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ASSOCIATION OF RICE ALUMNI VOLUME 42, NUMBER 1 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1985

Eyewitness to History: Beahan Remembers Nagasaki

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INSIDE The many interfaces of Clarence Miller Frank Lloyd Wright at Rice,1933

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EDITOR The road to recovery 8 Suzanne Johnson Despite a depressed oil economy, enhanced oil recovery remains an important process with DESIGN a positive future. Chemical engineering professor Clarence Miller '61 discusses the process Carol Edwards and the work at Rice that has kept him at the forefront of enhanced oil recovery research. SCIENCE EDITOR B.C. Robison SPORTS EDITOR Eyewitness to history 12 Bill Whitmore Bombardier aboard the B-29 Bock's Car on its historic mission over Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. CONTRIBUTORS 9, 1945, Kermit Beahan '40 recalls for Sallyport the mission that, in effect, ended World War Francis W. Vesey '29 PHOTOGRAPHERS Todd Malcolm '87 Philippe Paravicini '86 The art of dreaming 14 STUDENT ASSISTANT Joshua Pailet '72 left Rice with an accounting degree and a lot of dreams. In the past 13 Shelly Unger '86 years, those dreams — and his ever present camera — have taken him cross-country photo- OFFICERS OF THE graphing America aboard the Bicentennial Freedom Train, found him visually chronicling ASSOCIATION OF RICE ALUMNI the 1984 Louisiana Exposition, and led him into the business of running one of the country's President, G. Walter McReynolds '65 first fine art photography galleries. President-Elect, Gwynne E. Old '59 1st Vice-President, Bridget Rote Jensen '53 2nd Vice-President, Nancy Moore Eubank Homecoming '85 16 '55 Treasurer, Russ H. Pitman '58 A full weekend of homecoming festivities this year promises something for everyone, includ- Past President, Harvin C. Moore Jr. '59 ing a few surprises. Check out the range of activities and make plans to attend. Executive Director, Tommie Lu Maulsby 59 ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS Chairman, John Boles '65 Co-chairman, Darrell Hancock '68 Past Chairman, Charles Szalkowski '70 W.W. Akers W.V. Ballew Jr. '40 Brent Breedin Franz Brotzen Homecoming '85 Ira Gruber Darrell Hancock '68 Rice Homecoming 1985 is Nov. 1-3, 5:30-7 p.m.-Alumni Art Show recep- 10:45 a.m.-Meet the president. A con- Nancy Boothe Parker '52 with a number of pre-homecoming tion, Sewall Gallery. versation with George Rupp at convo- Sara Meredith Peterson '47 Patti Simon '65 events planned earlier in the week. 6-9 p.m.-Pinchhitters baseball games, cation (annual meeting of the Geri Snider '80 All events other than reunions are free Cameron Field. Association of Rice Alumni)in Ham- Scott Snyder '87 unless a charge is listed. Some activi- man Hall. Presentation of gold medal 6:30 p.m.-Class of 1930 reunion dinner, Linda Leigh Sylvan '73 ties require advance reservations, and of scholarship by 50th reunion Bayou Club; Class of 1935 50th reunion which should be made using the form Class of 1935. RICE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI GOVERNORS dinner, Cohen House. Class of 1980 re- provided in the homecoming brochure. Noon-Luncheon in the RMC Grand Neal T. Lacey Jr. '52 union party. Sewall Hall Courtyard. Jerry McCleskey '56 Call the alumni office at 527-4057 for Hall. Music by the Honors Brass Quin- 7 p.m.-Class of 1940 cocktail buffet, Pat H. Moore '52 more information. tet of the Shepherd School. Presenta- Graduate House. Class of 1943 "Fall Reunions are being planned for both tion to retiring professors. SALLYPORT (USPS published in Roundup" dinner, Autry House. Class 412-950) is former cheerleaders and editors of the Reservations required. No tickets will September, November, February, April of 1945 reunion dinner, River Oaks Thresher, but no times have as yet been be mailed, but pre-paid tickets can be and June by the Association of Rice Country Club. Class of 1950 reunion university confirmed. picked up at registration or at a spe- Alumni, and is sent free to all dinner, Rice Memorial Center. friends. cial table at the luncheon. Special alumni, parents of students, and Houston, 8 p.m.-P.D.Q. Bach concert, Shepherd seating for Golden R Classes and Second class postage paid at Texas. Wed., Oct. 30 School Symphony Orchestra, Hamman other groups who so desire. Hall. Nominal charge. 7 p.m.-R Association Hall of Fame and 2 p.m.-Rice vs. Arkansas, Rice Sta- William Marsh Rice University offers Distinguished R Man induction cere- dium. Tickets in the alumni area equal opportunity to all applicants with' mony. Please see the related story in out regard to race, color, sex, age, na- Sat., Nov. 2 available on advance basis. Request this issue's sports section for informa- marked "Alumni" and specifying class tional or ethnic origin, or physical 8 a.m.-Past Presidents' Breakfast, Es- tion. year should be sent along with check handicap. ther's Room, Cohen House. Alumni In- for $14 per ticket plus $1/order for mail- terviewers' Breakfast, Cohen House. Editorial offices for SALLYPORT are lo- ing to: Rice Athletic Department, P.O. Business Thurs., Oct. 31 Reservations. cated in the Allen Center for Box 1892, Houston 77251. Activities, Rice University, 6100 South 7 p.m.-Presidential Concert reception. 8:30-11:30 a.m.-Open house and regis- 4:30 p.m.-(or immediately following Main Street, Houston, Texas. Meet George and Nancy Rupp. RMC. tration in the RMC cloister area. Cam- game): patio parties in each college Reservations. pus tours leaving from registration POSTMASTER: Send address changes to for its alumni, $2.50 per person, regis- Services, 8 p.m.-Presidential Concert. Shepherd area throughout the morning. Alumni SALLYPORT. Office of Information tration required. Graduate students Houston, Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ben- archives on display in board room. Rice University, P.O. Box 1892, gathering at Valhalla; bring your own jamin Zander. RMC. Mechanical Engineering Building Texas 77251. food to grill; free beer and wine. open for visitors. Young Alumni party, Sewall court- Copyright 1985 by the Association of 8:30-10:30 a.m.-Golden R Coffee, Fri., Nov. 1 hon- yard. Fajitas and margaritas will be Rice Alumni, Rice University. oring the Golden R Classes (1916-1935). sold. Announcement of Young Alumni 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.-Registration in the Rice Foyer of Hamman Hall. Friends of Fon- Award. Reservations required. Memorial Center lobby; refreshments dren and Rice Engineering Alumni 5:30 p.m.-Class of 1970 reunion party, served. Alumni Archives on display in Brunch. Awards presentation. Kyle Graduate House (alums from 1969 and alumni board room. Campus tours avail- Morrow Room, Fondren Library. 1971 invited). able at registration desk. Student guides. 9 a.m.-6 p.m.-Child care for children 7 p.m.-Class of 1955 reunion dinner, 9 a.m.-noon-Open classes. Class under 8 years of age will be available RMC. Class of 1965 reunion dinner, R .eetteia schedules and maps available at reg- off campus. Children's activities for Room. Class of 1975 reunion margarita istration. those over age 8 will be held in the and fajita party, Anderson Hall foyer. 9:30 a.m.-noon-Alumni Potluck Dou- physical education building on cam- Remembering Vietnam 7:30 p.m.-Class of 1960 "Silver" re- bles Tennis Tournament. To play, call pus. Nominal charge. Your column Vietnam" union dinner, Cohen House. "Remembering the alumni office at 527-4057. 9:30 a.m.-Lovett College Fun Run. Par- (Through the Sallyport, June 1985) prompts 10 a.m.-7 p.m.-Alumni Art Show, Se- ticipants meet at 9 p.m.-Student Quad Party featuring me to write. the Sallyport. only one wall Gallery. To enter, call the alumni beer and dancing. Alumni invited. In To the best of my knowledge, 10 a.m.-Tribute to the founder. Associ- granite wail office at 527-4057. front of Fondren Library. Rice alumnus is listed on the ation of Rice Alumni president and the that is the Vietnam Memorial in Washing" Noon-Lunch in the colleges. $3.50 per Class of 1960 will lay a wreath at the Sun., Nov. 3 ton, and that Marine is Harold C. Dailey person. Reservations required. tomb of William Marsh Rice. All 10 a.m.-3 p.m.-Post-homecoming (Wiess '67). At this time of remembrance, I 4 p.m.-Dedication of Mechanical Engi- alumni invited. event. Seventh Annual Rice Reunion thought we should remember Harold. „9 neering Building. Open house follow- 10 a.m.-7 p.m.-Alumni Art Show open Tennis Tournament. Call Larry Tur- William F. Pollak III 7f ing dedication. at Sewall Gallery. ville at 527-4077 for details. Santa Ana, Call

2 SALLYPORT—SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1985 " is 11- I • 471044491t Ilie Sallitiont

Rice's Roman Emp're coverage befitting its bestselling status. ture, "The Great Comet Called Halley." also named Steve Jackson. "It seems like a banner year for Rice ar- "It's a Long, Long Tale Awinding," Obviously, all the comet-related ac- Because of their identical names and chitecture grads," said Michael Ytterberg claimed Time magazine in a full-page re- tivities are going to keep experts on the common profession, the British and 75 as he packed his bags and practiced view that acknowledged McMurtry as "el- subject very busy. The prize at Rice goes American writers have become fast his Italian. egist of the old Southwest and observer of to history professor Albert Van Helden, a friends. When Steve Jackson (Briton) Ytterberg is one of nine architecture the new culture in the Sunbelt, where the specialist in the history of science, who asked Steve Jackson(American) to write a alumni who have received grants to air conditioner is king." will lecture for both the alumni and con- Fighting Fantasy book, he accepted with- study in Europe during the coming year A full-page Newsweek review enti- tinuing education programs before head- out hesitation. — six of them in Italy. tled "Saga of a Cattle Drive" called Mc- ing off for Australia next spring. Despite Scorpion Swamp's bestsell- Ytterberg and Danny Cecil '78 both Murtry "the best Texas writer alive" and (Note: information about all of the ing status, however, the duplication of received Fulbright-Hayes Grants that will credited Lonesome Dove as being one of above trips and programs can be found names confused everyone — including take them to Rome and Florence, respec- the year's most enjoyable books to date. elsewhere in this issue of Sallyport.) the publishers. When the U.S. edition tively. While in Rome, Ytterberg will be The novel also received high marks from was printed, the American publishers in- able to reminisce about Rice with John USA Today, The New York Times, and The cluded the biography of the British Steve Casbarian '69, Bob Timme '69, Danny Sa- New York Times Book Review. Jackson. muels '71 and Roy Lewis '76, all of whom As well-received as McMurtry's book Steve Jackson — American and Rice have received grants to work at the Amer- has been, it has also given the book crit- alum — is none too pleased with the bog- ican Academy in Rome. ics a rare chance to let their hair down gle. "I'm a little upset," he admits. "The Casbarian, Timme and Samuels, all and Talk Texas. The book is "a great British Steve and I both tried to warn of Taft Architects in Houston, won the rootin' tootin' tale of old West rustle and them in advance, but they still didn't get Graham Foundation Advanced Fellow- hustle," claimed USA Today, while Time it straight." ship.(Both Casbarian and Timme are called McMurtry "an uncommonly shrewd Some things have gone right, how- also members of the Rice faculty.) Lewis judge of book flesh." Even the scholarly ever. "The royalty checks have come to was the winner of the Steedman Fellow- New York Times Book Review headed up the right person — so far, anyway — and ship. its excerpt section with the title, "Herding that takes some of the sting out of it," he Three 1985 graduates with Fulbright- Words." said, adding that he is writing another Hayes grants for the coming year are But then again, they were inspired by book for the same publisher. "Maybe DeAnn Bartlett Mills, who will be study- a master. As Time noted, "Nobody does they'll get it right this time." 'rig in Romania; Jane Tannehill, who will the cowboy blarney better than Larry Mc- be in Sweden; and Jim Dorenbusch, who Murtry." Is on his way to Finland. Halley hoopla The taste of success Since it makes an appearance only every With the sale of beer going flat in Amer- 76 years, seeing Halley's Comet next ica, beer producers are feverishly looking spring will be a once-in-a-lifetime event for a way to beef up the product line and for many. People around the world are revitalize the market. making elaborate plans to study and Two Rice graduate students have come up with an idea that has excited at A view the phenomenon, and members of the Rice community are no exception. least one producer — Phillip Morris Inc., Both the Office of Continuing Studies the parent organization of the Miller and Special Programs and the Associa- Brewing Co. tion of Rice Alumni have deemed Halley's Jan Remak and Narayanaswamy Comet a worthy topic of thought and tra- Slvakamur(who both graduated from the vel, and both are offering courses and Jones School in May)took top graduate )4,4 trips over the coming months to make honors in Phillip Morris' National Market- sure Rice alumni have every chance to ing and Communication Competition for On the slopes hear, see and do it all. their idea to produce a drink that could When Earl Watson '34 took a skiing trip in Both trips offer the chance to view the help revitalize the beer market as well as December 1982, it was the first time he comet from Southern Hemisphere van- fitting in with the current tastes favoring had been on skis since World War II. tage points — which one travelers choose low-alcohol products. Since then, the 74-year-old retired engi- could well boil down to a preference of The students' idea was to produce neer and father of four has become a reg- watching by land or by sea. and market shandy, a longtime British ular on the ski slopes of such areas as The alumni association is sponsoring staple of beer combined with lemon-lime Idaho, Utah, the Poconos and, in particu- a late-March Caribbean cruise that will soda. The concoction, described as "sur- lar, Colorado. include educational aboard-ship lectures prisingly tasty," was approved by 98 per- "The scenery is thrilling, and the and stops at Barbados, St. Lucia and St. cent of the taste-testers — students speed itself breeds excitement," Watson Thomas. cornered during Jones School classes. said of his newly revived passion. "There Continuing Studies opted for a view And you thought those folks were all is a real sense of accomplishment in ski- from Down Under, with their early April business. ing with speed and executing the neces- trip to Australia including visits to the sary turns. Great Barrier Reef before heading to Two of a kind "One can see so high and go so far Alice Springs and Ayers Rock for comet- Austin game designer Steve Jackson '74 and drool at the scenery from well above watching and some educational tips from has written a bestselling book — and no- the timberline. There are literally thou- Rice faculty members. body knows it. sands of acres of snow. It's impressive — In case travelers (or non-travelers) The book, Scorpion Swamp, has been really awesome." Back in the saddle want to brush up on their comet- on the children's bestseller list in En- With a goal of logging more miles Larry McMurtry '60 is a writer, not a knowledge beforehand, both groups have gland for six months and the American than anyone in his age group, Watson al- tEllker. also organized classroom offerings. edition, which has just been released, ready has a strong start — he put in more „ "I think it's stupid for authors to write For the alumni association, it comes promises to be just as popular. But Jack- than 400 miles of downhill skiing this °CC- to 800-page books and then talk in the form of the Fall Alumni Institute. son has a problem — his name is on the past winter alone, and has plans to move about them," he recently told the book ed- The institute's second series, entitled cover, but no one knows he wrote the from his current home in Pennsylvania to itor of a Houston newspaper — the begin- "Halley's Comet and the Origins of the book. the skiing meccas of Colorado. One of his !ling and end of a discussion about Solar System," will feature six lectures on It's a new problem for Jackson, who is favorite spots, he said, is Wolf Creek 4,onesome Dove, McMurtry's latest novel everything from gamma ray astronomy to one of the country's most successful game Pass in Colorado, the place where he "lit- (which, by the way, runs 843 pages). ancient and modern skywatchers. designers. His company, Steve Jackson erally fell in love with skiing again." McMurtry, whose work includes A series of lectures from continuing Games, has published several bestsell- He eventually hopes to become a ski lerms of Endearment, The Last Picture education called "The Comet is Coming" ing games, including "Car Wars" and "Il- instructor, working with older skiiers and Show and Horseman, Pass By(which will explore such topics as "a historical luminati." Among adventure game fans, "encouraging them to take up the adven- served as the basis for the movie "Hud"), view of comets as messengers of doom" his name is almost a household word. ture of skiing." Lnlight not like to talk to the media, but his and "who is Edmund Halley and why is it But Scorpion Swamp is part of the Though most of his children have uooks give them plenty of fuel about his comet?" "Fighting Fantasy" gamebook series, seen their father ski, Watson said he Which to write. Lonesome Dove, a West- And for those who think there can most of which was authored or co- wishes his late wife could have seen him novel credited by many reviewers as never be too much hoopla about Halley, authored by a prominent British games on the slopes. "It is my one great regret," ceing THE Western novel, received press Friends of Fondren is offering its own lec- writer. Unfortunately, the British writer is he said.

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Rupp inauguration

set for Oct. 25 John L. Cox George H. Richter

George Rupp will be formally inaugu- rated as the fifth president of Rice Univer- Gold Medal winners announced by ARA sity on Friday, Oct. 25. The Association of Rice Alumni have Building, which will be dedicated during The public is invited to attend the in- named John L. Cox '45 and George homecoming weekend. augural procession, ceremony and recep- Holmes Richter '26 as recipients of this George Holmes Richter has literally tion, which will be held in the main year's Gold Medals for Distinguished devoted a lifetime to Rice, both as a stu- academic quadrangle on the Rice cam- Service to Rice University. dent and a member of the chemistry fac- pus.(In case of rain, the events will be An oilman from Midland, Texas, Cox ulty. moved to Autry Court.) became in 1982 the first non-Houstonian Richter earned all three degrees at The inaugural procession will begin to be elected a trustee of Rice University Rice(B.A. '26, M.A.'27, Ph.D.'29) and was at 2:30 p.m., with the investiture begin- since founder William Marsh Rice. Prior a member of the chemistry faculty from ning at 3. Principal speaker for the occa- to that, Cox served four years as a term 1931 until his retirement in the early sion will be John Archibald Wheeler, member of the Board of Governors, and 1970s. During that time, he also served as professor of physics at the University of George Rupp spent the following year as a governor chairman of the chemistry department, Texas. Refreshments will be served im- adviser before being elected trustee. He dean of the Rice Institute and graduate mediately after the ceremony. has also been involved in activities of the dean of Rice University. Rupp's selection as president of Rice educational Rice University Fund Council. Richter also taught organic chemistrY was announced in March following an al- institutions and from learned In addition, Cox has been actively in- to generations of premedical, chemical most year-long search by a committee societies will register in the foyer of Se- volved in efforts on behalf of Rice in Mid- engineering and chemistry majors, and Is composed of board members, faculty, wall Hall between 9 a.m. and noon, after which land and has often hosted local inaugu- credited with being the "principal archi- alumni and students. He comes to Rice they will have lunch in the Gradu- ral meetings for the various special tect" in changing the chemistry program from Harvard University, where he ate House or one of the residential col- fundraising campaigns, most notably the from a primarily undergraduate depart- served as dean of the Harvard Divinity leges. Lunch will be followed by coffee effort to match the $20 million Brown ment to a significant entity as School. and dessert in the Masters' houses, and research Foundation challenge. A Contributing well. Rupp succeeds Norman Hackerman at 2 p.m., preceding the inaugural pro- Life Member of the Rice University Asso- The Gold Medal awards will be pre- who retired June 30 after 15 years cession, the delegates, faculty, student as pres- ciates, Cox recently donated the funds for sented to Cox and Richter on Nov. 2, dur- ident of Rice. representatives, trustees and distin- Rice's new Mechanical Engineering ing Rice's homecoming weekend. A number of pre- and post-inaugural guished guests will don their academic activities are also being planned. Activi- regalia. ties will get under way Oct. 24, when The night of the inauguration, a Charles W. Duncan Jr., chairman of the black-tie dinner for invited guests will be Rice Board of Governors, and Linda held at the Westin Galleria. Principal Driskill, chief marshall, take a scroll speakers at the event will be Harvard summoning Rupp to his formal inaugura- University President Derek C. Bok and tion from the Lovett Hall board room to James T. Laney, president of Emory Uni- the President's House. versity. A number of invitation-only activities Wrapping up the inaugural events are scheduled around the actual inaugu- will be an All University Festival, held on ral events on the 25th. That morning, del- the afternoon of Sunday, Oct. 27, for Rice egates from domestic and foreign students and invited guests.

Rice admitted to AAU J. David Hellums Kenneth W. Kennedy Jr. Manik Talwani Rice University has been admitted to and Florida to membership. professors membership in the exclusive 56-member Commenting on the news, Rice Presi- Three faculty named endowed Association of American Universities, be- dent George Rupp said, "Our participa- Three Rice faculty members widely rec- Texas Medical School in Houston. coming only the second university in tion in AAU will allow Rice to assist in ognized in their respective fields were re- Kennedy's Professor- Texas and the eighth in the South to re- the formulation of major policy directions Noah Harding cently honored with endowed ship in Mathematics is the second of its ceive this honor. for higher education in general and re- professorships. kind to be given AAU President Robert M. Rosenzweig search in particular." a Rice faculty member J. David Hellums, dean of Rice's since the chairs were established in 1974 made the announcement recently in Membership "is a major recognition George R. Brown School of Engineering, through an endowment from the estate of Washington, D.C., also naming Brandeis of the quality of the university's graduate was named the university's first Foyt the late Blanche Harding Sewall '17. The University and the universities of Arizona and research programs," Rupp said. Family Professor of Engineering. Kenneth professorships honor Sewall's grandfa- W. Kennedy Jr. '67, chairman of Rice's ther, who had a special affinity and aftec" computer science department, was tion for mathematics. Rice board member Farnsworth dies named to a Noah Harding Professorship Kennedy, a Rice faculty member in Mathematics, and Manik Talwani, since 1971, graduated from Rice in 1967 Long-time Board of Governors member newly appointed to the Rice faculty, was and holds advanced degrees from New David Farnsworth, a 1942 Rice chemical named the university's first Schlum- York University. In 1976, Kennedy won engineering graduate, died July 27 at age berger Professor of Geophysics. Rice's Jones College Service Award and 64. The three appointments became ef- in 1979 he was honored with a George B. In addition to serving as alumni gov- fective July 1. Brown Award for Superior Teaching. ernor, Farnsworth had also served the Creation of the Foyt Family Chair in As Schlumberger Professor of university through the years as president Engineering was made possible through Geophysics, Talwani meets the intent of of the alumni association and the Owl contributions from personal and corpo- the Schlumberger Foundation, which erl" Club, chairman of the Rice Fund Council, rate friends of the Foyt family. The new dowed the professorship to enable Rice chairman of the Founders Club, vice professorship is dedicated to the memory "to enhance its educational and research president of the Rice Design Alliance, of Anthony Joseph and Emma Evelyn programs." and board member of Fondren Library, Foyt, parents of Houston's famed auto Talwani holds degrees from Delhi. Engineering Alumni, and the Shepherd racer and multiple Indianapolis 500 win- University in India, Columbia University Society. A life member of the Rice Associ- David Farnsworth ner, A.J. Foyt, and in honor of the family. and an honorary doctorate from NorwaY 9 ates, Farnsworth was recipient of the 1981 Dean Hellums, a Rice faculty mem- Oslo University. He comes to Rice from Oustanding Engineering Alumnus cultural Leader of the Year in 1983 and ber since 1960, holds B.S. and M.S. de- the position of chief scientist of Gulf Re- Award. outstanding volunteer by the National So- grees from the University of Texas and a search and Development Co.'s explora- Born in Ranger, Texas, Farnsworth ciety of Fund-Raising Executives in 1984. Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. In tion division. In addition to his post at was retired from his position as president Farnsworth is survived by his addition to his duties at Rice, Hellums Rice, Talwani is director of the recently and chief executive officer of Eddy Refin- mother, Martha Farnsworth of Houston; a serves as an adjunct professor in the de- established Geotecluiology Research In' ing Co. Active in civic affairs for many sister, Jane F. Smith of Corpus Christi; partments of medicine at both Baylor Col- stitute of the Houston Area Research Cell- years, Farnsworth was named Houston and two nieces. lege of Medicine and the University of ter(HARC).

