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RICE UNIVERSITY 1111111R1 OCT 22 1993 LIBRARY 12 The Class of'68 Members of the Class of'68 reflect on life at Rice during one of the most culturally and politically pivotal years in the country's history.

—by Michael Cinelli

16 "I Must Help" Computational and applied mathematics professor Richard Tapia's mission is to bring more minority students into science, engineering and mathematics classes.

—by David D. Medina

22 The Second Face of Scholarship

Thanks to women's studies, researchers across the spectrum of disciplines are expanding theories to include females, directing attention to specifically female issues, incorporating gender as a basis of analysis and scrutinizing accepted paradigms for gender bias. —by Greta FoffPaules

28 The Transformation of Eastern Europe Rice professors Gale Stokes and Ewa Thompson examine the tur- bulent events in Eastern Europe since the fall of communism and look ahead to the future of this volatile region.

—by David D. Medina

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4 Letters SA 6 Through the Sallyport OCTOB Russell Pitman gives tours of a cemetery where much of Rice's past rests. Publi • • ..

8 News Exec( Malcolm Gillis addresses Class of'97; Rice donates Kennedy lectern to Mich: NASA; Rice alum walks in space; Alan Grob speaks of difficult choices, past Asso( and present; and distinguished writer and former Rice professor Mercedes Valdivieso dies. Art Edit, Phil h C.S. 10 Academia Desi@ Rice computer scientists team up with biologists to hunt for disease genes. Christ • .

Rice, NASA and JFK, page 8. The I 11 Books, Etc. Trit.Sto JORepl Charles Zelden reviews the history of a powerful district court in Texas; Andel and Dana Blankenhorn looks at the not-too-distant future of computer J. Mcl J.D. bulletin boards and field computing. Wjllja Paula Alurn VValte 31 Sports Smith Claudia Haywood takes three giant steps toward the 1996 Olympics. Admi Presid Kinsey 13. Ry; 35 Students tratiot The Graduate Student Association looks out for graduate students' dent Gradu interests. tems,

Sll Ryn 36 Gifts and Giving '57, r Merril Students serve as university ambassadors; scholarships provide crucial stu- Wells dent aid; Rice increases fellowship support; and Emilie Slohm reflects on Presid Presid family, Rice and giving. Josepl Assoc Student ambassadors, page 36. Assoc 38 Alumni Gazette sally' Vicki Bretthauer keeps Owls together in Chicago; ARA seeks nominations Encl.] all uni for key positions; and more ways to stay involved. studet friend Allen yersity 40 Sally Forth Maik 77251 Colonial Williamsburg brings back the joy of Christmas past. tunity

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Published by the Office of External Affairs Every fall, when news magazines that revolutionized neurosurgery. An- ...... publish their rankings of the best other alumnus, Claude E. Payne, reporters ask switched careers from chemical Executive Director of News & Publications, universities, call to Michael Berryhill what Rice thinks about these sur- engineering to the Episcopalian veys. Every fall I give the same an- ministry. He has been named bishop last Associate Editor, Greta Paules swer. It's nice to be highly ranked, coadjutor and will Art Director, Jeff Cox as Rice always is. The college sur- eventually become interest Rice the seventh bishop Editorial Staff: David D. Medina '83, veys generate in Phil Montgomery, staff writers; among prospective students and of the Diocese of C.S. Monholland '89, copy editor their parents and create a wider Texas. Yet another Design awareness merits. And no Rice graduate, Dr. CS. Staff: Tommy LaVergne, photographer; of our Christine Minuto, designer matter how hard anyone tries, the Anita Katherine ...... quality of a university education Jones, has been The Rice University Board of Governors can't be reduced to a number. sworn in by the Sec- Trustees: Charles W. Duncan Jr., chair, The very function of a liberal retary of Defense as Josephine E. Abercrombie, vice chair, I). Kent Anderson, J. Evans John I. Cox, Burton education is to educate students to director of the mas- J. Attwell, McMurtry, Jack T. Trotter; Term Members: be skeptical of such reductions. sive research and en- J.D. "Ruck" Allshouse, James A. Baker III, E. Our work is not to finish up stu- gineering enterprise William Barnett, A.L. Jensen, George R. Miner, Paula M. Mosle, James L. Pate, Selby W. Sullivan. dents but to open them to risk and of the Department Alumni Governors: T. Robert "Bob" Jones, G. Walter to prepare them for a lifetime of of Defense. McReynolds, Steven J. Shaper, Stephen B. Smith learning. Surely Rice can- Such is the theme the univer- not be credited with Administrative Officers celebrates inauguration these achievements, President, Malcolm Gillis; Acting Provost, James sity in the Kinsey; Vice President for External Affairs, Frank of Malcolm Gillis as the sixth pres- and yet ifwe were to take the measure B. Ryan; Vice President for Finance and Adminis- ident of Rice at the end of Octo- of this university with some- tration, Dean W. Currie; Vice President for Stu- dent Affairs, Sarah Burnett; Vice President for ber. thing beyond class rankings, test Graduate Studies, Research and Information Sys: Gillis has recruited three dis- scores and financial data, we would terns, G. Anthony Gorry; Treasurer, Scott W. Wise tinguished academics to discuss find it in the accomplishments and Sallyport Editorial the spirit of the alumni. One Rice Ryn Board this theme. John Hope Franklin, Bowers '64, Paul '57, Burka '63, Sidney Burrus the historian and professor emeri- graduate is studying rain forests in David Butler '80, Lynda Grist '67, Bill Merriman '67, Rebecca '73, tus from Duke University, is re- Mauritania with the Peace Corps. Wells Uddcn Ronny '62. Ex officio: Frank B. Ryan '58, Vice searching, 70s, Another is creating an investment President in his late a new for External Affairs; Albert Kidd '64, house in Alabama. One couple has President-elect, Association Rice book about slavery. Stanford Joseph of Alumni; Elias '93, President, Graduate Student economist Anne Krueger draws left the oil business to create a bed- Association; Julia Farnham, President, Student 6. Association on both her scholarly work and and-breakfast in Vermont. Another her public policy experience as a alumnus helped found an important Sallyport is published bimonthly by the Office of top official at the World Bank. And regional theater. Such activities in- External Affairs all of Rice University and is sent to Clinton's nominee to dicate what it is possible to do with university alumni, faculty, staff, graduate President students, parents of undergraduate students and head the National Science Founda- a Rice education, and that is: almost friends. Editorial Offices: Allen News & Publications, tion, former Rice provost and anything. Center for Business Activities, Rice Uni- versity, 6100 S. Main St. physicist Neal Lane, offers a na- That questing spirit is best con- Mailing Houston, TX 77005. address: P.O. Box 1892 Houston, TX tional perspective on scientific re- veyed in one letter from a recent 77251-1892. Rice University is an equal oppor- search. graduate, Kim Loepp, who writes tunity/affirmative action institution. These speakers reflect the (not without a little doubt) of hav- Voluntary subscriptions to available Sallyport are quality to which Rice aspires. ing landed a job "in keeping with for a $15 suggested contribution. But if someone wanted to know my usual course of never having a Postmaster: Send address Office of changes to Sallyport, whether Rice has been educating job that pertains to my field of News 8c Publications, P.O. Box Rice University, lifetime of learning, study and always doing things so 1892, Houston, TX 77251-1892. people for a I can think of no better place to field-specific that they will be of no 01993 Rice University turn than to this issue's Classnotes use to me in the future." tip section. Such spirit can't be captured in Sallyport is printed on recycled paper. The accomplishments of Rice a statistic, but it guarantees a life- alumni are impressive.The late James time of learning. Greenwood Jr. invented a device —Michael Berryhill

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Undergraduates Need number of students limits the ex- Athletics Debate Continues Research Experience posure to research that undergraduates will see as they make I thank professors Baker and I would like to clarify some of the their way through Rice. There are Haskell for relating in more detail more subtle points that were men- exceptions to this, and that is the faculty study and sentiment on tioned in the article entitled "A students who are chosen in se- Rice athletics [August/September Hand of Hope" in the April/May lected departments, usually as an 1993, pp. 6-7]. I heartily endorse 1993 issue [pp. 24-291. While the honors course, to perform research the strong faculty stand they re- article does not explicitly state so, by interacting with faculty and port. this is a rather unique research graduate students on a project. I believe Rice should not project at Rice. It is unique not These undergraduates are the very compete in Southwest Conference due to the utilitarian reason for its fortunate, and while their numbers football. Why do we still? The beginning nor for its harmonious are not insignificant, there is a most common answer is alumni interdepart- great oppor- pressure. However, the facts do mental coop- tunity to ex- not support this. eration, but pand this At an alumni affair in Los An- rather it is type of in- geles a while back, I asked Presi- unique in the teraction. dent Rupp,"Not counting the op- fact that a There are posing team's fans, what is the majority of over 1,300 average attendance at Rice Sta- the research- graduate dium games?" He replied, "As- ers over the students at ymptotically approaching zero." past several Rice, with (This from a former divinity pro- years have over 650 in fessor!) been under- the sciences Why, then, do we continue to graduates. and engi- spend our precious dollars, energy The subtle point that the ar- neering alone. Except for those and spirit on Southwest Confer- ticle makes is that graduate-level who are getting non-thesis de- ence football? research at Rice is being under- grees, the great majority of gradu- taken by undergraduates. While it ate students are actively involved Rodney Hoffman '72 should be pointed out that a great in research projects that under- Los Angeles, California deal of the initial work was done graduates could find interesting by Kristen Farry, a graduate stu- and exciting. In my mind, if "in- dent in the electrical and computer teresting and exciting" were the The thoughtful note from profes- engineering department, the fact sole motivation for undergraduates sors Stephen Baker and Thomas that as many as ten undergraduates to undertake research projects, it Haskell in your August/Septem- participated in the project speaks would be sufficient, but there is ber '93 issue (re the need to get volumes as to the importance and also the economic impact of such Rice University out of what is ef- place in the university for such re- undertakings. No one can deny fectively professional football) was search. Rice has changed a great that the world we live in today is extraordinarily cogent. I agree deal over the last several decades, becoming more and more depen- wholeheartedly with the Rice fac- and one of the sometimes invisible dent on high technology, both in ulty on this issue and would only ways in which the university has terms of jobs and of living stan- add that there are probably other evolved is the growth of the re- dards. For universities like Rice, it Rice alumni who, like me, prefer search community. By that I is essential that undergraduates be- not to contribute money to sup- mean the numbers of graduate stu- come exposed to the high-tech port athletic activities that are con- dents and faculty who have been world that they will have to face trary to our university's spirit—so brought to Rice to do research of once they graduate, and doing at least some donations would rise the highest caliber. Involving un- university research as an under- if Rice left the Southwest Confer- dergraduates in this type of en- graduate, by interacting with ence. deavor is not only gratifying for graduate students and faculty, is a I join other members of the the undergraduates, but I believe necessary step for a complete edu- Rice community in mourning the it is a necessity. cation. death of Harold Rorschach, a fine While some undergraduates physics teacher whom I remember are exposed to research and/or in- Joseph A. Elias as an inspiration throughout my dustrial environments over the President undergraduate years. summers, the fact that Rice does Graduate Student Association not have a cooperative education Rice University Dr. Mark Zimmermann '74 program that could reach a great Silver Spring, Maryland

I Sallyport es Lot o' Lotto Luck tery is due to chance alone (a "null Smith's energy and excitement for hypothesis") as opposed to non- Chinese history bellowed out as he Either my alma mater or my sense random processes? Think chi- spoke Chinese. We could all stand tail of humor has failed me ("Lotto square, t-test, etc., please! to learn more about the Confucian 101" August/September '93 way and the Chinese tradition. ber Sallyport, p. 8). At Rice I was an Dr. Mark Zimmermann '74 Later in the article, I was rse English major, not a slide-rule tot- Silver Spring, Maryland again happy to see another of my ing "SE," and not all that success- instructors, Dr. Marjorie Corcoran ful in English—the one form of of the physics department. In her paper that earned me a top grade second semester sophomore phys- nce two or three times was parody. Princeton Men, Rice Boys? ics course, I enjoyed learning the Since my Rice days I've had some beginnings of quantum theory. I training in statistics and taught stat Nell Sprague's letter in the June/ remember one tough midterm to teachers, cops and social work- July 1993 issue, which correctly exam and her straightforward ers. One of the hardest things to takes H.R. Phillips to task for style. But the topper was when she An- do when teaching probability is to mentioning "freshman girls" and showed us what true particle ;i- persuade students to be logical and "young men" in the same sentence physicists carried, the elementary op- rational, to avoid emotional traps (in a previous issue), reminds me particle data booklet—a pocket- and fallacies such as believing that of a pet peeve of the guys who sized guide to all the particles in independent past events will affect wrote the humor column in the the universe. Were life so simple future ones.(The classic case is the Thresher in the late 1950s. (Yes, it and compact. poor sucker in the bar who bets $2 was a very funny column.) Dent against your $1 that a coin will and Coney would complain about Kenny W. Gow '86 come up heads this time since it TRGs (typical Rice girls),"Why do Plano, Texas e to came up tails the last two or three they always say Yale men, Harvard :rgy times). men, Princeton men, and Rice r- I realize that David Medina's boys?" article on George Padua and the Modest Prankster Texas lottery was intended to be Galloway H. Hudson '61 '72 light-hearted and whimsical, but Houston, Texas On my honor... wnia no clear signs were given that Mr. After reading the article on Medina or Mr. Padua meant to be pranks [April/May 1993, pp.12- satirizing the approach of irrational 17] I felt a need to write this letter Fes- lottery players everywhere. I'm because I came away with a feeling is disconcerted that the school from that I was being given more credit Ii- Which I've heretofore been proud than was my due. While I can take to say I graduated has trained an credit for coming up with the idea ef- actuarial statistician who appar- of turning Willy's statue and actu- was ently really believes that either last ally getting Willy off his pedestal week's numbers or prayer or "intu- for the first time, the real hero is 'ac- ition" will influence which Ping- Jorge Martin de Nicolas (de Ily Pong balls come up this week. Moya). er I'll be a bit embarrassed if Mr. The statue-turning project 'er Medina says that I just missed the spanned three years of which I was p- joke—that he made up Mr. Padua only involved in the first. Jorge con- as a parody—but I hope he did. Article Stirs Memories of was involved all three years and -so Favorite Profs provided the necessary impetus to rise Ed Buckner '67 keep the project afloat (as well as Fer- Marietta, Georgia Two professors in the ["Booked several larger-than-life pigs and a for the Summer"] article [June/ series of full-scale treasure hunts IC July 1993, pp. 18-251 brought around San Francisco). The fact the The amusing article "Lotto back warm memories. that he was supposed to call me fine 101" on page 8 of the August/ Dr. Richard Smith led off the down from Washington, D.C., for iber September '93 issue cries out for a article with Chinese history. I re- the finale is something I still don't ly little elementary statistical analy- member fondly his Chinese history let him forget. sis—please get some from the overview course, which broadened mathematicians on campus! Spe- my education to non-Western his- John Q. Smith '86 '74 cifically, what is the probability tory and the vastly different Chi- Oakland, California dand that Padua's experience in the lot- nese intellectual tradition. Dr.

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Grave Matters and-tell. He strides among the stone, flush with the ground, in the tombstones, pointing out unusual Lee family plot marks the burial site When Russell Pitman talks about stones and the burial sites of people of Glenn McCarthy, who built the the people who helped build Rice, associated with Rice. He spins won- Shamrock Hotel. Next to him lies his subjects are underfoot—liter- derful stories about eccentric mil- Gene Tierney Lee, the actress ally six feet underground. lionaire donors, hard-fought law- known for her role in the movie The 1958 Rice graduate suits and backroom politics. Laura. An engraving of a twin-reel and former Rice employee Gary Smith, assistant dean of movie camera is the only hint of gives tours of the Glen- the Shepherd School of Music, took her Hollywood career. wood Cemetery between the tour last spring. He says that ev- Some of the permanent Buffalo Bayou and Wash- erywhere he turned there was a Glenwood residents are not so well ington Avenue in Hous- family plot of historical significance remembered. ton. He gave his first tour to Houston, Rice and the music A sixty-foot obelisk of gray in December 1980. Since school. granite rising into the treetops then, he has led 45 people "He knew all the family histo- marks the burial site of a forgotten along the narrow, grassy ries," says Smith. "He seemed to Texan. paths winding between know where he was going." "This is an obscure governor the tombstones. There is no doubt that Pitman of Texas," says Pitman. "Somebody Glenwood Cemetery knows where he is going. The tour you never heard of." has been the burial place begins with a stop at Pitman's final That somebody is James of choice for prominent resting place on a hillside shaded by Henderson, a Texas politician with Russell Pitman stands Houston families for towering pine trees. He already has a unique claim to fame. He was the more than 150 years. It is lieutenant governor of Texas when near his final resting a small headstone and a large plot best known as the burial marker in place. Both are gray gran- Governor Peter Bell resigned in among many Rice place site of Howard Hughes, ite. On one side of the headstone is November 1853 to take a seat in notables in the Glenwood but the tombstones also a delicate bush of Heavenly Bam- Congress. Henderson served out Cemetery. read like a who's who of boo. the remainder of Bell's term, hold- Rice University. "I decided I wanted to pick my ing the office for less than a month. Immediate relatives spot and get it all ready. If some- It was the shortest term of any of William Marsh Rice, thing happened to me, this is what Texas governor. the founder of the univer- would please me. I liked it because Pitman's tour includes a lunch sity, are buried at the cemetery, in- of the slope and the view." stop near a pine-shaded mauso- cluding Elizabeth B. Rice, Rice's Pitman bought the marker leum. Pitman usually pops open a second wife, and Fredrick Rice, a used in La Grange, Texas. blanket and has a picnic for his nephew. Captain James Baker, the "Somebody didn't like it and guests, who sit on the wall sur- first chairman of the board of traded it in," he says. "I thought it rounding the plot. He serves sand- trustees, and Edgar Odell Lovett, was wonderful." The tall stone had wiches, potato chips, red wine and the first president of Rice, rest in raised lettering from the previous cookies. peace here as well. owner when Pitman bought it. He During a stop at the cemetery Pitman worked for Rice for 20 had the letters sanded down and an business office, Pitman attracts the years as chief accountant, as assis- inscription from Plutarch engraved attention of an elderly woman in a tant to the president and as man- in their place. floppy straw hat. She stands by a ager of campus business affairs. After a brief stop to spruce up belly-high table and examines an Now retired, he describes himself his plot, Pitman ferrets out every old record book. When Pitman as a "cemetery person" who likes Rice connection he can find. leans over to have a look, the nothing more than to wander "There are four simple markers woman draws herself up and stares through old graveyards. Of the here, and each one is the name of a down her nose at him. many graveyards he has visited in building on campus," he says, "Are you with one of the his- Texas and the rest of the country, pointing to a line of four markers. torical societies?" Glenwood Cemetery remains his "Alice Pratt Brown Hall, George "No," Pitman says, "I give favorite. He decided to start giving Brown Hall, Margarett Root Brown tours." tours so he could share the history College, Herman Brown Hall. It is The woman shoots him a look of its illustrious residents. very incredible that you would see that could drive a night-of-the-liv- "I take friends, people from four people lying side by side, and ing-dead zombie back to the grave. Bellaire and Rice," says Pitman. "I each one has a building named after "And what qualifies you to never take more than five people, them on the Rice campus." give tours?" she asks. one carload. Most people are fasci- Pitman also points out graves "I have a plot here," Pitman nated by the cemetery. Sometimes of the rich and famous. Denton answers. Territory staked out, they go back on their own." Cooley, the heart surgeon, already marker in place, end of discussion. 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Gillis Greets Class of'97— ments will de- Students Greet Gillis pend, to a far greater extent, In his matriculation speech to the upon the ener- Class of 1997, Rice University gy and creativity president Malcolm Gillis encour- you are willing to aged students to be prepared to invest in prepar- wrestle with new ideas as they em- ing for a life of bark on "A Life of Learning." learning." "We are not interested in Gillis also making ideas safe for you but in talked about the making you safe for ideas," Gillis history of Rice, told the class of about 600 fresh- praising Captain men at Founder's Court on Au- James Baker for gust 17. exposing "the ra- He said that while Rice could pacious lawyer" have easily filled the incoming who, along with class with students who ranked in a valet,killed Wil- the top 5 percent of their high liam Marsh Rice school classes and scored above and forged his 1400 on the SAT, Rice deliber- will,leaving noth- ately chose not to. Test scores and ing to The Rice class rankings are only partial mea- Institute. Gillis delivers matriculation speech. Photo by David Hall, sures of academic potential, Gillis Rice is small Rice Thresh,. said. Rice also looks for attributes enough for every- such as talent in music, spatial per- one to know almost everyone else congregate." ception, athletic ability, valuable on campus by name and yet large Gillis showed his sense of hu- cultural perspectives and linguistic enough to be a leading academic mor when Brown College students and leadership skills. institution, Gillis said. It is also let loose five noisy chickens during "Four years from now," he said, a university that values civility. his speech. Keeping his compo- "I think you will find that your own "Civility is, of course, a par- sure, Gillis, who has a farm in accomplishments will bear but a ticularly vital asset in communities North Carolina, said that the ani- weak relationship to your relative where highly diverse ideas com- mals reminded him of home, then beginning standing in SAT scores pete for intellectual allegiance and proceeded to identify the chickens and class rank. Those accomplish- where people from many cultures by breed.

launched the race to the moon. Department of Space Physics and Kennedy delivered his pivotal Astronomy at Rice is one of the speech on September 12, 1962, at few in the nation that focuses on Rice Stadium to an audience of the solar system. That focus has 49,000. created a special bond with NASA. "The exploration of space will The donated lectern will be on go ahead whether we join in it or display in Space Center Houston's not," he said,"and it is one of the Starship Gallery, a chronological great adventures of all time, and exhibit of space artifacts. no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for Pacing in Space space." Kennedy speaks at Rice Stadium. Kennedy quipped that a space Jim Newman, who received a capsule falling through the earth's Ph.D. in physics from Rice in atmosphere would blaze with half 1984, performed a space walk the Rice Donates Kennedy the heat of the sun—"almost as week of September 12 while Lectern to NASA hot as it is here today." aboard the space shuttle Discovery. Following the speech, Rice He tested equipment that will be In a September 12 ceremony, Rice president Kenneth S. Pitzer called used to repair the Hubble Space donated to NASA the lectern John for the creation of a new depart- Telescope. F. Kennedy spoke from when he ment to study space. Today, the

8 Sallyport Grob Urges Freshmen to Be historically exonerating phrase, There was one bright mo- Skeptical and Committed 'People in those days simply didn't ment, Grob said, when students know any better.' Plainly people took action to speed up desegre- Rice English professor Alan Grob then did know better, and particu- gation. spoke about racial desegregation larly people involved in higher "It gives me great pride to tell at Rice in the 1960s and gay and education." you that students from Rice were lesbian rights on campus in the And yet Rice did not embrace arrested and jailed during the '60s 1990s in the annual faculty ad- desegregation, Grob said. for sitting in with black students dress delivered August 19. About "Segregation at Rice nonethe- from Texas Southern University in 500 incoming freshmen assembled less persisted, beyond Brown v. the an attempt to desegregate the in Hamman Hall for the talk. Board ofEducation, beyond Rosa Union Station Coffee Shop." Grob said gay and lesbian stu- Parks and the Montgomery bus Grob closed by urging the in- dents were courageous to let their boycott, beyond the lunch counter coming students to listen to the photos appear in the 1991 Cam- sit-ins and the freedom rides, until faculty but also to question what panile and to speak out in the Rice abandoned so late in the game they hear and remain skeptical. Thresher about issues affecting that the very decision to desegre- "Read carefully the books we rec- them. He praised heterosexual stu- gate seemed only to reinforce our ommend, but even more carefully dents at Rice for their increased sense of institutional timidity." those we disparage." understanding of sexual orienta- tion issues. "This is certainly a difficult and contentious issue," he said. Chilean Writer Valdivieso Dies "Whether freedom will be en- resher. hanced and expanded at Rice de- Mercedes Valdivieso, a retired Rice professor of Spanish and author of one pends undoubtedly on choices of the first feminist books published in Latin America, died of cancer in that students like yourselves will her hometown of Santiago, Chile, on August 3. She was 66. u- make in the coming years." Valdivieso left Rice University in 1989 after teaching ;nts Grob began his speech by re- Spanish in the Department of Hispanic and Classical Studies ing calling that he had given a faculty for 22 years. She returned to Chile to write full-time about her address to the incoming class in favorite subject—women and their struggle for equal justice. 1963, when the civil rights move- Her writing career took off in 1961, when she published Li- ment was gaining momentum. her first book,La Brecha(Breakthrough), which a Chilean critic en Though Rice was racially segre- called "a revolutionary thunderpiece" for its depiction of a ms gated at that time, Grob ignored divorced woman who successfully rebels against Latin Ameri- the issue and, instead, talked can machismo. about English literature. It was a In 1976, when Houston journalist Janice Blue was look- decision he now regrets. ing for a name for her feminist newspaper, she picked Break- "On that day thirty years through in honor of the novel and Valdivieso. Blue's monthly ago," he said, "there were of Houston newspaper was published from 1976 to 1981. course no black students in my au- "Mercedes was an elegant, intelligent and compassionate dience. Though Rice had an- woman," Blue says. "She was my role model." nounced its intention to desegre- Valdivieso published four other novels: La tierra que les ;A. gate in 1962, it would not be until di, Los ojos de bambu, La noches y un dia, and Maldita yo on 1965 that black students were fi- entre las mujeres. The last book, about a legendary 17th-century liberated I's nally admitted to Rice." female figure, was published in 1991 in Chile to great critical acclaim, says Grob pointed out that al- Hector Urrutibeheity, chair of Rice's Hispanic and classical studies depart- though the United States had ment. helped fight a war against the Na- Urrutibeheity says Valdivieso was working on a new novel in which zis and their doctrine of racial su- she planned to incorporate her experience as a professor at an American periority, white supremacy "re- university. mained a tacit principle in Valdivieso received a bachelor's degree in literature from the Univer- deciding admission to Rice" from sity of Chile in 1948 and a master's in Spanish from the University of 1945 until 1965. Houston in 1968. She began teaching at Rice in 1968. IC "What has always seemed to "She was a first-rate writer and a person of great moral rectitude and me particularly disturbing and ul- generosity," says Ricardo Yamal, a professor of Spanish at Rice. "She had a ry. timately shameful," he said, "was strong interest in social issues, particularly in poverty in Latin America and the continuation of segregation af- the role of women in Latin America." ter 1945, when plainly we could Valdivieso was a visiting professor of language and Latin American lit- no longer shrug these practices erature at the University of Peking from 1962 to 1963. She also founded away by invoking too glibly the the Chilean magazine Adan and served as editor from 1965 to 1967.

October / November '93 9 ACADEMIA

Computer Scientists Help Biologists Hunt for Disease Genes Computer scientists at Rice have souped up a software The National Institutes of Health estimates that program that locates genes linked to inheritable diseases there are 100,000 genes in the human genome. Of and paves the way for diagnostic tests and improved those, 3,000 are estimated to be disease genes. treatments. Once a gene is located, researchers can conceivably Alejandro (Alex) Schaffer, a professor of computer develop a diagnostic test for the disease and perhaps even science at Rice, and Ramana Idury, who received a a treatment. doctorate from Rice's computer science department in Though computers have been used for years to track July, received funding from the W.M. Keck Center for genes linked with inherited traits, previous versions of Computational Biology to revise a software package LINKAGE required months to finish complex compu- called LINKAGE. LINKAGE is used worldwide by tations. The advantage of the revised programs is that researchers to determine the approximate location of they achieve the same results faster running on common genes on chromosomes. hardware. The Keck Center is a cooperative effort of Rice, To create a more powerful version of the program Baylor College of Medicine and the University ofHous- that runs on a network of workstations, Schaffer and ton. The center fosters col- Cottingham have also been laboration among biologists, working with Alan Cox and biochemists and computer Willy Zwaenepoel, both scientists. professors ofcomputer sci- Bob Cottingham, a re- ence at Rice; Sandhya search instructor at Baylor Dwarkadas, a postdoctoral and manager of Genome researcher specializing in Infomatics Core, a division parallel computation; and of the Human Genome Peter Keleher,a Rice gradu- Project, says that the Rice ate student in the computer scientists altered LINKAGE science department. so that it performed in six Over the past four years, days a computation that computers have come to would have taken eight play an important role in months. biology. "It worked great," says "We now have a situa- Cottingham. "The Rice al- tion [in biology]," explains terations allow researchers to Cottingham, "where we perform computations that can collect tremendous were considered unsolvable amounts of data, and it be- before." comes more and more dif- Schaffer and Idury used ficult to analyze that data. LINKAGE to help a scien- The only way we can hope tist researching the gene re- to analyze it is through the Professor Alejandro Schaffer. sponsible for retinitis pig- use of computers." mentosa, a hereditary, de- The marriage of com- generative eye disease, as part of the Human Genome puter science and biology is a blessing to scientists who Project. An article about the revised LINKAGE pro- have to process huge amounts of data. But as in many grams was published in the July 1993 issue of the new marriages, communication can be a problem. American Journal ofHuman Genetics. "There are some pretty serious language prob- The Human Genome Project is a $3 billion, 15-year lems," Schaffer says. "For example, when we look at the project directed by the National Institutes of Health. programs, the variable names don't necessarily make The project's ultimate mission is to map the entire sense because the original authors of the program used human genetic code—a mission that has been compared biological terminology that is not familiar to us." in complexity to landing a human on Mars. Despite the language problems, the results of the Schaffer says the hunt for a particular gene begins by program have been so successful that Baylor is offering narrowing down the search. The Rice scientists per- the revised LINKAGE software free to anyone in the formed a task comparable to locating a 1-mile section world. Schaffer is pleased by the results. containing a treasure somewhere along a 3,000-mile "I'm basically a theoretician by training," he says. stretch of unmarked highway. The highway is the 23 "Most of what I do is pencil and paper research. This is chromosome pairs located in the nucleus ofeach human something direct and immediate that will benefit other cell. The treasure is a disease gene. researchers." —Philip Montgomery

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Local Justice The final decisions on the vast majority of cases in the Not surprisingly, these judges shared a "business that federal court system are handed down at the district vision," and, according to Zelden, "Their goal was the .Of court level. The impact of these rulings on the areas promotion of Southeast Texas' economic, social, and served by the various district courts is great, yet few political development through private means.To achieve Tably studies have been done on the local influ- this goal, the judges chose to support, even ence of the lower courts. stabilize, and regulate local and national Charles L. Zelden has begun to fill businesses and markets." They were of- :rack this void with Justice Lies in the District: ten reluctant to deal with public cases, Is of The U.S. District Court,Southern District such as those involving civil rights. npu- ofTexas, 1902-1960(Texas A&M Univer- The social, political and judicial that sity Press,1993). Zelden received a Ph.D. changes ofthe 1960s and the diversifica- mon from Rice in history in 1991. He cur- tion of the makeup of the court drasti- rently teaches history at Nova University cally decreased the judges' ability to ;ram in Florida. keep their private, probusiness agendas and The Southern District Court ofTexas at the forefront. By the 1970s, public been was created in 1902. With the rapidly cases dominated the docket. and expanding Houston area within its bound- Zelden, however, is concerned Doth aries, it has been one ofthe nation's most with the years before these r sci- active district courts since the 1920s. It changes came—the era when ihya currently ranks as one ofthe four busiest business and the local judi- toral and largest district courts in the country. ciary walked hand in hand. His g in Zelden has found "remarkable con- book is both an interesting case and tinuity" for the first 58 years ofthe court, study of the formative years of a adu- which he attributes to the similarity in backgrounds and major district court and a new chap- niter in the agendas ofthe seven judges who served the district ter on the rapid economic growth of over that period. All were upper-class Houstonians, and the Houston area. ears, most had worked as corporate attorneys before being e to appointed to the bench. —Kenneth H. Williams le in itua- lains Bulletin Boards— from computer repair and the latest The future Blankenhorn envi- we A New Tack for Business computer technology to soap op- sions revolves around field com- bus eras and kayaking. Bulletin boards puting systems—wireless networks t be- People who rely on computers and caught like wildfire and continue to designed to feed data from remote : dif- modems to conduct business or re- be popular today. Based on that sites to central locations, hand-car- data. search will find a helpful resource in popularity, the authors see another ried hardware for workers in the lope Bulletin Board Systems for Business area that can be served by a BBS— field and software that links net- .1 the (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1992). business. works and hardware together. Lamont Wood and Dana Blank- Wood and Blankenhorn advo- Blankenhorn urges companies to :om- enhorn have written an easy-to-use cate numerous uses for a business consider field computing technol- who reference that delves into the world of BBS: electronic publishing, prod- ogy, which he believes can greatly nany computerized electronic communi- uct price lists, automated mail order improve productivity. cations. Blankenhorn received a B.A. He lists Frito-Lay, Federal Ex- in and electronic mail and memos. TO b- science and history from Rice in "The majority of boards in the press and UPS among the compa- 1977. t the future," they write, "will be run by nies that are successfully using field nake The book covers a variety oftop- businesses, for solid business rea- computing to link field workers ics, used including bulletin board etiquette, sons." with central offices. Field comput- basics oftelecommunications and ex- ing is being used in shipping to f the ercising freedom ofspeech through a track shipments and vehicles, in :ring bulletin board. Data from the Field warehouses to manage inventory the A bulletin board system,or BBS, and in law enforcement to improve is a computer network service that In Technology Edge: A Guide to police response times. says. allows members of the service to call Field Computing(New Riders The book covers laptops, pen- in via modem and leave messages for Publishing, 1992), Dana Blank- based computer systems and re- his is or )ther retrieve messages from other users. enhorn '77 paints a scene from the mote computers that communicate In the past, people developed future where workers wielding without using telephone lines. mery bulletin boards to discuss everything mobile computers change the face of business. —Philip Montgomery

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14 In April 1968, as Rice seniors focused on graduating at the end of the spring semester, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Columbia University students barricaded themselves in campus buildings, and the cast of the new rock opera Hair sang about the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. Vibrations from the social and political earthquakes that shaped 1968 rumbled through Rice University classrooms and residential colleges but failed to erupt into demonstrations among the soon-to-be graduates. Instead, King's murder, the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War were debated at evening bull sessions that semester among seniors, their undergraduate peers and faculty. On October 21, 1993, the Class of'68 will arrive on campus to re- connect with a college life that ended 25 years ago, a year before Rice administrators had to deal with bomb threats and arson of university buildings by student protesters. Since graduation night, June 1, 1968, America's past has been sev- ered from its future. Robert Kennedy was assassinated before his presidential campaign crossed the finish line. Richard Nixon won the presidency he longed for but was forced to resign to avoid impeachment. The Vietnam War wound down to a bloody and divisive end. Man walked on the moon. A Hollywood actor was elected president. An Af- rican American ran for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. And Simon sang songs without Garfunkel. The Age of Aquarius, however, never materialized.

