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On the Cover: 'Rice's Raman Muse" gazesfrom a 2,000-year-oklfresco discovered onthe Via Gabina. ( illustration by Brad Caber)

LettersMail-order PrideIt is too bad that all the demisesquicenten-nial sweatshirts sold out. Mail order mighthave been arranged for some of us alumniwho never get back to Houston and Rice.Since I was at Rice during the 50th anniver-sary, I would love to have a sweatshirt fromthe 75th celebration. Though I have degreesfrom other universities, it is the Rice experi-ence that! hold so dear. And as I jog aroundthe Washington, D.C., area, the only univer-sity label I would ever think of wearingwould be that of Rice. Any chance of mailordering just a regular sweatshirt with theRice crest?

Anna Ryan '64Woodbridge, Va.

A number of Rice-related items, includingsweatshirts, are available by mail order

What I Did on my Summer VacationCurious about "real-world journalism," Rice senior Karen Nickel satis-fied her curiosity last summer with an internship in New York City atFortune magazine. Along the way, she learned about deadlines, aboutpink sheets and, working for alumna Mary Johnston '41, about the Ricebond.

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The Ties that BlindAs society becomes more technologiincreasingly harder for us to see thefrom unethical behavior in our lives.education can play in helping us see

cally advanced, it has becomesubtle threads separating ethicalRice ethicists look at the roleour options more clearly.

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Unearthing the PastFor more than a decade, Rice archaeologists Walter Widrig and PhilipOliver-Smith have been slowly digging their way through the ruins ofancient villas outside Rome. Now, with several major finds behindthem, they are able to present concrete details of Roman social andcultural life. Meanwhile, on campus, a new major in Ancient Mediter-ranean Civilization brings Ancient Rome to Rice.

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Truth and ConsequencesProviding the most correct answers to Sallyport's recent "Demisesqui-centennial Trivia Contest" earned some Austin alumni a copy of thenew Rice Press book, Rice University: A 75th Anniversary Portrait. Analumnus in Pennsylvania went for the "tacky owl" prize by making uphis own answers. With grades on the curve and the Honor Code out thewindow, Sallyport reviews the answers.

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Magazine FansLike my good friend George Williams, I con-fess to "a few haunting doubts" about thenew Sallyport.

At the same time, it's so fantasticallyunusual, so unexpected for an alumni maga-zine, that I'm heavily for it. Right on!

Waldo F. McNeir '29Houston

Just a note to let you know how very much Ihave enjoyed the new Sallyport. The pic-tures are wonderful and I have read all thearticles — and learned even more aboutRice.

I am retired from Rice, having workedthere from August 1965 till December 1979.I thoroughly enjoyed my years at Rice work-ing in the registrar's office with the graduatestudents. I think of them often and veryfondly.

Thank you for continuing to send methe Sallyport and other interesting bitsabout Rice. They are all a real delight toread.

Esther CanadaFredericksburg, Texas

Please accept my sincere congratulationsfor the new look of Sallyport. Now ourfriends and family from Philadelphia do nothave to ask so many questions about Rice,as I am proud to display Sallyport in myhome and to our friends. More and morepeople are eager to learn about Rice. Yournew look and style is very handsome andelegant, as well as being informative aboutthe university.

As a humble newsletter editor for myclass at the University of Pennsylvania, I ap-preciate the time and effort you all havetaken to make Sallyport an outstanding rep-resentative of Rice throughout the country.Again, best wishes from a parent of a juniorat Rice.

Rosalie Cummins SheltonOreland, Pa.

'Hoot' Dispute:So Much for SatireSo Sallyport thinks it's gone high-class withslick paper like a Sunday newspapermagazine.

And what do we get with this expensivecolor paper? New microphotographs orcomputer-simulated discoveries? Artisticachievements or pictures from othercultures? (Two people sitting in a treehardly represent another culture.)

No, we get brat-packers dressed in Sal-vation Army who think Rice is a modelingschool.

If we paid for Sallyport, I'd cancel mysubscription.

Dian L. Hardison '79Titusville, Fla.

Letters continued on page 31

SALUTE"'Feb.-March 1988, Vol. 44, No. 3

EditorSuzanne Johnson

Assistant EditorMaggi StewartEditorial AssistantAndre FoxContributing andStaff WritersNathan BrochMimi CrossleyBill NoblittValerie Rohy '88Art DirectorJeff Cox

Graphic DesignersCorinne ZeutziusGeri Snider

PhotographerTommy C. LaVergne

Officers of theAssociation of Rice AlumniPresident, William (Bill) Merriman '67President-Elect, J.D. (Bucky) Allshouse '711st Vice-President, Dan Steiner '772nd Vice-President, Juliana Williams Itz '72Treasurer, H. Russell Pitman '58Past President, Gwynne E. Old '59Executive Director, Susan Baker '78

Association Committeeon PublicationsWilliam (Bill) Merriman '67, ex

officio, Association of Rice AlumniSusan Baker '78, ex officio,Association of Rice Alumni

Nancy Boothe '52, chairDarrell Hancock '68, past chairW.V. Ballew Jr. '40John B. Boles '65Charles Bracht '69Nancy Burch '61Lynda Crist '67Kent E. DoveAlan GrobWilliam F. NoblittEvelyn Nolen '62Patti Simon '65Geri Snider '80Charles Szalkowski '70G. King Walters '53

Alumni GovernorsJoyce Pounds Hardy '45Jerry McClesky '56Pat H. Moore '52Paula Meredith Mosle '52

Sallyport (USPS 412-950) is published inSeptember, November, February, April andJune by the Association of Rice Alumni, andis sent free to all university alumni, parentsof students, and friends. Second-class post-age paid at Houston, Texas.

William Marsh Rice University offers equalopportunity to all applicants without regardto race, color, sex, age, national or ethnicorigin, or physical handicap.

Editorial offices for Sallyport are located inthe Allen Center for Business Activities,Rice University, 6100 S. Main St.,Houston, TX.

Postmaster: Send address changes toSallyport, Office of University Relations,Rice University, P.O. Box 1892, Houston,TX 77251.

Copyright 1987 by the Association of RiceAlumni, Rice University.

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ThroughtheSallyport

Rice on Film

Doug Killgore has been juggling hislove for business with his penchantfor the arts since he was an under-graduate at Rice in the late '60s.He should be good at it by now,

but the ultimate test will come inthe next few months as he and RicePlayers director Neil Havens securethe funding to film a movie versionof "The Trust." Killgore's play aboutthe murder of William Marsh Riceset box office records for Houston's13-year-0ld Main Street Theaterlast fall. After selling out every per-formance of the initial run the playWas extended twice, then moved toa larger performance space. Thereare even tentative plans of takingthe

production to New York.Encouraged by this response,

Killgore and Havens decided to

Fihnims fat1, • ngfor the stage production of "The 7'rust," Malcolm Lovett Sr. (behind podium) portrayshaherr Rf.ofamir Doug Killgore (foreground). Among the seated "board" members are otherHeiden zeefaces, including librarian Sam Carrington, history professors Albert vanBu - and Ira Gruber, English professor emeritus J.D. Thomas, engineering professor

Sid

and physics professor King Walters.

pursue their motion picturedreams.

Taking "The Trust" from stageto screen will involve more thanturning on a camera. "The filmwon't be a simple recording of thestage play," Killgore notes. "Themedium is so different and lessconfining — the script is beingrewritten as a film based on thesame material. There will be morecharacters, more locations, a fewexteriors — we're even planning torecreate a little corner of the Hur-ricane of 1900, an event thatplayed an important role in thetiming of the murder."

Killgore says he envisionsquite a bit of the filming to be doneon the Rice campus, and more than90 percent in Texas.

Killgore has been a filmmakerfor many years, having co-producedwith George Greanias '70 his firstfeature, "Grigsby, G.," while anundergraduate in business at Rice.After earning his master's in filmfrom the University of Texas,Killgore returned to Houston,where he has written and directedscores of film and multimedia pro-jects over the last 12 years. ForRice, he has produced several ofthe "Rice Today" presentations,including "A Walking Tour of the

Attending "The Must" at Main Street Theater were (from left) William Marsh Rice iv, TreasurySecretary James A. Baker III, Linda Rice and William M. Rice III.

