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person - the pioneer? In this day of equal op­ portunity and "liberation" these questions are seldom raised: when they are, the an­ swers come quickly_ For Anna Lay Turner's day, 1928, however, the answers are slower incoming. But only for a moment, for as long as it takes to sip the coffee that has been provided for the interview. For Mrs. Turner tells me she became always a chemical engineer because she had fi wanted to be one_ She had always wanted, she her says, to work at a job where she could use r Plain and simple_ common sense and ingenuity. e And I almost accept it. The explanation, exact as it is, is not, finally, completely satisfactory. There has got to be more to it than just wanting to be an engineer. A person just doesn't suddenly meet convention head on and challenge it without being extraor­ dinary. And as we continue to talk, I see that my feeling is right. Whether she wants to ac­ knowledge them or not, she begins to reveal qualities about herself, which, indeed, make her a unique person. Understandably, many of the qualities she reveals are qualities that every engineer must have if he is to survive in the profession. In­ genuity and efficiency. Industriousness and im­ agination. And of course common sense and the ability to organize. But these make up only part of her character. There are others, others many engineers - many people - lack. Among them is her willingness to challenge ideas she doesn't agree with. She also reveals her outspokenness and determination, her energy and her sense of humor. And there is of course her disciplined manner and resoluteness. But these qualities alone do not make the person. Not in Mrs. Turner's case, nor in anyone else's. Experience, the test of these qu also necessary. C .

en m ined with a catalyst, but remain without value if left alone. Luckily, in Mrs. Turner's case the catalyst was always there. Practically with every step she took to achieve her goal. The oldest of six children, Anna Lay Turner, then Anna Rebecca Lay, grew up in Denison, Texas, where her father was chief clerk and accountant for a railroad. She attended Deni­ son High School and graduated at the age of 17. Ready to enter college, she applied to Rice and met with the first obstacle she had to over­ Turner - an entrance age Anna come in her long career requirement. At that time there was little she could do. One u e ~ @lliJD@~ [p)Q@[n)@@IT' had to be 18 or older to be admitted to the Insti­ tute. She couldn't change her age. So she went n BY L. PURDON to work at clothing manufacturing plant. But 0 a h she didn't waste her time or lose sight of her ""Texas' first woman engineering graduate didn't strive ambition. She made an adequate amount of money, which she managed to save, and got on­ to be different; she strove to be herself" the-job practical engineering experience - the foundation of any engineering career. only momentarily belies her serious­ necessary HE YEAR IS 1927. In the Chemistry Lec­ which The practical experience came her way not by industriousness, and ingenuity - qual­ ture Hall a student, recently returned ness, chance but as a result of necessity, which, being are not uncommon in a chemical Tfrom winter vacation, nearly faints with ities which the mother of invention as the saying goes, she not surprising when that en­ fever. A doctor is called and a diagnosis is engineer, and indicates is the most important word in an has the distinction of being the first made. Smallpox. The entire student body is gineer engineer's vocabulary. Her employer needed to an engineering degree from quarantined. Everyone has to be vaccinated. woman to receive dye his own thread and thereby cut manufactur­ and the first to receive an engineering In Baker College students line up. The men Rice, ing costs. So he gave the problem of how to of Texas. roll up their shirt-sleeves. Since the vaccination degree in all make an uncostly dying process to her and sev­ will be painful and will leave a scar, the women eral other plant personnel. To solve it, the group BEGINS in the SALLYPORT prefer to be vaccinated on the thigh. All the s THE INTERVIEW immediately and set up a proce­ (Mrs. Turner doesn't want to be in­ went to work women, that is, except Anna Lay Turner. "I office The result was a savings of better than terviewed at home because she is redeco- dure. couldn't be vaccinated in the leg," she says, "be­ percent of the cost of the thread over a rating), I have many questions to ask. But the 50 cause I had to stand on it that afternoon in the period of a year and a half. Mr. Pool, her em­ one that interests - nearly teases - me the Chemical Engineering Laboratory." ployer, was elated. Such was and still is Anna Lay Turner. most is what kind of woman chooses to become in But the first true test of her mettle came as A practical, vigorous person. The sort of an engineer at a time when the role of women it a woman she entered Rice as a freshman. The work at person who never takes the proverbial "no" for the sciences is, at best, a bit part. Is make noise? first was difficult and time-consuming, as it is an answer. who is arrogant and just wants to But this strong sense of personal conviction, Or is it a woman who is a kind of intellectual now. As she remembers, she had five complete unusually energetic as it is, is only one facet of Joan of Arc? A woman who sees a wrong and, by afternoon labs every week - something pres­ her character. She also has a warm, friendly her own example, tries and manages to rectify ent engineering degree candidates might think disposition and a self-effacing sense of humor, it. Or is it a woman who is that singular kind of about. And to make matters worse, she re-

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ceived opposition to her being the first woman which we did. And because there was little pres­ engineering student from members of the ad­ sure we gained a lot from it." ministration and faculty, and from members of As much as she was involved with people who the staff and students. But she persevered, and approved or disapproved of her ways, Anna Lay often, found a solution to the opposition. Turner also found valuable experience in her work - her work at Rice and the part-time HE DIDN'T STRIVE TO BE DIFFERENT; she work she did to support herself financially. Both strove to be herself. Nevertheless, Dean tested her ability to organize. And at both she SRobert Caldwell, for one, appeared to be a was successful. firm opponent-"a real snag," she says, smiling "I graduated, didn't I," she says, laughing. - to her from the beginning. He watched over And it's no wonder. One who carried a slide-rule registration, she recalls, and made certain everywhere she went (and who still does), she everyone registered properly - registered the always got her work done; she was always ex­ way he thought they should. But in time she tremely efficient. She made a habit of tran- · found a solution to this and other problems he scribing her class notes, for instance, onto created by using her common sense and puckish onion-skin paper and inserting them in the remembers, "on n cleverness. "I registered," she pages of the class text. "It is a text within a September 13, and I shall never forget it be­ text," she explains. And the book is still in t cause I thought that was my lucky day. I regis­ Fondren Library. Or at least it was two years ,- tered as a chem-major - it was then called ago when a doctoral candidate used it to 1 an 'honors course' - but before my freshman study for his examinations. e year was over I swung it to chemical engi­ But just as important, while going to class neering_ I knew I could do it then because everyday, she also worked in and organized e Dean Caldwell wasn't watching the records most of the Institute dining facility, Autry t after registration." House. She worked the till, did the marketing, and planned the menus. And once, for sev­ eral months, she was in complete charge of ('('She skirted convention by everything. e wearing coveralls." wo YEARS AFTER GRADUATING, in 1930, But the largest and hence most formidable Anna Rebecca Lay married and became 't group that made her strive to be herself were TMrs. Turner. At that time, because of fi­ re­ s her fellow students. They made her use her nancial necessity, she went to work. She f wits and test her personal conviction not be­ ceived notice one day, she recalls, from the Uni­ versity about ajob opening at Anderson Clayton d cause she was the first woman engineer_ Nor, Anna again descends the fire escape. as she laughingly admits today, because she and Co. The name seemed familiar to her be­ cause, as she later realized, she had applied to 1e was then larger in size than most of her peers. the company in her freshman year. While a years was how she and others put their practical But because she skirted convention by wearing. engineering abilities to work to solve a problem coveralls_ freshman she had had no money to pay for a trip home and, so, had sought work. So she went for of communication. As she recalls, the coveralls were not worn to Since the production of synthetic rubber was antagonize; they were a necessity. A woman another interview, thinking it uncanny that the company had kept her original letter and appli­ a complicated process and many of the plant then, as now, couldn't work in the Chemical personnel were non-English-speaking workers, Engineering Lab wearing a dress. It was too cation on file so long. "The chief engineer at Anderson Clayton," she and others put together a primer, which de­ 'n dangerous. She had to dress like the other picted the entire process step by step using Walt s engineers. It meant a lot of extra attention she says, smiling, "was a genteel man. When I talked to him as a freshman he said, 'Young Disney-like characters. So successful were they­ 0 and occasional wolf-whistles, especially since the primer became so popular in the plant- that the only place for a woman to change clothes lady, if you ever graduate, you let me know; if you ever do.' finally they had to devise a way strengthening r, then was in the Chemistry Building, on the the paper book with cloth. opposite side of the science quadrangle from "I'm sure he had his doubts. So, when I went to see him on my second interview he said, 'You After the war, too, she put her practical know­ Engineering. ledge, energy, and ingenuity to work - this But to each problem there is a solution, and were short, fat, curly-haired - and you still are.'" But the interview was successful; she time at West University Elementary School. she found one quickly. She had to. She discov­ The problem at the school was that there was no ered a way of getting across the quad and to stayed with the company twelve years, as assis­ tant to the chief engineer. library. So she and several other Rice alumni­ her destination without being seen by too many among them Eleanor Alexander and Sarah People. Instead of going down the stairs in the By the time that the war began she and her husband had two children, a boy and a girl, and Lane - through careful manipulation and Chemistry Building, as she had to before, she many paper drives, made $10,000 in two years used the fire-escape and thereby gained the had moved into the house in West University e Place where they still live today. She was ready and created the library budget. i- element of surprise, an advantage which had And the library was successful. After its in­ not been hers earlier. "Everytime I stepped out to use her practical engineering experience, her "feminine engineering" as she calls it, at home ception and first few years of existence, it was on that fire-escape," she recalls, laughing to staffed with as many as 60 volunteers, each herself, "it went down to the ground with a thud where she had always intended to use it. But the War-Manpower Commission, after having working two hours a day. Further, it provided and I was in the Engineering Lab long before the students with books and their teachers with anyone had realized I'd gone." tried to contact her several times, requested an important meeting with her. a book-repair department. And it also served a,s a training ground for future librarians. "The HILE AT RICE, though, critics of her man­ The meeting took place, she remembers, at library trained people," she recalls, "who now ner of dress and academic major were the Bethlehem Steel Plant. She had to go out are at Jesse Jones Library." Wnot the only catalysts who made her there with a friend who minded her children in what she became and has remained. There were the car while she went inside. Once inside she HAT KIND OF PERSON is the first woman those whom she liked, too, who greatly influ­ found herself in front of several important naval to graduate from Rice and to graduate enced her. Some were students, while others officials. They informed her she was needed to Win the state of Tuxas with a degree in en­ were members of the faculty. Among the lat­ help in the production of synthetic rubber; the gineering? As the interview ends and I look ter were such men as Dr. Hartsook, whom she men who had been working at the job she was to back on what has been said, it becomes obvious iv- refers to as the "guiding light" for all chem­ take over had been drafted. that she is a living testament of the attitude on up ical engineers. And, of course, there was But when they told her what her salary would life and work she has had for as long as she can ~e- Dr. Bray. be - a lower salary than that of men in the remember - "An engineer is a person of in­ an But the one professor who enabled her to see plant who did the same kind of work - she genuity.'' She is a person of ingenuity. But there a things in a different light and with whom she refused to take on the project and left the Navy is more. m- recalls having the best relationship was Dr. high and dry. Much more. She is a courageous woman, who Freund, who, then, was the German department Her talents and training, however, were never let anyone stop or dissuade her from as on campus. He taught chemical engineering needed at the job. And so the Navy contacted achieving her ambition. She is strong and at students and other engineering degree candi­ her again the same night. They told her they knows how to take control. She is an organizer. is dates scientific German. He wasn't a rigid would pay her the salary she requested, give her But most important of all, she is a person who is ite grammarian. "And he did not ask us to do any all the tires and gasoline she needed, and ar­ content with herself. In the words of Laurence 1s- conversational German," she says, "except for range for her children to be taken care of at the Stern she is the kind of person who finds adven­ 1k the basics. He didn't expect us to say the words best childcare center in Houston. ture in everything she can fairly place her ·e- [pollysyllabic German technical and scientific On the project she worked in metal design. hands on. And she will continue to be this way terminology]; he expected us to read them, But what she remembers most about the two for a long time to come. JULY- SALLYPORT JULY-AUGUSI -

