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BEYOND THE SALLYPORT

A RICE DIPLOMA:

THE COMPETITIVE EDGE

Sophomore Kareem Streete-Thompson needs a 26-foot long jump in the June trials to represent theCayman Islands in this year's Olympics. Six otherRice track stars, representing four other countries,are also hoping to go to Barcelona in July. For aprofile of these Olympic hopefuls, see page 36.

Cover photograph by Totruny LaVergne

FEATURES

NAP URT111 Beyond the Sallyport

Students graduating from college this summer face a difficult challenge: a stagnant

economy and the toughest job market in 20 years. But a Rice education providesa competitive edge for the Class of 1992.

72 Medicine and Moral Choices

by David D. Medina

Staying alive may have become easier with medical technology, butit isn't any simpler. Each advance brings an attendant dilemma. Twodepartments at Rice, philosophy and religious studies, address theincreasingly complex and expanding field of "bioethics."

by D.J. Wilson

Accolades for Alumni

The 1992 Distinguished Alumni include two chemists who've done pioneering workwith antibiotics and two banking professionals who have survived the banking crisiswith success. Sallyport salutes Walter G. Hall, Charles M. Blair, Robert B. Morin and

Robert L. Clarke.by Mag,gi Stewart

June / July '92 1

DEPARTMENTS

4 Letters

6 Through the Sallyport"The Hunt" for a jeweled walking cane; our camera-shy founder; insearch of Santa.

8 NewsGerman president Richard von Weiszacker's commencement addresson "A New World Order"; women and gender studies major approved;alumni director named; new Owls basketball coach announced;Richard Smalley wins chemistry award; alumnus Ron Bozman wins anOscar; engineering school ranked at top; and more.

14 AcademiaThe 15-year-old Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Administrationhits a growth spurt; researchers at the Institute of Biosciences andBioengineering collaborate to genetically engineer blood and protein.

German president, page 8

The Rice University Coffeehouse, page 32

32 StudentsRice students can wake up and smell the coffee at the campus'newest institution, the Rice University Coffeehouse.

34 Books, Etc.Composer Samuel Jones creates in epic style; political scientistJohn Ambler describes the French welfare state; Lucie Fultz, assoc-iate professor of English, co-edits essays by black mothers and daughters; and historian John Boles writes a pocket-sized history of Rice.

36 SportsSeven Rice track stars vie for spots in this summer's Olympics.

38 Alumni GazetteA profile of Association of Rice Alumni President George Miner;meritorious service awardees; joint ventures for students and alumni.

40 Gifts and GivingProfile of Telefund chair Anne Baillio; a scholarship recipientintends to return the favor; endowed scholarship levels.

42 Sally ForthProfessor of History Katherine Drew previews a cruise through theMediterranean on the Golden Odyssey.

43 Classnotes

56 YesteryearTen-year retrospectives from the history of Rice.

57 CalendarUpcoming events on the Rice campus.

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Consulting Editor, Gabrielle CosgriffArt Director, Jeff CoxAssistant Editor, Deborah Schmidt '89

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The Rice University Board of GovernorsTrustees. Charles W. Duncan Jr., chair,Josephine E. Abercrombie, vice chair, D. KentAnderson, J. Evans Attwell, John L. Cox, Bur-Ion J. J. McMurtry, Jack T. Trotter; Term Mem-bers:Bucicy Allshouse, E. William Barnett,James W. Glanville, William P. Hobby,George R. Miner, James L. Pate, Louisa Snide,'arofim, Thomas D. Smith, Selby W. Sullivan.Alumni Governors: Steve Shaper, T. Robert"Bob",„. Jones, Albert N. Kidd, G. Walter'vacReynolds.

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suggest topics, serve as a sounding board for ideasand ensure that, over the course of several issues, theRice scene in all its variety and complexity is covered.The Sallyport is the university's primary means ofcommunicating to alumni and friends. Everything ofimportance to the university—programs, faculty, new

facilities, athletics, issues on campus—comes under the purview ofSallyport. If there are important developments on campus or involving theuniversity that Sallyport does not cover accurately, fairly and responsibly,then it is failing its primary mission.Of course, even at Rice there are on occasion unhappy events, such as

the recent honor code violations, and controversial issues, such as the de-bate over Southwest Conference participation. These are real issues, and itis Sallyport's responsibility to keep the alumni informed. Rice is a strongenough institution, and its friends and alumni sufficiently sophisti-cated, to allow the truth to be told. Sallyport's task is neverto sensationalize issues but rather to report—promptly, responsibly and as accurately as weknow how—the significant eventstaking place on campus.

It is thatreponsibility to be hon-est with our readers thatled Sallyport to cover insome detail the recenthonor code violations, andwe will in the future reporton the issue of athletics. TheAthletic Review Committeehas completed its report, onethat makes no recommendationson the major issues and attemptsto establish a baseline of informa-tion about the academic preparationof student-athletes and the financialcosts of athletics. The Faculty Councilappointed a committee headed by history professor Thomas Haskell to re-view that report and make recommendations. That faculty committee isconducting a poll of faculty attitudes, and its report will be completed overthe summer. The students are also working on a poll. Once these reportsare completed, Sallyport will publish a review of the entire issue, placingevents at Rice in a larger, national context. We are confident that is whatour readers expect of Sallyport.

—The Sallyport Editorial Board

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LETTERS

Bill Martin Billy Graham

Rice Needs toRelearn Old Lesson

On a rare business trip to Houston,I stopped by the campus for avisit and picked up a couple of re-cent Threshers to peruse. I cameacross some news items that gaveme pause.One item said that a new admin-

istrative organization called the Of-fice of Environmental Health andSafety had deemed that an upcom-ing Sid Rich college party wouldrequire 101 security officials. An-other news item noted that Rice'slegal counsel had found it necessaryto change or clarify policy to allowsearches by Rice officials of stu-dents' rooms for drugs and alcohol.A third news article reported thattuition and room/board will rise$1,100 to $13,700 for 1992-93.

Admittedly, outside societal pres-sures in the form of overregulationhave regrettably pushed Rice intoquestionable administrative moves.However, one important lesson Ilearned from my time at Rice al-most 20 years ago is that of per-sonal responsibility, a lesson thatwould seem difficult to grasp attoday's Rice. One lesson seemsclear now: The administration re-quired to supplant personal respon-sibility contributes directly to thecost of an education at Rice.

David Norton '74Anchorage, Alaska

In Defense ofGraham

Oh my! NeitherBilly Graham nor

/ 1 Bill Martin needsdefending by me(or anyone else, for

that matter), but I must respond tothe comments concerning Martin'snew book by Dian L. Hardison '79on the "Letters" page of the March1992 issue of Sallyport. One canonly fervently hope that Hardison isnot a typical product of Rice educa-tion in recent decades.While it must be admitted that

many (most?) television evangelistsof the '80s and '90s appear to be

insincere crooks, no such chargeagainst Billy Graham has ever beenseriously considered, much lesssubstantiated. Did Hardison readthe book, or even the foreword? Ifnot, read my lips: Billy Graham isno charlatan, and Bill Martin isnobody's fool. The title of Martin'sbook, A Prophet with Honor, saysit all.

Galloway H. Hudson '60Houston

For the Record

I should like to make a correctionto the classnote feature on IkeSanders '17, which ran in the Oc-tober 1991 issue of Sallyport. Hestates that my father [Harold A.Wilson] came to Rice "from theCavendish Laboratories" at Cam-bridge. Actually my father came toCambridge in 1897 and waselected to a fellowship at TrinityCollege, Cambridge, in 1901. In1906 he went to King's College atLondon University and in 1909accepted a professorship at McGillUniversity in Montreal, Canada.There he met and married mymother, a student of his. Theycame to Rice in 1912 on their hon-eymoon.

Kathleen Wilson Henderson '35Newtown Square, Penn.

Let's Play Ball

As I reflect on [the March 5] winover UT, I think of how theundescribably great feeling of beat-ing the Longhorns on national TVmakes up for the years of frustra-tion from all the near misses. Thememories of the heartbreaking de-feats when we knew we were closeand improving, but not quitethere, makes this even more spe-cial. However, even if we had lostthis fantastic game in which bothteams played so well, the nightwould still have been one toremember.The sad part about that fact is

that there are some who wouldhave us believe that athletics are

detrimental to a university, espe-cially one as academically orientedas Rice. Their crusade is unbeliev-ably misguided in asserting thatsports do not enhance a school'simage. How do they think the pro-spective students here for Owl Dayfelt on their first glimpse of Rice?How could the Owls not getcaught up in the electric atmo-sphere of the game, even withoutknowing the Rice athletic historyand all the pain the victory erased?I would be willing to wager thatmore than a few who were at thegame and in the process of choos-ing between Rice and some othertop schools will come here becauseof...[that] night.One of the best of Rice's pro-

fessed goals is to attract a well-rounded student body with diverseinterests. Dropping out of theSWC would seriously undermine, ifnot totally destroy, that goal. Firstof all, I don't think anyone reallybelieves that a big win over NorthTexas or Sul Ross State.. .wouldexcite any prospective Owls to thepoint of coming to Rice. Evenmore important, though, is the factthat there are a lot of us who aresmart and also happen to lovesports. My graduated friends in-clude a swimmer, a runner, atrainer and an SID assistant who allmade excellent grades and nowhave great jobs or are in graduateschool. They have all broughthonor and diversity to the schooland not one of them, nor myselfand many others, would have evenconsidered going to Rice if itdidn't have Division I athletics.There are just too many schoolsequally as good that have them...One other unique aspect of ath-

letics is that it brings a school to-gether and lets all the studentsshow their pride to everyone onthe outside. Being on ESPN [that]night gave Rice a national forumwhere millions of people couldhear how great our school is andsee how enthusiastic and fun thestudents are. Rice could be anothergeeky MIT if we wanted it to, butwho does? We can still be just assmart. Why ruin the fun just as allof our teams are getting good andthe NCAA is making changes al-lowing us to be even more corn-

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Mike Gardner '91Houston

Dangers of Dilution

I recently found in the StanfordDaily an article stating that applica-tions to Rice had jumped by 25Percent, due to favorable nationalPublicity (e.g., in U.S. News). Thisis the opportunity toward whichRice has been building for manyYears now: the chance to have aPool of undergraduates that is sec-ond to none in talent and intraining.My motivation to write this letter

comes from fear that such an op-Pnrtunity may not be fully takenadvantage of. The temptations todilute Rice's clear academic policyare many; I will mention some ofthese and explain why I think eachWould be a mistake.One easy step would be to en-

large the entering class, on the as-sumption that it is sufficient thatthe current quality be maintained;or to raise tuition, thinking that theUniversity would still be an attrac-tive option to many excellent stu-dents. The fatal flaw in these argu-nients is that they favor stagnation.Currently, Rice is not among theschools of the first rank in somecrucial areas, such as breadth of re-sperarctih, established reputation andes

ge of graduate programs.These obstacles are not easily over-come, and correction of each willrequire years of dedicated effort.However, such an effort will be a

';loomed attempt to raise ourselves°Y our bootstraps unless we exploit

the fullest our true advantages.'mice stands in a position not only

equal but to surpass the nation'sleading universities in the qualityof its undergraduate body; thisProvides a ladder that can beclimbed into the foremost echelonof schools.d Another temptation, no lessatuaging to what Rice has in the

Past stood for, is to allow thecourse load itself to stagnate, lead-

ing to grade inflation as the qualityof students rises. This self-con-gratulatory trap should be avoidedas well. Only by constantlystrengthening (and toughening)the curriculum can the enteringstudents be trained to the fullest oftheir potential. It is vital to thequality and reputation of the uni-versity that its graduates beequipped to become leaders intheir fields. Now an opportunityhas arisen so that, by demandingmore of each student, this can beaccomplished. It should not bepassed up. In this, the facultyclearly has a central role. However,the administration must alsoaid the pursuit of excellence byencouraging departments to pro-vide their best courses to all stu-dents and to reduce or avoid en-tirely watered-down courses thatcannot provide the broad, detailededucation that students needand deserve.I sincerely hope that the faculty

and administration will grasp thisunprecedented opportunity withboth hands and use it to make Ricethe university we have alwayswanted it to be.

Thomas M. flyer '89Palo Alto, Calif

Party Hearty,Prospective Parents!

Whether you are among the fortu-nate few to have a son or daughteraccepted for admission to Rice, orare merely curious about who goesthere these days, let us tell youwhat fun it is to give a party fornew students.

Last year when our son Daviddecided to go to Rice, we realizedthat, unlike the Texas kids who en-counter each other at state events,he hadn't had much chance to getto know other entering students.We also observed that the IvyLeague alums all held welcomingparties. So we obtained a list of 26Washington-area incoming fresh-men and invited them and theirparents to a cook-out in our back-yard last July.To our surprise, no fewer than

23 of the new Owls accepted and

came. To avoid presenting an an-tique view of Rice, we invited a fewcurrent students and recent alums.The weather cooperated by beingHouston hot and muggy. Believe itor not, we had to demonstrate howto load the fajitas. It took the kidsmere minutes to make connectionsand start getting acquainted. Oneyoung man even met the directorof the government agency inwhich he was working as a sum-mer intern. We parents enjoyedtrading strategies on logistics and"letting go."

Seeing familiar faces on campuseased our son's adjustment to Rice.The party was so much fun, wemay do it again this summer.

Steve '65 and Martha '66 SmithArlington, Virginia

Continuing Thanks

ak11,011 11rt On behalf ofthe staff atContinuingStudies, wewrite to thankyou for thefine article onthe program.We also wantto acknowl-

edge the contribution made byJosephine Rodgers to the develop-ment of the Continuing StudiesLanguage Programs. Although em-phasis in the article "LanguageClasses Bursting at the Seams" wason the current growth of the pro-gram, the picture is not completewithout a recognition of the effort,dedication and love with whichJosephine built the program duringthe seven years in which she servedas its first director.

Mary McIntire, deanKathleen Sayers, associate dean

Continuing Studies

Sallyport welcomes your comments.Please write to: Sallyport, Office ofNews & Publications, Rice Univer-sity, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, TX77251. Letters are subject to editingfor length and style.

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THR °UGH • T HE • SALL YPOR T

The Case of the Missing Cane

"Smoke stung my eyes as I dis-creetly worked to free my hands.The flame inched even closer. Icould feel its heat scoring my faceas the mobster slowly lit the fuse."—taken from the diary of Detec-tive Frank Masey, written shortlybefore his murder

All this for a simple jeweled cane?"The Hunt" drew 150 Rice stu-

dents to the Sewall Hall CourtyardApril 9, the Thursday of spring re-cess.Over a lunch catered by Subway,

30 teams of about five people eachwere informed of their mission—tofind the fictional Detective FrankMasey's cane, which contained thehidden plans for a new weapon.And so, for the third consecutive

year, "The Hunt" began.Two years ago, the idea for

Rice's first "Hunt" popped up in aBrown College study lounge.

Inspired by Florida's "TropicHunt" and Cal Tech's "Senior'sBarricade," four Brown Collegemembers wanted their upcomingspring recess to feature some sortof entertainment that would com-bine solving puzzles with a trea-sure/scavenger hunt.Then-sophomores Brian O'Neil,

Bowie Hinger and Harlan Howeand freshman Mark Engelberg de-sired a game that would suit Ricestudents. "We wanted somethingmore intellectual than just a trea-sure hunt," Howe says. "TheHunt" was born.The first year's puzzles were too

hard ("You had to be an ultra-ge-nius to solve them" Howe says);last year's were too easy. This year'spuzzles, however, were perfect."Almost all the groups were able tosolve some of the puzzles, and veryfew of the groups were able tosolve everything," Howe says.

Originally for Brown Collegemembers, "The Hunt" is becom-

ing a tradition with all students.

Fortunately for this year's Hunters,Detective Masey sensed the dangerto his life and took measures toprotect the cane.He wrote no note revealing the

cane's whereabouts. Instead, theever-cryptic Masey left four clues,whose solutions yielded four codes,each four letters long. Feedingthose codes in the Crime Com-puter revealed the cane's location.The first team to phone in the

location won.Sound simple? It wasn't. "The

Hunt" was designed to challengethe fittest Rice brains.Armed with four clues, 10 hours,

a car, a map and such oddities asscotch tape, a tape player and scis-sors, the teams set out to solve theGreat Cane Caper of 1992.Hunters dressed in official

t-shirts spent their first six hourssolving four preliminary puzzles.They ended up in parts of Houstonmany students had never entered.In the most elaborate puzzle, a

cryptogram sent teams to the ParkShopping Mall downtown, whereHunters sang their favorite Coun-try & Western song to the employ-ees in Y'Alls Texas Store.For their vocal prowess, students

received another puzzle and an au-dio casette. Hunters gathered cluesin other stores and followed ataped sound maze through thetunnels below Houston.They surfaced at Jones Hall,

went one block north and found abrightly colored grid reading"Houston—The Art Capital of theWorld." From this plaque andclues gathered from the shoppingmall, students were able to deci-pher the code "GNZO."For another of the preliminary

puzzles, Hunt organizers turned avacant shop in the Village into amob-infested speakeasy, whereHunters confronted questionablefigures such as Bubbles (played by

Student Activities Director SarahNelson Crawford) and the gun-toting Nunzio. By speaking to theproper mobsters (one Huntercalled the speakeasy "an exercise insocial graces") and offering theproper incentive (Hunt Dollars),Hunters gained entry into the backroom and met Mr. Big, who leftanother clue, "KRBY."

After gathering the other cluesand taking a short dinner break,Hunters congregated in the RMCcloisters. There, they received disksholding the final mind-teaser, athree-dimensional crosswordpuzzle, and scattered to MacIntoshcomputers across campus. Thecode to access the disk was an-nounced on KTRU radio.

After inputting the four-lettercodes and solving the crosswordpuzzle, the Crime Computer pre-sented teams with 10 words—duck, anus, scone, seal, den, detail,pie, puff, mike and are.From these words, the team Glo-

bal Village Idiots was the first todecipher and phone in the cane'slocation. At the post-Hunt party inthe RMC, Global Village Idiotsreceived $60, a $5 gift certificate toPizzeria Uno and a box of DCComics "Cosmic Cards."

Designing such a successful huntwas no easy task. This year's instru-mental organizers were threeBrown graduating seniors—Howe,John Schwartz and Erik Daniel.Although the four original organiz-ers did all the work two years ago,this year's "Hunt" drew university-wide volunteers and money fromnearly every residential college.Planning for "The Hunt" began

last fall. "It's really a labor of love,"Howe says. "Organizing 'TheHunt' is a lot of fun. It's evenmore fun than participating."About 150 Hunters would prob-

ably disagree with him.By the way...the cane was in the

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Noer's Search for Pere Noel

If you've stopped believing in Santa Claus, read on.Rice senior Michael Noer got an early Christmas present this year—a

$13,000 fellowship to study Christmas traditions in Europe and SouthAmerica. Noer is one of 70 recipients of a one-year travel fellowship offeredby the Thomas J. Watson Foundation. The fellowships support research ona topic chosen by the recipient.

Noer's pockets will jingle all the way to the United Kingdom to researchthe Dickensian Christmas myth, to The Netherlands in search of SinterKlaus, to France for Pere Noel, to Italy for St. Nicholas, to Brazil forCarnivale and to Finland for the Nordic Institute of Folklore. The NorthPole is conspicuously absent from his list..Why Santa Claus? Was it childhood memories of a white Christmas in

Minnesota? Revenge against an older sister who told the then-seven-year-old "firm believer" that the jolly old elf didn't exist? If so, Noer will havethe last "ho, ho, ho." He wrote his senior thesis on the history of SantaClaus, working with English professor Bob Patten, and plans to write alight but scholarly book based on his travels.

Noer has a daunting task. His head will be filled with visions of sugar-Plums and Bing Crosby as he sifts through endless movies, children's litera-ture and advertising. Not to mention all the department stores he'll have to

If he could have his wish, all Noer would really want for Christmas is tomeet the white-bearded, red-suited old fellow in person so he can "tell meall about himself."Maybe they could rendezvous on a rooftop.

—Maggi Stewart

No Photo Proof

Pid William Marsh Rice really ex-ist? No photos survive to prove it.Although his father, grandfatherand second wife were all photo-?raphed, Willy was captured onlyIn a series of oil portraits by un-known artists.

In William Marsh Rice and HisInstitute, Andrew Forest Muir re-ports that three years before hisdeath, the trustees asked Rice to sitfor a photograph. Apparently, heconsidered the idea but never fol-10.Nved through. Was it photo-pho-bia, or is there another mystery at-tached to our elusive founder?

It's unlikely the camera wouldhave broken while the photogra-Pher was taking his picture. If the,(2111 Portraits are based on reality,

"Y.Illy's mug was a bit stem but cer-tamly not homely.

Granted, no one offered $14.95portrait specials in those days, butmoney couldn't have been a reasonfor being camera-shy. An oil por-trait, with its numerous sittings,would have cost much more.Or perhaps Rice did have his

photograph taken—and it lookedlike everybody's worst nightmareof a passport photo. One can un-derstand if he burned the image.One last possibility: The butler

did it. After murdering his boss,maybe the valet disposed of thephotos. Perhaps they're hidden in asecret place in Rice's New YorkCity apartment, or buried with hisashes under the statue in the quad.

But we'll probably never know ifRice actually ever said, "Cheese."

—Maggi Stewart

We know he was murdered, but was Willy framed?

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NEWS

Richard von Weizsiicker, presidentof the Federal Republic of Germany,gave the graduation speech at Rice's79th Commencement May 2. Morethan 1,000 undergraduates andgraduates and their guests heard theGerman president, who is only thethird outside speaker to address aRice graduating class in the last 20years. His speech is reprinted below.

"The New World Order:One Team"

It is an unusual privilege for meto be invited as the guest speakerat your commencement today,

the power of the mind can do.Second, it is a privilege to be

invited as someone from anothergeneration, another age, one mightsay—someone whose experiencesas a grown-up go back 50 moreyears than yours. I am on the pointof commencing as well, but retire-ment, not active life.Well, this, I suppose, is what

Rice University must endure afterleaving the path of virtue and go-ing cosmopolitan two years agowith the world summit, which youmight consider coming close to aworld government. Not all ofthose who participated in that

Rice President George Rupp, right, leads the processional.

the 79th in the history of RiceUniversity—unusual mainly fortwo reasons:

First, your guest comes from an-other part of the world, some5,000 miles away. Yet Rice Univer-sity has strong academic links, bothold and new, with scholars anduniversities of my country, whichare gratifying for me to evoke. AsPresident Rupp just pointed out:Your presidential founding fatherEdgar Odell Lovett received hisdoctoral degree from our LeipzigUniversity. Today you maintain alively ongoing exchange programwith German universities, such asWiirzburg and others. On yourcampus you have preserved a pieceof the fallen Berlin Wall in a medi-tation garden, a reminder of what

come to the very south of theUnited States of America to ad-dress the young generation of thisgreat nation a few years before thecentury turns and just after the oldbipolar world order has come to anend. We are here, all of us, in thismost exciting and challenging tran-sition between two ages, and to-gether we share the duty of makingthe most of it and living up to ourresponsibility.World orders don't break

down—they simply fade away andchange. We have known this eversince Ovid's Metamorphoses. For hisoffensive verses, Ovid was exiled to

German President Richard von Weimacker at the podiun.

summit are still in office. And that,I presume, is the reason why youruniversity wisely or kindly decidedon having me as a speaker before itis too late.Each new generation wants to

gain its own experience. Youngpeople don't want to serve as asubstitute engine for a prefabri-cated car body.What makes a generation young

and strong is that it looks upon theworld as starting anew. That iscompletely natural and necessary.But, in addition to what com-

mencement normally entails— de-termining your own lives, legally,morally and not least financially—you are at the same time enteringan age of change.

It is no coincidence that I have

the Black Sea, which is a stormyplace again these days. One hun-dred and fifty years earlier, at theother end of the Roman Empire,Carthage had fallen, and Ovidhimself, born one year afterCaesar's death, already came toolate to witness the agony and theend of the Roman Republic.

Is that what happens to repub-lics—not to survive the destructionof their main enemies? It is up toyou to decide. Like it or not, youhave been born into a watershedage. The simple orientation, thegood against the empire of evil, isgone. The victory is yours, and sois the choice thereafter. Competingagainst communism can no longerbe the domineering guideline ofyour statehood. Yours is to ques-

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Six weeks ago I opened an exhi-bition at a very old German towncalled Speyer, dedicated to the cen-tury of the Salier dynasty—fourmedieval emperors reigning overthe Holy Roman Empire of theGerman nation 900 years ago.They bitterly fought with the Popeover the question: Where lies theauthority of government, with Godnr with man?Over the ages, that question has

been put to us time and again, indifferent forms and guises. Andthe answer has always profited a

ers, for both teams know that theygave their best for a good teamperformance, not for mutual de-struction and isolation. Let usremember this spirit of positive-ness, responsibility and humanitywhen stepping from the playingfields into the world of dailycompetition.Don't let it get out of hand. Re-

member, the goal is a good teamperformance, not domineering.Remember, the competitor is partand parcel of your world, and in away your survival depends on himas the fate of the Roman Republichinged on that of Carthage. The

Governors George R. Miner, left, and Thomas D. Smith.

variety of men and women, some-times a greater number, sometimesfewer, depending on the degree ofcompetition involved.Competition is one of the terms

for review, it seems to me, as weenter the next century. Likeprogress, competition cannot be anend in itself. It is meant to relievethe oppression of monopoly, butnot at the price of anxiety. Marx-Ism is gone, and with it a histori-callY unique example of monopolyand the absolute absence of com-petitiveness. Is it not time to ques-tion absolute competitiveness in(nit own society? At school wecherish sports, and above all teamsPorts, because they produce teamSpirit. Victory is shared by theteam, and in a way also by the los-

After days o

art of moderation is called upon totake its rightful place again, nowthat the excesses of the 20th cen-tury have been overcome.The choices are not new. Con-

sider the well-known story ofAlexander the Great meetingDiogenes in the barrel. Havingconquered Greece, Alexander ar-rived in Corinth. From all sides,citizens, politicians, artists and phi-losophers converged to greet andacclaim the young hero. The con-spicuous exception was Diogenes,who did not bother to leave hisbarrel. Alexander was informed ofthis apparent indifference, and de-cided that if Diogenes would notcome to meet him, he would go tomeet Diogenes. He went andfound Diogenes warming himself

in the sun in front of his barrel.Benignly, Alexander inquiredwhether he could do something forDiogenes. "Would you kindly stepout of the sun?" was thephilosopher's answer. Turning tohis suite, Alexander exclaimed:"By Jove, if I were not Alexander,I would like to be Diogenes."Diogenes' way of finding happi-

ness within himself without reli-ance on the procurement ofsensations, comforts and securityby others has lost nothing of itsforce in the 2,300 years since thestory is supposed to have hap-pened. Scores of seemingly invin-

rain, the sun was a very welcome sight.

cible rulers in the Eastern part oftoday's world have just been askedby their peoples to step out of theirsun. But now that more peoplethan ever have the choice to enjoythe sun, we realize that we cannotall withdraw like Diogenes into thebarrel, satisfied with our own per-sonal self-reliant happiness.We do not need to emulate

Alexander and conquer the rest ofthe world, either. We can do with-out Alexander's power and rathertake lessons from his teacher, whowas none other than Aristotle.Aristotle has given us what weneed most in our present world, inwhich even science has lost itssense of certainty. He has givenus ethics.We need ethics in science to

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decide which types of research maybe useful and which harmful. Weneed ethics to overcome the per-ceived antagonism between theeconomy and the environment bymaking environmental protection agrowth industry. We need ethics tounderstand that we must overcom-pensate environmental regress byscientific and technologicalprogress. We need ethics to be-come conscious that without aconstant transformation of knowl-edge into practice we will not beable to secure the existence of thefive billion human beings currentlyliving on the earth, to care for their

taking, but also of giving.When you finally stand up to be

counted, it is not what you got outof life that matters, but what youput into life. The difference be-tween the two is simple: Gettingsomething out of life is a solitaryact, putting something into lifemakes you part of a team. A teamin which you compete and share,not win and dominate.

And that brings me to my finalpoint: statehood and the newworld order. The Salier emperors,900 years ago, ruled over a Europewith a large variety of nationalities,languages, races and convictions.

Wiess College graduates wait to receive their diplomas.

health, to improve their social con-dition, to protect their dignityagainst human-rights abuses andtheir security against the irrespon-sible spread and use of ever moredestructive arms.We need ethics to realize that

we cannot put off action until weare more certain, and to recog-nize that inaction can be morecostly than even imperfect action.And we need ethics to guidesuch action.

For Aristotle, the most funda-mental ethical virtue was justice,because justice is the one humanemotion that beyond the mereconcern with maximizing happi-ness for oneself is devoted to thehappiness of fellow human beingsas well. Justice makes sure that so-cial life does not only consist of

tions will not disappear, but as theartificial bond of nationhood falls,age-old collective feelings and re-gional identities gain relevance,under the protection of a sharedand comprehensive definition ofsecurity for men and nature. Acomparable development may ap-ply to the North American conti-nent and its envisaged free-tradezone. This is not intended to leadus into regional fortresses, closedto other continents, but into openglobal cooperation.

At the end of the 20th century,liberty is achieving victoriousprogress over the arbitrary limita-

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Finally, suitably equipped to take on the world.

The one great unifying factor wasthat of a deep-seated human pru-dence orientated towards the fruitsof life as a whole rather than thesuccess of the moment.