Campus with Bud Moorehead," andthe 60-second spot currently beingtelevised during Rice athleticevents.

For the stage version of "TheTrust," Killgore produced a short,16mm film recreating the begin-ning of a speech Capt. James A.Baker made to the graduating classof 1931. Footage of Malcolm Lovettportraying his father and Englishprofessor emeritus J.D. Thomasplaying an elderly Baker was mixedwith authentic film from Rice ar-chives and scenes from a recentgraduation. The results were so be-lievable, Killgore says, that eventhough the film participants werecredited in the program, most ofthe audience (and even a few of thecritics) accepted the film asauthentic.

The film version of "The Trust"is budgeted at n-3 million withshooting scheduled to take placeearly next year, Killgore says. Theproduction is being structured as alimited partnership, and hasamong its initial investors anumber of Rice alumni and friends.By the end of next year, they hopeto have a finished product to showpotential distributors. After that,who knows?With visions of an actor such as

Jason Robards or Jimmy Stewart asWilliam Marsh Rice dancing in hishead, Killgore, for one, has highhopes. "We want to make a top-quality film," he says, noting thatseveral excellent movies—the 1986

"Room with a View," for example—were made without astronomicalbudget. "We want to produce a filmthat everyone will be proud to beassociated with. It is an absorbingstory, and its telling will be impor-tant to Rice."

Actor Harold Suggs as William Marsh Ricein stage production

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OilCampus

Moving AheadWith approval of a new Office of Mi-nority Affairs and a new $100,000minority scholarship package, RiceUniversity is making great stridestoward recruiting and retaining thenation's top minority students.

In April 1987 an ad hoccommittee of faculty and admin-istrators drafted a proposal toARCO (Atlantic Richfield Co.) forfunding an Office of MinorityAffairs. Following submission of theproposal, Rice University PresidentGeorge Rupp asked Ronald Steb-bings, vice president for studentaffairs, to begin developing a planfor the minority affairs office.

Part of the planning process,says Stebbings, included meetingwith student leaders of various mi-nority groups and withinterested

faculty and staff. "As a result, it be-came apparent that the Office ofMinority Affairs should devote at-tention to a broad range of issuesincluding admissions, retentionand placement," Stebbings says,

adding that the office also shouldwork to improve the quality of theoverall environment for Riceminorities.

"With the announcement ofthe ARCO and NALCO Foundationawards in fall, the Office of Minor-ity Affairs became a reality,"Stebbings says.

The office also would encour-age academic interest in minoritycultures, adds Chandler Davidson,professor of sociology and an ad-viser to the Black Student Union."Everyone on campus would bene-fit from increased knowledge of avariety of ethnic heritages," hesays.

Students first aired their re-sponse to the creation of an Officeof Minority Affairs in a series of fallissues of the Thresher. Davidsonnotes that while some students feltthe office was a "bad idea," evenmore voiced strong support for it.Regardless of opinion, the pro-posed establishment of a minorityaffairs office prompted seriouscampuswide debate regarding pre-vailing racial attitudes at Rice.

As a result, Baker College hos-ted an open forum on affirmativeaction in mid-November. Thehighly publicized campus eventfeatured a panel including threefaculty members and three stu-

dents. "It was a significantforum attended by morethan 100 stu-

dents," Davidson notes."Few strongly opposed the minorityaffairs office, and most who spokewere strongly in favor of it. Wherepeople differed sharply, it was donEin a serious, intelligent and respon-sible manner.

"It was really an example ofthe Rice student body at its verybest, discussing serious issues in astraightforward, honest way with-out being insulting orinflammatory."

A search committee is cur-rently reviewing applications fordirector of the new office.

Establishment of the Office ofMinority Affairs coincides withRice's move to establish a $100,000minority scholarship program tobegin in 1988-89.

The 16 new scholarshipsreflect a major effort to recruit andretain top scholars and future lead-ers among minority students. Theminority scholarship packageincludes: four full-scholarshipawards covering four years of tui-tion, room and board and fees, tobe given to the most outstandingminority applicants in any disci-pline, renewable as long as thestudent maintains a 3.0 GPA (Baverage); five full-tuition grantswith the same requirements; two$4,000 renewable leadershipawards given for academic talentplus future leadership potential;and five half-tuition renewablemerit awards in any discipline,guaranteed providing the studentmaintains a 2.8 GPA.

According to Dean of Admis-sion and Records Richard N.Stabell, a special fund to helpretain such students after they areenrolled, should financial crisesarise, has also been established.

"We have a long tradition ofproviding financial support to en-courage students to attend whetheror not they have sufficient re-sources of their own," said Rupp

A on announcing the scholarships."This new program will provideadditional specific scholarshipsto attract more minoritystudents." "Announcementof the minority scholarshipprogram has generatedconsiderable inquiry fromhigh school counselors andcommunity leaders," says

Cathi Clack, associate directorof admission, although she notes

that it's too early to see how thesescholarships will affect the ap-plicant pool. Since the announce-ment was made late in the fall, regularapplications (those with a Jan. 15deadline) are the most likely to beaffected this year.

Applicants admitted to Ricewill automatically be consideredfor these scholarships, as well asothers offered by Rice. Top highschool students under considera-tion for the four-year full-scholarship awards will be broughtto campus as guests of Rice for in-terviews, class visits and talks withfaculty and current students. Fol-lowing visits to the campus bythese candidates, the names of thefour top winners will be announcedduring the first week of April.

"I think we will see more mi-norities from the Houstoncommunity apply," commentsClack. "People can see for them-selves that Rice is serious aboutenrolling and retaining top minor-ity students."

On theBookshelfNew from Faculty and AlumniAuthors:

Rebellion and Realignment:Arkansas's Road to Secession byJames M. Woods '79 (M.A.), Uni-versity of Arkansas Press.

Transcendence and Provi-dence: Reflections of a Physicistand Priest by William G. Pollard'35 (Ph.D.), Scottish AcademicPress.

Karl Lueger, The Liberal Yearsby Karin Brown '62, Garland Pub-lishing Co.

Happenings: Developing Suc-cessful Programs for SchoolLibraries by Pat Wilson and Ann C.Kimzey '62, Libraries UnlimitedPress.

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Rice on the RoadClyde Holloway, professor of musicand chair of the keyboard depart-ment M the Shepherd School ofMusic, is conducting a winter/ .spring tour of several U.S. cities inhonor of Rice's 75th anniversary ofclasses.

Holloway has received highacclaim for his organ concertsthroughout the U.S., where he hasperformed for such special eventsas the national conventions of theAmerican Guild of Organists andthe National Midwinter Conclave of1968, and for numerous regionalConventions. He has also appearedin concerts in the AuditorioNacional in Mexico City at theinvitation of cultural ministries ofthe Mexican government, in the West Indies and in Europe. In addi-tion to these engagements hemaintains an active schedule ofprivate teaching, workshops andmaster classes and serves as anadjudicator for many competitions.

In addition to several Februaryappearances, Holloway has sched-uled two concerts for April, oneeach in Chicago and San Francisco.

The Chicago concert will beheld on Sunday, April 24, at 6:30P.m. at Fourth PresbyterianChurch, 126 E. Chestnut. Admis-sion is free, and those interested inattending should call (312)7874570 for further information.

On Friday, April 29, Hollowaywill perform an 8:30 p.m. concertin San Francisco at St. Mary'sCathedral, 1111 Gough. A smalld. °nation is requested. Furtherinformation may be obtained bycalling (415) 567-3775.

Rice area alumni are invited toattend the concerts, which will fea-ture the music of Mozart, D'Aquin,Bach, Franck, Messiaen,Schumann and Vierne.

Behind the ScreensA Rice maintenance worker toils to keepthe windows clean at Rice's Fond ren Li-brary — we wouldn't want anyone to missthe chaos within. Fondren is in the midst ofseveral renovation projects. This project,which will revamp much of the firstfloor,should be finished by next fall.

Rice On-lineUndergraduate engineering stu-dents at Rice University now haveaccess to a network of high-per-formance computer work stationscalled Owlnet.

