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VOLUME IXX — NUMBER 3 , JANUARY, 1963 Jones College Symposium January 29, 30 To Deal With 'Role of Educated Woman' "The Role of the Educated Women, will be the moderator, Members of the committee are Woman" will be the topic of the and the participants will include Marcella Gerchsheimer, vice-pres- Symposium sponsored by Mary Mrs. Corrine Tsanoff, wife of Dr. ident of the college and student co- Gibbs Jones College on January R. A. Tsanoff and noted social ordinator for the symposium; Bet- 29 and 30 in connection with the worker, having helped establish ty Sue Hamner, president of the Rice Semicentennial. Rusk Settlement House and parti- college; Lucy Reinhart; Nancy Two of the eleven participants cipated in the national organiza- Knight; Sandy Sutton; and Judy who will make principal addresses tion of settlement houses; and Wainscott. are the Honorable Senator Mau- Miss Nina Vance, director of the All alumni and interested per- rine Neuberger, Democrat of Ore- Alley Theater in Houston which sons are welcome to attend any gon, and Dr. Katherine McBride, recently was awarded a Ford of the four sessions scheduled for president of Bryn Mawr College. Foundation grant. January 29 and 30. The Symposium will consist of Also Miss Mary Elizabeth It is hoped that the ten women four sessions which will be open Johnston of Fortune Magazine; participants will live on campus to the public and will be held in Mrs. John T. Jones, a niece by in the College. All meals will be the Grand Hall in the Rice Me- marriage of the woman for whom served to them there, in addition morial Center. Jones College was named; and Dr. to a dinner to be given in their honor at Cohen House. SEN. MAURINE NEUBERGER Among the participants is Rice Dorothy Wyvell, Midland pedia- Alumna Miss Mary Elizabeth trician. Johnston, Class of '41, who is with The second discussion panel Sp.ce Colle3e, US,4 the editorial department of For- will be held at 2 p.m. January 30 tune Magazine. and will be devoted to the psycho- Rice Offers New Program The first formal session to logical problems arising from The intention of Rice Univer- damental questions that man can which the public is invited will be woman's dual role in society as a sity to establish a Department of ask — cosmological questions re- held at 8 p.m. January 29. Presi- homemaker-mother and as a career Space Science was announced by garding the origin and life history dent Kenneth S. Pitzer will wel- woman. President Pitzer on January 4, of planetary systems and even the come the assembly and introduce Moderator for this panel will be coming one day prior to the pub- universe. Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby of The Dr. Katherine Fisher Drew, chair- lication of the results of a study "At the present time, space sci- Houston Post who will introduce man of the Rice history depart- made by the National Research ence is in the primitive 'descrip- the participants and present Sen- ment. Council of the National Academy tive' phase that all new sciences ator Neuberger who will give the of Sciences calling for a space sci- must undergo . . . . An effort will opening address. Panel members will include Professor Bruno Bettelheim who is ence institute to be created "in be made to move in the direction January 30 at 9 a.m. the first a noted psychoanalyist with the close proximity to the major train- of cosmological research after a discussion of the symposium will Sonia Shankman Orthogenic ing center for astronauts." sufficiently broad basic program be held on the topic "The Role of School, which is a branch of the The new department, which has been established. the Educated Woman in Civic and University of Chicago. He wrote "Unlike the more classical forms Professional Life." will be headed by Dr. Alexander one of the articles which recently J. Dessler from the Graduate Re- of laboratory science where the Dr. Alma Lowe, Rice Dean of appeared in the October, 1962, search Center of the Southwest in variables are (hopefully) under the issue of Harper's magazine on the control of the experimenter, the 4 Dallas, is the first of its kind to American Female. be established in any college or space scientist is a helpless observ- Also on the panel will be Dr. university in America. er of a large and complex system Mary Ellen Goodman, a noted The Department of Space Sci- with many internal interactions anthropologist formerly on the fa- ence will have dual objectives of that make the separation of vari- ables extremely difficult. culties of Wellsley College and the research and graduate level in- University of Houston; and Dr. struction. Courses and thesis re- "Thus, it is necessary for re- Carolyn Wood Sherif, who is a search leading to the Masters and search programs to spread out to noted social psychologist and has Doctor of Philosophy degrees will cover as much of space science as possible in one laboratory in order three young children. be offered. for the interactions to be fully ap- The final session will be held For the present, space has been preciated and exploited." at 8:30 p.m. January 30 with Dr. found on campus in the geology The three principal areas of re- William V. Houston presiding. building, but the space is limited, search will be Particles and Fields, The concluding address will be and as the program grows, there Planetary Atmospheres, and Me- given by President McBride of will be a need for a separate build- teoritics and Planetary Structure. Bryn Mawr. ing to house it. Dr. Dessler, who has a BS in Dr. C. M. Class, Master of Graduate students who enroll in physics from California Institute Jones College since its establish- this program will have earned of Technology and a PhD in phys- ment in the fall of 1957 and asso- their degrees in chemistry, physics, ics from Duke, will assume his ciate professor of physics at Rice, geology, and various fields of en- duties at Rice in March. has supervised the work on the gineering. He was a research associate at symposium, which was directed by Dr. Dessler said that space sci- Duke in 1955-56, and was with a student committee at Jones Col- ence is ultimately directed toward Lockheed Missiles and Space Com- DR. KATHERINE McBRIDE lege. answering some of the most fun- pany from 1956-62. Newspapering,Alumni Activities FROM THE PRESIDENT Occupy Time Of New President The first thought that assails the incoming President of the Gathering the reins of the Rice Upon receiving his AB degree, Association of Rice Alumni is: Alumni Association and urging it he worked for four months in the What is the purpose of my job? on an uphill course of expanded Chronicle sports department be- The responsibility of the President is to carry out the ob- activity is President Everett Dol- fore going on the regular city jectives and the programs of the Alumni Association. But, ton Collier, Class of 1937. staff. what is the basic purpose of the Alumni Association? Long active in Alumni work, Following World War II in Simplified, the purpose of the Alumni Association is to fur- Mr. Collier has served on the which he served as a lieutenant ther the welfare of the University whose name it carries. executive board of the association on escort vessels in the Pacific, in The Association would have little meaning if it were oper- and worked last year as president- he returned to the Chronicle political ated as a social organization for fellowship and nostalgic get- elect; a member of the editorial 1946 where he served as became togethers. These are but the subsidiary benefits of the basic board for the alumni