4 SALLYPORT—SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1985 University Press gets strong start The state's newest academic book pub- lishing venture has been established at Rice. Rice University Press signed in late this summer with its first publication, Mapping the Cosmos, edited by Rice pro- fessors Jane Chance of English and Ray- mond 0. Wells Jr. of mathematics. "The formation of the Press symbol- izes major structural differences from its antecedent, the quarterly Rice University Studies, which in turn was rooted in the J. Thomas Eubank Jerry McCleskey George R. Miner Rice University Pamphlets that went back to the earliest years of the institution," said Fred R. von der Mehden, Rice's Al- Fred von der Mehden Alumni named to Rice board bert Thomas Professor of Political Sci- ence and Three alumni with national reputations ning for the chemicals and pigments de- editor of Rice University Press. "We expect to publish in the business and legal communities partment of DuPont's Methonol Products three to four titles He said the move toward stronger of- a year." have been named to the Rice University Division in Wilmington, Del. He has rep- ferings has already been evident in the Board of Governors for four-year terms. resented Rice in recruiting applicants in Von der Mehden added,"We hope two most recent issues of Rice University The newest faces on the 19-member various areas of the country and is cur- through this move to attract a wide range Studies: A Walking Tour of Rice Univer- board are J. Thomas Eubank Jr. '51, Jerry rently a member cf the Founder's Club of strong manuscripts and to increase the sity by James Morehead and Ethnic Groups prestige of McCleskey '56 and George R. Miner '50. and member-at-large of the Rice Univer- our offerings. Our entrance of Houston, which includes a number of into the ranks of The Board of Governors is composed of sity Fund Council. McCleskey is also ac- university presses is an non-Rice authors and was edited by von seven trustees and 12 term governors. tive in a number of organizations. exciting venture for all of us." der Mehden. The new members'terms began July 1. He is married to the former M. Elaine Eubank, a senior partner in the Hous- Milton and they have two daughters. The ton law firm of Baker Botts, is a member youngest, Catherine A. Gassman, is a Geo-Tech center formed at HARC of Rice University Associates, the Rice 1983 Rice graduate. President's Club (chairman, 1977-79), and President of Miner-Dederick Con- Texas Gov. Mark White signed a bill to stitute will be to enhance research and Association of Rice Alumni (president, struction Co. of Houston, George Miner create a Texas geotechnology research development in the following areas: de- 1979-80). has been involved with major construc- center near Houston to conduct energy- veloping improved exploration tech- In addition to his law practice, which tion projects in Houston, East Texas and related work. Located in the Houston niques; creating new observational emphasizes federal income, estate and Western Louisiana. At Rice, Miner is Area Research Center(HARC), the Geo- methods and using existing technology gift taxation, Eubank serves as a member president of the Quarterback Club and is Technology Research Institute will be for oilfield development; developing of numerous professional and civic orga- past president of both the R Association headed by Manik Talwani, newly ap- more sophisticated techniques in the use nizations, including the American and and the Owl Club, for which he now pointed Schlumberger Professor of of surface geochemistry; developing bet- Texas Bar Associations, the American serves on the board of directors. He is Geophysics at Rice. ter geoscience instrumentation; deter- College of Probate Counsel(fellow, 1969; currently general chairman of the Rice HARC is a nonprofit, applied re- mining the geological potential of the president, 1984-85), and the Houston Phil- University Fund Council. search consortium with member institu- Outer Continental Shelf; applying remote risophical Society. Miner is married to the former Elaine tions including Rice, the University of sensing techniques to oil and gas explo- He is married to the former Nancy Co- Dederick and they have six children and Houston, Texas A&M and Texas. ration; and carrying out regional geo- rinne Moore '55; they have four children. seven grandchildren. Their youngest The chief aim of the new research in- physical surveys. McCleskey, former president of Con- daughter, Margaret, is a 1985 graduate of oco Coal Development Co., currently Rice; their youngest son, John, is cur- serves as director of departmental plan- rently a Rice junior. Chance leads NEH summer seminar For only the fourth time in history, Rice from Rice; Judith Kellogg (English), Uni- Underhill takes director's post was the setting for one of the highly se- versity of Hawaii, Honolulu; Kent Kraft lective summer seminars for college (comparative literature), University of Michael Underhill, a Rice faculty member teachers sponsored by the National En- Georgia, Athens; Charles B. Moore(En- since 1979, is the new director of Rice's dowment for the Humanities. glish), Christian Brothers College, Mem- School of Architecture, Dean 0. Jack The seminar, held in July and Au- phis, Tenn.; Jeanne Nightingale Mitchell announced recently. gust, was taught by Rice English profes- Husemoller (French), Bryn Mawr College, Underhill succeeds Peter Rowe, who sor Jane Chance. Bryn Mawr, Pa.; and Deborah D. Rubin acts accepted a position with Harvard Focusing on "Chaucer and Mythogra- (English), Nassau Community College, university's School of Architecture. phy," the seminar was attended by eight Garden City, N.Y. Underhill holds a bachelor of archi- college English teachers from across the Participants spent June 18-Aug. 6 at tecture degree from the Massachusetts country. There are only 80 of these semi- Rice working to improve their teaching Institute of Technology, 1970, and a Mas- nars in all fields held nationwide, and skills and avail themselves of expertise ter of City Planning in Urban Design de- competition both to host and attend them and materials that they might not nor- gree from Harvard, 1974. is keen, Chance said. mally have access to. Before coming to Rice, he served on At Rice, only three other professors "Some of the teachers were from geo- have led such seminars — Baruch Brody graphically isolated areas," Chance the architecture faculties at MIT, Univer- Michael Underhill sidad Catolica, Santiago de Chile, and (philosophy), Richard Grandy (philoso- said. "They don't get to talk to colleagues the University of Toronto. His awards and Architects, and now heads his own firm. phy)and Monroe Spears (English). in their field regularly, or just need re- scholarships include the AIA School His work has been published in Houston Attending the seminar were: D.G. Al- charging. We want to enhance the teach- Medal won at MIT and a travel grant to Home and Garden, Progressive Architec- len (English), The Citadel, Charleston, ing experience for them, perhaps rev up S.C.; Sr. Rosemarie ,tudy with Giancarlo de Carlo in Urbino, ture and CITE. In addition to teaching ar- Julie Gavin (English), their interest again, and if needed, help ,„ltrilY. He was also runner-up for the Yale chitecture, urban design and construction College of Notre Dame, Belmont, Calif.; them if they want to publish something in David Hiscoe (English), Mellon I owne Urban Design Fellowship. at Rice, he has been a visiting critic at a Fellow the field." I. Since coming to Houston, Underhill Tulcrne, Berkeley, Cornell, MIT and UT- 'OS worked with the Rice Center and Taft Austin.

Itice MBAs draw top salaries This year's graduates of the Rice MBA among this year's class." Program commanded high salaries, in- While most Jones School graduates cluding one of $63,000, according to Fran- chose to remain in Houston and the D. Tuggle, dean-of the Jesse H. Jones Southwest, others accepted positions in Graduate School of Administration. New York, Chicago, Kenya, Malaysia "The salaries commanded by our and Switzerland, Tuggle said. graduates are significant tributes to their Of the 57 Rice MBAs, 26 were women. scholarly attainments and to the promise Three of the graduates decided to enroll th. eY hold to make important contribu- in doctoral programs and one went to iti,ons to the businesses they have joined," Harvard Law School. By the end of July, uggle said. "I am also pleased with the 47 of the 53 available MBAs had accepted qr0Wing interest local, regional, national positions and of those, 39 reported their Ind international firms are showing in starting salaries to Jones School adminis- c'llr MBAs. In fact, we've noted a 63 per- trators. The salaries ranged from $25,000 erit increase in the number of firms that to a high of $63,000. The average salary sentN recruiters to the Jones Graduate was $33,330, up from last year's $31,620 Chance(standing, center) with seminar participants(L -R) Gavin, Allen, Moore, chool to find future staff members average. Rubin, Kraft, Husemoller and Kellogg.

SALLYPORT—SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1985 5

1 TSS survey yields surprising results A survey conducted at Rice by psychol- awareness of warnings, and knowledge ogy doctoral student Sandra S. Godfrey of TSS symptoms. Participants included and Kenneth R. Laughery, Henry R. Luce 110 women, mostly Rice undergraduate Aew4 Professor of Engineering Psychology, has and graduate students, ranging in age revealed that many women do not know from 16 to 43. the symptoms of Toxic Shock Syndrome Godfrey concluded that, although the (TSS) despite the publicity about the in- majority of the women in the sample were creased dangers of using super- of above-average intelligence, results Wind shear is topic of Rice study absorbent tampons following the deaths show that even they are not satisfactorily of approximately 40 TSS-diagnosed informed about the hazards of tampon The early August crash of a commercial women in 1980. use. Familiarity with a similar product airliner in Dallas-Fort Worth has re- The findings corroborate their earlier and frequent use of the product may newed public interest in the study of study, which indicated that increased fa- make them less cautious. As a result, she windshear, a weather condition believed miliarity with a product results in a de- said, more effective — and more frequent to be the cause of that crash and others in crease in the hazard perceived in using — package warnings are needed. recent years. the product. "If these college women are lacking Angelo Miele, professor of aeronau- "The more familiar people are with a in caution, how do others treat these tics and mathematical sciences at Rice, product, and the more times they've used products?" she asked. has for the past year been studying the it, the lower they rate the hazard," God- According to statistics from the fed- windshear, or microburst, problem. Solu- frey said. eral Centers for Disease Control n At- tions are net quick in coming. The 25-question survey was designed lanta, there have been 2,683 confirmed "It is clear that the problem of flight to assess the history of tampon use, stor- cases of TSS between 1980 and 1984, with in a windshear has many facets and can- age practices, awareness of hazards, 114 deaths. not be solved overnight," Miele said, ex- Angelo Miele plaining some of the conditions encountered by a pilot trying to take off or flight in a microburst." Rice to house Baker papers land under such conditions. Results of the first phase of Miele's "This condition involves a vertically study, centering on handling the wind- U.S. Secretary of Treasury James A. Baker and stored in the library's Woodson Re- descending column of air, which then shear problem during a plane's take-off, III has selected Rice University to house search Center as they are made availa- spreads horizontally in the neighborhood was presented at the Atmospheric Flight his political papers, thereby establishing ble."The significance of Mr. Baker's of the ground. This condition is hazard- Mechanics Conference Aug. 21 in Colo- Rice as a future site of major importance political files as chief of staff of President ous because an aircraft in a take-off or rado. for historians studying the Reagan years. Ronald Reagan's White House during his landing might encounter a headwind Capt. W.W. Melvin, a Delta Air In making the announcement early in first administration and now as SecretarY coupled with a downdraft, followed by a Lines pilot and chairman of the Airworth- the summer, outgoing president Norman of Treasury at the time of his proposed in- tailwind coupled with a downdraft. Occa- iness and Performance Committee of the Hackerman noted that the Baker family come tax reform is self-evident," Car- sionally, a loss of altitude ensues, and Air Lines Pilots Association, is serving as and Rice have been intertwined since the rington said. this loss of altitude might be more or less consultant to the project, which is being chartering of Rice as Houston's first col- "Also important is the record of his severe, depending on the action of the pi- supported by NASA's Langley Research lege in 1891:"No one played a more im- political activities in 1976 as chairman Of lot on the controls of the plane," he ex- Center in Hampton, Va. portant role in Rice's development and the Gerald Ford Election Committee and, plained. Miele's study on take-off has "indi- growth during its first half century than in 1980, as head of Vice President George Solving these problems will involve cated that optimal trajectories are consid- Capt. James A. Baker"(Baker's grandfa- Bush's presidential primary campaign. a multi-year effort. "We must develop an erably superior to constant ther and Rice's first board chairman, a Any scholar of Republican politics in understanding of the meteorological con- angle-of-attack trajectories. The analysis position he held until his death in 1941). Texas in the second half of this century ditions leading to microbursts, as well as also indicates that an aircraft employing Rice Librarian Sam Carrington said will have to study these papers." an understanding of the flow field config- an optimized flight strategy can climb the Baker materials would be catalogued uration associated with a microburst," he continuously in a windshear, even a rela- said. Instrumentation to forecast the pres- tively severe windshear." ence of windshear — both on the ground The next phase of Miele's study will A s and in flight — must be developed, and deal with problems in landing. He hopes Fondren adopts computer system rczt] "we must develop an understanding of to present some of the results relative to the the flight dynamics of an aircraft in a mi- the landing problem at the AIAA 24th Aer- Following last semester's successful trial ana and 27 other research libraries. tiak croburst," Miele said. "In particular, we ospace Science Meeting, to be held in of an on-line catalog, the Fondren Library "In retrospect, we are glad we took Spi must study optimal trajectories for safe Reno, Nev., in January. has jumped into the electronic age with our time before settling on a system," ers an agreement to establish a system for said James C. Thompson, associate uni- cataloging, acquisitions, serials, circula- versity librarian."We studied various fOrt tion and public inquiry. proposals during the three years of our the Sociologist studies reading groups The system, called NOTIS(North- ReCon (retrospective conversion) project western On-Line Totally Integrated Sys- while transcribing some 600,000 records the In even the smallest communities, there tem), was developed at the Northwestern in our card file to electronic storage. is usually at least one reading group or Library and is now in use at Harvard, Full installation of NOTIS is hoped to ori book club, usually composed of women. Louisiana State, Clemson, Missouri, Indi- be completed in the spring. leg, Members read books, then gather to dis- cuss what they have read. Pro Elizabeth Long of the Rice sociology the. department is studying these groups, be- In brief... 'ma] lieving "they are a wonderful source of briE information about questions that relate to Livingston joins USC staff the federal government. Kobayashi will the issue of literacy in our society." After almost four years as dean of Rice's receive $174,949 for studies of the thernicr Cba Because these groups have a varied Shepherd school of music, Larry dynamics of coal. Livingston has accepted an offer history and structure and have received to be- Topic: Space Robots Frei come dean of music at the University of little or no scholarly attention, Long says Rui J.P. deFigueiredo, professor of electri' Southern California in Los Angeles. Dur- Ss1 they are hard to locate. As a result, she is Elizabeth Long cal and computer engineering, will be ing Livingston's time at Rice, the Shep- 135( seeking information about reading contributing the chapter on robots herd School has seen a period of space groi groups not only in the Houston area, ing relates to more overtly political and for the Encyclopedia of Robotics to be substantial growth, acquiring three en- which have made up the bulk of her study social activity," Long said. "Women's mo- published by John Consisting of Nizt: dowed chairs, establishing Houston's Wiley. thus far, but throughout the country. tives for joining reveal that serious en- two volumes, the encyclopedia cover 10 fc first doctoral program in music, and in- will "These groups deserve study be- gagement with books and ideas is often every aspect of robotics and is expected cause of their past and present impor- missing from their lives, and also reveal creasing the number and quality of fac- students to be a standard reference in libraries tance to women's cultural lives, and to the tenacity of old notions that culture is ulty, staff, and facilities. tion Livingston's USC worldwide. the development of American literary and a particularly feminine concern. Since post begins July 1, 1986. (140 Everett to head Rice Center civic culture," Long said. "Moreover, they meetings begin and end with what mem- Grant recipients in Germany lion present a unique opportunity to investi- Four Rice chemists spent all part of the Richard Everett, FAIA, president of Cep', bers call 'chat,' the contrast between in- 4L )ri- gate theoretical issues in women's stud- summer in Germany after receiving tury Development Corp. and chairman '0 formal women's talk and the more Inc., e ies and grants from the Alexander von Humboldt the board of Partners Construction t in the study of cultural dissemi- substantive book discussions provides a CIdd nation and change." Foundation. They were: Philip R. Brooks, has been named chairman of the board° fruitful perspective on the interrelation- national, Long's preliminary observations of ship between texts and everyday life." professor of chemistry, who conducted re- Rice Center, a Houston-based research organization with Rice reading groups in Houston have sup- Long eventually hopes to translate search at the University of Goettingen; affiliated University. Everett will succeed B. ported her belief in the value of studying her findings into a book of her own, but Robert F. Curl, professor of chemistry, John r\Whe Turner such organizations. until then, she is seeking help in locating working at the University of Bonn; and Jr. as chairman. uivi "Since membership often precipi- reading groups and book clubs from postdoctoral fellows Dale B. Gerth and Stebbings to chair APS group hiSt( Keith D. Jamison. (la . tates out of neighborhoods and women's throughout the country. Anyone with in- Vice president for undergraduate affairsA ppga] organizations, the study of group forma- formation regarding such a group should Kobayashi receives grant Ronald F. Stebbings of space physics ney 4 eel tion can clarify how other groups and net- contact Long do the Rice Sociology De- Riki Kobayashi of chemical engineering astronomy has been elected chairperson works shape middle-class women's partment, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, Texas is among 39 researchers in the nation to of the Division of Electron and Atomic lives, and permit discussion of how read- 77251. receive special coal research grants from Physics of the American Physical SocietY'

6 SALLYPORT—SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1985 George Rupp chats

with Rice freshman

at reception Morris Porn by Photo A RICE WELCOME FOR THE CLASS OF '89

A sudden downpour forced new freshmen to ride, built into the foundation of this institution," Rupp At Rice, Rupp said, the students will be given rather than walk, to the matriculation address at said, noting that not only is the phrase inscribed the opportunity to begin the active process of the RMC Grand Hall Aug. 20, but it would have on the north wall of the Sallyport but the beliefs questioning and exploring both old and new tradi- tclicen more than a few inches of rain to dampen behind it have been built into Rice's history from tions — retaining some, rejecting others, blending 4)irits. Faculty, administrative and student lead- the outset. "We are firmly committed to the crucial new ideas with old to find a direction for their ?I's were on hand to greet the new students both importance of technical competence, whether that lives and the new technical competence they will 'hrrnally, during the program, and informally, at competence is in music or in the use of language be acquiring. It is a process, he added, necessary fhe reception following. or in engineering or in designing experiments or to obtaining an "education at its best." „ The freshmen arrived in a frenzy of loyalty for in architecture or in economics or in public policy "All of us in this place come as the heirs of the their new residential colleges. Brown College analysis or in the host of other fields represented traditions of interpretation and action of particular '''onient sported Michael Jackson-inspired gloves at this institution." human communities," he said. "The communities hu their right hands, while the whole of Baker Col- Noting that much of the students' attention are the ones that have nurtured us — and against ge up in sunglasses. Will Rice College would invariably be geared toward knowledge which we perhaps have rebelled or are rebelling Rrovided new Rice President George Rupp with that would prepare them for their chosen careers, or will rebel. Often the traditions are those of our Etlefr own style of inauguration (he will be f or- parents or of others who have decisively shaped }Tally Rupp also assured them (to the sound of a few inaugurated as president Oct. 25) with a groans)that they would learn quite a few other our views, our attitudes, our behavior. Most of us rlef "knighting" ceremony, all accepted in good things in the process. "You will have to learn to are engaged in what is in effect a lover's quarrel 1:)irit. Spirit is something not lacking in Rice's write clearly and cogently," he said. "You will with those traditions as we seek to orient our- Class of 1989. have to be able to reason inductively from empiri- selves in our constantly changing world." p Academic credentials are not lacking, either. cal data, to handle quantitative manipulations, to In addition, he said, we have adopted or been st.torn a record applicant pool of almost 4,000, the conduct careful analyses of multiple variables in exposed to other traditions provided through such entering freshmen have a median SAT score of search of alternative entities as community, school, church, govern- 1350, explanatory accounts. You with 75 percent scoring 1250 or higher. The will be encouraged to appreciate and to express ment or the media."We are, in short, more or less ?pup, 43 percent of which is women, includes 195 yourself in the arts in all of their variety. aware of a very substantial range of traditions irscafonal Merit Scholars and hails from 42 states, that pervasively shape our personal, social and "Like others of us in this 'uh foreign countries and the U.S. territories of university, you, too, cultural awareness both of ourselves and of will ruerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. pursue the aims of both liberal and technical others. learning. At least that is our hope for you. And if t. The Class of 1989 also holds another distinc- "What is critical,to the vitality of this univer- we succeed in executing the task we have set for 1°n — that of sharing their first year at Rice with sity is that each and every one of these various ourselves as an intellectual community, you will ttiflother "freshman," George Rupp. Rupp's selec- traditions can and should and will be chal- be invited, enticed, even compelled by attraction ,1011 as Rice's fifth president was announced last lenged," Rupp said. "None of them has unques- to both aims. You will become both technically Zilrflag, and he officially took the reins July 1. As tioned competent and liberally educated. authority. fold the crowd assembled for the matriculation "What we are called to do in this place is to be 1dress, "I, like you, am a newcomer to this cam- "In short, you will be pressed toward compe- aware of and reflective about that process of ori- '48. We begin our time here together." tence in letters, science and art — to use the lan- enting ourselves in our changing world. We en- Rupp came to Rice from Harvard University, guage of William Marsh Rice's original deed of gage multiple traditions as we seek to make them '671ere he served as dean of the Harvard School of indenture." at least in part our own and then to live out of tilvinity. The second-youngest president in Rice Technical competence alone, however, is not them. This process of critical appropriation — of story at 42, Rupp focused his first matriculation enough. "Every exercise of such competence oc- making patterns of interpretation and action our 14,ciclress at Rice on the bedrock of "Liberal and curs in a context of meaning that shapes the pur- own and living out of them — is central to our life- :clinical Learning" dating back to Rice's first, poses to which it is directed," Rupp said. "And to long education and certainly central to the four or ticf youngest, president, Edgar Odell Lovett. engage this dimension of meaning and purpose is more years of intensive study on which you are .....:Devotion to liberal and technical learning is the aim of liberal learning." about to embark." EI

SALLYPORT—SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1985 7 The Rocky Road to Recovery

Enhanced oil recovery, that is. Rice professor Clarence Miller explains why America's rock-embedded oil is such a problem, and how he and his colleagues are using video screens and detergents to find a solution.

