working as ton he's a big-shot lawyer. my szen), who reports that a the new associate counsel Babs Noelle (Jones) is r). couple of years after gradu- (lawyer) for Keystone Re- thriving in Houston making inc ating from Rice he attended sorts Management Inc., the sonic beautiful jewelry and the U. of H. law school with owners and operators of the shacking up in a huge pal- prn Randall Terrell (Will Rice). Arapahoe, Basin, Keystone ace with fellow alum Keith nic They subsequently both ac- and (this year) Breckenridge (oops,forgot his last name). OZS cepted positions working for ski resorts. They seem to make a great (h. the State of Texas in air pol- "I have moved to Dillon, couple and know how to Irt- lution/environmental law. Colo., bought a house two rl at Rod fairly regularly travels to miles from work and back- BP, Houston to visit family and ing on the national forest be- friends, including Debs and am getting psyched to Jeff Skiba, Kelsey Bowles Skiba and friends

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bride, Ruth Woerner Far- currently enrolled in the Rice), Steve Porter'87 (Sid (Ph.D. ), Margaret Jelinek Chiz Aoki (Hanszen) rar '88 (Baker), Laurentia GRI certification program. Rich), Atul Shah '87 '91 (Hanszen), Julia Hay- writes: "After spending a Duff Moore '84 (Will Ehlers is a member of Rice (Baker), Liz Hill Shah '86 del '92 (Jones) and John year in D.C. working for an Rice), Jim Moore '85 (Will U. Business and Professional (Baker), Mike Stewart '86 Haydel '66 (Ph.D.). I am environmental consulting Rice); (second row) David Women. (Baker) and several others. now a postdoctoral visiting firm (and living with Angie Howard (Baker), Brigham research scientist at Lehigh Berry [Hanszen]), I got Bowles '88 (Sid Rich), U. doing anti-corrosion re- into the JP0(junior profes- Kevin Stowell (Baker), search for the Navy." Cohen sional officer) program Deepak Srivastava '86 resides at 135 Summit Trace sponsored by the Japanese (Baker); and (back row) Rd., Langhorne, Penn. government and got as- Wendell DeGrange (Will 19047. signed in Paris! I'm working Rice), Brenda Maese, for the United Nations En- Heather Williams '90 Belinda A. Lopez (Baker) vironment Programme, pro- (Hanszen), Don Ku '86 became the coordinator of moting cleaner production/ (Baker). Not pictured but annual giving fin the Hous- waste reduction primarily in also in attendance were Jeff ton Contemporary Arts developing countries and Kasser (Baker), Mike Museum on Sept. 22, 1993. countries in transition. Pierce '90 (Baker), Ellen She has returned to Hous- "I'll be here till Aug. Rein '91 (Baker), Nancy ton after working as a pub- 1995 so would love to hear Wright Driessen '86 lic relations/development from Rice grads in Paris and (Brown), Rob Buntin '86 assistant at the Austin friends wanting to come and (Sid Rich), Alan Kendall Children's Museum. Prior visit (I've already had two of '88 (Wiess), Charles to that, she worked with the my Rice roommates—Hea- Thompson '50, Caroline U.S. Olympic Festival '91 in ther Williams and Nicole Mike Hogan, Laura Reece and friends Shipp Bowles '80 (Jones), Los Angeles, where she Polley [both Hanszen'— Steve Dyer '43 and Hor- helped coordinate the torch visit me in two months!) tense Manning Dyer '43. run/special projects section My address is 7 sq. de Port "After our reception at Mike Hogan (Baker) and After her one-year federal of the program. Royal, Paris 75013 France; Cohen House, we hit the Laura Reece (Jones) were clerkship with Judge John telephone 43-37-08-63." Greek Islands for two weeks. married June 12, 1993, at Davies, Laura joined the law Pamela Tarr Pennick We have filled a photo al- Good Shepherd Church in firm of Greenberg, Gluskcr, (Wiess) writes: "I just bum with our pictures of Beverly Hills, Calif. Rice Fields, Claman and Mach- wanted to announce that Athens, Naxos and San- friends from across the tinger. Mike recently moved David Pennick (Wiess)and torini. I recommend it to country attended. The wed- from Microsoft to Country- I haven't seen any Rice anybody, even with the ding party included Claire wide Funding Corp. (a people in a year and a half heavy Aug. crowds. Wiggill (Will Rice), Cathy mortgage bank), where he is (except for my sister, Kim "Kelsey recently received Mao '86 (Brown) and the director of systems de- Tarr '92 [Wiess I—and that her M.B.A.from UT in Aus- Sonja Pemberton (Jones) velopment for secondary was at Christmas '92). tin, and she graduated from as bridesmaids. Nick Ho- marketing. Sometimes I suspect that no SMU in 1988. Between her gan ( Baker) was the best Mike and Laura also Wiessmen or women have two degrees,she worked for man. Namid Mangalji bought a house in Los An- set foot east of the Missis- Andersen Consulting in the (Baker), Sean Daichman geles and would love to have sippi River and south of the Dallas office. I am still at (Baker; B.A. and B.S.), Bill visitors. If you're passing Mason-Dixon Line except Andersen Consulting, as Burgess '87 (Baker) and through Southern Calif., for us. (Strangely, a lot of manager now, and am Paul James '86 (Baker) give them a call at (818) people here in Raleigh, spending most of my time were groomsmen. 