been suggested that her owner country's wealth was controlled from I profited at the expense of the Con­ New York. [So] with the same acumen federate government. that had taken him out of Massa­ WILLIAM MARSH RICE Margaret Bremond Rice, for her chusetts at the close of the 1830s, part, seems to have worked tirelessly William Marsh Rice made the decision in what would now be called war re­ to return north. lief, and her husband's name appeared His nephew William A. Rice did & HIS INSTITUTE regularly on the lists of those who con­ suggest forty years later that his uncle tributed to various patriotic causes. was suspected in Tuxas of Northern But the efforts of both came to a sympathies and so found it more pru­ halt in August 1863, when Margaret dent to carry on his postwar busi­ Bremond Rice died. ness in Houston through agents. It is The records of Christ Church show more lik~ly that the eastward flow of that her death took place on August capital, plus the fact that his ware­ 13, and that she was buried the follow­ houses and other premises had been at ing day by the Reverend Benjamin taken over by the U.S. Government, se Eaton, who had married l er to Wil­ prompted the move. The Gulf Coast h" liam Marsh Rice thirteen yPars before. was in a state of disorganization, B The cause of her death is 11ot known; with few signs that better times but yellow fever and cholera appeared would come soon. in Houston every summer, and the Rice went almost at once to Palmer, war years were no exception. Mass., where his father and mother After his wife's death William were then living. This, in the late Marsh Rice chose not to remain long summer of 1865, was the first of the in Houston. By early December when, yearly visits he was to make from then An Idea For An Institute of all Tuxas ports, only Galveston and on, always with some sort of gift. He Sabine Pass were in Confederate announced to his parents that hence­ hands, Rice crossed the Mexican bor­ forth New York was to be his home. der on his way to Monterrey. ILLIAM HAD FINISHED ONE ETWEEN DECEMBER 1863 and PHASE of his life and was August 1865 Rice's movements starting another. After are almost impossible to fol­ spending the early winter low. On December 8, 1863, he Win New York, he was back in Houston Bdrew up a will leaving everything he by January and caught up in the thick possessed to his brother Frederick of things. His business ties to Texas Allyn Rice. Immediately afterwards, were strong. entering Mexico, he plunged into one Characteristically he made no at­ of the most confused areas, politically, tempt to get back into the cotton militariiy, and financially, of any Civil business on a large scale~ the once War theater of operations. inexhaustible supply of black labor Only two documents are known re­ was no more. Rice, with his solid war­ lating to Rice during these twenty time profits, looked elsewhere. months. One is a laconic handwritten On June 7, 1866, the Houston In­ receipt dated July 17, 1865. The sec­ surance Company, which had been ond document is a draft, in Rice's own chartered before the war, was reor­ handwriting; the relevant paragraph ganized with Rice as director. In reads: October of the same year the Houston The war broke up my busi­ Direct Navigation Company, with ness. In August 1863 my first Rice on its board of directors, had its wife died and in the De­ charter extended; by 1869 it had cember following I went to been superceded by the Houston Mexico - Monterey and Bayou Ship Channel Company. down to Matamoros and after Like other childless men, Rice gave a little delay on to Havana, a good deal of thought to his relatives. remained there for a month In the summer of 1866 he returned to or two, then returned to Palmer, Mass., to inform his sister Matamoros where I was in Charlotte of his intention to buy a business until August 1865, home for their parents at Three at which time I returned to Rivers, Mass. By November the prop­ Houston. erty was his, and David and Patty With his usual acuteness William Rice moved in on the sixth of the Marsh Rice managed to be where the month, along with Charlotte, her money was. Brownsville swelled to husband, Collins McKee, and their about 25,000 and Matamoros to children. David Rice died in March 40,000. Bagdad on the Rio [the port 1867, after less than six months in the ~ :.c city for Matamoros on the Rio new house. ...u Grande] exploded to 15,000. Times In June of that year William Marsh <( were flush. A number of merchants Rice amended his will, leaving ten ~ -0 made immense fortunes from the cot­ thousand dollars to each of his surviv­ C 0 ton trade. Millions in gold passed ing sisters, Louisa, Charlotte, and u. through the three towns. Minerva. The income was to be theirs Rice, who had gone into the war a during their lifetimes and the princi­ rich man, came out of it even weal­ pal thereafter" passed to their children. "First class means a good deal; first class means thier. He interpreted the handwriting None of the three sisters had made, in on the wall correctly. In April 1864, a a financial sense, a particularly suc­ the best." year before Appomattox, he instructed cessful marriage. Frederick to have the entire stock of Louisa's one child, Joseph, later ITH THE COMING OF THE waters below Matamoros, foreign William M. Rice and Company sold in claimed that his uncle, "a Tuxas mil­ WAR, business life in Texas ships by the hundreds lay off the Houston at public outcry. It would lionaire," was accustomed to send him underwent an almost im­ mouth of the Rio Grande, while the have been a long time before any of $300 every Christmas "because he mediate change. The build­ captains clamored for cargoes and bid the firm's subsequent customers could knew he would make good use of it." Wing of railroads came to a halt and the the price of cotton to enormous sums. have paid in anything but Confederate Far more in character is the story that flow of merchandise through the Blockade runners found that profits money or promissory notes. [In when young Joseph's wife offered to coastal cities slowed to a trickle. outweighed risks. Goods that could be Mexico accounts were paid in gold return $500 Uncle William had sent to Even more than most southern brought in through the blockade and silver.] help her set up a millinery business, states, Texas had imported nearly commanded enormous prices. Several Within three months after the last she received the answer, "No one of everything. It still had one trump favored and adventurous merchants battle of the Civil War Rice was back my relatives ever did send me any card: cotton. grew rich, honorably. Whether the in Houston and again actively in­ money and you'd better not." The Gulf Coast came under naval brig William M. Rice was among those volved in the business of that city. Eight days after signing the will blockade within a few months of the running the blockade is a matter [However,] with the collapse of the ag­ of 1867, on the morning of June 26, fall of Fort Sumter. In the Mexican for conjecture; certainly it has never rarian South, more and more of the William Marsh Rice was married

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other places of its kind in different two marriages he was childless and and Peter Cooper. Girard, the eldest in from parts of the city until, in the early likely to remain so, although for many a large [French] family, had cut short unen spring of 1872, their way of life un­ years he found satisfaction in looking his education to go to work. He took to assa- "Rice came late derwent a profound change. after the welfare of his brothers and the sea for a trade. In his later years a 330s, Remarriage and the fact that he was sisters and an increasing number of ship owner, Girard settled on a coun­ :ision to country living, spending at least part of each year nieces and nephews. He had no desire try estate not far from the port of in the Southwest had not loosened to cut a wide swathe in society, to Philadelphia. In 1831 he died a child-· 'did knowing what he William's ties to his kin in Massa­ gamble, to go on Grande Thur, or to less multimillionaire and left funds in mcle liked and with almost chusetts. He kept up a fairly regular spend large sums on what he ate and the neighborhood of six million dollars hem correspondence with his sister and drank. What he proceeded to do, with to found a school for "poor white or­ pru­ unlimited means to mother and continued to help them every evidence of satisfaction, was to phan boys" which opened its doors in Jusi­ procure it." out financially. However, as early as put a great deal of money into his new January 1848. It is 1870, to the best of Charlotte Rice country place. Cooper, a sickly boy who left home ,w of McKee's recollection, he spoke of buy­ As if to emphasize how permanent in 1808 at age 17 to work as a vare­ ing a place in New Jersey where he he expected his residence to be, Rice coachmaker's apprentice, also went on been at Christ Church in Houston for the could spend the summers. He asked had his outbuildings and dependencies to amass a fortune. He "often declared !lent, her if she "would like to go and take put up with unusual care. "First Class that he hoped no one would have to go ;oast second time. He was fifty-one and his bride, Julia Elizabeth Baldwin charge ofit." means a good deal," he was to ad­ through his own hard struggle to get a tion, Brown, [who preferred to be called True to his lifelong principles, Rice monish his Houston business agent training." After a long and careful imes said nothing to anyone and left no "Libbie,"] was a widow twelve years less than a year before his death; younger. The summer of 1867 written explanation of his reasons for "First Class is the best." mer, brought with it the worst yellow settling on Somerset County, N.J. Pre­ In many respects this must have ,ther fever epidemic in Houston's history; sumably he had determined some been one of the happiest periods of late immediately after the ceremony Mr. limit beyond which he was not pre­ Rice's life. Growing up in a New Eng­ "Rice's will of 1882 f the and Mrs. Rice prudently left for pared to commute regularly to his land manufacturing town, moving on then the East. New York offices [at 52 Wall Street]. to the constantly changing scene of the designated monies .. He Elizabeth was a younger sister of The result was that on October 7, Southwest and returning again to for the building of mce- Charlotte Baldwin Randon, who had 1871, Collins and Charlotte McKee, of New York City and an existence di­ also been widowed at the time of her Hampton County, Mass., [bought] vided between Wall Street and a series the William M. Rice marriage to [William's younger three tracts of land totalling just over of hotel rooms, he came late to country ONE brother] Frederick in 1854. She had one hundred acres. Charlotte remem­ living knowing what he liked and with Orphans Institute in was come to Texas from Baldwinsville, bered in 1904 that the deed had been almost unlimited means to procure it. New Jersey." Ster New York, at the age of twelve. Her "taken out in the name ofmy husband For the first five or six years after nter aunt Charlotte Baldwin Allen held an and myself," but it can safely be as­ his move to Somerset County, Rice ston sumed that William Marsh Rice put spent very little time away. His name undisputed position in society as the period of planning, in 1854 he laid the hick wife of one of Houston's founders. Her up the actual cash which chang_ed appeared less frequently on the deed exas hands. and mortgage records of Harris and cornerstone of his "workingman's in­ father Horace Baldwin, was a mayor stitute" in New York City. of Houston. In later years Rice always spoke of neighboring counties than it had in , at­ Controversy was to go on for years having resided in Dunellen, N.J., but many years. An hour's train ride took From William Marsh Rice's Wall tton over the character of the second Mrs. his estate lay about two miles beyond him to Wall Street and the affairs of Street offices it was no great distance the Houston and 'Thxas Central Rail­ :>nee William Marsh Rice. James Baker de­ that village at an even smaller settle­ to the Cooper Union and Astor Place abor scribed -her on a public occasion much ment called Green Brook. Whatever road; afternoons found him back at where, well into his nineties, Peter war- later as "a brilliant woman, unusually the practical advantages of the site Green Brook. The fact that he made no Cooper used to stroll. On his own tes­ handsome, tall and straight as an may have been, William Marsh Rice trips to Texas at all between 1873, timony, Rice stopped by the Union had an eye for a pretty bit of coun­ when the Green Brook property be­ frequently. It was after a number of L ln­ Indian... She loved people and was al­ came his, and 1878, when he and >een ways happiest when doing for others." tryside. The McKees moved into the such visits, toward the close of 1881, ·eor­ In private conversation the attorney farmhouse there in March 1872. Elizabeth passed most of the winter that he approached John Bartine, a . In was less generous. "She was a very Collins McKee seems to have been with the Groesbeecks, tells its own New Jersey lawyer who had handled ston ambitious woman ... fond of society one of those men for whom bad luck is story. After 1877, when control of the the purchase of the Green Brook prop­ ll'ith and ... fond of being in the public eye." second nature. Three weeks after his Houston and 'Thxas Central Railroad erty, for the purpose of drawing up a arrival in New Jersey he died of passed to Charles Morgan's hands, i its After a few days at a hotel in New new will. pneumonia. William came out from Rice may have felt it necessary to re­ Taking Bartine with him, Rice had York, William Marsh Rice and his New York to attend his brother-in turn to the Southwest to look into his made a trip to Philadelphia to visit 3ton bride went on to stay for several weeks law's funeral and brought Elizabeth other investments. Girard College and to make himself at the Canadian border. On this occa­ with him. It was the first time that familiar with the terms of Stephen ~ave sion, as later, the second Mrs. Rice was the sisters-in-law had met. OT LONG AFTER ms RETURN TO Girard's will. The ex-French cabin boy Lves. not taken to visit her husband's rela­ TEXAS, Rice made what was to had laid down very precise guidelines id to tives in Massachusetts. Patty Hall The Rices remained at Green Brook be the most valuable single in­ for the education of orphans: ster Rice had made it so plain to everyone after the funeral was over and did not 1y a vestment of his life, not only that she did not care to meet this new take up residence in New York again inN itself but for the contribution it was They shall be instructed in iree daughter-in-law that on all of Rice's until 1883, eleven years later. [Accord­ to make to the intellectual growth of the various branches of a ,rop­ subsequent visits to Three Rivers, ing to Charlotte Rice McKee,William] atty the entire Southwest. For $1.25 per sound education, compre­ even after his mother's death, in 1877, "said it would be more restful than liv­ acre, he bought up nearly fifty hending reading, writing, the he came alone. ing in [the] city as he enjoyed being her thousand acres of government land in grammar, arithmetic, geog­ Early in the fall, William and his out in the country all he could." When raphy, navigation, surveying, heir what is now Beauregard Parish, La. - wife returned to New York and moved the McKees moved in there were a land which included some of the finest practical mathematics, as­ uch into a suite of rooms at the Union number of outbuildings standing on Lthe standing pine anywhere in the South. tronomy, natural, chemical, Square Hotel. Rice may then have had the property in addition to the farm­ In this same year of 1879, William and experimental philosophy, it in mind to settle somewhere away house. Remodeling had been started Marsh Rice II, the second of the French and Spanish 'lrsh from the center of New York. By the on the house, but when William de­ ten Frederick's sons, received his degree languages ... and such other following January he had been called cided to make New Jersey his resi­ learning and science as the viv­ from Princeton University, where his back to 'Thxas to look into investments dence year round, he did not do things capacities of the several and Uncle William had helped him fmance there. Elizabeth accompanied him, by halves. Only one problem allowed scholars shall may merit Leirs his studies. At Green Brook, William and they remained in Houston until from the first no solution: the presence would have been able to observe first or warrant. inci­ summer. under one roof of two strong-minded ren. hand his nephew's progress through women. Less than twelve months after Princeton, and the experience may Unlike Peter Cooper, who had a ~, in ER MARGARET BREMOND RICE'S she arrived, Charlotte Rice McKee daughter of his own and included in sue- have brought home to him how closely death William Marsh Rice and her children went back to Mas­ education was linked to wealth and his "Union of Science and Art" a school /{never again lived in the Greek sachusetts. [A friend who had known "for the instruction of respectable 1ter how great a handicap poverty could be Revival House on Court both Rices during Elizabeth's Houston to the young. females in the arts of design," Girard mil­ Bouse Square. In 1871 or 1872 it was childhood remembered overhearing Thinking along these lines, Rice, limited his college to male students. In him -~old, together with his other property William say that this sister had left [age 63 at the time of his nephew's all other respects their aims ran paral­ he in the same block. For the remainder "because Mrs. Rice didn't like her."] graduation], was especially drawn to lel. William Marsh Rice could hardly it." It took more than domestic difficul­ of his life, with the exception of the the ideas of two men, Stephen Girard have chosen better models for the pur­ hat five years from 1873 to 1878 when he ties to distract Rice from business. On pose he had in mind. l to w_as ingrossed in the improvements to September 2, 1872, he paid Charlotte Accordingly, when Bartine drew up Ltto h~s farm in New Jersey, it was the $2,000 for her interest in the four a will for him in January 1882, apart ess, aices' habit to avoid the Gulf Coast tracks of land. He bought up her from the annuities to his wife, brother ~ of summer weather by returning to New husband's share of the property thir­ "In 1881 Rice visited Frederick, sisters Charlotte and any York, which he always spoke of as his teen months later. Minerva, and his nephew Joseph residence, in May or June, and re­ Girard College and Blinn, the bulk of Rice's estate was left will maining there until cold weather ICE WAS APPROACHING SIXTY. His made himself familiar to the governor of New Jersey and the 26, closed in, when they would remove to years as a merchant and busi~ presiding judge of the supreme court of ·ied Houston. nessman had made him ex­ with Stephen Girard's the same state, as administrators of . When in New York, the Rices con­ tremely wealthy, and with the building and maintenance, on tmued to live at the Pierrepont House, Rwise management that wealth could will." his Somerset County property, of the r, X a "family hotel" in Brooklyn, or at not fail to increase. Notwithstanding William M. Rice Orphans' Institute.