publications; editor until 1953 when he program of the Association. and chairman of the Goals and assistant chief editorial writer. Committee. page one It is obvious that the Association can best serve its purpose Objectives He has written the done a weekly by stimulating all alumni into helping in a program to benefit Mr. Collier is the managing "Our City" column, Chronicle sta- the University. The degree of success of the program is in di- editor of the Houston Chronicle radio show for the commen- rect proportion to the number of alumni who are willing to having begun his work there in tion, KTRH; acted as big poli- work. The officers of the Association are merely the liaison 1934 while still a student at Rice. tator for the station for com- agents between the University and the alumni as a whole. tical events; done occasional mentary for the Chronicle TV sta- Previous presidents and the executive boards they headed tion, KTRK; acted as South Texas have done excellent jobs for conceiving and carrying out pro- correspondent for Newsweek Mag- grams to encourage alumni to work in behalf of Rice Univer- azine; and done occasional creative sity. It is our hope that in the coming year we can increase writing for magazines. the number of alumni actively participating in the Association Mississippi, Collier and to get their minds more closely geared to the objective Born in at the of the Association. came to Houston in 1929 age of 14. Suggestions from all alumni are welcome, whether they live edi- in Houston or in Timbuktu. At Rice he was associate tor of The Thresher, although We want to hear more from alumni clubs from over the when he entered Rice he expected and we hope to have one or more meetings dur- to become a college professor ac- ing the year at as many out-of-town clubs as possible where cording to his mother's wishes. representatives of the University and of the Association will He took seven years of Spanish bring Rice directly to the alumni in these cities. along with his English concentra- Rice University welcomes the proper participation of alumni tion, and was going to teach Span- in the affairs of the University. This gives us an excellent ish before becoming interested in opportunity to express the gratitude that we have for the newspapering. caliber of education that we received at Rice and the human His wife is the former Mary attitude of the administration and faculty in helping us with Margaret Chisholm and they have our personal problems while we were getting that education. one son, Cornell who is 12 years EVERETT COLLIER EVERETT COLLIER old. FOR TEACHING AND RESEARCH 10 Students Named Biology Professor Gets 'Career' Grant To Phi Beta Kappa Dr. Clark P. Read, professor to a university professor." low one method of control of The fall members of the Rice of biology at Rice, has been named According to the terms of the disease. Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa were in the Lec- the recipient of the National In- grant, the guarantee is awarded Dr. Read received his BA, MA, initiated in December Li- stitutes of Health's Research Ca- on the basis of work and merit and Ph.D degrees from Rice and ture Lounge of the Fondren officers. reer Professorship. to fundamental and experienced returned to the University in 1959 brary by the current constitution, Under the terms of the award, investigators who combine a suc- as professor of biology after teach- According to the limited to ten Dr. Read's professorship at Rice cessful teaching and research ca- ing zoology at UCLA and para- selections must be receiving will be supported completely by reer. sitology at Johns Hopkins Univer- percent of the students any one year. the National Institutes of Health Dr. Read's research has been sity. the BA degree in with the firm intention of con- Two elections are customarily concentrated in the field of para- In addition to his research and tinuing the support for held each year, one in the fall Dr. Read's sitology, specifically in the use of teaching at Rice, he was profes- full career, subject to periodic and the other in the spring. re- microscopic parasites to study the sor of parasitology at the Baylor view. The ten newly initiated mem- chemical exchanges which take University College of Medicine in Dr. Pitzer said the support place between parasites and bers-in-course from the Class of other 1961-62, and is presently chair- would include the cost of fringe living organisms. 1963 include Myra Shultz Bahme benefits to the University, and Dr. Read believes that the man of the Department of Zoolo- (history) of Houston; Mary Fae that funds so released by the knowledge of the chemical basis gy, Marine Biological Laboratory, Coulter (English) of San Antonio; award would be used at Rice in of disease, using parasites to study Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Dillard Wayne Faries (Physics) the same general area of biological the transport mechanism across where he has spent recent sum- of Kerrville; Diana Joan Frosch research. cell membranes, will, in time, al- mers. (French) of Houston; and James Dr. Read's program at Rice Edwin Jones (Physics) of Hous- has been supported by research ton. and training grants from the Na- SALLYPORT Also, Robert Roy Maxfield tional Institutes of Health since PUBLISHED SEVEN TIMES A YEAR BY THE ASSOCIATION OF RICE ALUMNI (Electrical Engineering) of Wichi- 1953 and both were reviewed this Member, American Alumni Council. ta Falls; Kathleen Much (French) Subscription, $3.00 per year; 25c per copy. Free to all former students, members of of Houston; Paul Bruce Pipes, Jr. year. the senior class, faculty and staff of Rice University. Dr. Pitzer called the grant a Editorial and Advertising Offices, second floor, Rice Memorial Center. (Physics) of Fort Worth; Martin David Tilson III (Philosophy), of "significant honor, in view of the COMMITTEE ALUMNI SALLYPORT ADVISORY Texarkana; and Mark Howard fact that few such awards have PAUL HOCHULI, '27 EVERETT COLLIER, '37 ELBERT TURNER, '32 been made by the government MARJORIE MENEFEE EDITOR Vaughn (Physics) of San Benito. PAGE 2 / JANUARY, 1963 RICE ALUMNI FOR T 1r, WANT OF AN EGG

Rice is not the mythical goose who continues to lay golden 1960-61 AVERAGE GIFT eggs as the previous ones are spent. Production isn't keeping University of Texas $143.40 up with demand and the nest is bare. Baylor 82.47 If Rice University is to continue to provide the superior educa- Yale 80.83 tion for which it has earned a reputation of excellency in aca- Vanderbilt 69.22 demic circles, it must have the money to pay for that quality. Stanford 65.49 Princeton 59.85 Education is a business . . . a big business. It is the business 54.66 of each of us. Just as each year we expect to return to our Harvard business a certain percentage of our profit in order to help Cornell 49.13 our business grow and prosper, so must we expect to return Average of 76 private universities 48.87 to Rice a certain amount of our income if we expect it to grow SMU 37.42 and prosper. Tulane 33.10 23.41 Statistics comparing Rice with other schools of comparable Duke quality show Rice at the bottom of the list in average gift per Texas A&M 19.08 alumnus: Rice 15.43

Some schools use the formula of a contribution of at least one dollar per year since graduation. To date the average gift at Rice in this year's campaign is $22.67 for 4,498 contributors, making the total fund to date, $101,874. This isn't enough. January 31 is the deadline for all contribu- tions and June 1, 1963, for payment of all pledges. Perhaps you could share your own nest egg with the youth of America.