666-4839. N.C., hare heard of Rice. either in Shreveport, La., or The reception was at 'It's a big school, right? Bap- Seattle, Wash. We live in the Zuma Beach in Malibu, and tist, too, with a big football Westcreek Apartments but there were many Rice people program?' Yeah, right.) hope to be looking for a real making the trek up PCH af- "Actually, except for oc- home in the coming year." ter the ceremony. Attendees casional bouts of Ricesick- Anne Emery !ladders and Before they move, write to included Dr. Stephen Ziffof 1909 ness—brought on, I think, Dan Rudders the Skibas at 2041 West. Accounting, Rick Ary from hearing the terrific Anne Lancaster Emery creek, No. D117, Houston, (Baker), Elise Bauman Homecoming stories ofdis- Class Recorder: Badders (Wiess) writes: Texas 77027; or telephone (Baker), Jack Neal, Scott tant Rice friends—life here David H. Nathan "Dan Badders '89 (Wiess; (713) 622-3405. Bauman '86 (Hanszen), is pretty good. I'm working 2323 McClendon M.S., 1992) and I were mar- Tom Blasey (Baker), Kris- for a literary (New Age [re- Houston, TX 77030 ried July 31, 1993,in a small tina Brennan '86 (Baker), ally! magazine called The (713)668-1712 1) family ceremony held in Stacy Smith Burgess '89 Sun in nearby Chapel Hill; Mass. It was at the same (Will Rice; B.A. and B.S.), David's still with IBM. We Stewart Brann (Hanszen) church my parents were wed Rick Chapman '89(Baker), have two dogs and a spare writes: "In Aug. 1993 I left 30 years earlier. Dan's Mark Colonna (Sid Rich), bedroom for visitors." The 1988 Houston to study sculpture brother Jerry was the best Jim Cox '85 (Baker; B.S., Pennicks may be visited at in the master's of fine arts man, and Carl Gooch '88 1987; M.E.E., 1987), Ken 401 Glascock St., Raleigh, Theresa M. Bujnoch program at Bennington Col- (Hanszen) was the grooms- Fitzgerald '84(Baker), Ken N.C. 27604. (Wiess) and Christopher P. lege in Bennington, Vt." man. We were especially Hewlett '86 (Baker), Jim Cannon (Wiess) have a new Stewart can be reached at pleased that Carl was able to Humes (Baker), Todd address-735th Medical Bennington College, Ben- attend, given how busy his Jones '89 (Jones), Walter Detachment, Unit 29702, nington, Vt. 05201; tele- life has been with preparing Keneally '86 (Baker) and APO AE 09028. Their new phone (802) 447-7011. for his dissertation defense Sonu Thukral Keneally telephone number is 011- and his own wedding, which (Brown), Ian Knight '87 49-621-731585. "Guests Dr. Stephen Cohen (MA.; 19911 was two weeks after ours. (Baker), Mark Morehouse welcome!" Ph.D., 1992) writes: "Mar- Unfortunately, his then '87(Baker), Tammy Burch ried Laura Beth Moss(UT - Class Recorder: bride-to-be, Kelly, was un- Morehouse '89 (Lovett), Andrea Simien Ehlers Austin '89) Sept. 5, 1993, Jennifer Cooper able to attend. Sandhya Nayak (Baker), (Will Rice) recently joined in Houston. Rice alumni at- 1616 Ridgewood "Marcella Munson, my Bill Neville '84 (Baker), Hodell-Byrd Properties after tending the wedding in- Houston, TX 77006 roommate from Los Ange- Tom Perrault '87 (Will nearly six years with the Fed- cluded Yuemei Yang '92 (713) 523-6549(home) les, was the bridesmaid, and eral Reserve Bank. She is (713) 880-4611 (work) Hays Rye '89 (Wiess) was

60 Sallyport the gentleman of honor. pecially the weather. All are fans are still scratching their What is a gentleman of welcome to visit, but you heads! honor? I thought it was have to like cats and pay for "We moved to a new pretty self-evident until my ski lift ticket!" Drake's apartment this summer. Our guests started asking my par- new address is 777 E. Ken- address is 2035 Greenway ents what exactly Hays' role yon Ave., #208, Engle- Cross, Apt. 9, Madison, was. Granted, it did take my wood, Colo. 80110. Wisc. 53713. We would like parents about six months to to hear from y'all!" adjust to the idea, but still, Katharine Lee Fleming how difficult is it to under- (Baker) wed Glenn Edward Marine 1st Lt. Christopher stand? You replace maid Dukes'88 ( Lovett) on Sept. A. Goodhart (Will Rice) with gentkman. The roles 4, 1993, at Capitol Hill recently returned from a six- are essentially the same; United Methodist Church Left to right: Ross Goldberg, Tom Scott, Kathy Werner, month deployment to Hays just didn't have to in Washington, D.C. Flem- Tom Linneman, Kathleen Reed Okinawa, Japan, with 2d wear a dress or carry a bou- ing is a 1993 graduate of the Battalion, 3d Marines, 3d quet. He did hold mine dur- UT School of Law and has Marine Div., Kaneohe Bay, ing the ceremony, which begun a clerkship with U.S. Linneman '90 and Kath- "We were fortunate to Hawaii. During the deploy- prompted the minister to District Judge Sam Hall Jr. leen Reed (both of Hans- have Bill Studenmund ment, training was con- comment right before the in Marshall, Texas. Dukes is zen; sce picture). Kathy mar- (Jones)come for a short visit ducted in small unit exchanging of the rings, a consulting engineer with ried Tom Scott of San during his `midwestern sum- patroling, urban training, `Nice flowers, Hays.' Synopsys Inc. in Mountain Francisco, whom she met mer tour,' and he gave us the helicopter-borne raids