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the actual recruiting. One of these consists of alumni volunteers, the M~ other, the professional staff. About 85 Ri~ alumni in various parts of the country have been called upon to conduct in­ terviews in areas where professional staff members could not go because of time or travel expenses. Faculty members, too, occasionally conduct interviews. But, finally, it is the ad­ missions staff that does most of the work, interviewing as many as 2000 I prospective students in the U. S. and '·. in foreign countries. This is a difficult ·.' '- ' and expensive undertaking, but one \ I the University feels must be done. In ·._ ·-\~ addition to it, of course, the profes­ sional staff members are busy con­ h - ~ tacting academic counselors at the .• ' ,_ t ) , state and nation's most reputable high schools, keeping Rice on the ;~ counselors' minds, current pamphlets fr and brochures on their bookshelves. to After this work of recruitment and co The Admissions Game interviewing, the second major func­ tion of the Rice admissions team is to select the right students for the posi­ assignment of the Rice admissions team is simply expressed: tions available. This labor is shared '7he by staff members and the standing assemble a top-notch freshman class.,, committee. In order to make the work easiest for all concerned, the commit­ tee and members of the staff divide SEMBLING A TALENTED probably succeed here. Minimum test expertise and know ledge they into subcommittees: By so doing, the - let alone a winning - foot- score and grade point averages indi­ have gained in their own fields or in team frees itself to tackle all the prob­ ball team is an expensive, cate that there is a lot of self-selection past, related work. But most become lems that invariably arise before the time-consuming, and diffi­ taking place. Either alone or in con­ committee members for both rea­ new freshman class is chosen. cult task. The recruiting game in sultation with their teachers and sons and a third: to represent the - counselors students judge themselves various schools and, hence, the URING THE LAST YEAR RICE which Rice as a SWC school competes received 2300 applications The opposi­ unqualified for Rice and so do not various academic points of view at is highly sophisticated. for admission. This fall 570 money, often apply. the University. tion usually has more freshmen will be enrolled in has more trophies, and has football D the University. Most of them are the Rice re­ THE APPLICATIONS BEGIN ARRIV­ names like Royal. When HE ASSIGNMENT OF THE ADMIS­ the country's top-notch students. it's big news ING, the Rice admissions cruiting effort succeeds, SIONS TEAM at Rice is the same Ninety-seven of them, for example, Houston and the southwest region, "team," a composite group in as that of similar groups all are high school valedictorians;twenty this success is not taken for of full-time professionals, for It over the country: assemble a four are salutatorians. Forty-seven granted. part-time and volunteer personnel, T top-notch freshman class. Finding are National Merit Scholars; two are amount of media cover­ goes to work. They begin the ar­ Despite the the desirable student and getting him National Achievement Scholars; six receives, the amount of money duous task of determining eligibil­ age it or her to apply is done in several Presidential Scholars. Two-thirds number of pro­ ity and ineligibility of the candidates. are bl that is spent and the ways. Years ago - in fact until 1965 of the group were in the top five per­ is Like other teams around the coun­ p' fessional personnel involved, this when tuition became part of the Rice cent of their graduating classes. recruiting try assigned the same task, the Rice 0 not the most important experience - Rice relied heavily on Impressive statistics. With results Nor is it the group tries old, time-proven methods s game Rice competes in. its reputation alone. And it could. It like these it's difficult to imagine On the other side of selection and invokes new policies i most sophisticated. was in a league by itself, offering a that admissions at Rice is plagued by people work to achieve efficiency in its work, of the campus fewer quality education to talented stu­ problems. Yet problems there are - to achieve a more while maintaining the high stan­ with less money dents and charging no tuition. In sometimes many. important goal. Theirs is the admis­ dards that have long been a part of addition, Rice was satisfied to draw some of its competitor sions game. Like their counterparts Rice admissions. But even with the almost all of its students from Unlike e in athletics, these Rice professionals institution of time and energy-saving Texas. During these many years, schools, Rice's gem of a reputation have opponents with familiar names: approaches to admissions procedures, from 1912 to the 1960 s, talented has several facets which shine,bo,*"-~~a..i Stanford, M.I.T., Harvard, Radcliffe, the assignment invariably turns out high school students were knocking good and bad on the University. Rice Caltech, Princeton. In some cases to be more difficult and to require down doors to get to Rice. is one of the nation's best and most the competitor is the same: Texas, more man-hours than expected. ' selective undergraduate schools. This Today the fine academic reputation in Texas, in much of Texas A&M. But the success of their professional admissions and is widely known Rice's still attracts most Rice students. But academic cir­ effort on behalf of Rice is taken for recruiting staff, unlike those of many the South and in higher with fierce competition among lead­ engineering granted. It shouldn't be. Given the other colleges and universities com­ cles nationally. Science, ing schools in the nation, it is only professionals are problems and limitations, it is some­ for "blue chip" students, is and architecture peting part of a relatively new public rela­ of it. The Shepherd what surprising. small. Though the entire admissions likely to know Every September the admissions tions program. School's high-powered promotional team consists of approximately 30 Concerned and involved alumni t game begins at Rice. Over the next campaign is making musicians and people, Rice has only five admis­ pass on positive information seven months several thousand high who music educators aware of it. Outside sions professionals. about the University now play a sig­ school students, as many as four of these areas, though, Rice may be Richard Stabell, assistant to the nificant role in making people aware times the number of available known for its football team, or may president for admissions and records, ofRice's unique educational offerings. "places" in the next year's freshman not be known at all. and Bernard Giles, director of admis­ Advertising - the sending of infor­ class, fill out and send in applications The general public's image of Rice, sions, head the team. Their authority mation about the University to high to the University's office of admis­ when the image exists, has several and responsibilities are delegated by school and guidance counseling sions. The same students arrange to facets. One is whiteness. The reputa­ the Rice President. Working with centers around the country - too, have their College Board scores, tion that fifty years of segregated them are three assistant directors, has been instituted and been shown teacher and counselor recommend­ education gave the school is not one of whom concentrates on minority to be effective. But most important ations, family income statements, altered. Rice stands today as admissions, and an office staff of six, of all is the University's recruit­ quickly pictures, letters a symbol to many Texas minority and other assorted aided when and where needed by stu­ ment program. and statements sent to Rice. Rice's dents on work-study programs and students. A last bastion. This is un­ deadline for receipt of these things several alumni volunteers. Active recruitment, a relatively fortunate. It discourages minority in­ is February 1. new aspect of the admissions game at terest in Rice, while the absence of The other half of the team is the Many of these young people com­ Rice, began in the middle and late intensive recruitment and publica­ University Standing Committee on plete all the paperwork, tests and 60s. The altering of both the admis­ tions campaigns veils the truth of Admissions. This group is made up because they want more than sions and the financial policies made Rice's present concern for minority such for the most part of full-time faculty anything to be Rice students. Many Rice more colorful and more expen­ student education - and the fact that (12), but includes two students and because Rice is one of sive. At the same time Rice began today minority enrollment at Rice others do it one alumni advisor. Appointed by the their several top college choices. Still making efforts to become more cos­ compares most favorably with all na­ President upon recommendation, others do it because the Rice applica­ mopolitan. It left its own league and tional norms. But more important in these men and women become part of differs from those of most other began to compete for students with it all is the fact that most of the tion the team for several reasons. selective institutions: it's free. Rice schools having many years of experi­ nation's selective schools - those has no fee for applying. Some undertake the evaluation ence in the admissions game. A good with whom Rice competes for talented Very few young people apply to work to help the (often) overworked public information and recruitment minority students - do not have to Rice on a long shot. Most Rice appli­ professional staff. Others join to bring program was necessary. fight such a reputation. Stanford re­ cants, if accepted and enrolled would to this area of University affairs Today, two major groups do most of cruits and enrolls many of the finest ~-AUGUsT JULY-AUGUST SALLYPORT

1ese the Mexican-American students out of hears of an occasional unfortu­ question and chat with. But more accept twice as many students as t 85 Rice's back yard. In the same way, nate gassing himself in the important, alumni do not conduct there are places available, the deter­ 1try talented black students, who can offer chemistry lab ... as many interviews as the members mining of what kind of student should in- so much to Rice and to whom Rice can of the admissions staff, and, be admitted and what kind should 1nal return so much, are lost to schools EPUTATION, MISINFORMATION, having little sense of the cross sec­ not, and such things as admission of these are some major e of "more desirable." tion of prospective students, can't faculty children. tlty The "Institute image" of a male, recruitment obstacles. But evaluate as accurately. Until recently there was a tacit pol­ luct science-engineering school is also R they can be overcome if the But recruitment competition is the icy of admitting faculty children re­ ad­ alive and well. Dick Stabell tells one admissions team is competitively admissions staff bugbear. As the gardless of their credentials. In the the story illustrative of the effect it has staffed and financed. The Self Study small staff struggles with time, cir­ last few years this policy has been published by Rice last year asked for 000 on the recruitment of students to cumstances and hundreds of applica­ changed, slightly. Last year one was changes. and study in the arts and humanities. It is tion forms, they also have to compete not admitted. But this is seldom the :ult a story of a young woman who applied Working with a small annual with other top name universities for case. In fact, not long ago, a faculty one to Rice during her junior year of high budget of $68,000, nearly all recruit­ students. Where this competition is child was accepted to the S/E pro­ ment that is the result of individual .In school in Florida. An outstanding keenest is for "blue-chip" and minor­ gram even though he was deficient action can be traced to five people. fes­ student, she planned to major in biol­ ity students. in subjects required. Only one per­ :on­ ogy. She was granted early accep­ These staff members do what at com­ son had seen his application before the tance. During her senior year, she petitor schools a staff of ten may ac­ ITH TUITION NOW at $2300 admission was granted. .hie was named a National Merit Scholar. complish after many months oflabor. and budgets getting tighter The other problems - deadlines, the She also decided to change her major, This is most obvious with regard to and tighter, Rice cannot make establishing the Rice student admis­ .ets from science to humanities. She wrote travel and interview schedule. Their Wthe financial promises it once sions profile - are solved here, as I. to Rice saying that she would not be office duties aside, the two directors could. And while some of Rice's com- they are at other schools, after much and coming. Stabell traveled to Florida to in admissions (one of whom teaches petitors are trimming financial aid debate. Disagreements and bar­ lilC- investigate the problem. Because she three classes per year), for example, programs, others are not. Texas gaining among committee members 9 to had made the major change she felt travel and interview a total of 12 A&M, for example, probably offers continue until the entire quota of osi­ that Rice was not for her - she weeks during the year. Seven weeks today the largest financial aid pro­ applicants has been accepted. red wasn't going to study science. She before Christmas and four to five gram it has ever offered. And Problems! Indeed there are many in ing was going to Duke. Stabell closes the weeks after. And putting off their Rice admissions surveys indicate that the Rice admissions and recruitment ork story by saying the young woman's many responsibilities, the three as­ the number of top-quality students procedures. But they are recognized, nit­ brother had attended Rice. sistant directors travel and interview, A&M successfully lures away from and, in turn, will be dealt with. Sev­ 'ide all together, about 15 weeks each. Ten Rice is growing. eral suggestions are made in the Rice weeks before Christmas and about the "Rice's gem of a But competition among schools is University Self Study of 1974. There, -ob­ five after. Most of the United States for example, it is suggested that the and parts of Central and South most fierce for minority students. the reputation shines both Those students who show the ability faculty-dominated standing commit­ America are covered by these people, and desire to succeed at a competitive tee be reduced in size. In addition, the good and bad on the making all but the President's school like Rice are being sought after study suggests that its principal role CE election-time itinerary look small. be altered "from one involved in stu­ ns University." While traveling and interviewing, by everyone. Most schools now have elaborate recruitment campaigns and dent interviewing and evaluating to 70 each member of the admissions staff Another facet of the Rice reputa­ financial aid programs to attract one where it will consider policy and in meets with many people. One staff the effects of admissions criteria on tion which affects the applicant pool them. In some cases, even before the tre member, for instance, traveled to five the student body." On the other hand, is the belief that if you don't have the Rice staff locates the promising stu­ ts. cities in one week last year and con­ the Self Study "specifically" recom­ best in grades and College Board dent, he or she has already agreed to ,le, ducted five interview sessions, each mends "a significant increase in the scores Rice won't look at you. Wrong. attend another school. This is not tty consisting of about 10 interviews. The admissions staff and most usually the fault of the Rice staff. size of the professional staff." en When asked to comment on the work, everyone at Rice want the school to Though they are few, they are not tre the member said it was not unusual have a diverse student body. They slow, nor do they overlook any possi­ ,ix for a recruiter to interview fifty peo­ '7he competition for want to attract the so-called "late ·ds ple during a week and find that, bility. Other school's simply have bloomer," and the debating cham­ more people and money in their er­ before the week was over, several minority talent is pion, and the 4-H Club president, and minority recruitment efforts. es. other interview sessions had to be others who can add to the variety of Its scheduled. The third most troublesome area fierce." students here and, hence, to the qual­ ne Another time and manpower re­ in the admissions process is the com­ ity of the educational experience. by lated problem faces the admissions mittee and the final admissions While recognizing Rice's record ·of Out-dated, negative notions about staff while they're traveling and talk­ procedure - the final evaluation success in the admissions game, .the Rice are perpetuated by the lack of ing to prospective students. Not only and acceptance or rejection of the Academic Affairs Committee of the :or factual information given to the gen­ do they have to keep up with the prospective student. Self Study also realized that as other, on eral public - the University's low paper work which constantly requires There is a serious problem of free competing, schools improve their 1tr _l!_ublic profile. Fo..I,____!lot as widely attention at the office (at the time time with a committee of full-time methods of recruitment and evalua­ ice known as many schools, Rice is often when most traveling and interview­ faculty. Many members devote tion, Rice must do so. If Rice is to con­ )St talked and written about by people ing is done most applications arrive); long hours and much effort to re­ tinue to enroll many of the state and 1is who have little more than hearsay to while they're on the road and inter­ viewing the folders of prospective nation's finest students the recruit­ of goon. viewing at the "hot spots," areas that students. Some, on the other hand, ment efforts must be intensified. If ir­ One glaring example of this is to be frequently send students to Rice, they do not. Some, it seems, only show Rice is to do justice by those who ng found in The Insulers Guide to the also have to research new areas up for policy meetings. In most cases apply, the evaluation process should Lre Colleges, published by the Yale Daily and travel to them. A difficult task for the reason for this is that these pro­ be more professional and efficient, :rd News and now in its 5th edition. In five people. fessors have other commitments that and its methods validated. tal Part the "insider" guides the prospec­ they must attend to - commitments These are a great beginning. But nd tive student like this: such as research and publication, more must be done. Rice should de "Rice cannot make the to mention only two, that leave realize the potential in its alumni - be Academically, Rice can be a them little free time. In some cases, potential for recruitment, evaluation, ay nightmare. Entering freshmen financial promises it of course, the reason is that they and simply "spreading the word" in should be prepared for the don't care to participate. Usually the areas where they live. Organiza­ strained environment. Many who tion - perhaps even training - it ce, once could." this minority leaves the committee excelled scientifically in previous after the yea-r's appointment has will take. But the prize is worth the ral high school courses come to Rice cost. The Rice profile must be raised. ta­ ended. But the committee needs no only to discover that they had In many instances the admissions dead weight, even for one year. It must be talked about, known about, ;ed neither the interest, the skill, nor staff has trouble setting up interview and tastefully presented in up-to­ wt the perseverance required for sessions. Some high schools just don't Perhaps the problem creating the date promotional materials and in as the extremely demanding Rice want interviewers on their campuses. most anguish is the quota policy. public relations efforts. Today the re­ ity courses ... Private schools, as a rule, like to have Every year the admissions staff has to sults of the dedicated few on the Rice m­ recruiters talk to their students. But deny admission to qualified students admissions team are outstanding. Some think the heavy work because of in-state, out-of-state m- public shcools, the majority of schools, Their results are something to be en­ of load may be a blessing in dis­ sometimes are not as amenable. The quotas. Last year, for instance, many vied by those athletic recruiters on outstanding out-of-state students :a- guise since Houston offers little reasons for this are not often clear. the other side of the campus. But to­ of in the way of entertainment ex­ But the results - interviews con­ applied for admission to Rice's engi­ morrow the Rice admissions effort ity cept for roaming bands of ducted in motel rooms, for example - neering programs. Once the quota will need more concerned individuals. tat bomb-throwing right-wing radi­ are clearly undesirable. was filled, out-of-state students were Rice professionals must understand, ice cals. The closest Rice gets to any­ Despite its obvious contributions, denied admission despite having bet­ as the alumni understand, that they la­ thing in Houston is NASA's alumni help also presents the Rice ter credentials than some in-state share a stake in the University's fu­ in Spacecraft Center, which adjoins admissions team with a problem. students who were accepted. ture. The future holds one guarantee: he the Rice Campus ... Often is is very difficult to assess the Among other policy problems are the competition for the outstanding 1se The rumors of Rice's dubious evaluations that alumni interviewers how to deal with student application students will grow keener. ;ed recognition as having the highest send to the admissions office. Part of forms after deadlines (occasionally it to per capita suicide rate in the na­ the reason for this is that some is not the student's fault that some­ SALLYPORT wishes to thank Katherine re­ tion have subsided somewhat, alumni look for different qualities thing arrives late), the fact that in Dressner Bell '75 for her initial ideas est but don't kid yourself. One still in the prospective students they order to fill all openings Rice has to for this article. ------1 8 JULY-AUGUST Ommanao