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SALLYPORT JANUARY, 1963 PAGE 3 Many Ways Open SPRING SPORTS WORKOUT To Donate Funds Owl Basketball Fortunes Look Bright An important source of funds By BILL WHITMORE A subpar early campaign for ed a South 15-14 victory with for the support of Rice Univer- Rice Sports Information Director hustlin' Herbie was a major handi- Neely as one of the South coaches sity is private business. Funds are cap for the Owls, which the Il- and Rice's Johnny Cole playing made available in many forms: un- Beginning in early February linois product himself is the first some at center. right after midterm exams, Owl to admit. He just couldn't get restricted gifts directly to the Uni- TRACK AND FIELD — Em- versity; fellowships and scholar- athletes are scheduled to be active going, and the club suffered with- on all fronts. out a sharp backcourt "quarter- mett Brunson is hopeful his ships; gift matching in which the fine spring in The cagers will go into the back." But Steinkamp showed ex- charges will have a company provides sums equal to the boys already home stretch of the Southwest cellent signs of shaking his slump this sport, with those donated by their employees doing some early conditioning who are alumni. Conference race with 10 games with good performances against TCU, so his improved work under Brun and aide Augie Recently President Kenneth S. carded against SWC foes between Texas and experience should be a Erfurth. Pitzer announced an unrestricted February 2 (SMU at Houston) play and as the Owls hit the national co-champ pole gift to Rice of $50,000 from and March 5 (Texas A&M at decided asset Our of games that count in Fred Hansen, and soph Texaco, Inc. as part of that firm's Houston), and the freshman cage string vaulter, Warren Brattlof already Aid-to-Education Program for this team booked for five games in league play. standout competition. They were academic year. that same period. Meanwhile, there is further en- have had Meantime, spring football prac- couragement in that JC transfer in the Sugar Bowl meet at New This grant was made in addi- re- tice is due to start in early Feb- Barry Rodrique (from New Mexi- Orleans during the Christmas tion to the annual Texaco sup- first ruary — the exact dates are not co Military Institute) has come cess with Hansen tying for port of the scholarship and fel- for yet known — and both varsity along well lately after a slow start at 15-1 and Brattlof tying lowship portions of their program third at 14-6. on the Rice Campus. and frosh candidates are slated at the other guard post. But the Esso Education Foundation, of to start workouts for the spring biggest boost of all has been salty TENNIS — Sam Giammalva's which Humble is an affiliate, has sports of track and field, baseball, play of late at the other forward netters also got in some pre-season recently announced its participa- tennis, and golf. post opposite Phillips by another play as varsity men Fritz Schunck, tion in the Corporate Matching Primarily in the spotlight at husky JC transfer in 6-5 Eli Frank Bertram, DeEdward Greer, Gifts Program in the support of this time are the Owl cagers under Spradling (from Howard County Jimmy Parker, and Dale Mc- higher education. head coach John Frankie and JC). The rangy West Texan was Cleary played very well in the To date, there are more than freshman mentor George Carlisle. terrific in the first two SWC Bluebonnet Bowl tennis tourney 250 firms who offer the oppor- The Owl varsity had a slow games, and if he continues to play in December. Schunck and Parker tunity to their employees to have start this campaign in December that well Rice will be a much especially have prospects of being contributions to Rice matched dol- intersectional play, which wasn't better ball club than in those among the nation's top college lar for dollar. entirely unexpected because of a early losses. players in the spring. It is important for alumni mak- highly demanding schedule, and Frankie figures the Owl first More on the net program—and ing contributions to check with since this is a very inexperienced five of Rhine, Phillips, and Spradl- the Rice Invitational College Tour- their employers in regard to their squad that needed some time and ing on the front line with Stein- later report. A participation in the program. a lot of hard work to develop and kamp and Rodrique at the guards ney in March—in a This year for the first time, improve. can hold their own with any SWC new head baseball coach is to be Rice has received a capital gift Frankie has provided that hard foe. named momentarily, and we'll also from Du Pont in the amount of work in rigorous workouts, and bench have word on developments in that $14,000. A necessity is better with the potential of a remarkably outlook there sport and golf soon. Of this amount, $4,000 is to strength, and the balanced 8-team circuit there is Cra- be used for research in chemis- is better, if not ideal. Dick hope the Owls can make a good Del Mar try, and the remaining $10,000 mer, a Bellaire lad from run at the title. JC, becomes eligible at midterm is to be used to assist in the Despite a narrow loss to Texas renovation of the chemistry build- and he can give Rice another top at Austin — where any SWC outside shooter to alternate with ing and will serve as part of the visitor seldom is a victor — the funds needed by Rice to match the the starting guards, along with Owls have, on paper, at this early still another JC newcomer in $300,000 grant from the Nation- stage as good a shot at the top al Science Foundation for the Frank Pickens of Galena Park as almost any other league club from the Victoria JC Pirates. renovation and expansion of re- if things can break right. The search facilities