and "KaLyn Davis '91 View, Calif. The couple hon- while driving a ball down the update on Rice alumni on extensive live fire exercises. (Wicss) and her husband eymooned in Tahiti and soccer field during her the West Coast. Goodhart also partici- Evan Wetstone'88 (Wicss) Bora flora, and they reside 1991-92 architecture pre- "On March 17, Jim and pated in Team Spirit 93, a were also in attendance. As in Longview, Texas. ccptorship in San Francisco. lied the Rice cheering sec- joint combined exercise with they were showing their The wedding took place on tion when Rice played the the Republic of Korea. Dur- wedding pictures, the bou- /Vence Black Thompson a yacht cruising San Fran- U. of Wisc. in the NIT here ing the exercise he worked quet was tossed, and Hays (Baker) writes: "James Tris- cisco Bay. The best part of in Wisc. The only other Rice closely with the Korean Ma- unwittingly caught it. Two tan Thompson '89(Wicss) the celebration, though, was supporters were Darren rines, conducting force-on- days later, Kal.yn and Evan served the last five years as a when Tom, Kathleen and I Dowell(Jones) and his par- force operations with vari- were off to another Wicss nuclear power officer in the were invited to stay at the ents and the family of one ous units in the Fleet Marine wedding (the Patrick Navy. During this time we happy couple's apartment of the players.who flew up Force. Dyson'88 [Wiess]/Debbie lived in Fla., N.Y., Southern on their wedding night.... from Kansas City. It was Schmidt '89 [Wiessj nup- Calif., Wash. State and the pretty intimidating to be Shannon Halgren (M.A.; tials). San Francisco Bay Area. We Navy ensign Brady J. surrounded by 15,000 tipsy Ph.D., 1993) has been "Dan and I spent our are ecstatic to be civilians Bartosh (Hanszen) was re- UW fans on St. Patrick's named human interface psy- honeymoon in Quebec City. again, and we plan to settle cently designated a naval Day. Rice won 73-70. UVV chologist for software maker Without caesar or research down in Albuquerque or aviator. Bartosh was pre- to worry about, Dan relaxed Austin. Tristan hopes to use sented with the coveted for the first time ever. his EE degree at last, and I "Wings of Gold" that "We are now in Houston hope to return to school. marked the culmination of for a year or two as Dan fin- "We were most recently months of flight training ishes up his Ph.D. in me- joined in our adventures by with Training Squadron 23, chanical engineering at Rice. Paige Elizabeth. She will Naval Air Station, Kingsville, I just received my M.A. in celebrate her first birthday Texas. Training curriculum French literature at UCLA on Feb. 28, 1994. Tristan included basic studies in en- in June, and lam now teach- spent most of'93 out to sea gineering and navigation, ing second grade at a private on the USS Carl Vinson (an training flights in simulators, school in Houston. We'll be aircraft carrier), so he is en- aircraft familiarizations, ba- moving back to LA so I can joying some well-earned sic and advanced instrument work on my Ph.D. as soon time with Chelsea (now two training, extended naviga- as Dan completes his work and one-halt) and Paige. tion flights, landings and here. Our new address is "We are eager to hear takeoffs aboard an aircraft 5740 Gulfton, #1365, from our old friends. Please carrier. Bartosh joined the Houston, Texas 77081; write us at 6628 Lalving Navy in May 1991. telephone (713)668-2974. NE, Albuquerque, N.M. For you net junkies, we can 87109." Heather Fenstermaker be reached at emery@caesar. (Jones) writes: "I am in the rice.edu or baddersOcacsar. last year of my public admin- rice.edu." istration program. This summer I worked for the Madi- Rosalyn ('Rosie") Peres Adam Carr (Hanszen), son Area Employers Health passed the Ohio bar exam Care Coalition, sort of the (:01-11T11011 and has been named general predecessor to the HIPC The woman identified as Rosalva counsel of the Cleveland Class Recorder: idea being floated around in Perez in the photograph on Orthopedic and Spine Cen- the health care reform de- page 61 Ross Goldberg of the December/January ter Inc. Carr's address is 734 Edmondson Ave., bate. I'm hoping to be in- 1993-94 is- 1460 E. 9th St., #604, Apt. I B volved in the health policy sue of Sallyport is, in fact, Sarah Cleveland, Ohio 44114- Baltimore, MD 21228 arena when I graduate, pref- Steinbaum. Ms. Steinbaum, who was 1708. erably at the state level. In (410) 747-7918 (home) a close friend of Rosie's, currently (410) 712-7428 (work) my spare time I also man- Laura Drake (Brown) aged to do two triathlons. lives in Miami,Florida. A photograph writes: "I finally did it—got Class recorder Ross Gold- "Jim has also been ex- of Ms. Perez, who passed away last myself out of Houston and tremely busy. He just took berg (Hanszen) writes: August, appears above. We apologize back in school. I'm working I had the pleasure of at- his qualifier in materials on a master's in social work tending Kathy Werner's science and will be finishing for this error. at the U. of Denver. I love (Hanszen)wedding on Aug. his master's degree in rlivs the city, the school and es- 8, 1993, along with Tom ics this year.