October / November '93 13 Members of the Class of'68 observed and "In a number of ways, student participation ac- participated in the political evolution and social tually expanded in university affairs," he says. "Cyn- revolution of the past quarter century from ics might allege that was a deliberate process of co- homes and offices across the country and optation by the administration. But from a student around the world. These 385 graduates, like leadership perspective that was not the case." Rice students before and since, have succeeded Only guest lecturers, such as anthropologist in life. They are engaged in careers that range Margaret Mead, raised national political or social is- from medicine and law to jewelry design and sues in public forums on campus. Mead visited Rice mountain climbing. for a conference on medicine and technology. She These alumni thrived in the conservative called for a more realistic view of the new morality. atmosphere of Rice. Few lent their voices to She praised doctors and rebuked lawyers. the growing chorus of discontent on the It wasn't that Rice students in 1968 were nation's college campuses, discontent that ex- oblivious to what was happening in the world. ploded into a deadly confrontation between They knew about the assassination of King in Mem- students and National Guardsmen at Kent phis and about the student revolt at Columbia. But State University in Ohio in the spring of the conservative nature of Rice—more than 50 1970. years in the making—kept most seniors focused on Don Huddle, Rice economics professor securing the sheepskin that would lead to profes- and Brown College comaster in 1968, was sional success. among those who took part in informal Carl (Chip) Novotny was president of Will Rice meetings during which students and faculty College. After graduation he enrolled at Harvard to discussed the war and problems on campus. earn his MBA degree. It was there he realized how "There was a sense of uneasiness and fore- isolated life had been at Rice. boding," he recalls. "But there was also "When I got to Harvard," he says, "I met other some excite- people who were my age, probably from the North- ment, in the east, who were much more vehement about protest- sense of ing the war. That didn't mean "Aei/he, tmi aterne elm /M- people get- we weren't interested at Rice OO/teed ill 4/fIriell/r,I'Pellmei,/ ting together in what was going on. In fact, /Ita/yea, APIceirefl /.4F erei - and wanting the closer it got to graduation, 14/EIT/lIVI :Wire ,e4hf,a,oge oo //( to do some- the more interested we got." A thing. This Novotny and his male had been a —CHARLES SHANOR classmates, like most male se- STUDENT ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT very inactive niors that year, were concerned campus for a about winding up in Vietnam pretty long or, worse, being shipped home time. So from that conflict in body people band- bags. Novotny's move to ing together Harvard protected him for a discussing the Vietnam War helped de- year. When he became eligible fine who the enemy was." for the draft lottery, he drew a Any anger felt by the graduating high number and was able to class about Vietnam, the draft lottery or complete his studies at civil rights was directed toward the federal government. The university administration did not become the target of student rebellion as administrations had on other campuses. "NAen .1p//45 .me/ "Neither I nor anyone else involved in student d 1cØh. WhIl mem my aye, government that year perceived the administration Aedally/min Me • li,i/Aea41, mite, of Rice as responsible for or related to national (few mad, moov fehemea/ i4III policy problems," says Charles Shanor, Student As- /AP '• sociation president during the 1967-68 academic year. —CARL (CHIP) NOVOTNY Shanor now teaches law at Emory University in WILL RICE COLLEGE PRESIDENT Atlanta and practices part-time in the Atlanta office of Paul, Hastings, Janosky and Walker, a Los Ange- les-based firm.

I 4 Sallyport LC- Harvard. "It was fueled by the increased availability of in- He used his MBA to establish several financial birth control devices, including the pill," she says. )- companies, one of which he continues to run today, "For women my age, it gave us control over repro- while he works as a consultant to banks and credit duction and over our lives." card associations across the country. The drug culture also found its way to Rice and Roger Ward was not as fortunate. During the became more visible during the 1967-68 academic is- fall semester he dropped a class, forfeiting his aca- year, students and faculty say. CC demic draft exemption. Aware he could soon be Drugs from marijuana to LSD were garbed in Army green unless he could find a way used by students on campus, but usage y. around serving military time, Ward tried to join the was not as widespread as on many cam- Peace Corps. puses, according to Shanor. "They were only taking people with degrees or "The vast majority of students did practical skills at the time," he says, "and playing not use drugs or used them only sporad- m- the tuba was not one of the things they were look- ically," he ut ing for in a volunteer. They didn't accept me." says."Those Within two weeks Ward was off to basic train- who did use ing and a three-year stint in the Army—but not in drugs were Vietnam. Fluent in German, which he learned in usually not •fre,e err/ire:ill, Fri/ molly 41fenien4 Classes at Rice, Ward was assigned to American involved in ',ere indiridually be',after/ in ice troops serving with NATO forces. When he re- student pol- Me re.), to turned to the States, he finished his bachelor's de- itics or in gree at the University of Houston. student gov- -SHIRLEY REVIS REDWINE

Today Ward holds advanced degrees in English ernment is- 1068 RONDELET QUEEN ler linguistics and rehabilitation counseling and directs sues. It was th- the client service programs at the Texas Rehabilita- generally an !st- tion Commission. arts and lit- He acknowledges that most students at Rice erature-ori- were dedicated to their studies and not affected by ented group, and they saw drugs as a the turmoil in other parts of the country. way of expanding their understand- "Rice students most always let the world go ing of the world." by," he recalls. "I was not one of those individuals. At the 1968 commencement, A number of us were tremendously affected by the University of Chattanooga presi- outside world. We couldn't count on things we had dent and former Rice faculty mem- grown up with. We were products of the '50s. We ber William Masterson offered his were used to everything being in little categories, view of the changes shaping the being structured and understandable. world the graduates were about to "But the way things were being thrown at us, it enter. He talked about "living in a was hard to make sense of it all." deeply troubled age, calling for a In the fall of his senior year, before his academic re-examination of moral prin- faux pas sent him packing to basic training, Ward ciples, social values, economic Joined in an antiwar demonstration on campus. systems and political solutions Only a handful of students took part in the march which have not been challenged around William Marsh Rice's statue in the academic for 600 years." quadrangle. "Our world's primary "The demonstration was so unexpected, the need," he told the graduating Houston news media labeled it disruptive," Ward class, "is for appraisal of all re- says. "Demonstrating was not considered a seemly construction of many of our in- thing for a Rice student to do at that time." stitutions to meet the revolu- Shirley Revis Redwine, now the university's tions of our times." general counsel, was crowned Rondelet queen in When members of the 1968 at the post-Beer Bike race bash. She remem- Class of'68 return to campus bers Rice as "a quiet place." in October to celebrate their "Students were not political activists," she says, 25th reunion, they will have but many students were individually involved in the opportunity to assess just the quest for social justice." how far the reconstruction Nonetheless, she is quick to add, the sexual has gone toward meeting the revolution reached Rice in her senior year. revolutions of the past quarter century.

October / November '93 15 "I must help"

Richard Tapia's mission is to bring more minority students into science, engineering and mathematics classes.

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BY DAVID D. MEDINA

A t this year's Cinco de Mayo celebration at West University Elementary School, Rice ncomputational and applied mathematics professor Richard Tapia, wearing a blue suit and his trademark cowboy boots, spoke to students about the Hispanic presence in the United States. His talk spilled over to the importance of studying mathematics and science, a topic that has the potential effect ofsleeping pills. But Tapia masterfully handled the giddy young students who packed the school cafeteria, which had been decorated with Mexican flags. He questioned his audience, praised the students'comments and provided anecdotes and explanations that even a first grader could understand. He implored the students, especially those who were Hispanic or black, to pursue careers in science, engineering and mathematics. "If we have more underrepresented minorities in these areas," he explained,"we are going to improve the health of the nation." Tapia is widely recognized for his efforts to get more minorities into these high-paying, high-prestige fields. Of Mexican parentage himself, Tapia has built a successful career as a mathematician specializing in computational optimization. He is also an award-winning teacher at Rice University, where he is on the faculty of the computational and applied mathematics department.

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Tapia believes that by helping minorities and Tapia with encouraging him to go to graduate school women embark upon careers in science, engineering and, later, encouraging him to go into academia. and math, the nation will eliminate many ofits social Dean now lectures youngsters on the importance ofa ills and once again lead the world in technology. Of college education. At the Cinco de Mayo talk, he the 1,000 doctorates awarded in mathematical sci- listened attentively. ences in the United States last year, only two went to "I wanted to spy on Tapia and borrow some ofhis blacks and one to a Hispanic. lecturing techniques," he explains. "If we continue to close our eyes to the option of Driving through South Texas or lecturing around going into math and science," he says,"as Hispanics, the country, Tapia is always on the lookout for tal- as blacks, we are never going to be part of mainstream ented minority students. He recruited Monica America, to take our rightful place, to control our Martinez to graduate school at Rice while attending destiny and to lead America." a conference for the Society of the Advancement of As part of his crusade, Tapia directs the Spend a Chicanos and Native Americans in Science in San Summer with a Scientist program, Antonio two years ago.Tapia talked which is sponsored by the Rice Center to Martinez during a break in the for Research on Parallel Computation "If we continue to close our meetings, while they were watch- (CRPC). The program brings minor- ing the Super Bowl with other con- ity students to campus during the eyes to the option of going into ference participants. summer to assist a Rice faculty mem- math and science, as Hispan- The Stanford graduate came ber with research. The experience is ics, as blacks, we are never go- away deeply impressed with his com- intended to interest students in sci- ing to be part of mainstream mitment to students. ence by exposing them to research America, to take our rightful "He allowed me to feel an ex- firsthand. citement for graduate school," she place, to control our destiny In addition,Tapia established the says. "The fact that he listened and Rice CRPC Mathematicd1 and Com- and to lead America." understood my needs to work in putational Sciences Awareness Work- academia,and the fact that he did it shops in 1989. The workshops bring ktimitit IN1 during the Super Bowl, was some- about 50 elementary and secondary thing I've never experienced. I have school teachers from the Houston a very high regard for him." area to Rice each summer to visit with Martinez is now a second-year scientists, business professionals and educators. The graduate student in Rice's computational and applied purpose ofthe workshops is to make teachers aware of mathematics department. the many college and career opportunities in math At Rice, Tapia wears the triple hats of professor and science available to minorities. Other universities of computational and applied mathematics, associate are now emulating the program. director for Minority Affairs in the Office ofGraduate Studies and director of Education and Human Re- T ucille Barrera, a science teacher at West Univer- sources for the Center for Research on Parallel Com- Lsity Elementary School, attended the workshop putation. In these roles, Tapia has been responsible in 1992. for increasing the number of women and minorities "He is a dynamic speaker, very motivating and studying mathematics and science at Rice. inspirational," Barrera says of Tapia. "He doesn't In 1990, the National Research Council named know the self-confidence he has given me. So much Tapia one ofthe 20 most influential leaders in minor- confidence that I've decided to go back to graduate ity mathematics education in the country. Later that school." year, Tapia received the Hispanic Engineer National In the meantime, Barrera teaches her students Achievement Award for Education from the maga- that they can become scientists and engineers. For the zine Hispanic Engineer. Cinco de Mayo celebration, Barrera had posters of Last year, he became the first Mexican American Hispanic scientists hung in the halls at West University to be elected into the National Academy of Engineer- Elementary. She says the workshop inspired her with ing, one of the highest honors that can be bestowed the idea. on a scientist. The academy noted his creative leader- Ed Dean,a mathematics professor at the Univer- ship in minority education in the mathematical and sity of Houston, attended Tapia's West University computer sciences and his contributions in computa- talk to hear his former mentor speak. Dean,a Mexican tional mathematics. American from New Mexico, received a Ph.D. in Tapia is a specialist in linear and nonlinear pro- mathematical sciences from Rice in 1985. He credits gramming. His research involves using computers

18 Sallyport Dol and mathematics to solve large, complex classes of His mother Magda was 12 when she and a young- problems in science, engineering, economics and er sister set out from the hills of Chihuahua, Mexico, )fa business. He focuses on developing algorithms that for Los Angeles, where she stayed briefly with distant he run effectively on the newest generation of parallel relatives. She had planned to get an education but was computers. Algorithms are step-by-step procedures forced to drop out of high school to support herself. his for solving mathematical problems. She lived with a Jewish family in exchange for doing Traditional computers implement algorithms by household chores. rnd completing each step in sequence, a time-consuming Tapia's father Amado was 13 when he came from tal- process for very large problems. Today's super-com- Nayarit in central Mexico with his mother and two ica puters have thousands of processors that work simul- brothers. After his mother died, he was taken in by a ing taneously to complete many steps at once. This allows Japanese family that owned a nursery. During World : of the machine to handle much larger problems more War II, the Japanese family was sent to a relocation ;an quickly. camp, and Amado (who speaks Japanese) was enced Tapia deals primarily with algo- trusted with the business. When the the rithms that are based on what are family returned, Amado was made a ch- called "interior-point techniques." "I grew up in the business partner. Eventually he This kind of algorithm represents an started his own nursery. hard-core improvement over more conven- barrios, in a Tapia says he learned from his me tional mathematical approaches to area where 10 of my friends father how to handle people and be )m- optimization. Interior-point tech- overdosed on heroin. aggressive without appearing to be niques are specifically aimed at deal- I understand the youth, aggressive. From his mother, he ing ex- with extremely large optimiza- and I understand learned to be determined. "When tion she set a goal,there was nothing that she problems. how important ind Tapia is a dynamic and engaging was going to block her from achiev- in teacher as well as a respected re- education is." ing it," he comments. d it searcher. Tapia also inherited a native American face and straight black hair, ne- "He is the only person I know," MjNihi ave says John Dennis, chair of the com- a source of pride that makes him puter science department, "to re- wonder where his roots lie. He felt tar ceive a perfect teaching evaluation in closely aligned with the Zapotecs ied a course primarily for undergraduates." when he visited Oaxaca, Mexico, two years ago, but Dennis describes how Tapia makes his students his mother believes there may be ancestral ties to the ,sor Participate in the process of discovery. Often he will Taramara Indians in Chihuahua. [ate Pose a question and then let the students carry the Tapia thinks his love for mathematics may Late discussion on for days until they hit a blind alley. have come from the Maya, the first civilization to Re- Tapia,who never lets on that he knows the answer,will grasp the concept of the number zero. From first )m- come in one day and lead them step by step into the grade on, Tapia and his brother Robert were math ble light. stars, despite their lack of role models. Robert is now ties "He's fantastic," says graduate student Tony CEO of a software company in the Silicon Valley in Kearsley. "He excels at transmitting ideas." Kearsley California. ed came to Rice to pursue a Ph.D. in nonlinear optimi- In high school, when the mood allowed, the [or- zation after he read Tapia's research papers. Tapia brothers did extremely well in their nonmath hat "One of his greatest strengths is that he is very classes as well. pnal Open-minded," says Kearsley. "He allows students to "If you look at our high school records on paper, ga- make mistakes, but he never makes you feel that you neither one ofus was a star," Tapia says."Yet I tell you, were wrong." our talent was as good as anybody's in that school. We can Tapia, who won the George R. Brown Teaching were just not consistent, not smooth. We didn't :er- Award for Superior Teaching in 1991, has often been accept that being valedictorian was ofany value. It was ved compared to Jaime Escalante, the East Los Angeles much more important to race cars." ter- math teacher portrayed in Stand and Deliver. In the Cars were one ofTapia's early passions. At 10, he and movie, Escalante helps poor students climb over the and Robert saved $25 from their paper routes to buy ita- barrio barriers and into college. a Model A, which they drove on their five-acre lot in Tapia was born in a Los Angeles barrio in 1939 to Torrance. The Tapia family had moved to the suburbs pro- parents who instilled in him a love for education. He after construction of a freeway forced them out of ters has two sisters, a younger brother and a twin brother. their home in the barrio.

October I November '93 19 One day when the car wouldn't start, Tapia and professor. In 1978, he became the chair of the math- Robert took it apart and fixed it, thus igniting their ematical sciences department(now the Department of passion for revamping cars. They honed their skills Computational and Applied Mathematics), a position working for free at auto body shops and garages. he held until 1983. In 1991, the year he received the When they were 15, they built a 1932 Ford street George R. Brown Teaching Award, he was named roadster and raced it at local drag strips. Noah Harding Professor of Computational and Ap- On February 13, 1968, the Tapia brothers set a plied Mathematics. world record in elapsed time for fuel dragster racing. While his career was advancing, Tapia suffered Their Chrysler powered dragster sped through the two tragedies in his personal life. Jean was diagnosed quarter mile in 6.54 seconds. That same year, Tapia with multiple sclerosis in 1978 and later with received his Ph.D.from the University ofCalifornia at myasthenia gravis, both neurological diseases. Los Angeles. Forced to sell her Houston dance studio and Tapia did not zoom through his education. After experiencing bouts of depression, Jean decided to high school, he attended Harbor Junior College in develop an exercise program specifically for multiple Wilmington, California. He did not sclerosis patients. She now leads a apply to a four-year college because class twice a week at St. Philip's he had not received proper guidance Methodist Church,and her exercise - from his high school counselor. program has been put into a video "No one in my family had ever called Coming Back. For her work, gone to college, and I didn't know I she has received the Jefferson Award could go to a place like UCLA," he for Public Service and the Service to says. Mankind Award. At Harbor, three professors no- The second blow came in 1982, ticed his mathematical talents and when Circee, 21, was killed in a car encouraged him to go to UCLA. accident. The former Rice student Tapia transferred and received his was on her way to campus to prac- bachelor's degree in mathematics tice with a dance group when a from UCLA in 1961. While an un- drunken driver ran a red light at dergraduate, he married Jean Greenbriar and University streets Rodriguez, a ballet dancer. Their and hit her car. daughter Circee was born when he At Jean's suggestion, Tapia _ was a junior, They later had a son, worked to overcome his grief by Richard, now an undergraduate at the University of returning to his number one hobby, cars. He bought Portff.-• Houston and a rock and roll drummer. a 1978 Datsun 280Z and converted it into a showcase Before continuing on to graduate school at UCLA, car that won first place 11 times in state competitions. Tapia worked for a year and a half at Todd Shipyards, He works on the 280Z and his two classic '57 Chevys where he used IBM computers and mathematics to wearing a cowboy hat and listening to Tejano music. design ships. He had plans to work for IBM after His "daily driver" is a 1970 Chevy muscle car. completing his doctorate in mathematics, but the Together, the Tapias have found solace in their chairman of his department told him he had the son and in their daughter Becky, nine, whom they potential to be a successful teacher and researcher. adopted in 1984. Tapia went on to do a postdoctorate in applied math- "I can go into a garage and look at cars for hours," ematics at the Mathematics Research Center at the Tapia says. "The same with Becky. When I work with University of Wisconsin. Becky on her schoolwork, I get this great satisfaction He received job offers from several universities and stabilizing effect." following his two-year stint at Wisconsin. He accepted For Tapia, helping others comes as naturally as his a faculty position at Rice in 1970 because the university's mathematical talent. It's a need he must satisfy. two-year-old mathematical sciences department of- "I must help," he explains. "I believe I can do fered him a chance to do research with outstanding some good in improving the situation with minorities colleagues. He also chose Rice because of Houston's being underrepresented in science and mathematics. I racial diversity. grew up in the barrios, in a hard-core area where 10 of "I wanted to be involved in outreach programs, my friends overdosed on heroin. I understand the working with Hispanics and blacks," he says."I didn't youth,and I understand how important education is." want to go to an oasis." At Rice, Tapia's career took off. Within two years Right: Tapia with one of the '57 Chevy classics he has he got tenure, and four years later he was made a full restored.

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Women's studies has made scholarship vastly more inclusive— and more accurate.

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"I am invisible, understand, simply because history books. The change consists in more than ac- people refuse to see me." knowledging the contributions of women artists, scien- —Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man tists and activists. It runs deeper than that. Women's studies scholarship has established gender as In 1982 an evangelical Christian organization called a research variable as significant as class and race. It has Eagle Forum sent several of its members to observe a forced scholars to recognize that men and women expe- women's studies class at California State University at rience the world differently—they are raised differently, Long Beach. The group suspected that the course, learn to speak and interact differently, face different Women and Their Bodies," was promoting lesbianism challenges and crises. They age differently. They die under the guise of scholarly endeavor. And it was deter- differently. And because of this, the male experience mined to stop it. cannot be generalized to the population at large—any Under pressure from Eagle Forum and against strong more than the experience of middle-class whites can be protest from the faculty, Cal State Long Beach ordered equated with the American experience. Women's studies a review ofthe women's studies program. In the end,the proved that research based on men alone cannot yield course was canceled, a professor was removed,the direc- universal truths. Man cannot stand as a representative for tor of the women's center was dismissed and the center "mankind." was temporarily shut down. Women's studies has also called attention to the role of From its inception, women's studies—which is now a gender in artistic production and scientific research. major at Rice—has been battered by criticism from What does the portrayal of women,and of men,in a text Within and beyond the academy. It has been linked to tell us about the author and about his or her society? How lesbianism, multiculturalism, radical feminism and other do cultural views ofmen and women affect what scientists suspect isms. It has been condemned as narrow and study and how? In medicine, for instance, why has Political. And, in just over two decades, it has radically cardiovascular disease,which predominantly affects men, transformed the scope, methods and focus ofscholarship received more attention than breast cancer? in the humanities and social sciences and has begun to Once such questions are raised, they cannot be swept influence the natural sciences. back into the shadows. They must be addressed, not to It is not only that women's works now appear on the fulfill any feminist agenda but to meet the requirements Syllabi ofliterature courses or that a diligent seamstress is of accurate and complete scholarship. not the only woman whose face appears in American

October / November '93 23 omen's studies emerged as a cohesive area ofstudy tant role in stimulating scholarship in women's studies at Win the late 1960s. According to Catharine Rice. In the following years, several other faculty mem- Stimpson's 1986 report to the Ford Foundation( Women's bers with research interests in this area were hired, and Studies in the United States), 17 courses on women were the curriculum was expanded to include a significant offered in the United States in 1969-70. By 1973, more number ofgender -related courses. Another key develop- than 2,000 courses and 80 formalized women's studies ment was the creation ofthe Feminist Reading Group as programs had been established. Less than 10 years later, a workshop in the Center for Cultural Studies. The group the number of courses helped increase awareness of and interest in women's was estimated at 30,000. studies scholarship on campus. Today, more than 600 "By the time I got here there was a strong core of universities, including faculty and a good selection ofcourses across the various virtually every leading disciplines," says philosophy professor Helen Longino, university in the coun- who helped bring the existing courses together into a try, offer women's stud- more formal program after Gallop left Rice in 1990. ies programs, many of- Longino quickly moved to establish a women's studies fer undergraduate ma- major by calling an open meeting for interested faculty to jors or certificates, and discuss the possibility of a degree program. Two years several offer freestand- later, the major was approved. ing higher degrees. Angela Hunt was one of the first students at Rice to Rice University join- declare a major in the study of women and gender. Hunt ed the ranks of schools is the recipient of the Class of'36 Scholarship and the offering women's stud- founder of the Rice Student Association Committee on ies majors in March Women's Issues. She is listed in the 1993 edition of Who's 1992, when the under- Who in American Universities and Colleges. graduate curriculum The decision to study women and gender was easy for committee approved a Hunt, who plans to go to the University of Texas law major in the study of school and study family law, with the long-term plan of women and gender. getting involved in Texas politics. Dean of Humanities "I felt my undergraduate education should be focused Allen Matusow, a spe- on what would help me in my career," she explains."This cialist in post-1945 major will help me understand how legislation affects United States history, women and children." helped spark interest in the field at Rice in the o a large extent, the interest in women's studies in early 1980s. T1 the United States was an outgrowth of the feminist "I became aware," movement, much as black studies was a product of the Matusow recalls, "of civil rights movement. In both cases, the fight against how far Rice lagged in discrimination directed new attention to the sources, 416 the area of women's nature and implications of inequality. In both cases, studies when I went to a victims of power imbalances sought to recover their past conference in 1982 that as they worked toward a better future. brought together lead- Demographic shifts also helped generate interest in the ers in the field and uni- study of women. As women entered the workforce in versity administrators. I unprecedented numbers in the 1960s and 1970s and determined then that we began to infiltrate male professional enclaves, questions should strengthen this about occupational sex segregation and sex discrimina- area. First thing I did tion assumed new relevance. myselfwas teach a course In the academy, the growing ranks of women scholars the next year on and sympathetic male colleagues called attention to women's history and lacunae in the historical and scientific records. What had family history in the women been doing for the past million or so years, for United States. I also re- instance? Neither historians, nor anthropologists, nor cruited a distinguished sociologists knew. As scholars, women could not over- scholar in the women's look such massive gaps in the accumulated knowledge of studies field, who even- centuries. As women, many of whom had been or were tually filled one of our endowed chairs." active in the feminist movement,the new scholars could The distinguished scholar Matusow brought in was not sanction gender bias in the pages ofhistory and in the English professor Jane Gallop. Gallop played an impor- paradigms of science. To ask questions about the other

24 Sallyport es at 51 percent ofthe human species was as much an intellec- be partially attributable to the current thinking of eco- em- tual imperative as a political challenge. nomics, which coheres with the American story of re- and In the social sciences, women's studies stimulated sources going to those who work for and deserve them." :ant scholars to reevaluate theories developed on the basis of This and related issues will be addressed in Feminist lop- all-male or predominantly male data. Among the most Economics, the new journal of the International Associa- p as famous examples is Carol Gilligan's critique ofLawrence tion for Feminist Economics,which Strassmann has been oup Kohlberg's theory of universal moral development. A selected to edit. en's prominent developmental psychologist, Kohlberg had One of the greatest transformations brought on by proposed that all individuals pass through the same six women's studies has occurred in historical scholarship. e of stages of moral development, advancing from a crude, Here as in the social sciences, the female experience had ious egocentric understanding ofright and wrong to a higher, been virtually ignored, with the result that the history of ino, universal standard of justice. "man" was in fact the history of men. Mining the past of to a Females,according to Kohlberg,tended to get stuck at the other half of humankind proved difficult, because a middle stage in which good was defined as whatever conventional tools of historical research—government dies makes others happy. In other words,their moral growth documents, political papers, census data—often yielded ty to was stunted. little on women. In search 'ears The problem with Kohlberg's universal stages was that ofnew tools,the new schol- they were based on research using only male subjects, ars turned to previously ne- e to albeit from many parts of the world. Questioning the glected sources ofdata: oral [tint universality ofan all-male universe, Gilligan conducted a testimony, diaries and per- the separate study using female subjects. Her conclusion, sonal letters, and court and e on Published in an article entitled "In a Different Voice: legal records. These have Vho's Women's Conceptions of Self and of Morality" (Har- since become standard in- vard Educational Review, 1977), was that women fol- struments of historical in- lowed a different developmental sequence from men. vestigation. y for WOMEN'S STUDIES law They were different, not deficient. Gender has also come to ,n of In sociology, women's studies introduced gender as a be recognized as a factor in valid basis of important as ethnicity and class. historical change. Rice pro- analysis, as PROVED THAT RESEARCH ased Differences between male and female socialization pat- fessor ofFrench studies and This terns, work histories and political participation came history Daniel Sherman ad- Fects under investigation. And issues that centrally concern dresses the role ofgender in BASED ON MEN ALONE women,such as rape, pregnancy and domestic violence, the French Revolution in his became acceptable topics of research. teaching. es in Cultural anthropologists began to ask questions about "Much ofthe opposition CANNOT YIELD UNIVERSAL mist women's status in other societies and to question the to the monarchy and the F the completeness of past research that had focused on male old regime in the years be- ainst activities and male informants. Anthropologists also re- fore the revolution was ex- TRUTHS. MAN CANNOT rces, evaluated the concept of man the hunter, pointing to pressed in highly gender- ases, evidence that women in early human communities con- specific terms," he says. past tributed much, perhaps the bulk, of a group's food "The monarchy was con- STAND AS A REPRESENTATIVE through gathering vegetable foods. Today, anthropolo- sidered corrupt and deca- a the gists refer to preagricultural humans as hunters and dent in part because women :e in gatherers (or gatherers and hunters)—not just hunters. had a lot of power behind FOR "MANKIND." and In economics,scholars have challenged theories based the scenes, as mistresses, ions- on generalizations of the adult male experience. For for instance." iina- Instance, the rational calculator, who stands at the center Sherman explains that of neoclassical economic theory, is perceived as an au- Rousseau, who profoundly influenced the thought of Dlars tonomous individual, free to make choices about spend- French revolutionaries,called for a more masculine form ing, rl to housing and employment. Women do not necessar- of government, in which men made the political deci- had ily possess this freedom. Like the very old and the very sions and women remained confined to the domestic ,, for Young,their "choices" are often constrained by financial sphere. nor dependence and power relationships. "Of course, it was long realized that Rousseau was a wer- Rice economist Diana Strassmann, a founder and vice misogynist," Sherman says,"but nobody had asked what e of president of the International Association for Feminist place misogyny had in his political thought." were Economics, believes that the tendency of mainstream Elsewhere in the humanities, the contributions of ould economists to emphasize choice over constraint has women authors, artists and scholars started to receive the important practical ramifications. serious recognition. The portrayal of women and of ither "Certain contemporary policy failures," she says,"par- male-female dynamics in literary works was examined, as ticularly the undue suffering ofinfants and children, may scholars investigated the generally overlooked gender

October / November '93 25 component of works that had been scrutinized for de- ties, they too have undergone revision. Scholars have cades, even centuries. begun to investigate how cultural beliefs about gender Rice English professor Colleen Lamos is working on a distort the lens ofscientific inquiry. To what degree, for feminist evaluation of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land. example, are aggressiveness, nurturance and other gen- "What interests me," she says,"is how the poem—and der-typed behaviors truly linked to biological differ- other poems by Eliot—represent women being mur- ences, and to what extent have researchers projected dered or portray women as vindictive and controlling. cultural stereotypes onto their reading of the natural Analyzing these images tells us a lot about our Western world? literary tradition, about the particular historical moment and about Eliot's psyche." s women's studies has expanded, its focus has Rice English professor Dennis Huston says that A shifted. women's studies has profoundly affected how he teaches, "Programs that started up in the late '80s," Longino especially how he teaches Shakespeare. says, "are explicitly taking gender as a focus. That's a "The most important work done in Shakespeare stud- theoretical development within the field. Our program ies in the last 10 years is in women's studies and has an emphasis on the notion of gender, which means Shakespeare," Huston says. "The plays are being re- we're interested in concepts of masculinity as well as ideas viewed in the literal sense of the word by all of us who about women." teach, because we're asked to see things in a new perspec- Some women's studies scholars object to this trend, tive and confront new issues." fearing that women's issues may be neglected as the As an example, Huston points to the reevaluation of emphasis broadens to include men. Others regard ques- Rosalind's fate at the end of As You Like It. "When tions of masculinity and femininity as inextricably re- Rosalind becomes Orlando's wife, she surrenders all her lated. power, and Orlando gets all her land, which suggests "We're ignoring a wealth ofinformation about mascu- something tremendously important about the nature of linity that could really enrich the study ofgender," Hunt the society Shakespeare is writing for and about—and says. "To be fair, we must either make gender the about Shakespeare's own perspective. predominant aspect of the discipline or allow for the "In present-day terminology," Huston explains, creation ofa men's studies major. Otherwise,the women "Rosalind is subordinated and marginalized. This sug- and gender major remains open to criticisms ofinherent gests that Shakespeare may be a good deal more conser- inequality." vative than we tend to think of him, since in the end, he A more fundamental debate among women's studies gives us a society essentially unchanged from the society scholars is whether gender issues should be integrated into existing core curriculum courses or addressed in separate classes and programs. Proponents of main- streaming argue that autonomous programs IRONICALLY, SOME OF THE CRITICISMS NOW LEVELED AT WOMEN'S STUDIES may lead to the isola- tion and neglect of women's issues and to WERE ONCE AIMED AT DISCIPLINES THAT HAVE BECOME PART OF THE the ghettoization of women's studies scholars. Advocates of au- TRADITIONAL OR CORE CURRICULUM. tonomy argue that efforts to integrate the study of women and he gave us at the beginning. This was altogether ignored gender into existing classes too often result in superficial in Shakespeare criticism until the last five or 10 years." allusions to the contributions of women. This "add Women's studies scholars also called attention to the women and stir" approach also ignores gender as a gender bias that underlies the evaluation of visual arts, critical basis of analysis. Longino says. For example,painting on canvas,predomi- Rice religious studies professor Anne Klein,who teaches nantly a male pursuit, has traditionally been regarded as two courses on Buddhism and women and gender at art, while female endeavors such as quilting and needle- Rice, believes a mix is needed. work have been trivialized as hobbies. Women's studies "Women's studies is a new field, and there is definitely scholars asked whether the privileged status of painting a place for people to focus on the issues and the history reflects the privileged status of men. of the study of women and gender. But certainly it's Though the natural sciences have been influenced less extremely desirable for some of the analytic tools from by women's studies than the social sciences and humani- this field to be incorporated into the core curriculum."