by B.C. Robison

The Arab oil embargo of the early 1970s changed Freeing that oil through the injection of other displace the oil." forever the Western world's attitude toward its agents — such as the surfactants, or detergents, Another of Miller and his co-workers' accom- supply of fossil fuel. The era of cheap, abundant with which Miller is working — will be a key in plishments has been the use of high-resolution vt- gasoline had passed; the specter of costly, fre- making American oil a more viable force in an in- deomicroscopy for studying dynamic aspects of quently scarce, foreign oil suddenly cast a long dustry thus far heavily dependent on imports. But interfacial behavior. His optical laboratory gives shadow over a generation-old way of life. it will not be simple. one the impression of entering a nuclear subma- Attention began to focus on increasing pro- "For example, we know that the tension of an rine — a long, dark corridor crammed with con- duction from American oil reserves. Since not all oil-water interface has to be lowered by a factor of soles, monitoring screens and other electronic domestic oil can be fully exploited by conven- 10,000 from that of an ordinary crude oil-brine in- gear. tional production methods, a new generation of terface in order for the oil drops to move freely The videomicroscopy system is being used to petroleum researchers emerged to take on the through the reservoir," Miller explained. "That's a reveal how detergents remove oily soils during challenge of what is known as enhanced oil recov- tremendous amount, and it's not easy to do." washing processes. Detergent solutions are ery. Miller's research concentrates on discovering brought into contact with oil in special microscope Among the frontrunners of that new genera- the mechanisms by which surfactants interact cells, and behavior near the region of contact is tion is Clarence Miller '61, a Rice chemical engi- with oil and water, and on applying these mecha- recorded on videotape. "What happens is that the neering professor who has for the past 12 years nisms to the increased recovery of oil that is oil is, in effect, eaten up by combining with the de- been working in the area of enhanced oil extrac- tightly bound within rock. tergent and water to form new phases such as the tion, studying processes that involve pumping sur- Rather than attempting to develop specific microemulsions and liquid crystals," Miller said. factants, or detergents, into underground new detergents for oil recovery, Miller and his re- "Our knowledge of phase behavior from the oil re- reservoirs. It is, he said, an expensive process that search group are seeking to uncover the funda- covery work is proving to be of great value in un- had not been considered economically feasible mental principles that govern oil-water-detergent derstanding detergency mechanisms." before the embargo forced oil companies to start behavior in underground reservoirs. Once these considering ways to exploit hard-to-reach oil re- are understood, they can be used in formulating The early years serves. surfactants for use in specific reservoirs, which The 47-year-old Miller is one of those rarities onlY "All oil occurs in rock," Miller explained. can vary greatly in structure, depth, temperature occasionally encountered in the city — a native "Roughly half the world's reserves are in sand- and chemical composition. Houstonian who still lives in his hometown, and stone; the other half are in limestone. Whatever One result of Miller's research has been an ex- one who, moreover, graduated from Rice. you do, you have to get the oil out of the small planation of why phases known as "microemul- He grew up on Park Place Boulevard in south- pores of the rock, which are on the average 10 to 20 sions," which consist of tiny drops of oil in water east Houston, attending Deady Junior High and microns in diameter."(A micron is one-millionth of or water in oil, have interfacial tensions low Milby High schools. He entered Rice in the fall of a meter.) enough to displace oil under suitable conditions. 1956 and, as a sophomore the year Rice's residen- "The actual shape of the pores is a little differ- Another is the discovery that many of the formula- tial college system began, became one of the °rig' ent in limestone, but essentially it's the same tions proposed for pumping into oil reservoirs con- inal members of Baker College. problem," he said. "You are not just drilling down tain structured phases called "liquid crystals," Miller attributed his decision to attend Rice to to an underground lake and trying to get liquid to which resemble stacks of biological membranes. its academic reputation and low cost. "My mother come up freely. You are trying to get the liquid oil "A detergent molecule, like the lipid mole- was a widow and it would have been difficult to to come out of these tiny pores. cules in membranes, has a 'head' that likes to be find the funds to attend a university of Rice's Val" "The conventional technology is to recover in contact with water, and a 'tail' that does not," ity outside Texas," he said. what oil you can from the pressure exerted by the Miller said. "When the detergents used in oil re- Before arriving at the university on South natural gas occurring with the oil. The gas forces covery are added to water, they form layers that, Main, Miller had narrowed his career choices to the oil out of the rock once it is drilled into, and like membranes, are two molecules thick with the two. "In high school I had been on the debate tech' then pumping can supplement the natural gas heads on the outer surfaces in contact with water and my father had been a lawyer, so I considered. pressure as it decreases. and the tails inside. We have made extensive going into law," he said. "My other choice was scl" "The other important conventional method is studies of these liquid crystalline phases to deter- ence and engineering. water injection, by which you pump water down mine, for instance, how they affect flow behavior "The fact that the petroleum and chemical ine some wells to flush oil out of the rock through in the reservoir. We are now determining when dustries were big in the Houston area and that I other wells." they have the necessary low interfacial tensions had a chance to meet with technical people in the with oil. field at career nights and similar occasions infhi- A break from convention "There is a wide variety of different phases enced me to try science and engineering when' Conventional methods, however, can recover less that you can get in oil-water-detergent systems," got to Rice. I liked it, and stayed with it." than half the oil present in most reservoirs be- Miller said. "Those of us working in the field have In Naval ROTC at Rice, Miller followed grachl- cause oil drops have a surface tension, or surface spent a lot of time trying to sort out this phase be- ation in 1961 (B.A. and B.S. degrees) by entering energy, too high for them to deform and pass havior because it turns out to be very crucial to Adm. Hyman Rickover's program for designing through the tortuous pore system of the rock. have the right phases present in order to achieve clear reactors for submarines and surface vesseLe. These drops are thus trapped in the rock. these very, very low surface tensions necessary to For the next four years, he immersed himself in

8 SALLYPORT—SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1985 Malcolm

Todd

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Photo Clarence Miller various assignments with the U.S. Atomic Energy were outstanding. They could really get to the bot- stood. Commission's naval reactors section in Washing- tom of things and solve problems and get things "The effective use of surfactants in enhanced D.C. done, in contrast to our usual image of govern- oil recovery is a tough problem and we're not there "Although I was a naval officer, I had very lit- ment. But I began to feel I wanted to get more in- yet, although we know a lot more than we did 10 tle daily contact with anyone outside the nuclear volved in fundamental research, so I knew I had to years ago," Miller said. "And I think it is fair to say Power program," Miller recalled. "I worked with go to graduate school." that most, though not all, of the oil industry is tem- People from Westinghouse and General Electric In 1965, Miller went to the University of Minne- porarily not as enthusiastic about detergent flood- Who were developing the designs for the naval nu- sota, one of the nation's top schools in chemical ing as it was a few years ago, due to the decline in clear reactors. In one assignment for a couple of engineering, especially in the field of interfacial fossil fuel prices. But the long-range prospect for Years I was associated with the actual fabrication phenomena; he received his Ph.D. from there in these processes is good. of the nuclear fuel elements of what at that time 1969. Except for a sabbatical at Cambridge Univer- "The most important thing is that you have to cis a new and improved design to make them last sity in 1979-80, Miller was to spend the next 12 understand the fundamentals," Miller empha- 'Pilger. But my main duties in the program were years at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. sized. "You might find by a lengthy trial and error reviewing designs of reactor components submit- He came to Rice as a professor of chemical engi- procedure a surfactant that works well for the oil ted to us and making sure the reactors were built neering in 1981. from one field. Then you go to another field and culd tested on time. A National Science Foundation Fellow from that surfactant won't work. The oil could have a "And from what you might know about Admi- 1965-68 and a Ford Foundation Fellow in 1969, different composition; the field could be at a differ- rol Rickover, our review system was hardly per- Miller is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, ent depth and therefore a different temperature. functory. He insisted we get in there and really the American Chemical Society, the Society of Pe- The brine that occurs in the ground with the oil Understand the design and make sure the engi- troleum Engineers and the American Institute of might have different dissolved salts that very rteers had really thought it through." Chemical Engineers. much affect the ionic surfactants we use. You must Miller worked in the nuclear reactor program know the fundamentals of what's going on so that 4r1til 1965, when he decided to attend graduate Fundamentals and futures you can successfully find the right surfactant for khool. The recent downturn in the oil industry has ham- whatever kind of reservoir you are dealing with. "Rickover's organization was an exciting pered research in the field of surfactant use in oil "And discovering the fundamentals," Miller Place to be in many ways," he said. "The people recovery, of which a great deal is still not under- said, "is what we at universities do best."fj

SALLYPORT—SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1985 9 A DAY WITH ELL.W. by Francis W. Vesey '29

When Frank Lloyd Wright visited Rice in 1933, young architect Francis W. Vesey'29 acted as chauffeur. He also learned that some heroes are best admired from a distance.

In 1871, William Physic Zuber sat down and wrote from memory the famous speech of Col. William Travis to the doomed defenders of the Alamo. Zuber had heard the speech, which is some 1,300 words long, from his parents in 1836; they, in turn, had heard it from Moses Rose, the only man to escape from the Alamo. Moses Rose was a Frenchman who "spoke very broken English." Though it was second-hand and fraught with language barriers, Zuber defended the accuracy of his transcription by saying, "Most of the language is nearly the same." The following yarn is another ambitious feat of memory; it happened 52 years ago. I won't defend its total accuracy but I will say that even now I feel almost as much rancor as I did the day it happened.

Note: The illustration by Francis Vesey depicts Wright(R) showing Watkin(L) his reaction to Houston.

, 10 SALLYPORT—SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1985 I still have one of the cards announcing the great I can't document it, but my impression is that "Pure Frank Lloyd Wright" event. It reads: Wright was a small man, possibly 5-foot-6 in River Oaks seemed to him a cesspool of tradition "Frank Lloyd Wright will lecture on 'The Fu- height. Watkin certainly towered over him. A little and eclecticism, topping off a day when he hadn't ture of Architecture,'8:00 p.m., Wednesday night, stocky, he had a large head crowned with a high seen a building for which he had a kind word. So March 1, in the Physics Amphitheatre. The public brow and a curly shock of long white hair that we returned him to the hotel for a rest before his is invited." curled over his temples and the back of his head. scheduled lecture at Rice that evening. I had typed and posted them on the bulletin Small dark eyes were set just a little too close to- The lecture, of course, was pure Frank Lloyd boards around campus, even across from the soda gether in a craggy face with high cheekbones and Wright. The obvious wisecrack was fountain in the Autry House. But I had forgotten to prominent jowls. that it was not the gospel according to, but the gospel of Frank put in the year. It was 1933, smack dab in the mid- Nobody could dispute the grand impression Lloyd Wright, but Alexander Woolcott had said dle of the Great Depression. he created. He even walked with hauteur. I had just returned from six months in Europe that of him several years before. We came to hear as the Mary Alice Elliott Traveling Fellow in Archi- it, and he gave it to us. It was full of zingers like, "I tecture, landing home with no money and no would not allow myself to go to Europe until I was 40 years old," indicating, to me, that it hopes of a job. Willy Ward, bless him, put me to A view of Houston had taken work as an assistant in the architectural depart- that long for Wright to inoculate himself against It was soon after Wright got in the car that my rude ment. the contamination of history. awakening began. "Willy Ward," one of my heroes then and still, I especially remember a bit about a blank There was not a great deal of good architec- sheet of paper. "It happens was William Ward Watkin, distinguished archi- every time I start to de- ture on Main in those days, but I was proud — and tect, professor of architecture and head of the ar- sign a new project," he told us. "I stare at the protective — of my favorites along the way to the chitectural department at the Rice Institute. Some clean, blank sheet in front of me and I am awed by Institute. When Wright deprecated everything he the possibilities. It is a challenge and a dare, 6-foot-4-inches tall and 130 pounds, with the figure saw, I took his criticism personally until I realized taunting me to create a masterpiece." of a scarecrow, the hands of a pianist and a Lin- it was Watkin who was having to bear the brunt of I learned colnesque head crowned with a wavy thatch of afterwards of the ritual that pre- the humiliating tirade. Wright was already brow- ceded his arrival at that drafting table. Wright brown hair, Watkin was a perfect target for carica- beating his host, and it continued all day. would mention that ture. The Ichabod Crane image was shattered, tomorrow he would start to He had seen our two "skyscrapers" from his study the new project. The chief disciple would however, the instant he started talking. A reso- hotel window, and had dismissed the Esperson then assemble a crew of the neophytes, who nant, almost echoing, baritone immediately indi- Building as flashy trash while recognizing the would cated that here was a leader, a learned man of appear early the next day to clear the mas- Gulf Building as a direct copy of a losing entry in ter's favorite drafting table and place on it a new authority who was to be listened to, obeyed and the competition for the Chicago Tribune Tower. cover sheet. A group of new pencils was sharp- respected. The Second Presbyterian Church at McKinney re- ened and his set of instruments was cleaned and As freshmen we regarded him with silent minded him of Louis Sullivan, in whose office he set just-so on the table. And of course the T-square awe; as seniors, with reverence. As graduate stu- had received his early training, but he thought it and triangles were cleaned before a new, carefully dents, our feelings ripened even more as he wel- was a poor copy and just gingerbread. comed us into his home and family. selected piece of paper was thumb-tacked to the I had hoped he might like the little San Jacinto board. I am sure they even got out a new eraser for Although he was a product of the Beaux Arts Bank building at Lamar(where Foley's is now), but him. The light was adjusted and the stool placed theory of architectural training, leaning heavily he thought its colorful terra-cotta mural of Texas in readiness. Even that stool was something spe- on the past, he was keenly aware of the then- history looked like a billboard. I can't remember cial; instead of a cushion it had a carefully folded current surge of rebellion against history and the anything he said about John Staub's Humble sheepskin for the seat. trend to let architecture reflect current sociology Building at Polk; maybe he just ignored it. and technology. His Wilson building, on the All was in readiness. Wright would walk in, Wright admired the structural integrity of hang up his cape (but keep the hat on), and stroll Southwest corner of Preston and Fannin in down- Gothic architecture but he had no tolerance for royally to the board, accepting the conditions, as town Houston, is an example of his own search for contemporary churches built in that style, particu- well as the reverent audience, without even a nod. a new approach to design. He tried to instill in his larly those that depended on a steel frame for the (Since I am writing about that drafting table, students a curiosity and desire to research. It was support of the roof. He called structural engineers maybe now is the time to write at least one nice this acceptance of a changing trend that led him to "blacksmiths." Luckily, Trinity Episcopal Church thing about F.LL.W., as he loved being referred to. invite Frank Lloyd Wright to the Rice campus for a at Holman, of which Watkin was the local repre- He was a superb draftsman. Even without his lecture. sentative for the prestigious architectural firm of other achievements, he would have been re- Frank Lloyd Wright was 67 years old in 1933, Cramm and Ferguson that designed it, had nowned for his artistry with a pencil. Wright but age had not had its usual mellowing effect. He wooden trusses. But Alfred Finn's St. Paul's Meth- he was a romanticist at was still the fiesty, arrogant, controversial rebel would have denied it, but odist Church at Calumet failed when Wright re- heart, and it shows nowhere better than in some of With a cause he always had been. He lived an- peated his question about the frame. his presentation drawings. I get as much fun out of other 23 years after this Houston visit and contin- Since Watkin was proud of his Museum of looking at those drawings as I do in listening to ued to keep his irreverent attitude toward the Fine Arts, I made the full 360 degrees of the circle good architectural profession to the end. music.) so Wright could get a good look at it. His verdict I don't remember how long he talked, but it was a question:"Why do museums have to look was a good talk, inspiring to us youngsters. While like Greek temples?" He was later to show us what he was talking, I even forgot what he had re- an art museum should look like when he was com- vealed of his personality that day. Watkin may The legend arrives missioned to design the Guggenheim Museum in have, for the first time during a very difficult day, The great day finally came. Watkin had somehow New York. One salty critic said at the opening that felt glad he had invited Wright. borrowed a large black Packard limousine for the it looked to him like a giant concrete water closet. But the evening wasn't over. day and had designated me as chauffeur for two Though, as chauffeur, I was not invited to the Some patroness of the arts, possibly the one reasons: he believed our visitor deserved a bit of luncheon scheduled at the Cohen House, I can who had loaned the limousine, had arranged a Pomp, and, besides that, Watkin did not drive. imagine the disaster it must have been. I don't be- late party in her River Oaks home. Since I was still Just before 10 a.m., I drove Watkin to the Rice lieve Wright would admit he had peers, but he did the official chauffeur, I was included. It must have Hotel's Main Street entrance.(Yes, you really did like to give out pearls of his wisdom when he was been a very proper party for the dozen or so who things like parking on Main in front of the Rice in among intellectuals. This, for instance, was the were there but I can remember only the boring those days.) He went in and soon returned with the man who said, "It has been 500 years since there parts. Great One. I was introduced and I wish I could re- was an architect. After me, it will be 500 years be- Wright gloried in being the honoree, monopo- Member how he acknowledged the introduction fore there is another." lizing all conversations. I doubt if anyone com- but I don't. Whatever those two or three words After lunch, Watkin had scheduled a stroll pleted a meaningful sentence directed at him. Were (or maybe it was just a grunt), it was the only through the Rice campus followed by a tour of Early on, he conveniently discovered in his coat time that day he even acknowledged my exist- River Oaks. I can only imagine what Wright had pocket a small volume of Kahlil Gibran's The ence. to say about our Rice buildings but I know the Prophet and proceeded to favor us with dramatic Anyway, here was another of my heroes: the River Oaks trip was a disaster since I was driving readings of several of the pieces. In checking my Great Architect, the Messenger, the Arbiter of a again. copy now, he must have given us "On Work" and New Architecture. He was in full regalia, dressed He resumed his derision down Montrose, past "On Homes" — possibly more. in the clothing that had become his trademark. the Museum of Fine Arts, the Montrose Apart- But the party did end, we delivered Wright to First, there was the low-crowned, broad-brimmed ments and the Plaza Hotel. But it was somewhere the hotel and I returned Watkin and the Packard to hat called the Pork Pie. He and Buster Keaton between the SAAP railway hump and the Link-Lee 5009 Caroline sometime after midnight. Made it famous. He wore business suits that never mansion at Alabama that he wondered aloud why It was a great day in my life; this writing is looked quite right, and he did something funny Texas had not developed an architecture of its proof that most of it is unforgettable. Watkin, gen- With his ties — they never had a knot. He liked own. The idea fascinated him, and he gave tleman that he was, never again mentioned any of LePcoats but didn't put his arms in the sleeves. Watkin precise directions of what that architec- the day's events. And, since then, I have been Worn as capes, they somehow took on a regal air, ture should be all the way out Westheimer. leery of any and all celebrities. fa

SALLYPORT—SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1985 11 unni zo sLri-T°noR tie( Jinx by Suzanne Johnson and Andre Fox '86 ba cicc crric but der, Po the cdf€ /10 / 25,6 Kermit Beahan '40 turned 67 years old on Aug 9. tion. Finally I asked him,'What is this Project The day before, he relaxed in a first-floor enclave Silverplate?' He looked at me rather strangely, turned kind of white and got up and walked away 35 n of the public library in the Houston suburb where cidE he and his wife live, recounting for Sallyport the without saying a word." events of his 27th birthday, 40 years ago. An Army Kok "Silverplate" was a code word no one would Air Corps. bombardier, Beahan had spent 12 hours craf — or could — discuss. It was the next day, when hou in a B-29 flying over Japan that day. Just before re- Beahan saw Tibbets and Ferebee, also assigned turning to base, he and fellow crewmembers goo( to Silverplate, that he learned the nature of the aboard Bock's Car completed the mission that, in delc project — learning to use the powerful new bombs dere effect, put an end to World War II — the dropping being developed in the hopes of bringing the war of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. hoz( Bombardier of the B-29 to an early end. j It is a story Beahan has patiently retold count- Though the men were not allowed to discuss the past few months as public inter- less times in that made the historic the project among themselves, they could not help est in the war, and in what the media has dubbed hut but speculate as they practiced dropping shapes c1ro the "birth of the atomic age," heightened in its raid on Nagasaki,Japan, of what they later learned was the atomic bomb, bonl 40th anniversary year. For Beahan, however, the the "Fat Man," over the Utah desert. After nine Mee, story begins not in August of 1945 but in 1940 40 years ago, Kermit months the 509th Group moved to Tinian Island when, as a senior physical education major, the c (near Saipan)for practice missions and films of tic() Beahan was caught up in the pre-war fervor only Beahan is the last man in the Trinity test blast in Los Alamos, N.M. then beginning at Rice. 1)°PE history to have dropped Soon afterwards, on Aug. 6, 1945, Tibbets was pilot, Ferebee the bombardier, and Van Kirk the 441 f "I was a senior at Rice University in 1940. One an atomic weapon as an navigator aboard the Enola Gay, a B-29 named af- ej of my classmates, a fellow Houstonian named Mor- ter Tibbets' mother, as it made history's first clecr4 ris Mansell, had developed an interest in flying. act of war. It is a distinc- atomic bomb drop over the Japanese city of Hiro- c190 They happened to have a physical examination tion he hopes to keep. shima. An instrumentation plane, the Great Ar- team from Louisiana traveling to Houston to give tiste, flew alongside. Among its crew members 4itic physical exams for prospective flying cadets. Mor- was Capt. Kermit Beahan. for N completed B-17 combat crew ris was really interested, and he kept bugging me. After Beahan e He said, 'Let's go get the exam.'I said, 'I'm not in- training in Boise, Idaho, he was assigned to Oper- "The Hiroshima mission went off perfectly. The then ation Bolero, part of two B-17 crews that would ac- terested in doing that.' But he kept bugging me. Fi- weather was absolutely gorgeous, and the visibil- °ftii //lc nally he said,'What's the matter Kermit, don't you company a group of fighter aircraft bound for ity was unlimited. After it was over, Ted Van Kirk "e d think you're in good enough physical shape to pass England. A last minute fill-in for part of a stricken kidded,'That bomb was scheduled to be released back the exam?' Well, I said, 'I'm in as good of shape as bombardment unit bound for Europe at the same at 8:15 in the morning. You all didn't let it go until crew you are, Morris.' So we went out there and took the time, Beahan and his crew became the first B-17 8:15 and 17 seconds. You were off 17 seconds.' theb physical." outfit flying out of England. "After the bomb was re/eased, we made the During that mission, Beahan met Maj. Paul normal prescribed breakaway procedure. Even Tibbets for the first time, and the two began a though we had been provided with protective gog- Military physical examinations by traveling friendship that today still spans the distance be- the intense flash teams were more commonplace on the Rice cam- gles similar to welder's goggles, tween Houston and Tibbets' home in Florida. was so brilliant that it gave you just momentary pus after U.S. involvement in World War II be- Later, after returning to the U.S. as an instructor, came a reality in 1941. On this particular day a blindness, even with the goggles on. Beahan met bombardier Tom Ferebee in Okla- "We made one circle back over Hiroshima. The year earlier, only Beahan and three others passed homa. Tibbets, Ferebee and Beahan — along with the rigorous exam that had been given to a group ground was covered with a dense, rolling, black a navigator named Ted Van Kirk — would 40 years was of 20. Before the days of Selective Service and the smoke. We knew the bomb had worked as it later become four of the most sought-after names what the beginning of Rice's accelerated graduation pro- supposed to, but we had no knowledge of in the media clamor surrounding the anniversa- ground gram, Beahan waited until receiving his degree in damage was because we couldn't see the ries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. under the bomb blast. By that time, the mushroom June before heading for pilot training, only to dis- Though scattered to different posts, they would cover piloting airplanes "wasn't my cup of tea." cloud had risen to 25,000 feet or so. It was soon be flying other missions together and, in awesome-looking, black with white, green, or- Back in Houston, working for the Humble re- 1945, would make up the core of the 509th Group, ange and yellow flashes darting through it. It was finery in Baytown, Beahan thought his flying days the special unit trained for dropping the as-yet- ugly. It was like a picture of hell." were over. But the Army Air Corps. kept in touch, undeveloped atomic weapons. and eventually convinced him to re-enlist in a Though the statistics would not be known until training program for bombardiers. It was eight "I was assigned to a unit undergoing training much later, little remained of what had been Ja- months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Har- there, I reported in in Dalhart, Texas. Upon arrival pan's eighth largest city and the headquarters of bor. from the inner and heard this gruff voice coming the Second General Army. At Imperial Headquar- Beahan?'I said, 'I've office. It said, 'Is that Kermit ters in Tokyo, Emperor Hirohito was said to have here, sir. I'm not really due until to- "I did my training at Barksdale Field, La. and been traveling expressed the urgency of ending the war. But no then stayed there as an instructor. I was later don't un- morrow. I'm a day early.' He said, 'Well, surrender followed. moved to Albuquerque, N.M., when the school was pack. Read this.' He handed me a teletype Three days later, on Aug. 9, Bock's Car, a B-29 transferred. The war was looming on the horizon message saying:'Redirect Capt. Kermit Beahan to equipped with the second atomic bomb, took off Project Silverplate.' — it had already started in Europe — and the de- Windover, Utah, for for Kokura, the site of the largest Japanese arsen- Project fense department was striving to build up the "I asked the colonel,'What the hell is al. Its secondary target was the industrial city of forces. The decision was made to graduate a group Silverplate?' He said, 'I have no idea, but it's the Nagasaki. The mission's bombardier was Capt. Corps.' of bombardier students early. With each group of highest priority in the Army Air Kermit Beahan. 15 students, they wanted to send an instructor to "I proceeded up to Windover, Utah. I arrived supervise the rest of their training program. They there on a Sunday and signed in. There was "Our takeoff was uneventful, but shortly after put up a sign on the instructor's bulletin board ask- hardly anyone around to talk to, so I went down to takeoff, our crew chief advised that we wouldn't ing for volunteers. That paper was on there for local hotel to its coffee shop. I was having a cup be able to use the 800 gallons of gasoline held in gas about four days. One day just on a whim or some- of coffee when a sergeant walked in and sat down the rear bomb bay tank. We carried a spare Photo thing I went by and signed my name." at the counter next to me. We struck up a conversa- tank in the rear bomb bay; the bomb itself was car-

