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Three-Generation Families Richard Smalley Alborn Calls It Quits Li 53 INSIDE: The Pelli Plan Three-Generation Families Richard Smalley Alborn Calls It Quits INN& ASSOCIATION OF RICE ALUMNI VOLUME 40, NUMBER 2 NOVEMBER 1983-JANUARY 1984 NOV. 1983-JAN. 1984, VOL.40, NO.2 The Rice Stuff 4 is a relatively young university, strong alumni loyalty is evident from EDITOR Although Rice Hines '78 families—those in which alumni are found in at Virginia our many three-generation Rice MANAGING EDITOR our Homecoming issue SALLYPORT takes a look at that special least three generations. In Chester Rosson '65 liig breed of alumni who seem to have "the Rice Stuff." SCIENCE EDITOR B.C. Robison tatii 6 DESIGN rear' Homecoming 1983! Carol Edwards Jurni A full report on the parties, awards, reunions, lectures, luncheons, football game, PHOTOGRAPHER ions Pam Morris dances, cookouts, ceremonies, and other good times at the biggest, best, and best at- tear. STUDENT ASSISTANTS tended homecoming ever. Verdict: a good time was had by all. Grace Brown '84, Susan Ripper '84 her thE THE OFFICERS OF :omi BY B.C. ROBISON 8 ASSOCIATION OF RICE ALUMNI Probing the Frontier President, Joseph F. Reilly, Jr. '48 In seven years at Rice chemist Rick Smalley has moved from a post-doctoral research President-Elect, Harvin C. Moore, Jr. '59 Dcho position to the newly established Gene and Norman Hackerman chair in chemistry. 1st Vice-President, Carl Morris '76 ear: SALLYPORT chronicles the rise from an inauspicious beginning to his academic 2nd Vice-President, Carolyn Devine '52 Rice': recognition for his work in laser spectroscopy. Treasurer, Jack Williams '34 • 581 o career to international Past President, Catherine C. Hannah A,679 Executive Director, Kathryn A. Duffie '51 t:orne A Vision Restored 10 ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE i790 Yale Dean of Architecture Cesar Pelli's long-range plan for future development of the ON PUBLICATIONS )f 801 been unveiled to reveal a new vision of grandeur rivalling Chairman, Patti Shelton Simon '65 Rice campus has finally Co-Chairman, Charles Szalkowski '70 Cram and Goodhue's original master plan for the university. Against the background W.W. Akers !ailec of a brief history of the architectural development of the campus, Rice architects Jef- W.V. Ballew, Jr. '40 195 St frey Ryan '67 and S.I. Morris '35 analyze specifics of Pelli's proposal. John B. Boles '65 aid n Brent Breedin dents Franz Brotzen ivere Christopher Ekren '84 iStanf Ira Gruber k&M Harry Holmes '66 itnd 1 Jr. '59 Harvin C. Moore, lectE Sara Meredith Petersin '47 1 / 14 E. Rorschach 1414 Harold Ewa Thompson kid v oarlg th GOVERNOP our losses and leave that conference be- 4-Degree Alums Respond RICE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI :ent Avoided Homecoming David Farnsworth '42 .9 hind. - perce Homecoming is scheduled for next week In reading the September issue of SALLY Neal Lacey '56 SHANNON JACOBS'78 to the edi- pent as I write this. It is my five-year reunion PORT, I read the enclosed letter William McCardell '48 r Austin il3onc and I was looking forward to attending. tor ['Curious about 3-Degree Alums"] Louis Spaw, Jr. '40 with interest. Yes, indeed, there is at ram] Unfortunately, I have too many bad memo- 412-950) is published in Tells Crest, Colors Origins least one alumnus with four degrees— SALLYPORT(USPS id id( ries of futile Rice football games to want to September, November, February, April, Book Kenneth A. Blenkarn BA orrn( participate in a Homecoming traditionally While browsing recently through the my husband, and June by the Association of Rice centered around a football event which of the Opening of the Rice Institute, I '51, BS '52, MS '54, PhD '60. Alumni, and is sent free to all university IR erce has become downright humiliating. It is in- learned some facts regarding the early MARILYN M. BLENKARN alumni, parents of students, and friends e gr tuitively obvious to the most casual ob- days of Rice that might be of interest to Tulsa Second class postage paid at Houston, hurt your readers. Texas. sch server that this is not good: it must In response to David Stephen Coca's letter The first concerns the shield of the uni- id al alumni donations if some of us don't want the September/October SAL- William Marsh Rice University offers Pierre de published in ere to be reminded of our perpetual embar- versity that was designed by Mr. equal opportunity to all applicants with LYPORT, I suspect that there are quite a ridir rassment at being "morally obligated" to Chaignon la Rose of Cambridge, Massa- regard to race, color, sex, age, national few alumni with four degrees. In 1964, renc support a bunch of