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BEYOND THE SALLYPORT

A RICE DIPLOMA: THE COMPETITIVE EDGE Sophomore Kareem Streete-Thompson needs a 26- foot long jump in the June trials to represent the Cayman Islands in this year's Olympics. Six other Rice track stars, representing four other countries, are also hoping to go to Barcelona in July. For a profile of these Olympic hopefuls, see page 36.

Cover photograph by Totruny LaVergne NAP URT FEATURES

111 Beyond the Sallyport

Students graduating from college this summer face a difficult challenge: a stagnant economy and the toughest job market in 20 years. But a Rice education provides a competitive edge for the Class of 1992. by David D. Medina

72 Medicine and Moral Choices

Staying alive may have become easier with medical technology, but it isn't any simpler. Each advance brings an attendant dilemma. Two departments at Rice, philosophy and religious studies, address the increasingly complex and expanding field of"bioethics." by D.J. Wilson

Accolades for Alumni

The 1992 Distinguished Alumni include two chemists who've done pioneering work with antibiotics and two banking professionals who have survived the banking crisis with success. Sallyport salutes Walter G. Hall, Charles M. Blair, Robert B. Morin and Robert L. Clarke. by Mag,gi Stewart

June / July '92 1 DEPARTMENTS

4 Letters

6 Through the Sallyport "The Hunt" for a jeweled walking cane; our camera-shy founder; in search of Santa. 8 News German president Richard von Weiszacker's commencement address on "A New World Order"; women and gender studies major approved; alumni director named; new Owls basketball coach announced; Richard Smalley wins chemistry award; alumnus Ron Bozman wins an Oscar; engineering school ranked at top; and more.

14 Academia German president, page 8 The 15-year-old Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Administration hits a growth spurt; researchers at the Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering collaborate to genetically engineer blood and protein.

32 Students Rice students can wake up and smell the coffee at the campus' newest institution, the Rice University Coffeehouse.

34 Books, Etc. Composer Samuel Jones creates in epic style; political scientist John Ambler describes the French welfare state; Lucie Fultz, assoc- iate professor of English, co-edits essays by black mothers and daugh ters; and historian John Boles writes a pocket-sized history of Rice.

36 Sports Seven Rice track stars vie for spots in this summer's Olympics.

38 Alumni Gazette A profile of Association of Rice Alumni President George Miner; meritorious service awardees; joint ventures for students and alumni.

40 Gifts and Giving Profile of Telefund chair Anne Baillio; a scholarship recipient intends to return the favor; endowed scholarship levels. 42 Sally Forth Professor of History Katherine Drew previews a cruise through the Mediterranean on the Golden Odyssey.

43 Classnotes

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

The Rice University Coffeehouse, page 32 57 Calendar Upcoming events on the Rice campus.

2 Sallyport FOREWOR D

ccasionally readers question the kinds of stories the Sallyport carries. Of course there will always be debate about what is the proper mix of top- JUNE/JULY 1992, VOL. 48, NO.6 ics: serious articles and light pieces, articles on ...... faculty and on alumni, reports of research in the Published by thc Office of External Affairs engineering, and essays on scholar- • ...... sciences and shipO in the humanities and social sciences. Executive Director of News & Publications, purpose of the Sallyport Editorial Board is to Michael Berryhill One suggest topics, serve as a sounding board for ideas Consulting Editor, Gabrielle Cosgriff and ensure that, over the course of several issues, the Art Director, Jeff Cox Assistant Editor, Deborah Schmidt '89 Rice scene in all its variety and complexity is covered. The Sallyport is the university's primary means of Editorial Staff: Keith Matis, David D. Medina '83 and Maggi Stewart, staff writers; Kristen communicating to alumni and friends. Everything of Pauley '93 and Tom Sims '92, student writers. importance to the university—programs,faculty, new Design Staff: Michael Sawyers, seniorgraphic facilities, athletics, issues on campus—comes under the purview of designer; Tommy LaVergne, photographer; Sallyport. If there are important developments on campus or involving the Christine Minuto,graphic designer; Margaret Pharr '94, photographic assistant. university that Sallyport does not cover accurately, fairly and responsibly, • ...... then it is failing its primary mission. such as The Rice University Board of Governors Ofcourse, even at Rice there are on occasion unhappy events, Trustees. Charles W. Duncan Jr., chair, the recent honor code violations, and controversial issues, such as the de- Josephine E. Abercrombie, vice chair, D. Kent Conference participation. These are real issues, and it Anderson, J. Evans Attwell, John L. Cox, Bur- bate over Southwest Ion J. Mem- keep the alumni informed. Rice is a strong bers McMurtry, Jack T. Trotter; Term is Sallyport's responsibility to :Bucicy Allshouse, E. William Barnett, institution, and its friends and alumni sufficiently sophisti- James W. Glanville, William P. Hobby, enough George R. Miner, James L. Pate, Louisa Snide, cated, to allow the truth to be told. Sallyport's task is never 'arofim, Thomas D. Smith, Selby W. Sullivan. to sensationalize issues but rather to report— Alumni Governors: Steve Shaper, T. Robert "Bo,„. b"Jones, Albert N. Kidd, G. Walter promptly, responsibly and as accurately as we igh- 'vacReynolds. ice. know how—the significant events Ad taking place on campus. P ministrative Officers resident, George Rupp; Provost, Neal Lane; It is that Vice President for External Affairs, Frank B. ItYao; Vice President for Finance and reponsibility to be hon- Ad P ministration, Dean W. Currie; Vice est with our readers that resident S for Student Affairs, Ronald F. tebbings; Vice President for Research and In- led Sallyport to cover in formation Systems, G. Anthony Gorry; some detail the recent Treasurer, Scott W. Wise. honor code violations, and .,8411 )port Editorial Board we will in the future report Asker '74, John Boles '65, Ryn Bowers '64, r-a,111 Burka '63, Sidney Burrus '57, Lynda Grist on the issue of athletics. The Mary McIntire Ph.D.'75, Bill Merriman Athletic Review Committee Ronny Wells '62. Ex officio: Frank B. Ryan one '38b , Vice President for External Affairs; Al has completed its report, 'ectman '56, Association of recommendations Rice President-elect, that makes no Alumni; Joseph Elias, President, Graduate on the major issues and attempts tStudent Association; John Shields '93, Presi- dent, Rice Student Association. to establish a baseline ofinforma- the tion about the academic preparation S4I/Yport(USPS 412950) is published bi- °_ntillY by Affairs of of student-athletes and the financial Rice the Office of External University and is sent to all university costs of athletics. The Faculty Council parents of students and friends. Eclito- ri.ali Offices: appointed a committee headed by history professor Thomas Haskell to re- or News & Publications, Allen Center Business Activities, Rice University, 6100 S. view that report and make recommendations. That faculty committee is r,ain_St., Houston, TX 77005. Mailing address: *". lsox 1892, Houston, TX 77251. Rice Uni- conducting a poll offaculty attitudes, and its report will be completed over ...vefsity is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Ac- Lion the summer. The students are also working on a poll. Once these reports Institution. are completed, Sallyport will publish a review of the entire issue, placing Voltunary subscriptions to Sallyport are events at Rice in a larger, national context. We are confident that is what available for a $15 suggested contribution. our readers expect of Sallyport. Postmaste Offi r• Send address changes to Sallyport, —The Sallyport Editorial Board ce of News & Publications, Rice University, .0. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251.

61992 Rice University

June July '92 3 LETTERS

Rice Needs to insincere crooks, no such charge detrimental to a university, espe- Relearn Old Lesson against Billy Graham has ever been cially one as academically oriented seriously considered, much less as Rice. Their crusade is unbeliev- On a rare business trip to Houston, substantiated. Did Hardison read ably misguided in asserting that I stopped by the campus for a the book, or even the foreword? If sports do not enhance a school's visit and picked up a couple of re- not, read my lips: Billy Graham is image. How do they think the pro- cent Threshers to peruse. I came no charlatan, and Bill Martin is spective students here for Owl Day across some news items that gave nobody's fool. The title of Martin's felt on their first glimpse of Rice? me pause. book, A Prophet with Honor, says How could the Owls not get One item said that a new admin- it all. caught up in the electric atmo- istrative organization called the Of- sphere of the game,even without fice of Environmental Health and Galloway H. Hudson '60 knowing the Rice athletic history Safety had deemed that an upcom- Houston and all the pain the victory erased? ing Sid Rich college party would I would be willing to wager that require 101 security officials. An- more than a few who were at the other news item noted that Rice's For the Record game and in the process of choos- legal counsel had found it necessary ing between Rice and some other to change or clarify policy to allow I should like to make a correction top schools will come here because searches by Rice officials of stu- to the classnote feature on Ike of...[that] night. dents' rooms for drugs and alcohol. Sanders '17, which ran in the Oc- One of the best of Rice's pro- A third news article reported that tober 1991 issue of Sallyport. He fessed goals is to attract a well- tuition and room/board will rise states that my father [Harold A. rounded student body with diverse $1,100 to $13,700 for 1992-93. Wilson] came to Rice "from the interests. Dropping out of the Admittedly, outside societal pres- Cavendish Laboratories" at Cam- SWC would seriously undermine, if sures in the form of overregulation bridge. Actually my father came to not totally destroy, that goal. First have regrettably pushed Rice into Cambridge in 1897 and was of all, I don't think anyone really questionable administrative moves. elected to a fellowship at Trinity believes that a big win over North However, one important lesson I College, Cambridge, in 1901. In Texas or Sul Ross State...would learned from my time at Rice al- 1906 he went to King's College at excite any prospective Owls to the most 20 years ago is that of per- London University and in 1909 point of coming to Rice. Even sonal responsibility, a lesson that accepted a professorship at McGill more important, though, is the fact would seem difficult to grasp at University in Montreal, Canada. that there are a lot of us who are today's Rice. One lesson seems There he met and married my smart and also happen to love clear now: The administration re- mother, a student of his. They sports. My graduated friends in- quired to supplant personal respon- came to Rice in 1912 on their hon- clude a swimmer, a runner, a sibility contributes directly to the eymoon. trainer and an SID assistant who all cost of an education at Rice. made excellent grades and now Kathleen Wilson Henderson '35 have great jobs or are in graduate David Norton '74 Newtown Square, Penn. school. They have all brought Anchorage, Alaska honor and diversity to the school and not one of them, nor myself and many others, would have Let's Play Ball even In Defense of considered going to Rice if it didn't have Division I athletics. Graham As I reflect on [the March 5] win There are just too many schools over UT,I think of how the equally as good that have them... Oh my! Neither undescribably great feeling of beat- One other unique aspect of ath- Billy Graham nor ing the Longhorns on national TV letics is that it brings a school to- makes up for the years of frustra- / 1 Bill Martin needs gether and lets all the students Bill Martin Billy Graham defending by me tion from all the near misses. The show their pride to everyone on (or anyone else, for memories of the heartbreaking de- the outside. Being on ESPN [that] that matter), but I must respond to feats when we knew we were close night gave Rice a national forum the comments concerning Martin's and improving, but not quite where millions of people could new book by Dian L. Hardison '79 there, makes this even more spe- hear how great our school is and on the "Letters" page of the March cial. However, even if we had lost see how enthusiastic and fun the 1992 issue of Sallyport. One can this fantastic game in which both students are. Rice could be another only fervently hope that Hardison is teams played so well, the night geeky MIT if we wanted it to, but not a typical product of Rice educa- would still have been one to who does? We can still be just as tion in recent decades. remember. smart. Why ruin the fun just as all While it must be admitted that The sad part about that fact is ofour teams are getting good and many (most?) television evangelists that there are some who would the NCAA is making changes al- of the '80s and '90s appear to be have us believe that athletics are lowing us to be even more corn-

4 Sallyport Petitive? While sports have been ing to grade inflation as the quality came. To avoid presenting an an- 1 frustrating here at Rice, they have of students rises. This self-con- tique view of Rice, we invited a few also provided great fun and, lately, gratulatory trap should be avoided current students and recent alums. the promise of better times. as well. Only by constantly The weather cooperated by being strengthening (and toughening) Houston hot and muggy. Believe it D- Mike Gardner '91 the curriculum can the entering or not, we had to demonstrate how ty Houston students be trained to the fullest of to load the fajitas. It took the kids their potential. It is vital to the mere minutes to make connections Dangers of Dilution quality and reputation of the uni- and start getting acquainted. One versity that its graduates be young man even met the director equipped to become leaders in of the government agency in I the Stanford recently found in their fields. Now an opportunity which he was working as a sum- Daily an that applica- article stating has arisen so that, by demanding mer intern. We parents enjoyed tions to jumped by 25 Rice had more of each student, this can be trading strategies on logistics and Percent, favorable national due to accomplished. It should not be "letting go." Publicity (e.g., in U.S. News). This passed up. In this, the faculty Seeing familiar faces on campus is the opportunity toward which clearly has a central role. However, eased our son's adjustment to Rice. Rice has been building for many the administration must also The party was so much fun, we se Years now: the chance to have a aid the pursuit of excellence by may do it again this summer. Pool of that is sec- undergraduates encouraging departments to pro- ond to talent and in none in vide their best courses to all stu- Steve '65 and Martha '66 Smith training. dents and to reduce or avoid en- Arlington, Virginia motivation to write this letter My tirely watered-down courses that comes such an op- from fear that cannot provide the broad, detailed may not be fully taken Pnrtunity education that students need temptations to Continuing Thanks advantage of. The and deserve. dilute academic policy Rice's clear I sincerely hope that the faculty are many; mention some of On behalf of I will and administration will grasp this these think each ak11,01111rt the staff at and explain why I unprecedented opportunity with Would Continuing be a mistake. and use it to make Rice both hands Studies, we One easy step would be to en- university we have always large the write to thank the entering class, on the as- wanted it to be. sumption that it is sufficient that you for the the fine article on current quality be maintained; Thomas M. flyer '89 or to that the the program. raise tuition, thinking Palo Alto, Calif University would still be an attrac- We also want all tive option to many excellent stu- to acknowl- dents. The fatal flaw in these argu- Party Hearty, edge the contribution made by nients is that they favor stagnation. Prospective Parents! Josephine Rodgers to the develop- Currently, Rice is not among the ment of the Continuing Studies schools of the first rank in some Whether you are among the fortu- Language Programs. Although em- crucial areas, such as breadth of re- nate few to have a son or daughter phasis in the article "Language fl sperarcestih, established reputation and accepted for admission to Rice, or Classes Bursting at the Seams" was ge of graduate programs. are merely curious about who goes on the current growth of the pro- These obstacles are not easily over- there these days, let us tell you gram, the picture is not complete come, and correction of each will what fun it is to give a party for without a recognition of the effort, require years of dedicated effort. new students. dedication and love with which However, such an effort will be a Last year when our son David Josephine built the program during ';loomed attempt to raise ourselves decided to go to Rice, we realized the seven years in which she served °Y our bootstraps unless we exploit that, unlike the Texas kids who en- as its first director. the fullest our true advantages. counter each other at state events, ti 'mice stands in a position not only he hadn't had much chance to get Mary McIntire, dean equal but to surpass the nation's to know other entering students. Kathleen Sayers, associate dean leading universities in the quality We also observed that the Ivy Continuing Studies of its undergraduate body; this League alums all held welcoming Provides a ladder that can be 26 welcomes your comments. C parties. So we obtained a list of Sallyport climbed into the foremost echelon Washington-area incoming fresh- Please write to: Sallyport, Office of Lt of schools. men and invited them and their News &Publications, Rice Univer- d Another temptation, no less parents to a cook-out in our back- sity, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 1 atuaging to what Rice has in the yard last July. 77251. Letters are subject to editing Past stood for, is to allow the To our surprise, no fewer than for length and style. course load itself to stagnate, lead- 23 of the new Owls accepted and

June / July '92 5 THR °UGH • T HE • SALL YPOR T

The Case of the Missing Cane

"Smoke stung my eyes as I dis- ing a tradition with all students. Student Activities Director Sarah creetly worked to free my hands. Nelson Crawford) and the gun- The flame inched even closer. I Fortunately for this year's Hunters, toting Nunzio. By speaking to the could feel its heat scoring my face Detective Masey sensed the danger proper mobsters (one Hunter as the mobster slowly lit the fuse." to his life and took measures to called the speakeasy "an exercise in —takenfrom the diary ofDetec- protect the cane. social graces") and offering the tive Frank Masey, written shortly He wrote no note revealing the proper incentive (Hunt Dollars), before his murder cane's whereabouts. Instead, the Hunters gained entry into the back ever-cryptic Masey left four clues, room and met Mr. Big, who left whose solutions yielded four codes, another clue,"KRBY." each four letters long. Feeding After gathering the other clues All this for a simple jeweled cane? those codes in the Crime Com- and taking a short dinner break, "The Hunt" drew 150 Rice stu- puter revealed the cane's location. Hunters congregated in the RMC dents to the Sewall Hall Courtyard The first team to phone in the cloisters. There, they received disks April 9, the Thursday of spring re- location won. holding the final mind-teaser, a cess. Sound simple? It wasn't. "The three-dimensional crossword Over a lunch catered by Subway, Hunt" was designed to challenge puzzle, and scattered to MacIntosh 1 30 teams of about five people each the fittest Rice brains. computers across campus. The were informed of their mission—to Armed with four clues, 10 hours, code to access the disk was an- find the fictional Detective Frank a car, a map and such oddities as nounced on KTRU radio. Masey's cane, which contained the scotch tape, a tape player and scis- After inputting the four-letter hidden plans for a new weapon. sors, the teams set out to solve the codes and solving the crossword And so, for the third consecutive Great Cane Caper of 1992. puzzle, the Crime Computer pre- year,"The Hunt" began. Hunters dressed in official sented teams with 10 words— a Two years ago, the idea for t-shirts spent their first six hours duck, anus, scone, seal, den, detail, Rice's first "Hunt" popped up in a solving four preliminary puzzles. pie, puff, mike and are. Brown College study lounge. They ended up in parts of Houston From these words, the team Glo- Inspired by Florida's "Tropic many students had never entered. bal Village Idiots was the first to Hunt" and Cal Tech's "Senior's In the most elaborate puzzle, a decipher and phone in the cane's Barricade," four Brown College cryptogram sent teams to the Park location. At the post-Hunt party in members wanted their upcoming Shopping Mall downtown, where the RMC,Global Village Idiots spring recess to feature some sort Hunters sang their favorite Coun- received $60, a $5 gift certificate to of entertainment that would com- try & Western song to the employ- Pizzeria Uno and a box of DC bine solving puzzles with a trea- ees in Y'Alls Texas Store. Comics "Cosmic Cards." sure/scavenger hunt. For their vocal prowess, students Then-sophomores Brian O'Neil, received another puzzle and an au- Designing such a successful hunt Bowie Hinger and Harlan Howe dio casette. Hunters gathered clues was no easy task. This year's instru- and freshman Mark Engelberg de- in other stores and followed a mental organizers were three sired a game that would suit Rice taped sound maze through the Brown graduating seniors—Howe, students. "We wanted something tunnels below Houston. John Schwartz and Erik Daniel. more intellectual than just a trea- They surfaced at Jones Hall, Although the four original organiz- sure hunt," Howe says. "The went one block north and found a ers did all the work two years ago, Hunt" was born. brightly colored grid reading this year's "Hunt" drew university- The first year's puzzles were too "Houston—The Art Capital of the wide volunteers and money from hard ("You had to be an ultra-ge- World." From this plaque and nearly every residential college. nius to solve them" Howe says); clues gathered from the shopping Planning for "The Hunt" began last year's were too easy. This year's mall, students were able to deci- last fall. "It's really a labor of love," puzzles, however, were perfect. pher the code "GNZO." Howe says. "Organizing 'The "Almost all the groups were able to For another of the preliminary Hunt' is a lot of fun. It's even solve some of the puzzles, and very puzzles, Hunt organizers turned a more fun than participating." few of the groups were able to vacant shop in the Village into a About 150 Hunters would prob- solve everything," Howe says. mob-infested speakeasy, where ably disagree with him. Originally for Brown College Hunters confronted questionable By the way...the cane was in the members,"The Hunt" is becom- figures such as Bubbles (played by tail pipe of Masey's car. —Tom Sinis

6 Sallyport 'Hunt"Logo by Harlan Hoag Noer's Search for Pere Noel

If you've stopped believing in Santa Claus, read on. Rice senior Michael Noer got an early Christmas present this year—a $13,000 fellowship to study Christmas traditions in Europe and South America. Noer is one of 70 recipients of a one-year travel fellowship offered by the Thomas J. Watson Foundation. The fellowships support research on a topic chosen by the recipient. Noer's pockets will jingle all the way to the United Kingdom to research the Dickensian Christmas myth, to The Netherlands in search of Sinter Klaus, to France for Pere Noel, to Italy for St. Nicholas, to Brazil for Carnivale and to Finland for the Nordic Institute of Folklore. The North Pole is conspicuously absent from his list. .Why Santa Claus? Was it childhood memories of a white Christmas in Minnesota? Revenge against an older sister who told the then-seven-year- :s old "firm believer" that the jolly old elf didn't exist? If so, Noer will have the last "ho, ho, ho." He wrote his senior thesis on the history of Santa Claus, working with English professor Bob Patten, and plans to write a sh light but scholarly book based on his travels. Noer has a daunting task. His head will be filled with visions of sugar- Plums and Bing Crosby as he sifts through endless movies, children's litera- ture and advertising. Not to mention all the department stores he'll have to

If he could have his wish, all Noer would really want for Christmas is to meet the white-bearded, red-suited old fellow in person so he can "tell me all about himself." Maybe they could rendezvous on a rooftop. —Maggi Stewart o-

in No Photo Proof to Pid William Marsh Rice really ex- Granted, no one offered $14.95 ist? No photos survive to prove it. portrait specials in those days, but Although his father, grandfather money couldn't have been a reason and second wife were all photo- for being camera-shy. An oil por- ru- ?raphed, Willy was captured only trait, with its numerous sittings, In a series of oil portraits by un- would have cost much more. VC, known artists. Or perhaps Rice did have his In William Marsh Rice and His photograph taken—and it looked Institute, Andrew Forest Muir re- like everybody's worst nightmare o, ports that three years before his of a passport photo. One can un- de tY" ath, the trustees asked Rice to sit derstand if he burned the image. for a photograph. Apparently, he One last possibility: The butler considered the idea but never fol- did it. After murdering his boss, an 10.Nved through. Was it photo-pho- maybe the valet disposed of the We know he was murdered, but was Willy framed? v, bia, or is there another mystery at- photos. Perhaps they're hidden in a tached to our elusive founder? secret place in Rice's New York It's unlikely the camera would City apartment, or buried with his have broken while the photogra- ashes under the statue in the quad. ob- Pher was taking his picture. If the But we'll probably never know if ,(2111 Portraits are based on reality, Rice actually ever said, "Cheese." the "Y.Illy's mug was a bit stem but cer- —Maggi Stewart tamly not homely.

Hou'l June / July '92 7 NEWS

Richard von Weizsiicker, president the power of the mind can do. come to the very south of the ofthe Federal Republic of Germany, Second, it is a privilege to be United States of America to ad- gave thegraduation speech at Rice's invited as someone from another dress the young generation of this 79th Commencement May 2. More generation, another age, one might great nation a few years before the than 1,000 undergraduates and say—someone whose experiences century turns and just after the old graduates and theirguests heard the as a grown-up go back 50 more bipolar world order has come to an German president, who is only the years than yours. I am on the point end. We are here, all of us, in this third outside speaker to address a of commencing as well, but retire- most exciting and challenging tran- Ricegraduating class in the last 20 ment, not active life. sition between two ages, and to- years. His speech is reprinted below. Well, this, I suppose, is what gether we share the duty of making Rice University must endure after the most of it and living up to our "The New World Order: leaving the path of virtue and go- responsibility. One Team" ing cosmopolitan two years ago World orders don't break with the world summit, which you down—they simply fade away and It is an unusual privilege for me might consider coming close to a change. We have known this ever to be invited as the guest speaker world government. Not all of since Ovid's Metamorphoses. For his at your commencement today, those who participated in that offensive verses, Ovid was exiled to

Rice President George Rupp, right, leads the processional. German President Richard von Weimacker at the podiun.

the 79th in the history of Rice summit are still in office. And that, the Black Sea, which is a stormy University—unusual mainly for I presume, is the reason why your place again these days. One hun- two reasons: university wisely or kindly decided dred and fifty years earlier, at the First, your guest comes from an- on having me as a speaker before it other end of the Roman Empire, other part of the world, some is too late. Carthage had fallen, and Ovid 5,000 miles away. Yet Rice Univer- Each new generation wants to himself, born one year after sity has strong academic links, both gain its own experience. Young Caesar's death, already came too old and new, with scholars and people don't want to serve as a late to witness the agony and the universities of my country, which substitute engine for a prefabri- end of the Roman Republic. are gratifying for me to evoke. As cated car body. Is that what happens to repub- President Rupp just pointed out: What makes a generation young lics—not to survive the destruction Your presidential founding father and strong is that it looks upon the of their main enemies? It is up to Edgar Odell Lovett received his world as starting anew. That is you to decide. Like it or not, you doctoral degree from our Leipzig completely natural and necessary. have been borninto a watershed University. Today you maintain a But, in addition to what com- age. The simple orientation, the lively ongoing exchange program mencement normally entails— de- good against the empire of evil, is with German universities, such as termining your own lives, legally, gone. The victory is yours, and so Wiirzburg and others. On your morally and not least financially— is the choice thereafter. Competing campus you have preserved a piece you are at the same time entering against communism can no longer of the fallen Berlin Wall in a medi- an age of change. be the domineering guideline of tation garden, a reminder of what It is no coincidence that I have your statehood. Yours is to ques-

8 Sallyport non all three: competition, domi- ers, for both teams know that they in the sun in front of his barrel. nance and statehood. gave their best for a good team Benignly, Alexander inquired Six weeks ago I opened an exhi- performance, not for mutual de- whether he could do something for bition at a very old German town struction and isolation. Let us Diogenes. "Would you kindly step ci called Speyer, dedicated to the cen- remember this spirit of positive- out of the sun?" was the tn tury of the Salier dynasty—four ness, responsibility and humanity philosopher's answer. Turning to medieval emperors reigning over when stepping from the playing his suite, Alexander exclaimed: n- the Holy Roman Empire of the fields into the world of daily "By Jove, if I were not Alexander, German nation 900 years ago. competition. I would like to be Diogenes." They bitterly fought with the Pope Don't let it get out of hand. Re- Diogenes' way offinding happi- over the question: Where lies the member, the goal is a good team ness within himself without reli- authority of government, with God performance, not domineering. ance on the procurement of nr with man? Remember, the competitor is part sensations, comforts and security Over the ages, that question has and parcel of your world, and in a by others has lost nothing of its been put to us time and again, in way your survival depends on him force in the 2,300 years since the different forms and guises. And as the fate of the Roman Republic story is supposed to have hap- the answer has always profited a hinged on that of Carthage. The pened. Scores of seemingly invin-

Governors George R. Miner, left, and Thomas D. Smith. After days o rain, the sun was a very welcome sight.