Ever since—throughout theMiddle Ages, the age of Reforma-tion, the Renaissance of enlighten-ment, the Age of Discovery andthe centuries of industry andtechnology—mankind has trieddifferent structures and ended upbasing the world order on the con-cept of the nation. We may wellcome, 200 years after the Americanand the French revolution, to itstransformation.On my old continent, regional

arrangements spearheaded by theEuropean Community are replac-ing 800-year-old schemes of hege-mony, nations and alliances. Na-

tions imposed upon it by man inthe course of centuries, such asrace and religion, status and na-tion. It is possible that never beforein history has a young generationapproached a new century withsuch opportunities as you have be-fore you, but also with such needof orientation.

It is, and still remains, difficultto live together peacefully amongethnic groups, races, different reli-gions and cultures, and above all insharp differences of education, ofsocial chances and need. All themore, it is essential to observemoderation and nonviolence toovercome those tensions. We allshare the difficulties in observingthese commandments.

In the light of recent events ofmisjudgment and violence, I was

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deeply impressed by the spirit ofPeace and nonviolence I met at theMartin Luther King Center I vis-ited yesterday in Atlanta. Therewas no sense of accusation orCharge but a deep commitment totolerance and peace and practicalhealth. It is this message that alsoComes from your great nation thatWill lead us in the proper direction.

The old walls, barriers and di-viding lines have fallen, but do notmistake that vacuum of nationalIdeals for a license to step into thenext millennium uncommitted.You don't want to run the risk ofdrifting afloat endlessly and point-lessly into the 21st century. Intimes of flux you will feel an evengreater need of a cultural back-ground with values to follow andfriends to care for, principles toguide you and ideals to fight for, aregion to cherish and a communityto pray for, God's creation to pro-tect and that One Earth to live for.

The new world order, as youmight envisage it from our presentModest vantage point, will aim fora world government, checked andbalanced by nations united in uni-versal, regional and subregional°tganizations, in turn dependenton responsible young men andwimnen, freed of all the restrictionsof the past and, like a team, caring

a spirit of responsibility for theWorld as a whole.

I invite you, the great RiceUniversity Class of 1992, to jointhat team.

New Alumni Director Appointed

Rice alumnus Scott Biddy has beenappointed the executive director forthe Association of Rice Alumni asof May 26.

Since his graduation in 1986,Biddy has been involved in bankingin New York, Amarillo and Balti-more. He served most recentlyas vice president for regulatoryaffairs at MNC Financial, Inc., inBaltimore.During his Rice years, Biddy or-

ganized the Rice Student VolunteerProgram (RSVP), which has beeninstrumental in involving studentsin community projects.He also chaired the Student Ad-

mission Council for two years. Inrecognition of his service to Rice,Biddy received both the SallyportAward and the Hugh ScottCameron Service Award during hissenior year.His primary goal for the alumni association, he says, is to broaden and

strengthen the alumni programs across the country. "We will build on thestrong structure and support we have in the Houston area and emulatethat in other parts of the country," he says.

Scott Biddy

Women and Gender Studies Major Created

A new interdisciplinary major, women and gender studies, will begin atRice this fall.The major provides a coherent way of studying gender and sex issues

across disciplines, says Colleen Lamos, assistant professor of English.Lamos is among the faculty members who will teach in the program.

Associate Professor of Philosophy Helen Longino, who is on sabbatical

this semester, will lead the program."Most of the disciplines in social sciences and humanities have been in-

fluenced by a revolution in the study of gender in the last 20 or 30 years,"

Lamos says, adding that feminist theory has influenced a wide range ofscholarly disciplines, especially literary criticism.An introductory course on women and gender studies and a course on

interdisciplinary studies will be created for the new major. For the mostpart, however, the women and gender studies major will bring existingcourses from several campus departments under its umbrella.

Nationally, more than 400 colleges and universities, including all the IvyLeague schools, offer a women's studies major.

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Two Rice pro-fessors havebeen chosencharter fellowsin a nationalorganizationthat promotesbiomedicalengineering.Chemical

engineeringprofessors David HeHums andLarry McIntire were selected forthe College of Fellows of theAmerican Institute for Medical andBiological Engineering (AIMBE).Hellums, Rice's A.J. Hartsook

Professor of Chemical and Bio-medical Engineering, was cited bythe AIMBE Fellows Committeefor applying chemical engineeringmethods to medical and biologicalresearch and education.

McIntire, Rice's E.D. ButcherProfessor ofChemical andBiomedicalEngineering,was recognizedas an outstand-ing educator,administratorand researcherfor his work inapplying bio-

chemical methods in blood andvascular biology.About 180 researchers and engi-

neers in academia and businesshave been asked to join the Col-lege of Fellows, says Suzie Hunt,spokeswoman for AIMBE.They represent the top two per-

cent of the scientists in biomedicalengineering across the UnitedStates, Hunt says. After this firstyear, only about 10 or 12 people ayear will be selected to the Wash-ington, D.C.-based organization.Formed this year, AIMBE first metin February.

Two Professors Inductedinto AIMBE

David Hellusns

Larry McIntire

Smalley Wins Prestigious Welch Award

Rice University professor Richard E. Smalley won the 1992 Robert A.Welch Award in Chemistry for his work in physical chemistry. Consideredthe highest award in chemistry except for the Nobel prize, the WelchAward includes a $225,000 grant and a gold medallion."Dr. Smalley has made so many significant discoveries that to list them

all would be an impressive task," says Norman Hackerman, former presi-dent of Rice and chair of The Welch Foundation's scientific advisory board."I am absolutely thrilled and very surprised," Smalley says. "I assumed

that these prizes would hardly ever be given in Texas."The Welch Foundation's scientific advisory board cited Smalley's work in

the discovery of C-60 (bucicminsterfifflerene), the investigation of C-60compounds and his innovations in investigating various molecular bonds.C-60 is a third basic form of carbon, the other two being carbon and dia-

mond. Research into C-60 and its compounds is under way in such wide-ranging fields as cancer treatment, plastics, lubricants, superconductivity,batteries, rocket fuels and semi-conductors.Smalley joined the Rice faculty in 1977 as an assistant professor of chem-

istry and has held the Gene and Norman Hackerman Chair of Chemistrysince 1982.Smalley has held several distinguished fellowships and been honored with

the Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics in 1991 and the AmericanPhysical Society International Materials Prize this year. He has publishedand presented more than 100 scientific papers.

Wilson Named Owls Basketball Coach

Willis Wilson, a former student, athlete and assistant coach at Rice, is re-turning as the new head coach of men's basketball.He replaces Scott Thompson, who resigned March 23 to become head

coach at Wichita State University.Wilson, 32, has been an assistant coach at Stanford University for the

past year. He previously served two stints as an assistant at Rice underformer head coaches Tommy Suitts and Thompson."I am personally very proud to secure the services of an individual so

uniquely qualified to lead our program," says Athletic Director Bobby May.Wilson was an assistant under Suitts during the 1986 season, leaving to

become head coach at Houston's Strake Jesuit College Preparatory Schoolfor one year. He returned to Rice for four seasons under Thompson (1988-91), during which time the Owls progressed to their first winning season in20 years in 1991.

Last season, Wilson assisted Stanford University coach Mike Montgom-ery in that team's 18-11 season.A 1982 graduate of Rice with a bachelor's degree in political science,

Wilson was a four-year letterman for the Owls under Mike Schuler (1979-81) and Suitts (1982). He captained the Owls to a 15-15 record in 1982.

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Rice Involved in R&Dfor SuperconductingSuper Collider

Rice will join forces with PrairieView A&M and Purdue universi-ties in two projects to build andtest analytical devices for the Su-perconducting Super Collider.The projects are part of a

$100-million research-and-devel-oPment program financed by thestate of Texas.The super collider calls for con-

structing a circular tunnel 54 milesm circumference in Ellis Countynear Waxahachie. Scientists willPropel beams of subatomic par-ticles through the tunnel in oppo-site directions at nearly the speed0f light, causing them to collide.EY studying the subatomic debrisfrom such collisions, researchershope to find clues about the originof the universe.

Rice and Purdue will use a$350,000 grant to build a particle-detector prototype for the SSC.Detectors are used to analyze the

subatomic-particle collisions, saysRice physics professor Billy11. (inner, who heads the university'sInvolvement in the projects.Under the terms of another

grant, Rice and Prairie View scien-tists will experiment with the de-tector prototype, Bonner says.

Prairie View physics professor"emus Judd leads his university'sProject, which is part of a $1-mil-1011 state grant to test the detec-tors and to stimulate physics re-search at historically blackuniversities.

Under the grant terms, a con-sortium of 14 universities—seven

storically black teaching universi-ties and seven research universi-ties—split the grant money amongseven projects. Each project is de-• eloped by one African-Americaniiistitution and one research insti-tution. Rice and Prairie View are°he such pair.Money for the SSC projects

comes from the Texas NationalResearch Laboratory Commission(TNRLC), the state agency incharge of administering SSC re-search funding.As part of its effort to land the

$9.1 billion, federally funded SSCin Texas, the state promised tocontribute $1 billion to the mam-moth project. TNRLC will grant10 percent of that contribution toresearch institutions during a 10-year period.

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Engineering SchoolRanked at Top

U.S. News & World Report maga-zine named Rice's School of Engi-neering as one of the best in thecountry in its March 23 issue.The magazine's cover story

rated five kinds of graduateschools: liberal arts, law, business,medicine and engineering. Ricesqueezed under the wire on its listof the top-25 engineering schools,ranking 25th.The Massachusetts Institute of

Technology received themagazine's top honors. The Uni-versity of Texas at Austin came ineighth and Texas A&M Universityrated 13th on the list.Rankings were based on five ma-

jor criteria: reputation among engi-neering school deans, reputation

among a cross section of practicingengineers, student selectivity, fac-ulty resources and research activity.

Alumnus Wins Oscar for"Silence of the Lambs"

Alumnus Ron Bozman received anOscar in April for co-producinglast year's classic thriller "Silence ofthe Lambs."One of only three films in Oscar

history to garner the five mostprestigious awards, "Silence of theLambs" won for best screenplay,best actress (Jodie Foster), bestactor (Anthony Hopkins), best di-rector (Jonathan Demme) and bestproducers."The sweep above all the other

films has to do with the contextamong the other nominees as wellas the quality of the film," Bozmansays. "In this case I think it wasmore the quality."Bozman says that the film's

chemistry worked to its advantage."The confluence of script, talentand directorial finesse set this filmabove its competition," he says.

"Silence of the Lambs" over-came the handicaps of its genre,Bozman says. His film was victori-ous over the classic sentimentalismof the other nominees. "This isindicative of a new wind blowingthrough the academy," he says."People are willing to considernew things."During his Rice career, Bozman,

a behavioral science major, beganfilm-making. Following his 1969graduation, Bozman free-lanced infilm, was a stringer for Time maga-zine in Houston, and then went toAustin where he worked on "TheTexas Chainsaw Massacre."Bozman's other film credits in-

clude "The Muppets Take Man-hattan," "Nadine," "Waiting forthe Light" and "Married to theMob." His current project is in theearly stages of development andnot ready for announcement.

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Bioscientists andBioengineers Collaborate onSynthetic Blood, GeneticallyEngineered Proteins

Two pioneering projects at Ricecould make major contributions totreating diseases and injuries.

In one, biochemists and bio-medical engineers are collaboratingto develop artificial blood.

In the other, researchers are ma-nipulating certain bacteria to pro-duce protein that can be used totreat heart-attack patients and diag-nose viral diseases and cancers."These research projects exem-

plify what the Rice Institute of Bio-sciences and Bioengineering is allabout—collaborative research thatcrosses over disciplines," says insti-tute chair LarryMcIntire.McIntire is theE.D. ButcherProfessor ofChemical andBiomedical En-gineering.

Bothprojects arefunded by theAdvancedTechnologyProgram of the Texas State Coor-dinating Board. McIntire says com-petition for these grants is in-tense—only about one in 10proposals is funded. The research isongoing at the George R. BrownHall.

In the research on blood substi-tutes, David Hellums, A.J.Hartsook Professor of ChemicalEngineering, is the principal inves-tigator with John Olson, professorof biochemistry and cell biology,and Guillermo Gutierrez, associateprofessor and director of the Divi-sion of Pulmonary and CriticalCare Medicine at The University ofTexas Health Science Center."Even before the AIDS epi-

demic, there was a great deal ofclinical, commercial and military

John Olson

interest in preparing safe and inex-pensive blood substitutes,"Hellums says. He adds that artifi-cial blood could be used in high-blood-loss surgical procedures,large-scalenatural orman-made di-sasters andcombat zones,where bloodtyping, storageand testing arenot alwaysfeasible.One choice

for a blood George Bennett

substitute isextracellular hemoglobin that hasbeen cross-linked to prevent reac-tion with antibodies and filtrationby the kidneys. Olson, George N.Phillips Jr. and their students havebeen using genetic engineeringtechniques and x-ray crystallogra-phy to study the biochemical andbiophysical properties of thesetypes of oxygen carriers.

Using laboratory methods (invitro) and live animals (in vivo),researchers study how blood cellscarry oxygen throughout the body.They are specifically interested inthe capillaries, where blood cellsdeliver their oxygen.

In the laboratory method, oxy-gen is added and removed fromblood substitutes flowing throughartificial blood vessels. The processis studied under a microscope.

The live-animal method usesanesthetized rabbits. Substitutesare used to replace as much ashalf of the blood volume in arabbit. Researchers then examinethe muscle tissue for the amountof oxygen and energy used bythe rabbit."By directly comparing findings,

we can test the applicability of invitro evaluation to predict in vivoperformance of blood substitutes,"Hellums says. "Both methods useunique experimental systems."

In the other project, GeorgeBennett, professor of biochemistry

and cell biology, has been collabo-rating with Ka-Yiu San, associateprofessor of chemical engineering.They are searching for a simpler

way to induce the production ofspecific proteins in bacteria cells.Certain proteins are used to pro-duce clot-dissolving drugs and fordiagnosis of certain viral diseasesand tumors. Another protein isused in the production of the artifi-cial sweetener aspartame.The researchers use the bacteria

Escherichia coli, which are com-monly found in the human body.

Heating usually prods the bacte-ria to induce specific protein pro-duction. But that process can beharsh for the bacteria. Bennett isexperimenting with adjusting theacidity of the bacterial culture, orgrowing environment.

Bennett sayshe and his re-searchers havefound that anadjustment ofacidity canstimulate theproduction ofthe desiredprotein by upto 500 times.Growing thebacteria in neutral pH, for ex-ample, will produce about 100 to200 units of protein. After a shift inacidity, the bacteria can produce asmuch as 50,000 units of protein.

San, Bennett and two graduatestudents are examining various ap-proaches, including traditional andgenetic methods, to optimize theprocess. Bennett is also studyingthe molecular mechanisms thatspecify pH sensing and DNAactivation.

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Jones School in a Growth Spurt

There's a teenager on campus that's growing fasterthan most adolescents.

At age 15, the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School ofAdministration "is in a building mode," Jones SchoolDean Benjamin Bailar says.

Enrollment has increased by almost 30 percent inthe past five years to about 100 per class. Moreover,applications are up 30 percent from a year ago to 835.To handle the growing student population, the

Jones School has hired three full-time faculty membersfor the fall semester.

Douglas Schuler, who earned his doctorate from theUniversity of Minnesota at Minneapolis St. Paul thisSpring, was named an assistant professor of administra-tive science.Gordon Silverstein, who holds a doctoral degree

from the John F. Kennedy School of Government atHarvard University, was named an assistant professor ofadministrative science.

Richard L. Shockley, who is earning a doctoral de-gree in finance from Indiana University atBloomington this year, was named assistant professorof administrative science."The growth of the tenure-track faculty will allow us

to expand our research output as well as expand ourcurriculum," Bailar says.The three new members will increase the number of

full-time faculty to 25. The school also has four profes-sors who hold joint appointments with other universitydepartments and 30 local business people who work asadjunct professors.

Bailar says the expansion of the faculty wasmade possible through a $10-million gift from theHouston Endowment, Inc. The grant is one of thelargest gifts ever received by Rice and is one of thelargest committments ever made by the HoustonEndowment, Inc.The money will be used over a five-year period for

faculty additions and student scholarships. The endow-ment will give the Jones School $1 million each yearfor two years, $2 million in the third year and $3 mil-lion for each of the final two years.,., "We're still in the stage of developing the faculty,"tiailar says. "We will be hiring more as the budgetPermits?)To help professors with their teaching, the Jones

School installed a state-of-the-art computer/video sys-tem into one of the classrooms. The innovative systemworks much like a big-screen TV that projects imagesonto a screen.. The system consists of two personal computers, avideocassette recorder, speakers and a keyboard, all hid-den in an oversized podium facing the classroom. Withthe computer/video component, professors can moreLe

easily teach such subjects as finance and statistics."When you use a computer all the time to prepare

for classes and to do research, but the best teaching aidyou have in the classroom is a blackboard and chalk,it's kind of hard," says Bailar.A $35,000 donation helped pay for the system,

which has become one of the most popular teachingdevices at the Jones School, Bailar says. "This room isscheduled up to here," he says as he waves his hand upto his forehead.

—David D. Medina

From left to right: Deborah Lee, Robert Brooks, GeraldineCastor and Ted Hardwicke are among an increasing numberof students studying at the Jones School of Administration.

Enrollment in the Jones School has increased by

almost 30 percent in the past five years to about 100

per class. Applications are up 30 percent from a

year ago to 835.

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EVEN IN A TOUGH JOB MARKET,RICE STUDENTS ENJOY A COMPETITIVE EDGE

On Friday, March 13, after seven stressful monthsof searching for work, Andy Arenson's luckchanged—he got a job.He was hired by his former professor, Philip

Bedient, to do research and maintain the Environ-mental Science and Engineering Department's com-puter systems. Although Arenson would prefer towork for more money as a company programmer ora consultant, he was grateful for the offer.Looking for a job had shaken his ego."I was los-

ing my confidence," Arenson says. "I was beginningto believe no one wanted me.".The 21-year-old computer science major began

Ills search in September, preparing résumés, writingletters and interviewing with such companies as Mi-crosoft, Viasat and Lockheed.He applied to 15 different businesses that came to

campus to recruit, wrote to six more employers, andresponded to 45 classified ads. By March he had re-ceived 20 letters with the we-haven't-been-able-to-find-a-suitable-match-for-you statement.At first, he took the rejections personally, but as

more letters came in, he grew blase. He treated theunpleasant experience as a joke and displayed theletters on the outside of his dorm door.With a grade point average of 3.19, Arenson was

baffled by his inability to land a job. After all,When his dad graduated from CalTech in 1960 with a chemical engi-neering degree, he turned downnumerous offers."In some sense I feel short-

changed," Arenson says. "I don'tfeel it's the fault of Rice, becauseRice has certainly given me an ex-cellent education, and the CareerServices Center has been ex-tremely helpful," he says. "Al-though I may not be a perfectcandidate, I feel my troubles havea lot to do with the economy."He's right. Graduating seniors

across the country are facing theworst job market in 20 years.

According to Northwestern University's Linguist-Endicott Report, an "overwhelming" 69 percent ofcorporations expect their business to decline or stayeven during 1992.The report, which surveyed job prospects for col-

lege students at 259 mid- to large-size businessesacross the United States, says that the economicslump means a 4-percent drop in demand for stu-dents with a bachelor's degree and a 7-percent dropfor those with a master's degree.

That's a surprising turn of events, since this wassupposed to be the best of times for recent gradu-ates, says Rice sociologist Stephen L. Klineberg.The last of the baby boomers—those born in1964—should have been moving to better posi-tions, leaving the entry-level jobs for a younger andsmaller crowd.

"There ought to have been an oversupply ofjobs," Klineberg says. The peachy scenario souredwith the lingering recession. Now, college studentsare having to compete with the boomers stuck inlower-level positions.In Houston, where Career Services Center direc-

tor Bob Sanborn says most Rice students will even-tually get a job, the 1991 unemployment rate of 5.6percent was up slightly from the previous year. Therecovery is slow in coming, and relative to other cit-ies, Houston seems to be doing better. But no oneis promising a strong economy anytime soon.

Thus, firms are offering fewer jobs. TheBoeing Company in Seattle is planning todownsize its workforce by 6,500 in thestate of Washington, and by as many as8,000 world-wide. Boeing conductedon-campus interviews but has yet to

hire a Rice student this year.Says Bruce Lawrenson, re-

gional manager for collegerelations for Boeing: "Thereare going to be fewer openings."In Houston, Transcontinen-

tal Gas Pipeline Corp., a subsid-iary of Transco Energy Co., is inthe midst of restructuring and is

A SCORE OF REJECTION LETTERS HAD ANDY ARENSON LOOKING DOWN AND OUT

BEFORE HE LEARNED TO POKE FUN AT HIS PREDICAMENT.

THE ECONOMY HAD A LOT TO DO WITH HIS TROUBLES.

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cutting back on its personnel. Michael Dale,Transcontinental's college regional coordinator,says that two years ago the company hired 16 col-lege interns; last year it hired 12; this year it plansto hire six.Fewer jobs means less recruiting. At Rice, for ex-

ample, the number of companies visiting campuswas down by 14 percent from a year ago to 250.Other universities from California to Michigan toGeorgia are faring no better.The result is that students have to hustle more, get

an early start, and keep their options open. Othersare postponing their entry into the job force by at-tending graduate school.But despite the bleak job prospect, the 600 Rice

students graduating this year have an edge over theircompetitors from lesser-known schools. "Rice stu-dents are so different from the regular crowd that

companies are going tofind room for them,"Sanborn says.

Randi Mays-Knapp, director of recruiting forAndersen Consulting, says her company likes to hireRice students because they are intelligent, moti-vated, and have organizational and leadership skills.The consulting firm hires between five and 10students from Rice each year to work as technicalconsultants.Rice has the reputation of molding students to

think critically and analytically, she says. Last fall, 75percent of entering Rice freshmen scored 1,201 orhigher on the SAT; 25 percent scored 1,432 or bet-ter. Also, 40 percent of the students major in two orthree subjects.Sociologist Klineberg concurs: "One of the rea-

sons that Rice students have done relatively well inthis economy is because they are getting preciselythe kind of training that this new economy re-quires." He says that our economy has changedfrom an area market to a global market, from onethat thrived on resources to one that is knowledge-based. The new service economy will require em-ployees to be well-educated in breadth as well asdepth, to be creative and self-motivated, skilled inboth technical fields and liberal learning—the kindof education in which Rice excels.Sanborn points to the fact that 80 percent of

students get a job before they graduate as an indi-cation that employers prefer Rice students.

Sanborn's office has played a key rolein helping students get a job. Since Ca-reer Services opened about four yearsago, it has been active in holding job

fairs, and teaching students proper busi-ness dinner etiquette, how to interview, the

need to develop personal skills and how toprepare a résumé.

This April, Career Services received a nationalaward from the College Placement Council forthe center's first television talkshow, Career Wise,which airs on cable television. The College Place-ment Council is a 3,000-member organization ofcollege career services centers and businesses recruit-ing on college campuses. Sanborn and Cheryl

NOT ONLY ARE HOLLY YOUNG AND RANDY STREET READY

TO TACKLE THE WORLD AS MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS.

BUT THEY ARE ALSO PLANNING TO UNDERTAKE A JOINT

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CREDENTIALS TO SECURE EMPLOYMENT IN TODAY'S JOB MARKET. THE EXTRA

HUSTLE FINALLY PROVED POSITIVE

Matherly, an assistant director for the center, co-host the show, which talks about the career scenein Houston.In response to the down economy, Sanborn says,

the office held more job fairs this year. Rice bringsseveral hundred recruiters to campus a year, and onaverage each does 12 interviews.Other universities have taken more drastic mea-

sures. Texas A&M University plans to offer a semi-nar called "Reality 101," for first- and second-yearstudents. The seminar speakers will try to "shock"students into being aware of the tough job market.The Wall Street Journal reported that students

from such schools as North Carolina University,Denison University and Oberlin College, both inOhio, are turning to alumni and parents for job clues.In Selinsgrove, Pa., the business school at

Susquehanna University has started a mentorshipProgram for women. Each female student is assigneda successful university alumna.Rice senior Holly Young, 21, used her own ap-

proach. She got an early start. She began the searchWhile looking for a summer job during her juniorYear. A native of Connecticut, she sent about 100resumes to Northeast companies, but quickly be-came discouraged."There were so many people unemployed that

Jobs that college students ordinarily go into weretaken by professionals who are out of work," shesays. When she returned to Rice in the fall, she lostno time in signing up for job interviews through theCareer Services Center.She received offers from three management con-

sulting firms, and accepted a position with Ernst &Y°ung in Houston. She will be working as an infor-ination technology consultant, analyzing computersYstems. Because she's an English major, she willhave to go through an intensive training program.David C. Bayard, who didn't get an early start,

Provides a cautionary story. He began a leisurelysearch in the fall, feeling confident that he wouldhave no trouble.Bayard, 21, has excellent credentials. He has a

double major in electrical engineering and math-eLinatical economic analysis. He has a 3.9 GPA anduisonors ranging from Phi Beta Kappa to the'resident's honor roll..None of the seven engineering companies he ap-

Plied to offered him a job. TRW, a manufacturer of

orbitingsatellites,flew himout to Cali-fornia for aninterview, andjust when his spir-its were flyinghigh, hereceived thecompany's rejec-tion letter.The engineers

are coming upempty-handedpartly because cutsin U.S. militaryspending have forcedthe defense and aero-space industries tofreeze hiring. Thedrop in oil andgas prices has alsomeant layoffs in the petroleum business, whichheavily affects chemical engineers."The big problem is that I had an unrealistic view

on the shape of the economy," Bayard says. Gradu-ating from one of most prestigious engineeringschools in the nation, he says, gave him a feeling ofsecurity. "What I found this year is that's not true.You can't sit back and rest on your laurels."

After graduation, he was faced with another pre-dicament. Because he hadn't found a job, he wasthinking about going to graduate school, but appli-cation deadlines for many schools had passed. And itwas too late to get financial aid. If he had gotten in,it would have been at his own expense.Then Bayard got lucky. He landed a job with the

California-based Oracle Corp., the world's third-largest software company, as a consultant in theirWashington, D.C., office. Graduate school fadedfrom the picture.But graduate school provides a safe haven for

about 60 percent of Rice seniors. Of those, 39 per-cent enroll in law school, 12 percent go to medicalschool, and about 15 percent enter business school.This year even more students may be seeking ad-vanced education.

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AS A TALENTED ACTRESS AND

ASPIRING LAWYER, ALISON COHEN

MAY HAVE THE RIGHT CREDENTIALS

FOR A PART IN THE POPULAR TV

SHOW "LA. LAW."

The Council of Graduate Schools, the LawSchool Admission Council and the Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges all report that the num-ber of applicants has been steadily increasing overthe last couple of years.At Rice, the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of

Administration reported that in March applicationswere up 50 percent from a year ago to 569. Ofthose, about 20 were from Rice students, a slightincrease from last year.While the number of applicants may be up, the

average age of applicants is down. The typical MBAapplicant at Rice had been a 27-year-old with threeto four years of work experience. Now, the appli-cants are one year younger, with that much lesswork experience."The trend of younger applicants is pretty much

across the board nationally," says D. Richard Trask,director of admissions at the Jones School. "I thinkit's the poor economy," he explains.

Alison Cohen, a political science and policy stud-ies major, is planning to go to law school, but notbefore she gets rid of her acting bug. She plans tohead west to California and "do the acting circuit.

"It's always been my dream to actually be an ac-tress, and I figure if I never take the chance and ac-tually do it, I will never know if I could have beensuccessful," she says.The New York native will try her talents in TV

movies, commercials and any other gig she can get.She plans to hire an agent and read the maga-

zines for audition announcements.She acted in 11 productions

at Rice and was highly praised bythe Houston Chronicle for her

performance in "Women inMind." If she bombs in Los Angeles,

she says, she will proceed with her plansto attend law school.

Within the last decade, Rice has mademore of an effort to recruit students interested

in the humanities and social sciences, meaningthat students are entering more varied professions.During the '80s, many went into financial services,while others took advantage of the oil boom towork in the petro-chemical industry.This year, engineers are not expected to fare as

well, says Sanborn. "Traditionally, they had sevento nine offers. Now they may only have three tofour," he says.

It's a far cry from the days when engineering stu-dents were a hot commodity. During the '60s and'70s, the sayings goes, all you had to do was spellthe word engineering and you were offered a job.The Placement Office (now called Career Services)at that time was mainly geared to help engineeringstudents.For 1992, some of the most popular majors were

English, economics, managerial studies, politicalscience, biology and electrical engineering. Gradu-ates in the humanities and social sciences will gointo the corporate sector. They will become humanresource managers, industrial psychologists, econo-mists and consultants.Many students this year will go into the technical

areas, financial services and medicine, Sanborn says."Because Houston has a large population, the ser-vice economy tends to be fairly strong," Sanbornsays. With fewer out-of-state companies recruitingon campus, Rice students may have to stay in Hous-ton, he says."Keeping their options open is important," he

says. "Yes, they do have to work harder to find ajob, but as long as they work at it they are going tofind something, and it will be much easier than forother students."Randy Street, 21, kept his options open. After

completing the mechanical engineering program infour years, he was ready to get a job with an engi-neering firm. In the fall he had 17 on-campus inter

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views with different concerns, but came away with-out an offer."There were a lot of companies that came here

that weren't interested in hiring," he says. "Theywere just testing the water."In the spring, Street had to modify his long-range

Plan. Originally, he wanted to work for several yearsin engineering and then move into the businessworld. Now, because of the economy, he's skippingthe engineering part.He interviewed with nine management consulting

and investment banking firms and got two offers,One from Bain & Co. in Dallas and another fromFirst Boston in New York.Both companies offered him a $35,000 salary,

Which to Street seemed like an appropriate amount,since the market is so competitive. The Lindquist-Endicott Report states that salaries will increase by a"modest" 2.7 percent this year, running counter tothe downward economic trend."Once you get a job it's great, because they are

offering great salaries," Street says. "If you can landa job, you'll be doing fine."Street will be moving to Dallas to start his train-

ing for Bain & Co., where he plans to stay for twoYears before enrolling in an MBA program."The fact that I was an engineer really put me on

the competitive edge," he says. Financial servicecompanies, he says, like hiring engineers becausethey have been trained to think analytically.A good education is becoming absolutely critical

in getting a job, Klineberg says. In 1980, a personWith a college degree earned on average 23 percentMore than a person with a high school diploma.Ten years later, the gap had widened to 40 percent."The importance of an education for meaningful

oPportunities in American society is much greaterthan it has ever been," he says. "It's become abso-lutely critical because we have entered a neweconomy in which wealth is generated by skills,rather than by control over natural resources."Gambrill Hollister, 21, is planning to devote the

next two years to helping others get an education.As a biology major, she is foregoing graduateschool to join Teach for America. The PeaceCorps. type program takes recent college grads witha non-education major and prepares them for theteaching world."I don't want to go to grad school right now.