in chemistry. Until Spradling made his en- schedule for the 10-game stretch couraging move, slender 6-7 Don The Du Pont grant was part drive should be reasonably favor- of $1,780,000 given by them this Siegmund was doing fairly well able with 5 of the games at Rice at forward as a starter, though year to 168 colleges and univer- Gym where the Owls play any- sities. suffering from the inevitable soph- body pretty tough. While 3-7 on omore errors of inexperience. But the season at this writing, they as a reserve, he can be quite valu- Abe Levy Honored were only 1-7 on the road but 2-0 able as a spot duty replacement at home. since as yet he doesnt have the By MunicipalJudges As expected, the key men for stamina for a full game stint. Bob the Rice cagers in the early going Hill, a junior, and Warren Schick, Abe Levy, Class of 1920, has have been the famous 1-2 front- a soph, also are front line men who been honored for "Outstanding line duo of 6-9 Kendall Rhine and can be of help in relief roles. Contribution to the Administration 6-5 Larry Phillips. They have of Justice," by the Municipal been 1-2 in both scoring and re- FOOTBALL — Looking back- Judges at their national conven- bounding, with the slender Rhine ward: tion in Miami, Florida. consistently flirting with a 20- During the Christmas recess, Judge Levy, who is Corporation point per-game output and Phillips Rice was well represented in post- Court Judge in Houston, also at- (from Houston's Jones High) season grid activity even though tended the University of Texas, steady in the 15-point per-game the Owls were not in a bowl game and received his LLB in 1929 range. for the first time in three years. from the University of Houston Rhine and Phillips both are re- Raesz played well before nation- Law School. turning regulars, as all Owl parti- al TV audiences in the Shrine In April of 1953, Mayor Roy sans are well aware, while a third East-West classic and the Chal- Hofheinz named Mr. Levy as returning starter who also is a lenge Bowl. At the Shrine North- Judge of Corporation Court Num- junior letterman is 5-1 guard Herb South game at Miami, an 80-yard ber Two. Steinkamp. TD pass by Randy Kerbow spark- LARRY PHILLIPS PAGE 4 JANUARY, 1963 RICE ALUMNI manm

Erik Sprohge Wins First Prize Promotions In 'Spirit of Christmas' Contest 0. BEN HANDER has been named DR. A. D. REICHLE, has recently Because the real meaning of In 1962, Mr. Sprohge and his vice-president of the Chemical been named engineering associate Group of W. R. Grace and Com- in the Esso Research Laboratories. Christmas is so easily over-looked father, Paul Sprohge who is also pany. W. M. Mc CARDELL,'48, has been in the hurried preparations for the an architect, had a private show- WILLIAM G. GRAF JR., '51 has named manager of the headquar- holiday season, Great Southern ing of their paintings and prints been appointed district accounting ters economics and planning de- Life Insurance Company decided at the Dreyer Gallery in Houston. manager in St. Louis for South- partment for Humble Oil and Re- western Bell Telephone Company. fining Company. to remedy the situation this year. Mr. Sprohge is married to the E. A. BARTSCH JR. has been J. F. JOPLIN has been named Great Southern sponsored an former Helen Khilling of Ft. named senior electrical engineer head of operations for Gulf Refin- art contest for the design of its Smith, Arkansas and they are ex- with Bernard Johnston Engineers ing Company, the pipeline sub- billboards in the 13-state area in pecting their first child in April. Inc. sidiary of Gulf Oil Corporation. DR. JOHN R. STRAWN, '52, has L. L. LITHERLAND,'52, has been which it operates on the "Spirit of The Sprohges reside at 1314 been appointed an instructor in named to head a national Indus- Christmas." Richmond Avenue in Houston. medicine at Baylor University Col- trial Chemicals Sales group for The winning design was sub- lege of Medicine. Dow Chemical Company. mitted by Rice Alumnus Erik T. DR. HERMAN LAPIN, '54, has ALBERT COLLIER, '33, has ac- been appointed an instructor in cepted the directorship of the Sprohge of Houston. It was an oil medicine at Baylor University Oceanographic Institute at Florida painting of Mary, Joseph, and the College of Medicine. State University. In addition, he Christ Child done in muted lav- R. G. ANDERSON is the new man- will serve as professor of biology. enders. ager of American Oil Company's ROBERT J. SMOUSE, '56, has engi- His prize winning Eau Claire, Wisconsin, sales dis- been promoted to chemical $1,000 paint- trict. neer in the digital methods section ing appeared on approximately 33 GEORGE R. KING,'37, was named of Humble Oil and Refining Com- billboards in Houston and about to a staff position in the research pany's Technical Division at Bay- 280 billboards in the south, from engineering department of the town. Hughes Tool Company. WILLIAM V. GRISHAM, '47, has Miami to Los Angeles. WINSTON S. PEELER has been been named division engineer of Entries to the contest were re- elected a director and executive Pan American Petroleum Corpora- ceived from over 20 cities. Judges vice-president of Service Pipe Line tion's North Texas-New Mexico for the competition were Dr. Carey Company in Tulsa, Oklahoma. division in Fort Worth. Croneis; the Rev. Charles J. Dob- DR. COOPER R. MACKIN has JAMES W. GLANVILLE, '44, has been named an assistant professor been made a general partner in bins, Rector of the Episcopal in the department of English at Lehman Brothers. Church of the Epiphany; F. Jack North Texas State University. CHRIS F. SEYER has been named Greenwood, an officer of Great GEORGE E. DAVENPORT, '49, sales engineer for the middle At- Southern; and Claude Henly, ERIK T. SPROHGE has been appointed a general su- lanitc area by