"This is a significant step for-ward for engineering education atRice because advanced computerwork stations have revolutionizedthe way engineers approach the de-sign and manufacture of newproducts," Rice President GeorgeRupp said in announcing the net-work. "Computers are having amajor impact on what studentsneed to learn before entering intothe increasingly complex and com-petitive high technologyengineering professions.

"Owlnet will be used tostrengthen even further Rice's his-toric commitment to offer anundergraduate engineering educa-tion that is unsurpassed anywherein the world."

Edward F. Hayes, Rice's vicepresident for information systems,said the first phase of Owlnet "con-sists of advanced work stationsmanufactured by Sun Micro-systems Inc. of Mountain View,Calif. These Sun work stations

have the computing power andcomputer graphics needed for un-dergraduate programs incomputer-assisted design andmanufacturing."

Following the early Novemberopening ceremonies, Owlnet Direc-tor Sam H. Davis Jr., a member ofRice's chemical engineering facultyfor the past 30 years, predictedthat "Owlnet's impact on engineer-ing education will be even greaterthan the replacement of the sliderule by the pocket calculator.Owlnet will provide our engineer-ing students with a majorenhancement in computer powersince these work stations can beused in every aspect of engineeringproblem-solving."

Also recently announced atRice was the arrival of SesquiNet, anational computer network nowextended to Houston that will linkRice, the University of Houston,Texas Southern University, TexasA&M, Baylor College of Medicineand the Houston Area Research

Center. Computer centers at eachof these institutions are linkedthrough SesquiNet to the nationalnetwork set up by the National Sci-ence Foundation. SesquiNet wasfunded with a S100,000 NSF grantplus an investment of about$10,000 from each institution for acomputer and associatedequipment.

SesquiNet will afford Riceresearchers almost immediateaccess to information that had pre-viously proved problematic. Forexample, when knotty problemsslowed her research on under-ground oil spills, Ricemathematician Mary Wheelerwould fly from Houston to Min-neapolis, rent a car and drive toCray Research in Mindota, Minn.,to use their supercomputer.

Besides the loss of a day's workto travel, Wheeler also spent scarcegrant money on plane tickets andrental cars.

Now, through SesquiNet, shecan "boot up" on campus and usethe scientifically advanced Min-nesota facility long-distance.

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Universified!"University life is kind of strange,"Wiess College senior Tom Senningsays philosophically. "It deals in ex-tremes. It's kind of crazy." Fromthis perspective comes an original,Senning-penned musical — "Uni-versified!" — being performed bythe Rice Players in February.

The show consists of six vi-gnettes. According to Senning, it's"a look at university life throughthe eyes of an insane man." Draw-ing on an ensemble cast, it followseight friends through the univer-sity experiences at an unnamedschool — but one that resemblesRice — from their freshman throughsenior years. The musical ad-dresses "roommate conflicts,relationships in college — which arealways bad — and the hassles of col-lege life," says Senning. "But it'svery fantastical, bigger than life."

"Universified!" is the lateststudent-written play showcased bythe Rice Players, a practice begunwith the production of Ray Isle'sone-act "Moving Out" two yearsago.

For Senning, a music and Eng-lish major, writing a musical was anatural extension of his interests in

'Musical' senior 7bm Senning

music and theater. By his own ad-mission an "insane, temperamentalchild," he hated his piano lessonsbut liked to improvise and play byear. In high school, he experi-mented with electronic music,played in rock bands and becameinvolved in acting.

Also during high school,Senning participated in theInterlochen program in Michigan,where his musical interests in-creased. The music, however, "hasalways been from theatrical stand-points — not 'Symphony Number1035 by Tom Senning:" he says. "Icame to Rice thinking: I'm notgoing to do much theater anymore,' but Rice has much moretheater than I had thought."

Since his freshman year atRice, Senning has played Calibanin The Tempest, Oberon in A Mid-summer Night's Dream, Edgar inKing Lear and Chebutykin inChekhov's Three Sisters, as well asacting in The Foreigner, The End ofthe World and The Philanthropist.But creating a musical was some-thing new.

"I had the idea to write a musi-cal and I mentioned it to a fewpeople my junior year," he says."People started talking and said,'Oh, you're writing a musical.'Then they said, So when's the mu-sical coming out?' "

Faced with those kinds of ex-pectations, Senning put togethersome "unconnected scraps" of whathe was planning to do, and pre-sented to them to Players directorNeil Havens last spring.

"This is a breakthrough for mebecause I've always specialized inelectronic music. It's the first timeI've done a big piece of music, amajor thing like this," he says. Thescript, too, was no small task. "It'sreally hard to make college intoart, because the college experienceis so broad. It was challenging tomake it dramatic."

Though this musical is notabout Rice specifically, it does rep-resent the Rice experience,especially "bonding between peo-ple," Senning says. "A lot of peoplein college feel like they're walking aplank. There are certain peoplewho go through major changes."

"Universified!" opened at Riceon Feb. 10.

Don Clayton

Star-gazing

Almost 20 years ago, Rice Univer-sity's Donald Clayton went out on alimb some 170,000 light years long:He predicted that the death of starseven that remote would help un-mask the secrets of the origins ofmatter on Earth.

Now, with the explosion ofSupernova 1987A, Clayton'sprediction has been proven cor-rect. That explosion actuallyoccurred some 170,000 years ago,but the fireworks it caused didn'treach human eyes, glued to themost modern detection devices,until February 1987 in the skiesover Australia.

"I did not expect to live to seeproof of my theory," Claytonmuses. "After all, there hasn't beena major star explosion observedsince the one tracked by JohannesKepler about 300 years ago."

Yet, not only did Clayton liveto see news of Supernova 1987A, healso found direct confirmation thathis prophecy, published in 1969,was correct: Scientists determinedthat the star — while exploding —created discernible traces of mostof the chemical elements on Earth.Clayton's 1969 paper had identifiedthis radioactive "fallout" as the key.

Of particular fascination toClayton was the recent positive de-tection of Cobalt 56 in the gammarays observed near the explodingstar.

"Its decays to iron are accom-panied by a rich gamma-rayspectrum that may be observablefor a year or so in supernova rem-nants," Clayton wrote in 1969. "It isour intention to assess the like-lihood of detecting these gammaemissions. Such detection wouldbe of outstanding importance forthe theory of nucleo-synthesis andof supernovae."

These are just a few salientlines from Clayton's prophetic pa-per "Gamma-Ray Lines from YoungSupernova Remnants," which ap-peared in the January 1969 issue ofThe Astrophysical Journal. Hiscoauthors included Gerald J.Fishman, at the time a doctoralcandidate in Rice's space sciencedepartment and now a NASA scien-tist at the Marshall Space FlightCenter in Huntsville, Ala., andStirling A. Colgate who, at thetime, was with the New Mexico In-stitute of Mining and Technology.

As it turned out, Fishman,who earned both master's and doc-toral degrees from Rice, was part ofone of the research teams that re-cently detected the tell-taleradioactive elements in Supernova1987A.

The Way It Was — and IsRemember Valhalla? For better orworse, it probably still looks thesame as the last time you werethere. A Valhalla Renovation Com-mittee has been formed to makesome changes, and is looking forideas. Any input should be sent tothe committee do the Rice Univer-sity Chemistry Department, P.O.Box 1892, Houston 77251.

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Howl Spent my

SummerVacationby Karen Nickel '88

In elementary school, the topic teachersinvariably assigned in those first few weekswas to write about our summer vacations.Here I am, less than a semester away fromthe ever-looming Real World, writing on thatsame topic at least as gleefully as I did in thePast — actually, more gleefully, because ISpent the summer in midtown Manhattan,Working the job of a lifetime as a reporter forFortune magazine.

There is a certain, almost indescribablesatisfaction in being able to answer, "Whatdidyou do last summer?" with, "Oh, I was areporter at Fortune." But the satisfactiongoes beyond that — it lies in the memories of11. on-stop learning and excitement, of meet-ing, speaking and working with the people Icould only read about before. I worked for111.arY Johnston '41, the woman Lisa81rnbach calls a "famous alumna" in her col-lege handbook. Mary is still the archetypalsnsft-spoken Southern belle, but is also theuItimate corporate woman. (See relatedSidebar)

af.The saga of My Summer of 1987 beganter I walked into the placement office atRice and anxiously asked its director, John

Evans, how I — with a German and Englishdouble major and a fascination for the inter-national — could possibly find a summer jobm New York so I could be with my family. IWas especially interested in something re-lated to journalism because much of myext.racurricular work here has been withvvPting- and publishing-type organizations.il.m ,editor-in-chief of the University Blue,ices literary anthology, and a frequentwriter for the Thresher.) I wanted to find outwhat real-world journalism was all about.