There are people who need to be taught," she says.It's a useful thing for society."This summer, Hollister will spend six weeks in

I-Aps Angeles in an intensive training course, afterWhich she will come back to Houston to teach highschool biology.She will be making $21,000 a year, a minimum

for the Houston area. Salaries for the programrange between $17,000 and $32,000 a year, de-pending on the location. "I figure it's enough tolive on. It's kind of what I expected. I'm not optingfor the big money-making jobs," she says.

After her two years are up, she will be certified toteach in Texas. She plans to go back to graduateschool for a master's or doctorate in a science. Orshe might like education so much she will get a de-gree in that field."I don't think anyone would argue that the edu-

cation system needs some help," she says. "I wantto do everything I can do to help."The economy will need all the help it can get,

too. Economic forecasters agree that a recovery ison the way, albeit at a snail's pace. As professorKlineberg says, challenging and difficult times lieahead for all of us, but especially for those withoutthe right preparation. Rice students, as recruitersattest, will continue being prime candi-dates for an economy that valuesknowledge. The students may neveragain see the abundance of the'50s and '60s, in which jobs wereplentiful, but they should alwayshave the competitive edge.

FUTURE SCHOOL TEACHER

GAMBRILL HOLLISTER IS POST-

PONING GRADUATE SCHOOL TO

HELP OTHERS HELP THEMSELVES

IN A WORLD IN WHICH EDUCATION

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CAL IN GETTING A JOB.

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Iletlicinv and bird [hoicvsTwo Rice departments, philosophy and religious studies, address the

complex issues raised by advances in medical technology

by D. J. Wilson

uch of what Ed DuBose teaches—andlearns—about medical ethics takes place byaccompanying physicians on rounds at amedical center near the Park Ridge Centerin Chicago, where he is an ethicist. DuBose,a 1990 Rice graduate, doesn't always likewhat he sees.In a recent incident, a patient facing sur-

gery on his leg was the topic of discussion as a covey ofwhite-coated physicians swept into his room. ThePhysician-in-charge started to prattle on about theimpending operation on the man's "left leg.""The patient raised his hand and said, 'It's the other

!e8.' And the doctor, instead of laughing or making aJoke of it, just ignored the man," DuBose says.The patient wasn't in danger, since they were just

making the rounds, but what concerns DuBose is howOblivious the physicians were of the patient. He men-tioned this to the white coats in the hall after they leftthe room, and most of them were unaware that theywere, well, unaware of the patient. DuBose stressesthat patients have to be respected and that "physiciansneed to treat the patient as a person."There's a tendency of the medical juggernaut to

roll over people, to be insensitive. I consider that tobe unethical."As DuBose's situation attests, medical ethics don't

always boil down to a do-we-pull-the-plug-or-notdilemma. Often the questions are far less dramatic,though no less difficult..Evidence of that can be found in the work of other

Rice graduates and current students who are toiling inthe increasingly complicated and expanding field moreProperly called "bioethics."Sarah V. Brakman, a doctoral student in the philoso-

PbY department, is researching the obligation adultchildren may have for the care of their aging parents.Social programs tend to de-emphasize the importance°f the individual child in caring for the aging parent.rakman's dissertation is a philosophical discussion of

whether such familial obligations can be justified on arational basis. Her work has implications for health-care policy.Warren Holleman, who graduated from Rice in

1986, is an assistant professor of family medicine atBaylor College of Medicine. He studies ethical issuesas they arise in clinics and doctors' offices, not justhospitals. He publishes papers on the ethical aspects ofsuch day-to-day events as doctors signing school- andwork-release evaluations and doing pre-employmentphysicals, and highlights the impact of third parties,such as insurance companies, employers and the like,on the doctor-patient relationship.DuBose admits to having a "great job." He is paid

to read books, do research and write papers at the ParkRidge Center, a "think tank" in Chicago. The centerpublishes Second Opinion, a quarterly that deals withmedical ethics from a theological and religious per-spective. Other recent publications of the Center havedealt with such familiar issues as euthanasia and accessto health care.Through it all, it's apparent that staying alive hasn't

gotten any simpler. As the baby-boom generationages and increasingly sophisticated medical proce-dures are developed, difficult choices concerning treat-ment become more common. Few consumers willescape involvement in an ethical dilemma at somepoint in their lives. And as survival rates improve,chances are that people will face several such toughcalls during their lifespan.Intensive-care staffs rescue the critically ill or injured

from the brink of death, but families of the stricken aresometimes confounded about when or if to withdrawlife support. Drugs appear to magically solve life-threatening conditions, but bring with them a pricetag that threatens to bankrupt patients or third-partypayers. The technology and surgical skill to transplantorgans continues to advance, but too few organs areavailable. Infants in need of an organ wait and die ascourts and institutions argue about the definition of

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brain death for babies born virtu-ally with no brain, babies whopossibly could provide others withlife-saving organs.As if medical advances didn't

pose enough of a problem, thereremains the issue of who is goingto pay for it all. The term "risingcost of health care" has become acliché for those studying publicpolicy issues, since health coststook up 12.2 percent of the grossnational product in 1990, up from5.3 percent in 1960. And in thiscountry, estimates are that closeto 40 million Americans are with-out medical insurance. Everyoneagrees that something must bedone to reform health care, buthardly anyone agrees on what that"something" should be.At the core of this national crisis

is how health-care providers andhealth-care consumers (i.e., ev-erybody) will make the rightchoices about what to do. There isno reason to believe the choiceswill get easier."This will get much more complicated," says Dr.

Stanley Reiser, adjunct professor of religious studies atRice. "Obviously, as we learn the ways in which theliving system works and create not only tools to diag-nose problems but ways to improve it, the future holdsnot only learning about disease but learning how toincrease performance. The range of issues confrontingus will be massive."The best way to navigate these waters, Reiser feels, is

to get people more involved with the health-carechoices they make. "Ethics is a good way to bring theminto it, by discussing these questions." One forum forsuch discussion will be a lecture series to be presentedthis fall by the department, funded by GTE Mobilnet.At Rice, the department of philosophy and the

department of religious studies expend considerableenergy sorting through the morass of these issues. Thedepartments pursue research, publish books and pa-pers and produce graduates who will do the same.

Reiser, in addition to his duties at Rice, directs theProgram on Humanities and Technology in HealthCare at the University of Texas Health Science Centerat Houston. Baruch Brody, professor of philosophy atRice, divides his time between Rice and the day-to-dayclinical side of medical ethics at nearby Texas MedicalCenter. Brody oversees the Rice doctoral students inphilosophy who are specializing in medical ethics. Healso lectures, advises, writes and teaches at the medicalcenter, as director of the Center for Ethics, Medicineand Public Issues at Baylor College of Medicine.Dr. Tristram Engelhardt, Rice professor of philoso-

Is the care of aging parents

a social responsibilty, or is

it a legitimate familial duty?

phy, works with Brody at themedical center.The absence of a medical school

at Rice does not appear to be anobstacle to its involvement inmedical ethics, since Baylor, theUniversity of Texas Health Sci-ence Center at Houston and vari-ous affiliated hospitals are withinwalking distance of the campus.In Brody and Reiser, Rice has

two nationally renowned medicalethicists to head the university'stwo approaches to medical ethics.Brody directs doctoral philoso-phy students as they complete theirdissertations on aspects of medi-cal ethics. Graduates of that ap-proach likely will go on to teach ata university or a medical school,according to Brody.They gain exposure to the way

health care happens at the medicalcenter, Brody says, so they cantalk knowledgeably aboutmedicine's clinical realities. "Butthat's not what they are," main-tains Brody. "They're philoso-

phers and they're being trained primarily to go teach inphilosophy departments."

Reiser predicts students going through the religiousstudies regimen will end up pursuing various jobs andcareers: teaching at the university level, employed inhospitals helping medical staffs see the ethical dilem-mas of care, working in government to help form policyand being part of religious institutions. "I want themto be in society and feel all those forms of service areequal," says Reiser.In religious studies, medical ethics courses are of-

fered on the undergraduate and graduate levels. Stu-dents can take medical ethics for an undergraduate areamajor, a master's degree or a doctorate. In 1988, thefirst graduate student to attain a doctoral degree wasElizabeth Heitman, who also received her under-graduate degree from Rice. She is now an adjunctprofessor in religious studies at Rice and an assistantprofessor in the Program on Humanities and Technol-ogy in Health Care at UT Health Science Center atHouston.When Heitman teaches an undergraduate course she

runs into some idealistic—and ambitious—premedicalstudents who hope taking medical ethics courses willenhance their chances of being admitted into medicalschool. She knows what medical school entails not onlyfrom her experience in medical ethics, but also fromknowing what her husband, Dr. James Berry, a 1980Rice graduate, endured."I don't know if we scare them away from medicine

or if we convince them that medicine isn't what they

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think it is," says Heitman. "It's not as fun and it's notas rewarding. A lot of people assume.. .everybody willlove them, the answers will be simple."What we do is expose people to the somewhat

uglier reality that medicine is a constant state of uncer-tainty and a lot of tragedy and a lot of personal stress."A common premed mistake is the assumption that "if

I can just get into medical school, everything's goingto be fine." Heitman is succinct on this point toaspiring physicians: "Medical training is hell."We leave them with many more questions than

answers. What I like to do is take people who arepositive that they know how to do something and givethem a lot of information to make them insecure again."I repeatedly tell med students, doctors and anyone

who will listen that the best way not to get sued is to bea decent human being. Talk to your patient like an-other person."Heitman boils down her goal to one sentence:

"What we are interested in teaching is how to be a goodPerson in health care as much as coming up with theright argument."The graduate students working toward master's or

doctoral degrees have a variety of backgrounds andgoals. Most graduate students have full-time jobs.John Wilson received his doctorate this spring andreturned to his work as a drug-company executive.Daniel Coleman is a patient repre-sentative for a psychiatric hospital.His dissertation involves the issueof commitment of patients.

11 rody has written a book whichwill center on drugs, but notthe illicit ones that have at-tracted so much attention.His focus is on prescriptiondrugs: how they are devel-

oped, why certain ones are pre-scribed, and how they are promotedand priced.A classic example involves the

thrombolytic agents, drugs usedto dissolve blood clots and cleararteries in patients who have re-cently had a heart attack. The twomain drugs, streptokinase and tis-sue plasminogen activator (TPA), %have been approved for use, butTPA has been the more popularchoice of physicians.

Early studies appeared to showthat intravenous use ofeither agent1.n the acute phase of a heart attack1.111proved survival. Trouble is, TPAis much more expensive than strep-tokinase. A course of intravenousstreptokinase runs about $200; theequivalent dose of TPA is $2,400.

Medical ethic

boil down to do-we-pull-the-

plug-or-not? Often the ques-

tions are far less dramatic,

although no less difficult.

tre4‘,...

"TPA is still widely used in America, despite the factthere isn't the slightest bit of good data that it's anybetter than streptokinase," Brody says.Brody published a paper about the impact of eco-

nomic considerations on clinical decision-making lastfall, examining TPA and streptokinase usage as a primeexample. If the two drugs truly are similar in effective-ness, millions could be saved by use of streptokinase."If you took all the money currently spent on TPA

and provided all those patients with streptokinase,that's a lot of bucks. A lot of bucks available for otherpurposes," he says.The reasons physicians prescribe TPA are varied. For

some reason, TPA has been viewed as more hi-tech andoften there is a bias for such products. Another reasonwhy TPA is widely used has to do with what Brody calls"very aggressive hype" by the drug company.

In March, Reiser published a report in the Journalof the American Medical Association titled "Con-sumer Competence and the Reform of AmericanHealth Care." Simply stated, he advocates a pushto involve consumers in all health-care decisions asa way to improve the system and educate people to

make more informed choices."At every step in the medical system, the consumer

does not grow to understand how choices aremade and allows others to makethem," says Reiser. "The result

s don't always is, we have 260 million medicallyilliterate consumers."

People don't understand theinsurance coverage they have andare limited in their alternatives."It's the equivalent of going to arestaurant and only having threemeals to pick from," he says.Reiser would have employers re-move themselves from managingemployee care by providing em-ployees vouchers that would beexpendable only on the purchaseof health insurance. That wayemployees would have to shopfor the plan that best suited them.

Just making the patient learnmore about coverage and discusssituations with physicians wouldbe progress, Reiser believes. "Thebargain in medicine," he states,"is when doctor and patient, bothhaving rights, come to an agree-ment on a course of action."By increasing the dialogue with

insurance companies and physi-cians, the potential patient wouldbe more apt to plan ahead, in-cluding completing a "living will"that would spell out his or her

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binding instructions to withholdor withdraw life-sustaining proce-dures in the event of a terminal orirreversible condition.According to estimates, only 15

percent of consumers have livingwills, and even fewer have assigneddurable power of attorney, autho-rizing someone to make decisionsfor them if they are unable to doso. Unlike the living will, a patientneed not be terminally ill for thedurable power of attorney to gointo effect.Sometimes, however, when a

patient is unable to make that call,directions have to be left in ad-vance. A study by Brody high-lights the need for such action.

Ihe exchange between Brody'stheoretical work at Rice andthe practical aspects of medi-cal ethics at the medical centerhelped produce a study thatdetailed the difficulties and fail-

ures of care for the severely de-mented. Namely, when a patient isincapable of making a reasonedchoice, how does the physiciandecide when or whether to with-hold care?"The business about antibiotics and the demented

patient is not something you could figure out inabstraction sitting in a classroom," says Brody. "Wefound it simply because of consultation about suchpatients at the VA. Then we decided to do a study."That study, primarily written by Baylor's Dr. Nelda

Wray and Brody, was published in the Archives ofInternal Medicine. The researchers did not recom-mend withholding care from all severely dementedpatients, but they did discover that physicians oftenadmitted prescribing more intensive treatment thanthey felt comfortable with, apparently from a reluc-tance to challenge routine procedures, even thoughphysicians set those procedures. Also, if families wereconsulted, it was more likely that care would be limited."In the study, many residents said they wouldn't

treat their own families that way," says Brody.Cost, as always, was a consideration, as the study

found that a conservative estimate of the annual na-tional cost of caring for the severely demented wouldbe more than $3.2 billion. Any reduction in useless carewould produce a significant savings, but Brody andWray contend that the main goal should be to increasefamily input into the decision. Discussion and consul-tation would probably lead to less extensive care, andthereby savings would follow.One Houston physician who has taken a personal

"I repeatedly tell students,

doctors, anyone who will lis-

ten, that the best way not to

get sued is to be a decent

human being." —E. Heitman

stand on this issue is Dr. DanielMusher, chief of the infectiousdisease section at the HoustonVeterans Affairs Medical Center."I have the most explicit livingwill you'll ever see," Musher says.Musher spells out in his living

will that if he should be bedrid-den and demented from a stroke,Alzheimer's disease, whatever—he doesn't want to be given anti-biotics for any symptoms or signsof an infection. "If I get to thatstage, I want nature to be al-lowed to take its course," he says.The will also states that the ex-ecutors of his estate should bringsuit against any physician or insti-tution that goes against his wish.The reason? Musher has seen

the misery that can result whenlife is prolonged unnaturally. Afurther ethical issue is the amountof money spent to keep a dying,irreversibly debilitated patientalive for a few more days or weeks.He estimates that in Houston

alone, each week that scenario isrepeated a hundred or more times.His living will is partly fueled byhis desire to see that money spenton a more worthy cause.

"What if that $100,000 were spent on an inner-cityschool for computers?" he wonders. "Or a scienceroom, or to improve teachers' salaries? Think of theimpact."

Reiser describes Musher's motivations as "laudable"but cautions that forgoing expensive care for yourselfmay not mean the money ends up in a better place."I wouldn't want to get involved in withdrawing or

not withdrawing life support based on potential sav-ings that may or may not go into medical purposes,"says Reiser. "You don't know where the money isgoing to go if it's not spent on you. Depends what thesource is. If its source is the federal government, thenit may go to roads."

Reiser also worries that by making such a generalstatement about banning antibiotics, Musher may be"tying the hands of the physician too tightly."It takes two to tango in medicine. The patient has

requests and can say 'No, I don't want to be treated.'The patient has absolute authority if competent and anadult, to say no to any medical intervention.., but thephysician is operating under a code of ethics requiringhim to do no harm."There it is. Two equally compelling arguments, twin

horns of a dilemma that will only grow, become morecomplex, and involve more and more individuals. It isan area that warrants our full attention. •

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Accoladesfor Alumni

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Rice honors the achievements offour distinguished alumni

Each year, the Rice Association of Alumni chooses

those among its ranks who have advanced the excel-

lence of Rice University through distinctive profes-

sional or volunteer careers.This year, four men have been named Distin-

guished Alumni: Texas banker Walter G. Hall, chem-

ist Charles M. Blair, chemist Robert B. Morin and

former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency Robert L.

Clarke.They were honored Friday, May 1, at a reception

in Cohen House.

by Maggi Stewart

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—do

Wa-lter G. HallWhen Walter Hall was growing up in the farm land30 miles south of Houston, he played in a grassyarea near the Galveston County Poor Farm. Thatarea is now a playground and picnic area with anarchway that announces "Walter Hall Park," a tributeto the 85-year-old banker who has remained in thebusiness for more than 60 years of booms and busts.

Hall, long active in Democratic politics, is chair-man of the board of three banks in the area ofLeague City, where he grew up.The youngest of seven children, Hall worked his

way through college. His summer job at theHumble Pipeline Co. earned him enough money forclothes, books and his library deposit at Rice.

With free passes on the Galveston-Houston Inter-urban line, for which his father worked, Hall com-muted three hours a day to and from League City tothe Rice campus. He spent another three hours aday working on his family's dairy farm."I never did feel I was mistreated," Hall recalls.

"Except on Sunday afternoons when my friends wentswimming, and I had to go home and milk the cows."

With a naturally "aggressive" personality, Hallsays that at Rice he learned tolerance, particularly inRadislov Tsanoff's philosophy classes.

"That's been very beneficial to me when I've beeninvolved in a red-hot political campaign," Hall says.

Another important lesson he learned at Rice washow to get information, read it and use it.

"It didn't take me long to learn when I got intobanking that I didn't know what I needed to know

to cope with what I had to cope with," he says.To further his career, Hall took correspondence

courses, read and discussed issues with older bankers.Hall had entered banking in 1931, three years

after his 1928 graduation from Rice—just in timefor the great stock market crash. He was cashier ofthe Citizens State Bank, then located in LeagueCity, during the "bank holiday" that temporarilyclosed all banks in 1933. Hall, however, "left theback door open," as he describes it, and cashedsmall checks for people needing food and medicine.

That concern for people, coupled with the energyand drive to get things done, made him a success.

"Walter Hall is widely known as an old-fashionedbanker," says William Martin, Rice sociologist. "Healways put greater importance on service than size."

Having seen the bank failures of the '30s, Hallhas been cautious with his customers' money."I'm one of the few men left in banking who was

in banking when everything went sour," Hall says."I know things can go down as well as up—I'veseen wars. I've seen hurricanes, booms and busts."

Hall has owned five banks and is now chair of theboard of three, the Citizens State Bank inDickinson, the League City Bank and Trust, and theBay Area Bank and Trust. He also founded Hall'sInsurance Agency in 1931.

But Hall is fond of saying he is "a citizen first, abanker second." He has been active in politics sincePresident Franklin D. Roosevelt's programs con-vinced him that the federal government should help"people who need help the most."

His paneled office at the League City Bank islined with photographs of the political friends he'ssupported through the years—from LyndonJohnson to Jimmy Carter. Above his desk is a por-trait of Thomas Jefferson.

"Hall is what I would call a Jeffersonian Demo-crat," Martin says. "He believes that alumni of uni-versities such as Rice have an obligation to be activein the everyday life of politics."

Hall himself was urged to run for office. He waschair of the Galveston County Democratic Party andtwice a member of the state Democratic ExecutiveCommittee.One reason he and his wife, Helen, established

the Tsanoff Chair of Public Affairs at Rice is that"we wanted folks to see that not all public officialsare crooked. The trouble is," Hall says with atwinkle in his eye, "most politicians are people."The Halls also endowed the annual Walter and

Helen Hall Lectureship to the sociology departmentat Rice. With a "weakness for music," Hall also gavea rare Steinway autograph piano to the ShepherdSchool of Music.

Hall's wife died in 1981. He still lives in a largerversion of the white frame house they bought earlyin their marriage.

Hall has three grown sons, Walter G. Jr., who at-tended Rice, Samuel and Charles.

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Charles M. BlairCharles Blair's inspiration on a key step in thecommercial production of penicillin helped to savecountless lives during World War II. An able re-searcher, Blair has also been a successful administratoras president of two corporations and a university viceChancellor.

Blair, 81, grew up in Vernon, Texas, in the north-western part of the state. The area is flat, plains land,Prone to frequent violent thunderstorms. But whatBlair remembers is the clear night skies that alwaysfollowed these storms.

It wasn't an idyllic childhood. Blair was only 12When his father died suddenly of acute appendicitis.The Depression made things even harder for hisschoolteacher mother and her three sons.

"Charles acted as a surrogate father," recallsYounger brother Paul Blair.

Blair took charge at school as well. Always me-chanically inclined, he developed an interest in chem-istry during his senior year in high school. One reason'flay be that his chemistry teacher doubled as the ath-letic coach, not unusual in small-town schools inthose days. While Coach Baggett was busy with thebasketball, football and track teams, he let Blair andanother boy teach the chemistry class."He had a powerful way of teaching people—

throwing it in our laps," Blair laughs today.Blair also remembers his high school English

teacher, Eleanor Taylor, Rice class of 1923. "She wasdemanding and businesslike, but she must have takenan interest in me," he recalls. "She told me all aboutRice Institute and encouraged me to apply."If I had any luck, I owe it mainly to Rice, because

I had so much help there from various people," Blairsays. Luck wasn't the only factor, of course. He alsohas an inborn scientific curiosity and an "urgency toget things done.", "And everything he's done, he's done well, hisurother Paul says.While still a student, Blair worked in the Houston

lab of Petrolite Corp., a company involved in thebreakdown of petroleum emulsions. He graduatedWith honors in chemistry in 1931.He met his wife, Catherine, while working on his

'luster's degree at Rice. She was a biology major, butthe chemistry happened between them—you guessed1,t--In the chemistry lab. He was doing research in a'al) across the hall from her chemistry 100 class.c_ After earning his doctorate in physical chemistry

ni the California Institute of Technology in 1935,t lair got a job in Petrolite's newly-expanded St.'-°11is laboratory.

He worked as a chemist there, becoming researchdirector, then president of the company.

After 29 years atPetrolite, Blair felt "alittle restive," andfound an opportunityto buy a controllinginterest in a similarcompany, MagnaCorp. (now a subsid-iary of Baker-Hughes),in California.

Because of restric-tions on the stock, ittook him about threeyears to buy the com-pany. In the interim,he served at Washing-ton University in St.Louis as vice chancellorof finance.

Blair had been inde-pendently approachedby three friends urginghim to apply for thejob, so he did. "Itturned into a lot offun," Blair says. "Wefound some ways toimprove the finances at the same time."

But Blair is most proud of the 110 U.S. patents hehas in chemical and pharmaceutical processes.Most of his work has involved the application of

chemistry to the creation and improvement of pro-cesses for producing and refining crude oil. One ofBlair's early patents originated the process of desalt-ing crude oil, making the refined product less costly.He is particularly proud of his work in the produc-

tion of penicillin. Petrolite was one of several labscontacted by the War Production Board for help inprocessing penicillin, which had been discoveredin 1928.

Blair's work on a key step in the extraction processmade it possible to produce thousands of pounds ofpenicillin a day as opposed to a few grams.In 1988, Blair "retired" by starting Blair Petro-

leum Co. with a few partners. He works out of anoffice in his Fullerton, Calif., retirement home,which looks out on two valleys. With wildflowersblooming on one side and oil wells pumping on theother, one might think of Texas.The Blairs, married for 56 years, enjoy traveling

and have taken a tour to Russia and a cruise downthe Danube through the Rice Association of Alumni.They have a son, Charles Jr., who went to Rice,

and a daughter, Sally. Blair's two younger brothers,Robert, a 1933 graduate, and Paul, a 1936 graduate,also went to Rice.

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Robert B. Morin

Robert Morin'swork on the chem-istry of penicillinsand the relatedcephalosporinsplayed a significantrole in the develop-ment of a varietyof new antibioticdrugs. Cepha-losporins now havean annual worldmarket of morethan $7 billion.

Born in Canton,Ohio, a steel manu-facturing townsouth of Cleveland,Morin, 60, got in-terested in sciencethrough his oldersister, who wasstudying to be achemist.

Morin majoredin chemistry atSwarthmore Col-lege, then studiedbiochemistry at the

University of Chicago. He briefly considered a career inmedicine but decided to focus on more basic science.Spending a year in Waco, Texas, at Phillips Petro-

leum Co., he heard about Rice and the strength of itsgraduate program. He was especially interested in theresearch being done by faculty member Dick Turner.He enrolled in 1955."The small graduate student enrollment at Rice fos-

tered close relationships between students and faculty,"Morin recalls.

Morin earned his Ph.D. in organic chemistry in1959, winning the Sigma Xi award for the best scien-tific doctoral dissertation at Rice that year.

Morin also met his wife, Joanne, while at Rice. Shewas secretary to John Parish, assistant to the presidentand then assistant registrar. They met on a blind date atan engagement party for a co-worker and married laterthat year.Through the influence of Turner, then a consultant

at Eli Lilly and Co., Morin joined Lilly after graduationand did most of his ground-breaking work with cepha-losporins during his 11 years there.

Cephalosporins are members of the beta-lactam classof antibiotics, the most well-known examples of whichare penicillins."The first cephalosporin was discovered in the mid-

1950s by a British scientist who realized the overallpotential of the antibiotic," Morin says. "But he

lacked the technical resources to fully develop itcommercially."

In 1960, Eli Lilly was one of 10 organizationsworldwide licensed by the National Research andDevelopment Council of Great Britain to commer-cially develop this antibiotic."I provided chemical technology that solved some

of the significant problems in commercializing theproduct," he says. Morin's discovery allowedEli Lilly to make a number of new cephalosporinantibiotics.The therapeutic potential was great, particularly at

a time when new antibiotics were needed tocombat bacteria unaffected by penicillin.

Thirty different drugs based on Morn's first tech-nology are now available around the world.A second major achievement involved Morin's

discovery that cephalosporin could be made chemi-cally from penicillin. Although scientists at the timebelieved that penicillin was not sufficiently stable tobe extensively manipulated chemically, Morin dis-covered a chemical process that transformed penicil-lin, which is readily available and inexpensive, into acephalosporin in one or two steps.

Included in that work was a method of producingan oral cephalosporin used by millions.

"Part of what led me to success in this field was tofollow my own ideas, which were outside of the ac-cepted knowledge in the field," Morin says.

Morin was among the first five scientists to receivethe Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association Dis-coverers Award in 1987. He also won the AmericanChemical Society Award for Creative Invention thatsame year.He has been a teacher as well as a researcher. He

taught pharmaceutical chemistry at the University ofWisconsin pharmacy school from 1970 to 1973 andserved as a visiting professor at the University ofAlberta from 1973 to 1975.

Morin is also interested in promoting interactionsbetween industrial and academic laboratories.At Lilly, he played a key role in setting up grant

programs for young faculty. With others, he was re-sponsible for bringing in university faculty as con-sultants and lecturers.He is now at Bristol-Myers-Squibb Pharmaceuti-

cal Research Institute as senior scientific adviser topharmaceutical development.

Morin and his family have moved around a lot. Inaddition to a sabbatical year in Basel, Switzerland,the Morins have lived in Houston; Indianapolis,Ind.; Madison, Wis.; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;Syracuse, N.Y.; Wallingford, Conn.; and are now inLawrenceville, a suburb of Princeton, N.J. Buying,selling and fixing up houses have become necessaryhobbies.The Morins plan to move one more time. When

he retires, they'll live in Phoenix, Ariz., close to theirfour children, who have all settled in the Southwest.

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Robert L. ClarkeFormer Comptroller of the Currency Robert L.Clarke is a lawyer who is now using his experienceto help financial institutions cope with the rulesand regulations brought on by the banking crisis ofthe '80s.

Clarke, 49, started his banking career early. Hewas only 11 when he worked part-time in a specialprogram at the Lea County State Bank in Hobbs,N.M., five miles from the Texas border.