the Rectifier-Capa- vice- pervisor at Monsanto's Chemical citor Division, Fansteel Metallur- president of Rives, Dyke and Com- Company's Chocolate Bayou re- gical Corporation in Chicago. pany. Music School Sets finery in Alvin, a facility of the DR. MARSHALL D. GATES, pro- Mr. Sprohge graduated from company's Hydrocarbons Division. fessor of chemistry at the Univer- ROBERT W. GAMACHE, '43, is sity of Rochester, has been named Rice in 1954 with a bachelor of February Calendar vice-president and senior estimator editor of the Journal of the Ameri- science in architecture. He won The Shepherd School of Music of the Gene Murphree Corpora- can Chemical Society, a position the 1954 William Ward Watkin has announced its February offer- tion. which is considered to be the top Traveling Fellowship in Architec- JAMES C. BAIRD has been ap- editorship in American chemistry. ings which are open to the public. pointed to teach a course in quan- GEORGE F. SULLINS was pro- ture, which is an annual architec- Erno Valasek, violinist will ap- tum mechanics at Brown Univer- moted to vice president and cash- tural design contest sponsored by pear February 1 and 3 at 8:15 sity. ier of the South Orlando National the Architecture Department. p.m. in Hamman Hall. T. E. THOMSEN has been named Bank in Orlando, Florida. a senior process engineer for Gulf T. PAGE ROGERS JR. has been After traveling and studying a- On February 14, Ton Ii Han, Oil Corporation. named project coordinator for broad on the fellowship, Mr. pianist, will give a concert at GILBERT L. LEACH,'30, has been marketing division of Sun-X. Sprohge was employed with the 8:15 p.m. in Hamman Hall. advanced to executive vice presi- E. C. WHATLEY has been appoint- architecture firms of Dunaway & Dr. Klaus Speer, organist, with dent of Stran-Steel and of Metal- ed engineering manager of the lic, which are National Steel units Westinghouse Electronics Division. Jones; Wylie Vale and Associates; Jeffrey Lerner and the Chamber engaged in the manufacture of HENRY M. BEISSNER has been Anthony Cannata; and Frank Dill. Orchestra, will be presented Feb- pre-engineered steel buildings, ar- elected senior vice president and He is presently doing free lance ruary 17 at 3:30 p.m. in the Rice chitectural products and trans- trust officer for River Oaks State architectural delineation. Memorial Chapel. portation products. Bank in Houston.

SALLYPORT JANUARY, 1963 PAGE 5 Alumni Board Holds Dr. Chillman Heads First 1963 Meeting Lecture Series List Dr. James H. Chillman Jr., A new year has ushered in a Trustee Distinguished Professor new Alumni Association Executive of Fine Arts and non-resident As- Board, which met for the first sociate of Jones College, will pre- time on January 3 to discuss the sent the first lecture in the budget for the coming year and new alumni-sponsored Distinguish- to begin planning a number of ed Lecture Series. alumni projects. His topic will be "Some Archi- Officers of the board for the tectural Prototypes of the Rice 1963 term include Everett Col- Buildings." It is set for February lier, president; William L. Davis, 20 at 8 p.m. in Hamman Audi- president-elect; Mrs. John Bybee, torium. first vice-president; Mrs. A. Ross Chillman teaches history of Rommel, Dr. second vice-president; art and art appreciation at Rice Robert M. Williams, treasurer; and was among the six Rice pro- and Willoughby C. Williams, last fessors who received a Semicen- retired president. tennial gold medal for academic Members of the Board and their distinction. home addresses include Dr. Rich- The Distinguished Lecture Se- ard Chapman, 902 Warfield Way ries was started last year by the in Richardson; Stewart Coleman, Alumni Association. Lecturers 365 Barrett in Cedarhurst, L. I., were Dr. William V. Houston and New York; W. P. Hobby Jr., Dr. R. A. Tsanoff. Houston Post; Ed Jennings, 210 IN A MAN'S WORLD — Miss Judy Ley, former Rice student, is now Voss Road; Mrs. Albert Be! Fay, one of the nine women enrolled in the Harvard University Graduate 99 N. Post Oak Lane; Miss Ca- School of Business Administration. She expects to receive her MBA Rice TV Series Set mille Coulter, 5006 West Briar degree in June. Lane; and Milton McGinty, 2203 To Begin Jan. 20 Yorktown. 4.9'n a Alinority of <..A ;lc The eighth annual Rice televi- Also, E. Burns Roensch, 300 sion series is set to begin January Elizabeth Road in San Antonio; Harvard MBA Goal of Judy Ley 20 at 2 p.m. on Channel 13 with Mrs. John Sellingsloh, 5216 Ma- Miss Judy Ann Ley, daughter Her preparation Dr. Niels C. Nielsen Jr. as moder- ple in Bellaire; Dr. George Walms- is in advertis- of Mr. and Mrs. Wendel D. Ley ing, retail ator. ley, 607 Harold Lane in Bay- distribution, manage- of 3660 Inwood Drive in Hous- ment Topic for the series is "A Tri- town; Mrs. Jon L. Mosle, 3509 of financial institutions, la- ton, is presently one of nine wom- bute to Learning" and the sched- Greenbriar in Dallas; and Edward bor relations, and business policy. en students at the Harvard Uni- ule is as follows: Rothrock, 3257 Ella Lee Lane. Judy has worked in the family versity Graduate School of Busi- business in the past. January 20, "Models in Sci- And Orville D. Gaither, 5862 ness Administration. She expects Her parents are both Rice alum- ence" with Dr. Zevi Salsburg and Southford; Ralph A. Anderson Jr., to earn her MBA degree in June. ni. Mr. Ley, who Dr. J. A. Robinson; Jan. 27,"The 1638 Banks; graduated in Malcolm T. Mc- At this time, the only way for 1932, is a member of the Board Changing Family," with Dr. Hugh Cants, 5481 Cedar Creek; Mrs. a woman to enter the graduate of Governors of Rice, and Mrs. Duncan; Feb. 3, "Chemical Engi- J. Thomas Eubank, Jr., 11740 school is through the Harvard- Ley, who was the former Audrey neering" with Dr. Thomas Leland; Cawdor Way; Morgan Jones, Jr., Radcliffe Program in Business Ad- Moody, graduated in 1935. She and Feb. 10, "The Mexican Eco- 3435 South Ninth in Abilene; and ministration, which is a one-year recently wrote an article in the nomy," with Dr. Dwight Brothers. Mrs. Ben F. Blanton, 602 Col- program at Radcliffe, taught by Rice Alumni Magazine on "Aca- Also, Feb. 17, "The Town lege Avenue in Brenham. Business School faculty. demic Challenge" and has been House," with Mr. Charles Thom- Gilbert Leach is the alumni rep- The curriculum for the wom- active for many years in the Alum- sen and Mr. Clovis Heimsath; Feb. resentative to the Committee on en parallels that for first-year men ni Association. 