Mr. Evans remembered Mary and rec-ommended I write to her. That I did, and theIFst, as they say, is history. Mary visitedHouston a few weeks after that letter, and

Karen Nickel Photo by Tommy LaVergne

invited a few students to interview and sendher some writing samples. She eventuallyasked two of us, Charles Krusekopf '88 andme, if we were "still interested in Fortune."Interested? "Interested" didn't begin to de-scribe my emotions: the fact that myroommates remember that day as the one Idanced around our apartment and shatteredtheir eardrums while shouting for joy proba-bly does.

I arrived at the Time & Life Buildingthat first morning in late May at a time farearlier than I was expected, and heardMary's voice echo in my head: "Be there at10:00, but not a minute earlier!" I was deter-

mined at last to foil the Germanicpunctuality that always puts me at my desti-nation at least 15 minutes early, and took awalk around the block.

After a warm welcome and a series ofheadspinning introductions, we were set upin offices and left to them. "But can I doanything?" I wanted to know. "Not today —today is your day. Enjoy it to your advan-tage." After three days of reading everyarticle in the New York Times and the WallStreet Journal (as well as the last few issuesof Fortune) and touring the office, it wastime to get to work.

For my first real test, Mary smiled andrecommended I work on News/Trends, atask which, I later learned, is known to sendchills up many a spine merely at its men-tioning. One of the reporters started me offwith routine spelling checks to get my feetwet, preparing me for the next assignment,when quite a bit more than my feet would beunderwater. The most important thing Ilearned from that early assignment was therequirement for complete accuracy. Thereare no gradations, nothing partially true ac-cepted at Fortune. Either a statement is trueor it isn't, and that means that even if youare 98 percent certain of a fact you had bet-ter check it anyway.

Closely tied to that is the importance ofasking questions. Because one must askquestions, however basic, to ascertain fac-tuality, I learned there is no room forintellectual pride in journalism. Maryonce told me that what made Henry Luce,Fortune's founder and first editor, great washis ability to ask questions on everythingfrom common knowledge to highly spe-cialized information without ever feelingbashful about looking ignorant. Although myown pride (the pride of youth, I hear, is mostextreme) didn't want to cooperate and allowthose simple questions at first, I realized

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rather quickly that I could never hope tofully understand a subject unless I was will-ing to ask experts about it.

For my first major assignment, I workedwith writer Andrew Kupfer on his storyabout Lester Thurow, dean of MIT's SloanSchool of Management. Andy patientlyguided me through all the ins and outs ofresearching, interviewing and fact-checking,and was always willing to answer a questionor point me in the right direction to answerit myself. To supplement his research, Icalled bigwig economists like John KennethGalbraith and the late Walter Heller, askingabout their policies and about their rela-tionships with Dr. Thurow. Only after theseconversations did it strike me that I, a sum-mer intern, had spoken with some of themost famous men in economics. It showedme the faith Fortune had in me, and encour-aged me even more to excel. I got areporter's byline for my work on that oneand, yes, I do have just a few copies fordisplay.

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The last big article I worked on dealtwith people who "shortsell" stocks. Beforethen I hadn't even heard of shortsellers,much less understood how they did theirbusiness. But after many hours in the li-brary and dozens of phone calls, I can nowexplain the process and the rationale behindit. Working on that assignment reminded me

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of Rice — we absolutely had to close butweren't quite finished, so we stayed sevenhours late. (And I thought all-nighters wouldend with graduation!)

Before the summer started, I had abasic knowledge of big business in Americaand an insight into international dealings asa result of an internship with the HoustonWorld Trade Center. By the end of the sum-mer I calculated market capitalizations,understood the real way to read the figuresin an annual report, knew which broker tocall for a quote from the pink sheets andeven knew what the pink sheets were. Infact, I'm sure I learned more this summerbecause I learned why big business works,and not just that in a given hypotheticalmodel a certain theory holds true.

Fortune people, some of the best mindsin the business, treated me as an intelligenthuman being who only needed to be shownthe ropes. I felt awed, but never over-whelmed — no one allowed me to feel thatway. One afternoon, Marshall Loeb,Fortune's managing editor, invited Mary andthe interns — there were three others besidesCharles and me — to afternoon tea and Mrs.Field's cookies, to hear our praise and crit-icism of life at Fortune. I was treated as asomebody and allowed to do the kind ofwork that journalistic somebodies do. Inever felt like an intruder, like some upstartcollege kid invading a serious office. I felt —and still feel — so much a part of Fortunethat I don't refer to it as "they," but as "we."In fact, I probably felt such a strong sense ofbelonging because the atmosphere in the of-fice is built on warm camaraderie.

Once I started doing those things that"journalistic somebodies" do, all my worriesabout keeping up with the regular reportersdisappeared. Now, when I look back at mysummer with Fortune, I see no anxiety, onlythe excitement of constant learningalongside highly intelligent, helpful people.Fortune is an excellent place to work be-cause it is controlled and staffed byconscientious, hardworking people. For thatreason, and all the others discussed here, itprovided the environment for an infor-mative and productive — and unforgettable —summer.

hat was it like working for a Ricealumna? Well, Mary is a warm, nurturingperson and, since she saw everything wewrote, could guide us as newcomer report-ers. "More quotes, you need more quotes,"was a criticism we often heard, andperiodically followed. Mary has herself en-joyed a fascinating journalistic career,beginning at the Houston Post after graduat-ing from Rice with an English major, then

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moving up to New York to be a Fortune re-porter when only women were hired asreporters, soon becoming chief of reporters.She has seen so much and met so many thatshe can tell wonderful stories. But becauseshe is so very modest, it took quite a bit ofbegging on my part before she told them.

Mary isn't modest when the subjectturns to Rice, though, and the fact that heroffice is decorated with many and myriadowls shows she's quite a fan. Thanks toMary, no one in that office is left wonderingWhat sort of school Rice is. Over the courseof the summer Mary told Charles and me thehistory of Rice and some of the more famousRice people. We heard what life was likeWhen women weren't allowed to live on cam-pus (they'd be a distraction, you know),Which is quite different from today when allthe colleges are coed. She told us about thespecial senior activities of her day, a numberof which, unfortunately, no longer takePlace, and painted us a picture of the univer-sity she loved so much. That was our firstcommon ground, and we, in turn, describedfor her the Rice that we love.

Corny as it might sound, there is some-thing uniting about a Rice education. Thesystem here is unlike any other Americansystem and sets Rice people apart. We havethe benefit of an honor code, a college sys-tem and are small enough that we can knowa least the majority of our classmates andhave heard of most of the professors. I origi-nally chose to leave the Northeast to cometo Rice because all the letters Rice sent mewere written to "Dear Karen" and not "Stu-dent:, and I don't think I've ever, sincecoming here, felt like a mere number.

In hiring us, Mary knew what sort ofworkers she'd get. She knew we'd be twoPeople who would be willing to do what itcook — including staying late into the weehours — to get the job done. I've always got-ten the feeling that Rice students and thead.ministration want everyone to succeed,

mating the possibility of the blood-thirsty competition students at otherschools complain about.

My Summer of 1987 gave me more thanan understanding of the business world andmore than a greater appreciation of Rice. It.4,ave me an insight into myself, and even if

still not 100 percent certain of the roadintake in a few months, I do know I'll beable to hike on whichever road I eventuallychoose.

Good FortuneThis is a love letter. It is written for, andabout, a young lady named Mary. Young be-cause, although she has worked for ourcompany for almost four decades, she has acontagious vitality that infuses the wholestaff. Some people never age. Alas, youngMary Johnston has chosen to retire after 32years as Fortune's chief of reporters.