12 SALLYPORT—SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1985 tied in the front bomb bay. That was no cause of "We started the bomb run. Radar equipment tinmediate concern because our flight plan al- was crude then, by today's standards, and al- lowed for ample fuel. though I had a fine radar team it did not provide "En route to our target, the weather was very the accuracy we would have liked. But we pro- had; typhoons were in the area. My aircraft was ceeded down on the bomb run using radar. About occompanied on takeoff by a photographic aircraft 25 seconds before the bomb was scheduled to drop, (Ind the instrumentation plane, the Great Artiste, a hole opened in the clouds and I could spy the in- but we had to break formation because of the dustrial valley of the city of Nagasaki. dense clouds. We went to our assigned rendezvous "I told the crew, 'I've got to deploy it visually; Photo courtesy Atomic Energy Commission Point, which was a small island 80-100 miles off we will complete the bomb run by visual means.' ing,'Read the Bible...those that live by the sword the Japanese mainland. Upon arriving there, we In 20 seconds I selected an aiming point and let the die by the sword.' But for the most part, the corre- affected immediate rendezvous with the instru- weapon go. spondence that I received immediately inentation aircraft. The photographic aircraft was after the "At that time, we were so low on fuel, we exe- war was favorable. „110P/ace to be seen. By that time, we were at cuted the breakaway maneuver and made one cir- "To this day, most of the mail I get is from vet- 45,000 to 28,000 feet of altitude. cle over Nagasaki. The photographic aircraft erans who were slated to hit the invasion beaches. "We circled the rendezvous point for about 30- never did rejoin our group; I took a picture of the Without exception, they also thank God it hap- 5 minutes, using considerable fuel. Then we de- bomb with a hand-held camera, a K-22. The flight pened and precluded invasion. Although the cided to proceed on to the target, which was engineer said,'We must go on to our emergency weapon was terrible it was the lesser of two evils. 1Colcura. Although the weather reconnaissance landing base,' Kadena Airfield air- in Okinawa, which Had the invasion occurred, it would have been a craft, which had flown over Kokura our brave Marines had captured two-to-three just some four to terrible loss of lives on both sides." hours earlier, had reported good weather and five months before. 27 0cl visibility, by the time we got there with our "We landed at Kadena and as we were taxiing A physical education major at Rice, Beahan ',slay over the rendezvous point the weather had up to the parking ramp, our two outboard engines had before the war planned to go to Columbia eteriorated. Kokura was covered with industrial died. Fuel starvation. It was really nip and tuck. University for his master's degree. After the war, .oze11 and smoke from a fire from a previous bomb- We refueled and went back to our takeoff point at however, he was convinced to stay with the Army. 149 mission of a city a distance away. Tinia Island. We had our debriefing, pulled out all He married in 1947, had three children, and re- , "We were unable to sight the target visually, the target charts, and I showed them the aiming cently celebrated the birth of his first grandchild. Ut had strict orders that the bomb must be point I had selected. Genera/ Farrell(Brigadier A special weapons, then electronics intelligence, cibroPped by visual means. This meant that the Gen. Thomas Farrell), who was a White House per- specialist in the Army, Beahan's military career ?robardier must be able to look through the eye- sonal representative, looked at it and said,'You was cut short in 1965 when he had a heart attack „teoe of his bomb site and see the aiming point on guys picked out a better aiming point in 20 seconds and was given a medical discharge. e crosshairs of the bomb than site. We made our ini- we did in 20 months of study.' Today, his health is good and, despite the fact !crl bombing run, but I knew at the time it was a "We were dismissed to our quarters. Suddenly that he has witnessed some 12-14 atomic blasts, gaPeless cause. I said, 'Let's try one from the oppo- it dawned on me for the first time, 'Hell, today's my he has escaped any of the radiation-related ill- tte direction just to see.' We made another bomb birthday — Aug.9— my birthday.'Somebody nesses plaguing many fellow veterans. Since tun from the opposite direction with no success. In said, 'Let's go over to the club and celebrate.' We 1965, Beahan has worked with a contractor in effort to carry out mission the as ordered, the went to the officer's club and had one beer. We charge of operating and maintaining the laborato- '4eCiSi011 was one made to try more bomb run from were all so completely exhausted, one beer was ries at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. ci So degree angle. was It also hopeless. all we could handle. Then we all went off to our Life now is far removed from his days as an . ."By this time, our fuel problem was becoming quarters and slept for about 18 hours.” Air Corps. bombardier, but the bonds are still irttlect/. A decision was made to make a direct line present. Like his 27th birthday, Beahan spent his Nagasaki, which was Japan formally the secondary target. As surrendered five days later, on 67th with fellow World War II participants, this the approached Aug. 14, 1945. Reaction Nagasaki, we saw the weather on the homefront was, for time at a memorial service in Houston. Beahan °f ere was also bad, and we realized the possibility the most part, elation that the bombings had was a guest of honor. wrflaking a visual drop there was very limited. brought an early end to a war they felt had gone A different kind of tribute — and a lot of media did not have enough fuel on too long. to carry the bomb attention — has come from the 40th reunion of the "'jrck to our original takeoff point on Beahan hadserved Tinia, so the almost five years of active Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions this past tfew decided as a duty that included crash-landings last resort that we would drop four among nu- month. Protesters raging against the bombings "e bomb by radar. merous missions over England and North Africa. and their aftermath, national news articles dredg- He had received the Distinguished Flying Cross, ing through details of what happened, what could the Air Medal for service beyond the call of duty, have happened, what "should" have happened. and a Purple Heart medal awarded for bringing Beahan has been the focus of local news artic- his burning plane to land during a bombing mis- les, a segment on the new CBS-TV news show, sion in Bizerte and rescuing fellow crew members "West 57th," and a nationally-distributed news from the wreckage despite multiple injuries of his story that Beahan said, through miscommunica- own. In 1945, Beahan was glad to be home. tion, claimed he felt guilty over the bombings, a fact he says is simply not true. "I felt like everybody else. I was elated, thrilled, happy that the whole damned mess was "Everybody keeps crying, 'guilt feelings, guilt over. Initially, people were very congratulatory, I feelings.' They don't understand the situation. How did, though, get some smattering of hate mail say- can you feel guilty about doing your duty and do- ing something that turned out to be the best thing that could have happened in the terrible circum- stances that existed? I feel regret, but regret and guilt are different. "The word 'atomic bomb' meant nothing to us at the time. It wasn't until years later that the in- tense personal suffering of the unfortunate survi- vors of Hiroshima came to light. I regret that there were victims. I regret the first bomb I dropped in the early part of the war from a B-17. I regret that the whole damned war ever started. But we didn't start it. "rt "The good Lord gave man the intelligence to develop nuclear energy;I hope He gives us the wisdom to use it for peaceful purposes. We must find a better way to settle international disputes than killing fellow human beings. War is immoral whether you kill one person, one thousand, or a hundred thousand. There has got to be a better way. "I would like to be the last man recorded in history to ever drop an atomic weapon on fellow courtesy U.S. Air Force human beings."

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Poilet sirr Joshua Mann Photos The Art he but tiOt wo, of Dreams trct, text by Andre Fox '86 f0ir Cartier- If Joshua Pailet '73 Pailet began seeing his camera as more than a camera artists as Stieglitz, Steichen, (10,4 crossed paths hobby. When the de Menils purchased several of Bresson, Yousuf Karsh and Diane Arbus. "It hadn't cooperation with visiting photo- his prints for their own collection, he knew an ac- couldn't have happened without the the professor Eve counting job would never be enough. of many living artists who let me exhibit their graphy Piet Sonneman at Rice, his The rigorous academic discipline required at work on consignment," Pailet admits. "But they be c life might have been Rice, however, combined with the socially volatile knew that I really cared about photography." the ( very different. With a 1960s to create the right background for Pailet's Selling art on consignment eliminated keel B.A. in economics and dreams to be realized. "Rice was a pressure need for a large working capital, but the finanma fifth-year accounting cooker," he said. "Being at Rice made other things burden of opening a gallery put a strain on even,„ ties Pailet someone of Pailet's business background. "It's 11"` degree, he was consi- seem relatively easy by comparison." 430] at Rice with helping him develop being on a rollercoaster, not knowing exactly , dering work with an ac- credits his years ill the traits that have most helped him in his career when bills can or will be paid," he said. It helpec`, counting firm or, at one Street5 even enter- — optimism, discipline and tenacity. that the gallery's first location on Magazine time, had Or tained the idea of be- On the heels of graduation, Pailet traveled for (it is now in the New Orleans antique district) W_.1,c, coming a tax lawyer. Before meeting Sonneman, a year with his ever-present camera before open- in a space that could double as gallery and Om' photography hadn't really been an option. ing a gallery in New Orleans. He knew exactly ment. also a e, Sonneman's encouragement, however, had what he wanted:"to show major artists and great A Gallery for Fine Photography was of ma5 planted the seed of a dream. Some look at dreams photography; to orchestrate a gallery with extraor- new entity in 1975, when the vast majority great exhibitions." urns and art collectors had just started collecting, Lqctic as wild imaginings, but Pailet used his to fuel his dinary, fine prints; to mount St as a successful photog- Consistent with his "nothing is too outrageous photography with regularity. "In a sense, phat°5 fortn need for challenge. Now, problenl- rapher and owner of New Orleans' A Gallery for or insurmountable" outlook, Pailet managed to raphy — which has been a radical and tag on those early renowned photographer Ansel Adams to atic art form for approximately a century and a the c Fine Photography, he looks back convince art exhibit his work in the new gallery. Since that half — has now become the 'darling of the years of his dream with fondness. Museum C41" E support and the chance to prestigious opening, which drew a crowd of more world,'" Pailet said. "Now, even Getty With Sonneman's 4kt , use facilities at the then-new Rice Media Center, than 1,000, Pailet has mounted shows by such collects photography." •••••••-..

1111111 Marketing fine art photography, especially in those early days, had its problems. "The public didn't have a standard against which to measure fine photography," Pailet explained. "It didn't Matter what you were charging for a photograph — people didn't know what hadbeen done in pho- tography, and they didn't know what a fine print required." One of his gallery's main objectives, he said, has been to educate people about fine art Photography and to dispel the idea that it is in- stantaneous, effortless or commonplace — to make people aware that, though both have their Place, there is a vast difference between fine art Photography and Cousin George's prints from last Year's vacation. Never a 9-to-5 person, Pailet's own develop- ment as a photographer has grown alongside the gallery. His "dual career life" has meant operating the gallery during business hours and working in the darkroom at night. It is a consuming occupa- tion. "Mrs. de Menil used to say to me,'You've got to have a camera around your neck all the time.' And it's true — the camera is a part of me. My pho- tography is personal — partly an expression of events, of traveling, walking, establishing the gallery, of people." Pailet even suspended the gallery's activities for 10 incomeless months in 1976 in order to photo- graph the country as the official photographer of the Bicentennial's American Freedom Train. One book (All Aboard America — a compilation of 180 Photographs from the 15,000 taken), 24 states, 138 cities, 24,000 miles of track and countless walks later, he has no regrets. "What better time could there be to experience the country?" Recently, the gallery celebrated its 10th anni- versary with a retrospective of Pailet's own work, SO pieces done between 1971-84 consisting of black-and-white photos of people in a wide vari- ety of circumstances, a group of small Polaroids taken when Pailet was temporarily without a darkroom, and a fragment of the more than 10,000 Pictures — his maiden voyage into the world of Color photography — taken in conjunction with the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition. Though his topics are disparate, Pailet sees the common thread in his work as simplicity and °Ptimism. "When I began in the late '60s, I decided hot to photograph a dismal human state or make a ocial protest like many others," he said. "For me, this would have recorded a lopsided view of the World. I'm attracted to humor. Some of my prints °dye been described as a 'visual pun.' At a glance, I want people to see the humor." For Pailet, good photography also reflects laiplicity. "I'm a great — but straight — printer," !le said. "Great prints require some manipulation, but I'm interested in what is in the negative. I'm llot interested in multi-imagery in the darkroom.' Simple — but vivid — images mark Pailet's Work from the Louisiana Exposition, which at- ttctcted him initially because of its historical con- "It's a once-in-a-lifetime event," he said. :Elaborate plans are made, buildings erected, the 4414 takes place for six months and then it's all torn "own. To me, that's very American." Pailet sees the experience of photographing 'le fair from its inception in 1981 through its corn- Illetion as a challenge. "All my life I've needed to Qe challenged. Even when I was little, sitting in a cctlicl or dirt pile, I'd cook up these fantasies to myself interested." a. Photographing the fair spurred its own fanta- -a multi-projector slide show, or perhaps a "Qek. Both of those dreams are now reality, and i1l culminate in November when Taylor Publish- , \rvIg Co. publishes the official 1984 Louisiana °rid Exposition Commemorative Album 'al et's visual chronicle of the fair from start to fin- h. A major exhibit of Pailet's work is planned in °Iliunction with the book's release. Between books, photography and running a gallery, Joshua Mann Pailet stays busy. But Still has time to dream. The latest comes in the lb of an old 50-by-60-foot movie theater he tkt°4 light at auction, had dismantled and moved to 4 ,country. For Pailet, it will become more than 44 extraordinary home and studio." It will be a Dot for dreaming. r.)

SALLYPORT—SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1985 15 CLASSIC TO CASUAL: HOMECOMING 185

Wherever your interests lie — from arts to At 4:30 p.m., or immediately follow- held athletics to academics — this year's ing the game, patio parties will be of homecoming weekend has plenty to offer. in each college for its alumni at a cost required. Scheduled for Nov. 1-3(with some special $2.50 per person. Reservations is grad- pre-homecoming activities on Oct. 30-31), Also after the game, a gathering for Homecoming '85 will feature new activi- uate students will be held at Valhalla on ties, old favorites and, of course, special a bring-your-own-food basis. Beer and reunion celebrations. wine will be provided. have A full schedule of activities, times Finally, the Young Alumni will and places verified at press time can be an after-the-game party in Sewall Hall be found in the schedule on page two Courtyard. Fajitas and margaritas will of this issue. Some events require ad- sold, and announcement of the Young in playing is the Past Presidents' Breakfast and the s vance registration, and a registration planned. Those interested Alumni Award will be made. Reservation office. Alumni Interviewers' Breakfast, both card and more details on events are pro- should contact the alumni required. on the scheduled for Cohen House. The Alumni Satur- vided in the homecoming brochure being At 10 a.m., doors will open Reunion activities are planned at Sewall Gal- Interviewers' Breakfast, hosted by the Ad- sent to all alumni from the Association of Third All-Alumni Art Show day night for the classes of 1955, 1960, artists, professional or missions Office, is for alumni interested Rice Alumni. Additional information is lery. All alumni 1965, 1970 and 1975. eligible to display their in recruiting high school students for available from the alumni office at 527- amateur, are The Class of 1970 reunion party, for entries Rice. Reservations required. 4057. work in any medium; deadline scheduled for 5:30 p.m. at the Graduate is Oct. 8. The show will be open until 7 The new Mechanical Engineering House, has been dubbed "Return of the at 5:30 Building will be open for visitors from Pre-homecoming activities p.m., with a reception beginning Nerds — and Friends" by its organizers. p.m. 8:30-11 a.m. Friends(and guests)from the classes of On Wednesday, Oct. 30, the R Associa- At noon, lunch will be provided in the From 8:30-10 a.m., a coffee honoring 1969 and 1971 are invited. tion Hall of Fame and Distinguished R eight residential colleges. Cost will be the Golden R Classes (1916-35) will be At 7 p.m., the Class of 1955 will hold Man induction ceremony will take place $3.50 per person, and reservations are re- held in the foyer of Hamman Hall. At that its reunion dinner at the Rice Memorial at the Cohen House. Alan Chapman '45 quired. same time, Friends of Fondren and Rice Center, while the reunion dinner for the and Wendell Ley '32 are this year's Distin- Formal dedication of the new Me- Engineering Alumni will hold a brunch in Class of 1965 will be held in the R Room. guished R Men, while Augie Erfurth '49, chanical Engineering Building will begin the Kyle Morrow Room of Fondren Li- The Class of 1975's reunion margarita Jim Fox '62, Sammy Giammalva, Roland at 4 p.m., with an open house for all brary. Both groups will be presenting and fajita party will be held at 7 p.m. in Jackson '63 and Kay Pearson Keating '36 alumni following the dedication cere- service awards to selected members. the foyer of Anderson Hall. will be named to the Rice Athletic Hall of mony. The fleet of foot are invited to partici- The Silver Reunion dinner for the Fame. More information on the ceremony A Pinchhitters baseball game is pate in the Lovett College Fun Run at 9:30 Class of 1960 will be held in Cohen House and recipients is featured in the sports scheduled from 6-9 p.m. underneath the a.m., with participants meeting at the at 7:30 p.m. section of this issue of Sallyport. new lights at Cameron Field. If Bach is Sallyport before the start of the event. Whether young or young-at-heart, a° Rice Memorial Center will be the fo- more your style than baseball, the P.D.Q. At 10 a.m., the annual tribute to Wil- alumni are invited to attend the Student cus on Thursday, Oct. 31, as the Presiden- Bach Concert from the Shepherd School liam Marsh Rice will take place as the Quad Party for beer and dancing on the tial Concert fromthe Shepherd School of Symphony Orchestra will be held at president of the Association of Rice quad in front of Fondren Library begin- Music Symphony Orchestra gets under Hamman Hall at 8 p.m. There will be a Alumni and the Class of 1960 will lay a ning at 9 p.m. way at 8 p.m. The program consists of nominal admission fee. wreath on the founder's tomb. All alumni Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, Paul Hin- A number of reunion activities are are invited. Also at 10 a.m., the doors to Sunday, Nov. 3 demith's Symphonic Metamorphosis, and scheduled on Friday evening for the Sewall Gallery will again open for the -homecoming "Let All the World in Every Corner Sing" classes of 1930, 1935, 1940, 1945,1950 and day for visitors to the alumni art show. For those ready for a post Rice Reunion (featuring the Rice Chorale)from Mystical 1980. The show will be open until 7 p.m. event, the Seventh Annual to take Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The Three reunion celebrations are are also invited to meet Tennis Tournament is scheduled All alumni 527-4077 concert will be led by new Shepherd Sym- scheduled for 6:30 p.m. The Class of 1930 new Rice President George Rupp at the place from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Call phony conductor Benjamin Zander. will hold its reunion dinner at the Bayou 10:45 a.m. convocation of the alumni as- for details. Prior to the concert, at 7 p.m., a Presi- Club, while the 50th reunion dinner for sociation's annual meeting in Hamman dential Concert reception will be held in the Class of 1935 will be held at Cohen Hall. The open session will feature a The home(coming)team the RMC. All alumni are invited to attend House on campus. The Class of 1980 will question-and-answer period with Rupp Members of the homecoming committee and welcome George and Nancy Rupp to have a reunion party in the courtyard to of the Gold for 1985 are: general chairman, Bridget prior the presentation Annette Rice. Advance registration is required. area of Sewall Hall. Medal and of a scholarly gift by the 50th Rote Jensen '53; alumni art show, At 7 p.m., the Class of 1940 will hold reunion class. Gragg '47; athletics, Dan Steiner '77; Friday, Nov. 1 a cocktail buffet at the Graduate House, A noon luncheon in the RMC Grand cheerleaders, Jeff Plummer; child care, Homecoming weekend officially gets un- while the Class of 1943, not wanting to Hall will feature music by the Shepherd Nancy Flatt '69; class reunions, Marilyn der way as the registration tables open at wait three years until its reunion, is hold- School Honors Brass Quintet, and a pre- Kinzer Moore '59; college coordinator, 8:30 a.m. in the RMC lobby. Campus tour ing a "Fall Roundup" dinner at the Autry sentation will be made to the following Kari Findley '84 and Bob Schwartz '79; , information will be available at registra- House. retiring faculty members: Herbert K.W. concert, Dorthyle Headrick '54; electrical tion, which runs from 8:30 a.m. until 5 Also at 7 p.m., the Class of 1945 will Beckmann, professor of mechanical engi- engineering-1950, George L. Church '50; p.m. Refreshments will be served, and hold a reunion dinner at the River Oaks neering and materials science; William graduate students, Todd Giorgio; lunch- the Alumni Archives will be on display Country Club, while the reunion dinner E. Gordon, professor of space physics eon, Evelyn Murphy '43; publicity, Nancl '43; upstairs in the alumni board room. for the Class of 1950 will be held at Rice and astronomy, professor of electrical en- Mafrige '59; registration, Reg Dugat For those of you whose remem- Memorial Center. gineering, and provost and vice presi- Thresher reunion, Bill Ballew '40 and brances of Rice days tend more toward dent; Elinor L. Evans, professor of Nancy Parker '52; shuttle service, Joe the academic — a favorite class or profes- Saturday, Nov. 2 architecture; John E. Kilpatrick, professor Reilly '48; Young Alumni fajita party, sor — a special feature of this year's ac- NOTE: From 9 a.m. until 6 p.m., daycare of chemistry; and Roger L. Storck, profes- Kent Killion '81. tivities will be an open-door policy on for children under 8 years of age will be sor of biology. Hard at work on reunion plans are: regular Rice classes from 9 a.m. until available off campus, while children 8 Special seating arrangements will be Class of 1930, John Holland Sr. and Carl noon. Visitors will be able to sit in on and older will have scheduled activities made for the Golden R. Classes, as well Illig; Class of 1935, Dorothy Quin their choice of class being taught on throughout the day at the physical educa- as other groups requesting such arrange- McWhirter and Sylvia Harrison; Class of campus (this time without the worry of tion building on campus. ments. Reservations are required. 1940, Mildred Ganchan; Class of 1943, tests or grades). Class schedules and Registration will continue in the No homecoming would be complete ginald Dugat and Ralph Young; Class 01 campus maps will be available at regis- cloister area of the RMC from 8:30-11 without football, and at 2 p.m. the Owls 1945, Betty Broyles; Class of 1950, Mall ,. tration. a.m., and campus tours will be leaving will square off against the Arkansas Ra- Ann Moore; Class of 1955, Nancy Eubcinji. If you had enough of the classroom from the registration area throughout the zorbacks at Rice Stadium. Tickets in the Class of 1960, Barbie McKittrick; Class ° during there are other op- morning. Breakfast will be available, alumni area are available on an advance 1965, Harry Burrows and Larry Burrows'. college days, Johnston, tions available for Friday morning. From and visitors can also visit the alumni of- basis. See the homecoming schedule on Class of 1970, Bennie and Mike 9:30 until noon, an "Alumni Potluck Dou- fices to view the Alumni Archives. page two of this issue for information on Class of 1975, Germaine Cossaboorn; bles" tennis tournament is being Also scheduled for Saturday morning ordering tickets. Class of 1980, Hardie Morgan.j