1 variety of men and women,some- art of moderation is called upon to cible rulers in the Eastern part of times a greater number,sometimes take its rightful place again, now today's world have just been asked fewer, depending on the degree of that the excesses of the 20th cen- by their peoples to step out of their competition involved. tury have been overcome. sun. But now that more people Competition is one of the terms The choices are not new. Con- than ever have the choice to enjoy for review, it seems to me, as we sider the well-known story of the sun, we realize that we cannot enter the next century. Like Alexander the Great meeting all withdraw like Diogenes into the progress, competition cannot be an Diogenes in the barrel. Having barrel, satisfied with our own per- end in itself. It is meant to relieve conquered Greece, Alexander ar- sonal self-reliant happiness. the oppression of monopoly, but rived in Corinth. From all sides, We do not need to emulate not at the price of anxiety. Marx- citizens, politicians, artists and phi- Alexander and conquer the rest of Ism is gone, and with it a histori- losophers converged to greet and the world, either. We can do with- callY unique example of monopoly acclaim the young hero. The con- out Alexander's power and rather and the absolute absence of com- spicuous exception was Diogenes, take lessons from his teacher, who petitiveness. Is it not time to ques- who did not bother to leave his was none other than Aristotle. tion absolute competitiveness in barrel. Alexander was informed of Aristotle has given us what we (nit own society? At school we this apparent indifference, and de- need most in our present world, in cherish sports, and above all team cided that if Diogenes would not which even science has lost its sPorts, because they produce team come to meet him, he would go to sense of certainty. He has given Spirit. Victory is shared by the meet Diogenes. He went and us ethics. team,and in a way also by the los- found Diogenes warming himself We need ethics in science to

June /July '92 9 decide which types of research may taking, but also of giving. tions will not disappear, but as the be useful and which harmful. We When you finally stand up to be artificial bond of nationhood falls, need ethics to overcome the per- counted, it is not what you got out age-old collective feelings and re- ceived antagonism between the of life that matters, but what you gional identities gain relevance, economy and the environment by put into life. The difference be- under the protection of a shared making environmental protection a tween the two is simple: Getting and comprehensive definition of growth industry. We need ethics to something out of life is a solitary security for men and nature. A understand that we must overcom- act, putting something into life comparable development may ap- pensate environmental regress by makes you part of a team. A team ply to the North American conti- scientific and technological in which you compete and share, nent and its envisaged free-trade progress. We need ethics to be- not win and dominate. zone. This is not intended to lead come conscious that without a And that brings me to my final us into regional fortresses, closed constant transformation of knowl- point: statehood and the new to other continents, but into open edge into practice we will not be world order. The Salier emperors, global cooperation. able to secure the existence of the 900 years ago, ruled over a Europe At the end of the 20th century, five billion human beings currently with a large variety of nationalities, liberty is achieving victorious living on the earth, to care for their languages, races and convictions. progress over the arbitrary limita- ,-1111CPIE '21Y-7 1

Wiess College graduates wait to receive their diplomas. Finally, suitably equipped to take on the world.

health, to improve their social con- The one great unifying factor was tions imposed upon it by man in dition, to protect their dignity that of a deep-seated human pru- the course of centuries, such as against human-rights abuses and dence orientated towards the fruits race and religion, status and na- their security against the irrespon- of life as a whole rather than the tion. It is possible that never before sible spread and use of ever more success of the moment. in history has a young generation destructive arms. Ever since—throughout the approached a new century with We need ethics to realize that Middle Ages, the age of Reforma- such opportunities as you have be- we cannot put off action until we tion, the Renaissance of enlighten- fore you, but also with such need are more certain, and to recog- ment, the Age of Discovery and of orientation. nize that inaction can be more the centuries of industry and It is, and still remains, difficult costly than even imperfect action. technology—mankind has tried to live together peacefully among And we need ethics to guide different structures and ended up ethnic groups, races, different reli- such action. basing the world order on the con- gions and cultures, and above all in For Aristotle, the most funda- cept of the nation. We may well sharp differences of education, of mental ethical virtue was justice, come, 200 years after the American social chances and need. All the because justice is the one human and the French revolution, to its more, it is essential to observe emotion that beyond the mere transformation. moderation and nonviolence to concern with maximizing happi- On my old continent, regional overcome those tensions. We all ness for oneself is devoted to the arrangements spearheaded by the share the difficulties in observing happiness of fellow human beings European Community are replac- these commandments. as well. Justice makes sure that so- ing 800-year-old schemes of hege- In the light of recent events of cial life does not only consist of mony, nations and alliances. Na- misjudgment and violence, I was

10 Sally port IC deeply impressed by the spirit of New Alumni Director Appointed s, Peace and nonviolence I met at the Martin Luther King Center I vis- Rice alumnus Scott Biddy has been ited yesterday in Atlanta. There appointed the executive director for was no sense of accusation or the Association of Rice Alumni as Charge but a deep commitment to of May 26. tolerance and peace and practical Since his graduation in 1986, health. It is this message that also Biddy has been involved in banking Comes from your great nation that in New York, Amarillo and Balti- Will lead us in the proper direction. more. He served most recently The old walls, barriers and di- as vice president for regulatory viding lines have fallen, but do not affairs at MNC Financial, Inc., in mistake that vacuum of national Baltimore. Ideals for a license to step into the During his Rice years, Biddy or- next millennium uncommitted. ganized the Rice Student Volunteer You don't want to run the risk of Program (RSVP), which has been drifting afloat endlessly and point- instrumental in involving students lessly into the 21st century. In in community projects. times offlux you will feel an even He also chaired the Student Ad- greater need of a cultural back- mission Council for two years. In ground with values to follow and recognition of his service to Rice, friends to care for, principles to Biddy received both the Sallyport guide you and ideals to fight for, a Award and the Hugh Scott region to cherish and a community Cameron Service Award during his Scott Biddy to pray for, God's creation to pro- senior year. tect and that One Earth to live for. His primary goal for the alumni association, he says, is to broaden and The new world order, as you strengthen the alumni programs across the country. "We will build on the might envisage it from our present strong structure and support we have in the Houston area and emulate Modest vantage point, will aim for that in other parts of the country," he says. a world government, checked and balanced by nations united in uni- versal, regional and subregional °tganizations, in turn dependent on responsible young men and a wimnen, freed of all the restrictions Women and Gender Studies Major Created of the past and, like a team, caring a spirit of responsibility for the A new interdisciplinary major, women and gender studies, will begin at fore World as a whole. Rice this fall. I invite you, the great Rice The major provides a coherent way of studying gender and sex issues University Class of 1992, to join across disciplines, says Colleen Lamos, assistant professor of English. be- that team. Lamos is among the faculty members who will teach in the program. Associate Professor of Philosophy Helen Longino, who is on sabbatical this semester, will lead the program. "Most of the disciplines in social sciences and humanities have been in- fluenced by a revolution in the study of gender in the last 20 or 30 years," Lamos says, adding that feminist theory has influenced a wide range of scholarly disciplines, especially literary criticism. An introductory course on women and gender studies and a course on interdisciplinary studies will be created for the new major. For the most part, however, the women and gender studies major will bring existing courses from several campus departments under its umbrella. 11 Nationally, more than 400 colleges and universities, including all the Ivy ig League schools, offer a women's studies major. of as

June /July '92 11 Two Professors Inducted Smalley Wins Prestigious Welch Award into AIMBE Rice University professor Richard E. Smalley won the 1992 Robert A. Two Rice pro- Welch Award in Chemistry for his work in physical chemistry. Considered fessors have the highest award in chemistry except for the Nobel prize, the Welch been chosen Award includes a $225,000 grant and a gold medallion. charter fellows "Dr. Smalley has made so many significant discoveries that to list them in a national all would be an impressive task," says Norman Hackerman, former presi- organization dent of Rice and chair of The Welch Foundation's scientific advisory board. that promotes "I am absolutely thrilled and very surprised," Smalley says. "I assumed biomedical that these prizes would hardly ever be given in Texas." engineering. The Welch Foundation's scientific advisory board cited Smalley's work in David Hellusns Chemical the discovery of C-60 (bucicminsterfifflerene), the investigation of C-60 engineering compounds and his innovations in investigating various molecular bonds. professors David HeHums and C-60 is a third basic form of carbon, the other two being carbon and dia- Larry McIntire were selected for mond. Research into C-60 and its compounds is under way in such wide- the College of Fellows of the ranging fields as cancer treatment, plastics, lubricants, superconductivity, American Institute for Medical and batteries, rocket fuels and semi-conductors. Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Smalley joined the Rice faculty in 1977 as an assistant professor of chem- Hellums, Rice's A.J. Hartsook istry and has held the Gene and Norman Hackerman Chair of Chemistry Professor of Chemical and Bio- since 1982. medical Engineering, was cited by Smalley has held several distinguished fellowships and been honored with the AIMBE Fellows Committee the Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics in 1991 and the American for applying chemical engineering Physical Society International Materials Prize this year. He has published methods to medical and biological and presented more than 100 scientific papers. research and education. McIntire, Rice's E.D. Butcher Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Wilson Named Owls Basketball Coach was recognized as an outstand- Willis Wilson, a former student, athlete and ing educator, assistant coach at Rice, is re- turning as the new head coach of men's administrator basketball. He replaces Scott Thompson, who resigned and researcher March 23 to become head coach at Wichita State University. for his work in Larry McIntire Wilson, 32, has been an assistant coach at Stanford University applying bio- for the past year. He previously served two stints as an assistant at Rice chemical methods in blood and under former head coaches Tommy Suitts and vascular biology. Thompson. "I am personally very proud to secure the services About 180 researchers and engi- of an individual so uniquely qualified to lead our program," neers in academia and business says Athletic Director Bobby May. Wilson was an assistant under Suitts during have been asked to join the Col- the 1986 season, leaving to become head coach at Houston's Strake Jesuit College Preparatory lege of Fellows, says Suzie Hunt, School for one year. He returned to Rice for four seasons spokeswoman for AIMBE. under Thompson (1988- 91), during which time the Owls progressed to their first winning They represent the top two per- season in 20 years in 1991. cent of the scientists in biomedical Last season, Wilson assisted Stanford University coach engineering across the United Mike Montgom- ery in that team's 18-11 season. States, Hunt says. After this first A 1982 graduate of Rice with a bachelor's degree year, only about 10 or 12 people a in political science, Wilson was a four-year letterman for the Owls year will be selected to the Wash- under Mike Schuler (1979- 81) and Suitts (1982). He captained the Owls to a 15-15 ington, D.C.-based organization. record in 1982. Formed this year, AIMBE first met in February.

12 Sallyport Rice Involved in R&D comes from the Texas National among a cross section of practicing for Superconducting Research Laboratory Commission engineers, student selectivity, fac- Super Collider (TNRLC),the state agency in ulty resources and research activity. charge of administering SSC re- Rice will join forces with Prairie search funding. View A&M and Purdue universi- As part of its effort to land the Alumnus Wins Oscar for ties in two projects to build and $9.1 billion, federally funded SSC "Silence of the Lambs" test analytical devices for the Su- in Texas, the state promised to contribute $1 billion to the mam- d. perconducting Super Collider. Alumnus Ron Bozman received an moth project. TNRLC will grant The projects are part of a Oscar in April for co-producing 10 percent of that contribution to $100-million research-and-devel- last year's classic thriller "Silence of research institutions during a 10- in oPment program financed by the the Lambs." year period. state of Texas. One of only three films in Oscar

The super collider calls for con- NOUSE BANK SCAMP/Ms INCUMBENT/ ON MI HUN history to garner the five most a- structing a circular tunnel 54 miles prestigious awards, "Silence of the WISIO RIPEST m circumference in Ellis County Lambs" won for best screenplay, near Waxahachie. Scientists will U.S.News MILL CLINTON best actress (Jodie Foster), best Propel beams of subatomic par- • actor (Anthony Hopkins), best di- ticles through the tunnel in oppo- 8„, rector (Jonathan Demme)and best site directions at nearly the speed producers. 0f light, causing them to collide. GRAD I ATE SC OOLS "The sweep above all the other th EY studying the subatomic debris BUSINESS• LAW • MEDICINE• ENGINEERING PLUS: SIX LIBERAL ARTS PROGRAMS films has to do with the context from such collisions, researchers among the other nominees as well hope to find clues about the origin as the quality of the film," Bozman of the universe. says. "In this case I think it was Rice and Purdue will use a more the quality." $350,000 grant to build a particle- Bozman says that the film's detector prototype for the SSC. chemistry worked to its advantage. Detectors are used to analyze the "The confluence of script, talent subatomic-particle collisions, says and directorial finesse set this film Rice physics professor Billy above its competition," he says. .11 (inner, who heads the university's "Silence of the Lambs" over- Involvement in the projects. Engineering School came the handicaps of its genre, Under the terms of another Ranked at Top Bozman says. His film was victori- grant, Rice and Prairie View scien- ous over the classic sentimentalism tists will experiment with the de- U.S. News & World Report maga- of the other nominees. "This is tector prototype, Bonner says. zine named Rice's School of Engi- indicative of a new wind blowing Prairie View physics professor neering as one of the best in the through the academy," he says. "emus Judd leads his university's country in its March 23 issue. "People are willing to consider Project, which is part of a $1-mil- The magazine's cover story new things." 1011 state grant to test the detec- During his Rice career, Bozman, ay. rated five kinds of graduate tors and to stimulate physics re- schools: liberal arts, law, business, a behavioral science major, began search at historically black engineering. Rice film-making. Following his 1969 Dl u medicine and niversities. squeezed under the wire on its list graduation, Bozman free-lanced in Under the grant terms, a con- of the top-25 engineering schools, film, was a stringer for Time maga- in sortium of 14 universities—seven ranking 25th. zine in Houston, and then went to storically black teaching universi- The Massachusetts Institute of Austin where he worked on "The ties and seven research universi- Technology received the Texas Chainsaw Massacre." ties—split the grant money among magazine's top honors. The Uni- Bozman's other film credits in- seven projects. Each project is de- versity of Texas at Austin came in clude "The Muppets Take Man- • eloped by one African-American eighth and Texas A&M University hattan," "Nadine," "Waiting for iii stitution and one research insti- rated 13th on the list. the Light" and "Married to the tution. Rice and Prairie View are Mob." His current project is in the °he Rankings were based on five ma- such pair. jor criteria: reputation among engi- early stages of development and Money for the SSC projects neering school deans, reputation not ready for announcement.

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ACADEMIA

Bioscientists and interest in preparing safe and inex- and cell biology, has been collabo- Bioengineers Collaborate on pensive blood substitutes," rating with Ka-Yiu San, associate Synthetic Blood, Genetically Hellums says. He adds that artifi- professor of chemical engineering. Engineered Proteins cial blood could be used in high- They are searching for a simpler blood-loss surgical procedures, way to induce the production of large-scale specific proteins in bacteria cells. Two pioneering projects at Rice natural or Certain proteins are used to pro- could make major contributions to man-made di- duce clot-dissolving drugs and for treating diseases and injuries. sasters and diagnosis of certain viral diseases In one, biochemists and bio- combat zones, and tumors. Another protein is medical engineers are collaborating where blood used in the production of the artifi- to develop artificial blood. typing, storage cial sweetener aspartame. In the other, researchers are ma- and testing are The researchers use the bacteria nipulating certain bacteria to pro- not always Escherichia coli, which are com- duce protein that can be used to feasible. monly found in the human body. treat heart-attack patients and diag- One choice Heating usually prods the bacte- nose viral diseases and cancers. David Hellions for a blood George Bennett ria to induce specific protein pro- "These research projects exem- substitute is duction. But that process can be plify what the Rice Institute of Bio- extracellular hemoglobin that has harsh for the bacteria. Bennett is sciences and Bioengineering is all been cross-linked to prevent reac- experimenting with adjusting the about—collaborative research that tion with antibodies and filtration acidity of the bacterial culture, or crosses over disciplines," says insti- by the kidneys. Olson, George N. growing environment. tute chair Larry Phillips Jr. and their students have Bennett says McIntire. been using genetic engineering he and his re- McIntire is the techniques and x-ray crystallogra- searchers have E.D. Butcher phy to study the biochemical and found that an Professor of biophysical properties of these adjustment of Chemical and types of oxygen carriers. acidity can Biomedical En- Using laboratory methods (in stimulate the gineering. vitro) and live animals (in vivo), production of Both researchers study how blood cells the desired projects are •. t 41 carry oxygen throughout the body. protein by up funded by Awn\ i the They are specifically interested in to 500 times. Advanced John Olson Ka-Yiat San the capillaries, where blood cells Growing the Technology deliver their oxygen. bacteria in neutral pH,for ex- Program of the Texas State Coor- In the laboratory method, oxy- ample, will produce about 100 to dinating Board. McIntire says com- gen is added and removed from 200 units of protein. After a shift in petition for these grants is in- blood substitutes flowing through acidity, the bacteria can produce as tense—only about one in 10 artificial blood vessels. The process much as 50,000 units of protein. proposals is funded. The research is is studied under a microscope. San, Bennett and two graduate ongoing at the George R. Brown The live-animal method uses students are examining various ap- Hall. anesthetized rabbits. Substitutes proaches, including traditional and In the research on blood substi- are used to replace as much as genetic methods, to optimize the tutes, David Hellums, A.J. half of the blood volume in a process. Bennett is also studying Hartsook Professor of Chemical rabbit. Researchers then examine the molecular mechanisms that Engineering, is the principal inves- the muscle tissue for the amount specify pH sensing and DNA tigator with John Olson, professor of oxygen and energy used by activation. of biochemistry and cell biology, the rabbit. —Maggi Stewart and Guillermo Gutierrez, associate "By directly comparing findings, professor and director of the Divi- we can test the applicability of in sion of Pulmonary and Critical vitro evaluation to predict in vivo Care Medicine at The University of performance of blood substitutes," Texas Health Science Center. Hellums says. "Both methods use "Even before the AIDS epi- unique experimental systems." demic, there was a great deal of In the other project, George clinical, commercial and military Bennett, professor of biochemistry

14 Sallyport Jones School in a Growth Spurt easily teach such subjects as finance and statistics. "When you use a computer all the time to prepare There's a teenager on campus that's growing faster for classes and to do research, but the best teaching aid :r than most adolescents. you have in the classroom is a blackboard and chalk, At age 15, the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of it's kind of hard," says Bailar. Administration "is in a building mode," Jones School A $35,000 donation helped pay for the system, Dean Benjamin Bailar says. which has become one of the most popular teaching Enrollment has increased by almost 30 percent in devices at the Jones School, Bailar says. "This room is the past five years to about 100 per class. Moreover, scheduled up to here," he says as he waves his hand up to his forehead. fi- applications are up 30 percent from a year ago to 835. To handle the growing student population, the —David D. Medina a Jones School has hired three full-time faculty members for the fall semester. Douglas Schuler, who earned his doctorate from the :e- University of Minnesota at Minneapolis St. Paul this Spring, was named an assistant professor of administra- tive science. Gordon Silverstein, who holds a doctoral degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, was named an assistant professor of administrative science. Richard L. Shockley, who is earning a doctoral de- gree in finance from Indiana University at Bloomington this year, was named assistant professor of administrative science. "The growth of the tenure-track faculty will allow us to expand our research output as well as expand our curriculum," Bailar says. The three new members will increase the number of full-time faculty to 25. The school also has four profes- sors who hold joint appointments with other university departments and 30 local business people who work as adjunct professors. Bailar says the expansion of the faculty was i in made possible through a $10-million gift from the as Houston Endowment, Inc. The grant is one of the largest gifts ever received by Rice and is one of the largest committments ever made by the Houston p- Endowment, Inc. nd The money will be used over a five-year period for faculty additions and student scholarships. The endow- ment will give the Jones School $1 million each year for two years, $2 million in the third year and $3 mil- lion for final two years. each of the From left to right: Deborah Lee, Robert Brooks, Geraldine ,., "We're still in the stage of developing the faculty," Castor and Ted Hardwicke are among an increasing number vart. tiailar says. "We will be hiring more as the budget of students studying at the Jones School of Administration. Permits?) To help professors with their teaching, the Jones School installed a state-of-the-art computer/video sys- Enrollment in the Jones School has increased by tem into one of the classrooms. The innovative system works much like a big-screen TV that projects images almost 30 percent in the past five years to about 100 onto a screen. per class. Applications are up 30 percent from a . The system consists of two personal computers, a videocassette recorder, speakers and a keyboard, all hid- year ago to 835. den in an oversized podium facing the classroom. With Lthee computer/video component, professors can more June I July '92 15 BEYOND BY DAVID D. MEOtNA THE PHL) L'S BY 1(JMMY LAVERGNE SALLYPORT

16 Sallyport EVEN IN A TOUGH JOB MARKET, RICE STUDENTS ENJOY A COMPETITIVE EDGE

On Friday, March 13, after seven stressful months According to Northwestern University's Linguist- of searching for work, Andy Arenson's luck Endicott Report, an "overwhelming" 69 percent of changed—he got a job. corporations expect their business to decline or stay He was hired by his former professor, Philip even during 1992. Bedient, to do research and maintain the Environ- The report, which surveyed job prospects for col- mental Science and Engineering Department's com- lege students at 259 mid- to large-size businesses puter systems. Although Arenson would prefer to across the United States, says that the economic work for more money as a company programmer or slump means a 4-percent drop in demand for stu- a consultant, he was grateful for the offer. dents with a bachelor's degree and a 7-percent drop Looking for a job had shaken his ego."I was los- for those with a master's degree. ing my confidence," Arenson says. "I was beginning That's a surprising turn of events, since this was to believe no one wanted me." supposed to be the best of times for recent gradu- .The 21-year-old computer science major began ates, says Rice sociologist Stephen L. Klineberg. Ills search in September, preparing résumés, writing The last of the baby boomers—those born in letters and interviewing with such companies as Mi- 1964—should have been moving to better posi- crosoft, Viasat and Lockheed. tions, leaving the entry-level jobs for a younger and He applied to 15 different businesses that came to smaller crowd. campus to recruit, wrote to six more employers, and "There ought to have been an oversupply of responded to 45 classified ads. By March he had re- jobs," Klineberg says. The peachy scenario soured ceived 20 letters with the we-haven't-been-able-to- with the lingering recession. Now,college students find-a-suitable-match-for-you statement. are having to compete with the boomers stuck in At first, he took the rejections personally, but as lower-level positions. more letters came in, he grew blase. He treated the In Houston, where Career Services Center direc- unpleasant experience as a joke and displayed the tor Bob Sanborn says most Rice students will even- letters on the outside of his dorm door. tually get a job, the 1991 unemployment rate of 5.6 With a grade point average of 3.19, Arenson was percent was up slightly from the previous year. The baffled by his inability to land a job. After all, recovery is slow in coming, and relative to other cit- When his dad graduated from Cal ies, Houston seems to be doing better. But no one Tech in 1960 with a chemical engi- is promising a strong economy anytime soon. neering degree, he turned down Thus,firms are offering fewer jobs. The numerous offers. Boeing Company in Seattle is planning to "In some sense I feel short- downsize its workforce by 6,500 in the changed," Arenson says. "I don't state of Washington, and by as many as feel it's the fault of Rice, because 8,000 world-wide. Boeing conducted Rice has certainly given me an ex- on-campus interviews but has yet to cellent education, and the Career hire a Rice student this year. Services Center has been ex- Says Bruce Lawrenson, re- tremely helpful," he says. "Al- gional manager for college though I may not be a perfect relations for Boeing: "There candidate, I feel my troubles have are going to be fewer openings." a lot to do with the economy." In Houston, Transcontinen- He's right. Graduating seniors tal Gas Pipeline Corp., a subsid- across the country are facing the iary of Transco Energy Co., is in worst job market in 20 years. the midst of restructuring and is

A SCORE OF REJECTION LETTERS HAD ANDY ARENSON LOOKING DOWN AND OUT BEFORE HE LEARNED TO POKE FUN AT HIS PREDICAMENT. THE ECONOMY HAD A LOT TO DO WITH HIS TROUBLES.

June / July '92 17 cutting back on its personnel. Michael Dale, Randi Mays-Knapp, director of recruiting for Transcontinental's college regional coordinator, Andersen Consulting, says her company likes to hire says that two years ago the company hired 16 col- Rice students because they are intelligent, moti- lege interns; last year it hired 12; this year it plans vated, and have organizational and leadership skills. to hire six. The consulting firm hires between five and 10 Fewer jobs means less recruiting. At Rice, for ex- students from Rice each year to work as technical ample, the number of companies visiting campus consultants. was down by 14 percent from a year ago to 250. Rice has the reputation of molding students to Other universities from California to Michigan to think critically and analytically, she says. Last fall, 75 Georgia are faring no better. percent of entering Rice freshmen scored 1,201 or The result is that students have to hustle more, get higher on the SAT; 25 percent scored 1,432 or bet- an early start, and keep their options open. Others ter. Also,40 percent of the students major in two or are postponing their entry into the job force by at- three subjects. tending graduate school. Sociologist Klineberg concurs: "One of the rea- But despite the bleak job prospect, the 600 Rice sons that Rice students have done relatively well in students graduating this year have an edge over their this economy is because they are getting precisely competitors from lesser-known schools. "Rice stu- the kind of training that this new economy re- dents are so different from the regular crowd that quires." He says that our economy has changed companies are going to from an area market to a global market,from one find room for them," that thrived on resources to one that is knowledge- Sanborn says. based. The new service economy will require em- ployees to be well-educated in breadth as well as depth, to be creative and self-motivated, skilled in both technical fields and liberal learning—the kind of education in which Rice excels. Sanborn points to the fact that 80 percent of students get a job before they graduate as an indi- cation that employers prefer Rice students. Sanborn's office has played a key role in helping students get a job. Since Ca- reer Services opened about four years ago, it has been active in holding job fairs, and teaching students proper busi- ness dinner etiquette, how to interview, the need to develop personal skills and how to prepare a résumé. This April, Career Services received a national award from the College Placement Council for the center's first television talkshow, Career Wise, which airs on cable television. The College Place- ment Council is a 3,000-member organization of college career services centers and businesses recruit- ing on college campuses. Sanborn and Cheryl

NOT ONLY ARE HOLLY YOUNG AND RANDY STREET READY TO TACKLE THE WORLD AS MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS. BUT THEY ARE ALSO PLANNING TO UNDERTAKE A JOINT VENTURE DOWN THE AISLE.

18 Sallyport DAVID BAYARD QUICKLY LEARNED THAT IT TOOK MORE THAN EXCELLENT CREDENTIALS TO SECURE EMPLOYMENT IN TODAY'S JOB MARKET. THE EXTRA HUSTLE FINALLY PROVED POSITIVE

Matherly, an assistant director for the center, co- orbiting sscc."i4 host the show, which talks about the career scene satellites, in Houston. flew him In response to the down economy, Sanborn says, out to Cali- the office held more job fairs this year. Rice brings fornia for an several hundred recruiters to campus a year, and on interview, and average each does 12 interviews. just when his spir- Other universities have taken more drastic mea- its were flying sures. Texas A&M University plans to offer a semi- high, he nar called "Reality 101," for first- and second-year received the students. The seminar speakers will try to "shock" company's rejec- students into being aware of the tough job market. tion letter. The Wall StreetJournal reported that students The engineers from such schools as North Carolina University, are coming up Denison University and Oberlin College, both in empty-handed Ohio, are turning to alumni and parents for job clues. partly because cuts In Selinsgrove, Pa., the business school at in U.S. military Susquehanna University has started a mentorship spending have forced Program for women. Each female student is assigned the defense and aero- a successful university alumna. space industries to Rice senior Holly Young,21, used her own ap- freeze hiring. The proach. She got an early start. She began the search drop in oil and While looking for a summer job during her junior gas prices has also Year. A native of Connecticut, she sent about 100 meant layoffs in the petroleum business, which resumes to Northeast companies, but quickly be- heavily affects chemical engineers. came discouraged. "The big problem is that I had an unrealistic view "There were so many people unemployed that on the shape of the economy," Bayard says. Gradu- Jobs that college students ordinarily go into were ating from one of most prestigious engineering taken by professionals who are out of work," she schools in the nation, he says, gave him a feeling of says. When she returned to Rice in the fall, she lost security. "What I found this year is that's not true. no time in signing up for job interviews through the You can't sit back and rest on your laurels." Career Services Center. After graduation, he was faced with another pre- She received offers from three management con- dicament. Because he hadn't found a job, he was sulting firms, and accepted a position with Ernst & thinking about going to graduate school, but appli- Y°ung in Houston. She will be working as an infor- cation deadlines for many schools had passed. And it ination in, it- technology consultant, analyzing computer was too late to get financial aid. If he had gotten sYstems. Because she's an English major, she will it would have been at his own expense. have to go through an intensive training program. Then Bayard got lucky. He landed a job with the David C. Bayard, who didn't get an early start, California-based Oracle Corp., the world's third- largest software company, as a consultant in their LoY Provides a cautionary story. He began a leisurely search in the fall, feeling confident that he would Washington, D.C., office. Graduate school faded rrs have no trouble. from the picture. Bayard, 21, has excellent credentials. He has a But graduate school provides a safe haven for double major in electrical engineering and math- about 60 percent of Rice seniors. Ofthose, 39 per- eLinatical economic analysis. He has a 3.9 GPA and cent enroll in law school, 12 percent go to medical uisonors ranging from Phi Beta Kappa to the school, and about 15 percent enter business school. 'resident's honor roll. This year even more students may be seeking ad- .None of the seven engineering companies he ap- vanced education. Plied to offered him a job. TRW,a manufacturer of

June / July '92 19 "It's always been my dream to actually be an ac- tress, and I figure if I never take the chance and ac- tually do it, I will never know if I could have been successful," she says. The New York native will try her talents in TV movies, commercials and any other gig she can get. She plans to hire an agent and read the maga- AS A TALENTED ACTRESS AND zines for audition announcements. ASPIRING LAWYER, ALISON COHEN She acted in 11 productions MAY HAVE THE RIGHT CREDENTIALS at Rice and was highly praised by FOR A PART IN THE POPULAR TV the Houston Chronicle for her performance SHOW "LA. LAW." in "Women in Mind." If she bombs in Los Angeles, she says, she will proceed with her plans to attend law school. Within the last decade, Rice has made more of an effort to recruit students interested in the humanities and social sciences, meaning that students are entering more varied professions. During the '80s, many went into financial services, while others took advantage of the oil boom to work in the petro-chemical industry. This year, engineers are not expected to fare as well, says Sanborn. "Traditionally, they had seven to nine offers. Now they may only have three to four," he says. It's a far cry from the days when engineering stu- dents were a hot commodity. During the '60s and The Council of Graduate Schools, the Law '70s, the sayings goes, all you had to do was spell School Admission Council and the Association of the word engineering and you were offered a job. American Medical Colleges all report that the num- The Placement Office (now called Career Services) ber of applicants has been steadily increasing over at that time was mainly geared to help engineering the last couple of years. students. At Rice, the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of For 1992, some of the most popular majors were Administration reported that in March applications English, economics, managerial studies, political were up 50 percent from a year ago to 569. Of science, biology and electrical engineering. Gradu- those, about 20 were from Rice students, a slight ates in the humanities and social sciences will go increase from last year. into the corporate sector. They will become human While the number of applicants may be up, the resource managers, industrial psychologists, econo- average age of applicants is down. The typical MBA mists and consultants. applicant at Rice had been a 27-year-old with three Many students this year will go into the technical to four years of work experience. Now,the appli- areas, financial services and medicine, Sanborn says. cants are one year younger, with that much less "Because Houston has a large population, the ser- work experience. vice economy tends to be fairly strong," Sanborn "The trend of younger applicants is pretty much says. With fewer out-of-state companies recruiting across the board nationally," says D. Richard Trask, on campus, Rice students may have to stay in Hous- director of admissions at the Jones School. "I think ton, he says. it's the poor economy," he explains. "Keeping their options open is important," he Alison Cohen, a political science and policy stud- says. "Yes, they do have to work harder to find a ies major, is planning to go to law school, but not job, but as long as they work at it they are going to before she gets rid of her acting bug. She plans to find something, and it will be much easier than for head west to California and "do the acting circuit. other students." Randy Street, 21, kept his options open. After completing the mechanical engineering program in four years, he was ready to get a job with an engi- neering firm. In the fall he had 17 on-campus inter