26 Sallyport we Klein compares feminist theory with some of the divert students and financial resources away from other ler perspectives of Asian religions and strongly emphasizes fields. She also questions whether women really benefit For the importance of gender analysis in cross-cultural stud- from women's studies. ies. This is one feature of the women's studies program "In order to improve the status of women in society," at Rice. she explains,"we have to empower them economically, ed There are those, too, who remain antagonistic to the and what empowers them economically is the kind of ral whole concept of women's studies. In his inflammatory book Il- as liberal Education: The Politics ofRace and Sex no on Campus(Free Press, s a 1991),Dinesh D'Souza am contemptuously de- 3,ns scribes a class at Har- eas vard that he felt was representative of women's ad, studies courses. The the mostly female students, es- D'Souza writes,donned re- "headbands and tur- quoise jewelry, loose cu- long shirts and pins advertising various causes." One knowledge that they can use in their future jobs. I ant student made ribald comments about the male anatomy, wonder what kind of real job they can get with a major the while the instructor, who sat on the front of her desk, in women's studies." the tossed off radical quips (often in French!). D'Souza Thompson believes that curricular revision in general len condemns the class'"intellectual fare" as "so esoteric and is compromising the standards ofeducation in the United ent yet so vulgar, so free-wheeling and yet so dogmatic, so States. full of political energy and yet ultimately so futile." "Our best and brightest do not know basic facts ofthe lies At Rice,students, faculty and administrators have been real world, such as the names of countries," she says, ted largely enthusiastic about the women's studies program. "because we have replaced our basic courses on literature :ur- But there has been opposition, too. and geography and common historical memory with ad- In November 1990,a conservative student magazine, courses that emphasize social antagonisms and that pit ate the Rice Sentinel, ran a series of articles and editorials one social group against another." ms. debating the need for women's studies at Rice. Pro and Ironically,some ofthe criticisms now leveled at women's tin- con exchanges also appeared in the Rice Thresher in 1990. studies were once aimed at disciplines that have become :hat One Thresher article charged that women's studies is part of the traditional or core curriculum. Modern lan- uns driven by a political agenda and so diverges from the ideal guages, American literature, American history and engi- )1a- of objective scholarship. neering were all at one time regarded as not serious, too of "The university ought to be a refuge where people can narrow or otherwise inappropriate subjects for indepen- I to think critically and examine all facts in an unbiased dent college study. of setting," argued the authors, who equated women's Until the mid-19th century, the true "traditional" iol- studies courses with exercises in brainwashing. undergraduate curriculum in the United States consisted au- Longino rejects the "too political" criticism as illogi- of Latin, Greek and sometimes Hebrew; moral, social ef- cal. In a 1990 interview for Other Voices (published by and natural philosophy; and some mathematics. Even the the Rice Women's Alliance)she asked "why the exclusion applied and laboratory sciences were seen as inappropri- and of women in the standard curriculum shouldn't also be ate for undergraduate study and were strongly resisted by cial understood as a political statement or a political act." the classics-centered academy. Harvard president Charles add Other students criticized women's studies as too nar- W. Eliot finally broke the barrier in the latter half of the Ls a row or specialized and so inconsistent with the objective 19th century by establishing the elective system, which ofa broad undergraduate education. Sociology professor allowed sciences to be slipped in the back door of the :hes Elizabeth Long disagrees. academy. at r "Because it crosses disciplinary boundaries," she says, Women's studies did not slip in the back door. It "to do well in the study of women and gender you have arrived in an explosion of discovery, and if its arrival did tely to be conversant with a whole array of methods and not shake the academy to its foundations, as some feared ory traditions. I'm surprised people didn't say it was too it might, it has certainly rattled—or opened—some win- it's broad, actually." dows. om Professor of German and Slavic studies Ewa Thomp- n." son worries that the emphasis on women's studies may

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0 II\ -7- 0 Nineteen eighty-nine will be remembered as the year commu- 011 • nism died in Eastern Europe. Rice history professor Gale Stokes believes that it will be a date as significant as 1789, 1914 and 1945—years that shaped the fate of Europe and deeply influenced the politics and economics of the world. Within a few months in • Wigmlei, 1989, the Eastern European countries overthrew the Soviet-sponsored regimes that had ruled them for 40 years and established non-Communist governments. Cartographers went into a frenzy as they attempted 0c to keep up with the changing boundaries of newly created • ore it V. '1 countries. East and West Germany merged into one nation. Yugoslavia blew apart into five countries, and a new country, Moldova, was created between Ukraine and Romania. With the fall of communism, half a billion people experienced new political, religious and artistic freedom. State cen- sorship was relaxed, and a plethora of publications flooded the public arena. Democratic principles and a market economy became the new social ideals. trachan' The fall of communism also gave rise to political infight- ing, economic turmoil and intense ethnic hostilities, leading in some cases to vicious conflict.

ow Eastern Europe is faring in the early years of the 4 post-Communist era is a question Stokes and Rice professor of German and Slavic studies Ewa Thompson Allire• N Z ally Bogar.00 have spent considerable time analyzing. Both professors have eNAle cu recently traveled through Eastern Europe and written extensively about the enormous changes. a Born in Lithuania of Polish parents, Thompson has a special interest in Eastern Europe. She is the American corre- _ spondent for Tygodnik Solidarnosc, the official weekly of the ,s. ,- ,), P,asht trade union Solidarity. Her books include The Search for Self- Tabriz 4, p,roch (f4.' Definition in Russian Literature (Rice University Press, Reta 1991) and Understanding Russia: The Holy Fool in Russian Culture (University Press of America, 1987). Among the ar- TEtitaN --_--___ ticles she has written on the demise of communism are "Three Perceptions of the Fall of Communism: American, • y e Russian, and East European, and Their Possible Role in Fu- , ture Conflicts" (Dalhousie Review, summer 1992) and "A sfahin Weak and Peaceful Russia" (Policy Review, fall 1991). • #),., Stokes' books include From Stalinism to Pluralism: A (. t.Abian

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IN 21.BA. 14 R' 2__)1.1iNt4 Gpt F Stokes spent seven weeks Se, Documentary History ofEastern Europe Since 1985 traveling Ihrough (Oxford University Press, 1991) and Politics as De- NORWEG IAN velopment: The Emergence of Political Parties in Eastern Europe Nineteenth-Century Serbia (Duke University Press, BASIN 1990). In his most recent book, The Walls Came Tum- 1141w1"4141,4 Sea (1...lu1he spring of bling Down: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe(Oxford University Press), which appeared ."":4# 4‘\ 092 and inter- in September, Stokes chronicles in meticulous detail events in Eastern Europe from 1968 to 1992—including the civil war that is consuming the country 4‘11% finked ahoul 80 of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In doing research for the book, Stokes, who speaks Serbo-Croatian, spent leading figures seven weeks traveling through Eastern Europe in the spring of 1992 and interviewed about 80 leading figures and insiders. antinsiders. NGR Stokes explains that 1989 marked the end of 'Stockholm 0:11 the two major political and economic experiments of the 20th century—fascism and communism. Plu- V.U. Goteborg • • Riga ralism, also a 20th-century experiment, survives. According to Stokes, "It is within pluralism that DENNI A RK lolth Sea „. Klaipecla Europe will have to develop, for better or for Ko?S.havni „ maim, Baltic Sea N Smolensk, worse." Stokes defines pluralism as a combination of es II Ktim burg electoral politics and a market economy that permits NE'rR ó9 Minsk change to occur am P0] within a society. Japan with its co- WEST BERLI operative is GERMANY War structure, Sweden with its socialism and EAST/I wa,ta the United States with its mixed `P Esse GERMANY economy, all prac- Leipzig tice a particular version of pluralism. L. n Both Thompson and Stokes believe that, FrEmitfu rt in the OV long run, Eastern Europe will develop prosperous 6 . Stuttga pluralistic societies. They warn, however, that the Munchen,' I transition will be neither smooth nor rapid. "What we have now is what we're going to have," says Stokes. "Political struggles, problems. e 6 But bit by bit, we will have the creation of six or Venezia eight separate kinds of pluralistic societies, just like we have in the West." Each nation will traverse a very different land- 1'.<1 scape and confront different obstacles T on the path 7 to pluralism. The journey will be faster and more ROMA• peaceful for some than for others. '"Napoli):77 hat triggered the dissolution of the Soviet yrihenian Sea bloc is still a point of contention. Some argue w that Mikhail Gorbachev and his reform poli- A 'Pale rni cies of perestroika Ike:, LI and glasnost in the USSR were the catalysts. Others say former U.S. president Ronald Reagan and his arms race broke the faltering Soviet economy. Still others credit the work of anti- Communist groups in Eastern Europe. -• ku "But," says Thompson,"if you look Golfe de G at it chro- ,U. nologically, there is no question that the Solidarity Tarabulus movement in Poland was the first . rrfpol, mass movement against communism within the Soviet bloc."

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The gross domestic product has contin- less rigid Communist regime permitted economic ued to increase since 1992, and the currency is reform. The reforms were looked upon favorably by ent stable. Auto builder Fiat has taken over a big auto- the West and allowed Hungary to participate in in- mobile plant, and the shipyard industry has back or- ternational trade. ders. About 50 percent of Polish domestic products "It was the favorite country in the West and got are produced by the private sector. the lion's share of foreign investment in the first Still, desperate poverty continues to exist in Po- two years after 1989," Stokes says. CS land. Unemployment has reached 14 percent. Many Hungary achieved political stability by changing rlu- workers with low salaries can't pay for world-priced its constitution in 1989. The revised constitution, commodities and foods. Agriculture, one of Poland's which went into effect in 1990, helped the nation main enterprises, is having trouble competing with move away from Communist domination and calls state-subsidized European prices. And many of the for national elections every four years. This has kept heavy industries built by the former Soviet Union to the current government intact but hardly invulner- support its military are now obsolete. able. nits "You can't step from socialism to capitalism Right-wing poet and political activist Sandor 0- Without any casualties," Thompson says. Czurka has split from the ruling party, the Hungar- Even within Poland, some make the step more ian Democratic Forum, and created his own fiercely C- easily than others. While sectors of the population nationalistic party called the Hungarian Path. have embraced the spirit of entrepreneurialism, there Whether Czurka will play a vital role in contesting he are those who refuse to adapt to the new economy. the hegemony of the Democratic Forum and desta- The situation is exemplified by the tale of two cities, bilize the country remains to be seen. Stokes says. In Czechoslovakia, almost daily mass gatherings The textile town of Lodz retains its old style of of demonstrators helped push communism aside in leadership and remains poor. It lost a major oppor- 1989. The people were led by playwright Vaclav tunity to garner the business of Sarah Lee because Havel and his human rights group, Chapter 77. the international conglomerate was turned off by the Havel was elected president in 1990 but resigned "Mickey Mouse bureaucracy" endemic to Commu- two years later when he couldn't resolve the conflict nist governments and still operating in Lodz. By between the Czech and Slovak republics. contrast, Wroclaw is prospering with the construc- Known for its Velvet (bloodless) Revolution, tion of a new international airport, thanks to a pro- Czechoslovakia recently underwent a velvet divorce. gressive and energetic young mayor. Feeling the Czech majority was discriminating • Politically, Poland continues to strive for stabil- against them, Slovaks decided to form their own ity. Though Poland was the first country in Eastern country. The split between the two primary ethnic Europe to hold free elections, many of the old Com- groups of Czechoslovakia was relatively peaceful. ue munists were not pushed out of the government un- There was even an air of sadness in Prague when the til 1990 when Lech Walesa, the outspoken leader of borders were drawn, says Stokes. Solidarity, was elected president. The newly formed Republic of Czechoslovakia The new legislature under Walesa is composed is more educated, more urban and more secular of29 parties and has had difficulties getting things than the Republic of Slovakia. It implemented an decided and accomplished. For a brief period in innovative plan to privatize 1,400 government- 1992, chaos erupted until Hanna Suchocka,"the owned industries. The government gave each citi- Margaret Thatcher of Poland," took over as prime zen a voucher worth a thousand points (pseudo minister and kept the country together by heading money) for a fee equal to two weeks of an average off strikes and getting important legislation passed. worker's salary. The people then had to decide Her party, however, lost by one vote last spring. This which companies to invest their vouchers in, a pro- fall, Poland will hold elections for the legislature. cess that forced them to learn more about capital-

October / November '93 31 ism and the stock market. ahead, even with faltering steps, Yugoslavia and its Stokes says the plan was widely successful, espe- former republics are trapped in a desperate conflict. cially from the psychological point of view. Unlike A year after Yugoslavia had its first free election in the situation in Poland, where privatization was 1990, the federation began to break up. National- viewed as a threat, in Czechoslovakia almost every- ism and ethnic hatred caused Yugoslavia to disinte- one was involved in the economic change. grate into a cluster of small countries and sparked a In contrast to Czechoslovakia, Slovakia, accord- civil war in 1992. ing to Stokes, doesn't understand capitalism and has "The war encompasses everything," says Stokes, an unemployment rate of about 11 percent. This adding that there is little hope this region will re- tiny country also suffers economically from the arms store itself anytime soon. "It's going to take a gen- industry the Soviet Union built after 1945, which is eration to get the genie back in the bottle." now obsolete. Four of the six federal republics that made up Romania and Bulgaria are among the most de- Yugoslavia have declared their independence: pressed countries in Eastern Europe. Romania is be- Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnia ing run by members of the deposed Ceausescu re- for short) and Macedonia. gime who know little about a market economy or In 1991 Slovenia became the first republic to democratic principles. declare its independence. In comparison to the For 25 years, Nicolae Ceausescu ran one of the other republics, Slovenia, with a population of two most notorious dictatorships in the world. He and million, is doing well, says Stokes. It has its own his wife Elena were executed in 1989 after the currency and has achieved diplomatic recognition people rose against them with the help of the army. from the European community. More important, "The economy and culture of Romania were the country has avoided war. destroyed by Ceausescu to a degree experienced by Croatia followed suit and became independent no other country in Eastern Europe, with the ex- shortly after Slovenia. Serbs, who occupy about ception of Albania," says Stokes. one-third of the land, have tried to secede and unite In the 1980s Ceausescu forced the entire nation with Yugoslavia. The result has been deadly strife. to go hungry by exporting food to provide hard "The civil war has become mean-spirited," currency to pay off Romania's foreign debt. He for- Stokes says. "Lifelong friends are killing each other, bade citizens to have light bulbs brighter than 40 there are mutilations and wanton destruction, com- watts because the grossly inefficient heavy industry plete economic ruin." needed large amounts of energy. To increase the la- Bosnia collapsed almost as soon as it became in- bor force, he implemented a natal policy in which dependent. It is the most ethnically mixed of the abortion was banned and married couples without Balkan countries. Muslims constitute 43 percent of children had to pay special taxes. the population, Croats, 34 percent, and Serbs, 17 "They have a low starting point," Stokes says, percent. "but they will eventually have some progress." In When Yugoslavia broke up, a referendum was 1991, the country approved a constitution that al- held to decide whether Bosnia should become inde- lowed multiparty representation. pendent. Muslims and Croats overwhelmingly fa- Bulgaria turned away from communism in vored the proposition, but Serbs boycotted the 1991 after worsening economic conditions led to vote. They did not want the republic to break away the collapse of the government. In 1992, Zhelyu from Yugoslavia, where Serbs are in the majority. Zhelev became the first president to be elected As armed Serbs began seizing territories in democratically in Bulgaria since World War II. Bosnia, a three-sided civil war broke out among Like Romania, Bulgaria has an inflation rate of Serbs, Croats and Muslims. Serbian forces have oc- 100 to 120 percent, according to Thompson. Bul- cupied two-thirds of Bosnia and have almost seized garia was hurt economically by the Persian Gulf War Sarajevo, Bosnia's capital. Ten thousand people when Iraq failed to pay $1.4 billion in oil it owed have been killed in Sarajevo alone since 1992. the country. In an ethnic cleansing campaign, Serbs have The international embargo on neighboring Yu- gang-raped Muslim women for the dual purpose of goslavia is also putting a crimp in the Bulgarian making them unacceptable to their men and forcing economy because Bulgaria used to receive many of them to bear Serbian children, Stokes says. They its foreign goods via a river that runs through Yugo- have ravaged Muslim sections of the cities, causing slavia. Political change and privatization are moving the greatest flight of refugees in Europe since World slowly. About 90 percent of the enterprises are still War II. Through such actions, Stokes says, "the owned by the state. Serbs have turned themselves into the pariahs of While the rest of Eastern Europe marches Europe."

32 Sallyport Ewa Thompson Is the American Macedonia was the last republic to split from :t. Yugoslavia. This newly established nation is sand- correspondent wiched between Greece, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania. Its population consists of Eastern Ortho- for TyptInS dox Christians and a sizable Muslim community. In a 1993, Macedonia was admitted to the United Na- tions. Manor, :es, Of all Eastern European countries, Macedonia is the only one to have a multiethnic government. Five Albanians and one Turk sit on the cabinet [he official alongside Macedonians. The volatile economy and politics have not led to war. weekly of the ,;(4S:,,,Q, Still, Macedonia's future remains gravely in Lia doubt, Stokes says, because of the country's small size and unstable government. Irage unteiOr Yugoslavia presents another bleak picture. Much diminished by the breakup, Yugoslavia is now •60,, /Mane" Solidarlipa-s • made up of the federal republics of Serbia and Tallinn dsitoie Montenegro. Its economy has been devastated by 0,e+o Goteborgatter', war, the international trade embargo and the seces- • Riga sion of industry-rich Slovenia and Croatia. Recovery DEN MA Air 7/th doesn't appear to be in sight. Sea . KlaiPeda Po... KObenhaVn) 4 Halal() Baltic Sea nt Recovery for the rest of Eastern Europe seems Nemunas smoi more hopeful. Thompson thinks that within 16 • Kalininmad Vilnius rZL- — lite years most of the Eastern European countries will Gdansk N Minsk be part of the European Common Market. Never, isterdam D , she says, will they revert to communism. "There's ?rdani . c Cr, not the slightest chance," she emphasizes. er (-j Even the concept of Eastern Europe has been m- Katowice 1- called into question. People in this region don't .. Krakow L, -C A apA vov in- consider themselves Eastern European but rather 0, Central European or simply European. They believe U. wjt a v,y( of the term Eastern European carries connotations of C.! E 7 being bound to the former Soviet Union and to a backward, Orthodox tradition, Stokes says. Stokes believes that the turmoil in Eastern Eu- de- rope will eventually subside and pluralism will reign. It's absurd to think that Eastern Europe can develop pluralistic societies within a few years, he says. ray The United States had to endure fistfights in Con- gress and a bloody civil war before forming a more complete democracy. France took 90 years to create

the Third Republic. SA4U6sA ic- "We tend to look at Eastern Europe and its WIDOYA ,ed economy and politics through some sort of ideal 2/366 notion of what politics should be like," he says. "There are no textbook examples of how liberal de- mocracies are created. So I'm optimistic for Eastern of Europe."• :ing nrld

+990on Rice Graduate about my sports career, they're also jumpers must make the final leap Leaps toward Olympics worried about my spiritual growth before their feet cross the foul and my spiritual life." board, a white marker on the track. Rice University graduate Claudia To perform a triple jump, the The best athletes in the triple Haywood leaped into the competi- athlete sprints along a short track jump are from former Communist tive ranks of international jumpers to build up speed for three jumps. bloc countries. They consistently in June when she won the triple The jumper must take off and land jump about 48 feet. jump at the United States Champi- on the same foot for the first hop, Bevan says if Haywood adds a onships in Eugene, Oregon, with a then take a short step followed by foot to her jump, she will be com- 45 foot, 5-34 inch mark. a long jump into a sand pit. Triple petitive anywhere in the world. Haywood is the first Rice "I don't think that is an impos- woman track competitor to win a sible goal right now," says Hay- national title and the first Owl to Claudia Haywood is the first wood, who is concentrating on ek- earn that honor since 1973. Rice woman track competitor ing out the extra foot. She knows Earlier in the year, Haywood to win a national title and the her form must improve. won the 1993 Southwest Confer- first Owl to earn that honor "I have to work on my jump ence championship in the triple jump since 1973. phase and my landing," she says. by leaping 44 feet, 10- inches. "The jump phase is the last part of It was her best competitive jump. the jump. I'm having a prob- Her effort was the seventh best lem of sticking my foot out ever in the U.S. and the second too far. I'm not landing com- best by an American this year. pletely extended. One leg is Shelia Hudson, a 1990 graduate always farther back than the from the University of California other." at Berkeley, holds the record for Haywood was to have rep- the best leap this year with 45 resented the United States in feet,6 inches. the triple jump in the World Haywood began competing University Games later this in track and field events while in year. But she injured her lower junior high school in Yokum, back early in the U.S. Cham- Texas, where she was born. When pionships and has not fully re- her family moved to Houston, covered. Part of the problem she joined the Bellaire High is that she continued to jump School team. It was there that she after receiving the injury. captured the attention of Victor In July, she placed fourth Lopez, head coach for the Owls in the U.S. and Great Britain track and field team. He was quick dual meet in Scotland—her to recruit her by offering a full first loss of the season. The scholarship. same month she placed ninth "In high school, I decided I in the World University didn't want to do any sports in Games in Buffalo, New York, college," Haywood says. "I just which eliminated her from the wanted to concentrate on my aca- World Championships in demics. But I could only get a Stuttgart, Germany. partial scholarship for academics. When the pain worsened, I could get a full ride with track. Haywood stopped competing So here I am. I'm really pleased. to allow her back to heal. She I'm glad it all worked out the way should be completely recov- it did." ered by fall and plans to re- Haywood now trains under sume jumping competitively the sponsorship of a track club, by January. with Jon Bevan, Rice's assistant Haywood says the injury track and field coach,as her coach. will not stop her from pursu- "I'm competing for Athletes ing her dream of representing in Action," she explains. "It's a the United States in the triple Christian track club. I'm a Chris- jump during the 1996 Olym- tian. They're a Christian founda- pics. tion, and I think that's really important. They're not just worried —Philip Montgomery

34 Sallyport STUDENTS

GSA Works to Improve campus or building a dorm on tecture graduate students involved Graduate Life at Rice campus. The latter proposal is the in Habitat for Humanity. ck. most attractive, since graduate Elias and other GSA members le The Graduate Student Association students could then use campus have also participated in the South ist wants Rice graduate students to services such as the telephone and Texas High School program, enjoy the amenities of a full-time computer lines. which brings minority students job. Obtaining health care during from the valley to Rice and ex- ; a "Since being in graduate the summer is another major con- poses them to the world of science n- school is like having a job, we want cern of the GSA. In the past, the and engineering. graduate students to have good Rice health care center has )os- and stable pay and decent housing closed in the summer, leav- conditions," says Joseph Elias, GSA ing graduate students to find president. outside care at higher rates. ft - By good pay, Elias means that In a survey conducted graduate student stipends should by the GSA,the majority of provide a decent standard of living. graduate students said that He says that while stipends in sci- they would be willing to pay of ence and engineering departments an extra $20 to $30 in fees to 11. )13- are good, those in the humanities have health care services ex- lag far behind. tended through the summer. m- The GSA has asked the univer- This convinced Sarah is sity to increase stipends in the hu- Burnett, dean of students, Le manities and worked with Develop- to make some changes in the ment to launch a letter campaign university budget and keep .ep- seeking contributions from alums the health care center open in with graduate degrees from Rice. for two days a week begin- id Guaranteeing a stipend for a ning in the summer of1994. number of years is also crucial in The GSA serves as the Aver recruiting outstanding graduate student government and lob- m- students to Rice, says Elias. Start- bying group for Rice's 1,380 re- ing this year, departments will be graduate students. It is com- am able to offer incoming graduate posed of33 representatives, mp students up to three years of finan- one from each university de- cial support. Before, departments partment, and six officers. th could only guarantee one year of The representatives select the ii n support. four executive officers— "A one-year contract doesn't president, vice president, lead to much job security," Elias treasurer and secretary—and nh Points out. two nonexecutive officers. According to Elias, the most One ofthe nonexecutive of- GSA president Joseph Elias. Tk, crucial issue facing graduate stu- ficers is in charge ofthe Yel- the dents is the lack of proper housing. low Pages, a guide to Hous- The Graduate House, located ton produced for graduate students Elias hopes that in the future, across from campus on the corner by the GSA. The other runs the the GSA will develop programs !cl, of Main Street and University Bou- emergency loan service, which pro- that help undergraduates gain ex- :ing levard, was formerly a motel. vides up to $250 to financially perience doing research. She Students who live there— strapped graduate students. "Doing university research as v- about 250—complain that the old In addition to addressing an undergraduate," he says, "inter- building does not provide comfort- graduate students' needs, the acting with graduate students and :ly able living conditions because the GSA holds a fall and spring picnic faculty in a research environment, rooms are too small, there are no and is involved in community is a necessary step in a complete Private kitchens, and the furniture events. GSA officer Nick Panaro education." su- is shoddy. started a Habitat for Humanity Getting undergraduates inter- :ing "Any prospective student chapter at Rice last year and has ested in research may also be a way iple would reject it," Elias says. encouraged other graduate stu- of enticing them into the world of rm- The GSA has discussed a num- dents to contribute weekends to graduate school and the ongoing ber of options with the administra- building houses for Houston's pursuit of knowledge. tion, including constructing a uni- poor. The GSA is planning to get mery versity-run apartment complex off the architecture dean and archi- —David D. Medina

October / November '93 35 GIF T S *AND • GI V ING

Scholarships Benefit Students, Faculty, Rice

From 1891 to 1965, Rice provided students with an outstanding education free of tuition. In the almost three decades since tuition began, Rice has managed to remain affordable and maintain high academic standards. Today, 80 to 85 percent of each incoming class receives financial support, and Rice's tuition remains among the lowest of major private universities. Without scholarships, many of Rice's best students would have to go elsewhere for their education. Scholarships benefit not only the gifted students they support but also the faculty who have the opportunity to in- struct bright, inquisitive minds. Donors who establish endowed scholarships may name them according to their wishes. Rice also matches scholarship recipients as closely as possible with the donors' preferences. Donors are informed of the university's selections and are encouraged to meet the scholarship recipients so that they can keep up with their progress. Rice Students Serve as For further information on scholarships—giving opportunities, cat- University Ambassadors egories of scholarships, how to establish a scholarship—please contact Sonya Renner, director of Donor Relations, Office of Development, at The Office of Development has (713) 831-4714. launched a new telefiind program that uses students to serve as Rice University representatives. Designated Telefund Ambas- sadors, the students will call Financial Support for Graduate Students Increased alumni and parents throughout Beginning this year, Rice will be able to guarantee up to three years of fel- the academic year to provide infor- lowship support to qualified graduate students, provided they maintain mation on upcoming events, re- satisfactory progress in their course work. This increased funding will help spond to questions and concerns Rice compete with other schools for the most promising students. and ask for financial support for While Rice distributes about $2.5 million annually in tuition waivers the university's current operating and stipends, graduate students have so far received little financial support budget. after the first one or two years of study. Because they will make calls The new funding is an important step toward closing the gap between over a longer period of time, the the support offered by Rice and that offered by other schools. Additional student ambassadors will be able funding is needed, however, to support students during the later years of to reach many alumni and parents graduate study, when they are working on their dissertations. Fully funded who are normally not reached dur- students do not have to seek outside employment and are less likely to ing the Annual Telefund. withdraw from school or transfer to another university because of financial The 30 students selected for hardship. the program will undergo compre- In addition to the three years of guaranteed support that will be of- hensive training in marketing and fered by the university, a number of new fellowship funds have been estab- communication skills. In addition, lished. Recently Patti Pollard Lichty designated part of the Jack C. Pollard they will gain information about Fund to support graduate fellowships in engineering. The Pollard Fund Rice's history and a better under- was established in 1966 by Lichty's father, Jack Pollard, a 1925 alumnus standing of why alumni gifts are so and a trustee emeritus of the Board of Governors. It was later increased by vital to the university. Telefund his bequest. Ambassadors will also help Rice Last spring, the Criterion Investment Management Company en- alumni during the Annual Tele- dowed a fellowship to support students in the Jesse H. Jones Graduate fund from October 25-28 and No- School of Administration. Criterion's president, Terence S. Ellis, says that vember 1-4. the Criterion Investment Management Company Fellowship will allow the For further details on Tele- company to play "a part in the outstanding program that Rice University fund Ambassadors or for informa- has to educate our future leaders." tion on volunteering for the An- For further information on fellowships—giving opportunities, catego- nual Telefund, call Tisha Smith, ries of fellowships, how to establish a fellowship—please contact Sonya Office of Development, at (713) Renner, director of Donor Relations, Office of Development, at (713) 527-4091. 831-4714.

