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INSIDE Copeland's world of linguistics Commencement'86 A small town in c.d.& JUNE-AUG. 1986, VOL. 42, NO. 5 Across the great divide 6 EDITOR Suzanne Johnson High in the Sierra Madre of Chihuahua, Mexico, the work of Rice linguist James Copeland SCIENCE WRITER bridges the cultural and communication gap between the Tarahumara Indians and the world B.C. Robison of social science. B.C. Robison talks to Copeland about his work both inside and outside the CONTRIBUTING AND Rice community. STAFF WRITERS Erin Blair '88 Steve Brynes Vietnam: A veteran returns 8 Shelly Unger '86 In 1984, William Broyles Jr. '66 went back to Vietnam, the first U.S. combat veteran to set foot Bill Whitmore on Vietnamese soil since the last American troops were evacuated. In this excerpt from PHOTOGRAPHERS his new book, Brothers in Arms, he looks at the reasons behind why men go to war. Alexandra Boterf '85 Laura Derrick '85 Philippe Paravicini'86 Playing to the crowd 11 Peter Yenne '72 DESIGNER but Baker Shakespeare's innovative approach It might lack the polish of professional theater, Carol Edwards to its time-honored subject has made the annual Rice production a much-anticipated event. OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF RICE ALUMNI 12 President, G. Walter McReynolds '65 Commencement 1986 President-Elect, Gwynne E. Old '59 A steady rain couldn't dampen spirits during Rice's May 10 commencement ceremonies as 1st Vice-President, Bridget Rote Jensen '53 more than 900 degrees were awarded. Sallyport preserves the event in pictures. 2nd Vice-President, Nancy Moore Eubank '55 Treasurer, Russ H. Pitman '58 Past President, Harvin C. Moore Jr. '59 A small town in Texas 14 Interim Executive Director, Marilyn Moore'59 Widely known for his work in restoration, architect Harvin C. Moore '27 has spread his hard ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE enthusiasm to keep the past alive in his hometown of Chappell Hill, Texas. Sally- work and ON PUBLICATIONS port's Andre Fox tours Chappell Hill with the Moores and drops in on Richard and Mildred Chairman, John Boles '65 , Ganchan '40/'40 and their Browning Plantation. Third in the Sal/yport sesquicentennial se- Co-chairman, Darrell Hancock '68 ries. Past Chairman, Charles Szalkowski '70 W.W. Akers W.V. Ballew Jr. '40 Brent Breedin Franz Brotzen Ira Gruber Nancy Boothe Parker '52 Sara Meredith Peterson '47 Patti Simon '65 Geri Snider '80 Radio wasteland? he would have a different and more edu- upon leather upholstery. Could she allow Scott Snyder '87 Linda Leigh Sylvan '73 How disheartening it was to read of KLEF- cated opinion. If he still lived in , herself to listen to music produced by he could possibly be doing business with horsehair drawn across catgut? Perhaps FM's change in programming. KLEF was the ALUMNI GOVERNORS station that weaned me from rock and Jeff Rose, president of Texas Commerce, she should change her name, as her . In Dallas, he might want present name can arouse images of caneton Neal T. Lacey Jr. '52 taught me what real music sounds like. Jerry McCleskey '56 classical music station in Hous- to speak with Billy Neal, vice president of a l'orange! Without a Pat H. Moore '52 ton, what is to become of Rice music lovers? MBank, Dallas. I could name others who Miss Kavinsky, an English major, is Their radios are now superfluous. have graduated with the commerce major quoted as saying, "Since I hadn't eaten any that have been just as successful, but I red meat in three years, it didn't seem right SALLYPORT(USPS 412-950) is published in Mike Pelizzari, Ph.D.'76 hope Mr. Hoffman gets the point. We are all that the record of my achievements at Rice September, November, February, April Sunnyvale, CA Rice alumni no matter what career path we should be on a sheep's skin." We question and June by the Association of Rice EDITOR'S NOTE:Since the last issue of Sal- chose, and I have yet to ever hear any of my that a diploma is a "record" of one's Alumni, and is sent free to all university lyport, when the story of classical station fellow athletes say that they wished they achievements. It is a certificate conferring alumni, parents of students, and friends. KLEF's demise was published, public outcry had gone to another school, even one where certain honors, but hardly a "record" in the Second class postage paid at Houston, resulted in a new station with an all- the team is a winner and the students sup- accepted sense.(Although, alas, I was not Texas. classical format. The station, which took the ported them. an English major.)If not having eaten red abandoned KLEF-FM call letters, is now One last comment. I am sorry that Mr. meat for three years makes it wrong for William Marsh Rice University offers applicants with- providing what many deem "real music" 24 Hoffman feels it is necessary to withhold Miss Kavinsky to accept a sheepskin di- equal opportunity to all hours a day his contribution to the annual fund because ploma, what about the printing on the di- out regard to race, color, sex, age, na- of our athletic program. Other schools, with ploma? Surely she hasn't drunk any ink in tional or ethnic origin, or physical No apologies needed just as strong academic requirements as the past three years, so perhaps the(paper) handicap. Rice have been able to build and maintain diploma should be printed in Braille dots. I read with interest the letter from Rodney Editorial offices for SALLYPORT are located successful athletic programs by working to- lam inclined to believe that Miss Duck Hoffman in the February-March issue. Mr. in the Allen Center for Business Activi- gether. I am convinced that Rice can do the and Miss Kavinsky are having a bit of fun Hoffman stated in reference to scholarship ties, Rice University, 6100 South Main same if not only the students, but the fac- with the Rice administration and the press athletes, "if they graduate at all, they do so Street, Houston, Texas. in 'mick' majors." I would be interested in ulty and community, will support the effort. — getting some free publicity, a few knowing why such a fine university would The student athlete doesn't want a "free" laughs, and a big hand from the crowd POSTMASTER: Send address changes to offer so-called "mick" majors, how the pro- ride; he only wants a chance at the best ed- when Dr. Rupp gives them their paper di- SALLYPORT, Office of Information Services, fessors who teach these "mick" courses face ucation available. plomas. Rice University, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, their peers each day, and exactly which Pat Stidham '77 Still, one regrets that these Rice gradu- Texas 77251. courses are considered "mick?" Arlington, TX ates are capable of such triviality which re- Am Ito understand that if a student flects little credit on a great university Copyright 1986 by the Association of Rice majors in something other than the sci- "founded and endowed ad maiorem Dei glo- Alumni, Rice University. ences, his or her degree is not as accept- A meaty topic? riam... in freedom for research, to sober, able as Mr. Hoffman's? I do not know what I have just read in the May 12 issue of a fearless pursuit of truth, beauty, righteous- Mr. Hoffman does for a living and I will not newspaper published in Los Angeles that ness, and to all high emprise consecrated" begin to judge whether or not he is success- two Rice seniors, Sara Duck and Jennifer — Dr. Lovett's noble language on the Rice Alumni MOB sheepskin diploma! ful, but Ida know that the majority of Rice Kavinsky, have asked that their diplomas An alumni version of the MOB is in the graduates whom I know have been success- be printed on paper instead of sheepskin. W.P. Blair '36 planning stages for homecoming, to ful in their chosen fields. I refuse to apolo- The reason stated for this curious prefer- Pasadena, CA be held the weekend of Nov. 15. Those gize to anyone, including other alumni, for ence is that they are vegetarians! the path of education I chose. Granted, the Miss Duck, a political science major, is Getting serious interested in participating with the requirements of entry into Rice might have quoted as saying that she realizes her re- I wonder if anyone else out there noticed band in a halftime show, or in having been lowered to allow some athletes, in- quest for a paper diploma may seem silly. (I that John Papuga's letter on the "brouhaha" a social function before or after the cluding myself, to be accepted, but once in, am sure many people will agree.)She then over Rice athletics made no sense whatso- homecoming game Nov. 15 against the requirements to graduate are the same. states, "I don't participate in eating meat." ever. Yes, we really did chant the "existen- Baylor should contact Guinn Unger at We must compete not only against the top Then she says, "If I draw the line there, why tial cheer," and the "e-to-the-x cheer," and (713) 495-5405(days) or (713) 933-2350 athletes in the country, but also against the not draw the line one step further?" any number of other silly things because (evenings)or by writing him at 12904 top students. It is a challenge that we chose Why not, indeed? Well, because there they were original and creative and cer- Wirevine Lane, Houston, TX 77072. freely. The coaches, at least the ones that is an obvious non sequitur between not eat- tainly more fun than getting serious over a recruited me, made it very clear that if we ing meat and not receiving a diploma on game between two such badly mismatched graduated it would be because we earned fine parchment. If she cannot see the differ- forces. Except for the ones played in furnace Notice it, not because some professor gave us the ence, one wonders if she really merits a di- heat or freezing rain, sports events usually A men's class ring from the Class of grade. ploma. Presumably, to follow her dubious were attended in high spirits. 1985 was found recently at Chicago I do not feel that I need to justify any- logic, if she does not eat meat she cannot Dian Hardison '79 Pizza in Houston. Call the alumni of- thing to Mr. Hoffman, but if he had a chance accept a sheepskin diploma and, therefore, Titusville, FL to meet some of the student/athletes who we must assume that she cannot wear fice at (713)527-4057 to identify and graduated with the commerce major, I think woolen clothing or leather shoes, or sit (Continued on page 16) claim the ring.

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The write stuff, pt. 2 May as an asbestos abatement program fellow students came under the gun in a pully system to ease Aunt Tillie and her "The Hell's Tuna Dick Houck Memorial in Rayzor Hall, Jones College and Sally- second front-page piece, "Jones & Rupp seat back into place after impact. Organic Lab Report Contest," invented by port's homeplace, Allen Center, made School of Administration and Divinity," in Winiecki, an engineer with General chemistry assistant professor Ben faculty and staff members start shaking which the school changes both name and Dynamics in San Diego, Calif., can't at Ruekberg(and repotted on in an earlier things up, twisting them inside out and focus. this point guarantee how the safeguards issue of Sallyport), had no takers in its turning them upside down. Even after According to the article, "Reliable he's designed for Aunt Tillie will work. first — and probably only — year. such hearty manipulation, not quite eve- sources deep within Rice's Board of Over- Still in the early stages, the safercycle is The competition, which Ruekberg rything was identifiable. Quizzical re- seers report the following hidden agenda: now in search of an underwriter for fur- hoped would inspire his students to be frains of "I wonder what this is" filled the Business Ethics will replace Business ther development. creative and improve the quality of their halls and bewildered staff members Strategy as a required full year course for Winiecki also acknowledges that the written lab reports, was open to anyone stared at blank walls and wondered how all second year students...New courses safercycle, when it reaches the marketing who had completed the first year of or- to get at their work that had been neatly will include Acco 5x1, 'Celestial Account- stage, will hold little interest for real mo- ganic chemistry. Entrants, if there had packed in dozens of cardboard boxes. ing: How They Keep the Books Up Yonder:" torcycle enthusiasts. Though Aunt Tillie been any, would have been asked to re- The asbestos abatement program A few weeks later, the student hu- will be reassured by all the added safety write a lab report from the first year of or- (which has also affected the RMC and morists no doubt approached final exams features, the Cycle World test driver, who ganic chemistry in the style of a famous parts of )came as the secure in the knowledge that "How They took Winiecki's safercycle on the road for author. result of a two-year investigation during Grade the Finals Up Yonder" was unaf- an 85-mile spin, had a bit of an identity The ever-optimistic Ruekberg had which the presence of asbestos was de- fected. crisis. hoped to uncover would-be literary types tected in certain areas of several campus "The kid on the XL600 couldn't quite buildings. Though tests revealed that the among the student scientists who would Winning ways figure it out," he writes. "He pulled along- offer such creative ventures as Ernest level of asbestos remained well below the side, did a double-take, cocked his head Hemingway's "The Temperature Also accepted limits of 0.2, the Board of Gover- Before its readers use their old (or new) like the RCA dog, shrugged his shoul- Sallyport to line Tweety's cage or Tabby's Rises" or Charles Dickens'"Tale of Two nors recommended that a removal and/or ders, then rolled his eyes before speeding litter box, they might note to their furry Beakers." Sadly, it was a party to which encapsulation program be undergone as off, catching one last glance over his and feathered friends that today's no one came(though Ruekberg was a precaution. waste shoulder while peeling off for an exit." is yesterday's winner. somewhat mollified by the fact that his For those faculty and staff members The Council for the Advancement creative notice announcing the competi- concerned about having worked, in some and Support of Education(CASE) in tion remained on the department bulletin cases, years with the asbestos, safety of- Washington, D.C., recently selected board long after everything else was re- ficer Bill Glidden sounded a comforting Sal- lyport as one of 10 gold medal winners in moved). note. "It's not as dangerous as most folks the category of tabloid publishing.Sally- Why did the competition fail? think," he says reassuringly. "Standing port was selected from a field of 81 en- Ruekberg has a few ideas. First, he says, outside in Houston and breathing...is trants submitted by colleges and perhaps the stakes weren't high enough much more dangerous." universities throughout the U.S. Seven — those wily Rice students know how to silver medals and one bronze medal were weigh the effort against the gain, and also awarded. perhaps the offered prize of "a large quantity of beer or other beverage at Val- halla with the judges" just didn't measure up. Or maybe the serious Rice students were just too busy since, as Ruekberg Rice's'paper chase' notes, "the emphasis at Rice is on stud- A "paper chase" is exactly what it boils ies." down to for most universities when it A third, more distressing, possibility, comes to getting media coverage for their he notes, is that "maybe the contest was commencement ceremonies. too intellectual and too cross-disciplinary Thanks to graduating seniors Jenni- in a diverse fashion."(Campus advocates fer Kavinsky and Sarah Duck, however, at of the proposed coherent minor, in which least one aspect of Rice's May 10 com- science majors would have to "minor" in mencement was spread throughout the a social science or humanities discipline, A tickled herring country. Kavinsky and Duck, both vege- and vice versa, might want to make note Never let it be said that Rice business stu- tarians, made national news via an Asso- of this.) dents are all business. ciated Press article (as well as front-page The "Hell's Tuna" contest might have As part of April Follies, several stu- feature items in both Houston dailies) failed, but Ruekberg's optimism didn't. dents in the Jones Graduate School of when they requested that their long- "I'm that much richer since I didn't have to Business Administration took the oppor- awaited Rice diplomas be on paper buy anyone any beer," he says philosoph- tunity to bring a bit of levity to the world Ride 'em, Tillie rather than the genuine sheepskins. ically. of business. The article in the April 1986 issue of Cycle Rice is one of the few universities in Their humor came in the form of a World magazine was called "Safety First: the country that still awards its gradu- spoofed-up version of "The Herring Hall A backyard inventor wants to put your ates sheepskin diplomas, which are im- Ledger," the monthly school newsletter Aunt Tillie on two wheels." ported from England and purchased which, as a rule, is serious business in- The "backyard inventor" is Tad Wi- through a company in the Midwest. Only deed. Like the Thresher's annual April niecki '67(M.S.), a motorcycle enthusiast once before in Rice's history has a paper Fool issue, the Ledger parody aimed its and rider for more than 28 years who de- diploma been awarded, that being in barbed witticisms against everyone cided to do something for the cycle-shy 1984 to Mary Lisa Brannon, also a vege- within shooting distance, in this case pri- who have trouble balancing on two feet, tarian. marily within the confines of Herring never mind two wheels. Though a registrar's office spokes- Hall. Winiecki's result is the safercycle man commented dubiously that "they're In the lead "news story" entitled "The (rhyming with "pickle"), of which he has not supposed to eat their diplomas," fel- Jones School: A Pacesetter in MBA Educa- now built an engineering model from a low students wondered whether their tion," for example, a "radical new con- standard BMW R9OS motorcycle. vegetarian ideals extended to shunning cept" in the Jones school is to videotape Aunt Tillie would indeed be pro- leather and wool, and Kavinsky and Duck all lectures. Benefits for such a move tected. Seven inches were added to the themselves acknowledged that some peo- would include elimination of teacher sal- BMW's wheelbase. Steel tubing providing ple would think their request silly, they aries("no live teachers will be needed") what Winiecki calls a "non-intrusion stood firm — and got their paper diplo- and the fact that students "will be able to zone" and "anti-somersault" front end, as mas. fast forward through boring and irrele- well as a metal "corset" to keep the rider In these tough economic times, it is vant portions of the lectures — thus re- in place, makes sure Aunt Tillie doesn't nice to note that a small benefit other Cleaning house ducing the time of the average class from fall out or go flying through the air when than a little offbeat publicity came from At home, most of us do spring house- one hour, twenty minutes, to one minute, she hits a bump. the students'"paper chase." The two $6 cleaning on a regular schedule while, at twenty seconds." Just in case Aunt Tillie hits another paper diplomas saved a whopping $44 work, things tend to pile up. Efficient Jones School Dean Douglas Tuggle, vehicle (or a tree) instead of a bump, Wi- over the cost of buying two $28 sheep- though Rice might be, its cobwebbed Rice President George Rupp, the Board of niecki devised a seat that would move skins(and undoubtedly made some poor Closets came to light in middle and late Governors, and a number of the writers' forward to absorb crash energy, with a sheep very happy).

SALLYPORT-JUNE-AUGUST 1986 3 Netv4 Terrorism cuts university travel plans The fear of terrorism and general unrest said an association-sponsored barge and also had its summer travel offerings af- successful trip to Australia. abroad that is causing thousands of balloon tour of France was recently can- fected by international affairs, maintain- More domestic destinations will also Americans to cancel or alter vacation celled after a number of those already ing its plans for summer school in Spain be on the agenda for both the alumni as- plans this summer has also had its ef- scheduled to take the August trip pulled but cancelling its two non-credit Euro- sociation and OCS. fects on Rice travel. University-sponsored out. Anger at France's alleged refusal to pean programs. Academic travel abroad has been trips to France, Israel, Greece and Turkey allow U.S. planes to fly over French air- "The university has examined the less affected. Student advisor Mark have already been cancelled due to con- space during the April bombing mission matter," OCS Director Mary McIntire said Scheid said Rice's one Marshall, one cern about political instability. to Libya, rather than direct fear of terror- about the summer school program."We Churchill, one Broad, two Watson and Assistant to the President Carl Mac- ism, prompted their cancellations. "One fly directly to Spain with no stopovers, two Rotary scholarship winners will con- Dowell explained that the Rice adminis- comment I heard was,'I don't want to give and feel it's a reasonable schedule and a tinue their trips as planned."No one has tration has been reviewing trips France any of my money,'"Moore said. reasonable place." Two other trips, how- indicated any concern," said Scheid, individually to evaluate their safety. "Our An alumni association safari trip to ever, were not considered safe, and "The though he noted that applications for goal is to keep people safe so they can Kenya scheduled for departure Aug. 31 Bible on Location," a mid-June trip to Is- study abroad programs have dropped have an enjoyable time without con- has thus far remained unaffected, Moore rael, and July/August tours of Greece and slightly from last year's figures, a drop he stantly looking over their shoulders," he says, but she adds that the association's Turkey were cancelled. attributes to "less a response on the part said. As with any trip booked through a annual European Christmas trip is being As with the alumni association trips, of the students as on the part of their par- commercial travel agency, those offered reconsidered. "Since we have to plan McIntire said political instability in Eu- ents." through university organizations such as these tours so far in advance, we are rope will not end OCS foreign travel Louis Griffin of Advanced Studies the Association of Rice Alumni and the looking for a place that hasn't been hit by plans, but will simply alter destinations. and Research reported that unrest in Eu- Office of Continuing Studies have stand- terrorism, such as perhaps the Caribbean "I think a lot of universities will be shift- rope has also not hampered the research ard liability clauses. The university can, or a domestic destination," she says. "We ing their programs' locations until the sit- activities of Rice professors, whose for- however, review the trip proposals and will continue to offer trips abroad but we uation is resolved," she said. "It's just a eign research proj4cts are generally ex- discourage travel in certain regions. will leave it to the travelers' own discre- matter of shifting the focus to other loca- ternally funded or sponsored by Marilyn Moore, acting executive di- tion as to whether they decide to go or not." tions, like the Far East." McIntire noted professional organizations. rector of the Association of Rice Alumni, The Office of Continuing Studies has that OCS has recently completed a very — by Erin Blair Distinguished alums, service winners honored at May 9 dinner

Recognition of Rice's 1986 Distinguished many years and failed — is a professor the inaugural commencement ceremo- Unable to attend the awards dinner, Alumni might have been rained out at emeritus of chemistry at the University of nies in 1916. She followed in the footsteps Red was represented by her brother. May 10 commencement ceremonies, but Rochester; member of the National Acad- of her father, who received the first de- Fred Stancliff made a name for him- they and the four Meritorious Service emy of Science; and fellow of the New gree granted by the University of Texas, self while a student-athlete at Rice in the Award winners were all given their due at York Academy of Science. Red taught mathematics in several '20s. A talented member of the Owl track a dinner held May 9 at Cohen House by After earning a Ph.D. from Harvard in schools, but it was at Lamar High School team, he won the Southwest Conference the Association of Rice Alumni. 1941, Gates went on to serve as editor of where she became famous for her courses championship in the discus throw in 1926 This year's Distinguished Alumni the Journal of the American Chemical So- that sent students to Rice well-prepared and became Rice's first participant ever were author Larry McMurtry M.A.'60, ar- ciety, a Welch Foundation lecturer, and a for the terrors of Math 100. Over the years in the Olympics. After graduation, he chitect John Milton McGinty '57, educator member of the President's Committee Na- she remained loyal to her alma mater, served on the committee that created the Carl Woodring '40(M.A. '42) and chemist tional Medal Sciences. serving as decade chairman for the R Association for lettermen. Sixty years Marshall D. Gates Jr. '36(M.S. '38). The Association of Rice Alumni also Alumni Fund Drive and as a longtime later, he continues as the only executive Since Gates was unable to attend the honored four individuals with the Merito- member of the Society of Rice University secretary the organization has ever had. dinner, his award will be presented at rious Service Award, given for the first Women. Lel Red celebrated her 93rd In 1973, Stancliff was honored by his fel- 1987 commencement; McMurtry, also un- time this year. The award recognizes a birthday in January and is honored by low R men when they chose him to be in- able to attend, was represented at the high level of dedication to the university Rice for 70 years of dedicated service to ducted into the Rice Athletic Hall of dinner by his friend and former col- over a period of many years. The recipi- the university. Fame. league, professor emeritus of English ents were Margaret S. Alsobrook, Ralph George Williams. W. Noble '48, H. Lel Red '16, and Fred J. McMurtry's most recent novel, Lone- Stancliff '26. some Dove, was awarded the Pulitzer Alsobrook joined the Rice staff in Prize for fiction in April. In March, he was 1955 as secretary to Howard Thompson in awarded the 1986 Jesse H. Jones Award for what was then a two-person office of de- fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters. velopment and public relations. She pro- He has also earned a Guggenheim Award gressed to secretary and then director of and a Stanford Fellowship in fiction, as the Rice Associates, and in 1972 was well as another Texas Institute of Letters named director of the Alumni Annual award, in the past several years. Fund. Alsobrook was appointed director McGinty, who also holds an M.F.A. in of development in 1978 by President Nor- architecture from Princeton, is president man Hackerman. In more than 30 years of of the McGinty Corporate Group, parent service to the university in the area of holding company of The McGinty Partner- fund raising, she has seen her depart- ship, Architects Inc., and City Associates ment grow to a staff of 24, responsible for Inc. of Houston. the solicitation of funds which allow Rice A fellow of the American Institute of to maintain its high educational stand- Architects, he has won top awards both ards. McGinty from that organization and from the Texas In the 38 years since receiving his Society of Architecture. McGinty is na- B.A. from Rice, Ralph Noble has re- tional president of the American Institute mained an active supporter of the univer- of Architects — the youngest president in sity. The retired president and chairman that organization's 120-year history— and of the bbard of Milchem Inc., Noble cur- has published articles in numerous publi- rently is a member of the executive board cations, including the AIA Journal. of the Rice alumni association and served Woodring, a professor who holds an as a term member of the board of gover- endowed chair in English at Columbia nors from 1978-82. A football player for the University, has been described as "the late Coach Jess Neely while at Rice, he is most eminent of Rice's academic human- a past president of the R Association and ists." was honored as a Distinguished R Man in Holding a Ph.D. from Harvard Univer- 1972. Noble has been a member of the sity, Woodring is a Guggenheim Fellow, Rice University Fund Council and has American Learned Societies Fellow, and a been actively involved with the Annual member of the Modern Language Associ- Fund Drive. ation, International Association of Profes- "Miss Lel Red," as she is known to sors of English, and the Grolier Club. scores of her former students from her 47- Gates, credited with the discovery of year teaching career, holds the honor of a method to synthesize morphine — a having received the first degree ever task other scientists had attempted for granted by Rice University, presented at Woodring(L) and alumni president Walter McReynolds