20 Sallyport views with different concerns, but came away with- for the Houston area. Salaries for the program out an offer. range between $17,000 and $32,000 a year, de- "There were a lot of companies that came here pending on the location. "I figure it's enough to that weren't interested in hiring," he says. "They live on. It's kind of what I expected. I'm not opting were just testing the water." for the big money-making jobs," she says. In the spring, Street had to modify his long-range After her two years are up, she will be certified to Plan. Originally, he wanted to work for several years teach in Texas. She plans to go back to graduate in engineering and then move into the business school for a master's or doctorate in a science. Or world. Now, because of the economy, he's skipping she might like education so much she will get a de- the engineering part. gree in that field. He interviewed with nine management consulting "I don't think anyone would argue that the edu- and investment banking firms and got two offers, cation system needs some help," she says. "I want One from Bain & Co. in Dallas and another from to do everything I can do to help." First Boston in New York. The economy will need all the help it can get, Both companies offered him a $35,000 salary, too. Economic forecasters agree that a recovery is Which to Street seemed like an appropriate amount, on the way, albeit at a snail's pace. As professor since the market is so competitive. The Lindquist- Klineberg says, challenging and difficult times lie Endicott Report states that salaries will increase by a ahead for all of us, but especially for those without "modest" 2.7 percent this year, running counter to the right preparation. Rice students, as recruiters the downward economic trend. attest, will continue being prime candi- "Once you get a job it's great, because they are dates for an economy that values offering great salaries," Street says. "If you can land knowledge. The students may never a job, you'll be doing fine." again see the abundance of the Street will be moving to Dallas to start his train- '50s and '60s, in which jobs were ing for Bain & Co., where he plans to stay for two plentiful, but they should always Years before enrolling in an MBA program. have the competitive edge. "The fact that I was an engineer really put me on the competitive edge," he says. Financial service companies, he says, like hiring engineers because they have been trained to think analytically. A good education is becoming absolutely critical in getting a job, Klineberg says. In 1980, a person With a college degree earned on average 23 percent More than a person with a high school diploma. Ten years later, the gap had widened to 40 percent. FUTURE SCHOOL TEACHER "The importance of an education for meaningful GAMBRILL HOLLISTER IS POST- oPportunities in American society is much greater PONING GRADUATE SCHOOL TO than it has ever been," he says. "It's become abso- HELP OTHERS HELP THEMSELVES lutely critical because we have entered a new IN A WORLD IN WHICH EDUCATION economy in which wealth is generated by skills, 15 BECOMING ABSOLUTELY CRITI- rather than by control over natural resources." CAL IN GETTING A JOB. Gambrill Hollister, 21, is planning to devote the next two years to helping others get an education. As a biology major, she is foregoing graduate school to join Teach for America. The Peace us- Corps.type program takes recent college grads with a non-education major and prepares them for the teaching world. "I don't want to go to grad school right now. to There are people who need to be taught," she says. Da. It's a useful thing for society." This summer, Hollister will spend six weeks in I-Aps Angeles in an intensive training course, after in Which she will come back to Houston to teach high school biology. er- She will be making $21,000 a year, a minimum

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Two Rice departments, philosophy and religious studies, address the complex issues raised by advances in medical technology

by D. J. Wilson

uch of what Ed DuBose teaches—and whether such familial obligations can be justified on a learns—about medical ethics takes place by rational basis. Her work has implications for health- accompanying physicians on rounds at a care policy. medical center near the Park Ridge Center Warren Holleman, who graduated from Rice in in Chicago,where he is an ethicist. DuBose, 1986, is an assistant professor of family medicine at a 1990 Rice graduate, doesn't always like Baylor College of Medicine. He studies ethical issues what he sees. as they arise in clinics and doctors' offices, not just In a recent incident, a patient facing sur- hospitals. He publishes papers on the ethical aspects of gery on his leg was the topic ofdiscussion as a covey of such day-to-day events as doctors signing school- and white-coated physicians swept into his room. The work-release evaluations and doing pre-employment Physician-in-charge started to prattle on about the physicals, and highlights the impact of third parties, impending operation on the man's "left leg." such as insurance companies, employers and the like, "The patient raised his hand and said,'It's the other on the doctor-patient relationship. !e8.' And the doctor,instead oflaughing or making a DuBose admits to having a "great job." He is paid Joke of it, just ignored the man," DuBose says. to read books,do research and write papers at the Park The patient wasn't in danger, since they were just Ridge Center, a "think tank" in Chicago. The center making the rounds, but what concerns DuBose is how publishes Second Opinion, a quarterly that deals with Oblivious the physicians were ofthe patient. He men- medical ethics from a theological and religious per- tioned this to the white coats in the hall after they left spective. Other recent publications ofthe Center have the room, and most of them were unaware that they dealt with such familiar issues as euthanasia and access were, well, unaware of the patient. DuBose stresses to health care. that patients have to be respected and that "physicians Through it all, it's apparent that staying alive hasn't need to treat the patient as a person. gotten any simpler. As the baby-boom generation "There's a tendency of the medical juggernaut to ages and increasingly sophisticated medical proce- roll over people, to be insensitive. I consider that to dures are developed,difficult choices concerning treat- be unethical." ment become more common. Few consumers will As DuBose's situation attests, medical ethics don't escape involvement in an ethical dilemma at some always boil down to a do-we-pull-the-plug-or-not point in their lives. And as survival rates improve, dilemma. Often the questions are far less dramatic, chances are that people will face several such tough though no less difficult. calls during their lifespan. .Evidence of that can be found in the work of other Intensive-care staffs rescue the critically ill or injured Rice graduates and current students who are toiling in from the brink ofdeath, but families ofthe stricken are the increasingly complicated and expanding field more sometimes confounded about when or ifto withdraw Properly called "bioethics." life support. Drugs appear to magically solve life- with them a price how Sarah V.Brakman, a doctoral student in the philoso- threatening conditions, but bring PbY department, is researching the obligation adult tag that threatens to bankrupt patients or third-party children may have for the care of their aging parents. payers. The technology and surgical skill to transplant Social programs tend to de-emphasize the importance organs continues to advance, but too few organs are °f the individual child in caring for the aging parent. available. Infants in need of an organ wait and die as rakman's dissertation is a philosophical discussion of courts and institutions argue about the definition of

zea.1 June / July '92 23 brain death for babies born virtu- phy, works with Brody at the ally with no brain, babies who medical center. possibly could provide others with The absence ofa medical school life-saving organs. at Rice does not appear to be an As if medical advances didn't obstacle to its involvement in pose enough of a problem, there medical ethics, since Baylor, the remains the issue of who is going University of Texas Health Sci- to pay for it all. The term "rising ence Center at Houston and vari- cost of health care" has become a ous affiliated hospitals are within cliché for those studying public walking distance of the campus. policy issues, since health costs In Brody and Reiser, Rice has took up 12.2 percent ofthe gross two nationally renowned medical national product in 1990,up from ethicists to head the university's 5.3 percent in 1960. And in this two approaches to medical ethics. country, estimates are that close Brody directs doctoral philoso- to 40 million Americans are with- phy students as they complete their out medical insurance. Everyone dissertations on aspects of medi- agrees that something must be cal ethics. Graduates of that ap- done to reform health care, but proach likely will go on to teach at hardly anyone agrees on what that a university or a medical school, "something" should be. according to Brody. At the core ofthis national crisis Is the care of aging parents They gain exposure to the way is how health-care providers and health care happens at the medical health-care consumers (i.e., ev- a social responsibilty, or is center, Brody says, so they can erybody) will make the right talk knowledgeably about choices about what to do.There is it a legitimate familial duty? medicine's clinical realities. "But no reason to believe the choices that's not what they are," main- will get easier. tains Brody. "They're philoso- "This will get much more complicated," says Dr. phers and they're being trained primarily to go teach in Stanley Reiser, adjunct professor ofreligious studies at philosophy departments." Rice. "Obviously, as we learn the ways in which the Reiser predicts students going through the religious living system works and create not only tools to diag- studies regimen will end up pursuing various jobs and nose problems but ways to improve it, the future holds careers: teaching at the university level, employed in not only learning about disease but learning how to hospitals helping medical staffs see the ethical dilem- increase performance. The range ofissues confronting mas ofcare, working in government to help form policy us will be massive." and being part of religious institutions. "I want them The best way to navigate these waters, Reiser feels,is to be in society and feel all those forms of service are to get people more involved with the health-care equal," says Reiser. choices they make."Ethics is a good way to bring them In religious studies, medical ethics courses are of- into it, by discussing these questions." One forum for fered on the undergraduate and graduate levels. Stu- such discussion will be a lecture series to be presented dents can take medical ethics for an undergraduate area this fall by the department,funded by GTE Mobilnet. major, a master's degree or a doctorate. In 1988, the At Rice, the department of philosophy and the first graduate student to attain a doctoral degree was department of religious studies expend considerable Elizabeth Heitman, who also received her under- energy sorting through the morass ofthese issues. The graduate degree from Rice. She is now an adjunct departments pursue research, publish books and pa- professor in religious studies at Rice and an assistant pers and produce graduates who will do the same. professor in the Program on Humanities and Technol- Reiser, in addition to his duties at Rice, directs the ogy in Health Care at UT Health Science Center at Program on Humanities and Technology in Health Houston. Care at the University ofTexas Health Science Center When Heitman teaches an undergraduate course she at Houston. Baruch Brody, professor of philosophy at runs into some idealistic—and ambitious—premedical Rice,divides his time between Rice and the day-to-day students who hope taking medical ethics courses will clinical side of medical ethics at nearby Texas Medical enhance their chances of being admitted into medical Center. Brody oversees the Rice doctoral students in school.She knows what medical school entails not only philosophy who are specializing in medical ethics. He from her experience in medical ethics, but also from also lectures, advises, writes and teaches at the medical knowing what her husband, Dr. James Berry, a 1980 center, as director of the Center for Ethics, Medicine Rice graduate, endured. and Public Issues at Baylor College of Medicine. "I don't know if we scare them away from medicine Dr. Tristram Engelhardt, Rice professor of philoso- or if we convince them that medicine isn't what they

24 Sallyport think it is," says Heitman. "It's not as fun and it's not "TPA is still widely used in America, despite the fact as rewarding. A lot of people assume...everybody will there isn't the slightest bit of good data that it's any love them, the answers will be simple. better than streptokinase," Brody says. "What we do is expose people to the somewhat Brody published a paper about the impact of eco- uglier reality that medicine is a constant state ofuncer- nomic considerations on clinical decision-making last tainty and a lot oftragedy and a lot ofpersonal stress." fall, examining TPA and streptokinase usage as a prime A common premed mistake is the assumption that"if example. If the two drugs truly are similar in effective- I can just get into medical school, everything's going ness, millions could be saved by use of streptokinase. to be fine." Heitman is succinct on this point to "If you took all the money currently spent on TPA aspiring physicians: "Medical training is hell. and provided all those patients with streptokinase, "We leave them with many more questions than that's a lot of bucks. A lot of bucks available for other answers. What I like to do is take people who are purposes," he says. positive that they know how to do something and give The reasons physicians prescribe TPA are varied. For them a lot ofinformation to make them insecure again. some reason,TPA has been viewed as more hi-tech and "I repeatedly tell med students, doctors and anyone often there is a bias for such products. Another reason who will listen that the best way not to get sued is to be why TPA is widely used has to do with what Brody calls a decent human being. Talk to your patient like an- "very aggressive hype" by the drug company. other person." Heitman boils down her goal to one sentence: n March, Reiser published a report in the Journal "What we are interested in teaching is how to be a good of the American Medical Association titled "Con- Person in health care as much as coming up with the sumer Competence and the Reform of American right argument." Health Care." Simply stated, he advocates a push The graduate students working toward master's or to involve consumers in all health-care decisions as doctoral degrees have a variety of backgrounds and a way to improve the system and educate people to goals. Most graduate students have full-time jobs. Imake more informed choices. John Wilson received his doctorate this spring and "At every step in the medical system, the consumer returned to his work as a drug-company executive. does not grow to understand how choices are Daniel Coleman is a patient repre- made and allows others to make sentative for a psychiatric hospital. them," says Reiser. "The result His dissertation involves the issue Medical ethics don't always is, we have 260 million medically of commitment of patients. illiterate consumers." boil down to do-we-pull-the- People don't understand the written a book which insurance coverage they have and rody has plug-or-not? Often the ques- will center on drugs, but not are limited in their alternatives. the illicit ones that have at- tions are far less dramatic, "It's the equivalent of going to a tracted so much attention. restaurant and only having three His focus is on prescription although no less difficult. meals to pick from," he says. drugs: how they are devel- Reiser would have employers re- 11oped, why certain ones are pre- move themselves from managing scribed,and how they are promoted employee care by providing em- and priced. ployees vouchers that would be A classic example involves the expendable only on the purchase thrombolytic agents, drugs used of health insurance. That way to dissolve blood clots and clear employees would have to shop arteries in patients who have re- for the plan that best suited them. cently had a heart attack. The two Just making the patient learn main drugs, streptokinase and tis- more about coverage and discuss sue plasminogen activator (TPA), % tre4 situations with physicians would have been approved for use, but be progress,Reiser believes."The TPA has been the more popular bargain in medicine," he states, choice of physicians. "is when doctor and patient,both Early studies appeared to show ‘,... having rights, come to an agree- thatintravenous use ofeither agent ment on a course of action." .1n the acute phase ofa heart attack By increasing the dialogue with .1111proved survival. Trouble is,TPA insurance companies and physi- is much more expensive than strep- cians,the potential patient would tokinase. A course of intravenous be more apt to plan ahead, in- streptokinase runs about $200;the cluding completing a "living will" equivalent dose of TPA is $2,400. that would spell out his or her

June /July '92 25 binding instructions to withhold stand on this issue is Dr. Daniel or withdraw life-sustaining proce- Musher, chief of the infectious dures in the event ofa terminal or disease section at the Houston irreversible condition. Veterans Affairs Medical Center. According to estimates, only 15 "I have the most explicit living percent of consumers have living will you'll ever see," Musher says. wills,and even fewer have assigned Musher spells out in his living durable power ofattorney, autho- will that if he should be bedrid- rizing someone to make decisions den and demented from a stroke, for them if they are unable to do Alzheimer's disease, whatever— so. Unlike the living will, a patient he doesn't want to be given anti- need not be terminally ill for the biotics for any symptoms or signs durable power of attorney to go of an infection. "If I get to that into effect. stage, I want nature to be al- Sometimes, however, when a lowed to take its course," he says. patient is unable to make that call, The will also states that the ex- directions have to be left in ad- ecutors of his estate should bring vance. A study by Brody high- suit against any physician or insti- lights the need for such action. tution that goes against his wish. The reason? Musher has seen he exchange between Brody's the misery that can result when theoretical work at Rice and life is prolonged unnaturally. A the practical aspects of medi- "I repeatedly tell students, further ethical issue is the amount cal ethics at the medical center of money spent doctors, anyone who will lis- to keep a dying, helped produce a study that irreversibly debilitated patient detailed the difficulties and fail- ten, that the best way not to alive for a few more days or weeks. Iures of care for the severely de- He estimates that in Houston mented. Namely,when a patient is get sued is to be a decent alone, each week that scenario is incapable of making a reasoned repeated a hundred or more times. choice, how does the physician human being." —E. Heitman His living will is partly fueled by decide when or whether to with- his desire to see that money spent hold care? on a more worthy cause. "The business about antibiotics and the demented "What if that $100,000 were spent on an inner-city patient is not something you could figure out in school for computers?" he wonders. "Or a science abstraction sitting in a classroom," says Brody. "We room, or to improve teachers' salaries? Think of the found it simply because of consultation about such impact." patients at the VA. Then we decided to do a study." Reiser describes Musher's motivations as "laudable" That study, primarily written by Baylor's Dr. Nelda but cautions that forgoing expensive care for yourself Wray and Brody, was published in the Archives of may not mean the money ends up in a better place. Internal Medicine. The researchers did not recom- "I wouldn't want to get involved in withdrawing or mend withholding care from all severely demented not withdrawing life support based on potential sav- patients, but they did discover that physicians often ings that may or may not go into medical purposes," admitted prescribing more intensive treatment than says Reiser. "You don't know where the money is they felt comfortable with, apparently from a reluc- going to go ifit's not spent on you. Depends what the tance to challenge routine procedures, even though source is. If its source is the federal government, then physicians set those procedures. Also, if families were it may go to roads." consulted,it was more likely that care would be limited. Reiser also worries that by making such a general "In the study, many residents said they wouldn't statement about banning antibiotics, Musher may be treat their own families that way," says Brody. "tying the hands of the physician too tightly. Cost, as always, was a consideration, as the study "It takes two to tango in medicine. The patient has found that a conservative estimate of the annual na- requests and can say 'No,I don't want to be treated.' tional cost of caring for the severely demented would The patient has absolute authority ifcompetent and an be more than $3.2 billion. Any reduction in useless care adult, to say no to any medical intervention..,but the 4 would produce a significant savings, but Brody and physician is operating under a code of ethics requiring Wray contend that the main goal should be to increase him to do no harm." family input into the decision. Discussion and consul- There it is. Two equally compelling arguments,twin tation would probably lead to less extensive care, and horns ofa dilemma that will only grow, become more thereby savings would follow. complex,and involve more and more individuals. It is One Houston physician who has taken a personal an area that warrants our full attention.•

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V Rice honors the achievements of four distinguished alumni

Lf Each year, the Rice Association of Alumni chooses those among its ranks who have advanced the excel- lence of Rice University through distinctive profes- sional or volunteer careers. CI This year, four men have been named Distin- guished Alumni: Texas banker Walter G. Hall,chem- ist Charles M. Blair, chemist Robert B. Morin and former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency Robert L. Clarke. They were honored Friday, May 1, at a reception in Cohen House. is by Maggi Stewart

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—do Wa-lter G. Hall to cope with what I had to cope with," he says. To further his career, Hall took correspondence When Walter Hall was growing up in the farm land courses, read and discussed issues with older bankers. 30 miles south of Houston, he played in a grassy Hall had entered banking in 1931, three years area near the Galveston County Poor Farm. That after his 1928 graduation from Rice—just in time area is now a playground and picnic area with an for the great stock market crash. He was cashier of archway that announces "Walter Hall Park," a tribute the Citizens State Bank, then located in League to the 85-year-old banker who has remained in the City, during the "bank holiday" that temporarily business for more than 60 years of booms and busts. closed all banks in 1933. Hall, however, "left the Hall, long active in Democratic politics, is chair- back door open," as he describes it, and cashed man of the board of three banks in the area of small checks for people needing food and medicine. League City, where he grew up. That concern for people, coupled with the energy The youngest of seven children, Hall worked his and drive to get things done, made him a success. way through college. His summer job at the "Walter Hall is widely known as an old-fashioned Humble Pipeline Co. earned him enough money for banker," says William Martin, Rice sociologist. "He clothes, books and his library deposit at Rice. always put greater importance on service than size." With free passes on the Galveston-Houston Inter- Having seen the bank failures of the '30s, Hall urban line, for which his father worked, Hall com- has been cautious with his customers' money. muted three hours a day to and from League City to "I'm one of the few men left in banking who was the Rice campus. He spent another three hours a in banking when everything went sour," Hall says. day working on his family's dairy farm. "I know things can go down as well as up—I've "I never did feel I was mistreated," Hall recalls. seen wars. I've seen hurricanes, booms and busts." "Except on Sunday afternoons when my friends went Hall has owned five banks and is now chair of the swimming, and I had to go home and milk the cows." board of three, the Citizens State Bank in With a naturally "aggressive" personality, Hall Dickinson, the League City Bank and Trust, and the says that at Rice he learned tolerance, particularly in Bay Area Bank and Trust. He also founded Hall's Radislov Tsanoff's philosophy classes. Insurance Agency in 1931. "That's been very beneficial to me when I've been But Hall is fond of saying he is "a citizen first, a involved in a red-hot political campaign," Hall says. banker second." He has been active in politics since Another important lesson he learned at Rice was President Franklin D. Roosevelt's programs con- how to get information, read it and use it. vinced him that the federal government should help "It didn't take me long to learn when I got into "people who need help the most." banking that I didn't know what I needed to know His paneled office at the League City Bank is lined with photographs of the political friends he's supported through the years—from Lyndon Johnson to Jimmy Carter. Above his desk is a por- trait of Thomas Jefferson. "Hall is what I would call a Jeffersonian Demo- crat," Martin says. "He believes that alumni of uni- versities such as Rice have an obligation to be active in the everyday life of politics." Hall himself was urged to run for office. He was chair of the Galveston County Democratic Party and twice a member of the state Democratic Executive Committee. One reason he and his wife, Helen, established the Tsanoff Chair of Public Affairs at Rice is that "we wanted folks to see that not all public officials are crooked. The trouble is," Hall says with a twinkle in his eye,"most politicians are people." The Halls also endowed the annual Walter and Helen Hall Lectureship to the sociology department at Rice. With a "weakness for music," Hall also gave a rare Steinway autograph piano to the Shepherd School of Music. Hall's wife died in 1981. He still lives in a larger version of the white frame house they bought early in their marriage. Hall has three grown sons, Walter G. Jr., who at- tended Rice, Samuel and Charles. 28 Sallyport After 29 years at Petrolite, Blair felt "a Charles M. Blair little restive," and found an opportunity Charles Blair's inspiration on a key step in the to buy a controlling commercial production of penicillin helped to save interest in a similar countless lives during World War II. An able re- company, Magna searcher, Blair has also been a successful administrator Corp.(now a subsid- as president of two corporations and a university vice iary of Baker-Hughes), Chancellor. in California. Blair, 81, grew up in Vernon, Texas, in the north- Because of restric- western part of the state. The area is flat, plains land, tions on the stock, it Prone to frequent violent thunderstorms. But what took him about three Blair remembers is the clear night skies that always years to buy the com- followed these storms. pany. In the interim, It wasn't an idyllic childhood. Blair was only 12 he served at Washing- When his father died suddenly of acute appendicitis. ton University in St. The Depression made things even harder for his Louis as vice chancellor schoolteacher mother and her three sons. of finance. "Charles acted as a surrogate father," recalls Blair had been inde- Younger brother Paul Blair. pendently approached Blair took charge at school as well. Always me- by three friends urging chanically inclined, he developed an interest in chem- him to apply for the istry during his senior year in high school. One reason job, so he did. "It 'flay be that his chemistry teacher doubled as the ath- turned into a lot of letic coach, not unusual in small-town schools in fun," Blair says. "We those days. While Coach Baggett was busy with the found some ways to basketball, football and track teams, he let Blair and improve the finances at the same time." another boy teach the chemistry class. But Blair is most proud of the 110 U.S. patents he "He had a powerful way of teaching people— has in chemical and pharmaceutical processes. throwing it in our laps," Blair laughs today. Most of his work has involved the application of Blair also remembers his high school English chemistry to the creation and improvement of pro- teacher, Eleanor Taylor, Rice class of 1923. "She was cesses for producing and refining crude oil. One of demanding and businesslike, but she must have taken Blair's early patents originated the process of desalt- an interest in me," he recalls. "She told me all about ing crude oil, making the refined product less costly. Rice Institute and encouraged me to apply. He is particularly proud of his work in the produc- "If I had any luck, I owe it mainly to Rice, because tion of penicillin. Petrolite was one of several labs I had so much help there from various people," Blair contacted by the War Production Board for help in says. Luck wasn't the only factor, of course. He also processing penicillin, which had been discovered has an inborn scientific curiosity and an "urgency to in 1928. get things done." Blair's work on a key step in the extraction process ," And everything he's done, he's done well, his made it possible to produce thousands of pounds of urother Paul says. penicillin a day as opposed to a few grams. While still a student, Blair worked in the Houston In 1988, Blair "retired" by starting Blair Petro- lab of Petrolite Corp., a company involved in the leum Co. with a few partners. He works out of an breakdown of petroleum emulsions. He graduated office in his Fullerton, Calif., retirement home, With honors in chemistry in 1931. which looks out on two valleys. With wildflowers He met his wife, Catherine, while working on his blooming on one side and oil wells pumping on the 'luster's degree at Rice. She was a biology major, but other, one might think of Texas. the chemistry happened between them—you guessed The Blairs, married for 56 years, enjoy traveling ,1t--In the chemistry lab. He was doing research in a and have taken a tour to Russia and a cruise down 'al) across the hall from her chemistry 100 class. the Danube through the Rice Association of Alumni. c_ After earning his doctorate in physical chemistry They have a son, Charles Jr., who went to Rice, ni the California Institute of Technology in 1935, and a daughter, Sally. Blair's two younger brothers, t lair got a job in Petrolite's newly-expanded St. Robert, a 1933 graduate, and Paul, a 1936 graduate, '-°11is laboratory. also went to Rice. He worked as a chemist there, becoming research director, then president of the company.