36 Sallyport Slohm Scholarships Translate Love of Family into Support for Students

Emilie Slohm has translated her Germany around the turn of the 1948, they were married. fervent love of family into two en- century. Hyman's parents came to Mrs. Slohm says family is the dowed scholarships to aid Rice the United States from Russia in most important aspect of her life, students. 1909. His father died in 1935, and she wants the memories of her The scholarships are the leaving Hyman to support the loved ones to live on. The scholar- Evelyn Slomovitz Memorial Schol- family. ships sustain those memories while arship, established in 1985, and "Hyman was working for Gulf providing financial aid to bright the Lester Bendix Memorial Schol- Oil during the day," says Mrs.Slohm, and worthy students. arship, established in 1993. "going to school at night and sup- Mrs. Slohm, along with her porting a mother husband Hyman, established the and sending a sister Evelyn Slomovitz Memorial Schol- to Rice University." arship in memory of Hyman's sis- Hyman gradu- ter Evelyn. Evelyn died of tubercu- ated from the South losis in 1940 during her junior Texas School ofLaw year at Rice. in 1935. For many Mrs. Slohm says establishing years, he was an oil the Evelyn Slomovitz Memorial lease broker for sev- Scholarship was the most impor- eral Houston oil tant accomplishment in the life of companies. her husband, who died in 1989. Mrs.Slohm was In 1993, Mrs. Slohm created a born in Las Vegas, el- scholarship for the men's golf team New Mexico, and in memory of her only sibling, lived in Ranger, :lp Lester Bendix, who died in 1985. Texas, 100 miles "We were very close," she re- west of Fort Worth, calls. "I miss him. He was a good and later in Odessa )rt golfer and played golf about three before coming to times a week. I always wanted to Houston. :en do something in Lester's memory. "After my dad al He never went away to college. He passed away [in )f didn't think that way, but one day 1936], we knew we led I thought—golf—he loved that. I were going to be think he would like it." leaving Odessa," :ial Mrs. Slohm is actively in- Mrs. Slohm ex- volved in the lives of the scholar- plains. "My mother ship recipients. She frequently and brother took a ib- meets with the students and re- car trip through trd mains in contact with them even Texas to see where after graduation. we were going to "I find the scholarships very settle. They went to by gratifying," she says. "I enjoy very Fort Worth and Dal- much meeting the youngsters. las. Then they came Emilie Slohm They have all been great." here to Houston. Mrs. Slohm thinks of the stu- Mother took one at dents who receive the scholarships look at the trees in the as members of her extended family. front of Rice University and said, —Philip Montgomery Family is important to her. Begin- 'This is where we're going to be.' ning with her parents, family has She loved trees." ;o- been the thread binding the fabric The family settled in Hous- of her life. ton, and Mrs. Slohm began work- Both of the Slohms were the ing in the purchasing department children ofimmigrants. Mrs. of a shipyard. She met Hyman in Slohm's parents emigrated from Houston, and on October 17,

October / November '93 37 I I•G AZETTE

Vicki Whammed Bret thriller, ctiorditiator of the Chicagl, area alumni group.

Bretthauer Brings Rice and the Casa San Jose Obrero agement at Northwestern Univer- to the Windy City homeless shelter led by Rice alum- sity, where she concentrated on nus Father Michael Garcia '74, a marketing and transportation. She In recent years, the guiding force trip to the Chicago Art Institute to received an M.B.A. from Kellogg behind the Chicago area alumni view the Magritte exhibit and a visit in 1982. 51 group has been Vicki Whamond by former Rice president George Bretthauer currently works for Bretthauer '79. Bretthauer has Rupp. the maintenance division of 1 been involved with the group for While a student at Rice, United Airlines, a company she has some time. She was the coordinator Bretthauer was president of Jones served for ten years. She has two in the early 1980s and accepted the College, student representative to stepsons. One is a Purdue Univer- 2 position again in July 1990. Under the selection committee for the sity graduate, and the other is a se- her leadership, the group has dean of Social Sciences, a tutor for nior at Indiana University. Her 3 achieved great success in keeping the athletic department and an avid husband is a captain with United 4 the more than 300 Chicago area participant in intramural sports. Airlines. 5 alumni in touch with one another. Originally from Chicago, she says When not working as the Chi- 6 The Chicago area group hosts she was one of very few northerners cago area group coordinator, four or five events each year. Typi- on campus in the late 1970s. Bretthauer spends her free time 7 cally, 30 to 40 alumni attend each "At Rice, they referred to me traveling to places such as Hong event. Bretthauer attributes this back then as a snowbunny. My Kong and Australia, boating on high attendance to her group's ef- Texas friends kept wondering when Lake Michigan and going on long fort "to insure that every age group I'd start saying 'y'all.'" car trips with her husband. She is will be attracted to an event" and Bretthauer received her B.A. also involved in other Rice-related a, to make each event a learning expe- from Rice in managerial studies activities. She has chaired the Chi- rience. Recent activities have in- with an emphasis in economics and cago area fund drive several times, cluded a trip to Chicago's ocean- information systems. After working participates in alumni interviews arium, a picnic and concert at for Foley's in Houston for a year for prospective students and tries Ravinia with the Chicago Sym- and a half, she entered the J. L. to attend at least one Rice home phony, a tour of St. Pius V Prior Kellogg Graduate School of Man- football game every year.

38 Sallyport Call for ARA Board Staying Involved With Rice Nominations Rice alumni can stay involved with the university through a number ofARA The Association of Rice Alumni programs and campus organizations. A few of these opportunities are high- is accepting nominations for the lighted below. For a complete list of ways to stay involved, call the Alumni Of- positions of ARA board member fice at (713) 527-4057. and alumni governor. The positions carry three- and four-year Annual Gifts: Alumni can get involved in the annual gifts drive by serving terms respectively, beginning as class chairpersons or as telefiind volunteers. Contact Tisha Smith in the July 1, 1994. All alumni not cur- Development Office at (713) 527-4091 for more information. rently employed by Rice Univer- sity are eligible for either posi- Area Groups help alumni living outside Houston meet fellow alumni and tion. However, nominees for stay in touch with Rice. To find out about joining an area group or pro- alumni governor must have viding leadership for a group, contact Sean O'Connell in the Alumni Of- graduated from Rice at least five fice at (713) 527-4057. years ago. If there is someone you Career Services Center: Members of the Association of Rice Alumni are would like to nominate, please eligible to use the Career Services Center free of charge. Alums can take call, write or fax: advantage of the Alumni Contact Service (now located in the Career Ser- vices Center), make an appointment with a career counselor, attend work- ARA Board Nominations shops and participate in job fairs. For further information, call (713) 527- Rose Sundin 4055. Association of Rice Alumni P.O. Box 1892 Rice Engineering Alumni: This group supports alumni involvement in Houston, Texas 77251-1892 the George R. Brown School of Engineering, particularly in the dean's (713) 527-4633 (phone) programs. REA also supports engineering students through its student (713) 285-5166 (fax) awards programs, helps engineering faculty meet teaching and research objectives and encourages and supports engineering-related education in or: the Houston schools. For more information, call Michael Panos, president of REA, at (713) 528-3744. Texas Anderson Chairperson, ARA Nominating Society of Rice University Women was formed to promote interest in, Committee and understanding of, the university's resources and programs. The soci- (713) 524-0888 (phone) ety has helped provide student scholarships, an endowment for Fondren (713) 524-9835 (fax) Library and contributions to the Shepherd School. Activities include day he trips, tours, luncheons, dinners and lectures. SRUW is open to all Rice Information on your nominee friends. For further information, call SRUW president Karen Hess Rogers should include the following: at(713) 960-8600. for 1. Name, address, phone num- Shepherd Society was formed in 1977 to support the cause of music at has bers (home and office), class Rice and in Houston. Each year the one thousand-plus members of the year Shepherd Society provide over $200,000 in scholarships for the musicians :r- 2. Employer, address, brief de- studying at the Shepherd School. The society sponsors a series of eight se- scription of occupation special events for its members. For more details, contact Gary Smith at the 3. Degree(s) from Rice Shepherd School at (713) 527-4047. ci 4. Involvement while at Rice 5. Involvement as an alum hi- 6. Civic/community/professional activities 7. Brief explanation of why you have nominated this individual to the ARA board rig ful is Please also include your name, ed address and phone number. HOMECOMING 1993 ii- October 22-24 Remember to send in your Homecoming registration form and pick up tickets in the Kelley Lounge in the Ley Student Center.

October / November '93 39 Colonial Christmas While the Association of Rice Alumni can't guarantee that Tho- mas Jefferson and George Wash- ington will be on hand to greet you, the revolutionary spirit of these legendary residents lives on in the beautifully restored and pre- served buildings that make up Williamsburg, Virginia's colonial capital. The rustic setting and quaint charm of a town that lives today much as it did 300 years ago are perfect for a holiday celebration that combines the past and present with patriotic flair. The Associa tion ofRice Alum- ni is offering Rice alums and friends the chance to experience Colonial Williamsburg on a seven-day tour, from December 22 to December 28. Guests will stay at the Williamsburg Hospitality House, a four-star hotel located across from the College of William and Mary, the first royally chartered college in America. The carolers, the snap in the air and the crackling fire in the fireplace will remind visitors that the holiday season is come with its eternal message of goodwill and peace on earth. The authentic cos- tumes and reenactments of life in a colonial town speak of another time, however, when the message of freedom, equality and self-de- Photos courtesy of Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. termination was not accepted as unquestioningly as it is today. The history and tradition coopers, wigmakers and other will be spent in Williamsburg, and bound up in the buildings and craftsmen ply their trades in the visitors will have ample opportu- scenery are hard to escape when exhibition buildings, craft shops nity to experience and, if they strolling through the town of and colonial stores along the beau- wish, participate in the numerous Williamsburg, and the holiday tifully decorated Duke of holiday activities, which include preparations heighten the sense Gloucester Street. Carriages and caroling, concerts and traditional that the past lives again. A huge wagons move through the streets 18th-century dancing. The jour- evergreen is lit in the town square as lively parades and militia drills ney into America's revolutionary across from the original house compete for the attention of curi- past continues with several side where the town's first tree was ous onlookers. trips to surrounding historic sites, aglow 150 years ago. Silversmiths, The first few days of the tour such as Jamestown, Yorktown and

44 Sallyport of the decisive battle of the revolutionary war. Today, visitors stroll through the Yorktown Victory Center and learn about the revolutionary fervor that swept the colo- nies more than 200 years ago. For a glimpse of life off the battlefield, there is a tour of Carter's Grove, a magnificent plantation located on the James River. Guests such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson once walked the halls of the house, and legend has it that a parlor known as "The Refusal Room" got its name because both men were, on separate occasions, spurned by their lady loves when they proposed. Afternoons are open for guests to set their own itineraries, and they may choose to tour more extensively or browse through the many outlet stores and malls on Richmond Road, ten minutes from the hotel. The Williamsburg Pot- tery Factory also offers shopping for the bargain- minded. In the evenings, visitors can choose from the many taverns in the area that serve up such colonial fare as peanut soup, tipsy squire cake and Virginia ham. Restaurants featuring Con- tinental cuisine, fresh regional seafoods and hunt country dishes ensure that no one will walk away un- satisfied. For those who find that seven days are not enough to explore the nation's history, there is an optional, nonescorted extension of the tour to Washington, D.C. Carter's Grove. Jamestown Colony, founded —Beth Bailey in 1607, was the first permanent British settlement in America. The tower of the Church of 1639, and the other settlers with repro- For more information, contact: Which stands on the site of the first ductions of their ships and the Rose Sundin legislative assembly held in 1619, three-cornered James Fort, the Office of Alumni Affairs is about all that remains of the first building in the new settle- Rice University original settlement. The adjoining ment. P.O. Box 1892 Jamestown Festival Park pays A few miles down the road Houston, TX 77251 homage to Captain John Smith from Jamestown is Yorktown, site (713) 527-4633

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and social organizations on Greenwood was the first He was also a member ofthe in 1930 with Homoiselle a local level. During World neurosurgeon in the world "R" Association. Smith re- Haden as queen. A few years 127 War II he was a member of to remove successfully these tired as manager of the tax ago Margaret and Lewis sold the Petroleum Admn. for types oftumors. He was con- dept. of Texaco after 40 their home in Bellaire and War, and from 1944 until sidered by many to be the years of service. He is sur- moved to the Twin Oaks his retirement he was a mem- father ofmicroneurosurgery. vived by his wife Eleanor; a Townhouses. They had one ber of the American Petro- He was a member of numer- son, Dan C. Smith III; sev- daughter, Lynn Bell Smith leum Institute. Additionally, ous medical societies and the eral grandchildren; five Johnson,a lawyer. Lewis had he was a member ofthe Assn. author of many articles and great-grandchildren and a a daughter, Patsy Jean ofRice Alumni and the Texas papers. He also appeared in host of other relatives. Pearson, by a first marriage. Manufacturing Assn.,and he seven instructional movies She has two boys and a girl was a lifelong outdoorsman. on intermedullary tumors. and grandchildren, so Mar- At the time of his death, he From 1957 to 1960, garet says she is a "step- was a member of Cogdell Greenwood was director of great-grandmother." Both Memorial United Method- the "R" Association at Rice. 1130 girls live near Margaret in ist Church. In 1975 he was awarded the homes formerly belonging "Survivors include a son, distinguished "R" by Rice. to family members. a daughter, two stepsons, He was also a member ofthe Here are some more William Glen Copeland Class Recorder: two stepdaughters and four Rice U. President's Club. Lucille Davis Rulfs "lost" members ofour class. fa grandchildren." Survivors include four 3304 Albans We would appreciate any- The following obituary ap- sons,a daughter,a sister and Houston, TX 77005 thing you might know about h; peared in the Waco (Texas) 19 grandchildren as well as them: Frances Armilda Tribune-Herald of June 15, numerous other relatives and Class recorder Lucille Davis Hoffman, Ruth Maner- IC 1993. It has been edited. friends. Rulfs writes: via Hooks, Allen Alfred di "William Glen Cope- One nice thing about Hoting, Dane Isabel land of Waco, a retired vice this "job" is renewing Rice Hutton, Eileen King, and TI president of Texaco Inc., friendships. There is some- Jerome Harlan Koehler. Sc died [June 13, 1993]. He thing special about friends Sc was 87. 1929 going to Rice Institute as it IC "Mr.Copeland was born was then. I had a very nice b Aug. 6, 1905, in Shawnee, telephone visit with Beatrice gi Indian Territory, now Okla. Jantzen Kinzer. Her lovely 1O31 In He attended Louisiana State daughter, Marilyn Kinzer at U. in 1922 and graduated Moore'59, became a friend pl Greenwood Jr. from Rice U. in 1927. He James when my husband and I es- Class Recorder: ba married Pauline Chaddock tablished a scholarship fund Anne McCulloch at, July 18, 1936; she died July Dr. James Greenwood Jr., in memory of our son, Dr. 2348 Shakespeare sp 11, 1983. He later married died July 3, 1993,at age 85. David M. Rulfs Jr. '59. Houston, TX 77030 Mabel Ann Lipscombe on He was the first neurosur- Beatrice's experience frc March 16, 1991; she died geon in Houston and the upon graduating from Rice he Aug. 18, 1991. father ofHouston city coun- was the same as for many of Ai "[Copeland]worked for cilman Jim Greenwood'58. us. No employment open- T( Texaco's domestic refining Greenwood was born in ings. After taking a business 1932 division his entire career,first Seguin, Texas, on July 19, course, she was given a job br entering management in 1907, one of five children. teaching night school at Sam gr He attended Rice Institute Houston,five nights a week. Class Recorder: 1940 as asst. superintendent Chris Hoover of the San Antonio refinery. and in 1925 formed and be- In 1936 Beatrice married Ed at, came the first capt. of the Kinzer, who was employed 5318 Meadow Lake Lane ba In succession, he served as Houston, TX 77056 asst. superintendent of the Rice golf team, on which he by an oil company. They 19 Lawrenceville, Ill., refinery played with his brother Joe, moved 27 times in eight tai Keith Beyette writes that he from 1942 to 1943; super- who eventually became the years. He changed to Hous- th. Southwest Conference ton Lighting and Power Co. and his wife Betty joined the intendent of the Sunburst, Rice alumni cruise from “F Mont., refinery from 1943 champion. In 1926 Green- After two years, he was sent Venice to Barcelona during to 1948; asst. superinten- wood received Rice's first to Galveston as director of Ri athletic letter in golf. After the light co. at the medical the last two weeks of July. dent and then superinten- Since retiring in 1975 from dent of the Eagle Point re- graduating from Rice, he school. Ed died since our attended the UT Medical 60th class reunion in 1990. TU Electric, where he was finery in Westville, N.J.,from manager of Branch in Galveston and re- They also have a son, John substation and 1948 to 1954; and general underground design, Keith superintendent of the Port ceived his M.D. in 1931. In Kinzer. Two grandsons 1935 he married Mary Pedan graduated from A&M. and Betty have enjoyed trav- Arthur refinery from 1954 eling the world. To date, to 1956. Cox. Two granddaughters go to they have visited 67 coun- "In From 1936 to 1980, Sharpstown High School. 1956 [Copeland] tries! When not on the road, was promoted to manager Greenwood was chair of the Several family members work they can be found at home at of neurosurgery division at with Young Life, a national operations for domestic 2304 Stratford Court in Fort refining and moved to Methodist Hospital in Hous- organization to help young Worth, Texas 76103-2360. Texaco's national headquar- ton. From 1943 to 1953 he people. ters, then located in New was acting chair ofsurgery at I also enjoyed a tele- York, N.Y. In 1957 he be- Baylor College of Medicine. phone visit with Margaret Greenwood did extensive Tufts Smith '36. Margaret came general manager of Dan Cargill Smith Jr. domestic refining, and in research on the various thera- graduated from Rice in 1936 peutic applications of vita- and later 1933 1960 he was made vice presi- married Lewis dent for domestic refining. min C. He invented thc bi- Dan Cargill Smith Jr., 87, Edwin Smith. Lewis died in He moved to Houston in polar coagulation forceps, died July 8, 1993. He was the fall of 1992. They were Class Recorder: 1963, where he remained which revolutionized neu- born in Houston on Nov. both at our 60th reunion in Willie Mae Chapman Cole vice president until his re- rosurgery and made the re- 23, 1905. He was an avid 1990. Many of you should 2414 Chimney Rock Le tirement in 1970. moval ofintermedullary spi- golfer. He played on the Rice remember Lewis as the hand- Houston, TX 77056 de Sir "Throughout his life, he nal cord tumors possible. As golf team and was captain of some king of the May Fete (713) 782-9509 was involved in various civic a result of this invention, the team in 1928 and 1929. 24

12 Sallyport elle Eric,Okla., on July 24,1909. now 92, and his memory is 60th reunion of the San with them. It's a privilege to ears He graduated from high sharp because he remem- Jacinto High School class of be on Joe's list when he iold school in Memphis, Texas, bered many things that you 1933 at River Oaks Country shares some of these good- and in 1929. While at Rice Insti- and I had forgotten. He is Club in Houston. More than ies. Iaks tute, where he lettered in still actively interested in 200 came from near and far- Recently John '36 and one football and track, May was hypnosis, and many of you away places to join in the Jean Yeager were also guests nith a member of the Southwest will recall the sessions he had fun—dining, dancing until at the Fingers” Jean and had Conference championship with Joe Aleo and Howard almost midnight and "re- John spend their time be- can track team in 1931 and 1932. Calvin. membering" the good old tween their home in Hous- age. He coached Texas City High days. Rice alumni who were ton and a lovely second home girl School football, basketball prominent in planning the at Riverhill. Jean spends a tar- and track teams from 1934 activities were Earl and Mary lot oftime on the golfcourse, :ep- to 1937.In 1935 he married Gray Adams Lester, Ward and John now and then gives oth Elizabeth Kellogg. They 1935 and Ann Adkins, Earnest us a special treat by taking t in were married for 49 years, and Beth Gammage, Phil us for a spin in his Cadillac Ong Melton ("Bubba") Koch until her death in 1984. May Peden '38 and Lois Lee convertible with the top was employed by Humble Class Recorder: Qualtrough Peden'42, and down while we enjoy the lore Earl Glassie '41 sent the Pipeline from 1937 to 1941. William Storey Arnold and Bonnie John- clear, clean air here in the lass. following obituary from the In 1941 May began 8600 Skyline Drive son. Other Rice folks who Hill Country. my. Temple(Texas) Telegram. It working for Pan American No. 3215 were in attendance were Mary Margaret Ray- 'out has been edited. Pipe and continued to work Dallas, TX 75243-4158 Harriet Allen Fouke '36, mond Mayfield '40 called Ida "[Melton ("Bubba")] for affiliates of Standard of (214) 503-1931 Gertrude Manford Fite to visit recently. She lives ICC- Koch,83, of Temple , Texas, Indiana until he retired as '36, Eugene Sisk '38 and here in Kerrville, and we see 'red died [June 27, 1993]. district superintendent at Betty,Frances Heyck,Mary each other at Rice alumni b el "Koch was born in Hays, Kan., in 1969. Greenwood Anderson '38 functions here in the Hill and Temple to George and Olga May's survivors include and Ben Anderson, Marga- Country. She spoke ofa joy- r. Schnider Koch. In high a wife, a daughter, a son-in- 1936 ret Turner Williams '38 ful reunion of her family on school, he was a four-sport law, stepsons, grandsons, and Carson Williams, July 4th in Kerrville. The letterman in basketball, base- brothers, sisters and other Catherine Crain Hess '38 memorable get-together was ball, track and tennis. After relatives. Class Recorder: and Olive Horne Becker. attended by her sisters and graduation, he entered Rice Beulah Axelrad Yellen Dorothy Weiser Scale and their families. Included were Institute, where he became 9406 Cliffivood Drive Mike Seale came all the way Alice Jean and Bill Winters an outstanding basketball Houston, TX 77096 from Arvada, Colo. '39 and Anna Louise and Player and an all-conference (713) 723-7318 Had the pleasure re- Alva Charles Madsen '24 baseball player. He gradu- cently of attending the 80th and their children and grand- ated from Rice in 1933 and 1031 Class recorder Beulah birthday celebration for children. spent most of his life in Azelrad Yellen writes: Dorothy Quin McVVhirter Mary Margaret has many Houston. Upon retiring Dorothy Dean Joost is '35 in Uvalde,Texas, where friends and keeps busy with from the City of Houston, Class Recorder: well on her way to recovery she and Johnny used to live. her activities, such as the he spent several years in San Elliott G. Flowers and is planning a trip to visit Dorothy now lives in Hous- Kerrville Performing Arts Antonio before returning to 3330 Del Monte her son Oscar Joost Jr.'73 ton. Her charming family of Society, the AAUW and the Temple in 1989. Houston, TX 77019 (Will Rice) and his wife Pat. children and grandchildren Presbyterian church. "Survivors are a son, a (713) 524-4404 They are now living in St. gave her a surprise party,and brother, a sister and three Louis. Oscar just received there must have been over grandchildren." Class recorder Elliott G. his Ph.D. degree from A&M 200 guests who came to The Campanilefor 1933 Flowers writes: in genetics this past fall. honor her and celebrate with states that Koch played both To date there has been The Houston Area her. It was good to visit with 1938 Se basketball and baseball from nothing of consequence to Parkinson Society fund- Elizabeth Floeter Water- 1931 to 1933 and was cap- report about our classmates, raiser took place on Sept. man and Mike Waterman, Class Recorders: tain of the basketball and BUT I want everyone to re- 11, 1993, at the Hyatt Re- who came from Lakcway, the Margaret and Henry Dunlap the baseball teams in 1933. member that next year we gency in Houston and hon- where they live. the P.O. Box 79 He was also a member ofthe are celebrating our 60th re- ored Doris Poole Morris On the way back to Wimberley, TX 78676 "R" Association while at union. Each member of our '37 and Carloss Morris, Kerrville from Uvalde, I ring Rice, class who sees this notice who was our class president. stopped in D'Hanis (near uly. Ortrud Lefevre Much should drop me a line and let Pete Fountain provided en- Hondo)and had a nice visit 9014 Memorial Drive rOM me know whether you in- tertainment for the evening. with Jake '39 and Roselyn was Houston, TX 77024 tend to come back for a short Remember, we do need Schuehle. Jake has exten- and (713)686-5983 visit and,if you do, how you your help to keep this col- sive ranch properties all cith want to celebrate. At our umn current,so send us your over that part of the coun- ray- Coclass recorders Margaret most recent reunion we de- news! try. They were busy through ate, and Henry Dunlap and cided on a luncheon because the years rearing a daughter ,un- Ortrud Lefevre Much no one wanted to drive after and two sons, and now Jake )ad, write: dark. For the same reason, is busy raising chukars— me at Our thanks to the Re- perhaps we should have a somcthing between a quail Fort union Committee for its luncheon again. Those of 1937 and a pheasant—for the ben- 160. work in planning our 55th us that attended had a won- efit of the hunters who lease reunion luncheon on Thurs., derful time, and I hope that his land. The Schuehles' Oct. 21. Each reunion gath- next year we will all be to- Class Recorder: address is P.O. Box 187, ering seems more precious gether again. Please let me Mary Jane Hale Rommel Hondo, Texas 78861. as more of us find travel dif- hear from each of you so we 504 Fairway Drive— Dinner at the home of ficult as the years pass. can start planning for what Riverhill Joe '39 and Julie Finger The mail has brought sad I..ee May should be a good nostalgia Kerrville, TX 78028 here at Riverhill is always a news recently from Nan trip. (512) 896-4310 delight. Joe, besides his golf Jones concerning the death One item of interest to architect activities, is famous ole of her husband, Roy Victor Lee May, a longtime resi- many of you will be that Dr. Class recorder Mary Jane locally for his garden of very Jones, at Mansfield, Texas, dent of Valley Lodge in Pattie wrote me along letter Hale Rommel writes: special vegetables and fruits, on May 18, 1993. Nan Simonton, Texas, died July recently and inquired about A noteworthy event that and Julie is a tremendous wrote: "Roy and I enjoyed 24, 1993. He was born in many of our friends. He is took place recently was the cook who knows what to do

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"For years we traveled over reunion luncheon, but call the U.S. in our Airstream us if you come this way: From the 1942 Classnotes: travel trailer but sold it in (512) 729-6574. Our ad- 1989. We still travel a lot, dress is #571 Woody Acres, mostly by car. My wife and I P.O. Box 36, Fulton, Texas When Mildred Fargerson Cordill and I modeled do Round Dance—a sort of 78358." We look forward to noncompetitive ballroom seeing Henrietta and Olin at bathing suits for Sears—the suits weren't string dancing. We dance usually the "Boiling Pot." three or four nights a week Ortrud Lefevre Much, bikinis—we were paid $5,which was a lot of mone with different groups here in coclass recorder for the Shreveport. Once or twice a Houston area, writes: "We to us in those days. Our pictures were in the paper. month we go to Round are saddened to hear of the Dance clinics or festivals in death of Robert H. Park, and Mildred's mother said,'How could they put other parts of the country. husband of Dorothy Nagle We do enjoy dancing. My Park. On a happier note, such pictures of young girls like that in the paper?' wife and I have been danc- Katherine Clark Norbeck ing together since we were and Dr. Robert K. Blair teenagers. That adds up to '33 were married July 16, Dodv Rothstein Westheimer about 60 years! The rest of 1993." the time my wife likes to sew It has been a year now and cook; I just updated my since Ortrud agreed to be a computer last year,so we do class recorder—for one year keep busy!" only. Thanks,Ortrud, for all our home, golfing and fish- I had known most of our tween our two houses—an Henrietta Stark in late your help. We would appre- ing for 14 years at Pecan lives, and we lived on the easy two-hour drive. We have June brought us up to date ciate hearing from any class- Plantation near Granbury, farm. We adopted three four grandchildren—two in on her husband, Benjamin mate who would be willing Texas. Emphysema and com- daughters. We filled in as Juneau, Alas., and two in Olin Stark. "He spent his to be recorder for the Hous- plications brought his life to pastors of several churches Everett, Wash., where our career years with the Hous- ton area, where the majority an end. In his quiet way he that were in need and held youngest son practices or- ton ISD,first as a coach and °four classmates live. Please loved Rice and was proud of some revivals. I was named thopedic surgery— the only then as a high school coun- write or telephone us if you its accomplishments. I only secretary-treasurer ofthe Full M.D.of the three boys. Most selor. In 1976 his eyesight would consider helping out. wish he could have seen a Gospel Evangelistic Assn. of our travel time is spent had so deteriorated that he Thanks. winning football team once My wife and I published a going north. We try to spend felt he had to retire at age more." An economics ma- little news sheet, trying to about two weeks in Alaska 62. We remained in the jor, Roy had done post- enhance missionary work in each summer—grandparent- Houston area (Alvin) until graduate work at Dart- foreign countries, local ing and stalking the elusive three years ago, when we mouth. His career in church building and start- Coho salmon—great to moved to a mobile home 19:19 financial work was spent with ing a Bible school in Mis- catch and great to eat! We retirement park in the Hughes Tool and with souri. After we moved in to did spend some time in New Rockport-Fulton area. Olin Class Recorder Coordina- Cameron Iron Works in Katy, with the help oftwo of Orleans recently, partly cannot drive now and has tor: Houston and with General our daughters,we developed steamboating on the Missis- not been able to read since Dorothy Zapp Forristall- Dynamics in Fort Worth. three small subdivisions and sippi Queen (a great experi- 1976;otherwise his health is Brown Nan has our deep sympathy. did some home-building ence) and partly revisiting good, and he loves to gar- 1250 Oakcrest Circle Did you see the feature ourselves for a few years." New Orleans, where I in- den. We enjoy being the Beaumont, TX 77706 article in the "Community W.C. is the only Rice grad terned and where Betty and parents of three children. (409) 892-1048 News" section of the May we know who grew up on a I were married. All this was Our oldest son and our 19,1993,Houston Chronicle rice farm and made a living in celebration of our 50th daughter are retired, too. Class Recorders: about W.C. Stockdick's selling rice. We appreciate wedding anniversary. Mean- Our other son is in Fort Lau- Lee Blocker being honored by the mayor his good letter. while, we are in relatively derdale, Fla. We have five 125 Sailfish and city council as Katy's From Riverside, Calif, good health, enjoying the grandchildren and eight Austin, TX 78734 "Senior Citizen ofthe Year"? Dr. Haskell M. ("Wert") local symphony, occasional great-grandchildren. W.C. is a third generation Wertheimer writes: "I re- theater,fine dining,golf and "I attended Texas A&I Bob and Evelyn (Junker) member ofone ofKaty's old- tired from my practice as a some of the many sports on in the 1930s, so I guess I'm Purcell est families. His grandfather, general surgeon here in TV." an Aggie —married to a Rice 5102 Valerie Adam Stockdick, moved his Riverside, Calif, in 1988. I Thanks for writing, Owl! Next time you come Bellaire, TX 77401 family to Katy in 1895. He put in as many years here as Wert. May you and Betty down this way, let's go to and his sons were some of I did in the Navy(23), from enjoy many more golden the 'Boiling Pot' or the Sam and Frances the first farmers to raise rice which I retired as a capt. in years. 'Crazy Cajun' in Port (Flanagan) Bethca when it was introduced into 1965. We acquired a condo Thanks also to S.O. Aransas. The skimmers are 309 Burnet Dr. the area in 1901. W.C. Jr., in Coronado in '87,sold our Williams,who wrote:"Most nesting on our Rockport Baytown, TX 77520 born on the family rice farm big house in Riverside, and of my business career was beach—thousands of them. north of Katy, moved into moved to a small `co-op' in spent in the oil and gas busi- We enjoy seeing so many Marian Smedcs Arthur town with his family in 1924 Riverside. The Coronado ness as a chemist here in birds of all types just about 5806 Glen Falls Lane and graduated from Katy place is two blocks from Shreveport. I spent four years any time. Most of all, at our Dallas, TX 75209 ca High School. W.C. writes: downtown, the beach and during WWII as a military ages we are thankful to have "After receiving my B.A. the famous Hotel del pilot. During the 1960s I each other after 56 years and Floy King Rogde in from Rice in 1938,1 went to Coronado. While there, we had a year and a halfof gradu- to have our health. When we 7480 Beechnut #337 UT law school for one year lead a quiet, very unstruc- ate work at LSU and worked attended First Baptist Houston, TX 77074 fc and then took over Dad's tured life. We still spend a for the city ofShreveport for Church in Houston we were rice farm (as my uncle used lot of time in Riverside— a few years. This year, 1993, in touch with the Ladners, Class coordinator Dorothy to say, 13 months of the very good friends, a great I will have been married 53 the Caldwells and Doris Zapp Forristall-Brown year). I attended law classes golf course, and, of course, years and retired 13 years. Poole Morris '37 and writes: at Houston Law School, that important infrastructure Life is good. Carloss Morris '36 and The days seem to pass so which met in the Houston as one gets older, doctors "We have two children, other Owls. Our only con- quickly. Here it is time again Courthouse at night, and and dentists! Betty still does both graduates of LSU. My tact now is Sallyport, which I for the column to be sent in received my LLB in 1941. her weekly food column for son went on to earn his Ph.D. read to Olin. We don't get (Aug. 2), and you are not "In the meantime I mar- the Riverside paper. We put from Colorado State. We out in Houston traffic any- letting me know what you ried Floy Ruth Peck, whom in a lot of freeway time be- have two grandchildren. more,so we won't be at the are doing. Please take a few