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Pirnie Inc., an environmental engineering firm." Con- tact Grace in care of Brenda Walker, 2506 N. Rim Dr., 1193 From New Arrivals: Houston, Texas 77067. Navy ensign Anthony A. Mark Permann (Hanszen) Barger (Lovett) recently a writes: "Just a note to let completed the Basic Navy Sophia Elizabeth Dove came out wailing on June friends and acquaintances Supply Corps Officers know that after a year of sister, course. During the course at 11, 1993. Her favorite person is her big searching(two, if you count Navy Supply Corps School Rebecca, who is five, but Mom is acceptable my efforts on campus), I fi- in Athens, Ga., student of nally landed a job last June ficers receive instruction in when she's hungry. (and have been so busy that supply, food service retail I'm just now getting around and disbursing management Mary Beth Lapis '79 to writing Sallyport) as a fi- as well as military leadership nancial analyst with Chase training. Manhattan Bank's energy finance office in Houston. I Erica 011mann (Sid Rich) Ch spent three months this writes: "Greetings from summer in training in New sunny California! I have san York, which was more diffi- embarked upon a Ph.D. the- am Rice, since classes cult than sis at Stanford—studying ou were 9 to 5 on top ofstudy- ond year of law school at biophysical and structural Pei Claris Corp. In other words, board of trustees of Loyola ing every night. My apart- On July 31, 1993, he aspects of the major histo- 26 she tries to understand the College in Md. Wildes is UT. ment in Battery Park City married Amy Coco, a 1993 compatibility complex. we, frustrations computer users currently a member of the was 10 minutes walking dis- of H. graduate. They re- However, it seems so diffi- 20 have in working with com- philosophy dept. and the U. tance from Wall Street, and 4505 Duval, No. cult to stay in the lab when boi puters, since companies are Kennedy Institute for Eth- side at I could see the Statue of Lib- 156, Austin, Texas 78751; this gorgeous state and this `na increasingly admitting to ics at Georgetown U. erty from the banks of the gorgeous weather keep tot telephone (512) 371-7191. Chase themselves that their prod- Hudson—thankfully beckoning me outside to go to ucts are not user-friendly. As picked up the rent! While Desai (Baker) scuba diving, sea kayaking Gii psychologists are trained in Shevon A. there I took some account- was a VISTA vol- and, of course—to play far mc understanding how humans writes: "I ing classes from Trudy Kansas City, Mo., too much rugby. This tlir think and operate, they are unteer in Heimbigner '83 (Jones), for a year; in July 1993 I time—I'm playing for Ill the logical choice to help who, I believe, has been picked up and moved to the Bay Area Shehawks Cal simplify things. As a result, with the bank since they re- Washington, D.C.—where (BASH)—the current na- Halgren said she spends a cruited her out of Rice. I'm Adam Goodman has re- I'm now working." Dcsai's tional champ women's team. Ral good deal of her time in a glad to be back in Houston, signed as class recorder for address is 7520 Maple Ave., My teammates make me (IA dark room,on the other side though I miss being able to the Class of 1992 due to job #605, Takoma Park, Md. look like Tinkerbelle—I'm chi of a two-way mirror, watch- hop a subway anywhere. My commitments. If anyone is 20912. getting the beat out of wa ing the reactions of test sub- interested in taking over as new address and number me! Eli jects as they try to operate are 1617 Fountain View, class recorder, please contact Grace Harriet Foster "There's a veritable Dir new products. Cathy Monholland '89 No. 120, Houston, Texas plethora of Rice alums at anc (Hanszen) writes: "On Aug. 77057; telephone (713) (M.A.) at the address given married Dr. Stanford. Fellow first years are Amber Johnson (Brown) 14, 1993, I 789-2155." on the information submit- Reid. The wed- include my classmate, Dori sas writes: "This semester I'm Clifton W. tal form at the end of Class- ding took place in Mande- Allen (Hanszen), and Icat taking my last class, writing Tracy Schneider (Lovett) notes. Thanks. Jamaica. More than neighbors Dave Hancock I al comprehensive papers and a ville, writes: "Kelly Van Epps 700 guests attended the (Baker; B.A. and B.S.) and dot research proposal I hope to (Sid Rich) and I were mar- The Woodlands(Texas) Vil- wedding and the beautiful Clark Bray (Baker) as well Spi defend in Dec. Once I'm ried on Aug. 21, 1993. In lager on Oct. 16, 1993, pro- poolside reception. We had as Caren Chaika (Sid Rich), leg, done, I can concentrate on attendance were John Blake filed Robert Beck."Robert a good representation of master chef Mark Arbore Th my Ph.D. dissertation re- '89 (Sid Rich), Matt Tho- Beck (M.Mus.) was the first Rice/Houston people, in- (Wiess), Mike Sohaskey 76: search." Johnson is studying mas (Sid Rich), Jason double bassist in the history Carruthers (Lovett) and