"It's one of the most important things that hap-pened to me," he says. "The responsibility of havinga job like that, running a teller's window at that age,is a somewhat unusual experience."

Early on, Clarke also took his father's advice to"Be the best there is, whatever you decide to do."Clarke was an Eagle Scout and first in his highschool class.He found out about Rice by accident. Clarke and

his father were sitting in front of the television,watching the Rice Owls play football. Clarke hadnever heard of Rice, but his interest was piquedWhen his father told him about the university's aca-demic reputation."I may be an example of why the football pro-

gram is good advertising for Rice," he jokes.At that time no one from Hobbs had gone to

Rice, but then a family with a daughter who was aJunior at Rice moved into town. "She gave me allkinds of first-hand information about the school anda copy of the Campanile."

Clarke was impressed. He accepted Rice, turningClown all the other colleges he'd been admitted to(including Harvard and Stanford) without ever hav-ing seen the campus. When he finally arrived in Julyfor the start of four years of study, Clarke says heWasn't disappointed."Rice provides a true education, which is a good

background for whatever you later decide to do,"he says.With a major in economics but no clear-cut

career plans, Clarke decided to pursue graduateCourses. He earned an LL.B. from Harvard LawSchool in 1966.A distinguished military graduate of the

ROTC program at Rice, Clarke served as a captainin the U.S. Army intelligence branch at NASA fortwo years.He joined the Houston law firm of Bracewell &

Patterson in 1968, and was a partner and head ofthe firm's banking section from 1973 until 1985,When he became Comptroller of the Currency. Heserved until February 29 of this year."I look back on the six years I served as Comp-

troller as a very worthwhile time," Clarke says. "It's

always a challenging job, but was particularly so duringthe time I was there."When Clarke arrived, the agricultural banks in the

Midwest were beginning to fail. Soon thereafter, thesavings and loan crisis occurred in Texas. "Banking isa lot more complicated than it used to be," he says."But it's still a good job opportunity for those whoare really interested."He considers bank supervision a fascinating busi-

ness: "To work for the Office of the Comptroller ofthe Currency or the FDIC (Federal Deposit InsuranceCorporation) or the Federal Reserve System presents avery interesting professional challenge. You're literallyright out on thecutting edge ofdevelopments thattake place in thefuture."

Clarke is nowpicking up wherehe left off in con-tinuing to build abanking law prac-tice that providesadvice on legalmatters for indi-viduals, but alsohelps financial in-stitutions figureout how to copewith the rules andregulations im-posed by Con-gress. He will bebased in both thefirm's Washing-ton, D.C., andHouston offices.

Since 1968,Bracewell &Patterson hasgrown from 16 toabout 210 lawyers.The firm offers avariety of specialservices, includingfinancial, litiga-tion, corporatesecurities, schoollaw, labor, envi-ronmental and en-ergy regulation.

Clarke and hiswife, Pucklin, a University of Texas alumna, like tospend time in their vacation home nestled at the baseof the mountains of Santa Fe, N.M. Clarke particularlyenjoys hiking and fly fishing.They have one son, Logan, a junior at Vanderbilt. •

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Sammy's Coffeeteria

Sammy's, across the hall from thecampus store, is suffering an iden-tity crisis. Cafeteria by day and ath-letic training table by evening,Sammy's now serves as the noctur-nal home of the new Rice Coffee-house, the latest student hangout.Take a late evening stroll

through the Rice Memorial Center,and the rich perfume of exotic cof-fee and the murmurs of classicalpiano, shuffling papers and intenseconversations escape into the hall.As you are drawn inwards, ignorethe high ceilings, dimmed fluores-cent lights and plastic chairs. Fornow, you are in a Viennesekaffeehaus or a Parisian cafe. For-get about your studies, relax, listen,talk and drink coffee.

The Idea PercolatesDuring the fall of 1989, the ideafor a coffeehouse perked up. Then-

College Notes

Architecture professor PeterWaldman and his wife, Nancy, willhand over the Hanszen mastershipto English professor Dennis Hustonand his wife Lisa Bryan this summer.

Thanks to generous alumni, an$8000 UNIX-computer systemwill occupy the Weenie Loft atHanszen. The system will providelocal computer power to the collegeand allow students to learn aboutsystem administration.

Jones will get a new look thissummer, when the college's 20-year-old furniture is replaced by newmodular furniture.New faces will also move into the

masters' residence. English professorDavid Minter and his wife, Caroline,will assume the mastership fromEnglish professor Walter Isle andPam Walker.

History professor Harold Hymanwill retire as long-time faculty advisorat Lovett College. He has been asso-ciated with Lovett for 20 years.Meanwhile, Lovett is acquiring twonew associates: art and art history

COFfeE HOUSEseniors Marti Brewer and CharlotteRobinson desired an alternative toWillie's Pub. They envisioned aformal atmosphere—tables coveredwith tasteful cloths and candles—and no alcohol. A committee of 12students formed and proposed toput the idea into reality by tempo-rarily using the RMC facilities.

Nearly a year later, the adminis-tration agreed to a trial run. Fortwo weeks in December 1990, theCoffeehouse swung open its doors.Shaila Dewan (a Baker Collegeresident, Class of 1993, favoriteblend: cappuccino) was on theoriginal committee. The currententertainment/publicity co-direc-tor, she vividly remembers thosetwo weeks, when students lined upoutside the door to wait for seats.That success paved the way for

the Coffeehouse's resurrection thenext semester. The Java Soiree of

professor Rebecca Mersereau andanthropology professor KathrynMilun.

Wiess closed the year on thesalutary note of Hello Hamlet.Written by 1971 Wiess alumnusGeorge Greanias, the farce is basedupon several Shakespearean playsand contemporary musicals. Wiesshas produced the musical nearlyevery four years since 1967. Thisyear's production boasted a $2,000set and featured John Bennet,1972 Wiess alumnus and Rice elec-trical engineering professor, asClaudius.

Will Rice will say goodbye to itsco-masters this month. Englishprofessor Ed Doughtie and hiswife, Andrea, will turn the keysover to Dennis Shirley, associateprofessor of education, and hiswife, Shelley Cochran.

Will Rice, co-ed since 1978, thisyear elected its first female presi-dent, senior Stela Balderaz.

—Tom Sims

January 20, 1991, marked the re-opening—complete with 15 Riceprofessors who waited on Coffee-house patrons amidst the music ofan Austin blues band. The soireecelebrated the arrival of a newespresso and cappuccino machine,imported from Italy and costingseveral thousand dollars. The Cof-feehouse meant business.

Savoring the FlavorToday, the Coffeehouse is orga-nized and run by five managers, anaccountant and two entertain-ment/publicity directors. About 20unpaid waiters work regularly.The Coffeehouse averages 80

visitors and $60 per night, saysbookkeeper Robert Schmunk(space physics graduate student,'92, regular). Schmunk, who wason the original committee, is im-pressed that the Coffeehouse earnsso much money during its limitedhours (10 p.m. to 12:30 p.m., Sun-day through Thursday).The menu pleases coffee and

non-coffee drinkers alike, all for thelow price of 50 cents to $1.50.Coffee lovers enjoy regular coffee,flavored varieties (Viennese cinna-mon, coco-mocha nut, Seville or-ange, Irish cream, chocolate rasp-berry, chocolate mint and southernpecan), cafe au lait, espresso,cappuccino and cafe mocha.Those who prefer to skip coffee

may drink hot apple cider, hot tea(herbal, with or without caffeine),hot chocolate and the Coffeehouse 3original, Gottchocolate, a hotchocolate and steamed milk con-coction named for the originalmanager, Matt Gottheiner(Hanszen, '92, Gottchocolate).The Coffeehouse charges 10

cents extra for mugless drinkers.Coffeehouse waiter Richard

Hardie (Shepherd School graduatestudent, '93, regular), a NewZealander, enjoys the variety ofmugs. He remembers one in par-ticular—a heat-sensitive "blue" Dr.Who mug that turned green afterthe unsuspecting Hardie poured inhot coffee. Hardie panicked—a stu-dent had given him a blue mug hethought lost, and he couldn't find

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Several clubs now conduct meet-ings over their mugs. Amnesty In-ternational, Rice Recycling, thePhilosophy Club, the Math Cluband the Rice Forum all meet at theCoffeehouse."Clubs ask if they can do their stuff

here. That means that people thinkof the Coffeehouse as an insti-tution," Dewan says.

Professor Ron Moss con-ducts Math 211 tutorials at theCoffeehouse Sunday nights.Before, he held the study ses-sions at a Two Pesos restau-rant.The Coffeehouse also hosts

Special events. The Black Stu-dent Union celebrated BlackHistory Month with an eveningof singing, readings and dis-cussion. Also, the Gays andLesbians of Rice and the OfficeofHealth Education sponsoreda program during AIDS Aware-ness Week that featured read-ings, songs, a play and the dis-tribution of free condoms. TheCoffeehouse also hosted NewOrleans Night, complete withbig band jazz and a UniversityBlue student reading.The Coffeehouse Speaker Se-

ries presents monthly guest lec-turers. History professor JohnBoles recently presented "TheEarly History of Rice." About30 students attended.Campus musicians are eager to

,P,erform at the Coffeehouse.People really like to come see

their friends perform. We don'tneed to bring in outside bandsfrom around Houston," Dewansays. Informal groups often playafter the scheduled entertainment.One night at the end of the se-

nester, Coffeehouse managerCaren Chaika (Richardson, '93,hazelnut cream) watched a fresh-Tan and a doctoral graduate stu-:7ent playing the guitar together.If there were no Coffeehouse, thePadua student would not have°een able to play with the under-graduate," Chaika says. "It's an

intellectual mixture we wouldn'totherwise have."

The Great DivideLara Bruclunann (Wiess, '95, self-blend), Coffeehouse publicity/en-tertainment co-director, describesthe Coffeehouse as "up liquids,down atmosphere" and the Pub as"down liquids, up atmosphere."Some coffeehousers snub the

Pub, while some pubsters wouldn'tbe caught in the Coffeehouse.Many students, however, feel com-fortable in both institutions.

Until recently, Josh Chaffin(VViess, '94, hazelnut cream) nevercame to the Coffeehouse. He was aPub purist who thought the typicalcoffeehouser was a "pseudo-intel-lectual who would spontaneouslyjump up and recite poetry." Now,he is as pseudo-intellectual as helikes. "A month ago I was reallyrankin' on this place," he says. "Butnow I even know what my favoriteflavor is."

Chaffin has not sacrificed thePub for the Coffeehouse, however.

The loyal pubster still downs acouple of beers after the Coffee-house closes. And he admits to see-ing many of his Pub friends at theCoffeehouse. "It's almost like a bigcoming out," he says.

Jessie Richardson (Richardson,'92, hot chocolate), an S.E. whopunches numbers on his calculatorat the Coffeehouse, believes coffee-housers are "mellower" than

pubsters. Unlike beer,Coffeehouse drinks don'tkeep patrons from study-ing for the rest of theevening. For Robinson,the Coffeehouse is a tem-porary "cease-fire" ofstudying, while the pub isa complete "surrender."

Brewing Over the FutureRegulars admit the Coffee-house has one drawback:its location. The cafeteriafurnishings detract fromthe otherwise pleasant auraof music and origamiflower-filled vases.In late March, the Cof-

feehouse managers metwith President GeorgeRupp. They presented thesuccesses of the institut-ion's short history andstressed the need for a per-manent location, whichwould allow the Coffee-house to keep extendedhours, attract graduatestudents, faculty and staff,

and serve as a home gallery forstudent artwork.During the meeting, Rupp recog-

nized the need for such "intellec-tual space," manager Brooke Mann(Richardson, '93, Viennese cinna-mon) reports. "The president wasvery receptive and positive. Hepromised to be as supportive aspossible in the search for a perma-nent location."In the meantime, Coffeehouse

supporters hope the idea percolatesinto reality.

—Tom Sims

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Epic Inspirations

Rice composer Samuel Jones is at-tracted to music that conveys adeep feeling whether on a grandscale or on a more intimate level.Two recent commissioned worksshow his epic style.

Jones' symphony inspired by thePalo Duro canyon made its debutin May at the bottom of the can-yon. He is now putting the finish-

from sunrise to night stars, ormetaphorically from the beginningof time to "wherever we're going."One hundred miles long and

1,000 feet deep, Palo Duro isknown as the "Grand Canyonof Texas.""Palo Duro, the most striking of

the canyons in the area, exerts aprofound influence on the life of

the plains area," Jonessays. "To the Comanches,the canyon was the sacredmother of the buffalo.When whites killed thebuffalo, the Indians wereconfident that the canyonwould produce more."

With its red rockcliffs colored by the sun,the canyon gives an"unbelievable feeling,"Jones says."It's very dramatic," he

says. "The surroundingplains are one-dimen-sional, flat. Then, all of asudden, the bottom dropsout and a gully opens upinto a magnificentcanyon."The symphony opens

with a sense of being inthat flat, treeless land.Jones built the musicaround one note in themiddle of the orchestra,then suddenly the soundswoops to the depths—

the double bass sounds—of theorchestra.

"It calls to mind a primitive,extremely antecedent time,"Jones says.The heart of his composition,

Jones says, could best be describedby a quote from author and 1960Rice master's degree graduateLarry McMurtry: "What is undeni-able is the power that these can-yons have to arouse in us a senseof the long, long movements oftime—a sense, if you will, ofthe eternal."The Columbus-inspired sym-

phony was commissioned as a fan-fare-overture by the Greensboro,N.C., Choral Society and will pre-miere in late October."The Seas of God" takes as its

Samuel Jones prepares to play in his Alice Pratt Brown Hall office.

ing touches on a work for chorusand orchestra to commemorate the500th anniversary of the voyage ofColumbus.

Jones was commissioned by theAmarillo Symphony Orchestra twoyears ago to create the Palo DuroCanyon Symphony.The orchestra performed the

piece, conducted by James Setapen,at the Palo Duro Canyon PioneerAmphitheatre, located in the can-yon itself, in Palo Duro State Parknear Amarillo.

Catalogued as Jones' third sym-phony, the piece, Jones says, can beappreciated either as pure music forits symphonic logic or for its extra-musical program that conveys theprogress of time—in a single day

text excerpts from Walt Whitman'slast major poem, "Passage to In-dia." The work captures the exhila-ration of charting the unknown,with Whitman's words focusing atthe end of the poem on the still-present need for us to "farther, far-ther sail."

Whitman had an incredible pro-phetic poetic insight, Jones says."Even 100 years ago, he was aheadof us as we look at the 500th anni-versary," he says."What we should focus on is not

whether Columbus should be vili-fied or edified," Jones continues,"but that the globe is literally be-coming one."The first part of the work con-

veys the sense of exploration. Jonessets up a tonal center correspondingto the axis of the Earth's rotation,going quickly by major secondsthrough the whole scale, giving amusical analogy of revolving aroundthe universe and coming back to thesame spot.The middle part portrays the

tragic figure of Columbus, whodied somewhat in disgrace. Jonesuses a contemplative tone andrhythm for this section. Unable todescribe how the music conveysColumbus' tragedy, Jones says thatby listening "you'll just feel Colum-bus' death."The piece ends on a high note

with the heraldic quality of brass."It is not just about the 500th anni-versary of Colmbus' voyage," Jonessays, "but the task that lies aheadfor humanity.""The Seas of God" will also be

performed by the Houston OratorioSociety November 21 in Alice PrattBrown Hall and the Saginaw Sym-phony and Choral Society in their1993-94 season.

Jones first arrived at Rice afterachieving recognition in conduct-ing. He founded the ShepherdSchool of Music in 1973 and servedas its dean for six years. He is nowprofessor of composition and direc-tor of graduate studies in additionto his career as a composer.

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In an earlier America, slave womenstitched pieces of discarded clothinto quilts. The cloth pieces, them-selves embedded with histories andmemories, together created an evenricher tapestry of meaning.In Double Stitch: Black Women

Write About Mothers & Daughters(Boston: Beacon Press) co-editedby Rice associate professor of En-glish Lucie Fultz, the quilt is thecentral trope. This literary collagePieces together the poetry, fiction,Personal narrative and essays of 47black women. While they differ inclass, sexual preference and age, thevoices in Double Stitch share a com-mon race and gender.Double Stitch focuses on the pre-

viously unexplored territory ofblack mother-daughter relation-ships, which receive less attentionin literature and the social sciencesthan mother-son relationships. Inthe forward, author Maya AngelouiS grateful for this verbal frame:"Sisters, Daughters, Mothers,thank you for the quilt. I'm so gladall our faces and graces and wartsand neuroses are preserved in itsrich design..."The six editors of Double Stitch

have arranged the contributions ofliterary greats such as Alice Walker,!tine Jordan and Sonia Sanchezinto six chapters."Threading the Neeclle: Begin-

nings" opens the book with thePoem "Newborn": "Quick,/yoursniall mouth stretches/widearound my tender breast. I tense,/a burn like flash-fires./Slowly, IMelt into the rhythm pull,/giving."The sixth chapter, "Loosening

the Threads: Separations," con-Incles the book with a poem titled,On that Dark and Moon-less'Night": "My mother opened thedoor for me/that cold and snow-litnight/and set me free."

—Tom Sims

The State of Welfare in France

During the 1960s and 1970s, France quietly evolvedinto one of the world's more generous welfare states.In a commitment to "solidarity," the French createdsocial policies to expand education, rescue the elderlyfrom poverty, draw nearly the entire population under-neath an umbrella of health and old-age insurance, andaid the handicapped and single mothers.

The French Welfare State: Surviving Social and Ideological Change (NewYork: New York University Press), edited by Rice political science professorJohn Ambler, describes this development and examines some of the ensu-ing problems.

Ambler's introductory chapter, tracing the development of the welfarestate, sets a historical climate for the following chapters. The individual es-says discuss the successes and failures of the welfare state in the areas of un-employment, pensions, health, and housing and family issues.

The essays point out that French partisan ideology has had a limited im-pact on social policies. Unlike countries where social policies are initiatedby leftist administrations, in France social benefits have been expanded byboth conservative and center-left governments.

Another theme permeating the book is the complexity of the French so-cial security system. The authors of the essays attribute the system to themutual society tradition upon which it was built, but they view the conse-quences of French social security differently. Some suggest that it results inflexibility in policy-making; others insist that the system inhibits changesrequired to deal with social needs.

—Tom Sims

A Pocketful of Rice

A pocket-sized history of Rice University written byhistory professor John Boles rolled off the press intime for this year's commencement.A University So Conceived, A Brief History of Rice

(Houston: Rice University) features a color photo-graph of the Lovett Hall sallyport with azalea bloomsin the foreground. The 100-page paperback covers thehistory of Rice from its founding to last year's com-mencement address by U.S. Secretary of State JamesA. Baker III. This first complete history of Rice contains a brief biographyof all five Rice presidents, maps tracing the growth of the campus and 45black-and-white photographs.The book's title, A University So Conceived, pays tribute to Rice's found-

ing president, Edgar 0. Lovett."I knew that Lovett was important to Rice," Boles says, "but not until I

read his speech at the opening did I realize how important he was. Lovettthought out the whole university and we're still fulfilling the vision he laiddown in 1912."

In that speech, Lovett detailed Rice's honor code, the college system,the emphasis on graduate research combined with undergraduate teaching,and the small size of the student body.

Boles combed through the Woodson Archives at Fondren Library andread everything he could find about Rice. The work was sometimes frus-trating, he says, because Rice lacks a department of institutional research.

Boles referred to his own experience in writing passages on student life.A 1965 graduate, he recalls a common remark of the time, that getting aRice education was like drinking from a fire hydrant.

Boles says that Rice is a much better place than 30 years ago and con-cludes his booklet with optimism: "No American university approaches thebeginning of the twenty-first century with a brighter future than Rice."

—Michael Berryhill

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SPOR TS

From left: Byran Bronson, Michele Lynch and Gabe Luke

Michele LynchEighteen months ago, two tu-mors—the sizes of a baseball and agolf ball—were lodged in seniorMichele Lynch's abdomen.

Today, she plans to representCanada in the 4x400-meter relay inBarcelona.

During her sophomore year,Lynch's undetected tumors forcedher previously stellar performanceto slip. Once considered one ofCanada's top two junior sprinters,Lynch was thought to suffer frommere "burn-out."

Since having surgery to removethe benign tumors from herfallopian tubes, the 22-year old hassought redemption. She wanted toprove that her illness caused herpoor performance.

Lynch's recovery—in health andon the track—prompted a secondlook from peers. When visitingCanada last Christmas, Lynchinformed her nation's top coaches,"I'm back and I'm serious."And if she does not make this

year's team? "I'm not that old yet.I'll try again in four years," shesays. "To just get mentioned as anOlympic favorite is a big accom-plishment for me because I was sicklast year. I wasn't even sure Iwould live."

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Rice Olympians

Most Rice students will spend theirsummer working, going to summerschool or watching July's OlympicGames on television. For a fewmembers of Rice's track team,however, the Olympics will be apersonal experience.According to their coaches,

seven Rice student-athletes haveexcellent chances of representingfive different nations at thissummer's games in Barcelona. Al-though their Olympic attendancestill hinges upon their trial perfor-mances in their respective homecountries this June, these Olympicathletes have already come a longway. For the following track stars,the trek to Barcelona is now littlemore than a hop, skip and a jump.

Bryan BronsonNamed Track and Field's High School Athlete of the Year, sophomore BryanBronson came from a Japser, Texas, high school that had no track and onlythree hurdles. This summer Bronson hopes to represent the United States inBarcelona in the 200-meter dash or the 400-meter hurdles.Although he won't know if he's made the Olympic team until after the

June 19-28 trials in New Orleans, Bronson's chances seem strong—Trackand Field predicts he will capture the silver medal in the 200-meter dash.Even with this vote of confidence, he plans to take his lucky blue-and-white-striped boxer shorts.Bronson hates to lose, which he defines as not placing first. "That's why I

practice so hard," he says. "If I lose, it makes me work harder. I learn frommy mistakes."For the 19-year old, this year's Olympics is only a test. His big chance will

come later. "I really look forward to bringing home the gold in '96," he says.

Gabe LukeFor the last two years, senior Gabe Luke of Sugarland, Texas, has beenranked among the top 10 sprinters of the 400-meter dash in the UnitedStates and the top 20 in the world. In the New Orleans trials, Luke mustrun 45.4 seconds, which he has already done, to qualify for the Olympicteam. Because the United States takes the top six performers from the Junetrials to Barcelona, Luke says with a grin, "I should go."

Luke's commitment to running is like a marriage—he runs for better orfor worse, in sickness and in health. At last year's University World Cham-pionships in England, Luke placed first in a relay, although he had strepthroat and had not eaten for three days.

Rice recruited Luke to play football. But after his freshman year, Lukedropped football and concentrated on track. "I just love to run. I like thefeeling of being on top. It's like a high for me. Even if I don't win, I don'tlet it get me down. I just use it as a motivator," he says."If I don't go the Olympics I will be disappointed, because I know that

physically I am capable. But I won't worry about it. I'll just keep trainingand work hard for the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany."

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Yvette HaynesSenior Yvette Haynes of Kingstown,St. Vincent, made a late start in hertrack career. She didn't begin run-ning until her first year in highschool. Haynes made up time, how-ever, and has pulled ahead of thepack of St. Vincent, the Caribbeanisland she hopes to represent inBarcelona. Now, most of St.Vincent's 115,000 inhabitants knowHaynes by sight. Her frequent ap-pearances in newspapers and onradio have made her a star.

Until the end of last year, shenever considered the Olympics. Butafter finishing two years at SanJacinto Junior College, the 21-yearold Haynes has recently been ex-posed to important national meets."After starting at Rice last fall, I be-gan to think more seriously of per-forming at the top level," she says.The 400-meter hurdle event is

Haynes' best shot to attend thegames. However, she's not con-cerned with earning a medal. "Outof the Olympics, I want to get theexperience of competing with toplevel athletes," she says.

Jose HernandezEducation motivated junior Jose Hernandez to strive forexcellence in athletics. During his junior year in highschool, Hernandez moved away from his family in Caro-lina, Puerto Rico, to attend school in Kingwood, Texas.Without the improved academics, the stronger competi-tion and the increased exposure to college coaches of-fered in the United States, Hernandez doesn't believe hewould have received a scholarship to attend college.

Hernandez, 20, began running track at age 12, after realizing he stolemore bases in baseball and caught more passes in football than his team-mates. He prefers track to team sports because of the heightened competi-tion: "It's you against yourself, and the clock says everything."Hernandez predicts that he has a 75-percent chance of representing

Puerto Rico in the 4x400-meter relay or the 400-meter hurdles. On thepossibility of his not making the Olympic team this year, Hernandez says,"No sweat. I'll be at my prime age in 1996."

Kareem Streete-ThompsonThe quick-paced Kareem Streete-Thompson grew upin the slow-paced Cayman Islands. "You can forgetabout your watch in Cayman," the sophomore says.But on the track, time consumes all of Streete-Thompson's concentration.Streete-Thompson, 19, hopes to add Barcelona to

his list of competition sites, which already includessuch exotic places as Bulgaria, New Zealand andSouth America. If he manages a 26-foot long jumpor a 10.4-second 100-meter dash in the June trials,Streete-Thompson will represent the Cayman Islandsthis summer.With good reason, Streete-Thompson is confident

of his chances. His long jump has increased half afoot a year since he started. Last year he jumped 27feet 6 inches.In his hometown of Georgetown, Streete-Thompson is a household

name. Cayman Islands' national airline even approached him for sponsor-ship. But Streete-Thompson tries to disregard the fame and focus on hissport. "I really don't care about the hype and everything," he says. "I justwant to go in there and win."

Valerie TullochSophomore Valerie Tulloch of Toronto, Canada, learned about Rice whileshe was throwing her javelin in the 1991 Commonwealth Games in NewZealand. Miles from both Rice and Canada, Tulloch met 1990 Rice alumnaand Canadian athlete Rosey Edeh, whom Tulloch credits as the greatestinfluence on her athletic career and her conception of an "ideal person."During the Canadian Olympic trials in Montreal this June, Tulloch will

learn if she will go to Barcelona. To qualify, she must throw her weighty jav-elin 56 meters twice before the trials. She must also place first at the trials. Sofar, she has thrown 48 meters."If I don't make the team it wouldn't kill me," Tulloch says, "because I

can make the next team, or even the next. Javelin throwers can get real old."Still, Tulloch hopes to spend her upcoming 20th birthday in Barcelona.

—Tom Sims

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AL UMNI•G A ZET TE

No "Miner" Role

When George Miner becomes president of the Association of Rice Alumni(ARA) in July, he will put his plans to broaden the scope of the alumni as-sociation into motion."Our main thrust is to try to develop more area clubs around the

country," he says. "We want more involvement from Rice alumni aroundthe nation."Miner has always been involved at Rice. From the moment he walked

through the Sallyport in 1950 with a bachelor's in mechanical engineering,he has given his time and money to the university.He contributes to the Owl Club and is a member of the "R" Association,

open to Rice athletes. Miner lettered in football at Rice.Miner has been a member of the Rice Fund Council, a university

fundraising group, and has been active in the ARA since joining the athleticcommittee more than 30 years ago.

Easy-going and unworried about his new responsibilities, Miner sums uphis presidential duties by saying he will "be in charge of the people headingcommittees." The ARA board is composed of 16 to 18 alumni.Miner recognizes that the position involves an extraordinary amount of

time. He has been the ARA president-elect since May 1991, working with1991-92 ARA President Robert Flatt."As president-elect I'm spending a lot of time—the president position

will entail even more," he says.Time is a precious commodity for Miner. The 65-year-old has six chil-

dren ages 26 to 40 and eight grandchildren.In addition, he owns Miner-Dederick construction company, a

general contractor.

increasing as former interns gradu-ate and develop internships at theirrespective companies.Each student interns for 100

hours per semester, working onprojects that are meaningful for thestudent and beneficial to the spon-sor. On campus, the students en-roll in "Introduction to Business,"a three-credit seminar in basic busi-ness concepts and current issues.The Extern Program helps liberal

arts majors become aware of theircareer options. It was created in1987-88 by Carolyn Mata, associ-ate director of alumni, as a way forstudents to "try-on" a career byshadowing an alum in the workplace. Since its creation, more than140 students have gotten a first-hand look at occupations rangingfrom law to advertising to sales.Houston alumni sponsor externs

during spring break. Next year, the

—Kristen Pauley

program will expand to includethe winter holiday, and alumni out-side of Houston will be invited toparticipate.The Alumni Contact Service,

begun in 1986, involves 3,000alumni in different occupationsthroughout the United States andseveral foreign countries. Fresh-men and sophomores contactalumni to ask questions about aparticular field. Juniors andseniors are encouraged to askabout the job market, the outlookfor a particular field and tips for ajob search.The key to success with any of

these programs is alumni involve-ment. Interested alumni shouldcontact Cheryl Matherly, assistantdirector for counseling, orDeborah Fields, assistant directorfor recruiting, at the Career Ser-vices Center at 713/527-4055.

George Miner in front of Alice Pratt Brown Ball, whichwas built by Miner-Dederick construction company.