4 SALLYPORT—JUNE-AUGUST 1986 Three win Guggenheims McMurtry wins Pulitzer Max Apple of English, Tom Haskell of his- heims coming to the Lone Star State in His mother, Hazel McMurtry, told Associ- for 17 years, currently lives in Washing- tory and Peter Papademetriou of architec- the next academic year. ated Press reporters that her son "never ton, D.C. His earlier novels include Terms ture are among the 272 scholars, Apple, the Gladys Louise Fox Profes- gets very excited," but she added that of Endearment, The Last Picture Show scientists, and artists selected by the sor of English, is completing his 15th year Larry McMurtry was nonetheless "very and Horseman, Pass By, all of which were John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foun- on the Rice faculty. Next year he will work pleased" to hear the news that he had made into award-winning films, the lat- dation to share in fellowship funds total- full time on his writing, which has pro- won the 1986 Pulitzer Price for fiction. ter novel's film adaptation being "Hud." ing $5,899,000 in 1986-87. duced such works as Zip, The Oranging of The prize honored McMurtry for his McMurtry, one of Rice's 1986 Distin- The foundation's 62nd annual compe- America and Free Agents. latest novel, Lonesome Dove, a story of guished Alumni, took the news of his Pu- tition for the prestigious "Guggenheims" Haskell, who joined the Rice faculty 19th century life in the West and a mam- litzer win in stride. "It's a great honor and attracted 3,717 applicants "on the basis of in 1970, will continue his work next year moth cattle drive from Texas to Montana. I'm very grateful for it," he said, adding, unusually distinguished achievement in on "reform and moral responsibility in McMurtry, who received his master's "It doesn't mean I'll be able to write any- the past and exceptional promise for fu- Anglo-American culture, 1700-1900." degree from Rice in 1960 and taught here thing good tomorrow." ture accomplishment." Except for two Papademetriou, on the Rice faculty awards to faculty at the University of since 1968, will use his Guggenheim fel- Texas at Austin, those won by the three lowship to research and write on "the life Rice professors are the only Guggen- and career of Eero Saarinen." Nine professors honored for teaching achievements New VP-Treasurer named Rice University recently honored nine of Clark, German; James P. Hannon, phys- its faculty members Rice board member and alumnus James 1946 and the professional degree of chem- for their achieve- ics; Thomas L. Haskell, history; Don H. ments as W. Glanville has been appointed vice ical engineer in 1948. He received his teachers. Johnson, electrical engineering; Deborah president for financial affairs and trea- bachelor's degree in chemical engineer- J. Dennis Huston, professor of English H. Nelson, French; and Stephen A. Zeff, and a recognized surer of Rice University, President George ing at Rice in 1944. authority on Shakes- accounting. peare, has been Rupp announced recently. Glanville will A general partner with Lazard Freres awarded the $6,000 In addition to Huston, Clark, Haskell, George R. Brown Prize serve as a professor of finance in the and Co. in New York City since 1978, for Excellence in Johnson and Zeff are previous Brown Teaching. It is the second time Jones Graduate School of Administration. Glanville had earlier been affiliated with Huston Award winners. has won this major award since the Glanville, 62, will succeed Joseph Lehman Brothers in New York City for 19 Robert B. Jones, assistant professor of Brown Prizes were Nalle, who retires June 30. Nalle is com- years, including 16 as partner and man- established for Rice English, was honored with this year's faculty members pleting his 21st year at Rice, the last 10 as aging director. He previously worked for in 1967. In addition, $1,500 Nicolas Salgo Distinguished Huston treasurer and secretary of the Rice Board Humble Oil and Refining Co. in Houston has won several Brown Awards for Teacher Award, and Larry S. Temkin, as- Superior Teaching. of Governors, and will act as consultant (1948-59). Glanville currently serves on sistant professor of philosophy, has won for a brief period after retirement. the boards of The Halliburton Co., Inter- This year's winners of George R. this year's Phi Beta Kappa Award for Out- Brown Awards Glanville, who completes a three- national Minerals and Chemicals, Miner- for Superior Teaching, standing Teaching by an Assistant Pro- worth $1,500 each, include: Susan year term on the university board on June als and Resources Corp. Ltd. of Luxem- L. fessor. 30, is also a trustee of California Institute bourg, and Lazard Brothers and Co. Ltd. of Technology, where he earned a mas- of London. ter's degree in chemical engineering in Margrave honored John L. Margrave, vice president for ad- singly and together, bring great honor to Two vanced studies and research, has been the university." arrested for murder named E.D. Butcher Professor of Chemis- Margrave joined the Rice faculty in try at Rice. 1963, was chairman of its chemistry de- of Rice senior He will occupy this newest Rice pro- partment (1967-72), and has been in fessorship, the second to be funded by charge of advanced studies and re- Two Houston men have been arrested in posted a $10,000 reward with the Houston alumnus and former Rice board chairman search for the past 14 years. Under his connection with the April 22 death of Rice Police Department to encourage informa- E.D. Butcher, on July 1. Rice President leadership, the size of Rice's graduate fifth-year architecture student Cindy R. tion leading to identification of a suspect, George Rupp called announcing Mar- program has grown to more than 1,200 Rounsaville. the two mid-May arrests resulted from po- grave's selection "a double pleasure" in students and externally sponsored re- Rounsaville, 25, was found murdered lice department investigations. that "John Margrave and Dell Butcher are search has climbed from $5.5 million several miles from campus just three Police say Rounsaville appeared to in two of Rice's most loyal citizens who, both 1972 to $14.2 million in 1985. weeks before she would have received have been apprehended at her Southwest her Rice diploma. A memorial service for Houston apartment, and not on campus. the Tulsa, Okla., native was held on cam- Rounsaville's parents, Betty and Ro- pus April 25. bert Rounsaville of Tulsa, accepted her Students win top awards Though the Friends of Rice University diploma at Rice's May 10 commencement. Six Rice University graduating seniors has won a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship have won some of the nation's top fellow- for a year's study of British neonatal ships and scholarships to pursue their health care. Hanson majored in eco- AIA honors Herring Hall studies here and overseas. nomics and policy studies at Rice. Rice University's Robert R. Herring Hall, The 1986 Honor Award jury, chaired Charles A. Bier of Overland Park, Vincent William Uher III of Galveston which houses the Jesse H. Jones Graduate by N.M. McKinnell, FAIA, Boston, chose Kansas, has won a Marshall Scholarship also won a Watson Fellowship. He will School of Administration, was among the the 14 winners from among more than 600 for two years of study at Britain's Cam- study folk music in Portugal and Spain. 14 structures in the selected entries. The awards will be presented at bridge University. At Rice, Bier majored At Rice, Uher majored in English and by the American Institute of Architects to the 1986 AIA national convention in San in electrical engineering, mathematics German. receive a 1986 AIA Honor Award, the pro- Antonio this month. and mathematical sciences. Elizabeth Brient of El Paso, Texas, fession's highest recognition for design Herring Hall has been the subject of a David Dankworth of Paint Rock, has received a Mellon Fellowship for the excellence. The architectural design firm number of favorable reviews in the archi- Texas, has been awarded a Churchill study of philosophy, which she will pur- was Cesar Pelli and Associates of New tectural press. It was the cover story in Scholarship for a year of study at Cam- sue at an american university. She ma- Haven, Conn. the April 1985 issue of Progressive Archi- bridge. He majored in chemical engineer- jored in philosophy and German at Rice. Jurors commented that, "Herring tecture and the May 1985 issue of Architec- ing at Rice and will continue these Carl Hoefer of Manchester, Mo., also Hall...honors its site, itself, and its time ture. The building was also featured studies at Cambridge. won a Mellon Fellowship to enter the doc- through complete respect for the strong in Arts and Architecture (July 1985), Jon Dean Hanson of Fort Myers, Fla., toral program in philosophy at Stanford. visual tradition of the existing campus Newsweek On Campus(April 1985), Texas plan and buildings...It is a building that Architect (September-October 1985), and works — mature, well organized, finely Domus, an Italian architectural publica- crafted, and fully integrated with its sur- tion (June 1985). On the bookshelf roundings." New from faculty and alumni authors Analytical Review: A Guide to Evaluating pology, and Michael M.J. Fischer, associ- Financial Statements ate professor of anthropology, University MOB members head for NYC co-authored by Edward J. Blocher '66 of Chicago Press Approaches to Teaching Sir Gawain and Four members of Rice's famed Marching Dye will be one of the conductors of Presidential Also-Bans and Running Owl Band will participate in official un- the 500-member band, which will provide the Green Knight Mates, 1788-1980 co-edited by Jane Chance, professor of veiling ceremonies of the Statue of Lib- the musical backdrop for the ceremonies. by Leslie H. Southwick '72, McFarland erty in New York City, said MOB director The four MOBsters to play with the English, and Miriam Youngerman Miller, Computer Assisted Analytical Review Kenneth Dye. "Liberty Band" are sophomores Mike Modern Language Association Master- System "Our four student musicians will be Hickey, trombone; Mark Schulze, French piece series by Wilfred C. in the 'Liberty Band', which will be horn; Carlyle Sharpe, French horn; and The Foundations of Bioethics Uecker, Jones Graduate School, William R. staffed by the finest student musicians junior Greg Staten, sousaphone. All four by H. Tristram Englehardt, professor of Kinney (U. Michigan) and Gerald L. Salamon selected from universities in each of our have been members of the Rice band philosophy, Oxford University Press (U. Iowa) 50 states," Dye said. "They'll come to- since entering the university. Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Religion and Modernization in Southeast gether June 14-July 6 for 'Liberty Weekend Dye and several MOB members also Experimental Moment in the Human Sci- Asia '86' which will be televised worldwide by contributed to the musical offerings at the ences by Fred von der Mehden, professor of po- ABC-TV." 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. by George E. Marcus, professor of anthro- litical science, Syracuse University Press

SALLYPORT-JUNE-AUGUST 1986 5 ACROSS THE 111111MINNIMIIMI GREAT DIVIDE

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Breaking the barriers of language and culture, James Copeland's work with the Tarahumara Indians takes the realm of Rice linguistics to the mountain caves of Chihuahua. by B.C. Robison

James Copeland sits across croachment from outside cultures, even from the bottom. an outdoor table from the indigenous Mexicans," Copeland says. "They are "From this inventory of sounds, we then pro- Tarahumara Indian in a vil- 'ecologically distributed' throughout the region, ceed to the construction of words, and then to word lage high up in the Sierra that is, they live in small, isolated communities order and the sense of an entire sentence, and to Madre of Chihuahua. scattered throughout the area. They raise corn, how that meaning relates to the Tarahumara world The bright Mexican sun squash, potatoes and livestock such as cattle, of experience," he says."We thus have a progres- is high above them, and al- sheep and goats." sion from phonology to syntax to semantics. This though the Indian is slightly hung-over from a At first, the Indians were wary of their visitors is how we gradually discover the meaning and festive night of batcrri, the native corn beer, he from Rice. "Whenever strangers had appeared in structure of the Tarahumara language." they had usually been mis- speaks clearly as the Rice University linguistics one of their villages, In searth of meaning professor takes careful notes and works his tape sionaries or government officials or lumber com- recorder. pany executives — someone wanting to change or Copeland's field studies with the Tarahumaras "Wa-be nirui hipi barn-beni ko'-ame ba," the exploit them," Copeland says. "So, the first thing represent a practical application of the field in Indian says. "Este ano hay bastante comida," Co- we had to do was convince them we were scien- which he has been a pioneer at Rice — the field of peland repeats. This year, there is enough food. tists, that we meant no harm. linguistics and semiotics. "Ne-he Ko'-mea ba moni kori acika ba," the In- "After a while, they finally invited us into their "In the study of linguistics, we approach a lan- dian says slowly, as Copeland tracks the meaning homes and began to deal with us as family mem- guage as a codal system that intermediates be- in Spanish. "Voy a corner frijoles con chiles," Co- bers. And they eventually became very interested tween meaning potential and the expression of peland says after him. I'm going to eat some beans in our work on their language." meaning within a given culture," he says."We es- with peppers. Tarahumara is one of the Uto-Aztecan lan- sentially ask two basic questions when we under- As the Tarahumara says each phrase, Cope- guages, a large family of North American Indian take the study of a language: first, within a given land correlates it with Spanish, eventually to ar- languages. Though most are spoken by compara- language, what is the underlying operational co- rive at the meaning of the sentence. The work is tively few people, Tarahumara is one of the larg- dal system, what are its elements and interrela- slow and complex, and Copeland and his students est. It is, furthermore, strictly oral; there is as yet tionships? Second, how is this code used to have had to face considerable obstacles, both lin- no written Tarahumara. express meaning? guistic and cultural. The Tarahumaras are especially interesting "Linguistics is perhaps the most empirical of For the past year, Copeland has been working from a linguistic point of view, Copeland says, be- the human sciences, since it attempts to describe to create a grammar and lexicon of the heretofore cause even though they are widely distributed in the working of a language with hard data derived unstudied native language of the Tarahumaras. the geographical sense, they still speak a common by scientific methods of description and analysis," The Tarahumara Indians are a tribe of about tribal language. he explains. 50,000 members who live in limestone caves over a "Our first task in learning this language was "At this point, we can define two basic types of 5,000 square mile area high in the Sierra Madre to compile an inventory of sounds," he says. linguistic data. The first relates to what we essen- Occidental of Southwestern Chihuahua, the Mexi- "These are often, but not always, similar to our tially refer to as the expression medium in world can state that abuts Texas from El Paso to the Big own English vowels and consonants such as p, f, discourse. This refers to the entire range of lin- Bend. k, r, q, e, o, a and so on. They also have a com- guistic activity, with the chortic array of sounds "Of all the North American Indian tribes, the monly used glottal stop, which we denote in made at one end of the spectrum, to data of behav- Tarahumaras have been the most resistant to en- writing by a question mark without the dot at the ior of the speaker making the sounds, at the other

6 SALLYPORT—JUNE-AUGUST 1986 end. The second type of data delineates the inter- along with some other adverse, unforeseen devel- days, and this summer plans to bike from Tucson play between the code of language and the mean- opments, and the department did not become offi- to the Grand Canyon. He has also biked exten- ing behind it." cially set up until 1982." Until that time, the sively across Holland and Northern Germany. For many years the main emphasis within program was administered by the linguistics com- (Copeland has three bicycles, his favorite of which American linguistics was on the study of the sen- mittee, which was made up of members from the is a Peugeot.) tence as the fundamental unit of language, to be departments of anthropology, German and Rus- studied in and of itself. In recent years, however, sian, as well as other, lesser-known, languages. A firm commitment there has been an increasing tendency among lin- "From the onset, we wanted to make the Rice guistic researchers to look upon language in a linguistics program one of the very best, in keep- Copeland's enthusiasm for Rice's linguistics pro- broader context of discourse. ing with the quality of the highly select under- gram has not waned over the years. "Discourse analysis expands the domain of graduate student body," he says. "Ninety percent "Rice's outstanding student body is our great- the linguistic code to include the general textual of our undergraduate majors go on to receive est asset," he says. "The school's small size gives pieces of language that are larger in scope than Ph.D.s, and for the last two years incoming lin- us great potential for developing some exciting individual sentences," Copeland says. "For exam- guistics graduate students received two out of five programs, and working closely with an excellent ple, if someone says,'she did it, that sentence is Rice Presidential Fellowships. Furthermore, GRE faculty, with people whom you get to know well, is completely meaningless unless it refers to a spe- scores of our graduate students are among the something few universities can offer. cific 'she' or 'it' within the listener's experience. By highest in all campus departments." "I spent some time at the University of Califor- itself the sentence means nothing. Discourse anal- Copeland himself has contributed greatly to nia at Davis, and there, every request had to be yses seek to make language more understandable the academic credentials of Rice linguistics. After filled out with 10 carbon copies. The place was in the context of its use. It is applicable to all lan- receiving a magna cum laude B.A. from the Uni- simply too big and impersonal. I personally know guages — and there are about 5,000 languages in versity of Colorado in 1961, he went on to graduate people from the linguistics program at Berkeley use worldwide today." school at Cornell, where he received his Ph.D. in who would love to come to Rice. We can address 1965. the current issues. Rice is attractive because it is The early days He served as chairman of the linguistics pro- unique." gram from 1969 to 1981, and in 1983 was appointed Copeland makes no secret of his high esteem Before Copeland came to Rice in 1966, linguistics professor of linguistics and semiotics in 1984, for his faculty associates. at Rice was offered on only a very intermittent ba- Copeland was awarded a Fulbright grant, and "We have an outstanding group of linguists sis. Earl Douglas Mitchell taught the university's spent the spring semester of that year as visiting who get along well and who complement each first linguistics course, out of the Department of professor of linguistics at the university of the other. This spirit of cooperation flows over to our German, in the early 1960s. In 1965, another Saarland, in Saarbruecken, West Germany. graduate students as well," he says.(The gradu- course, one on syntax in the Department of En- Copeland speaks fluent German and Spanish ate program in linguistics was started in 1980.) glish, was taught by Robert S. Cox, along with an- and has a reading knowledge of French and Rus- "Sydney Lamb, our current chairman, is doing other course on general linguistics in the German sian, as well as other, lesser-kown, languages. some ground-breaking work in computational lin- department. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and cur- guistics and artificial intelligence. Philip Davis Copeland's arrival at Rice signified the uni- rently serves on the board of directors of the Lin- and Roy Jones are studying the two languages of versity's desire to develop a coherent program, guistic Association of Canada and the United the Alabama-Coushatta Indians. Alan Reister is and ultimately a department, of linguistics. The States. His editorial work includes reviewing man- working on Coushatta as well. Four other gradu- formation of the curriculum was soon off to a suc- uscripts for Cambridge University Press and the ate students are working with me on the Tarahu- cessful start; the department, however, was not to press of the State University of New York, and edit- mara project, and two students are writing on be a reality until almost a decade and a half later. ing the publications of the biennial Rice Linguis- Amharic, an Ethiopian language. For a university "In the beginning, linguistics was offered out tics Symposium, an academic meeting that this size, Rice has a strong linguistics program, of several departments," Copeland says. "We de- attracts leading scholars from all over the country. but we need more faculty." signed a core curriculum and began to recruit fac- On the local scene, Copeland has served on This summer, Copeland ulty in different departments, such as Russian and Rice's library committee, the student senate (as an is going back to the Sierra Spanish. In 1967, an ad hoc linguistics committee adviser), the minority student recruitment pro- Madre of Chihuahua to study was formed, and after presenting our proposal for gram, and as faculty associate of Sid Richardson the Tarahumaras. This time, an undergraduate curriculum to President Ken- College. He is presently faculty resident associate he is going to try something neth Pitzer, the B.A. program in linguistics be- of Baker College, a position he has held since 1980. new. came operative in 1968. Though a back injury has kept Copeland from "Have you ever tried that "We had hoped to have the department of lin- pursuing his former hobby of jogging, he has corn beer?" I asked him. guistics formally established by 1969, but there taken up bicycling on a grand scale. "No," he says with a sly was a change in the university administration, He once biked from Houston to Denver in 11 smile. "But I'm going to."

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SALLYPORT—JUNE-AUGUST 1986 7 VIETNAM A VETERAN RETURNS

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When William Broyles Jr. 166 returned to the U.S. after his tour of duty in Vietnam, he thought the war — at least for him was over. In this excerpt from his new book, Brothers in Arms: A Journey from War to Peace, he realizes he was wrong.

by William Broyles Jr.

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• to.„;,',?. Ok. ft' - -_ -- •l b,4 !11 --g , 44; • .4," ,r ,t• • # . I , IP , a • • 8 SALLYPORT-JUNE-AUGUST 1986 1 "Throughout my year in Vietnam I kept wanting to tell my superiors—anyone—that I wasn't supposed to be there, that people like me didn't fight this kind of war.But I quickly learned just how adaptable I could be,particularly when other men wanted to kill me."

A MiG fighter sits victoriously atop the wreckage of an American 13-52.