Tameeza Ni- Kat anthropology at Southern cluding Vicki Hardin (Sid Rich) and of Rice to be accepted into (Wiess), who almost zarali Asaria '92 (Brown; Methodist University in '88 Nguyet Vo( Lmett)." Tracy the Doctor of Musical Arts Edward and Paula B.A. and B.S.). Th, Dallas. She can be reached made it. and Kelly live at 1609 Ball program. Since graduating Cox (history dept. and Af- "Dori and! can be found (W at 3112 Fondren, #15, Dal- St., Galveston, Texas 77550. from Rice, he has performed firmative Action/EEC) of- at the Dept. of Biological Hi, las, Texas 75205. with the Galveston Sym- Sciences, Stanford, Calif. not fice, respectively) were un- Navy ensign Charles R. phony Orchestra, the Cor- able to attend but sent their 94305; or e-mailed at dallen dat Jim Low (Will Rice) writes: Sims (Wiess) recently com- pus Christi Orchestra, the regards. It is to be noted (that's Dori) or txchick Rci "Greetings from Mile High pleted the Officer Indoctri- South Texas Chamber Or- that Lawrencina Mason (that's me) @ leland.stan- Th, City. So far I really like it nation School. During the chestra, the Valley Sym- (Jones) was a brides- ford.edu." Lot here; however, we did re- '93 course at the Naval Educa- phony Orchestra, the Madi- maid. She married my Yea ceive five and a half inches tion and Training Center in son Symphony Orchestra, brother two weeks before in Wendy Paul Tavenner of snow last week (mid - Newport, R.I., students are and the Dubuque Sym- Kansas City, Mo. I was also (Jones) writes: "I married Ma Sept.). The next day was prepared for duty in the na- phony Orchestra. In addi- a bridesmaid in their wed- Carson Tavenner on Nov. (Jo 75*E! This weekend hail action, he has studied with val staff field corresponding 13, 1993. He is an intelli- Eli: cumulated about two ding. to their civilian profession. Paul Ellison, former princi- "Clifton is a physician gence officer in the U.S. Air wai inches. Other than the crazy The first five weeks of stud- pal bassist for the Houston with a very successful private Force and is stationed in He: weather, I'm enjoying Colo. ies include naval history and Symphony; David Malone, practice. At Rice, I earned Panama. We will live in hot, sist, There are some nice people traditions, personnel admin- assistant principal bassist of bachelor's in civil engi- humid Central America for but at work, but I'd like to meet my istration, military law, close- the Houston Symphony; neering. I am now complet- three years. It is possible to she some more." and Stephen Lester, bassist order drill and other general miss Houston weather!" and ing requirements for my military subjects. During the for the Chicago Symphony." master's in environmental Wendy can be reached at ber The Rev. Kevin Wildes, S.J. final week, studies concen- engineering at MIT while PSC 1 Box 5275, APO, AA 52 (M.A.; Ph.D., 1993), was trate on the application of Buddy Broussard (Wiess) working as an engineer in 34001 34,61 recently appointed to the writes that he is in his sec- civilian professions within Houston with Malcolm the Navy.

62 Sallyport Alison Mills Satterfield Wendy, Greg and Shelby live '80 (Jones) and Joseph at 6435 Park Lane, Dallas, Satterfield '80(Lovett) an- Texas 75225. WiArrivills nounce the birth of their first child, Rebecca Louise, John W. Swank '85 (Sid • 19, 1993. Rich; M.Ch.E., 1986; A. on Sept. The Satterfields are M.B.A., 1988) and Linda atly at 3956 '89 ,lavy Bristol, Beaumont, Texas Calderon Swank (M.B.A.) announce the :ers 77707; telephone (409) 833-4400. birth of their first child, Lisa scat Joyce, on Oct. 10, 1993. hool Jeff Russell '81 (Hanszen) She weighed 8 lbs. 7 oz. Lisa writes:"My wife, is looking forward to the n in Ruth, our The :tail daughter, Dina and I have Class of 2016 (?!). welcomed Caleb Stephen to Swanks live in Kingwood, liiIlemoriilm nent the Russell family! 77345, 4522 •ship He was Texas at born Sept. 20, 1993." The Fawnbrook Hollow Lane. Rice Alumni Russells live in Houston 77083 at 16443 Rosky Santoni '86 Roy Pardo Lich) Charles Emil Peterson Camino del Laura Etchison '22 on Nov. 23, 1993 sol Drive. (Baker) and her husband, Alex Frosch rom• '67(Baker) and his wife Su- '24 on Nov. 15, 1993 the Marjorie Evelyn (save san write:"We would like to Giampaolo, annouce Ilfrey Shepherd '26 on Oct. 17, 1993 Scott B. Solis '81 their child, Virginia F. the- announce a new addition to (Hans- birth of first Goodman Burch '28 on Nov. 1, 1993 Len)- Thomas )ingl our family. Sara Esther writes: "Married Mag- Jacqueline Marie Santoni, Dillon Cronin '28 (M.D.) on Oct. 22, 1993 gie O'Rourke Annie Taggart '28 rural Peterson was born on May on June 22, on Sept. 24, 1993, at 4:40 L. on Nov. 24, 1993 1991; we Wilma Thiel isto- 26, 1993, at 8:18 p.m. She on Nov. 19, 1993, p.m. She weighed 9 lbs. 4 Margaret Turrentine '28 on Oct. 12, 1993 gave birth to Reilly Samuel us and was Mary Margaret Brown Halla ilex. weighed 8 lbs. 1 oz and was 21 inches long. '29 on Oct. 10, 1993 Brown Jiffi- 20-1/4 inches long. She was Solis." The Solises reside at The Santonis live at 2101 Florence M. Plummer '29 on Sept. 14, 1993 Marjorie Evelyn Nicks vhen born in Houston (another 11347 Dronficld Terrace, Mercer Court in Claremont, Carothers '30 in Oct. 1993 Pacoima, Calif. Morris Lyon '31 on I this 'native Texan') and moved 91331. Calif. 