Joint Ventures

The anxiety of not knowing whatto do after graduation: It's a feel-ing all too familiar to many Ricestudents, and one not too far fromthe memory of many alumni. Ca-reer Services and the Alumni Officehave joined forces with the JointVenture Internship program, theExtern Program and the AlumniContact Service to address this fear.The programs provide alumni anopportunity to become an invalu-able career resource for currentstudents.The Joint Venture Internship

program, founded in 1982 by theSchool of Humanities, helps liberalarts majors explore career options.Each year, more than 65 liberal artsmajors are placed with Houstonbusinesses. There are now 93 ap-proved internship sites, roughlyone-third of which are sponsoredby Rice alumni. That number is

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Giving Merit

Four members of the Rice commu-nity were honored for their sus-tained voluntary contributions ofenergy, time and creativity to theuniversity May 1.Mary Lou Margrave, 1938

graduate Paul Pfeiffer, 1967 gradu-ate William Merriman and 1940graduate Robert McKee receivedMeritorious Service Awards at acommencement reception.

Awardees are chosen by theHonors Committee of the Associa-tion of Rice Alumni (ARA).

Here are this year's awardees:

Mary Lou Margrave is an entrepre-neur. The wife of chemistry profes-sor John Margrave, Mary Louhelped establish an interest-freeloan fund for graduate students inthe 1970s. Heading a group called"Graduate Wives," she held bakesales to bankroll the short-term,emergency loans.

Frank R. Brotzen, professoremeritus of materials science,nominated Margrave. "Mary Louhas worked indefatigably for a greatmany causes within the university,"he wrote. "Her efforts on behalf ofthe Friends of Fondren Library andthe Society of Rice Women havebeen truly outstanding."

Margrave was vice president forthe Friends of Fondren Libraryfrom 1987-89 and received the1989 Friends of Fondren award.She served as president of the

Rice University Faculty Women'sClub from 1985-86 and was co-chair of the Society of Rice Univer-mtY Women seminars from 1988-90.

Margrave received a bachelor'sIn business and a master's in busi-ness education from the Universityof Wisconsin. She taught in a Wis-consin high school before movingto Texas in 1963. She and her hus-band have two children.

Margrave's reason for being in-volved with Rice is the students. "Ihad a scholarship when I went toschool," she says. "I want to giveback and help people get throughCollege and Rice."

Paul Pfeiffer has spent more thanhalf a century on campus. Aftergraduating from Rice with a degree

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in electrical engineering in 1938,he received a bachelor's of divinityin 1943 from the Perkins School ofTheology at Southern MethodistUniversity. He returned to Rice asan instructor in 1947, received amaster's in electrical engineering in1948, and became an assistant pro-fessor in 1952, the same year heearned a doctorate in mathematics.

"This is my 51st year on cam-pus. I have a real good feelingabout this place. There have beenlots of changes—mostly for thebetter. I'd like to think that I'vebeen part of that," he says.

Pfeiffer helped form the math-ematical sciences department in1968 and was chair of both thatdepartment and electrical engineer-ing. He has been an associate andinterim master at both VViess andBrown Colleges, and from 1965-69, he served as Dean of Students.

Pfeiffer, 74, and his wife, RuthHarkey Pfeiffer, have four children.

Michael M. Carroll, dean of en-gineering, nominated Pfeiffer be-cause of his devoted service toRice, his scholarship and "becausehe has been in the fullest sense ateacher and a friend to his studentsfor more than 40 years."

William Merriman jokingly asked,"What is the university comingto?" when told he had been chosenfor an award. But the HonorsCommittee had every reason toselect Merriman, who received hisbachelor of architecture at Rice.

Merriman, 46, is a partner atHall-Merriman Architects Inc. with1959 alumnus William W. Hall.

Merriman was involved in the1988 renovation of Fondren Li-brary before he and Hall foundedtheir company.

Carolyn H. Woodruff, whograduated with Merriman in 1967and who nominated him for theaward, says, "Extending back toour days as students at Rice, Bill'stalents have graciously been do-

William Merriman

nated to the university in numer-ous capacities. I know of no timethat Rice solicited his time that heever said no."

Merriman was president of theARA from 1987-88 and served onthe long-range planning committee.

Merriman is the current presi-dent of the Rice School of Archi-tecture Alumni Association. He ison the advisory council of the RiceSchool of Architecture and willhead that council next year.

Merriman is married to 1969graduate Susan UnderwoodMerriman.

Robert McKee is extremely pioudof Rice University. The 1940graduate believes he has a responsi-bility to give back a little of whatthe school has given him.

McKee, 74, is a member of theFounder's Club; the Shepherd So-ciety, a fund-raising group; theOwl Club, an athletic supportgroup; and support groups forbaseball and basketball.McKee was on the Class of 1940

Scholarship Committee, which or-ganized that year's 50th reunion.He is a former alumni representa-tive on a university standing com-mittee and has been involved withthe alumni area clubs committee.McKee received a bachelor's in

English and economics from Rice.He was drafted into the U.S. Armyin 1941 and remained in the ser-vice until January 1946, when heenrolled at the Tulane School ofBusiness. He worked at a transmis-sion company, Texas Eastern, thepresent day Panhandle Eastern,until his retirement nine years ago.

Honors Committee Chair LouisD. Spaw nominated McKee."He was a member of my class,

the Class of 1940, and as I've beendoing things myself, I've foundhim out there," Spaw says. "He'sspent time and done what he couldin supporting the university."

—Kristen Pauley

June / July '92 39

GIF TS•AND•G I V INC

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Distinguished University ScholarshipTuition ScholarshipCollege ScholarshipGeneral Scholarship

Annual Fund Efforts Boosted by Record Telefund

In February 1992, Rice Universityrecorded the most successfulTelefund in its history. Volunteerscalling on 12 nights raised$355,000—$44,000 more thanlast year and $35,000 more thanthe goal set for this year. Leadingthe way to this record was 1962Rice graduate Ann Baillio, the1991-92 Telefund chair.

Baillio has been a volunteer inmany Annual Fund efforts at

Rice over thepast several

years. She served as herclass chair in 1985-86 andwas the 1960s decadechair in 1987-88. As co-chairs of the Founder'sClub, she and her hus-

band, Bob, served doubleduty from 1988 to 1990. Annwas also a member of the 25thReunion Committee for the

Class of 1962.As chair

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Depending on the funding level by the donor, endowed scholarships maysupport all or part of the annual costs for one or more Rice students. Do-nors may designate a scholarship for a specific academic discipline and re-quest that a scholarship be awarded on the basis of merit and/or financialneed.Rice recognizes donors by permanently naming the scholarship either in

their honor, or in honor of someone to whom the donor would like to paytribute.

of this year's Telefund, she recruitedmore than 350 alumni and studentvolunteers to work as callers. Shecheered the volunteers on everynight and spent much of each dayworking with the development staffto prepare for the evening event.

Baillio is proud that Rice canboast one of the highest alumni par-ticipation rates in the country at 42percent, but she is quick to say thatshe wants that rate to go higher. Shebelieves it can be done by gettingmore alumni, students, faculty andstaff involved in the Annual Fund.A highlight of this year's fund

drive came when a student workingon the Telefund made his ownpledge to the campaign."That student got involved," she

says, "saw what was going on,learned more about the needs ofRice, and then gave. He participatedat the level he could. Involvementand participation are so important tothe future of Rice."

Telefund blows a party whistle atthe end of each evening of the cam-paign as goals are reached or sur-passed. At the beginning,Baillio wasn't comfortable with thistradition; however, by the end of thecampaign, she always wore an outfitwith pockets so she could carry sev-eral whistles—the ones she blew incelebration throughout the evening.

Her enthusiasm is catching. At arecent Annual Fund dinner, Bailliobrought her whistles. As NormaMcGee, Director of the AnnualFund, gave her report, Baillio blew 3whistle in support of the good news.Then Baillio was introduced and, tt.while giving her report about the c;Telefund, had the tables turned onher. George Rupp, who picked upone of her whistles, blew it duringher speech."George blowing that whistle was

another real highlight for me," shesays. "George blowing thatwhistle.. .well, that's something Inot ever going to forget."

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As We Have Received...

Glenn Larratt, recipient of the John and Harriet Millington Scholarship, wasthe guest speaker at the Spring Scholarship Reception March 8. He graduatedthis May with a double major in voice performance and electrical engineering.About 350 people heard Larratt's speech. A reprint follows.

This semester I am enrolled in acourse here at Rice that is titled"Intellectual Foundations of theSocial Sciences." As a double majorin voice performance and electricalengineering, I am somewhatPressed for curricular time: QuitefranIdy, if the choice were mine, Iwouldn't be taking this course atall. However, the choice is notmine; the course is one of the "dis-tribution core courses" currentlyrequired of music and engineeringmajors alike. It is a good course,and I am enjoying it more than Ithought I might: In fact, I decidedto share with you today somethingI found interesting and relevant inone of the reading assignments forthe course.In his writing on the "social

contract," Jean-Jacques Rousseauat one point wrote: "EachIndividual...may...exercise aWill.. different from that generalWill to which, as a citizen, hecontributes.. .Regarding the.. .Stateas a rational abstraction because itIs not a man, he might enjoy hisrights as a citizen without, at thesame time, fulfilling his duties asa subject..."Rousseau wrote this passage well

over 200 years ago, yet he mightWell have been writing about mod-ern American society. Accountabil-itY and responsibility—it is a lack ofthcse qualities which, in manyCases, characterizes American be-havior today. How special, then, isthis reception—for we come to-gether today to honor thosewho have gone far be-Yond the minimum,those who are in-vesting generouslyt.0 equip Rice andIts students for theChallenges of theflIture. Asdirect recipi-ents of your

generosity, we come to show ourgratitude and to celebrate the op-portunities you have created for us.

Indeed, gratitude is all we canoffer in direct return to your in-vestment: An attempt to pay backdollar for dollar would not only beinfeasible, it would be inadequaterecompense, for your gift to us isnot, per se, money itself, but theapplication of it here at Rice, whenwe have the greatest need of it andcan make greatest use of it.What then, my fellow scholar-

ship recipients, is our responsibil-ity—what form can we give ourgratitude that will extend beyondthis reception today? I believe thatthe answer is to become contribu-tors ourselves. We are responsiblefor helping to shape the society ofwhich we are members. We cannotreturn the gifts we have received inkind; but, as each of our benefac-tors here assembled has found Riceand us, so can we find areas in soci-ety which we might improve withour skills and talents, as donors oftime, financial and material re-sources, and humanity to thosewhose needs are greater than oursand whose opportunities are fewer.

Each of us has a role model inassuming this responsibility, foreach of us has a personal benefac-tor here. I claim that the honorthat is their due, and the debt ofgratitude we owe them, can best beshown by following their lead. Ourtask is to make our society and ourcountry a better place; as we havereceived, so should we willinglyand enthusiastically give. Someof us will sit in this room in thefuture as scholarship donorsourselves; God willing, re-gardless of what form ourgiving takes, we can and will

make a difference in oursociety and our world.

Undergraduate Glenn Larratt was theguest speaker at the Spring ScholarshipReception March 8 in the Rice Memo-rial Center.

June / July '92 41

Mediterranean Odyssey

by Katherine Drew '44

In October, the Association of RiceAlumni is sponsoring "Seas ofUlysses and the Black Sea" cruisein the eastern Mediterranean. De-parting October 9, we will spend aday and a half in Venice beforeboarding the Golden Odyssey forsites in the Adriatic, Ionian,Aegean and Black Seas.The first stop on the itinerary is

relatively unknown. SinceDubrovnik and most of its touristsfacilities have been heavily shelled,our small ship (460 passengersmaximum) will sail into the lovelyBay of Kotor in the Yugoslav prov-ince of Montenegro, which is southof Dubrovnik. With its unparalleledgeographical setting, this destina-tion could well become a substitutefor Dubrovnik. The bay offers notonly the medieval walled town ofKotor, but the remains of a Vene-tian fort (Cattaro) above the townand a number of surroundingtowns, where the faded glories ofVenetian and Austrian town housesand palaces still attract tourists.Add to this several island churchesin the bay and a spectacular moun-

at the island of Mykonos, with itscharacteristic windmills and pictur-esque harbor lined with cafes andtaverns. Then we sail east toKusadasi, Turkey, the port used toapproach ancient Ephesus by sea.Along with Alexandria, Antiochand Smyrna in the east and Romein the west, Ephesus was one of thegreat cities of the Roman Empire.St. Paul established a Christiancommunity in the city, and somesaid that the Virgin Mary spent herlast days there. When the harbor ofthe ancient town silted up, resi-dents abandoned the site, leavingbehind architectural remains thatthe modern-day viewer can wanderthrough for what seems like miles.Our next stop is Turkish

Istanbul, the Constantinople of theEastern Roman Empire. The city isendlessly fascinating, especially thatpart known as Stamboul (the oldcity) south of the Golden Horn.We will encounter reminders of theRomans, such as the Theodosianwalls (constructed in the fifth cen-tury) and the church known asHagia Sophia (dating originally to

the early sixth cen-tury), as well as suchfamous Turkishmonuments as theTopkapi Palace, theBlue Mosque, theMosque of the Sul-tan Suleiman andthe Grand Bazaar.

From Istanbul,we sail through theBosporus into theBlack Sea and dockat Constanza. Thenwe catch a train toBucharest, Romania.Symbolic of the dic-tatorial ambitions ofits political bosses,Bucharest alsomakes one aware of

the dangers of pulling a people toofast into the 20th century. Asidefrom the language, there is little toremind us that Romania was oncethe Roman province of Dacia.From Constanza we sail to

The Acropolis, perched atop the highest point in Athens, Greece, is one ofmany sites travelers on the "Seas of the Ulysses and the Black Seas" will visit.

min backdrop, and the Bay ofKotor is certainly worth the detour.From Kotor the cruise heads for

the island of Corfu in the IonianSea. After an early morning passagethrough the Corinth canal, we stop

Odessa in the Ukraine and Yalta onthe Crimea. I have not visited ei-ther and look forward to doing so.Odessa was the last artificial villagebuilt by Potemkin at the commandof the Czarina Catherine the Great,who wished to impress EmperorJoseph II with the wealth of Russia.Today, Odessa is a modern city dis-playing the agricultural and indus-trial wealth of the Ukraine.

Yalta is on the Crimea, that curi-ous peninsula jutting down into theBlack Sea from the north. It is partof the Ukraine, but one usuallythinks of it as the playground of theSoviet aristocracy. Americans willremember it as a World War IImeeting place of the allied bigthree: Roosevelt, Churchill andStalin. Let us hope that by OctoberRussia and the Ukraine will nothave come to blows over disposi-tion of the Soviet Black Sea fleet,stationed at Odessa.From the Crimea the Golden Od-

yssey retraces its route back toPiraeus, the port of Athens. Wehave a day to explore Athens beforeour flight home October 22. Thereare many important sites in Ath-ens—the Parthenon and relatedstructures on the Acropolis, therestored buildings of the ancientcity government beneath theAcropolis, temples, theaters or anyof the many museums (especiallythe National museum, whichhouses frescoes from Santorini andthe treasures of Mycenae). Or onemight choose to visit sacredDelphi, or take a quick trip toMycenae and Tiryns.Those who embark on this tour

will meet countless reminders of apast and present that sparkle in theclear air of the eastern Mediterra-nean and Black Sea.

Katherine Drew is a professor of his-tory at Rice, where she specializes inmedieval history. She will accompanYtravelers on the Mediterraneancruise October 9-22. For more infor-mation, call Alumni Relations at(713) 527-4057.

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Class Recorder:Mildred Ogg Fisher2410 Memorial Drive/

Walden Apt. 109-BBryan, TX 77802(409) 774-7217

Class Recorder:Anne McCulloch2348 ShakespeareHouston, TX 77030

Class Recorder:Chris Hoover5318 Meadow Lake LaneHouston, TX 77056

Class Recorder:Willie Mae Chapman Cole2414 Chimney RockHouston, TX 77056(713) 782-9509

Class Recorder:liott Flowers

3330 Del MonteHouston, TX 77019(713) 524-4404

Class Recorder Elliott Flow-ers writes:Our permanent Class

President Grover Geiselmanadvises me that he is still ac-tive in the oil and gas business.lie and his son office in aremodelled 1876 home inRichmond, Texas.

Al Lederer and his wife,Jean, have been in Houstonthis spring. They spend fiveor six months each year in thecool mountain air at Linville,11%T.C.. As usual, both played a.°.,t of golf, both here and in'2°Ith Carolina. Their chil-dren and grandchildren are

.-iouston, so perhaps they,7'11 be spending more timenere.

bonald McCants advises°le that he has now beenr,e,t1red from Shell for 15 years.'le enjoyed every minute heWorked, and he has enjoyedevery minute of his retire-

nt. At the present time, henas five grandchildren, theOldest

being 8 years old.

Class Recorder:Beulah Yellen9406 Cliffwood DriveHouston, TX 77096(713) 723-7318

Class Recorder BeulahYellen writes:On March 17, the Rice

Alumni went on a trip toHong Kong. Our lecturer,Richard J. Smith, taught us agood deal about the historyof China. Although notmembers of our class, GeraldF. Richardson '34 and hislovely wife, Joyce, were withus. They are from Beaumont,and Gerald graduated fromhigh school with my husband,David. Also on the trip wereJake Axelrod '30 arid hiswife, Ruth, Susan Baker '78,Sharon Batjer '75 and herhusband, Temple, Jo Eddie-man '45 and her husband,Eddie, John Holverson '82,Jacquelyn Keller '73, Jim'47 and Marion '46 Kisling,Barbara Moore '54 and hus-band, Don, Bob Wilkins '49and his wife, Donna, and staffmember Eileen Grant (com-ptroller's office) and herdaughter, Connie.

Received a nice note fromJerry Branam, who writes,"I give you an A+ on yourclassnotes in the FebruarySallyport I think you knowthat Lola Balcke Branum'38 died from a sudden car-diac arrest in 1987.

"For your records, my wifeof one year is Dianne, ratherthan Doris (sorry about that,Jerry). Dianne is a convertedTexan, having moved toHouston from Bradford, Pa.,in 1960. After many years ofpublic practice as a CPA, I amenjoying retirement but stayso busy every day, I don'tknow how I ever worked.

"Dianne still works, soguess who fixes breakfast anddoes most of the housework?

"Dianne and I enjoyed thereunion very much. Annualreunions would be great."

Thank you, Jerry, for avery informative letter.

Class Recorder:Mary Jane Hale Rommel504 Fairway Drive—RiverhillKerrville, TX 78028(512) 896-4310

Class Recorder Mary JaneHale Rommel writes:

In March, I will be in

Houston to help plan our55th reunion at Homecom-ing next fall. I hope ourclassmates will make plans tocome together to celebratethis milestone in our lives.The 50th held at CohenHouse was a delightful andnostalgic evening to be re-membered. Details of when,where and how will be sent toyou at a later date. I wouldappreciate hearing from anyof you who would be inter-ested in serving on any of theplanning committees.We have many Rice alumni

living out here in the TexasHill Country. Jack Clarkeand his wife, Virginia RuthSimpson, of Conroe, Texas,live near Kerrville at Moun-tain Home, Texas, on a3,000-acre ranch, where he isactively engaged in raisingregistered Hereford cattle.They are both dedicated andbeloved civic workers whohave been most generous inhosting many local fund rais-ing affairs at their stunningHill Country/Southwestem-designed home. Currently,they are busy planning theMay wedding of their grand-daughter to take place at theirhome. Jack is remembered asa star blocking back on theRice Southwest Conferencewinning team during hisfootball career. After Rice, hereturned to his hometown,Conroe, and served as assis-tant football coach at ConroeHigh School under coachesJoe Lagow '35 and J.L.McCullough '34.When war broke out, Jack

joined the Navy for a four-year period and was engagedin the Gene Tunney PhysicalEducation Program. He cameout of the war with the rankof lieutenant commander.Upon his return to Conroe,he set up a soft drink-bottlingenterprise, which was one ofthe original bottling compa-nies for Dr Pepper in Texas.Around 1976, the Clarkesbecame interested in the HillCountry and purchased theacreage that would becomethe site of their retirementhome. They have one son,Jack III, and two grand-daughters who make theirhome in Conroe.

Here is a neat little storyabout three friends, two ofwhom are Rice alumni andmy neighbors out here atRiverhill. My classmates of'37 should remember themwell. Ed Letscher '40 andRalph Sharpless played golfin PortArthur when they wereteenagers, nearly 60 years ago.Ed went to Rice where heand Joe Finger '39 played onthe golf team for four years.

In 1938, they played againstRalph, who was on the U.Texas team. Ed and Joe wereco-captains on the Rice teamthat won the Southwest Con-ference. In 1940, Ralph andJoe went on to M.I.T. fortheir graduate work. Andnow, would you believe, allthree of these friends are stillbattling it out on the golfcourse here at Riverhill Coun-try Club where they all five.Small world.

Another Rice graduatewho lives here in Kerrville isMarjorie Peters '40. She wasrecently surprised to receive aphone call from Congress-man Lamar Smith inWashington, D.C., notifyingher that she had been se-lected Volunteer of theMonth for the 21st Congres-sional District and would bereceiving a certificate ofachievement. Marjorie has anoutstanding record ofachievement in the Texas HillCountry in both educationaland cultural circles. She haslived in Kerr County for 29years, serving as principal ofHunt Elementary Schoolfrom 1968-1976, presidentofYouth Ranch Auxiliary andis active in the Hill CountryBusiness and ProfessionalWomen's Club, the Womens'division of the Kerrville AreaChamber of Commerce,Kerrville Community Cho-rus and the Dietert Claim, alocal senior activity center.She sings, paints, walks withthe Kerrville TrailblazersWalking Club, and still findstime to donate many hoursto several worthwhile civicprojects. Her paintings adornthe walls of the local KerrvilleState Hospital.

Congratulations, Mar-jorie, we are proud of you!Marjorie's address is 201-BManor Drive, Kerrville, TX78028; telephone (512 ) 895-1395.

Another Rice graduatewho has distinguished him-self out here in the Texas HillCountry is Jim Younts '32.A real success story is that ofthis 86-year-old civic leader

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and beloved citizen ofKerrville. As a two-time goldmedal recipient in the SeniorGames, he is an inspiration toyoung and old with his en-thusiastic participation andsuccess in the games. Soon,during the third year ofKerrville Senior Games, Jimwill enter competition in thegolf tournament and prob-ably shoot in the 90s again.He has won the gold medalfor this event in his age groupfor the past two years and willprobably be "going for thegold" again this year. If hesucceeds this time, he will beeligible to participate in thenext U.S. National SportsClassic.

Born in Little Rock, Ark.,Jim moved to Beeville, Texas,where he attended highschool. Two years at SchreinerMilitary Institute followedand then Rice Institute,wherehe graduated with a degree inphysical education. A careerfollowed with the U.S. Armyin the infantry and transpor-tation corps. During WorldWar II, he saw action in theSouth Pacific.

During the followingyears, Jim, his talented wife,Ethel, and their two childrensaw much of the world whilestationed at the Pentagon,Turkey, Korea and France.Ethel taught ballet in all thosecountries. Her students inTurkey were British, Turkey,French, Greek, Italian, Rus-sian and American. Inaddition, Ethel is famous lo-cally in the literary world forher book reviews and theatri-cal and musical presentations.

While Jim was stationedin Poitiers, France, he metDr. Andrew Edington, thenpresident of Schreiner Insti-tute and a member of theNational Organization ofBiblical Scholars, who wastraveling to speak to thearmed forces. When he re-tired in 1961 with the rank ofcolonel, Jim wrote Dr.Edington seeking employ-ment at Schreiner Institute.He was accepted and spentthe next ten years as head ofthe military departmentteaching military science.

Jim retired in 1971 andfor a number of years servedin the field of public rela-tions for various financialinstitutions. The Kerrvillecommunity has received un-told contributions from thisman while he served in manycivic capacities, includingpresidency of Kerrville Ro-tary Club, Shriner Club,Chamber of Commerce, RiceUniversity Hill CountryAlumni Association and theBoard of Directors for the

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Hill Country Arts Founda-tion. He has 16 years ofperfect attendance in theKerrville Rotary Club.

Currently, Jim's hobbiesinclude golf, hunting andRotary Club programs andactivities. He plays golf threeor four times a week, keepingactive and healthy. He is asplendid role model repre-senting what lifelong physicalfitness habits, disciplined nu-trition and exercise, andstrong Christian principlescan produce. Jim's address is716 Glen Road, Kerrville, TX78028; telephone (512) 895-1821.

Class Recorders:Margaret and Henry DunlapP. 0. Box 79Wimberley, TX 78676

Zelda Keeper Rick12951 Trail HollowHouston, TX 77079

Class Recorders Margaretand Henry Dunlap write:

As with the rest of Texas,winter was one long rainyseason in the Hill Country.With the H.F. Dunlaps,whose home at Shade Ranchin Wimberley perches highon a cliff above the BlancoRiver, it all began in Decem-ber, when Henry received ata Chinese restaurant an ap-parently propitious omen—aChinese fortune cookiewith not just one, but twofortunes with favorable in-scriptions—one a flatteringcomment about his charac-ter, and the other with theprediction, "When wintercomes, heaven will rain suc-cess upon you."Two days later the heav-

ens opened; we were strandedat the ranch house for severaldays, cut off by swollen localstreams as well as the flood-ing Blanco, which continuedto go out of bounds at regu-lar intervals for weeksthereafter.

In January, front pages ofSan Marcos and Wimberleynewspapers featured photosand news stories of the rescueofEmma Craddock '36 andher little dog from her auto,which was stranded in therising waters of the Blanco atthe low crossing near Emmy'shouse. Emmy, a resident atWimberley's Hidden Valley,longtime professor of historyat Southwest Texas Univer-

sity and several times mayorof San Marcos, is a well-known and popular figure inHays County. She said theusual warning barrier had notbeen set up, so she had as-sumed that the crossing wassafe.

There were days when theDuffles, Walker '48 andKathryn Alcorn '51, wouldnot have wanted to crossPierce Creek, whose lowbridge when flooded blocksaccess to the road that climbsto their home high atopVVimberley's Paradise Hills.Though spending much timethese days with Kathy'smother in Corpus Christi, theDuffles, along with Walker'sbrother, Ben, and Ben's wife,Jackie, did take time in Feb-ruary to join the Rice alumniexcursion to Switzerland andother Alpine spots.

In Houston in March,Dorothy Bowman sufferedno mishaps from the spec-tacular Houston floods, butdid begin preparing herselffor a July visit to England byhaving a partial replacementof a creaky knee. At an En-glish village where they bothvisited several years ago, shewill be joined by MaryFossehnan afterMary's cruiseof North European shores.They will revisit the impres-sive Romanesque cathedralat Durham and spend somedays in London, where Dor-othy hopes not to lose Maryin the British Museum.

In March at Shade Ranch,we were delighted to receivefrom Louise WalthallHorton a copy of her finebiography, published in the'70s by Texas UniversityPress, of Samuel Bell Maxey.Maxey, an early resident ofParis, Texas, participated inthe Civil War and then waselected to serve in the TexasSenate during the Recon-struction years. This veryreadable and scholarly bookis based largely upon lettersof the Maxey and Lightfootfamilies, to which Louise hadaccess around the time shewas employed at the StateArchives in Austin. Her hus-band, Claude Horton Sr.'35, was then a professor ofphysics at the University ofTexas, where their son,Wendell, now follows in hisfather's footsteps as a profes-sor in the field of plasmaphysics. The senior Hortonsnow live at their Rocking HRanch near Granger, Texas,where Louise is at work be-ginning her fifth novel, andClaude continues researchand writing of his biographyof the scientist Maupertuis.

As these notes are written,your recorders Henry andMargaret Dunlap sit beforethe fire in another Dunlapdwelling overlooking anotherlovely river, the home ofHenry's brother, RhodesDunlap '31, of Iowa City,Iowa. The Iowa river belowhis home also flows throughthe campus of the Universityof Iowa, where Rhodes was aprofessor of English for mostof some 40 years. Throughthe window well beyond thegrand piano, we can see thesculls of the university's row-ing team cutting through thewaters of the river.

Though we came to Iowain honor of Rhodes' 81stbirthday, our visit was unex-pectedly interrupted when hewent to the hospital for diag-nostic tests, then majorsurgery, from which he madegood recovery. He hoped toaccompany us back to Texasbefore the bluebonnet sea-son was completely over.

When Henry flew back fora few days to Texas, he wassaddened to learn ofthe deathMarch 24 of his close associ-ate, Myron H. Dorfman'46, whose office suite Henryshared at the University ofTexas. At the time of hisdeath, Myron held the WA.(Tex) Moncrief Jr. EndowedChair in Petroleum Engi-neering, which he received in1950. Myron received hisbachelor's degree in petro-leum engineering from theUniversity ofTexas-Austin in1950. During a long career,he was, from 1959 to 1971,an independent oil producerin East Texas, then decidedto return to the University ofTexas, where he was awardedhis master's degree in 1972and his doctorate in 1975.

Myron served as chair ofthe department of petroleumengineering from 1978 to1985. He published morethan 50 technical papers ongeo-pressured-geothermalenergy and formation evalu-ation. He was a fellow of theGeological Society ofAmericaand served as distinguishedlecturer for the Society ofPetroleum Engineers for1978-79. He is listed in Who'sWho in America, Who's Whoin the World, and AmericanMen and Women ofScience. Aman of remarkable warmthand charm, Myron will besorely missed by a host offriends.