r I Sallyport t call minutes right now and jot have occurred, when Dr. Frances Ellis '38, who had old clipping for a Foley's way: one of the above a note— James R.Sims '41 was hon- an interesting career at the collegiate style show at the - ad- What are you doing???? 1040 ored by his wife Midge with Guggenheim Memorial Empire Room of the Rice cres, I called Hoy to write this a "happy birthday barbecue" Foundation and in the social Hotel. Among the Rice rexas column,but she was offfor a at their lovely new home in relations dept. at Harvard. models were Gloria Van rd to very important wedding and Class Recorders: Weston Lakes in July. Jim is They have traveled exten- Pelt Williams '41 and me, lin at family event in Louisville, Julia Taylor Dill a former Rice professor in sively. Now retired and liv- Doris Rothstein. Among the Ky. Her grandson John was 7715 Hornwood charge of the Dept. of Civil ing in Austin, he enjoys a U. of Houston models was luch, getting married. He is the Houston, TX 77036 Engineering. Also earlier, in relaxed life pursuing his in- Elra Hodges, who just hap- the son of Langston '67 (713) 774-5208 Feb., A.L. Jensen '52 and terests in photography and pens to be the wife of our "We (Hanszen). Bridget Rote Jensen '53 writing books about the 19th close friend Bill Eckhardt f the I called Frances and re- Wanda Hoencke Spaw celebrated their 40th wed- century. '37. We weren't paid. When Park, ceived the following infor- 5614 Inwood ding anniversary. All have This completes our cur- Mildred Fargerson Cordill lagle mation: Houston, TX 77056 contributed in very special rent news and minisketches. and I modeled bathing suits note, David Keck married (713) 622-9845 ways to Rice. Hope to see you at Home- for Sears—the suits weren't beck Gene Henderson this year. Julia Dill reminds us coming with your latest! string bikinis—we were paid Blair They are now dividing their Class corecorders Julia Tay- that Bridget's sister Jean $5,which was a lot ofmoney 16, time between Texas and lor Dill and Wanda Rote Schmid was one of to us in those days. Our pic- South Carolina, spending Hoencke Spaw write: our classmates. Jean married tures were in the paper, and now about three weeks at a time In June, Wanda Spaw Harold Schmid and lives in Mildred's mother said,'How in be a each state. saw Milo W.Ford Jr. at the Houston. They have two 1941 could they put such pictures year John and Laura '41 Texas Annual Conference at sons and one daughter, ofyoung girls like that in the i,rall McCulley's granddaughter First United Methodist Vicki. Jean completed her paper?' Ipre - Becky is attending the U. of Church in Houston. Milo M.Ed.at U.of H . and taught Ruth Patricia Buchanan "Our granddaughter, :lass- Dunedin on the South Is- attended from his church in school for 30 years. She says Glenn, 73, died July 17, Randi,gather Ph.D. in psy- illing land of New Zealand. She is Dayton and looked fine. He she was probably the only 1993. A native Houstonian, chology in June. She is only fous- studying biology, botany and asked about giving his scrap- Rice graduate who was she graduated from Sam the second one in our family ority rain forests. She will be back book to the Rice Alumni "never" accepted. She Houston High School. Her to get her doctorate,the first at lease Rice in 1994. Her parents Archives Collection. They earned her place at Rice husband,Oscar F. Glenn Jr., being our son Eric, who is a are lyou John H. McCulley Jr. were most happy to receive through true grit and deter- preceded her in death. She is veterinarian in Goleta, Ca- '66 ;out. (Wiess) and Linda his book with many news mination, never accepting survived by her daughter, a lif just two hoursfrom here. McCulley. John received clippings of "fond memo- "no" for a chance to enter. niece and a nephew and nu- "A week ago we went to both a B.A. and a B.S. at ries ofschool days of yester- Her list offond memories at merous great-nieces and an alumni function at the Rice. year spent at a great insti- Rice is very cleverly written great-nephews. Century Plaza Hotel here, Alice Foulks Gage's tute!" This very complete and a good reminder of a organized by Sandra Gor- husband died recently. She collection contains a news time we all cherish. don Robbins '59, a mem- lives in Port Gibson, Miss. article about Albert T. Another classmate, ber ofthe alumni board. Her I called Martha Ann Patrick's death in Okla. and Charles R. Wood, lives in husband is Dr. James lina- Picton Hines today to see if a most interesting descrip- Houston and married Eliza- 312 Robbins, a psychiatrist. We she had any news. She said tion of his part in the murder beth Lancaster Wood '35 sat with them and Kathy she sees Harriet Nethery ofWilliam Marsh Rice. There in 1949. After service in Whitmire, who was the Class Recorder: Bielstein at lunch fin nice are numerous other accounts WWII as a bomber pilot, he speaker that night. David, a Oscar N. Hibler Jr. visits. She had a good time ofthe wonderful time in our worked in the accounting big fan of hers, got to speak 10306 Sugar Hill Drive and saw many friends at the lives on campus.The Alumni dept. ofthe Humble Co. He with her for more than half Houston, TX 77042-1546 wedding of Jim Nance's Archives Collection is grate- returned to Rice in 1949 an hour, and as he always (713) 782-4499 ('38) stepdaughter's wed- ful for Milo's donation and and received a B.S. in archi- does witkpeople he admires, ding on June 5. She says that would be glad to receive tecture in 1952. He joined he told her she ought to Class recorder Oscar N. when Mary Jane Quinby similar donations of memo- Morris Architects and pre- write a book. She didn't say Hibler Jr. writes: Fonda, who lives in rabilia from other alumni. decessor firms as staff archi- she wouldn't. Unfortu- Dody Rothstein West- Bloomfield Hills, Mich., [Editor's note: Inquiries tect and assoc. partner for nately, we didn't get to stay heimer has provided a very comes to Houston every donating material or 33 years until his retirement fur her talk because we had about interesting update to her re- •r) spring, many of the ladies actual donations may be di- in 1986. He and Elizabeth to leave early for the 20th get together for lunch. love to travel in the U.S. and union book profile. She birthday dinner for our rected to Karen Hess writes from Los Angeles: Martha Ann said she could '68, Rice Alumni overseas and have many granddaughter Erica at Rogers "When David '37 and I left not remember everyone who Archives Collection, happy memories of Rice. Chasen's. Second Houston after our 50th re- was there but that everyone Memorial Many classmates will re- "Next month we're off Floor, Rice Cen- union, we went to New York looked great. Ortrud ter, Rice U., P.O. Box 1892, member Dr. Carl Wood- to Tucson for a reunion of Lefevre Much '38, Valerie ring, B.A. and M.A.(1942), for a few days to visit my the Desert Rats, David's Houston,Texas 77251;tele- sister Cissy's (Rothstein White Fite, Floy King phone (713) 527-4057.1 who has enjoyed a distin- World War II bomber group. Stern '38) daughter Flo- Rogde and Lucille Brewer William guished literary career of I don't know how interest- Our brother J. rence and her husband Ron Kahmeier were some of the Spaw seeing teaching and writing. After ing it will be to me because '42 reported Trost '54. We saw several names she mentioned. old friend and fellow his WWII tour of duty was as David tells anyone who'll alum shows and then went to Bos- I bought one ofthe Rice E.W.("Gene") Hanszen at completed, he served on the listen,'Dody says whenever U. alumni directories that faculty of the U. of Wiscon- ton to visit our granddaugh- old men get together all they Rockport, Texas. Gene's ter Erica, who had just fin- came off the press this year. business card tells what he's sin and later at Columbia U. talk about is the war.'" 1 ished her second year of really have enjoyed look- to—interests as the Edward Woodbcrry How about the rest of been up in college there. ing at it and remembering "Dallas, Key Allegro Professor of Literature. In our classmates? What have and "For the Christmas holi- events associated with dif- enjoys 1986,he was honored at Rice you been doing since our Telluride." He his role days we went to Puerto ferent names. "retiree—no money, with the Distinguished reunion? Let me hear from as a no Vallarta with the whole fam- I counted 359 names worries, no phone, Alumnus Award.Other hon- you sal can pass your infor- othy no busi- ily, 10 in all. Had a great own listed under the Class of'39. ness, no prospects." He says, ors included the Christian mation on to our other class- I time, even if there were no might be &Ione or two. Of "When I have the iirge to Gauss Prize of Phi Beta mates. other Rice grads among those 359 listed, 1 was sorry work, I go sailing or Kappa in 1971, a Phi Beta ss so to skiing them, and nobody got sun- gain see that 118 members of until the urge passes."(How Kappa Visiting Scholar in our burned. nt in class have died, and 32 laid back can one get?) 1974-75, and the Senior are "While looking through not listed with addresses un- Once-in-a-lifetime cel- Mellon Fellow at the Na- a scrapbook for something known. ebrations worth noting of tional Humanities Center in you else, 1 ran across a yellowed few Hope all ofyou can make several dear alumni friends 1987-88. He married Mary Homecoming this year.

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Imagine days of moving '43 members. along a placid channel at 5 "I am fortunate to have 1113 mph with the trees forming been with the right woman a shady tunnel and where for most of my life and to the biggest challenge is ty- have so many caring and Class Recorder: ing up at a village that is warm friends. I'm ready for Peggy Johnston Gibbons alleged to have a suitable the rest of my life! 629 Sandy Mountain Dr. restaurant for dinner. "Hope to see you at our Sunrise Beach, TX 78643 Thence with a few others to 50th!" (915) 388-6659 tour Provence by auto. This area is famous for history, Class recorder Peggy John- gastronomy and beauty." ston Gibbons writes: From Reggie Dugat of For the third straight Houston: Left to right: Margie Metcalf, Susanne Cutler, Peggy year, the Great Ant Street "It doesn't seem like 50 Simonds and Jean McCaine. Restaurant in Brenham was years, but here goes— Class Recorder: the site of a luncheon re- "I met the lady ofmy life Jean Thomas McCaine, drive help us achieve greater Larry Hermes union of the Wroxton Road in Jacksonville,Fla., in 1943 Margie Nell Houston participation from our class 2028 Albans Road Boardinghouse alumnae. while quartered at the naval Metcalf, Roberta Newlin members. So we bring you Houston, TX 77005 Attending the June gather- air station there. I later mar- Newnham '46, Wilma news from some of these (713) 529-2009 ing were Houstonians ried her. Slaughter Ogilvie, Mar- contacts. Hortense Manning Dyer, "Served in the Navy at jorie Repass O'Meara '46, Since I have been work- Robert D.Brace has moved Catherine Coburn Han- various stations in the U.S. Jean Greenman Pasternik ing with this committee, I to 13111 W. Ohio Ave. in nah,Ann Quin Wilson '42 and in the Pacific, princi- '46,and Margaret Monroe was "volunteered" to report Lakewood, Colo. 80228- and Ann Tuck Williams; pally in Saipan. Simonds." to you. First, the sad news of 3106. Ruth Lentsch Goines of "Returned to the U.S. our fellow committee mem- Austin; Betty Lou Smith at San Francisco, where I ber Hugh W. Gordon's Kendall '45 of Kingsland; proposed to Hope Mc Larin, sudden illness and death on and your class recorder. A a good-looking Irish gal. We May 10, 1993. He was a special feature was the pres- were married in my home in devoted committee member Ingleside, Texas, a month 14 and will be greatly missed by ence of Nelsie Love Chumlea'44, who drove all later. all of his Rice friends and the way from Fort Worth "Began my career with particularly by those of us with her husband Joe for the Humble Oil and Refining Class Recorder: who came to Rice with him occasion. Co., Baytown, Texas,in the Jack Joplin from Lanier and even The aforementioned technical service division, a 5001 Woodway Drive, Ph 1 Montrose. Old friends are Tuck is one ofseveral mem- group of about 100 chemi- Houston, TX 77056-1707 the best friends.... xi (713) 960-1582 bers of Billy Mackey's cal engineers. Hope worked (home) Every three months a (713) Homecoming committee as a secretary for the first 498-6331 (office) Allan James helps several working feverishly to make seven years of our marriage. Narmon Knox West other alumni round up a A our 50th an unforgettable "We adopted a son,Kyle Margaret Monroe Si- group for lunch and has event. This impressive roster Ross,in 1957 and three years monds, president of tagged them "ROMEOS" also includes Jim Hargrove, later,a daughter,Jean Lynn. OWLS. Alumnae for Pauline W. Kilgore, wife of ("Ricc Old Men Eating Mary Marshall Foulks Poe Our lives were changed for- 1993-94, writes: "On April Clarence Boyd Kilgore'39, Out"). Muriel Wicks and Bill Schleier. ever. 27, 1993, the OWLS. writes: "My brother, Escobar and her husband Be there! . "Humble Oil of Texas Alumnae met at Autry House Narmon Knox West, died Javier have moved to Dallas Bob Burleson, pressed became Humble Oil ofDela- to recognize the Class of'45 on Jan. 4, 1993. He and his from Calif. upon their re- to give an accounting of his ware and then Exxon. I for 50 years of membership. twin brother, Harmon,were tirement to be closer to two This recent peregrinations,oblig- moved from refining to mar- class entered Rice in on the track team in 1941 of their children who live ingly took time out between keting, to corporate plan- Sept. 1942 as the Class of and 1942. They were in the there. '46,pledged trips to respond, in part: ning and then to chemicals 0.W.L.S.,were service. Narmon graduated There are several bridge initiated in "Les Wareham and his in Houston, Ncw York City Feb. 1943 at the in 1945." club groups among us, but old wife Ruth invited me to the and back to Houston. I re- Cinco Ranch (now a one has broadened to travel- Sacramento Jazz Festival, tired at the end of 1981 in thriving planned commu- ing bridge club. August 1993 and we spent several days at Houston, where I was gen- nity)and graduated in 1945, finds the group off again to that delightful affair. After- eral manager ofthe specialty a product of World War II Bucks Co., Penn., for a re- wards, Les and I toured the chemicals division for the last speedup. Certificates were 1946 turn to Our House (Louise Calif. gold rush country.The 15 years of my career. presented recognizing 50 Loose Levy and Joe Lev). year of heavy rains has "Both children live in years of membership in the This is a repeat, but this time washed more gold down Houston, each about two Owen Wister Literary Soci- Class Recorder: with husbands.'46 BC mem- ety, an organization from the mountains, and miles from me. Jean gradu- within Doris Elaine Ehlinger bers: Sara Nan Snoddy panning for gold has re- ated from the U. ofSt. Tho- Rice U. dedicated to the Anderson Peterson (Tony Peterson association of turned as a hobby. I have mas, married and is a CPA. friendly 5556 Cran brook '49), Marfy Headrick Cle- photographic proof of Les She is also an accomplished women students sharing Houston, TX 77056 ments, Pat West Houck, in the fur- panning a nugget directly tennis player. Kyle is single, mutual interest (713) 871-8099 Kay Thompson Zelsman on the site of Sutter's Mill, enjoys girls and is also a very ther enrichment of their lit- (Bob Zelsman '47),Margie with within a few feet of the first good tennis player. erary lives in keeping Class recorder Doris Elaine Scott Keeland, Ann Mar- find! Well, maybe it's more "After nearly 47 years of the purposes of the univer- Ehlinger Anderson writes: tin Phenicie(John Phenicie like a flake.... marriage, Hope died last sity. June 30, 1993, marked '47), Camille Dockery "In late June I joined Oct., and the major chapter "Receiving certificates the end ofthe second year of Simpson (Ray Simpson above) were Su- the Canal Society of N.J. for ofmy life ended. She was the (see photo our 1946 Golden Anniver- '44) plus a couple of UT zanne Nabors Cutler,Mar- three weeks doing the canals most complete woman I have sary Scholarship Fund Drive. types. of southern France. Like ever known. My old room- garet Fultz Eckel,Dorothy The committee members Can you believe it has most of Europe, much of mate,Wally Chappell,came Marshall Jones, Patricia have been contacting all been two years since our 45th France is laced with canals, down and gave a wonderful Schenck Layden, Kathleen alumni on the 1946 rolls. reunion? It was a blast. As which long predate the rail- eulogy at Hope's services, Carter Leggett, Estelle These personal calls asking set forth in our directory, ways and have been well which were attended by a Walker Lovejoy, Laurie support for our special fund put together by Suzanne maintained, unlike ours. large number ofthe Class of Jackson Mahoney, Flora Jonsson Mercado and Bev-

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erly Jean Taylor Maurice, Honors include a Gold will write me about the Rice Skaggs, Wookie Johnson telephone (606)873-9580. we found that the Class of Medal from Rice for distin- people who attended your and Wayne Collins. Thanks Mary Alice says: "It's 1946 was, in many ways, guished service and an hon- class reunions for this col- to each of you. been a pleasant and satisfy- unique in the annals of the orary Doctor of Laws from umn). John Abercrombie Jim writes: "In Jan. ing 45-year trip for the most institute—or the university. Pine Manor College." '48 was there with his charm- 1949, after a short hitch at part. The fellowship offered We were the only class to go Beverly and I went to ing and talented wife V.J., Humble, I married Louise me by Dr. Floyd Lear and all the way through Rice in get our Rice rings—which the writer. She donated a LeGros and started teaching the Rice history dept. while two years and eight months. meant that we had gradu- book as a door prize for the mechanical engineering at I completed work for a Our arrival was heralded in ated—together, and she re- earlier Rice reunion. Guy Texas A&M, also getting a master's degree gave me a biblical fashion by 40 days of membered yours truly. That Lebreton took home to master's degree there. From good start on the trip (the rain. We were the smallest happy day Doris got her Rice Calif. a copy of her Christ- there we went to Stanford, small stipend even made it class since the early days of ring, she also got another, mas in Texas. About him, where I obtained a Ph.D. in possible for my new husband Rice—boys came as fresh- from Rice ROTC naval of- they said that John was a engineering mechanics. James and me, combined men, went offto war; others ficer Wiley Anderson! They retired Baker & Botts part- "In 1954 I joined the with his G.1. Bill,to live com- had gone to medical school began law school at UT to- ner who is now working as Rice mechanical engineer- fortably for a year while he 1 or war and graduated with gether; by 1950, they had an arbitrator. His main in- ing faculty, where I taught completed his engineering ter us. We had the Navy; many passed the bar,graduated law terests are golf, travel and for 27 years. We raised our degree at U.of H . ). My short ass were Rice students; many school and entered law prac- work (!). four children a few blocks public school teaching ca- came from afar. We were tice in the vintage years. Al- from campus, and two of reer was in English. I had :se certainly a forerunner of the ter raising two sons, attor- them (and one son-in-law) several different positions in Present cosmopolitan stu- ney Wiley III'78 (Sid Rich) graduated from Rice. They the federal civil service,while rk- dent body at Rice. We are a and Joseph E. (real estate were happy years. James pursued his civil ser- , I small, eclectic, heteroge- appraiser, UT), Doris got 1517 "In 1981, with all of vice career. We lived in Calif. ort neous group, but we have her MLS in muscology at them on their own, I took one year; 12 years in of Contributed to Rice in many Okla. U. and served as early retirement, and we LaMarque, Texas; eight cm- ways. As we look forward to founder/director ofthe Lib- Class Recorder: moved to the Wilhoit family years in Shreveport, La.; and )(I's our 50th(1 can scarcely write erty Belles & Beaux and di- Emily Butler Osborn farm in Woodford County, the past 21 years in San An- on the word),let's all think back rector of the Museum of 54 Lake Rd. Ky., near the town of tonio. All of these locales i a to those hectic, sad, happy, American Architecture and P.O. Box 537 Versailles. We spent the first were good places to live,even iber unique days at Rice and Decorative Arts at HBU. Lake Jackson, TX 77566 year renovating the house, in the Calif. desert (it did I by measure the value of the Husband Wiley served as built in 1803 and purchased 'bud and blossom as the rose' and memories and the free edu- George Bush's oil and gas by the Wilhoit family in the year we were there). Now us cation we all received. And attorney while in his long 1850, and have spent the we are both retired federal him let's strive to repay some of and distinguished career at next 11 years working on employees. At least half of 'en it for future Rice students. Baker & Botts, and he is the yard. We raise tobacco the 45 years I was free to be are Beverly and Suzy re- sorely misscd since his heart and cattle but have a young a housewife, full-time membered the way we were attack in 1990.Today, Doris man who does our farming mother to our one child, :hs and then brought us up to is back taking continuing Class Recorder: on halves. Nancy, Girl Scout volunteer Tal date. About Josephine education classes in invest- Ellcanor Graham Tyng "At first I taught a few and church worker. We both Abercrombie they wrote: ment at Rice; negotiation at 3455 Overbrook semesters at the U. of Ken- enjoy traveling and have had ias "Doyou remember one win- Harvard Law School and Houston, TX 77027 tucky, but now we spend at least one memorable va- IS" ter graduation day? She was follows environmental and (713)622-5241 our time on hobbies and cation almost every year of ng the glamour girl of the '40s genealogical interests, re- charities,the local library and the 44 that we've been mar- :ks walking through Sallyport, spectively,in the Flood Con- Class recorder Elleanor the Presbyterian church. And ried. We have visited nearly .nd her deep red hair above the trol Task Force (parliamen- Graham Tyng writes: traveling—occasionally out every section of 49 of the Ilas full-length mink, the nylon tarian) and San Jacinto Our 45th Homecoming ofthe country but mostly to states plus Canada, Puerto re- hose and alligator sling Descendants, and others. weekend may be over by the see our four children, as- Rico,the U.S. Virgin Islands, wo Pumps! Those were the Son Joe in Atlanta has their time you receive this. Do sorted in-laws and five grand- Mexico, England,and a Car- lye days. back when Josephine two grandchildren, Ashley drop me a line telling us children in Houston,Seattle ibbean cruise with a foray up and her parents, Jim and Lilly and Chase. what you saw and what ad- and Auburn, Ala. and down the Orinoco River ige Abercrombie, founded thc Evelyn Burke Ander- ventures you had at the re- "We have lots of com- in Venezuela. In addition, but Pin Oak Charity Horse Show son writes from Kerrville, union. pany and would be happy to James has spent time in Ja- vel- to benefit Texas Children's where she enjoys reading, We've had some lovely see any of you who come to pan, Korea, Greece, Ger- 993 Hospital. Remember the fra- sewing, crafts and daily letters and cards from Jim the Lexington area." Jim's many, the Philippines and to grance of hay and roses each walks. She wed Donald '48, Wilhoit, Mary Alice Pol- at 9225 McCowan's Ferry Labrador on engineering re- June at Pin Oak Stables?(Ask affectionately known as lard Lavender, Lloyd Road, Versailles, KV.40383; jobs,so I have enjoyed those ise your horse to canter, Miss "Red"or "Andy" in his grid- v Abercrombie!) Innovative, iron days at Rice. Her B.A. me she was instrumental in de- in English started a long rn- veloping protective head career as a teacher of From the 1946 Classnotes: dldy gear for fighters through her government courses in El .on recent boxing concern. To- Paso. Three children—Don ale- day she is CEO of her own (A&M); Sally (West Texas We were the only class to go all the way through Rice ck. company, with interests in State) and Carol (Texas in and Lan real estate, thoroughbred Tech), who now has little two years eight months. Our arrival was gie racehorses and other invest- ones Lauren and Robin. lar- ments. She and two sons, Evelyn's favorite memories heralded in biblical fashion by 40 days of rain. We cie Rice graduate Jim Robinson of Rice say it for us all: Dr. cry '83 (Jones) and race car Davies' biology class, Miss were the smallest class since the early days of Rice— on driver George Robinson,di- Dean's Math 100, bridge I)os came UT vide their time between gamcs and dancing at Autry as freshmen, went off to war; others had Houston and the horse farm House, meeting friends in medical has in Kentucky, the Texas Sallyport and the EBLS .one to school or war and graduated with us 5th ranch, or on the ski slopes. mclodrammer! As She's served Rice well as vice Lamar High School ny, chair ofthe Board of Gover- Class of 1943 had its 50th Doris Elaine Ehlinger Inc nors and chair of the Build- reunion this spring (I tell cv- ing & Grounds Committee. you this because I hope you

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ton, China, Joe came to the of the European Stars and U.S. in 1939 and was a Stripesfor over 30 years. Boo Houston resident for 50 has seen a lot of history oc- years. Joe proudly served his cur from his home at adopted country in World Darmstadt, a beautiful city War II as the first Chinese just south ofFrankfurt, Ger- From the 1948 Classnotes: American to enter the U.S. many. A most loyal and en- Air Force. After being hon- thusiastic Rice Owl fan, Boo orably discharged from the is quite concerned about Bill Bill McCardell has a great place to retire—he can service he attended Oxford Whitmore, a former Rice water, U. as well as Rice. sports information director step 50 feet out his back door into and it Mr. Joe was a successful who is recuperating from a independent businessman in stroke. He asks that all who ain't the Mississippi! the grocery industry for over knew Bill,especially the ath- Elleanor Graham Tyng 40 years, serving in many letes, write to Bill at 218 leadership positions,includ- Bylane Drive in Houston, ing the presidency of both Texas 77024 and cheer him the Houston and Texas Re- up. tail Grocers Associations and As a favor, Boo offers to as chairman of the govern- look up family names in Ger- ment relations comm.of the man telephone books ifclass- National Grocers Assn. mates are interested in lo- (NGA). In recognition of cating the German branches unpublished science fiction Corps—a two-year stint. till,: places vicariously and plan his service to the grocery in- of their families. My hus- trains Mongolians to teach to visit some of them with novel. Now I have the time dustry, he was named Man band and I are, but we have school and dis- English (in minus 55 degree him in the future. We like to return to of the Year by the National been markedly unsuccessful; how I really should weather!). The ubiquity of elderhostel programs with cover Assn. of Retail Grocers of however, Boo did find one Rice's Honor. What a splen- emphasis on ones involving write." the U.S. and received the Rundstein listed,only a tele- did thing! outdoor activities. This sum- We NEED to hear from NGA's Spirit of America phone number—no address, mer we'll attend a two-week lots more of you! Roy Boy Award. Joe ably served and commented that he/she adult education program at (Roy Howell), let's hear Houston's Chinese commu- must be on the run! You'll Wookie's daugh- Principia College in Elsah, from you. nity in various leadership have better luck, so write London gave Ill., our daughter's alma ter Shannon in roles, including grand vice Boo at European Stars and mater. I'm usually the tour her your new address in Dal- 1950 29480, Box president of the Chinese Stripes, Unit Wookic's guide on our travels, and we las for Rice and us. American Citizens Alliance, 181,APO AE 09211.1 guar- Madeline and like staying in bed -and - daughters president of the Assn. of antee that you will get an Shannon went to Tulane breakfasts. We've been Class Recorder: Chinese Organizations and answer from Boo, a very in- Roy Boy's daughters. guests in antebellum man- with Marty Gibson Roessler adviser to the Overseas Chi- teresting letter writer. our Leila Mc- sions in Mississippi; the old- We hear 9545 Ella Lee Lane nese Comm. Julia Picton Wallace Gadbois and her est house in Mobile, Ala.; a Connell Apt. 30 Survivors include Joe's and Bass Wallace, Reunion husband Henri—two fine contemporary with our own Houston, TX 77063 wife, two sons, one daugh- Committee cochairs, and cornering the hot tub in the Cascades of artists—are (713) 782-4231 (home) ter,two grandchildren and a their committee have directors market. Washington; and the Swan board of (713) 782-8400 (work) host of other relatives and planned a most enjoyable members of in the English Lake District. Both are new friends. 40th reunion weekend for We enjoy the yearly dinner the Bayou Bend Docent Class recorder Marty Gib- all of us. Some of the high- meeting and program of the Organization Board, and son Roessler writes: lights: Fri. evening—barbe- Phi Beta Kappa alumni group they have brought loads of Patsy Maher Thorn cue dinner and bonfire-meet in San Antonio. Only one sparkle and talent to it. They stays very busy these days! under our banner at the other Rice grad is active in it, have houses in Houston and She and Harry have four 1952 stadium; Sat.—Margarita Myra Shultz Bahme '63 the Hill Country and really children, one son and three and Mexican buffet, 7 p.m. (Jones). We've also enjoyed enjoy their city-country life. daughters, and now have at the Farnsworth Pavilion going to San Antonio Rice Daughter Laura and son nine precious grandchildren. J.J. Waller Jr., M.D., writes in the Rice Memorial Cen- alumni gatherings. Now I David are deep into com- They have lived in Bellaire to say he has moved from ter, which has convenient hope to see lots ofold friends puter graphics and computer for years and have been ac- San Antonio to 2404 Cul- parking; and Sun.—casual at our reunion in Oct." science, respectively; David tive in that community.They peper, Midland, Texas brunch at the home of Lloyd's letter was witty, is working on his Ph.D. now. have a second home on Lake 79705-6316. Erminie and Dave Chap- pithy and poignant—a fine Had a tine long talk with Livingston and go there as man. writer—but he restricted us Sam Phelps, who is recov- often as possible. Patsy and I Whether or not you at- to just one paragraph: "I ering nicely from two back try to have lunch once a tend the reunion activities, graduated with a B.S. in surgeries—a nerve problem. week, but it seems we're please fill out the question- Ch.E. and over the years, I Sam said after his last "men- doing good to make it once naire included with your in- tion" in ,SallyportClassnotes 1153 have worked in the follow- a month. vitation and mail it to the ing industries: petroleum he had several delightful My mailbox certainly has class recorder. It should yield refining, engineering/con- calls, one from an old friend not been "stuffed" with mail Class Recorder: some interesting information engineering at Rice— struction, process comput- in civil from you. Get your paper Jackie Darden Rundstein about an outstanding group ing and instrumentation. I Bill Roof, who is now a and pens out right now so I 10702 Willowisp Drive of people. married in 1957 and have doctor in San Antonio. will have some news to pass Houston, TX 77035-3522 Be sure to make plans to two sons. I retired in Feb. Talked to Bill McCar- on to you in the next issue. (713) 723-5291 come the weekend of Oct. 1993 and keep busy trying— dell, who lives way up Please note my new of- 22-24, and be sure to send unsuccessfully—to make north—he is doing a great fice telephone number. Be- Jackie Darden Rundstein your reservations in soon if sense of the stock market job for our Golden Anniver- ing in real estate keeps me in is now class recorder for the you haven't already done so. and in doing occasional en- sary Fund Drive. Bill has a my car enough so I decided Class of 1953. She hopes You won't want to miss this retire—he can gineering studies. I enjoy great place to to move my license to an members of the class will great occasion,and we don't writing: I have written sev- step 50 feet out his back office much closer to my write or call her with their want to miss visiting with it ain't eral technical papers that door into water, and home. news. She looks forward to you! were published and pre- the Mississippi! Look forward to hear- hearing from each of you. If you have any ques- Reilly's daughter sented; wrote and published Joe ing from you. She sends the following: tions about the reunion,con- (Wiess), a Rice a semitechnical newsletter Elaine '93 Benjamin Dudley tact Julia Wallace at (713) serving for 12 years; wrote several graduate this May,is Hobert H. Joe, 70, died ("Boo") Odem writes that 621-1088. in Mongolia with the Peace short stories; and wrote an June 24, 1993. Born in Can- he has been part of the staff