I fought in Vietnam, but I understood little of what what patriotic Americans did. I was different. I their careers. I felt more in common with the anti- going to war had meant for me and for the men I was drafted at the age of twenty-four, and I had war activists who had become conscientious ob- fought beside. About what it meant for the men spent the previous three years doing my best to jectors or gone to prison. Vietnam changed them and women we fought against — our enemies — I avoid military service. I believed it would be as it changed the men who fought it. But political knew nothing. wrong for me to fight in Vietnam. The war would protest simply isn't as intense as war; the stakes For years I was content in my ignorance. My set me behind my peers, would place me in dan- aren't as high. And the protesters didn't seem to life was in the future, not in the past. For me, the ger, and, oh yes, was immoral and all that. In 1968 have the great extremes of pain, belligerence and war was over, or so I thought. But no one who goes I was a student at Oxford, and I watched the BBC nostalgia I kept seeing in veterans. The veterans to war as a young man comes home in one piece. as young Americans died in the streets of Hue dur- had loved their country, and it had not loved them War marks the men and women who are caught up ing the Tet Offensive. Those boys were like the back. in it for life. It visits them in the hour before sleep- friends I had grown up with in a small town in I also didn't feel that much in common with ing, it comes to them — bringing grief, pride, Texas. They were fighting a war while my friends the veterans who couldn't seem to put the war be- shame and even laughter — in the casual mo- from college and I went on with our lives. I thought hind them. Perhaps that was because I was older ments of everyday life. It never goes away. my country was wrong in Vietnam, but I began to than most of the men who fought the war, or be- When the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in suspect that I was using that conviction to excuse cause I saw less combat, or because I had done Washington was dedicated in the autumn of 1982, I my own selfishness and my fears. reasonably well after I came home. I didn't know was absorbed in the now forgotten crises of editing When I came back to America from Oxford, I the reason. I only knew that I had lost touch with Newsweek. At the last minute, I decided to go to took my preinduction physical in Newark. There the men I had fought beside and that for me the Washington for the dedication. I stood in front of were a hundred and fifty of us — four whites, the war had become a memory — some old medals the long black wall, gazing at names like Sai G. rest blacks. The white men carried X rays and and a faded bush hat I could show my son on a Lew, Glenn F. Cashdollar, Kenyu Shimabukuru, other evidence of medical "problems" and were quiet day. Famous L. Lane, Max Lieberman, Thomas L. Little gone in half an hour. For the young black men, on Sun, Salvatore J. Piscitello, and Savas Escamillo the other hand, the Army was their escape from But in the presence of those names on the wall, I Trevino: American names, drawn from every cul- the Newark ghetto. They wanted in, not out. When saw Vietnam as if I'd left it only yesterday. I re- ture in the world — each name a father or a son, a I left Newark that day I realized I could no longer membered the first time I was under fire, the first husband or a friend who never came home. So continue to act as if my education and social class dead man I saw, the bloody floors of medevac heli- many names — my emotions were overwhelmed. had given me special privileges. I set out to find copters, the heat, the mud, the leeches, and the I was surrounded by other men who stared at some solution that would allow me to live — and fear. I remembered the way we gambled for C ra- the names, reached out and touched them, to live with myself. tions, read each other's mail, sang rock-and-roll at washed them with their tears. Some of them were A few months later I was in the Marine Corps, twilight before the patrols went out. I remembered grandfathers now. They wore camouflaged fa- preparing to study Chinese in Monterey, Califor- how we laughed when March went to sleep on am- tigues and bush hats, or nylon vests with their nia, and then to serve out my three years translat- bush and fell into the river, and when Broman hid unit's name on the back. One man in a three piece ing documents in Washington, D.C. Instead — to in a rolled-up rug while the MPs raided a house of suit had a battered helmet on his head. Some of my considerable surprise — when the orders were some disrepute. I remembered how beautiful the the men wore old uniforms wrinkled and dotted issued I was sent to Vietnam and put in command country was, how it smelled, and how its people With moth holes, as if they had been pulled from of an infantry platoon in the foothills west of Da looked, the children with clear skin and innocent the attic for this occasion. There were cowboys Nang. Throughout my year in Vietnam I kept brown eyes, the old men squatting on the paddy and union men and Hell's Angels and members of wanting to tell my superiors — anyone — that I dikes, the young women in billowing ao dais, bowling teams; doctors and lawyers and diplo- wasn't supposed to be there, that people like me graceful as deer. mats and accountants; men who walked with didn't fight this kind of war. But I quickly learned I remembered slogging through the paddies in Canes and too many men in wheelchairs. Time just how adaptable I could be, particularly when flak jackets, boots, and helmets, our bodies shot and time again I saw women point out a name to other men wanted to kill me. The war became full of immunizations, our water purified. We their children, then turn away, shoulders shaking, what I did. Instead of getting up in the morning, pushed our way into mysterious villages hidden While the children carefully made a rubbing of the picking up my briefcase, and going to the law behind walls of bamboo as thick as time. At night name. firm, I got up in the morning, picked up my rifle, in the mountains, I would watch the track of satel- and went to war. A year later, I came home. lites making their way around the earth. Other Most of these veterans had volunteered as teenag- For a while after I returned I resented my Americans were on the moon, sent there by the ers to fight in Vietnam. In their world, that was peers who had avoided the war and got on with same American can-do spirit that had sent us to

SALLYPORT—JUNE-AUGUST 1986 9 VIETNAM: A Veteran Returns "In most wars the soldier knows where the battlefield is. In Viet- nam the war was everywhere. In most wars the soldier knows who his enemy is. In Vietnam it was difficult to tell which Viet- namese were our friends and which our foes,and too easy to give up trying."

In Vietnam paper is still delivered to the government printing office by ox-cart.

Vietnam, and using the same technology that was can firepower. The enemy was bombed by F-4s, should he be a witness and not a victim, then he so useless there. Those astronauts were the first pounded with artillery, strafed by helicopter gun- moves on to the second question: men to leave the earth for another celestial body, ships. They were surrounded by rings of napalm, "Why them?" but they knew more about the moon than we knew dark red fire, smoke black against the moon light. That is the survivor's question, and I asked it about Vietnam. We were strangers on our own Everyone opened up on them. The earth shook, the at the Memorial on that cloudy November morn- planet, alone and afraid. We were blown about sky was ablaze. ing. I was filled with a terrible sadness at all the like rice husks on the wind. When the shelling stopped, there was an eerie lives lost. But beneath that sadness I felt a deep All we had was each other, and the strange silence. I shivered, involuntarily. I could not imag- relief, tinged with guilt: my name isn't on the wall. culture we had created. Vietnam was the first ine how anyone could have survived. And then, And then I realized that other names weren't rock-and-roll war, a weird mix of sex, drugs, mu- from the center of this scorched and mutilated there — the names of the men and women we sic, violence, and idealism that was the dark mir- piece of earth, we saw another flash. They were fought, our enemies. They died by the hundreds of ror of the sixties. For the men who fought there, it still there, and still fighting. thousands, but they remain abstractions. Who was also an intense sharing of comradeship and Who were they? How did they keep coming knows their names? trust, a Woodstock with weapons. In spite of all back, and why? Who were these men who stormed It takes two sides to make a war, and I still the moral and political confusion, in spite of the the American embassy in Saigon, who holed up knew no more about the men we fought, that other horror and shame of war, we knew that by our own inside the Citadel in Hue, who crept forward un- "them," than I knew about that presence I had en- lights we had done something good, and we clung der B-52 strikes at Khe Sanh, who crawled through countered in a tunnel. Another human being had to that belief even when the war and its warriors our wire and into our bases, naked and covered come to be there, through some sequence of were out of fashion. with mud, throwing bombs into our bunkers? events, just as I had. Was it fate? Chance? I kept Vietnam was a different sort of war, but not as They took stunning losses; hundreds of thou- wondering about the why of it. Soldiers do that. different from other wars as many of its veterans sands — perhaps two million — of them were We kept wondering why we walked over the mine think. The Confederate soldier also fought well in killed. When wounded they had the most rudimen- that the man behind us detonated, why we moved a dubious cause and lost; the British Tommy in tary medical care. For rations they carried a few just before the bullet hit the paddy dike where our World War I lived and died in a war where courage balls of rice. They lived in the jungle and in tun- head had been, why we went to war and others and death changed nothing and only the war won. nels, and were separated from their families for didn't, why we made it home and others did not. But in most wars the soldier knows where the bat- ten and even twenty years. They were my enemy, I realized that even though I had been a reluc- tlefield is. In Vietnam the war was everywhere. In we were locked in the most intimate combat, and I tant warrior the war was still in me, like a buried most wars the soldier knows who his enemy is. In knew nothing about them. piece of shrapnel working its way to the surface. I Vietnam it was difficult to tell which Vietnamese As I stood mesmerized by all those names at had to confront what it meant to me and to my were our friends and which our foes, and too easy the wall, I saw something else. I saw my own re- men, but that would not be enough. to give up trying. flection. It fell across the names like a ghost. I had to reach farther. I had to reach out in A soldier's best weapon is not his rifle but his "Why me?" that tunnel and try to touch that other man. To ability to see his enemy as an abstraction and not That was the question we asked ourselves know myself I had to know my enemy. 01 as another human being. The very word "enemy" each morning as we went out on patrol in Viet- I had to go back. conveys a mental and moral power that makes war nam, and each evening as the night settled tc possible, even necessary. I had never known my around our foxholes. It is the soldier's first ques- a] enemy, and I wanted to. Americans died in Viet- tion. What has brought me — out of all the rich nam for more than fifteen years, longer than in the possibilities of life — here, now, to this? Is this From the book Brothers in Arms: A Journey from di why my mother bore me, why my parents raised War to Peace by William Broyles Jr. © 1986 by Wil- Civil War, World War I, and World War II put to- 13( gether. But the people on whose behalf we were me, why my girlfriend grappled with me in the liam Broyles Jr. Reprinted with permission by Al- ta fighting, and the enemies who were so much like back seats of borrowed Chevies? Is all my youth — fred A. Knopf, New York. Broyles, who has recently pi them, remained a mystery to the end, as elusive throwing papers after school, doing my homework, moved back to his native Houston, founded and re as that presence I had encountered in a tunnel so enduring two-a-day football workouts in August — served as editor of Texas Monthly magazine until many years ago. is it all come to this sorry end, to die so far away in 1982, when he was named editor-in-chief of le I remember one night when Da Nang was at- a piece of mud? Newsweek. Since leaving Newsweek in 1984, Broy- cs tacked by rockets. For once, we had seen a flash But should the young man survive, yet witness les has written extensively for many publications, fe and knew where the enemy was. For the next two other young men shot through with bullets, blown including The Atlantic, Esquire and The New York hours we witnessed the terrible miracle of Ameri- to pieces by shrapnel, ripped up by booby traps, Times. 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Sixteen years ago in Baker commons, theatergoers expecting a traditional rendering of "The Taming of the Shrew" instead saw the beginning of an annual tradition, as Baker Shakespeare began its blend of high drama and creative interpretation.

by Thad Logan Lueders

Rice University theater audiences still recall the round the platform stage ihat juts into the center of mattered, from the precise shade of green in a authentic rage of amateur actor Andy Kappel. In the long hall. When the lights dim, the audience satin gown to the exact degree of rake in the stage. 1976, as Hotspur in Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Kap- enters Shakespeare's world. When a student proudly presented him — at the pel ripped his tights and bloodied his knees in six That world is movement and action. Ladies last minute — with a dozen helmets made of ice consecutive performances, creating an unforget- frisk on a swing, their hair flying out behind them. cream cartons, Bouchard pointed out that the ob- table image of fire and fury. This wasn't Shakes- Sparks fly from the clash of broadswords. As in jects looked like ice cream cartons and would not peare played at a snail's pace or loaded with Shakespeare's Globe, there are no sets, no cum- appear on the heads of his actors, no matter how flashy gimmicks; this was the annual production bersome changes of scenery. Lights do not go out many hours had gone into their construction. His of Baker College at Rice University. Improbably, between scenes, and if props must be brought on pursuit of perfection was rooted in the determina- the land of pocket calculators is where audiences or bodies removed, it is done in full view of the au- tion to create an enduring theater at Baker, and it are likely to see Shakespeare staged with authen- dience. Action flows seamlessly, as characters ex- was infectious. ticity and played for all it's worth. plode onto the stage or come sauntering and Bouchard recruited fresh acting talent, not Kappel's go-for-broke acting, risky and exhila- singing down the aisles. looking for experience in theater but for energy, in- rating, is typical of what happens when the stage This is intimate theater. Actors work in a telligence and a willingness to take risks. He goes up at Baker. For a week near the end of charged, open space, nearly surrounded by their taught his actors to abandon fake British accents March, the college's Tudor-paneled dining hall, or audience, their expressions and gestures magni- and stately poses and to question the conventions Commons, becomes a theater. fied by the force of our attention. Like Shakes- of acting at every rehearsal. What he wanted, and Last spring, for the first time in its 16-year his- peare's actors, they play to the crowd. Falstaff got, and left as a legacy, was a spirited, vigorous, tory, a professional actor directed Baker Shakes- shares a joke with us. Macbeth and Prospero and distinctly American style of acting. peare. Trevor Baxter of the Royal Shakespeare Juliet look us in the eye. In the commons at Baker, His action-packed staging of "Henry IV" raised Company treated his audience to a supple, dy- on this open stage, Shakespeare's characters are some eyebrows. Bouchard's critics complained namic version of "The Tempest," a notoriously dif- intensely alive, whether they delve into their own that such exuberance was an affront to Shakes- ficult play. The magic of Baxter's "Tempest" was no thoughts, or kiss, or kill. peare's dignity. But audiences knew they were on illusion of special effects but the real thing, to something, and kept coming back for more. Bou- wrought with patience and cunning from the lines chard's aim was to show that Shakespeare is not of the text. While no production at Baker is ever medicine but entertainment. He meant to show, Perfect, and some have been a lot better than oth- too, that theater can be immediate and real, of ers, it is easy to overlook a multitude of flaws some importance to our lives. when theater is this daring and this honest. This year, Shakespearean actress Jennie Stol- "Baker Shakespeare shouldn't work," points ler came from London to direct "A Midsummer out Roxanne Shaw, an attorney who played Lady Night's Dream." Stoller took a leading part in a Macbeth at Baker in 1982. Amateur casts, working 1973 staging of the play by brilliant, controversial together for only about eight weeks, shouldn't be director Peter Brook. Like Brook, she took an icono- able to deliver such good performances of these clastic approach to this perennial favorite. The ac- long, complex and demanding plays. Rice has no tors performed on the floor of the commons, not on drama department to supply a steady stream of ex- a stage. Titania, Queen of the Fairies, elegantly perienced actors. Many undergraduates carry bru- played by Karen Chatfield, was no ethereal sweet- tal academic loads in science and engineering in heart, but dark, sexy, and dangerous. Preparation for high-powered professional ca- To watch Stoller work is to see how a good di- reers. The success of Baker Shakespeare is the work rector discards traditions and preconceptions, us- Doing a show at Baker presents special prob- of many hands. From inception in 1970, when Pro- ing rehearsals to rediscover the play. Fiercely lems. The acoustics in the wood-paneled, high- fessor Wesley Morris directed "The Taming of the concentrated, Stoller is all eyes and hands as she ceilinged room are bad. Lights must be hung 30 Shrew," the students of Baker College and the Rice jumps up, cigarette waving, to show the actors a feet high from the rafters, a laborious and hair- community at large have made good theater hap- gesture or a line reading with powerful grace. She raising enterprise. Since the backstage area is, in pen by dint of near-fanatical commitment. The is a professional, but she doesn't condescend to fact, a kitchen, the actors and the food service stage and props and costumes are painstakingly these student actors. Her respect is evident in the staff constantly wrangle over access to it. Baker crafted by people who really should be holed up in demands she makes of them. The "rude mechani- Shakespeare employs no resident designers or the library with a chemistry textbook or at work on cals" at one point begin to sing a rock and roll technicians, has no shop or costume room. There their own research. As opening night approaches, base line, their voices supported by a piano. is never enough money and always too little time. the commons is littered with bits of velvet and rib- "Now," says Stoller, "without the piano." And sometimes it shows. Novice actors do occa- bon and light cable, screwdrivers and scissors and "No!" pleads one actor; they can't find the sionally forget lines or stumble over blocking. Cos- bolts of fabric. Tired actors rehearse endlessly notes a cape/la. tumes may not be quite finished until the end of a while electric drills whine in the background. "Yes," Stoller growls, "without the piano." six-performance run. If one person is to be credited with making They begin — "bum bum bup-a-bum" — On the night of a performance, however, Baker Shakespeare work at Baker, it is John Bouchard, waver, then find it, and the scene comes alive. College is alive with excitement. Madrigal singers now head of the Theater Institute at Oberlin. He and jugglers perform as some 300 spectators wait was a graduate student in English when he first Thad Logan Lueders is a Houston freelance writer in line for tickets. The commons provides a perfect directed at Baker in 1976. Under his guidance, who got her Ph.D. in English from Rice in 1981. She setting for Shakespeare. Built in 1911, it was de- Baker began constructing its own costumes and has directed student theater and started a drama signed by Ralph Adams Cram as a refectory for stage for each show. Bouchard fired the imagina- department at the University of Maine, where she the original Rice Institute. Great wooden beams tion of young architects, electrical engineers and taught English. This article was originally pub- Painted in heraldic green and gold, lofty windows artists, challenging them to solve design problems lished in the April 1986 issue of Houstonian maga- draped in red, and rich, paneled wainscotting stir- in ambitious, unconventional ways. Every detail zine.

SALLYPORT—JUNE-AUGUST 1986 11 Commencement 1986

A light sprinkle, then steady drizzle, falling on campus May 10 might have put a damper on President Rupp's first commencement address. The rain might have stopped the introduction of Rice's 1986 Distin- guished Alumni, and it certainly prevented the usual speeches by student leaders and the presentation of other special awards. But for the more than 900 students who received degrees at Rice's 73rd commencement, a little rain didn't mean a thing. After an invocation by the Rev. John D. Worrell, 610 undergraduates, 261 Master's candidates and 87 Ph.D. candidates received their diplomas. Though shortened by the inclement weather, the commencement ceremony(held inside the aca- demic quadrangle this year instead of on the lawn outside Lovett Hall)still held its usual festive air. Students indulged in the tradition of blowing bubbles. Camera-wielding family members jockeyed for unobstructed views as "their" graduates approached the podium. Senior Darryl Burke, who has spent much of the past year(and part of the graduation exercises)as Sammy the Owl, brought cheers from the crowd as he took the stage for his diploma, Sammy's head tucked neatly under his arm. The occasion was not without its solemnity, however. First a moment of silence, then a standing ova- tion, followed Betty and Robert Rounsaville as they accepted the diploma for their daughter, Cindy, a fifth-year architecture student who was killed in late April. The commencement ceremony was only part of a full weekend of activities, including luncheons, an all-university party, and a special dinner for Distinguished Alumni and Meritorious Service winners the night before(see page four for more details). Photos by Lee Bated/ Laura Derrick A Small Town in Texas As Texas looks to its past in this sesquicentennial year, one focal point might well be Chappell Hill, where some Rice alumni are bringing the town's history back to life. Third in the Sallyport sesquicentennial series.

by Andre Fox

Some things were just meant to go together — pendent School District and, with four other firms, sion. "Harvin dreamed of owning it someday and baseball and hot dogs, Texas and bluebonnets, or, NASA's $30 million Manned Spacecraft Center. of bringing back its beauty and charm," she says, perhaps more appropriately in this case, Thomas Despite a heavy hand in the new construction the rooms around her a testament to their success Jefferson and Monticello. changing the face of Houston, Moore's true love re- in making that dream a reality. The same could be said for Harvin C. Moore mained a field with which he had become in- It was not a simple process, however. A past '27 and the Stagecoach Inn of Chappell Hill, Texas. volved during the construction freezes of World world that had literally been buried was uncov- They first crossed paths in 1923, when Rice War II — restoration. In 1954, for example, he co- ered during the inn's restoration — a University of freshman Harvin Moore — en route to Austin with founded the Harris County Heritage Society with Texas archaeologist even came in to dig and write the Rice band — caught his first glimpse of Chap- another Rice alum, Marie Lee Phelps McAshan '31. his thesis on the findings. pell Hill and a run-down version of what once had Together, they formed a nucleus of people inter- "He found the most fascinating artifacts," Eliz- been an inn for Texas' first stagecoach line. Even ested in saving the 1845 Kellum-Noble House (lo- abeth Moore says. "He located the brick wall to the in its dilapidated condition, the building caught cated in Park)from demolition and original(detached) kitchen. And we found out Moore's fancy. restoring it to its original beauty. these people were not poor. They owned the most At the time, Moore did not know the story be- Other historic buildings were to follow, both in beautiful crystal, fine silver and lovely porcelain." hind the Stagecoach Inn and Chappell Hill, nor Houston and elsewhere in Texas. In 1967, Harvin Harvin Moore noted that the reason digging in did he have an inkling about the part he would and Elizabeth Moore worked to restore a number of the backyard yielded so much information about play in their restoration and revival. buildings(dating from 1838 to 1851) making up the the original tableware of the inn was that the yard Hackberry Hill farm near Round Top, Texas. was used as a final resting place for chipped or An enterprising start In 1972, Moore was elected a Fellow of the worn pieces. "They just pitched the garbage out The saga of Chappell Hill began one day in 1847, American Institute of Architects for his restoration the window," he says. when Mary Hargrove Haller discovered $300 hid- work. The house itself yielded a wealth of informa- den beneath the sugar barrel while her husband, tion as well. "You find the oddest things when you Jacob, was away on business. Imagine Jacob's sur- Return to Chappell Hill get involved in restorations and reconstructions," prise when he returned to learn that his enterpris- During this time, hard weather and neglect had he says. "When we started on the roof, we threw ing young wife had used her discovery to buy 100 taken its toll on the Stagecoach Inn. But Harvin away roof after roof. There were two asphalt and acres of fertile land, draw out lots and name her Moore had never forgotten the old building he saw one wooden roof — six roofs in all. Evidently, every new "town" Chappell Hill after her pioneer grand- on the way to Austin in the 1930s, and in 1967 he fi- time the roof developed a few leaks, they just put a father, Robert Wooding Chappell. nally turned his sights back to Chappell Hill. new one on. We finally put a terne-plate roof on Three years later, the settlement thriving, the The first priority for both Harvin and Elizabeth the inn, just like its original." Hallers built a Greek Revival-style inn to accom- Moore was the inn, which they obtained from Eliz- "Just like the original" was a credo followed modate travelers making their way from Houston abeth's sister, Faith Bybee(who herself is instru- throughout the restoration, inside and out. With a to Austin or Waco along the well-established 19th mental in the vast restoration work being done in few minor exceptions (primarily kitchen and bath- century route now known as Highway 290. The Round Top). It was the first step in making the old room facilities), the Stagecoach Inn in 1986 is Stagecoach Inn became a popular spot — Chap- inn into what it is today, the Moore family home. much like it would have been in 1850— feet pell Hill was the major overnight stop for Texas' To Elizabeth Moore, it was a natural progres- planted firmly in the 19th century. Elizabeth Moore first two stagecoach lines. put her 20 years of studying and collecting As the decades passed, the grandeur antiques to work, making sure the inn was of the inn's gracious lines and stately ap- furnished with pieces consistent with the pearance faded. And though Harvin Moore era. was again reminded of the building when She knew, for example, that since he sketched the inn for the Historic Ameri- early Texas cabinetmaker Caspar Witte- can Buildings Survey in the early 1930s, he borg had once had a shop in nearby was to spend the next 40 years in Houston, Brenham, Witteborg's pieces would most caught up with education, career and likely have been used in the inn. Now, family. among the museum-quality collector's Though Moore had originally planned showpieces in the home (including a curly to follow his father's footsteps into a medi- pine wardrobe that toured with the Boston cal practice, his artistic leanings won out Museum exhibit, "Artifacts West of the and he returned to Rice for his architecture Mississippi" and several bedroom sets that degree in 1930, later coming back to Rice to have been in the family for generations) tutor students having problems with the are a massive grandfather clock, secretary infamous Math 100. His last student, Eliz- and wardrobe — all by Witteborg. abeth Ann Poorman '38, became his wife. For a long time, Elizabeth Moore was (Their sons, Harvin Moore Jr. '59 and unable to find any of the Witteborg pieces. Barry Moore '62, later attended Rice and "We employed a local historian and gen- settled in Houston.) ealogist to help us find and identify his fur- Meanwhile, Moore was making a niture," she says, adding that, ironically, name for himself. In his partnership with they had one Witteborg piece all along and Hermon Lloyd and later on his own, he didn't know it. After seeing the clock and handled such major projects as a $40 mil- wardrobe that were positively identified lion construction for the Houston Inde- Harvin and Elizabeth Moore as Witteborg's, the Moores noticed that the