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Football Sept. 13 University of Houston, under the Dome, 7,30 p.m Sept. 20 Vanderbilt, ot Rice, 7,30 p.m. Sept. 27 L.S.U, in Shreveport, 7,30p.m. Oct. 11 Mississippi Stole, ot Rice, 7,30 p.m. Oct. 18 Summer Film Series S.M.U, at Rice, 7,30 p.m. films shown at 7,30 and M . Oct 25 10,00 p.m. Texos University, in Austin, 7,30 p.m. LE Nov. 1 Admission price, $ 1. 00. Texos Tech, in Lubbock, 2,00 p.m Nov. 8 Arkonsas, at Rice, 2,00 p.m Aug. 9 Nov. 15 Texas A & M, at Rice, 2,00 p. m. Merilyn Monroe Nov. 22 ond ue, all­ T.C.U, in ft. Worth, 2,00p.m. Usie aft Jone Russell Nov. 29 bywa Baylor, at Rice, 2,00 p.m. in 0 110ft

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N1cholos Roy's 0 "men Rebel Wifhout o Couse library , facul Will be during n each ecolle Aug. 16 a,111. Vincente Minnelli's Homec

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Morion Brondo CONTINUING EDUCATION

in The Last Tango in Paris Sept. 13 The Melting Plot: Shaping National Traditions Two lecture series presented by the Alumni Association. Both series presented on Thursday evenings, Sept. 18 to Nov. 13. $15 per person per series. Biology lecture Hall on campus, with one series presented at the Memorial Drive Lutheran Church in Houston. Sept. 22 •111. Courses sponsored by the Office of Continuing itiono Studies begin during this week. f the F For i nformation call 528-4141 , ext. 1196. 1950, •111,

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August 21-September 20 Foster, music director), Samuel Jones, conducting. Onirisme et Fantastique Prints Houston Music Holl, 8,30 p.m Surrealistic prints, from Duhrer to Dali. September 21 Kilim Rugs from Turkey Shepherd School of Music Inaugural P , 111 . Beautiful, flot-woven patterned rugs on exhibit Rice Festival, Second Concert bor w Museum. Hours, Tuesdoy-Saturdoy, 10 o.m. to 5 Debut of the Shepherd School String Quartet, 8,30 rial Ce p.m Sunday, noon to 6 p. m. Closed Mondays. p.m., Hammon Holl on campus. P,111. September 19 October 18-19 Is Pio School of Music Inaugural Shepherd Alumni Homecoming Art Exhibit m. Festival, First Concert Hamman Holl on campus, 10 o.m. to 7 p.m. both The Houston Symphony Orchestra (Lawrence doys. JULY-AUGUSI' 9 l!llf

NEW CONCEPTS AT RICE The theme of Homecoming 1975 is "New to sit and visit with classmates in one or more Concepts at Rice." Appropriately, during the of these surroundings. And you should be General Assembly on Saturday, October 18, able to do these things - without missing two distinguished Rice faculty members will some major affair sponsored for your speak to Rice alumni about educational "entertainment"! programs new to the Rice campus. Dr. Samuel This year you can. On Saturday morning Jones, dean of the Shepherd School of Music, the Association of Rice Alumni, in cooperation will discuss "New Sounds at Rice." Jones will with Rice's finest departments, the eight explain the objectives of the School as they residential colleges and the Fondren Library, relate to promising young musicians and to the will sponsor a University "Open House." development of the Arts at Rice, and will Discover what's new on campus. Visit. Stroll. explain how the Shepherd School's program Relax. In the surroundings that make it all fits into the scheme of music education possible - and meaningful. Refreshments will MECOMING nationally. The School will admit its first class be served in the various academic this fall. deportments and in the colleges. Welcome LENDAR Dr. Robert Sterling, Jesse H. Jones backl Make of the morning what you wont. Professor of Management and Accounting, In addition, students will be conducting will discuss the "New Concepts in 11 Parties walking-tours of the campus, for the benefit Administrative Education 'I Sterling is a f '30, '35, '40, '45, '50, '55 and '70. of alumni who have not been bock for a while. member of the committee presently searching I'll be there! •Ill. Dance of the Deca des for a dean for Rice's Jesse Jones Graduate The first alumni Homecoming Art Exhibition ue, alt-alumni wing-ding, featuring the School of Administration, which 1s scheduled will be open all day for your viewing for the usic al the "Knight Owls" (organized to open in 1976 or 1977. Sterling is impressed pleasure. Hamman Hall is the site of the show, Name by Walter Simonds), wilt take piece in the with the need in the South and Southwest for a and you - Rice alumni - ore the artists all of the Rice Memorial Center your work in school that "will educate future executive participating. Enter a piece of Address officers for public and private organizations." the show! All media will be accepted. The first a. 111 . - 2:30 p.m. Registration The Jones School is being designed to satisfy call for entries is printed in this SALLYPORT ay Pick up their brunch tickets and nome Class College that need. Another unique event incorporated tn this e lobby of the Rice Memorial Cente,. With all this, "New Concepts" are more year's program is the "Dance of the D I (we, no. __) plan to attend the Gen­ ~- Ill. - Noon Open University than the sub1ect of lectures at this Decades." This all-alumni affair will feature eral Assembly. ours "open house" w1i be held m most Homecoming. This Homecoming program the music of the multi-faceted Knight Owls, D Save places for (no.) --at the Saturday 011 ments, all residential colleges and ,n the itself embodies new concepts! including Rice alumni musicians! brunch. library. Alumni can browse and visit with The main one is simple. Homecoming is for Enclosed is my check for $ ---, @ 'faculty members, and other alumni The classes "officially" holding reunions you, the alumni, and the program should be $3.85 per person. You may pay at the will be conducting wal mg tours of the are those of '25, '30, '35, '40, '45, '50, '55, arranged to satisfy you. Some of you will door, @$4.00 per person, during this period. Refreshments will be '60, '65, and '70, and those who are n each af the participating departments want to visit with faculty members in the members of the "Golden R." Check should be payable to the e colleges. deportments where you studied. Some will Association of Rice Alumni and sent want to return to a residential college to visit The entire Homecoming program is printed ~- Ill. - 7:00 p.m. Alumni Art Show with this registration form to: Rice Alumni: with students. Some will want to stroll leisurely here. It's simple, designed so that 0 rnecaming Art Exhib1tior, a show Homecoming, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, around the campus, enjoying the morning. Homecoming can be just about whatever you g Works in all media by Rice alumni, will be Texas 77001. Some wont it to be. Come and enjoy ill i~mman Hall bot~'Saturdoy and Sunday. Some will wont to look over the library. be awarded . Entry information is printed sue of SAL,YPORT page 10 0 •111 • Golden R Coffee rs of the Rice classes '16- '25 ore invited to CLASS th . er in the Alumni Room on the second floor ice Memorial Center REUNIONS N a.111 . - 1 :30 p .m. Reunion Br unch Oct. 17 ous brunch will be served in the Rice supper party will be held. (John 0 1 1930 A cocktail ( Center. Meal tickets ore available in Schuhmacher, chm.) al e see coupon, this page) for $3. 85 per focus on American traditions in the Arts and will A cash bar wilt be open on the RMC patio. HOMECOMING begin at 7,00. The second will focus on American 1935 A cocktail buffet in the Lovett College n1 political and philosophical traditions and will begin Commons will begin at 8,00 p.m. (Wilbur 0 111 • • Class of '25 Reunion ot8:30. · oy hAnn· EXTRAS Hess, chm.) per I, . iversory Reunion of the class of 1925 ne t~ld in Cohen House. Closs members will Willy's Pub, will be open Friday, 4:00 p.m. - 1940 A reception end buffet will be held in the ran e,r Golden R pins and enjoy luncheon A Pre-Game Buffet will be offered in the Rice 2,00 o.m., and Saturday 11,00 o.m. - 2,00 o.m. home of Hank and Demeris Hudspeth, 18 Sunset Memorial Center beginning at 5,30 Saturday Blvd, at 7,00p.m. (RobertMcCants, chm.) 111 afterroon. Hotel Accomodations con be mode through the '. • Wreath Ceremony in the Brown 1 Alumni Office. 1945 A cocktail buffet will be held honal h at the f Wreot -laying ceremony Two Lectures, both port of the foll continuing College Commons at 7,30 p. m. (Jock Joplin, chm.) /he founder will be perforrned by the Football Tickets may be ordered through the 95 educot,on program "The Me~ing Plot: Shaping 1950 A cocktail buffet will be held at Cohen 0. celebrating its 25-yeor reunion Athletic Department (P.O. Sox 1892, Houston, American Traditions," will be presented Thursday House at 7,00 p.m. (Morty Roessler, chm.) A~· ~ e_11 eral Assembly evening in the 8iology Lecture Holl. All visiting Texas 77001 ). Order early, request seating in the SOciot1on President Herry Gissel w,11 alumni ore invited to attend. The first lecture will "alumni section," end specify class. 1955 A cocktail buffet will be held in the Boker eve, the annual reunion assembly in College Commons beginning at 7,00 p. m. (Nancy n Hall, Greetings will be offered by Eubank, chm,) ntNo H f th rman ockermon. O, Samuel Jones, 1970 A beer, chips and dips party will begin ot St el Shepherd School of Music, and Dr. er ing, Jesse H. Jones Professor of 7:00 p.m. in Willy's Pub, in the basement of the Rice ement Ond Accounting, w,11 present the,r Memorial Center. {Ann Brice, chm.) son ne d we ucotionol programs at Rice.. em b ly II Od.18 rds. wi conclude with the presentation 1925 A luncheon party celebrating the 50th Anniversary Reunion will be held ot Cohen House Pba"'· Cocktail Party beginning at 11:45 o.m, (Dole Shepherd, chm.) rial rCwilJ be open on the patio of the Rice enter. 1960 An ofter-game, surely o victory, party will be held at Horry Reasoner's home, 2312 Rice Blvd., P-11t. Football at 10,30 p.m. (Horry Reasoner, chm.) Is Pia It rn Y ost to the SMU Mustangs in Rice 1965 An ofter-game party will be held in the Rice Media Center, across the parking lot from the Stadium, at 10,30 p.m. (Sheila McCartney Slozey, chm.) SALLYPORT Nrnrnc& NOTICES