June / July '92 29 Robert B. Morin

Robert Morin's lacked the technical resources to fully develop it work on the chem- commercially." istry of penicillins In 1960, Eli Lilly was one of 10 organizations and the related worldwide licensed by the National Research and cephalosporins Development Council of Great Britain to commer- played a significant cially develop this antibiotic. role in the develop- "I provided chemical technology that solved some ment of a variety of the significant problems in commercializing the of new antibiotic product," he says. Morin's discovery allowed drugs. Cepha- Eli Lilly to make a number of new cephalosporin losporins now have antibiotics. an annual world The therapeutic potential was great, particularly at market of more a time when new antibiotics were needed to than $7 billion. combat bacteria unaffected by penicillin. Born in Canton, Thirty different drugs based on Morn's first tech- Ohio, a steel manu- nology are now available around the world. facturing town A second major achievement involved Morin's south of Cleveland, discovery that cephalosporin could be made chemi- Morin,60, got in- cally from penicillin. Although scientists at the time terested in science believed that penicillin was not sufficiently stable to through his older be extensively manipulated chemically, Morin dis- sister, who was covered a chemical process that transformed penicil- studying to be a lin, which is readily available and inexpensive, into a chemist. cephalosporin in one or two steps. Morin majored Included in that work was a method of producing in chemistry at an oral cephalosporin used by millions. Swarthmore Col- "Part of what led me to success in this field was to lege, then studied follow my own ideas, which were outside of the ac- biochemistry at the cepted knowledge in the field," Morin says. University of Chicago. He briefly considered a career in Morin was among the first five scientists to receive medicine but decided to focus on more basic science. the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association Dis- Spending a year in Waco, Texas, at Phillips Petro- coverers Award in 1987. He also won the American leum Co., he heard about Rice and the strength of its Chemical Society Award for Creative Invention that graduate program. He was especially interested in the same year. research being done by faculty member Dick Turner. He has been a teacher as well as a researcher. He He enrolled in 1955. taught pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of "The small graduate student enrollment at Rice fos- Wisconsin pharmacy school from 1970 to 1973 and tered close relationships between students and faculty," served as a visiting professor at the University of Morin recalls. Alberta from 1973 to 1975. Morin earned his Ph.D. in organic chemistry in Morin is also interested in promoting interactions 1959, winning the Sigma Xi award for the best scien- between industrial and academic laboratories. tific doctoral dissertation at Rice that year. At Lilly, he played a key role in setting up grant Morin also met his wife, Joanne, while at Rice. She programs for young faculty. With others, he was re- was secretary to John Parish, assistant to the president sponsible for bringing in university faculty as con- and then assistant registrar. They met on a blind date at sultants and lecturers. an engagement party for a co-worker and married later He is now at Bristol-Myers-Squibb Pharmaceuti- that year. cal Research Institute as senior scientific adviser to Through the influence of Turner, then a consultant pharmaceutical development. at Eli Lilly and Co., Morin joined Lilly after graduation Morin and his family have moved around a lot. In and did most of his ground-breaking work with cepha- addition to a sabbatical year in Basel, Switzerland, losporins during his 11 years there. the Morins have lived in Houston; Indianapolis, Cephalosporins are members of the beta-lactam class Ind.; Madison, Wis.; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; of antibiotics, the most well-known examples of which Syracuse, N.Y.; Wallingford, Conn.; and are now in are penicillins. Lawrenceville, a suburb of Princeton, N.J. Buying, "The first cephalosporin was discovered in the mid- selling and fixing up houses have become necessary 1950s by a British scientist who realized the overall hobbies. potential of the antibiotic," Morin says. "But he The Morins plan to move one more time. When he retires, they'll live in Phoenix, Ariz., close to their four children, who have all settled in the Southwest. 30 Sallyport always a challenging job, but was particularly so during the time I was there." When Clarke arrived, the agricultural banks in the obert L. Clarke Midwest were beginning to fail. Soon thereafter, the R savings and loan crisis occurred in Texas. "Banking is a lot more complicated than it used to be," he says. Former Comptroller of the Currency Robert L. "But it's still a good job opportunity for those who Le Clarke is a lawyer who is now using his experience are really interested." to help financial institutions cope with the rules He considers bank supervision a fascinating busi- and regulations brought on by the banking crisis of ness: "To work for the Office of the Comptroller of the '80s. the Currency or the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Clarke, 49, started his banking career early. He Corporation) or the Federal Reserve System presents a was only 11 when he worked part-time in a special very interesting professional challenge. You're literally program at the Lea County State Bank in Hobbs, right out on the N.M., five miles from the Texas border. cutting edge of "It's one of the most important things that hap- developments that pened to me," he says. "The responsibility of having take place in the a job like that, running a teller's window at that age, future." is a somewhat unusual experience." Clarke is now Early on, Clarke also took his father's advice to picking up where "Be the best there is, whatever you decide to do." he left off in con- Clarke was an Eagle Scout and first in his high tinuing to build a 1 school class. banking law prac- a He found out about Rice by accident. Clarke and tice that provides his father were sitting in front of the television, advice on legal watching the Rice Owls play football. Clarke had matters for indi- never heard of Rice, but his interest was piqued viduals, but also to When his father told him about the university's aca- helps financial in- demic reputation. stitutions figure "I may be an example of why the football pro- out how to cope ve gram is good advertising for Rice," he jokes. with the rules and At that time no one from Hobbs had gone to regulations im- Rice, but then a family with a daughter who was a posed by Con- at Junior at Rice moved into town. "She gave me all gress. He will be kinds of first-hand information about the school and based in both the a copy of the Campanile." firm's Washing- of Clarke was impressed. He accepted Rice, turning ton, D.C., and Clown all the other colleges he'd been admitted to Houston offices. (including Harvard and Stanford) without ever hav- Since 1968, ing seen the campus. When he finally arrived in July Bracewell & for [IS the start of four years of study, Clarke says he Patterson has Wasn't disappointed. grown from 16 to "Rice provides a true education, which is a good about 210 lawyers. e- background for whatever you later decide to do," The firm offers a he says. variety of special With a major in economics but no clear-cut services, including ti- career plans, Clarke decided to pursue graduate financial, litiga- Courses. He earned an LL.B. from Harvard Law tion, corporate School in 1966. securities, school In A distinguished military graduate of the law, labor, envi- ROTC program at Rice, Clarke served as a captain ronmental and en- in the U.S. Army intelligence branch at NASA for ergy regulation. two years. Clarke and his in He joined the Houston law firm of Bracewell & wife, Pucklin, a University of Texas alumna, like to Patterson in 1968, and was a partner and head of spend time in their vacation home nestled at the base ry the firm's banking section from 1973 until 1985, of the mountains of Santa Fe, N.M. Clarke particularly When he became Comptroller of the Currency. He enjoys hiking and fly fishing. served until February 29 of this year. They have one son, Logan, a junior at Vanderbilt.• heir "I look back on the six years I served as Comp- est. troller as a very worthwhile time," Clarke says. "It's June / July '92 31 STUDENTS COFfeE HOUSE Sammy's Coffeeteria

Sammy's, across the hall from the seniors Marti Brewer and Charlotte January 20, 1991, marked the re- campus store, is suffering an iden- Robinson desired an alternative to opening—complete with 15 Rice tity crisis. Cafeteria by day and ath- Willie's Pub. They envisioned a professors who waited on Coffee- letic training table by evening, formal atmosphere—tables covered house patrons amidst the music of Sammy's now serves as the noctur- with tasteful cloths and candles— an Austin blues band. The soiree nal home of the new Rice Coffee- and no alcohol. A committee of 12 celebrated the arrival of a new house, the latest student hangout. students formed and proposed to espresso and cappuccino machine, Take a late evening stroll put the idea into reality by tempo- imported from Italy and costing through the Rice Memorial Center, rarily using the RMC facilities. several thousand dollars. The Cof- and the rich perfume of exotic cof- Nearly a year later, the adminis- feehouse meant business. fee and the murmurs of classical tration agreed to a trial run. For piano, shuffling papers and intense two weeks in December 1990, the Savoring the Flavor conversations escape into the hall. Coffeehouse swung open its doors. Today, the Coffeehouse is orga- As you are drawn inwards, ignore Shaila Dewan (a Baker College nized and run by five managers, an the high ceilings, dimmed fluores- resident, Class of 1993, favorite accountant and two entertain- cent lights and plastic chairs. For blend: cappuccino) was on the ment/publicity directors. About 20 now, you are in a Viennese original committee. The current unpaid waiters work regularly. kaffeehaus or a Parisian cafe. For- entertainment/publicity co-direc- The Coffeehouse averages 80 get about your studies, relax, listen, tor, she vividly remembers those visitors and $60 per night, says talk and drink coffee. two weeks, when students lined up bookkeeper Robert Schmunk outside the door to wait for seats. (space physics graduate student, The Idea Percolates That success paved the way for '92, regular). Schmunk, who was During the fall of 1989, the idea the Coffeehouse's resurrection the on the original committee, is im- for a coffeehouse perked up. Then- next semester. The Java Soiree of pressed that the Coffeehouse earns so much money during its limited hours(10 p.m. to 12:30 p.m., Sun- day through Thursday). The menu pleases coffee and non-coffee drinkers alike, all for the College Notes low price of 50 cents to $1.50. Coffee lovers enjoy regular coffee, Architecture professor Peter professor Rebecca Mersereau and flavored varieties (Viennese cinna- Waldman and his wife, Nancy, will anthropology professor Kathryn mon,coco-mocha nut, Seville or- hand over the Hanszen mastership Milun. ange, Irish cream, chocolate rasp- to English professor Dennis Huston Wiess closed the year on the berry, chocolate mint and southern and his wife Lisa Bryan this summer. salutary note of Hello Hamlet. pecan), cafe au lait, espresso, Thanks to generous alumni, an Written by 1971 Wiess alumnus cappuccino and cafe mocha. $8000 UNIX-computer system George Greanias, the farce is based Those who prefer to skip coffee will occupy the Weenie Loft at upon several Shakespearean plays may drink hot apple cider, hot tea Hanszen. The system will provide and contemporary musicals. Wiess (herbal, with or without caffeine), local computer power to the college has produced the musical nearly hot chocolate and the Coffeehouse 3 and allow students to learn about every four years since 1967. This original, Gottchocolate, a hot system administration. year's production boasted a $2,000 chocolate and steamed milk con- Jones will get a new look this set and featured John Bennet, coction named for the original summer, when the college's 20-year- 1972 Wiess alumnus and Rice elec- manager, Matt Gottheiner old furniture is replaced by new trical engineering professor, as (Hanszen,'92, Gottchocolate). modular furniture. Claudius. The Coffeehouse charges 10 fi New faces will also move into the Will Rice will say goodbye to its cents extra for mugless drinkers. masters' residence. English professor co-masters this month. English Coffeehouse waiter Richard David Minter and his wife, Caroline, professor Ed Doughtie and his Hardie (Shepherd School graduate will assume the mastership from wife, Andrea, will turn the keys student,'93, regular), a New English professor Walter Isle and over to Dennis Shirley, associate Zealander, enjoys the variety of Pam Walker. professor of education, and his mugs. He remembers one in par- History professor Harold Hyman wife, Shelley Cochran. ticular—a heat-sensitive "blue" Dr. will retire as long-time faculty advisor Will Rice, co-ed since 1978, this Who mug that turned green after at Lovett College. He has been asso- year elected its first female presi- the unsuspecting Hardie poured in ciated with Lovett for 20 years. dent, senior Stela Balderaz. hot coffee. Hardie panicked—a stu- Meanwhile, Lovett is acquiring two —Tom Sims dent had given him a blue mug he new associates: art and art history thought lost, and he couldn't find

32 Sallyport anyone to accept a green coffee- intellectual mixture we wouldn't The loyal pubster still downs a filled mug. Once the coffee cooled, otherwise have." couple of beers after the Coffee- he had a good laugh. house closes. And he admits to see- Several clubs now conduct meet- The Great Divide ing many of his Pub friends at the ings over their mugs. Amnesty In- Lara Bruclunann (Wiess,'95, self- Coffeehouse. "It's almost like a big ternational, Rice Recycling, the blend), Coffeehouse publicity/en- coming out," he says. Philosophy Club, the Math Club tertainment co-director, describes Jessie Richardson (Richardson, and the Rice Forum all meet at the the Coffeehouse as "up liquids, '92, hot chocolate), an S.E. who Coffeehouse. down atmosphere" and the Pub as punches numbers on his calculator "Clubs ask ifthey can do their stuff "down liquids, up atmosphere." at the Coffeehouse, believes coffee- here. That means that people think Some coffeehousers snub the housers are "mellower" than of the Coffeehouse as an insti- pubsters. Unlike beer, tution," Dewan says. Coffeehouse drinks don't Professor Ron Moss con- keep patrons from study- ducts Math 211 tutorials at the ing for the rest of the ZO Coffeehouse Sunday nights. evening. For Robinson, Before, he held the study ses- the Coffeehouse is a tem- sions at a Two Pesos restau- porary "cease-fire" of rant. studying, while the pub is The Coffeehouse also hosts a complete "surrender." Special events. The Black Stu- dent Union celebrated Black Brewing Over the Future History Month with an evening Regulars admit the Coffee- of singing, readings and dis- house has one drawback: cussion. Also, the Gays and its location. The cafeteria Lesbians ofRice and the Office furnishings detract from ofHealth Education sponsored the otherwise pleasant aura a program during AIDS Aware- of music and origami he ness Week that featured read- flower-filled vases. ings, songs, a play and the dis- In late March, the Cof- tribution offree condoms.The feehouse managers met Coffeehouse also hosted New with President George Orleans Night, complete with Rupp. They presented the big band jazz and a University successes of the institut- rfl Blue student reading. ion's short history and The Coffeehouse Speaker Se- stressed the need for a per- ries presents monthly guest lec- manent location, which turers. History professor John would allow the Coffee- a Boles recently presented "The house to keep extended ), Early History of Rice." About hours, attract graduate Ise 30 students attended. students, faculty and staff, Campus musicians are eager to Pub, while some pubsters wouldn't and serve as a home gallery for ,P,erform at the Coffeehouse. be caught in the Coffeehouse. student artwork. People really like to come see Many students, however, feel com- During the meeting, Rupp recog- their friends perform. We don't fortable in both institutions. nized the need for such "intellec- need to bring in outside bands Until recently, Josh Chaffin tual space," manager Brooke Mann from around Houston," Dewan (VViess,'94, hazelnut cream) never (Richardson,'93, Viennese cinna- says. Informal groups often play came to the Coffeehouse. He was a mon) reports. "The president was after the scheduled entertainment. Pub purist who thought the typical very receptive and positive. He ate One night at the end of the se- coffeehouser was a "pseudo-intel- promised to be as supportive as nester, Coffeehouse manager lectual who would spontaneously possible in the search for a perma- Caren Chaika (Richardson,'93, jump up and recite poetry." Now, nent location." hazelnut cream) watched a fresh- he is as pseudo-intellectual as he In the meantime, Coffeehouse Dr. Tan and a doctoral graduate stu- likes. "A month ago I was really supporters hope the idea percolates :r :7ent playing the guitar together. rankin' on this place," he says. "But into reality. in If there were no Coffeehouse, the now I even know what my favorite —Tom Sims stir' Padua student would not have flavor is." he °een able to play with the under- Chaffin has not sacrificed the rid graduate," Chaika says. "It's an Pub for the Coffeehouse, however.

June / July '92 33 B 00 K S•E T C.

Epic Inspirations

Rice composer Samuel Jones is at- from sunrise to night stars, or text excerpts from Walt Whitman's tracted to music that conveys a metaphorically from the beginning last major poem,"Passage to In- deep feeling whether on a grand of time to "wherever we're going." dia." The work captures the exhila- scale or on a more intimate level. One hundred miles long and ration ofcharting the unknown, Two recent commissioned works 1,000 feet deep, Palo Duro is with Whitman's words focusing at show his epic style. known as the "Grand Canyon the end of the poem on the still- Jones' symphony inspired by the of Texas." present need for us to "farther, far- Palo Duro canyon made its debut "Palo Duro, the most striking of ther sail." in May at the bottom of the can- the canyons in the area, exerts a Whitman had an incredible pro- yon. He is now putting the finish- profound influence on the life of phetic poeticinsight, Jones says. the plains area," Jones "Even 100 years ago, he was ahead says. "To the Comanches, of us as we look at the 500th anni- the canyon was the sacred versary," he says. mother of the buffalo. "What we should focus on is not When whites killed the whether Columbus should be vili- buffalo, the Indians were fied or edified," Jones continues, confident that the canyon "but that the globe is literally be- would produce more." coming one." With its red rock The first part of the work con- cliffs colored by the sun, veys the sense of exploration. Jones the canyon gives an sets up a tonal center corresponding "unbelievable feeling," to the axis of the Earth's rotation, Jones says. going quickly by major seconds "It's very dramatic," he through the whole scale, giving a says. "The surrounding musical analogy of revolving around plains are one-dimen- the universe and coming back to the sional, flat. Then, all of a same spot. sudden, the bottom drops The middle part portrays the out and a gully opens up tragic figure of Columbus, who into a magnificent died somewhat in disgrace. Jones canyon." uses a contemplative tone and The symphony opens rhythm for this section. Unable to with a sense of being in describe how the music conveys that flat, treeless land. Columbus' tragedy, Jones says that Jones built the music by listening "you'll just feel Colum- around one note in the bus' death." Samuel Jones prepares to play in his Alice Pratt Brown Hall office. middle of the orchestra, The piece ends on a high note then suddenly the sound with the heraldic quality of brass. swoops to the depths— "It is not just about the 500th anni- ing touches on a work for chorus the double bass sounds—of the versary of Colmbus' voyage," Jones and orchestra to commemorate the orchestra. says, "but the task that lies ahead 500th anniversary of the voyage of "It calls to mind a primitive, for humanity." Columbus. extremely antecedent time," "The Seas of God" will also be Jones was commissioned by the Jones says. performed by the Houston Oratorio Amarillo Symphony Orchestra two The heart of his composition, Society November 21 in Alice Pratt years ago to create the Palo Duro Jones says, could best be described Brown Hall and the Saginaw Sym- Canyon Symphony. by a quote from author and 1960 phony and Choral Society in their The orchestra performed the Rice master's degree graduate 1993-94 season. piece, conducted by James Setapen, Larry McMurtry: "What is undeni- Jones first arrived at Rice after at the Palo Duro Canyon Pioneer able is the power that these can- achieving recognition in conduct- Amphitheatre, located in the can- yons have to arouse in us a sense ing. He founded the Shepherd yon itself, in Palo Duro State Park of the long, long movements of School of Music in 1973 and served near Amarillo. time—a sense, if you will, of as its dean for six years. He is now Catalogued as Jones' third sym- the eternal." professor of composition and direc- phony, the piece, Jones says, can be The Columbus-inspired sym- tor of graduate studies in addition appreciated either as pure music for phony was commissioned as a fan- to his career as a composer. its symphonic logic or for its extra- fare-overture by the Greensboro, —Maggi Stewart musical program that conveys the N.C., Choral Society and will pre- progress of time—in a single day miere in late October. "The Seas of God" takes as its

34 Sallyport Double-Stiteh The The State of Welfare in France French :tti da •• During the 1960s and 1970s, France quietly evolved Welfare ft 4r- into one of the world's more generous welfare states. In a commitment to "solidarity," the French created State social policies to expand education, rescue the elderly SURVIVING SOCIAL AND CHANGE from poverty, draw nearly the entire population under- IDEOLOGICAL 110111.6. neath an umbrella of health and old-age insurance, and IMITED BY JOHN AMBLER aid the handicapped and single mothers. Stitching Lives Together The French Welfare State: Surviving Social and Ideological Change(New York: New York University Press), edited by Rice political science professor In an earlier America, slave women John Ambler, describes this development and examines some of the ensu- stitched pieces of discarded cloth ing problems. into quilts. The cloth pieces, them- Ambler's introductory chapter, tracing the development of the welfare selves embedded with histories and state, sets a historical climate for the following chapters. The individual es- memories, together created an even says discuss the successes and failures of the welfare state in the areas of un- richer tapestry of meaning. employment, pensions, health, and housing and family issues. In Double Stitch: Black Women The essays point out that French partisan ideology has had a limited im- Write About Mothers &Daughters pact on social policies. Unlike countries where social policies are initiated (Boston: Beacon Press) co-edited by leftist administrations, in France social benefits have been expanded by by Rice associate professor of En- both conservative and center-left governments. glish Lucie Fultz, the quilt is the Another theme permeating the book is the complexity of the French so- ng central trope. This literary collage cial security system. The authors of the essays attribute the system to the Pieces together the poetry, fiction, mutual society tradition upon which it was built, but they view the conse- Personal narrative and essays of47 quences of French social security differently. Some suggest that it results in black women. While they differ in flexibility in policy-making; others insist that the system inhibits changes nd class, sexual preference and age, the required to deal with social needs. the voices in Double Stitch share a com- —Tom Sims mon race and gender. Double Stitch focuses on the pre- A Pocketful of Rice viously unexplored territory of black mother-daughter relation- A pocket-sized history of Rice University written by ships, which receive less attention history professor John Boles rolled off the press in 3 in literature and the social sciences time for this year's commencement. than mother-son relationships. In A University So Conceived, A BriefHistory ofRice at the forward, author Maya Angelou (Houston: Rice University) features a color photo- m- iS grateful for this verbal frame: graph of the Lovett Hall sallyport with azalea blooms "Sisters, Daughters, Mothers, in the foreground. The 100-page paperback covers the thank you for the quilt. I'm so glad history of Rice from its founding to last year's com- all our faces and graces and warts mencement address by U.S. Secretary of State James and neuroses are preserved in its A. Baker III. This first complete history of Rice contains a brief biography rich design..." of all five Rice presidents, maps tracing the growth of the campus and 45 The six editors of Double Stitch black-and-white photographs. have arranged the contributions of The book's title, A University So Conceived, pays tribute to Rice's found- literary greats such as Alice Walker, 3rio ing president, Edgar 0. Lovett. !tine Jordan and Sonia Sanchez "I knew that Lovett was important to Rice," Boles says, "but not until I att into six chapters. read his speech at the opening did I realize how important he was. Lovett "Threading the Neeclle: Begin- thought out the whole university and we're still fulfilling the vision he laid Lr nings" opens the book with the down in 1912." Poem "Newborn": "Quick,/your In that speech, Lovett detailed Rice's honor code, the college system, sniall mouth stretches/wide the emphasis on graduate research combined with undergraduate teaching, around my tender breast. I tense,/ small size of the student body. a and the burn like flash-fires./Slowly, I Boles combed through the Woodson Archives at Fondren Library and ved Melt into the rhythm pull,/giving." read everything he could find about Rice. The work was sometimes frus- The sixth chapter,"Loosening trating, he says, because Rice lacks a department of institutional research. ec- the Threads: Separations," con- Boles referred to his own experience in writing passages on student life. Incles the book with a poem titled A 1965 graduate, he recalls a common remark of the time, that getting a ,On that Dark and Moon-less Rice education was like drinking from a fire hydrant. oaf( 'Night": "My mother opened the Boles says that Rice is a much better place than 30 years ago and con- door for me/that cold and snow-lit cludes his booklet with optimism:"No American university approaches the night/and set me free." beginning of the twenty-first century with a brighter future than Rice." —Tom Sims —Michael Berryhill

June / July '92 35 SPOR TS

Rice Olympians

Most Rice students will spend their summer working, going to summer school or watching July's Olympic Games on television. For a few members of Rice's track team, however, the Olympics will be a personal experience. According to their coaches, seven Rice student-athletes have excellent chances of representing five different nations at this summer's games in Barcelona. Al- though their Olympic attendance still hinges upon their trial perfor- mances in their respective home countries this June, these Olympic athletes have already come a long way. For the following track stars, From left: Byran Bronson, Michele Lynch and Gabe Luke the trek to Barcelona is now little more than a hop, skip and a jump.

Michele Lynch Bryan Bronson Eighteen months ago, two tu- Named Track and Field's High School Athlete of the Year, sophomore Bryan mors—the sizes of a baseball and a Bronson came from a Japser, Texas, high school that had no track and only golf ball—were lodged in senior three hurdles. This summer Bronson hopes to represent the United States in Michele Lynch's abdomen. Barcelona in the 200-meter dash or the 400-meter hurdles. Today, she plans to represent Although he won't know if he's made the Olympic team until after the Canada in the 4x400-meter relay in June 19-28 trials in New Orleans, Bronson's chances seem strong—Track Barcelona. and Field predicts he will capture the silver medal in the 200-meter dash. During her sophomore year, Even with this vote of confidence, he plans to take his lucky blue-and-white- Lynch's undetected tumors forced striped boxer shorts. her previously stellar performance Bronson hates to lose, which he defines as not placing first. "That's why I to slip. Once considered one of practice so hard," he says. "If I lose, it makes me work harder. I learn from Canada's top two junior sprinters, my mistakes." Lynch was thought to suffer from For the 19-year old, this year's Olympics is only a test. His big chance will mere "burn-out." come later. "I really look forward to bringing home the gold in '96," he says. Since having surgery to remove the benign tumors from her fallopian tubes, the 22-year old has sought redemption. She wanted to Gabe Luke prove that her illness caused her For the last two years, senior Gabe Luke of Sugarland, Texas, has been poor performance. ranked among the top 10 sprinters of the 400-meter dash in the United Lynch's recovery—in health and States and the top 20 in the world. In the New Orleans trials, Luke must on the track—prompted a second run 45.4 seconds, which he has already done, to qualify for the Olympic look from peers. When visiting team. Because the United States takes the top six performers from the June Canada last Christmas, Lynch trials to Barcelona, Luke says with a grin,"I should go." informed her nation's top coaches, Luke's commitment to running is like a marriage—he runs for better or "I'm back and I'm serious." for worse, in sickness and in health. At last year's University World Cham- And if she does not make this pionships in England, Luke placed first in a relay, although he had strep year's team? "I'm not that old yet. throat and had not eaten for three days. I'll try again in four years," she Rice recruited Luke to play football. But after his freshman year, Luke says. "To just get mentioned as an dropped football and concentrated on track. "I just love to run. I like the Olympic favorite is a big accom- feeling of being on top. It's like a high for me. Even if I don't win, I don't plishment for me because I was sick let it get me down. I just use it as a motivator," he says. last year. I wasn't even sure I "If I don't go the Olympics I will be disappointed, because I know that would live." physically I am capable. But I won't worry about it. I'll just keep training and work hard for the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany."

36 Sallyport Jose Hernandez Education motivated junior Jose Hernandez to strive for excellence in athletics. During his junior year in high school, Hernandez moved away from his family in Caro- lina, Puerto Rico, to attend school in Kingwood, Texas. Without the improved academics, the stronger competi- tion and the increased exposure to college coaches of- States, Hernandez doesn't believe he Yvette Haynes Jose Hernamlea fered in the United would have received a scholarship to attend college. stole Yvette Haynes Hernandez, 20, began running track at age 12, after realizing he Senior Yvette Haynes of Kingstown, more bases in baseball and caught more passes in football than his team- competi- St. Vincent, made a late start in her mates. He prefers track to team sports because of the heightened track career. She didn't begin run- tion: "It's you against yourself, and the clock says everything." representing ning until her first year in high Hernandez predicts that he has a 75-percent chance of the school. Haynes made up time, how- Puerto Rico in the 4x400-meter relay or the 400-meter hurdles. On Hernandez says, ever, and has pulled ahead of the possibility of his not making the Olympic team this year, pack of St. Vincent, the Caribbean "No sweat. I'll be at my prime age in 1996." island she hopes to represent in Barcelona. Now, most of St. Vincent's 115,000 inhabitants know Kareem Streete-Thompson Haynes by sight. Her frequent ap- The quick-paced Kareem Streete-Thompson grew up pearances in newspapers and on in the slow-paced Cayman Islands. "You can forget Tan radio have made her a star. about your watch in Cayman," the sophomore says. Until the end of last year, she But on the track, time consumes all of Streete- in never considered the Olympics. But Thompson's concentration. after finishing two years at San Streete-Thompson, 19, hopes to add Barcelona to Jacinto Junior College, the 21-year his list of competition sites, which already includes old Haynes has recently been ex- such exotic places as Bulgaria, New Zealand and posed to important national meets. South America. If he manages a 26-foot long jump e- "After starting at Rice last fall, I be- or a 10.4-second 100-meter dash in the June trials, gan to think more seriously of per- Streete-Thompson will represent the Cayman Islands forming at the top level," she says. this summer. The 400-meter hurdle event is With good reason, Streete-Thompson is confident Haynes' best shot to attend the of his chances. His long jump has increased half a ill games. However, she's not con- foot a year since he started. Last year he jumped 27 Kareem Streete-Thompson ays. cerned with earning a medal. "Out feet 6 inches. of the Olympics, I want to get the In his hometown of Georgetown, Streete-Thompson is a household experience of competing with top name. Cayman Islands' national airline even approached him for sponsor- level athletes," she says. ship. But Streete-Thompson tries to disregard the fame and focus on his sport. "I really don't care about the hype and everything," he says. "I just want to go in there and win."

Valerie Tulloch Sophomore Valerie Tulloch of Toronto, Canada, learned about Rice while she was throwing her javelin in the 1991 Commonwealth Games in New Zealand. Miles from both Rice and Canada, Tulloch met 1990 Rice alumna and Canadian athlete Rosey Edeh, whom Tulloch credits as the greatest influence on her athletic career and her conception of an "ideal person." During the Canadian Olympic trials in Montreal this June, Tulloch will learn if she will go to Barcelona. To qualify, she must throw her weighty jav- elin 56 meters twice before the trials. She must also place first at the trials. So far, she has thrown 48 meters. "If I don't make the team it wouldn't kill me," Tulloch says, "because I can make the next team, or even the next. Javelin throwers can get real old." Still, Tulloch hopes to spend her upcoming 20th birthday in Barcelona. —Tom Sims

June / July '92 37 AL UMNI•G A ZET TE

No "Miner" Role

When George Miner becomes president of the Association of Rice Alumni (ARA)in July, he will put his plans to broaden the scope of the alumni as- sociation into motion. "Our main thrust is to try to develop more area clubs around the country," he says. "We want more involvement from Rice alumni around the nation." Miner has always been involved at Rice. From the moment he walked through the Sallyport in 1950 with a bachelor's in mechanical engineering, he has given his time and money to the university. He contributes to the Owl Club and is a member of the "R" Association, open to Rice athletes. Miner lettered in football at Rice. Miner has been a member of the Rice Fund Council, a university fundraising group, and has been active in the ARA since joining the athletic committee more than 30 years ago. Easy-going and unworried about his new responsibilities, Miner sums up his presidential duties by saying he will "be in charge of the people heading committees." The ARA board is composed of 16 to 18 alumni. Miner recognizes that the position involves an extraordinary amount of time. He has been the ARA president-elect since May 1991, working with 1991-92 ARA President Robert Flatt. "As president-elect I'm spending a lot of time—the president position will entail even more," he says. George Miner in front of Alice Pratt Brown Ball, which Time is a precious commodity for Miner. The 65-year-old has six chil- was built by Miner-Dederick construction company. dren ages 26 to 40 and eight grandchildren. In addition, he owns Miner-Dederick construction company, a general contractor. —Kristen Pauley

Joint Ventures

The anxiety of not knowing what increasing as former interns gradu- program will expand to include to do after graduation: It's a feel- ate and develop internships at their the winter holiday, and alumni out- ing all too familiar to many Rice respective companies. side of Houston will be invited to students, and one not too far from Each student interns for 100 participate. the memory of many alumni. Ca- hours per semester, working on The Alumni Contact Service, reer Services and the Alumni Office projects that are meaningful for the begun in 1986, involves 3,000 have joined forces with the Joint student and beneficial to the spon- alumni in different occupations Venture Internship program, the sor. On campus, the students en- throughout the United States and Extern Program and the Alumni roll in "Introduction to Business," several foreign countries. Fresh- Contact Service to address this fear. a three-credit seminar in basic busi- men and sophomores contact The programs provide alumni an ness concepts and current issues. alumni to ask questions about a opportunity to become an invalu- The Extern Program helps liberal particular field. Juniors and able career resource for current arts majors become aware of their seniors are encouraged to ask students. career options. It was created in about the job market, the outlook The Joint Venture Internship 1987-88 by Carolyn Mata, associ- for a particular field and tips for a program, founded in 1982 by the ate director of alumni, as a way for job search. School of Humanities, helps liberal students to "try-on" a career by The key to success with any of arts majors explore career options. shadowing an alum in the work these programs is alumni involve- Each year, more than 65 liberal arts place. Since its creation, more than ment. Interested alumni should majors are placed with Houston 140 students have gotten a first- contact Cheryl Matherly, assistant businesses. There are now 93 ap- hand look at occupations ranging director for counseling, or proved internship sites, roughly from law to advertising to sales. Deborah Fields, assistant director one-third of which are sponsored Houston alumni sponsor externs for recruiting, at the Career Ser- by Rice alumni. That number is during spring break. Next year, the vices Center at 713/527-4055.