16 SALLYPORT—SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1985 104 Ricel die o Hewlett challenge grant Rice receives Southland grant aimed at undergrad study Rice University has recently received a been earmarked for an endowed scholar- $500,000 grant from Southland Paper ship fund to be given to graduates of Mills Foundation, which has in the past Texas high schools, with preference The William and Flora Hewlett Founda- lum reform was an increased emphasis provided scholarship funds for the uni- given to candidates from schools in tion has designated Rice University as a east on the development of students' writing versity. Texas. The remaining funds will recipient of a $300,000 challenge grant, go to the skills, as well as a program to increase From the new grant, $350,000 has Rice engineering school. the Rice Office of Development an- students' opportunities to study other cul- nounced in late August. tures both on campus and abroad. An- The grant, which will be awarded other concern was reducing curriculum contingent on Rice's being able to match fragmentation and developing interdisci- Giving clubs enroll new donors the funds three-to-one in a three-year per- plinary courses. A possible use of the The Founder's Club and iod, will be used to strengthen under- Hewlett Discretionary Fund income President's Club were established in the fall of 1970 as a means of bringing graduate education through the would also be to broaden students' edu- together alumni, parents and friends who give substantial for Rice's current support establishment of a permanently re- cations by bringing to Rice a greater operations. Membership is on an annual basis (July 1-June 30)and cludes the individual in- stricted endowed discretionary fund. The number of distinguished persons from the and his or her spouse. Names listed below are first-time bers for May and mem- funds needed to meet the Hewlett match arts, letters and politics to live on cam- June. will be sought from alumni, foundations pus for a week and interact with under- and other friends of the university. Founder's Club Carl Gottlieb Lcmgner '63 Byron Russell Welch '80 graduates. Stephen A. Brown '64 Laura Frances Hamman In the university's proposal to the Mr. and Mrs. F. Tim Pease '53 '81 The successful proposal was drawn Robert Lee Cargill Jr. '55 Donal Lee Knutson '64 Scott Nelson Harrington '81 Hewlett Foundation seeking consider- up by a committee consisting of Allen Jerry McCleskey '56 Jimmie Brown Lawson '65 Mr. and Mrs. David Meeker ation for the grant, a number of areas in Matusow (chair), dean of humanities and Mr. and Mrs. David J. Henry David Olson '65 Menard (Jennifer Gredell)'80/81 the Rice undergraduate program were de- professor Smith '60/61 Hua Quen Tsemg '66 Rudolph Carlos Perez '81 of history, Alan Grob of En- Mary F. Salomon '67 W.M.J. DeBoer Ave scribed that would benefit from Paul Frederick Pickel '64 Lallemant '82 the estab- glish, Richard Stoll of political science, Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Margaret Hartzel Lewis '68 Judith Anne Martin '82 lishment of such a discretionary fund. Ronald Sass of biology and Sidney Burns Sanders '70/ W. Richard Hencke Jr. '69 Frederick Ervin Frantz'83 One needed undergraduate curricu- of engineering. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel L. Beverly Lynn Gregory '70 Scott Jeffrey Hamman '83 Metcalfe III '78/77 John Warwick Caldwell '71 Stephen Wayne lines '83 Aaron!. Seriff Judith Glass Mabrito '71 David Browning Paul '83 Robert Francis Weisberg '71 James Jeffrey Thomas '83 President's Club Janet Hudson Caldwell '72 Betty Sanders Goldsberry '84 Clair M. Hunt '33 Deborah Mae Fritz'72 Carol Dianne Nolting '84 Grant to fund improvements Hershul T. Jones'36 Gregory Kent Norris '73 David Eugene Park 111 85 Rochester T. Eaton Jr. '37 Laurie V. Bell '74 William L. Ahlert Mrs. Henry Latimer Collier III '41 Gary T. Fry '74 Hans G. Ave Lallemcmt to Rice Media Center Samuel I. Kohen '41 Lawrence S. Gross'74 Calvert P. Benedict James H. Park 111 42 David B. Wissinger '74 Henry P. Bienkowski Milton I. Tobian Photographic facilities at the Rice Media individual donors and the proceeds from '42 Phillip E. Hansen '75 John 0. Brooks Mrs. Paul S. Russell '45 William!, Wilson Jr. '75 Robert Q. Farris Center are being renovated and reorgan- a benefit(including an auction of many James R. Thomen '45 James William Fox 76 James Fitzpatrick fzed, thanks to the university having suc- donated items) held May 19 at Tony's Res- Ruthe Meyer Wilson '47 Sara Sissenwein Wehmanen '76 Larry A. Hoskins cessfully met the terms of a challenge taurant in Houston, Rice was able to more Donald Charles McLeaish '49 Jon Mark Havlak '77 Richard H. Johnson grant from the Moody Foundation of Thomas B. Eaton Jr. '52 Josephine W. Havlak '77 Allen A. Kozinski than meet the $53,000 balance needed to Robert George Galveston. Moroney '54 Edward A. Pierce '77 Alan R. Levander obtain the Moody Foundation grant. Howard Louis Arons '56 Michael W. Tankersley '77 Frank A. Liddell Jr. The $25,000 award was contingent on The renovations will help alleviate J. Barton Kendrick '56 Doryce Stephens Ellen '78 William Patrick Moore Rice being able to raise the rest of the the waiting lists and overcrowding in the Gene Durkee Liggin '57 Carol A. Lamcm '78 Laurence Petersen funds needed to expand facilities and photography facilities. Mrs. James E. Scott Jr. '57 Michael H. Kleinman '78 Homer G. Rieken buy new equipment Richard L. Johnson '58 Linda L. Tavel '78 John Trcmgenstein for the photography The Rice Media Center was founded Lester H. Veltman Jr. '59 James Douglas Hill '79 Wen Shing Tseng Program, which is headed by Rice profes- in 1969 for the advancement of studies in Karl F. Barth '60 Roy Donald Adams '80 Robert E. Turrentine sor Geoff Winningham '65. creative photography, filmmaking and Mrs. and Mrs. Dom Edward John Daniel Fite '80 Arnold R. Vobach Through generous contributions from video production. Reedy '62/61 Maria Margarita Gonzalez '80 George W. Webb Sr. Kenneth P. Keating '61 Robert Anthony Pascal Jr. '80 Edward J. Zehler

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?ice's new Mechanical Engineering Building, which opened for classes Aug. 26, will be formally dedicated at 4 p.m. Nov. 1, during homecoming weekend. The build- 119, which was completed in March, was the gift of Rice trustee and engineering alumnus John Cox '45. It was designed by Mace Tun gate '37 of the all-alumni archi- I fttural firm of Calhoun, 7ungate, Jackson and Dill, and the construction contract was held by Miner-Dederick Construction, headed by George Miner '50.

SALLYPORT—SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1985 17 Kidd overcomes setbacks to win starting job

Everyone associated with the Rice Uni- versity football program was disap- pointed with last year's 1-10 showing. But perhaps no one was more disap- pointed than sophomore safety Steve R Man, Hall of Fame ceremony Kidd. After being redshirted in 1982, play- ing sparingly in 1983 and undergoing a coaching change, Kidd had earned a planned for Oct. 30 dual starting role in the Owls' defensive been a backfield and as a punter. The 14th presentation of the Distin- yard high hurdles titles, and has He performed admirably in a 31-24 guished R Man Award and induction of member of the Rice athletic department season-opening loss at Minnesota, mak- new members into the Rice Athletic Hall since 1960. ing six solo tackles and averaging 44.8 of Fame will be held Wednesday, Oct. 30, Jim Fox '62, twice an All-SWC catcher guard yards on four punts. During practice the just before the kickoff of Rice homecom- in baseball as well as a a starting member week, however, Kidd severely in- ing weekend. in Owl basketball. A successful next he jured his left ankle in a non-contact pass Two Distinguished R Men and five of the Houston business community, coverage drill. former Owl athletes/coaches will be hon- has also been keeping an eye on his son, "It was really frustrating to get in- ored. Mike Fox, the Owls'former star catcher jured after staying in Houston during the This year's Distinguished R Men are in baseball. member summer to lift weights and run every day. Alan Chapman '45 and Wendell Ley '32. Sammy Giammalva, a staff who I was really looking forward to playing Chapman, the Harry S. Cameron Profes- at the University of Houston, tennis from 1959- for Coach Brown in his first season. Then sor of Mechanical Engineering at Rice, is coached Owl varsity to 10 SWC I got hurt, and I was history," Kidd said. a former president of the NCAA and has 1972, leading the program "The injury was a big setback that I served the Southwest Conference as a team titles. busi- It was really disappoint- Rice faculty representative. A track letter- Roland Jackson '63, a Houston had to endure. in foot- ing on game day to know I couldn't go out man while a student at Rice, Chapman nessman. Jackson was All-SWC but I had to overcome it and Steve Kidd has been a member of the Rice mechani- ball in 1962, and was the star fullback on and play, Sugar Bowl. keep my head up. I kept telling myself cal engineering faculty since 1946. the 1960 Owl team in the an All- I had two more years. I had to keep a a stabilizing factor in the secondary, and Ley, a land manager for the past 50 Kay Pearson Keating '36, that who later be- positive attitude because if I didn't, the Steve provides us with that. He's not go- years, also lettered in track at Rice and American tennis player next two years would have been mean- ing to make many wrong decisions with has remained active with his alma mater. came one of Texas' finest women golfers. ingless." secondary checks and will have the outer In addition to having served two terms on Named an Honorary R Member in 1983, Surgery was required to repair Kidd's backs lined up properly. the Rice Board of Governors, Ley is a Keating is the first woman to be inducted ankle, and everyone assumed he would "We're looking for outstanding things former president both of the Association into the Rice Athletic Hall of Fame. be lost for the year. But the gutsy compet- from Steve this season. He's a very impor- of Rice Alumni and of the R Association, The Distinguished R Man Award and itor from Richland High School returned tant element of this football team. He's where he originated the "R Newsletter." Athletic Hall of Fame presentations will six weeks later, in time for already an outstanding punter and has He also helped organize the Owl Club. be made Wednesday, Oct. 30, at the Co- to action Rice's final four games. the potential to be one of the better defen- To qualify as a Distinguished R Man, hen House. The awards presentation is 8 For the remainder of the season, Kidd sive backs in the conference." candidates must have lettered in ath- scheduled for 8 p.m., following a 7 p.m. shared punting duties with DeWayne Kidd, who will be the first punter to letics at Rice, remained involved with the reception. Burnett and played in a reserve role in start at another position in the Southwest athletic program after graduation and Tickets for the evening are $10 per Jo the secondary. He finished the season Conference since SMU running back achieved a high level of accomplishment person and will not be mailed. Those la with a 36.8 yard average. Craig James in 1982, is pleased to learn PC in a chosen profession. wishing to attend, however, are re- "I developed some bad habits last there has been no talk among the PC Hall of Fame inductees must possess quested to make reservations in advance e, year because of the tenderness of my an- coaches of keeping him off the defense outstanding athletic ability and have by sending a check payable to the R As- kle," Kidd explained. "I was really disap- because of his value as a punter. brought distinction to Rice University. sociation to the R Association, c/o Fred DC pointed with myself because that was the "I like to be known as a defensive 1.1 This year's inductees are: Stancliff, 3801 Kirby Drive, Suite 100, I've punted since I was a freshman back, but I take punting seriously also. I Rice executive athletic director Augie Houston, TX 77098. Reservations should worst El: in school." want to be the best I can be at that, too," Erfurth '49. Erfurth holds two SWC 120- be made by Oct. 25. high As Rice prepares for its Sept. 14 sea- he said, adding, "I'll do whatever is best Pr, son opener against Miami, Kidd once for the team." Ed again finds himself atop the depth chart Kidd's most prevalent football- Ci Bowl game returns at free safety and punter. Despite last related feelings to date have been those sc year's injury, defensive coordinator Dick of frustration and disappointment, but he Si, In announcing the move, Bowl Asso- The Greater Houston Bowl Association, Hopkins said there has been no debate is optimistic about the future of the Rice All of football ciation President Jack Busiek said that Ito sponsor the Bluebonnet Bowl among the coaches about the wisdom of program."We were in a lot of games in a with Rice Rice Stadium (which seats 20,000 more Err game, has signed contract playing Kidd in the secondary. the fourth quarter last year although we people than the Astrodome)"is a truly University to play the 1985 game at Rice "Our defense was a disappointment didn't win them," he said. "Guys on the housed the great place to watch a football game. Stadium, which previously last year," Hopkins noted. "In order to im- team know that and the other teams in WC its in 1959 through the Since there is no track around the field, Rol game at inception prove, we must get the best 11 players on the league know that. Before last year a 1967 contest. The Bowl has been played at the fans can be even closer to the action." Ma the field, and Steve is one of the best 11. lot of games were decided in the first the 17 Kickoff will be at 1:45 p.m. on Dec. 31. Wi: the Astrodome for past years. "We got caught in poor pass cover- half. I think that's progress. P„ age too often last year, and I think part of "We no longer have the attitude that Rut that was due to Steve's absence. I'm con- we're satisfied just to play the game. Now Wil beat our Edi Dotting and dashing fident he would have gotten us into better we have the attitude that we can Wit coverage because of his intelligence. opponents, and eventually we must de-,, kto, While football commands the "sportlight" kyo. Cavanaugh won the NCAA "As a coach, you're always looking for velop the attitude that we can't be beat. „Wii in women's shot put at 1101 in the new semester, Rice athletes in all championship 4,1 sports are now on campus and awaiting Austin last June, a major honor... Mo, their turn to perform for Rice students, Larry Turville (men)and Paul Ictr, alumni and fans. Blankenship(women) have new netters to Owls gear up for fall season tt,e Coach Tommy Suitts and his Owl blend in with veterans for good tennis !NCI] Jqo basketball program are optimistic of prospects for Rice in a sport in which the It's time again for Rice partisans to turn vital quarterback position on an offense get last was in yardage in moving up in the SWC ranks, and Rice Owls have won so many honors over the on their full support as the Owls that year second tdg, alumni around the state will be glad to years. Wendy Wood won the SWC wom- ready for a tough 1985 football lineup. Rice history. 404 com- The season opener against the formi- Other familiar names to Owl fans Leff know they are scheduled for better TV en's singles title last May. Alumni JO% coverage this winter...Coach Linda ing back to campus should go by the dable Miami(Fla.) Hurricanes — 1983's from 1984 include fullback Anthony quar- Tucker continues her women's cage pro- handsome Jake Hess Tennis Stadium to national champions — rolls around Sept. Brinkley, wide receiver Marc Scott, CleC gram with newcomers to give a spark catch the action... 14, and it should prove a stern test for the terback Kerry Overton, wide receiver Fret, when official workouts begin in October.. Coach Debbie Sokol has a solid Owls. Keith Lewis, offensive tackle Raul LoYa, Pori( place kicker James Hamrick, nose guard Coach David Hall has the baseball women's volleyball program going well, The game is scheduled for broadcast Etiy, program going strong(Owls 1-0 under even if football fever in the fall keeps on regional television by Raycom Net- Dwain Turner, linebacker Joe Heikkenen, their new lights at Cameron Field) with a them from getting as much notice, and work (Channel 39 in Houston), and kickoff linebacker Danny Burgess, defensive Iczrn fall conditioning program... Coach Steve swim coach Kris Wingenroth (both men is at 12:08 p.m. At midday in September tackle Ted Humphreys and defensive Wi new- Straub(men) and Coach Victor Lopez and women)has her charges in some fall at Rice's outdoor stadium, things should back Donnell Jones. A key midterm (women)are excited about the track pro- competition before the main winter-early really heat up both on and off the field. comer is tight end Ken Major. J'I in the gram that competes the whole school spring season at the familiar Rice Gym The Owls had a good spring drill ses- The Owls might be picked low Qtzriuo year, including fall Cross-Country... swimming pool... sion, and the intensive work began again polls, but there is able talent, good As you read this, Regina Cavanaugh Coach Jim Castaneda goes into his as players returned for early fall drills in coaching and outstanding facilities. Wi't -overdue tty and Tanya McIntosh are due back on second season as Owl varsity golf coach, August. All told, 45 of 64 lettermen were minimal injuries and some long "t1, campus early in September after compet- and he's eager about a couple of signees due back this season, including 17 "good bounces," some upsets just might ing in the prestigious World Games in To- who should give Rice a real boost. starters. Mark Comalander starts at the be in order this season.

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Rally Club plans reunion Carolyn Devine Robert N. Flatt Robert B. Goff The Rally Club is planning a special re- College. union gathering on the Thursday prior to Reservations to attend should be homecoming weekend. made by Oct. 15 by sending $7 to reunion On Oct. 31, those interested in reviv- chairman Bob Keezel at 5215 Hazard #1, ing the old Rally Club spirit will gather at Houston 77098. T-shirts will be sold at the 8 p.m. in the private dining room of Wiess reunion for $6.

Rice BPW started Carl Morris Ralph Noble Walter Loewenstern Jr. The Rice Business and Professional elected by the organizational committee. Women will kick off its inaugural season They are: Bobbie Bayless '76, president; Alumni board With Houston's 1985 Business Woman of Ann Porter '54, first vice president; Judy Jo elects members the Year, Mary DeMotte, as the speaker. Baiamonte McGlaun '78, vice president/ Six Rice alumni have been elected to children. The first official meeting is scheduled for internal affairs; Nancy Burch '61, vice serve four-year terms on the executive Walter Loewenstern Jr. '58 (B.S.E.E. Sept. 10 in Herring Hall with a social hour president/external affairs; Mary Virginia board of the Association of Rice Alumni, '59) of Santa Clara, Calif., has served as at 6:30 p.m., followed by the program at Pittman '68, vice president/programs; Ra- effective July 1. a member of the Rice University Fund 7:30. neen Pommier '60, secretary; and Rose- Carolyn Douglas Devine '52, a native Council for the past four years. Vice- The new club is aimed at the profes- mary Reifel '59, treasurer. Houstonian, has served the association president and founder of the ROLM sional women in the community, and A schedule of the group's upcoming as second vice-president in 1983-84 and Corp., which recently merged with IBM, Membership is open to all alumnae and activities can be found in this issue's first vice-president and homecoming Loewenstern hopes, as a board member, friends of the university. Ow/manac. For information on joining, chairman in 1984-85. A member of a three- to increase the interest and involvement Officers for the 1985/86 year were contact Judy Jo McGlaun at 659-1988. generation Rice family, Devine has of Rice alumni living outside the Houston pledged continued interest in "the univer- area. He and his wife, Karen, have three sity's progress and its challenges." A children. Desperately Seeking Alumni homemaker and mother of three, Devine Carl W. Morris '76(M.Acco. '77) has is married to David Johnston Devine '53. been actively involved in alumni work at The Association of Rice Alumni is trying to locate the following "lost alumni" from 1935 Her son, David Jr., is a 1979 Rice gradu- Rice for several years, most recently as and 1960, this year's Gold and Silver reunion classes. If you have been classified as ate; son Patrick Douglas graduated from co-chairman of the education committee missing, or know the whereabouts of lost classmates, notify the alumni office at P.O. Rice in 1981. and member of the Honors Committee Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251. Robert N. Flatt '69(M.E.E. '70) has and Jones School Alumni. Manager of been actively involved in alumni work at Touche Ross & Co., certified public ac- CLASS OF 1935: Barbara Kent Welsh Thomas Chester Hower Dee Vernon O'Boyle Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Gerald A. Jacobsen Rice for the past several years, most re- countants, in Houston, Morris has Joe Murry Adams Theodore Herman Winkler (Elizabeth Helen Chase) cently as vice-president of the Rice Engi- pledged to help "spread more informa- harries W. Borskey Cecil Lenore McFerran (Mrs. Rus- Lauren Griffith Johnson neering Paul L. Burlingame Alumni Board and a community tion about Rice to the alumni and the sel K. Woinowosk) Theodore John Johnson associate Paul R. Cole Alfred L. Johnston of Wiess College. Sealy Plant public at large." He is married to the Franklin V. Davidson Rex Dearman Jordan Manager, Oil Tool Division, for Cameron former Karen E. White '77; the couple has Robert L. Davis CLASS OF 1960: Jr. Edward Wesley Keefer Jr. Iron Works Inc., Flatt has pledge to try one child. Daniel Eugene Delaney Gerald Stephen Anderson David Anders Kemp I.D. and involve a greater number of alumni Ralph Donaldson Jr. James Lyle Anderson Kenneth R. Kleinkauf W. Noble '48, a recent member rticT„ ITY Donley Roy Glen Avera Ranier H. Kogon with the Rice community. Flatt, his wife, of the Rice Board of Governors, is also Elizabeth Alma Eberhard Mrs. William Badshaw (Mary Chia-Hung Lin Nancy (Class of 1969), and their two chil- past president of the R Association and a Rarvey Ward Doty Claire Peden) John Richard MacDonald dren reside in Houston. 1972 recipient of the Distinguished R Man Frank Leroy Emert Honor Deming Blanchard Patrick Mahoney Edward Thomas Goddard Robert B. Goff '47 of Houston has award. Currently the retiring chaiman of John Sterling Bradford James Edward Mann worked Charles Edward Going Richard M. Bremicker Roger Lee McDaniel for the university in the past with the board of Milchem Inc. of Houston, the „George Harvin Gwin Nancy Clarice Briggs Joe Michael McGeath alumni fund drives, class reunions, the largest subsidiary of Baker International cOtt J. Harrison Allen Pierce Brison Bayliss Cage McInnis Rice Fund Council and the Honors Com- Corp., Noble has pledged to try and in- EYlvia Jewel Haskins Don Roy Byrnes Vernon Howard Meyer mittee. Allen Ross Hightower President and chief executive offi- crease alumni participation and "more Michael Lee Cluck Mary Claire Middlebrook cer of „Robert Jemison II Donald Lee Coffman Wesley Norman Minton Food Corp. International, Goff has fully utilize the tremendous wealth of tal- r-rrna Helen Jones Bobby Wayne Cowling Alfred Richard Mitchell pledged to help increase alumni aware- ents of our alumni." He is married to the 1411,.., is George Kahle Thomas B. Davis Jr. William Edgar Moore ness of Rice activities. He is married to former Elizabeth Ann Anderson Clyde Chisholm King and has Thomas Franklin Davis Tom Stewart Moughon Jr. the former Mary Jane Ellis and has two three children and five grandchildren. Wallace Lancaster Florion Joseph Demel Donald Alexander Nail ,.11obert Wilson Landers John Winston Douglas Charles William Nutter ,..mcrry B. Langley Mrs. George W. Drake(Glenda Wilbur E. Olson Jr. William G. Lawson Fuller) Kenneth Lavern Pacholke „F Fall Alumni Institute planned rank L. Lewis John Walter Duke Charles L. Parnell Ituth Evangeline Shirley Robert G. Durst Jr. Elizabeth King Patton The Fall Alumni Institute kicks off Sept. Sept. 30. "Skywatchers: Ancient & William Van Lewis Michael N. Dyer Sherman Andrew Pavey 30 with two series of lectures Edith Elizabeth Lord held on a Modern," Carolyn Sumners, director of Frederick Carl Ender Hall Peyton Jr. weekly basis through Nov. 5. All lectures Willie Eunice Magee Morris C. Enfield Jr. John Elton Rawson astronomy, Houston Museum of Natural „.MdrY Flora Mason Erkin Erkmen Minnie May Remschell will be held in 301 Sewall Hall unless oth- Sciences. Participants will meet at the william R. H. Mau Jr. William Earl Farley Cornelia Kline Riley erwise noted. museum's planetarium for this session bert M. McCoy Francis Thorneycroft Finch Lindsey Swanson Rogers Series I, entitled "Bach and For- Lctmes Hadley Morris only. Joseph William Fortey Weldon Wayne Rogers ward," will feature lectures on the life, c'orcus Atticus Nelson Joe Ray Fry Mrs. J.M. Rose (Sylvia A. Rose) Oct. 8. "Halley's Comet in History," gbirries L. Norman Jr. Douglas Jay Fuller William Edward Rosenbach music and influence of composer J.S. Albert Van Helden, Rice professor of his- edina Oliver Emily Darlene Galloway Joel M. Rosenthal Bach. All lectures are scheduled for 7:15- tory. !Natter William Pauly Dorrance Lynn Ganter Frances Patricia Schantz 8:15 p.m., with 'cick F. topics and presenters as Oct. 15. "What Makes Comets Worth Perkins Guillerms P. Garcia-Gil Buford Miller Seward Jr. follows: r,°ancal E. Phillips Robert Wayne Garrett Jerry Deane Shrimpton Studying?" C.R. O'Dell, Rice space phys- 719ar Layton Price Oct. 1. "Background ate-- Guido Luigi Giacometti James Finley Smith of a Genius," ics professor. .rier Fletcher Riley James Thomas Gibbons Mavis S. Smith Anne Schnoebelen. Oct. 22. "The Shape of Space," leit D. Roberts Jr. Charles Warren Gibson Joseph Charles Smyth Oct. 8. "How Original 'clePh W. Rose is Original?" Donald Cox, Rice professor of space Ronald Harry Gooding Joseph D. Sneed Sergiu Luca. eilron George Savich Jean Gowan Julianne Souchek physics. b'eoPhas Joseph Scheffler Sandy Grabiner Bryan Oct. 15. "Bach's Musical Theology," Oct. 29. "Gamma Ray Astronomy," ;sr Sparks ederic Allen Scott James Rutland Gunn III Darryl Keith Stanford Jeffrey Kurtzman. Donald Clayton, Rice professor of space rwrold Scrivner George Washington Hager Jerry Aldridge Stewart Oct. 22. "Baroque Opposites," Anne physics. pres Eugene Schawver Jr. Ronald J. Hall Donald Allen Streater Jr. pi Schnoebelen. win Lee Sims Alvin E. Harper Warren Thomas Strong Nov. 5. "Birth of Other Planetary Sys- rie Clay Smith John Douglas Harris Ted James Stuart Oct. 29. "Bach the Organist," Clyde tems," Frank Low '57, professor of astron- 1;1411es 0. W.'Smith Jr. Robert C. Hartman Ellen Joanne Sweet Holloway. omy, illiorn University of Arizona. Carey Smith William Eldon Hawes John Julius Szalay Nov. 5. "J.S. Bach: 20th Century kfrYc Warren Stansbury Jr. Men- Cost of attending per series is $20, or Charles H. Hayes John Edward Talmage Jr. tor," Paul Cooper. 1- .old James Steele Roy Calvin Heath William Robert Tiedt both series for $35. Individual lectures Francis Stiglich Samuel Wood Henry John Curtis Trahan Jr. All lecturers in the first series are may be attended at a cost of $4 per lec- r)1Yn Ann Stover Richard Lee Henshel James Wilson Waites professors in Rice's Shepherd School of ture. Rice faculty, staff and students may licillees Emma Stremmel Ronald Verne Hensley Charles Edward Watkins Music. attend free of charge on a space- tse:"Yn Marticle Talley Ernest Gail Hildenbrand Douglas Jesse Whilsitt iL Series II is entitled "Halley's tY Ruth Tinsley Eiji Hirai Nancy R. Will Comet available basis. ur Phipps Todd John Richard Hoelzel Frederick Eugene Wilmot and the Origins of the Solar System." Lec- For further information on the Fall k R. Twiford Ross Claude Hoff Richard Lloyd Young tures are scheduled from 8:30-9:30 p.m. Alumni Institute, -wades call the alumni office at D. Walters Vernon C. Hogden Donald Frank Zetik Topics and lecturers are: 527-4057.