Class Recorder Coordina-tor:Dorothy Zapp Forristall-

Brown1250 Oakcrest CircleBeaumont, TX 77706(409) 892-1048

Class Recorders:Lee Blocker125 SailfishAustin, TX 78734

Bob & Evelyn JunkerPurcell

5102 ValerieBellaire, TX 77401

Sam & Frances FlanaganBethea

309 Burnet Dr.Baytown, TX 77520

Marian Smedes Arthur5806 Glen Falls LaneDallas, TX 75209

Floy King Rogde7480 Beechnut #337Houston, TX 77074

Class Recorder CoordinatorDorothy Zapp Forristall-Brown writes:On December 20, I re-

ceived a letter from SuzanneJohnson, editor of Sallyport,saying she was leaving Rice inlate December for the sunnyclimes of California. She saida new editor would soon beon board. Suzanne will cer-tainly be missed. She sent mea 1992 pocket pal date bookwith the new deadlinesmarked. This column had tobe in on April 1. Other dead-lines are June I, August 3,October 1 and November 1.Don't forget to tell us whatyou are doing, who you areseeing, where you are going,where you have been, andwhat you are celebrating. Wereally need your help to keepour classnotes up-to-date.Sam and Frances Bethea

celebrated their 50th wed-ding anniversary April 3. Letus know when you are cel-ebrating an anniversary oranything.

I am a Garden Club ofAmerica arrangement judgeand have just returned fromjudging at the Atlanta FlowerShow—Sweet Land of Lib-erty—Presidential Pathways.Some of you might be inter-ested in going to Columbus,Ohio, this summer forAmeriflora '92. Countries allover the world will displaygardens representative oftheircountries. This is the first in-ternational floral and gardenexposition to be held in theUnited States.

The Society of Rice Uni-versity Women held its annualSpring Gala March 27 at theFaculty Club. From our class,enjoying the hospitality, wereSam and Frances Bethea,John and Peg John, Boydand Pauline Kilgore, Johnand Laura '41 McCulley,Charlie '35 and RobertaWilson, and Bob and EvelynPurcell. Hopefully, next yearmore from our class will par-ticipate in the activities of thisworthwhile organization,which includes four openmeetings each year, a stimu-lating seminar series and theawarding of scholarships.

Received a card fromJames Alan Waters fromFlorida saying they were hav-ing their boat, Jen-Jen,worked on and would behome soon.

In looking through somekeepsake information, I cameacross my acceptance letterto the Rice Institute fromS.G. McCann, Registrar. Ifyou have misplaced your ownletter, I thought this mightbe of interest to you. The firstparagraph of the letter reads,"Our entrance committee hascarefully considered yourrecord and I am glad to saythat your application for ad-mission has been approved.We trust that you are expect-ing to take your work seriouslyand to give Rice your bestefforts. As you are about totake up college work, whichis considerably different fromthe work of a preparatoryschool, I suggest that youdevote some time this sum-mer to reviewing the subjectswhich you plan to continuein your course at Rice. I em-phasize especially the matterof reviewing your advancedalgebra."How did you feel when

you received your letter? Idon't know about you, butthat was a most exciting dayfor me and for my family. Iwasn't worried about math,but I soon found out that Ireally had to study for Dr.Lear's history class. I remem-ber Ploy was great in historY..How about you? Which ofyour freshmen classes werehardest? Which, if any, waseasy?

I also found the summarYof student expenses they sent:"At the Rice Institute: No

tuition is charged any stu-dent. Registration fee is $25,required of all students, notrefundable. General deposit,

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"'Board for men in the halls is furnished at cost,averaging in 1934-35, $.96 per day (total$246.74). Board and room for women studentsin the city costs from $35 to $40 per month.Books, $20 to $30.' It is hard to believe howthings have changed."

360, Psychology 300, andArchitecture 510 and 540,balance refundable in July.Deposit of $25 for the coursesof each year in architecture,balance refundable in July.Deposit of $15 for requireddrawing instruments for En-gineering 110 (applies toengineers only). Studentstaking junior or senior engi-neering courses make depositsof $25. In addition, a depositOf $25 is required of all stu-dents in M.E. 310, and adeposit of $10 of all studentsin E.E. 300, balances refund-able in July. A 4-year fee of$16 for physical training, re-quired of all new men onregistration. An annual medi-cal fee of $5 for all men livingin the residential halls. Stu-dent blanket tax $8.40 for1935-36, required of all stu-dents. Rooms in theresidential halls for men, $90Per year. A first payment of$25 is due at the time a roomreservation is made. A pay-'lent of $31 is due inSeptember and the balanceof $34 is payable in February.The first payment of $25 isnot returnable unless the res-ervation is assigned to someOther applicant. Board for'hen in the halls is furnished!t cost, averaging in 1934-65, $.96 per day (total$246.74). Board and room1br women students in theeirY costs from $35 to $40P.et month. Books, $20 to430." It is hard to believehow things have changed.

laarles Frank Moser diedFriday, April 3, of cancer atthe hospice at the Texas Medi-cal, Center. Born in Dallas in1919, he served as a captainhi the U.S. Army Medical"1,s, stationed in the Pa-cific in WWII, after hisgraduation from the Rice In-

He was a real estateTeveloper in Texarkana,belaa, before relocating to2ouston in 1970 to becomeuirector of Alumni Affairs at

Rice University. He subse-quently was named head ofdevelopment for Rice, afterwhich he returned to privateenterprise. He is survived byhis wife, Mildred; daughters,Sue M. Scott of Edmonton,Alberta, and Charlotte MoserBenson of San Mateo, Calif.;sons, Karl of Arlington andDon of Houston; and sixgrandchildren.

Class Recorders:Julia Taylor Dill7715 HornwoodHouston, TX 77036(713) 774-5208

Wanda Hoencke Spaw5614 InwoodHouston, TX 77056(713) 622-9845

Lorena Ramin Stealdey1901-B PotomacHouston, TX 77057(713) 783-5445

Class Recorders Julia TaylorDill, Wanda Hoencke Spawand Lorena Ramin Steakleywrite:We will continue with a

few mini-sketches from ourGolden Anniversmy—Book ofMemories and Histories.

Charles J. Katz marriedDorothy Levy of El Paso, andthey have three children andeight grandchildren. He is thepresident of Katz Oil Co. andsecretary/treasurer of ICLNSteel Products, manufactur-ers of furniture, in SanAntonio. Charles has servedon numerous boards andfoundations for the arts, hos-pitals, schools, libraries andother charitable and civicgroups. He has been active inthe NCCJ and received sev-eral awards from JewishBrotherhood. He is a formercommander of the San Anto-nio Power Squadron and

loves to play golf and fish.Carey G. King Jr. re-

ceived his M.D. from UTMedical School in Galveston.He served in the U.S. NavyMedical Corps from 1944 to1946 and has practiced inter-nal medicine in Dallas since1949. He is the former clini-cal assistant professor ofmedicine at SouthwesternMedical School and chief ofmedicine at Gaston Episco-pal Hospital. He served onthe board for YMCA camps,as well as various county, stateand national societies. His firstwife, Judith H. Winans, diedin 1980, and in 1982, hemarried Lucille H. Gill andnow has 4 children, 3 step-children, 14 grandchildrenand one great grandchild. Heenjoys gardening, birding,fishing and history.

Katherine Taylor Kol-stad received her bachelor'sin English from Rice and wasan elementary school teacher.Her husband owned KolstadJewelry Store in Palestine,Texas—"Texas' oldest store,established in 1853." She isproudest of her five children.Homer F. Leifeste re-

ceived his M.D. from UTMedical School in Galvestonand served with the U.S. Navyfrom 1944 to 1946. He mar-ried Margy Crosby and hastwo daughters. He retired asclinical professor of urologyat UT Medical Center inHouston and was honored in1987 as Hermann HospitalDistinguished Physician. Heis a past president of Intercityand Houston Urological So-cieties. He is also a trustee atSt. Paul's United MethodistChurch and served on theWesley Community CenterBoard. He enjoys traveling,farming and family.

C.E. "Ed" Letscherpresently lives in Kerrville,after 38 years with Texacoand Caltex Petroleum Corp.He was director for Austra-lian Oil Refining, board chairand CEO of Caltex Group,

Australia, director and vicepresident of Bahrain Petro-leum Co., and director,Caltex Oil, New Zealand. Heand his wife, Margaret JoJenkins, have four sons, in-cluding C. E. "Ed" LetscherJr. '64 (Baker). He had a rareexperience as an invited guestaboard a pre-commercial testflight of a "Concorde" fromBahrain to Pakistan, when hewas appointed by the PrimeMinister of Australia as firstchair of the Federal Govern-ments Standing Committeeon Prorationing of Indig-enous Crude Oil Production.The Letschers' interests nowinclude corresponding withfriends throughout the world.

Frank A. Long of Dallasreceived many combat deco-rations and commendationsas an officer in the U.S. Ma-rine Corps from 1941through 1962. He served as acombat leader in World WarII, Korea and in northernChina from 1946 to 1947.He and his wife, HelenMacArthur Arthur, have threedaughters and four grand-children. Although his careertook him all over the world,he was an avid reader andcollector of Texans books.We were glad to see Frank atour 50th reunion in 1990and regret to report that hedied shortly afterward.

Joe W. Lydick is a con-tractor in Fort Worth and isproud of his daughter andgrandson at Ole Miss. He is agolf enthusiast.

Donald V. Lyttletonbecame a research chemicalengineer with Texaco. Heserved in both Atlantic andPacific theaters in World WarII. He married MarionSindair Lyttleton '41, andthey have a son and twograndsons. As a registeredprofessional engineer in fourstates, he worked mainly inthe rice industry in the U.S.and foreign countries. Hisinterests are in archeology andvolcanoes. He lives inMadisonville, La.

Claude M. Maer Jr., af-ter brief work with aninsurance company in Hart-ford, Conn., joined the 36thDivision of the Texas Na-tional Guard, serving from1940 through 1945. Afterthe service, he graduated fromYale School of Law in 1948.He was a distinguished law-yer for many years withHolland & Hart and Baker &Hostetler, both law firms inDenver. He was involved inmuch tax and estate law inWashington, D.C., andColorado. He participated incontroversies with federal andstate authorities at adminis-trative levels, in court trials

and appeals. In 1988 heopened his own law office,continuing with a privatepractice in tax and estate andother business matters. Hehas three children, two step-children and seven grand-children. He and his wife,Anne Waring, have traveledextensively to CentralAmerica, Europe, Asia andAfrica. Besides his continu-ing interest in amateur radiofor over 50 years, his latestconcern is with computers.He also keeps in shape withtennis, squash, swimming andskiing.

Mary Margaret Ray-mond Mayfield, who lives inKerrville, has two sons, onedaughter and four grandchil-dren. Her first husband wasPhil Magee, mayor ofRobstown, Texas. Followinghis death, she worked forTenneco Inc. and First Pres-byterian Church beforemarrying Greydon in Kerrvillein 1975. Since her family al-ways came first in her life, shewas active as a teacher andleader in schools, church,scouts and local communityaffairs. Before Greydon'sdeath last year, they had somewonderful trips in the U.S. intheir RV as well as numeroustours and cruises throughoutthe world. For several years,Mary served as chair of theHill Country Rice AlumniAssociation and, most re-cently, on the Scholarship andFund Raising Committee.

Joseph F. Meyer HI livesin Houston with his wife,Rosemary McKinney Meyer'42. Joe graduated from Ricewith a bachelor's in mechani-cal engineering and laterobtained a master's from theUniversity of Michigan. Af-ter a brief stay at EmscoDerrick & Equipment Co. in1941, he served in the U.S.Air Force from 1942 through1945. Returning to civilianlife, he joined the Jos. F.Meyer Co., where he waspresident until 1966. From1967 to 1988, he was chair-man of M.C. Management &Development Inc., whichdeveloped Meyer Park, a re-tail shopping center whichhouses the 14-screen MeyerPark Movie Theater. Thoughhe says he is "semi-retired,"he is still busy at his office.Joe and Rosemary have beenactive in civic affairs throughthe years. At Trinity Episco-pal Church, Joe served astreasurer for 20 years and waspresident of the Trinity En-dowment Inc. He served aspresident of the Kiwanis Cluband founding director ofKiwanis Foundation ofHous-ton. He is a Rice Associate

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and very active in fund-rais-ing drives. We are veryindebted to him for his workin producing our MemoryBook for the Class of 1940.Joe and Rosemary have en-joyed traveling throughEurope and the U.S., oftenwith Rice tours. They havefour children and severalgrandchildren they enjoyboth at home in Houstonand at their farm at RoundTop.

Willard W. Moser lives inSurrunerfield, Texas, with hiswife, Emma. They have onedaughter, and Willard hasbeen involved with agricul-ture interests throughout hiscareer. We would ask thatWillard write and tell us moreabout himself and his family,so that we can add to thisaccount .

Robert I. Moyer lives inFort Plains, N.Y. He servedin the U.S. Army from 1942to 1946. Most of his careerhas been involved with thedye industry. He has beenassociated with NorwichPharmaceutical Co. in Nor-wich, N.Y., as a dyer withPalatine Dyeing Co. in St.Johnsville, N.Y., as plantmanager and vice presidentwith Lee Dyeing Co. inJohnstown, N.Y., Butner,N.C. and Lachine, Ontario,Canada. He married RuthSawyer of Albany, N.Y., andthey have three children andfour grandchildren. In FortPlains, Robert has been ac-tive in civic and church affairsand served for 17 years on thecentral school board. He is amember of the CommunityCollege Career AdvisoryCommittee. He served for10 years as chair of the areabranch of the American As-sociation ofTextile Chemistsand Colorists and received ameritorious service award forthat work. He enjoys fishing,photography and, as he says,"spectator sports."

Robert P. McCants wasour most efficient chair of the50th Reunion Committee.We were the recipients of hisexpertise. Bob received hisbachelor's in mechanical en-gineering and was employedfrom 1940 to 1947 byGeneral Electric Works Labo-ratory, where he received theGeneral Electric Charles Cof-fin Award. From 1947 until1985, he was with UnitedGas and Entex, where heserved as senior vice presi-dent. He was married to PadyWhitcomb '42, who diedin 1973. They have twochildren, Earle ThomasMcCants '68 and KevinMcCants '72 (both Baker).Bob later married Mary Lou

Powell, who has become anavid Rice supporter. They arebusy with travel, home andchurch activities.We hope you all enjoyed

our brief reviews. Don't missthe "rest of the story" con-tinuing in the next Sallyport.

Class Recorder:Oscar HiblerP.O. Box 771745Houston, TX 77215-1745(713) 782-4499

Class Recorder Oscar Hiblerwrites:

Our Golden AnniversaryReunion scheduled for No-vember 6-7, 1992, is rapidlyapproaching. Be sure to markthat date on your calendar.We hope to have a big turn-out for the event that, fromall I have heard to date,promises to be one to be re-membered. There are still alarge number of classmateswho have not yet sent metheir "What I Have BeenDoing for the Past Fifty Years"profiles, which we will pub-lish and distribute at thereunion. If you haven't sentme yours yet, why not resolveto sit down this week andwrite yours and mail it to me.Time is running out and weneed yours now if we are go-ing to get it printed and in thebook in time for the reunion.The following are the latestones that I have received.

Edward K. Lane, whonow lives in Claremont, Ca-lif., writes: "In April '42,JohnDillard, Bob Wynn and I setout for Washington, D.C., inBob's car pulling a housetrailer. The AAA warned thatwe couldn't find enough gasen route to make the trip, butsomehow we did. We wereheading for the Naval Ordi-nance Lab, where I spent fouryears designing arming andfiring mechanisms for minesand depth charges, first as acivilian and later as a commis-sioner officer.

"After the war, a supervi-sor at NOL invited me towork for Emhart Mfg. Co.,where tempering ofglasswarewith water sprays was my par-ticular task. Upon completionof this project, I moved on tothe Lawrence Radiation Labin Berkeley, Calif. ( then calledthe "Rad Lab"). There I did`gadgeteering' on handlingequipment for radioactiveisotopes. My next move wasto Denver, where my parentswere living. At Gates RubberCo., I worked on rubber-tex-

tile products. A better joboffer moved me to the Uni-versity of Michigan Engi-neering Research Center nearAnn Arbor, where experimen-tal work on radar installationswas carried out. Eventuallythis led to a job with GeneralElectric's Guided Missile Di-vision in Schenectady, N.Y.,where I worked on guidancemechanisms. When the mis-sile system I worked on wascancelled after two years, Iwas offered several jobs atother GE locations. However,I elected to return to Emhartin Hartford. This time Iworked on glass film/flake

eventually moved on to sev-eral other companies doingsimilar work, including Gen-eral Dynamics in Pomona.After General Dynamics, Ientered sales work with a smallfirm representing manu-facturers of commercialrestaurant equipment. Thisprovided a nice break fromdesk work. My sales territoryincluded Southern California,Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.,and Las Vegas, Nev. (No, Ididn't take up gambling!) Ispent the final 15 years of myworking life with this firmand retired in 1988.

"After retirement, influ-

land. They fortunately es-caped the Oakland fire, buthad their valuables loaded inthe car, just in case.

"They have two livelygrandsons in Dallas, whomthey see several times a year.Other travels have includedmost of the states, Mexico,Hawaii and Canada, wherehis wife was born. He sendshis best regards to all formerclassmates."

James 0. Good writesfrom Roswell, Ga.: "Aftergraduation in 1942 I wentimmediately into the ArmyAir Corps, where I served untilMarch 1946. Upon release I

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"David wrote a column for the Houston Postfrom out here from 1984 until 1988. I edited itfor him. Whenever his Post editor found anerror David always blamed it on me, but thethree columns I wrote for him (he only paid mefor two) never had errors."

for glass reinforced resin com-posites. There I was granted apatent on a machine for mak-ing glass film/flake.

"Also in Hartford, I metand married ElizabethLoomis, a graduate of theUniversity of Wisconsin andthe widow of a former associ-ate at Emhart. She was alsothe motherofthree little boys.The oldest is now a geophysi-cist with Mobil Oil Co. inDallas, the second a crimi-nologist with the Los AngelesCrime Lab and the youngestworks in the refrigeration in-dustry. Our daughter, bornin Hartford, is completing herdoctoral dissertation inAmerican literature at theUniversity of California atBerkeley. She is married to aprofessor of medieval studiesat Cornell University inIthaca, N.Y., where they nowlive."When I completed the

Emhart project, we moved toClaremont, Calif , a nice littlecollege town some 30 mileseast of Los Angeles. We stilllive in the home we built in1959. For a period of fiveyears, I worked for Aerojet-General's structural materialsdepartment, where I contrib-uted to winding patterns forfilament-wound pressurevessels. While there, I did alot of proposal writing and

enced by my wife, a formerEnglish teacher, and an inter-est in phonetics, I volunteeredas a teacher of English as aSecond Language as well asin the literacy program. Thisled to my current writing of abook on phonetics for theliteracy impaired, many ofwhom simply cannot ̀ tern'English spelling."As for news of other

alumni I have run into, I metup with Neal Heaps andMorton King '43 at a designengineering show in NewYork City in 1957 andHarold "Dell" del Castillo'43 in the early 80's. Dellretired from his own air con-ditioning business and movedto Murrieta, Calif."A sad note: Walter

Brauer's sister wrote me thispast Christmas that Walter,who was in our class beforetransferring to the Universityof Oklahoma, died of leuke-mia last year.

"In the past year, I havetracked down Edward Kerr,whom I knew at San JacintoHigh School and who at-tended Rice in 1938. Edwardgraduated from Annapolisand had a career in naval avia-tion. We have had several visitswith Edward and his wife (aformer Wave officer, as wasmy wife), who now live inPiedmont, Calif , near Oak-

returned to Houston and re-turned to work with the RetailCredit Co., but almost im-mediately was transferred totheir home office in Atlanta.There I met a beautiful Geor-gia girl, Mary Partain. Wewere married in December1947, and we are still to-gether. We have two fine sonswho are also married, but nograndchildren as yet. Also in1947 I changed jobs andbecame a special agent forthe Northwestern MutualFire Assoc. I did stay in theAir Force reserve, and as 3consequence, was recalled toactive duty in 1951. Uponbecoming a regular officer in1958, I decided to make 3career of the military. After22 years of active service Iretired in 1969 and returnedto Atlanta. There I enteredthe insurance business asvice president of a major insurance agency. I retiredcompletely in 1984.

"Mary and I both enjoy'traveling. While in the see'vice, we had two tours lcEurope, at which time vicvisited most of the countrietof that continent. While ioEngland, we had the distineprivilege of attending tiltQueen's coronation in 1952'As of now we have visited

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ments of which I am mostProud is serving as the Com-mandant of the Old Guard ofthe Gate City Guard of At-lanta during 1991. This is aPrestigious semi-military or-ganization formed in 1854to protect Atlanta againstPossible invasion. (We failed!)To me this was really an honorand a most rewarding experi-ence. Finally, I have nevermade it to a class reunion soI am really looking forwardto this one."

Our congratulations toOna Joy Walton Terry whowas honored recently inStephenville as a Distin-guished Faculty member atthe annual Tarleton StateUniversity DistinguishedAlumni luncheon and againat the homecoming parade.In 1981 Joy established ascholarship program in honorother parents, John and RubyWalter, to deserving studentsinterested in chemistry. Joy'sformer student, astronaut Dr.Millie Hughes-Fulford, wasalso honored at the ceremonyas Tarleton State University's1990 Distinguished Alumna.Jo Y retired in 1979 from theschool's department ofPhysical sciences and receiveddesignation as Associate Pro-fessor Emeritus from theTexas A&/v1 University sys-tem at that time.

From Los Angeles, DorisWcstheirner writes the fol-lowing: "When I graduatedin June 19421 had been mar-ried one year. I went to joinrtlY husband, Able Kahn, whohad graduated from TexasAkM in 1941, been corn-Missioned a second lieutenantand was stationed at CampPolk, La. From there we,Moved to Palm Springs, Ca-lif., where he was on desertmaneuvers in the August heat,then to Pennsylvania, fromWhere he left for overseas withthe Third Armored Division.I then returned to Texas. Igave birth to my first son,Fred, in 1943, and 13 monthslater the telegram came thatAhie had been killed in theBattle of the Bulge. He was acaptain and company com-Mander and was AWOL fromthe hospital where he'd beenrecovering from wounds.

"Freddie and I lived withmy sister, Cissy Stern '38,and her family until I marriedbavid Westheimer '37. I'ddated David since my highschool days; our romance80ured when I asked him tohelp me correct a freshman

English theme at Rice and herefused. Let it be known Imade a "1" without him! Ialso had problems with an-other boyfriend, a biology labassistant, when I wouldn'ttouch a live demonstrationfrog, but that's another story.Five years later, in 1950, Ihad my second and last child,Eric."We lived in Houston

until 1951, when David, whohad been recalled to activeduty with the Air Force in1950, was transferred fromEllington Air Force Base tothe Pentagon. We bought ahouse in Falls Church, Va.,and before David left activeduty again in 1953, we vis-ited historic spots in theWashington area as well asNew York and Canada. It wasa wonderful experience. Ieven taught school. For threedays! And that's anotherstory."On our way back to

Houston in the summer of1953 we drove to Key Westand from there flew to Ha-vana for several days. Backthen it was beautiful and safe.

"David went back to workfor the Houston Post and Iwent to work at the BrownBook Shop, where I oftenentertained regular custom-ers by arguing with the boss.

"In 1961 we moved toLos Angeles into a spaciousapartment that had just beenbuilt. We are still there, whichis unusual because out hereeveryone seems to move ev-ery few months (I know ourson Fred did before he gotmarried). I became very in-terested in Planned Parent-hood when they started a LosAngeles chapter, volunteeredand worked in their clinic forover 10 years. Until I retiredI served as registrar, lecturerand doctor's assistant. Davidsaid I was an NRN. Non-registered nurse. To this daypeople, mostly senior citizens,call me and ask about medi-cine and medical problems.My advice to them is alwaysthe same: 'Call your doctor.'I'm not an active club mem-ber but pay my dues and givemy support to a number oforganizations. Also I help se-nior citizens (even moresenior than I am) on a volun-teer basis, helping with anAlzheimer patient once aweek and shopping and run-ning errands for two otherbldtimers.'

"David wrote a columnfor the Houston Post from outhere from 1984 until 1988.1edited it for him. Wheneverhis Post editor found an errorDavid always blamed it onme, but the three columns I

wrote for him (he only paidme for two) never had errors.

"Fred, our 'city boy,' is asenior vice president at theWilliam Morris TalentAgency in Beverly Hills. Eric,our 'country boy,' is a veteri-narian with his own animalhospital in Goleta, Calif , asmall town 10 miles north ofSanta Barbara.We have five grandchil-

dren. Three are Fred's. Theoldest is a rock drummer whoalso has a daytime job. Themiddle one is getting herPh.D. in psychology and theyoungest is a freshman at theBoston Museum ofFine Arts.FLASH! While I was writingthis, her mother phoned tosay she just had a call fromBoston announcing that inthree hours, our grand-daughter is flying to Paris witha French classmate and threeother classmates. Know any-body at Rice who ever didthat? Eric's older child is asophomore in high schooland a budding writer (I keeptelling her she better have aday job to go along with it),and her younger brother isinto rollerblading and playstrumpet in his school band."Some of my friends say I

'talk funny' because of my so-called Texas accent. If I haveone, I blame it on my sister,because we talk on the phoneat least twice a week.

"It's been an interestingand exciting life, especiallywith David's writing careerand zest for life. We've trav-eled extensively throughMexico, Europe and Japan.But still haven't been toNashville. We have to get ourcountry music on cassettesand radio."

Doris tells me that she andDavid will both be coming tothe reunion as it will beDavid's 55th. She is lookingforward to seeing her class-mates, especially DcmarisDeLinge Hudspeth, becauseshe is the only one in the classthat Doris has gone to schoolwith from elementary schoolthrough Rice.

From Jim Chudleigh:"After graduation from Ricewith a B.S. in E.E. I went towork in the Pasadena, Texas,shipyard doing marine elec-trical installation for ToddShipbuilding. After fourmonths, I joined the ArmyAir Force, where I served formore than three years. Radiooperator school was the firstassignment and aftercompletion, was assigned tothe aircraft radio laboratoryat Wright Field, Ohio, doingtesting on aircraft radio andradar equipment and otherspecial projects.

"While serving in the AirForce at Wright Field, I metmy wife, Mary Bellware, fromDayton, Ohio. We were mar-ried in March 1946 andrecently celebrated our 46thanniversary. We have adaughter, two sons and ninegrandchildren. Our daugh-ter, Kathy, is a registered nursein Killeen, Texas. The oldestson is an M.D. in family prac-tice in Denver City, Texas,and Stephen is a lawyer ingeneral law with his office inFriendswood, Texas.

"I worked as electricalengineer for Houston Light-ing & Power Co. for aboutthree years from 1948 tosummer of 1950, when Istarted work at Brown &Root, Inc. During the 35years at B&R, I worked onmany construction projectsas electrical designer andelectrical supervisor and fre-quently assisted in fieldstart-up at completion ofconstruction."Some of the projects

included automated opera-tions and remote control viamicrowave system communi-cation. Automated enginesand natural gas turbines wereused as prime movers on com-pressors and pumps fornatural gas and liquid petro-leum pipeline systems. Otherprojects included liquid natu-ral gas plants and storage forLNG; deep water drilling plat-form, self propelled and withpositioning equipment tomaintain position without an-chors; underwater pipelinesand loading docks for petro-leum products and highvisibility crude oil; and Arcticpipeline facilities."The last project before

retirement was the design ofelectrical power generation,transmission lines, wells andpump stations for a 600-milewater pipeline in Libya. I re-tired from Brown 8t Root onJanuary 1, 1986; the waterproject started up in 1991."

Class Recorder:Peggy Johnston Gibbons629 Sandy Mountain Dr.Sunrise Beach, TX 78643(915) 388-6659

Class recorder PeggyJohnston Gibbons writes:

In February HesterStewart Allen of Memphis,Tenn., brought grand-daughter, Hester, to thecampus for her piano audi-

tion at the Shepherd Schoolof Music.

Wallace Chappell, newlynamed vice president ofcom-munity relations of LomasMortgage Corp., is off onanother bicycle ride for char-ity in May, pedalling fromDallas to Iowa City, wherehis nephew, Wally Chappell,is a member of the faculty ofthe University of Iowa. Hisgoal is to raise $40,000 forRESTART, a program tore-train the unemployed. Lastyear's bike ride, from Dallasto Gunnison, Cob., was thesubject of an article in DallasLift Magazine earlier thisyear. In March, Wally and hiswife, Steil, spent a week inFlorida, taking in Epcot Cen-ter at Orlando, EvergladesNational Park, Key West andNASA.

Also visiting in Floridawere Catherine CoburnHannah and David '44, andElizabeth Philbrook Rackand Hap '38.

This Valentine's Day mes-sage from John Leedom:"After much prayerfulthought and at the urging ofmany fine friends, I have an-nounced again to run forTexas State Senator for the16th District." His electioncampaign, if any, is quitelaidback—he's running un-opposed.

Here's a family that virtu-ally sprang from Rice roots:Pat Crady Zumwalt andFrank '41 are the first ofthreegenerations of Riceites. Theirdaughter, Letitia ZumwaltClark '67 (Jones), is a fed-eral bankruptcy judge for theSouthern District of Texas.Herdaughter is Letitia TaitteMinnotte '93 (Baker), whosefather is Lawson Taitte '66(Baker) of Rice college bowlfame, and whose husband isMichael Minnotte '89(Wiess), a graduate fellow instatistics at Rice. "QuiteRicey" is Pat's apt comment.The Zumwalts' son, Frank, isa civilian chief engineer onUSN ships.

The trek out to my ruralmailbox requires shoes andother conventional attire.Won't you make the effortworthwhile by sending meyour news?

James J. Sparks writes: "Myyoungest son, Richard G.Sparks, will enter the Univer-sity of Texas Dental Collegeat Houston this July. He hasworked at Dental World inWebster, Texas, for threeyears as a dental technician.He did his academic work atthe University of Houston."