38 Sallyport Giving Merit

Four members of the Rice commu- nity were honored for their sus- iii'' -‘, tained voluntary contributions of ;,•-•i• ; ,".--0-,: energy, time and creativity to the • ,"•-, \ ..... university May 1. Mary Lou Margrave Paul Pfeiffer William Merriman Mary Lou Margrave, 1938 graduate Paul Pfeiffer, 1967 gradu- in electrical engineering in 1938, nated to the university in numer- ate William Merriman and 1940 he received a bachelor's of divinity ous capacities. I know of no time graduate Robert McKee received in 1943 from the Perkins School of that Rice solicited his time that he

1, Meritorious Service Awards at a Theology at Southern Methodist ever said no." commencement reception. University. He returned to Rice as Merriman was president of the Awardees are chosen by the an instructor in 1947, received a ARA from 1987-88 and served on Honors Committee of the Associa- master's in electrical engineering in the long-range planning committee. tion of Rice Alumni(ARA). 1948, and became an assistant pro- Merriman is the current presi- Here are this year's awardees: fessor in 1952, the same year he dent of the Rice School of Archi- earned a doctorate in mathematics. tecture Alumni Association. He is Mary Lou Margrave is an entrepre- "This is my 51st year on cam- on the advisory council of the Rice neur. The wife of chemistry profes- pus. I have a real good feeling School of Architecture and will sor John Margrave, Mary Lou about this place. There have been head that council next year. helped establish an interest-free lots of changes—mostly for the Merriman is married to 1969 loan fund for graduate students in better. I'd like to think that I've graduate Susan Underwood the 1970s. Heading a group called been part of that," he says. Merriman. "Graduate Wives," she held bake Pfeiffer helped form the math- sales to bankroll the short-term, ematical sciences department in Robert McKee is extremely pioud emergency loans. 1968 and was chair of both that of Rice University. The 1940 Frank R. Brotzen, professor department and electrical engineer- graduate believes he has a responsi- tey emeritus of materials science, ing. He has been an associate and bility to give back a little of what nominated Margrave. "Mary Lou interim master at both VViess and the school has given him. has worked indefatigably for a great Brown Colleges, and from 1965- McKee,74, is a member of the many causes within the university," 69, he served as Dean of Students. Founder's Club; the Shepherd So- he wrote. "Her efforts on behalf of Pfeiffer, 74, and his wife, Ruth ciety, a fund-raising group; the the Friends of Fondren Library and Harkey Pfeiffer, have four children. Owl Club, an athletic support the Society of Rice Women have Michael M. Carroll, dean of en- group; and support groups for been truly outstanding." gineering, nominated Pfeiffer be- baseball and basketball. Margrave was vice president for cause of his devoted service to McKee was on the Class of 1940 t- the Friends of Fondren Library Rice, his scholarship and "because Scholarship Committee, which or- from 1987-89 and received the he has been in the fullest sense a ganized that year's 50th reunion. 1989 Friends of Fondren award. teacher and a friend to his students He is a former alumni representa- She served as president of the for more than 40 years." tive on a university standing com- Rice University Faculty Women's mittee and has been involved with Club from 1985-86 and was co- William Merriman jokingly asked, the alumni area clubs committee. chair of the Society of Rice Univer- "What is the university coming McKee received a bachelor's in mtY Women seminars from 1988-90. to?" when told he had been chosen English and economics from Rice. Margrave received a bachelor's for an award. But the Honors He was drafted into the U.S. Army In business and a master's in busi- Committee had every reason to in 1941 and remained in the ser- ness education from the University select Merriman, who received his vice until January 1946, when he of Wisconsin. She taught in a Wis- bachelor of architecture at Rice. enrolled at the Tulane School of consin high school before moving Merriman,46, is a partner at Business. He worked at a transmis- to Texas in 1963. She and her hus- Hall-Merriman Architects Inc. with sion company, Texas Eastern, the band have two children. 1959 alumnus William W. Hall. present day Panhandle Eastern, Margrave's reason for being in- Merriman was involved in the until his retirement nine years ago. volved with Rice is the students. "I 1988 renovation of Fondren Li- Honors Committee Chair Louis had a scholarship when I went to brary before he and Hall founded D. Spaw nominated McKee. school," she says. "I want to give their company. "He was a member of my class, back and help people get through Carolyn H. Woodruff, who the Class of 1940, and as I've been College and Rice." graduated with Merriman in 1967 doing things myself, I've found and who nominated him for the him out there," Spaw says. "He's Paul Pfeiffer has spent more than award, says, "Extending back to spent time and done what he could half a century on campus. After our days as students at Rice, Bill's in supporting the university." graduating from Rice with a degree talents have graciously been do- —Kristen Pauley

June / July '92 39 GIF TS•AND•G I V INC

Annual Fund Efforts Boosted by Record Telefund A

In February 1992, Rice University of this year's Telefund, she recruited recorded the most successful more than 350 alumni and student th Telefund in its history. Volunteers volunteers to work as callers. She th calling on 12 nights raised cheered the volunteers on every $355,000—$44,000 more than night and spent much of each day last year and $35,000 more than working with the development staff TI the goal set for this year. Leading to prepare for the evening event. CC the way to this record was 1962 Baillio is proud that Rice can "I Rice graduate Ann Baillio, the boast one of the highest alumni par- Sc 1991-92 Telefund chair. ticipation rates in the country at 42 in Baillio has been a volunteer in percent, but she is quick to say that Cr many Annual Fund efforts at she wants that rate to go higher. She Pr Rice over the believes it can be done by getting fr: past several more alumni, students, faculty and w, years. She served as her staff involved in the Annual Fund. all class chair in 1985-86 and A highlight of this year's fund rn was the 1960s decade drive came when a student working trj chair in 1987-88. As co- on the Telefund made his own re chairs of the Founder's pledge to the campaign. tri Club, she and her hus- "That student got involved," she at band, Bob, served double says, "saw what was going on, th duty from 1988 to 1990. Ann learned more about the needs of to was also a member of the 25th Rice, and then gave. He participated I Reunion Committee for the at the level he could. Involvement of Class of 1962. and participation are so important to th .4 nrie13(1,1110 As chair the future of Rice." Telefund blows a party whistle at the end of each evening of the cam- at paign as goals are reached or sur- ill passed. At the beginning, Baillio wasn't comfortable with this tradition; however, by the end of the campaign, she always wore an outfit as with pockets so she could carry sev- is eral whistles—the ones she blew in ri: celebration throughout the evening. sa Her enthusiasm is catching. At a a recent Annual Fund dinner, Baillio brought her whistles. As Norma 0, McGee, Director of the Annual Fund, gave her report, Baillio blew 3 Endowed Scholarship C] Levels: whistle in support of the good news. it Then Baillio was introduced and, tt. Distinguished University Scholarship $250,000 while giving her report about the c; Tuition Scholarship 150,000 Telefund, had the tables turned on College Scholarship 75,000 her. George Rupp, who picked up General Scholarship 25,000 one of her whistles, blew it during her speech. Depending on the funding level by the donor, endowed scholarships may "George blowing that whistle was support all or part of the annual costs for one or more Rice students. Do- another real highlight for me," she nors may designate a scholarship for a specific academic discipline and re- says. "George blowing that quest that a scholarship be awarded on the basis of merit and/or financial whistle...well, that's something I need. not ever going to forget." Rice recognizes donors by permanently naming the scholarship either in their honor, or in honor ofsomeone to whom the donor would like to pay tribute. As We Have Received... taw' Glenn Larratt, recipient ofthe John and Harriet Millington Scholarship, was nt the guest speaker at the Spring Scholarship Reception March 8. Hegraduated this May with a double major in voice performance and electrical engineering. About 350 people heard Larratt's speech. A reprintfollows.

taff This semester I am enrolled in a generosity, we come to show our course here at Rice that is titled gratitude and to celebrate the op- "Intellectual Foundations of the portunities you have created for us. par- Social Sciences." As a double major Indeed, gratitude is all we can 42 in voice performance and electrical offer in direct return to your in- hat engineering, I am somewhat vestment: An attempt to pay back She Pressed for curricular time: Quite dollar for dollar would not only be franIdy, if the choice were mine, I infeasible, it would be inadequate ad wouldn't be taking this course at recompense, for your gift to us is all. However, the choice is not not, per se, money itself, but the mine; the course is one of the "dis- application of it here at Rice, when ng tribution core courses" currently we have the greatest need of it and required of music and engineering can make greatest use of it. majors alike. It is a good course, What then, my fellow scholar- ;he and I am enjoying it more than I ship recipients, is our responsibil- thought I might: In fact, I decided ity—what form can we give our to share with you today something gratitude that will extend beyond ated I found interesting and relevant in this reception today? I believe that it one of the reading assignments for the answer is to become contribu- to It the course. tors ourselves. We are responsible In his writing on the "social for helping to shape the society of t at contract," Jean-Jacques Rousseau which we are members. We cannot un- at one point wrote: "Each return the gifts we have received in Individual...may...exercise a kind; but, as each of our benefac- Will.. different from that general tors here assembled has found Rice Undergraduate Glenn Larratt was the his Will guest speaker at the Spring Scholarship to which, as a citizen, he and us, so can we find areas in soci- Reception March 8 in the Rice Memo- F the contributes...Regarding the...State ety which we might improve with rtfit rial Center. as a rational abstraction because it our skills and talents, as donors of ev- Is not a man, he might enjoy his time, financial and material re- in rights as a citizen without, at the sources, and humanity to those same time, fulfilling his duties as whose needs are greater than ours t a ; a subject..." and whose opportunities are fewer. io Rousseau wrote this passage well Each of us has a role model in over 200 years ago, yet he might assuming this responsibility, for Well have been writing about mod- each of us has a personal benefac- w a ern American society. Accountabil- tor here. I claim that the honor ws• itY and responsibility—it is a lack of that is their due, and the debt of thcse qualities which, in many gratitude we owe them, can best be Cases, characterizes American be- shown by following their lead. Our havior today. How special, then, is task is to make our society and our this reception—for we come to- country a better place; as we have gether today to honor those received, so should we willingly who have gone far be- and enthusiastically give. Some was Yond the minimum, of us will sit in this room in the 1C those who are in- future as scholarship donors vesting generously ourselves; God willing, re- .t0 equip Rice and gardless of what form our Its students for the giving takes, we can and will Challenges of the make a difference in our flIture. As society and our world. direct recipi- ents of your

June / July '92 41 Mediterranean Odyssey

by Katherine Drew '44

In October, the Association of Rice at the island of Mykonos, with its Odessa in the Ukraine and Yalta on Alumni is sponsoring "Seas of characteristic windmills and pictur- the Crimea. I have not visited ei- Ulysses and the Black Sea" cruise esque harbor lined with cafes and ther and look forward to doing so. in the eastern Mediterranean. De- taverns. Then we sail east to Odessa was the last artificial village parting October 9, we will spend a Kusadasi, Turkey, the port used to built by Potemkin at the command day and a half in Venice before approach ancient Ephesus by sea. of the Czarina Catherine the Great, boarding the Golden Odyssey for Along with Alexandria, Antioch who wished to impress Emperor sites in the Adriatic, Ionian, and Smyrna in the east and Rome Joseph II with the wealth of Russia. Aegean and Black Seas. in the west, Ephesus was one of the Today, Odessa is a modern city dis- The first stop on the itinerary is great cities of the Roman Empire. playing the agricultural and indus- relatively unknown. Since St. Paul established a Christian trial wealth of the Ukraine. Dubrovnik and most of its tourists community in the city, and some Yalta is on the Crimea, that curi- facilities have been heavily shelled, said that the Virgin Mary spent her ous peninsula jutting down into the our small ship (460 passengers last days there. When the harbor of Black Sea from the north. It is part maximum) will sail into the lovely the ancient town silted up, resi- of the Ukraine, but one usually Bay of Kotor in the Yugoslav prov- dents abandoned the site, leaving thinks of it as the playground of the ince of Montenegro, which is south behind architectural remains that Soviet aristocracy. Americans will of Dubrovnik. With its unparalleled the modern-day viewer can wander remember it as a World War II geographical setting, this destina- through for what seems like miles. meeting place of the allied big tion could well become a substitute Our next stop is Turkish three: Roosevelt, Churchill and for Dubrovnik. The bay offers not Istanbul, the Constantinople of the Stalin. Let us hope that by October 1! only the medieval walled town of Eastern Roman Empire. The city is Russia and the Ukraine will not Kotor, but the remains of a Vene- endlessly fascinating, especially that have come to blows over disposi- Cl tian fort (Cattaro) above the town part known as Stamboul (the old tion of the Soviet Black Sea fleet, and a number of surrounding city) south of the Golden Horn. stationed at Odessa. towns, where the faded glories of We will encounter reminders of the From the Crimea the Golden Od- (7 Venetian and Austrian town houses Romans,such as the Theodosian yssey retraces its route back to and palaces still attract tourists. walls (constructed in the fifth cen- Piraeus, the port of Athens. We Add to this several island churches tury) and the church known as have a day to explore Athens before in the bay and a spectacular moun- Hagia Sophia (dating originally to our flight home October 22. There the early sixth cen- are many important sites in Ath- Cl Ell tury), as well as such ens—the Parthenon and related 33 famous Turkish structures on the Acropolis, the tir monuments as the restored buildings of the ancient (7 Topkapi Palace, the city government beneath the Ci Blue Mosque, the Acropolis, temples, theaters or any era Mosque of the Sul- of the many museums (especially Pre tan Suleiman and the National museum, which ad% the Grand Bazaar. houses frescoes from Santorini and tivc From Istanbul, the treasures of Mycenae). Or one tie we sail through the might choose to visit sacred ren Bosporus into the Delphi, or take a quick trip to Black Sea and dock Mycenae and Tiryns. Ica; Constanza. Then this at Those who embark on this tour or s we catch a train to will meet countless reminders of a Coo Bucharest, Romania. past and present that sparkle in the 14.( Symbolic of the dic- clear air of the eastern Mediterra- lot tatorial ambitions of nean and Black Sea. The Acropolis, perched atop the highest point in Athens, Greece, is one of its political bosses, in many sites travelers on the "Seas of the Ulysses and the Black Seas" will visit. Bucharest also Katherine Drew is a professor ofhis - (Irewill hen makes one aware of tory at Rice, where she specializes in min backdrop, and the Bay of the dangers of pulling a people too medieval history. She will accompanY Kotor is certainly worth the detour. fast into the 20th century. Aside travelers on the Mediterranean refit From Kotor the cruise heads for from the language, there is little to cruise October 9-22. For more infor- WOr the island of Corfu in the Ionian remind us that Romania was once mation, call Alumni Relations at ever Sea. After an early morning passage the Roman province of Dacia. (713) 527-4057. !ten has through the Corinth canal, we stop From Constanza we sail to Old,

42 Sallyport CL A S S N 0 T ES

Houston to help plan our In 1938, they played against and beloved citizen of 55th reunion at Homecom- Ralph, who was on the U. Kerrville. As a two-time gold ing next fall. I hope our Texas team. Ed and Joe were medal recipient in the Senior classmates will make plans to co-captains on the Rice team Games,he is an inspiration to Class Recorder: Class Recorder: come together to celebrate that won the Southwest Con- young and old with his en- Mildred Ogg Fisher Beulah Yellen this milestone in our lives. ference. In 1940, Ralph and thusiastic participation and 2410 Memorial Drive/ 9406 Cliffwood Drive The 50th held at Cohen Joe went on to M.I.T. for success in the games. Soon, Walden Apt. 109-B Houston,TX 77096 House was a delightful and their graduate work. And during the third year of Bryan, TX 77802 (713) 723-7318 nostalgic evening to be re- now, would you believe, all Kerrville Senior Games, Jim ). (409) 774-7217 membered. Details of when, three of these friends are still will enter competition in the Class Recorder Beulah where and how will be sent to battling it out on the golf golf tournament and prob- Yellen writes: you at a later date. I would course here at Riverhill Coun- ably shoot in the 90s again. On March 17, the Rice appreciate hearing from any try Club where they all five. He has won the gold medal at, Alumni went on a trip to of you who would be inter- Small world. for this event in his age group Hong Kong. Our lecturer, ested in serving on any ofthe for the past two years and will Richard J. Smith,taught us a planning committees. probably be "going for the Class Recorder: oia. good deal about the history We have many Rice alumni gold" again this year. If he Anne McCulloch of China. Although not living out here in the Texas succeeds this time, he will be [is- 2348 Shakespeare members ofour class,Gerald Hill Country. Jack Clarke eligible to participate in the ;- Houston, TX 77030 F. Richardson '34 and his and his wife, Virginia Ruth next U.S. National Sports lovely wife, Joyce, were with Simpson, of Conroe, Texas, Classic. ri- us.They are from Beaumont, live near Kerrville at Moun- Born in Little Rock,Ark., the and Gerald graduated from tain Home, Texas, on a Jim moved to Beeville,Texas, high school with my husband, 3,000-acre ranch,where he is where he attended high ort David. Also on the trip were actively engaged in raising school.Two years at Schreiner Jake Axelrod '30 arid his Class Recorder: registered Hereford cattle. Military Institute followed wife,Ruth, Susan Baker'78, the Chris Hoover They are both dedicated and and then Rice Institute,where Sharon Batjer '75 and her 5318 Meadow Lake Lane beloved civic workers who he graduated with a degree in 1 husband,Temple, Jo Eddie- Houston, TX 77056 have been most generous in physical education. A career man '45 and her husband, hosting many local fund rais- followed with the U.S. Army Eddie,John Holverson'82, ing affairs at their stunning Another Rice graduate in the infantry and transpor- Jacquelyn Keller '73, Jim Hill Country/Southwestem- who lives here in Kerrville is tation corps. During World '47 and Marion'46 Kisling, designed home. Currently, Marjorie Peters'40. She was War II, he saw action in the ber Barbara Moore'54 and hus- they are busy planning the recently surprised to receive a South Pacific. band,Don, Bob Wilkins'49 May wedding oftheir grand- phone call from Congress- During the following Class Recorder: and his wife,Donna, and staff daughter to take place at their man Lamar Smith in years, Jim, his talented wife, Willie Mae Chapman Cole member Eileen Grant(com- home. Jack is remembered as Washington, D.C.,notifying Ethel,and their two children 2414 Chimney Rock ptroller's office) and her a star blocking back on the her that she had been se- saw much ofthe world while Houston, TX 77056 daughter, Connie. Rice Southwest Conference lected Volunteer of the stationed at the Pentagon, (713) 782-9509 Received a nice note from winning team during his Month for the 21st Congres- Turkey, Korea and France. Jerry Branam, who writes, football career. After Rice,he sional District and would be Ethel taught ballet in all those "I give you an A+ on your returned to his hometown, receiving a certificate of countries. Her students in classnotes in the February Conroe, and served as assis- achievement. Marjorie has an Turkey were British,Turkey, Fore Sallyport I think you know tant football coach at Conroe outstanding record of French, Greek, Italian, Rus- that Lola Balcke Branum High School under coaches achievement in the Texas Hill sian and American. In [ere '38 died from a sudden car- Joe Lagow '35 and J.L. Country in both educational addition, Ethel is famous lo- Class Recorder: diac arrest in 1987. McCullough '34. and cultural circles. She has cally in the literary world for liott Flowers "For your records,my wife When war broke out,Jack lived in Kerr County for 29 her book reviews and theatri- 3330 Del Monte of one year is Dianne, rather joined the Navy for a four- years, serving as principal of cal and musical presentations. Houston, TX 77019 than Doris(sorry about that, year period and was engaged Hunt Elementary School While Jim was stationed (713) 524-4404 Jerry). Dianne is a converted in the Gene Tunney Physical from 1968-1976, president in Poitiers, France, he met Texan, having moved to Education Program. He came ofYouth Ranch Auxiliary and Dr. Andrew Edington, then Class Recorder Elliott Flow- Houston from Bradford,Pa., [ny out of the war with the rank is active in the Hill Country president of Schreiner Insti- ers writes: in 1960. After many years of of lieutenant commander. Business and Professional tute and a member of the Our permanent Class public practice as a CPA,I am P Upon his return to Conroe, Women's Club,the Womens' National Organization of resident Grover Geiselman enjoying retirement but stay he set up a soft drink-bottling division ofthe Kerrville Area Biblical Scholars, who was advises me that he is still ac- so busy every day, I don't enterprise, which was one of Chamber of Commerce, traveling to speak to the ond tive in the oil and gas business. know how I ever worked. the original bottling compa- Kerrville Community Cho- armed forces. When he re- ,ne lie and his son office in a "Dianne still works, so nies for Dr Pepper in Texas. rus and the Dietert Claim, a tired in 1961 with the rank of re modelled 1876 home in guess who fixes breakfast and Around 1976, the Clarkes local senior activity center. colonel, Jim wrote Dr. R ichmond, Texas. does most ofthe housework? became interested in the Hill She sings, paints, walks with Edington seeking employ- Al Lederer and his wife, "Dianne and I enjoyed the Country and purchased the the Kerrville Trailblazers ment at Schreiner Institute. Jean, have been in Houston reunion very much. Annual acreage that would become Walking Club,and still finds He was accepted and spent this spring. They spend five reunions would be great." years as head of our or the site of their retirement time to donate many hours the next ten f a six months each year in the Thank you, Jerry, for a home. They have one son, to several worthwhile civic the military department cool mountain air at Linville, very informative letter. Jack III, and two grand- projects. Her paintings adorn teaching military science. 1 the %T.C.. As usual, both played a daughters who make their the walls ofthe local Kerrville Jim retired in 1971 and 2- .°.,t of golf, both here and in home in Conroe. State Hospital. for a number of years served '2°Ith Carolina. Their chil- Here is a neat little story Congratulations, Mar- in the field of public rela- dren and grandchildren are about three friends, two of jorie, we are proud of you! tions for various financial .-iouston, so perhaps they whom are Rice alumni and Marjorie's address is 201-B institutions. The Kerrville his- ,7'11 be spending more time my neighbors out here at Manor Drive, Kerrville, TX community has received un- nere. Class Recorder: Riverhill. My classmates of 78028;telephone (512 ) 895- told contributions from this s in Mary Jane Hale Rommel bonald McCants advises '37 should remember them 1395. man while he served in many panY 504 Fairway Drive—Riverhill °le that he has now been well. Ed Letscher '40 and Another Rice graduate civic capacities, including Kerrville, TX 78028 ,re,t1red from Shell for 15 years. Ralph Sharpless played golf who has distinguished him- presidency of Kerrville Ro- 'le enjoyed every minute he (512)896-4310 ifor W in PortArthur when they were selfout here in the Texas Hill tary Club, Shriner Club, orked, and he has enjoyed teenagers,nearly 60 years ago. Country is Jim Younts '32. Chamber ofCommerce, Rice at ery Class Recorder Mary Jane ev minute of his retire- Ed went to Rice where he A real success story is that of University Hill Country Hale Rommel writes: nt. At the present time,he and Joe Finger'39 played on this 86-year-old civic leader Alumni Association and the nas five grandchildren, the In March, I will be in Oldest the golf team for four years. Board of Directors for the being 8 years old.

Jwie /July '92 43 CL ASSNO TES

Hill Country Arts Founda- sity and several times mayor As these notes are written, The Society of Rice Uni- tion. He has 16 years of of San Marcos, is a well- your recorders Henry and versity Women held its annual perfect attendance in the known and popular figure in Margaret Dunlap sit before Spring Gala March 27 at the Kerrville Rotary Club. Hays County. She said the the fire in another Dunlap Faculty Club.From our class, Currently, Jim's hobbies usual warning barrier had not dwelling overlooking another Class Recorder Coordina- enjoying the hospitality, were include golf, hunting and been set up, so she had as- lovely river, the home of tor: Sam and Frances Bethea, Rotary Club programs and sumed that the crossing was Henry's brother, Rhodes Dorothy Zapp Forristall- John and Peg John, Boyd activities. He plays golfthree safe. Dunlap '31, of Iowa City, Brown and Pauline Kilgore, John or four times a week,keeping There were days when the Iowa. The Iowa river below 1250 Oakcrest Circle and Laura '41 McCulley, active and healthy. He is a Duffles, Walker '48 and his home also flows through Beaumont,TX 77706 Charlie '35 and Roberta splendid role model repre- Kathryn Alcorn '51, would the campus ofthe University (409)892-1048 Wilson,and Bob and Evelyn senting what lifelong physical not have wanted to cross ofIowa, where Rhodes was a Purcell. Hopefully,next year fitness habits,disciplined nu- Pierce Creek, whose low professor ofEnglish for most Class Recorders: more from our class will par- trition and exercise, and bridge when flooded blocks of some 40 years. Through Lee Blocker ticipate in the activities ofthis strong Christian principles access to the road that climbs the window well beyond the 125 Sailfish worthwhile organization, can produce. Jim's address is to their home high atop grand piano, we can see the Austin, TX 78734 which includes four open 716 Glen Road,Kerrville, TX VVimberley's Paradise Hills. sculls ofthe university's row- meetings each year, a stimu- 78028;telephone (512) 895- Though spending much time ing team cutting through the Bob & Evelyn Junker lating seminar series and the 1821. these days with Kathy's waters of the river. Purcell awarding ofscholarships. mother in Corpus Christi,the Though we came to Iowa 5102 Valerie Received a card from Duffles, along with Walker's in honor of Rhodes' 81st Bellaire, TX 77401 James Alan Waters from 3 brother, Ben,and Ben's wife, birthday, our visit was unex- Florida saying they were hav- Jackie, did take time in Feb- pectedly interrupted when he Sam & Frances Flanagan ing their boat, Jen-Jen, ba ruary to join the Rice alumni went to the hospital for diag- Bethea worked on and would be excursion to Switzerland and nostic tests, then major 309 Burnet Dr. home soon. of Class Recorders: other Alpine spots. surgery,from which he made Baytown,TX 77520 In looking through some Margaret and Henry Dunlap In Houston in March, good recovery. He hoped to keepsake information,I came P. 0. Box 79 Dorothy Bowman suffered accompany us back to Texas Marian Smedes Arthur across my acceptance letter di Wimberley, TX 78676 no mishaps from the spec- before the bluebonnet sea- 5806 Glen Falls Lane to the Rice Institute from gi tacular Houston floods, but son was completely over. Dallas, TX 75209 S.G. McCann, Registrar. If Cr Zelda Keeper Rick did begin preparing herself When Henry flew back for you have misplaced your own cal 12951 Trail Hollow for a July visit to England by a few days to Texas, he was Floy King Rogde letter, I thought this might ni Houston, TX 77079 having a partial replacement saddened to learn ofthe death 7480 Beechnut #337 be ofinterest to you. The first of TX 77074 of a creaky knee. At an En- March 24 of his close associ- Houston, paragraph ofthe letter reads, of Class Recorders Margaret glish village where they both ate, Myron H. Dorfman "Our entrance committee has (14 and Henry Dunlap write: visited several years ago, she '46,whose office suite Henry Class Recorder Coordinator carefully considered your dc As with the rest of Texas, will be joined by Mary shared at the University of Dorothy Zapp Forristall- record and I am glad to say in winter was one long rainy Fossehnan afterMary's cruise Texas. At the time of his Brown writes: that your application for ad- al season in the Hill Country. of North European shores. death, Myron held the WA. On December 20, I re- mission has been approved. With the H.F. Dunlaps, They will revisit the impres- (Tex) Moncrief Jr. Endowed ceived a letter from Suzanne We trust that you are expect- 9u whose home at Shade Ranch sive Romanesque cathedral Chair in Petroleum Engi- Johnson, editor of Sallyport, ing to take your work seriously re in Wimberley perches high E at Durham and spend some neering,which he received in saying she was leaving Rice in and to give Rice your best Cal on a cliff above the Blanco days in London,where Dor- 1950. Myron received his late December for the sunny efforts. As you are about to in River, it all began in Decem- othy hopes not to lose Mary bachelor's degree in petro- climes ofCalifornia. She said take up college work, which dt ber, when Henry received at in the British Museum. leum engineering from the a new editor would soon be is considerably different from 19 a Chinese restaurant an ap- In March at Shade Ranch, University ofTexas-Austin in on board. Suzanne will cer- the work of a preparatory parently propitious omen—a we were delighted to receive 1950. During a long career, tainly be missed. She sent me school, I suggest that you re Chinese fortune cookie from Louise Walthall he was, from 1959 to 1971, a 1992 pocket pal date book devote some time this sum- Pc with not just one, but two Horton a copy of her fine an independent oil producer with the new deadlines mer to reviewing the subjects $: fortunes with favorable in- biography, published in the in East Texas, then decided marked. This column had to which you plan to continue CC scriptions—one a flattering '70s by Texas University to return to the University of be in on April 1. Other dead- in your course at Rice. I em- in comment about his charac- Press, ofSamuel Bell Maxey. Texas,where he was awarded lines are June I, August 3, phasize especially the matter SC ter, and the other with the Maxey, an early resident of his master's degree in 1972 October 1 and November 1. of reviewing your advanced of prediction, "When winter Paris, Texas, participated in and his doctorate in 1975. Don't forget to tell us what algebra." TI comes, heaven will rain suc- the Civil War and then was Myron served as chair of you are doing, who you are How did you feel when cess upon you." elected to serve in the Texas the department ofpetroleum seeing, where you are going, you received your letter? I en Two days later the heav- Senate during the Recon- engineering from 1978 to where you have been, and don't know about you, but ot ens opened;we were stranded struction years. This very 1985. He published more what you are celebrating. We that was a most exciting day nit at the ranch house for several readable and scholarly book than 50 technical papers on really need your help to keep for me and for my family. I at days, cut off by swollen local is based largely upon letters geo-pressured-geothermal our classnotes up-to-date. wasn't worried about math, 3; streams as well as the flood- of the Maxey and Lightfoot energy and formation evalu- Sam and Frances Bethea but I soon found out that I ing Blanco,which continued families,to which Louise had ation. He was a fellow of the celebrated their 50th wed- really had to study for Dr. fo to go out of bounds at regu- access around the time she Geological Society ofAmerica ding anniversary April 3. Let Lear's history class. I remem- Cit lar intervals for weeks was employed at the State and served as distinguished us know when you are cel- ber Ploy was great in historY.. Pe thereafter. Archives in Austin. Her hus- lecturer for the Society of ebrating an anniversary or How about you? Which of In January,front pages of band, Claude Horton Sr. Petroleum Engineers for anything. your freshmen classes were San Marcos and Wimberley '35, was then a professor of 1978-79.He is listed in Who's I am a Garden Club of hardest? Which, if any, was newspapers featured photos physics at the University of Who in America, Who's Who America arrangement judge easy? and news stories ofthe rescue Texas, where their son, in the World, and American and have just returned from I also found the summarY ofEmma Craddock'36 and Wendell, now follows in his Men and Women ofScience. A judging at the Atlanta Flower ofstudent expenses they sent: her little dog from her auto, father's footsteps as a profes- man of remarkable warmth Show—Sweet Land of Lib- "At the Rice Institute: No which was stranded in the sor in the field of plasma and charm, Myron will be erty—Presidential Pathways. tuition is charged any stu- rising waters ofthe Blanco at physics. The senior Hortons sorely missed by a host of Some of you might be inter- dent. Registration fee is $25, the low crossing near Emmy's now live at their Rocking H friends. ested in going to Columbus, required of all students, not house. Emmy, a resident at Ranch near Granger, Texas, Ohio, this summer for refundable. General deposit, Wimberley's Hidden Valley, where Louise is at work be- Ameriflora'92. Countries all $10,required ofall students. longtime professor ofhistory ginning her fifth novel, and over the world will display balance refundable in July at Southwest Texas Univer- Claude continues research gardens representative oftheir Deposit for each course it and writing of his biography countries. This is the first in- biology, chemistry, physics of the scientist Maupertuis. ternational floral and garden and psychology,$25, except exposition to be held in the deposit of $10 for Biolog United States.