91711. Mary Oct. 23, 1993 Hickey '32 on Oct. (cep to the San Francisco Bay area Ernest P. 9, 1993 Webber Tryon Robinson '34 0go to be raised as a 'California Bobby R. Williams Jr. '81 Michael Ochoa '87 (Sid (M.D.) on Nov. 22, 1993 Frederick Huston Ayes '36 king Girl' when she was three (Wiess; MAT, 1982) writes: Rich) writes: "Steven James (M.D.) on Oct. 24, 1993 "Alexandra Dunaway '36 on y far months old. We arc all set- Karolyn Will- Ochoa was born Sept. 28, James Karl Nov. 17, 1993 iams, Degnan This tling into our new home at our daughter, was 1993, in New Brunswick, James Haines '37 on Nov. 26, 1993 Clifford for 11570 Betlen Drive, Dublin, born June 25, 1993. She is N.J., to Michael and Joseph Much '37(M.D.) on Oct. 27, 1993 wks Calif. 94568-2714." our second child; we have a Deborah Ochoa. The fam- Maurice M. Tinterow '37(M.D., Ph.D.) on Feb. 15, 1993 four-year-old named Chapman '39 na- Audrey ily will move back to Hous- Mildred Perkins on Oct. 21, 1993 Kathryn. My wife Palmer '44 on May :am. Rabbi Danny Horwitz '73 is named ton in Nov. 1993. Looking Helen Alida 29, 1993 Janet." The Williams on me (Lovett) writes:"Our fourth clan forward to seeing everyone James Frank Bobo '46 Sept. 14, 1993 can be found in -I'm child, Eliana Leora Horwitz, Huntsville, back in town!" Henry L. McCorlde '48 (M.D.) on Nov. 14, 1993 Texas 77340, at 387 it of was born Nov. 2, 1993. Elkins Ernest Roy Woodmansee Jr. '50 on Oct. 12, 1993 Lake. Eliana joins her two sisters, Evelyn Rosal McFaden '88 James Eugene Hart '56 on Nov. 6, 1993 able Dina, 10, and Sarit, eight, (M.B.A.) writes: "My hus- Gerald Kirk '59 (Ph.D.) on June 30, 1993 Harini Hosain '82 (Jones) s at and brother, Sham five. We band, Frank III, and I arc James 0. Denney '68 on Nov. 7, 1993 writes: "I took a position at 'ears are now eight years in Kan- proud to announce Baby Hin-Wai Wong '73 (Ph.D.) on Oct. 22, 1992 the Genessee Health Service No. 3 )ori sas City and will be here at -Luke Alexander. His in Rochester and will be and least through summer 1996. brother Frank IV and sisters, Friends/Faculty/Staff joining three other allergists. Liana :ock I am currently enrolled in a and Elissa, are Stephen Parker Blake '82 thrilled." The and doctoral program in 'Jewish McFadcns re- Lawrence Cade on Nov. 25, 1993 (Sid Rich) will complete his side at 6206 well Spirituality' at Spertus Col- Conlan Bay Elizabeth Steakley Calderon on Nov. 8, 1993 of law school at the Dr., Houston, ich), lege of Judaica in Chicago." last year Texas 77041- Louis A. Fisher on Nov. 5, 1993 U. of Buffalo. We also had 5930. bore The Horwitz family is at Louis Clair Griffin on Nov. 21, 1993 our second baby-a girl- skey 7651 Ash, Prairie Village, Blake, on Ni- Kan. 66208. Maya June 10, Jwn; 1992. She joined her older brother, Theodore B. Reinhart '78 Malcolm Blake." lives rund (Wiess) and his wife, Mary The family at 2030 zical Hitchcock-Reinhart, an- Highland Ave., Rochester, N.Y. 14610. Lei us hear from you :alif. nounce the birth of their alien daughter, Natalie Anne Russell F. Coleman '82 hick Reinhart,on Sept. 20,1993. Enjoy keeping up with friends and classmates in the Classnotes section? Why not drop us a line? Send (Lovett) and Martha Cole- ,tan- The Reinharts live in St. your news and a photo (preferably black-and-white) to Cathy Monholland, man announce the birth of Classnotes Editor, Office of Louis, Mo. 63119, at 530 News & Publications, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251-1892 or fax Cathy at(713) 285-5239. The Yeatman Ave. their daughter Margaret Crandall Coleman, deadline for Classnotes submissions is April 1, 1994, for the June/July 1994 issue and June 1, 1994, mer on Oct. 2, for the August/September 1994 issue. Classnotes received after those dates will appear Tied Mary Beth Lapis '79 1993. She joins brother in the following Sallyport reserves the right to edit Nov. (Jones) writes: "Sophia Michael, now three. The issue. Classnotes for length and style. Colemans Elizabeth Dove came out reside at 3540 Wcntwood, Dallas, . Air wailing on June 11, 1993. Texas 75225; 0 Married? 0 New Job? 0 New Baby? d in Her favorite person is her big telephone (214) 740-8686. hot, sister, Rebecca, who is five, 0 Promoted? 0Take a Trip? 0See a Classmate? a for but Mom is acceptable when 0 Moved? 0 Back in School? Gregory Kuhn '83(Wiess) 0 Other? le to she's hungry." Mary Beth writes: "We have er!" and family arc at 2700 Tim- a new ar- rival-Shelby Denise-born d at ber Ridge Rd., Swisher,Iowa Send us details. Oct. 29, 1993, at 7 , AA 52330; or email: mbl lbs. 13 apiawking.csm.an icksvell.con oz. Our first child-and we are quickly learning a lot."