often overlooked facet of our national heritage. Continuing Minter plans to look into the literature produced by the Europeans The 1975 Bomecoming Studies in the New World and then to follow American literary history into the mid-nineteenth century. Courses The series will be presented at two locations each Thursday evening. At Announced 7:00 p.m. it will be presented on the Rice campus, in the Biology Lecture Art Exhibition Hall, and at 7:30 p.m. in the The Office of Continuing Studies invites alumni participation in a Fellowship Hall of the Memorial broad range of courses to be offered in Drive Lutheran Church, Memorial & 18 Drive at Gessner, in Houston. Oct. 17 the fall semester. The OCS semester begins on September 22 (after the Lecture series number two, "The Sponsored by The Association of Rice Alnmn i children have returned to school) and American: 'Twixt Purity and Profits," ends the first week in December will feature lecture presentations by (before the holidays). In addition to Dr. Frank Vandiver, provost and vice 1. To All Rice Artists, Whether placed screw-eyes and picture the courses listed below, many president of Rice and Harris or Amateur: wire. Professional shorter courses are also scheduled Masterson, Jr., Professor of History; your talent with e. Because of space limitation, Please share to be offered (in particular, now Dr. Ira Gruber, professor of history; by participating in artist should limit size of fellow alumni available is the Oil Spill Prevention, Dr. William C. Martin, associate 1975 Homecoming Art entries to what can be easily the Control and Countermeasurer Plans professor of sociology; Mrs. Pat We are hoping that handled by one strong alumni Exhibition. course, previously open only to Martin, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in will come to see the volunteer. everyone Environmental Protection Agency Women's Studies and a graduate show and that many will f. Wooden boxes must be used in student in the department of history; in this new crating 1) heavy pieces, 2) personnel). participate Among the classes beginning the and Dr. Baruch Brody, associate Homecoming activity. Viewers fragile pieces, and 3) framed week of September 22 are the professor and chairman of the can compare their opinions with pieces. following: department of philosophy. those of our judges, and entrants g. Address all crates to the Vandiver and Gruber will lecture can compete for a $100 prize. Association of Rice Alumni, Modern Dance on the early Americans, the Homecoming Art Exhibit, Creative Writing religion, and heritage 2. Eligibility: Any alumnus or American Ballads traditions, Rice University, Box 1892, brought with them into the New alumna of Rice University. Houston, Texas 77001. Individual Sports Tennis Clinics World. in 3. Entry Fee: $1.50 for each item h. Ship in time to arrive Early American Furniture The Martins will focus in their no later than submitted (to help defray Houston Beginning and Intermediate Spanish three presentations on the Americans expense of backdrops, handling, Monday, October 13. Beginning and Intermediate German and their religion, from Puritanism to etc.) Check payable to the i. Those who can hand deliver Beginning Russian Reverend Ike. Association of Rice Alumni. their pieces should please Beginning French Brody will examine numerous bring them to Hamman Hall Lectures on the Art of Teaching Piano American philosophical and political 4. Sale of Art: Artists may indicate on Monday, October 13, Contemporary Science Seminars traditions, their evolution, and whether or not their work is between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. For additional information, all contemporary application. for sale and the price. This j. Hand delivered pieces should alumni are invited to call the office This series will be presented at one information as well as the artist's be picked up Monday, October of Continuing Studies, 528-4141, location. At 8:30 p.m. each Thursday contact address will be listed in a 20. ext.1196. lectures will be given in the Biology catalog available for viewers' k. Shipped pieces will be Lecture Hall on the Rice campus. perusal. All sales will be between returned collect. The series promise to be artist and purchaser. I. All entries must be of original spectacular. So don't delay. Sign up design and execution. now. A registration coupon is on the Entry Blank: 5. back page of this issue of SALLYPORT. a. Fill out two for each piece: 7. Responsibility: Care will be Lecture attach one (for art piece) to exercised in handling art objects. Fall back side of painting or under However, all entries are accepted side of sculpture; the other (for with the understanding that Series Offered catalog) should be mailed neither Rice University nor the to the Association of Rice Association of Rice Alumni will You asked for it and the Alumni Information Alumni, Rice University, Box be liable for loss or damage. It is Association is delivering. Since the 1892, Houston, Texas 77001, therefore recommended that each first spring continuing education with entry fee by September exhibitor make arrangements to program met with success in 1970, Services 12, 1975. insure his work while enroute, in the Association has regularly b. All media will be considered. storage and during exhibition. received inquiries about our offering c. The Committee reserves the The art exhibit will be displayed a similar program in the fall of each Director right to reject any entry. in Hamman Hall. The area will year. be locked after regular exhibit 6. Limitations and Special Well, we're doing it. Education Named hours, and only authorized committee member Helen S. Worden Instructions: personnel will be permitted in to two pieces from any BA '38 has put together one of the a. Limited the area. Security will be David H. Rodwell, veteran of 19 years artist. finest programs ever. And it will one provided during exhibit hours. experience in academic public rela­ b. All paintings must be framed begin Thursday, September 18 and tions, has been appointed director of and ready for hanging. 8. Judging: A $100 Best of Show continue each Thursday night for information services at Rice. c. All photography must be Award and awards of merit in nine weeks. Rodwell comes to Rice from Trinity matted and ready for hanging. each category will be presented. In recognition of the bicentennial University in San Antonio, where he pieces must be Names of judges will be the Association is presenting, "The d. Framed has been assistant to the president for equipped with two properly announced. Mel ting Plot: Shaping National Traditions," an educational ex­ public relations since January 1974. perience in two parts. Both parts Prior to his work at Trinity, Rodwell eglster low-.------will consist of a lecture series, both to worked in information services at be presented on campus and one to be New Mexico State University for 18 years, the last ten years there as left hand corner presented at a suburban location also. (for catalog) (Attach to upper director of information services. Artist ______of work) back Lecture series number one, "The Rodwell's newspaper experience in­ of ______Rice Class Arts in America: New Colors, New cludes serving as editor of the Raton Address ______Canvass," will feature lectures by Dr. (N .M.) Daily Range, and the Artesia William Camfield, associate professor (N.M.) Advocate, managing editor Phone ______Artist ______Rice Class __ of art history, Dr. Anne Schnoebelen, ______of the Las Cruces (N.M.) Sun News, In event of sale contact ______Title ______of music; and Dr. Medium ______assistant professor and assistant editor of the Perry David Minter, associate professor (N .Y.)Herald. lstTitle ______of English. Relations Medium ______A member of the Public Camfield will speak, in three of America, Rodwell is Approximate size ______Society lectures, on American tradition in the president-elect for the southwest dis­ For sale Artist ______Rice Class __ arts, placing heaviest emphasis on trict and the national board of the 2nd Title Title ______painting, but providing glimpses into Council for Advancement and Sup­ Medium ______Medium ______the world of sculpture, architecture port of Education. He is the winner Approximate size ______and the other visual arts. of several awards for publications im­ ______For sale Schnoebelen will present three provement, news coverage, and public lectures on the music of America, an relations programs. JULY-AUGUST SALLYPORT 11

' ~ .·.'·_--.- Honors Campus ~ ing which policies of handling capital the I Chapman Chosen Hanszen and income in developing countries ans will bring about greater equality of low income within various groups in soci­ the Engineering Dean Commons ety and reduce the growing disparity among groups within a country and two Alan J . Chapman BSME'45, Rice en­ formation of the new school," adding Burns between countries. Income distribu­ At gineer and longtime faculty member, that he hopes the school will "en­ tion is no longer an ideological red flag, but is a policy goal of countries the has been appointed the first dean of hance Rice's already meaningful con­ Food lines reminiscent of those of the ure the University's George R. Brown tributions in three major areas - the professing both socialism and early 50s at the "old North Hall" capitalism." the School of Engineering. . engineering education of young peo­ might be seen again on campus this rial Professor of mechanical and aero­ ple, the encouragement and develop­ In previous research both faculty semester, and if they are, among and graduate students from Rice have rial space engineering, Chapman is a ment of new ideas and practices, and the students on line will certainly worked in Brazil, Colombia, specialist in heat transfer, and as the strengthening of the link between be those from Hanszen College. On Malaysia, and Turkey with the coop­ rhe such has been a consultant to the Na­ the academic community and the en­ June 5 their commons was destroyed eration of the governments involved. ts," tional Aeronautics and Space Ad­ gineering profession locally, state­ by a fire, the cause of which is yet Soligo will be visiting international i by ministration since 1963. He played an wide, and nationally." unknown. offices in Geneva during his current ,ice important role in developing the life Chapman is married to the former. The fire was first spotted and re­ trip out of the country. Von der ,ris support system of NASA's Skylab and Majorie Bray BA'50, daughter of ported by Professor Stuart Baker, )ry; is currently engaged in similar efforts Hubert E. Bray, Rice's distinguished master of Wiess College, early in the Mehden has just returned from visits to Malaysia, India, Burma, Thailand, )ry; with the Space Shuttle. Chapman's professor emeritus of mathematics. evening. And although the Houston Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, ate book,Heat Transfer (McMillan, 1974 ), The Chapman's have two children, Fire Department responded quickly Pat now in its third edition, is available Alan J. Chapman, Jr. '76, and and Japan. to the call, by the time the blaze was The values of research on income ~ in in both English and Spanish and is Katherine Lynn, a student at the under control, the building was ate one of the most widely used texts in University of Houston. distribution in developing countries ruined. The walls and a damaged roof are widespread, von der Mehden said. )ry; its field. were all that remained. "Our own foreign aid program has as ate Chapman also serves as a consult­ At first it was thought that the one of its basic goals some greater dis­ the ant to several industrial firms and is burned out shell could be salvaged as tribution of income in the countries a member of the American Society of a supportive structure for a new ure Mechanical Engineers. In 1974 he we support. And various federal commons. But later is was deter­ agencies and private firms have used the was named a Distinguished En­ mined by Professor Cannady of the the results of our studies to help in age gineering Alumnus of the University Architecture Department and a determining aspects of their policy. few of Illinois, where he took his PhD. structural engineer that the During that same year, Chapman re­ "The research we are conducting "load-bearing" masonry was unsafe enables the countries involved to Leir ceived the NASA Group Achievement and would have to come down. Profes­ ans Award for his work on Skylab. evaluate the outcomes of their cur­ sor Cannady has proposed to redesign rent development programs and to a to In addition to his contributions to the entire building; plans are still in carry out policies with regard to in­ engineering at Rice, Chapman has the formative stages. come distribution which will have the )US been closely linked to the athletic The redesigning and rebuilding of ical program. He served a two-year term greatest economic and social poten­ the commons will be costly. One tials for their people," von der md as president of the National Col­ member of the Business Office has es­ legiate Athletic Administration Mehden said. Rice will sponsor two timated the cost to be somewhere in conferences on the campus in early one (NCAA), 1973-75, and continues as the. neighborhood of $500,000 to fall involving government represen­ day parliamentarian of that group and as $1,000,000. Insurance will cover the tatives and U.S. academic persons for ogy a member of its long-range planning replacement cost; the University will committee. He has served as faculty wider dissemination of the findings of have to pay the rest. But not exact the study. be representative on the University's figures will be known until Cannady up committee on athletics and as presi­ has finished his designs, and prelimi­ the dent of the Southwest Conference. nary estimates have been made. r. Chapman said that he is "pllrticu­ Alan Chapman, dean of the Brown With or without the blueprints and larly pleased to be involved in the School. estimates, however, one thing is cer­ tain; Hanszen students will not have Kerr, a commons to eat in before January 1. They will either dine in the Grand Huston Receives Hall of the Rice Memorial Center or O'Conner be the guests of their fellow students Salgo Award in other colleges until that time. Reappointed

J. Dennis Huston, associate professor Salgo Award is the only teacher of English, was selected as the Rice commendation at Rice determined To Board recipient of the 1975 Nicolas Salgo solely by students. Income Baine P. Kerr and Ralph S. O'Conner Distinguished Teaching Award. The Salgo-Noren Foundation es­ have been reappointed term mem­ 1-Iuston is one of several Salgo Award tablished the award in 1964 as the Distribution bers of Rice University's board of recipients selected nationwide last first nationally available award to governors. Year and is the seventh Rice faculty provide monetary recognition for ex­ Kerr, a term member of the board trs member to receive the award since cellence in teaching. Studies will 1966. Huston's fields of specialization are since 1972, serves on the la­ University's financial affairs commit­ of The award, with its $1,500 stipend, Shakespeare and drama. He has per­ is made to individual professors at formed with the Rice players, most Continue tee. He is general counsel and chair­ schools chosen by the Salgo-Noren recently in "Who's Afraid of Virginia man of the executive committee of .ty The Program of Development Studies Foundation. Huston was elected by Wolfe?" and is a faculty associate of Pennzoil Company, a partner in the he at Rice has been awarded nearly law firm of Baker and Botts, and a vote of Rice juniors and seniors. The Jones College. 'or one-half million dollars by the member of the board of directors of r4_ Agency for International Develop­ Riviana Foods. He also serves as a ell ment (AID) for continuation of their trustee of the Marine Military at research on income distribution prog­ Academy and is on the advisory 18 rams in developing countries. board of the Southwestern Legal as Fred R. von der Mehden, Albert Foundation. Thomas Professor of Political Science, O'Conner first served as a term n­ and Ronald Soligo, professor of member of the University's board of on economics, are principal investigators governors from 1967 until 1971 and fa for the research, which has been in was reappointed in 1972. He is a or progress for four years under funding member of the University's geology IS, from AID, the National Science advisory council and the academic af­ ry Foundation, and the Menil Founda­ fairs committee. He is also a member tion. The renewal grant from AID of the visiting committee of the Har­ ns totals $491,623 for a three-year vard Business School. O'Conner is is period. It is to be used for faculty re­ president of Highland Resources, Inc. LS­ search, student research, and infor­ and serves on the boards of Texas De mation . dissemination both in this Eastern Transmission Corporation, p- country and in the countries where Southern National Bank, East Cam­ research will be conducted. den and Highland Railroad Company, "Income distribution study," von and Westheimer Transfer and Stor­ ~ Dennis Huston, Salgo Award winner. der Mehden says, "means determin- age Company. SALLYPORT