24, "Graduate Study," with Dr. Outdoor Sports and his address. is at the Harvard Business School. Judy's brother Bob is also a Franz Brotzen and Dr. Frank P.O. Box 14205. Judy entered the Harvard-Rad- graduate of Stanford and is cur- Vandiver; March 3, "Chemistry," cliffe Program with a BA degree rently working in Houston. A with Dr. Kenneth S. Pitzer and from Stanford University in his- younger sister, Diane, is a sopho- Dr. John L. Margrave; and March tory. Her first three years of study more at Southern Methodist Uni- 10, "Art and Religion," with Dr. were done at Rice. versity in Dallas. Amos Wilder. When she receives her MBA, Judy plans to either enter her E. W. TORIAN, 57, of 2202 Tang- family's land development busi- CHANGE OF ADDRESS FORM ley in Houston died after a long ness or enter marketing in the illness in a Houston hospital. Until Name 1959 he had been Vice-President of San Francisco area. Southern Pacific Lines in Texas and Louisiana. Class Yr. • Permanent Home OThTh5 AND ENDS Address: Street RICHARD W. RIEDEL, 35, died October 30, of cancer in a Houston FOUND: Ladies Rice Institute City State hospital. He graduated from Rice Ring, Class of 1929. Believe one in 1949 with a BS in engineering, letter to be "E" (in old English Business Address: and was chief engineer of the en- script). Inscription: "Effort Brings Box No. gineering and construction services division of Dow Chemical Co. in Success." New Shank. Found two (Use P.O. Box No. if you have one) Houston. years ago in Normandy Restau- City • rant by Mrs. M. D. Eubanks. Call State Preferred Mailing Address: . . Home. . . . Business DR. JOHN A. ROSE, a specialist GR 3-6141. in child psychiatry, died October • (check one) 30, at the age of 53 in Philadelphia The voices that answer the calls Mail to: The Association of Rice Alumni where he was director of the Child at the Rice end of JA 8-4141 are P. 0. Box 1892 Guidance Clinic and head of the 1, Texas department of pediatrics at Chil- operators Nita Price and Flora Houston dren's Hospital. Solomon. PAGE 6 JANUARY, 1963 RICE ALUMNI January Sallyporting 1922 Ruth Campbell Taylor and Neil; at 5481 Lynbrook, Houston 27. I've the University of Oklahoma on a Madie Lee Hillyer: Marcelle King enjoyed the job. and it's not hard Ford Grant. He would have fin- Miss Mayola F. Patton Davidson and Billy; Helen Batte work, so please volunteer. Good ished his PhD next August, but a 3403 Locke Lane Copeland; Earl Amerman and luck to the next reporter. severe illness slowed him down a Houston 27 Dorothy; Cornelia Pearce Smith bit. The Blackwells have a son, Happy moments, all too short, and Philip; Ray Hart and Leona, 1944 Ward. and Lowell Hei- were enjoyed by many of us dur- from LaSalle, Ill.; Pincus Grenader Mrs. John E. McCleary Cathy (Davis) irg the Academic Festivals. Alum- and Ruth; W. Cone Hollimon; the (Maribel Spiller) nen are residing at 1455 Cotton- Texas. They ni of 1922 seen at the brunch were: Al Fanesteils from Baytown; Cath- 543 Westminster wood in Beaumont, two daughters, and Cathy is Elva Kalb Dumas on the commit- erine Stone Blair and Charles from Houston 24 have tee for the brunch; Anah Marie St. Louis, Mo.; J. H. Sawyer and teaching Spanish to high-school- Streetman, a representative of the Florence from Beaumont; and Jim Elder has agreed to be the ers. class; Dr. Alma Nemir (Mrs. Leslie Pack Barton, Mercedes, Texas. class agent for the coming year. Pat (Ivy) and Jim Cauley have H. Bryer) came as a delegate with At the breakfast in the Me- Jim is vice-president of manufac- a son, James Milton, Jr. born in credentials from the University of rr.orial Center we saw some of the turing of the Anderson-Greenwood OttOber. Jim is with Southwestern Utah and a greeting from its presi- other class members: Gladys Schill Company here. He is married to Savings in Houston. the dent to Dr. Pitzer; E. Finley Carter Davis (Mrs. Philip); Dr. Ina Boyd former Dee Speed who attend- Henry Gissel and wife, Jo Clair ed and wife, Menlo Park, California; Cook (Mrs. Paul R.); Tom Bacon; the University of Maryland. have a daughter, Virginia Clair. The Elders live in Bellaire. Fred Hargis and wife, Buena Vista, John Koy from San Antonio; and The Gissels will be at Ft. Belvoir This past year Martha Aberna- Colorado; Arthur Cain, Yoakum, Helen Forester Smith (Mrs. Hal- until December of 1963, at which thy McSteen Texas; Dixie Dawson Looney and ton) and her family from Port was appointed assist- time they will return to Houston. ant manager husband; Boyd Porter and wife, Arthur. of the Houston Dis- Helen and Ben Orman are in Ar- trict of the Pauline; Louis and Courtney Aber- We had some nice letters from Office Social Security lington, Virginia, where Ben is at nathy. those who could not attend in per- Administration. Before her Hous- George Washington Hospital. Ben ton Our hearts were deeply sadden- son, but did so in spirit. appointment, Martha was a plans to serve his residency at staff assistant in the ed in the passing of Louis and Carmen Lewis Gould (Mrs. John Dallas re- Baylor. Dave