14 Sallyport Jni- Australia, director and vice and appeals. In 1988 he ival president of Bahrain Petro- opened his own law office, the leum Co., and director, continuing with a private lass, Caltex Oil,New Zealand. He practice in tax and estate and vere and his wife, Margaret Jo other business matters. He sea, Jenkins, have four sons, in- has three children, two step- oyd "'Board for men in the halls is furnished at cost, cluding C.E. "Ed" Letscher children and seven grand- °ain 1934-35, $.96 per day (total Jr.'64 (Baker). He had a rare children. He and his wife, Icy, averaging in experience as an invited guest Anne Waring, have traveled .erta $246.74). Board and room for women students aboard a pre-commercial test extensively to Central lyn flight of a "Concorde" from America, Europe, Asia and year in the city costs from $35 to $40 per month. Bahrain to Pakistan, when he Africa. Besides his continu- par- Books, $20 to $30.' It is hard to believe how was appointed by the Prime ing interest in amateur radio this Minister of Australia as first for over 50 years, his latest on, things have changed." chair of the Federal Govern- concern is with computers. pen ments Standing Committee He also keeps in shape with mu- on Prorationing of Indig- tennis,squash, swimming and the enous Crude Oil Production. skiing. The Letschers' interests now Mary Margaret Ray- onn include corresponding with mond Mayfield,who lives in OM 360, Psychology 300, and Rice University. He subse- loves to play golf and fish. friends throughout the world. Kerrville, has two sons, one hay- Architecture 510 and 540, quently was named head of Carey G. King Jr. re- Frank A. Long of Dallas daughter and four grandchil- Jen, balance refundable in July. development for Rice, after ceived his M.D. from UT received many combat deco- dren. Her first husband was be Deposit of$25 for the courses which he returned to private Medical School in Galveston. rations and commendations Phil Magee, mayor of of each year in architecture, enterprise. He is survived by He served in the U.S. Navy as an officer in the U.S. Ma- Robstown,Texas. Following ome balance refundable in July. his wife, Mildred; daughters, Medical Corps from 1944 to rine Corps from 1941 his death, she worked for ame Deposit of $15 for required Sue M. Scott of Edmonton, 1946 and has practiced inter- through 1962.He served as a Tenneco Inc. and First Pres- nter drawing instruments for En- Alberta,and Charlotte Moser nal medicine in Dallas since combat leader in World War byterian Church before mm gineering 110 (applies to Benson ofSan Mateo, Calif.; 1949. He is the former clini- II, Korea and in northern marrying Greydon in Kerrville I.. If engineers only). Students sons, Karl of Arlington and cal assistant professor of China from 1946 to 1947. in 1975. Since her family al- own taking junior or senior engi- Don of Houston; and six medicine at Southwestern He and his wife, Helen ways came first in her life,she ight neering courses make deposits grandchildren. Medical School and chief of MacArthur Arthur,have three was active as a teacher and first of$25. In addition,a deposit medicine at Gaston Episco- daughters and four grand- leader in schools, church, ads, Of $25 is required of all stu- pal Hospital. He served on children. Although his career scouts and local community has dents in M.E. 310, and a the board for YMCA camps, took him all over the world, affairs. Before Greydon's our deposit of$10 ofall students as well as various county,state he was an avid reader and death last year,they had some say in E.E. 300,balances refund- and national societies. His first collector of Texans books. wonderful trips in the U.S. in ad- able in July. A 4-year fee of wife, Judith H. Winans, died We were glad to see Frank at their RV as well as numerous $16 for physical training, re- Class Recorders: in 1980, and in 1982, he our 50th reunion in 1990 tours and cruises throughout ect- quired of all new men on Julia Taylor Dill married Lucille H. Gill and and regret to report that he the world. For several years, iusly registration. An annual medi- 7715 Hornwood now has 4 children, 3 step- died shortly afterward. Mary served as chair of the best cal fee of$5 for all men living Houston, TX 77036 children, 14 grandchildren Joe W. Lydick is a con- Hill Country Rice Alumni it to in the residential halls. Stu- (713)774-5208 and one great grandchild. He tractor in Fort Worth and is Association and, most re- hich dent blanket tax $8.40 for enjoys gardening, birding, proud of his daughter and cently,on the Scholarship and 1935-36, required of all stu- Wanda Hoencke Spaw fishing and history. grandson at Ole Miss. He is a Fund Raising Committee. tory dents. Rooms in the 5614 Inwood Katherine Taylor Kol- golf enthusiast. Joseph F. Meyer HI lives you residential halls for men,$90 Houston, TX 77056 stad received her bachelor's Donald V. Lyttleton in Houston with his wife, im- Per year. A first payment of (713)622-9845 in English from Rice and was became a research chemical Rosemary McKinney Meyer ects $25 is due at the time a room an elementary school teacher. engineer with Texaco. He '42. Joe graduated from Rice nue reservation is made. A pay- Lorena Ramin Stealdey Her husband owned Kolstad served in both Atlantic and with a bachelor's in mechani- ern- 'lent of $31 is due in 1901-B Potomac Jewelry Store in Palestine, Pacific theaters in World War cal engineering and later itter September and the balance Houston, TX 77057 Texas—"Texas'oldest store, II. He married Marion obtained a master's from the teed of$34 is payable in February. (713) 783-5445 established in 1853." She is Sindair Lyttleton '41, and University of Michigan. Af- The first payment of $25 is proudest ofher five children. they have a son and two ter a brief stay at Emsco hen not returnable unless the res- Class Recorders Julia Taylor Homer F. Leifeste re- grandsons. As a registered Derrick & Equipment Co.in :r? 1 ervation is assigned to some Dill,Wanda Hoencke Spaw ceived his M.D. from UT professional engineer in four 1941, he served in the U.S. but Other applicant. Board for and Lorena Ramin Steakley Medical School in Galveston states, he worked mainly in Air Force from 1942 through ; day 'hen in the halls is furnished write: and served with the U.S. Navy the rice industry in the U.S. 1945. Returning to civilian ily. 1 !t cost, averaging in 1934- We will continue with a from 1944 to 1946. He mar- and foreign countries. His life, he joined the Jos. F. lath, 65, $.96 per day (total few mini-sketches from our ried Margy Crosby and has interests are in archeology and Meyer Co., where he was hat 1 $246.74). Board and room Golden Anniversmy—Book of two daughters. He retired as volcanoes. He lives in president until 1966. From Dr. 1br women students in the Memories and Histories. clinical professor of urology Madisonville, La. 1967 to 1988, he was chair- eirY costs from $35 to $40 Charles J. Katz married at UT Medical Center in Claude M. Maer Jr., af- man ofM.C. Management & ory• P.et month. Books, $20 to Dorothy Levy ofEl Paso,and Houston and was honored in ter brief work with an Development Inc., which of 430." It is hard to believe they have three children and 1987 as Hermann Hospital insurance company in Hart- developed Meyer Park, a re- were how things have changed. eight grandchildren. He is the Distinguished Physician. He ford, Conn.,joined the 36th tail shopping center which was president ofKatz Oil Co.and is a past president ofIntercity Division of the Texas Na- houses the 14-screen Meyer laarles Frank Moser died secretary/treasurer of ICLN and Houston Urological So- tional Guard, serving from Park Movie Theater.Though narY Friday, April 3, of cancer at Steel Products, manufactur- cieties. He is also a trustee at 1940 through 1945. After he says he is "semi-retired," the sent. hospice ers of furniture, in San St. Paul's United Methodist the service,he graduated from he is still busy at his office. No at the Texas Medi- cal, Center. Born in Dallas in Antonio. Charles has served Church and served on the Yale School of Law in 1948. Joe and Rosemary have been sto' 1919, he served as a captain on numerous boards and Wesley Community Center He was a distinguished law- active in civic affairs through hi the U.S. Army Medical foundations for the arts, hos- Board. He enjoys traveling, yer for many years with the years. At Trinity Episco- no1 "1,s, stationed in the Pa- pitals, schools, libraries and farming and family. Holland & Hart and Baker & pal Church, Joe served as cific in WWII, after his other charitable and civic C.E. "Ed" Letscher Hostetler, both law firms in treasurer for 20 years and was :nts, graduation from the Rice In- groups. He has been active in presently lives in Kerrville, Denver. He was involved in president of the Trinity En- He was a real estate the NCCJ and received sev- after 38 years with Texaco much tax and estate law in dowment Inc. He served as C Teveloper in Texarkana, eral awards from Jewish and Caltex Petroleum Corp. Washington, D.C., and president ofthe Kiwanis Club ysiCS belaa, before relocating to Brotherhood. He is a former He was director for Austra- Colorado. He participated in and founding director of cePt 2ouston in 1970 to become commander ofthe San Anto- lian Oil Refining, board chair controversies with federal and Kiwanis Foundation ofHous- u log irector ofAlumni Affairs at nio Power Squadron and and CEO of Caltex Group, state authorities at adminis- ton. He is a Rice Associate trative levels, in court trials

Jane / July '92 45 CL ASSNOT ES

and very active in fund-rais- Powell, who has become an tile products. A better job eventually moved on to sev- land. They fortunately es- ing drives. We are very avid Rice supporter.They are offer moved me to the Uni- eral other companies doing caped the Oakland fire, but indebted to him for his work busy with travel, home and versity of Michigan Engi- similar work,including Gen- had their valuables loaded in in producing our Memory church activities. neering Research Center near eral Dynamics in Pomona. the car, just in case. Book for the Class of 1940. We hope you all enjoyed Ann Arbor,where experimen- After General Dynamics, I "They have two lively Joe and Rosemary have en- our brief reviews. Don't miss tal work on radar installations entered sales work with a small grandsons in Dallas, whom joyed traveling through the "rest of the story" con- was carried out. Eventually firm representing manu- they see several times a year. Europe and the U.S., often tinuing in the next Sallyport. this led to a job with General facturers of commercial Other travels have included with Rice tours. They have Electric's Guided Missile Di- restaurant equipment. This most of the states, Mexico, four children and several vision in Schenectady, N.Y., provided a nice break from Hawaii and Canada, where grandchildren they enjoy where I worked on guidance desk work. My sales territory his wife was born. He sends both at home in Houston mechanisms. When the mis- included Southern California, his best regards to all former and at their farm at Round sile system I worked on was Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz., classmates." Top. cancelled after two years, I and Las Vegas, Nev.(No, I James 0. Good writes Willard W.Moser lives in Class Recorder: was offered several jobs at didn't take up gambling!) I from Roswell, Ga.: "After Surrunerfield,Texas, with his Oscar Hibler other GE locations. However, spent the final 15 years ofmy graduation in 1942 I went wife, Emma. They have one P.O. Box 771745 I elected to return to Emhart working life with this firm immediately into the Army daughter, and Willard has Houston, TX 77215-1745 in Hartford. This time I and retired in 1988. Air Corps,where I served until been involved with agricul- (713) 782-4499 worked on glass film/flake "After retirement, influ- March 1946. Upon release I ture interests throughout his career. We would ask that Class Recorder Oscar Hibler Willard write and tell us more writes: about himselfand his family, Our Golden Anniversary so that we can add to this Reunion scheduled for No- 101/1 I; /, account. vember 6-7, 1992, is rapidly Robert I. Moyer lives in approaching. Be sure to mark Fort Plains, N.Y. He served that date on your calendar. "David wrote a column for the Houston Post in the U.S. Army from 1942 We hope to have a big turn- to 1946. Most of his career out for the event that, from from out here from 1984 until 1988. I edited it has been involved with the all I have heard to date, for him. Whenever his Post editor found an dye industry. He has been promises to be one to be re- associated with Norwich membered. There are still a error David always blamed it on me, but the Pharmaceutical Co. in Nor- large number of classmates wich, N.Y., as a dyer with who have not yet sent me three columns I wrote for him (he only paid me Palatine Dyeing Co. in St. their "What I Have Been for two) never had errors." Johnsville, N.Y., as plant Doing for the Past Fifty Years" manager and vice president profiles, which we will pub- with Lee Dyeing Co. in lish and distribute at the Johnstown, N.Y., Butner, reunion. If you haven't sent N.C. and Lachine, Ontario, me yours yet,why not resolve Canada. He married Ruth to sit down this week and for glass reinforced resin com- enced by my wife, a former returned to Houston and re- Sawyer of Albany, N.Y., and write yours and mail it to me. posites. There I was granted a English teacher,and an inter- turned to work with the Retail they have three children and Time is running out and we patent on a machine for mak- est in phonetics,I volunteered Credit Co., but almost im- four grandchildren. In Fort need yours now if we are go- ing glass film/flake. as a teacher of English as a mediately was transferred to Plains, Robert has been ac- ing to get it printed and in the "Also in Hartford, I met Second Language as well as their home office in Atlanta. tive in civic and church affairs book in time for the reunion. and married Elizabeth in the literacy program. This There I met a beautiful Geor- and served for 17 years on the The following are the latest Loomis, a graduate of the led to my current writing ofa gia girl, Mary Partain. We central school board. He is a ones that I have received. University of Wisconsin and book on phonetics for the were married in December member of the Community Edward K. Lane, who the widow ofa former associ- literacy impaired, many of 1947, and we are still to- College Career Advisory now lives in Claremont, Ca- ate at Emhart. She was also whom simply cannot `tern' gether.We have two fine sons Committee. He served for lif., writes:"In April'42,John the motherofthree little boys. English spelling. who are also married, but no 10 years as chair of the area Dillard,Bob Wynn and I set The oldest is now a geophysi- "As for news of other grandchildren as yet. Also in branch of the American As- out for Washington,D.C., in cist with Mobil Oil Co. in alumni I have run into, I met 1947 I changed jobs and sociation ofTextile Chemists Bob's car pulling a house Dallas, the second a crimi- up with Neal Heaps and became a special agent for and Colorists and received a trailer. The AAA warned that nologist with the Los Angeles Morton King'43 at a design the Northwestern Mutual meritorious service award for we couldn't find enough gas Crime Lab and the youngest engineering show in New Fire Assoc. I did stay in the en route to make the trip, but that work. He enjoys fishing, works in the refrigeration in- York City in 1957 and Air Force reserve, and as 3 somehow we did. We were photography and, as he says, dustry. Our daughter, born Harold "Dell" del Castillo consequence, was recalled to "spectator sports." heading for the Naval Ordi- in Hartford,is completing her '43 in the early 80's. Dell active duty in 1951. Upon Robert P. McCants was nance Lab,where I spentfour doctoral dissertation in retired from his own air con- becoming a regular officer in years designing arming and our most efficient chair ofthe American literature at the ditioning business and moved 1958, I decided to make 3 50th Reunion Committee. firing mechanisms for mines University of California at to Murrieta, Calif. career of the military. After We were the recipients of his and depth charges, first as a Berkeley. She is married to a "A sad note: Walter 22 years of active service I expertise. Bob received his civilian and later as a commis- professor of medieval studies Brauer's sister wrote me this retired in 1969 and returned bachelor's in mechanical en- sioner officer. at Cornell University in past Christmas that Walter, to Atlanta. There I entered gineering and was employed "After the war, a supervi- Ithaca, N.Y.,where they now who was in our class before the insurance business as from 1940 to 1947 by sor at NOL invited me to live. transferring to the University vice president of a major in General Electric Works Labo- work for Emhart Mfg. Co., "When I completed the of Oklahoma, died of leuke- surance agency. I retired ratory, where he received the where tempering ofglassware Emhart project,we moved to mia last year. completely in 1984. General Electric Charles Cof- with water sprays was my par- Claremont,Calif , a nice little "In the past year, I have "Mary and I both enjoy' fin Award. From 1947 until ticular task. Upon completion college town some 30 miles tracked down Edward Kerr, traveling. While in the see' 1985, he was with United ofthis project,I moved on to east of Los Angeles. We still whom I knew at San Jacinto vice, we had two tours lc Gas and Entex, where he the Lawrence Radiation Lab live in the home we built in High School and who at- Europe, at which time vic served as senior vice presi- in Berkeley,Calif. ( then called 1959. For a period of five tended Rice in 1938. Edward visited most of the countriet dent. He was married to Pady the "Rad Lab"). There I did years, I worked for Aerojet- graduated from Annapolis of that continent. While io Whitcomb '42, who died `gadgeteering' on handling General's structural materials and had a career in naval avia- England, we had the distine in 1973. They have two equipment for radioactive department,where I contrib- tion. We have had several visits privilege of attending tilt children, Earle Thomas isotopes. My next move was uted to winding patterns for with Edward and his wife (a Queen's coronation in 1952' McCants '68 and Kevin to Denver,where my parents filament-wound pressure former Wave officer, as was As of now we have visited McCants '72(both Baker). were living. At Gates Rubber vessels. While there, I did a my wife), who now live in countries on 6 ofthe 7cone Bob later married Mary Lou Co.,I worked on rubber-tex- lot of proposal writing and Piedmont, Calif, near Oak- nents. We took a grand tou't

46 Sallyport around 1978. English theme at Rice and he wrote for him (he only paid "While serving in the Air tion at the Shepherd School CS- the world in me for two)never had errors. Force at Wright Field, I met of Music. but We plan to continue to travel refused. Let it be known I "Fred, our 'city boy,' is a my wife,Mary Bellware,from Wallace Chappell,newly i in and explore until our health made a "1" without him! I or money run out. also had problems with an- senior vice president at the Dayton,Ohio. We were mar- named vice president ofcom- William Morris Talent ried in March 1946 and munity relations of Lomas rely "One of the accomplish- other boyfriend,a biology lab Beverly Hills. Eric, recently celebrated our 46th Mortgage Corp., is off on om ments of which I am most assistant, when I wouldn't Agency in 'country boy,'is a veteri- anniversary. We have a another bicycle ride for char- ear. Proud is serving as the Com- touch a live demonstration our his own animal daughter, two sons and nine ity in May, pedalling from led mandant ofthe Old Guard of frog,but that's another story. narian with hospital in Goleta, Calif, a grandchildren. Our daugh- Dallas to Iowa City, where ico, the Gate City Guard of At- Five years later, in 1950, I 10 miles north of ter,Kathy, is a registered nurse his nephew, Wally Chappell, iere lanta during 1991. This is a had my second and last child, small town in Killeen, Texas. The oldest is a member of the faculty of nds Prestigious semi-military or- Eric. Santa Barbara. We have five grandchil- son is an M.D.in family prac- the University of Iowa. His mer ganization formed in 1854 "We lived in Houston to protect Atlanta against until 1951,when David,who dren. Three are Fred's. The tice in Denver City, Texas, goal is to raise $40,000 for who and Stephen is a lawyer in RESTART,a program tore- ites Possible invasion.(We failed!) had been recalled to active oldest is a rock drummer job. The general law with his office in train the unemployed. Last fter To me this was really an honor duty with the Air Force in also has a daytime getting her Friendswood, Texas. year's bike ride, from Dallas ,ent and a most rewarding experi- 1950, was transferred from middle one is psychology and the "I worked as electrical to Gunnison, Cob., was the rtny ence. Finally, I have never Ellington Air Force Base to Ph.D. in freshman at the engineer for Houston Light- subject ofan article in Dallas intil made it to a class reunion so the Pentagon. We bought a youngest is a Museum ofFine Arts. ing & Power Co. for about Lift Magazine earlier this se I I am really looking forward house in Falls Church, Va., Boston to this one." and before David left active FLASH! While I was writing three years from 1948 to year. In March,Wally and his Our congratulations to duty again in 1953, we vis- this, her mother phoned to summer of 1950, when I wife, Steil, spent a week in Ona Joy Walton Terry who ited historic spots in the say she just had a call from started work at Brown & Florida,taking in Epcot Cen- was honored recently in Washington area as well as Boston announcing that in Root, Inc. During the 35 ter at Orlando, Everglades Stephenville as a Distin- New York and Canada.It was three hours, our grand- years at B&R, I worked on National Park, Key West and guished Faculty member at a wonderful experience. I daughter is flying to Paris with many construction projects NASA. the annual Tarleton State even taught school. For three a French classmate and three as electrical designer and Also visiting in Florida University Distinguished days! And that's another other classmates. Know any- electrical supervisor and fre- were Catherine Coburn Alumni luncheon and again story. body at Rice who ever did quently assisted in field Hannah and David'44, and at the homecoming parade. "On our way back to that? Eric's older child is a start-up at completion of Elizabeth Philbrook Rack In 1981 Joy established a Houston in the summer of sophomore in high school construction. and Hap '38. scholarship program in honor 1953 we drove to Key West and a budding writer(I keep "Some of the projects This Valentine's Day mes- other parents,John and Ruby and from there flew to Ha- telling her she better have a included automated opera- sage from John Leedom: Walter,to deserving students vana for several days. Back day job to go along with it), tions and remote control via "After much prayerful interested in chemistry. Joy's then it was beautiful and safe. and her younger brother is microwave system communi- thought and at the urging of former student,astronaut Dr. "David went back to work into rollerblading and plays cation. Automated engines many fine friends, I have an- Millie Hughes-Fulford, was for the Houston Post and I trumpet in his school band. and natural gas turbines were nounced again to run for also honored at the ceremony went to work at the Brown "Some of my friends say I used as prime moverson com- Texas State Senator for the as Tarleton State University's Book Shop, where I often 'talk funny' because ofmy so- pressors and pumps for 16th District." His election 1990 Distinguished Alumna. entertained regular custom- called Texas accent. IfI have natural gas and liquid petro- campaign, if any, is quite JoY retired in 1979 from the ers by arguing with the boss. one, I blame it on my sister, leum pipeline systems. Other laidback—he's running un- the phone projects included liquid natu- opposed. d re- school's department of "In 1961 we moved to because we talk on gas plants and storage for Here's a family that virtu- rtail Physical sciences and received Los Angeles into a spacious at least twice a week. ral been an interesting LNG;deep water drilling plat- ally sprang from Rice roots: im- designation as Associate Pro- apartment that had just been "It's which and exciting life, especially form,self propelled and with Pat Crady Zumwalt and :d to fessor Emeritus from the built.We are still there, David's writing career positioning equipment to Frank'41 are the first ofthree mita. Texas A&/v1 University sys- is unusual because out here with trav- maintain position without an- generations ofRiceites. Their icor- tem at that time. everyone seems to move ev- and zest for life. We've extensively through chors; underwater pipelines daughter, Letitia Zumwalt We From Los Angeles,Doris ery few months (I know our eled and Japan. and loading docks for petro- Clark '67 (Jones), is a fed- nber Wcstheirner writes the fol- son Fred did before he got Mexico, Europe been to leum products and high eral bankruptcy judge for the I to- lowing: "When I graduated married). I became very in- But still haven't our visibility crude oil; and Arctic Southern District of Texas. sons in June 19421 had been mar- terested in Planned Parent- Nashville. We have to get ried to join hood when they started a Los country music on cassettes pipeline facilities. Herdaughter is Letitia Taitte It 110 one year. I went chapter,volunteered and radio." "The last project before Minnotte'93 (Baker), whose SO ill rtlY husband,Able Kahn,who Angeles design of father is Lawson Taitte '66 and had graduated from Texas and worked in their clinic for Doris tells me that she and retirement was the will both be coming to electrical power generation, (Baker) of Rice college bowl t for AkM in 1941, been corn- over 10 years. Until I retired David fame, and whose husband is atual Missioned a second lieutenant I served as registrar, lecturer the reunion as it will be transmission lines, wells and and looking pump stations for a 600-mile Michael Minnotte '89 n the was stationed at Camp and doctor's assistant. David David's 55th. She is water pipeline in Libya. I re- (Wiess), a graduate fellow in as a Polk, La. From there we said I was an NRN. Non- forward to seeing her class- tired from Brown 8t Root on statistics at Rice. "Quite ed to ,Moved to Palm Springs, Ca- registered nurse. To this day mates, especially Dcmaris 1, 1986; the water Ricey" is Pat's apt comment. _bon lif., where he was on desert people,mostly senior citizens, DeLinge Hudspeth,because January The Zumwalts'son, Frank, is cer in maneuversin the August heat, call me and ask about medi- she is the only one in the class project started up in 1991." then medical problems. that Doris has gone to school a civilian chief engineer on ake 3 to Pennsylvania, from cine and Where school USN ships. After he left for overseas with My advice to them is always with from elementary The trek out to my rural Tice I the Third Armored Division. the same:'Call your doctor.' through Rice. mailbox requires shoes and limed I then returned to Texas. I I'm not an active club mem- From Jim Chudleigh: conventional attire. tered gave birth to my first son, ber but pay my dues and give "After graduation from Rice other Fred, Won't you make the effort as a in 1943,and 13 months my support to a number of with a B.S. in E.E. I went to later worthwhile by sending me or in- the telegram came that organizations. Also I help se- work in the Pasadena,Texas, Ahie had been killed in the nior citizens (even more shipyard doing marine elec- Class Recorder: your news? :tired Peggy Johnston Gibbons Battle ofthe Bulge. He was a senior than I am)on a volun- trical installation for Todd 629 Sandy Mountain Dr. James J. Sparks writes:"My enjoY captain and company com- teer basis, helping with an Shipbuilding. After four Army Sunrise Beach, TX 78643 youngest son, Richard G. e set" Mander and was AWOLfrom Alzheimer patient once a months, I joined the the hospital where he'd been week and shopping and run- Air Force, where I served for (915) 388-6659 Sparks, will enter the Univer- irs it re ieWe covering from wounds. ning errands for two other more than three years. Radio sity of Texas Dental College recorder Peggy "Freddie and I lived with bldtimers.' operator school was the first Class at Houston this July. He has ntries my writes: sister, Cissy Stern '38, "David wrote a column assignment and after Johnston Gibbons worked at Dental World in tile in February Hester and her family until I married for the Houston Postfrom out completion, was assigned to In Webster, Texas, for three istinet Memphis, bavid Westheimer '37. I'd here from 1984 until 1988.1 the aircraft radio laboratory Stewart Allen of years as a dental technician. g the brought grand- dated David since my high edited it for him. Whenever at Wright Field, Ohio,doing Tenn., He did his academic work at 1952.j Hester, to the school days; our romance his Post editor found an error testing on aircraft radio and daughter, the University of Houston." 7isiteu audi- 80ured when asked him to David always blamed it on radar equipment and other campus for her piano conrk he I toot lp me correct a freshman me, but the three columns I special projects.