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Class Recorder:Larry Hermes2028 Albans RoadHouston, TX 77005(713) 529-2009

Class Recorder:Jack Joplin5001 Woodway Drive, Ph 1Houston, TX 77056-1707(713) 960-1582 (home)(713) 498-6331 (office)

Virginia Elverson recentlypublished her third cook-book, Gulf Coast Cooking:Seafood from the Florida Keysto the Yucatan Peninsula.

Headrick, accompanying1955 alums JosephineMuller Shanks, Pam RileySmith, Nancy MooreEubanks and AdeleHestwood Pieper. The"flower girls" will stay at theLaceys' (Neal '52 and SarahLuger '55 Lacey) newly pur-chased home in Hunt.

Ann Krachy and JohnLyle are still in Brisbane,Australia, where John worksfor Chevron. They spent theirlast vacation in CrocodileDundee country.

Paul Cochran movedfrom Dallas in 1976 to To-peka, Kan., where he practicesinternal medicine at theMenninger Clinic. He's mar-ried to Mary, a nurse at thelocal women's health center.Paul Jr. is a chemical engi-neer who works in Houstonat Set Point, and his daugh-

backward and have the scarsto prove it. The next well isgoing to hit, I guarantee it."Bill's daughter, KathlaynAnne '92 (Will Rice), gradu-ates from Rice in May. Hisson, Chris, works with him,Billy is a banker in Fort Lau-derdale and Jimbo graduatesfrom Tulane Law School thisspring. Bill promises to makeour next reunion.

In January, Texas Instru-ments Board of Directorselected Gloria McDermittShatto a director. She is alsoon the boards of K-Mart,Becton Dickinson, the South-ern Company and NationsBank of Georgia. In 1991,Gloria was appointed to theGeorgia Governor's Com-mission on Economy andEfficiency in State Govern-ment. Rice named Gloria aDistinguished Alumna in

Warren Jaycox was a teacher, principal andsuperintendent in Sonoma, Calif., until he got"tired of bleeding and quit." Warren says that ifhe were going to "work that hard with that muchgrief," he'd work for himself. He now conductsgroup tours of Europe, which feature seeingsmall towns from a van on the back roads.

Class Recorder:Emily Butler Osbom54 Lake Rd.P. 0. Box 537Lake Jackson, TX 77566

Class Recorder:Mary Anne CollinsP.O. Box 271Hunt, TX 78024

Class recorder Mary AnneCollins writes:

What a beautiful springwe're having in the HillCountry. Redbuds andmountain laurel are bloom-ing as they never have before.Flowers should be spectacu-lar. Coming in April to seethe flowers are classmatesMary Lou Brown Rapsonand Dorthyle Nicholl

ter, Kay Cochran '87, is amusician (viola) at the Uni-versity of Lethbridge inAlberta.

Warren Jaycox was ateacher, principal and super-intendent in Sonoma, Calif.,until he got "tired of bleed-ing and quit." Warren saysthat ifhe were going to "workthat hard with that muchgrief," he'd work for himself.He now conducts group toursof Europe, which feature see-ing small towns from a van onthe back roads. Several yearsago, Warren received the Le-gion of Merit for his work asnational coordinator for uti-lizing the talents of MarineCorps reserve officers.

Bill Bullen writes fromLafayette that he's workingon his life's ambition: to be ahappy old man with no re-grets. Bill struck out on hisown 27 years ago as an oillease broker and well pro-moter. He says, "I've beenthrough a lot of knot holes

1987. Gloria is president ofBarry College in Rome, Ga.Dan Winship was hon-

ored as a DistinguishedAlumnus of the UT MedicalBranch at Galveston at their1992 commencement thisMay. Dan is dean of LoyolaMedical School in Chicago.Previously, he was medicaldirector of the Veterans Ad-ministration in Washington,D.C. He has served in medi-cal schools at Yale, Marquette,University of Utah and theUniversity of Missouri.

Many of us will turn up azero this year: the big 60.What are your plans for yourbig birthday?

Class Recorder:Maurine Bybee3800 Chevy ChaseHouston, TX 77019(713) 522-3705

Thomas L. McKittrick hasbeen named vice president ofthe National American Insti-tute of Architects. He is aprofessor of environmentaldesign at Texas A&M.

Rafael E. Ubico has beennamed director of the Uni-versity ofTulsa's informationservices division, which pro-vides petroleum abstractsservice to the oil and gas in-dustry.

Terry L. Henshaw is a con-sulting engineer specializingin centrifugal and reciprocat-ing pumps. He conductsseminars for manufacturersand users of pumps and pro-vides consultation tocompanies that produce anduse pumps and related equip-ment. Terry has beenemployed by Ingersoll-Randand Union Pump in NewYork, Houston and BattleCreek, Mich., and has servedas sales engineer, man-ager, reciprocating pumpsmanager, research and devel-opment and engineeringconsultant. He is a registeredprofessional engineer in Texasand Michigan.

Fred Stalkup is a senior re-search advisor in the researchand technical services depart-ment of Arco Oil & Gas Co.He recently addressed theReservoir Study Group of thePermian Basin of the Societyof Petroleum Engineers inMidland, Texas.

1!151iClass Recorder:Phyllis Walton4233 Harpers Ferry RoadBirmingham, AL 35213(205) 870-0332

William Barnett has beenelected 1992 chairman of theGreater Houston Partner-ship. He is the managingpartner of Baker & Botts andhas been with the law firm for33 years.

Class Recorder:Tommie Lu Maulsby2256 ShakespeareHouston, TX 77030(713) 664-5042

Harry Reasoner has beenelected to the Board ofTrust-ees of Baylor College ofMedicine in Houston.

Madelyn Gail MartinMilton (M.A.) is now a pro-gram coordinator in thePerforming Arts Division ofMid-American Arts Alliancein Kansas City.

William A. Preston Jr.(Hanszen) is now districtcounsel for the VA in Boise,Idaho.

Class Recorder:Nancy Burch3311 Stoney BrookHouston, TX 77063(713) 781-3634

Robert F. Montgomery en-joyed seeing everyone at the30th class reunion and alsoenjoyed the alumni tennistournament.

Barry and Martha LeeBarnes (both Baker) writefrom Vienna, where they havelived for the past 10 years.Barry was recently named unithead of the procedures devel-opment and documenta-tion unit in the InstrumentDevelopment Section of theInternational Atomic EnergyAgency (IAEA), an appoint-ment carrying diplomaticrank. After receiving a Ph.D.in physics from Rice in 1965,he was with Los Alamos Na-tional Laboratory in NewMexico and the University ofLowell in Massachusetts be-fore moving to Austria to jointhe Safeguards Departmentof the IAEA.

Martha received her M.S.in biology from Rice in 1965and an M.S. in computer sci-ence from the University ofNew Mexico in 1980. She iscurrently deputy chief of Fi-nancial Management ofTechnical Organization(UNIDO) in Vienna, whereshe has worked for eight yearsin the computer and financialservices departments. Prior to

moving abroad, she worked

for the Los Alamos NationalLaboratory and DanielWebsterAeronautical Collegein Nashua, N.H.The Barnes' three children

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Walter E. Dickenson hasmoved to Albuquerque,N.M., where he is chief ofsurgery at the VA MedicalCenter and professor of sur-gery at the University of NewMexico School of Medicine.Prior to his leaving Amarillo,the Don and Sybil HarringtonCancer Center established theWalter E. Dickenson Lecture-ship in Surgical Oncology inhis honor.

hfines McCullar (Baker) hasdcsigned New York City'sfirSt major indoor-outdoorfarmer's market. James says itWas a challenge to design afarmer's market in the middleof a densely populated urbancenter. Now he'd like to try°Ile in Texas.

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kobe„ rt L. Clarke ( Hanszen)resigned as Comptroller ofthc Currency on February 29

and returned to Bracewell &

Patterson, where I head thefirm's national and interna-tional financial servicespractice. I will be based inboth the firm's Washingtonand Houston offices."

After 26 years with IBM, BobHayes (Hanzsen) has retiredfrom his position as managerof custom product develop-ment and joined SAIC(Science Application Interna-tional Corporation), a leadingprofessional service company.He and wife, Shirley '65(Jones), enjoy living in BocaRaton, Fla.

Cynthia Lyle (Jones) writes:"David Young '70 (Ph.D.)and I were married August18,1990—the joyous conse-quence of our Riceassociation. We were intro-duced long distance by myfriend, Mimi WoodallRoland, and David's friend,Richard Juday, who eventu-ally served as matron oflionorand best man at our weddinghere in San Antonio's his-toric Little Church in LaVillita. Other Rice folkpresent were Jim Burch '68(Ph.D.) and his wife, Kathy,Doug Harlan, Rose PhelanGraham and Tom Graham'62 and my son, DanielSwim '93. Another strangecoincidence is that Davidworked for seven years in myhometown, Los Alamos,N.M. David holds the rank ofInstitute Scientist at South-west Research Institute andrecently was selected as prin-cipal investigator for theplasma instrument onNASA's Cassini mission toSaturn. I work in public rela-tions at USAA, havingpreviously left academia formanagement training. In thebest Rice tradition, the wed-ding was just one part of afour-day party."

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Stephen Stow (Ph.D.) hasbeen appointed secretary-treasurer for the newly formededucation division of theGeological Society ofAmerica. Stephen is with OakRidge National laboratory'sEnvironmental Sciences Di-vision.

James E. Bailey (Will Rice)received the 1991 Food,Pharmaceutical and Bioengi-neering Division Awardpresented by the Ameri-can Institute of ChemicalEngineers to recognizeoutstanding chemical engi-neering contributions andachievements by an individualin industries involved in food,pharmaceutical and bioengi-neering activities. Jim hasauthored more than 200 pub-lications in the field ofbiochemical reaction engi-neering—the study andoptimization of chemical re-actions found in cells used tomanufacture pharmaceuticalsand food components.

A.M. "Art" Dowell III(VViess) won the William H.Doyle Award at the 25thAnnual Loss Prevention Sym-posium sponsored by theAlChE, for presentation of apaper entitled "Flashbackfrom Waste Gas Incineratorinto Air Supply Piping."

Roberta L. Nutt (Jones) hasbeen appointed by Gov. AnnRichards to the Texas StateBoard of Examiners of Psy-chologists. Nutt is Professorof Psychology at TexasWoman's University.

, „Mike Inselmann (Will Rice)is president of AmericanMetro/Study, which doesreal estate market research andhousing trends. Mike is a pri-mary source oflexas housingdata for the National Asso-ciation of Home Builders.

Class Recorder:Judy Malo Ragland209 Palm AireFriendswood, TX 77546

VVilliant B. Russell (Baker),professor and chair of chemi-cal engineering at PrincetonUniversity, is the 1992 LaceyLecturer at CalTech and Ma-son Lecturer at StanfordUniversity.

David L. Anderson (Baker)was named co-winner of theRobert H. Ferrell Book Prizefor 1992, given by the Soci-ety for Historians ofAmerican

Foreign Relations, for hiswork Trapped by Success: TheEisenhower Administrationand Vietnam, 1953-1961.Anderson chairs the depart-ment of history and politicalscience at the University ofIndianapolis.

Class Recorder:Kathleen Callaway8, rue Leon Blum33400 TalenceFrance

Ron Bozman ( Hanszen) wasone of the producers of Si-lence ofthe Lambs, which wonAcademy Awards for best pic-ture, best screenplay, bestactor, best actress and bestproducers.

Richard H. Wittman (WillRice) received the Presiden-tial Award for Excellence inScience and MathematicsTeaching, funded by the Na-tional Science Foundation.He teaches mathematics atGlenville High School inCleveland, Ohio.

ll171Lista Duren (Brown) is aproject manager for Bolt,Beranek & Newman in Cam-bridge, Mass. She is also anavid scuba diver, dive in-structor and underwaterphotographer. She dives thefrigid waters ofNew England,but travels to warmer watersas often as possible.

Abraham Delgado (Baker)and Deborah HarveyDelgado '73 (Jones) write:"We're happy to be back inAustin where we plan to raiseour two children, Joey, 7,and Madelaine, 5."

David Ownby (Hanszen)"moved back to Houston in1987 after 14 years in Dallasand Tulsa with wife, Kathleen,and daughter, Emily, who isa sophomore at Lamar HighSchool. Started Ownby &Associates, Inc., an oil andgas marketing and consult-ing company, located in thePhoenix Tower, Suite 3300,3200 Southwest Freeway, af-ter four years as vice presidentof refined fuels with Enron

Corporation. Son, Dan, re-cently graduated fromOklahoma State Universityand is working in the familybusiness. Enjoy living in WestUniversity and attending Ricesporting events. Also partici-pating in men's senior leaguebaseball."

John Hardy Williams passedaway Friday, February 7, inhis sleep. A memorial servicewas held in Golden Gate ParkFebruary 9. During his se-nior year at Rice, Hardy wasthe Owl mascot at footballgames (he may have been thefirst human version of themascot, at least in recent his-tory).

Mike Donnell (Wiess) writes:"Since leaving Rice 20 yearsago, I've acquired threegraduate degrees and threechildren. At this point, I havemy own software R&D firm,specializing in expert systemsand decision-support systems.I'm also an engineering pro-fessor at George WashingtonUniversity in D.C. and onlyneed to do my internship tofinish my training in clinicalpsychology. I'd love to hearfrom old fiends. My newaddress is 6424 GeorgetownPike, McLean, VA 22101."

Gayle Woodson (Jones)writes: "I'm still at UC-SanDiego, but on the road twoor three times a month. Listyear, I was named to the pro-gram advisory committee ofthe National Institute onDeafness and Communica-tive Disorders, but I will soonbe stepping down from thatto serve on the NIH Sensoryand Language DisordersStudy section. Last fall, I co-chaired a working group atthe NIDCD on Women'sHealth Issues. This was a greatopportunity to meet manywomen researchers in medi-cal and social sciences, as well

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as scholars in the field ofwomen's studies."My 9-year-old son's pi-

ano teacher is a recent Ricegraduate, Lori Bastien '89(Jones), and she is a marvel-ous teacher!"

Jon Glazier (Hanszen) andwife, Susan Davis Glazier'73 (Brown), write: "Afteralmost 20 years in law firms,I have become a client. I amnow Association Counsel atthe National Rural ElectricCooperative Association, theWashington-based trade as-sociation for rural electriccoops, including many inTexas. Susan's aerobics dancecompany has weathered therecession, and she has beguntutoring in our local elemen-tary school. Our boys, Martin,7, and Gregory, 3, continueto amaze, exasperate, age andrejuvenate us both."

Rod Barnes (Wiess) is cur-rently teaching history andsocial studies in a Dallas-areaschool.

Rob Quartel (Hanszen),who directed the domesticpolicy operations in GeorgeBush's 1980 presidentialcampaign and was seniorpolicyadvisor to Bush-Quaylein 1988, was confirmed asFederal Maritime Commis-sioner. Rob is recognized asan expert in national trans-portation and regulatorypolicy.

Larry Lake (Ph.D.) writes:"lam about midway throughan academic career at theUniversity ofTexas. I am chairof the petroleum engineer-ing department and havepublished one textbook andedited two others on oil re-covery. Would love to hearfrom fellow classmates at Riceduring 1968-72."

Elsa Redmond (Brown) andher husband, Charles Spen-cer '72 (Lovett), now headthe Department of Meso-American Archaeology at theAmerican Museum of Natu-ral History in New York.

Rice alumni in the Anchor-age area gathered at a localsports bar to watch the Ricebasketball team demolish theUniversity of Texas on na-tional TV. Gleefully enjoying

the event were David Norton(Hanszen), Jed Chamber-lain '90 (Wiess), GeorgeNagel (Wiess), John Groth'77 (Baker), and his fiancee,Brenna Surritt (fromStanford), Ken Lawler '89(Jones), Ward Polzin '86(MBA), Paul Hain '91(Jones), Rod Larson '82(Lovett), Cristina DeRienzo'91 (Sid Rich), ToddTorcz,on '88 (Brown) andMaureen Johnson '91(Ph.D.).

After serving as the presidentof Rice Alumni in Dallas(RAID) last year, CathyKeneda made a smooth (andexperienced) transition intoher latest voluntary positionas President of the DallasChapter of the Institute ofInternal Auditors. "While mytenure has been a rewardingendeavor, I'm looking for-ward to its end, hoping thatthe free time will afford methe opportimity to do a littlemore recreational traveling.Having just passed the Certi-fied Internal Auditorexamination (that's a CIAafter my CPA), I am consid-ering starting a group calledCertification Exam TakersAnonymous. Fellow alums,please ring mc up sometimeand save me from this addic-tion."

David Norton has been ap-pointed to the Alaska StateWater Resources Board byGov. Walter Hickcl. TheBoard advises the governoron water policy issues andoversees the state Depart-ments of Natural Resourcesand Environmental Conser-vation. Dave works forAlycska Pipeline Service Co.,operators of the trans-Alaskapipeline, and was projectmanager for a major expan-sion ofthe tanker ballast watertreatment plant at Alyeska'smarine terminal at Valdez.He was assisted by LeslieBush '92, who worked as anengineering aide for two sum-mers on the project. Theproject was the subject of arecent cover article in thejournal of the Water Envi-ronment Federation.

Sharon Perry (Jones) writes:"I have recently restructuredmy architectural practice andjoined forces with anotherRice grad, Louise Girard '88(Baker), to form the designfirm of Perry & Girard. Ourarea of interest continues tobe residential work, both ar-chitectural and interiordesign. Other recent com-missions include restaurantsand executive office projects.

We have a third Rice grad,Diane Harkins Modesett'90 (M.Arch.), working withus, so three decades of Riceexperience are represented."

Teveia R. Barnes ( Baker) hasbeen promoted to senior vicepresident and associate gen-eral counsel of Bank ofAmerica in San Francisco. Shejoined the bank's legal de-partment in New York andhas been head of that officesince 1989. She will manage29 lawyers in the world bank-ing group, with offices in NewYork, Los Angeles, Chicago,Miami, London, Singaporeand San Francisco.

Scott Hochberg is the 1992Democratic candidate forTexas State Representative inHouston's District 132. Thedistrict includes Rice.

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Michael A. Freney (Ph.D.)has been named Director ofthe Space Policy Program atthe United States SpaceFoundation in Jamestown,RI.

Bruce (Sid Rich) and EllenGoins Marcus (Baker)moved in January to Glencoe,Ill., to be closer to VVTTVV,Channel 11, where Bruce issenior vice president of mar-keting and communications.Evan, 11, Lauren, 6, and Jor-dan, 4, are all adjusting well.They would love to hear fromany other "Leeds-era SidRichardsonites."

Jeffrey 0. Rose (Will Rice)has joined Pacific SouthwestBank, Houston, as vice presi-dent in the commerciallending division. During 14years in banking, he has servedas president of Texas Com-merce Bank, Greenway Plaza,and Texas Commerce Bank,Chemical. He also served asexecutive vice president forTeam Bank, Houston.

Linda Lee Tavel (Jones) hasjoined the department offam-ily medicine at Scott 8cWhite/Johns Clinic and wasappointed as an assistant pro-fessor at the Texas A8cMUniversity Health ScienceCenter. She and her husband,Dr. Charles Miller, have adaughter.

Jon Barrilleaux (Wiess)writes: "Wanting to make abreak from the hum-drumlife as a research scientist inSan Jose, Calif—the heart ofAmerica's Silicon Valley—Ijoined a start-up company andmoved to Bangalore,Karnatika—the heart ofIndia's Silicon Valley—in thefall of 1990. After many trialsand tribulations I concludedthat 'India is a great place tovisit but I don't want to workhere,' and returned home lastsummer. I am now recover-ing and continuing to absorbthe cosmic significance ofthatexperience while working asa systems engineering con-sultant for Loral Systems inSan Jose, Calif. I plan to trymy hand at another, moretraditional start-up, by mar-rying my fiancee this fall, aftershe graduates with her MBAfrom Berkeley and gets a job."

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Alan Burdick (M.Mus.)writes: "Since November1990, I have been music di-

rector and conductor of theSouth Arkansas Symphony inEl Dorado. My wife, Greta, isartist-in-education on violinand associate concertmasterof the symphony. Our 2-year-old, Jayne Anne, can workthe remote control on thetelevision set and feed herselfwhen she feels like it."

Geoff Vogel (Will Rice)writes: "A few of us from1979 are still in Houston andstill in the oil business—de-spite a decade now of lessthan boom times. I work forChevron as a quality-controlspecialist, overseeing a seis-mic acquisition. Field workkeeps me in Nigeria six orseven months a year. Whatbecame of my old geologyclassmates? Drop me a line. Ifinally figured out geophys-ics!"

Kathy Collmer (Brown)writes: "Although I enjoyedmy job as assistant editor ofSouthwest Art magazine, I fi-nally left the violent crime,toxic pollutants and franticcongestion of Houston inFebruary 1990, to seek ahealthier life in rural Kansas.I found it. I applied and wasaccepted for a one-year in-ternship at The Land Institutein Salina, where I did researchon ecologically sustainableagriculture. During my in-ternship, I got involved withthe struggle to stop the U.S.Army's proposed takeover of100,000 acres of Kansas farmand ranch land. At one of thestrategy sessions, I met JimScharplaz, a former engineerwho now farms full-time nearSalina. To make a long storyextremely short, we weremarried in August 1991 -Nancy Falgout, CarolCameron '78 and KathYPool Colon '81 (all Brown)came to Kansas for the wed-ding, as did friends and familyfrom Dallas. These days, I'ma full-time freelance writer,farm wife and activist. Muchof my work aims at educatingpeople about the damages toour health and our socierYthat result from corporateconcentration in the foodsystem. I promote alterna-tives in my articles andthrough my involvement withthe Kansas Rural Center, thePrairieland Food Cooperativeand the Kansas FarmersUnion."

Yazmin Kahn Lemenage(Brown) married Marl,Lemenager on July 28,1990,and is now working as a schoolpsychologist ins rural school60 miles south of Minneapo•lis/St. Paul.

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Mark Edward Brennan(Lovett) writes:: "After threeYears of suckling at the swol-len, distended teat ofcorporate America, I havetaken leave of GE to return toPrivate practice and tilting atMndmills."

Class Recorder:Richard Morris9555 CloverdaleSan Antonio, TX 78250(512) 523-1820 (home)(512) 342-6063 (work)

In the February issue ofS4Ilyporr, Wes Hansen's(Lovett) corporation was in-correctly identified as WncSal's. It should have been WrySaps.

bavid Luneau (Lovett)Writes "to inform you ofsomerecent accomplishments(that's what I call them, any-WaY) in my life. My wife, Terri,t.,,o kids (Andrea, 7, and

5), and I left Houstonalld NASA in 1986 after fiveYears in the area. I have beenworking with AT&T in LittleNock for the past five years.'This school year I have

taken a leave of absence fromAT&T in order to be a visit-"8 professor thr in e college ofsell

ierice and engineering tech-"c'logy at the University ofikr, sas at Little Rock. So

good.'Earlier this year I was

Tyco the Fred M. Carter"ward for making the high-et8t grade on the Professional

rigineering examination inthe state ofArkansas in 1990."

Class Recorder:B. David Brent333 Julia Street, #310New Orleans, LA 70130(504) 581-1805 (home)(504) 588-5314 (work)

Marion M. Wilson (Jones)writes: "My husband, BartGryzalski, teaches philosophyat Northeastern University inBoston. We are in northernCalifornia until September onsabbatical. He is writing abook on environmental eth-ics, and I am writing a bookon the hospice that I foundedat Texas Medical Center."

Mary Hunter Ortiz (Baker)is teaching eighth-grade sci-ence at Shirley Hall MiddleSchool in Weatherford ISD.She married Hector R. Ortizin July 1990, and they havebeen in the Fort Worth-Weatherford area for about ayear.

Eric Van Os (Lovett) writes:"After finishing my internalmedicine residency in 1988at U.T. Health Science Cen-ter in San Antonio, I spentthree months as a generalmedical officer at a missionhospital in Kenya, East Af-rica. This was a challengingand life-changing experience.Upon return to San Antonio,I joined the faculty of themedical school in the generalmedicine division. In this ca-pacity, I helped supervise theinternal medicine part of thecounty hospital emergencyroom. Though stressful attimes, I enjoyed the teachingand patient care. Beginningin July 1992,Iwill be movingto Minnesota to pursue athree-year fellowship in gas-troenterology. After 19 yearsin Texas, this will be quite achange.

"I had the honor of beingin Walt Sumner's (Sid Rich)wedding and recently visitedhim and his wife, Carla, inHanover, N.H., where heis doing a fellowship incomputer applications inmedicine. I also visited JoeKelley (Lovett) and his fam-ily in Albuquerque, N.M., lastyear."

Matthew G. Dore (WillRice) has been namedshareholder in the Austin,Texas, law firm of Graves,Dougherty, Hearon &Moody.

Timothy Haney (Wiess)writes: "I was promoted tosupervisor of the engineer-ing/scientific workstationproducts group at Shell. Wemoved into a new home inNovember and had our sec-ond child in January."

Ronald Mann (Sid Rich) iscurrently assistant to the So-licitor General of the UnitedStates in Washington, D.C.He began serving in the So-licitor General's office inMarch 1991 and plans to re-main there for three to fiveyears, until his return to theHouston law firm of Dow,Cogburn & Friedman inHouston.

Rev. Dr. Leonora Mont-gomery and the members ofthe congregation of the BayArea Unitarian Fellowshiphave recently moved into theirnew structure in Webster,Texas.

Susan S. Woodard (Baker)writes: "I have taken a breakfrom my career as a D.J. Sincethe birth of my first child, Ihave been busy taking him tosee relatives—his 97-year-oldgreat-grandfather in Tulsa,

Okla., and his grandparentsin New Mexico. As my par-ents have recently moved toSanta Fe, my only reason tovisit Houston now is to seefriends from Rice. Anyonegoing to Homecoming '92and a 10-year reunion?"

Susan Biela Reinhard (WillRice) writes: "Promoted tostaff manufacturing engineerat I BM, Austin, Texas, whereI work in the early manufac-turing involvement depart-ment in the printed circuitboard plant—we performdesign reviews of new carddesigns."

Nancy Rapoport (Jones)writes: "On December 28,Ronald J. Mann (Sid Rich)and Allison DeKunder weremarried in Houston. I hadthe honor of being the bestman /honor attendant (Whatdo you call a female best man?We still haven't figured it out,but it worked, whatever I wascalled). David Dow (Baker)and Yen Johnson '85 (SidRich) were also among theushers. Tom Tillotson '83(Sid Rich) and Amy Wig,gs'85 (Lovett) did a beautifuljob performing the music forthe wedding. Other Rice folkscame to the wedding and re-ception. It was really nice toget together with everyone.Ronald and Allison took timeout for a short honeymoon,and they have settled in Wash-ington, where they are bothworking for the federal gov-ernment."

Lt. Harold Laurence (SidRich) writes from Bremerton,Wash.: "I have recently com-pleted my third patrol as theStrategic Weapons Officer onthe USS Florida. (That'sright, I've had my finger onthe nuclear war button forthe last two years. Nowdoesn't that make all of youfeel safe?) The ship and crewwere selected as the 1991Battle Efficiency "E" andMarjorie Sterrett Award win-ner. That means we were thehighest rated submarine onthe entire west coast, and wearc quite proud of that ac-complishment.

"I was glad to see theSallyport article about myformer college master, Dr.Martin, who wrote a biogra-phy of Dr. Billy Graham. Dr.Graham came to Seattle thisyear and I had the privilege tobe one of his Crusade Coun-selors. It was an encouragingexperience. As Dr. Martinpoints out, Dr. Graham is avery respectable man andsets a solid standard ofChristlikeness.

"My time is currently be-ing taken up in making a bedout of purpleheart wood formy two-year-old son, Hal.Kids are great and I highlyrecommend some for everyfamily!"

Deron S. Miller (Will Rice)writes: "I was promoted frombusiness development man-ager at Aetch, Inc., andmoved to corporate head-quarters in San Diego, Calif ,to become vice president ofsales. Originally worked outofthe regional office in Phila-delphia, Pa."

Mike Lieb (Lovett) writes:"Hey, gang. I've recently fin-ished my MHA at TrinityUniversity in San Antonio,and I'm now doing an ad-ministrative residency here atParkland Hospital in Dallas.I've seen a lot of Rice gradshere, including Ann Friauf'84, Joe Veltri '84, BillMoebius '82 ( all Lovett), andLoy '84 and Shelley Harris(both Jones). Anyone elsehere in Dallas—look me up."

Brett Phillips (Wiess) mar-ried Martha Asaff onNovember 23. Best man wasJames Murray '85 (Wiess).Brett is working as an indus-trial hygienist with LoftinEnvironmental Services inAlbuquerque, N.M.

Victoria G. K. Rizey(M.Arch.) writes: "I have anarchitectural practice in Wash-ington, D.C., in partnershipwith my husband, Douglas.The firm, Rixey-Rixey Archi-tects, recently won a SouthernLiving Home Award for anew house in Richmond,Va."

Robert Stone (Jones) writes:"After receiving my MBAfrom Georgetown in May1991, I rejoined Dow Jones& Co. as manager of NorthAsia, based in Tokyo. I hopeany Rice friends passingthrough this part of the worldwill get in touch with me."

Russell S. Buhite (Baker)writes: "I married PatriciaBecker in Tampa, Fla., onMay 25, 1991. Attendingwere Becky Nelson '86,Phillip Chase '86, ArtRabeau '86, Steve Vobach'85 and Mike Alford '85 (all

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Baker). I joined the law firmof Fowler, White, et al., as anassociate in the insurance liti-gation department."