SALLYPORT—SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1985 19 rejoin his family in San Antonio in Co. sales representative in Hous- and Barnett. Her two children are early August. ton since 1958, was recently re- both in college in Louisiana — her elected to his second year as son at USL and her daughter at member-at-large of NWNL's agents LSU. field council for 1985. The agents Wendy Rainbow Germani 54 field council is a communication (Jones) is back in Houston after liv- link between NWNL's nationwide ing in Saudi Arabia for many Cla/mmoleA. sales force and its home office years. She is a research analyst management in Minneapolis, with Ranger Insurance and is Minn. working on her MBA at the Univer- sity of Houston. Germani has one son at UH, one at Texas and a and administrative pronounce- daughter in boarding school. 28 35 ments, and testifying before the Sue Zigenbein Shaper (Jones) is IRS on proposed tax regulations. A now an attorney with the Houston Rachel Waples Stevenson re- Golden Anniversary Reunion member of the Rice University firm of Vaden, Eickenroht, Thomp- cently won first prize for her film- year. See homecoming sched- Fund Council, Nod began his ca- son and Jamison, specializing in strip documentary,"Grant Wood: ule in this issue for informa- reer with Price Waterhouse in 1956 patent law. She and husband His Life and Paintings,- in the cat- tion. and was admitted to the partner- Steve Shaper '58(Wiess) have egory of fine arts at the National ship in 1964. Since 1978, he has four children. The eldest, Peter, is Educational Film Festival in Oak- served as the firm's national direc- a sophomore at Stanford. land, Calif. Stevenson was for- tor of technical tax services. Nod is merly a producer for the "Quiz W. Vance Underhill (Wiess) be- 38 a member of the American Insti- to Kids" radio and television pro- gins his new post — assistant Helen Scarborough Thomas tute of CPAs as well as the New Pat(Moore) Carr, who lives and grams and, in 1961, her television the president — at East Texas (M.A., Ph.D.) recently presided at York State Society of CPAs, and writes on a 30-acre farm in Elkins, will series for hearing-handicapped State University this fall. He the annual convention of the Na- lives in West Orange, N.J., with Ark., has been awarded a $1,100 be the first appointee under a new children won top honors in the Mc- tional College English Association his wife, Marcia. grant from the Arkansas Endow- Taylor (M.A. faculty associate program estab- Call's national Golden Mike in Cincinnati, Ohio. More than 300 Beverly Hutchison ment for the Humanities to work on high lished by ETSU President Charles Awards. She was married to the members and guests attended the '63, Jones) has been teaching an edition of recently discovered In- J. Austin. Underhill will continue late Allan H. Stevenson '24(MA meeting. Immediate past presi- school English at Spring Branch Civil War letters. The Spring 1985 to teach mathematics at ETSU on a 6 '27), who became an international Thomas dependent School District for the dent of the association, 49 issue of The Southern Review fea- part-time basis. 13, consultant for dating books and second and first past 20 years. She has two sons— has also served as A 1949 Rice class ring was re- tured one of her short stories, A manuscripts from his knowledge of vice-president and is currently an Carl John Hutchison, 28, of Austin, Heading for Rice this fall as a cently found in Green Bay, which was set in the Civil War era. 26, who of Si the watermarks in paper. Rachel is ex officio member of the board of and Don Alan Hutchison, freshman is Lou Waters Jr., son Wisc. To claim the ring, call David W. Crockett, who has Sc a producer-director-writer for the directors. She is professor emeri- recently graduated from South- Wanda Phears Waters(Jones) the alumni office at 527- more than 30 years experience in hE International Film Bureau in Chi- tus of English at the University of west Texas State in San Marcos — and Lou Waters'60 (Hanszen). 4057. architecture, was recently named ta cago. Houston-Houston Park, and since and has been active in community William A. Kistler Jr.(M.S.), project manager at Ford Powell & many ar her official retirement has contin- and professional theater for president of the Hughes Tool Co., Carson Architects and Planners, the tb ued to teach courses in an adjunct years. She has appeared with Houston, has recently been ap- Inc. Th capacity. Her scholarly edition of Houston Shakespeare Society, 62 pointed to the additional post of an early 16th century Protestant Theatre Southwest, Houston James M. Hammond (Hanszen) 29 chief executive officer. Hughes is a tu/ Charles William Klanke re- morality play, Lusty Juventus Grand Opera and the Country has been promoted to professor of leading maker of oil drilling equip- Xa cently donated his airplane — a (1982), has been well received. Playhouse. medicine at the Milton S. Hershey ment. Pu Leonard Jarett(Hanszen), chair- Medical Center of Pennsylvania red, white and blue Beechcraft News of Thomas' activities 55 Bir Debonair Bonanza — to the Spain was submitted by Rice Professor reunion year. man and first incumbent of the State University. Hammond re- Thirtieth See Or and Texas Society of Houston as a Emeritus of English Joe D. homecoming schedule in this newly created Simon Flexner Pro- ceived his M.D. from Washington fessor of Pathology and Laboratory Medical School in 1366, rio raffle prize for the society's annual Thomas, who taught at Rice for 47 issue for information. University fro proceeds his retirement in 1977. 50 chair at the University of Pennsyl- and served as an intern and assist- Moon Waltz Ball. The years before Richard Floyd has been recog- lati Thirty-fifth reunion year. See vania School of Medicine and ant resident at the Harvard Medi- went to the Museum of Medical nized by the American Institute of the the homecoming schedule in chairman of the department of pa- Hospital and Science. Klanke has worked as a Architects(AIA) for his contribu- cal Unit-Boston City the past 50 years. this issue for information. thology and laboratory medicine as a clinical associate at the Na- physician for tions to the science of construction. lisi at the University of Pennsylvania Health. Before 40 Floyd is professional project man- tional Institutes of Hospital, has received the Ernest going to Penn State in 1973, he Forty-fifth reunion year. See ager for Heritage Plaza, a 50-story to ti Cotlove Award from the Academy as a fellow in endocrinol- homecoming schedule in this office development of Wortham served son 51 of Clinical Laboratory Physicians ogy at the Washington University 30 issue for reunion information. Van Liew & Horn at the site of the chi! and Scientists(ACLPS). This School of Medicine and chief resi- Fifty-fifth reunion year. See Raymond H. Brogniez, a past Old Federal Land Bank Building in 13. ' award, the top ACLPS recognition dent at the Washington University homecoming schedule in this president of the Hill Country Houston. ton, in science, is given to individuals Medical Service. Hammond, the issue for information. Chapter of the American Institute Jan whose scientific achievements recent recipient of a Research Can- was recently hon- of Architects, have led to major understanding of cer Development Award from the reCE (Texas)College. ored by Midland disease processes and have af- National Institutes of Health, re- dire Brogniez designed a successful 56 fected the field of pathology and sides in Annville, Penn., with his sect pre-architecture course that was 32 Melvin Perelman (Ph.D.), presi- laboratory medicine. Jarett also wife, Catherine, and their two wife Chris Hoover sends in the follow- adopted by the college in 1979, and dent of Eli Lilly International gave the Cotlove lecture, "Path- children. Qf D ing news, and urges classmates to inaugurated a library fund for a With Corp., was honored in late April way for Discovery: Search for the Barry Moore (Wiess) was recog- send classnote items to Sallyport specialized collection of books on New by the Indiana University School of Mechanism of Insulin Action," at nized by the American Institute of or to her at 5318 Meadow Lake architecture and related topics. non Business at its annual senior the organization's annual meeting Architects(AIA) for his outstanding Lane, Houston, TX 77056. Now retired and living at Horse- N.J., awards breakfast for the Indianap- in early June. contributions to the profession. Every year, Dorothy Bright As- shoe Bay, he is a professor emeri- olis campus. Cited as an outstand- he M and is a member Among the theaters for which kew goes on at least one trip, and tus of Texas Tech ing business leader, Perelman design ex- of the National Council of Archi- has received awards in since the Askews' youngest daugh- was inducted into Beta Gamma cellence are: the Majestic Perform- lives in Ireland, trips there tectural Registration Boards, the ter Roland W. Schmitt (Ph.D.), Gen- Sigma, national business honor ing Arts Center in San Antonio, the been frequent (the two latest American Institute of Architects 60 have eral Electric's senior vice president society. In addition to his position High School for Performing and 6, and July of this year). In and the Texas Society of Archi- Silver Anniversary Reunion in April for corporate research and devel- as head of Lilly International, Visual Arts and the Denney The- TWei Askew went to tects. year. See the homecoming 1984, Germany, opment, has received recent hon- Perelman is a member of the board atre in Houston, and the Alabama" the I schedule in this issue for in- this Austria and Switzerland, as well ors from several organizations. At of directors of Elizabeth Arden, a Coushatta Indian Reservation Ireland and London. In addi- formation. as to its commencement exercises, Wor- Lilly subsidiary, and has been a Theatre in Livingston, Ala, tion to the daughter and three 42 cester Polytechnic Institute member of the parent company's In addition to welcoming a new grandchildren in Ireland, the As- Schmitt an honorary doc- board of directors since 1976. He family member(see "New Arriv- Nell Poole Wood recently re- awarded kews have a son with Cameron tor of science degree for his leader- first joined Lilly as an organic als"), John (Wiess)and Valerie Iron Works and a daughter who turned from a week at a guest chemist in 1957. Pankratz'65 (Jones) write in that ranch in Gunnison, Colo., that be- ship role in science and 63 teaches. Dorothy retired from John retired from the Navy Reserve in technology as director of the GE Nancy Lomax '67(Jones) sent teaching in 1973 but keeps busy. longs to Rod Pringle Jr.'50. She in June and still works at Texas In- Research and Development Center front-page story from the giving 15-20 book reviews each writes, "Rod and his wife and struments in Plano. Valerie, mean- a recent three musical sons run a beautiful and chairman of the National Sci- featuring year and remaining active in the while, is still playing with Galveston Daily News dude ranch that is open summer ence Board. Schmitt also was 57 Robinson College Women's Club. Richardson Symphony and also her sister, Sally and winter tor adults and children, awarded an honorary doctor of Tony Watkin (Lovett) writes in, Robinson, a pediatrician helped found and organize the (Jones). Harry S. Norman, a former var- and he would like to hear from old civil laws degree at Union Col- "I've been threatening to write for with a private practice in Galves- Plano Chamber Orchestra, for sity basketball player who gets lege's commencement ceremonies, several years, so here goes: We've of the 15- friends." which she plays violin. Daughter ton, is also president bored with inactivity, has retired a and the Industrial Research Insti- been living in the San Francisco Historical Heidi is now first chair cello with member Galveston total of four times. He and his wife, tute, an association of 265 leading area after moving to California directors. The the Greater Dallas Youth Orches- Foundation board of Mary, have one son, a 14-year-old industrial companies, announced from Houston in 1966. Since then, I featured Ro- tra. July 15 news article granddaughter and a 16-year-old 43 that Schmitt is its new president- have been working in marketing binson discussing the historical d grandson who is following in his The Class of '43, impatient for elect. He will become president of and sales for several instrumenta- foundation's accomplishments 00 grandfather's athletic footsteps, its 1988 reunion and feeling the organization in May 1986. Fi- tion manufacturers. About 18 goals. placing fourth in last spring's state the need for some practice, nally, the American Academy of months ago, I finally decided to hurdles finals. Both Norman and will gather its members for a Arts and Sciences, a 2,300 member start a manufacturers rep busi- 61 his wife play golf at least twice Fall Roundup during home- organization comprised of scholars ness, selling process controls. It Nancy Thornall Burch (Lovett) weekly, and they enjoy traveling. and national leaders, has elected appears that we are actually in notes that "the '61 group has long coming weekend. See the -vs be, They spent their 50th wedding an- homecoming schedule in this Schmitt to fellowship status, based danger of becoming profitable be- been a missing link in the Sally- niversary in London, then traveled on his contributions to the physical fore the end of the year. lam still port, so I have volunteered to put tesid( issue for Roundup informa- him( to Paris and Nice. This summer, tion. sciences. Schmitt and his family married to Dorothy, 27 years later, you all in the news." Send your they had plans to go to New York, live in Rexford, N.Y. and the kids(three) have all moved classnotes to Sallyport or to Burch L°4 We embark on the QE2, spend some out, leaving us wondering what to Houston, TX '1114 Caesar P. Bernal, after five at 3311 Stoney Brook, time in London, and then return do next. I decided to take up moun- 77063. As for her own news, Burch dii years assigned to the American home on the Concorde. tain climbing several years back, has begun a new public relations PrOl 45 Embassy in Bogota, Colombia, as l proving once and for all that a assignment as special projects di- ot in tl Barry Talbot sends news that, Fortieth reunion year. See the director of the U.S. Department of k homecoming schedule in this hobby doesn't have to be fun. Actu- rector for Texas Children's Hospi- tierici despite a few ailments, he and State's narcotics assistance unit, sly. s Charlotte are fine. Their daughter, issue for information. ally, it has been so enjoyable that tal. She is also a member of the recently received his third consec- %dies Carol, who is in management with utive State Department award for a major problem is finding time to Association of Rice Alumni's exec- work between trips Nclo cxl Proctor & Gamble, married last No- outstanding performance. In Sep- to the moun- utive board, along with fellow '61 Hrtie„rnbei vember. tember, Bernal will report to the tains. I'm going to try looking up grad Irwin "Buddy" Herz(Will Skip Leuschner, my old roommate Rice). Herz serves as legal counsel Raesener whet! o: Bill Walker has worked with a 46 State Department's Bureau of Inter- Mary Ann Lipscomb at Rice, who I understand is work- for the Moody Interests in his tlCltruth number of different oil companies Leon M. Nad has been appointed national Narcotics Matters as di- (Jones) has been named vice es ing on a boat somewhere in these hometown of Galveston. Burch relations throughout his career, eventually Price Waterhouse Associate Vice rector of the Office for Worldwide president-governmental ttOksw controller's Chairman — Tax Consulting. Programs. He writes that his wife, parts." also writes that her son, Duncan, of HealthAmerica Corp., the na" retiring from the state .1141e Po Based in the firm's national head- Dalinda, and their three teen-age has enrolled at Rollins College in tion's largest independent opera' L office. He has worked a great deal NO Lite Winter Park, Fla., where he will be for of health maintenance with young people, having quarters in New York, Nod is re- children were evacuated from Bo- The consulting with Price gata under emergency procedures playing varsity soccer. organizations. Raesener joined. coached baseball, football and sponsible for r;c1Briti wrestling. He and his wife, Mary, Waterhouse offices and clients on on Jan. 20, 1985, and have since 58 Penny Pillow Bell (Brown)is cur- HealthAmerica in July 1983 as di- relations, 19131 developing been residing in Stafford, Va., and Temple Tucker (Wiess), North- rently an attorney in Houston, rector of governmental make frequent trips to Tennessee technical tax matters, con. `Rtily to visit relatives. firm responses to IRS technical Austin. Bernal was scheduled to western National Life Insurance working with the firm of Glickman In her new position, she will

20 SALLYPORT—SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1985 tinue to provide support to Heal- George W. Stroup (Hcrnszen), at Cullen Bank in Houston. Jane is thAmerica in obtaining licenses currently an associate professor of currently on a leave of absence and federal qualifications for its systematic theology at Austin from sales work at ComputerAge Taking on the Big Apple network of HMOs, and will be re- Presbyterian Theological Semi- and volunteer work at Bayou Bend. sponsible for helping the compa- nary, recently spoke before a class Rebekah A. McBride (Brown), Merle ny's HMOs comply with state and at the First Presbyterian Gross-Ginsburg '57 has been a trailblazer in New York's fiercely com- Church of after five years as administrative federal regulations. Raesener Kingwood on "Authority and Inter- petitive real estate world since she got assistant to the general manager her start in 1959. writes that she has "finally" pretation of the Bible." Stroup, who of Colowyo Coal Co. in Meeker, It's a long way from Galveston, where she was born, and Rice, where bought a house in Nashville, but also holds degrees from Yale and Colo., opened her own law office really wants to "get back to Texas Vanderbilt universities, taught she studied history and philosophy, to the rough and tumble world of com- at May 1 in Northwest Colorado. — anywhere in Texas." the University of the South and at mercial real estate, where a single successful deal can mean hundreds of Princeton before joining the Austin thousands of dollars in commissions for a broker faculty in 1980. Stroup has two and a lost deal can cause books in print, The Promise of Nar- ulcers. 64 rative Theology: Recovering the But Gross-Ginsburg's route along that path illustrates just what it takes Edwin T. Burton (Wiess) was Gospel in the Church and Jesus to succeed in an increasingly named a partner in First Capital Christ for Today, and currently competitive real estate world. Strategists, a financial arbitrage serves on the Council on Theology After graduating from Rice, Gross-Ginsburg moved to a brownstone on Partnership. Previously senior vice and Culture. New York's West Side, a neighborhood that had seen better President at Smith Barney, Burton days. In 1959, also spent 11 years teaching eco- she bought a rooming house in a less-than-savory neighborhood frequented nomics at Cornell University. He by junkies, transients, muggers and gun-toting thugs. But she saw beyond married Trish Fugitt in August 1980 68 these conditions to a block of beautifully and now has two daughters. The scaled, distinguished brownstones family lives mainly in York, Pa., that characterized a gentler, more family-oriented age. but also spends time in New York For the next 12 years, she was a one woman urban renewal campaign City. Burton writes that he is again on West Playing tennis tournaments on the 77th Street — buying and renovating buildings, then leasing, sell- East Coast. Loyd E. Tarver (M.S., Sid Rich) ing and managing them. She planted trees, started a block association and has been named vice president Burton I. Kaufman (M.A., Ph.D of even marketing for Diconix dealt with death threats from the ousted drug addicts. The results are 66, Jones) recently received the Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of one of New York's loveliest Distinguished Graduate Faculty East- blocks and the start of a successful career in real man Kodak Co. that Award from Kansas State Univer- manufactures estate for Gross-Ginsburg. high-speed, ink-jet printing sys- sity, where he is a history profes- tems for commercial and office After a stint with one real estate firm, Gross-Ginsburg joined Edward S. sor and, for the past year, acting ap- plications. Tarver's head of his department. Kaufman activities will Gordon Co., Inc., where she became the first woman to head a major com- encompass planning, marketing, taught for seven years at Louisi- mercial real estate management sales and customer support. department. "It was an incredible opportu- ana State University before joining He joined Diconix in 1981 as director nity for me to work with Ed Gordon, who is one of the the Kansas State faculty in 1973. real estate industry's of printer products in charge The author of four books and more of great geniuses," she said. "I started as his assistant working 70 hours a product marketing, profitability than a dozen articles on 20th cen- week, Martha W. Gilliland (M.A., Lov- and product line definition. moved into the management post — which was a first in New York — tury American foreign policy, He pre- ett), associate professor of civil en- viously worked for 12 years in then became a senior vice Kaufman has won several major IBM president on the brokerage side." gineering at the University of Corp.'s office products division Publishing awards, including the Though moving a woman into such a top-level position was a bold step, Nebraska-Lincoln, is one of 43 and served for one year as admin- Binkley-Stephenson prize from the American professionals chosen for istrative assistant to Gordon said he hired Gross-Ginsburg for "one reason — she's the best. It Organization of American Histo- IBM's vice Group VI of the W.K. Kellogg Foun- president of manufacturing and didn't rians and the Newcomen Award matter that she's a woman." dation's National Fellowship Pro- development. tram the Newcomen Society. His gram. The program is designed to But Gordon's feelings about women in real estate are not widely held in latest book, The Korean War and expand the nation's bank of capa- an industry where of the 1,900 commercial brokers in New York, fewer than the Challenge of Crisis, Credibil- ble leaders and help people in- 100 are women. In 1979, Gross-Ginsburg helped found the Association ttY, and Command, will be pub- crease their skills in areas outside 69 of lished in January 1986 by Alfred A. their chosen fields in order to deal Real Estate Women(AREW), which has grown from its 35 initial members to Members of the Class of 1969 Knopf and Co. Kaufman is married more responsibly and effectively to are invited to be special more than 200 today. the former Diane Beatrice Kalli- with society's needs. Group VI will guests at the Class of '70's re- "Women should san of San Antonio. They have two examine national priorities relat- not, and cannot, expect to compete in real estate orin union activities at homecom- children, Scott, 16, and Heather, ing to quality and equality any other field on any basis other in hu- ing. See the homecoming than their competence in the business 13. The family resides in Manhat- man resource development, schedule in this issue world," she said. "On the other hand, women tan. Kan. technology for in- should not be denied any op- and growth, food sup- formation. James T. Yardly (Will Rice) has ply, basic health care, economic portunities for work — selling, appraising, leasing, managing, financing or recently been appointed associate revitalization and international in- In May, Susan Turner Speaker any other field — because they are women. Their ability should be the only director of Allied Corp.'s chemical terdependence. (Jones) graduated with honors from consideration." sector technology laboratory. His the University of Arkansas School Wife. Anne, teaches music history of Law in Fayetteville, where she Gross-Ginsberg has been instrumental in helping women get the op- at Drew University and performs was ranked second in her class. In portunity to reveal those abilities and exercise their competence, June, she joined the Tulsa, at least in With the Early Music Players of Okla., the world New Jersey. They live in a Victo- firm of Hall, Estill as an associate. of real estate. The AREW holds monthly luncheons featuring rian "monstrosity" in Morristown, Bob Wyatt(Baker) recently re- speakers noted for their accomplishments in real estate, publishes a quar- N.J., with their children, William, ceived an M.S. in management terly newsletter that lists available courses and other educational B. Margaret, 6, and Jonathan, materials 2. from the University of Texas at designed to Dallas.("Does this make me a advance women in real estate, presents seminars on topics of dreaded Longhorn?" he asks.) His importance to women (and men)in real estate, and offers a scholarship pro- wife, Frances, is a senior in the gram. Gross-Ginsburg noted that AREW has even made efforts to attract 65 same UTD program. Wyatt cur- Vwentieth reunion year. See rently works for Automatic Data women from other related fields, as well as men."The more people you the homecoming schedule in Processing and his wife for U.S. know, the better," she said. this issue for information. Steel in Garland. "I would enjoy Gross-Ginsburg lives with her husband, Barry Ginsburg, hearing from classmates from '69," in Connecti- he writes. cut and New York. In addition to a 21-year-old daughter, Elizabeth (who Linda Summers Posey (Jones) graduated from Rice this past May in language and history), Gross- 66 was named 1985 Women in Busi- Ginsburg has three other children. Stewart Gross, 25, a 1982 magna ness Advocate of the Year by the cum Houston District of the U.S. Small laude graduate of Harvard, is with Brooks Harvey and plant to go to busi- Business Administration. She ness school this fall. Twenty-three-year-old Barrett Gross is graduating this serves on the education and train- month from the State University ing task force planning the 1986 of New York, Purchase, with a degree in so- White House Conference on Small ciology. He plans to go into television production. And Joshua Ginsburg, al- Business. Owner of The Communi- most 12, wants to be a doctor. cation Connection, a Houston- "I'm based marketing and business very lucky to have such a wonderful family and such a rewarding communication firm, Posey is a career," Gross-Ginsburg said. "But like most luck, it took a lot of hard member of the national board of work." directors of the National Associa- tion of Women Business Owners. Diane Ping Evans recently grad- design, documentation and ad- cooking, laundry, shopping, child uated magna cum laude from Ar- Daniel Crane (B.A. & M.E.E.) was ministration. She has previously care and chauffeuring, I was still izona State University College of recently promoted from marketing worked with several architectural awed and overwhelmed by the Law, where she received the out- rol S. Pearson (Ph.D., Jones) manager to vice president of mar- and planning firms in Houston and sheer volume of work. It made my standing graduate award. 'qs been appointed dean and vice keting by Toshiba's Information New York and has more than 13 days as a Rice 'weany,' when I was Pr esident of Goucher College in "Low Visibility," the first feature Systems Division. He joined the di- years of design, documentation running 100 miles a week in the kltimore, Md., as of Aug. 1. Pear- film from writer/director Patricia vision in 1982 after working as and project management experi- bargain, seem like avocation. I ii went to Goucher from the Uni- Gruben (Brown), recently was product marketing manager and ence. got so tired I couldn't even watch 'ersity of Maryland, where she screened both in Dallas and in electrical engineering manager at television! At least now I know L'as director of the women's stud- Houston at Rice's Media Center. Eaton Leonard Corp. In addition to how Superman feels: utterly ex- Program and associate proles- Gruben, a professor at Simon Fra- his Rice degrees, Crane holds an hausted." sier University in Vancouver, M.B.A. from Stanford University. rJ in the women's studies and Brit- 71 Daniel B. Pearson III (M.A., ish Columbia, had previously 'alericah studies programs. Previ- Members of the Class of'71 Ph.D., Lovett) graduated from the produced and directed experimen- ,t1181Y, she was director of women's are invited to be special University of Texas Health Science 'ache tal films. s at the University of Colo- The last, "Sifted Evi- guests at the Class of '70's re- Center at San Antonio in May and dence,'" won first prize ,krda at Boulder. In addition to at the 70 union activities during home- is currently doing his residency in h_7satbership in a number of na- Athens, Ohio, Film Festival in the Fifteenth reunion year. See coming. See the homecoming psychiatry there. Kurt Alex (Ph.D.) has been pro- Latta! organizations, Pearson is experimental drama category, and the homecoming schedule in schedule in this issue for in- moted from sales manager to prod- author of numerous published appeared in the 1983 New York this issue for information. formation. uct manager for injection molding Laicles and the co-author of the Film Festival. Kerry L. Goelzer(Brown) has re- Bruce Martin (Will Rice), cur- machines at Battenfeld of America :Mrs Who Am I This Time? Fe- Robert B. McAshan III (Hanszen) cently been named a principal as- rently living in Bloomington, Ind., 72 Inc. Alex began at Battenfeld in L'lle Portraits in British and Amer- and Jane Duke McAshan '70 sociate of Jeffrey Karl Ochsner sends in the following message: George Zodrow (Lovett) is on 1978 at their Skokie, Ill., facility as Literature (McGraw-Hill, 1976) (Brown) write in that they've added Associates in Houston.(Ochsner "When my wife, Trish, recently leave from the Rice economics de- project manager/technical liaison. Zt1 The Female Hero in American a new family member(see "New (Baker)is a 1973 Rice graduate.) As spent 11 weeks in Tulsa nursing partment and is on a one-year as- In 1981, he was promoted to sales d British Literature(BR. Bowker Arrivals") and that "Rocky" is now principal associate, Goelzer will her dying parents, I took over eve- signment in Washington, D.C., manager at Battenfeld in East Z.. 1981). She resides with her senior vice president and manager have responsibilities in all areas rything — house, kids and job. Al- working on the U.S. Treasury fun- Providence, R.I. Before joining Bat- ilY in University Park, Md. of the trust investment department of project management including though I have for years shared damental tax reform project. tenfeld, he was a Humboldt Fellow