18 Sallyport and Job commitments kept ing: two wonderful grand- loo Velma and Jean Barras from sons, William and Daniel; Charles W. Koberg '56 writes: "Sometime this year, I oc- 1154 coming. Their home is in church duties; garden club noticed a letter in which someone sought the complete at Nederland, Texas. They re- president; volunteer work at It rics to "Loblolly Pine.' Not having seen anyone else city ally enjoy their six children, Grace Presbyterian Retire- :tom my era volunteer this information, I am sending kr- who are all married except ment Village;and taking care Class Recorder: along a copy of the inside front cover of the Campanile en- the youngest son, Jeff. He is of85 rose bushes in her yard. Mary Anne Collins or 1956, which used that song as its theme. loo a U.S. Army capt. who re- Clare Cooke Durst P.O. Box 271 "Nine verses were set forth at the book's beginning. Bill cently returned from four wrote from Barrington, R.I., Hunt, TX 78024 and individual lines were sprinkled throughout to complc Lice years duty in Germany.They where she and Lincoln have nicift the humorous sketches and photographs dial :tor have 13 grandchildren and lived the past 22 years. She Class recorder Mary Anne ',resented the essence of our life at The Rice Institute in ma Collins two great-grandchildren. said that Lincoln is enjoying writes: I hose days: vho Claude E. Payne, a They're especially looking retirement from the Ameri- ith- forward to March 1994, can Mathematical Society chem engineer in our Rice Oh the n h otf September at last rolls around. 218 when Jean plans to retire. since 1985. Clare is systems days, answered the call to There's frost On the meadow and (riot on the ground. :on, He wrote,"Velma and I still manager for many ofthe aca- full-time ministry early in his But I live in 110.. where frost's hard to find. him have good health, and for demic administration offices career and entered the Epis- Under the limb of the loblolly pine, this we thank God." at Brown U.,currently work- copal seminary, the Church 1.1Iy lolly lob, lay lolly lob, lolly lolly 1011 . s to Divinity School of the Pa- Duke Howie could not ing on the content ofa cam- ;er- attend our reunion because pus-wide information sys- cific in Berkeley, Calif. He The books on the shelf are all eovered with dust. ass- he was playing the lead role tern, CWIS. She said, "My received his master's of di- While ii gilt, turn to pa ' and 111104011 111 1.1 lo- in a musical, The 1940s Ra- job changes constantly and vinity in 1964 and his doc- SW1111111/1 engage in affairs clandestine. :hes dio Hour, in Kansas City, is always challenging." Their torate in 1988. Claude's Inder the limb of the loblolly pine. ius- Mo. He has been involved in son Charles is a systems en- most recent assignment was Lolly lolly lob. lolly lolly lob, lolly lolly lob ... taw as rector ofSt. Martin's Epis- acting and directing since gineer at ComputerVision, ;fill; leaving Rice at the end of his outside of Boston. Their copal Church in Houston. Town students pity the fate of dorm boys, one On sophomore year. He was in daughter Jeannette works at June 18, 1993, the del- That g I r f I wo 'et supposed 10 enjoy, ele- the first professional equity the Haffenreffer Museum of egates to a council of the 'then flat 1111 our backs we are forced to recline. ess, production at the Alley The- Anthropology in Bristol, R.I. Episcopal Diocese of Texas Intler the limb of the loblolly pine. 'she ater—Death ofa Salesman— Their son John David works elected Claude to serve as Lolly lolly lob_ lolly lolly lob, lolly lolly lob ... )u'll bishop coadjutor. Eventu- in 1953. Because Rice did with props at the San Fran- 'rite ally not offer a degree in theater, cisco Opera. He recently Claude will succeed the 1 came to Rice with the best of intent. and he went to Kansas U.,where married Susan McComb, Right Reverend Maurice To make Phi Beta Kappa in every event, Box he earned a BA. in speech daughter of David Mc- Benitez as the seventh bishop But• girl and a bottle became my decline. uar- of and theater,then went on to Comb '62(M.A.). the Diocese ofTexas. The Under the limb of the loblolly pine. : an St. Louis U. for a master's in Tony Watkin is with Texas Episcopalian, in the Lolly lay lob, lolly lolly lob. lolly lolly 1011 . . in- June 1993 issue, quotes speech and theater. For four PMG,Process Measurement years Duke worked in acting Group, in Lafayette, Calif. Claude: "I thrive on build- Oh pity the hard working Rice engineer, lace and directing in New York. He sent an update on some ing, and I'm not talking Al with his slide rule and bottle tof beer. lion Returning to Kansas City, of his activities over the past about bricks and mortar but S idle others are loosing one hell itf a time. and With he and two friends started few years, including a recent people and in all facets I eider the limb of the 1014011) pine, a ve of the Circle Theater,a profes- return to Alberta, Canada, God's work. I've seen Lolly loll, lob, lolly lolly lob, lolly lolly lob ... ible some exciting things hap- sional equity theater in for a high school reunion. for Union Station where he both He also wrote, "In 1989 I Pen,and I expect to see many Oh the bright month of April at last rolls around. gh- acted and directed for seven was a member of a 'mature more ofthe Lord's signs and There's fella. and girls all over the ground, be- years. After leaving that the- mountaineers'expedition to wonders in the future." But I go to Rice where a girl's hard 11/ find. -met ater, he has continued his the Lost Kingdom of Muli Under the limb of the loblolly pine. the acting and directing career in western China. No out- Lolly lolly lob, lolly lolly 11/1/, i.,llt lolly lot,. . rita in Kansas City's nine profes- siders had been into this area ).m. sional equity theaters. since 1928,as access is diffi- May with its finals at last looms 11111.1111. lion Donald Israel is a CPA cult. The people were fasci- 1155 t1111 we all aisli that mar prOf11 .111111 drop dead, in New York City. He wrote, nated with our Polaroid cam- Se toast their ill health in whiskey and ient "I am one of three share- eras. This year I went to Kathleen Much'63 ( Jones; tinder the 1111111 of the loblolly ' mai holders in Benefit Concept Argentina to climb Acon- MA., 1971) writes: "Small Lolly lolly lob. lolly 1011) 11111. 11111, 10111 11111 . .. of Systems, Inc., a benefit con- cagua (22,830 ft.), and we world department: As my lap- sulting firm. We design, in- made it despite high winds husband and I were eating Summer vac at last rolls I. stall and administer quali- and heavy snowfalls." Tony dinner in a posh Monterey, Gonna head for the tttttt mains and 111111,11 110001011 14.11 at- fied pension and profit- and his wife are proud of Calif., restaurant in July, a Till the h Of .11 ph 11110 r ag ' me you'll find. tics, sharing plans and nonqual - their two-year-old grand- Woman at the next table Under the 1111111 Of the lobiolly pine. on- ificd executive benefit plans. daughter Elizabeth. overheard me mention Rice. Lolly lay lob, lolly lolly lob. lolly lolly lob ... in- We are considered one of During our reunion Ken She introduced herself as the the leading firms in the coun- Goodner had to be in Japan Peggy Mauk Barnett and Fell gather and sing of the old time• we knew, ield try in the design and instal- for a meeting at 3M's manu- her husband as Rice trustee And those that come after may they do no too. lion lation of Employee Stock facturing operation there but Bill Barnett. We had a nice Till the weeds choke the jasmine and there brushes twit. oup Ownership Plans(ESOPs)." sent the following news. Fhat. The Barnetts were vis- Under the limb of the loblolly pine. Don and his wife Ondree "After graduation I worked iting friends in Monterey and Lolly lolly lob, lolly lolly lob, lolly lolly lob " S to have three married daugh- nine years for Mallinckrodt )ct. enjoying the cool Calif.summer." ters: Liz Israel Oppedijk Chemical before joining 3M end '81 (Jones), Debra and Eve, in 1977. 1 met Judy in St. .11 if and two grandchildren. Louis, and we married in so. Betty Russell Berns- 1963—I never forget the Class recorder Dixie Sick this hausen wrote that she and year as I associate the event Leggett writes: Het Weldon could not attend the with my first new car, a '63 vith 10511 1157 At the time ofour 1992 reunion because he was re- Buick Special. We raised our class reunion, I appreciated cuperating from brain aneu- daughter Beth, who resides receiving news from a num- les- Class Recorder: Class Recorder: rysm surgery. Thankfully he in Houston where she is ber of classmates even Maurine Bybee Dixie Sick Leggett was having a good recovery. employed with Exxon. At 3 though they were unable to 13) 800 Chevy Chase 13411 Kingsride Betty said that normally her 3M three years in attend. I spent Houston, TX 77019 Houston, TX 77019 activities include the follow- Springfield, Mo.,and almost (713)622-3705 (713)468-5929

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20 years in Brownwood, Turns." After graduating Texas. We moved to St. Paul, from Harvard in 1989,Holly Minn., two years ago and received her master's in the- expect to remain here until ater from Brandeis U. and From the 1962 Classnotes: retirement. In the meantime began pounding the pave- we have been and will con- ment in New York hoping Back in 1968,after consulting the Rice Owls football tinue to be thankful for ev- for work. She surely did get erything that has come our some! Well,I had to hunt up schedule, Arnold and Suzanne Ahrens chose the way, including my associa- a friend who watches the tion with Rice and the Class soaps to help me look for only "open date," Oct. 12, for their wedding in the of 1957." Holly on the very next epi- Shay Jones Bintliffsent sode. When this beautiful Rice Memorial Chapel. Their Dallas honeymoon alohas from her home in and lovely young woman Honolulu, Ha. She regret- began her scene, my friend was planned for the following weekend, the Rice- ted missing the reunion and jumped up and down,point- wrote:"I'm starting to build ing at Holly and hurling in- SMU game—an away date, of course! on my property on the big sults her way. It seems the island and must be around role of"Janice Maxwell" is a to supervise—but more than Jezebel-type creature—a real Eleanor Powers Beebe that, several close friends villain. The excellent train- were totally wiped out on ing at Harvard and Brandeis, Kauai by Hurricane 1niki. So coupled with Holly's innate many $$$ have gone to talent, results in a convinc- them, and every spare mo- ing portrayal of a back-stab- Classnotes,I volunteered to for the U.S. Navy in Arling- Fla.(physics). Their consult- ment is spent helping out or bing, lying little witch. be your class recorder. Yes, ton as program manager for ing firm in Murrysville, trying to raise more $$$ for Somehow, I never thought it's true! After an uncom- a Navy/National Environ- Penn., has kept them busy the folks over there." Shay of Margaret as one whose fortably long hiatus,you now mental Satellite Program over the past ten years or so also said that her crew had daughter could even sayvin- officially haves pen pal again. called "GEOSAT Follow- providing consultants for won the 1992 junior mas- dictivc lines with much con- Now that the dialogue has on"(GFO ). The first launch nuclear power plants coast ters division at the state ca- viction,since Margaret is one been reestablished, keep will likely be in late 1995 or to coast. They also have a noe race. of those special folks who those cards and letters 1996, and although Jay has Texas office, cunningly situ- Donna Paul Martin and enriches the lives of those coming. If you don't, you been around long enough ated in the Texas Hill Coun- Rex Martin live in Over- around her with her quiet might have to endure bor- to retire, he says,"I will likely try (Ingram), which as you land Park, Kan. Donna sent and gentle yet warm ways. ing stuff about yours truly. stay on until then, or until it know is right in the middle regrets for the reunion:"It's Mat fun!! All I'll say this time is that is no longer fun, whichever of this country's nuclear really tempting! Unfortu- Don't forget the re- Mary and I celebrated no. comes first." power industry(1,000 miles nately, Rex is teaching this union—it's gonna be great! 35 last June and have been Speaking of retirement in any given direction). What semester at the U.of Sydney back in Houston since 1981, (which, unfortunately, is this does, however, is give (Australia) Law School. I was after stints in Montreal and NOT an option for your class Sonny and Patti an opportu- down under with him for a London. recorder), Wayne Rogers nity to be exotic game ranch- month. I even considered Curiously enough, I (Baker) writes from Austin, ers near Kerrville in their coming to the reunion by found out when I solicited Texas, that he retired on spare time."Of all the things myself, but alas, my mystery contributions from a few of Aug. 1, 1992, from IBM we've done, this is probably know, author William X. Kringle is Class Recorder: you that Ellen Cartwright after 31 years of service. He the goofiest...but you coming in with his wife that Tommie Lu Maulsby May (Jones) had also now teaches math part-time you only go around once," As a Houston weekend,and Sun. night I'm 2256 Shakespeare thought seriously about vol- at Austin Community Col- writes Patti. much scheduled to fly to Erma Houston, TX 77030 unteering to be your class lege. Other "retirement" Coog, Patti feels very Bombeck's house in Phoe- (713) 667-5384 recorder. I guess my bid got activities include tennis, in the minority in her family nix!" there first. Ellen writes that, birding and playing clarinet because the Cofcrs have two despite being somewhat in- in the Austin Symphonic sons and two daughters-in- timidated by all those ad- Band. Wayne started at IBM law who are all Rice grads: vanced degrees garnered by in 1961 in Lexington, Ky., Darren Cofer '85 (Jones) IfflEiD her classmates,she has found spent two years in the Army and Amy Arnold Cofer'85 1158 her niche in residential real on active duty, and then re- (Jones)and Cameron Cofer estate in Houston's Memo- turned to Lexington, where '90(Jones) and Haruna Na- Class Recorder: Class Recorder: rial area for the past 18 years. he earned his M.S.E.E. at kamura Cofer '90 (Jones). Phyllis Walton Galloway Hudson She's been coping as a single the U. ofKy. He transferred Both sons and Haruna are 4233 Harpers Ferry Road 922 Autumn Oaks mother for the past 12, hav- to Austin in 1968 when currently Ph.D. candidates, Birmingham, AL 35213 Houston,TX 77079(home) ing raised three robust sons IBM's developmental lab and Amy has her master's (205) 870-0332 or (after being a spoiled only opened there. He's been in degree from U.Va. Darren M.W. Kellogg Co. child), and she now has two Austin ever since, except for and Amy have presented Class recorder Phyllis Wal- 601 Jefferson Ave. beautiful grandchildren as a two-year stint at IBM's Mom and Dad with both a ton writes: P.O. Box 4557 well. Ellen regrets not being corporate HQ. He has been grandson and a granddaugh- What a wonderful sur- Houston, TX 77210-4557 a little closer to the campus married to Martha Myrick ter. Can Cameron and prise to receive a fun note (work) and having the time to be Rogers '63 (Jones) since Haruna do any less? from Margaret VanMelle (713) 932-9088 (home) more involved at Rice, but 1962. They have two chil- Terry Koonce (Will Cate. She and Bob '57 have (713) 753-4295 (work) she is looking forward to dren. Cynthia is a Rice grad Rice) and Beverly Mont- been living and working in Telex: 166385 hearing from many of you who lives in Austin and works gomery Koonce (Jones) Colorado Springs for 16 Telecopy:(713) 753-5353 through these Classnotes. as a technical writer. Brian is write from Mcndham, N.J., years and haven't tired of Jay Finkelstein (Wiess) a senior at Rice in (you where they have lived since weekend hikes to enjoy the Class recorder Galloway writes from Reston,Va., that guessed it) computer sci- early 1990. Terry is presi- stark beauty of the moun- Hudson writes: he and his wife, Honora ence. dent and CEO of Exxon tains, the incredible view and Hey, Class of 1960. I Moore Finkelstein '63 I received a nice long Research and Engineering the cardiovascular workout. have NEWS. Having grown (Jones), have four kids. The letter from Patti and Horace Co. in Florham Park, and The hot news in the Cate tired of not only never see- older three, all girls, are now (Sonny) Cofer (Will Rice), Beverly is a marriage and family is that their daughter ing any news about my class- on their own; the youngest, who settled in Penn. after family therapist in her Holly has landed a part on mates but also not even see- a boy, is starting middle Sonny's submarine tour in "spare" time. (Didn't you the soap opera"As the World ing our class listed in school this year. Jay works Hawaii and Ph.D. work in always wonder if those two

50 Sallyport would ever amount to any- it would be great to invest in spected figure in national and more than 35 neighbor- Pat and Bill are often seen at thing? Only time will tell.) a bed-and-breakfast estab- international architecture hoods. As part of these ef- tennis events—in fact, they Their three children are all lishment back in the U.S. and planning circles, Brodie forts, Brodie brought qual- were married on the tennis married and living in various Before returning to Scotland also will direct the firm's ity architectural and environ- court! They will celebrate parts of Texas. They have from a vacation in Houston, planning and urban design mental design to thousands their 20th anniversary next one grandson,with a second Ann decided to make a stop group. of citizens (many of low in- March. Pat is the 1994 presi- grandchild due in Sept.Terry in Vermont "to find a place In announcing the ap- come) through the rehabili- dent of the Downtown Pro- is a member of the Advisory with our name on it." Did pointment, RTKL chair tation of vacant rowhouscs fessional Group, made up of Council to the George R. she ever! The Battcnkill Harold L. Adams FAIA into scattered-site public over 100 professional Brown School of Engineer- River, a red covered bridge, praised Brodie's creative housing and cooperative women who meet for the ing. a little white church and a leadership, commitment to apartments, major physical purposes of education and Paul Norrod( Baker), a schoolhouse on a country design excellence, and de- improvements to many of networking. high school friend of mine village green surrounded by velopment ofpublic/private Baltimore's oldest public Arnold Ahrens(Baker) prior to our Rice days, writes open fields and forested hills partnerships as one of the housing projects,new build- and Suzanne shared the news from Havre dc Grace, Md., are all at the front doorstep few architects/planners to ings for the elderly and tech- of daughter Beth's engage- that he retired as a full colo- of a 200-year-old colonial head major urban revitaliza- nical and financial assistance ment to Lee O'Neill III. nel from the U.S. Army after farmhouse near Arlington, tion agencies in the U.S. in the form of "homestead- Arnold, known as "Sonny" 30 years ofduty in a number Vt., that just happened to "As an architect, plan- ing" and "shopsteading" to his longtime friends, and of exotic posts, including have been the home of ner and public official, Jay programs. In March 1993, Suzanne will celebrate their The Presidio in San Fran- Norman Rockwell for 11 brings many talents and per- Brodie was cited by 25th anniversary in Oct. cisco. He is now thinking years. It was already licensed spectives to the design and Baltimore's Neighborhood Back in 1968, after consult- about retiring in our old to operate as a B&B, but it development process," said Design Center as one of the ing the Rice Owls football hometown,Corpus Christie, had been closed for a year Adams. "Jay has always ap- city's leaders in revitalizing schedule, Arnold and ;ult- to build a boat and do some and needed some work. They plied a combination of vi- Baltimore neighborhoods Suzanne chose the only ille, serious sailing. He and his bought the scenic 5.3 acres, sion and realism to his work, over the past 25 years. "open date," Oct. 12, for nisy Wife Audrey have two chil- which included the famous involving citizens, designers Brodie is a fellow of the their wedding in the Rice 4: so dren. Daughter Calecn lives artist's studio, a small cot- and developers as a team in American Institute ofArchi- Memorial Chapel. Their for in Alexandria, Va., and son tage and a tennis court creating livable communi- tects and a member of the Dallas honeymoon was oast Gene lives in Colo., near amidst apple trees, in 1987. ties. As RTKL's planning and American Institute of Certi- planned for the following ye a Boulder. They obviously "The Inn on Covered Bridge design portfolio continues fied Planners, the Urban weekend, the Rice-SMU situ- have ties to both of those Green" has five guest rooms to encompass projects across Land Institute, the Interna- game—an away date, of areas, but Paul says that they and two cottages. Ron con- the United States and tional Downtown Assn. and course! Their best man was you don't care for "cold win- tinued to work part-time as abroad, we look forward to the National Trust for His- Jim Durham(Baker).When idle ters" (or high taxes either, a consultant in the petro- benefiting from Jay's impres- toric Preservation. He also not working as director of lear for that matter). Until they leum equipment business for sive background and success- serves as a trustee ofthe City financial operations at the nles move back to Texas, their four years, but now both he ful experience with revital- Life Museums in Baltimore U. of Houston, Arnold en- irhat telephone number is (410) and Ann are involved full- ization projects in Washing- and as chair of the Advisory joys coaching girls'fast pitch give 939-9294. time in the business, al- ton and Baltimore." Board to the U.ofVirginia's softball in West University rtu- Rob Weber(Wiess; B.S. though Ron still accepts a PADC, established in School of Architecture. He and was instrumental in es- ach- 1961) and wife Ann Duffy local contract engineering 1972 by an act of Congress, is a member of the Presidio tablishing girls' fast pitch heir Weber (U. of St. Thomas assignment from time to has been fulfilling its con- Council, which is assisting softball as a UIL Interscho- ings '63), who celebrated their time. Two of their children gressional mandate of revi- the National Park Service in lastic League sport at Lamar ably 30th wedding anniversary now live in Vt., while two talizing the 21-block Penn- the conversion of The High School while his low, this year, have had a sub- are in Calif. They have three sylvania Ave. area between Presidio military base in San daughter Kate was a student cc," stantial lifestyle change dur- grandchildren. The B&B the White House and the Francisco, Calif., to a na- there. Arnold mentioned a ston ing the past six years. They business has been great, and U.S. Capitol. Under Bro- tional park. A native and resi- recent visit from Carlos luch were enjoying life on their they are now completely in- die's direction, the renova- dent of Baltimore, Brodie is Cardenas (Baker), who is mily second expatriate assign- tegrated into the local com- tion and new construction listed in Who's Who in presently living in Jackson- two ment in Scotland when the munity. Their inn has had of distinctive buildings— America. ville, Fla. Carlos visited the s-in- downturn in the petroleum national exposure in many Market Square, the Evening Rice campus and Baker Col- :ads: industry dictated a return to travel guides and was fea- Star, the Lansburgh and the lege, where he lived until he ncs) the U.S.A. in 1987. Neither tured last Oct. on "Good Canadian Embassy—have transferred to UT. He re- '85 of them was enthused about Morning America." You can been completed, and the ceived his B.S. in chemistry ofer returning to the heat and contact Ron and Ann for Federal Triangle project has 111 and a Ph.D.in organic chem- Na- humidity of Houston, al- information on the inn at 1 - moved through design into istry at UT. He is presently es). though it would have put 800-726-9480. construction. Class Recorder: with Glidco Organics, where i are them near Ron's home in That's it for this time, Before joining PADC, Nancy Burch he is sales director in Latin atcs, Victoria. Having followed but your classmates would Brodie worked for the Balti- 3311 Stoney Brook America and Asia-Pacific. He ter's Ron's career, most of the really like to hear from YOU. more Dept. of Housing and Houston, TX 77063 and his wife Davron have Tren time willingly, from Hous- Community Development (713) 781-3634 two children: Lisa, a ritcd ton to Calif. to England and RTKL Associates Inc., one (HCD) for two decades in physician's assistant in At- ith a Scotland, back to Calif. and ofthe nation's largest archi- architecture, planning and lanta, and Eric, who received igh- then back to Scotland again, tecture/engineering/plan- management capacities. Af- an M.A. in journalism from and Ann had other ideas. And ning firms, announces the ter serving as architect and the U. of Fla. and is pres- What ideas! With their four appointment of M.J. (Jay) chief planner, he was deputy 10112 ently working for the Jack- Will Children either in college or Brodie(Will Rice; M.Arch.) commissioner from 1968 to sonville Beaches Leader. ont- off on their own,they felt it FAIA, AICP as senior vice 1977 and commissioner Betty Healy White nes) was time to combine Ron's president and member of its from 1977 to 1984, estab- Class Recorder: (Jones ) and her husband N.J., engineering and handyman board of directors. lishing a national reputation Eleanor Powers Beebe Dale live in Houston. Dale is since talents with Ann's public Brodie, who has served for innovative housing pro- 2908 Ella Lee Lane vice president of American resi- relations, creative writing, as executive director of the grams, citizen participation Houston, TX 77019 Modern Homes Insurance awl interior decorating,gourmet Pennsylvania Ave. Develop- and design quality. During Co. and covers Texas in his :ring cooking, antique collecting ment Corp. (PADC) in those years, he was respon- Class recorder Eleanor business travels. They have and and organizational skills. Washington, D.C., since sible for the redevelopment Powers Beebe writes: two daughters. Shawn is in a and Having become enamored June 1984, will assume di- ofCharles Center, the Inner While playing in the an- Ph.D. program in molecular her °fB&Bs and done more than rectorship of RTKL's Wash- Harbor (both of which re- nual Channel 8 Tennis Clas- biology at the U. ofGeorgia you their share of entertaining ington office on Aug. 16, ceived ULI awards of excel- sic, I saw Pat Yale Hogan in Athens,and Sheila recently two While overseas,they decided 1993. A well known and re- lence), Market Center and (Jones)and her husband Bill. received her B.S. in psychol-

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ogy from the U. of Hous- attend law school.(Hope she ton. Betty and Dale visited wins the lottery!) My wife recently with Robert Collett Mary and my daughters are (Will Rice) and Sue Collett ZTA sorority sisters, but I in Seattle. Sue and Betty are keep telling them how much From the 1964 Classnotes: sisters. better the college system is Dick Wright (Wiess) than the Greek life." Dr. Anita Katherine Jones (Jones) was sworn and Martha McKean Ken Simmons (Will Wright'64 (Jones) were in Rice) writes from Claymore, in as director of Defense Research and England for a week in May. Kents Store, Va.: "In May They went to Cambridge to 1991 I retired as chair and Engineering, Office of the Undersecretary of see their son Charlie '91 CEO of United Healthcare (Baker) receive his M.Phil. Corp., a Minnesota-based Defense (Acquisition), in a ceremony on July in genetics from Churchill HMO/health care manage- College there. Afterward ment company. Since then 20, 1993. Secretary of Defense Les Aspin they toured with Charlie I've finished my Ph.D. in around the Cotswolds and American Studies at UT at presided. the Welsh coast. Dick is chair Austin. The dissertation was for the Class of 1962 and entitled 'Managed Health will be heading up fund- Care: Right Idea, Wrong raising activities for us, in- Rules.' It has been named a cluding the telefund. If you finalist in the American Stud- are interested in calling ies Assn. competition for the members of our class for best dissertation of 1992. Class recorder Dale Gentry I, 1993. Professor ofEngineering and these activities, please call I'm rewriting it for publica- Miller writes: As director of Defense Applied Science at the U. of the Rice Development Of- tion. Mary Sue Barnum Research and Engineering, Va. They have two daugh- fice at(713) 527-4991. It is "I'm currently living on (Jones) reports that her son Jones is the senior official ters. fun and a good way to keep a farm in central Va. where Jeff Barnum '93 (Wiess) for research and technology in touch with Rice friends. my wife, Judith Barnum graduated from Rice this matters for the Dept. of Jahnke '70 (Jones), and I spring,receiving recognition Defense. Her responsibili- built our'retirement home.' for his artistic projects. He ties include management of I'm tending the cows,goats, left in May with a one-way Dept.of Defe nse science and bees,geese and chickens with ticket to Europe. technology programs; all in- 1963 the able help of my Border Mary Sue returned in house laboratories and re- collie, Joy. I'work' two-four March from two weeks in search, development and Carmen Acosta Johnson Class Recorder: days a month as a director/ Russia, where she and a col- engineering centers; univer- writes: "I am very involved Kathleen Much consultant/mentor with a league were training a group sity research initiatives; and in special projects for native few start-up 128 Hillside Ave. companies. I'm ofpsychologists and psychia- the Advanced Research Americans with serious men- planning Menlo Park, CA 94025- to teach at U.Va. trists in the techniques of Projects Agency. tal illness." Johnson's ad- 6538 this fall and do some research psychotherapy and psycho- Previously, Jones has dress is P.O. Box 1687,Taos, (415) 854-8968 (home) as a Fellow at the U.Va. drama."I found the Russian been a member of many sci- N.M. 87571; telephone Health (415) 321-2052 (work) Policy Institute. people I met to be very well entific advisory groups,such (505) 758-7962. email: Life's not perfect—but we're educated and well informed, as the Defense Science [email protected] enjoying it a lot. interested in world issues, Board, Air Force Scientific David Rhodes writes: "Last "We do attend a Rice eager to learn our art, and Advisory Board, NASA Sci- summer,Bob Easton (B.S., football game each year and deep of spirit. I personally ence and Applications Advi- 1967), David Rhodes Class recorder Kathleen would love to hear from Rice felt like a pioneer on the sory Committee's Commu- (B.Arch., 1967)and Warner Much writes: friends. I look forward to frontier, really privileged to nications and Information Strang, Baker College '66, Ed Ettel (Will Rice) seeing everyone at the re- be affecting the future of my Systems Subcommittee and enjoyed a quick 18 holes of union." writes from Marietta, Ga.: profession as it emerges in various panels of the Na- golf in Memphis, Tenn., "I retired a capt. in the U.S. Diane Lohr Wilson Russia. And I had fun to tional Research Council and while there on separate busi- Navy Reserve in 1989 and (Jones; M.A., 1972) spent boot! Plans are underway for the National Academy of ness trips. The outing was just finished my 26th year five weeks in Paris this sum- me to return in Sept." Sciences. Her private sector such a hit with the three that with IBM.I'm currently pro- mer in a special National Peggy Saunders Davis experience includes serving they made plans to expand gram manager, distribution Endowment for the Hu- (Jones) and Robert Davis as a professor and chair of this year to include all Baker market development for Asia manities program for high (Baker) write that their son the Dept. of Computer Sci- '66ers and others on the 25th Pacific. So I have been doing school teachers. Her group Lee graduated from UT law ence at the U. of Va., vice reunion roster. The first an- slot of international travel- studied 19th-century Paris school in May. Their daugh- president and founder of nual Baker College '66 Me- ing for the past 13 years. I reflected in the literary works ter Melissa will go to grad Tartan Laboratories, mem- morial/Invitational Golf was eligible for an IBM early of Baudclaire, Balzac and school at the U. of Colo, in ber of the Board of Direc- Tournament was held the retirement program with a Flaubert. I hope Diane also physical therapy. tors of Science Applications weekend of May 14-16, studied sizable payout but decided 20th-century Paris Rose Phelan Graham International Corp., trustee 1993, at the Hyatt Regency to stay with IBM. That's museums and food! (Jones) is still working for of the MITRE Corp., and Hill Country Resort in San another attribute you acquire the Rice library as a cata- member ofvarious academic Antonio. Attending were at Rice—fortitude. loguer and is involved with advisory boards. golfers [all Baker College'66 "Our older daughter the Contemporary Hand- In addition to her B.A. alums] Jim Campbell, Bob Erin recently graduated from weavers of Houston. in mathematics from Rice, and Joan Easton, Tom the U.of Georgia with a B.S. 1964 Jones earned a master ofarts Garrard, Kent Morrison, in environmental health sci- Dr. Anita Katherine Jones from the U. ofTexas in Aus- David and Donna Rhodes (Jones) was sworn in as di- tin in literature and a Ph.D. ence and has a job offer from Class Recorder: and Warner and Sharon rector of Defense Research in computer science from the CDC, but there is a hir- Dale Gentry Miller Strang. Shooting the resort and Engineering, Office of Carnegie-Mellon U.She has ing freeze. Our younger 20406 Chadbury Park Drive rapids, basking in the sun, the Undersecretary of De- published many technical daughter Alison is a Georgia Katy, TX 77450 biking, roller coastering or Tech sophomore working fense (Acquisition),in a cer- articles and two books in the playing tennis were Mike toward an international af- emony on July 20, 1993. area of computer software Carter, Chris '67 and fairs or an international eco- Secretary of Defense Les and systems. Nannette Curran, Bill and nomics degree with plans to Aspin presided. Jones was Jones is married to Wil- Martha Dolman, Bobby informally sworn in on June liam A. Wulf, the AT&T Hughes, Linda Walsh