Her title hardly suggests all her roles.She has been the guardian of this magazine'sstandards of accuracy, as well as the staff's

Mary Johnston (front and center) with the Fortune New York stqff

chief mentor, confidante, confessor andmodel for civilized behavior. When con-fronted with a particularly nettlesomeproblem, seven managing editors and hun-dreds of others at Fortune over the yearshave had the same instinctive reaction: "AskMary." My eminent predecessor, BillRukeyser, says, "Mary never took any gufffrom the editors." Another former managingeditor, Louis Banks, calls her "straightshooting, straight talking and morallytough."

That is an apt description for an elegantTexan who is a born reporter. Mary gradu-ated from Rice University (which she laterserved as a member of its board of gover-nors) and spent six years covering thecourthouse and other beats for the HoustonPost. After traveling the world for a year andwriting articles for the Post and the Chris-tian Science Monitor from such countries asIran and Poland, she joined our sister maga-zine, Time, in 1949 and two years latermoved to Fortune. She became chief of ourlarge reporting staff in 1955 and was namedto the Board of Editors a year later.

The ability to find and hire exceptionalpeople is Mary's special genius. Her first hirewas Carol Loomis, then a recent graduate ofthe University of Missouri School of Jour-nalism and now widely acclaimed as one ofthe nation's best financial writers. In all, she

has hired 62 members of our current staff,most of whom are shown in the photo...They include assistant managing edi-tor Ann Morrison and nine other membersof the Board of Editors, as well as our repre-sentatives in Los Angeles, Chicago, Tokyo,Paris and London. They also conspicuouslyinclude Mary's superlative deputy for 15years, Evelyn Benjamin, who succeeds heras chief.

Mary could spot a terrific talent at 60feet. She has always beenwilling to inter view anyserious applicant and seekfar more than formal creden-tials. Mary looked for curio-sity, humor, a willingness toask any question withoutembarrassment. She wantedpeople who weren't frightenedby numbers, but that didn'tstop her from hiring philoso-phy and art history majors(she found that many ofthem made the best re-porters). She also hired law-yers, MBAs, Ph.D.s — andsome who had no degreesat all. After an interview,

she liked to follow an applicant to the elevator,to see how he or she walked. "The waypeople walk," says Mary, "tells a lot abouttheir attitude and confidence."

Another recent retiree, former TimeInc. editor-in-chief Henry Grunwald, saysthis: "Mary has given more to Fortune thanalmost anyone I can think of." She leaves herlegacy on the pages of this magazine and inthe form of all those staff members, whomshe calls "my children." Since this is thekind of place where people like to stay formany years, Mary's children will be here topractice her lessons for quite a while — wellinto the 21st century.

—Marshall LoebManaging Editor, Fortune

Note: The above tribute to Mary Johnstonwas published in the Dec. 7, 1987, issue ofFortune and reprinted with permission.Photo courtesy of Fortune.

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In the movie "Broadcast News," a small,seemingly insignificant detail revealsmuch about the character of the pro-

tagonist, a network news reporter doing astory on date rape. As the person he's inter-viewing discusses her ordeal the camerapans to his face, where we see a delicate tearfall from his eye. He later admits to fakingthe tear but can't understand why it waswrong. "There are some lines you don'tcross," his producer says.

He flippantly responds: "It's hard not tocross it. They keep moving the little sucker,don't they?"

Those thin and sometimes gray lines wecome up against often puzzle us about thecorrect direction to go or the correct deci-sion to make.

You can't read a newspaper or novel, goto a movie or play, watch a news show orsitcom on television without hearing aboutsomeone who's crossed that thin, gray line.Ivan Boesky tells a Harvard School of Busi-ness class that greed is good. Then, artreflects life as a character in the movie "WallStreet" repeats the philosophy to a group ofstudents. Boesky is now serving time inprison for his insider trading on Wall Street.

Shades of gray color the corporateworld as well. Memoranda show that MortonThiokol might have known about the "o"ring problem before the space shuttle blewup, and records indicate that Union Carbidemight have known of the chemical disaster-waiting-to-happen at its plant in India, a ca-tastrophe that eventually claimed some2,000 lives. These are life and death issues,decisions that, in retrospect, seem black andwhite. But what about the thin, gray ones?How do we know when something quite grayis right or wrong?

In preparing for this story I read an arti-cle about Don Jones, the first LynetteAutrey Visiting Professor of Business Ethicsin the Jones School in 1985 and a professorof social ethics at Drew University in

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by Bill Noblitt

As society becomes moretechnologically advanced, it hasbecome increasingly harder for usto see the subtle threads separatingethicalfrom unethical behavior inour lives. Rice ethicists look at the

role education can play in helpingus see our options more clearly.

Madison, N.J. During my phone interviewwith him I asked if I might lift some of thequotes from that article for this one, and hesaid, "Sure." I thought for a moment andasked, "Do you think that would be ethical?"

A small situation, but each of us in ourdaily lives is faced with those small incidentsthat challenge our ethical principles assurely as the big ones affecting life anddeath. Who's to help us sort these ques-tions? What role can education play in theprocess?

At Rice, students take ethics courses inphilosophy, religion, medicine, business,military science and other areas. Thesecourses often put students in tune with theirown value systems, leading many to applywhat they learned in ethics to what they per-ceive as right or wrong in society.

Kimberlee Barrett, a senior in religiousstudies, has taken not one but two ethicscourses. "Those two courses got me thinkingabout my moral and ethical responsibilitiesto the world at large," she says. Her course incommunity ethics, for example, gave her aneye-opening experience. Following an as-signment to ride a bus to the end of the lineand back, she took a three-hour trip downNavigation Road, spanning one of Houston'spoorest neighborhoods. "It was helpful to mebecause it's easy to slip behind the hedgeswhen you are with students all day who

don't seem to have any worries except thenext tests they are taking."

Just a few decades ago, these studentsmight not have had an opportunity to takesuch courses. As Don Jones points out: "Just20 years ago there were few applied ethicscourses offered on a college or universitycampus." Why so many today? "Watergatewas the societal event that triggered the cur-rent interest," Jones explains.

"It was on the day that the New YorkTimes and Washington Post had a storyabout illegal payments to CREEP (the Com-mittee to Re-Elect the President) that thechairman of the board of Allied ChemicalCorp. called me to teach a course in appliedethics to Allied's top management." CREEPhad approached Allied to make an illegalcontribution to President Nixon's campaign,and Allied refused.

Other Rice professors agree and dis-agree about how the spate of courses inapplied ethics hit the catalogs. "There werecultural and social reasons," says LarryTemkin, assistant professor of philosophy."And you can also say that our legal systemand the burgeoning mood in our society tosue people played a role in the current inter-est in ethics."

I j awsuits and social reasons aside,some people approach the study of

ethics cautiously, unsure of what eth-ics means and of the difference betweenethics and morality. In fact, ethics and mo-rality come from the Greek word, ethos, andthe Latin word, mores, both meaning habitsor customs. Thomas Freeman, lecturer inreligious studies, looks at ethics and moral-ity this way: "An ethical approach toucheson the action of morality and whether anaction is right or wrong. Therefore, I tend touse the two interchangeably. An ethical ap-proach to a decision presupposes that youhave an awareness of right or wrong. It is theawareness of the difference in actions that

helps a person to act ethically. It is at thatpoint of awareness that ethical considera-tions occur."

The major question then comes up: Canyou really teach someone to act ethically, tomake the correct choice between right andwrong? "Sure, you can teach people aboutethics and give them models of decision-making and analytic approaches," saysJones. "But they may still end up acting un-ethically in a given situation. No one canmake a person act ethically. It's up to him orher.

"Similarly," he continues, "people havedifferent characters. There are some peoplewho have more virtue than others, who havemore integrity, who have more courage. Inother words, you can't alter character in acourse."

The teaching of ethics certainly caninfluence behavior, Temkin counters."However, I see my job as largely con-sciousness-raising. It is not my purpose toteach what I believe is right and wrong. I justwant my students to question their beliefs,to see if they can be supported by good rea-sons or are merely the result of bias orcultural conditioning. In addition, they mayfind that in the long run they're actually bet-ter off if they are moral and not merely self-interested."