14 SALLypoRT—JUNE-AUGUST 1986 11111111111111111 € Fox Andre by Photos Harvin and Elizabeth Moore's Stagecoach Inn Reconstructed carriage house behind Stagecoach Inn Richard and Mildred Ganchan's Browning Plantation

clock's feet, cornices and bellflowers were identi- It was the Witteborg house that really began spout head bearing the Lone Star of Texas, the cal to a secretary that Mary Hailer's great niece catching the imagination of the community."As Browning Plantation would likely be remembered had given them as a gift. Upon closer examination the Witteborg was slowly restored to its original for the panoramic view from the rooftop lookout, of the secretary, Elizabeth Moore said, they dis- state, people really began making a big to-do over its breezy verandas and the use of false-graining, covered Witteborg's signature — a "W" — hidden it," Elizabeth Moore said."We finally sold the which was popular in the late 1800s. in the decorative tracery. house to a friend who had been trying to get up to In Colonel Browning's time, the plantation em- sell it. About the time the house was finished, our braced 2,000 corn and cotton acres and was a cen- Spreading out friend's ranch house burned and she began say- ter of much cultural activity. Browning, a staunch When the Stagecoach Inn was complete, it was, ing,'Now, will you rent it to us?'" supporter of education, founded Chappell Hill Fe- for Elizabeth and Harvin Moore, like coming home. The five-room Greek Revival cottage on the male College and Soule University, and it is easy They sold their house in Houston (though still corner next to the Witteborg House has also been to imagine that many of the college social activi- maintaining an apartment)and moved in as full- restored, transformed into Lottie's Bed and Break- ties would have taken place at the plantation. time residents of Chappell Hill. And Chappell Hill fast(named after Mary Haller's mother, Charlotte, (Yet another Rice alumnus is getting involved slowly underwent a revival as the Moores turned who owned and operated the Stagecoach Inn in in Chappell Hill's restoration fever — Myrv Cron their sights to some of the area's other historic the 1850s). With Lottie's completed, the house next '44 is in the process of restoring a Victorian house buildings. to it — the original home of Chappell Hill's first originally belonging to Marie Smith.) The Stagecoach Inn was the first of five resto- mayor — is being restored. rations and numerous constructions the Moores The Moores might have stoked the flames, but Getting involved have undertaken to date in Chappell Hill. Behind the fire of community spirit in Chappell Hill has The revived spirit of Chappell Hill is not limited to the inn's three-acre lot stands their second major involved many others as well. Getting others in- restoration. Community involvement runs high, project, the 1866 Weems House. Also a Greek Re- volved, Harvin and Elizabeth Moore say, has been perhaps nowhere more than the annual scarecrow vival building with a columned front gallery and a big part of the experience. competition that runs in conjunction with the symmetrical plan, the house was moved from a Other homes have been restored, most nota- town's Octoberfest. The competition was the Church Street lot two blocks away on Chappell bly among them the Browning Plantation belong- Moores' answer to the question, "How can we stim- Hill's east boundary. ing to Richard and Mildred Ganchan ('40/'40). ulate interest in Chappell Hill," and is sponsored Like the Stagecoach Inn, the Weems House Like the Stagecoach Inn, the Browning Planta- by the town's historical society. has its own rich history. The grandfather of its tion had a rich history buried in decades of ne- The idea grew out of a trip the Moores made to original owner, Dr. Mason Locke Weems, has been glect. Dick Ganchan's bronzed work boots Clark County, Indiana, which boasts that it has credited with writing the original story of George standing inside a doorway attest to the love and more covered bridges than any place in New En- Washington and the cherry tree. the hard work involved in restoring the 1857 plan- gland, and where they saw beside each bridge a And like the Stagecoach Inn, the Weems tation home of Col. W.W. Browning. scarecrow with a name on it. The idea lay dormant House exhibited the 19th century tendency of the "Elizabeth Moore told Mildred about this in the Moores' minds for years. owners to replace rather than repair. "They took place, and then Mildred showed me. It was purely "When Harvin and I surfaced with the scare- these wonderful Greek Revival homes and put gin- emotional," Ganchan says. "I just thought, 'this crow idea, people were quick on the uptake," Eliz- gerbread on them to make them look Victorian," house is going to be on the ground in about three abeth Moore said, noting that the scarecrow Elizabeth Moore said. "They also changed out the years,' and somehow that just didn't seem right." competition is now in its 10th year. "Everyone en- doors and, if they could afford it, they took out the The plantation had been on the National Reg- ters into it, and children just love it. They come many-paned windows and installed plate glass or ister of Historic Places, along with the Stagecoach into town and go to see all the different scare- sheet glass and cut the width down." Inn and one other Chappell Hill home(which has crows in the places marked on their maps. Then Currently, the Weems House is the site of also now been restored)for six years. they get to vote on their favorite." Hackberry Tree Antiques (taken from the name of "The Moores wanted someone to take it over In 1982, E.T. graced the balcony of the Stage- Round Top's Hackberry Hill farm). Here too, there and do something with it," Ganchan said of the coach Inn, creating such a furor among the chil- is a historical emphasis as Elizabeth Moore con- plantation. "Why I thought I was the Lord's chosen dren (and adults) even after the competition ended tinues her passion-turned-business with antiques. one, I'll never know, because I'd never done a res- that Moore finally had to put out a sign saying Its contents are a veritable treasure chest of Texas- toration before." "E.T. Gone Home." made furniture and household items. And while Ganchan laughs and claims he'll The scarecrow competition is just one more Also on the inn's property are reconstructions, never do it again, either, he also admits, "it has way Chappell Hill is keeping its past alive. "If it. including a barn, a garage that matches the style been a lovely five years of my life." weren't for the scarecrows, the crops would have of the inn, a carriage house the Moores use as an Now, the major work completed, he and his been devoured," Elizabeth Moore says. "So it office, and a remade "old necessary" that stores family are enjoying the plantation home, which is seems a very befitting, symbolic way to celebrate small garden tools and is surrounded by a herb open to guests for special events. An eight-room, the festival of harvest." garden. two-story Greek Revival home, the Browning has The thread that runs through the restorations Despite some of the modern conveniences, to been restored to its pre-Civil War state; its high and the community involvement at Chappell Hill picture life as it might have been more than a cen- ceilings and spacious, elegantly decorated rooms is a sensitivity to, and understanding of, the tury ago one need only stand next to the big bell attest to the genteel plantation life of Texas in the theme of 'yesterday, today, tomorrow.' The work outside the inn's back door, gaze across the ex- 1850s. that has been done — the energy and enthusiasm panse of lush greenery and imagine live chickens, An uncharacteristic feature of the house was — serves to protect the city and its history. cows (to provide the inn's guests with fresh milk) the inclusion of closets — something not com- Though she and her family have been instru- and horses crowding the yard. monly found in homes of that era — and Ganchan mental in bringing about Chappell Hill's revival, explained that the presence of the closet space Lighting the fire Elizabeth Moore is quick to credit the community's found either side of the fireplaces located in every involvement — preserving and understanding the Investigation of yet another old home across the room is what allowed the architectural integrity of past, she says, is something from which everyone street from the Stagecoach Inn lent further details the house to be maintained as modern facilities benefits. to the Chappell Hill history. An abstract of the were added. Like the Stagecoach Inn, the home's "You don't have to go to school to learn that property located in an old trunk revealed that in original kitchen was detached, though Ganchan sense of history," she says. "What went on on the 1853, the lot was sold by Mary and Jacob Haller to noted that a kitchen was added onto the house in land itself, in the community, in the state, in the none other than Caspar Witteborg, who had lived the early 1900s. country — all your family is a part of that constant in Chappell Hill in the 1850s before moving to Where the Stagecoach Inn might be noted for evolution of history. It is what gives us our person- Brenham. its unique Greek key frieze and impressive down- alities and our complexities."

SALLYPORT—JUNE-AUGUST 1986 15 Letters:

Sallyport readers write (continued from page 2)

A reader responds president, and I assume his appointment 'Enough is enough' pointed to another five-year term just before I have just received and read the April/May has not been controversial. But the fact that The state of the Rice library today is a President Hackerman's retirement last year? Sallyport. The letters and personal articles theology has been his major interest and shame and a disgrace. In nearly 40 years as I have no doubt that the Rice library were especially interesting; it is to their the ministry his vocation makes him, in my a graduate student and faculty member at has, and has long had, many fine and help- writers I address these notes. opinion, an inappropriate choice. Columbia, Princeton and (since 1959) at ful librarians. I am deeply grateful for their Harry Hoover '50: Your Sammy was not Catherine Long Randolph '31 Rice, I have encountered nothing quite like assistance, and have acknowledged it pub- 0 tI the very first live owl. Two football players Hamilton, TX it. licly many times. I also know that the Rice caught an owl in in the fall of The condition of the Rice library is not a library has too many who are incompetent ti 1929, and we took him to the Texas game. sudden or surprising development. It has or indifferent, and know that nothing Is go- Si Texas was conference champion that year, been deteriorating steadily since the mid ing to be done about their inadequate per- a: Avoiding the 'boondoggle' - but lost one game — to Rice. After the 1970s. Many of its fundamental problems formance. tE game, the belligerent bird was returned to I commend the professors who petitioned were identified and discussed during the Above all, I have no doubt that a large against SDI research at Rice (Sallyport, part of the Rice library's problems are — his original habitat. Rice self-study in 1984. Unfortunately, that Si February 1986). Based on my limited knowl- and have been for the past decade or so — A.W. Uhl '23: I must say that your admi- study produced only a few cosmetic ri rable prose style puts younger alumni to edge of the issue, I feel their decision is changes, and more of the same bureau- financial. For years, to put it bluntly, the shame. I agree with the content of your let- probably both morally and academically cratic authoritarianism that has marked the university has suffered from its equivalent ol ter, but I will go even further. Perhaps some well-founded. I commend them for looking operation of the Rice library for years. of the Gramm-Rudman madness. For brevi- masochists really enjoy playing football, beyond the financial and professional op- The current neglect of the Rice library ty's sake, it might be called Hackernomics. but most young men who play do so be- portunities toward the ultimate feasibility is, regrettably, not a new phenomenon. It Its operating philosophy — a kind of aca- cause it is a means to educational and of this boondoggle, which has been op- has long and deep roots in Rice's history. demic bullionism — was to starve the cam- business opportunities they might not oth- posed for some time by eminent scientists, For its first 35 years — from 1912 to 1947 — . pus (all save the untouchable athletic erwise enjoy. lam not sure that a private educators and social critics. Rice had no library building at all. When I department) of desperately needed funds, university of Rice's caliber, which need not As for the proposition that SDI could began teaching at Rice in September 1959, while running up large budget surpluses p. cater to the popular preoccupation with make nuclear weapons obsolete. I hardly the history department book budget was and impressive-looking endowment fig- tr football, should employ gladiators at all. believe this can be taken seriously. At best, $4,000 a year. ures. That may be the approved way to op- la Rod Crowl '70: I realize you are joking, SDI could only make certain modes of deliv- The current library problems come in erate a Fortune 500 corporation. It is not, I sc ery obsolete, while and I congratulate you on a "modest pro- aggravating the threat various shapes and forms. submit, any way to operate a first-rate uni- l of nuclear war or accident by forcing more versity, and certainly not Rice. posal" almost as revolting as Swift's. First, there is a library administration 01 Terry Ellen Eschen Garber '71: I am as- experimentation. The stone and the spear that, in recent times, has become increas- Too many Rice faculty, I regret to say, tonished that your remonstrance became may be "obsolete," but in some parts of the ingly isolated from, and indifferent to, the have remained publicly silent while this necessary. Mrs. John Doe is nobody, or any- world they are still used extensively, and needs of students and faculty alike. "Ask was going on for all to see. The time has UI body. There is no clue to a woman's identity with quite lethal effect. not what the library can do for you but what come. I believe, to say enough is enough. SI in the name. Mr. John Doe could, in the Brian Watson '84 you can do for the library" seems to have The time has come to save — to revive and course of his life, have more than one, per- Corpus Christi, TX become the operating motto. rebuild — the Rice library from top to bot- haps several, Mrs. John Does. The form is Second, the simplest mechanical tasks tom. demeaning and should be abandoned. I be- are not performed, or only grudgingly after Under President Rupp, a new era has lieve only American and British women suf- repeated requests. For example, photocopy hopefully begun. A first-rate university with RI fer this anonymity; Latin women and many Fondren: an alternative machines, an indispensable necessity, in- a third-rate library is an absurdity. No one fu others retain their own names throughout Your thoughtful article on Fondrentibrary cluding the newly purchased ones, break knows what it would cost to bring the Rice co life, simply adding "de" and the husband's prompts me to offer the following observa- down with regularity and are not repaired library up to reasonably adequate stand- or tions. for days or longer. Library users are ards, in terms of building, holdings, staff, surname after marriage. American women 56 should insist, as you do, upon the use of The Rice campus owes much to the ex- charged twice or more what they have to service. It is an expense, however vast, that their proper names. cellent general plan designed by architects pay for identical copies on campus or at the university must face up to, or forget I was at Rice with Marie Lee McAshan, Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson in 1910. Their nearby off-campus commercial establish- about its other vaunted dreams or ambi- and I enjoyed reading the article about her. vision provided the university with a strong ments. In the government documents- tions. a By the way, how good-looking she still is af- and consistent framework for future devel- microform area, students are not permitted As one who has devoted most of his th ter all these years! She seems to be a pleas- opment. Early buildings on the campus to use the reader-printers. professional life to Rice, I would like to be- in ant and accomplished woman, but when supported this plan, reinforcing the strong In the large reading rooms, but not in lieve that when the board of governors she says,"We were sillier and took educa- sense of place that characterizes Rice Uni- the librarians' offices, literally half the hears about the pitiful condition of the Rice tion less seriously then," I must object to her versity. lights are turned off. This is called energy library — better yet, when they come out generalization. I took education and practi- Unfortunately, reactions against so- conservation. and see for themselves — their pride and called eclecticism and romanticism follow- cally everything else seriously. I worried a Newspapers and periodical subscrip- faith in the university will lead them to Ri ing World War II resulted in a 1948 library move promptly in the appropriate direction. lot. Very young I was; dull, I may have tions go unpaid, and unclaimed, some- or been, but I was not silly and would not have building that, in terms of siting and mass- times for weeks and months. Piles of Francis Loewenheim sc found "speeding over the Montrose hump" ing, can only been seen as unsympathetic scholarly journals sit on the shelves un- Professor of History amusing. I would have scorned "coming to the original general plan. The present bound, as they should have been, some- Sc out" even iii had been rich and socially Fondren Library (including a 1968 addition) times months ago or longer. University Librarian Samuel Carrington of prestigious, which I was not. is at best a mediocre intrusion into the cam- Over the Christmas holidays, some of replies, "As has been the case on a number Shirley Armstrong Emerson '53 is a pus fabric. It purposefully ignores the sym- Rice's most important and widely used peri- of occasions in the past, many of Dr. of pragmatist; if I tried to tell what Rice meant metrical massing of early buildings on the odicals — Newsweek, The New Republic, Loewenheim's impressionistic comments of to me, it would be in very different terms. I academic court. In addition, the library's lo- and others too many to name — were sur- distort the realities regarding the library doubt that I could do justice to Radislav cation effectively splits the campus in two, reptitiously moved into closed storage to and its services, and they do not merit a re- Tsanoff, Stockton Axon, McKillop, Alten- blocking the primary axis and creating an make room for an elaborate new fine arts li- sponse. For example, he alludes to the stor- burg, McCann, Williams and others. Even unnecessary "front-back" relationship brary, for which there is no space in the age of two periodicals over the Christmas less gifted men were erudite and kind. The along this axis. The general plan of 1910 en- main building to begin with. holidays. Like such libraries as Columbia. visioned a much longer central academic unforgettable were, in themselves, an edu- Finally, under the current acquisitions Princeton and Harvard, the Rice library ini- WI cational delight. Shirley, I have had several court terminating in a large auditorium to system, humorously called "collection de- tiated three years ago a storage program for nu careers, one of them academic, and a busy, the west. This central space still exists, velopment," book orders are not infre- backruns of certain types of periodicals. The Ap varied, often exciting and far-ranging life; having been recently reinforced by Herring quently long-delayed, more than titles in question — Newsweek and New Re- but I cannot trace any job skills, any practi- Hall and the addition to the RMC. The occasionally lost, sometimes repeatedly. public — were placed in storage during the Co cal or financial successes, to Rice courses. present library is the only impediment to The result is that some important books are summer of 1985, not in December, and mi- wo Quite the contrary. But my professors(espe- the full realization of the original scheme. — literally — years reaching the Rice li- crofilm copies were available for use when Are cially Dr. Tsanoff, for a disciple really Herein lies a solution to both the prob- brary. Some go out of print before they can the fall semester began. needs only one Socrates) gave me many lem of inadequate library facilities and an be acquired. "On two occasions this past academic gle kinds of enlightenment, intellectual guid- unrealized general plan. Instead of yet an- Speaking from personal experience, I year, President Rupp's standing university Ru ance and inspiration. They stimulated me other attempt to "fix" the present building can say that the damage all this has done committee on the library invited Dr. 198 (surely an expensive and frustrating propo- to think and to learn, to value and enjoy • to teaching and research — and ultimately Loewenheim to meet with it in order to dis- Wo what is best and most worthy. They were, sition) the university should build a new li- to Rice's stature and reputation — is incal- cuss library issues; however, he failed to ap- Plc indeed, "to high emprise consecrated." brary along the central axis to the west of culable. pear. Over the years, the library and his That impetus continues to enrich my life. Herring Hall and the RMC in approximately Most important, for every failure, for own department have tried to have DI. fou At 73, I no longer make practical use of the same location as the proposed audito- every shortcoming, there is always a con- Loewenheim participate in an organized, coc advanced degrees in Latin American stud- rium. venient excuse or rationalization. Nothing structured manner in building the collection cor ies and history. Having made what may or Upon completion of the new facility, the is ever the library's fault or responsibility. by submitting book orders in his area of in- CM( may not be the final change of many, I am present building could be removed and the All this — and more— is widely, if not terest. This is certainly one area where the director of a civic theater, director of a academic court completed along the lines generally, known to faculty and students Fondren can ask him what he, with his sub- c1111 of the original plan. The new building, in county Fine Arts Center, president of around the campus. Visiting faculty soon ject expertise, "can do for the library" Un- sor addition to providing more appropriate Friends of the Library, active in Texas Non- discover the situation for themselves — and fortunately, this participation has only been str( profit Theatres. Oh yes, I write book re- spaces for the library, would be a signifi- talk about it elsewhere after leaving. erratic. Lat views and articles and teach Latin to any cant statement about Rice's continued com- This deplorable condition has come "Dr. Loewenheim and I have similar pupils who wish to learn it — there are mitment to academic excellence. about, over a period of time, because those goals for the Fondren, which does enjoy to- hie more takers than you might think. Thanks Now is the time to correct the mistakes in charge of the library believe, apparently day a positive rating from the majority of its rec, to Rice and the very liberal lifelong educa- made in 1948 and 1968. Surely Rice Univer- correctly, that concerned students and fac- patrons. As I have done in the past, I again tion it inspired, my joy in everything (except sity is capable of creating a new library ulty are powerless to change the situation, invite him to use his creative talents in a thi; dancing and foot races) is undiminished. that is both appropriate to the present and and that the university administration — positive, constructive manner to achieve the lost Thank you, Shirley, for prompting me to join future academic needs of the university and more accurately, the former administration goals of the university, including those of son you in reminiscences. Let's hope Rice is as sympathetic to the original general plan. — approved the way the library was being the library. The passive role of nitpicking is Leonard Guy Lane (AIA)'74 good as ever. run. After all, wasn't the incumbent univer- an easy one to follow; the real challenges WO Sallyport: I know little about Rice's new San Antonio, TX sity librarian highly praised and reap- lie in a structured, positive participation." tior