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Headrick, accompanying backward and have the scars Thomas L. McKittrick has 1955 alums Josephine to prove it. The next well is been named vice president of Muller Shanks, Pam Riley going to hit, I guarantee it." the National American Insti- Smith, Nancy Moore Bill's daughter, Kathlayn tute of Architects. He is a Class Recorder: Eubanks and Adele Anne'92 (Will Rice),gradu- professor of environmental Harry Reasoner has been Larry Hermes Hestwood Pieper. The ates from Rice in May. His design at Texas A&M. elected to the Board ofTrust- 2028 Albans Road "flower girls" will stay at the son, Chris, works with him, ees of Baylor College of Houston, TX 77005 Laceys'(Neal '52 and Sarah Billy is a banker in Fort Lau- Rafael E. Ubico has been Medicine in Houston. (713) 529-2009 Luger'55 Lacey)newly pur- derdale and Jimbo graduates named director of the Uni- chased home in Hunt. from Tulane Law School this versity ofTulsa's information Madelyn Gail Martin Ann Krachy and John spring. Bill promises to make services division, which pro- Milton (M.A.)is now a pro- Lyle are still in Brisbane, our next reunion. vides petroleum abstracts gram coordinator in the Australia, where John works In January, Texas Instru- service to the oil and gas in- Performing Arts Division of for Chevron.They spent their ments Board of Directors dustry. Mid-American Arts Alliance in Kansas City. Class Recorder: last vacation in Crocodile elected Gloria McDermitt Jack Joplin Dundee country. Shatto a director. She is also William A. Preston Jr. 5001 Woodway Drive, Ph 1 Paul Cochran moved on the boards of K-Mart, (Hanszen) is now district Houston,TX 77056-1707 from Dallas in 1976 to To- Becton Dickinson,the South- ern counsel for the VA in Boise, (713)960-1582 (home) peka,Kan., where he practices Company and Nations Idaho. (713)498-6331 (office) internal medicine at the Bank of Georgia. In 1991, Menninger Clinic. He's mar- Gloria was appointed to the Terry L. Henshaw is a con- sulting engineer specializing Virginia ried to Mary, a nurse at the Georgia Governor's Com- Elverson recently in centrifugal and reciprocat- published her third cook- local women's health center. mission on Economy and ing pumps. He conducts book, Gulf Coast Paul Jr. is a chemical engi- Efficiency in State Govern- Cooking: seminars for manufacturers Seafoodfrom the Florida Keys neer who works in Houston ment. Rice named Gloria a and users of pumps and pro- to the Yucatan Peninsula. at Set Point, and his daugh- Distinguished Alumna in vides consultation to Class Recorder: companies that produce and Nancy Burch use pumps and related equip- 3311 Stoney Brook ment. Terry has been Houston,TX 77063 employed by Ingersoll-Rand (713)781-3634 and Union Pump in New York, Houston and Battle Robert F. Montgomery en- Warren Jaycox was a teacher, principal and Creek, Mich.,and has served joyed seeing everyone at the as sales engineer, man- 30th class reunion and also superintendent in Sonoma, Calif., until he got ager, reciprocating pumps enjoyed the alumni tennis "tired of manager,research and devel- tournament. bleeding and quit." Warren says that if opment and engineering he were going to "work that hard with that much consultant. He is a registered Barry and Martha Lee professional engineer in Texas Barnes (both Baker) write grief," he'd work for himself. He now conducts and Michigan. from Vienna,where they have group tours of Europe, which feature seeing lived for the past 10 years. Fred Stalkup is a senior re- Barry was recently named unit small towns from a van on the back roads. search advisor in the research head ofthe procedures devel- and technical services depart- opment and documenta- ment of Arco Oil & Gas Co. tion unit in the Instrument He recently addressed the Development Section of the Reservoir Study Group ofthe International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an appoint- ter, Kay Cochran '87, is a 1987. Gloria is president of Permian Basin of the Society ment carrying diplomatic musician (viola) at the Uni- Barry College in Rome, Ga. of Petroleum Engineers in rank. After receiving versity of Lethbridge in Dan Winship was hon- Midland, Texas. a Ph.D. in Alberta. ored as a Distinguished physics from Rice in 1965, he was with Los Alamos Na- Class Recorder: Warren Jaycox was a Alumnus of the UT Medical tional Laboratory in New Emily Butler Osbom teacher, principal and super- Branch at Galveston at their Mexico and the University of 54 Lake Rd. intendent in Sonoma, Calif., 1992 commencement this 1!151i Lowell in Massachusetts be- P. 0. Box 537 until he got "tired of bleed- May. Dan is dean of Loyola fore moving to Austria to join Lake Jackson, TX 77566 ing and quit." Warren says Medical School in Chicago. Class Recorder: the Safeguards Department that ifhe were going to"work Previously, he was medical Phyllis Walton of the IAEA. that hard with that much director of the Veterans Ad- 4233 Harpers Ferry Road Martha received grief," he'd work for himself. ministration in Washington, her M.S. Birmingham, AL 35213 in biology from Rice in 1965 He now conducts group tours D.C. He has served in medi- (205) 870-0332 sci- ofEurope, which feature see- cal schools at Yale,Marquette, and an M.S. in computer ence from the University of ing small townsfrom a van on University of Utah and the William Barnett has been New Class Recorder: the back roads. Several years University of Missouri. Mexico in 1980. She is elected 1992 chairman ofthe of Fi- Mary Anne Collins ago,Warren received the Le- Many of us will turn up a currently deputy chief Greater Houston Partner- nancial Management of P.O. Box 271 gion of Merit for his work as zero this year: the big 60. ship. He is the managing Technical Organization Hunt, TX 78024 national coordinator for uti- What are your plans for your partner ofBaker & Botts and (UNIDO) in lizing the talents of Marine big birthday? Vienna, where has been with the law firm for she has eight years Class recorder Mary Anne Corps reserve officers. worked for 33 years. in the computer financial Collins writes: Bill Bullen writes from and services Prior to What a beautiful spring Lafayette that he's working departments. moving abroad, she worked we're having in the Hill on his life's ambition: to be a for the Los Alamos Country. Redbuds and happy old man with no re- National Laboratory and Daniel mountain laurel are bloom- grets. Bill struck out on his WebsterAeronautical ing as they never have before. own 27 years ago as an oil Class Recorder: College Flowers should be spectacu- Maurine Bybee in Nashua, N.H. lease broker and well pro- Class Recorder: lar. Coming in April 3800 Chevy Chase The Barnes' three children to see moter. He says, "I've been Tommie Lu Maulsby the flowers Houston, TX 77019 have all returned to the US are classmates through a lot of knot holes 2256 Shakespeare Mary Lou Brown Rapson (713) 522-3705 Stephen has just completed Houston,TX 77030 and Dorthyle Nicholl law school; John is studyinE (713)664-5042 anthropology at Texas Tech

Sallyport after a six-month stint on ac- Patterson, where I head the Foreign Relations, for his Corporation. Son, Dan, re- tive duty with the Marines in firm's national and interna- work Trapped by Success: The cently graduated from Saudi Arabia; and Kristen is a tional financial services Eisenhower Administration Oklahoma State University pre-med student at SMU. practice. I will be based in and Vietnam, 1953-1961. and is working in the family both the firm's Washington James E. Bailey (Will Rice) Anderson chairs the depart- business. Enjoy living in West 1st- Walter E. Dickenson has and Houston offices." received the 1991 Food, ment of history and political University and attending Rice of moved to Albuquerque, Pharmaceutical and Bioengi- science at the University of sporting events. Also partici- N.M., where he is chief of After 26 years with IBM,Bob neering Division Award Indianapolis. pating in men's senior league surgery at the VA Medical Hayes(Hanzsen) has retired presented by the Ameri- baseball." :in Center and professor of sur- from his position as manager can Institute of Chemical f0- gery at the University ofNew of custom product develop- Engineers to recognize :he Mexico School of Medicine. ment and joined SAIC outstanding chemical engi- of Prior to his leaving Amarillo, (Science Application Interna- neering contributions and ice the Don and Sybil Harrington tional Corporation),a leading achievements by an individual Cancer Center established the professional service company. in industries involved in food, Class Recorder: Walter E.Dickenson Lecture- He and wife, Shirley '65 pharmaceutical and bioengi- Kathleen Callaway John Hardy Williams passed Jr. ship in Surgical Oncology in (Jones), enjoy living in Boca neering activities. Jim has 8, rue Leon Blum away Friday, February 7, in his honor. Raton, Fla. authored more than 200 pub- 33400 Talence his sleep. A memorial service ise, lications in the field of France was held in Golden Gate Park biochemical reaction engi- February 9. During his se- neering—the study and Ron Bozman( Hanszen) was nior year at Rice, Hardy was optimization of chemical re- one of the producers of Si- the Owl mascot at football actions found in cells used to lence ofthe Lambs,which won games(he may have been the manufacture pharmaceuticals Academy Awardsfor best pic- first human version of the Cynthia Lyle(Jones) writes: and food components. ture, best screenplay, best mascot,at least in recent his- "David Young '70(Ph.D.) actor, best actress and best tory). and I were married August A.M. "Art" Dowell III producers. 18,1990—the joyous conse- (VViess) won the William H. Mike Donnell(Wiess) writes: quence of our Rice Doyle Award at the 25th "Since leaving Rice 20 years association. We were intro- Annual Loss Prevention Sym- ago, I've acquired three duced long distance by my posium sponsored by the graduate degrees and three friend, Mimi Woodall AlChE,for presentation ofa children. At this point,I have en Roland, and David's friend, paper entitled "Flashback my own software R&D firm, the Richard Juday,who eventu- from Waste Gas Incinerator Richard H. Wittman (Will specializing in expert systems ilso ally served as matron oflionor into Air Supply Piping." Rice) received the Presiden- and decision-supportsystems. in is and best man at our wedding tial Award for Excellence in I'm also an engineering pro- here in San Antonio's his- Roberta L.Nutt (Jones) has Science and Mathematics fessor at George Washington toric Little Church in La been appointed by Gov. Ann Teaching,funded by the Na- University in D.C. and only ,ee Villita. Other Rice folk Richards to the Texas State tional Science Foundation. need to do my internship to rite present were Jim Burch '68 Board of Examiners of Psy- He teaches mathematics at finish my training in clinical ,aye hfines McCullar(Baker) has (Ph.D.) and his wife, Kathy, chologists. Nutt is Professor Glenville High School in psychology. I'd love to hear ars. dcsigned New York City's Doug Harlan,Rose Phelan of Psychology at Texas Cleveland, Ohio. from old fiends. My new mut firSt major indoor-outdoor Graham and Tom Graham Woman's University. address is 6424 Georgetown yel- farmer's market. James says it '62 and my son, Daniel Pike, McLean, VA 22101." ta - Was a challenge to design a Swim '93. Another strange tent farmer's market in the middle coincidence is that David the ofa densely populated urban worked for seven years in my ll171 !rgy center. Now he'd like to try hometown, Los Alamos, , „ Lista Duren (Brown) is a int- °Ile in Texas. N.M.David holds the rank of project manager for Bolt, atic Institute Scientist at South- Mike Inselmann(Will Rice) Beranek & Newman in Cam- west Research Institute and is president of American bridge, Mass. She is also an 455, recently was selected as prin- Metro/Study, which does avid scuba diver, dive in- Na- cipal investigator for the real estate market research and structor and underwater ew plasma instrument on housing trends. Mike is a pri- photographer. She dives the y of NASA's Cassini mission to mary source oflexas housing ,Class frigid waters ofNew England, be- Recorder: Saturn. I work in public rela- data for the National Asso- 45 but travels to warmer waters join th1een Much tions at USAA, having ciation of Home Builders. 1065 as often as possible. sent Greenwood Ave. previously left academia for ,P40 Alto, CA 94301 management training. In the Abraham Delgado (Baker) ,k415)328-9779 best Rice tradition, the wed- and Deborah Harvey 965 415)321-2052 ding was just one part of a Delgado '73 (Jones) write: sci- four-day party." Gayle Woodson (Jones) "We're happy to be back in y of writes: "I'm still at UC-San Class Recorder: Austin where we plan to raise le is Diego, but on the road two Judy Malo Ragland our two children, Joey, 7, F Fi- or three times a month. List 209 Palm Aire and Madelaine, 5." of 1111:71 year,I was named to the pro- Friendswood, TX 77546 ion gram advisory committee of David Ownby (Hanszen) sere the National Institute on VVilliant B. Russell (Baker), "moved back to Houston in 'eats Stephen Stow (Ph.D.) has Deafness and Communica- professor and chair ofchemi- 1987 after 14 years in Dallas icial been appointed secretary- tive Disorders,but I will soon cal engineering at Princeton and Tulsa with wife,Kathleen, )r to treasurer for the newlyformed be stepping down from that University,is the 1992 Lacey and daughter, Emily, who is iced education division of the to serve on the NIH Sensory Lecturer at CalTech and Ma- a sophomore at Lamar High Dnal Geological Society of and Language Disorders son Lecturer at Stanford School. Started Ownby & niel America.Stephen is with Oak Study section. Last fall, I co- University. Associates, Inc., an oil and lege Ridge National laboratory's chaired a working group at gas marketing and consult- Environmental Sciences Di- the NIDCD on Women's David L. Anderson (Baker) ing company, located in the freP vision. Health Issues.This was a great kobe was named co-winner of the Phoenix Tower, Suite 3300, , „ rt L.Clarke ( Hanszen) opportunity to meet many re Robert H.Ferrell Book Prize 3200Southwest Freeway,af- eteel th signed as Comptroller of women researchers in medi- c Currency on February 29 for 1992, given by the Soci- ter four years as vice president ying and cal and social sciences,as well ['cal returned to Bracewell & ety for Historians ofAmerican of refined fuels with Enron

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as scholars in the field of the event were David Norton We have a third Rice grad, Jeffrey 0. Rose (Will Rice) rector and conductor of the women's studies. (Hanszen), Jed Chamber- Diane Harkins Modesett has joined Pacific Southwest South Arkansas Symphony in "My 9-year-old son's pi- lain '90 (Wiess), George '90(M.Arch.), working with Bank,Houston, as vice presi- El Dorado. My wife,Greta, is ano teacher is a recent Rice Nagel (Wiess), John Groth us, so three decades of Rice dent in the commercial artist-in-education on violin graduate, Lori Bastien '89 '77(Baker), and his fiancee, experience are represented." lending division. During 14 and associate concertmaster (Jones), and she is a marvel- Brenna Surritt (from years in banking,he hasserved ofthe symphony.Our 2-year- ous teacher!" Stanford), Ken Lawler '89 as president of Texas Com- old, Jayne Anne, can work (Jones), Ward Polzin '86 merce Bank,Greenway Plaza, the remote control on the Jon Glazier (Hanszen) and (MBA), Paul Hain '91 and Texas Commerce Bank, television set and feed herself wife, Susan Davis Glazier (Jones), Rod Larson '82 Chemical. He also served as when she feels like it." '73 (Brown), write: "After (Lovett),Cristina DeRienzo executive vice president for almost 20 years in law firms, '91 (Sid Rich), Todd Teveia R.Barnes ( Baker) has Team Bank, Houston. Geoff Vogel (Will Rice) I have become a client. I am Torcz,on '88 (Brown) and been promoted to senior vice writes: "A few of us from now Association Counsel at Maureen Johnson '91 president and associate gen- 1979 are still in Houston and the National Rural Electric (Ph.D.). eral counsel of Bank of still in the oil business—de- Cooperative Association,the America in San Francisco.She spite a decade now of less Washington-based trade as- After serving as the president joined the bank's legal de- than boom times. I work for sociation for rural electric of Rice Alumni in Dallas partment in New York and Chevron as a quality-control coops, including many in (RAID) last year, Cathy has been head of that office specialist, overseeing a seis- Texas. Susan's aerobics dance Keneda made a smooth(and since 1989. She will manage Linda Lee Tavel(Jones) has mic acquisition. Field work company has weathered the experienced) transition into 29 lawyers in the world bank- joined the department offam- keeps me in Nigeria six or recession, and she has begun her latest voluntary position ing group,with offices in New ily medicine at Scott 8c seven months a year. What tutoring in our local elemen- as President of the Dallas York, Los Angeles, Chicago, White/Johns Clinic and was became of my old geology tary school.Our boys,Martin, Chapter of the Institute of Miami, London, Singapore appointed as an assistant pro- classmates? Drop me a line. I 7, and Gregory, 3, continue Internal Auditors."While my and San Francisco. fessor at the Texas A8cM finally figured out geophys- to amaze,exasperate, age and tenure has been a rewarding University Health Science ics!" rejuvenate us both." endeavor, I'm looking for- Center.She and her husband, ward to its end, hoping that Dr. Charles Miller, have a Kathy Collmer (Brown) the free time will afford me daughter. writes: "Although I enjoyed the opportimity to do a little my job as assistant editor of more recreational traveling. Jon Barrilleaux (Wiess) Southwest Art magazine,I fi- Having just passed the Certi- writes: "Wanting to make a nally left the violent crime, fied Internal Auditor break from the hum-drum toxic pollutants and frantic Rod Barnes (Wiess) is cur- examination (that's a CIA life as a research scientist in congestion of Houston in rently teaching history and after my CPA), I am consid- San Jose, Calif—the heart of February 1990, to seek a kic social studies in a Dallas-area ering starting a group called America's Silicon Valley—I healthier life in rural Kansas. 95! school. Certification Exam Takers joined a start-up company and I found it. I applied and was Sar Anonymous. Fellow alums, moved to Bangalore, accepted for a one-year in- (Si Rob Quartel (Hanszen), please ring mc up sometime Karnatika—the heart of ternship at The Land Institute who (51 directed the domestic and save me from this addic- India's Silicon Valley—in the in Salina,where I did research policy operations in George tion." fall of1990. After many trials on ecologically sustainable In Bush's 1980 presidential and tribulations I concluded agriculture. During my in- campaign and Sal was senior David Norton has been ap- that 'India is a great place to ternship, I got involved with policyadvisor to Bush-Quayle pointed to the Alaska State Scott Hochberg is the 1992 visit but I don't want to work the struggle to stop the U.S. COr in 1988, was confirmed as Water Resources Board by Democratic candidate for here,'and returned home last Army's proposed takeover of Federal Maritime Commis- Gov. Walter Hickcl. The Texas State Representative in summer. I am now recover- 100,000 acres ofKansas farm sioner. Rob is Sal recognized as Board advises the governor Houston's District 132. The ing and continuing to absorb and ranch land. At one ofthe an expert in national trans- on water policy issues and district includes Rice. the cosmic significance ofthat strategy sessions, I met Jim portation and regulatory oversees the state Depart- experience while working as Scharplaz, a former engineer policy. a systems Wn ments of Natural Resources engineering con- who now farms full-time near tee and Environmental Conser- sultant for Loral Systems in 1113 Salina. To make a long story (th Larry Lake (Ph.D.) writes: vation. Dave works for San Jose, Calif. I plan to try extremely short, we were "lam about midway through my hand at another, more wa3 Alycska Pipeline Service Co., married in August 1991- twr an academic career at the operators of the trans-Alaska traditional start-up, by mar- Michael A. Freney (Ph.D.) Nancy Falgout, Carol University ofTexas. Iam chair pipeline, and was project rying my fiancee this fall,after has been Cameron '78 and KathY ark of the petroleum engineer- manager for a major expan- named Director of she graduates with her MBA the Space Policy Pool Colon '81 (all Brown) Yea ing department and have sion ofthe tanker ballast water Program at from Berkeley and gets a job." the United came to Kansas for the wed- wo published one textbook and treatment plant at Alyeska's States Space Foundation ding,as did friends and family edited two others on oil re- marine terminal at Valdez. in Jamestown, RI. from Dallas. These days, I'm covery. Would love to hear He was assisted by Leslie a full-time freelance writer, from fellow classmates at Rice 11171 tak Bush '92, who worked as an farm wife and activist. Much Al during 1968-72." engineering aide for twosum- k ofmy work aims at educating ifig mers on the project. The people about the damages to Elsa Redmond SCit (Brown)and project was the subject of a our health and our socierY her husband, nO1 Charles Spen- recent cover article in the that result from corporate cer '72 (Lovett), now head Ar journal of the Water Envi- Bruce (Sid Rich) and Ellen concentration in the food far, the Department of Meso- ronment Federation. system. I promote alterna- American Archaeology at the Goins Marcus (Baker) tives in my articles and American moved in January to Glencoe, Rav, Museum of Natu- Sharon Perry(Jones) writes: through my involvement with ral History in New York. Ill., to be closer to VVTTVV, "I have recently restructured Channel 11, where Bruce is the Kansas Rural Center, the est my architectural practice and senior vice president of mar- Prairieland Food Cooperative joined forces with another keting and communications. and the Kansas Farmers the Rice grad,Louise Girard'88 Evan,11, Lauren, 6, and Jor- Union." (Baker), to form the design dan,4, are all adjusting well. firm of Perry & Girard. Our They would love to hear from Yazmin Kahn Lemenage area of Rice alumni in the Anchor- interest continues to any other "Leeds-era Sid (Brown) married Marl, be residential 28,1990, age area gathered at a local work, both ar- Richardsonites." Lemenager on July chitectural sports bar to watch the Rice and interior and is now working as a school design. Other recent com- psychologist ins school basketball team demolish the Alan Burdick (M.Mus.) rural missions include restaurants 60 miles Minneapo• University of Texas on na- writes: "Since November south of and executive office projects. lis/St. Paul. tional TV.Gleefully enjoying 1990, I have been music di-

50 Sallyport the Okla., and his grandparents "My time is currently be- Yin in New Mexico. As my par- ing taken up in making a bed "is ents have recently moved to out of purpleheart wood for )1in Santa Fe, my only reason to my two-year-old son, Hal. ;ter visit Houston now is to see Kids are great and I highly ar- "I got involved with the struggle to stop the U.S. friends from Rice. Anyone recommend some for every ork going to Homecoming '92 family!" the Army's proposed takeover of 100,000 acres of and a 10-year reunion?" self Kansas farm and ranch land. At one of the Deron S. Miller (Will Rice) Susan Biela Reinhard (Will writes:"I was promoted from strategy sessions, I met Jim Scharplaz, a former Rice) writes: "Promoted to business development man- ce) staff manufacturing engineer ager at Aetch, Inc., and om engineer who now farms full-time near Salina. at IBM, Austin, Texas, where moved to corporate head- md To make a long story extremely short, we were I work in the early manufac- quarters in San Diego,Calif , de- turing involvement depart- to become vice president of less married in August 1991." ment in the printed circuit sales. Originally worked out for board plant—we perform ofthe regional office in Phila- Lrol design reviews of new card delphia, Pa." eis- designs." ork or Mark Edward Brennan "I had the honor of being Nancy Rapoport (Jones) hat (Lovett) writes:: "After three in Walt Sumner's(Sid Rich) writes: "On December 28, 3gy Years ofsuckling at the swol- wedding and recently visited Ronald J. Mann (Sid Rich) C. len, distended teat of him and his wife, Carla, in and Allison DeKunder were lys- corporate America, I have Class Recorder: Hanover, N.H., where he married in Houston. I had Mike Lieb (Lovett) writes: 14 taken leave ofGE to return to B. David Brent is doing a fellowship in the honor of being the best "Hey,gang. I've recently fin- Private practice and tilting at 333 Julia Street, #310 computer applications in man/honor attendant(What ished my MHA at Trinity vn) Mndmills." New Orleans, LA 70130 medicine. I also visited Joe do you call a female best man? University in San Antonio, yed (504) 581-1805(home) Kelley (Lovett)and his fam- We still haven't figured it out, and I'm now doing an ad- r Of (504) 588-5314(work) ilyin Albuquerque,N.M., last but it worked,whatever I was ministrative residency here at fi- year." called). David Dow (Baker) Parkland Hospital in Dallas. ne, Marion M. Wilson (Jones) and Yen Johnson '85 (Sid I've seen a lot of Rice grads inc writes: "My husband, Bart Matthew G. Dore (Will Rich) were also among the here, including Ann Friauf in Gryzalski,teaches philosophy Rice) has been named ushers. Tom Tillotson '83 '84, Joe Veltri '84, Bill k a Class Recorder: at Northeastern University in shareholder in the Austin, (Sid Rich) and Amy Wig,gs Moebius'82 ( all Lovett),and sas. Richard Morris Boston. We are in northern Texas, law firm of Graves, '85 (Lovett) did a beautiful Loy'84 and Shelley Harris 9555 was Cloverdale California until September on Dougherty, Hearon & job performing the music for (both Jones). Anyone else in- San Antonio, TX 78250 sabbatical. He is writing a Moody. the wedding.Other Rice folks here in Dallas—look me up." ote (512) 523-1820(home) book on environmental eth- came to the wedding and re- (512) rch 342-6063(work) ics, and I am writing a book Timothy Haney (Wiess) ception. It was really nice to Brett Phillips (Wiess) mar- 4ble on the hospice that I founded writes: "I was promoted to get together with everyone. ried Martha Asaff on In in- the February issue of at Texas Medical Center." supervisor of the engineer- Ronald and Allison took time November 23. Best man was S4Ilyporr, Wes Hansen's ing/scientific workstation out for a James Murray '85 (Wiess). vith ( short honeymoon, J.S. Lovett) corporation was in- Mary Hunter Ortiz(Baker) products group at Shell. We and they have settled in Wash- Brett is working as an indus- c r of orrectly identified as Wnc is teaching eighth-grade sci- moved into a new home in ington, where they are both trial hygienist with Loftin Sal's. It should have been Wry Environmental Services in irm Saps. ence at Shirley Hall Middle November and had our sec- working for the federal gov- the School in Weatherford ISD. ond child in January." ernment." Albuquerque, N.M. Jim She married Hector R. Ortiz bavid leer Luneau (Lovett) in July 1990, and they have Lt. Harold Laurence (Sid Victoria G. K. Rizey Writes teat "to inform you ofsome been in the Fort Worth- Rich)writes from Bremerton, (M.Arch.) writes: "I have an r .orY ecent accomplishments Weatherford area for about a Wash.:"I have recently com- architectural practice in Wash- •ere (that's what I call them,any- year. pleted my third patrol as the ington, D.C., in partnership WaY) 91. in my life. My wife,Terri, Strategic Weapons Officer on with my husband, Douglas. t. r ol ,,o kids (Andrea, 7, and Eric Van Os(Lovett) writes: Ronald Mann (Sid Rich) is the USS Florida. (That's The firm, Rixey-Rixey Archi- thy 5),and I left Houston "After finishing my internal currently assistant to the So- right, I've had my finger on tects,recently won a Southern wn) alld NASA in 1986 after five medicine residency in 1988 licitor General of the United the nuclear war button for Living Home Award for a Years in the area. I have been at U.T. Health Science Cen- States in Washington, D.C. new house in Richmond,Va." workingwith the last two years. Now nily AT&T in Little ter in San Antonio, I spent He began serving in the So- doesn't that make all of you Nock for the past five years. three months as a general licitor General's office in feel safe?) The ship and crew ter, 'This school year I have medical officer at a mission March 1991 and plans to re- were selected as the 1991 taken a leave ofabsence from hospital in Kenya, East Af- main there for three to five uch AT&T Battle Efficiency "E" and :in in order to be a visit- rica. This was a challenging years, until his return to the Marjorie Sterrett Award win- sell s to "8professor r in the college of and life-changing experience. Houston law firm of Dow, ner. That means we were the ierice Robert Stone(Jones) writes: ietY and engineering tech- Upon return to San Antonio, Cogburn & Friedman in highest rated submarine on "After receiving my MBA rate "c'logy at the University of I joined the faculty of the Houston. the entire west coast,and we ikr, from Georgetown in May ;)()/41 sas at Little Rock. So medical school in the general arc quite proud of that ac- 1991, I rejoined Dow Jones rria" good. medicine division. In this ca- Rev. Dr. Leonora Mont- complishment. & Co. as manager of North and 'Earlier this year I was pacity, I helped supervise the gomery and the members of "I was glad to see the Asia, based in Tokyo. I hope Tyco the Fred M. Carter internal medicine part of the the congregation of the Bay Sallyport article about my "ward any Rice friends passing the for making the high- county hospital emergency Area Unitarian Fellowship former college master, Dr. et8t through this part ofthe world [Ilse grade on the Professional room. Though stressful at have recently moved into their Martin, who wrote a biogra- rigineering examination in new structure in Webster, will get in touch with me." Icr the times,I enjoyed the teaching phy ofDr. Billy Graham. Dr. state ofArkansasin 1990." and patient care. Beginning Texas. Graham came to Seattle this Russell S. Buhite (Baker) in July 1992,Iwill be moving year and I had the privilege to writes: "I married Patricia Iger to Minnesota to pursue a Susan S. Woodard (Baker) be one of his Crusade Coun- Becker in Tampa, Fla., on three-year fellowship in gas- writes: "I have taken a break selors. It was an encouraging May 25, 1991. Attending NO, troenterology. After 19 years from my career as a D.J.Since experience. As Dr. Martin were Becky Nelson '86, 1001 in Texas, this will be quite a the birth of my first child, I points out, Dr. Graham is a Phillip Chase '86, Art 1001 change. have been busy taking him to very respectable man and Rabeau '86, Steve Vobach see relatives—his97 -year-old sets a solid standard of '85 and Mike Alford'85 (all great-grandfather in Tulsa, Christlikeness.