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May and has begun a light attack pilot in the LTV An at the Max Planck Institute in been serving as accounting man- Salem, N.C. He will be joining a Claire Rimlinger (Jones) re- San Antonio in her M.F.A in children's the- an internship as a captain in the Corsair II light attack/close air Stuttgart, West Germany, and a ager for Seagull, whose interests surgical group in Greensboro, ceived the Army Medical Corp. at Tripler support aircraft. Richter joined special technical translator for Ro- are oil and gas exploration and N.C. Martin and his wife, Kendra, ater from the University of Texas in Center in Honolulu, Navy in November 1980. bert Bosch, Mouser and Porsche in production, the transportation of have two children, Kathleen, 3, 1983 and is now assistant professor Army Medical He also served as a field natural gas products and petro- and Matthew, 4 months. He com- of drama at the University of St. Hawaii. Sherri Schreiber Levin (Jones) Germany. obstetrics C manager/coordinator on a research chemicals and natural gas proc- ments, "I have enjoyed interview- Thomas in Houston. Between grad- A concerned Chris Schulman began her residency in Uni- expedition co-sponsored by the essing. Brown, who joined Seagull ing some of the outstanding Rice uation and graduate school, she (Wiess) writes, "I hope my friends and gynecology July 1 at the Science Smithsonian Institute. as manager of financial reporting applicants from North Carolina. I taught German and English in a aren't all mad at me for not keep- versity of Texas Health in May 1981, is a member of the would also welcome hearing from Swiss boarding school. ing in touch. I've been very busy Center at San Antonio. She re- American Institute of Certified any Rice grads in the area." Amy Cheng Vollmer (Tones) is since getting married. Taking care ceived her M.D. from the Univer- Public Accountants and the Texas Dennis C. Clark (Baker) made a working as an assistant professor of our 3-year-old daughter, Leslie, sity of Texas Medical School in Society of Certified Public Ac- recent move to Dallas to work at of biology at Mills College follow- is a full-time job in itself. And Houston. 73 U countants. American Airlines headquarters in ing two years of post-doctoral re- that's on top of technical training Kirsten Vered (Jones) married the state Recently, she Mark Daniel Carroll (Will Rice) the Data Processing and Commun- search at Stanford Medical Center. and technical writing for Stuart Coco last July. Center. Human Resources. archi- will begin a two-year residency ication Services Vollmer, her husband, Steve, and Department of established an independent Ed Jeffrey, moved to My wife, Robin, is finishing her tecture practice in Houston. "Thus this fall at the University of Shef- McGuckin (Hanszen) and his 2-year-old son, 0 at UT, and is plan- fortu- il'lt:Aihi(uteillla n field, England, where he will be wife, Catherine Green Oakland, Calif., in June. She master's thesis far," she says, "I have been the thesis into an house se doing his Ph.D. studies in Old Tes- McGuckin (Jones), have become writes that they have enjoyed oc- ning to develop nate with projects such as a members of Wycliffe Bible Trans- casional visits from Margaret ESL (English as a Second Lan- addition in South Hampton and a Sc tament social ethics. He has also build- 01 recently added a new family mem- lators and will leave in January Jordan and Anita Lacy (both guage) textbook." renovation of a historic bank 1986 for Papua, New Guinea. Jones '77). is cur- ing into a commercial photogra- Pc ber (see "New Arrivals"). Dale F. Shuck (Will Rice) hu a senior finan- pher's studio." The Cocos are David Devane (Wiess), who has Lawrence J. Siegel (Will Rice) rently working as Federal Home renovating an old home of their Eli been the chief spokesman for the completed his medical training in cial analyst with the Corp. in Washing- own in the Heights. Cook County (Ill.) state's attorney's gastroenterology in June and is Loan Mortgage 78 has been since office for four years, was recently setting up a private practice in San ton, D.C., where he Jerry D. Gibson (Will Rice)and was married this named press secretary to the U.S. Antonio. He is married to the June 1984. He Mary Kinney Gibson '80 (Jones) Jim Hruzek (Will Department of Energy. Devane as- former Susan Gernsbacher, past June, with have moved to Galveston, where Martin (Will Rice) sumed his new post April 15 in Rice), Brad 81 Jerry is an assistant professor of '78 (Will Rice) Hector de J. Ruiz (Ph.D.), vice Washington, D.C. A Chicago na- and Rich Moore anesthesiology at the University of groomsmen. president and assistant general tive, he joined the state's attor- serving as 77 Texas Medical Branch."Amy, 3, manager of the MOS Memory Prod- in 1981 after working Rich Toye (Hanszen)will be mar- ney's office and Will, 1, are instant beach ucts Group of Motorola Inc., has for the Daily Law Bul- rying Mary Hogan, whom he met in as a reporter bums," he writes. "We would wel- been elected by the Motorola letin, the Daily Oklahoman and Chicago, in October, and the come visits from friends on their board of directors to the position of Bureau, where he cov- couple will be settling in Concord, City News way to and/or from the beach." corporate vice president and as- ered county government and trans- N.H., where Toye will work as a sistant general manager of the portation. Karen Jones (Jones) reports, "Lots staff psychologist at the New has happened to me in the last six He has spent MOS Memory Products Group. Thomas M. Jackson (Wiess) is Hampshire Hospital. has been with Motorola months or so. After practicing law the last several years in Chicago Ruiz, who now practicing law in San Anto- :rigec:te.ht in Dallas for three years, I got en- Ph.D. in clinical :'snts(hQcsIsanst oervac:oBs lai,ilh'toicencr csi,c(11'' for seven years, has been involved nio. He has been with the offices of working on his gaged and moved to Seattle after earning his mas- with the company at the level of Jack M. McGinnis in San Antonio psychology, (Wash.)in January. I am enjoying degree in psychology at vice president and general man- since August 1984. ter's ager of the MOS Wafer Processing the hiking, sailing and cross- Brown University. He has spent the Marshall (M.S. '77, Baker) pfiii ri aild and Development Division, and Tom country skiing, but I miss my past year as an intern at a Vet- ii begun work with spent two years with the company has recently Texas friends. En route to Seattle, I eran's Administration hospital in Martin-Marietta in Denver, Colo., did catch up with Norm and Diane is now licensed to in East Kilbride, Scotland. Maine, and David M. Zumwalt(Baker) has after more than eight years of en- Harris(Jones resident associates Patti Anderson (Brown) writes, practice psychology. been named vice president and gineering duty at the U.S. Navy's '76-'78) in Portland, who have their "After five years in Austin, I've manager of resource management Nuclear Propulsion Program head- Winfried Corduan (Ph.D.), asso- hands full with two kiddos. I've stored up enough hundred-degree services for the mobile communi. quarters in Washington, D.C. Mar- ciate professor of philosophy and also caught up with Alex Arts czt Li days to last through a few winters 80 cations division of Compucon InC shall, his wife, Jan, and his two religion at Taylor University in Up- (Lovett), who's finishing his resi- in New York City. While Art Dean Fifth reunion year. See the a subsidiary of A.C. Nielsen Co. In children, Heidi and Kriste, moved land, Ind., was named distin- dency in Seattle. I have plans to rob '51 creates a designer apartment homecoming schedule in this Dallas. Zumwalt's new responsi- from Alexandria, Va., to Littleton, guished professor for 1984-85 rendezvous with Shelley Pen- from plastic boxes and the bounty issue for reunion information. bilities include overseeing the Colo., in August and write, -Come during Taylor's recognition convo- nington (Jones) and Ellen Smith of the streets, I toil away as a sen- John Bland (M.Mus.) has been land mobile, microwave intercon- see us sometime!" cation May 6. Recognized for his Pryor(Baker) this summer. Scott - ior information systems associate named general manager of the nect, cellular design and market ols (i Peach Taylor Jr. -dedication to the total program at Senanke'79 (Jones), where are for a social research corporation. Maj. George Jackson, Miss., Symphony Orches- ing research services for the (Hanszen) was married on Nov. 17 Taylor by his fine teaching and ac- you?" Yes, computers have led me back tra. Bland went to Jackson from division. In addition, he will con- Q pal Stewart at Randolph tive participation and leadership tv:.0te tgi r to the lucrative world of sociology. to Elizabeth Frank Rimlinger (Hanszen) re- Midland, Mich., where he was the tinue to direct software develop- .1eliollriigvisci AFB, Texas. He has just completed in several significant committees," coup And my next field trip is Corpus ceived his Ph.D. in mathematics general manager of the Northwood ment and production and data Air Force Residency in Corduan has also pastored a small Zumwalt Christi." the U.S. from the University of California at Orchestra, a professional touring service tor the division. Aerospace Medicine and moved in church in Alexandria. Ind., where Berkeley in May. He has accepted Compucon R. Kelly Hill (Sid Rich) is cur- orchestra serving northern Michi- has been employed by July to Torrejon Air Base, Spain, as he lives with his wife and two as assistant pro- practice at Memo- an appointment gan. His prior experience also in- since June 1981, rently in family chief of aeromedical services for sons. Corduan's publications in- for his fessor of mathematics at Columbia cludes being personnel manager (Brase tiii rial City hospital with plans wing of F-I6 Fighting clude papers in the Harvard Re- an Air Force University. During his past year at of the Youth Symphony of the wife, Ellen, to join him as his phy- view and Journal of the Falcons. Berkeley, he was the recipient of a United States and administrative for Al sician associate. He writes, "Since Evangelical Theological Society. Sloan Foundation fellowship in for the Fort Worth Sym- cldei, physicians always take one day His book, Handmaid to Theology, coordinator mathematics. phony Orchestra/Fort Worth off, I spend Wednesday working was published by Baker Book Chamber Orchestra. A tuba with the Houston P.D. SWAT team House; a second book awaits player, Bland has performed with as their medical adviser and un- publication. the JJ; armed combat instructor.- Hill the Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth Soho( Thomas William (T.W.) Cook 79 holds back belts in two forms of and Midland symphonies, and il (Sid Rich)and Laura Underwood John Barnett(Wiess) has re- karate and is one of nine black was a member of the Midland Cook were married June 1, 1985, ceived his Ph.D. from Princeton belts in ninjutsu in America. "Eve- Symphony board of governors. and are living in Fort Collins, University. His dissertation, per- spent with our two chil- Dale A. Charletta (Will Rice) nings are Colo. Attending were: Walter formed in the mechanical and aer- bay at my martial arts graduated from the University of dren, teaching Underwood '81 (Will Rice), Eric ospace engineering department, school or working on another Texas Medical Branch at Galves- Sisson '76 (Will Rice), Meg concerned plasma rocket propul- er n book,- Hill writes. -This summer ton in May 1984, and has begun his Green Sisson '84 (Lovett), Mark sion. He writes that he is now "en- the U.S. Army is treating me to an second year of diagnostic radiol- Linimon '80(Sid Rich), Wiley jeying sunny California," living in all-expense-paid adventure with ogy at Cook County Hospital (Chi- nt Sanders'78 (Lovett), Matt Torrance and working as a mem- preside my Special Forces unit in an un- cago). With three years of resi- Philip Botkiss (Baker), Noall '78 (Sid Rich), Phil Parker ber of the technical staff at TRW's at Univer• disclosable location — it beats the dency remaining, Charletta al- of the graduating class '79(Lovett), Barry Jones'80 (Sid Redondo Beach facility. School/ beach." Hill's first book, Ninja Kni- ready plans a one-year fellowship sity of Texas Medical Mark Johnson (Wiess) has Rich), Steve Sullivan '80 (Lov- Catherine Crites (Jones) married move to received his M.D. &gr.' fefighting, is the current martial in neuroradiology and "a Houston, delic- moved from Houston to Boulder, ett), Jim Fowler '79(Lovett), Stephen Vittorini of New York City a warmer city- following his resi- in June and had the honor of arts bestseller. , Colo., where he has been ap- Rich Koehler '79, Keith Cooper in Dallas on Feb. 16, 1985. He is a dency. ering the graduation address ie pointed product manager of a new '78 (Sid Rich), Linda Torczon '80 graduate of Bucknell University his reel- Gerald J. Evert Jr.(M.B.P.M., Jones Hall. Botkiss began division of Spectrum Holobyte Inc. (Jones), John Taylor '81 (Hans- and presently works as an account South"eet' Baker) was promoted to manager dency in psychiatry at that will develop and market zen), Suzanne Tolbert'81 supervisor at Bloom Advertising in JulY. in the consulting practice of Arthur em Medical School/Dallas whoSlidic4e''etSt:ietl1clrg:irIt9eeSnelc:a.krlwrite se 74 graphics utilities and animation (Hanszen), Tom Evans'83 (Lov- Agency. The couple honeymooned Shelley Moore Andersen & Co.'s Houston office. John K. Bartol (Sid Rich) e/0.5,:re.i 811.1dy ( Bill and software for IBM and Apple com- ett), William Watson '84 (Sid in St. Francois, Guadeloupe, '75 (Baker) write in that Evert was the Rice tennis team's cently awarded the Master in De' vere Horwitz puters. "Those of you who have Rich), Dave Capshaw '81 (Sid French West Indies. they have seen a lot of changes in most valuable player in 1979 and ness Administration with high *lIhi4, been caught by your boss playing Rich), David Butler '81 (Hans- was cho- Businesw four m their lives over the past few Cullen A. Duke (Lovett) 198aryO. distinction from Harvard 'Gato'(a submarine simulation) on zen), David and Bonnie Gutier- sen for a six-month tour of duty in recognized months. In addition to the birth of Mary C.(Ann) Gerleman School. The faculty til..hiver your PC can blame us!" he writes, rez'80 (Lovett), Scott Comer Price-Waterhouse's London office, Scholoi' their second child (see "New Arriv- (Brown), having recently gradu- Bartol, a George F. Baker 'tfhe I adding, "all my old buddies stop (Baker), Cindy Smith '85 (Hans- beginning in July. The London of- academic re" als"), Bill has moved from Arthur ated from Medical College of Wis- for his oustanding Lloyd by if you're in the Rockies." zen), Diana Neff'80 (Baker), fice is Price-Waterhouse's largest, the Andersen to work at Houston Natu- consin(MCW), will serve her cord, which placed him in Rich and Linda Dellinger '80, with its own 25-story building. He 780. *ere'' rr ral Gas, where he is a vice presi- residency in internal medicine at five percent of his class of Virginia Torczon, Rebecca Cook, writes that he and wife Andrea 10t'dii dent of HNG Resources. They have MCW Affiliated Hospitals in Mil- recognition of his achieve 14 the I David John Scribner, "Grungy" and had been to the an also moved to a new house in West 76 Duke'79 (Brown) received a special certificate Nine -Dingbat.- vacation twice and were waukee. University and ask,"Anybody in- U.K. on gold key from Harvard Busine0 to living there. Julie Pryzant(Will Rice) married terested in buying a beauti- David M. Duewall (M.A., looking forward School Dean John H. McArthu'r .11 Robert Shaddox (Will Rice '81). Bartol vo' near River Oaks?" Wiess), certified as an associate in "There is one disadvantage to the graduation, ful...house They are living in Houston, where Following cittendi in the Society of Actuaries, has trip," he said."We have recently work with Simmons and Co. letel Leonard G. Lane(Hanszen) has our Julie is a dentist and Robert an en- been promoted to actuarial assist- started competitive racing with national in Houston. L.ope recently been appointed to head gineer. Robert was living in Bagh- ant at American Security Life In- Catamarran sailboat. We will (Wiese) re" the architecture and interior de- the best sailing weather and dad for a while and will be going Michael W. Bonem surance Co. miss Masters in sign program at the University of summer and fall." to law school soon. Neither of them cently received the Tim M. Holder(Wiess) married regattas this Texas at San Antonio. In addition, wants the Will Rice College -Phoe- Business Administration degree Karen Gravitt on June I, 1985, in In addition to a new family mem- Business Schen he will continue as a principal nix" to be replaced, adding,"We from the Harvard (R: Midland. His brother, Steve ber (see "New Arrivals"), Abhijit )05 ctilen:11111c1,1fi:liacT with the Houston firm of Chelsea have always been conservative on Donald E. Dennis Jr.(Wiess ? PdicSilcki.Wrn(eYI,1‘ Holder'74 (Wiess), was best Gadgil (M.S.) and his family have Architects, which is in the process matters such as these." received an M.B.A. from the Uln-ci 114 qjg ii man. Ed Haar(Wiess) and Brice moved with Mobil Oil to their Lon- R of opening a San Antonio office. versity of Califomia-Berkeley an :dtill c'i:liiisc; (Will Rice) were don office, where he is a senior Bruce B. Raley (M.B.P.M.) has Houston Alexander to '4411fori engineer working on Mo- been promoted to manager in the will be moving back groomsmen. The Holders are liv- reservoir He will be 6.Lc!kher Sea.projects."We live in consulting practice of Arthur An- with his wife, Denise. ing in Midland. bil North Trammell Grose picturesque Wimbledon in South- dersen & Co.'s Houston office. working for the Ali 75 John C. Kupfer (Lovett) writes 'illted fr west London and would love to (Sid Co. Tenth reunion year. See the Matt Martin (Hanszen)finished that after "finally" receiving his Navy Lt. Thomas G. Richter friends visiting London," Friedman Aher homecoming schedule in this of Southwestern Medi- Ph.D. in physics from the Univer- hear from Rich)recently graduated from the Samuel Elias University his underg,,a1",. 404! h for information. work- he writes. Fleet Replacement Pilot Syllabus. Rice), who received issue cal School in 1979 and has recently sity of Arizona in May, he is engin'''. k; Pita] Gayle (Lovett) Conducted at the Naval Air Sta- uate degree in electrical B. Eugene Brown (Wiess) was completed a residency in general ing for Rockwell International in Everett Lynn ‘t411 i tion, Lemoore, Calif., Richter re- ing, graduated from the BaYlnr elected controller of Seagull En- surgery at the Wake Forest Univer- Anaheim, Calif., "learning to en- graduated from the University of r-,rni training qualifying him as College of Medicine in had sity Medical Center in Winston- joy smog and traffic." Texas Health Science Center at ceived ergy Corp. this spring. Brown \''',......