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Attention Engineers! Alumni This is the last call for listings in the Directory of Rice Engineers. If you were an engineering student at Old Colleges Get Alumni Rice and want to be listed in the di­ rectory but have not completed a Rice Engineering Alumni Associa­ New Look Inside Giving tion questionnaire, act now. Send your name, class, address, and pres­ ent job description to the Rice En­ Many returning students will find In Baker and Hanzen little has Sets Records gineering Alumni, P.O. Box 1892, something new when they unpack been spared by the renovator's hand. Houston, Texas, 77001. the Rice their suitcases for the 1975-76 school Everything has been torn out except Alumni have rallied around year. New rooms and new commons the walls, new fire-doors have been standard during these economic Fund areas will be in some of the old col­ put in to meet new fire codes, and new hard-times and set Annual Fund Drive Cruisers Have leges they have known. plumbing and electrical wiring have Drive records. The 1975 account only been installed. The lounges in each Report, which takes into At the end of the last school year, given to the college have also been enlarged, re­ "unrestricted" monies ~All-Classes' just after final examinations had year, ducing housing capacity by about University during the fiscal finished and the last students had va­ 5,144 alumni five percent. But for those weary of shows that last year cated their colleges, renovation work When com­ moving into new surroundings the gave a total of $443,003. Reunion began promptly on Weiss commons previous year, these floorplans of each building will be pared with the and on some of the older sections of show a 14 percent increase It was happy group of 50 alumni the same. figures a Baker and Hanzen colleges. So far, in the number of alumni giving and cruisers that assembled April 28 on At Weiss, on the other hand, the the work is on schedule. a 20 percent increase in the total Galveston pier 14W for the Alumni focus ofrenovation is different. There, amount given. Association's spring cruise to the the commons is being enlarged in Membership in the President's Land of the Mayas. width by the installation of a system donors of $100-$999 in unre­ They came from as far away as of skylights and shortened in length Club, stricted funds, grew from 1269 in 1974 Loveland, Colorado - that's Si by remodeling of the present kitchen to 1559 in 1975, a 22 percent increase. Halliburton '55 and his wife - and area. Further, the laundry room will Rice saw support from non-alumni from such a variety of classes as present library is lo­ be where the "friends" decrease, however, both in those of Dale Shepherd '25, Elliott will be in what cated and the library the number of donors (down 19 per­ Flowers '34, Carroll and Margie the entrnnce of the was formally cent to 547) and in amount given Lewis '48 and Lyndon McKnight The TableTop Theatre will commons. (down 15 percent to $340,621). This '50. The piece de resistance, though, a new tech-booth and the also have drop is due largely to the unfavorable was the appearance of white-capped house will receive resident associate's business cycle, many of these donors Carroll Camden (shades of English improvements, two of which various being local businesses. 400 and those Shakespearean puns). kitchenette and a new cen­ are a new Total voluntary support for Rice - Soon after they sailed from the conditioning system. tral air alumni, business, foundation, and Yukatan, all alumni and spouses to the uniqueness of some of Owing community giving - during fiscal gathered topside in the brilliant, under construction, the architecture 1975 totalled $7,654,028. Some glass, Riviera Bar of the M.S. considerable planning has been made $696,716 of this total came in gifts Southward for an "all-classes" reun­ within the University and both from from living alumni; over one million ion. All agreed that it was great once As early as the fall from without. came from the estate of one who again to dine, dance, play bridge, and of the 1974-75 school year semester is deceased. reminisce with Rice classmates. And architecture department has the Rice it lasted for 12 days! at work. Under the leader­ been hard There was talk among the group of Cannady and ship of Professor trying to cruise together again, in dif­ Todd, surveys were made Anderson Faseler Wins ferent times and different climes. list of necessary improvements and a There was even talk of Camden lec­ up and submitted to the was drawn turing next time. Said one alumna, business office. Following that, Rice Teaching "It would be fun to listen to those old Construction Company the Linbeck jokes without having to worry, 'How construction manager was appointed on earth do I take notes on that?"' and general contractor for the job. Award Linbeck Construction has done con­ Only one year out of Rice, Kent struction work at Rice before on Sid won the award at Richardson and Lovett colleges. Faseler BA'74 has New Library LBJ High School in Austin, Texas. At The work is underway now and, the end of the last school year the barring unforseen circumstances, the student body at LBJ voted him the Fee Announced colleges should be ready for their stu­ "Teacher of the Year." dents by the beginning of the next LBJ High School is, in Faseler's The University administration has Colleges will be ready for the students. school year. words, an "open area school," a pro­ approved a fee of $10 per year for lib­ gressive school whose curriculum rary borrowing privileges extended to emphasizes humanistic education. adult non-academics. The new fee To draw an analogy for those fa­ will apply to both alumni and their miliar with the Houston Independent spouses. School District schools, it is like In a letter to the Association of Bellaire High. Each student is treat­ Rice Alumni explaining the new fee, SRUWs Begin ed as an individual. University Librarian Richard L. Faseler's responsibilities at LBJ O'Keeffe said, "The Rice libraries are many, but he doesn't mind the need this fee to manage their affairs Tooting Our Horn New Year work. He teaches the 11th grade in good order; the libraries have an which involves meeting with five even greater need for the interest and The first meeting of the 1975-76 Soci­ a day, five days a week. Be­ moral support of all Rice alumni. I recently won an Award classes SALLYPORT ety of Rice University Women officers cause of mini-course offerings, too, he want the alumni to be aware of the for Exceptional Achievement in of library material of Higher was held July 14 in the Rice Memor­ sometimes works with as many as 125 fact that the costs the 1975 Chronicle of 10 to 15 per­ Education / Newspaper / Tabloid ial Center. President Annette Gano students in an hour. are inflating at a rate Publishing Awards Program spon­ Gragg BA '47 called the meeting to Faseler has also been involved in cent annually and that there are limi­ sored by the Council for Advance­ order and the big topic for discussion, extra-curricular activities at LBJ. tations on budget increases at the ment and Support of Education this year as every year for the Last year he was a choir sponsor and same time. I ask for their knowledge­ (CASE). The newspaper awards SRUWs, was their annual series of served on the faculty-administration able support, to help keep quality in competition is part of an annual continuing education seminars. This liason committee. the libraries' collections and services." CASE recognition program. year's programs again start in When asked about his years and Fondren Library is always open The newspaper Harvard Today January. Announcements of the top­ training at Rice he has only laudatory to the public for browsing and captured the Grand Prize for 1975, ics and lecturers will be made later. things to say. "Dr. Wood is an excel­ in-building use of its informational with Exceptional Achievement cita­ SRUWs will hold their first lent professor. Further, the program resources. Application for borrowing UCLA Monthly, The tions going to the of the entire organi­ in the education department is a good privileges should be made at the cir­ SALLYPORT' the University of Min­ regular meeting zation on September 22. And changes one: it permits the student freedom culation desk, 8 am to 5 pm, Monday nesota Update, Boston University Two to three days University made in the RMC over the past few from pressure and allows him to through Friday. Spectrum, Catholic to process and mail the Envoy, and the University of months promise to make SRUW motivate himself." are necessary California (Berkeley) California meetings more interesting than ever. Faseler plans to continue working borrower's card, which is issued for Monthly. The first will be held at 10 a.m., at LBJ until his wife has received her one year. downstairs in Willie's Pub. degree in chemical engineering. This card entitles its holder to use Membership in the SRUW is open "After that," he says, "we'll move to of the Fondren Library and the Arts to the public. where she finds employment." Library. rnGUST iiiiiiiiii SALLYPORT 13 Classnote year. One attends Texas Women's engineer in the technical services Carol Anne, 12, Jerry, 11, and Lee, 3. 1916-1954 University in Denton, one has just department in Baytown, Texas. Barbara writes, "We're still enjoying graduated from Mt. Holyoke College A member of the American Institute Los Alamos very much. Invite anv Marcella Perry '26, prominent Hous­ and will be married in May in New of Chemical Engineers, Pollak has Rice people to drop by [although we're ton businesswoman, recently took part York, and the third is a freshman at held several positions in - and not really on the way to any place - in a groundbreaking ceremony, along the University of the Pacific in Stock­ received numerous awards from - unless you're going from Pojoaque to with Houston Mayor Fred Hofheinz ton, California." this organization. He is also a mem­ Jemez Springs, but it's a terrific place and others, at the Heights Boulevard ber of the National Association of to visit, near Santa Fe, etc.] Phil is esplanade. Plans are to convert the Purchasing Management, Chemical still 'doing' magic as a hobby. In fact, esplanade into a garden as a bicen­ That Was 1925, Remember? Buyer's Group. Robert W. Fri we're attending the IBM [Interna­ tennial observance. Frieda Barbour Presumably, our senior banquet BA '57 writes from Washington, tional Brotherhood of Magicians] con­ Wilson BA '27 has recently moved was like all others. It was a happy D.C., "On March 19, 1957, I was vention in Little Rock this summer." from Princeton, N.J., to Albuquerque, occasion, but with a sad thought sworn in as Deputy Administrator Emil Tejml BS '58 has been appointed New Mexico. Jack C. Williams sprinkled here and there. Happy of the Energy, Research and Devel­ planning director of Celanese Chemi­ BS '34 has been named vice-presi­ because we were receiving our de­ opment Administration. The En­ cal Company, with headquarters in dent in charge of the refining grees and all of us were together, ergy, Research and Development Ad­ New York City. He had been technical sad because we were leaving Rice ministration (ERDA) is a new manager of the company's Clear Lake, department-United States at Texaco and many of our friends, whom we Inc. Williams, who will be headquar­ government agency formed principally Texas, chemical plant. Tejml joined might never see again. from the old Atomic Energy Commis­ tered in Houston, joined Texaco in Two wonderful people were Celanese at the Corpus Christi 1941. He became plant manager of the elected our permanent president sion, together with research programs Technical Center upon graduation company's refinery in Port Arthur in and vice president, respectively, I. in coal, solar energy, geothermal from Rice, but was called up for two lill 1960, assistant manager of the Port N. (Dutchie) Wilford and Allie May energy, and conservation inherited to years' service as a U.S. Naval reserve on Arthur area in 1965, and manager of Autrey, who later changed her develop the technological options we officer. He returned to Celanese in mi operations in the refining department name to Kelly - in those days this need for producing more energy in the 1960, first in Bay City and later in he at Houston in 1966. He became its was customary when a woman mar­ country, as well as for using existing Clear Lake. Malcolm M. Turner BA ried a man by that name. And general manager in 1970. Kenneth H. energy supplies more efficiently. '58, MS '60 of Dallas, has been as we set off on careers and Jives Baird BS '38, who is living in Hous­ About half of the agency's $4.5 billion elected to the board of directors of Si apart from each other and our ton, writes, "I enjoy receiving your annual budget is devoted to this pur­ Metrodata, Inc. Turner is a partner nd Alma Mater. Paper and especially notes about the Time and history prove many pose. As Deputy Administrator, I in the firm of Turner, Mason and as handle many of the day to day man­ Soloman, consulting engineers to ,tt class members. After 36 years with things. Doubtless most of us re­ Exxon, I have retired and now am member with affection our senior agement functions in the agency on the chemical and energy industries. :ie operating my own real estate business year. We remember with appre­ behalf of its Administrator, Dr. Robert Formerly with the Continental Oil ht as Kenneth H. Baird Properties. It's an ciation the Rice faculty and admin­ C. Seamans. This is my second tour in Company, he is experienced in ~h, especially enjoyable occupation. I also istration. A better team could not government in the last few years. the operation and design of refinery ed enjoy more freedom to pursue many have been fielded. But best of From 1971 to 1973, I was the Deputy and chemical processes and has sh all, of course, we remember our Administrator of the Environmental also served as ·advisor to the Fed­ dormant interests in such things as friends. Some of them were student civic affairs." Nat Krahl BA '42, BS Protection Agency. Between that ap­ eral Energy Administration on lie leaders, like Honor Council mem­ '43, Rice professor of civil engineering pointment and this one, I had returned policy analysis. Metrodata, a es bers Burford Sigler, Jesse B. and architecture, recently won an Hutts, Bob Morris, Flora (Dinks) to my management consulting firm, Norman, Oklahoma firm, manufac­ 1t, award of $500 in the 1975 Lincoln Arc Streetman, Roy Webb, Bill McKinsey and Company, here in tures digital data storage and trans­ S. Welding Foundation Award Program. McVey, Harvin Moore, and Washington." Robert N. Leaton BA mission systems. n­ The competition was for designers, en­ Walter Boone. Roy Chambers '57 has been promoted from associate ee gineers, architects, fabricators and was Student Council president. professor to full professor of psychol­ 1d Louie Lee Berry was v-p. Others others using arc welding to conserve ogy at Dartmouth College in Hanover, 1961-1964 1d on that council were Robert Ray, New Hampshire. Leaton, who holds material and reduce cost. Krahl, also Richard Morris, George Woods, of Krahl and Gaddy Engineers, graduate degrees from Texas Tech and of Travis Calvin, Lawrence McWhor­ W. Lee Boddie BA '61, MS '63, PhD entered the article, "Straight Yale, specializes in brain mechanisms if- ter, Holmes Richter, Ralph '67 graduated on June 13, 1975 from Welded Steel Generates Doubly­ Nevinger, Howard Hambleton, and and behavior and in drugs and the ,s. the five-month program management Burford Sigler. brain. Scott E. Dietert BA '58 and ,c­ Curved Roof of Sanctuary," written course given at the Defense Systems with Clovis Heimsath of Clovis Three members of our class, Judith Stalls Dietert BA '59 have a, Management School at Fort Belvoir, Heimsath Associates. Glen E. Jour­ Robert Ray, Sam Emison and Jack moved to Greenfield, Indiana, where Va. The Department of Defense spon­ ld Pollard, have gone to become mem­ Scott is senior pathologist in the tox­ ,w neay BA '45, BS '47 writes, "I am bers of the board of governors of our sored the course, which provides pro­ self-employed as a physician in fam­ icology department of Eli Lilly Com­ fessional education for selected mili­ Alma Mater. Jack went on to be­ pany. They have two children, Pam, ily practice. I also am on the faculty come a trustee. tary officers and civilian professional at the University of Texas in Austin As we return to celebrate our 10, and Krista, 5. Wesley Hight BS specialists for future assignments in in the biomedical engineering prog­ 50th anniversary reunion, the class '58 has been teaching special educa­ the military departments and the Of­ ram. My major interests here are in of 1925 salutes that year, "our tion at San Antonio's Edgar Allan Poe fice of the Secretary of Defense. Boddie toxicology and environmental prob­ year," 1925: when senior men Junior School for three years, while at is a project design engineer in the lems. I obtained my PhD in organic tabooed mustaches (maybe we the same time teaching English three advanced programs, research and chemistry at UT in 1952 and my MD couldn't grow them in those days); nights a week in the San Antonio Part engineering department of General when we beat Texas 19-6 (anytime at Galveston in 1960." Karl Doerner, Dynamics in Fort Worth. He holds pro­ 18 we can beat Texas it is a successful Time and Evening School. In addition, b­ Jr. BA '51 and Joan Bennett season, still); the year of the big he writes, "I have been engaged as the fessional membership in Tau Beta Pi, to Doerner BA '51 and four of their five snow, of near-expulsion for pitching petition committee chairperson of the Sigma Tau and the American Institute ie children recently took a trip to Eng­ nickels to the line, and the first People Concerned About Education of Aeronautics and Astronautics. ir land. Karl writes, "Since the people in classes held in the new Chemistry Committee in San Antonio. It was this Mary Kay Hawkes Bond BA '61 the forestry and botany departments Building. It was the year Julian group which formed an ad hoc writes from Salina, Kansas, "I've Huxley returned from Oxford to Jf at Oxford had invited me to lecture committee with members from 14 moved back to my old hometown. there in May, we decided to mix a speak to Rice students and profes­ Have a house; kids are lined up in city e,. Bexar County School Districts to bols­ holiday tour of England with my lec­ sors; the year that Hamilton Holt, ter this year's Texas State Teachers' recreation programs, which are really -'· famous author and editor of The In­ is turing date. We (Karl III, senior at dependent, spoke to us advocating Association efforts to rectify the im­ fine; we're attending lots of summer Columbia; Allison, senior at Rice; and :s U.S. membership in the League and poverished system of Education in drama - both college and community n ~andal and Nelson, elementary and World Court; and the year Califor­ Texas. Our petitions, when presented theaters; have our church membership ~unior high in Houston) spent a week .d nia Professor Charles Kafoid told us to the TSTA legislative committee in established. Question: what's missing I in London where we rented a VW bus about the world health problem of December 1974, were instrumental in from this picture? Answer: no job yet. for the rest of our traveling. The talk hookworm amoebiasis. Ah! raising that committee's teacher sal­ It'll happen. Meanwhile, we're enjoy­ .e During Homecoming 1975 many 11 at Oxford went smoothly, then on to ary proposal from $7,200 to $10,000 ing the country (my folks live out in southern England swinging up the of us will be together again. We've (base)." Wes invites alumni in careers the middle of beautiful pasturage.) got a lot to talk about. Hope to see i­ West coast to northern Scotland. We in education - and others interested Have had interesting chats with mock­ visited museums, castles, houses of you there. ingbirds, meadowlarks, nighthawks, a e -D.S. in Texas education - to consider some famous people, psychological sites (at statistics. Texas wealth stacks up like bullsnake, and several tranquil least that's what Nelson, our nine skunks." James R. Kitchell BA '61 of n this in rank among the 50 states: 5th Year old, called the archaeological in bank deposits; 3rd in capital expen­ Ridgefield, Connecticut, recently " sites). We spent a day and a night in a 1955-1960 ditures; 3rd in retail sales; 1st in value graduated from the Harvard Business n castle in northern Scotland and of mineral production; 6th in personal School's Program for Management d stayed a couple of days at the house Richard B. Clark BS '55 has been income. Texas' education facts: 37th in Development, an intensive 14-week Ll that Carnegie built and lived in when promoted to professor in the depart­ expenditure per pupil; 19th in class­ course designed to prepare outstand­ g he visited Scotland. Adventures, ad­ ments of anesthesiology and obstetrics room size; 39th in teacher's salaries; ing young executives for greater cor­ ventures." Bruce Vernor BA '52, BS and gynecology at the University of and 1st in dropouts. "When teachers porate responsibilities. Kitchell is a y '53, vice-president and resident rep­ Arkansas Medical Center, Little Rock. stopped talking only to teachers and crude oil representative for the crude s resentative for Arco Exploration, Inc., Clark has been obstetrical anes­ began talking to other citizens, they oil and products division of Con­ e has been transferred from Jakarta, thesiologist there since 1965. Joe L tinental Oil Company, Stamford, r soon found most people aghast at such Indonesia to Tehran, Iran. Vernor Pollak, Jr. BA '56 has been named statistics. (And) we have had some Connecticut. Cliff Rudisill BA '61 Was chief petroleum engineer for Arco purchasing associate in Exxon Chemi­ success." Philip Seeger BA '58 and was recently elected assistant vice e Indonesia for two years. His wife, cal USA's Houston headquarters Barbara Teague Seeger BA '58 are president in the international de­ s Patricia, writes, "Three of our four purchasing department. He joined still living in Los Alamos, New Mex­ partment of Houston National Bank. daughters have been in in college this the company in 1957 as a chemical ico, along with their three children - Rudisill, an attorney with a back- SALLYPORT Classnote ground in international commerce ship. At Rice Dave was a Baker Col­ the U.S. and Canada ... my address for 1975-76. Duane E. Mellor, Jr. BA and law, joined the HNB internation­ lege fellow and a member of the book has been stolen ... " Charles '73 writes, "I became a celebrity of al department in 1972. His areas French honorary, Pi Delta Phi. Szalkowski BA '70 has received his sorts this year by coming down with of special interest at HNB are Mexico St.erling Eanes BA '66, BS '67 and MBA from Harvard Business School malaria, which I caught last summer and South America. Robert L. Laura Henry Eanes BA '67 write and his JD from Harvard Law School. in Kenya. I was there as a geologist Collett BA '62, vice-president from Nashua, New Hampshire, "We've He and his wife, Jane, will move to with a Yale anthropology expedition. and manager of the Houston office just returned from seven months in Houston in September, where he will This summer I will be in Wyoming of Milliman and Robertson, Inc., Madrid, Spain, where Sterling worked be associated with the law firm of beginning fieldwork for my PhD a nationwide firm of consulting as a system analyst on a contract with Baker and Botts. Ronald Zweighaft thesis, a paleoecological study of some actuaries, was elected a member of the ITT Laboratories. We lived in an BA '70 writes, "I'm finishing my in­ upper cretaceous marine snails. (This the board of directors of that firm older neighborhood where few people tership in internal medicine at the really isn't as boring as it sounds!) years of doubts, I on May 1, 1975. Pat Dodds Groves speak English, so even our 2½ year University of North Carolina at After a couple of liked Yale BA '64, formerly a technical consult­ old, Janet, can do surprisingly well in Chapel Hill and moving to Atlanta to suddenly found that I really my comprehen - for Information Systems Design of Spanish!" Gretchen N. Vik BA '66 spend two years in the Public Heath aft.er all. I had passed ant a little se­ Clara, Cal., has been named a will be teaching business communica­ Service at the Center for Disease sives. What a difference Santa BA '74 is marketing district manager for the tions at San Diego State University Control. The epidemiology of curity makes." Gary Hailey Searls, nation-wide computer utility. Her beginning in September, 1975. She hepatitis will give me a lot to do there working at Vinson, Elkins, summer and area of responsibility will be the San will receive her PhD in English from and maybe, before it's all over, I'll Connally and Smith this School in Francisco Bay region. Pat is living in the University of Florida, Gainesville, know what I'm going to do next." Ron will be back at Harvard Law Cal. Elizabeth Wilmore in August, 1975. Richard A. Jacobs, is living in Clarkston, Ga. the fall. Williamd R. Matthews BA Sunnyvale, A. McBride BA '64 and Tom McBride Jr. BA '67, MChE '68 and Patricia '74, MChE '75 and Thomas have both BA '66 have been living in Brown Jacobs BA '69 "have been Propst BA '74, MChE '75 New York, for the past living in Denver, Colorado since 1971, 1970-1975 taken positions with PPG Industries, Poughkeepsie, divi­ five years, along with John, 8, and and love it. We have two daughters, Inc. at PPG's industrial chemical Laura, 5. Elizabeth writes, "Tom is an Jennifer, 4, and Bethany, 2, (both St.ephen D. Benold BA '71 writes, sion Lake Charles plant. advisory programmer at IBM and "Lamaze" babies). Ricki works at "After four years of being a weenie all spends his spare time playing chess Rocky Mountain Arsenal as Chief of over again I have finally finished 20 with people and other games with bulk neutralization, which means he years of school, getting my MD degree computers. He also is learning about is in charge of detoxification of the this May. I am presently doing a Fam­ Lost in Flight leatherwork, having so far produced a arsenal's bulk stores of nerve gas. Pat ily Practice residency here in Ft. beautiful handbag for me, belts for the works part time in protein chemistry Worth. Even so, I still intend to keep Because of a marriage, or an address family, and sandals for himself and lab at the University of Colorado Med­ my unbroken record of attendance at change, or the flighty nature of its our son. I have become interested in ical School doing, among other things, the Rice-UH game. If others in my members, the Alumni Association community problems here in Dutchess solid phase peptide synthesis. In our Medical School class don't write in, will occasionally lose track of some of County and tutored myself into an ex­ spare time, we enjoy camping, tennis, they are Tim Berger BA '71, San the Rice brood. pert on solid waste disposal. I wrote photography, and tour skiing, not to Francisco, medicine; Mike Hawkins, If you recognize the name of a the solid waste section of the County's mention checking out all the Walt BA '71, Pittsburg, Ob-Gyn; Darryl friend and think you know where he Environmental Conservation Plan, Disney re-releases, going to the zoo, Greebon BA '71, Pittsburg, Ob-Gyn; or she is roosting, then we would ap­ and served two years on the Pough­ reciting nursery rhymes, helping out and Terry Reimann BA '71, Miami, preciate hearing from you. The keepsie Conservation Commission. at pre-school and all the things that go medicine." Robert C. Christmas BA following alumni are members of the Last summer I did research for the along with being the parents of two '71 and David N. Mohr BA '72 both class of 1928. Environmental Assessment of the pre-school girls." Larry J. Wagner received their MD's from Baylor Col­ Ester Zusman Dark proposed Tri-Municipal Sewer District BS '67 writes from Berkeley Heights, lege of Medicine at graduation cere­ Thomas Francis Davies -even walking the proposed pipeline monies on May 30. Christmas will Alan Dunning New Jersey, "Since graduation, I have George Gustavo Guiteras with the engineers. It was fun. At the not been in touch with many in my continue his medical training with a and gynecology Edward William Herting same time I began to write again and class; however, I am moving to the residency in obstetrics Katherine Alice Burns Isbell have produced quite a lot of fairly good cold north to fill a position in the ex­ at the Baylor affiliated hospitals in Clyde Roland Johnson poetry and part of a very bad book. ecutive office of Haskins and Sells, a Houstorl. Mohr has a residency in in­ Salvadore Joseph Madero Unfortunately a lengthy illness inter­ national accounting firm. I would be ternal medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Vernon Lee McKinney rupted my progress and I have yet tc interested in meeting any Rice alumni Rochester, Minnesota. Michael Daley Norma Christine Runyan have anything published, but intend in the area - in New York City or BA '71, writes, "I have just received Lois Elizabeth Scoopmire to keep trying. Of course I still sew and Berkeley Heights. John Frederick my master of social work degree from Dorothy Jane Taylor have begun designing wall hangingE minister in the University of Houston. This fall I Henry Townsend Clifford '69, a Methodist Sarah Elizabeth Waller and making quilts. I also teach bread­ Bartlett, Texas, returned his ques­ will enroll in a UH management pro­ baking to children. Last year we were tionnaire from the Rice Engineering gram leading to a PhD. Robert H. The following "lost" alumni are fortunate enough to be visited in July Alumni with the following note: Daubert BA '71 took his master of members of the class of1955: rela­ by David Dickens BA '71, Mike "While I enjoy hearing what is going arts degree in man-environment Ralph Louis Andreans Alexander BA '64, and Betty Baird on at Rice, you can note the problems tions last May at Pennsylvania State Freddie George Baldau BA '64. This year my sister Jean with your bookkeeping! I attended University. Terry Ann Reimann BA Jeanne Schultz Balikos Wilmore Dickens BA '71 spent three Rice 1965-66, then transferred to '71 received her MD from Southwest­ Gustav AdlofBeckmann weeks with us. Tom and I are hoping to Southwestern, where I graduated in ern Medical School in Austin last May Maj. James Wood Bradner III see Chuck Redmon BA '64 and his history in 1969 and went on to Perkins and is now interning in internal John Roby Bridges wife in Boston soon, and also plan to School of Theology, SMU, where I re­ medicine at Jackson Hospital in Karl Edwards Brown see Mike Alexander BA '64 in I Miami. Robert Utterback BA '71 Laurance Mathews Bryson ceived a master of theology in 1972. Robert F. Bunce Michigan and Bob Shepard BA '64 have been serving small churches recently exhibited his brightly colored Tibor de Nagy John Charles Chambers and Beverly Wehking Shepard BA (United Methodist) in the Central acrylic paintings in the Judith Caroline Reeves Comstock '65 in Ontario, and Mac Gray BA '64 Texas Conference since 1972, recently gallery in Houston. Bruce Byland Donal Lercy Connelly and Shirley Hamilton Gray BA '64 being appointed to the Bart­ BA '72 took his master of arts degree Henry Arnold Cromwell, Jr. in New Jersey. We love SALLYPORT - lett-Granger charge. I am not a Rice in anthropology last May at Penn­ John Dale Derome especially some of the offbeat bio­ engineer, despite my intentions as a sylvania State University. Leslie Don Howard Dockeril graphical information." Dean Austin freshman there!" Willard Monroe Williamson BA '72 graduated Arthur Beverly Elliott, Jr. Mixon BA '64 recently received his III BA '69 received his from Baylor College of Medicine in Fred Paul Elliott St. John Gerald Wilbur Fitzpatrick law degree from Western State Uni­ PhD from Johns Hopkins University May 1975 and began a two-year sur­ of Law of Orange Robert Nicholas Fleming versity College in Baltimore on May 23, 1975. gery residency at the New England Ellan Chloeteele Ford County in Fullerton, California. Rolande L. Leguillon PhD '70 Deaconess Hospital, Boston, Mas­ Joseph Francis Gallagher Mixon lives in Costa Mesa. writes, "I have been elected regional sachusetts, in July. Narendra K. Thomas Fiscus Gatts, Jr. representative of the American Gosain PhD '73 was co-winner re­ Jimmie Erline Gifford Association of Teachers of French cently of the fourth award of $1000 Norma Jean Gilmore 1965-1969 (AATF) and am serving eight states: in the 1975 $50,0000 Lincoln Arc Lazar J. Greenfield New Mexico, Ok­ Welding Foundation Award Pro­ Adela Grohman Arizona, Arkansas, David Lorenzo Gruller David L Gassman BA '65 has been lahoma, Texas, Utah, Colorado and gram. The contest was open to architects, James Louis Guyton appointed an assistant professor of Wyoming. I have been teaching at the designers, engineers, John Blackiston Hall history at Bates College in Lewiston, University of St. Thomas in Houston fabricators and others using arc weld­ Bruce Erwin Hartman Maine. Gassman, who took his PhD at since 1968. I became chairman of ing to conserve material and reduce Shirley Jean Head Cornell in 1973, had been working as their French Department in 1970 and cost. Gosain co-authored the award Howard Johnston Hendrix an assistant in the School of Historical am now an associate professor. I have winning entry, "Welding Cuts Cost Floyd Davidson Holder, Jr. Studies of the Institute for Advanced been very active on the local scene: and Speeds Erection of the 'Sum­ Herbert James Johnson Johnson Study in Princeton, N.J. His studies president of the Houston Area mit'," with Howard R. Horn, Jr. Wm. Bryan Foreign Languages Both are employees of Walter P. Wilton Ira Jones have focused on the history of the Teachers of Herve Felix Lanfranchi medieval period, especially the intel­ (HA TFL) last year; on the executive Moore and Associates, Houston. '73 of Lake­ James Richard Long lectual history of the 12th and 13th board of the Alliance Francaise of Thomas M. Ginn PhD Norbert Lopez centuries. He has been the recipient of Houston, head of their school commit­ land, Florida, a senior medical student Richard Lester Louden several scholarships, among them the tee since 1972; president of faculty at the Bowman Gray School of Albert Michael Lupenski New York Regents Fellowship for Doc­ senate of the University of St. Medicine, has been awarded a house Richard Hall Macatee toral Study in the Arts and the Thomas. I certainly would like to officer appointment at the Letterman John T. Maltsberger, Ill Theodor Mommsen Travel Scholar- hear from friends scattered through Army Medical Center, San Francisco Jerry B. Marion SALLYPORT Reverberations