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Baker). I joined the law firm and democracy in Europe. Laura Ferguson (Brown) Owens '87 (Brown), Mark lege of Medicine. He is at- nne ofFowler, White, et al., as an Next week I'll be in Zagreb writes: "My husband, Steve Mitchell '85 (Baker) and tending on a U.S. Air Force to associate in the insurance liti- to visit my grandparents in Barrett '87(M.B.A.), and I Patty Nghicm (Hanszen). Health Professions Scholar- the gation department." Europe's newest capital city. remain in Stephenville, near Susan and Bill went to the ship and plans a residency in Pam Living in Germany, I've also Fort Worth. He is product island of Kauai in Hawaii for ophthalmology. Cati Grace-Marie Brown(Baker) seen the reunification first engineering manager for their honeymoon. They live Jennifer J. Ettelson (Hans- net married Randall Bennett Kolb hand, and now Croatia is its FMC here, and I remain in in a house they bought two zen) writes: "After two years cha, February 1 in St. Cyril of own country. Unreal. This is private practice pediatrics. blocksfrom the Rice campus. ofteaching English as a very, lit] Alexandria Church. Sharon world history folks. Let's Benjamin, now 14 months, Susan graduated from UT very foreign language here in It is Hughes Tuttle and Eliza- party!" joined Marian, 7, and Law School with honors in Motril,Spain, I married Jose bilil beth Hazlewood Leight Stephanie, 3." 1989 and has been practicing Manuel Fernandez-Garcia, Pro ( both Baker) were honor at- Laura Adlyn Derrick with Baker & Botts ever since. and on December I,our son, opt tendants. (Brown) writes: "It's time to Simone Redrupp (Wiess) is Bill operates his own busi- Elias Manuel Fernandez catch up after so long. My "still working for Lufthansa ness, manufacturing and Ettclson was born. We're all Mt' Gonzalo M.Garcia (Lovett) husband,John Pritchett,and German Airline in Frankfurt, marketing computer-related living happily together with writ writes: "In March 1991, I were married three years Germany, but living in Paris. equipment (EPROM and our very small dog, Tulip, in enti changed jobs and went to ago and have lived in Dallas Any Ricees in Paris, look me PLD programmers). a sunny apartment up five mo, work for an affiliate of Blue since then.We both dosound up." flights of stairs and over the two Cross/Blue Shield of the recording on movies, so we William Leven (Hanszen) main street. 'Just another sigi National Capital area as di- spend most of our time on Kenneth Colina (Wiess) writes: "Laura and I have passing truck'recently turned eon rector of sales. Saw Joe location in Los Angeles and graduated from Baylor Col- moved temporarily to New out to be a slight earthquake, has Davidson (Lovett) in New anywhere else the business lege of Medicine in May York. I began as associate at but we can see the sea from Bo York in February and Mich- takes us.So far, we've been to 1991,with highest honors in Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the living room windows." am elle "Billie" Fitzpatrick such diverse locations as the graduating class, and is March,and lam looking for- flg (Jones) and her husband, Hong Kong, Jamaica, and currently a resident in pediat- ward to our permanent move Eric Kellogg Beach (Wiess) Art Mike Lardon (Lovett), in almost everywhere in the rics at Children's Hospital in back to Houston. Since writes: "In February, I ac- con San Diego in March. continental U.S. Our son, Seattle, Wash. He is engaged graduation, we have had a cepted a position at Richard gui Jackson Patrick Pritchett,was to Ann Bauser (Will Rice), son, Andrew, now two years Fleischman Associates in in born July 14, 1991, while and the wedding is set for old,and a second child on the Cleveland—yes, Cleveland." Sty John was working on Robert August 8. way." Ian Altman'ssoon -to-be-released Karen Louise Oehler(Jones) Ofc movie,'The Player.' Jackson Susan Schrakamp and Bill Min Ying Lim (Jones) will married Alan Gatherer ot has also become a little world White (both Wiess) were be completing an internship in Austin on September 21, roe traveler and recently made a married November 9,at First in three-year internal medi- and is currently pursuing ad; cameo appearance in his first Presbyterian Church in cine residency in June at Beth her doctorate in electrical Chi film. It's worth noting that Houston. Susan's maid of Israel Medical Center in New engineering at Stanford Uni- Ma: the Sallyport is one of his fa- honor was Cathy Mao York. "And I thought Rice versity. Ricl vorite publications( he ate the (Brown). Her bridesmaids was tough!" ne% entire cover ofthe last issue). included Marianne Lloyd Michael D.Jones (M.Mus.) bacl I'm looking forward to (Hanszen), Bence Wise writes:"In the five years since by showing him around Rice, Curtis (Jones) and Dina completing my master's de- tar, but wanted to ask you to Allen Pyron (Brown). Bill's gree,I have done two national and publish a map first, as the best man was Willie Hunt tours with opera companies; SOU campus seems to be chang- '85 (Wiess) and his grooms- worked extensively on the Nancy Burns Felts ing so fast!" men were Chris Curtis '83 Karen Ajeck Carman development of new works Ten (M.Arch.)has been promoted (Will Rice), Robert Boyd (Ph.D.) and Howard for the operatic and musical ried to associate with TRO/Thc Shelina Shariff-Zia (Hans- '85, Rick Harris and John Carman '85 (Ph.D.) write theater stages in Banff. In ; Ritchie Organization, archi- zen)"returned to Pakistan to Q. Smith (all Wiess). from Tennessee, where Canada;and have been livinF fle tects, which specializes in the have a formal wedding cer- Houston-area Rice alumni Howard is a research staff in New York for the last three Cu planning and design ofhealth emony. Asad and I hope to sharing in the festivities in- member in the chemical years. I am currently finish- care and related facilities. move back to New York in cluded Robin Altholz '85, physics section at the Oak ing up a contract with the the fall." Lisa Berman, Joyce Ivy, Ridge National Laboratory Florentine Opera in I'vlilwatr Alice Mao '83, Jennifer and Karen manages a plastics kee,VVis., as an affiliate artist. Null, Jessica Landisman processing and testing lab at In November of this year, I '10 Williams '85, Geoff Eastman Chemical Company travel to Montreal, Quebec Spradley '83 (all Jones), Research Laboratories. r to do a premiere of Maurici" ivrj Carrie Boone, Bob Casey, Kagel's AusDeurschlandwith Class Recorder: Kin Jorge Martin de Nicolas'84 Paul J.Dickinson (Hanszen) Le Nouvel Ensemble David Phillips Ira( Class Recorders: (all Wiess), Vick Fisher '85, has been elected to member- Moderne, a group which 6013 Ridgeview Drive Si Cliff and Alice Dorman Steve Kim '85 (both Will ship in Alpha Omega Alpha specializes in new works. 1st Alexandria, VA 22310 de 3315 Quiet Lake Drive Rice), Sophie Holguin honor society at Baylor Col- greatest interest is in new (703)960-9249 Katy, TX 77450 Ih (713)395-2168 (home) It Boris Jezic (Wiess) writes: (713) 527-4649 (work) "Went to Holland a few (713)493-8484 (work) Sep weeks ago hoping to 8( meet L.A. lawyer Joe Mark Alan Fowler (Will Davidson '84 (Lovett) and Rice) married Mary Amelia Bei get 'Amsterdamaged' to Schroeder last December and "We're all living happily together with our very P.M cele-brate the European is at home in Dallas. Mark is Community's January 15 rec- pursuing his Ph.D. at SMU small dog, Tulip, in a sunny apartment up five ce r ognition of Croatia. Due to and is currently an electrical Ski , some logistical failure we engineer with Elcctrospace. flights of stairs and over the main street. 'Just didn't hookup,but we talked another passing truck' recently turned out to be Loi on the phone. Last year's George Hampton (Wiess) bloody war in Croatia has "placed third in the Newport a slight earthquake, but we can see the sea from been a real crisis for my loved Beach Community Spelling the living "SI ones. I hope that the United Bee. The spelling bee raises room windows." States will soon follow money for literacy programs haN. Europe's lead and follow this at the Newport Beach Public a Sc' initiative to support freedom Library."

52 Sallyport Mark Colonna (Sid Rich) s at- music but still lam connected writes: "Currently taking a are living in Boston, where am the marketing director for "Now I'm back home at 5 orce to performance of music of six-month sabbatical from Dan is studying to get his JAMS.,the nations largest Santa Fe, Odessa, Texas Diar- the past. This music of our work to travel and see the Master's of Divinity degree maker of funky beachwear 79765." y in Past has its place in our edu- USA. Stopping in Houston at Gordon Cornell Seminary. shorts—NOT! J.A.M.S., Ju- cation and in our history, but in time for Beer-Bike and to Dan and Catherine have dicial Arbitration and Ben Middleton (Jones) 'ans- new music is the greatest visitfriends. So far I have seen a 2-year-old daughter, Mediation Service,is actually writes: "On June 8, Holly leafs Challenge for us to accept and Forrest Williams and plan Jacqueline, and a 5-month- the nations largest provider and I, now in Atlanta, cel- rery, is the reflection of our time. to visit with Nick Slavik old son, Daniel. of ADR, alternative dispute ebrate our first anniversary." re in It is, I believe, our responsi- (both Sid Rich), Milli Coil "Dan Sullivan'87 (VViess) resolution services. J.A.M.S. Theyfondly recalled their San Jose bility to nurture this field and (Lovett), Laura Reece is living in New Jersey with has 14 offices, mainly in Cali- Antonio wedding last sum- rcia, Promote it's study and devel- (Jones), Mike Hogan his wife, Kim. Kim graduated fornia, but also Texas, mer,attended by such notable son, opment." (Baker) and Amy Spiegel'86 from Princeton with a degree Georgia,New York and open- owls as Felix Dawson '90, dez- (Jones)as I travel around. I'll in biochemistry,and Dan will ing soon in an area near you. Debbie Daniels Dawson e all Michael Ochoa (Sid Rich) be back in Washington by graduate from Princeton About 200 retired judges '91, Steve Sain '90 (all with Writes: "After spending my September,in time to resume Theological Seminary this conduct the hearings for Jones), Brett Kimmel (Will p, in entire life in Houston, I am work as an environmental year with his Master's in Di- JAMS.Anyway, ifyou come Rice), Heather "Bunny" five Moving to New Jersey for engineer with Radian Corp." vinity. to San Francisco, give me a Caldwell '87 (Baker) and • the two years on a rotational as- "David Kiang(Will Rice) call." groomsman/old pal, Chris ther signment to Prudential's Louise Girard (Baker) is living in Houston, was Brenno '90 (Jones). Now, med corporate headquarters. I writes: "After receiving an married on June 15, 1991, Sophie Holguin Owens Holly careens toward a Ph.D. Lake, have absolutely no desire to associates degree in interior and now works as a claims (Wiess)writes: "I recently met in clinical psychology. Ben ionn go to graduate school, as I design from The Art Insti- adjuster for State Farm. and married Craig Owens, finagles his way up the ladder s." am slowly but surely ascend- tute of Houston, I spent a "Ryan McDonald '88 here in Fort Worth.Rice grads at Coca-Cola USA as associ- ing the corporate ladder with year of internship with the (Will Rice) recently returned who came up for the wed- ate creative director, less) America's largest insurance architectural design firm of from his Luce Fellowship in ding included Cathy Mao communications. There, he ac- company. Much to the cha- Stinson, Perry & Berg. This Taiwan and has started work- '86, Crystal Walker '86 often encounters Dan Sayre hard grin of all the single women year I have opened my own ing for National Instruments (both Brown), Kristina '77 (Hanszen), director, S in in Houston (and New Jer- design firm in partnership in Austin. He is dating Anu Brennan'87, Sandra Nayak Coca-Cola, trademark. nd." seY), I'm getting married in with Sharon L. Perry '74 Rao '88 (Brown). (both Baker) and Mike As they dine on mounds June. My fiancee and I met, (Jones), AIA, another Rice "Gina Gooding Lathan Moorehead (Jones)." of year-old, frozen carrot Ines) ofcourse, at work in a typical grad. Our main area of '88 (Jones) is married and cake, they read the Sayport erer office romance.Standing with interest is in residential archi- living in South Carolina. She with anticipation,wondering 21, ine in my wedding will be tecture and interior design. and her husband have a what distant shores and lofty ding %Ian Button,Brad Dibble, Other recent commissions daughter, Catherine. goals their classmates have rical Chris Kohnhorst '86 and include restaurants and ex- "Tessa Ibrra Fuqua '88 conquered. Pleased to read Uni- Mark Colonna '88 (all Sid ecutive office projects. (Jones) is married and at- of Rice rugby's continued Rich). Rest assured that my Another Rice architecture tending law school at the success, Ben gave us these new wife and I plan to settle grad,Diane Harkins Mode- University of Houston. words to chew on: "Kick to [us.) back in Houston. Hopefully, sett'90(M.Arch.), is working "Julie Griswold lives in the weak side, the grass is by ;ince 1994, Rice will be a regu- with us to round out three Houston and works at Rice softer there." de- larvisitor to the Cotton Bowl decades of Rice training and as an academic advisor. °nal and the NCAA basketball experience." "Kiran Musty Winfield t nies; ournament." (Lovett)is married and living the in Houston. orks Jeff Burton (Sid Rich) mar- "David Chapman '88 sical ried Venus on October 26,. (Lovett) and Tasha Neeper inff, In attendance were Apollo Chapman '87 (Lovett) are Class Recorder: ving ,dc la Garza and Jupiter living in Georgia and work- Jennifer Cooper hree `-aitter IV (both Sid Rich). Brent Knapton (Will Rice) ing on staff with Campus Jennifer Leshnower(Baker) 1616 Ridgewood iish- writes: Crusade for Christ at Geor- writes: "In October, I as- Houston,TX 77006-1034 the "On December 21, Ed gia Tech University. sumed the second violin (713) 523-6549(home) van- McConnell '88 (Will Rice) "Darren Melonson '88 position of the Thouvenel (713)861-4975 (work) mist. married Kim Hodgson (Will Rice) is still living in String Quartet in Midland- ar, 1 (Lovett) in Dallas. Ed re- Fort Worth, Texas, working Odessa,Texas, after finishing James A. Quigley writes: ebec turned in 1990from a year of as a computer programmer my master's of music degree "Starting this summer,I will ricio Jorge Contreras (Hanszen) study abroad in Germany and for General Dynamics. last May from The Peabody be leaving Boston for a with Wfites: "Became engaged to now works for National In- "Mark Norman(Lovett) Conservatory of Johns warmer climate and to begin kunberly Kaphingst after struments in Austin. Kim is a is working in the former So- Hopkins.I love the job.!still Ph.D.research at the Stanford graduating hie!' from Harvard Law teacher and track coach at viet Union fora management can't get over that I'm get- Linear Accelerator Center." MY School. I served a one-year Great Hills Christian School consultant firm. ting paid to play all this great new .c1,erkship1 with Chief Justice in Austin. Matron of honor "Bill Burns '91 (Will music! Now I hope to per- Stan Gustas (Will Rice) 1„hcnnas R. Phillips on the was Pam Klassen Lawrence Rice) is living in Houston form in Rice's new music writes: "I was married De- exas Supreme Court.I have '88 (Lovett), who is living and will graduate this year building. cember 28,in Phoenix,Ariz., lcs cepted a job beginning in in Canada and studying to be with his degree in music. "Since graduation,I have to Lisa Scott. In attendance ZPtember at the firm ofHale a CPA. Best man Bob "Derek Iwamoto (Will seen several Rice grads. Matt were fellow Will Rice mem- Dort in Boston, Mass." Montague (Jones) is work- Rice)is still studying in Japan, McCarthy, Kevin Gass bers Adam Petruszka '89, ing for IBM in Austin. He but was present at the wed- (both Lovett) and I went Fred Bentsen, Jimmy l/t..eth Gibbs and Preston races bicycles and hopes to ding by way of a telegram." to Monticello, Thomas Grossman '89, Steve ,'Hs Johnson H '85 (both do so professionally. Jefferson's very cool home. Thompson '89, Seth '-ovett) were married on De- "I am working as a systems David Addington (Will Carol Rohl'90 (Baker) and Brubaker '88,Ben Skinker el-nber 28. Attendants engineer for Stone &Webster Rice) writes: "In a continu- I visited in San Francisco. '89, Karen LaCroix '89, ,Included Hania Lukaszew- Engineering Corp., and my ing and impossible quest to Dierdre Ward (M.Mus.), Emily Cates, Michelle 7kiand Edith Feldman(both Martin '92, James Fisher 4..ovet„). wife, Michelle, is teaching in live as far west as possible on Stephen Rose and I DID San Katy ISD.We spent six weeks a round globe,I have moved Diego. I even saw Justine and Kirk Oden(Baker). Since last summer in Indonesia as- from Sacramento to San Watts(M.Mus.) in London. the honeymoon, we've been ka(u,ndolph Scott Bertin sisting in a community Francisco. I have taken up And I visited Heather traveling the world starting 4" ess) and Paula Suzanne development program. residence in a quaint San Brown '91 (Lovett), Chris up refineries for UOP." L"tizi" Larkin '90(Brown) "Dan Burns '87 (Will Francisco apartment complex Rose '91 (Baker), Riely "aVe announced their en - Rice)and his wife,Catherine with 1254 units,a block from Francis(Sid Rich)and Dave tagement and plan a Spradley Burns'88 (Jones), the Transamerica Tower. I Murray'91(Hanszen) down ePtember wedding. in Houston last summer.

June / July '92 53 My diet has shifted to various Lawrence J. Fossi'79 (Will Dirk, announce the birth of forms ofmarine life,and sumo Rice)and his wife, Ellyn, an- their daughter, Kathleen and kabuki have replaced nounce the birth of their Michelle, July 22. Linda is a more Texan entertainment. daughter, Randall Meta, free-lance clarinetist in the Class Recorder: In six months I've improved January 20. Whitney,5 1/2, Los Angeles area and instruc- Ross Goldberg my Japanese from the level of Shelley Marshall Payne'72 is a proud big sister. tor at the University of 1001 Quill Lane a complete incompetent to (Jones) and her husband, California-Riverside. Oreland,PA 19075 that ofa bumbling incompe- David,announce the birth of Jeff Kerr '79 (Lovett) and (215) 233-4508 tent. Marshall David May 15. wife, Sharon, are pleased to Tom '83 (Lovett) and Su- "Because of the afore- announce the arrival ofLaura san Brown Snook '83 Class Recorder Ross Gold- mentioned lack of Tex-Mex Steven J. Easley'76 (Wiess) Caroline, February 2. Laura (Brown) announce the birth berg writes: and Owls coverage, I plan to and Leigh Ann added Evan joins brother, David, 2. oftheir daughter,Sarah Eliza- Life in Philadelphia has return to Texas when my Kirk to the family July 28. No beth, February 10. been going well. I finally contract expires in August, a one is happier about it than Bruce '80 (Sid Rich) and landed a job at Mosby-Year decision I made with some older brother, Eric Joseph,3. Rachel Hill Deslcin '83 Marjorie Foelker Varner Book, a medical and allied regret. I will certainly miss Since November,Steve has a (Jones) announce the birth '83 (Will Rice) and David health-care publisher. For the relaxed life ofrural Japan new job as engineering man- of Thomas Paul November Varner '82 (Sid Rich) an- now I'm in training and get- and the people I have met ager of multi-chip modules 14. nounce the birth of Monica ting used to the "Mosby from around the world. Once for NCR Corp. Anne February 18. style," but eventually I'll be back I hope to find gainful Timothy Haney'81 (Wiess) responsible for herding books employment as the equip- Elaine Austin Lange '76 and his wife announce the Gonzalo M. Garcia '84 from manuscript to bound ment specialist at the Crown (Jones) and Kevin announce birth of their second child, (Lovett) and his wife, book. I can't say the material and Serpent. the birth of their son, Eric Amanda Elizabeth, January Alexandra, announce the is too stimulating (my first "While over here I've run Austin Lange January 6. 15. She joins brother, Jacob, birth of their son, Nicholas book is entitled "Atypical into several other Rice people. 2, who is very proud of his (Lovett '13) in November. Orthopedic Radiographic Maureen &holes (Wiess) is Curtis '77 (Sid Rich) and new sister. Positions") and I wouldn't thriving in the outland of Joan Roman Shelling '79 John Giltner'84 (Will Rice) look for it on the bestseller Tottori. Andy Venier (Jones), announce the birth Chris '82 and Kay Snell and his wife, Maggie, an- lists too soon, but lam learn- (Lovett)is also doing well on of their second daughter, Gerken '83(both Hanszen) nounce the birth of their ing the nuts and bolts of the the island of Shikoku. Paula Greta Christine, January 17. announce the birth of Tho- second daughter, Margaret publishing industry. Perry(Jones) is buried in the She joins big sister, Victoria, mas Scott,December 15. He Shannon "Molly" June 9. Ifany other Rice grads are snow up north, but is also 3. joins big sister, Karen, 2-1/ Molly joins Meagan,3. John in the Philadelphia area please having a good time. Glen 2. Kay's sisters,Barbara Snell continues to work for Exxon give me a call. And,if you are Jory (Hanszen) is teaching C. IL Anderegg '78 (Sid '86 and Carol Snell '88 in Houston,currently on the a 1991 grad, please pass on down south on Kyushu. All Rich)and his wife,Marianne, (both Hanszen) came to Trinidad exploration project. info about what you're doing four sound like they will stay announce the birth of their North Carolina to welcome to either me or Sallyport. another year." first child, Sarah Elizabeth, the new baby. Susan Goodfriend Wald- February 26. man '84 (Brown) and her Daryl Engelbert(Will Rice) Melissa Ann Bush (Baker) Michael L.Miller '82 and his husband, Syd,announce the writes:"I've been in lwakuni, and Michael Gordon Gerry Bustillo'78 (Sid Rich) wife,Ellen A.Considine '85 birth oftheir,daughter,Rachel Japan,for the last six months Grubbs '90 (Baker) were writes: "Our new triplets ar- (both Lovett) had their sec- Elyse, February 18. and have had a great time and married in Waco in Novem- rived safely October 15. ond child, Allison Leigh, a few unique scenes, one of ber 1991 and are at home in Daniel, David and Sofia join February6 in Frankfurt,Ger- Anita Gallatin Johnson'85 which I would like to relate: Houston. Melissa is a con- big sister, Marisa,4 1/2. Life many. Mom and daughter are (Lovett) and her husband "'Good morning,' I said sultant with Anderson has become more hectic and both doing great. announce the birth of their loudly into the microphone, Consulting and Michael is an the house has suddenly son, Grant William, July 18. 'How are you?' accountant at Deloitte shrunk." Jean-Francois P. Beat '82 He joins sister, Michelle, 3. "'Fine, thank you. And Touche. Margot Merck (Baker)and his wife, Donna, you?' came the answer from (Baker) was maid of honor, Henry Hernandez '78 announce the birth of their Marcinc Gibson McCune"' 1800 Japanese students in and bridesmaids included (Lovett)and his wife, Benin., first child, Ellen Jayne, Sep- '85(Baker) and her husband, unison. Ellen Rein( Baker) and Mary announce the birth of their tember 23. They will stay in Jerry, announce the birth of "During the graduation Fonseca (Baker). Todd son, Michael John, January Houston while Jean-Francois their son, Jeffrey Nolan ceremony last May, I didn't Peiffer '90 (Sid Rich) was 15. He joins brothers, Henry does a residency in orthope- McCulley, December 26. envision myself on the other best man and other atten- 111,3, and James Luis, nearly dic surgery with Baylor side ofthe podium, speaking dants included Joe Martins 2. College of Medicine in Dan '87 (Will Rice) and to row after row oftidy black '90(Wiess), Mike Pierce'90 Houston, following his Catherine Spradley Burns heads. But thanks to the JET (Baker), Jay O'Dell'90 (Sid Jeffrey Meffert '78 (Sid graduation from Baylor last '88 (Jones) announce the program, there I was last Rich), Jeff Burpo (Baker) Rich)and his wife, Paula,an- May. His surgical internship birth of Daniel Taylor Octo- November in Iwakuni about and Dave Old (Baker). nounce the birth of their begins in July,to be followed ber 25. Daniel joins his sister, to deliver a speech on-guess second son, Ian, November by four years of orthopedic Jackie, 2. The family is now what?-`Cultural Differ- Kurt Moeller(Hanszen) re- 1. Jeffrey will be returning to training. living in S. Hamilton, Mass:, ences.' cently covered the first school to start a dermatology where Dan is pursuing his "I feel fortunate to have execution in Wyoming in 25 residency at Wilford Hall Linda Gall Silva '83 M.Div. at Gordon-Conwell had the chance to live a lot of years. He works as a newspa- Medical Center in San (M.Mus.) and her husband, Theological Seminary. those differences since I ar- per reporter for the Wyoming Antonio. rived here last July. I teach in Tribune-Eagle in Cheyenne. a junior/senior high school His beat is mainly economic Kurt Stonesifer '78 and his about an hour from and business news. wife, Elaine, announce that Hiroshima by train. Admit- their son,Karl, has made it to tedly, in the last six months Congratulations to Jolie his first birthday. He is pic- I've lacked a car, a racquet- Bailey and Scott Sustek tured at right in his favorite ball game,Shiner Bock,a bed, (both Brown) who will cel- outfit. Tex-Mex food and Owls cov- ebrate their first anniversary erage, but in return I've in June. A year ago,their Rice Mark Edward Braman'79 received the warmth ofa truly friends were enjoying apiece (Lovett) and his wife, Myna, generous people and the of the groom's cake, which announce the birth of twin chance to see a faraway land. was in the shape of Lovett daughters, Laura and Julia, Hall. September 16-"twelve weeks premature,but miracu- lously healthy."

Karl Stonesifer

54 Sallyport Rice Alumni Friends/Former Faculty/Staff Francis H. Whitaker '19 February 9 Herbert Littleton Bailey Ernest L. Shult'23 March 26 March 16 Elizabeth Nalle Baty Alfred Tyndale White '27 March 14 February 2 Howard Taney Boyd Homer C. Matthes'29 February 10 December 11 Sylvia H. Brown January Joseph H. Greenwood 10 '30 March 30 William Bourke Cassin Josephine B. Richmond March 2 '30 February 20 Edna B."Ted" Frederick "Fritz" Paul Chappelear February 11 Volluner '31 January 2 Sheldon Ernest Clark Charles Lowell Ward '31 March 18 March 7 Benjamin Cooper Dorothy Ann Rohwer'32 January 27 January 30 Frank Gene Crawford Thomas W. VVhitmarsh February 27 '32 in August Sue Woodall Cullinan Thomas Atmar Burch '33, February 27 date unknown Fernando DeLeon William D. Capchart'33 March 26 January 6 William R. Edson William S. Zeloski '33 January 18 August 8 Albert Bel Fay Joseph Arthur Kocurek February 29 34 March 2 Francis Leo Fourrier Charles Dexter Mehr '34 March 1 February 17 Helen McCoy Hedley John Howard Payne Jr. February 13 '34 September 26 George D. Kiperman Sarah Nell Connally'37 March 6 March 7 Joseph James Lamotta Thomas J. Evans '43 March 15 March 5 Joe D. Luna February 4 Thomas J. Graham '44 Carrington Mason February 19 March 12 8 Homer Edwin Reddick Helen Rosenberger Mc- '44 January 30 Enany February 20 artha Shaw Hafkemeyer Andre J. Meyer Jr. M45 ey March 19 January 30 Cholly G."Pete" Howard Richard E. Miller '47 of March 20 January 7 in John W. Magee Jr. '48, Mary V. Minor March 26 date unknown 0. Jack Mitchell Richard Wagner Roessler February 18 48 February 28 Jesse D. Ragan February 1 Wayne ns H. Clouse '49 Albert Patrick Ready February 23 he March 20 William L. Taylor '50 Thomas Philip Scott February co er, February 5 Richard Sterling Allen '51 Alvin L. Small March 6 January 20, 1991 Enjoy keeping up with friends and classmates in the Classnotes section? Why not return the hiS Billy Wayne Bailey '54 Sylvester W. Thorn favor—drop us a line and a (preferably) black-and-white photo at Sallyport, Office of News eli February 11 March 11 & Publications, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251. The deadline for classnotes submissios Travis D. Guye '56 March 25 D John Waller is August 3 for the October/November 1992 issue and October 1 for the December/Januar. ecember 13 Henry A. Sauer 1993 issue. Classnotes received after those dates will appear in the following issue. Sallyport Carolyn Ernmenecker March 21 right to edit classnotes for length and style. Benson '63 September 15 Melvina Weingarten reserves the Antone Josef Valerga '70 March 15, 1991 In. January Edward W. Werner Jr. Job? 0 New Baby? 11111 S. Caldwell'72 0 Married? 0 New February 15 0See a Classmate? January 31 Carleton E. Wolters 0 Promoted? 0 Take a Trip? Marilyn Faye Miller '74 February 17 0 Moved? 0 Back in School? 0 Other? March 2 Louis Austin Wood Revin James Harvey '81 March 14 March 11 Send us details: leanne Carroll Arnold 82,date unknown

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Rice Institute opened its Graduation ceremonies Rice University hosted facilities to non-students for the first class to the "Rice Design Fete" 1922 for the first time. About participate in World War by inviting some of the 250 members of area Boys' and II underwent several changes. For nation's top designers for a unique Girls' Clubs spent their annual the first time in its 30-year history, experiment in architectural design 1 summer camp on the campus. Boys Rice Institute had no commence- and education. During the two- participated in stock, poultry and ment speaker. The 50 graduates week charette, architects and their grain contests on the athletic field. who were granted degrees in student staff were given the same Girls spent their days in the absentia did not miss President problem—to probe new concepts kitchens for canning demonstra- Lovett's traditional garden party, for college buildings. All partici- tions and contests. since it was cancelled; instead, pants worked and ate on campus; those seniors were already sta- coffee breaks, breakfasts and bull June tioned far away in the armed forces sessions replaced the usual variety or employed in war industries. of speeches at conferences. While students burned L-1 the midnight oil June June cramming for finals, the assistant 1..1•• baseball coach, who aided 142 The year's final Thresher The turbulent student the team to second place in the devoted one-dan -a-half activism of the age conference, was let go. The coach's I pages to cigarette ads. A resonated even into dismissal, blamed upon the Lucky Strike ad showed a smiling graduation, when a non-conform- Depression, compounded already male student sporting a white lab ing graduating senior refused to existing fears of the baseball team's coat who said,"Anatomy is my wear the traditional black cap and abolition, but rumor had it that the roughest lab/ But everything is gown. The senior, who preferred administration would not rule on ducky/ When I can lay my scalpel to donate his $8 cap-and-gown the team's fate until December. down/ And light a tasty Lucky!" A rental fee to charity and still dress Meanwhile, 542 students peti- blond female student promoted the with the "dignity of the occasion," tioned that baseball be included on cigarettes with, "In home-ec class wrote,"We have not dressed alike the 1932-33 athletic calendar. the teacher says/ That seasoning during the four years we have adds zest,/ But I don't need a earned our degrees, and I see no course to know/ That Lucky tastes reason to require that we dress the best!" alike when we accept our degrees." In response, the administration mandated that participation in the ceremony was optional; however, participation still required the traditional black garb.

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