Pinkerton is back at gional office of the Courtney Abernathy only a week L.) wrote from Old Greenwich, Bureau of Old- Rice in the Mechanical Engineer- Age, and later. Conn.; Lawrence 0. Seerden from Survivors, Disability In- ing graduate school. surance, where she was in charge Don't forget Boyd Porter and the Los Angeles, Calif.; Mary Adeline Hazel (Yarbrough) and Dave Alumni Fund. Davis Cairns (Mrs. A. B.) from of 56 district offices in five states. Mary Ellis and Howard Taylor Arnold are at home in Houston at Allen Wade Mount has retired New Orleans; Dick Jamerson of 7036 Mobud. Dave is an accountant from Southwestern Bell Telephone Chapel Hill, N. C.; Isabella Kastl, were in Houston for the Semicen- tennial celebration. Howard is an for Gulf Coast Portland Cement after 44 years service, but is still Freeport; Fred J. Hart of Streator, Co. Corinna (Carr) and Chad active in astronomical groups, is a Ill, who was deep in a campaign associate professor of mathematics at the Florida State University in Smith are living at 2723 Camulos Fellow in the American Associa- for re-election to the Illinois State Place, Los Angeles, California. Advancement of Science, Senate; Rev. Henry E. Robinson, Tallahassee. He has written three tion for books Chad is an orthopedic resident at and is a member of the Texas Fairfield, Conn.; and Bob Gresham on mathematics. The Tay- lors have the orthopedic hospital there. They Academy of Science. He and his of Temple. three children, ages 13, 5, have two children, Laura and wife live in Fort Worth and have I will use some of the letters in and 3. Ella (McAshan) and Gil Allen Chuck. Larry Whitmire is among one son, Allen Wade Mount, Jr. future columns, but in the mean- the physics gradute students at time, wish some of you would and their four children have been transferred from Corpus Christi to Rice. Larry and Rilda (Richard- write me with your news. son) '59, have a son, Mark. 1932 Evelyn Studdert had made name New Orleans. Gil is with Baroid. Mrs. J. W. Hoover tags for everyone at the party and Tom and Cathy Driscoll are in from (Christine Pope) had cut out a picture of each one Houston. Tom graduated Bos- 5318 Meadow Lake Lane and pasted it over his name. You Due to lack of space, Harvard Business School in the Finance Houston can imagine how we enjoyed see- columns of ton, and is now with the didn't get down 1957,'60, and '61 Department of Tenneco Corpora- All of you who ing ourselves 30 years or so ago. will appear in their to Rice for the Semicentennial, we entirety in tion; a branch of Tennessee Gas. missed you. the February issue. All class Bruce Gilmer is back at Rice, and The 30th reunion committee, 1935 recorders are reminded of the Gilmers just had their first at Dave Donoghue, Marshall Fergu- Mrs. Margaret L. Gardner their January 31 deadline. baby in September. They live son Robertson (Mrs. Renfro), Eve- (Margaret Byrnes) 1545 Castle Court. H. Russell Pit- lyn Flick Studdert (Mrs. B. P.), 4000 Morrow Ave. man is at Rice, as the new Chief Bill Hudspeth, Martha Williams Waco Accountant for the University. Clark (Mrs. Harold), Genevive I spent most of the summer at 1958 W. Henry Lyne is also at Rice Demme (Mrs. Roy) and Camp Mystic as a counselor, and in the graduate school. He pre- Pyle Mrs. Richard Wendel Ley arranged for a grand on August 31 was married to Sam Walton viously worked for Collin's Radio, (Phyllis Phair) at the Mayfair Hotel, from J. Gardner of Waco. I have two in Dallas, and plans to return party 1705 Rosemont Ave. to 7 p.m. daughters, Jo Anna Gardner Watt there after completing his school- 4:30 West Point, Georgia A good crowd turned out, Alfred of San Jose, California, and Mary ing. Jack Manning is both an at- C. Finn and Virginia; James Ho- Gardner, a senior at Waco High Phyllis (Phair) and Dick Walton torney and a CPA. He is employed ward and Mildred; Ralph W. Wil- School. Jo Anna has two boys, so have moved to West Point, Geor- by T. B. Trotter in Houston. Jerry son and Fannie May; Burton At- I have gour grandsons instead of gia, rather than Washington, D. C. Pittman, who graduated from kinson from Fort Worth; Rudolph two. Sam is a Captain of the High- as earlier reported. Dick is the Perkin's Theology in Dallas is Turpentine and Margaret; Chris way Patrol in Waco. Legal Counsel and recently elect- presently doing a good job work- Pope Hoover and Soak; Thompson I received a letter from Dr. Al- ed assistant secretary of the West ing with the Dallas youth through and Lucille Lancaster McCleary; len Steele this summer. He is now Point Manufacturing Company, the YMCA. David Livitz has left Dr. Charles (Red) Mims and Fana- an Associate Professor of Account- which makes Martex towels, a- Foley's in Houston to continue his bel from Mission; Genevive Pyle ing and Statistics at the Univer- mong its myriad textile products. studies at Harvard Business Demme and Roy; Carolyn Walker sity of Tulsa. He married Marga- Carolyn (Dearmond) and Don School. Lard; Dave Donoghue and Hennie; ret Hielscher of Beaumont and Caddes are in Sunnyvale, Califor- Dixie (Deer) and Edward Louis Clairice Vickery Landers; and they have a teenage son, begin- nia, where Don is in Dr. Burton are still in Galveston, where Ed is Wendel Ley and Audrey. ning senior high this year. McMurtry's (956) optical devices fourth in his class at Texas Med- Also Mary Harrel Stancliff; Eve- Jim Campbell, son of Arch R and D group. ical School. He is to graduate in lyn Higinbotham Wagner,(Mrs. C. Campbell of Fort Worth is a Mark Shipley is also in Sunny- June. The Louises have three chil- Richard)from Amarillo; Joseph W. Freshman at Rice this year after vale, working for Ampex. dren: Allison, Edward and Alicia. Hahn and Marjorie; Arland J. graduating from Paschal High Doyle Little, who