see, along with my examining If the women at Rice were seri­ John Stuart Mill, in his inau­ committee of Messrs. Moraud, ously engaged intellectually, (Dr. gural address at St. Andrews I missed your announcement of McKillop, Tsanoff, Oberle, and Pfeiffer) would find them neither University, spoke to the same of the "Tales Told Out of School" Bourgeois, Billie Goyen. After­ charming nor delightful, because point as Pfeiffer: "th $allypor1 contest. But the subject charmed ward, he congratulated me. they would be fmding the ans­ me, and I remembered the follow­ Men are men before they are !ler Although I have not seen him wers to the questions "What is lawyers, or physicians, or mer­ Stephen F. Barnhill ing incident which took place a p.st since, I have followed with in­ woman?" and "Who am I?" in the chants, or manufacturers; and if Editor couple of years ago at Ohio State. terest his many literary writings of Mary Daly, Simone de pn. It was an unusual way to meet a you make them capable and sen­ Liam Purdon achievements. I still have the 178 Beauvoir, and John Stuart Mill, 1ng Rice grad. (Is there any non­ sible men, they will make them­ Assistant page manuscript with painstak­ net St. Paul, St. Augustine, Kant hD Editorial unusual way?) selves capable and sensible ingly pencilled French accents; or Freud... lawyers and physicians. What ~e Jan David Boyles & A.Hoc. It was my dozenth-or-so PhD I'm afraid it's only claim to fame his Des,gn / Production oral examination. So I was be­ Clara Gribble Haugaard BA '57 professional men should carry is that it was typed by William away with them from a college is s!) ginning to feel a little confidence Goyen. Wading River, N. Y. , I Contributors lo this Issue seep into my bones - in fact, an not professional knew/edge, but should direct the use of ale Dana Blakenhorn, Karyn Callaway, overwhelming amount of confi­ Margaret Elkins Carl BA '35, Congratulations on the two lead that which Johnette Duff, Patty Nunn, dence for a second-year unten­ MA'37 articles of your May-June issue. their professional knew/edge, and Richard Stabell ured assistant professor in the Bellaire, Tx. First, it is heartwarming to be bring the light of general culture early 1970s. Anyway, I was just reminded that William Goyen, to illuminate the t.echnu:alities of beginning to feel sure enough of Rice graduate, novelist, play­ a special pursuit. Men may be Sa 1yport 1s published b 1-monthly by the The Pleasure is Ours competent lawyers without liberal A ssociation of Rice Alumni myself to come out with some of wright, editor and poet has those really nasty questions - brought much distinction to our education, but it depends on lib­ Carolyn H. Wallace '66 the kind that only too recently For some time now I've noticed University. It is true, as eral education to make them Executive Di rector had made my toes curl and my that SALLYPORT gets better and the writer states, that "Texas philosophic lawyers - who de­ Martha C. Murphree teeth itch nervously when I was better, but this last issue (May­ should know its poets." Perhaps mand, and are capable of ap­ me at last write Ass1stont Executive Director the inquisitee instead of the June) prompts to it is even more important that prehending principles, instead of inquisitor. to say how very, very good it has Rice recognize its poets. The ar­ mere cramming their memory Officers of the A ssociation The interdisciplinary nature become. The articles by Patrice ticle was well done and I trust with details. And so of all other of the proposed dissertation Repusseau and Paul Pfeiffer are will be widely read. useful pursuits, mechanical in­ L. Henry GiHel, Jr. '58 solid pieces of work that inform cluded. Education makes a man a President research had called together Second, the Goyen article was an interestingly incongruent and stimulate; they contribute followed by a truly first rate de­ more intelligent shoemaker, if Walter P. Moore, Jr. '59 committee, but it was the big substantially to our ongoing fense of liberal arts education at that be his occupation, but net by Post President fellow in sandals (yeah, but in dialogue about our resources and Rice and elsewhere, interestingly t.eaching him how to make shoes; Neal Lacey, Jr. '52 January?), patched jeans and our purposes. The other articles enough, not by a professor in the it does so by the mental exercise it President- Elect bushy moustache whose tough and notes, and the lay-out, de­ humanities but by a mathemati­ gives, and the habits it impresses. serve commendation for variety, ~ss Evelyn Smith Murphy '43 mind had really made the cal scientist, Paul Pfeiffer. At a William V. Ballew BA '40 . He was lin­ punch, and interest too. there is an obvious, Houston ·ts First Vice Pre s,dent exam a good one time when guistics, a Chomsky student, I think that SALLYPORT is but unwarranted, trend on too n Helen Belton Orman '60 and I am computer science - doing an outstanding job of many of our college and univer­ Second Vice Pres,denl communicating the diverse of a combination I had long ago sity campuses towards career The· Association welcomes all Steve Shaper '58 strengths and problems of Rice. found to be fascinating and education, training for jobs, comments on SALLYPORT articles a Treasu rer productive - so I was resolved to Robert L. Patten rather than continuing to em­ or issues of the day in the form e make his acquaintance. The can­ Associate Professor ofEnglish phasize the liberating arts in the of letters to the editor. Corre­ undergraduate curriculum, p­ Executive Boord didate passed, by now a calmer spondence will be printed as e and wiser man, and the linguist Pfeiffer's piece is most useful. space permits. Nancy Head Bowen '58 and I moved to exchange Perhaps it will spark a debate on e Sparking a Debate Raymond Cook '35 introductions. this issue. J. Thomas Eubank, Jr. '51 "Is that a Rice ring you're Because I was a philosophy major Annette Gano Gragg '47 wearing?" he opened. "Why, yes, at Rice, and did not take math, I Thomas B. Greene, Ill '71 as a matter of fact." "What year?" met [Dr. Pfeiffer] for the first Joyce Pounds Hardy '45 "'59." "I knew you were from time m the May-JuneSALLYPORT SALLYPORT PERSONALS. Better than a Douglas S. Harlan '64 Rice. I could tell by the kind of Please let me introduce myself. message in a bottle. Think of this Class Notes form as a letter Leota Meyer Hess '33 questions you were asking!" The I am 39 years old, earned 80'k to people you knew at Rice. Speak to them about your life Albert N. Kidd '64 other committee members were of an MA in English at Tuxas in since graduation . .. and anything else you want to tell them William J. Mathias '58 staring. 'TU take that as a com­ 1957-58, have had one husband is welcome, too. We would like Class Notes to reflect the style, G. Walter McReynolds '65 pliment," I laughed, and every­ for 16 years, one daughter, 13, the interests, the causes and the ideas of those whose paths Thomas McKittrick '56 For the next thing was smiles. and one son, 8. I live on Long crossed the Rice campus. Tell us what's important to you. Marilyn Kinzer Moore '59 quarter hour we reminisced and Island and will be a student Poula Meredith Mosle '52 shared personal histories since in the MDiv program at Union Paul E. Pfeiffer '38 the BA. It turned out that he was Theological Seminary next G. Holmes Richter '26 class of'61, and from the best we year. Most important of all, I Helen Saba Worden '38 can calculate, Mike Geis and I am a feminist with lots of time Patricia Crady Zumwalt '43 took a contemporary philoso­ to think. Nothing like house­ e phers seminar from Fulton work for giving a person time Rice University Alumni Governors together, and he subsequently to contemplate the Great Ques­ Richard A. Chapman '54 took a course from Robinson, tions of Life. Catherine Coburn Hannah '43 a pleasure I missed by being As a faculty advisor to women Frank B. Ryan '58 two years too soon. [Dr. Pfeiffer) must be aware that Talbott Wilson '34 an education in the humanities Bill Butt.elman BA '59 renders most women economi­ Columbus, Ohio cally powerless. It is one thing to Credits read Kant when you are 19, it is Illustration A Manuscript quite another to realize that you " The Admissions Gome" of a Different Type would be forced to live below the poverty level if you don't like Marvin L. King When I read the excellent article, what your husband dishes out. Photography "Who is William Goyen?" by This is the situation of almost Patrice Repusseau, I indulged every woman in the United James Aronovsky Page 12 in a bit of reminiscence. Like States with a BA degree who has John GroHman the Rice library, I too have a children and who gave up, for manuscript by William Goyen - any length of time, a career in but of a different variety. the money economy. I am NOT In the spring of 1937 I was encouraging either of my chil­ searching about on the bulletin dren to major in the humanities. board outside the old Administ­ From the viewpoint of an unten­ ration Building, now Lovett Hall, ured, unpaid, female economic for someone to type my master's zero, the humanities look like a thesis. I dropped typing after two device for funneling women into weeks in high school and still the profession of Middle Class can't type. I saw a notice indicat­ Housewife. Samuel Ashe Fitch BA'25 ing that Billie (as he was known I was once one of those young of Weston, Mass. then) Goyen would type term people put in touch with the work papers or theses for a price - I of great minds, by teachers who believe it was 10 or 15 cents a interpret sensitively, etc. Unfor­ Alberta Mae Barnes BA'27 of Houston. page - followed by a phone tunately, none of those teachers number. I called Billie and made were female, none of those great my arrangements with him. minds were female, and all of Shortly afterward, he called me them believed, as [Dr. Pfeiffer) Elizabeth Neathery Smith BA'35 to say that he thought it only fair and Dr. Silber do, that the great of Houston. to tell me that his typewriter question in life is "What is man?" didn't have any French accents. I and "Who am I?"-and that salva­ Name replied that it would be no prob­ tion comes through Jesus Christ, Frankie Murphy Aves BA'39 lem for me to add these and that or the intellectual life, or what­ of Houston. he was to proceed. The job was ever. Wrong. Salvation came Class completed in correct form and through Margaret Sanger. The well ahead of schedule. first significant philosophy Address\ _ new) ~r. Harry Michael Hegeney III BA'49 On the day of my public oral book was written by Mary °୚ Corpus Christi, Tex. examination, I was surprised to Wollstonecraft. f. The Melting Plot: Shaping llational Traditions l:t- l:t- l:t- An Educatiooal Experience in 'lwo Pans l:t- l:t- l:t-

