Association of Rice Alumni 'September 1979 Volume 36, Numberl 9 A.M. Coffee honoring the Golden Oct. 13 Texas Christian University at R, alumni celebrating fifty Rice, 7:30 P.M. years or more since gradua- Oct. 20 Texas Tech at Lubbock, 7:30 tion, in the Robert Ray P.M. Memorial Courtyard adjacent Oct. 27 Texas A&M at Rice, 2 P.m. to the RMC. All alumni are Nov. 3 Arkansas at Rice, 2 P.M. invited to join the classes of Nov. 17 Baylor at Waco, 2 P.M. HOMECOMING 1916-1929. Inside This Issue Cross country — men Owen Wister Literary Soci- The Bottom Line of Pub- Homecoming this year will be held on Fri. Sept. 29 The Rice Invitational Cross ety coffee klatch, at Brown the Allen lishing. By Nancy Daly. This and Sat., Nov. 2 and 3. Country Meet at College. Parkway Bayou Loop, 9:30 Alumni, summer an impressive list of Rice Engineering A.M. 1929 The Golden Anniversary Cel- for coffee and con- guest lecturers from the world gathering Oct. 5 Arlington Invitational in Arl- 4 ebration on Fri., Nov. 2 will versation, in the lobby of of magazine and book publishing and ington, 4 P.M. include cocktails and dinner at Abercrombie Labs. Oct. 9 University of Houston Invita- fifty-nine students were brought Cohen House. Planning the Convocation in the 10 A.M. Alumni tional at the Texas National together at Rice by the Office of event are Larry Hamilton, Hall of the RMC. Pro- Grand Golf Course in Willis, 4 P.M. is Leb Kemp, Herbert Allen and gram includes presentation of Continuing Studies. The message Oct. 18 University of Texas Invita- Evelyn Epley Shimek. and a special address that profits and losses are a very awards tional at Georgetown, 4 P.M. 1934 Pat Quinn's 16 piece orches- William E. Gordon. by Dean 30 Southwest Conference Cham- important part of publishing. tra will play all the great ceremony at the Oct. 11:15 A.m. Wreath pionship in Willis, 11 A.M. tunes of the 20s and 30s for Founder's Tomb, presentation Nov. 10 District VI competition in dancing from until midnight made by the Silver Anniver- Something Ventured. By Georgetown, 11 A.M. on Fri., Nov. 2. Other class- sary Class 1954. Nov. 19 NCAA Championship at Anne Grossman. Burton es may "crash" the dance and lunch in the 11:30 A.m. Receptions Lehigh University at Bethle- McMurtry '56, a new board after 11 P.M. free: Cocktails, colleges. films, hem, Penn., 11 A.M. member of the alumni associa- buffet, scrapbooks, 2 P.M. Rice vs. Arkansas at the Rice 5 photos and fun are planned by his business of loaning Stadium. Cross Country — women tion talks about Grover Geiselman, Joe Aleo, venture capital and about Rice. 4-6 P.M. Cocktails in the Grand Hall of Oct. 27 State Women's Cross Country Otto Nachlas, Elliott Flowers, the RMC, honoring the sen- Championship, Georgetown, Freddie Alter, Jim Boone, ior faculty. 11 A.M. Robroy Carroll and Pat clubs are planning events, so The Cambridge Exchange. By Alumni area Quinn. contact the coordinators for more details. Tennis — women A look at the C.D. Nancy Daly. 1939 Dan Moody is heading a com- Sept. 21-22 Texas Sectional Match for Broad Exchange Program mittee to plan the Fortieth women a between Rice and Trinity Col- Anniversary Celebration — Oct. 19-20 Women's Quad Match vs. 8 cocktail buffet at River Oaks Uni- lege, Cambridge. A Cambridge student Texas A&M, Lamar, and Country Club on Fri., Nov.2. versity of Houston, in College reflects on his year at Rice. 1940-1949 The entire decade is invited Station. to the Grand Hall of the Rice Nov. 10-11 Faculty/Alumni tennis tourna- Memorial Center on Fri., ment, with Rice women's ten- Alumni Update. An interview Nov. 2, for cocktails and ART nis team; women's doubles with the new president of the dancing. Maribel Spiller and mixed doubles Association of Rice Alumni, new McCleary and Mary Louise Sept. 7- An exhibition of the works of the committee chairmen, travel plans Klicpera Harrison are Nov. 11 William Copley. The Rice Swimming 9 organizers. Museum. Hours: Tues-Sat. Nov. 16 Rice Relays, men and women, for the coming year, and other associa- 1954 Silver Anniversary Celebra- 10 A.m. - 5 P.M.; Sun. 12 noon at Rice. tion news. tion is planned for Cohen - 6 P.M. Closed Mondays. 527- Nov. 17 The Rice Invitational, men House on Sat., Nov. 3. Mike 4002. and women, at Rice. Kelley and Dorothyle Nicholl 28- An exhibition .entitled, Cross- Sept. — Headrick are coordinating the currents: Neoclassical Draw- Volleyball women Nov.11 at Lee College in Acting Editor, Nancy Daly event. ings and Prints, from Cooper- Sept. 21-22 Tournament Consulting Editor, David H. Rod well 1959 The Class of 1959 will gather Hewitt Museum. The Rice Baytown. Tournament at Lamar. Design and Production, Herring Design, Inc. in Lovett College Commons Museum, hours above. Oct. 5-6 Lamar State tournament at Abilene on Fri., Nov. 2, for cocktails Sept. 4.. Costumes of the Arab World, Nov. 1-3 in September, Christian University. SALLYPORT is published and dinner. Plans are being Oct. 18 in the Sewall Gallery. Hours: by the November, February, April, and June made by Harvin Moore, Jr., Tues.-Sat. 12 noon - 5 P.M. Association of Rice Alumni. Executive and Tommie Lou Storm Closed Sunday and Mondays. Duffle '51. As- Director is Kathryn Alcorn Maulsby. Nov. 2- Civic Art in Houston, Sewall C. sociate Executive Director is Martha 1964 Come to Hanszen College Dec. 7 Gallery. Preview reception Murphree. Commons at 8 P.M. on Sat. for alumni Fri., Nov. 2, 7-10 for country and west- P.M. Officers of the Association: President, Tom Nov. 3, ern food, beer, wine Eubank '51; Past-president, Tom McKittrick dancing, and setups. Friends from '56; President-elect, Harry Reasoner '60; MUSIC 1963 and 1965 are encour- First Vice-president, Katherine Bayless aged to come, too. Planning Dobelman '46; Second Vice-president, of Music concerts committee includes Mary Sue The Shepherd School Annette Gano Gragg '47; Treasurer, J. Lewis P.M. Con- Wilson Barnum, Marian Cole take place in Hamman Hall at 8 Hancock, Jr. '71. with Hansen, Dale Gentry Miller, certs are free except in conjunction the Houston Friends of Music. For more Association Committee on Publications: Steve Sherry Lundstrom Kitchell. SP OR TS information, call the Shepherd School Con- Shaper '58, chairman; W. W. Akers, Bucky 1969 Brian Rider is organizing a cert Line at 527-4933. Allshouse '71, John Bennett '74, Katherine T. reunion on campus for Fri., Football John Casbarian '69, Kathryn A. Nov. 2. Home game tickets are $8.50, end zone Brown '38, Aldo Mancinelli, piano. 1974 The Class of 1974 encour- $4.25 (except for the Oklahoma and Texas Sept. 19 Duffie '51, Tom Eubank '51, B. Frank Jones piano, and ages all of the seventies to join A&M game when all seats are $8.50). Tick- Sept. 25 Steven Goetz, '58, Dick Nunn '68, John Parish, David H. laureate. them in Willy's Pub after the ets are available through the Athletic Ticket Jeunesses Musicales Rodwell, Josephine M. Shanks '55, Matt early music football game on Nov. 3. Office, Rice University, P.O. Box 1892, Oct. 5 Ralph Holibaugh, Muller '80. Chapel). Doug Appling is coordinating Houston 77001. Make your check payable to (Rice Memorial Rice University Alumni Governors: Walter the plans. Rice University and enclose $.50 per orde- Oct. 17 Shepherd Sinfonia. D. Murphy '48, Taylor Ray '59, Karl C. ten- for handling. Oct. 19 Wayne Crouse, viola. SYZYGY Brink '37, and Helen Saba Worden '38. Saturday's Events Oct. 22 Oct. 30 Meryl Ettelson, piano, Motoi all university alumni, 8 A.m. Breakfast for alumni inter- Sept. 22 L.S.U. at Baton Rouge, 7:30 SALLYPORT is sent free to Takeda, Jim London, horn. parents of university students, and supporters viewers at Cohen House, P.M. of Oklahoma at Oct. 31 Guarneri Quartet, with the of the university. hosted by the Admissions Sept. 29 University 7:30 P.M. Houston Friends of Music. William Marsh Rice University admits stu- Office. Rice, Austin, Nov. 19 Shepherd Sinfonia. race, color, and national or ethnic 8:30 A.M. Registration in the lobby of Oct. 6 University of Texas at dents of any Owlmanac continues on Page 15. origin. the Rice Memorial Center. 7 P.M. SALLYPORT-SEPTEMBER 3 THROUGH THE SALLYPORT

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Temperature rising coeds sneaked in and out after dark. All of few signs remained, he asked the physical past the minimum predicted return of 25 per This summer, along with those in buildings which leads us to believe there may be only plant staff to take them down. cent. all around the country, the Rice thermo- slightly more or less hanky-panky these days, Undaunted, Pitman plans on having the What exceeds any predictions are the num- stats were adjusted upward. Seventy-eight but it is talked about a lot more. street names painted on the curbs. That ber of written comments alumni add to the 12 degrees doesn't sound so bad, but while stu- As to McCall's, we found our initial horror should last for a while and this time they're page forms. These represent a fine diversity dents and many faculty members fled to cool- without basis. Instead McCall's carried going to try and spell Campanile with an "m". of opinion, reminding us again there is no er climes, those who were left voiced a few a soupy piece which seemed to us rather great monolith out there called "the alumni." complaints. superficial. It never does define what "coed 1983 Rice has sent 20,000 highly individualistic Lovett Hall thermostats were re-set in July housing" actually is. It's the report of a ques- While upperclassmen were cherishing those people outside the hedges. and immediately everyone there thought that tionnaire with some follow-up quotes from last precious days of summer, 533 new Rice One writes back to say the university the physical plant people must have made a individual students, and it comes to such con- students came on campus, reveling in a week should give up its attempts at "big-time foot- mistake. Surely, they said, it's at least 85°. clusions as "...it is mutual respect and sym- of Freshman Orientation. Parties, beach trips ball." Another says that "Big-time football is When three temperature checks a day in the pathy — not sex — that runs rampant on and mixers warmly introduced the class of'83 one of the greatest features of college. The president's office proved them wrong, they college campuses these days." Says a coed in to the Rice tradition of working hard and play- fact that Rice participates in such a tough rolled up their sleeves and bought portable a later paragraph: "It's like having a house full ing hard. conference is a plus, not a minus, to the pro- fans. of big brothers." And a male student's com- A select group chosen from 2,566 appli- gram." Still another writer asserts that "the All over the campus, air conditioners were ments,"It gives me a chance to make friends cants, these students have already proven current emphasis needs to be on upgrading shut off during lunch. Those with offices on with women without being too hung up on a quite capable of the first part of that tradition. our athletic recruiting and SWC competitive- the sunny side of the buildings drowsed away relationship." Of them, 141 were National Merit Scholars, ness — the rest , this is important, too." of the afternoon. Others hid out in the As to Rice's participation in preparation of again giving Rice a high percentage of cool recesses of the library. the article, there's only a footnote to say the scholars. Six freshmen were National William G. Howell, however, chairman of questionnaire was circulated among our stu- Achievement Scholars. the psychology department, went on record dents as well as some others around the Two-hundred seventy-nine graduated in saying that 78° is "no big deal." He recently country, from Ohio Weslayan to UC/Santa the top five percent of their high school class- Cruz. es. Their average SAT scores reflect a simi- "Surprising Report" for sure. lar kind of success: the scores, out of a possible 800, are: Verbal — 627, compared Winging it to the national mean of 429; and Math — 674, On page forty, in their June 11 issue, national mean, 470. What is particularly Newsweek reported on aircraft maintenance impressive is that while the applicant pool in light of recent air crashes. In the course of increases by about nine percent each year, the article, they quoted "Clinton Shaffer, a the average number of students accepted 35-year veteran of airline-mechanic work and remains fairly constant. This means even now an instructor at Rice University's Air- greater competition for potential Rice under- craft Mechanics School." grads, and a continuation of the high stand- Fully appreciating Newsweek's assumption ards for which Rice has always been known. Several alumni took time to write about that we have experts on everything and their wishes for continued or increased knowing that Rice has recently established emphasis on undergraduate teaching. Some several new schools, some doubters never- also took potshots at advising or lack thereof, theless immediately began flipping through completed a two-year study for Houston at "publish or perish," and the structure of their catalogs wondering how they could have Lighting and Power which concludes that the questionnaire itself. 78° missed the inauguration of the Aircraft is well within our There were requests for alumni directo- comfort level. We're only Mechanics School. uncomfortable because we believe we're ries, which were offered last year to those In fact, Rice doesn't have such a school and ii going to be uncomfortable, according to contributing to the annual fund but are no doesn't have any intention of establishing Howell's findings. longer available, and for computer printouts one, and Shaffer isn't a faculty member here. "Put a fan in a room and it will cool the of alumni listings for certain areas, which are Newsweek, when contacted, readily admitted room very little but to the average person, closely held to prevent commercial use. their error. "It was a reporter's misunder- the room will seem a great deal cooler. It's Association Director Kathy Duffle '51 has standing. He met Shaffer in Houston and psychological," Howell told the Houston given herself the assignment of responding to thought he was affiliated with Rice Universi- tfewIS every comment or letter where there is a Chronicle. ty," they said. So imagine you're sitting on an iceberg... name and address included. If you wrote but Back on campus, there are about a dozen haven't yet heard from her, you will. students who signed up for Basic Aircraft Divebomber Owls? Romping through McCall's Many alumni have taken the chance to Mechanics 101 and they still can't find the Unveiling a new "logo," as the trade calls bring us up to There it was at the supermarket checkout date about where they are and classroom. symbolic designs for all kinds of human stand: The September McCall's with what they are doing. Rolle Stevenson '44 has endeavor, ranks with walking Niagara- Falls changed her address from Remuera, a yellow sticker slapped on the cover and The garden path Auck- on a tightrope or playing football in the South- land 5, to Sky High Farm, R.D. 3, Hunua, big, bold type: "Rice University Co-Ed Last spring Russ Pitman '58 campus business west Conference as an act of supreme New Zealand, "mainly a goat farm with both Dorms: Surprising Report." affairs manager, and Katherine Tsanoff courage. angora and milking goats, but the other inhab- Who could have done a thing like That, we Brown '38, dean of undergraduate affairs, got sive new "fightin' Owls" logo commissioned itants are a small flock of coloured sheep for wondered as we hurried to a secluded corner together and decided on names for the by assistant sports information director spinning, four ducks, a pig, some chickens to discover the awful reality. Was this done streets that run through the campus. They by assistant sports information director and bantams and a Siamese cat." by someone who had lived in a dorm for a few came up with such names as "College Way, Nancy Burch '61 and unveiled by new sports J. Robert Elster '59 is a partner specializ- days or weeks, then slipped away to a type- Laboratory Road, Alumni Drive, Founder's promotion director Joe Castiglione in a news- ing in corporate and insurance defense litiga- writer and put everything in the worst possi- Court and Owl's Haunt Court." paper interview in August. tion with a 32-lawyer firm in Winston-Salem, ble light? The street signs went up during finals. "1 didn't see an owl," Castiglione said, of N.C. And Daphne Dean '77 is a second lieu- Through the years, "coed dorms" have They were not, however, met with universal the Al Conover era design, which was more tenant in the Army. After eleven months in come to sum up, for some people, all that approval. There was a speedy request that plump and sported an angry, downward-look- Korea, she is now with the Sixth Psychological they feel has gone wrong with the colleges, the "Owl's Haunt Court" signs be removed ing scowl. Operations Battalion at Fort Bragg N.C., the younger generation, permissive parents, from in front of the president's house, the Whether the symbolic transformation of "where I jump out of airplanes and otherwise and the nation's basic moral fiber. Yet the student newspaper angrily asked why stu- the Rice Owls can move off the drawing try to keep myself gainfully term may be the most unfortunate ever dents employed." to hadn't been consulted in the naming board and onto the field will become apparent have been attached to universities. process, and some alumni made derisive in the next few weeks. The new Owl logo will September 1979, Vol. 36, It immediately conjures up mental images comments No. 1 about the originality of "Alumni be affixed on the outside of the players' hel- of men and women sharing rooms, or at least Drive" and "Founder's Court." mets, perhaps close enough to the source of SALLYPORT (USPS 412-950) is published five adjoining rooms with connecting baths. Yet Originality aside, one of the great symbols mental attitudes to be of help. times annually, in February, April, June, the practice has been something else. At Rice of the campus was shabbily rather treated on Castiglione is not taking any chances with September, and November, by the Associa- it means different wings of the same building the two signs which read "Capanile Lane." the new logo filling Rice Stadium's 70,000 tion of Rice Alumni, Rice University. Editorial and shared dining rooms and commons. At We occasionally run misspellings and are seats by itself. He has invited 200 high school offices are located in the Allen Center for other institutions it means alternating and inclined to be forgiving, but the misspelled choirs for a sing-a-long Business Activities, Rice University, 6100 S. fairly well at the Tulane game isolated floors. signs remained in place for a number of Sept. Main St., Houston, Texas 77001. Telephone: While 15. some contemporary students, or weeks before they were stolen. Gradually as (713) 527-4806. Second-class postage even paid at more often, some parents, say coed the summer wore on, the other signs were Beyond the questionnaires Houston, Texas. POSTMASTER: Send ad- housing has brought acceptance of "spending also being stolen one by one. In June the Association of Rice Alumni mailed dress changes to SALLYPORT, the Rice University, night," alumni from the 1930s at another Pitman told the Thresher, "I even epoxied 20,000 questionnaires to all alumni. Already P.O. Box 1892, Houston, Texas 77001. institution have told us of being cursed with a one of them on to the post, but they just bent 5,000 have been filled out and sent back. Copyright 1979 by Association of Rice corner room with windows through which it back and forth until it broke." When only a Every day brings several dozen more pushing Alumni, Rice University. SALLYPORT-SEPTEMBER Bottom Lin The MINI MI EM =I MN II= MI ME MN =II MIMI NM MIN NMI =M NM 11= MO IM MI MI MP The 1980s will be healthyfor magazines, but only afew will make it.