52 Sallyport Jenkins,John '67(M.E.E., graphics to the field of pro- she had moved following her Elizabeth Avellin '92(Ba- 1968)and Georgene Somers cess and chemical engineer- graduation from Rice. Sur- ker), a.k.a. Lily, writes: "Hi, and Bob Easton's parents ing. vivors include her husband 11811 everyone. This may be a Clarence and Mary Easton "I have just returned Jeffrey, her son John Fred- shameless plug, but I hope and brother Michael with his from a visit to Israel. There! erick, her parents and a that all of you will support wife Johnette.Thanks to Bob studied and experienced brother (all ofHouston ),and Class Recorder: the films of a Rice grad. I Easton and his assistant many aspects of the life and other family members.Those Richard Morris was the assoc. producer of Ronnie Woodhouse for plan- teachings of Jesus Christ. friends who wish to do so P.O. Box 1830 Robert Rodriguez' film El sing a super event! David Having received God's gift may contribute to the Susan Bellaire, TX 77402-1830 Mariacbi—a.k.a. the $7,000 Rhodes will be in charge of ofeternal life in 1990,1 have Robinson Memorial Fund at (713)667-5944 movie that won the Audi- the second annual tourna- now realized my dream of the Scholarship Foundation, ence Award at the 1993 ment, planned for next visiting the Holy Land. lam P.O. Box 1403, Santa Bar- Laura V. Jennett (Jones) Sundance Film Festival. Spring,and hopes many more grateful for the opportunity bara, Calif. 93102. writes: "I met my husband Robert and! have been mar- pf the class will plan to at- Sallyport offers me to pro- Gilbert at the U. of Hous- ried for three and one-half tend. Contact David at(901) claim to my classmates the ton law school. We both years, and I have been his 767-1756 if you would like reality that Jesus is King of graduated and passed the biggest supporter ever since. to be added to our invitation Kings and Lord of Lords." Texas bar in 1984. We have It is great fun working to- list!" Or write him at 5690 151 since had three children— gether and traveling together Normandy,Memphis, Trim. Terry Annett Kilpatrick- Karen, eight; Joseph, five; during the publicity tour. 38120. Weaver ( Brown) writes: "I and Andrew, Our permanent residence is Class Recorder: two. Last fall I regret to inform you of the was certified in Austin, but we spend quite Dr. Thomas N. Pajewski by the Texas death of my mother, Ida Board a bit of time in Los Angeles. 3023 Watercrcst Drive of Legal Specializa- (Mrs. John E.) Kilpatrick, tion as a Our next project is another and Charlottesville, VA 22901- specialist in estate who was long active in the planning and probate law. adventure with El Mariachi. . of 7224 or Faculty Women's Club, on This year I ended a lengthy We'll begin principal pho- gh- U. of Virginia Health May 18, 1993. association with tography in Sept. 1993,so! Sciences Center the law firm Class Recorder: "On a happier note, my of Andrews 8c Kurth hope y'all will be looking for Dept. of Anesthesiology that ludy Ragland husband Stephen Weaver began while our next movie in 1994. I'll Mal() Box 238 I was still at 209 Palm (Will Rice) and I would like keep you posted. Aire Charlottesville, VA 22908 Rice. I opened my own law Fricndswood, TX 77546 to announce the birth of a office here in Houston. In "To all of you whose son, Atticus Fannin Weaver, (804) 974-7832(home) friendship !enjoyed at Rice. (804) 924-2283 (work) addition to my law practice on Sept. 19, 1992, in Phila- and I send you lots of good (804) 982-0019 (work fax) my family involvement, delphia. He joins his twin I am involved with our wishes. Please write about siblings, Luke and Emma. church and as a Brownie yourselves in the Sallyport son 1!111!I "Stephen graduated trader. Although I am very Classnotcs because it is al- vcd from law school in 1990, busy, I always have time to ways good to hear from tive and he is now working for a visit with old friends or new. people you knew way back ken. Class Recorder: law firm in Center City Phila- I can be reached at (713) when." ad- Kathleen Callaway delphia. I am continuing to 880-8105 or at my mailing aos, 8, rue Leon Blum work as a hospital social address, 2029 Mangum 33400 Talence worker in Trenton, N.J." France Road, Suite 352, Houston, The family resides at 2139 Texas 77092-8529." Guernsey Ave., Abington, 1111 ..ast Rudolf M.Klein (Will Rice; Penn. 19001. t.S., Ph.D.) writes to say that his des lea- friend Bernd Hans G. William ("Bill") Tate .ner Liiftner( L(>vett; M.A.) died Jr., M.D. (Wicss) died on 1!IH1 '66, April 30, 1993, of cancer at July23,1993. He was a prac- Alan R. Burdick s of age 49 in Regensburg, Ger- ticing physician in the Hous- many. ton area. Tate was a gradu- Class Recorder: B. David usi- ate of the University Atom- Alan R. Burdick (M.Mus.) Brent, M.D. 4804 was ma, Guadalajara, Mexico; made his recording debut Toreador Drive Austin, TX :hat and the UT Medical School with the London Symphony 78746-2413 and in Houston. He was a mem- Orchestra in March 1993 on Betty Conrad Adam(MA.; tker 1072 ber of numerous medical the Arioso Classics Interna- Ph.D., 1983) is married .5th associations. He leaves be- tional label. He is scheduled to W. Kendall Adam and an- hind two sons and a daugh- for more in 1994. In addi- has Class Recorder: two children, Mark, 18 years Me- ter and numerous other rela- tion to a busy guest con- Tim Thurston ducting schedule, he con- old and a senior at Kinkaid, 1944 tives. the Arlington Ave. tinues his duties as executive and Michael, 15 years old 16, Columbus, OH 43212- director/conductor of the and a freshman at Episcopal 1038 ncy South Arkansas Symphony High School. She is em- (614) Guy Page Dayraull San 486-4846(home) and is the new music direc- ployed by Christ Church 'ere tor and conductor of the Cathedral as a canon pastor Class 1177 '66 recorder Tim Thur- Lawton (Okla.) Philhar- at 1117 Texas Ave., Hous- Guy Page Dayvault ( Lov- ston Rob sends the following: monic Orchestra beginning ton, Texas 77002. She re- ett) writes: "In Jan.'92,Russ om George W. McLure Karen Kegg '76 (Baker) in the fall of 1993. sides at 3501 Chevy Chase Coleman (Lovett) phoned M.E.E., on, (Baker; 1973) writes: "1 would like to re- in Houston 77019. with a job lead. A week later writes: employed ides "1 am as a port to you the death of Jamie Strauss Larsen '79 I was interviewing in Lon- manager at Brown ron 8c Root Susan Jane Strowbridge (Hanszen), of 14017 Bing- Cynthia Rene Clifton Aus- don. Four months later I son (Houston) in the informa- Robinson(Jones)—she died ham Dr., Raleigh, N.C. tin (Jones) writes: "Here's quit Chevron to start with tion technology dept. tun, I am suddenly on July 11, 1993." 27614, writes: "I received a the latest update. lam living Marc Rich AG. In April '92 r,or currently responsible for a Karen includes a copy of master of science degree in in Denver, Colo., with my I married Denise Renee Like project involving the appli- Susan's obituary from the May 1993from North Caro- husband Gene and three- Tierney, which was the best cation and of object-oriented Santa Barbara News-Press lina State U. in technical year-old daughter Adriene. thing I ever did! Bill and technology, knowledge. of July 14, which noted that communication and will be I'm working as a sales man- Moebius'( Lovett ) folks, Bill based shy system concepts, and Susan died at her home in teaching full-time at NCSU ager with Ford Motor Co." and Ann, were our best man computer Is Is high-performance Santa Barbara, Calif., where beginning in fall 1993." and maid of honor. We

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Corbodean in Little Rock, intend to pursue my inter- Ark. Other Rice folk at- ests in photography, writing From the 1984 Classnotes: tended, but Megan said she and architecture, the latter would write in to announce having been my first area of Still DINKS, we don't even have a dog. We love the the birth of her daughter if I study at Rice, where I gravi- wrote in to announce my tated to managerial studies area and have become the typical suburbanites. As latest addition [Editor's note: and geology, finally settling see New Arrivals this issue]. for managerial studies be- neophyte outdoorsmen, we are trying to live up to the Her daughter Marek Anne cause of the many different joins her older brother Pe- types ofprofessional pursuits local practice ofacquiring as much outdoor and sport- ter,who is already going into it facilitated. I spent a year at the third grade. Wow!" UT in Austin, where I was ing equipment as we can. We spend our free time inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi honor society and named skiing,hiking and biking,and it is wonderful to be able to the national dean's list, studying petroleum engi- to escape the rat race most weekends. 1984 neering and geology. But burnout and some health complications obviated my Carleen Tindell Clark Class Recorder: Kathleen Robertson Stewart becoming a research engi- 15 Eden Drive neer. Rome, GA 30165 "I have recently returned to the Baptist church after ing the dog and hopelessly (706) 234-3207(home) moved to London at the end in Dallas. Alexander gradu- four years of ecumenicalism enthralled with Barney, the (706) 290-5296 (work) of May and settled in ated from Southwestern and am happily settling into purple dinosaur. Becky and Hampstead,a beautiful hilly Medical School, and Kessler my spiritual roots. And!have I settled in the Chicago area Class recorder Kathleen suburb with many trees and graduated from Harvard U. undertaken to develop fund- in 1989. Since that time I Robertson Stewart writes: flowers—great view of the and Jefferson Medical Col- ing for a new mental health have been working at North- Here's who I heard from city from our terrace—in lege. They reside in Dallas. facility for high-level patients western U. in Evanston as during the summer: Mary July. struggling to bring their lives the computing facilities man- Kay Alderdice Knight '83 "Am working on a Rus- Meg Sullivan Jones together after encounters ager for the electrical engi- (Brown; M.C.E., 1986), sian-Swiss joint venture oil (Brown) writes: "My hus- with the dark side of psy- neering and computer sci- who lives with her husband production project on the band Steve and I have moved chology. Working with me ence dept. I am still working Philip (Wiess) and their Arctic Circle just west ofthe to Anchorage,Alaska. lam a at this point is architect Orby mostly with Suns and other daughter Caitlin only about Urals. Have been to Russia a lawyer for Alyeska Pipeline Roots'52 and several mem- Unix machines. I have also an hour away from me, in dozen times in as many Service Co., the company bers of the Nueces County started teaching full-day and Powder Springs, Ga. We months, learning a little of that operates the 800-mile- MHMR staff. Last but per- half-day tutorials with such agree that the so-called the language and enjoying long trans-Alaska oil pipe- haps most important, after organizations as the Sun Mexican food available here the experience. Work is fo- line. My new address is 1513 working with Susan Baker User Group,Usenix and Sun is awful and plan to meet cused around cash flows and Kinnikinnick, No. 2, An- '78 (Jones) and Joyce Expo. Becky is working for sometime at another type of business plans, though my chorage, Alaska 99508." Pounds Hardy '45 to see Motorola in Northbrook in restaurant to talk about good steamflood petroleum engi- that old wounds from some the Intelligent Vehicle High- old days and good current neering experience was the Cristle Collins Judd tough experiences at Rice way System group. She is days. Aneysa ("Boodle") justification for hiring. (Hanszen; B.Mus., M.M.) are healed, I have begun to helping them develop an on- Haggard Sane'83 (Brown), "Denise and I have seen writes: "Bob Judd '81 move back toward a less radi- board navigation system for who lives with her husband lots of Europe this year. She (M.M.)and I have done an- cal perspective on Rice and a automobiles. and their daughter Mary Ann joined me on business to other one of our three-year more vital level of participa- "My latest hobby is fly- in Winston-Salem, N.C. Moscow in May as well as new job moves. I finally com- tion in alumni affairs." ing. I earned my private (also not too far from me by long weekend holidays in pleted my doctoral diss. at Personal to Valerie Hale pilot's license in June 1991: Texas standards). After her Belgium, Denmark,Prague, King's College, U. of Lon- (Brown): Please call me it took about six months of "decade at Duke," where she Vienna, Paris, Venice and don,and have joined the fac- again! The number I wrote twice-a-week training. Becky met and married her hus- Florence. ulty at the U. of Penn. Bob down for you has been dis- enjoys being copilot,and we band and finished medical "Best wishes to all!" just got tenure and a promo- connected or is no longer in have already made several school,an internal medicine The Dayvaults reside at tion to assoc. professor at service. dinner trips and overnight residency, and a pulmonary 35 Arkwright Rd., London Cal State at Fresno but has Keep those calls and let- visits in the airplanes that we and critical care fellowship, NVV36BJ,United Kingdom; taken a year's leave of ab- ters coming, folks. rent. I am hoping to fly my- she and her husband are telephone 011-44-71-435- sence with hopes of finding self down to our class' tenth working at Bowman Gray 7848; work telephone 011 - a job in or near Philly. Doug Allen (Hanszen) reunion, but the checkbook School of Medicine. And 44-71-935-4455; work fax "My new address is writes: "Life has changed may have other ideas. Susan Aldrich(Wiess ), who 011-44-71-580-4203 or School ofArts and Sciences, dramatically at the Allen "Anyone with access to spent the summer working 4204. Dept. ofMusic, U.of Penn., house. Of course, I had the Internet electronic mail can for the government in Wash- 201 S. 34 Street, Philadel- good sense to keep Riley and reach me with the address ington, D.C. She and I are phia, Penn 19104-6313; my charming wife Julie. Riley [email protected]. Becky hoping she can stop over telephone (215)898-7544; was born in Aug. 1992 and is reachable with becky_ here on her way back to law fax(215) 573-2106; e-mail: is incredibly cute. For those [email protected]." Or school in Austin. 1983 cjuddamail.sas.upenn.edu." Brian Watson (Baker) who know Julie, he has in- you may use their address: herited her rather distinctive 1833 Normandy Court, Ar- writes: "I want to let my William LeFebvre (Jones; laugh. Everything else has lington Heights, Ill. 60004. friends from Rice know that Amy Howell Alaniz (Will M.S., 1987) writes: "The I have finally begun my ca- changed for us, however. In most exciting thing that has Jan.,1 quit my job at Gundle Rice) has moved to 2401 N. In Shik Lee(Jones; B.Arch., reer in the petroleum indus- happened recently to me and Environmental Systems,and 10th St.,Ste. B-63,McAllen, 1985) writes: "On a recent try as a businessman. My my wife,Rebecca Kay Jones we moved from the friendly Texas 78501. journey to the South 1 had hope is to qualify for admis- LeFebvre'86 (Brown), was confines of West U. to the the chance to catch up with sion to Stanford's school of the birth of our daughter small town of Fairhope,Ala. Anne Lynn Alexander Megan Clark Bruckner business for MBA studies and Cynthia Marie. She came to Yes, it is actually on the map (Hanszen)and David Joshua (Jones) and Bob Bruckner then to work in developing us on Dec. 29, 1990. She is and lies just east of Mobile, Kessler were married May (Sid Rich;BA. and B.Arch.) the oil and gas resources in now two and one-half years near the Gulf Coast of Ala. 29,1993,at Aldredge House at a wedding for Susan China,the Old Soviet Union old, running, playing, teas- My brother-in-law and!have Bratton (Jones) and Steve and Alaska. On top ofthat, I decided to go into the in-

34 Sallyport business together, Minyard'82 ( Lovett), who Pamela Cook Barksdale gagement ring and, just re- Borg (Sid Rich) and Amy tg and we plan to acquire small also lives in Denver. It was (Jones) recently joined the cently, my 30th birthday Fredrickson Borg '86 ter companies and work on quite a festive weekend in Houston office of Hutche- ugh!1 present). She was es- (Brown) have returned to of some start-up projects. Be- the mountains. son 8c Grundy,L.L.P., as an corted by Keith Chappell Houston from Denver, so lieve it or not, we've actually "But best of all was the associate in the firm's tax '83(Sid Rich), who is work- the skiing boondoggles are es had some Rice visitors, in- surprise 30th birthday party section. Barksdale received ing for McKinsey & Com- over for now. is cluding Kyle '83(Sid Rich) Kevin threw me over Labor her law degree from the U. pany in Houston but spends "Finally, Celia Bolam - and Analisa Frazier; Bobby Day weekend of '92. In of Houston Law Center in a lot of time in Mexico. Su- and I dragged Jeff Abbott nt (Hanszen), Phoebe, Caro- attendance were Chuck 1988. Prior to joining san Meade '87 (Wiess) is (Sid Rich) out to dinner in its line and Margaret Tudor, O'Leary,Tom Minyard,Bill Hutcheson 8c Grundy, working as a human re- San Francisco when Jeff was at and Bob Abib '83 (Will Mocbius '82 (Lovett) and L.L.P., Barksdale worked as sources specialist for Mobil visiting the area for a semi- ias Rice). We're not really in the Libby Rafferty, Loy Har- an associate in the tax sec- in Houston and loves min- nar. Jeff designs software pa middle ofnowhere, so please ris (Jones) and Shelley tion of Andrcws & Kurth, gling with the good ol' boys icons (his are much better cd call if you're in the area." Turner Harris'83 ( Jones), L.L.P. on oil barges. Celia Bolam than little trash cans) for ist, Find Allen at 107 St. James Cole Erskine and Beth '86 (Lovett) lives across the Tivoli Software in Austin and Si- Ave., Fairhope, Ala. 36532. McCearchern, and many Leland Burleson Baskin Golden Gate Bridge in hip continues to write mystery kit other friends and family. We (M.A.M.S. ), M.D.,asst. pro- Mill Valley and continues to novels, which, I understand, Ith Mary Ann Burmester even went to the Rice Air fessor in the Dept. of Pa- write beautify proves while contain characters based on rny Baker (Will Rice) writes: Force game. We ran into thology at the U. of Texas managing a bookstore spe- his Rice experience. Be- gi- "My husband Dave and I Mike McCann'82 ( Lovett) Southwestern Medical cializing in architecture. She ware." moved back to New Mexico and Janene Barsotti Mc- School in Dallas, has been was nominated for a Push- Edmonson's address is ed after a brief stint in Hous- Cann '85 (Lovett; B.Arch., elected a Fellow of the Col- cart (a prestigious award for 505 Montgomery St., Suite 'ter ton. I have opened my own 1987)at the game,and they lege of American Patholo- a work of unpublished fic- 1900, San Francisco, Calif. rn law practice, concentrating joined the party. And Kindra gists(CAP), a national medi- tion) in 1991. Kindra 94111. to on the overlap of environ- Couch Gensheimer '85 cal specialty society ofphysi Couch Gensheimer (Lov- mental and bankruptcy law. (Lovett) and her husband cians certified by the Ameri- ett) was there with her hus- Boris Jezic (Wiess) writes: sd- "The biggest news is the Jimmy, an Air Force grad, can Board of Pathology. band Jim but left their beau- "Still in Mannheim, Ger- th birth of our first child, a made a special trip just for Baskin received his un- tiful children, Ellie and many. Traveling a lot for nts beautiful son named Duncan the game. dergraduate degree from Chase, at home in Fort work,mostly to Italy,a coun- VCS George, on May 23, 1993. "We look forward to yet Texas A&M, master of sci- Worth. Kindra continues to try I love dearly." ers He arrived on a Sun. after- another shindig here in Den- ence degrees from Cornell clear trades for the Bass sy- noon, weighing 7 lbs. 2 oz., ver at the upcoming wed- U. and Rice, and his M.D. Brothers, and Jim flies for Alison Kennamer (Wiess) !Inc as happy and healthy as could ding (finally) of Tom degree from the UT Medi- American Airlines. David writes: "I'm making some by be!" The Bakers are at 10912 Minyard to Marshall Kohr's cal School at San Antonio. Potash '86 (Sid Rich) and changes at the end of the m- Lexington NE, Albuquer- little sister Elizabeth. More He completed a four-year Kathleen Craig( Hanszen) summer(am 1 having an early nty que, N.M. 87112. details to follow. Ifyou come residency in anatomic and made an extraordinary jour- midlife crisis PI). Effective cr- to Colorado skiing, hiking clinical pathology at Park- ney by car from New Jersey. July 16, I'm no longer an ier Carleen Tindell Clark '85 or just passing through,give land Memorial Hospital, David is finishing his Ph.D. assoc. attorney at the 190- kcr (Lovett) writes: "My hus- us a call. We're in West- Dallas Veterans' Admn. in history at Cambridge,and lawyer firm ofStrasburger 8c /CC band Kevin Clark (Jones) minster." Medical Center and Child- Kathleen has her own archi- Price in Dallas. Effective SCC and I moved to Denver in The Clarks are at 9791 ren's Medical Center, and a tect and design firm. Sept. 1, 1993, I'm an assoc. MC June 1991 to be with the Kipling St. in Westminster one-year residency in clini- "Before 1 left Los Ange- attorney at the nine-lawyer iCC mountains. Kevin left An- 80021. cal chemistry at the Mayo les, I was able to see Andrea Rodriguez, Colvin & Cha- to dersen Consulting and has Clinic. Baskin is board certi- Martin (Brown), who has ney law firm in Brownsville, LII continued bank consulting Drew Sutton(Wiess) writes: fied in anatomic and clinical relocated to La LaLand from Texas. In between, I'll see for a small company here, "Finally finishing my resi- pathology. Chicago. She is concentrat- New Zealand, Florida and sa and I am still practicing law. dence at the U.of Rochester ing on her acting and is work- Santa Fe, N.M., for grins. Still DINKS, we don't even in otolaryngology—head Kelly Coleman (M.E.E.) ing out a lot at Gold's Gym. I'm still defending product Ile have a dog. We love the area and neck surgery. Joining a writes: "After a six-month She continues to fly interna- manufacturers and others in and have become the typical private practice in Atlanta, sabbatical I've joined Gem- tionally for American Air- (mostly personal injury)civil ne suburbanites. As neophyte Ga.,in Aug. 1993." Sutton's plus Card International in lines. Be sure and catch her suits, work I really enjoy. is- outdoorsmen, we are trying new address is 2004 Crest- Gaithersburg,Md., as a com- in A League of Their Own. Personally, I'm still single, in to live up to the local prac- land Dr., Smyrna, Ga. puter systems engineer." Before her recent nuptials, and I'm renting a place to tice of acquiring as much 30080. Coleman's address is 6103 Cindy Winkler (Baker), live on South Padre Island. et outdoor and sporting equip- Leewood Dr., Alexandria, Andrea and 1 indulged in Anyone who's visiting down ment as we can. We spend Va. 22310. some excellend food and the here should look me up!" our free time skiing, hiking symphony. Cindy teaches n and biking,and it is wonder- Tracy Edmonson (Lovett) inner-city youth and is pur- Jim Moore (Will Rice) ccd ful to be able to escape the 1905 writes: "Since I did not war- suing her singing, dancing writes: "Laurentia Duff len rat race most weekends. rant a stop on the Boris Jezic and acting. Moore'84 (Will Rice)and I :he "We have seen many Class Recorder: World Tour 1992,1 thought "John Q. Smith '86 were married May 29,1993, id Rice friends since moving David Phillips I'd take an opportunity to (Wiess) moved to the Bay at the Chapclwood Meth- Icy here. In Sept. 1991 we went 23 Fendall Ave. provide some updated in- Area from Washington, odist Church in Houston. id to Marshall Kohr's ('83; Ale xandria,VA 22304-6328 formation. D.C., and now lives across There were several other Rice Pie Lovett) wedding to Lynn "I have relocated to San the Bay Bridge. Tired of graduates attending the wed- in- Bannerot in Estes Park. Most Francisco but remain with keeping military secrets, ding. My best man was Jim se of the gang was there, in- the same law firm, Latham John is busy building his own Kahle'83 (Will Rice). Greg has cluding Fred Frantz '83 & Watkins (still a dreary as- software empire—Q Soft- Young'84 (Will Rice) was a In (Lovett)and Mary Davison sociate hoping for partner- ware. I plan on taking his groomsman, and Ross dIe Frantz '85 ( Lovett); Joe ship). I married Wesley Skow company public some day Giddings '88 (Will Rice) Valderrama '83 (Lovett; (a colleague in my office) in and retiring. was an usher. dly M.A., 1987; Ph.D., 1990) Sept. 1992 in Des Moines, "Dragged Lenna "Guests included Bob the and Theresa Slowen Vald- Iowa (don't ask). Fortu- Constantinides (Brown) Abib'83 (Will Rice), Recta da. errama '83 (Lovett); Bob nately,some die-hard friends over to Kay's for a couple of Achari (Will Rice; B.F.A., lap Ordemann'83 ( Lovett ) and made it to Dcs Moines for beers last Dec. She contin- 1987), Allen Chambers'79 ile, his wife, Pauline Saunders; the festivities. Babs Noelle ues to work for Rockwell on (Sid Rich),Steve French'84 Ua. Chuck O'Leary (Lovett); '88( Jones) has her own jew- the space shuttle. (Will Rice; M.E.E., 1989), aye Cole Erskine '83 (Lovett); elry design business in Hous- "Rumor has it that Brad David Gillentine '83 (Will in and, last but not least, Tom l'amela Look Barksdale ton (she designed my en-

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Rice; M.B.A., 1989), Davis the Goodlark Medical Cen- appreciate the size of the Heather B. Caldwell (Ba- Stewart Brann (Hanszen) Gilmer '88 (Will Rice; B.S. ter in Dickson,Tenn., work- walls ofice. We panned sucker) writes:"lam moving to writes:"This fall I will begin and BA.),Bill Hubbard'86 ing in diagnostic acute care, cessfully for gold and also Boston for a one-year in- graduate school at Ben- (Will Rice), Paula Johnson children and adolescents. took a narrow-gauge railroad ternship(which begins Aug. nington College in Vermont Hubbard'86 (Brown), Rod Dickson is 37 miles from up into the Yukon area from 1, 1993) at Boston U. to for an M.F.A. in sculpture. Johnson '86 (Hanszen), Nashville. Scott's new ad- the port of Skagway. Alaska complete my Ph.D.in coun- Looking forward to moving Kristin Merrigan (Will dress is Hidden Valley Apts., attracts a lot of older tour- seling psychology." Hea- from Houston." Till the Rice),Jim Murray'83 (Will 405 Spring St., B-28, ists, but a trip there is one to ther's Boston U. address is move, Stewart is at 731 W. Rice), Debs Ramser '86 Dickson, Tenn. 37056. remember for people of any Counseling Center, Second 26th St., Houston 77008. (Will Rice), Paul Raymond age. Floor, 19 Deerfield St., Bos- '84(Will Rice), Mike Scott Chris Kohnhorst(Sid Rich) "It was so great to see so ton, Mass. 02215. Carlos E. Cruz (Sid Rich) (Will Rice), Wendy Covey- writes:"Following up on my many of my Rice friends at writes:"On March 20,1993, Scott(Will Rice),Jeff Skiba announcement from earlier the wedding ceremony and Olethia Elise Chisolm I married Heidi Wurm '87(Baker), Randall Terrell this year, I got married this reception. Mike Ochoa'87 (Baker)recently received her (A&M '88) at Second Bap- '86 (Will Rice), Colleen June. On Sat. evening, June (Sid Rich) traveled in from M.D. degree from the tist Church in Houston. Wade Young '84 (Will 19, in the middle of a tropi- New Jersey to be a grooms- Hahncmann U. School of Who'd believe I'd marry an Rice), and Keith Vassallo cal storm (typical Houston man. Also traveling from Medicine in Philadelphia, Aggie! Hung M. Nguyen (Will Rice; M.Ch.E.,1986). weather), I married the various locales were Anne Penn. She will complete an (Sid Rich), Ricky Neal (Sid "After the wedding, we former Carolyn Rose Hersh Essmeier '85 (Baker), who internal medicine residency Rich) and Paul Le Blanc headed to Hawaii for our (from Houston;she's an '88 flew in from Dallas(presum- at Baylor College of Medi- (Sid Rich; M.S., 1991) were honeymoon, spending time Longhorn grad) in a cer- ably on American Airlines), cine in Houston. in attendance. We honey- on Maui and the island of emony held downtown at and Janice Rudd '87 mooned on the islands of Hawaii. Besides sight-seeing the Four Seasons Hotel. We (Brown), who came in from Philip LeMasters (M.A.; Kauai and Maui and have and relaxing, we had the have just returned home Chicago. Among my friends Ph.D., 1990) writes: "Philip temporarily settled down in pleasure of'swimming' with from our honeymoon. from Sid Rich were Keith LeMasters and Paige Humes Houston. dolphins on our last day on "We took an 11-day tour Chappell '83 with Babs LeMasters announce the "In June '92 I left my Hawaii. of Alaska that included four Noelle (Jones), Scott Wolf birth of their daughter first job as a chemical engi- "Laurentia is currently days in the main part of the '85 with his wife Leesa Katherine Helen on June 7, neer for Rohm and Haas the supervisory staff attor- state and a seven-day cruise Heilig Wolf'85 (Hanszen; 1993. I have been named an Texas to become a regional ney in an office of Hearings from the Anchorage port of M.A.M.S., 1989), and Bill asst. professor ofphilosophy technical sales rep. for the and Appeals for the Social Whittier to Vancouver,B.C., Burleson '88 and Francis and religion at Northeast ion exchange resin division. Security Admn. in Dallas. I along what is called the In- Cleland (M.B.A., 1988). Mo. State U. We live at 5 In June '93 I was promoted am a staff software engineer side Passage. During our Alice Lippencott Dorman Shady Lane in Kirksville,Mo. to national technical sales with start-up company HaL stay, we took a luxury coach (Will Rice)and David Reitz 63501." rep. for catalysts." Cruz lives Computer Systems in Aus- rail trip from Anchorage up were the NROTC represen- at 6363 San Felipe,Apt. 294, tin. We hope to settle in to Denali National Park, tatives,as CliffDorman was Houston, Texas 77057. Austin and remove the term which encompasses within unable to attend. The Class 'long distance' from our re- its six million acres Mt. of'87 was also well repre- lationship." McKinley. Although [the sented by Brian Button(Sid 10011 landscape is] spartan, wild- Rich), Brenda Eliason '88 Richard Palmer (Jones) life, such as caribou, grizzly (Brown) and Susan Mead writes: "I'm finally return- bears, bald eagles and moose, (Wiess). Grayson Haun (Baker) ing to graduate school in EE is abundant and roams the "I hope that I remem- writes: "I am now living in at UT in Austin. Anyone in park proprietarily. As well, a bered everyone;the wedding Orlando, Fla., teaching in a the area should say hello." beaver popped out as we was really great, and it was high school for juvenile de- Palmer's new address is 2400 white-water rafted by. An- wonderful to see you all. linquents. Anyone in the area Wickersham, #131, Austin, chorage is the biggest city Thanks again to Babs, who is welcome to stop by for a Texas 78741; telephone but is easily walkable. Al- designed both of our wed- visit. My new address is (512) 385-2937. though the average age of ding rings, especially 6502-B Roble Dr., Winter people in Alaska is 28, there Carolyn's, which was made Park, Fla. 32792; telephone is not a lot of nightlife, be- around an heirloom dia- (407) 671-2436." sides taking in the grandeur mond. We also are thinking and immensity ofeverything. of all of our friends who Stephanie Rene Marquit 1000 Because we went during couldn't make the trip— (Wiess)has moved—to 7706 June, we never saw a sunset hope to see you at a reunion Westwind, Houston, Texas 77071. Class Recorder: until we neared the end of or a Beer Bike. Cliff and Alice Dorman our cruise. "Carolyn and I are at Paul W. Sheldon (Lovett) 3315 Quiet Lake Drive "The cruise was spec- home at 1334 Edenderry writes: "I am currently on Katy, TX 77450 tacular. Whales did somer- Lane, Missouri City, Texas active duty as a trial defense (713) 395-2168 (home) saults near the ship as we 77459; telephone (713) attorney for the U.S. Army. (713) 493-8484 (work) approached the port ofSitka. 499-2780." Because they knew I had I am stationed at Fort Carson, Colo., and live in Navy lieutenant Rick been a navigator while in the the Colorado Springs area" Fritsch (Sid Rich) married Navy, the ship's officers let at 95A Watch Hill Dr., Melissa Jo Titzell on June me take Carolyn on a tour of 80906-7940. 20, 1993, in Monterey, the bridge during our an- 1987 choring. It was nice to get Calif. Kling back on the water again; the Kelly and Gary Scott A. Kloesel (Wiess) gentle rocking really soothes Marcia Jeanne Brown(Will writes that after he got his people to sleep, but gener- Rice; B.F.A., 1988) and ally we stayed up late, not 1000 Kelly Anne Shumaker B.S. in managerial studies Patrick Lynn Shopbell'89 from Rice in 1986, he re- skipping a meal or the mid- (Hanszen) were married Kling (Hanszen) writes: ceived a B.S. in psychology night buffet. The glaciers are April 24, 1993. They live at Class Recorder: "On June 27, 1993, Capt. from UT in 1990 and an awesome,and we took a he- 1658 Bonny Brae,#3, Hous- David H. Nathan Gary A. Kling and I were M.S. in psychology from licopter flight onto one. We ton, Texas 77006. 2323 McClendon married in Scottsdale, Ariz. Memphis State in 1993. He walked around on the Houston, TX 77030 Rice alumni attending our is now a clinical therapist at Mendenhall glacier near Ju- (713)668-1712 wedding included Heather neau, and only then did we McDermid '91 (Hanszen), maid of honor; Karen Eg-