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Lecture Series the First The Arts in America: New Colors, New Canvass eaturing Dr. William Camfield, on The Visual Arts in America; Dr. Anne Schnoebelen, on The Music of FAmerica; Dr. David Minter, on The American Literary Tradition. * Each to present three lectures in the series. * On nine consecutive Thursdays at two locations: The Biol­ ogy Lecture Hall on the Rice Campus, at 7:00 p.m., and the Fellowship Hall of the Memorial Drive Lutheran Church, Gessner at Memorial, at 7:30 p.m. *** ~~~~~~~~~~ ______Lecture Series the Second The American: 'Twixt Purity and Profits eaturing Drs. Frank Vandiver and Ira Gruber, on Ori­ gins of The Revolutionary Generation; Dr. Baruch FBrody, on Political and Philosophical Traditions; Dr. & Mrs. William C. Martin, on Americans and Their Religion. * Each to present lectures in the series. * On nine consecutive Thursdays at one location: The Biology Lecture Hall on the Rice Campus, at 8:30 p.m. Lectures begin Thursday, September 18. Fee for enrollment in each lecture series is $15 per person. To keep costs minimal, we ask that tickets be picked up during registration at the first lectures. ********* * ******** D Please register me (us) for the following lecture series. En- closed is a check for $ __ _ D This is a tentative registration. I will pay the enrollment fee at the first lecture. No. Attending Lecture Series #1 Campus Lutheran Church Lectures Series #2 Campus Name Address Mail with your check to Association of Rice Alumni: Education, P.O. Box 1892, Houston,Tx 77001 Phone * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

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