received his Sue (Thurston) and Bob Lee are Mangum and Geraldine from Ka- School as Valedictorian and Presi- MS in ChE in 1960, is working for still in Doraville, Georgia, a sub- ty; W. J. Hudspeth and Billie; dent of the Senior Class. His Eastman in Longview. Sally urb of Atlanta. They have a son, Morgan Jones, Jr. from Abilene; brother Bob was in the Texas (Broussard) and Gene Dworsky Bill. Bob is a veterinarian. Barry W. Talbot and Charlotte Boys Choir and there is still an- and children plan to remain a John and Sally Coleman are in from Dayton, Ohio; Gertrude other brother, Bruce, age 2, at while in East Texas. Memphis, Tennessee. John is with Beard Michael and Ed; Margaret home. Carolyn Caddes, Deedee McMur- DuPont there. Eleanor (Warden) Allerton Hacker and John from Susie Buford Hillyer's daughter try ('56), Ann (Capshaw) Heard, and Bob Shubinski are in Berke- Tyler; Martha Ellen Williams Bonnie married in September and and Nancy (Sullivan) Perry ('56) ley, California at 1328 Arch Street. Clark and Harold; Evelyn Flick is living in Raleigh, North Caro- are among the Ricites in the "Ran- Bob is to work on his PhD dis- Studdert and Pat; and Lucille lina. Her son Loren is in the Army dom Readers Reading Club." This sentation this year, and Eleanor Scott McKinney. and Carol is in the sixth grade. ambitious group reads avidly those teaches algebra to the "academi- Also Marshall Ferguson Robert- Susie works in the Government books selected by them, and Dr. cally able" students of eighth son; Dwight Austin and Lula Mae; Department of the University of Alan McKillop, of the Rice faculty grade level. Billy Chase is with Jim Younts of Kerrville; Loula New Mexico. consults with them by mail. NASA in Houston. He was the Bess Johnson Burch and Joe; Cul- If anyone in the class is inter- Nancy (Smith) Blackwell and engineer that pin-pointed Shirra's len Joseph McWhorter and Mattie; ested in this job as reporter, please husband Charlie ('55) are in Tuc- landing near Midway last sum- Charlotte Collins Johnson and Cy; contact Dick Eiser, the Class Agent son, Arizona. Charlie is attending mer!! SALLYPORT JANUARY, 1963 I PAGE 7 MAGAZINE QUESTIONNAIRE RICE UNIVERSITY SALLYPORT Non-Profit Org. • It would be of great help to us in our study and produc- The Association of Rice Alumni U. S. POSTAGE tion of the RICE ALUMNI MAGAZINE if you would P. 0. Box 1892 • Houston 1, Texas PAID evaluate the December issue on the questionnaire below and Return Requested Permit No. 73 mail it to the RICE ALUMNI MAGAZINE; Box 1892; HOUSTON, TEXAS Houston 1, Texas. I. How many major articles did you read?

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14. What article suggestion do you have for the magazine? 1937 1945 Mrs. A. Ross Rommel Mrs. Tom C. Hardy (Mary Jane Hale) (Joyce Pounds) 15. Other suggestions for the magazine: No. 1 Powderhorn 4067 Merrick Dr. Houston 24 Houston 25 Back to our Anniversary party Flora Jean (Thomas) McCaine in October: Jean Baldwin (Mrs. and I attended several events of 16. What advertisements do you recall seeing in the magazine? Price) Daniel wrote "Sorry I could the Semicentennial Homecoming (Please list) not attend—let's do it again on our and hoped to see many `45ers. We fiftieth!" I had the privilege of only found two: Alan Chapman, flying up to Austin for the recent Professor of Mechanical Engineer- appreciation dinner for Jean and ing at Rice, and Jimmy Wilhoit, Price . . .a well-deserved tribute Assistant Professor of Mechanical 17. Which advertisement (or advertisements) were most appealing to a fine couple. Engineering at Rice; and they to you? Winging in to the Silver Anni- were walking in the Academic versary party from far away Procession. places were H. Ben Young (New Tom ('43) is still Head of Jersey); the Dorothy Jewett Stitt and Anesthesia Department at 18. Why? husband Meth- and son (Pennsylvania); odist Hospital. I have kept abreast Col. John R. (Bob) Martin (New of the times, and am now Chief York); Marinelle Rochelle Randlett Tracker of the 5 Satellites in orbit (Tennessee); Dr. Lester Scardino around our house. 19. Which advertisements were least appealing (Georgia); and Dr. Maurice Tinte- to you? Our row (Kansas). Bob Illes came from Class Agent, Jack Joplin, and wife, 20. Why? Dallas; Howard Collins, Port Ar- Anne (Landram '46) are thur; and Emmett Hudspeth, still glowing over Jack's promotion Aus- to the tin. Vice-Presidency of the Gulf Refining 21. Do you feel a desire to buy from or feel Bill Roberts Company of Houston. increased good will devoted a couple of Murnez toward those advertisers who appear in and columns to David Westheimer re- (Smyth) Blades, our Alum- support the alum- ni Fund ni magazine? cently. Summing up: married to Chairman, has sent letters to each Doris Kahn ('42); residing Los of you by now, and is hop- in ing Angeles; firing away at his to better our 14 per cent parti- type- cipation writer full time in the story telling for '61-62. 22. Why or why not? business; and polishing off a brand Lawrean (Davis) Isaacks, our new novel "Von Ryan's Express" Homecoming Chairman, reports (Doubleday). that she and Dick ('47) went to the Here are some of Dave's works. Banquet at the Rice Hotel and 23. Have you taken any action as a result of the advertisements "Summer on the Water," "A Very saw Bobby and Dorothy (Marshall) in the magazine? (Thal is, have you switched to Humble or Private Island" under his nom de Jones in from Harlingen. Dick is Gulf motor oil and gas, etc.) plume Z. Z.Smith and "The Magic now Secretary-Treasurer of the Fallacy." This novel has been op- Prudential Drilling Company. tioned by Italian movie producer Margie (Stroup) Hood is our Ac- Maurizio Lodi-Fe. tivities Chairman.

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