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he Tanlac, a four-page z 111 Did a chemistry test influ- scribed in the original charter, pre- igii "blisteringT sheet printed ence U.S. involvement in vented the university from qualify- on yellow paper," myste- 10 World War II? Quite pos- ing for the federal and institutional riously surfaced on campus in sibly. On March 1, 1944, 80 jun- grants it needed to attract top-notch February 1924 and anonymously ior and senior NROTC cadets at professors and to fund modern re- poked fun at Rice's administra- Rice received commissions to be- search facilities. Tom Martin Davis, tion. Dr."Goo -Goo" Masterson, come ensigns in the U.S. Navy Re- attorney for the trustees, argued "Pig" Sewall and Dr. Edgar Odell serve. The university was proud to that Rice's dated charter "hinder- "Lovey" were just a few of those let them go and even promised [ed] the opportunity for Rice to be- targeted. There was also Dr. F. M. them two weeks of leave before come a great university." Further, Lummis, Rice's "horse doctor," they began their training. The only Davis claimed that William Marsh whose anticipated transfer from catch? The students first had to Rice's initial wishes had already Rice was "greeted with much plea- pass finals. been transgressed. Mr. Rice had in- sure by the Rice athletes tended the institution he who ha[d] been risking endowed to educate white themselves to his treatment residents of Houston and for several years." Tanlac's Texas. In actuality, the editors claimed to be female school had admitted out- students left off the annual of-state students since its Powder Puff Thresher staff first year of operation. earlier in the school year. Later, four men admitted to Rice trustees fi- publishing the rag and pub- nally approved the licly apologized to students, 19 74 establishment of faculty and administration. a pub in the basement of the Rice Memorial Cen- 03A Whatdid eeager ter. Blueprints for the pub 1studentsfirst-year specified carpeted walls wish for in the and low lighting to pro- spring of 1934? When vide the "basis for perma- freshmen seized control nent and continuous low- of the Thresher offices to key social interaction." produce the annual Fresher What the trustees failed edition of the paper, many Freshmen gather to capture sophomore president, but sack- to realize is that "low-key donning sophs all loak cried for a "clearance sale of social interaction" and all professors" (to take place beer priced at 35C a glass before finals, no doubt). Other and $1.50 a pitcher are mutually students thought Rice could use 1954 Hell Week antics got exclusive. "more good-looking women with frightfully out of hand, money and cars" and extremely when freshmen spiritedly The Rice Food Commit- broad minds, a bigger Sallyport, "seeking the whereabouts of their tee came up with a bril- softer classroom chairs "so better furtive quarry, the president of the 1904 liant plan to improve the sleep could be obtained," and a sophomore class," began hunting quality of food in the residential col- subway line between campus down any unsuspecting sopho- leges. Overwhelmed by complaints buildings so students could avoid more class member. Hog tying, of rubbery macaroni and neon or- the three-foot-deep puddles. One door splintering and window ange carrots, committee members anonymous young man, obviously breaking were part of the week's decided to let the dissatisfied stu- frustrated with the physiological good clean fun. Damages totaled dents come up with their own reci- effects of Rice academic life, de- $175, and a freshman-sophomore pes. Students could enter recipes manded that a new course, called committee was set up to establish in four categories: dinner entree, "Method of Growing Hair" or and enforce Hell Week rules. lunch entree, veggie entree and des- "Retaining the Hair Already sert. Winners would receive "special Present on the Head," be estab- Thesui.tcefinTarlulystweeesn't Char - T-shirts" (with a witty CK logo, lished immediately. 1ULl ter to perhaps?) and see their recipes ap- trial on February 10, pear on college menus throughout 1964, one year after it had been the semester. No one could say filed. According to the Thresher, whether the most popular recipes Rice's racial segregation practices would become permanent CK fare. and lack of tuition fees, as pre- —K.Shani Roufa