MIN NM =I 11=1 NMI INN age from about twenty to somewhere over sixty. Though many wanted to know how to get a first job in publishing, others had some experience but hoped to advance with the help of this course. Several wanted to know how to get their own work published. Many brought vague ideas of becoming editors. For almost all, Seaver's talk was their first some- what distressing brush with the cold reality of trade publishing as a business, but it certainly wasn't their last. In the following two weeks they learned about simultaneous submissions, subsidiary rights, movie rights, contracts, marketing campaigns, royalties, advancements, and production techniques. Each of the presti- gious speakers touched on the finances of publishing at some point. It turned out that almost everyone from the editor and the pro- duction director to the promotional people were concerned about profits and losses. Recently, rapid increases in the costs of paper and labor have made this concern a necessity for survival. The cost of producing a book and its poten- tial worth in sales even figures in the calcula- tions of the director of the University of Tex- as Press, John Kyle, although to a lesser extent than at commercial presses. "The pri- mary purpose of a university press," he said, "is the publication of research done in the university, scholarly works that are often but not always unprofitable. By and large, univer- sity presses face the same constraints as commercial publishers, but we are subsidized by the university and we don't operate for a profit." According to George Nicholson, editor-in- chief of the Books for Young Readers division of Dell Publishing, children's book publishing Twenty years ago, publishing six to eightfirst-time authors is taking a direction similar to that of publish- Bill Broyles '66, editor of ing as a whole. "Money poured in during the Texas Monthly,joined Lee a year was 'de riguer.' Now, it's virtually impossible for the sixties when federal dollars were going to libraries. There was a great deal of indiscrim- Eisenberg to critique the first-time author to get published. inate publishing then. When the bottom fell out of that market, many children's book pub- student's magazines. MIN I= MI MN Mil MI NM IMO =I 11= IMO IMO lishers were left in a shocking state. Editors the con- By Nancy Daly Richard Seaver, vice president and pub- had to finally become publishers and putting money into publish- o booklovers, publishing appears to be lisher at Holt, Rinehart & Winston, who glomerates began like Seaver, he an ideal occupation. Editors are the delivered the keynote address for the book ing," Nicholson said. But line shouldn't be the first to touch a great novel; to hobnob section of the program, compared the indus- believes that the bottom in the industry. "There with clever and witty authors. What try now to what it was twenty years ago. He only motivating force T is a tremendous moral obligation, as well as could be nicer than reading books all day and is alarmed about the over-commercialization children's books," Nichol- getting paid for it. This summer for four that he sees in publishing. "Twenty years the financial one, in weeks, fifty-nine students learned the reali- ago, publishing six to eight first-time authors son maintains. figures in publish- ties about publishing from the experts during a year was `de riguer.' Now, it's virtually Listening to established task of the students. the Rice Publishing Program. The intensive impossible for the first-time author to get ing was not the only of their time and more of program, offered by the Office of Continuing published," he said. As Seaver went down They spent as much own publishing Studies for the second year, included an the list of major publishers, he noted which their energy building their Okrent, former impressive roster of guest speakers from The conglomerates have bought them. Very few empires — on paper. Dan Brace, Jovano- New Yorker, Holt Rinehart & Winston, Texas are still independent. The need to make a editor-in-chief at Harcourt, the book-packaging Monthly, Simon and Schuster, and others. profit is paramount in what was once the vich and now president of Okrent, directed the And the students came from all over the "gentlemen's profession." firm Eisenberg, McCall, Program. country to hear them. The decline in the number of first novels book section of the Publishing his associate Publishing started about 800 years after published and the rise in the number of titles Together with Gene Stone, a senior editor at Harcourt, the birth of Christ, when Irish monks began published a year are only two symptoms of director and Brace, Jovanovich, he devised a simulation to disseminate the Bible to neighboring peo- the change in publishing. "Twenty years ago, of the publishing world for the students to ples. They sat for hours in their scriptoria, hardcover trade book publishing was the laboriously producing each elaborately deco- game. Today, paperback publishing is the try out. into eight publishing rated page by hand so that the visual beauty game," Seaver said. "By 1985," he predict- They were grouped that had similar names and reputa- of the page would reflect the importance of ed, "there will be no hardcover publishing. houses life such as the contents. Today thousands of copies of There will only be hardcover editions of tions to their real counterparts, conglomerate," one mass market paperback can be printed paperback books. Now the accountants wield Doublenight, the "enormous old, family-owned house and distributed around the world in just a few 400 times more weight than they did twenty and Scrivener's, "the days. In 1978, 40,000 new book titles were years ago. I think it's unhealthy," Seaver with a distinguished backlist." published. The publishing industry has said. "Fiction is in real trouble. We may sell Within these houses, they assumed the become a big and profitable business in which more books than ever before, but what titles of publisher, editor-in-chief, subsidiary aesthetic considerations often take a low pri- kind?" rights manager, sales manager, publicity and ority in the calculations of publishers, the stu- The students who absorbed this news advertising manager, and production and a dents in the program learned this summer. about the industry they hope to join ranged in design manager. Each house was allotted SALLYPORT-SEPTEMBER 5 :e of Publishillg.

There was a great deal of indiscriminate publishing during the sixties. When the bottom fell out of that market, many children's book publishers were left in a shocking state.

IMO Mil MN II= NMI 1=11 OM =11 I= =I NM budget and given some guidelines and then its Esquire, and Mike Levy, publisher of Texas staff members had to determine exactly what Monthly. they wanted to publish, how they would pro- They then set about designing a twenty- mote it, exactly what it would cost, and what eight page mock copy of their magazines, royalties they would need to pay. gathering ideas from Rochelle Udell, Many of the students began the program art director at House and Garden and with naive and idealized notions of publish- Betty Moore, production director at Texas ing, but they quickly became hard-headed Monthly. businessmen and women, in keeping with Their own magazines quickly became their the themes they heard repeatedly from the major focus but the students continued to lecturers. absorb sage advice from such professionals At the end of the first week when the auc- as Bill Martin, professor of sociology at Rice tion of a manuscript was announced, they and frequent contributor to major magazines, were ready with detailed cost sheets, de- and Geoff Winningham, professor of art at termination, and palpable excitement. Rice and a photographer who also frequently Whispered consultations added to the contributes to major magazines. wheeler-dealer atmosphere. After several long nights, presentation Associate director Stone feels that the sim- copies of the magazines were ready. Bill ulation in the book section of the course was Broyles '66, editor of Texas Monthly, joined "terrifically beneficial. They have a basic Eisenberg in critiquing them. The results knowledge in publishing that would take them were impressive; some of the students weeks to get on the job." seemed ready to actually go out and start Though there are a few other similar pub- selling their magazines. lishing programs in the country, the simula- Texas Geographic was voted as most suc- tion gives the Rice program a new twist. cessful by all the students. The others were Okrent developed the simulation idea here; entitled: Bio; Scoop, a magazine for children; "it doesn't exist anywhere else that I know The New Reporter; Marquee; and Belle, a of," he says. "It went very, very well this magazine of literature and fashion for south- year. The group was younger but more of ern women. them had some publishing experience, that In the closing lecture, Broyles reminisced made it easier." about the beginnings of Texas Monthly: The last two weeks of the Publishing Pro- "When we started, we weren't really maga- gram were devoted to magazine publishing. zine professionals and in some ways that was Certain differences were immediately appar- good, but it took us forever to find out things ent — the magazine people were more that everyone else knew." He said an editor aggressive and everything moved faster; sell- needs to "find new people who already have ing is a more obvious part of the business. the determination not to settle for -what's The students were again divided into good enough but to find what's really good." groups, this time to formulate and implement The last day in both the book and magazine their own magazines. Feeling like profession- sections was devoted to the most serious als, they quickly began to come up with ideas. business of all in the minds of the students — George Green, president of the New York- how to find a job in publishing. They heard The aspiring editors, art er, was the keynote speaker for the magazine about a wide range of opportunities and the section. He has little to worry about when it directors offered their own services to try directors, and publicity comes to advertising and sales. "The New and place them. Citing the $600 price tag for directors spent many evenings Yorker has the highest renewal rate of any the program, Okrent says, "I think it's an magazine. Our readers just have to have this obligation to help them find jobs." in their groups developing their magazine, no matter what we have to charge The students emerged from the four for it," he explained. "If you would like to weeks with an edge of confidence and their own magazines. The results change places with me," he joked with the own magazines under their arms. "It was fun were impressively professional. aspiring publishers, "I don't blame EEO, SPACE 0501 Ties you. I because the social part was so interesting. FILM VISIONS OF THE FUTURE think I've got the best job I could possibly You could go to the pub and have beer with have, as president of what a great many peo- the president of the New Yorker," says Gerry ple besides myself think of as the best maga- Boyle from Maine. William Boddie, the senior zine anywhere." member of the group, who was a Newsweek He also told them that "the 1980s will be correspondent during World War II, says, healthy for magazines, which is why so many "this fits in with the public relations activity of them are popping up. Only a few will make that I've been doing. Yes indeed, I enjoyed it because they're not springing up to answer the program." a real need and the determination for excel- Pat Armentor, already an editor at Rice's lency in every detail just won't be there. For Jones School, says "I've worked in publishing magazines, the reader must always come for a long time in various phases, but I never first; whatever is best for him or her is best." really had the opportunity to see the overall After receiving such a stirring call to high picture before. I really liked the Publishing standards, the students were again plunged Program but I don't think I've ever worked as into the world of financial details that make a hard." magazine viable. They spent hours in the "I felt that we had a very talented group of evenings developing their own ideas for a students this year," says Mary McIntire magazine that would sell itself. Ph.D. '75. McIntire, programs director for In lectures they learned about the advertis- the Office of Continuing Studies, coordinated ing/editorial mix, promotion and marketing, the 1979 Publishing Program. "The maga- design and production, and of course, they zines they came up with were very good," immediately began filling out detailed financial she proudly adds. "We're trying to establish a sheets. network in this area for job possibilities. The When the students had worked up a pros- interesting thing about the program is that pectus for their new magazines with appro- some people from last year and this year have priate statistics, they had to defend every gone into business together." And to prove detail before Lee Eisenberg, director of the that it is all worthwhile, McIntire has already magazine section, partner in the firm Eisen- had word that several of the publishing stu- berg, McCall, Okrent and former editor of dents have found jobs in the field. PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN GROSSMAN SALLYPORT-SEPTEMBER

Something Ventured. Most people I know in the business are pretty good at convincing themselves that they know what they're doing and that they're taking 'measured risks'— even when in fact they're taking dramatic risks!