16 SALLYPORT—JUNE-AUGUST 1986 WRC sweeps Beer-Bike events On April 5, Beer-Bike '86 belonged to Will through the '70s and '80s, so people come Rice College, whose berry-shirted riders back to do this," said Craig Mielke, an- and chuggers swept all three events for chor for the WRC alumni, explaining his the second time in the race's 29-year his- team's success. tory. Will Rice and Lovett placed, respec- The games began with the presenta- tively, first and second in both the men's tion of the third annual Sallyport Award, and women's races. Will Rice, clocking in Owl baseball ends on upswing given by the Association of Rice Alumni at 23:06, beat Lovett's 23:16 by a scant 10 in recognition of significant contributions seconds in an exciting men's race finish When Todd Ogden shut out the University Field earlier in the season, and was to community life at Rice. This year the where pit coordination and precision of 2-0 in the opener of ranked as high as 20th in the nation be- honor went to undergraduate Scott Biddy, chugging were as important as superb the doubleheader held at Cameron Field fore a disastrous 12-game losing streak in founder of the Rice Student Volunteer Pro- biking skills. Wiess trailed Lovett in third the last weekend in April, the victory mid-season spoiled the campaign. Hous- gram. place, with Hanszen, Sid Rich, Jones, soothed a lot of wounds in the wrapup of ton shut out the Owls in the final match, Then the cycling and chugging be- Baker, and the GSA rounding out the an erratic season for Coach David Hall's 7-0. gan in earnest. standings. team. In SWC play, Rice had a 5-16 record The alumni race was the first event of WRC's women's team earned their The win in that twin-bill opener in- highlighted by series victories over TCU the afternoon, with more than 80 alumni fourth straight title with a winning time of sured a two-of-three edge over crosstown and UH. Rice ended the season with an participating and scores more cheering 16:36, one second faster than last year. rival UH and gave Rice a 34-26 final sea- eight-game non-conference winning them on. Will Rice gained an early lead, Lovett, Jones, Hanszen, Baker, Brown, and son record. Rice had won the series streak. The Owls were 29-14 at home for which they held to win the race in an offi- Wiess chased Will Rice in the results opener under the new lights at the season (4-8 in SWC play). Cameron cial time of 16:14.45, a lap ahead of lineup. second-place Hanszen. Lovett showed up The Association of Rice Alumni, one minute later, with Wiess, Jones, Young Alumni, and Friends of Rice Ath- Berndt's Owls look to Lamar Baker, and the Graduate Student Associ- letes sponsored a tent to serve as head- Coach Jerry Berndt and his new staff com- Texas; Oct. 11 at TCU; Oct 18, Texas Tech; ation following. The Sid Rich/Brown quarters for visiting alums. In their pleted a busy and productive spring Oct. 25 at Texas A&M; Nov. 1 at Arkansas; alumni team came in last at 22:59, simul- largest turnout since the alumni race was training with a Blue-Gray scrimmage in Nov. 15, Baylor(homecoming); Nov. 22, taneously riding a single vintage "high added to Beer-Bike in 1981, 375 Rice grads late April at Rice Stadium. As the Owls Air Force; and Nov. 29 at Houston. performance" Schwinn one-speed and showed up for a football scrimmage, scatter for summer vacation, they are A football program,"The drinking beer. lunch, tennis, baseball games and, of looking ahead to the season opener Jerry Berndt Show," will be televised this "We've had the winning tradition course, the races themselves. against Lamar on Sept. 6 at 7 p.m. fall on KHTV, Channel 39 in Houston. The The full 1986 football schedule lines 30-minute show can be seen weekly at Up as follows: Sept. 6, Lamar; Sept. 13, 11:30 a.m. beginning Sept. 6. SMU; Sept. 27, Southwest Texas; Oct. 4, Cavanaugh retains NCAA title Rice junior Regina Cavanaugh success- Cavanaugh won her third Southwest fully defended her title to win the shot put Conference outdoor crown with a 58-1 competition at the NCAA Outdoor Track NCAA qualifying shot put at the 71st and Field Championships June 6 with a Southwest Conference Track and Field 56-foot-9.5-inch throw. Championship hosted by Rice May 17-18. Earlier in the week, Cavanaugh She qualified for discus with a 172-foot-7- swept the shot put qualifying round with inch throw at the meet as well. Overall, a 57-foot-6.5-inch throw that surpassed the Rice women's track team came in third the 1984 meet standard by more than 10 and the men's eighth in the SWC event. inches. Owls sign four to golf grants Rice golf coach Jim Castaneda recently off the 1985-86 team, plans to sign one Will Rice led the pack in all three races announced the signing of four high more golfer before the completion of the school golfers to athletic grant-in-aid recruiting season, which he believes will scholarships. The four include Joe Gowitz accelerate the team's improvement in of Racho Palos Verdes, Calif., Mitch Ben- 1986-87. The Owls' top golfer this year, jamin of Clearwater, Fla., Steele Sharpe junior Jon Christian, tied for fourth at the of Brownsville, Texas, and Blake Johnson SWC Golf Championships with a 2-over of Glen Ellyn, Ill. par 218 in the 54-hole tournament. Castaneda, who loses three golfers Wood wins fourth SWC crown When Rice senior Wendy Wood won the the round of 16 in the U.S. Olympic Trials number-one singles and doubles titles at in 1984, and last summer was chosen for April's SWC tennis championships in the USTA Junior Federation Cup team. Corpus Christi, she became the first She also represented the U.S. at the woman tennis player to win four South- World University Games in Kobe, Japan. west Conference crowns during a career. Wood, who graduated May 10 with a Wood previously claimed the top sin- B.A. in managerial studies, was also a Michelle Bourianoff(R) and Simone Yoda(aka Bob Duncan '71)cheers for gles title in 1985, and teamed with Susan success in the classroom. She main- Redrupp score points for Wiess Will Rice Rudd to win the number-one doubles in tained a 3.4 grade point average despite 1984. With her dual victory this year, the year-round travel and a schedule of 52 Wood also becomes the first Rice tennis collegiate matches plus cup matches, Player in more than two decades to win tournaments and daily three-hour prac- four SWC crowns. Former Rice player and tices. Wood plans to go to Europe to pur- coach Jim Parker was the last Owl to ac- sue a career in professional tennis. complish this feat when he won singles In men's competition, the Rice duo of and doubles titles in 1963 and 1965. Scott Melville and Andrew Taylor won the Wood, who is ranked seventh nation- SWC doubles title at the April champion- ally, held a 28-2 record for the spring sea- ship meet. The two defeated Den Bishop son (including a 21-game winning and Stefan Kruger of SMU. Melville also streak). She teamed with sophomore advanced to the finals in singles before Laurie Cronk to win this year's SWC dou- losing to Kimmo Alkio of Texas A&M. bles title. This Owl duo has a 15-7 spring In other competition, Rice's Rodney record and are ranked 35th nationally. Burton and Todd Kross were defeated by In the NCAA Championships held Richey Reneberg and John Ross in the fi- this May in Austin, Wood played well but nals of the number two doubles champi-

lost in the second round, with a final sea- onships. Coach Larry Turville's men's Peter

son record of 47-7. squad finished fifth with 40 points, 3 by In addition to her collegiate success, points behind Texas A&M,and ahead of

Wood has earned national and interna- TCU, Baylor, Houston and Texas Tech. Photos tional recognition as well. She reached Students and alumni visitors pull for their teams

0oo SALLYPORT—JUNE-AUGUST 1986 17 4114.0tai Alumni elect executive board

Alumni host spring events Morris Jensen Greenwood Raynor Bayless Caddes In The Association of Rice Alumni hosted a attended the events and enjoyed the free th Six new members of the Association of and has three daughters and two grand- number of successful events on campus food and drink at the alumni tent located Rice Alumni's executive board will take children. this past spring. southeast or at the side of the stadium. office on July 1. Greenwood, a - On April 5, Spring Athletic Day ra was On April 22, the Association of Rice Elected to the alumni executive man, is an attorney with the firm of held in conjunction with the 29th Annual sit Alumni and Friends of Fondren Library board were S.I. Morris '35, Bridget Rote Greenwood, Koby, Old, Pinson and Bus- Beer-Bike Race (see Sports for more cover- ch hosted the Student Art Reception. A Jensen '53, Jim Greenwood '58, Alan H. sey. Long active in Rice alumni activities, age). The event was sponsored Mc by the ath- crowd of more than 300 interested stu- Raynor '70, Bobbie G. Bayless '76, and Greenwood has also served as President letic and young alumni committees of the alumni the opening dents and attended Carolyn Dearmond Caddes '58. of the Houston Bar Association, State Ju- Po Association of Rice Alumni. In the morn- on and reception. Morris, founder and now consultant rors Bar of Texas, and Friends of the Texas ing, alumni attended a football scrim- Pr: The annual Senior Picnic, expanded for Morris Architects in Houston, includes Medical Center Library. He is married to mage, followed by a talk with head oh this year to include all graduating stu- among his activities and achievements: Cody Caldwell Greenwood '58 and has football coach Jerry Berndt. In addition to dents, was held May 1 in the concession trustee and president, Houston Museum five children. the Beer-Bike races in the afternoon, there area of Rice ho Stadium because of rain. Ap- of Fine Arts; director, Houston Chamber Bayless is a Houston attorney with was a doubleheader baseball game un proximately 300 people attended the bar- of Commerce; past member, Rice Board of the firm Bayless and Stokes. Founder and against TCU and a men's tennis match becue. Music was provided by Dana Ad Governors; member, Who's Who in Amer- president of Rice University Business and against Texas Tech. More than 375 people Cooper and flic his band. ica; award recipient, Texas Society of Ar- Professional Women, Bayless is a mem- so] chitects, Houston and National American ber of the Houston, Texas and American du Institute of Architects. In 1986, Morris was bar associations and the Association of REA honors students named a Distinguished Alumnus of Rice. Trial Lawyers of America. bu Married to Suzie Morris, he has five chil- Caddes, a photographer who lives in thE tio The Rice Engineering Alumni held its an- ward Burton and Mark Fite, civil dren. Palo Alto, Calif., serves as co-chair of the ad nual Student Awards Program and barbe- engineering; Timothy Boykin, Alexander Jensen has a long record of volunteer San Francisco Bay Area Rice Club, and an cue April 12 on the engineering Kyllman and Edward B. Loewenstein, service to the university and to the com- has been active in working with prospec- G. quadrangle. electrical engineering; Alexander Hodge, munity. For Rice, she has served with tive Rice students in the Bay Area. Assist- Bui A number of special awards were Daan Hekma-Wierda and Ika Osaki, me- Rice Associates, Owl Club, Friends of ant at five Ansel Adams Yosemite ter, presented, as well as awards to juniors chanical engineering; James Vera and Fondren, Shepherd Society and Rice De- Workshops, Caddes is the author of Por- bet and seniors in each discipline. John Deuel, computer science. sign Alliance, and has served with the traits of Success:Impressions of Silicon ing Special award winners were: Tracey Seniors designated REA Scholars Society of Rice University Women. 1985 Valley Pioneers (to be published this sum- Ascherfeld (Harriana Butler Scholarship, (with a prize of $250) were: David homecoming chairman and first vice mer). Married to Don Caddes '58, she has 721 Ak $1,000); Srinivas Kolla of chemical engi- Dankworth, chemical engineering; Ann president of the Association of Rice two children including a son, Scott, who neering (Herbert Allen Award, $1,000); Bauser, civil engineering; Charles A. Alumni, Jensen is married to Al Jensen '52 graduated from Rice in 1984. beE and Paul James of mechanical engineer- Bier, electrical engineering; John Carter, shi ing (Outstanding Graduate award, $500). computer science; and Thomas C. Wil- REA Merit Awards of $500 each were lett, mathematical sciences. The search is on 85 c awarded to juniors Brian McDonald of Senior honorees included: Uday Ber the civil engineering, John Steinke of electri- Sheth, Ted Baroody and Linda J. Dufficy, The Association of Rice Alumni is hoping to find the following "lost" members of the cal engineering, Tasha Neeper of me- chemical engineering; Sudhir Sripadan, Class of 1961 in time for the 25th class reunion at homecoming this year. Information on eco chanical engineering, Leslie Henderson civil engineering; Chris Regier and their whereabouts should be directed to the alumni office at P.O. Box 1892, Houston, reci of computer science, and Jeffrey A. Dow- Christine Cummings, electrical engineer- TX 77251. Yea dle of mathematical sciences. ing; Steven Bene, Karla Fulton and David Herbert C. Allen Jr. Louis Leon Gibbs John Duke Martin John Lemuel Sinclair yen Junior honorees included: K. Scott Charles Harper Anderson HI Jerry D. Graves Marjorie A. McBride M. Webb Small lasi Trevas, mechanical engineering; and Marvin Gregory Berryhill McAfee and Ann Wierzbick, chemical en- Dean E. Griffith Margaret Ann McCampbell Jim Allison Smith Chetan Murthy and Marcus Frid, com- Charles Melvin Blair Jr. Judith Marilyn Grott James Russell McCaslin Roger A. Smith gineering; Joe Crivello, Mike Hulbert, Ho- puter science. John P Bourg Cecil Lewis Groves Weldon Keene McDonald Ronald Gene Smith John Ross Breckenridge William Samuel Grubb James Ora McGlothlin Jr. David R. Squire James Kenneth Brooks Nurbert Gruberger Thomas Kenney McKeown John Lawrence Steagall Corinne Annette Brown Charles A. Guptill Gail Ann Meader Israel Herman Stein The Theodore F. Brunn Doyle Wilson Hall Jr. Nicholas Harvey Merriam Harry Meyer Stellman III rrie( Suggestions sought for book Norman Ericson Burroughs James Paul Hankins Konstance Kay Miller Thomas A. Stellman Leonard R. Cargill Jr. Lyndon Howard Harrison Robert F. Montgomery James Bower Stukoe for 1 The Rice University Press will publish a Ideas should be sent to Rice Univer- James Edward Clark John Victor Hayslip Louis Ted Moore Dan Carroll Stone and volume of color photographs of the Rice sity Press, PO. Box 1892, Houston, TX Robert Luther Clark Wendell Glenn Hearne Joyce Marie Jones Morris Mike Vernon Sullivan rner campus by photographer Geoff Win- 77251. Lawrence George Clemens John W. Hendrix Jr. Marjorie Anne Morris Judson Bruce Synnott Ill George David Crussley Lyndon Henry Dorothy Jean Morton Klaas Tadema ningham (Rice professor of art) in the fall This fall, the press will be publishing Elizabeth Ruth Culp FOY Clyde 0. Hill J. Donald Myers Jr. Martha Claire Tait Irwir of 1987. To help in the book's preparation, A Place of Dreams: Houston, An American Robert Earl Daniel James Edwin Hill Jr. Sandra Ann Newton Mark Thomas Will alumni are invited to send suggestions of City, a book of 150 color plates by Win- George Philip Dateo Robert Edward Holder Patrick Andrew Nitsch Nancy Carolyn Johnson James Wesley Davis Thon places or events they would like to see ningham with text by Texas Monthly con- Benjamin T. Horton Morris Robert Norman David Dean Walden Roy Edward De Forest Thomas A. Jennings Thomas Mitchell Oliver Jr. Or. 1.1 John David Walker Paul photographed. tributing editor Al Reinert. Donna Kay Deacon Jo Ann Lois Johnson Nelson McKee Owen Holland West Wallace III Richard M. Debberthine Richard Davenport Jones Ethem Uzkaragoz Phi Chi-Chang Wang Gear Photo by Peter Yenne James F. Deegan Burney George Kent Jane Shumaker Potter Myron Reed Welsh Wiley Denson David Norman John Krause Walter E. Rabke Reeves W. Westmoreland Pre Alfred Martin Diaz James C. Latimer Gail William Rasco Williams Alums Kenneth Duane Willa seek Samuel Theodore Donaldson James Woodford I.,aws James Wallace Ratterree Joan C. Wilson Warr: Joseph C. Doyle Tjalda Dieuwertje Leegstra Donald Harrison Rhoads Robert Allan Womack Rode James Stokely Dukelow Jr. Ernest Clifton Leonard III Alan Bradford Rhoden Robert Duane Wood help with Timothy Dunnigan Irvin Carol Marie Owen Littleton Allen W. Rodgers Rellis Earl Worley Jr. Alma Jack D. Farrar David George Lloyd Charles William Rogers David Lee Wright Itorac Forrest Wilford Faulkner Jr. Frank Gordon Love John David Russell William Nicholas Zelle reunion plans Charles Hemphill Fay Jr. Ronald SidnE A. Lovett Charles Joseph Sanders Don Earl Zerkle Rope Frank Al Forbes James Louis Luttrell Harold Dennis Sears Anna Several Billy Dave Ford Frank Lyle of those alumni involved in plan- Richard Warner Seymour Ruth James N. Gerhardt Cam R. J. Man Clarence Morgan Shumate ning homecoming weekend reunions for Lyle E their classes have requested fellow class- Rnthr mates' help in organizing. If you are a Feliai member of one of the following classes Che Gold Medal Nomination Form Rarlsc and would like to help plan your reunion Wa this year, please contact the designated I would like to nominate lizaf organizer: for the Association of Rice Alumni Gold Medal for Distinguished Service to Rice Mary Louis Class of 1931: George Blocker University. I believe he/she is worthy of this award because:(This person may or kr. am (713) 780-0566 may not be an alumnus/a.) br. Tt th. Class of 1961: Nancy Burch Rice Niran (713) 791-2700 Senior Scott Biddy(L) receives the Cha'r annual Sallyport Award from alumnus Wil Class of 1971: Tom or Ann Greene Bill Merriman '67 before the outset of 4r. Li (713)655-2828 Beer-Bike activities April 5. The Sally- Willic Mario port Award was created Nominated by. Class of 1981: Kent Killion in 1984 to Ceorc honor students who have made out- Address (713)622-2200 Robe; standing contributions to the Rice com- Daytime phone. rho Young Alumni: Alumni office munity. Biddy founded the Rice Student Please return to: The Association of Rice Alumni, PO. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251, Orvill (713)527-4057 Volunteer Program this year. (713)527-4057. 1.1.QL1,