22 SALLYPORT—SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1985 David W. Green (Sid Rich)is still Joseph K. Paskvan (Wiess) has Michael is a graduate student in working for AT&T Bell Laborato- completed his surface warfare offi- English at the University of Vir- ries in Murray Hill, N.J., doing cer qualification with the U.S. ginia, and Kathryn is an insurance NEW ARRIVALS VLSI design. He married Bet- Navy and recently reported to the analyst at the University of Vir- ty Lou Clark, a 1984 graduate of Battleship Iowa, where he'll be ginia Health Service Foundation. Goshen College, on Sept. 22, 1984. taking over as Combat Information Rice alumni at the wedding cere- John Pankratz'60 and Valerie to our surprise, causing and they have moved into a house Center (CIC) officer. He writes, "Io- mony included Ian Hersey (Sid havoc with rolls are now living in Sheffield, Pankratz'65 announce the birth his mother's in Dunellen, N.J. Green received wa's home-ported in Norfolk but is Rich), Celeste Jefferson. work schedule." England. of their fourth child, Erik John, on Bierer is on a five leave his master's in electrical engineer- scheduled for a Gulf Coast cruise Barbra Gerard, Tom Gehrlein -month of Brigitte Parma Whiddon '77 Aug. 14, 1984. The Pankratz family absence from her senior ing from Cornell in 1982. in '86, so tell all to stop by." and Geoff Spradley (all Jones job as a and her husband. Richard, an- resides in Plano, Texas. manager in Arthur Andersen 8c After four years in the U.S. Navy Second Lt. Roger College), and Cathy Rimlinger nounce the birth of their second A. Quintero Co.'s consulting division. and more than two years on the (Sid Rich) has graduated from the '85 and Ann Taylor'85 (both Sid Robert B. McAshan III '68 and child, Jennifer Lauren, on Jan. I - U.S.S. Carl Vinson out of Alameda, U.S. Air Force communications Rich). Jane Duke McAshan '70an- George Zodrow '72 and his the first child born in Midland, nounce the birth of their third Calif., Mark Hollar(Hanszen) is systems officer course at Keesler Dianne C. Morrow (Hanszen) wife, Dorey Allbert Zodrow, an- Texas, in 1985. She writes, "Having child, Robert Arthur, born April 19 two CPAs leaving the Navy to "seek his for- AFB, Miss. During the course, stu- has joined McDaniel & Tate as a nounce the birth of their first child, for parents. Jennifer very and joining brother David and sis- tune" elsewhere. He writes, "Since dents were taught to manage junior account executive. McDa- Katherine Rey, on Oct. 23, 1984. On stubbornly made her parents miss ter Beth. The McAshans live in I've been homeless for the last maintenance of teletype and elec- niel & Tate is a Houston-based a leave of absence from the Rice that extra tax deduction by a mere Houston. seven months while the Carl Vin- tronic communications equipment. full-service public relations/ economics department, Zodrow 14 minutes." She adds, "I've ex- son's been deployed to the Indian Quintero is scheduled to serve advertising/fundraising agency. Jeffrey Cox '70 and Lois Kin- and his family are living in changed my green eyeshade for a Ocean, I'll be paying a visit to my with the 6906th cheloe Cox '71 announce the Arlington, Va. dustcloth and plan to work at Electronic Security Jonathan Smith (Wiess) re- Parents and commencing my job Squadron at Brooks birth of their child, Eleanor Ruth, home raising our two children.- AFB, Texas. ceived a master's degree in En- Amy Vondy Lawrynovicz'73 • hunting." on April 2, 1984. Barry Scott Seibel (Hanszen) glish literature from Columbia and her husband, Stan, announce Abhijit Gadgil '79 and his wife, Elizabeth Hernandez Irving graduated from University of University in May. He has been ac- Ronald Zweighaft'70 and his the birth of their third daughter, Snrita, announce the birth of a (Brown) has transferred from in- Texas Medical School this spring. cepted into the two-year Master's wife, Teresa, announce the birth of Adrian Irene, on May 29. daughter, Tara, in Dallas in De- struments engineering at DuPont Seibel was recipient of "The Most of Philosophy program there be- their first child, Amy Lauren, on cember 1984. The Gadgils are cur- Bill Horwitz'74 and to their accounting group, where Outstanding Student in Ophthal- ginning this fall. He and his wife, Feb. 13, 1985. Shelley rently living in London, England. Moore Horwitz'75 She does financial analysis and mology for 1984-85" award. He will Lisa Shambro (Brown), who is announce John Wolf III '80 and Joanne Paul Hester '71 and Vol the birth of their second computer programming. She is complete his residency at Brack- working for Proctor & Gamble, are child, Ja- Keller-Wolf '81 announce the Glitsch '76 announce the birth of son Alexander, on May also attending Lamar University at enridge Hospital, Austin, in July living in Metuchen, N.J. 20, on the birth of their second child, Tyler, their first child, Eric Neyland Hes- second night for an M.B.A. She writes that 1986, after which he will begin a birthday of their first child, on May 12, 1985, in Dhahran, Saudi ter, on Dec. 6, 1984. she recently met up with Kevin three-year ophthalmology resi- Shaina Beth. The Horwitzes live in Arabia. Houston. Badeaux '80(Sid Rich), who is dency at Hollywood Presbyterian Julia M. Bierer'72 and her hus- Sue Wise Nelson '81 and her associate pastor at St. Peters Cath- Hospital, Hollywood, Calif. band, John Joseph Duffy Jr., an- Mark Daniel Carroll '75 and husband, Scott, announce the birth olic 85 Church in Groves, Texas, and nounce the birth of their first child, his wife announce the birth of their of their first two children, twin Jeffrey J. Bennett(Wiess) has is, Irving said, "still as rowdy as John Joseph Duffy III, on March 31, second son, Michael Adam, in Au- daughters Julia Corace and Mere- been named a staff consultant in ever." 1985, in New York City. She writes, gust 1984. Though Michael Adam dith Picton, on March 26. The Nel- the management information con- Robert Louis Koniuta (Jones) 83 "He came three weeks early, much was born in Guatemala, the Car- sons live in Tarrytown, N.Y. sulting practiceof Arthur graduated from medical school at Deborah J. Barrett (Ph.D.) spent Ander- sen & Co.'s Houston the University of Texas Health Sci- 1984-85 as visiting assistant pro- office. Bennett was a President's Honor ence Center at San Antonio in fessor in English at Texas A & M Roll stu- dent at Rice and a varsity cross- May, and has begun his residency University. She has accepted the country letter winner. in internal medicine/pediatrics at position of assistant professor in IN MEMORIAM Bridgeport Hospital, Bridgeport, English/director of the writing spe- Jason Binford (Brown), a summa Conn. cialization and English internship cum laude graduate, received a $10,000 Thomas Caron Murchison (Hanszen) at Houston Baptist University for J. Watson Fellow- ship to travel and study abroad. Willie P. Locke of Onalaska, Denard Haden '29 of Na- Frances Lane Liljestrand '39 of graduated from medical school at the upcoming year. Binford plans to spend a Texas, a retired Rice staff member, cogdoches. Texas, in 1983. Houston on Feb. 6, 1985. the University of Texas in May and Michael M. Graves(M.S., Will year in Ja- pan exploring the in June 1985. Minnie Etkind '30 of began her residency in pediatrics Rice) has joined Planned Manage- relationship be- Holly- Col. Chapel P. Carstaphen '40 tween Zen Buddhism Harry Bulbrook '16 of Fort wood, Fla., on April 28, ot UT-Galveston in July. She sends ment Co. as an investment officer. and the 1984. of San Antonio on May 17, 1985. Japanese culture. Duaine Worth on July 25, 1985. congratulations to all other medi- His responsibilities include work- W. Mack Albert McLeod '30 of Pryor Jr.(Hanszen) also Jane Louise Krahl '40 of Hous- cal school graduates, adding,"we ing with officers at client banks to received Bayard T. Gross'16 of Houston Iago, Texas, on May 28, 1985. a $10,000 Thomas J. Watson Fel- on ton on Feb. 18, 1985. finally made it.- help them provide customers with March 5, 1985. Mary Elizabeth Boone Rees lowship. Pryor, who wants to be- Col. Max H. Lagrone '40 of On July 1, Nancy investment programs that have Elsbeth Rowe '30 of Baton Rouge, La., on Sept. Grayson Nich- come a professor of mathematical Kennon '18 of Austin on April 2, 1985. ols(Brown) began a psychiatry been evaluated and approved for Houston on July 8, 1985. 16, 1984. investment. Before physics, will study the Green residency, and her husband, Clay, joining Samuel M. Slack '3001 Houston Nat W. Krahl '42 of Houston on Planned movement in West Germany. Glenn I. Davis'19 of Las Ani- rt Pathology residency at Medical Management, Graves on June 18, 1985. June 3, 1985. Linda K. Brannon (Lovett) mas, Colo., on April 30, 1983. University of South Carolina. The was an investment broker at Legg and Jim Walkup (B.S. Thomas J. Vanzant'30 of Hous- David Edwin Farnsworth '42 of couple graduated from University Mason Wood Walker Inc., and '82, M.S.'85, May Speer Whitaker'19 of Lovett) were married Aug. ton on June 7, 1985. Houston on July 27, 1985. t )rf Oklahoma, Tulsa Medical Col- Prudential-Bache Securities. 3, 1985. Wayne, Penn., on June 22, 1985. On Graves and his wife live in They live in Albuquerque, N.M., Myron R. Schelling '32 of La Richard (Dick) Wm. Moreland lege, on June 2. Mrs. Ray Peeler '21 of Bonham. Greensboro, N.C. where Jim works as an electrical Porte, Texas, on June 15, 1985. Sr.'44 of Houston on July 22, 1985. Leticia Morgan Buscaino Texas, on May 30, 1985. engineer for Sandia National Lab- Edward (Brown)and her husband, Susan Hemphill Hendrix L. Holloway '33 of At- Bette G. Howard '45 of Houston Albert, oratories. Linda will be entering Sig Frucht'22 of Houston on Will (Brown) recently accepted a posi- July lanta. Ga., on July 20, 1985. on April 26, 1985. be visiting Rice in November graduate school in the cellular bi- 5, 1985. tor tion as a financial analyst tor Met- Henry M. Kellogg '33 of Hous- Albert's homecoming at the Cit- ology department of University of Benjamin E. Smith '47 of New odel. ropolitan Life Insurance Co. in the Grace Turney Alter'24 of On- ton on May 22, 1985. New Mexico Medical School. Jim Orleans, La. corporate investment department. tario. Canada, in January 1985. Everett C. Martin Philip R. Spradling (Sid Rich) "was dubious when Lovett went '33 of Hous- Elizabeth Reich Armstrong She lives in Houston. ton on April received his M.D. on June 1 from co-ed," but now admits it has its Henry B. Penix '24 of Wichita 22, 1985. '51 of Lake Jackson, Houston resident David Medina Texas, in July the University of Texas Medical advantages. Falls, Texas, on June 5, 1985. Ivan Whitt'33 of San Antonio on 1982. School at Houston. He plans to en- (M.A.), a 1985 graduate of the Feb. 19, 1985. Allison Byerley (Will Rice) has Mrs. Floyd L. Scott'25 of Eto- ter an internal medicine residency Northwestern University Medill William F. Ossenfort Jr.'51 of been named a staff consultant in wah. N.C., on May 29, 1985. Curtis H. Webb '34 of Houston rrt St. Joseph Hospital in Denver, School of Journalism with a mas- Houston on June 10, 1985. ter's degree, received the first the management information con- on Nov. 26, 1984. Colo. Wil- Merrill G. Sengel'27 of Pano- Hannah Tharp Karam '53 of liam H. Jones Memorial sulting practice of Arthur Ander- James Drake Hutchinson '35 of Bo. Fund rama. Texas, on May 12, 1985. Enid, Okla., in March 1985. vid L. Talent (Ph.D.) has just award at a recent ceremony. The sen & Co.'s Houston office. Byerley Champaign, III., on July 27, 1985. „Ignede a publishing contract with $6,000 award will be used was a Board of Governors Scholar T. Elton Braswell '28 of Laverne M. Marchand '54 of e toward William C. Mixson '35 of rentice-Hall to write a freshman- Medina's educational expenses. at Rice and graduated magna cum Freeport, Texas, on June 24, 1985. Houston on May 18, 1985. level Leawood, Kan., on April 13, 1985. astronomy text for non- Medina earned laude. a bachelor's de- Charles Hewitt Dix '28 of Pasa- James Craig '36 of Irvine. Calif., Bernard C. Boyle '59 of Okla- kience majors. The text will be gree in Spanish Alison W. Chambers from Drake Uni- (M.B.A.) dena. Calif., on Dec. 10, 1984. on June 27, 1985. homa City, Okla., on May 26, 1985. lent karketed in the U.S., Canada and versity in 1979. As an has been named a staff consultant cer Other English-speaking Will S. Richter'28 of Dallas on James countries, undergraduate, he served a in the management information M. Bryan '37 of Baytown Elizabeth R. Gildea '69 of St. OM 10- April 27, 1985. will be completed by July I, week internship at the Ottumwa consulting practice of Arthur An- on July 20, 1985. Louis, Mo., on May 13, 1985. gree Courier and studied for one year in dersen & Co.'s Houston office. Barcelona, Spain. Medina re- Chambers is a native of McLean, iii ceived a master's degree in Span- Va. l ree - ish from rest. 82 Rice (1983) and taught Ellen A. Considine (Lovett) has high Anna Goslicka (B.F.A., Jones), school Spanish in Dallas. been named a staff consultant in *base initial intent had been to Susan Donna Ross(Jones) the management information con- srer. 11111cly architecture and draw, dis- started medical school at Baylor sulting practice of Arthur Ander- Cla44,401e4 egvered her flair for photography College of Medicine in August. sen & Co.'s Houston office. At Rice, * bile at Rice. As one of this year's Kathleen J. Warfield (M.B.A. Considine was a member of the nees women's varsity ichhrz M.F.A. candidates at Stanford '85) has joined the audit practice of tennis team and Enjoy keeping up with friends and classmates in the Classnotes section? Why not re- was iltiversity, she displayed her work the international accounting and listed on the President's Honor turn the favor- drop 0161' Roll. us a line and a (preferably black and white) photo at Sallyport, ill the Stanford Art Gallery in May. consulting firm of Touche Ross & re' Lloyd Michelle Office of Information Services, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, Texas 77251. ,top J. La Comb (Baker)and Co., Houston, as an assistant. Germaine Field • "In M. (Hanszen) has joined the home of. 1. 1e Flaherty'83 (Brown) Juan Tellez (Will Rice) graduated LII Married? LII NewJob? E New Baby? IvLere of Touche Ross, a Houston- nt, Be married on July 6 in Houston. from Baylor College of Medicine in ."4 the based national accounting and [1] Promoted? El Take a Trip? El See a Classmate? dede wedding party were Lor- May and has begun his residency thO consulting firm. Field is an associ- 050 Ine Batchelor'84 (Brown), in anesthesiology. El Moved? El Back in School? El Other? "rlscilla ate analyst in the management Psencik '83(Brown) David C. Wolfe (Baker) was re- kid Lynn consulting practice. Lednicky (Baker). Also cently promoted to 1st Lieutenant iltending were Jane Mitchell in the Marine Corps. After spend- L.J. Finley III (Wiess) married Send us details. 1,..1 (Will Tracy Rice), Cindy and Brian ing the past year in Okinawa, he is Lynn Carter in Greenville, 194per S.C., (Brown/Sid Rich), Dr. and now on a two-year tour in Rota, on May 18. Darrell Fox Zee. Paul Pfeiffer (Rice professor Spain. (Wiess)served as a groomsman. ,7td associate of Brown College), After a honeymoon in Hawaii, the vtril Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Kurtz- couple moved to Clear Lake City. (Rice professor and master Finley works for IBM as a NASA Baker College). The couple is 84 programmer. ing in Sunnyvale, Calif., where Mary Kramer (Brown) married Leslie N. Morgan (M.B.A.) has nd is doing Ph.D. research at Jim Flagg on June 22 in Sugar been named a staff consultant in rcInford and Erin is working at Land. They are living in Pasadena, the management information con- ‘°c1chee d Missiles. Calif., where she is finishing grad- sulting practice of Arthur Ander- McCormack (Hanszen)grad- ucrte work in chemical engineering sen & Co.'s Houston office. Morgan Name iklled from Tulane Law School in at Cal Tech. Bridesmaids included is a native of Midland, Mich. lll i and has returned to Houston, Anne Marie Ching '85 (Brown) Lisa Roberts(MBA) Class College 'ere has been he works at the Methodist and Alice Schweers. named a staff consultant in the lee° Itlic'ePital as an administrative as- Michael L. Manson (Sid Rich) management information consult- Address( New?) for d_elont in the CEO staff services and Kathryn Tomasek (Jones) ing practice of Arthur Andersen & 15artment. were married on May 25 in Austin. Co.'s Houston office.

ALLYPORT-SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1985 23 Cunard's luxury cruise ships. A pre- Rice Faculty Club. Dinner 5:30 p.m.; cruise option provides three days in concert 7 p.m. South America before beginning a two-week cruise that will combine the Oct.8 educational experience of seeing Hal- Syzygy 0141.1014.11ae ley's Comet and hearing lectures by a "Lutoslawski Retrospective" variety of speakers on board ship, as well as the opportunity of visiting Bra- Oct.9 zilian ports. Caribbean stops include Shepherd Symphony Orchestra Barbados, St. Lucia and St. Thomas. 10 is as follows, with all meetings featur- $2,990-$11,940, depending on cabin Oct. Guest Artist Series E V EN T S ing a 6:30 p.m. social hour and 7:30 choice. Pre-cruises option, March 26- p.m. program unless otherwise noted: 29. Tour of Rio de Janeiro, $480. Be- Jerzy Kosmala, viola Sept. 10. Inaugural meeting, Her- cause of early registration Sept. 30-Nov.5 Oct. 15,17 Fall Alumni Institute ring Hall. Speaker: Mary DeMotte, requirements, deposits must be re- 25, *Tokyo String Quartet Series I: "Bach and Forward:" Series II: Houston's 1985 Business Woman of the ceived in the alumni office by Oct. "Halley's Comet and the Origins of the year. 1985. Houston Friends of Music.. Oct. 10. Dinner meeting, Plaza Solar System." For details, see the ar- Feb. 15-22, 1986 Oct. 18 ticle in the alumni section of this issue. Room, Houston Country Club. Speaker: Rice Board of Governors vice Ski Innsbruck Faculty Artist Series Sept. 14 chairman Josephine Abercrombie. Skiers and non-skiers alike will want Mary Norris, piano Pre-Game Breakfast to take advantage of this economical Mexican breakfast starts at 10:30 a.m. ALUMNI-GUEST trip. The low price includes round trip Oct. 20 in a first-class ho- *SchubertFest'85 before the noon Rice-Miami football RECREATION PROGRAM airfare, six nights R Room. $5 for adults; $3.75 for tel, and breakfast and dinner daily. Rice Faculty Club. Dinner 5:30 p.m.; game. The 1985-86 Alumni-Guest Recreation children. Cash bar. Alumni beer tent Chosen as the site of the 1964 and 1976 concert 7 p.m. Program begins Sept. 3. Sponsored by will be set up at all home football Winter Olympics, skiing is a part of Department of Health and Physical games this season (except for the the Innsbruck's life, and skiers will have a Oct. 21 Education, the program provides op- game and homecoming) at the choice of five ski areas. For non- Campanile Orchestra Sept. 14 for swimming, tennis, rac- the stadium. Look for bal- portunities skiers, there will be a variety of day north side of squash, quetball, badminton, fencing, tours available, as well as sleigh Oct. 24 loons. weight training, volleyball, jogging, rides, toboganning and the Olympic Shepherd Singers and aerobic exercise. YOUNG ALUMNI basketball bobsled. Gwyn Richards, conductor The Young Alumni are planning to Alumni members may participate in gather for informal mixers on the fol- classes or clinics in fencing, karate, Oct. 27 lowing dates: Sept. 19, 5:30-8 p.m., aerobic exercise and competition in *SchubertFest'85 Cafe Adobe; Oct. 24, 5:30-8 p.m., At- selected sports. Call 527-4058 for infor- CONTINUING EDUCATION Rice Faculty Club. Dinner 5:30 p.m.; chafalaya River Cafe; Nov. 21, 5:30-8 mation on registration and member- PROGRAMS concert 7 p.m. p.m., Magnolia Bar and Grill; Dec. 19, ship fees. The following travel programs are be- 5:30-8 p.m., Birra Poretti's on West ing offered by the Office of Continuing Oct. 31 Gray. There will also be a tailgate Studies and Special Programs. For President's Concert party before the Rice-Texas A&M T R A V EL more information call 520-6022. Shepherd Symphony Orchestra. Ben- game on Oct. 26 in the stadium park- jamin Zander, conductor. RMC. ing lot. Look for the Rice Alumni banner. Jan. 3-14, 1986 ALUMNI TRAVEL/STUDY PROGRAMS Treasure of the Pharohs: Nov. 1 Oct. 25 For information on 1985 alumni travel/ A Journey to Egypt P.D.Q. Bach concert Presidential Inauguration study programs, call the Alumni Of- William Neidinger will lead a tour to Formal inauguration of Rice President fice,(713) 527-4057, or write the Egypt, with the proposed itinerary in- Nov.5 George Rupp. 2:30 p.m., main quad- Association of Rice Alumni, P.O. Box cluding Cairo, Giza, Memphis, Syzygy rangle. Reception following. Open to 1892, Houston, Texas 77251, to receive Saqqara, Abu Simbel, and a cruise "The Schoenberg Legacy." the public. More details inside this issue. detailed itineraries. Prices are approx- from Aswan to Kom Ombo, Edfu and imate. Esma, landing at Luxor. HOMECOMING 1985 A R T The schedule for Homecoming 1985 Oct. 12-23 Apr.4-20, 1986 Villas can be found on page two of this issue. Northern Italian Palladian Halley's Comet from 19 Spend 12 days touring the historic cit- the Australian Outback Sept.6 -Oct. ies of Northern Italy, from Verona to Deemed one of the finest viewing sites SEWALL ART GALLERY L EC T UR Venice, with accommodations se- for this once-in-a-lifetime encounter, Fabled Cloth: Batik lected for charm and historic impor- Alice Springs will serve as a base for from Java's North Coast FRIENDS OF FONDREN tance. Optional extension overnight comet watching and daytime excur- An exploration of the distinct design Venice to Paris on the Orient Ex- The Friends of Fondren will sponsor from sions into the Outback. Other sites on qualities of Indonesian batiks pro- press. Escorted by Mark Hewitt of ar- the itinerary are Cairns, Melbourne, duced along the north coast of Java. A the following lectures at 7:30 p.m. in public Fondren Li- chitecture. $2,850. Canberra and Sydney. Patricia Reiff of preview reception open to the the Kyle Morrow Room of Sept. 5 brary unless otherwise noted. space physics and Albert Van Helden will be held in the gallery on Nov.4-11 of history will accompany the group from 7-9 p.m. Exhibition made possi- Sept. 18. "The Great Comet Called Colonial and Revolutionary Explo- Carolyn Sum- and lecture during the tour. ble by a grant from Mobil's Oil Halley," presented by Virginia New ners, director of astronomy, Houston ration and Producing Division, -day history tour highlighting the Museum of Natural Sciences. Eight York City. in Washington, D.C., Wil- Oct. 9. "The '85 Election — the Pro- unusual MUSIC and Charlottesville. Ar- Sept. 14-Oct.20 gressive Traditions in Houston," pre- liamsburg rangements have been made to see FARISH GALLERY sented by George C. Greanias, Unless otherwise noted, performances the extraordinary exhibit, Treasure New Public Architecture: associate professor of administrative are at 8 p.m. in HammOn Hall. • De- Houses of Britain, at the National Gal- Recent Projects by Fumihiko Mold science, Jones Graduate School, and notes admission charge. For more in- lery of Art. Escorted by historian Ira and Arata Isozaki Houston city councilman, District C. formation, call 527-4933. Gruber. $1,200. Exhibit organized by the Japan House Sept. 11 Dec. 18-Jan. 2, 1986 Sept. 12 Gallery, New York. RICE DESIGN ALLIANCE Christmas in Austria "Moscow Trio" Fumihiko Maki Lecture and Faculty Artist Series and reception Experience a European Christmas SPORT a gala New Year's Eve. The trip will One of Japan's foremost architects, 15 begin with an exploration of Bavaria's Sept. Fumihiko Maki will lecture at 7 p.m. at *"Americana" FOOTBALL royal castles, followed by Christmas Brown Auditorium, Museum of Fine Society, Milford House, 3 p.m. in Salzburg, including a visit to the Shepherd Arts, Houston. Reception at Farish Sept. 14 Miami, Fla. Christkindlemarkt, a special Christ- Gallery, Rice campus. Call 524-6297. 17 mas Eve dinner and a Christmas Day Sept. 21 at Air Force *Guest Artist Series Sept. sleigh ride. What follows is one week David Burge, piano NO T ICE in Vienna to visit Mozart's home, drive Sept. 28 Lamar through the Vienna Woods, attend per- 19 formances of the Lippizaner horses of Sept. Oct. 5 at Texas RICE BUSINESS AND Syzygy the Spanish Riding School and the Vi- Oct. 12 Texas Christian PROFESSIONAL WOMEN enna State Opera. New Year's Eve David Burge, piano."New Music for Piano." The new Rice Business and Profes- plans include attending the Imperial the Oct. 19 at Texas Tech sional Women's Club is aimed at the Ball at the Hofburg Palace. $2,398. professional women in the commu- Sept. 27 Oct. 26 Texas A&M nity, and membership is open to all March 29-April 12, 1986 Shepherd Symphony Orchestra alumnae and friends of the university. Rice Memorial Center. Benjamin Zan- Nov.2 Arkansas(Homecoming ) Current Rice students may join at a re- Halley's Comet Cruise der, conductor. duced fee on an associate basis. For Enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime chance to Nov.9 at SMU more information, contact Judy Jo view the spectacular Halley's Comet Oct.6 Nov. at Baylor McGlaun at 659-1988. The fall schedule as you sail aboard Vistafjord, one of *SchubertFest'85 16