By Anne Grossman to leave. "I had had a very good time at a characteristic which revealed itself during these presidents who have gone on to do well Sylvania in several different divisions," he final exams one year when McMurtry was a — or to do poorly — and it has often come up nce there was a young man who, says. "But I decided that it really, for me student of Pfeiffer's. Although it was unusual in a conversation that one of them will sa3. seeking happiness and honor, entered anyway, didn't make sense to stay in a very in those days to give take-home exams, 'Burt, you really, really helped me out.' And the tuition-free gates of Rice Univer- large company. It had been fun, but I think it Pfeiffer did. He remembers giving McMur- that makes you feel pretty good when some- O sity. The young man, Burton McMur- would have been less fun as time went on ... try's class a particularly difficult one. "He one says you helped him out. But then —" try '56, jumped aboard Fortune's wheel that As I evolved through many careers in Syl- worked intensively on it and brought it back McMurtry's smile became a laugh — "he pro- year and since then has occupied a permanent vania during the years I was there, it became looking like he'd been through the wringer. ceeds to describe some event which / hard- seat at the top. Recently elected a member of clear to me that I was more interested in, and He gave it to me — "Pfeiffer paused and ly remember!" As Pfeiffer says, his friend is the executive board of the Association of Rice better at, starting things, at working with a chuckled—" and said, 'I enjoyed that!" "a natural leader without being an overt Alumni, he came to Houston in July for meet- limited number of people who were strongly Trim because of his tennis, and tan politician." ings of that group; he stopped by the SAL- motivated toward a relatively common goal." because of occasional visits to the beach near The California businessman has fond mem- LYPORT office to talk about his work and life in So, in 1969, he launched into new waters. his home outside of Palo Alto, McMurtry ories of Houston and Rice. He grew up here; Palo Alto, California, and about his past and Working for and then with a friend, Jack Mel- prefers to view his success as the result of his parents still Live in the house they built future with Rice. chor, he began a venture capital company. external causes: good fortune, outstanding when he was six months old. Burrus recalls The fatal flaw of Fortune's victims, the The unusual aspect of this investment compa- people, and an excellent education. He con- that at Rice "Burt and Dee Dee were well- Pride that brought them from great heights to ny is that it seeks businesses with promising, siders his training in engineering to have been known campus figures. They were extremely be crushed beneath the wheel's weight, is but untried managers. McMurtry's and Mel- particularly valuable. "The discipline of engi- well-liked, and in some ways, they were a absent in McMurtry. Formerly in engineering chor's Palo Alto Investment Company, he neering," he says, "is similar to the discipline storybook pair." McMurtry is proud that he and management at Sylvania, he now owns, explains in his soft-spoken fashion, "was required to run a business effectively. Many was one of the student members of the joint with three other partners, a multi-million-dol- directed almost exclusively at what we call people think of engineers as being relatively student-faculty committee that was responsi- lar investment business; yet he maintains the start-up companies, generally starting com- narrow, focusing on facts, and wanting to ble for establishing the university's college same modest attitude that surely helped elect panies only in the San Francisco Bay area, make decisions based on absolute, explicit system. him president of the Student Association and generally with what I call inexperienced facts. And people think of business as being His interest in Rice's welfare has devel- when he was a Rice undergraduate. He hasn't management — typically, not people who an arena in which it is very hard to come by oped in recent years into an involvement in forgotten the people who spurred him on to a have done it before and who were coming to facts, and decisions must be made much fund raising activities. While he is interested spectacular career; nor has he forgotten that do it again, but rather, people who wanted to ntore on intuition, experience, and so on. I in working with other board members to tuition at Rice was free when he and his wife, do it for the first time and who would find it think that's an incorrect contrast, really, "define the problem areas and the areas of Dee Dee Meck McMurtry '56, were stu- difficult to get finances because they simply because most engineers' decisions — yes, opportunity at Rice," he definitely feels that dents. "Dee Dee and I feel very strongly didn't have the track record that would con- they're based on facts — but the facts very his main contribution will be fund raising. His aLout our interest in trying to provide finan- vince the typical financier that they were often are very thin." The conclusions, then, career as a venture capitalist suggests his cial support to the university. Both of us qualified to build a business." The Palo Alto that an engineer draws, McMurtry says, are expertise in that area. In 1973, when he and almost feel an obligation, and we really, per- Investment Company invested approximately often based on the same kind of intuition that his other partners started Institutional Ven- sonally, like to." $4,000,000 in sixteen companies, eleven of a businessman needs. ture Associates, they raised an initial total of . The businessman cites Paul Pfeiffer '38, which were start-ups. One that quickly blos- The chief pleasure of his work, he adds, nineteen million dollars. McMurtry wants to his professor of electrical engineering at Rice somed was ROLM (written about in the has come from watching the maturation of use his expertise "to get as much money into and now professor of mathematical sciences November '78 issue of SALLYPORT), managed, inexperienced entrepreneurs who have start- the university as possible ...and I would and electrical engineering, as one of the peo- it so happens, by four Rice graduates. A num- ed companies and built highly successful busi- hope, as has been done, that even more use ple who influenced him most. Pfeiffer is ber of other Rice alumni have started com- nesses. But satisfaction has also come from of financial resources would be directed pleased to talk about his former student and panies in the Bay area, McMurtry says, dealing with people who have started compa- toward minimizing costs and providing aid for present friend. He was the first electrical including Jim Treybig '63, the president of nies that, from the investors' point of view, students, really independent of explicit engineering graduate from Rice to be recruit- Tandem Computers. were complete disasters. "Sometimes there need." ed by Sylvania, Pfeiffer says. When he start- McMurtry is able to laugh about the risks is an honorable, tremendous effort, and yet McMurtry doesn't think about finance all ed there, he was put to work under a group of involved in his enterprise. "Most people I an explicit failure. But the people have han- the time. He travels with his wife and chil- physicists who gave him a problem difficult know in the business are pretty good at con- dled themselves well enough and have picked dren, 21-year-old Cathy, who wants a busi- enough — they thought — to occupy him for vincing themselves that they know what themselves up later well enough" so that in ness career, and 18-year-old John, who plans a year. McMurtry finished the problem, they're doing and that they're taking 'mea- the end, "you came up losing, and yet not to become an engineer; and he enjoys reading Which involved the modification of a sured risks' — even when in fact they're tak- bitter." — history, biography, and astronomy. "In microwave tube, and did far more — all in ing dramatic risks! Which is to say perhaps One of the partners in McMurtry's compa- recent years I've been much better able to two weeks. He did so well there, Pfeiffer we are not terribly realistic." ny usually sits on the board of the business separate myself from the business — worry says, that the company agreed to pay for his On the contrary, the success of the Palo that is being helped, whether it is receiving is a fairly typical problem which can be doctoral program at Stanford. In effect, the Alto Investment Company and then of the start-up financing, or if it's in a more devel- reduced to some degree. It eventually is professor says, they paid him to be a full-time new partnership started in 1973, Institutional oped stage, "second or third round" financ- brought home to you that your worrying student. Venture Associates, suggests a business acu- ing. Sometimes McMurtry has been about a situation is doing absolutely nothing McMurtry rewarded Sylvania with twelve men rooted both in realism and in human surprised by the discovery that what he for it, and it's a nonconstructive use of time." years of work, and in addition, recruited over understanding. As he talks, McMurtry's perceived as his most useful advice was not McMurtry is one of those rare individuals 100 Rice graduates to the company. He rose equanimity and low-key optimism reinforce the same as what the manager perceived. who enjoys whatever it is he's doing. "That through many positions while there and even- these impressions. Burrus and Pfeiffer both "Each of Us likes to think that he can have a may be because I can convince myself that I tually became one of the company's experts feel that his success results from a unique lot of influence with whomever it is that he like what I'm doing," he said with a laugh. "I in the laser field. "It seemed that every time blend of personality and intellect. "He has chooses to influence. And certainly my part- think one has to really choose his own way, there was a shuffle at Sylvania, Burton that rare combination of technical brilliance ners and I try to influence people who are and most importantly, make the best of it at moved two notches up," recalls Sidney and insight into character," Burrus says. starting and running companies that we're every moment along the way rather than But-ms '57, who knew McMurtry as a class- "And he also understands how organizations investing in. There are times when I feel choosing a way and sort of biding time until mate both at Rice and Stanford and who now work." Pfeiffer echoed these thoughts. "It's really strongly about wanting to influence the one can be someplace else!" is a Rice professor of electrical engineering. hard to put my finger on what makes a person president of a company on something that It's this optimism that helped shape and Eventually, McMurtry decided it was time tick. But he has that unusual combination of he's doing or not doing, and I use all of my propel his career, and it's the kind of attitude being very soft-spoken and yet very friendly. best persuasive powers and try to give him all that inspires the respect ofothers. "He's the Anne Grossman completed a masters degree in edu- He appears to be easy-going, but he's a per- the advice and counsel that I can. And I think kind of guy that makes teaching here a real cation at Rice in 1978. Presently she is a freelance son who thinks deeply." The professor said that I'm being very helpful....But I've gone challenge — and a satisfaction," Pfeiffer said. writer in Houstoft he also has an unusual ability to concentrate, back years later and talked with some of "He represents Rice at its best!" 8 SALLYPORT-SEPTEMBER is that I'm getting older as well, but at Cam- things about being there was just the conver- bridge there is a kind of old guard still there sations he had with people," Furlong adds. and the distance between students and the "Yes, particularly at Cambridge, it being as faculty is stood upon." selective as it is compared with the general "Is that true even with your tutor?" Fur- run of universities, it really has some fasci- long asks. nating people there," Hill says. "You learn a "Well, yes, to some extent," Hill answers. lot more from your fellow students than you "The whole teaching system at Cambridge do from your course. Although people are and Oxford is a bit different. You either go to mainly studying just one thing, the whole lectures which are really impersonal and you atmosphere and culture of the place go along and sit as an audience, or you have encourages people to spread themselves and really sort of intimate teaching situations just read novels and go to the theatre and that for an hour or so a week, usually with one sort of thing. People there do tend to have a teacher, who is your tutor. Often there is just kind of — well, I don't mean everybody — one student or a couple of students, and you but they have more of an open attitude have some work that you must do for that to learning about all sides of culture with a teacher each week. if he's a good teacher at large C." all then it's just an unrivalled learning experi- "Is it true that fewer people decide to go ence. You can really learn very fast indeed on to a university in Britain?" Furlong asks. and you sort of get pushed into learning as "Yes, I think the percentage difference is well. You get asked questions and you have really quite high between the numbers of to learn how to talk. That system really does people who go off to university in the States produce people who are more able to think and in England. Generally there isn't the kind creatively and to think for themselves." of social mobility there that there is here. "Some of the courses there, though, are Cambridge is dominated by the upper middle kind of weighted down with the really heavy classes." academic, critical approach," he admits. "And in the better courses here, there is just a really fresh, lively and often sort of personal approach. I had one course here in religion The major difference doing dream analysis which was really fasci- nating. I can't imagine anything like that in between American and Cambridge — bringing personal events and British universities is experiences into the course." Randall Furlong, who is a physics major at just the degree of Rice, is eager to learn all that he can about the place where he'll spend the coming year. specialization that you He took this opportunity to ask as many go into. questions as possible. Though he is adding and extra year to his undergraduate career in order to take the scholarship, he's convinced that it will be well worth it. "The way the "You mean they were chosen from the program is set up here, it's supposed to be a cradle to go there or something?" Furlong junior year abroad, but it's only offered every questions. other year. So, in order for us to happen to "Yeah, something like that, blueblood and be born in the wrong year to participate in it, so on. It doesn't work in a direct sort of crass Cambridge graduate Nick Hill(r.) feels qualified, after spending a year at Rice, to give Randall we have to come back and go another year at way, but the percentage of people there who Furlong '81 advice on what to say and not to say when Furlong goes to Cambridge next year. Rice," Furlong explains. "But I don't find that come from what you call private schools is a hardship because there's all kinds of inter- way above the average," Hill explains, adding By Nancy Daly esting courses that I wouldn't have had the that he attended an ordinary high school near ice undergraduates have many educa- ne of the biggest differences real- time to take but now I will." his family home in Staffordshire. tional opportunities during their four ly between Rice and Cambridge is "Was there a lot of competition at Cam- "One thing that has sort of struck me here years, some more unusual than others. that Cambridge is just rooted in bridge to win the scholarship?" Furlong asks is that you have obvious immigrant groups Among them is the chance to learn tradition and this place really Hill. - but I find it very difficult sorting out if people R "0 is, you see, the way it are in. any class at all, whereas in England from the Cambridge University students who seems so new — especially being set in "Well no. The thing come here. And a few have the chance to go Houston," says Nick Hill, who visited Rice works coming from Cambridge to here it's you know just walking down the street. The to Cambridge for a year themselves on the during the 1978-79 academic year on the not like it's a year as a part of your degree, so difference there between working class and Hill C.D. Broad Exchange Program. exchange program. Cambridge is sometimes it's not quite so attractive to most people," middle class is just like day and night," The exchange program between Rice and very stuffy but often, you know, it is really Hill answers. He already holds a degree from continues. Trinity College Cambridge was set up by dignified and impressive. Cambridge and came to Rice simply for the "Where will I fit in as an American visitor?" Frank T. Abraham, a Houston lawyer, and is Before leaving Rice, Hill got together with experience. "It kind of came up as a sort of Furlong asks. funded by the Abraham Student Aid Founda- Randall Furlong, who is on his way to Trinity accidental thing, really, for me. I don't quite 'Some people there have sort of a general tion. The foundation provides the transporta- College Cambridge from Rice, to discuss know what I was going to be doing after I grudge against powerful Americans, especial- like tion and tuition costs and some other some of the differences and benefits of the graduated and then I suddenly found out ly Texans, but most people will probably they expenses of sending a Cambridge student to two countries and the two universities. about this exchange program. It seemed like your Texas drawl," Hill responds, "and Rice and a Rice student to Cambridge on "The major difference between American just a very good way to spend a year in a will want to ask you a lot of questions. You'll alternate years. Similarly, it also provides for and British universities is just the degree of foreign country." have a room in the college. Your whole social faculty members to visit at the exchange specialization that you go into. Here you have "I think that Mr. Abraham, who put up the life and some of your academics are centered institutions for several weeks, where they all the distribution requirements and you have money for the exchange program, actually around the college. In Cambridge, people can benefit from the viewpoint on the other to do so many subjects and little bits from meant it to be a kind of cultural exchange. I tend to socialize in smaller groups and know side of the Atlantic. The two universities con- arts and sciences, whereas in England most mean it's supposed to be fairly academic, but fewer people. Americans are a lot more open tribute housing for the program participants, people in fact begin to make a decision at it's not like most of these exchange programs in some ways. I've enjoyed my year very and the students pay their own incidental sixteen and concentrate from then on either which are just high-powered academic things. much, but everybody asks me about English expenses. in science or art. At university you just do He is really sort of keen on the cultural angle politics. You're sort of expected to be an Abraham, according to several of the stu- one subject," Hill says. He adds that he just of things and just likes you to have a good authority on all these things." dents participating in the program, is a Texan did classics at Cambridge and has enjoyed time rather than really get overwhelmed by Although Hill still sounds very English to who was stationed near Cambridge at the end filling his time at Rice with such diverse top- studies," Hill continues. an American ear, he claims that American of World War II. There he became friends ics as film history and religion. Furlong agrees, but he still has some trepi- words have been slipping into his vocabularly. with Professor Broad, a philosopher. He "There are benefits on either side," he dation about how he will measure up against "I realized that I was beginning to change found their exchange of ideas so stimulating continues, "but I think,in general, it is better his British counterparts at Cambridge. "I'll be over when I started to swear in American," that he decided to offer students the same to have a broader base like you do. The prob- reading[the British term for studying] phys- he jokes. And Hill has also been schooling opportunity when he was financially able. lem is that what you gain in breadth, you lose ics for a whole year," he continues, "and I Furlong in some of the words that he'll need Abraham is involved in the panel that chooses in depth, that's just the inevitable thing. expect I'll be forced to discipline myself to to know to get along in Britain. The first thing the scholarship winners and enjoys talking "I haven't been able to judge too much learn a tremendous amount of it. This will that has to go, he says, is Furlong's nickname with them. 'about the general standards of American uni- decide whether I'm really interested in con- 'Randy,' a word that has unfortunate conno- Albert Van Helden, associate professor of versities versus British universities. I cer- tinuing with physics or not." tations in Britain. history, who is currently administering the tainly haven't been struck by any huge differ- "I'm not sure just how advanced the other Hill is hoping to stay on in the United Rice end of the program, calls it "an educa- ences. Though obviously Rice really prides students I'll work with will be," he continues. States for another year. Being here, he says, tional experience iii the broad sense." He is itself very much on being very far above the "I'm a little apprehensive about that, I've has "opened my eyes" about the free planning on spending several weeks at Trinity general American standard. The difference in talked to a few of the professors here who enterprise system, and he likes it. He's College next summer talking with historians the degree of specialization, though, throws were educated in Britain. They say that the working now with a friend who runs his own there and using the library to do some everything out of angle." approach there is less mathematical and more design and construction business. Recently research. "This sort of exchange is very use- Hill also found a profound difference in the intuitive — understanding the physical con- he also did some rock climbing in Yosemite ful in education," he adds. way that students and faculty members relate cepts underlying problems. I may have to and later he hopes to do some more traveling This year, the Abraham Student Aid Foun- to each other. "The faculty/student relation- change my reading material to just straight around the United States. dation is also sending the Rice student who ship is really looser here. Not with all the physics to try and catch up if I need to," Furlong also hopes to log some miles this placed second in the competition for the Cam- faculty obviously, but with most of them. I've Furlong explains. year. He is aiming for Greece at New Year's bridge scholarship to St. Andrews University made really good friends with a lot of the "The Rice student that was there last year and then continuing on around Europe as long in Scotland. faculty members here. I guess that part of it told me that one of the most interesting as his money will hold out. SALLYPORT-SEFFEMBER 1uicii1lLn their number each year to serve a tour y9r New Alumni Committee term on the Board of Governors of the Uni- Chairmen Designated versity. The alumni governor committee con- The Association of Rice Alumni exists to siders candidates and recommends some to "provide the means of a continuing relation- the alumni board. ship between the university and its former Four committee members are appointed students." To further define and accomplish by the president of the association. They are that, the president of the association annually Catherine Coburn Hannah '43, Madelyn Sin- appoints chairs of seventeen standing and clair Johnson '48, Finis Cowan '51, and Cam- special committess and, in consultation with ille Dockery Simpson '46. These four will those appointees, fills each committee with choose five more committee members and interested alumni, some faculty and students. the whole group will choose their chairman. Nominations for Executive Board Admissions This committee, chaired by Leb Kemp '29, The admissions committee assists the uni- nominates two or three alumni for each of six versity admissions office in recruiting stu- From 1. to r. Chris Pope Hoover '32, Mar- positions annually. Board members are then dents for Rice. Alumni schools committees in shall Ferguson Robertson '32, and Cherly elected by the alumni to serve three year Dallas and Washington, D.C. are also being Schwartz Brunson '29 look over some archives terms. piloted by the committee and the admissions material. office. A chairman for the committee is still to Publications exploring an informal history of Rice. be appointed. This committee, chaired by Steve Shaper These three dedicated workers spend a '58, serves as an editorial board for Area Clubs SAL- morning every other week preserving paper- LYPORT. The committee evaluates each Eubank Assumes Office The area club committee's task is to develop issue, work in acetate sheets. Brunson explains that both in the planning stage and The new president of the Association of Rice Rice clubs any place in the world where the after publica- the committee was started by Ray Watkin tion, to determine whether it meets the goals Alumni has been in close contact with the concentration of alumni makes that possible. Hoagland. "I had hundreds of clippings about of informing this audience of the nature university for over twenty years. Tom Chaired by Joe Reilly '48, with vice chairmen of track events since my late husband Emmett Rice as it exists on campus and in the lives of Eubank '51 says, "I have a lot of background for the Northeast: Malcolm Lovett, Jr. '67; Brunson '29 was track coach for many years alumni. information on Rice which goes all the way Southeast: Al Beerman '56 of Atlanta, Georg- and I didn't know what to do with them, so I back to my student days. I didn't go out for ia; West: Burton McMurtry '56 of Palo Alto, Student-Alumni Liaison got involved with the committee." sports, I ran for offices." Calif.; and Southwest: Lee Blocker '39 of As the name indicates, this committee exists "Every once in a while we get something Since he graduated, he has kept in touch. Austin. The committee offers planning assist- to find ways of bringing alumni and students that is absolutely priceless," Robertson says. His wife Nancy Moore Eubank '55 was the ance to local leadership and will send one together for fun and profit. Among their "If we get something that is really good, dean of women at Rice from 1958 to 1961 and speaker from the campus per year to the activities are the annual Senior Picnic wel- though, we offer it to the university she's a past vice president of the alumni asso- annual meeting of each area club. coming graduates into the association; Sur- archives," Hoover adds. ciation. Eubank has also been active in the The June meeting of the Dallas area club vival Seminars offering practical tips on life association and he and his wife have served was made notable by a lecture on "The Elec- beyond the hedges from alumni; compiling a Alumni Serve the as co-chairmen of the President's club for the tric Preacher" from William C. Martin, career advisor directory; and the Baker past two years. He has also served on the professor of sociology and master of Sid Rich- Alumni Dinner program. Warren Cole '68, a University Rice University Fund Council in several ardson College and by the lights and cameras CPA, chairs this committee. In response to a 1973 request by the alumni capacities. And the oldest of his four children, of a TV crew from CBS's 60 Minutes, who Alumni Travel association, President Hackerman regularly John Thomas Eubank III, is just starting at were taping Martin. Tom and Pam Riley Smith '51/'55 chair this asks alumni representatives to serve one or Rice as a freshman. In late July and early August, Ray Alborn committee of intrepid travelers. Each spring two year terms on fifteen of the university But Tom Eubank also has another interest '61, head football coach, brought some of his they select three or four trips a year to offer standing committees. in Rice, as a partner at the law firm Baker & staff and players to meetings of the Dallas, to Rice travelers. This year he chose Shirley Snow Ossenfort Botts, he spends a lot of his time working on Fort Worth, Tyler, and San Antonio area Each trip is accompanied by on-campus or '52 and Beverly Ward Baker '53 to replace the university's legal affairs. "I got to working clubs for a "Meet the Coaches" session. on-site lectures given by Rice faculty mem- Margie Stroup Hood '45 and Elsie Crossman Moore '54 on the Admissions Committee. on them primarily because Rice is a trust and Athletics bers who are knowledgeable about the cul- Clinton F. Morse '42 will take the seat of I was becoming a specialist in trusts and This committee encourages alumni aware- ture, art, politics, or wildlife of the area. Sharolyn Petty Wood '70 on the Committee estates, and taxes relating to trusts. Mr. ness and support of Rice athletic programs. On October 11, some alumni with classical Malcolm Lovett '21 had overseen our repre- interests will set off for a two-week Medi- on Affirmative Action. Budget sentation of Rice's work, and when he retired terranean cruise and a peek at the seven The Committee on Computers will receive I just happend to take on that job." This committee chaired by Treasurer Lew wonders and many other monuments and James E. Gerhardt '51 to replace William J. "I've worked on a lot of Rice matters, all Hancock '71 meets annually to evaluate and museums. Mathias '58. program budget. kinds, but I don't do it all," Eubank says with prepare the association's In January, a group will take a south-of-the- The new member of the Graduate Council is James R. Doty '62 replacing Dr. Isaac a smile. "If someone at Rice gets sued, gen- Classes and Reunions border sojourn, a ten day trip to study the art Dvoretzky '48. erally I would look over the papers and decide Chaired by first vice president Kay Bayless and architecture of Mexico City, Cuernavaca, Walter S. Baker '53 was chosen to fill the who here would be best able to handle it. In Dobelman '43, this committee begins meet- Oaxaca, spot of Demaris Delange Hudspeth '42 on the 1975, I handled the Rice Hotel suit myself. I ing in January to plan the annual fall Home- Australia, New Zealand, and Figi, are Committee on the Library. Baker also serves also did a lot of the preliminary work on the coming. The schedule they have developed beckoning to another group. From March 8 as president of the Friends of Fondren tuition and desegregation suit in 1965," for November 2 and 3 appears on page 2. to April 2, they'll be experiencing the last Eubank adds. frontier. Library. Education On top of all his work for Rice, Eubank Next August 23 to Sept. 3, another group Mary Ann Mewhinney Collins '54 is the Grace Grierson Bunch '51 heads this commit- until recently, has held the chair of the 25,000 will take to the waterways, this time through new appointee to the Committee on Public tee that plans the Alumni Institute. The in- member Real Property, Probate, and Trust Burgundy, France on a hotel river barge. Lectures replacing Helen Saba Worden '38. stitute occurs twice a year and offers two Law section of the American Bar Association. The final trip of the year, from Sept. 16 to The Rev. John T. King '67 assumes the lecture series on the Rice campus each time. He will continue to serve as one of two law- October 1, is called "Danube Delight." position on the Committee on Religious Alumni, faculty, and divisional deans meet to yers arguing before Congress on behalf of the Romania, a Danube cruise, and music in Vien- Activities formerly held by Eugenia Harris design the courses. Outstanding Rice faculty ABA in their effort to get the "Carry Over na are on the agenda. Howard '50. members have presented lectures on creativ- Basis" law repealed. Contact the alumni office for more informa- The alumni spots on the Research Council ity, utopias, the earth, and politics Eubank doesn't expect "any big changes" of the 60s. tion, will be filled by Dr. Fred Y. Durrance '53 and See the 527-4057. at the alumni Owlmanac for details on the present Dr. Margaret P. Sullivan '44; they replace association this year. "We are Young Alumni Committee trying to foster a closer relationship series. Dr. Lawrence Hamilton '29 and Dr. Archie between Organized two years ago and chaired then the university Arts Hood '43 on the committee. and alumni in both directions," and now by Christi Oliver '72, the young he explains. A subcommittee of education chaired by Bar- The Rice University Athletics Committee's alumni committee devises ways to focus the "Alumni as bara Long Chilton '61, this committee devel- new member is Joyce Pounds Hardy '45 individuals are the backbone of general purpose of the association for gradu- the ops programs related to the arts at Rice and replacing Temple L. Tucker '58. development effort but the relationship is ates of the past fifteen years. much looks for ways to inform alumni of the variety James H. Depenbrock '52 will take the seat more than that. We now have four They have many plans for the fall: a bus to alumni governors and of artistic events available on the Rice on the Committee on Scholarships and representatives on all the Renaissance Festival on October 28; an the university standing committees." campus. Awards being vacated by William D. Broyles, evening with the Rice Players on November Sr. '48. Honors and Awards 17, including a party and a play; and a Christ- A. Ray Pentecost, III '71 has agreed to The immediate O.W. L. S. Alumnae Active past-president of the alumni mas celebration in the R Room on December continue to serve on the Committee on Stu- Alumnae of the Owen Wister Literary Soci- association, Thomas L. McKittrick '56, 8. They're also considering some travel plans dent Affairs. serves as chairman ety have been actively meeting for over fifty of this committee which for the spring. James P. Jackson '51 was chosen to reviews years. nominees for the awards presented Alumni Archives replace Thomas B. Greene, III '71 on the by the Along with monthly meetings that include association and recommends recipi- Committee chair Cherry Schwartz Brunson Committee on Student Financial Aid. ents to lunches and an interesting slate of speakers, the executive board. '29 and members Marshall Ferguson Robert- The Committee on Student Health will over the years they've donated more than Membership son '32 and Chris Pope Hoover '32 work reg- receive Dr. A. Thomas Adkins '50 to replace $6500 for the library, the student center, and The recent alumni survey, mailed to more ularly to assemble and preserve material sent Dr. J. Robert Strawn '53. student loan and scholarship funds. than 20,000 alumni, is the product of three to the association by alumni. Oral history, Charles C. Szalkowski '70 will fill the post Their next meeting, a Christmas card pre- year's work by this committee. Guided by Liz written ancedotes, scrapbooks, newspaper held by Anne Jones Brice '70 on the Commit- view, will be Tuesday Sept. 25 at 10:30 A.M. Williams '71, they are trying to develop an clippings, student uniforms from WWI, a sen- tee on Undergraduate Curriculum. On Oct. 23, they'll gather for a lecture by Ray alumni profile. ior cane from 1918, original drawings of the Christine Keller '65 will continue to serve Miller of KPRC TV. For information contact Nominations for Alumni Governor set design for an early Archi-Arts Ball have all on the Committee on Undergraduate the alumni office. Since 1969, the alumni have elected one of been cataloged and preserved for use in Teaching. 