Grace-Marie Brown (Baker)married Randall Bennett KolbFebruary 1 in St. Cyril ofAlexandria Church. SharonHughes Tuttle and Eliza-beth Hazlewood Leight( both Baker) were honor at-tendants.

Gonzalo M. Garcia (Lovett)writes: "In March 1991,changed jobs and went towork for an affiliate of BlueCross/Blue Shield of theNational Capital area as di-rector of sales. Saw JoeDavidson (Lovett) in NewYork in February and Mich-elle "Billie" Fitzpatrick( Jones) and her husband,Mike Lardon (Lovett), inSan Diego in March.

Nancy Burns Felts(M.Arch.) has been promotedto associate with TRO/ThcRitchie Organization, archi-tects, which specializes in theplanning and design ofhealthcare and related facilities.

Class Recorder:David Phillips6013 Ridgeview DriveAlexandria, VA 22310(703) 960-9249

Boris Jezic (Wiess) writes:"Went to Holland a fewweeks ago hoping tomeet L.A. lawyer JoeDavidson '84 (Lovett) andget 'Amsterdamaged' tocele-brate the EuropeanCommunity's January 15 rec-ognition of Croatia. Due tosome logistical failure wedidn't hookup, but we talkedon the phone. Last year'sbloody war in Croatia hasbeen a real crisis for my lovedones. I hope that the UnitedStates will soon followEurope's lead and follow thisinitiative to support freedom

and democracy in Europe.Next week I'll be in Zagrebto visit my grandparents inEurope's newest capital city.Living in Germany, I've alsoseen the reunification firsthand, and now Croatia is itsown country. Unreal. This isworld history folks. Let'sparty!"

Laura Adlyn Derrick(Brown) writes: "It's time tocatch up after so long. Myhusband, John Pritchett, andI were married three yearsago and have lived in Dallassince then. We both do soundrecording on movies, so wespend most of our time onlocation in Los Angeles andanywhere else the businesstakes us. So far, we've been tosuch diverse locations asHong Kong, Jamaica, andalmost everywhere in thecontinental U.S. Our son,Jackson Patrick Pritchett, wasborn July 14, 1991, whileJohn was working on RobertAltman's soon-to-be-releasedmovie, 'The Player.' Jacksonhas also become a little worldtraveler and recently made acameo appearance in his firstfilm. It's worth noting thatthe Sallyport is one of his fa-vorite publications ( he ate theentire cover of the last issue).I'm looking forward toshowing him around Rice,but wanted to ask you topublish a map first, as thecampus seems to be chang-ing so fast!"

Shelina Shariff-Zia (Hans-zen) "returned to Pakistan tohave a formal wedding cer-emony. Asad and I hope tomove back to New York inthe fall."

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Class Recorders:Cliff and Alice Dorman3315 Quiet Lake DriveKaty, TX 77450(713) 395-2168 (home)(713) 527-4649 (work)(713) 493-8484 (work)

Mark Alan Fowler (WillRice) married Mary AmeliaSchroeder last December andis at home in Dallas. Mark ispursuing his Ph.D. at SMUand is currently an electricalengineer with Elcctrospace.

George Hampton (Wiess)"placed third in the NewportBeach Community SpellingBee. The spelling bee raisesmoney for literacy programsat the Newport Beach PublicLibrary."

Laura Ferguson (Brown)writes: "My husband, SteveBarrett '87 (M.B.A.), and Iremain in Stephenville, nearFort Worth. He is productengineering manager forFMC here, and I remain inprivate practice pediatrics.Benjamin, now 14 months,joined Marian, 7, andStephanie, 3."

Simone Redrupp (Wiess) is"still working for LufthansaGerman Airline in Frankfurt,Germany, but living in Paris.Any Ricees in Paris, look meup."

Kenneth Colina (Wiess)graduated from Baylor Col-lege of Medicine in May1991, with highest honors inthe graduating class, and iscurrently a resident in pediat-rics at Children's Hospital inSeattle, Wash. He is engagedto Ann Bauser (Will Rice),and the wedding is set forAugust 8.

Susan Schrakamp and BillWhite (both Wiess) weremarried November 9, at FirstPresbyterian Church inHouston. Susan's maid ofhonor was Cathy Mao(Brown). Her bridesmaidsincluded Marianne Lloyd(Hanszen), Bence WiseCurtis (Jones) and DinaAllen Pyron (Brown). Bill'sbest man was Willie Hunt'85 (Wiess) and his grooms-men were Chris Curtis '83(Will Rice), Robert Boyd'85, Rick Harris and JohnQ. Smith (all Wiess).Houston-area Rice alumni

sharing in the festivities in-cluded Robin Altholz '85,Lisa Berman, Joyce Ivy,Alice Mao '83, JenniferNull, Jessica LandismanWilliams '85, GeoffSpradley '83 (all Jones),Carrie Boone, Bob Casey,Jorge Martin de Nicolas '84(all Wiess), Vick Fisher '85,Steve Kim '85 (both WillRice), Sophie Holguin

Owens '87 (Brown), MarkMitchell '85 (Baker) andPatty Nghicm (Hanszen).Susan and Bill went to the

island of Kauai in Hawaii fortheir honeymoon. They livein a house they bought twoblocks from the Rice campus.Susan graduated from UTLaw School with honors in1989 and has been practicingwith Baker & Botts ever since.Bill operates his own busi-ness, manufacturing andmarketing computer-relatedequipment (EPROM andPLD programmers).

William Leven (Hanszen)writes: "Laura and I havemoved temporarily to NewYork. I began as associate atGoldman, Sachs & Co. inMarch, and lam looking for-ward to our permanent moveback to Houston. Sincegraduation, we have had ason, Andrew, now two yearsold, and a second child on theway."

Min Ying Lim (Jones) willbe completing an internshipin three-year internal medi-cine residency in June at BethIsrael Medical Center in NewYork. "And I thought Ricewas tough!"

Karen Ajeck Carman(Ph.D.) and HowardCarman '85 (Ph.D.) writefrom Tennessee, whereHoward is a research staffmember in the chemicalphysics section at the OakRidge National Laboratoryand Karen manages a plasticsprocessing and testing lab atEastman Chemical CompanyResearch Laboratories.

Paul J. Dickinson (Hanszen)has been elected to member-ship in Alpha Omega Alphahonor society at Baylor Col-

lege of Medicine. He is at-tending on a U.S. Air ForceHealth Professions Scholar-ship and plans a residency inophthalmology.Jennifer J. Ettelson (Hans -zen) writes: "After two yearsof teaching English as a very,very foreign language here inMotril, Spain, I married JoseManuel Fernandez-Garcia,and on December I, our son,Elias Manuel Fernande zEttclson was born. We're allliving happily together withour very small dog, Tulip, ina sunny apartment up fiveflights of stairs and over themain street. 'Just anotherpassing truck' recently turnedout to be a slight earthquake,but we can see the sea fromthe living room windows."

Eric Kellogg Beach (Wiess)writes: "In February, I ac-cepted a position at RichardFleischman Associates inCleveland—yes, Cleveland."

Karen Louise Oehler (Jones)married Alan Gathererin Austin on September 21,and is currently pursuingher doctorate in electricalengineering at Stanford Uni-versity.

Michael D. Jones (M.Mus.)writes: "In the five years sincecompleting my master's de-gree, I have done two nationaltours with opera companies;worked extensively on thedevelopment of new worksfor the operatic and musicaltheater stages in Banff.Canada; and have been livinFin New York for the last threeyears. I am currently finish-ing up a contract with theFlorentine Opera in I'vlilwatrkee,VVis., as an affiliate artist.

In November of this year, Itravel to Montreal, Quebecto do a premiere of Maurici"Kagel's AusDeurschlandwith

Le Nouvel EnsembleModerne, a group whichspecializes in new works. 1stgreatest interest is in new

"We're all living happily together with our verysmall dog, Tulip, in a sunny apartment up fiveflights of stairs and over the main street. 'Justanother passing truck' recently turned out to bea slight earthquake, but we can see the sea fromthe living room windows."

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Michael Ochoa (Sid Rich)Writes: "After spending myentire life in Houston, I amMoving to New Jersey fortwo years on a rotational as-signment to Prudential'scorporate headquarters. Ihave absolutely no desire togo to graduate school, as Iam slowly but surely ascend-ing the corporate ladder withAmerica's largest insurancecompany. Much to the cha-grin of all the single womenin Houston (and New Jer-seY), I'm getting married inJune. My fiancee and I met,of course, at work in a typicaloffice romance. Standing withine in my wedding will be%Ian Button, Brad Dibble,Chris Kohnhorst '86 andMark Colonna '88 (all SidRich). Rest assured that mynew wife and I plan to settleback in Houston. Hopefully,by 1994, Rice will be a regu-larvisitor to the Cotton Bowland the NCAA basketballtournament."

Jeff Burton (Sid Rich) mar-ried Venus on October 26,.In attendance were Apollo,dc la Garza and Jupiter`-aitter IV (both Sid Rich).

Jorge Contreras (Hanszen)Wfites: "Became engaged tokunberly Kaphingst aftergraduating from Harvard LawSchool. I served a one-year.c11,erkship with Chief Justice1„hcnnas R. Phillips on theexas Supreme Court. I have

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l/t..eth Gibbs and Preston, 'Hs Johnson H '85 (both'-ovett) were married on De-el-nber 28. Attendants

In,cluded Hania Lukaszew-7kiand Edith Feldman( both4..ovet„).

ka(u,ndolph Scott Bertin4" ess) and Paula SuzanneL"tizi" Larkin '90 (Brown)"aVe announced their en -

tagement and plan aePtember wedding.

Mark Colonna (Sid Rich)writes: "Currently taking asix-month sabbatical fromwork to travel and see theUSA. Stopping in Houstonin time for Beer-Bike and tovisit friends. So far I have seenForrest Williams and planto visit with Nick Slavik(both Sid Rich), Milli Coil(Lovett), Laura Reece(Jones), Mike Hogan( Baker) and Amy Spiegel '86(Jones) as I travel around. I'llbe back in Washington bySeptember, in time to resumework as an environmentalengineer with Radian Corp."

Louise Girard (Baker)writes: "After receiving anassociates degree in interiordesign from The Art Insti-tute of Houston, I spent ayear of internship with thearchitectural design firm ofStinson, Perry & Berg. Thisyear I have opened my owndesign firm in partnershipwith Sharon L. Perry '74(Jones), AIA, another Ricegrad. Our main area ofinterest is in residential archi-tecture and interior design.Other recent commissionsinclude restaurants and ex-ecutive office projects.Another Rice architecturegrad, Diane Harkins Mode-sett'90 (M.Arch.), is workingwith us to round out threedecades of Rice training andexperience."

Brent Knapton (Will Rice)writes:"On December 21, Ed

McConnell '88 (Will Rice)married Kim Hodgson(Lovett) in Dallas. Ed re-turned in 1990 from a year ofstudy abroad in Germany andnow works for National In-struments in Austin. Kim is ateacher and track coach atGreat Hills Christian Schoolin Austin. Matron of honorwas Pam Klassen Lawrence'88 (Lovett), who is livingin Canada and studying to bea CPA. Best man BobMontague (Jones) is work-ing for IBM in Austin. Heraces bicycles and hopes todo so professionally."I am working as a systems

engineer for Stone &WebsterEngineering Corp., and mywife, Michelle, is teaching inKaty ISD. We spent six weekslast summer in Indonesia as-sisting in a communitydevelopment program.

"Dan Burns '87 (WillRice) and his wife, CatherineSpradley Burns '88 (Jones),

are living in Boston, whereDan is studying to get hisMaster's of Divinity degreeat Gordon Cornell Seminary.Dan and Catherine havea 2-year-old daughter,Jacqueline, and a 5-month-old son, Daniel."Dan Sullivan '87 (VViess)

is living in New Jersey withhis wife, Kim. Kim graduatedfrom Princeton with a degreein biochemistry, and Dan willgraduate from PrincetonTheological Seminary thisyear with his Master's in Di-vinity.

"David Kiang (Will Rice)is living in Houston, wasmarried on June 15, 1991,and now works as a claimsadjuster for State Farm."Ryan McDonald '88

(Will Rice) recently returnedfrom his Luce Fellowship inTaiwan and has started work-ing for National Instrumentsin Austin. He is dating AnuRao '88 (Brown)."Gina Gooding Lathan

'88 (Jones) is married andliving in South Carolina. Sheand her husband have adaughter, Catherine.

"Tessa Ibrra Fuqua '88(Jones) is married and at-tending law school at theUniversity of Houston.

"Julie Griswold lives inHouston and works at Riceas an academic advisor.

"Kiran Musty Winfield(Lovett) is married and livingin Houston."David Chapman '88

(Lovett) and Tasha NeeperChapman '87 (Lovett) areliving in Georgia and work-ing on staff with CampusCrusade for Christ at Geor-gia Tech University.

"Darren Melonson '88(Will Rice) is still living inFort Worth, Texas, workingas a computer programmerfor General Dynamics."Mark Norman (Lovett)

is working in the former So-viet Union fora managementconsultant firm.

"Bill Burns '91 (WillRice) is living in Houstonand will graduate this yearwith his degree in music.

"Derek Iwamoto (WillRice) is still studying in Japan,but was present at the wed-ding by way of a telegram."

David Addington (WillRice) writes: "In a continu-ing and impossible quest tolive as far west as possible ona round globe, I have movedfrom Sacramento to SanFrancisco. I have taken upresidence in a quaint SanFrancisco apartment complexwith 1254 units, a block fromthe Transamerica Tower. I

am the marketing director forJAMS., the nations largestmaker of funky beachwearshorts—NOT! J.A.M.S., Ju-dicial Arbitration andMediation Service, is actuallythe nations largest providerof ADR, alternative disputeresolution services. J.A.M.S.has 14 offices, mainly in Cali-fornia, but also Texas,Georgia, New York and open-ing soon in an area near you.About 200 retired judgesconduct the hearings forJAMS. Anyway, ifyou cometo San Francisco, give me acall."

Sophie Holguin Owens(Wiess) writes: "I recently metand married Craig Owens,here in Fort Worth. Rice gradswho came up for the wed-ding included Cathy Mao'86, Crystal Walker '86(both Brown), KristinaBrennan '87, Sandra Nayak(both Baker) and MikeMoorehead (Jones)."

Jennifer Leshnower (Baker)writes: "In October, I as-sumed the second violinposition of the ThouvenelString Quartet in Midland-Odessa, Texas, after finishingmy master's of music degreelast May from The PeabodyConservatory of JohnsHopkins. I love the job.! stillcan't get over that I'm get-ting paid to play all this greatmusic! Now I hope to per-form in Rice's new musicbuilding.

"Since graduation, I haveseen several Rice grads. MattMcCarthy, Kevin Gass(both Lovett) and I wentto Monticello, ThomasJefferson's very cool home.Carol Rohl '90 (Baker) andI visited in San Francisco.Dierdre Ward (M.Mus.),Stephen Rose and I DID SanDiego. I even saw JustineWatts (M.Mus.) in London.And I visited HeatherBrown '91 (Lovett), ChrisRose '91 (Baker), RielyFrancis (Sid Rich) and DaveMurray'91 (Hanszen) downin Houston last summer.

"Now I'm back home at 5Santa Fe, Odessa, Texas79765."

Ben Middleton (Jones)writes: "On June 8, Hollyand I, now in Atlanta, cel-ebrate our first anniversary."They fondly recalled their SanAntonio wedding last sum-mer, attended by such notableowls as Felix Dawson '90,Debbie Daniels Dawson'91, Steve Sain '90 (allJones), Brett Kimmel (WillRice), Heather "Bunny"Caldwell '87 (Baker) andgroomsman/old pal, ChrisBrenno '90 (Jones). Now,Holly careens toward a Ph.D.in clinical psychology. Benfinagles his way up the ladderat Coca-Cola USA as associ-ate creative director,communications. There, heoften encounters Dan Sayre'77 (Hanszen), director,Coca-Cola, trademark.

As they dine on moundsof year-old, frozen carrotcake, they read the Sayportwith anticipation, wonderingwhat distant shores and loftygoals their classmates haveconquered. Pleased to readof Rice rugby's continuedsuccess, Ben gave us thesewords to chew on: "Kick tothe weak side, the grass issofter there."

Class Recorder:Jennifer Cooper1616 RidgewoodHouston, TX 77006-1034(713) 523-6549 (home)(713) 861-4975 (work)

James A. Quigley writes:"Starting this summer, I willbe leaving Boston for awarmer climate and to beginPh.D. research at the StanfordLinear Accelerator Center."

Stan Gustas (Will Rice)writes: "I was married De-cember 28, in Phoenix, Ariz.,to Lisa Scott. In attendancewere fellow Will Rice mem-bers Adam Petruszka '89,Fred Bentsen, JimmyGrossman '89, SteveThompson '89, SethBrubaker '88, Ben Skinker'89, Karen LaCroix '89,Emily Cates, MichelleMartin '92, James Fisherand Kirk Oden (Baker). Sincethe honeymoon, we've beentraveling the world startingup refineries for UOP."

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Class Recorder:Ross Goldberg1001 Quill LaneOreland, PA 19075(215) 233-4508

Class Recorder Ross Gold-berg writes:

Life in Philadelphia hasbeen going well. I finallylanded a job at Mosby-YearBook, a medical and alliedhealth-care publisher. Fornow I'm in training and get-ting used to the "Mosbystyle," but eventually I'll beresponsible for herding booksfrom manuscript to boundbook. I can't say the materialis too stimulating (my firstbook is entitled "AtypicalOrthopedic RadiographicPositions") and I wouldn'tlook for it on the bestsellerlists too soon, but lam learn-ing the nuts and bolts of thepublishing industry.

If any other Rice grads arein the Philadelphia area pleasegive me a call. And, if you area 1991 grad, please pass oninfo about what you're doingto either me or Sallyport.

Daryl Engelbert (Will Rice)writes: "I've been in lwakuni,Japan, for the last six monthsand have had a great time anda few unique scenes, one ofwhich I would like to relate:

"'Good morning,' I saidloudly into the microphone,'How are you?'

"'Fine, thank you. Andyou?' came the answer from1800 Japanese students inunison.

"During the graduationceremony last May, I didn'tenvision myself on the otherside of the podium, speakingto row after row of tidy blackheads. But thanks to the JETprogram, there I was lastNovember in Iwakuni aboutto deliver a speech on-guesswhat?-`Cultural Differ-ences.'

"I feel fortunate to havehad the chance to live a lot ofthose differences since I ar-rived here last July. I teach ina junior/senior high schoolabout an hour fromHiroshima by train. Admit-tedly, in the last six monthsI've lacked a car, a racquet-ball game, Shiner Bock, a bed,Tex-Mex food and Owls cov-erage, but in return I'vereceived the warmth ofa trulygenerous people and thechance to see a faraway land.

My diet has shifted to variousforms of marine life, and sumoand kabuki have replacedmore Texan entertainment.In six months I've improvedmy Japanese from the level ofa complete incompetent tothat of a bumbling incompe-tent.

"Because of the afore-mentioned lack of Tex-Mexand Owls coverage, I plan toreturn to Texas when mycontract expires in August, adecision I made with someregret. I will certainly missthe relaxed life of rural Japanand the people I have metfrom around the world. Onceback I hope to find gainfulemployment as the equip-ment specialist at the Crownand Serpent.

"While over here I've runinto several other Rice people.Maureen &holes (Wiess) isthriving in the outland ofTottori. Andy Venier(Lovett) is also doing well onthe island of Shikoku. PaulaPerry (Jones) is buried in thesnow up north, but is alsohaving a good time. GlenJory (Hanszen) is teachingdown south on Kyushu. Allfour sound like they will stayanother year."

Melissa Ann Bush (Baker)and Michael GordonGrubbs '90 (Baker) weremarried in Waco in Novem-ber 1991 and are at home inHouston. Melissa is a con-sultant with AndersonConsulting and Michael is anaccountant at DeloitteTouche. Margot Merck(Baker) was maid of honor,and bridesmaids includedEllen Rein ( Baker) and MaryFonseca (Baker). ToddPeiffer '90 (Sid Rich) wasbest man and other atten-dants included Joe Martins'90 (Wiess), Mike Pierce '90(Baker), Jay O'Dell '90 (SidRich), Jeff Burpo (Baker)and Dave Old (Baker).

Kurt Moeller (Hanszen) re-cently covered the firstexecution in Wyoming in 25years. He works as a newspa-per reporter for the WyomingTribune-Eagle in Cheyenne.His beat is mainly economicand business news.

Congratulations to JolieBailey and Scott Sustek(both Brown) who will cel-ebrate their first anniversaryin June. A year ago, their Ricefriends were enjoying apieceof the groom's cake, whichwas in the shape of LovettHall.

Shelley Marshall Payne '72(Jones) and her husband,David, announce the birth ofMarshall David May 15.

Steven J. Easley '76 (Wiess)and Leigh Ann added EvanKirk to the family July 28. Noone is happier about it thanolder brother, Eric Joseph, 3.Since November, Steve has anew job as engineering man-ager of multi-chip modulesfor NCR Corp.

Elaine Austin Lange '76(Jones) and Kevin announcethe birth of their son, EricAustin Lange January 6.

Curtis '77 (Sid Rich) andJoan Roman Shelling '79(Jones), announce the birthof their second daughter,Greta Christine, January 17.She joins big sister, Victoria,3.

C. IL Anderegg '78 (SidRich) and his wife, Marianne,announce the birth of theirfirst child, Sarah Elizabeth,February 26.

Gerry Bustillo '78 (Sid Rich)writes: "Our new triplets ar-rived safely October 15.Daniel, David and Sofia joinbig sister, Marisa, 4 1/2. Lifehas become more hectic andthe house has suddenlyshrunk."

Henry Hernandez '78(Lovett) and his wife, Benin.,announce the birth of theirson, Michael John, January15. He joins brothers, Henry111, 3, and James Luis, nearly2.

Jeffrey Meffert '78 (SidRich) and his wife, Paula, an-nounce the birth of theirsecond son, Ian, November1. Jeffrey will be returning toschool to start a dermatologyresidency at Wilford HallMedical Center in SanAntonio.

Kurt Stonesifer '78 and hiswife, Elaine, announce thattheir son, Karl, has made it tohis first birthday. He is pic-tured at right in his favoriteoutfit.

Mark Edward Braman '79(Lovett) and his wife, Myna,announce the birth of twindaughters, Laura and Julia,September 16-"twelveweeks premature, but miracu-lously healthy."

Lawrence J. Fossi '79 (WillRice) and his wife, Ellyn, an-nounce the birth of theirdaughter, Randall Meta,January 20. Whitney, 5 1/2,is a proud big sister.

Jeff Kerr '79 (Lovett) andwife, Sharon, are pleased toannounce the arrival of LauraCaroline, February 2. Laurajoins brother, David, 2.

Bruce '80 (Sid Rich) andRachel Hill Deslcin '83(Jones) announce the birthof Thomas Paul November14.

Timothy Haney '81 (Wiess)and his wife announce thebirth of their second child,Amanda Elizabeth, January15. She joins brother, Jacob,2, who is very proud of hisnew sister.

Chris '82 and Kay SnellGerken '83 (both Hanszen)announce the birth of Tho-mas Scott, December 15. Hejoins big sister, Karen, 2-1/2. Kay's sisters, Barbara Snell'86 and Carol Snell '88(both Hanszen) came toNorth Carolina to welcomethe new baby.

Michael L. Miller '82 and hiswife, Ellen A. Considine '85(both Lovett) had their sec-ond child, Allison Leigh,February 6 in Frankfurt, Ger-many. Mom and daughter areboth doing great.

Jean-Francois P. Beat '82(Baker) and his wife, Donna,announce the birth of theirfirst child, Ellen Jayne, Sep-tember 23. They will stay inHouston while Jean-Francoisdoes a residency in orthope-dic surgery with BaylorCollege of Medicine inHouston, following hisgraduation from Baylor lastMay. His surgical internshipbegins in July, to be followedby four years of orthopedictraining.

Linda Gall Silva '83(M.Mus.) and her husband,

Dirk, announce the birth oftheir daughter, KathleenMichelle, July 22. Linda is afree-lance clarinetist in theLos Angeles area and instruc-tor at the University ofCalifornia-Riverside.

Tom '83 (Lovett) and Su-san Brown Snook '83(Brown) announce the birthof their daughter, Sarah Eliza-beth, February 10.

Marjorie Foelker Varner'83 (Will Rice) and DavidVarner '82 (Sid Rich) an-nounce the birth of MonicaAnne February 18.

Gonzalo M. Garcia '84(Lovett) and his wife,Alexandra, announce thebirth of their son, Nicholas(Lovett '13) in November.

John Giltner '84 (Will Rice)and his wife, Maggie, an-nounce the birth of theirsecond daughter, MargaretShannon "Molly" June 9.Molly joins Meagan, 3. Johncontinues to work for Exxonin Houston, currently on theTrinidad exploration project.

Susan Goodfriend Wald-man '84 (Brown) and herhusband, Syd, announce thebirth oftheir, daughter, RachelElyse, February 18.

Anita Gallatin Johnson '85(Lovett) and her husbandannounce the birth of theirson, Grant William, July 18.He joins sister, Michelle, 3.

Marcinc Gibson McCune"''85 (Baker) and her husband,Jerry, announce the birth oftheir son, Jeffrey NolanMcCulley, December 26.

Dan '87 (Will Rice) and

Catherine Spradley Burns'88 (Jones) announce thebirth of Daniel Taylor Octo-ber 25. Daniel joins his sister,

Jackie, 2. The family is nowliving in S. Hamilton, Mass:,where Dan is pursuing hisM.Div. at Gordon-Conwell

Theological Seminary.

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Francis H. Whitaker '19February 9Ernest L. Shult '23March 16Alfred Tyndale White '27February 2Homer C. Matthes '29December 11Joseph H. Greenwood'30 March 30Josephine B. Richmond'30 February 20Frederick "Fritz" PaulVolluner '31 January 2Charles Lowell Ward '31March 7Dorothy Ann Rohwer '32January 30Thomas W. VVhitmarsh'32 in AugustThomas Atmar Burch '33,date unknownWilliam D. Capchart '33January 6William S. Zeloski '33August 8Joseph Arthur Kocurek34 March 2Charles Dexter Mehr '34February 17John Howard Payne Jr.'34 September 26Sarah Nell Connally '37March 7Thomas J. Evans '43March 5Thomas J. Graham '44February 19Homer Edwin Reddick'44 January 30

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Richard Sterling Allen '51March 6Billy Wayne Bailey '54February 11Travis D. Guye '56December 13Carolyn ErnmeneckerBenson '63 September 15Antone Josef Valerga '70In. January11111 S. Caldwell '72January 31Marilyn Faye Miller '74March 2Revin James Harvey '81March 11

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June

1922 Rice Institute opened itsfacilities to non-studentsfor the first time. About

250 members of area Boys' andGirls' Clubs spent their annualsummer camp on the campus. Boysparticipated in stock, poultry andgrain contests on the athletic field.Girls spent their days in thekitchens for canning demonstra-tions and contests.

June

While students burnedthe midnight oilcramming for finals, the

assistant baseball coach, who aidedthe team to second place in theconference, was let go. The coach'sdismissal, blamed upon theDepression, compounded alreadyexisting fears of the baseball team'sabolition, but rumor had it that theadministration would not rule onthe team's fate until December.Meanwhile, 542 students peti-tioned that baseball be included onthe 1932-33 athletic calendar.

June

Graduation ceremoniesfor the first class toparticipate in World War

II underwent several changes. Forthe first time in its 30-year history,Rice Institute had no commence-ment speaker. The 50 graduateswho were granted degrees inabsentia did not miss PresidentLovett's traditional garden party,since it was cancelled; instead,those seniors were already sta-tioned far away in the armed forcesor employed in war industries.

June

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The year's final Thresherdevoted one-d-a-half

I pages to cigarette ads. ALucky Strike ad showed a smilingmale student sporting a white labcoat who said, "Anatomy is myroughest lab/ But everything isducky/ When I can lay my scalpeldown/ And light a tasty Lucky!" Ablond female student promoted thecigarettes with, "In home-ec classthe teacher says/ That seasoningadds zest,/ But I don't need acourse to know/ That Lucky tastesthe best!"

-Smokey" Klaerner pitches to a Texas A&M batter in the 1932 series. Unfortunately, the Aggies won both games.

June

Rice University hostedthe "Rice Design Fete"by inviting some of the

nation's top designers for a uniqueexperiment in architectural designand education. During the two-week charette, architects and theirstudent staff were given the sameproblem—to probe new conceptsfor college buildings. All partici-pants worked and ate on campus;coffee breaks, breakfasts and bullsessions replaced the usual varietyof speeches at conferences.

June

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The turbulent studentactivism of the ageresonated even into

graduation, when a non-conform-ing graduating senior refused towear the traditional black cap andgown. The senior, who preferredto donate his $8 cap-and-gownrental fee to charity and still dresswith the "dignity of the occasion,"wrote, "We have not dressed alikeduring the four years we haveearned our degrees, and I see noreason to require that we dressalike when we accept our degrees."In response, the administrationmandated that participation in theceremony was optional; however,participation still required thetraditional black garb.

Summer

11101) A Thresher editorial badevacationing students notto vegetate at the beach

or on the job. Rather, the editorssaid, summer is an "excellentopportunity to do something aboutthe society around you." Studentscould consider helping the Cambo-dian, Afghani and Polish masses,whose hopes had been muzzled bySoviet military intervention. Theycould also work to stop Americanbanks from lending money toEastern Bloc countries while theprime rate in America skyrocketed,or fight to reduce Reagan'sincrease in funding of nuclearenergy.

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