18 SALLYPORT—JUNE-AUGUST 1986 111041. 104 Recel citaitoit As RUF Council turns 15, Rupp outlines future growth In 1971, the Board of Governors authorized Progress has been made this past programs in such areas as planned giv- the formation of the Rice University Fund year, however, Pieper noted. Major gifts ing and designated capital projects in ad- Council to promote the establishment to the endowment included $1.5 million dition to the annual fund, said areas and maintenance of an organization to toward 10 chairs, and $975,000 for 13 particularly in need of major funding in raise funds for the benefit of Rice Univer- scholarships and fellowships, seven of the coming year include funds for library sity. With Dell Butcher '34 as its first which were just established this year. renovations, for the Hewlett Foundation chairman, the first meeting was held on The $2.7 million received this year in Challenge aimed at enhancing under- May 5, 1971. The RUF Council took the op- plant contributions includes $2.3 million graduate education at Rice, and for addi- portunity at its 15th anniversary meeting in payments or commitments for the ex- tional support of the projected 10 years on May 2 of this year to look back with pansion of Rice Memorial Center, funds remaining in Art and Art History's archae- Pride on its many achievements and look for the renovation of the engineering com- ological dig in progress near Rome, Italy. ahead to new challenges. plex and Anderson Hall, and construction In terms of Rice's immediate and In the 15 years, more than $235 mil- on the Mudd Building and Herring Hall. long-term future, however, it was Rice lion in gifts have been received by the In calendar year 1985, Rice alumni, President George Rupp who provided the university, according to Vice President for board members, corporations and friends details. Bernard Pieper Administration William W. Akers. These of Rice contributed $6.6 million for current Noting that Rice is facing "a very monies provided for 48 endowed profes- operations. As a result, under the terms tight financial situation" in its budget for in the planning stages, he said, while sorships, 116 scholarship funds, major en- of the Brown Challenge, Rice will qualify the current and upcoming year, Rupp early planning has begun for a new natu- dowments for reseaich, teaching and for a matching grant from the Brown said the faculty and administration has ral sciences facility. building maintenance, an endowment for Foundation of $2.5 million, which the uni- been undergoing some "very careful Preliminary figures, he said, indicate the Jesse H. Jones School of Administra- versity expects to receive by the end of long-range planning" to identify areas in a cost of around $25 million for the two tion, and new facilities that include the the fiscal year on June 30, Pieper said. which Rice can carve a "distinctive buildings. Efforts to obtain these funds addition and renovation of Anderson Hall Annual fund chairman Tom McIntosh niche." are now under way. and the Abercrombie Laboratory, Seeley '59 also noted that unrestricted giving Part of this "major academic plan- Rupp also fielded questions from the G. Mudd Building, Herring Hall, Cox from alumni has increased by almost 10 ning," he said, includes very careful de- floor, commenting briefly on a number of Building, and the new Ley Student Cen- percent from last year, giving an overall liberations on how best to fill vacant other issues. Asked whether the adminis- ter. In addition, more than $66 million has percentage of alumni participation of 39.8 faculty positions. Rupp noted, for exam- tration's long-range plans include in- been received for current operations. Giv- percent. There are over 1,300 more alumni ple, that Rice currently has five spots creasing the size of the student body, ing has increased from $4,582,968 in 1971- donors in April 1986 than in the previous open in the life sciences, positions that Rupp said that, if anything, the Rice un- 72 to $24,946,639 in 1984-85. According to year, and McIntosh attributed much of are being looked at very closely in rela- dergraduate student body might be Akers, this success story would not have that success to the January Telefund, tion to current resources so that new fac- slightly decreased. Though the number of been possible without the strong leader- which brought in a 67 percent increase in ulty can be chosen who will most doctoral students might face a "modest ship provided by the council. pledges over the 1985 Telefund. effectively supplement existing increase" as Rice research is expanded, Citing comparative figures for 1984- strengths. Rupp maintained that Rice must continue 85 and 1985-86, RUF Council chairman Looking ahead Rupp also noted that while Houston's to "focus on quality, not quantity." Bernard Pieper '53 noted that, because of As a testament to their dedication, the fo- economic climate does not make a major In other RUF Council business, offi- the current instability in the Houston cus of the 90 people in attendance for the capital campaign a viable option for Rice cers for the coming year were recognized, economy and because several large gifts meeting was not so much on past suc- at this time, there are two capital projects including council chairman George received in 1984-85 were not repeated this cesses as on future challenges. in which Rice will "make an important Miner '50 and vice-chairman Tom McIn- Year, the total amount of gifts to the uni- Development director Margaret S. Al- move forward soon." tosh '59, and Annual Fund chairman Al versity is down $2.5 million from April of sobrook, noting that the widespread de- The long-awaited new facilities to Jensen '52 and vice-chairman Steve last year. velopment office efforts included strong house the are Shaper '58. Giving clubs enroll new donors The Founder's Club and President's Club were established in the fall of 1970 as a Hugh T. Blevins Jr. '66 Smith Managan '73/71 William V. Cary '78 means of bringing together alumni, parents and friends who give substantial support Douglas W. McKendrick '66 Jan Godfrey McCorstin '73 Susan G. Fong '78 for Rice's current operations. Membership is on an annual basis (July 1 through June 30) Thomas C. Montgomery '66 Vick A. Miles '73 Walter E. Greenberg '78 John 0. Baker '67 John E. Powell '73 Joshua T. Kutchin '78 and includes the individual and his or her spouse. Names listed below are first-time Dr. James E. Cogan '67 Dr. and Mrs. Michael Francis William R. Lambert '78 members from February through April 1986. Morag Fullilove '67 Sarosdy '73 Chun C. Liang '78 Dr. Louis R. Kronfeld '67 Stephen G. Schulz '73 Narandja Milanovich '78 Founder's Club Nora Potts Schleier '49 Marvin D. Kunkel '58 Barrett L. Lambert '67 Timothy B. Tarrillion '73 Richard L. Schober Jr. '78 Irwin M. Herz Jr. '61 Kenneth D. Taft '49 Dr. David S. McKay '58 Dr. John E. Lueders '67 Thomas A. and Diana Cronhardt Allen R. Till '78 William C. Voigt '65 Arthur R. Beck '50 William R. Norris '58 Dr. Arthur H. Lusty Jr. '67 Wellner '73/73 Toshimasa Tokuno '78 Thomas C. Evans '71 Fred E. Cooper '50 Raymond A. Plummer '58 Dr. Diana H. McSherry '67 Dr. Barbara Klotz Gehrett '74 Robert B. Wong 78 Or. Thomas J. Sultenfuss '73 Miles L. and Eileen Broussard William R. Rogers '58 Dr. Sidney A. Worsham III '67 Henry G. Gunn '74 Philip A. Adams '79 1 Paul G. and Maureen Fulton Croom '50/48 Dr. Marcus A.J. Smith Jr. '58 Terry A. Yates '67 Vernon T. Long '74 Gary A. Eagleson '79 Phillips '77/78 Thomas P Duncan '50 Dr. James C. Baird Jr. '59 Joe L. Caruthers '68 Dr. Dianne Wheatley Nicholas '74 Karen G. Johnson '79 George T. Hall '81 Dr. Harold B. Lovejoy and James R. and Mary Jo Felder Dr. William V. Lorimer Jr. '68 Phil Sheridan '74 Mark G. Johnson '79 Mary Walker Lovejoy '50/.45 Knight '59/.61 Dr. Frank A. Perrone '68 Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Everett Elizabeth M. Juden '79 President's Club Edwin G. Millis '50 Michael A. Tansey '59 Bonnie G. Brown '69 Smith Jr. '74 Nina Springer '79 Willavie McFerran Whiteside '29 Truett Peachey '50 Dr. Tom E. Bullock Jr. '60 Margaret Goodwin Dudley '69 William M. Thomasson '74 Mark S. Whitney '79 Warriner M. Farnsworth '34 Robert S. Willard '50 Mr. and Mrs. James R. Michalek '60 Dr. Robert L. Irvine '69 LCDR. and Mrs. Wolf-Hubertus David L. Wilson '79 Roderick B. Perkins Jr.'35 Virginia A. Drapela '51 Thomas F. Sessions '60 James R. Metzger '69 Bock '75 William C. Walker '80 Irvin C. Bentz '36 Dr. Nathan L. Lauf man '51 Joanne Seale Stohlman '60 Dr. Hartmut H.G. Aumann '70 Germaine Bagot Cossaboom '75 Dr. Betty C. Adam '81 Almon C. Dobbs '36 Dr. J. Richard Smith '51 Wilbur H. Turk '60 Harold D. Copeland '70 Joseph D. Crites Jr. and Tracy C. and Liesien Cooley Horace W. Fairbrother Jr. '36 Dr. Earl D. Bellamy '52 Dr. Stephen B. Doty and Mr. and Mrs. Marc L. Nancy Dingus Crites '75/78 Bouvette '81/81 Sidney G. Smith '36 Dr. James R. Brock '52 Janice Cornell Doty .61/.60 Goldschmitt '70 Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Fasullo '75 Donald E. Dennis Jr. '81 Rope F. Kobayashi '37 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Henry Dr. Reuben H. Grinstein '61 Mary K. Hoyt '70 Joseph J. Finger '75 Bruce F. McGuffin '81 Anna Beth Shapley Minycrrd '37 Dodson Jr. '52 Rufus P King '61 Robert C. and Linda Roberts Dr. Robert A. Koch '75 David B. Pendarvis '81 Ruth Tausend White '37 Mr. and Mrs. William H. Dr. and Mrs. George Paul Jr. '61 Menius '70/73 Glenn J. and Martha Kraft Walton Sumner 11 81 ,..Lyle E. Bohrer '38 Johnston Jr. '52 Johnny B. Burrell '62 Dr. Edithe J. Potter '70 Maxkwort '75/78 Christine C.M. Gorman '82 Kathryn Greer Kahle '38 E. Allen and Nancy John R. Germcmn '62 David R. Starr '70 Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Reneau '75 Michael A. and Catherine Policia Slataper Sabom '38 Branan Roberts '52/52 Dr. Thomas G. Lamkin '62 Ronald R. Shoup Jr. '71 Mr. and Mrs. Gregory P Robert '75 Craig Oestmann '82/84 Chester A. Hayes'39 Carmen Baumbach Womack '52 John W. and Margaret Mr. and Mrs. Patrick H. Sims '71 George W. Tate Jr. '75 Steven A. Share '82 tarl and Artelle Johnson Jack W. Davis '53 Stevens McIntosh '62/64 Andrew J. Singletary Jr. '71 Dr. and Mrs. William P West '75 Carol A. Der Garry '83 Wallace '39/39 David A. Graham '53 Dr. Bobby L. Middlebrooks '62 Mr. and Mrs. Bruce G. Bolzle '72 Patrick D. Eno '76 Dermot M. Durcan '83 Rlizabeth Steele Doyle '40 Don D. Rhoden '53 Ernie L. Mills '62 Charles B. Chrisman Jr. '72 Calvin D. Slater '76 Trudy A. Heimbigner '83 Maryellen Snyder Lowe '40 George A. Speck '53 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Werner'62 Norma A. Cooke '72 Philip H. Walters '76 Dr. and Mrs. Robert G. Shong '83 Louise Jesup Manning '42 Dr. Terry R. Johnson '54 Dr. Warren D. Cummings '63 John M. Lankford '72 Mr. and Mrs. Steve Barta '77 Shelley S. Turner '83 Mr. and Mrs. John E. Dyson '43 Joann Condron Roach '54 Edward E. Ettel 111 63 Randal M. Lee '72 David J. Beyer '77 Barbara A. Twitchell 83 ,i3r. Thomas A. Anderson Jr. '44 Donald R. Whittaker '54 David S. Kuykendall '63 Bradford E. Morris '72 Roger B. and Frances Krouse William J. Watson '83 ur Henry P Hare Jr. '44 Mr. and Mrs. Standlee C. Dr. Mary Foe McKay '63 Louis J. Stranahan Jr. '72 Dannenberg 77r77 Teresa A. Dahill '84 Miran E. Kellogg '45 Fulfer '55 Dr. Philip R. Hardin '64 Dr. Leslie Williamson '72 David Dyche '77 Terry D. Henriott 84 Charles R. Ogilvie Jr. and E. Joe Shimek H '55 Dr. John B. Hendricks '64 George V. Berg Jr. and Shirley Charles T. Featherston '77 James A. Ivey '84 Wilma Slaughter Ogilvie '45r45 Van Z. Smith Hand Helen Dr. David M. McStravick and Buvens Berg '73/73 Steven J. Ganthner '77 Kathryn E. Koch '84 _br. Lida Kittrell Barrett '46 Lehmann Smith .55/•57 Kathie Home McStrcrvick '64/68 Catherine Bolton Brown '73 James D. Krukiel '77 Sarah F. Loewenstein '84 William C. Chandler '46 Charles P Abbott '56 David R. Russell '64 Dr. and Mrs. Lewis M. Duncan III John C. Kupfer '77 Karl K. Maier '84 Marion Alessandra Murphree '46 Sammie Burk Jr. and Marilyn John F. and Jouette McCurdy '73 Patricia A. Norwood '77 Joseph P Quoyeser '84 George E. Cook '47 Webb Burk .56/.56 Bassler '65/64 Douglas S. Friedenberg '73 Shannon T. Vale '77 Karen Sisolak '84 Robert F. and Catherine Walt E. Silvus Jr. '56 Mr. and Mrs. John L. Foster '65 Steve 0. Holder '73 Charles K. Volz '77 Jeffrey J. Bennett '85 Thompson Zelsman '47r46 Donald G. Wilson '56 Mary E. Gilliland '65 Marilyn Marshall Jones '73 Kent A. Williamson '77 James R. Jee '85 Charles R. Steffler '48 Dr. Richard N. Clcrytor '57 Peter M. and Bonnie Bailey James K. Maitland '73 Keith F. and Cynthia Leslie N. Morgan '85 Orville D. Gaither '49 Dr. Fred I. Stalkup '57 Klindworth '65/67 Dr. Lynn Marie Malseed '73 Schroepfer Winzenriecl '777'81 Michelle Schultz '85 Lucky Sawamura '49 Stuart K. Hill '58 Dr. Norman D. Stockwell '65 Michael H. and Carolyn David A. Alvidrez '78 William R. Wade '85

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i; Now there's a choice! f( There is now a choice in how Sallyport readers can send in their classnotes. Beneath many class years, there is rr now listed the name and address of a class recorder who has volunteered to help keep in touch with fellow classmates and send in regular reports. News of your activities may now be sent either to your class recorder or, as in the past, directly to Sallyport. If there is no class recorder for your year, use the form on page 23 and mail it

to the address provided. If you wish to volunteer as a recorder for your class, please contact the alumni office at A (713)527-4057. A

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pally doing surgery, until 1946. His Lee Bell Abrams'42 has an in- steel and timber for heavy indus- that he recently unexpectedly ran Larry Judd is coordinator of 18 two daughters were both born in teresting report about her brother, try. Site-Scope, a new item on the into George and Margaret Asian studies programs for Illinois CLASS RECORDER ('16-'18): the Canal Zone. Bernard Bell, who is in Jerusa- horizon, is a recently formed com- Klumb '49/'50 in London. Cle- College in Jacksonville, Ill. This Mrs. W.H. Jameson "In 1946, he brought his family lem for three months working on a pany headed by his wife, Mary mens' golf partner on a draw at a summer, he is leading the fourth 2425 Sage Rd., #82 back to Texas and settled in Bay volunteer project by people 55 Alice, and his son and daughter. recent Kerrville outing was Dick tour to the Far East for the college ci Houston, TX 77056 City, where he has been engaged years and older. Two years ago he The new company makes benches Bloss'42. after which he plans to retire and (713)621-6052 in general practice. At the present participated in a volunteer project and flower boxes that have already "Finally, as to myself, I retired is looking forward to a teaching time, he is semi-retired but still for two months in Netanya, a sea- beautified areas along Houston's from the U.S. Navy in 1968 after 26 position in Malaysia, Singapore or CI James R Markham maintains an keeps office hours. At last, he can side village on the coast of Israel . years and then again after 11 years Indonesia. (31 active law practice in Houston, pursue his favorite sport, fishing, where the volunteers rehabilitated I retired from Linbeck Construction handling real estate, wills and Callie Shindler Smith owns Em- Pat Long Rector started out with to his heart's content. His only a decrepit children's school. Car- Corp., where I was vice president. probate concerns. A graduate of met M. Smith Association, a gen- the class of 1941, but, as she puts complaint is the state's set of re- pentry is Bell's hobby, so this was I did most of my world travels , the University of Chicago School of eral insurance agency with offices it, "since failing Math 100 three strictions after the big fish kill in right up his alley. He met his wife, while in the Navy, but Margo and I I Law, Markham has been in private in the Spring Branch-Memorial times," she is now a full-fledged '83, since he only catches the 'big Helena, a volunteer from Lenox, did take an auto trip to New Eng- practice for much of his career, area(Houston). Since the death of member of the class of 1942. Pat ones.'" Mass., when they were both work- land last year followed by a drive Li' serving as counsel for the Houston her husband, Emmet, she has ef- has a law license but is teaching rec ing on this project. Today, they are across Eastern Canada to Interna- Board of Realtors for 15 years. fectively managed the company because, she says, "It's fun." doing volunteer work in Jerusalem tional Falls and then on to Hous- an Markham, who returned to Rice a and has remained active in the WI with a group, all of whom are re- ton. These days, we spend our Lou Tuttle spent his freshman year after graduation to start the work of her church. Smith's daugh- turnees doing this project retirement time alternating be- year at Rice in our class and trans- sta Rice co-op, was recently featured 32 at their ter, Lynn, is in law school and her own expense. This year, the group tween our home in Houston and ferred to the Naval Academy. He ye( in The Houston Lawyer. CLASS RECORDER: son is in land development in is working for Life-Line, a day care our home on the Guadalupe River had two tours in the Pentagon, the Chris Hoover Wimberly, Texas. To date, she has center for elderly residents, to in the Texas Hill Country. where he and Oscar Hibler wo 5318 Meadow Lake Lane help six grandchildren. them raise money to cover the "Thanks to all of you who worked together. Tuttle retired af- in Houston, TX 77056 costs of the home. Bell retired from Helen Scarborough Thomas wrote or called me. I sincerely ter 30 years in the Navy and is now Pal (713) 621-5318 27 Atlantic Richfield after a 30-year (M.A., Ph.D.) was awarded an hon- hope that the other members of our living in northern Virginia where de( An exhibition of works designed by tenure with the company. He and orary life membership in the Col- class will get in touch with me and he "assists in raising grandchil- Houston architect Harvin C. Helena reside in Lenox, Mass. lege English Association (CEA), of let me have their latest news." dren whenever allowed to do so." which she is a past president, at Moore during his 50-year career Hibler also sends in the follow- Doris Rothstein Westheimer is Jane Stockton Dunaway retired their Philadelphia convention in was recently on display at the 33 ing news: married to writer David Wes- 's Julia Ide- CLASS RECORDER: last summer after 18 years as a April. Her husband, Joe David theimer and she too travels. She 5 Bill Daeschner is John Sealy Pro- son Building. Moore is known pri- Willie Cole high school teacher in the Spring Thomas, is a professor emeritus of say we can keep up with her by fessor and chairman of the pediat- marily for his eclectic residential 2414 Chimney Rock Branch Independent School Dis- English at Rice and was the recipi- reading David's column in the rics department at the University design and was a pioneer in resto- Houston, TX 77056 trict, a suburb of Houston. She ent of the distinguished service Houston Post. They have recently of Texas Medical Branch at Galves- ration architecture. The exhibit (713) 782-9509 writes, "I have begun a new career award from the CEA. He served enjoyed the culinary delights and ton. He has chaired the depart- was presented by the library's in real estate with Scott Ernest three years as a director, eight- shopping opportunities of Hong ment of pediatrics for 25 years and Houston Metropolitan Research Co., Realtors, and really love it." and-one-half years as national co- Kong. ordinator of affiliates and six years has no immediate plans to retire. Center and the Houston chapter of Samuel R. "Buddy" Jones re- Ruth Moore Willbern writes as CEA historian. the American Institute of Archi- 34 cently retired as chairman and Vernon Baird is chairman of the that Roy Willbern retired from tects. board of Mrs. Baird's Bakeries Inc. three CLASS RECORDER: chief executive officer of MBank in his law practice in Houston He remarks that his best Elliott Flowers Pasadena after 50 years of service. claim for years ago, at which time they fame is his 3330 Delmonte During his career, Jones helped television commer- moved to San Marcos. They too 41 cials, which Houston, TX 77019 start several banks in the Houston most, if not all, of us have traveled, taking one trip to Campbell M. Carothers writes have seen. Vernon Austra- 29 (713) 524-4404 area and held several positions, lives in Fort see the Alps and another to that his granddaughter, Kristen Worth, where he CLASS RECORDER: including the presidency of the "has to bask in the lia and New Zealand on a tour Baker, has been accepted to attend Uni- Beverly Van Zandt Texas Banking Association. He glory of Starke Taylor, mayor of sponsored by Southwest Texas Rice University's Shepherd School Dallas, and 218 Shoreacres Blvd. also served on the executive board Gene Gray, president versity. Since Ruth has spent her of the American Bankers Associa- of Music in August of 1986. Both he of Texas American Bank/Fort La Porte, TX 77571 entire life in Houston until the Bru 36 tion and was a leader in the forma- and Kristen's father, Fred Baker Worth" along with other celebrities move to San Marcos, living in a (713) 471-0827 John Schaefer recently retired af- ake tion of San Jacinto College. His '65, are "extremely proud that we who "move past fellows who make new city has been a challenge. Lawrence Ade Hamilton sends ter practicing medicine in the New Chi; other community activities have will have another member of our their dough in the bread busi- She has recently taken up painting in the following information about Braunfels area Beij: since 1946. Prior to included heading the Kiwanis and family attending this wonderful ness." as a hobby and relates that she Nat Edmonson Jr.'29: His ca- moving to New Braunfels, he prac- 1982 Rotary clubs and serving as an school." "ain't" good, but she's better than reer in academia included serving ticed in George Dutton, who started with and Houston for six years and honorary life member of the Salva- Frederick A. Horner became when she started. as assistant professor of mathe- served in the U.S. Army for four our class at Rice, obtained his ARC tion Army advisory board, the professor emeritus of pediatrics at matics at Texas Tech, associate years. Schaeffer says, "I've been MBA from Northwestern and is still ern ( United Fund and the Boy Scouts of the University of Rochester School professor of math at Texas A&M, happy with what I'm doing; it's working "65 hours a week" as a Rep; America. of Medicine and Dentistry on July and senior mathematician in the kept me young, capable, able and CPA in the Chicago area. He took 1, 1985. 44 applied physics laboratory at willing," and he vows to continue Marie Burns Liverman will be off recently for a trip down the Nile corn CLASS RECORDER: Johns Hopkins University. During studying medicine in his retire- next year's president of the Retired in Egypt. the Larry Hermes the next four years he worked with ment. Teachers' Association of the Hous- Chi; David Hannah, chief of Space 2928 Albans Road Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ton Independent School District. Mar( Marge Caldwell recently spoke Services Inc., was recently fea- Houston, TX 77005 Fairchild Engine and Aircraft Before retiring, she taught for 35 42 how at a luncheon of the Baytown tured in the Houston Chronicle as a (713) 529-2009 Corp., Goodyear Aircraft Corp. years. Now she has ample opportu- CLASS RECORDER: zatic Christian Women's Club. She is the "far-looking individual who sees and General Dynamics Corp. until nity for travel. Liverman piloted Oscar Hibler the c author of The Radiant You, Cap- the potential for the 1964. The remainder of his career the program for hospital-bound PO. Box 27266 commerciali- as th sules for Confidence and Speak zation of space." After reading an until 1974, he spent with the Mar- Out with Marge. school children in the district and Houston, TX 77227 for ti shall Space Flight Center in Hunts- for the last 15 years has directed (713)621-7272 article about solar-powered satel- 45 menl ville, Ala., lites and ways they could be Robert E. Talley retired and where he now lives in and administered the program for Class recorder Oscar Hibler infor launched from commercial rockets moved back to the Dallas area ies retirement. As representative to home-bound pregnant teens. To- writes, "Our class really gets the contracting officer, he carried day she is very active in the Soci- with existing technology, he from Milwaukee, Wisc. Chin around. Terry Clark and Jean started Space Services in 1976. Al- the responsibility of approving or 37 ety of Rice University Women. Her Middlebrook Clark report that Pat I disapproving the legal details of CLASS RECORDER: son received his Ph.D. in chemis- though the first test rocket Honc they spent five weeks in the Far launched by the enterprise blew research contracts. He also repre- Jane Rommel try from Rice in 1981 and her East last year and this year they Coil; sented the flight center with mem- 504 Fairway Drive, Riverhill daughter has three sons. up on Matagorda Island in 1981, 47 are going to the British Isles fol- the Conestoga I, successfully bers of Stanford University's Kerville, TX 78928 lowed by a two-week trip to Po- physics Attorney James Nance retired launched just one year later, was department doing re- (512) 896-4310 land, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, search to verify experimentally the from the law firm Baker and Botts • the first launch of a privately in June 1982 after 42 years with the Austria and Germany. This will financed spacecraft in the U.S. Einstein General Theory of Rela- give them a total of 35 countries tivity. firm. Nance was a trial lawyer and Hannah eventually sees Space Edmonson has also been a that they have visited. Terry retired longtime member of the Rice lobbyist in Austin for the firm's cli- Services launching satellites to ents for 35 years. Today, he re- from McDonnell Douglas after 30- aid in oil and timber exploration, John Founder's Club. 38 plus years and the Clarks have Point CLASS RECORDER: mains active in politics and civic communications and weather pre- Class recorder Beverly Van settled in a retirement community nel a Jane Dunaway affairs such as Houston Chamber diction, as well as lower Earth or- Zandt writes, "The Class of '29 is near Orlando, Fla. 415 of Commerce and Governmental bit satellites that would intercept Hous. proud to call attention to our sec- Blalock "Margo and he Affairs Committee and the Texas I had a delightful missiles in mid-air and aid in na- ha ond Rice Ph.D., Homer Matthes Houston, TX 77024 Association of Taxpayers. Nance dinner recently with Jack Clemens tional defense surveillance efforts. sonn( (Ph.D.'34), who also earned an (713) 465-7332 has five children and ten grand- and his wife, Laura, at our fora ; M.D. from the University of Texas Retired Lt. Col. Kenneth H. children. place in the Hill Country. Jack has Neal Heaps is still working and Life I; Medical School in 1938. He is mar- Baird was an aircraft mainte- retired from Dow Chemical and the not really considering retirement. low a ried to Margaret Martin Mat- nance engineer during World War Fred Sawtelle has been in the Clemens now live in a townhouse He was able to get away from the tute a thew '31 (M.A. '33). Mathes li and returned to his work as an Houston business community for on the golf course at the River Hills grindstone long enough to take the the A: interned at Gorgas Hospital in An- engineer with Exxon after the war. 30 years as owner of Cassco prod- in Kerrville where they play golf Rice-sponsored train tour across Stuart C. Mut, president of Admi con, Panama Canal Zone, princi- He currently resides in Houston. ucts, a company that fabricates several times a week. Jack tells me Siberia and Russia recently. ARCO Exploration and TechnologY her ai . ton PE