10 SALLYPORT-SEPTEMBER Ne133,5&Nottres" Rothko Chapel Book Published The Rothko Chapel's first book, Contempla- tion and Action in World Religions, has been published. The book is a collection of papers presented by religious scholars at the Rothko Chapel colloquium "Traditional Modes of Contemplation and Action" in 1973. Participants Yusuf Ibish and Ileana Marcu- He's lookingfor you!Ray Alborn '61, head lescu edited and abridged the 'essays, then football coach, has been traveling to Texas cit- compiled them in this anthology. ies lately to meet alumni and talk about the .The colloquium grew out of Rothko Chapel "fightin' Owls." He wants alumni to get out sponsor John de Menil's desire to effect a and support the team this year and also to keep "truly ecumenical encounter" between East an eye on their local high schoolsfor potential and West. Dominique de Menil, director of recruits. Austin alumni can meet him before Rice's Institute for the Arts, describes her the Rice-U.T. game on Oct. 6, at the pre-game husband's intention in the forward which she party. wrote for the book: "The Rothko Chapel, where the colloquium took place, was meant as a sanctuary for all, a "No-man's land for Oxfam Group God ..." Two years after its completion in 1971, the colloquium on contemplation and action helped to shape the vocation of the Starts Rothko Chapel." Recent alumni have joined with the faculty and student members of the Rice community to form Oxfam-Rice, a new campus group. The aim of this group is to encourage a sus- Groundwater tained interest in helping some of the poorest people of the world to work themselves free Quality Center of poverty and disease. Alumnus Named to Energy Post Over 85 percent of the residents in Brown Funded College have agreed to skip one meal a month Former Rice trustee Charles W. Duncan, Jr. education. Our whole approach in chemical and give the money they save to Oxfam-Rice. '47 was recently appointed to the cabinet- engineering is to break things down into man- Rice University has established one of the Over one academic year, this money level position, Secretary of Energy, by Presi- ageable pieces. To me the real value that nation's major groundwater quality research is expected to provide the group with dent Carter. After the Senate energy com- Duncan will bring to the Department of Ener- centers, at the request of the federal Envi- over $1,000. mittee approved the nomination, Senator gy is in solving the problems not in playing a ronmental Protection Agency. The research All funds received by Oxfam-Rice are Henry Jackson. told Duncan, "you have the public role. He's not a political appointee." will be headed by Calvin H. Ward, profes- directly remitted to Oxfam-America, which is toughest spot anybody could have in govern- Professor Emeritus Arthur J. Hartsook, sor of biology and environmental science, a non-profit agency. ment." Senator J. Bennett Johnston from who taught chemical engineering to Duncan chairman of the department of environmental Louisiana said, "nobody is cussing Charles remembers him as "a better than average engineering. He is an authority on water Duncan but they will be." student and an extremely likable chap." conservation and quality, and has directed Hackerman Duncan assumed the controversial post Duncan has been called "private man with a water resources research for many years. September first after James Schlesinger reputation for quiet competence" in the resigned. Duncan previously was deputy sec- press. "He's not reticent but he's not an Selects Fund retary of defense. He has served as both a extrovert," Akers says. governor and a trustee of Rice over the past "I will try to manage the Department of Council fifteen years, and he was vice-chairman of the Energy in the best managerial style I know to board until he resigned in 1977 to take the achieve the president's objectives," Duncan President Hackerman has appointed nineteen appointment at the Defense Department. said recently. He thinks that conservation is new members to the 1979-80 Rice University Although he's a native of Houston, Duncan the most pressing energy issue. Fund Council. Eleven previous members will says his experience with the oil business is In 1964 when the Duncan Coffee Company also return. The new council, which serves limited. He-studied chemical engineering at merged with Coca-Cola, Duncan was named as an advisory group to the university on all Rice and he worked one summer as a rousta- to the Coca-Cola board. He was president of fund raising matters and assists in fund rais- bout and engineer for Humble Oil, but in 1949 the company from 1971 to 1974 when he ing activities, was greeted with the news that he went into management at the family-run resigned and returned to Houston. He then Rice recently received a $200,000 grant from Duncan Coffee Company, where he eventual- served as chairman of the Rotan Mosle The center is to deal with the long-range I.B.M. "to support the operations of the ly became president. Financial Corporation until 1977 when he was general problems of supply and quality of Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Adminis- "I don't think he will have problems as called to Washington. groundwater, water within the earth that tration, in particular its academic program in Energy Secretary," says William W. Akers, Duncan claims to have "friends in the supplies wells and springs, and groundwater information systems." Rice's vice president for external affairs and oil business in Texas but no business contamination caused by industrialization Class representatives to the council are professor of chemical engineering, who has ties of consequence." He is expected, along the Texas Gulf Coast. James M. Lykes '30, Joseph P. Aleo '34, T. known Duncan for a number of years. however, to divest himself of some energy- It will be founded under the auspices of the Franklin Glass, Jr. '39, James H. Elder '44, "Chemical engineering is the most liberal related investments. department of environmental science and Edward W. Kelley, Jr. '54, James A. Whit- engineering. Rice was selected as one of son, Jr. '55, Nancy Mauney Mafrige '59, and three sites for this research because the Leslie Johnson Bucher '69, all of Houston; environmental science department has and Lawrence A. Hamilton '29, Menlo Park, always emphasized its study of water as a CA; Richard Hoerster '49, Fredericksburg, resource. TX; Albert N. Kidd '64, New Orleans; and Annual Fund Begins Funding for the project will be provided by Corinne Clemons Bryan '74, Dallas. the EPA, $165,000 per year for three years, Area representatives are John B. Cole- For the second year in a row, Rice has been Carolyn Hooton Wallace '53/'53 will chair the subject to renewal by the agency. man, Jr. '59, Wilmington, DE, Eastern Dis- named runner-up for sustained alumni sup- President's Club. "Severe water shortage," according to trict; Mary Lou Hertenberger Laubach '58, port in the United States Steel Foundation's Ben C. Hayton '45 will be chairman of the Ward, is one of the center's immediate con- Englewood, CO, Central District; Butler appraisal of the annual fund campaigns over business division and William M. Boren vice- cerns. It is caused by "a newly intensified Perryman '39 of Huntington Beach, CA, the past four years at colleges and universi- chairman. Chairing the community division emphasis on'secondary and tertiary oil recov- Western District; Charles L. Tighe '51, Mid- ties around the country. will be Paul N. Howell, and the alumni divi- ery, which is bound to have an adverse effect land, Texas District; and S. I. Morris '35, Looking forward to the coming annual sion will be headed by Harry M. Reasoner on groundwater quality," he says. Contami- Houston District. fund campaign, Margaret Sullins Alsobrook, '60. nation problems also pose a threat, as chemi- Members-at-large are Judy Ley Allen '61, director of Development, says, "I think we The Rice University Fund Council area cal dump sites along the Gulf Coast and in Benjamin Brewer '55, David F. Chapman '53, have a very fine annual fund leadership organ- representatives will also serve as regional other parts of the country pollute the natural James W. Hargrove '43, Ben C. Hayton '45, ization this year. They seem to be ready and chairmen for the annual fund. resources at their origin. John G. Holland '30, B. B. Hollingsworth, Jr. willing to accept responsibility to carry out an Walter D. Murphy '48- is Llidinudn--fur The EPA is funding similar research at the '64, A. C. Lederer, Jr. '34, N. Claxton Ray- aggressive annual fund campaign." classes and James W. Hargrove '43 is vice- University of Oklahoma at Norman and Okla- zor '48, Harry M. Reasoner '60, Richard 0. Pat H. Moore '52 will serve as general chairman. Mary Bentley Arnold '36 will chair homa State University at Stillwater. Rice and Wilson '52, and Helen Saba Worden '38, all of chairman of the 1979-80 Rice Annual Fund the Houston Telefund and Kay Bayless these schools will constitute a consortium to Houston, and Frances Flanagan Bethea '39, and S. I. Morris '35 as general vice-chairman. Dobelman '46 will be vice-chairman. Albert address groundwater research problems. Baytown. Josephine E. Abercrombie '46 will be chair- and Martha Leigh Laverty will be in charge of Mason Tomson, assistant professor of Chapman, who is in his third term on the man and William H. Lane vice-chairman of the the parents section and King Walters '53 will environmental science, and Philip B. Bedient, council, will serve as chairman, and Worden, Rice Associates. Cape G. DeWitt '39 will supervise the appeal to faculty and staff. assistant professor of environmental engi- a fourth-term member, will be vice-chairman. chair the Founder's Club, and Bruce and neering, will work with Ward on the program. SALLYPORT-SEPTEMBER 11 Nam'&Notices' •

years in Winchester, Virginia, and am a sen- Stirling to Tuition and Aid ior partner in the firm of Harrison and John- ston. Recently I was inducted into the fellow- ship of the American College of Trial Renovate Rise Margaret Williams Crockett BA '39 Lawyers. I am married, with two sons: Allan, Attending Rice will cost $420 more this year recently received a Doctor of Ministry who is a senior at the University of Virginia, Anderson than last, but, in keeping with Rice's tradi- degree from Andover Newton Theological and Richard, who is a freshman at Bennington tion, increases in financial aid will still enable School in Newton Centre, Mass. She is pres- College in Vermont." Gilbert W. Thweatt Architect James Stirling has begun plans for any student who meets the admissions ently a pastoral counselor at the Middleton BS '51 has been appointed to the Interna- the M. D. Anderson Hall expansion and reno- requirements to attend the university, Pastoral Counseling Center in Middleton, tional Practice Committee Steering Group of vation. The two-fold remodeling project regardless of their financial status. G. David Mass., and she plans to enter the parish min- the American Institute of Architects. Cur- involves a $700,000 facelift for the existing Hunt, director of financial aid, says available istry of hospital chaplaincy. She and her hus- rently senior vice president and director of property as well as construction of a $1.2 aid funds this fall are more than adequate to band James have four children, Carol C. the Architectural Division for 3D/Internation- million addition to the School of Architecture handle the increase. Ward, Robert, Jean, and Mary. R. H. Brog- al, Thweatt is also a member of the compa- building. And while Rice's increase is 9.1 percent niez BA '40 writes, "After teaching archi- ny's Operations Committee and the Project Stirling was selected for the assignment by this year, it still trails increases which aver- tecture for fourteen years at Texas Tech Review Board for major projects. A dramatic the Rice Board of Trustees for his "distinc- age 15.8 percent for all the nation's private University, I have retired and will move to classnote postmarked several months ago tion in his field," and for "showing strong colleges and universities. Horseshoe Bay on Lake LBJ west of Austin, arrived recently from Bruce Vernor BS skills in creating a new building in an old or Rice tuition and required fees are up $220 where I will open an office. My three young '52 and his wife Patricia DeWald Vernor existing context." Recommendations from to $2,839 this year, room and board up $200 people, Peter, Phillip, and Alida Burdine, live '52. They related their experiences in late faculty members of the architecture school to $2,190 for both graduate and undergradu- and work in Houston. None attended Rice, so 1978 as Americans living in Iran during its also played a part in the board's decision. ate students. In September 1965, when Rice I'll leave it to future generations to renew the internal uprising. Bruce was a resident repre- Both Stirling and his partner, Michael Wil- first started charging tuition, the price was tradition of a Brogniez at Rice which began sentative in Tehran for Atlantic-Richfield for ford, have taught at Rice as visiting lecturers. $1,200 for undergraduates, and $1,500 with the second class." His sister, Alida several years, but 1978 saw an end to the The new wing is to augment existing facili- for graduates. Brogniez Madero BA '22, met her hus- American community they were a part of ties for architecture students by providing Compared with other schools having highly band, Carlos B. Madero BA '20, when there. Patricia writes: "Problems increased more studio space, a gallery, a jury room, and selective admissions and low faculty/student they both were students at Rice. "I see very in Tehran by September. Foreigners stayed a lecture theater to seat 250. The 15,000 ratios, Rice may still be one of the best bar- few of my Rice contemporaries out here," he away from the Bazaar and kept to the north square foot•addition will complement the style gains around. Tuition and required fees this continues. Stanley Moore BS '37 of Mid- part of town. Early November brought the of the present building design. fall will be $4,046 at Tulane, $4,470 at Van- land and I get together rather often. I antici- worst riots, with several hundred banks Assisting Stirling with the project will be derbilt, and $3,920 at Southern Meth- pate an increase in that possibility once we attacked and their contents burned, on the local associates Robert Ambrose and Michael odist University. get situated in Horseshoe Bay." "My mail streets. Movie theaters, the National Gas McEnany. Work is to be completed by spring The same charges at Harvard will be must go all over Australia, because I receive Company, and a small new hotel were 1981. $5,300, Yale $5,550, Princeton $5,583, Duke it months later," writes Norman Newsome burned. Bruce and I were having lunch out $4,430 and Stanford $5,595. Among the pri- BS '40. "I am manager for Esso Australia, with a friend when the driver came in and said vate undergraduate colleges, Bennington in living in beautiful Perth, and my main activity we must leave the restaurant