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en) gert'87 (Hanszen), brides- Manias '92 (M.B.A.), the master's in architecture at Christopher B.Ang (Jones) the Sahara Desert. I will be !gin naid; Debbie Ragland bride and groom,then Lak- the U. of Houston and is has completed his master's working for the forestry pro- en- Fowler '88 (Hanszen), shmi Natarajan (Lovett), specializing in historic pres- degree in electrical engineer- gram, which has as its goal ont bridesmaid; Kirsten Aure Jay Dryden '90 (Baker; ervation. Phillip de Marig- ing at the U. of Texas in the reduction of the south- are. '90 (Jones); David Alston M.Acc.,1991 ),Damla Kar- ny is working in the record- Austin. He is now employed ern spread of the desert." ing '90 (Wiess); Gregg Fowler san '92 (Baker), Ken Soh ing industry in Houston. as a product development the '90 (Wiess; B.A.and B.S.); (Hanszen), Karen Skaer "Alums unable to attend engineer with Advanced Antonio Joseph DiGesual- W. and Tanya Macintosh (Sid Rich), and Philip de our wedding were Alicia De Micro Devices (AMD) in do (Lovett) married Lori 18. (Lovett). Tammy Lorkovik, Marigny '80 (Lovett). John Kowalski '90 (Sid Austin. He may be reached Michelle Pena on June 19, formerly ofthe Rice Athletic "Patrick and I live in Rich), who is starting her through his parents' address 1993, at Palm Valley ich) Business Office, also at- Houston, where I am work- third year of med school at at 430 Anjou Dr., North- Lutheran Church in Round /93, tended. ing at St. Luke's/Texas UT in Houston; Ashley brook, III. 60062. Rock, Texas. Their honey- irm "After honeymooning at Heart Institute as a cardio- Stainback Kress '87 (Lov- moon trip was to Switzer- lap- the Chateau Lake Louise in vascular liaison nurse and ett; M.A., 1990), who is Katherine L. Godzik land and Paris. The couple on. 3anffNational Park,Alberta, Patrick is working at Metro- teaching tenth grade history (Baker) writes: "I'm getting resides in Round Rock, y an Canada, and the beautiful politan Life in the Securities at St. Agnes in Houston. ready to quit my job with Texas. The groom is em- yen Hawaiian island of Kauai Investment Group. In the Hugh Kress'88 (Lovett)is the Washington State Dept. ployed at Andersen Consult- ;Sid (prehurricane Iniki!), we've fall, I am planning to start a an attorney with Arnold, of Health to become a full- ing in Austin, and the bride anc settled on Oahu in Kailua, master's program in public White, & Durkee (a patent time grad student in the is an elementary education VC CC Hawaii. Our home has a health at UT in Houston, law firm), subsequent to pathobiology dept. at the U. major at Southwest Texas icy- beautiful view of Kailua where I will concentrate on graduating from the U. of of Wash.(I just hope I'll be State U. 5 of Beach, and visitors are al- health policy and manage- H. law school. After work- able to tit in a sea kayaking save vays welcome! ment. ing in corporate finance for trip before the lab completely Sonya Henry Gillingham n in "Gary is stationed at "About the alums at my Morgan Stanley in San Fran- consumes me!) (Baker) writes: "Gregory Kaneohe Bay Marine Corps wedding: Dave Daviss,who cisco, Ebrahim Keshavarz "Dan Cheyette (Sid Gillingham (Brown) and I my Air Station( KMCAS ), where lives in San Antonio, is a (Sid Rich) will begin his sec- Rich) tells me he's moving were married on July 4, ngi- he flies the F/A 18 Hornet recently retired chief oper- ond year at Harvard Busi- to Portland, Ore., this sum- 1993, in Woodbury, N.Y. -has with the Red Devils of ating officer of La Quinta ness School this fall. John mer to begin a journey Among others in the wed- Dna! orMFA 232. After two and a and an avid hot air balloon- Tran '90 (Sid Rich) is an through environmental law ding party were Katherine the halfyears in the Houston tax ist. Mary Beth James accountant with American school at LOOS and Clark Jones '93 (Baker), Denise ion. lept. at Price Waterhouse, I Williamson serves on the Oil and Gas in Houston." College there. I'm looking Logsdon (Baker)and Terry ited ook some time off from State ofTe xas Coordinating forward to having a Rice Thornton '93 (Brown). iales working to enjoy married life Board for Higher Education buddy nearby,and I encour- Our new address is 6483 lives and the island. I'm currently and is president of the San age anyone traveling Dysinger Road, Apt. 18, 194, working in the accounting Antonio Area Foundation. through Seattle to look me Lockport, N.Y. 14094." dept. at the Oceanic Insti- Bill Manias works for Chase 1910 up, as Amy Sayle (Baker) tute in Waimanalo, Hawaii, Manhattan's Energy Group did this spring. My address Kim Loepp (Will Rice) Lnd am loving the casual at- in Houston after receiving and phone number are 826 writes: "Greetings from nosphcre for a change. (I his M.B.A. last year at Rice. Class Recorder: NE 69th St., Seattle, Wash. Pittsburgh! After spending a net a Rice Owl from the Lakshmi Natarajan is an Jennifer Cooper 98115;(206) 523-0751." year at the U. of Pittsburgh Class of '79 who is em- attorney with Howrey & 1616 Ridgewood in the M.A./Ph.D. track of ployed here—Rose Marie Simon (a commercial litiga- Houston, TX 77006 Sonali Gosain (Lovett) has theater, I decided that five- Mykil Norton [ Baker]. She tion firm) in Washington, (713) 523-6549(home) been chosen as an officer of plus years at one institution has switched from belly D.C.,after receiving her J.D. (713) 880-4611 (work) the 1993-94 third-year class would be just way too long— lancing to hula!) from the U. of Chicago law at Baylor College of Medi- I might have had my Ph.D. "Gary and I just returned school. Jay Dryden is a se- Clay Andrew Jackson(Will cine in Houston. She will by age 28, but I would feel from an incredible vacation nior consultant in the Cor- Rice) wed Shannon Victoria serve as a class representa- like I was 68—in fact, that's in Hong Kong and Bangkok. porate Finance Group at Shelton on May 22,1993, at tive. the way I felt all year. I think Luckily we took advantage Arthur .Anderson and trav- South Main Baptist Church academia is something you if living here. We just got eled to Turkey this summer in Houston. A reception fol- Navy ensign Thomas M. have to ease into, and I irdcrs to relocate by Aug. 1 to visit Damla ICarsan, who lowed at Cohen House. Jack- Robbins(Sid Rich)recently didn't. So I'll be leaving to MCAS El Torro in sou. is enjoying her summer break son is a consultant with reported for duty aboard the Pittsburgh and the perpetual 2alif. We're looking forward in Turkey and Norway be- Barton and Raben, Inc. The submarine USS San Juan, cries of'It's a 'Burgh thing!!' to being closer to our friends fore she begins her second couple resides in Houston. homeported in Groton, to head back down South. Lnd family but will certainly year of mcd school at Wash- Conn. Robbins joined the I'm going to Tulane to get niss living in paradise!" ington U.in St. Louis. When Navy in May 1991. my M.F.A. in directing, not on the golf course or which was the original plan. Julie Schraer Swearingen tennis court, you can usually Meanwhile, I am spending (Sid Rich) writes:"I married find Ken Soh studying law 1111 the summer working for Dr. 1111 Patrick Swearingen III for his classes at the U. of Nathan Hershey, a leading (Princeton '84) last Oct. in Houston, where he will be- Class Recorder: 1M2 attorney and professor in the San Antonio. Rice alums gin his second year this fall. Ross Goldberg field of health law, at the present included (see photo Ken is working in the Fifth 1001 Quill Lane Graduate School of Public below, left to right) Dave Circuit Court ofAppeals this Oreland, PA 19075 Class Recorder: Health at Pitt. We are work- Daviss '58, Mary Beth summer (for free!). Karen (215) 233-4508 Adam Goodman ing on an article for the jour- James Williamson '55,Bill Skaer is working on her 1607 East 50th Place nal Quality Assurance and Apt. 13-B Utilization Review on eco- Chicago, IL 60615 nomic credentialing. I have (312) 752-0919 no idea how I landed this job,except that it is in keep- r Kristin Clark (Sid Rich) ing with my usual course of ,tcs: writes: "In Sept., I will be never having a job that per- 'apt. leaving for two years of ad- tains to my field ofstudy and sere venture with the Peace always doing things so field- Corps. I will be stationed in specific that they will be of our Mauritania,which lies on the no use to me in the future. rho. northwest coast ofAfrica and Hopefully that won't be the en), makes up the western end of case! Eg- Alio. and Patrick Swearingen laid friends.

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"I can be reached either Deborah Sedberry '80 Bob Forman '86 (Wiess) at 5626 Annunciation St., (Hanszcn) writes:"My hus- and Jeni Forman proudly New Orleans, La. 70115 or \ew Arrivals band Jeff Klingman and I announce the arrival oftheir at the Dept. of Theater and are pleased to announce the daughter Rachel Anne on Dance,Tulane U.,telephone birth of Catherine (Caety) June 9, 1993, at 6:55 p.m. (504) 865-5360 (no home John R. Thomas '74 (Ba- Amanda Klingman on Nov. phone yet)." ker) announces the birth of 11, 1992. She joins big sis- Bobby Hawthorne'86 (Sid John Philip Thomas on April ter Lauren, who'll be start- Rich) writes: "Rebecca Ann Daniel James Tschumper- 1,1993, who weighed 5 lbs. ing kindergarten this year. Hawthorne was born to lin (Sid Rich) recently was 11 oz. and was six weeks I'm still on staffat Children's Bobby and Marlys Haw- awarded a biomedical engi- early. "He was born in Dal- Hospital Oakland, where I thorne on May 28. We've neering fellowship from las to my wife Bonnie, who codirect the Pediatric Pain pulled many all-nighters the Whitaker Foundation. had gone up for a baby Management Clinic." Sed- member, Marcel Augustus since her birth." The Haw- Tschumperlin, who was shower." The Thomases are berry's address is 285 Glor- (above), born March 15, thornes reside at 1900 Sara among an elite group ofonly at 628 Pecore in Houston, ictta Blvd., Orinda, Calif. 1993. "He joins big sister Lane, Richardson, Texas 29 students who received Texas 77009-6224. 94563-3542. Emile Miro(going on three) 75081. Whitaker Fellowships,is now and big brother Miles Lee attending graduate school at Steve French'76 (Sid Rich) Carolyn Joyce Pavelka Kel- (almost five). We are doing Jacques Lord '86 (M.A.) the U. of Penn. The three- announces the birth ofBrad- ley '81 (Jones) and Rick some serious'bonding' here writes: "We have a new ar- to five-year fellowships pay- ley Roy French on April 27, Kelley '82 (Sid Rich) joy- in upstate New York—One rival! Celeste Madeleine ar- ing up to $28,000 annually 1993. He weighed 6 lbs. 12 fully announce the birth of Johnson St., Freeville, N.Y. rived July 6, 1993, at 7 lbs. are intended to help out- oz. and was 19-/1 2 inches Kirstyn's(two and one-half) 13068. Come by and visit." 14 oz. Both baby and Mar- standing engineering stu- long. The Frenches reside at little sister, Lauren Angela, cyn arc healthy and home. I dents develop the skills re- 5304 Westwind NE, Albu- on May 24, 1993. The Kel- Kirk H. Raney '83 (MS.; am the proud father ofthree quired for successful careers querque, N.M. 87111. leys live at 2302 Brookmere, Ph.D. in chemical engineer- beautiful girls, which is the in biomedical engineering Houston, Texas 77008, ing, 1986) and Olina G. answer to my prayers—go research. Linda MacGorman '77 Raney '86 (M.S.; Ph.D. in be surrounded by gorgeous (Brown)announces the birth Anne Turner '81 (Hans- chemical engineering) an- women who keep me up all Emily Kay Weaver (Will of Daniel John, born May Zen) and her husband Paul nounce the birth of their night!'" Lord resides at 3032 Rice) and Eric Wendell 19, 1993. He joins his Crocker announce the birth daughter Lara Elise on Sept. Kenilworth Lane,Knoxville, Johnson (Baker) were mar- brother Stephen, aged two of Meredith Elayne on 20, 1992, Kirk's birthday. Tenn. 37917. ried on June 13, 1992, and and one-half,as well as mom March 23, 1992. Meredith She joins her big brother have moved to Seattle, and dad, Linda MacGorman joined big sister Audrey Neil, who is three. The Wash.,where Eric works as a and John Waldo. The (Feb. 20, 1990). "We all Raneys live at 2602 Bar- programmer for Microsoft Waldos arc at home at 4556 now live in France!" Write rington Court, Sugar Land, and Emily is pursuing her Winnequah Rd., Madison, Anne at 9, Rue Louis Texas 77478. career as a writer ofchildren's Wisc. 53716-2066. Pasteur, 31170 Tournefe- literature. Their new address ville, France. Mary Ann Burmester is 9232 NE 148th Court, Larry Nettles '78 (Lovett) Baker '84 (Will Rice) and No. J301, Bothell, Wash. writes: "Jenny gave birth to Lorna Viehweg Weir '81 her husband David L. Baker 98011. James Goodall Nettles on (Brown) and Randy Weir announce the birth of their May 12, 1993. His sisters '81 (Lovett) write: "We are first child, Duncan George, Caroline (six) and Kimberly pleased to announce the on May 23, 1993. He (four) are helping us take birth ofour daughter,Caro- weighed 7 lbs. 2 oz. good care of him. I am still line Auguste Weir, born 1193 practicing environmental law March 12,1993. Big brother Jeff Mischka'84 (Will Rice) at the Houston firm of Matthew, two and one-half, and Linda Mischka "proudly C. Korbin King (Sid Rich) Vinson & Elkins and enjoy- is very proud!" The Weirs announce the birth of Mel- was the recipient of the H. ing it very much." The may be reached at 2820 issa Judith Mischka on May Russell Pitman Award in Nettles make their home at Branch Hollow Dr., Mes- 13, 1993, at 6 lbs. 7 oz. Managerial Studies this 27 Hibury Court, Houston, quite, Texas 75150. Melissa lives with her par- spring. The award is given to Texas 77024. ents in Redondo Beach, Ca- one graduating senior who Cecile Closmann Brink'82 lif. [1922-B Morgan Lane, is an outstanding student and Susan Collings Abbey '80 (Jones) writes: "Caroline 70279], where Jeffis a man- Scott F. Gates '87( Jones) has demonstrated leadership (Jones) and her husband Claire was born on July 1, ager with Andersen Consult- of 2020 Vine Lane,[An II, in campus activities as well Steve announce the birth of 1993,in Baltimore,Md. She ing." Dallas, Texas 75217, writes: as academic performance. their first child, Ryan is welcomed into the family "He's a whopper! Nathan The award consists of a Alexander, on March 24, by sisters Elizabeth, three Andrew Gates (above) was bronze medallion and a 1993. Ryan weighed 6 lbs. 8 and one-half, and Rachel, born Dec. 15,1992,at 4:30 check. Both were issued to oz. They can be reached at one and one-half." The a.m. He weighed 11 lbs. 9 King on May 7, 1993,at the 9126 Raeford, Dallas,Texas Brinks are at 910 Malvern oz. and was 22-/14 inches Presentation of Prizes and 75243. Ave. in Baltimore 21204. long. Now at six months, Awards ceremony that pre- he's 20 lbs! (only 8 lbs. dif- ceded commencement. Sue Hoffman '80 (Baker) David Scott Curcio '83 ference between his brother King resides in Dallas and Tim Merker announce (Lovett), of 2230 Lexford James). My wife had to have and works for Price Water- the birth of their first child, Lane, Houston, Texas him 'all natural'—no pain- house as an information sys- Jane Ingrid Merker,on Feb. 77080-5217, writes: "Brit- Margaret Bruce Connor killers! OUCH!" tems consultant. 17, 1993, in Hinsdale, Ill. tany Lynn Curcio was born '85 (Baker) and Sean M. Their address is 807 N. June 1,1993.She joins Brad- Connor '85 (Sid Rich; Philip LeMasters '87 Christopher Arnold Miller Kensington Ave., LaGrange ley Scott, who is now two,in B.Arch., 1987) write: "Our (M.A.; Ph.D., 1990) and (Lovett) married Jenny Park, Ill. 60525-1468. the Curcio Family's Child- second son, Matthew Bruce Paige Humcs LeMasters an- Elizabeth Payne on Dec. 19, ren's Division." (above), was born June 12, nounce the birth of their 1992, at Second Baptist Mike Rogers '80 (Lovett) 1993, at 6:59 p.m. He joins daughter Katherine Helen Church in Houston. Miller and Janell Rogers announce In Shik Lee '83 (Jones; Patrick, three and one-half. on June 7, 1993. played football at Rice and the birth of William B.Arch., 1985) writes that Vital statistics for Matthew: received his degree in sports DeForrest Rogers on July she and Stephen Merwin are weight,8 lbs. 15 oz.;length, medicine. The couple resides 26,1993. The Rogers reside happy to announce the ad- 21 inches." The Connors live in Houston. at 5110 San Felipe, #112, dition of their latest family in Austin, Texas(78704), at Houston, Texas 77056. 2412 B La Casa Drive.

58 Sallyport :ss) Mitch Neurock'89 ( Jones) George William Miller uiLdly writes: "Hi! This is to an- '42 on July 7, 1993 heir nounce the birth of our Dorenda Tonia Hale on daughter, Aryn Grace Neu- Doughtie '43 m. rock, on Feb. 10, 1993, at in May 1993 Whiteman AFB, Mo. She Rolle Stevenson '44 (Sid weighed 5 lbs. 9 oz. on May 20, 1993 Ann "Capt. Mitch Neurock Narmon Knox West'45 to is now chief of claims and on Jan. 4, 1993 law- Asst. Staff Judge Advocate Hugh W. Gordon Jr. '46 !eve at the Base Legal Office, on May 10, 1993 ters Whiteman AFB, Mo. (new Hobert H. Joe '50 law- home of the B-2 Stealth on June 24, 1993 Sara bomber!). Enid Alexandria Danilin :xas "Kara Elizabeth Koller Meyer '65 Neurock '89 (Brown) is on April 5, 1993 now the music minister at Bernd Hans Liiftner '69 1.A.) the Whiteman AFB Chapel." (M.A.) on April 30, 1993 V ar- G. William ("Bill") Tate e ar- Jr. '75 on July 23, 1993 'lbs. Susan Jane Strowbridge Mar- Robinson '77 ne. 1 Iii \1i'tiiiit'i iii on July 11, 1993 three the Friends/Faculty/Staff -`To Rice Alumni ,eous Ralph Frederick Beeler ip all on July 15, 1993 3032 Parnot V. Donigan '21 Wallace Charles Braun on villc, Nov. 23, 1992 on June 29, 1993 Dorothy Plumbley Lamberth S.("Bob") Woodley '21 Carsey on July 3, 1993 on June 16, 1993 Alberta (Mrs. Eugene Julia Atkinson Pleasants M.) Davidson '22 on Feb. 2, 1993 on July 9, 1993 Julia Kirk Turner Lucille Clemons (Mrs. Whatley '25 Frank William) Hart on June 30, 1993 on June 4, 1993 William Glen Copeland John B. Connally Jr. '27 on 1993 June 13, on June 15, 1993 James Greenwood Jr. '27 T. Max Davis (M.D.) on July 3, 1993 on June 13, 1993 William Joe Savage '28 Genevieve W. Filson on April 17, 1993 on June 14, 1993 Dan C. Smith Jr. '29 Madison C. Forbes on on July 8, 1993 July 8, 1993 Katherine A. Brooks '30 Josephine A. Giesler, on March 30, 1993 M.D., on July 29, 1993 Frances Lanelle Golding Howard D. Henderson '33 on April 3, 1992 on July 9, 1993 Claudia Ellen Cleveland J.W. Hoover in July Rock Johnson '33 1993 on June 24, 1993 Ann Reynolds (Mrs. Melton ("Bubba") ,ncs) Koch Newton K.) '33 on June •t 1), 27, 1993 Hoverstock on June 22, Lee May '33 let HS heor from you rites: 1993 on July ithan 24, 1993 George A. Kalleen Kotin ) was Benjamin Joseph on July 27, 1993 '34 on 4:30 June 8, 1993 A. Frank Koury Enjoy keeping up with friends and classmates in the Classnotes section? Why not return the Alden Lifford bs. 9 Lancaster on July 6, 1993 favor-send us your news and a (preferably) black-and-white photo to Cathy Monholland, '34 in idles July 1993 Bennett Lay Classnotes Editor, Office of News & Publications, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251-1892 John Daniel Richardson nths, on June 24, 1993 or fax them to her at (713) 285-5239. The deadline for Classnotes submissions is December 1 '34 on June 3, 1993 . dif- Lajos Markos for the February/March Julien Pearson 1994 issue and February 1 for the April/May 1994 issue. Classnotes )ther Muller on June 8, 1993 '35 received after those dates will appear in the following issue. Sallyport reserves the right to edit have on Feb. 2, 1993 Leonard F. McCollum Pon Classnotes for length and style. pain. Louise Nielson on June 13, 1993 McLure '36 Donald A. Nelson on May 15, 1993 on June 11, 1993 0 Married? 0 New Job? Marjorie Elizabeth 0 New Baby? '87 Mildred Anne Parker 0 Promoted? 0Take a Trip? 0See a Classmate? and Lorimer '37 on July 13, 1993 on May 8, 1993 -s an- Rex E. Partridge Jr. 0 Moved? 0 Back in School? 0 Other? Argyle McLachlan their '37 on May 29, 1993 on June 4, 'den 1993 The Rev. Mose Quentin Louise Sakowitz Johnson Payne on July 11, 1993 Send us details: '38 on June 30, 1993 James Irvin Riddle Ruth Patricia Buchanan on July 28, 1993 Glenn '41 Harold E. Rorschach, on July 17, 1993 Ph.D., on June 23, 1993 Samuel Isadore Kohen Jack K. Smith, D.D.S., Name College '41 on April 22, 1993 Class on July 19, 1993 Address(0 New?)___ Lera Millard (Mrs. Albert) Thomas on July 23, 1993 1 El T El R El 1 R

A long-winded dispute Rice stu- began between a mem- dents did 1923 ber of the foreign lan- 1953 not play guage faculty and several dormitory their cards right men over the definition of south- when the card sec- ern chivalry, particularly with re- tion debuted at 0 gard to the mess hall. The students the Rice-Hardin had taken to stamping their feet Simmons football and whistling whenever the profes- game. The pep ef- Al sor arrived late for meals. Unchival- fort was intended Sa rous, the professor charged. Per- to boost Rice's a- haps, the students countered, but nemic cheering being prompt for meals is also part section, with the p. of southern chivalry. The standoff card-flipping of ended when the administration es- Owl fans coordi- Bi th tablished a double-shift meal nated with the ac- schedule, allowing the chronically tivities ofthe band. (7 tardy to be on time—later. Unfortunately,this 0 first effort flopped when many stu- Af A curious student calcu- dents seated near lated that if students were the card section ex 1933 to take every course in ev- refused to move Se ery field at Rice, they would have into the empty to attend the Institute until they seats. at were 66 years old. The calculation assumed a five-course load during 1973 SIM' flit is first coed colleges. fr the freshman and sophomore years The foot- fr and four courses a year thereafter. ball sea- In the fall of 1973 Hans- fr Incidentally, the calculation did not 1963 son kicked off with alumni / zen and Baker became the si allow for failing a single course. and students butting heads over 103first colleges at Rice to go the fate of Rice's alma mater. The coed. The switch improved the 81 student newspaper reported that quality of male-female interaction According to the Thresh- the previous spring, Rice students on campus, which had been de- er, knitting was all the had voted to chuck "Rice's Hon- scribed as awkward and inadequate 1043 rage among Rice men, or" for the tune from Finlandia, by students and recent graduates. who plied their needles on Satur- but the Alumni Executive Board Male and female students began day evenings in Mother Bayless' rejected the move and "Rice's going on spontaneous food runs "Little Knitting Class." Knitting Honor" retained its official place of and movie trips together; students aficionado "Smut" Newnham honor. Defiant, the band played started lingering longer over din- called knitting a cinch—"I'm the Finlandia tune at the beginning ner; and at Baker, both men and gonna make my living out of it af- of the LSU game—it was announc- women partook in Viking tables— ter the war's over," he claimed. ed as the alma mater voted on by meals at which food was dumped The article described the young en- students. Later, Dean Higgin- directly on the table, people ate thusiasts going into contortions as botham informed the band director with their hands, a pitcher was they set about their handiwork. that "Rice's Honor" should hence- passed around and a trash bag was One student "frowns, looks like forth be played before the game, set on the table for refuse. he's in pain, holds the knitting and Finlandia could be played at about two feet away from him, and another time. In quasi-compliance, 'guns' it." Or maybe the Thresher the band played "Rice's Honor" Food and Housing an- was spinning yarns? at the beginning of the Stanford nounced the opening of game,followed by Finlandia. Many 1083 224 rooms at the newly alums felt the band rushed through acquired Tidelands Motor Inn, re- "Rice's Honor" but gave a fair ren- named the Graduate House, for dition of Finlandia. Some students graduate student occupation. A did "Rice's Honor" further dis- flier advertised a "congenial atmo- honor by sitting on the field while sphere for graduate study." the official alma mater was played.

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October 20—New Works South: November 3—Howard ("Stretch") November 25-26—Thanksgiving Recent Architecture of the Southern Johnson: The Sociology of Jazz. Recess. Region, sponsored by the Rice Design Stretch Johnson started a show Alliance, will feature a lecture by business career as a tap dancer at the November 29—Shepherd Singers Samuel Mockbee, principal of Cotton Club, where he became and the Houston Children's Chorus Mockbee-Coker Architects of Canton, acquainted with some of the great jazz Chamber Choir, conducted by Mississippi. The lecture begins at 8 figures. Johnson's presentation will Thomas Jaber and Stephen Roddy, p.m. in the Brown Auditorium of the consist of both words and music. It respectively, will perform anthems and Museum of Fine Arts at 1001 begins at 3 p.m. in 110 Rayzor Hall. carols. The performance will begin at Bissonnet. For more information on For more information, call (713) 527- 8 p.m. in Stude Concert Hall of Alice the lecture or the lecture series, call 6010. Pratt Brown Hall. Take Entrance 8 off (713) 524-6297. University Boulevard. Admission is November 5-8—La Boheme. The free. For more information, call (713) October 21-December 11—The Shepherd School Opera Theatre will 527-4933. Mask in Contemporary Art and perform Puccini's La Bobeme. African Masks from the Rice Performances will begin at 7:30 p.m. Men's Basketball University Art Collection. The in the Wortham Opera Theatre in Nov. 13 Blue-Gray Game (exhibition), exhibits will open with a reception in Alice Pratt Brown Hall. Take En- Autry Court, 7:35 p.m. Sewall Art Gallery from 6:30 to 9 p.m. trance 8 off University Boulevard. Nov. 18 at Minnesota (Preseason NIT on October 21, and a panel discussion Tickets are $5.00 for general seating. through Nov. 26), 8:30 p.m. at 7 p.m. in 301 Sewall Hall. Gallery For tickets or more information, call ESPN-TV hours are Tuesday through Saturday (713) 527-4933. Nov. 28 Nevada at Autry Court, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Thursday 2:05 p.m. Dec. 1 at Sam Houston State, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Admission is November 10-13 and 17-20—The 7:30 p.m. free. The gallery is closed on univer- Alchemist. Ben Jonson's play is Dec. 4 at Virginia, 12 noon sity holidays. For more information, performed by the Rice Players. All call (713) 527-6069 or(713) 527- performances begin at 8 p.m. in Women's Basketball 8101, extension 3470. Hamman Hall. For tickets or more Nov. 21 Slovakian Republic (exhibition), information, call (713) 527-4040. Autry Court,2 p.m. October 22-24—Homecoming. For Nov. 27 at Texas Southern, 5:30 p.m. information, write the Association of November 12—The Rice Design Dec. 3 Eastern Illinois (Rice Classic), Rice Alumni at P.O. Box 1892, Alliance's 1993 "Ball of Energy" Autry Court,8 p.m. Houston, Texas 77251-1982; or call Gala. The gala will begin at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 4 Kent State or UT-San Antonio (713) 527-4633. and will continue to midnight in the (Rice Classic), Autry Court, ballroom of the Doubletree Hotel at 6 or 8 p.m. October 27—New Works South: Post Oak, 2001 Post Oak Boulevard. Recent Architecture of the Southern For tickets or further information, call Region, sponsored by the Rice Design (713) 527-6297. General Information Alliance, will feature a lecture by Gary The calendar covers major events on Cunningham, principal, Cunningham November 17—William Ferris: The the Rice campus. Please verify dates and Architects of Dallas. The lecture be- Blues. Bill Ferris, who is director of times with the sponsoring organization. gins at 8 p.m. in the Brown Audito- the Center for the Study of Southern For information on other lectures, con- rium of the Museum of Fine Arts at Culture at the University of Missis- certs, recitals, films, etc., please contact 1001 Bissonnet. For more informa- sippi, will speak at 3 p.m. in 110 the following: tion on the lecture or the lecture Rayzor Hall. For more information, series, call (713) 524-6297. call (713) 527-6010. Alumni Relations (713) 527-4057; Athletic tickets (713) 522-OWLS; November 1—Shepherd Singers November 20-21—Friends of Continuing Studies (713) 527-4803; Concert. The Shepherd Singers, con- Fondren Library Book Sale. The Friends of Fondren Library ducted by Thomas Jaber, will per- book sale will be open from 9 a.m. to (713) 285-5157; form music by Copland and Barber. 5 p.m. on November 20 and from 1 Media Center movie information (713) The performance will begin at 8 p.m. to 5 p.m. on November 21 at 2407 527-4853; Rice Design Alliance (713) 527-4876; Concert Hall of Alice Pratt Times Boulevard in the Rice Village, in Stude Rice Players (713) 527-4027; to Nash D'Arnico's. To donate Brown Hall. Take Entrance 8 off next Rice Student Volunteer Program for more informa- University Boulevard. 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