20 SALLYPORT—JUNE-AUGUST 1986 Co., is retiring after a 37-year ca- In 1982, Gene Antill (Wiess) reer with the Atlantic Richfield 54 started R.C.S., a company that Co., but will remain active in the specializes in handling liquida- Dick Massey was awarded his oil and gas industry. Since joining tions for banks, lawyers and gov- 21st patent on April 23, 1986. Since Atlantic Richfield in 1948, he has ernment agencies. He 1962 he has been working at AT&T writes, "Due served as director of exploration, to the present economic Bell Labs in Whippang. N.J., as an condi- manager of the company's eastern tions, business has been too good. electrical engineer in the field of operating districts, vice president As a glorified junk dealer, I power electronics and electromag- have of the corporation, senior vice liquidated a bridal shop, a netics. He and his wife live in whole- president, research and engineer- sale plumbing company, a Westfield, N.J., and have three light ing, of ARCO Oil and Gas upon its fixture company and children in their 20s. several oil- formation in 1979, and head of related businesses this past year." ARCO Resources Technology Antill also teaches marketing and Group. He was appointed presi- distributive education for the dent of ARCO Exploration and Houston Independent School Dis- Technology Company upon its for- 56 trict and small business manage- mation in 1984. CLASS RECORDER: ment at the . Maureen Bybee 3800 Chevy Chase Houston, TX 77019 (713) 527-0444, or 60 48 (713)622-3705 CLASS RECORDER: After his recent retirement from the Barbie McKittrick American Petroleum Institute in 111 Guinea Drive Washington, D.C., Ray J. Young Houston, TX 77055 and his wife, Betty, made the 2,000: (713) 465-4827 mile trip from Annapolis, Md., to 57 Michael D. Beldon (Baker), pres- their new home in Slidell. La, Alarmed by the lack of news from ident of Beldon Roofing and Re- the Class of '57, John G. Cramer modeling, has been elected senior (M.A. '59, Ph.D. '61, Hanszen)of Se- vice president of the National Roof- attle, Wash., sent in the following ing Contractors Association. He news:"The hole in the April-May also serves as president of the 49 Sallyport column where the Class Roofers Mart of Central Texas and CLASS RECORDER: of '57 belongs somehow motivates as vice president of the San Anto- Mary Lou Douglas me to write. I was a physics major nio Roofing Contractors Associa- 5531 S. Kimback in the Class of '57 and I also got an tion. Beldon is president of St. Chicago, IL 60637 M.A. in '59 and a Ph.D. in '61 at Luke's Lutheran Hospital and of the (312) 752-1186 Rice, both in experimental nuclear San Antonio Jewish Federation, physics. My wife, Pauline Bond, graduated in the Class of '61 Saga of a self-made man (Jones). We left Houston for Indiana after graduation and have lived in 50 Seattle since 1964, aside from sab- "I never thought I'd be in business for myself. I always thought I'd be presi- Linda McKinstray Patterson baticals in Munich ("71-72) and dent of Otis." recently received the Len Roberts Berlin ('82-83). We live in 'View Those words say a lot about the confidence, ambition, determination annual award given by the United Ridge' in a house with a 270 degree and tenacity of their speaker, Bob Loughridge '28. Founder and president of Way of the Dayton area to an out- view of Lake Washington, Mt. Ra- standing volunteer. For some 20 nier and the Cascade Range." Fort Worth-based ESCO, an elevator service company that rose from humble years she has been a volunteer in A professor of physics at the beginnings in the Great Depression to rival elevator giants like Otis and the areas of education, community University of Washington, Cramer Westinghouse, Loughridge is the prototype of the "self-made" man. work, church work, and activities is also director of the university's "During the Depression, everyone was just trying to survive. I was work- in support of her college sorority. nuclear physics laboratory, which Patterson received her bachelor's recently received $8 million from ing for Otis in those days, and in 1932 my manager,said he thought the last degree from Purdue University. the U.S. Department of Energy to elevator sold had been the last elevator to be sold in West Texas. Plus, build a new superconducting linac building owners were wanting to cut prices. So with the added encourage- accelerator. He also has an impor- Ronald J.Hall (Baker) has been ment of some people in business, I began an elevator service company." is tant review paper on the interpre- named manager of Engineering tation of quantum mechanics Projects at Battelle's Pacific North- ESCO (shortened from Elevator Service Co.) began building, designing 52 scheduled to appear in the July west Laboratories. Hall will head and servicing elevators. Loughridge's first big break came when his com- 1986 issue of Reviews of Modern major engineering projects that re- pany was asked to design and install one of the first push-button hydraulic Physics. On the side, Cramer has quire design equipment or facili- elevators for Wolf Brand Chili in Corsicana, owned by the family of done a number of popular-science ties. He was formerly manager of articles, including a regular sci- the Monitored Retrievable Storage Loughridge's Rice classmate Doyle West. ence column called "The Alterna- Program Office, where he was re- More than 50 years later, ESCO flourishes. tive View" published bi-monthly in sponsible for developing a pro- "We're interested in doing something here that we can take pride in," Analog Science Fiction/Fact Maga- posal for the construction of an Loughridge says, a note of that pride slipping into his voice. "I don't mind zine. He says, "I write mainly interim facility to receive and pre- about physics and astronomy, and pare spent fuel prior to emplace- telling you that we are one of the more successful companies, with over have about 100,000 readers, which ment in a national nuclear waste 200,000 square feet in our headquarters and production facility." is rather better than your average repository. Employing some 250 people, ESCO has offices in Houston, Dallas, Fort physics journal." In another year, Robert B. Scherer Jr. (Baker), Worth, San Antonio and Oklahoma City and additional personnel serving his collected columns will form the who has been the Chambers other cities. ESCO's elevators can be found throughout the state, including basis for a pop-science book. County (Texas) District Clerk since He adds, "Pauline got a history 1972, ran unopposed for his fourth the Rice campus. B.A. from Rice, but in 1975 she re- term in the May Democratic pri- Like the good manager he is, Loughridge is quick to share the credit for enrolled at the University of Wash- Bruce Vernor (B.S. Ch.E. '53) has mary. He is a past member of the ESCO's success. "I am not a one man show running around creating all the ington and emerged a couple of aken early retirement from ARCO Lions Club and the Chamber of years later with a B.S. in mechani- elevators or making all the money. At ESCO we are a good team, and a good China Inc. He was a resident in Commerce and is on the Bishop's cal engineering and won the top business. We do not do everything, but what we do, we do a good job of and Beijing from June 1979 to December Committee for the Episcopal national prize in the ASME student 1982, then worked as vice president Church. Scherer and his wife, take pride in it. Otis, Westinghouse and many other companies buy their hy- paper competition. She now works and administrative manager for Eleanor, have three children and draulic elevators from us." in the building engineering group ARCO China in Zhanjiang, south- reside near Anahuac, Texas. at Pacific Northwest Bell. We have Loughridge explained that most of ESCO's 80-90 elevators sold each ern Guangdong Province, People's three children, allot whom are month are custom hydraulic elevators, used in lower-storied buildings that Republic of China. presently in college (tuitions!). Our Effective June 1, he will be- have no need of the faster cable models used in high-rises. The orders are oldest, Kathryn, should get her come executive vice president of 61 varied."We created the elevator for the Olympic high-dive, for example," B.S. in math from Columbia in De- the National Council for U.S.- cember and remove some of the tu- Loughridge says. "We do glass elevators for residences and another inter- China Trade in Washington, D.C. ition load. She's making extra esting project was to create an elevator to lift a loaded boxcar from one set American corpora- More than 500 money doing freelance editing for of railroad tracks to another." tions are members of this organi- book publishers in New York. She zation, which began in 1973 after For Loughridge, the rise to success was not always smooth. "In those is the co-editor of two anthologies the opening of China to U.S. trade that will be published soon. first years, the situation was bleak," he recalls. "It was in the Depression as the nongovemmental substitute "It would be wonderful to hear and no one had any money. I wasn't sure what lay ahead." At one of his for the U.S. Commerce Depart- from some of our former Rice class- bleakest points, Loughridge got a call in the middle of the night from an Ab- ment. It provides research, market mates. Write, folks!" information and advice to compan- ilene hotel whose elevators had stopped because of an explosion. "I made ies involved in or considering Bill Morgan (Will Rice) and Bob- $300 to $400 on that job — it was a lot of money in those days. It came at a China trade. Bruce and his wife, bie Whitehead Morgan '58 crucial time and really picked up my spirits. It always seems that a low Pat Dewald Vernor, will leave (Jones) have semi-retired and are Hong Kong to live in Fairfax happily settled in a log home they point is reached just before a turnaround." County, Va. built on 100 acres near Galveston. Taking the advice of a Rice professor to "set his goals high" has helped establish the former Rice football player as the leader in the design and John G. Lawson (B.S.ARCH. '62, manufacturing of hydraulic elevators, the achievement he considers his Will Rice) has been elected to the greatest, unless, of course, it was convincing his wife, Anna, to marry him College of Fellows of the American 28 years ago. 58 Institute of Architects. Fellowship 53 CLASS RECORDER: is a lifetime honor bestowed for Nor has time diminished his ambition or his love of life. On an average lohn D. Boswell has been ap- Phyllis Walton distinguished contributions to the day, Loughridge can be found at ESCO before 8 a.m., reviewing incoming pointed vice president of person- 4233 Harpers Ferry Road profession of architecture. Lawson mail before setting off on a full day of the work he loves. nel at American General Corp. in Birmingham. AL 35213 will be invested along with 84 And recognizing that there is more to life than work, he approaches his Houston. Prior to this appointment, (205)870-0332 other new Fellows in early June at he had been vice president of per- the 1986 AIA National Convention personal life with the same zeal as business. Slowing down is not among sonnel and management systems in San Antonio. Lawson, formerly a his plans. for a subsidiary, American General partner with Mitchell/Giurgola Ar- Loughridge responded to congratulations on having recently celebrated Life Insurance Co. Boswell is a fel- chitects, has recently formed his his 80th birthday with a low of the Life Management Insti- 59 own office. In his 20 years of prac- typical reply. tute and an accredited member of CLASS RECORDER: tice he has distinguished himself "Aw heck," he laughs. "The years don't matter. 'Old' isn't bad for anyone. the American Society for Personnel Tommie Lu Maulsby with several award-winning de- It doesn't hurt, either. Look me up in 10 years and wish me the same." Administration. He is also a mem- 2735 Pittsburg signs. Among the most notable is ber and past president of the Hous- Houston, TX 77005 the United Way Headquarters in —Andre Fox ton Personnel Association. (713)664-5042 Philadelphia. Completed in 1971,

SALLYPORT—JUNE-AUGUST 1986 21 this building is an internationally buildings as a developer. Her first College in West Virginia, Neff will Philadelphia chapter of the AIA. in San Antonio, where he is in a Jan Godfrey McCorstin (Brown) Va recognized example of what has major project, a mixed-use com- begin her new position on July 1. A He has also served as national co- psychiatry residency after receiv- was recently named a sales man- me become known as contextual ar- mercial development, is taking published poet with a number of ordinator of the American Solar En- ing his M.D. in 1985. ager for the Fort Worth division of ic chitecture. Other designs for shape south of the city. publications to her credit, Neff is ergy Society and as co-founder and Glen Razak (Lovett) has been Lone Star Gas, a division of En- which Lawson has achieved dis- also a reader and panelist for the past chairperson of the Mid- named administrator for West serch. McCorstin was previously tinction include the Lang Music National Endowment for the Hu- Atlantic Solar Energy Association. Oaks-Fort Bend, A Center for Men- head of consumer information. She Building at Swarthmore College manities and the Council of Inde- Bennett currently heads his own tal Health in Sugar Land, Texas. joined LSG in 1980 after a stint as and the Liberty Bell Pavilion in 64 pendent Colleges consulting firm in Philadelphia and is a pro- He was formerly administrator for budget analyst/legislation analyst Philadelphia. As'a faculty member network. In addition, she is a fessor of architecture at Temple for the city of Fort Worth.(Also see F. Joseph Fischer (Sid Rich), sen- the clinical research division of the of the Graduate School of Architec- member of the American Associa- University. -New Arrivals.") ior staff research engineer with Texas Research Institute of Mental ture. University of Pennsylvania, tion of Higher Education, a director Shell Development in Houston, has Sciences. since 1972, he has taught design of the Humanities Foundation of Terry O'Rourke(Wiess) recently been named a fellow of the Ameri- studios and helped develop the West Virginia and vice president of joined County Attorney Mike Dris- can Society of Mechanical Engi- NiTallffo RtdciUsloalne tnx current master's thesis program. the American Conference of Aca- coll's office. In 1981-82, O'Rourke neers(ASME). His research si has been a member demic Deans. Her husband, was the chief operating officer of a 74 Since 1976 he activities have emphasized the ap- Vol of the National AIA Committee on Edward, is a consultant in risk private hydroelectric company that David L. Baldridge (Sid Rich) plication of engineering mechan- Texas, to bac Architectural Education and cur- management, and they are the built power generating facilities in has moved from Lubbock, ics and applied mathematics to rently serves as chairman of the parents of three teenagers. Northern California. During the Raton, N.M. formulate and solve problems re- sec, Urban Design Committee of the Carter Administration, O'Rourke Robert J. Brandt (Lovett) crossed lated to geomechanics, offshore David Rhodes(Baker) was named Philadelphia Chapter, AIA. served as counsel on the White paths with an old acquaintance, structures and drilling operations. executive vice-president of Jones House staff and in the U.S. Depart- Pat Groves(Will Rice) is market- Sandra Covey, at an art festival in Fischeis ASME activities include Mah Gaskill Rhodes, Inc.. The ment of Energy. He also served as ing director for Dest, a San Fran- June of 1984, and the two were mar- serving as technical reviewer for newly formed architectural and en- a Texas Assistant Attorney Gen- cisco Bay Area company that ried on April 5, 1986. Among fellow the Journal of Applied Mechanics. gineering firm resulted from a mer- eral in 1973-74, prosecuting pollu- best makes optical scanners for the Rice grads in attendance were Myron K. Horn (Ph.D.), a techni- ger of the two oldest firms in tion cases in Harris County. computer market. man Bas Vaandrager'80 (Lov- cal adviser for Cities Service in Memphis, Tenn. The firm, begun in ett) and Robert Anderson '74 Tulsa, Okla., was one of five re- 1986, employs 60 people including Alton Z. Parks(Baker) was an (Wiess). Brandt is an architect with cently selected by AAPG to receive architects, engineers and interior honor award winner in the residen- the White, Budd, Van Wess Part- ttPAr(TRiiL°1haltinoe:(1 distinguished service awards, designers. tial division of First National Bank nership in Austin. the of West University Place's -First 62 based on outstanding long-term Walter Rudd (Ph.D. '69, Will Robert S. Martin (Will Rice)sent Ce Awards for Innovation in Remodel- In 1980, the company of Steve Mary Ann Higgs Brown (M.A.) was service to the association. In addi- Rice) recently moved to Oregon to in the following information re- "Car Do ing" design competition. Jackson (Sid Rich) published recently promoted to professor and tion to a distinguished 21-year ca- become chairman of the Oregon flecting some of his activities in Wars," an armored highway ver- (Br reer with Cities Service, Horn has named chairman of the mathemat- State University Computer Science • Linda Summers Posey (Jones) the past few years: He received the sion of survival of the fittest. More ten worked with the Headquarters Op- ics and science department at Troy Department. He writes, "It's been has been elected a delegate to the Kate Broocks Bates Award in His- than 125,000 copies have now been is s erations Committee, the Strati- State University at Dothan, Do- quite cr change — we sure do like it National White House Conference torical Research for 1985 for his sold, along with 500,000 supple- dep graphic Correlations Committee than, Ala. here." on Small Business. Under the book, Maps of Texas and the South- ments and updates. The game has Ca and the Visiting Petroleum Geolo- The architecture firm of William theme "In the Spirit of Enterprise," west, 1513-1900. Winner of the Jus- been expanded into a full-scale Ploy gists Committee. He was also co- J. Anderson Jr.(Wiess) and T. Texas small business people met tin Winsor Prize of the American fantasy world of the future, com- chairman of AAPG's Geothermal Redyard Wilson '63(Baker), March 18 in Houston at the Westin Library Association in 1983, Martin plete with a made-up history, and Survey of North America project. Anderson-Wilson Architects, re- Galleria to discuss issues and has co-authored two books on is popular enough to have sparked Horn's Rice doctoral thesis results ceived a -First Award for Innova- problems of concern and to put maps of Texas and the Southwest a demand for a magazine, Auto- 7 with Prof. J.A.S. Adams on a com- tion in Remodeling" in the 67 forth specific and comprehensive and has published articles in sev- duel Quarterly, published by Jack- Joe puter optimization calculation of residential division of First Na- Julia Baskett (Jones)lives in Palo recommendations for the future of eral geographical and historical son and written in the period of the and the geochemical equation are still tional Bank of West University Alto, Calif., where she is setting small business. During the day- journals. In February 1985, he was game. wer widely quoted in textbooks. Place's annual design competition. up an office for a local law firm long series of meetings, Posey was appointed first assistant director San The award was for the initial stage Pat Dodds McGuire (Jones) has and translates French documents elected, along with 28 others, to for special collections at Louisiana Ivor of a multi-phase remodeling pro- traded a 20-year career as a com- on the side. She previously edited represent Texas at the National State University's Middleton Li- at S ject in West University Place. The puter programmer and marketer psychology books for a Stanford White House Conference on Small brary. Prior to coming to LSU. Mar- Alb firm also received a merit award in for commercial real estate. She re- professor. Business to be held in Washington, tin served as a lecturer with the 75 abo the the commercial division for the in- cently married Mike McGuire and Ken Kennedy (Hanszen)spent D.C., Aug. 17-21. Posey owns The School of Library and Information Robert L. Cunningham (Sid terior conversion of an existing lives in Palo Alto, Calif. the past scholastic year on sabbat- Communication Connection, a Studies at the University of Wis- Rich) recently received the Navy Writ working office into a pediatrician's ical at Stanford University. He is marketing consulting firm in Hous- consin. Commendation Medal from the With office. founder and chairman of Rice's ton. U.S. Navy for his service as nu- gon clear safety officer and assistant catc Pat Jackson (Jones) is living in* computer science department and weapons department head aboard We' Mann County, Calif., and arrang- 65 a consultant to IBM on parallel the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enter- Who ing yacht charters for San Francis- Lewis Altenburg (Wiess) was re- processing. prise from October 1983 to October or hi cans. cently featured in the Houston 69 72 1985. During this time, he directed are j Chronicle for his diving expedition Lawrence Whitehead (Wiess) Cheryl Brabec (Jones) recently a personal reliability program that from in the West Pacific. Along with 15 has recently returned to Houston transferred to the San Francisco of- received special recognition dur- other divers, Altenburg explored from Ann Arbor, Mich., accepting a fice of Travelers Insurance Co. She ing an inspection. 63 and photographed the underwater position as associate professor of writes, "It'll be a big adjustment Curtis Davis(Will Rice)and fel- CLASS RECORDER: world of Truk (in the Caroline Is- industrial hygiene at the School of after living in Houston for the last low community activist, Andrew Kathleen Much lands), the Palaus and the Great Public Health of the University of 18 years, but I expect it'll be great!" Iones, are leading the Greater Rox- 2080 Marich Way #14 Barrier Reef of Australia. An expe- Houston. He writes, "Glad to be Bill D. Maddox (Will Rice) lives bury Incorporation Project in Bos- Mountain View, CA 94040 rienced diver of seven years and a back!" in Ventura, Calif., where he is data (415) 964-8680 teacher of diving in Houston, Al- ton, which is an effort to carve processing manager for the Ven- from the city's seven minority tenburg is planning a trip in 1987 tura County National Bank. to the Sulu Sea in the Philippines. neighborhoods a new city to be Wendell Mendell (M.S., Ph.D) named for South African anti- Bart Rice (Hanszen)is an engi- 70 married Pamala Henjum in Nassau apartheid leaders Nelson and Win- neer for Lockheed. He lives in Bay, Texas. The couple is now liv- nie Mandela. Davis and Jones call Santa Cruz, Calif., and commutes ing in League City. Mendell was their effort "a strategy for political to Silicon Valley. the editor of a recently published enfranchisement and self- David Weiser (Baker)and his book, Lunar Bases and Space Ac- determination" for neighborhoods wife, Helen, who were married this tivities of the 21st Century, from the that have long suffered from ab- past summer, are living in West USRA's Lunar and Planetary Insti- sentee landlords, a lack of munici- Vancouver, British Columbia. 1986, tute in Houston. The book contains pal services and no strong political which marks the 10th anniversary nearly 90 short papers derived voice. of Weiser's architectural firm, fol- from a NASA-sponsored sympo- W. Mark Gwin (Lovett) moved to lows a very successful year in sium held at the National Academy San Francisco in January of 1984 which he received British Colum- of Sciences, Washington, D.C., in and is now senior associate with bia's 1985 Award of Excellence for October 1984. These papers focus Haines Tatarian Ipsen & Associ- Interior Design and the commis- on all aspects of space policy and ates. He writes,"My office over- Scott Gregory (Baker) sends in sion to master-plan the downtown space technology related to the looks Union Square, so I never the following news: -The last time revitalization program of West subject of exploring and develop- miss a rally or demonstration, and you heard from me, I was working Vancouver in time for the May ing the Moon early in the next cen- the cable cars clatter by outside for the Cherokee Tribe and living opening of Vancouver's EXPO '86. n January, Constance M. Mc- tury, after establishment of NASA's my window all day. I feel like I'm on a farm near Tahlequah, Okla. I Weiser's work was also the subject Corkle (Brown) became research low-Earth orbit space station. home at last even though I grew up subsequently moved to Stillwater, of recent feature articles in the assistant professor, University of Leslie H. Southwick (Lovett) is history in Texas." )PI)ti intrrua11(14341e:11:11v s Vancouver Sun and North Shore Missouri, Columbia, Mo. McCorkle nresiliolleinvritdtwaoanifreeBtrfs tc Okla., where I was CFO for Pente After seven years of study, Wil- the author of a book entitled Presi- Games Inc. News. had been a research associate for dential Also-Rans and Running (lame When we sold -Pente- liam T. Free (Will Rice)completed (lope to Parker Brothers in 1984, I joined the same institution the year prior Mates, 1788-1980, which was t two M.S. degrees in 1985. This to her new appointment. She holds Stillwater National Bank as a com- year, he will relocate in Fairfax, named one of the outstanding ref- mercial loan officer. In March of advanced degrees in anthropology erence works of 1985 by the Ameri- 76 Va., as he assumes his new duties and linguistics from Stanford Uni- san:mRiceha rs c this year, I became treasurer/CFO as vice president and director of can Library Association. The book of Direct Pharmaceutical Corp. in 68 versity. Among her awards are is about defeated candidates in training for the Life Underwriter Stanford doctoral dissertation Kansas City, Mo. Wayne11 and! Training Council, headquartered our presidential elections and will will celebrate our 25th anniversary grant, 1981; Sigma Xi, University of be updated after the 1988 elections. in Washington, D.C. Denver chapter; Fulbright-Hayes this Christmas. Daughters Nicia Stable Vincent(Will Rice) has Fellow, 1977-78(awarded but de- CLASS and Shona attend OSU and OU, re- been clined in favor of accepting) NSF promoted to plant personnel I.C. Pu spectively." manager of the granite finishing Fellow, 1976-78; OAS Becaria, 1976- 435E. plant of Cone Mills Corp. in Haw Ray Jacobson (Baker) has re- 77; NIMH trainee, 1974-76; Latin jew Yc 66 River, N.C. Prior to this promotion, turned to Texas after living in West American Studies grantee, Stan- j Y412)87 Edward J. Blocher(Hanszen) is a Vincent was assistant personnel Virginia and practicing OB-GYN ford, 1972; NDMFL Fellow, 1971-73; t), co-author of the recently released manager at White Oak plant in dia there for 13 years. He is now start- and Rice University Graduate book Analytical Review: A Guide Greensboro, N.C. ' t,cct in ing a practice in San Marcos, to Evaluating Financial State- Studies Award, 1971. Also to her the Texas, and writes,"We miss the ments. He is an associate professor credit are numerous publications, 'End plc friends, hills and trees of West Vir- of accounting at the University of technical reports and professional I t(5gethE ginia, but are getting acquainted North Carolina at Chapel Hill and presentations. I halt with the flower, cactus, rocks and is on the editorial board of Ad- A.J. Chen (Ph.D.) is currently affil- Rice) has tEteive scorpions of the Hill Country." 73 John F. Dragovits(Will h vances in Accounting Research iated with the Center for Space David Denbina (Sid Rich)is con- been named vice president of fi- orn th Lynda Harper Kelly (Ph.D., and Auditing: A Journal of Practice Robert Bennett (Sid Rich) has and Remote Sensing Research at verting from a Dallas energy nance and chief financial officer at Irc)ri Ia Jones)recently lectured to the Alli- and Theory. This classnote was been nominated for vice president National Central University in banker to a personal trainer for Children's Medical Center of Dal- 'while s ance Francaise and St. Thomas sent in by his father, George D. of the American Institute of Archi- China. men and women wanting to be las. Prior to accepting this posi- Subma University on Nobel prizewinner Blocher '31. tects'(AIA) national board of direc- taught body building, fitness and tion, Dragovits was with the Dalla5 owaij Claude Simon, the subject of her Jeanne Kammer Neff(M.A.) has tors. A registered architect and muscle toning on an individual ba- office of Deloitte Haskins & Sells. Rice dissertation. been appointed academic vice professional engineer in Pennsyl- sis in their homes. He and his wife, He belongs to the American Insti- r'cls left Marty Christoffer (Jones) has re- president of Susquehanna Univer- vania, New Jersey and Texas, Ben- 71 Yvonne, have three children — tute of 'Certified Public Account- vs jou tired from practicing architecture sity in Selinsgrove, Penn. Cur- nett is a member of the AIA design Daniel B. Pearson (M.A.'73, Devon, 9, Blake, 8, and Adrian, 4 — ants and the Texas Society of -oForce in San Francisco to create her own rently vice president of Wheeling and practice committees and the Ph.D. '81, Wiess)is currently living and live in Arlington, Texas. Certified Public Accountants.