immediately. Vermont is still the most expensive at is drilling offshore in 4000 feet of water, in The military which had been at most major $6,500, and Brown is next at $5,615. northwest Australia." Children in Texas will intersections that morning were gone and the Shopping for the best buy in a college edu- now be screened for eye problems when they crowd was wild." December proved no bet- cation is a little more difficult than pricing a first enter school, thanks to a bill sponsored ter for the Vernors. "It appeared it might be new car, and the process is complicated by by Bill Caraway BS '41, a Democratic calm for awhile." But things deteriorated rap- the variety of financial aid packages that senator in the state legislature from Houston. idly with even greater shortages of many are available. Also retiring is John Earl Glassie, Jr. BA things, Patricia added, and the violence was "The catalogue price for tuition has little to '41. "After thirty-one moving closer to the office area. "The most do with what it costs a college to educate the years in our public school important events of the day were the call student," Hunt points out. "The average cost systems, serving as from the Embassy security pyramid system to Rice for each student will be somewhere coach, classroom teach- through the companies, the call from the around $6,500 or $6,600 this year, while we er, principal, curriculum American Women's Club which usually said nominally charge $2,839. But what we list in director, and superin- 'Keep a low profile,' and the BBC broadcasts. the catalogue as the price is open to negotia- tendent, my wife, Tom- These gave a good idea of what was occur- tion, based on how much financial need a stu- mie (TCU '45), and I plan ing in Iran. The local radio might or might not dent can show." to retire. We will move to report difficulties; the press, which had been To complicate things further, the ability of our new home, being built on our farm mid- free for a few weeks in the fall, was again Music Dean colleges to provide financial aid varies. A stu- way between Temple and Gatesville, Texas. being censored. "If the electricity went out dent may actually pay more at a school with I've enjoyed my working years — oil fields, during the BBC, we could switch to the bat- Selected little endowment or gift income that charges public schools, insurance, and real estate teries, and turn on the kerosene lamp. Soon, $2,500 tuition than he or she would at a heav- sales — and now, Tommie and I plan to try however, kerosene, bottled gas for cooking, -endowed school charging $4,000, but with raising cattle and Allen A. Ross was named the new dean of the ily our hand at some farming, and heating oil were all short, and it was provide more aid. And of We Shepherd School of Music in July. He has the resources to horses. Our future looks interesting! getting colder ..." As the month came to a higher the tuition is, the greater old already assumed his duties as dean with the course, the hope to make new friends and renew close, things grew worse. "Our phone had need students can show. C. Sheehan BS start of this semester. acquaintances." William been out several days. The office force was promoted to Ross holds degrees in piano and choral '44 has been on strike and oil production on Lavan Island of business conducting from the University of Rochester manager had been shut down for some time. After the development for the Gulf and Indiana University. He has been a faculty Brelsford and murder of the American oil man at Ahwaz, of The Rust member at Indiana University since 1967, Coast region there had been great pressure put on oil com- Engineering Company. and assistant dean of its School of Music since Evans Join panies and personnel to leave. The last The mechanical engineer 1977. threatening letter said to get out by a date in brings over thirty years of January or else, and suggested that it would Administration experience in the chemi- be best to let the Iranians settle their own John Evans '49 has returned to Rice after a cal industry to his new problems, and maybe we would be welcome Giving Club ten year hiatus to become the new director of position. Mechanical engineer Chester L. back someday." Their ordeal ended shortly placement. He served as director of place- Strunk BS '48 moved up in management after curfew ended at 5 a.m. on December ment at Rice for eleven and a half years, from recently, too. He has been appointed general 29th. "We didn't have plane reservations Welcomes New July '58 to November '69, before becoming manager of refining and engineering for because the phones were out, and many of personnel director for the Houston office of Champlin Petroleum Company, which the airline computers didn't work. After wait- Members Deloitte, Haskins and Sells, an accounting involves responsibility for Champlin's three ing for seats on British Airways for an hour firm. While at Rice earlier, Evans also served refineries and transportation facilities. with a thousand others, it was discovered The President's Club was established in the as executive secretary of the Association of George A. Klumb BA that Swiss Air had spaces, so we went to fall of 1970 as a means of bringing together Rice Alumni, and he is a former editor of the '49 has recently been Zurich. There was a great cheer from all alumni, parents and friends who give sub- SALLYPORT. named director of Con- aboard when we lifted off above the snow stantial support for Rice's current opera- "I've always enjoyed the area of career tract Research and Infor- covered mountains." In spite of their experi- tions. Membership is on an annual basis placement. It's a little different than person- mation Services for Dow ence, the Vernors say "We sincerely wish (July 1 through the following June 30) and nel because you're working with young peo- Chemical Company. He the best for the Iranian people. Westerniza- includes the individual and his or her ple," Evans says. has served in a number of tion and change were happening very rapidly, Spouse. Elsewhere on campus, John W. Brelsford, positions since joining placing many strains on a traditional society. associate professor of psychology, is moving Dow in 1949. Much of the westernization was of the type First-time President's Club members during from Sewall Hall to Lovett Hall, as the new one might wish could be avoided. "They have the months of May, June and July are: registrar. Brelsford joined the psychology had the strength and determination to come David W. Eckman '64 department in 1970 after assistant professor- this far, so perhaps they can rebuild and be Dr. R. S. Thurston & Dr. C. Lowe '75/'78 ships at Stanford and Yale Universities. His better than before. But it will never be as we Mrs. Dean Merck '29 current duties will curtail some of his teaching knew it again." The Vernors have gone to Stewart C. O'Dell '78 responsibilities, but not all. Psychology stu- another corner of the world to rebuild their Miss Laura J. Wise '78 dents can still look forward to his courses on William A. (Pete) Johnston BA '51 home. Bruce has accepted a position as the Joseph D. Welsh learning and cognition. writes, "I've been practicing law for twenty resident representative for Atlantic-Richfield 12 MI11111 M I EI II I II I I MI • in Peking, China, so they're off to the Orient. '63 Baker has been Richard M. Griffith BS named head of the depart- '53 has been named ment of biology at the manager of polymer pro- University of North Caro- cessing and engineering lina, at Greensboro. His in the research division of chief areas of specializa- The General Tire and tion are biochemistry and Rubber Company of regulatory mechanisms. Akron, Ohio. Griffith He will head a department joined the company in of twenty-two full-time faculty members. 1975. Joseph Shaffer BA '55 and Bucky "Since we have an upcoming twentieth Allshouse BA '71, along with fellow attor- reunion," writes J. Robert Elster BA '59 ney Robert Bennett, have opened new of- Will Rice, "I decided to submit a brief fices at Suite 1630 Two Allen Center. All report: I am a partner in a thirty-two lawyer three lawyers have practiced law in Texas firm in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. My throughout their careers. particular area of practice is in the field of Cheryll Madison Calio BA '56 is "now corporate and insurance defense litigation. I working at the White House for fellow Texan am currently serving as president of the Sarah Weddington, the special assistant to North Carolina Association of Defense Attor- the President. The primary focus of her neys. My wife Suzan is a Winston-Salem White House staff is women's issues." She native. We have two children — John, 13, adds, "My husband Dr. Anthony J. Calio is and Mary, 12." now associate administrator for space and terrestrial applications at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C." John E. Ludwig BS '56 has moved from Cleveland, Ohio to 1960-1969 Family Firm Nederland, Texas, where he is currently the facilities manager for B. F. Goodrich at the "We build hospitals, churches, and schools, as well as private company plant in Orange, Texas. "After John P. Bourg BS '61 homes," says Hugh Gragg BA '41, BS '42, MA '47. "We" means twenty years of staying home," writes Anne Wiess has been appoint- Hugh and Annette Gano Gragg BS '47, his wife. Both architects, the Hill Mayagoitia BA '56, "I have started ed vice president and husband-wife team competes with larger downtown firms for major working as an English-Spanish translator for a general manager of the projects. Once Fasson Roll Materials they get them, the couple do all the work themselves, law firm known as Creel Abogados, the Mexi- Division of Avery Interna- from drafting to the final design. Annette does the books as well. co City correspondents for the Houston firm tional. Bourg will be "Our most recent project is an addition to the Franklin Elementary of Butler, Binion, Rice, Cook and Knapp. My responsible for market- School on Canal Street. The school was built in 1916, so the struc- lawyer husband Alberto and I are both gov- ing, sales, manufacturing ture required a great deal of renovation as well as the addition." ernment-licensed translators, and we have and financial operations of the Roll Materials Running a one-couple firm has "its advantages and disadvantages," four teen-aged daughters and a son, age 11." Division, the largest Fasson U.S. division. according to Hugh. "You must rely on your reputation to get new "Dear Friends," began a recent letter from Fasson Roll Materials Division is a leading business. Of course, on the other hand, Jim Foerster BS '57 Wiess, "I thought producer of self-adhesive materials and auto- we don't employ anyone there might be someone in the class of 1957 else, so that helps when business is slow." matic labeling equipment. Leigh Master- who would be interested in what is going on son BA '61 Hanszen will move to Aber- The Graggs designed their own home and built it in the Rice area. in my life. I always enjoy hearing about The contemporary wood style house stands deen, Scotland, for his new position as vice out among its many two- everyone else so much." Enclosed with this president of marketing and finance for the story brick neighbors. note was an announcement of Jim's selection Lasalle Group of Companies. The move will Explaining their theory of design, Hugh says, "Those who would as Vice-President, Director of General Agen- be nothing new for Masterson, however; he like to label buildings according to a particular style tend to oversim- cies Division, for Southland Life Insurance has fourteen years of experience working in plify matters. Company. Jim and his wife Mary have four Europe and the Middle East. Carruth "It's really a question of good design. When you get into stylizing, daughters and a son. "Since I've always McGehee BA '61 Will Rice teaches math- talk becomes more rhetoric than it should be," he adds. He points to enjoyed the SALLYPORT, I'm checking in again," ematics and serves as chairman of the depart- an antique, a tall secretary against the far wall. "All the elements in writes Moreland Hogan BA '57, in a ment at Louisiana State University. Yet he this room work well together because each is essentially good recent letter recounting the events of the last still finds time to write. His book, Essays in design." A contemporary painting and a watercolor above the couch, few years. "In 1976 we moved back to David- Commutative Harmonic Analysis, co- and two still-life photographs framed in Lucite fit in simply with the son where I had taught at Davidson College in authored with Colin Graham of Northwestern the early 60s, because it was the nicest place University will be published by Springer-Ver- decor to illustrate his point. The entire house reflects this harmony. we could find to raise children and live a rea- lag in the Grundlehren series this fall. John Architecture began for both Graggs at Rice, and they share fond sonably peaceful life. Our business, highly B. Bonds BA '62 Will Rice is commanding memories of several professors in the School of Architecture: James specialized scholarly and technical typeset- officer aboard the ammunition ship USS Chillman, William Ward Watkin, and James C. Morehead. They ting, could be carried on almost anywhere Mount Baker, currently near Palma de Mal- recalled working on projects similar to those that students do today, and certainly didn't need the high overhead of lorca in the Mediterranean. The Mount including a competition sponsored by the Texas Society of Archi- a city like Chapel Hill, where we had been for Baker has participated in training exercises tects. "The TSA competition was first held in 1947, and Annette five years. The tranquil life changed radically with other Sixth Fleet units and those of allied won, with a design for a small hospital," Hugh says. in September 1977 when we bought the local, nations, with port visits scheduled in several Annette came to Rice from Oklahoma, where her father and his nearly moribund weekly paper. We changed Mediterranean coastal cities. "After two partner had an office in Tulsa. After she came to Rice, her family the paper's format, made it considerably live- tours to tropical southeast Asia, four years lier, and gradually built the advertising and with Rice ROTC, three years at Ft. Sam moved to Texas, too. Hugh came from Dallas. He knew he wanted to subscription lists. We also ran in the red for Houston in San Antonio, the Army saw fit to go into architecture, so he entered Rice, and proceeded to get three months, so after 84 issues and a lot of intangi- release me from hot and balmy winters," degrees. ble benefits, we sold the paper and returned writes Phil Norman BS '62 Hanszen, Yet their involvement with Rice just barely began with undergrad- to private life. As the only regular hands at "and is assigning me to the army recruiting uate days, particularly for Annette. Currently serving as the second the Briarpatch Press, we set type for some command at Ft. Sheridan, Ill. I'm looking for- vice president of the alumni association, she is past president and university press books and we compose and ward to not golfing or enjoying the outdoors member of the Rice Women's Group, a member of the alumni fine print six short-run (under 1500 copies) jour- and sun this winter," he says with a shiver. arts committee, and past co-chairman of the alumni publications com- nals. Under the Briarpatch Press imprint, we C. Edwin Meador BA '63 Hanszen has mittee. Her favorite Rice committee, however, is that of the Alumni publish local and regional history, poetry, and been appointed vice president in charge of Institute. "It's one of the best things the alumni do," she says. assorted prose works. In addition, we're finance and chief financial officer for TBW "We've participated in it its origin." starting a bi-monthly magazine, Briarpatch, Industries, Inc. He will be responsible for since which will carry poetry, fiction, and essays. planning and financial management of TBW When not involved with their architecture clients or the alumni The first issue will be August 1979. "A small and its divisions. Donald R. Kitks BA '64 activities at Rice, the Graggs relax at home. "We've taken an interest world note: among our friends here are Bo Wiess has been selected as the recipient of in gardening and growing vegetables," Annette says. "We built the Brickels and his wife Lynn. Bo came to the annual John Caffey Award by the Society greenhouse in the back, and are enjoying it very much." Her handi- Davidson College from. Rice, where he had for Pediatric Radiology. He is currently asso- work highlights different rooms in the house. A handmade Rya rug been an assistant basketball coach, and even- ciate professor of radiology and pediatrics at hangs over the stairwell, and its colors — blues, greens, white and tually left because he knew that Davidson had Duke University Medical Center. The award black — blend in dramatically with the high white walls and cedar no business trying to play high powered bas- he received is named in honor of the late John wood of their home. The wool for the rug was purchased in Helsinki, ketball these days. He is now our insurance Caffey who is considered the father of pedia- when the Scandinavia with the salesman, and his wife was the paper's adver- tric radiology as a subspecialty in medicine. Graggs were in Rice alumni group tising last year. Besides sewing and rug-making, Annette also saleslady." E. R. "Bob" Schumach- "We thought you would like to know," writes silk-screens er BA '57 Will Rice, was elected president John Bassler BA '65 Wiess and Jouette in the studio upstairs. Hugh likes to work in the greenhouse or on the of the National Association of Metal Finish- MacCurdy Bassler BA '64 MA '65 projects currently in progress. Both look forward to weekends, when ers. Currently the president of the Brown, that we are moving from Yale, "we get to watch our grandson grow." Schumacher Company, he is also on the Hamden and Connecticut to the Washington —Jeanmarie Amend '80 board of directors of Industrial State Bank in area. Jouette has received her Ph.D. degree Houston. William K. Bates BA '59 PhD in religious studies from Yale, and will join the 13