Undoubtedly, Morton Thiokol, UnionCarbide and others now wish some of theirmanagers had made more ethical decisions,those in the best interest of human beingsrather than what looked best from a finan-cial standpoint. These corporations are stillreeling from bad decisions that cost both lifeand credibility — and profit. "Bad ethics isboth the cause and consequence of badmanagement," explains Jones. "In the longrun, ethical decisions can be profitable deci-sions. Companies and people who makeunethical decisions usually end up payingdearly. However, bottom-line reasons foracting ethically are clearly moral-minimumreasons."

H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr., a physicianand professor of philosophy at Rice, agreeswith Jones that profit is far from the onlymotive for acting ethically. Bioethics,according to Engelhardt and the othersinterviewed for this article, might havebegun the whole concern about the teachingof ethics in a wide range of fields. Engelhardtfilled my arms with studies and books of thelate '60s and '70s that had nothing to do withlawsuits or profit motives. These reportsfrom presidential and congressional com-missions touched on the complex nature of

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making ethical decisions in a changing tech-nological society. For example, how do youdefine when people die? Are they dead themoment their hearts stop and they cease tobreathe, or are they dead the moment theirbrains cease to function?

There are other complex issues con-fronting doctors today that did not exist inthe 1950s. In certain cases, a doctor cannow keep a person alive indefinitely throughtechnology, though the quality of that per-son's life is dismal at best. A multitude ofother concerns stack up: abortion, geneticengineering, in vitro fertilization, defectivenewborns, euthanasia. A doctor could stayin school indefinitely just sorting out theethical considerations of a patient'streatment.

"Medicine's not done in a laboratory, it'sdone with patients," Engelhardt points out."A physician shouldn't feel overwhelmed byall these issues. What a university aspires todo is to aid its graduates in understandingthe general geography of the problems, notmake their decisions for them. In otherwords, a liberal arts education does not giveall the facts. A liberal arts education isdevoted to teaching attention to argumentsso a person can make his or her own deci-sions in an informed fashion. The courses Iteach analyze the concepts and ideas of ourculture. I can only hope my students con-tinue to read critically after my course.

"Once they see the issues, it's no longeras overwhelming as it sounds."

any of the ethics courses at Riceare taught through a combinationof the case study method and a re-

view of the philosophical ideas of the ages."We've turned, almost out of desperation, totheoretical reflection," notes Temkin. "Wehave found that science does not hold all theanswers to the multitudes of problems weconfront, so we've turned to the phi-losophers and theologians to help guide us inthis unknown territory. There's benefit inlooking back on our philosophical tradi-tions. In ancient Greece, Plato asked, 'Do Ihave reason to act morally or not?' Thatsame question is being asked today."

Temkin's course touched the life of analumnus, Jack Tanner '83, now a lawyer liv-ing in Denver — particularly the day Temkindiscussed with the class their own beliefsabout animal rights. "His course allowed meto change my life," Tanner says. "It set upideas I hadn't thought about in ways I hadn'tthought about."

Tanner is now deeply involved in theanimal rights movement. "Yeah, I yell

obscenities at ladies who wear fur coats," hesays. Temkin's ethics questions about therights of animals inspired him to get in-volved in the movement.

As far as the case study approach isconcerned, the cases are intriguing littlepuzzles. For example, one Jones likes to citeis an actual case from his Allied days. Called"A Transportation Problem," the case puts amarketing executive on the line. The ex-ecutive has been struggling to get a bigaccount of some $3 million in sales with$600,000 after-tax profit. He can't under-stand why the client won't buy in since bothhis product and his price are competitive,and the service is excellent. "What's theproblem?" the executive wonders. He hasdinner with the client, who seems finally tohave taken the bait — with a catch.

"I think we'll go with you," the clientsays. "But I might just mention one thing.My wife and I are going to Bermuda for twoweeks. Someone has lent us the cabin, butour problem is transportation. I was wonder-ing if your company had a plane going thereand if there was anything you could do?"

The executive ponders the question."After all," he tells himself, "Allied has a pro-gram called 'Million Dollar Weekend' where

clients are flown in with their families. Theyare given room and board at some swanktraining center just outside New York. Theyget Broadway show tickets, pro football tick-ets, breakfast in bed and an assortment ofother perks. This can cost the companythousands of dollars per client. By flying thisclient's family to Bermuda, it will only costabout $400, and I could save my companybig bucks and get the sale at the same time."

"Of course," says Jones, "the clincher isthat the 'Million Dollar Weekend' is initiatedby Allied, whereas the trip to Bermuda wassuggested by the client. And that makes allthe difference in the world.

"Many would say that 'you have to getthe sale.' But, first, it is extortion. Also, howdo you report the money for the trip? Youhave to call the expenditure something. DoYou pay for it out of your own pocket, or doYou just buy the ticket and call it entertain-ment? There is another problem associatedWith the proposal. Once you do it, whatnext?"

But how can these cases reflect a deci-sion made on the firing line that's differentfrom any a person has studied? Jones takesmany of his cases from his students. Whenhe first began teaching applied ethics 15Years ago, he had no base upon which tobegin. He asked his students to give himCases, and throughout the course, he wouldPull one out and read it and get responses.These cases, according to Jones, sensitizestudents to their own range of beliefs andhelp them understand themselves and whythey believe as they do. "The main reason•for the cases is to help them make betterjudgments by evaluating potential humanharm and benefit."

In these courses as well, morality isn'tthe issue. Right and wrong might not evenbe the issue. After all, Engelhardt says, "Wecan never convert the wicked from their evilways, nor should we."

Jones agrees: "I want my students tolearn to think critically about the applica-tion of ethical theory to concrete problems.Changing moral behavior is not my primary

Mgoal., —y course might be an inspiration toenange, but that's not the goal. By taking aolass in ethics where cases are looked at,

people might discern the ethical dimensionsin issues that they might not have otherwiseperceived,

"It is valuable in the curriculum to havecourses that push students to see what theirmoral limits are and to enhance moralimagination."

As Freeman further points out, "In deal-ing with young people, I want to see somemovement toward maturity. I want to moti-vate, stimulate and guide my students in theformulation of their own patterns of be-havior." It's all a part of what Socrates said tohis followers: "Know thyself."

And it's no longer a question that onlylawyers and doctors be educated in ethicalthought. It applies to engineers, who mightspecify inferior materials for bridges to savemoney, for example. In the end, that deci-sion could result in the loss of lives. Inmilitary science at Rice, ethics is required."We try to help people understand their val-ues — their personal values (their religiousbeliefs, their values regarding family,friends, education, status), Army values andnational values," says Fred Livaudais, pro-fessor of military science. "Everyonedevelops these values throughout life. Wetry to show our students that Army regula-tions and the Uniform Code of MilitaryJustice guide us as officers legally. We mustapply these guidelines ethically. We try toput our values into context so that whenwe're faced with ethical dilemmas, we makethe correct decision.

"We teach ethics because it's the rightthing to do and because without ethics therecan be no leadership," he continues. "If aleader loses the trust and confidence of hisor her subordinates because of bad ethicaljudgment, then that person is unable tolead."

Rice not only offers courses in ethics,but a new institute, the Center for CulturalStudies, will be taking a long, hard look atthe concept of good vs. evil in a two-year-long series of seminars offering "point-coun-terpoint" approaches to the whole range ofmoral judgment. One purpose of the semi-nars, according to center director MichaelM.J. Fischer, a professor of anthropology, isto provide discussion among scholars on atopic very basic to the study of humankind.

J ust as the Rice Center for Cultural Stud-ies is looking at ethical questions from ahistorical and cultural perspective, it's

sometimes fun to begin the new year by pok-ing into the lives of politicians and observing

their ethical dilemmas. Jokes abound, forexample, about former Democratic presi-dential candidate Joseph Biden, who self-destructed before our eyes through a "littlebit of plagiarism," stealing the ideas ofothers.

When you hear about plagiarism, youinstantly think of students working on aterm paper, analyzing some great author'swork and "borrowing" a few ideas from thereference books. Biden's case shows,however, that ethics doesn't end in the class-room. The study of ethics can provide aperspective, a core of self-knowledge, to lasta lifetime.

"It's not my job to brainwash people,"Temkin says. "My purpose is not so much toget my students to see and do the rightthing. It is to teach them to think and toanalyze why they think the way they do. Iwant them to see themselves in the widerworld. I want them to recognize the com-plexities of the moral problems we face. Iwant them to have the theoretical apparatusto understand their own beliefs."