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Val Glitsch (Jones) received a will graduate from SMU Law show, which included paintings merit award in the residential divi- School this May and will go to and drawings in various media il- NEW ARRIVALS sion of First National Bank of West work for Johnson & Swanson. She lustrating the vision of each of University Place's 'First Awards for writes, "We will then try to have these three architects. Stuart A. Long '67(Wiess) and Jan Godfrey McCorstin '73 Matt Williamson '78 (Will Rice) Innovation in Remodeling" design some semblance of a normal life: Michael Godin (Lovett) is en- his wife, Judy, announce the birth (Brown)and her husband an- and his wife, Lauri Coburn Wil- competition for the front porch ad- buy a house, vacation, etc. A spe- gaged to Ann Braquet of New Or- of their third child, Brittany Nicole, nounce the birth of their first child, liamson '80(Brown) announce dition to a 1920s house in the Hous- cial hello to the women of Jones leans, La. He will graduate from on Aug. 6, 1985. The Longs reside John Kevin McCorstin, on March the birth of their first child, Corbin ton Heights area. Fourth Floor South!" Tulane Medical School this May in Houston. 29, 1985. Matthew, on Dec. 31, 1985. Cur- Roger Harris (Baker) recently per- Al Gonzales (Lovett), a lawyer and begin a residency in ear, nose, Steve Bradshaw '70(Will Rice) rently living in Dallas, the Wil- formed his "fun-loving, Texas- with the Houston and throat/head Gregory Allen Benesh '75 firm of Vinson & and neck surgery and his wife, Mary, announce the liamsons plan to move to West flavored" music on rhythm guitar Elkins, is at (Baker)and Dana Tanner working with several the University of California at birth of their second child, Anne Germany as missionaries later this at the Mesquite Tree in Harlingen, other Hispanic community leaders San Diego this June. Benesh '76(Brown) announce the summer. Whitney, on March 14, 1986. They birth of twins, Deborah Ann and Texas. This was his first profes- to encourage qualified Mexican- Diane Lankford Gibson (Lovett) report that their son, Alan, born in Matthew Joel, on Dec. 30, 1985. sional musical appearance in the American students to apply to has graduated from Baylor College Dwight Debacker'79 (Sid Rich) May 1981, is also happy with the They are welcomed by brothers An- Valley, where he grew up. Just Rice."We want to keep the bright of Medicine and will begin her res- and his wife, Dana Debacker event. The Bradshaws live in Hous- drew. Nathan and Daniel. "It's a back from a second tour of Europe, kids in Houston where they can idency training in anesthesiology '79(Brown) announce the birth of ton. full house!" they write. The Benesh Harris is currently promoting his make a contribution to the His- at Baylor in July. their son, Devin Allan Debacker, second album,"Burning Hot," on panic community," said Gonzales, Annette Johnson Matthews family resides in Waco, Texas. After finishing law school and on April 6, 1986, in Missouri City, Royer Records. who was able to fulfill his child- '70 announces the birth of a son, passing the Virginia bar exam, George M. Pharr IV '75 (Wiess) Texas. hood dream of graduating from Mitchell Jerald. She writes, "After The firm of H. Michael Hindman Steven L. Schooner (Sid Rich) is and his wife, Marilyn, announce Rice and later went on to earn a 16 years of marriage, I finally pro- (Lovett), Hermes, Reed, Hindman serving as a commissioner at the duced the birth of their first child, George Eileen Boyd German '80(Baker) law degree from Harvard. one boy to test whether I Architects, received a merit award Armed Services Board of Contract know my pediatric background or Mathews Pharr V. on Dec. 24, 1985. and her husband announce the in the commercial division of First After working for two years in ar- Appeals in Alexandria, Va. not. Theory and practice don't al- The Pharrs live in Houston, where birth of their son. Tyler, who was National Bank of West University• chitecture and structural engineer- he is an associate professor of me- born in June 1985. The family lives Charles(Chaz) Wampold ways mix, right?" The Matthews Place's "First Awards for Innova- ing in San Diego, Sharon chanical engineering and materi- in Allen, Texas. (Baker), graduating from the New live in Houston. tion in Remodeling- design compe- McGinnis(M.Arch. '83, Jones) has als science at Rice. York University of Law, will marry tition for the exterior remodeling of accepted a position with Cope Lin- Lorna Salzman Wassdorf'72 Eleanor Roubein Samuels'80 Martha Rinehart(Baker) on Au- Lisa Sjogren Naito'77 (Hans- the existing Briarcroft Shopping der Associates in Philadelphia. (Brown)and her husband, Pete, an- (Hanszen)and her husband, gust 2, 1986. Currently, after three zen)announces the birth of her sec- Center on Westheimer. She would love to see Rice people nounce the birth of their sons, Wil- Thomas Samuels'80 (Hanszen) years with Westinghouse in Balti- liam David and Petrus Johanus III, ond child, Alexander Max, on Feb. Hopkins living in the area or passing announce the birth of their first a Donna Thompson more, Martha is pursuing a Ph.D. on Sept. 7, 1985. The Wassdorfs 17, 1986. The family resides in Port- (Brown) has been promoted to lieu- through. child, Danielle Victoria. The fam- at Wharton in Social Systems Sci- live in Austin. land, Ore. ily resides in Houston. tenant commander in the navy and ences. After a honeymoon in Ecua- Leslie Williamson '72(Brown) Ted A. LeCompte'78 (Baker)and is serving as deck and weapons dor, the Wampolds will reside in and Jim Cogan '67(Ph.D. '71, his wife, Louise L. Lippert Le- Susan Biela Reinhard '82(Will department head on the U.S.S. Philadelphia, where Chaz will Will Rice) announce the birth of Compte'78 (Baker), announce Rice) and her husband, Michael, Cape Cod. Her ship is currently de- 80 clerk on the United States Court of Tracy Bouvette (Lovett)and his their first child, Anne Dorian Co- the birth of their son, Carl Edward, announce the birth of their second ployed to Japan. Appeals for the Third Circuit while wife, Liesien Bouvette '81 gan, on Jan. 13, 1986, in San on March 5, 1986. The LeComptes daughter, Amanda Marie, on Feb. Martha continues her studies. (Brown)recently moved from Hous- Angelo, Texas. live in Cincinnati, Ohio. 26, 1986, in Leander, Texas. ton to Boston, where Tracy is a wa- 78 ter resource engineer at Camp, Joel Miller (M.C.E. '80, Will Rice) Dresser & McKee and Liesien is a 83 systems analyst at Consultec. and Lisa Mandy '79(Brown) Bill Bonner (Baker) is starting his IN MEMORIAM They Were married last September in have a 2-year-old daughter. fourth and final year at the Optom- Santa Fe, N.M. They have both Dan Carley (Will Rice) is working etry College of the University of Lawrence G. Ilfrey '18 of Hous- Billie B. Knight'36 of Wharton, James H. Timmons'53 of Bay- Worked as technical staff members in the Aircraft Carrier Construction Houston. This fall, he will be ton on March 30, 1986. Texas, on March 3, 1984 town, Texas, on March 30, 1986. at Sandia National Laboratories in division of Newport News Ship- spending his clinical externship at Martha A. Filson '22 of Houston on Jan. Robert N. Higgins'59 of War- Albuquerque since 1980 and are building. After five years of night Omni Eye Services Center in At- Robert C. Redfield '36 on April 1, 1986. rensburg, Mo., on Jan. 26, 1986. about to move into a new house in school, he received an M.B.A. from lanta. 30, 1986. the mountains east of the city. He William and Mary this May. He James S. Watt'23 of Mission, Cristle Collins Judd (Hanszen) Hazel Cooksey Haden '42 of Robert M. Olson '59 of Bryan, Writes, "Our spare time is filled and his wife, Ellen, have a son, Texas, in April of 1986. and Robert Judd '81 (M.Mus.) Houston on March 14, 1986. Texas, on April 4, 1986. With skiing — we've Shelby Fitze '25 of Washington. hiking and Ryan, and another child on the have both been appointed to the gone as far as New Zealand to way. D.C., on March 15, 1986. music faculty at the University of Betty Adams Crain '43 of Hous- Ted C. Hermann '60 of Alvin, catch skiing in the summertime. Eileen Boyd German (Baker) re- Melbourne, Australia. George G. Kilman '26 of Hous- ton on Feb. 26,1986. Texas, on March 30, 1986. rd We'd love to hear from classmates ports that she is budget director for ton on March 5, 1986. David J. Smith '47 of Dallas in David E. Wilhelmesen '65 of Who would like to meet us at Taos Sunbelt Savings in Dallas. She Mark Westheimer'26 of Hous- er October of 1984. Worcester, Mass., in April of 1985. or hike the Grand Canyon — both writes, "Has anyone been in con- ton on April 28, 1986. are just a hop-skip-and-a-jump tact with Mark Hammer'80 Herta Closing Glenn '72 of lat from Albuquerque." 84 Fay Hutton Robinson '2901 Beverly Brooks Hughes'53 of (Baker)? Our 10-year high school Gretchen Martinez(Brown- Houston on March 14, 1986. Maryland on Feb. 27, 1986. Houston on March 22, 1986 reunion is this August and I'm try- Jones-Wiess), who writes, "yes, the ing to find him."(Also see "New Ar- only person at Rice to ever be a rivals.") member of three colleges," sends John E. Oddo was recently pro- in the news that Karen Strecker ox- moted to chief geologist of Conoco '83(Jones) and Greg Panagos Cama Mann (Gabon)Ltd. and (MBPM '85) were married on March Clca.mota transferred from Conoco Explora- 22. Guest of honor was Rachel tion Services in London to Li- Hill '83(MBPM '85, Jones), who breville, Gabon, West Africa, "introduced the two against her Enjoy keeping up with friends and classmates in the Classnotes section? Why not re- where he will reside with his fam- will." turn the favor — drop us a line and a (preferably black and white) photo at Sallyport, ily. Office of Information Services, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, Texas 77251. Eleanor Roubein Samuels (Hanszen) will complete law school 111 Married? El New Job? El New Baby? in December, and her husband, 85 Classmate? Thomas Samuels (Hanszen), has Joseph Bednorz (Wiess)is a LI Promoted? El Tak.e a Trip? El See a joined Dan C. Steiner'77 (Lov- chemical engineer with Tennessee 111 Moved? CI Back in School? [I] Other? Matt Williamson (Will Rice) and ett) and Roger Safer in forming the Gas Pipeline in Hockley, Texas. Lauri Coburn Williamson '80 financial planning and investment Tony Foreman (Jones) is an envi- Brown) were married in 1979 and firm Safer Steiner & Samuels.(Also ronmental engineer and assistant Send us details. lived in Houston while Lauri see "New Arrivals.") environmental manager for earned teaching certificates tor el- Coastal Refining & Marketing Inc. etnentary and secondary educa- in Corpus Christi. Coastal Refin- tion from Houston Baptist ing is a subsidiary of the Houston- University. In 1981 they moved to 81 based Coastal Corp. ballas where Matt earned a Mas- Tim Daniel (Lovett) is currently Robert D. Hill has accepted a job ters of Theology degree from the working on a degree at Texas as control systems engineer with Uallas Theological Seminary and Christian University, the Metropolitan Denver Sewage Lauri taught junior high math and Michael Petry (Sid Rich)cur- Disposal District No. 1. Hill was history. Matt is now teaching at the rently heads the Media Arts Group formerly a visiting assistant pro- F‘irst Baptist Academy and Lauri is of London, which recently per- fessor at McMaster University in home with their first child. They formed an art piece entitled "Po- Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. hope to move to West Germany this tentially Dangerous Scenarios" for Janene Barsotti McCann (Lov- iliammer as missionaries for two the New Music America concert at ett) and Mike McCann '82(Lov- Years and write. "God bless all our Houston Community College. ett) were married in Denver this Nice friends." Jeff Russell (Hanszen) has been past June and are presently living promoted to assistant professor of in Dallas. Mike will graduate from physical education at Texas Lu- Southwestern Medical School in 19 theran College, where he is also May and continue in surgery. the director of sports medicine. He Janene is doing her architecture CLASS RECORDER: writes,"My wife and 1 are enjoying preceptorship with HKS and Part- LC. Puckett Seguin's life-in-the-slower-than- ners and will be back at Rice next 435 E. 70th, #6-F Houston-lane, although we do fall. New York, NY 10021 miss the city sometimes." (212) 872-6711 (daytime) Brian Zook (Wiess)and Holly Jacob (Jones) were married on archi- tydia Asselin (Jones) is an Dec. 21, 1985. They are living in tect in San Francisco. She is chair- Ithaca, N.Y., where Brian is a Rice alumni group kg the local 82 graduate student in applied phys- arid planning a super series of get- CLASS RECORDER: ics at Cornell and Holly is working %ethers. Kevin Hcmnell in advertising. kott Baxley (Sid Rich)recently 1421 Geneva St. teceived a letter of commendation Raleigh, NC 27606 h:orri the U.S. Navy for his dedica- (919)737-3615 (office) tion, loyalty and professional skill (919)851-2550 (home) 86 while stationed with Commander Tim Cisneros (M.Arch.), Chris Sudhir Sripadan has been se- ,34bmarine Force in Pearl Harbor, Genik '85 (M.Arch.)and Michael lected by the U.S. Air Force for a Name Itowaii four-year medical school McNamara '84(8 Arch.) were scholar- College tatherine E. Bracken (Jones) members of a group show that ship. The Fort Worth native will en- Class has left Bracken & Associates and opened April 10 and ran through roll this fall at the Baylor College h, as joined the law firm of Freytag, early May at the Suzanne Street of Medicine under the auspices of Address( New?) LaForce, Rubinstein & Teofan in Gallery in Houston. "Domestic the Armed Forces Health Profes- ballas. Her husband, Charles Bell, Landscapes" was the title of the sions Scholarship Program.

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SAVE THE DATE! HOMECOMING '86 IS COMING NOV. 15.

North America. No prior whitewater charge. Hours: Monday EVENTS June 28-29 -Friday 7:45 experience is necessary to enjoy this "The Ploughman's Lunch" a.m.-8 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m.-6 YOUNG ALUMNI summer adventure. $1,200. Tories vs. socialists in Falklands War- p.m. The Young Alumni are sponsoring the era Britain. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. both following summer activities: June 19, September nights. Adventure in Africa Thursday night after-work mixer, Cafe Exciting African safari will begin in SPOR TS Adobe, 2111 Westheimer; July 20, Sun- Nairobi, Kenya, after which partici- July 5-6 day cookout, 6 p.m., Gingermcm's, 5607 pants will travel Aberdare "Morons from Outer Space" Momingside; Aug. 21, Thursday night to the Na- OLYMPIC FESTIVAL '86 Samburu British farce finds middle-class inter- after-work mixer, Kenneally's, 2111 S. tional Park, Game Reserve, The following list includes only those Mount Kenya, Tsavo West National planetary vacationers arriving on Shepherd. For more information, call Earth. 7:30 and 9:15 p.m. both nights. Olympic Festival events scheduled on the alumni office at(713) 527-4057. Park, Amboseli National Park and Ma- or near the Rice campus. Information sai Mara Game Reserve. Optional ex- on times and admission prices for spe- tension will allow travelers to engage July 12-13 cific events and details on activities in a trip through the best of Egypt. De- "The Holy Innocents" scheduled elsewhere in Houston may Set in Spain NOTICES parts Aug. 31. $3,790. For more infor- Franco's of 1962, drama be obtained by calling (713)977-3333. mation, contact the alumni office at features Cannes-winning perform- RICE BUSINESS AND the number provided above. ances for best actor. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. both nights. July 26-28 PROFESSIONAL WOMEN Sept. 25-28 Roller Skating The new Rice Business and Profes- Russian Weekend in NYC July 26-27 Men's and women's speed, artistic, and sional Women's club is aimed at the View the visiting exhibit of impres- "Sylvia" hockey competitions at Autry Court. professional women in the community sionist art at the Metropolitan Museum New Zealand production of author Syl- and membership is open to all alum- of Art on loan from the Pushkin Mu- via Ashton-Warner's experiences in a July 26-29 nae and friends of the university. Cur- seum in Moscow and the Hermitage in Maori outpost in the 1940s. 7:30 p.m. Tennis rent Rice students may join at a Leningrad. Spend an evening in Little only both nights. Men's and women's singles and dou- reduced fee on an associate basis. For Odessa and have lunch at the Russian bles tournaments at Jake Hess Sta- more information, contact Judy Jo Tea Room. Visit a Russian artist's stu- dium. McGlaun at 659-1988. dio and see the Faberge exhibit. Call Archery the alumni office at the number pro- MU S I Men's and women's events at the Physi- CONTINUING STUDIES vided above for more details. cal Education Fields. The Office of Continuing Studies and Special Programs offers classes Christmas trip TIM June 23 throughout the year in the arts, fi- July 26-30 CONTINUING STUDIES Houston Friends of Music nance, literature, science, Baseball photogra- The Office of Continuing Studies and The Cassatt String Quartet, winners of phy and foreign languages. A wide the Cameron Field. Special Programs offers a number of 40th Annual Coleman Chamber range of professional courses is also both domestic and foreign travel op- Ensemble Competition, playing works offered. For more information and a portunities throughout the year. For in- of Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, and July 30-Aug.3 free catalog, call 520-6022(527-4019 Team Handball for formation, call(713) 527-6022. Mendelssohn. 8 p.m. in Hamman Hall. languages). Admission $5, $3 for students and sen- Men's and women's games at Autry ior citizens. Court. EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT The Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of F IL M Administration offers management July 16 July 31-Aug.3 courses to the business community The Rice Media Center offers a full Houston Friends of Music Track and Field throughout the year. For details con- lineup of feature films during the sum- The Franciscan String Quartet, win- Men's and women's race walks on Sun- tact the Office of Executive Develop- mer, in addition to the following Hous- ners of the 1986 Banff International set Boulevard, near Rice campus. ment at 527-6060. ton premieres. For a full schedule and String Quartet Competition, playing details on individual films, call the works of Haydn, Bartok and Brahms. 8 Film Information Line at(713) 527-4853. p.m. in Hamman Hall. Admission $5, RICE FOOTBALL'86 $3 for students and senior citizens. TRAY EL June 7-8 Sept.6 Lamar "Crossover Dreams" Sept. ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PROGRAMS Premiere of Leon Ichaso's musical 13smu For information on 1986 alumni travel/ saga starring top Hispanic singer Ru- A R T Sept.27 S.W. Texas study programs, call the Alumni Of- ben Blades. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. both fice,(713) 527-4057, or write the nights. Oct.4 Texas Association of Rice Alumni, P.O. Box July 12-Aug.23 1892, Houston, Texas 77251, to receive June 14-15 Spanish Heritage of Texas Oct. 11 at TCU detailed itineraries. Prices are approx- "Joshua, Then and Now" Fondien Library will be hosting an art imate. Premiere of 1985 comedy with Alan exhibit consisting of 60 panels depict- Oct. 18 Texas Tech Arkin and James Wood. 7:30 and 9:45 ing Spanish missions and other Span- July 16-23 p.m. both nights. ish architecture in Texas. The exhibit Oct.25 at Texas A&M Whitewater Float Trip, was organized by Louis Costa of Texas Salmon River, Idaho June 21-22 A&M University, mounted by the Insti- Nov. 1 at Arkansas Float five nights and six days(110 "Flesh and Blood" tute of Texas Cultures in San Antonio, Nov. 15 Baylor miles)through the 1.25 million-acre Multiple winner in the 1985 Dutch Film and sponsored by Spain and Texas (Homecoming) Idaho Primitive area. The middle fork Festival, stars Rutger Hauer and Jenni- Sesquicentennial Committee, Rice Nov.22 Air Force of the Salmon River is considered the fer Jason Leigh. 7:30 and 9:50 p.m. both and Texas A&M. The 53 photographs finest whitewater float boating in nights. and 7 narratives will be shown free of Nov.29 at Houston