department of theology at Georgetown Uni- with C.Novotny BA'68Will Rice andHawes. versity in Washington this September. I am Clarence E. Reed BA now a member of the research staff of the '68 Baker has joined the Institute for Law and Social Research also in Apache Corporation as Washington, a non-profit corporation that corporate counsel. The does information system development and corporation is an oil and research in the criminal justice system." gas exploration and pro- Jouette adds, "We hope you will stay in touch duction company with with us, and if you travel to the D.C. area, if industrial and agricultural You're not already there, we'd be delighted to operations. The new see you." Barbara Raye Lucas Beckett position means a move for the Reeds to Min- BA '65 Jones and her husband James are neapolis from Illinois. Like many SALLYPORT now in Utah, after a recent move from New readers, Stephanie F. Wiley BA '68 Jersey, where Barbara taught in the French Brown writes that she "always reads the department at Rutgers University. Their sec- Classnotes first!" She says, "It's horrifying to ond child, Julie Elisabeth, was born Novem- discover another column after mine — it ber 20, 1978. seems only yesterday instead of eleven years Barry Gaines BA '65 Hanszen received ago. I heard from Suzanne Hollyfield the Alumni Outstanding Teaching Award for Koehler BA '67 Brown; she and her fami- 1979 at the University of Tennessee. He and ly are coming home from Saudi Arabia the his wife Janet will be spending the coming long way, with stops in India, Hong Kong, the academic year in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Phillipines, and Hawaii. I saw where various where he will be teaching at the University of friends had been promoted and advanced in New Mexico as a visiting professor of Eng- their careers so I had a quick glance at my lish. James L. Rice BA '65 Hanszen has achievements. I survived two consecutive been appointed a director rounds of chicken pox in my children. My in the accounting firm of youngest, Nikki, 3, is heading off to school. I Heading Upwind Deloitte Haskins and have vast plans to write a bestseller, become Sells. He and his wife a concert pianist, a master seamstress, and Yachtsmen from all over the world compete in the Ocean Triangle Janis, and their child- build our new house in those three mornings race each spring; the event begins in Miami, stretches east across ren, James, JaneIle, and a week. Besides family accomplishments, I the Gulf Stream to the Bahamas, then extends up to Worth Inlet, Julie, reside in Houston. was president of a local women's group that Florida. Nils Muench BA '49, MA '50, PhD '55 was navigating the James Bearden BA '66 raised over $1200 for our student loan pro- in the race this year, when April, I ran into Pirana along the last third of that course Will Rice has received a gram. When I had jury duty in tragically interrupted. the National another Rice alumni, Lee Hyder, BA '58 the crew's competitive effort was three year, $150,000 grant from seas rolled the boat to such an extent Cancer Institute to continue research he Hanszen. Not much to you Texans, but High winds and turbulent American Cancer there are only four of us in the Aiken area. I that one crew member was tossed overboard. The Pirana crew began two years ago on an pass Society grant. Bearden, a biophysicist, is enjoy reading the SALLYPORT, and appreciate couldn't pick up the man who seemed to be sinking on the first working at the Cancer Center of Hawaii in the contact being kept alive." William and Muench felt the situation was desperate. "I knew he could not Honolulu. His work there centers around the Devon Bryant BA '69 Lovett has survive without direct help," Muench wrote in an article that study of normal and cancerous liver cells in a received his D.D.S. from the University of appeared in Southern Boating, April '79. "I grabbed my flotation Particular strain of mice. In comparing Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. vest, ran topside to the rail, and jumped overboard. My concern was healthy and cancerous tissue, he notes the Ralph Edward Burdick BA '69 Will the boat would drift further from Tom, and I was sure he would has received a Doctor of Osteopathy that various proteins that are produced to see Rice sink and disappear quickly." how they affect the function of the cell. degree from Philadelphia College of Osteo- He was totally "On January 10, 1979," "When I reached Tom, he was still below the water. "While there is a lot that doctors dealing with pathic Medicine. and as far as I could relatively new cancer writes Linda Wald Gibson BA '69 Jones, lifeless, there was no muscle tone or reaction, Patients can do with the to keep afloat, Muench had to drugs available today, simply because it has "our second child, Amanda Elizabeth, was tell, he was not breathing." In order been demonstrated that the drugs work in born. In July, Ray, Jeremy, Mandy, and I will leave the body to swim to the float vest which drifted six feet away. certain ways to inhibit cancers, there's a move back to Texas after being away for On his return, Tom had slipped below the surface and Muench could Whole lot that isn't known about how and why seven years. Ray will be an assistant profes- no longer find him. these drugs work as they do," Bearden sor of anesthesiology at the University of The Pirana returned and the crew was able to pick up Muench but recently told the Honolulu Star-Bulletin & Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. We'll be never found the other man, in spite of a two-hour search. back in Hous- they Advertiser.. Gretchen N. Vik BA '66 living in Clear Lake City." Also The experience on the Pirana made a profound impression on Brown has been quite busy recently. She ton after a seven year absence are Dana enthusiasm for sailing or manage- BA '69 Hanzen and Muench. But it did not effect his was recently promoted to associate professor Michael Johnston own sloop, the 39' Moonraker. "I race with also his wife Bennie Goggan Johnston BA ment of crew aboard his at San Diego State University. She is boat. The standard safety procedures are writing a second text in business communica- '69 Jones. He writes, "My career as an a crew of nine on my consulting." operations manager and account executive already there. Some of my crew may fasten their safety harnesses tions, and "does a good deal of " "My wife Jeanette, our daughter Heather, with Merrill Lynch took us from Houston to more readily (since the incident), but I think that's all and I are pleased to announce to old friends Chicago to Columbus, Ohio, and now, at my The tragedy also did not diminish Muench's desire to race. "My the birth of Phillip Andrew Kennedy Alexan- request, 'home'. We would love to see our next big thrust is with a boat called the Slingshot, a 60' proa," he der in Portland, June 5th," writes Steven R. old friends, so please call 479-3684 or 840- said. "We hope to break the current world record, just under 40 Alexander BA '67 Baker. "I recently 4773 if you want to know what the market is miles an hour, at a race in mid-October in Weymouth, England. With accepted the position of assistant professor in doing!" "Moving!" announces Andrea hope to go 40 miles an hour or better; we're fairly confident Norman BA '69 Brown. "In luck we Pediatric nephrology and director of the Ore- Hausman we'll break the record." gon Pediatric Critical Care and Emergency August I'm moving from Seattle to Texas to career at senior research chemist When not sailing, Muench pursues an equally exciting Transport System at the University of Ore- accept a position as laboratories there. prac- for Dow Chemical Company in Freeport, General Motors as technical director of research gon Medical Center." "I am in the solo departments that conduct tice of surgery in the Houston suburb of Texas. I have a tenured position as an associ- "As technical director, I supervik Humble," writes Richard A. Evans BA ate professor of chemistry at Seattle Pacific research in six fields: physics, mathematics, computer science, '67 Will Rice. My primary interest is in University, where I've taught for six years, transportation and traffic science, and societal analysis. My job is to limited surgery for breast cancer." "Alter but I am trying an industrial career for provide an overall management and general cognizance of the twenty-eight years of school," writes Rich- awhile." John S. Solomon BA '69 Rich- remainder of the research departments. It is primarily an administra- ard A.(Janowski) Janson BA '67 Wiess, ardson has been named F. Goodrich tive task." "I finally got up the courage to enter the real to the B. His position at GM culminates a career in private and government world. Along with wife Mary Ann and daugh- Winners Circle Honor enjoys. "I think that physics and Society for 1979, for his research, which Muench says he ter Sarah (seven months), I have moved to stimulation which is very exciting." plastic outstanding sales research provide an intellectual Grand Junction, Colorado, to open my he studied "primarily mathematics and surgery practice. Will try to make this beauti- achievement last year. At Rice, Muench says a num- The BFG Winners Circle physics." After attending law school at South Texas College to ful city even more beautiful." "After the ber of years of studenting and wandering," is a national sales honor "round out my education," he returned to Rice and entered writes Joanna Alexander-Sullivan BA program for sales person- graduate physics program. "Out of only around a dozen in the gradu- '68 Brown, "I have joined other Texan nel. Solomon is a new products and specialty ate physics program with me, one is now vice president in charge of exiles in New England. We're enjoying all polymers sales representative in the Atlanta research at General Electric, and another is currently in charge of four seasons, mussels, maple syrup, sea, office of the company's chemical group. research at Gould Industries. I think Rice's batting average for plac- mountains, Quebec, New York City, Boston, ing its graduates is rather high." and more, all within 25 to 250 miles from a corporate executive, a member of the bar, an engineer holding my A country house. I have actually completed 14 patents and a yachtsman, Muench nonetheless modestly asserts dissertation on an Algerian writer in North things: "My family, Boston that his interests are "limited" beyond a few Billerica, Mass. — near Lowell, a an educational community in exurb — and am now a bilingual secretary, General Motors, sailing, and Cranbrook, and into free enterprise. "I have received my Ph.D. in planetary sci- Bloomfield Hills, Michigan." freelance writer, —Jeanmarie Amend '80 Please feel free'to call if you're in the area, ences, from the University of Arizona," and even if you're not! Have recently spoken writes Carlton C. Allen BA '70 14 SALLYPORT-SEPTEMBER

Japan Research Center, I will now be enter- She will begin a radiology residency at the ing Osaka University as a research fellow in University of Texas Medical School at San Japanese art and architectural history. Will be Antonio Teaching Hospitals. living in Kyoto until June 1980 doing disserta- "I graduated from U.T. Law School last tion research on 15th through 17th century May,".writes Dana Adrienne Burch BA temple and residential design." J. Peter '76 Jones, "and have been admitted to the Jordan BArch '71 Hanszen writes, "Last Texas Bar. I am now in Amarillo, working for year, after four years in Atlanta, Carolyn and the legal department of Diamond Shamrock in I moved to Honolulu. I am writing specifica- the field of energy regulatory law." Noel tions for Media Five Architects and Carolyn Albert DeBacker BA '76 Richardson has is an associate chaplain at Plinahou School. If received his M.D. degree from Baylor Col- you are visiting Hawaii, please give us a call." lege of Medicine. He will begin a residency in In June, Marilyn Jean Crain BA '72 internal medicine at Northwestern University Brown completed her medical school career Medical School Affiliated Hospitals in Chica- at the University of Texas Health Science go. For his "outstanding civic and profession- Center at San Antonio. She now enters a al contribution to his community, state and pediatrics residency at William A. Shands nation," Barry H. Josselson BA '76 Teaching Hospital and Clinics, in Gainesville, Richardson has been recognized as an Out- Florida. Also receiving an M.D. from the Uni- standing Young Man of America. Barry lives versity of Texas Health Science Center at in Pasadena, Cal. Ann Maclaine BA '76 San Antonio was Samuel Lewis Hudson Baker writes, "I finished law school at the BA '72 Will Rice. His residency in ortho- University of Michigan in May. I am tempo- pedics will be at John Peter Smith Hospital, in rarily working as a law clerk for U.S. District Talking to the Chairman Ft. Worth. Leigh Whitton Murray BA Judge Justice, who is hearing a long prison '72 Brown writes, "After fighting off the case in Houston. I will be moving to Tyler for The new chairman of Rice's Board of Governors is an international depression of my husband Mike's (Ph.D. several months with the court after the trial is businessman, an entrepreneur, and a Houston civic leader with deep '70) death in 1975, I finished up my masters over, I'll eventually end up in Dothan, Ala- convictions about the university's strength and prestige. degree in statistics at L.S.U., then moved to bama as a staff attorney for legal services As chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Houston Virginia Polytechnic Institute to work on my there." "I am beginning my fourth year of Natural Gas, Robert Herring heads a corporation with $1.5 billion a Ph.D. in statistics. Finishing up coursework, medical school in San Antonio," writes Jeff year in revenues. On July 1 he succeeded James U. Teague as Rice's prelims, etc., I moved to Miss. State to write Mandel BA '76 Hanszen, "by quitting the board chairman after twelve years of preparatory membership. my dissertation. I'm not finished yet, but I city for four months in favor of sunny Califor- Why does a corporate executive with intense, international have taken a job in the department of mathe- nia. I will be at Moffitt in San Francisco all of matical sciences at North Dakota State Uni- August in the ICU, in San Diego at Mercy responsibilities in today's volatile energy business devote time and versity, Fargo, N.D. Hopefully, I will finish in Hospital from September 1 through October interest to the affairs of an independent university? "Partly it's January of 1980. I would love to have news of 12, and at the San Diego Veteran's Hospital because Houston has been good to me and I owe it something in M(B)2, Kathy, and others. All are welcome in through November 12. Anyone from Rice is return," he says. "Largely it's because I think Rice is very important Fargo, any time!" invited to look me up." "Well I was stuck in and what I have learned can be of help. It's a distinct honor to me to Michael Alsup BA '73 Wiess writes, Houston after graduation from UT med be chosen." " ...I've been with the management con- school here," writes David T. Moody BA Herring says friends remarked on the prestige of Rice again and sulting group at Arthur Anderson for three '76 Richardson. "But I will soon move on again as they congratulated him. He also came in for razzing as the years, but Mr. Greeley called and I'm off to to Charlottesville, Va. to begin a four year first Texas Aggie to head Rice's governors. Texas A&M awarded Stanford with a Ph.D. fellowship in economic residency in psychiatry there. Any class- his bachelor's degree in economics and feted him in 1974 as a systems in the fall." "After graduating from mates in the area permanently or transiently Rice," writes Mike Cronholm '73 are welcome to give me a call, drop by, or distinguished alumnus. Hanszen, "I have worked one year at whatever." Laurie Reynolds BA '76 But he has also done postgraduate work in finance and economics Ham's Youth Village, spent four years in Jones sends this news: "After graduation in at Georgetown University, a private institution, and finds Rice medical school at Southwestern in Dallas, and psychology in 1976, I started over again at challenge to his business acumen. "We had two successive years of have just started my second year of training the New England Conservatory of Music in deficits at the first of the 1970s," he recalls, "and you can't have that in internal medicine at Baylor University Boston. I am now finishing my sophomore and stay in business indefinitely. We have great confidence in Presi- Medical Center in Dallas." Doug Frieden- year and doing well. I returned to Texas dent Hackerman's operation of the institution. One of our chief con- berg BA '73 Will Rice writes, "I'm now a (McAllen) for a big wedding: my marriage to cerns has to be with Rice's financial future, with providing the funds stockbroker working for Dean Witter Rey- Kimball Stickney on June 9th. He's a pianist and facilities to support good faculty and good students." nolds in New York. It happens that at a and just received his master's degree in work recent stockbrokers meeting, I ran into jazz composition from the Conservatory. I'd Herring also speaks with pride as he discusses his years of Alan Kyle BA '73 Hanszen, who's stock- love to hear from anyone, and will be in the chairing the governors' committee on buildings and grounds. "There brokering in Miami. Alan walked over to me Boston area for awhile. Y'all come!" was a large job to be done in renovating the physical plant and the and said, "Say, aren't you ...?" and I was, of Christopher Randall Thomas BA '76 entire electrical system after years of deferred maintenance. Now course. But we didn't know one another from Hanszen received an M.D. degree from we use one-third less energy than we did five years ago, and we have Rice. Alan remembered me from the National Baylor College of Medicine this past May. He a systematic program of renovating one building a year." Spelling Bee of 1964, where we'd both been will enter a psychiatry residency at McLean A native Texan, Herring takes his civic responsibilities seriously. contestants, some fifteen years ago. I only Hospital in Virginia. He also chairs the Texas Heart Institute, is a past president of the identified him as a Rice grad when I saw the "Any Rice alumni hiding in the woodwork of Houston Chamber of Commerce, and is now vice-president of the ring on his finger. After some negotiation, we Purdue?" asks James Charles Tilton BA Houston Symphony Board. His corporate career began with Fish decided to issue a joint communique, inviting '76 MEE '77 Baker. He is "now working quickly became vice-president, old Rice friends to get in touch with us. Alan's on a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Pur- Engineering Corp. in 1950, where he address: Penthouse 104, 2333 Brickell Ave- due, after completing an M.S. in optical sci- then president. By 1958 he was president of Valley Gas Production, nue, Miami, Florida 33129. My address: ences at the University of Arizona." He adds, Inc. When it -was merged with Houston Natural Gas in 1963, he 1326 Madison Ave. Apt. 3, N.Y., N.Y. "My research is based at Purdue's Laborato- began rising through the ranks to become president and chief execu- 10028. "In the continuing saga of my moving ry for Applications in Remote Sensing. While tive officer in 1967. In 1973 he also became chairman of the board. life," writes Bobbie Cook Martindale BA at the University of Arizona, I found Rice Asked how he finds time for myriad civic and corporate responsi- '73 Jones, "I have once more changed my alumni Bob Simpson BA '73 Wiess and bilities, Herring doesn't hesitate for a second: "It's because I work address; I am now in Dayton, Ohio. I have Emily DeWitt BA '74 Baker. " Austin with good people — at the office and here at Rice." He smiles married, and am pursuing an MBA. Ken and I W. Boyd, Jr. BA '77 Richardson reported warmly, shakes hands, and briskly moves on to another meeting. will be here for at least 18 months before the for duty at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Air Force decides to move us again." She Christi this month. He is an ensign in the — David Rodwell adds, "Any visitors are welcome." Russell Navy, which he joined in 1977. "Dear SAL- Jackson Cox BA '74 Will Rice will be nponers," writes Jerri Reynolds Nelson Hanszen. "I am presently working as a national relations for the university. Susan moving too. Russell received his M.D. from BA '77 Hanszen. "Richard is-still working post-doctoral research fellow at the geology Dumas BA '70 Brown received her M.D. the University of Texas Health Science Cen- at designing telephones. He recently com- department at the University of New Mexi- from the University of Texas Health Science ter at San Antonio in June. He will be in a pleted a project for a phone in the form of an co." John Booth BA Center at San Antonio this June, and will con- pediatrics residency at the University of alligator. I will start graduate study in art '70 Will Rice was tinue her medical studies with an opthalmolo- Arkansas for Medical Sciences Affiliated Hos- conservation this September, at NYU's Insti- selected as a Fulbright gy residency at Good Samaritan Hospital and pitals, in Little Rock. John M. Osborne BA tute of Fine Arts." Her husband, Richard F. Lecturer for the National Medical Center, Portland, Oregon. "After '74 Baker has been appointed an instructor Nelson, Jr. BS'76 MEE '77 Lovett adds, Autonomous University three years as an assistant D.A. in El Paso," of history at Dickenson College in Carlisle, "We enjoy reading the SALLYPORT, and espe- of Costa Rica, School of writes Tom Wright BA '70 Baker, "an Pennsylvania. Currently he is working on a cially love hearing about old friends in International Relations. abortive political race for El Paso County Ph.D. degree in English history at Stanford Classnotes." Mechanical engineer Robert Currently an assistant Commissioner, and nine months as an attor- University. James Curran Lemons, Jr. Sisk BS '77 Richardson has been named professor of political sci- ney in private practice, I am now an attorney BA '75 Hanszen has received a Master of project manager for the Penske Corpora- ence at the University of Texas at San Anto- for El Paso Natural Gas, and I love it." "I Divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist tion's part in the Petroline Trans-Saudi Crude nio, Booth will go on a one-year leave of have changed my Japan residence from Theological Seminary in Fort Worth. Ann Oil Pipeline Project. This project supplies gas absence to research political participation in Tokyo to Kyoto," writes Bruce A. Coats Sigrid Powers BA '75 Baker has also turbine powered generating equipment for Costa Rica, teach courses on U.S. foreign BArch '71 Baker. "Also, having completed recently graduated from the University of the maintenance centers for three sites along policy, and develop a Ph.D. program in inter- a year of language training in Tokyo at the Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. the 750 mile pipeline. He will coordinate the SALLYPORT-SEPTEMBER 15 series is $18; $12 for members. Individual Continued OWLMANAC tickets are $3 for non-members and $2 for members. Student series tickets are $8, 11111111161111WMMIEIII individual lectures are $1.50. construction and testing of the gas turbine ties. He is a member of the American Physi- Sept. 19 Shingle Style to Arts and in this country before mov- cal Society, Optical Society of America, and generating units Crafts: Informal Tendencies, ing with the project to Saudi Arabia. Dan the Institute of Electrical Engineers. The 1870-1910, Robert Judson Adams BS '77 MEE '78 Wiess and Bar- Master of Arts degree in mathematics has Clark, Princeton University. bara Hillegeist BS '78 Brown were mar- been awarded to Jose Arnoldo Melgoza THE A TER Sept. 26 The American Renaissance: ried on June 9th, 1979. They will be living in MAMS '78 from the Claremont Graduate Beaux Arts Formalism, 1870- calls from friends in or School in California. Dallas, and welcome Sept. 20-22, Main Street Theater presents 1910, Richard Guy Wilson, through the area. "After getting my corning 27-29 "Uncommon Women And University of Virginia. MEE from Rice in 1979," writes John R. Wasser- Oct. 4-6, Others" by Wendy Oct. 3 Twentieth Century Eclecti- Ellis BS '78 Hanszen, "I am presently 11-13 stein. cism: From the Hamptons to of Medicine." attending Baylor College In Memoriam Oct. 25-27, "The Empire Builders", a Hollywood, Robert A.M. BA '78 Jones sends the Daphne Dean Nov. 1-3, play by Boris Vian. Main Stern, Columbia University. following news: "I am a second lieutenant in House, Nov. 8-10, Street Theater, Autry Oct. 10 John Staub: Eclecticism in the have been so for a year and a One of the few surviving members of the army and 15-17 6265 Main St. Curtain time, 8 Houston, 1920-1940, Howard half from the Republic of Class of 1916, William M. Nathan, died on now. I returned P.M. Admission: $2.00 for stu- Barnstone, University of Korea in March, where I had spent eleven June 7, 1979. He was a member of the Presi- dents and senior citizens; Houston. months, and am now assigned to the Sixth dent's Club for several years. He studied law Call 524- $4.00 for general. Oct. 24 Modern: From Oak Park to Operations Battalion at Ft. at the University of Texas Law School, grad- Psychological 6706 for reservations. New Canaan, William Jordy, Bragg, I jump out of airplanes and uated in 1921, then practiced law in Houston where Brown University. try to keep myself gainfully from then until his death. He served on sev- Otherwise Oct. 31 Beyond Modern: Complexity Bolt Harris BS '78 Will eral committees for both the Houston and employed." John and Contradiction, Robert have just finished the second Texas Bar Associations. Rice writes, "I Venturi, Venturi and Rauch, semester Masters of Engi- semester of a four Architects. neering degree in Construction Management and Real Estate Development. I should finish The first woman appointed as an assistant school in December 1979 and have plans to U.S. attorney, Ellamalyre Failor '20, FILMS The Society of Rice University Women, stay in the Austin area. I enjoy being in a new died on May 20, 1979, at the age of 81. open to alumnae, faculty wives, associates, environment but miss many things about After receiving her J.D. degree in 1925, The Rice Media Center shows films every faculty and staff, are also sponsoring a lec- Rice." Darlene Patterson BA '79 she served as a prosecutor at the Nurem- night except Monday and Tuesday. Show- ture series. Annual dues are $7.50. Both Hanszen has enrolled at the American Grad- burg trials, then worked for the U.S. mili- times are 7:30 and 10 P.M. on weekend lectures will be held at 8 P.M. in the Grand uate School of International Management in tary government in West Germany until nights, and 7:30 P.M. on week nights. Hall of the Rice Memorial Center. Glendale, Arizona. She was graduated with a 1949. From that date until her retirement in Admission is $1.50. For movie information, degree in behavioral sciences and Spanish 1964, she had a private law practice here in call 527-4853. Sept. 10 Confessions of a Failed Liber- from Rice. Houston. al, A.J. Matusow, professor of history, Rice University. Carlos B. Madero '20 of Coahuila, Mexi- Nov. 12 Intelligent Life in the .Uni- co cm June 19, 1979; Magele Adams verse, Paul A. Cloutier, pro- Crowley '21 of Van Nuys, California on fessor of space physics and ADVANCED DEGREES May 11, 1979; John S. Mellinger '22 of astronomy, Rice University. Houston en July 18, 1979; J. Daniley LEC TURES Warren '23 of Gilmer, Texas in March, The Rice Alumni Institute announces two Donald Heyneman MA 1979; William August Warden '25 of The Rice Women's Club is sponsoring a new offerings for the fall lecture series, to '52 Ph.D. '54 won a Houston in June 1979; Zue Belle Shaw series of programs to be held on the Second be held Tuesday evenings through Oct. 16. Kaiser award for excel- '27 of Houston on June 19, 1979; Frank Sunday of each month at 3 P.M. in the Kyle Admission to one series: $12; for both, $20. lence in teaching at Uni- M. Dawson '28 of Brownsville on June Morrow Room of Fondren Library. Dues are Individual lectures: $3. Lectures will be pre- versity of California, San 19, 1979; Felicia Martin '28 of Houston $7 per year, and all Rice alumnae are wel- sented in 301 Sewall Hall. Francisco School of Medi- on May 27, 1979; Ernest A. Weichert come. cine. Heyneman, a pro- '28 of Midland on February 5, 1979; Sept. 11- "The Past in Our Present", an fessor of parasitology, George Walton McCauley '29 of Pine Oct. 14 Programming Your Mind For Oct. 16 interpretative course in Euro- scientific director of the Bluff, Arkansas on April 7, 1979; Allen H. A Healthier Life, Dr. James pean history in six lectures, Tropical Disease Laboratory and assistant Caldwell '30 of Houston on July 19, 1979; Norris. beginning at 7:15 P.M., Gale director of the Hooper Foundation at UCSF, Edward E. Ferrin '30 of Houston on Nov. 11 Experiences of Tutoring the Stokes, assoc. professor of received recognition at commencement for June 15, 1979; Viva Buttery Andreas Daughter of the Ruler of Saudi history. work in the basic sciences. His research '31 of Houston on July 18, 1979; Ray- Arabia, Marjorie McCorquo- "Man and the Sun: From the focuses on health in the Third World coun- mond E. Black '32 of West Columbia, dale. Eye of Ra to the Nuclear Fur- tries, and the impact of western development Texas on December 16, 1978; H. Julian nace", a series of six lectures on these populations. S. K. Djou MSCE Frachtman '33 of Houston on April 17, The House in America lecture series will by a humanist, a historian and '64 has been named 1979; Howard R. Calvin '34 of Houston be presented by the Rice Design Alliance in three scientists on the mys- manager of the Honolulu on June 4, 1979; Norman "Hokie" the Brown Auditorium of the Museum of tery of man's relation to the office of Dames & Moore, Snider '35 of Seguin on June 26, 1979; C. Fine Arts at 8 P.M. on Wednesdays through sun; follows the first series, an engineering and envi- Hunter McShan '38 of Kerrville on Aug- October. General admission price for the beginning at 8:30 P.M. ronmental consulting ust 9, 1979; Brooke B. Smith '41 of firm. Over fifteen years of Houston on June 28, 1979; James E. Deal professional experience in '42 of Houston on October 2, 1978; Rob- ert B. Frazier '42 of Pasadena on January the field of oil and founda- We hear from lots of alumni and many of them say, "When I get my 25, 1979; Charles L. Fitzgerald, Jr. '43 CLASSNOTES. tion engineering has quali- SALLYPORT, the first thing I turn to is the Classnotes section." If Baby has sprouted a tooth, Harold fied him for this position. Djou, his wife Sue, of Houston on June 23, 1979; John you've moved to Timbuktu, or you've joined the birdwatcher's club, write. P.S. Send black and their sons, Charles and Dennis, live in Hamlyn '47 of Bay City on November 11, and white pictures. Lailua. "At the American Society for Engi- 1978; George Butler Eubank '49 of San- neering Education annual meeting in Baton ta Fe, New Mexico on May 27, 1979; G. Rouge this summer," writes Thomas K. Ray Walton, Jr. '50 of Cherry Hill, New Gaylord Ph.D. '70, "I Jersey on May 4, 1979; Gordon P. Baker received the Curtis W. '52 of Dallas in September 1978; John T. McGraw Award. This is a Harris '52 of Houston on May 18, 1979; research award given to a Jerry Duke Brandenberger '54 of Los young college faculty Alamos, New Mexico on August 5, 1979; researcher." Gaylord, Paul Richard Tramell '70 of Los Ange- associate professor of les on June 22, 1979; Richard F. electrical engineering at LeGrand '79 of Houston in fall 1978. Georgia Institute of Tech- Correction nology, worked with graduate students to anyone in a uniform looks develop To some people, two new theoretical approaches that the same. For the last issue, the Air Force describe the formation of holograms in crys- the wrong picture to go with informa- tals and sent us the diffraction characteristics of per- on Henry B. Garrett BA '70, MS '73, iodic tion phases and absorption gratings in solids. PhD '74. The real Captain Garrett is below. C. David Decker Ph.D. '74 has been named technical manager for GTE Laboratories' Advance Technology Laboratory. Decker will manage projects in basic research and develop- ment for GTE's present Name College Class products and possible new business opportuni- Address( new) Brush off your freshman beanie, sh letter sweater, and open your Campanile. It's Homecoming. November 2 and 3 are the dates and Rice is waiting to welcome you back. There won't be a"slime parade" but all your old friends will be here to cheer the fig' km' Owls when they meet the Arkansas Razorbacks, and some of your classmates have been planning grea reunion parties whether it's th uick step or sheepherder's tomp,put on anon' g shoe and head back

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