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Ancientisions

by Mimi Crossley

In the countryside near Rome,Rice archaeologists have spent morethan a decade sifting through theremains of centuries past. Theirfindings have now reachedinternational proportions.

After a day of digging at the archaeologicalsite on the Via Gabina 11 miles east of Rome,the Rice University crew returned to theirlodgings above a nearby countryside restau-rant. One of Ristorante La Giara's rooms wasused as a pot shed where bits of plaster fromthe remains of an ancient Roman villa builtin the time of Caesar Augustus were rou-tinely cleaned. As the Rice crew worked inthe room, suddenly from under the water

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emerged the face of a young Roman beauty,gazing back from a fragment of 2,000-year-old fresco.

Was the face that of a portrait? Or wasshe part of a wall painting depicting a famil-iar Roman legend? To Rice archaeologistsWalter Widrig and Philip Oliver-Smith, theface of the unknown woman was a symbol ofthe elegant villa that once existed on thatSpot in 27 B.C., a breath of life from the ,dust.

Rice's Roman muse now also sym-bolizes an excavation of major historicalimportance. And she is the spirit of a re-markable educational experience for nearly200 "alumni" of the excavation: Rice under-graduates, graduate students and facultywho have participated in the 12-year dig.

Whatever influence Rice's muse mighthave had in the discovery, fortune played adefinite role. When art historians Widrigand Oliver-Smith planned their first seasonon the Via Gabina, it appeared only a matterof time before modern urban sprawl erasedany possible remains of ancient Romansuburbia.

"Our initial goal was to document theRoman suburban villa. In spite of the finds atPompeii, precious little is known about thedevelopment of the villa form and even lessabout its economic history," commentsWidrig.

But what land the developers weren'ttaking over was under intensive cultivation.Unfortunately, most archaeological sites inthe Italian countryside have been ruined byPloughing with mechanized farming equip-ment. Chunks of mosaic and concretestrewn across a field are often all that is leftof ancient buildings once sealed bycenturies of soil and wind.

Selecting three sites (designated Sites10, 11 and 13) from a surface survey con-ducted by the British School in Rome,Widrig and Oliver-Smith obtained a licenseto dig from the Italian government. Feelingthe pressure of time, they began excavationsadjusted to crop rotation schedules of corn,Wheat and alfalfa. When digging began in1976, the archaeologists hoped at least tofind a modest ancient Roman weekendretreat.

Instead, what they found were two sitescontinuously inhabited from 300 B.C. to 900

pe..D. The Via Gabina sites' occupation paral-ls the range of Republican and ImperialA.ge

.Roman history to the rise of the Papal

city

Italian workers lift mosaic floor for removal to National Museum in Rome.

Major artifacts — including pottery, ironimplements and the remains of wall paint-ings — have been recovered. Severalmagnificent, decorated mosaic floors havebeen recorded and preserved. One of theseis currently being cleaned at the NationalMuseum in Rome.

And, perhaps most significantly, theRice scholars are now on the forefront ofwhat has been termed the "new archae-ology" — the interpretation of finds in light oftheir wider social, economic and culturalimplications.

Material from the Via Gabina detailingthe relationship between Rome and its sub-urbs contributes greatly to a newunderstanding of the Republican and Impe-rial periods.

"The excavations reveal successive andamplified structures from early Republicanfarmhouses to great Augustan and ImperialAge villas," Oliver-Smith says. "These struc-tures, in turn, gave way to early Medieval

buildings constructed as the Empirecollapsed."

The early Roman residences were agri-businesses, possibly used as cooperatives forpressing wines and olive oil. There was alsoa facility for manufacturing woolen cloth,Widrig points out. "Roman families wholived in the city would maintain a rural resi-dence, but not just for relaxation," thearchaeologist notes.

In sharp contrast to the conventionalpicture of the Roman economy based on lat-ifundia, the huge, self-sufficient, all-purposelanded estates, these farms averaged 10acres.

"We are finding that, far from being sim-ply pleasant country retreats, the villas werea highly specialized and entrepreneurialpart of the Roman economy," Widrig says.

The first owners of the land on the roadfrom Rome to Gabii, a town dating back to

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the 8th century B.C., are shrouded in myth."The original inhabitants might have

been Sabines," muses Oliver-Smith. "Thelegend of the rape of the Sabine women byearly Romans might have alluded to Romansseizing Sabine land as they expanded out oftheir first settlement."

Tunnels in the bedrock at Site 10 coulddate to this early Roman period. The firstdateable structure, however, is a U-shapedfarmhouse on Site 11 built at the beginningof the 3rd century B.C. By 27 B.C., at thetime of Caesar Augustus, the villa had beenexpanded into a house built around a centralpatio, or atrium. It contained a bath suiteand a swimming pool, was decorated withwall paintings, and also had an olive press.About 180 A.D., the building ceased to beused as a residence and became primarily afactory, with workers living there.

Next door, at Site 10, Roman neighborsbuilt a grand Augustan Age villa with anatrium and a Greek-influenced colonnade,court or peristyle. This elegant home laterreceived the addition of a bath suite with 12rooms, three of which were fully heated bymeans of an underground furnace circulat-ing hot air under a double floor and upthrough hollow walls.

The villas at both sites were abandonedaround 217 A.D., when a massive aqueductwas built nearby to carry water to the Bathsof Caracalla inside Rome.

People continued to live on the land,however, and by the end of the 4th century,a large-scale granary was built on Site 10,placed in the terraced garden of the previousvilla. As Rome's overseas grain trade was cutoff with the collapse of the Empire in the 5thcentury, the granary must have served as aneighborhood storage facility.

The granary was occupied until the 9thcentury, with people living on the secondfloor of the structure and burying their deadaround the building. "This period parallelsthe era when Rome became Christian andthe Papacy reorganized the country outsidethe city," notes Widrig. "It is a possible thatthe granary represents one of the earliestPapal or Church estates."

By the 12th century, written records in-deed show that the land, now known as TorAngela, belonged to the Church.

Looking over the site plans is Frank Brown ( kft) of theAmerican Academy in Rome and Rice's Walter Widrig.

Details of the buildings and their placein history have been published in journals ofthe British Museum and Dumbarton Oaks.Widrig and Oliver-Smith have contributedarticles to Notizie degli Seavi di Antichitaand major U.S. archaeological publications.

Along the way, the Roman dig has al-lowed Widrig and Oliver-Smith to create anew learning experience for Rice students.All workers at the site are volunteers, in-cluding undergraduates, graduate students,faculty and a few people from other univer-

sities with a background in classics or withspecial skills such as surveying. Other ex-perts have joined the interdisciplinary dig asspecialists on pottery and human skeletalremains. Willem van Zeist of the Universityof Groningen in The Netherlands is nowworking with the Rice team as an ecologist.

"No one associated with the excavationis paid a salary for his or her contribution,"Widrig emphasizes. Volunteers chosen fromamong the applicants pay their own trans-portation to Italy, but are provided room andboard at the site for six-and-one-half weeks.

Over the years, some 16-18 volunteershave participated each summer. Coursecredit is given to those who produce re-search papers from their work.

"We have been remarkably fortunate tohave had talented people join us," Widrigsays. "Many of the volunteers have been ar-chitecture students who have provided theexcavation with plans and drawings of thevillas as they must have originally looked."The architecture students also have fre-quently served as site supervisors.

By now, Rice's Roman dig numbers itsalumni group at nearly 200. Along with ad-venture, hard work and the thrill ofdiscovery, there are other memories as well.

During the second season of excavatingthe granary on Site 10, for instance, 30 skel-etons were unearthed. "A police helicopterflying over the site spotted us digging upwhat they took to be bodies of recently mur-dered mafiosi," Widrig remembers. Thehelicopter radioed local police who arrivedwithin minutes, sirens screaming. Right be-hind the police were paparazzi in fullpursuit, taking pictures of skeletons andRice students.

"We finally persuaded the police that ifthe skeletons were mafia, they were 1,500years old." Widrig says. "The police then toldthe photographers to strip the film fromtheir cameras, and they did."