losers, and I also be- chusetts, who "ingeniously combined the ethnic origin, or physical handicap. when I received my MS in EE, the espo lieve that that kind of continual frustration main elements of the arms of several fami- course requirements for the PhD were Editorial offices for SALLYPORT arelocat beneficial for any lies bearing the names of Rice and Hous- epre can't be psychologically reduced so that several of us found that in the Allen Center for Business Activiti ton." The task was simplified by the fact lucie would-be Rice fan. all(!) we needed to complete the require- Rice University, 6100 South Main Street, Since I graduated I have been living that the shields of some ten Rice families ments for the PhD was another lan- Houston, Texas. ncl T in Austin and frequently have been a stu- were always divided by a chevron and al- guage exam and a dissertation. changes to dent at the University of Texas here. So I ways included three crows or ravens. The POSTMASTER: Send address Although I hesitate to suggest any SALLYPOR'1; Office of Information Services, have had an excellent opportunity to get a shields of a half dozen Houstons were also names, I believe there were others in Rice University, PO. Box 1892, Houston, , football program found to be divided by a chevron and good look at a winning addition to myself who decided to go Texas 77251. to support—all that again carried three birds, this time that no one is ashamed ahead and do it. it was decided to Association of Rid, drivel about the American love of the un- martlets. Accordingly PAT GROVES Copyright 1983 by the have employ a "double chevron and since nei- Alumni, Rice University. derdog notwithstanding. It would '62, BSEE '62, MSEE '64, PhD '67 raven, nor the BA been easy for me to drop my loyalty to Rice ther the crow, nor the Los Altos Hills, California and support the local boys, or even give martlet had any historical academic stand- up on college football altogether and join ing, owls of Athena were chosen." Letters Enhance SALLYPORT Remember when... Cowboys fans. Even though Rice did The choice of the Rice colors is also of the Since my letter to you in the June 1983 is- manage to indoctrinate me to have a cer- some interest. A consideration in their se- sue of SALLYPORT, which you dubbed tain interest in football, football was never lection was that they "should not trespass "Wants Second SALLYPORT," I have con- quite important enough to cause me to upon the five or six hundred combinations sidered your editorial remarks and find abandon my alma mater. But maybe loy- already chosen by other institutions." Fur- that I concur with you. It's obviously true alty is just a weird thing. thermore they "should jump with local cli- that company releases and newspaper Though I am a recent graduate, I have matic conditions—that is to say, plenty of clippings upon which you rely for some repaid those loans which I had as a stu- color and yet cool in the warm sun of sum- of your classnotes will not carry, as you Iail dent and have already started giving mer, delicate and yet of sufficient life if jszvcrianago w put it, "low key domestic anecdotes." 4t money to the university, and I intend to do days should perchance be dull." These cri-,, jorzs e acr Fortunately, however, you as the editor so in the future as circumstances allow. I teria led to the choice of "Confederate gray are not constrained to limit your choice don't give because of Rice's football pro- enlivened by a tinge of lavender, with a of alumni potpourri to items that are gram or lack thereof, but because of what blue still deeper than the Oxford blue." gratuitously supplied in "canned" pub- Rice meant to me when I studied there. RONALD E STEBBINGS sei°ir:1 licity releases or pro forma newspaper Maybe I would have given more this year Dean of Undergraduate Affairs e clippings. You have the opportunity to or felt even better about the school if I had ave rely on a whole range of articulate, been willing to go to Homecoming. I had Another Rice License well-informed, and sometimes witty been planning on going until the UT I saw Greg Stahl's letter concerning Rice li- that the onti alumni or alumnae (is the Latin correct?) 'It is said game: it is clear something is wrong when cense plates in the September/October is- founda- who might have a lot to say of interest if tion under this well known Rice is playing football every year against sue of SALLYPORT. I'd like to add one more rileeea they were induced to do so. More and largeA a team like Texas, and Rice could only win to the list: "RICE 81." My mother-in-law Rice landmark is the varied letters to you the editor from us by a miracle or twelve.
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