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re- Through February 19—Enlighten- lectures will take place at 7 p.m. in 6:15 p.m.,followed at 6:45 p.m. with ing the Classics: 18th—Century Brown Auditorium of the Museum dinner and the address, entitled Etchings of Ancient Roman Archi- of Fine Arts, 1001 Bissonnet, in "NAFTA in 1994." All events will ) be tecture. This exhibit is sponsored Houston. For costs, reservations or take place in the Grand Hall of the by the American Federation of Art additional information, call (713) Rice Memorial Center. Cost of this sh and was organized by Donald Perry, 524-6297. event is $30. For ticket information, director of the Norman R. Eppink reservations or information,call ( 713) I in- Gallery in Emporia, Kansas. The ex- Through March 10—Faces of 527-8101, ext. 2295. he hibit includes 39 examples of vedute Russia: Moscow and St. Peters- hite created by Barbault, Bellicard, Dui- burg, 1992. This exhibit of photo- March 23—Shepherd School Sym- Llid los, LeGeay and Piranesi. graphs by Paula Stephenson is lo- phony Orchestra performs works by Running concurrently with this cated in the School of Continuing Milburn, Jolivet, Wagner and Strauss ut- exhibit is Rachel Ranta's Recent Studies on University Blvd. at beginning at 8 p.m. in Stude Concert its Small Paintings f the Series Stockton, Entrance 8. Hours are Hall. Admission is free. For more in- Entitled "Arches," curated by Stella Monday through Friday,9 a.m. to 5 formation, call (713) 527-4933. Dobbins. Ranta's work redefines the p.m. The school is closed on univer- meaning of classicism by using one- sity holidays. The exhibit is spon- March 31-April 1—Spring Recess. the point perspective. She uses common sored by the School of Continuing of objects as icons to create a sense of Studies. It is free and open to the April 9—Friends of Fondren, Fon- of ', monumentality and invites the public. For more information, call dren Saturday Night XIV.The Friends ' •• viewer to reinterpret the sublime (713) 527-4803. of Fondren are sponsoring this black- d romantic found in the classical tie dinner and auction to stimulate ndscape. Both exhibits are in March 10-April 14—Four Master growth in library resources and facili- )- ewall Art Gallery. Gallery hours are Photographers: Bravo, Doisneau, ties into the 21st century. The theme 11,1- .' through Saturday, 10 a.m. Erwin and Kerti.sz. This Sewall ofthe gala is "Flying for Fondren." It )w - to 5 p.m., and Thursday, 10 a.m. to Hall exhibit, curated by Sewall Art is held in honor of Benjamin M. and _Tuesday9 p.m. Admission is free. The gallery Gallery director Stella Dobbins, fea- Mary Greenwood Anderson. Bucky is closed on university holidays. For tures selections from the Rice Uni- Allshouse will act as auctioneer. The (e)' more information, call (713) 527- versity art collection and includes evening will begin at 7 p.m. with a 6069 or (713) 527-8101, ext. Andre Kertesz's pre-World War I cocktail reception followed by dinner iss 3470. photographs of Hungary and Elliot and the auction at 8 p.m. For more Er-witt's images of American life in infbrmation, call (713) 285-5157. February 23-March 30—The Vir- the 1950s and 1960s. On March 19 tual City. This spring lecture series, a reception will be held in the Sewall t- , 1sponsored by the Rice Design Alli- Art Gallery from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., ance, presents experts speaking and a lecture will take place at 7:30 The calendar covers major events on the about the evolving nature of cities in p.m. in 301 Sewall Hall. Gallery Rice campus. Please verify dates and times col- this age of advanced technologies. hours ale Tuesday through Satur- with the sponsoring organization. For infbrmation on other lectures, concerts, recit- its Deyan Sudjic, editor of Blueprint day, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Thurs- als,films, etc., please contact the following: and author of The 100-Mile City will day, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Admission is 23; Howard free. The gallery is closed on univer- rs speak on February Alumni Relations (713) 527-4057; sity holidays. For more information, Rheingold, author of The Virtual Athletic tickets (713) 522-OWLS; (713) 527-6069 or (713) 527- 'Community and editor of the Whole call Continuing Studies (713) 527-4803; arth Review, will speak on March 8101, ext. 3470. Friends of Fondren library ; Bruce Sterling, science fiction (713) 285-5157; Policy Ics- titer and author of The Hacker March 22—Rice Institute for Media Center movie information Dinner. The ci.il . Crackdown, will speak on March 9; Analysis Animal Policy (713) 527-4853; Bruce Tomb and John Randolph, featured speaker at RIPA's annual Rice Design Alliance )- principals of the Interim Office of policy dinner will be economist (713) 527-4876; 1 Mendoza. Dr. ut Architecture, will speak on March Herminio Blanco Rice Players (713) 527-4027; 23; and Sanford Kwinter, philoso- Mendoza is undersecretary ofinterna- Rice Student Volunteer Program pher, cofounder and editor of Zone, tional trade negotiations for the gov- (713) 527-4970; re. editor of Zone Books and visiting ernment ofMexico and was chiefgov- Sewall Art Gallery (713) 527-6069 professor in the School of Architec- ernment negotiator for NAFTA. The Shepherd School of Music concert )ufa ture, will speak on March 30. All evening will open with a reception at information (713) 527-4933 Rice University Nonprofit Organization Sallyport U.S. Postage Office of News & Publications PAID P.O. 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