Or everyone thought they did. Thatnight, as the archaeological crew settleddown to watch Italian television news, theysaw themselves digging up skeletons out ofwhat was described as newly discoveredtombs. The front pages of the Roman tab-

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kids the next day carried the story, withPictures and instructions on how to get tothe site.

"The police were actually quite goodabout it," Widrig says. "They posted protec-tion for us, to keep sightseers and tomb-robbers away."

Each season brings its own events andPersonalities, and many of the students keepcoming back. "One student returned foreight years," Oliver-Smith recalls. Anotherstudent, a young woman who had spent twoseasons at the Via Gabina, was on her honey-moon in Italy and left her bridegroom fortwo weeks just to return to the dig.

For the future, Widrig and Oliver-Smithsay they have enough material to keep ondigging 10 more years. Site 13 is still unexca-vated, but test trenches indicate there isanother villa and a Roman necropolis, orburial site, nearby. "It is the richest of thethree sites," says Widrig. "We might havejust begun."

Archaeology volunteers David Hagerty and Ann Nixonexplore Via Gabina dig.

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Major FindingsWhen Rice's newest major was announcedfor the fall 1987 semester, the only questionwas why it hadn't been done before.

After all, the concentration of facultyteaching in the area of what is now formallyknown as Ancient Mediterranean Civiliza-tion is one of the strongest within theuniversity. "It turns out that one of the greatstrengths of Rice is in the study of the an-cient world," reflects Michael Maas, assistantprofessor of history and this year's directorof the new program.

"Focusing it as a major was a matter ofincluding religious studies, political science,philosophy and anthropology along with themore traditional Classics language and liter-ature courses."

Thus, the new interdisciplinary studyencompasses seven departments and 18 fac-ulty members. In addition to exploring theClassical Greek and Roman traditions (aswell as Classical archaeology) Rice's pro-gram expands the study of the ancientMediterranean to include Judaism and earlyChristianity.

"By including religious studies, we openup the study of antiquity to a new way oflooking at it," Maas notes. "We hope to havea course in Islamic studies, too."

Nor is even greater antiquity ignored.Among the 53 course offerings are

classes conducted by Susan McIntosh of an-thropology in Old World prehistory. RodMcIntosh's Anthropology 211B course con-centrates on early civilizations of Europe,the Middle East and Africa.

To date, five students have signed up forthe new major. "I'd like to see 20-25 majorswithin the next four years," Maas says. Theauguries seem positive, so far: In Sep-tember, some 60 people signed up forHistory 201, the single required course inthe new major. Designed to pull all thestrands of the area study together, "Intro-duction to Ancient History" is taught byMaas and Harvey Yunis, assistant professorof classics.

Maas, who received a Ph.D. from theUniversity of California-Berkeley in 1982,came to Rice in 1984 after a two-year stint inthe classics department at Dartmouth. Soonafter arriving here, Maas engaged Rice asone of a consortium of 20 U.S. universitiesinvolved in the Intercollegiate Center forClassical Studies in Rome.

The program, administered by StanfordUniversity, gives students full credit for workdone in Rome on a semester basis. Study at

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the center also means access to all of thefacilities of the American Academy in Rome.

"It's important for students to get out ofTexas, not just to see Europe but to see theancient world and get hands-on experiencein research," says Maas, who has spent timeat the center in Rome.

The program gives undergraduates aninvaluable opportunity to study abroad andget credit, Maas believes. Undergraduate JoySomma, for instance, spent the spring 1987term at the center, then went on to partici-pate in Rice's archaeological excavationdirected by art historians Walter Widrig andPhilip Oliver-Smith on the Via Gabina out-side Rome.

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Ancient Mediterranean Civilization willbe the focus of a public lecture series thisspring given by the Center for Cultural Stud-ies at Rice. On March 11, Thomas Martin ofPomona College, Calif., will speak on "TheLegend of Aspasia: Women and Greek Rhet-oric." On April 4, Jeffrey Rusten ofWashington University in St. Louis will de-liver "I am Eurymedon: Anthropology,Obscenity and the Origins of Greek Com-edy." And on April 11, John Miles Foley of theUniversity of Missouri-Columbia will speakon "Oral Traditional Aesthetics and IliadBook 24."

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The processional at Rice's formal opening ceremoniesalmost had to be rerouted at the last minute for whatPorcine reason?

Thanks to our generous clue, all the contestantsrealized the answer had something to do with pigs.Despite answers ranging from runaway pigs to dis-paraging comments about Rice women, the realanswer lies with farmer Charles Weber, who ownedthe last 10 acres of what would become the Ricegrounds. Weber, whose pigsty lay adjacent to the pro-cessional route, refused to sell his parcel of land untilthe proverbial 11th hour.

9f What five buildings did Rice Institute consist whenit opened in 1912?Though one entrant speculated that Valhalla was

°fie of the first structures — or at least that it looked!Ike one of the first — the answer is actually the Admin-istration Building (Lovett Hall), the MechanicalEngineering Laboratory, South Hall (Will Rice Col-lege), East Hall (Baker College) and West Hall(Hanszen College).

he first men's dorm eventually became Will RiceCollege. What is written on the cornerstone?

This Side Up"? "Howard Hughes Slept Here"?Will Rice College"? No, the phrase on the cor-nerstone, penned by Edgar Odell Lovett himself, is "Tothe freedom of sound learning and the fellowship ofYouth."

The top award to college football players today isnamed after what former Rice football coach?

None of our contestants could correctly spell hisname, but the award — the Heisman Trophy — wasnamed for Coach John W. Heisman, who was lured toRice for a brief coaching stint in the 1920s. Though hevgas at Rice only part of each year, Heisman's salary —guaranteed by the first contract ever offered a Ricefe°ach — was reportedly higher than any of the pro-nes! ors'. His teams fared none too well, however, and"eisman Years,

left for greener playing fields after a couple of

TRUTHAND

CONSEQUENCESResults of the Sallyport

Demisesquicentennial Iiivia Contest.

A new book is on its way to Austin, a Ricesweatshirt and mug are headed acrossHouston and an extremely unattractiveowl is winging its way to Pittsburgh as theSallyport Demisesquicentennial Trivia Con-test drew to a close, proving yet again the witand intelligence of Rice alumni.

Bill and Debbie McCleary Cox, both1976 graduates, sent in the most correctanswers from their home in Austin, winningthe grand prize, a copy of the new Rice Pressbook, Rice University: A 75th AnniversaryPortrait. Taking us at our word that theHonor Code would not be in effect duringthe contest, the Coxes sent their answersneatly typed in a blue exam book, proclaim-ing, "On our honor, we have either given orreceived aid on this exam."

The second-place sweatshirt wasawarded to the Houston team of Bryan L.Sage '75, Martin J. Stewart '77 and LouWortham '77, who can decide among them-selves who wears the shirt, and when.Coming in a close third for a Rice mug wereRon and Susie O'Gorman ('75/'76) ofHouston.

And, last but not least, John P. Papuga'51 of Pittsburgh, Pa., was awarded theugliest, cheapest owl we could find at theCampus Store in honor of his witty, butincorrect, answers. In response to our"tiebreaker" question about practical jokes,he also teased us with hints of a story involv-ing the roof of East Hall Tower, somebinoculars and a young dietitian who livedacross the street, but declined to providedetails. It's probably for the best.

And now for the answers...

William Marsh Rice died in 1900 and was cremated.In 1930, his ashes were interred in the base of hisstatue on the Rice campus. Where were the ashes forthe 30 years in between?

This was such a good question that even ourSallyport scouts in Woodson Research Centercouldn't come up with a complete answer, though weare fairly sure that contestants' answers such as"inside the cornerstone of Lovett Hall" and "in a may-onnaise jar on Funk and Wagnall's porch" areincorrect.

What we do know is that after William MarshRice's body was cremated, the ashes were stored at theFresh Pond Crematory in Long Island, N.Y., wherethey stayed until at least 1909. By the 1920s, theywere being stashed in the safe of the Rice treasurer'soffice in the Administration Building, where theystayed until placed inside the Quadrangle statue in the1930s. If you have information about the missingyears, drop us a line and pat yourself on the back.

Name the academic disciplines of Rice's five presi-dents: Lovett, Houston, Pitzer, Hackerman and Rupp.(Hint: Two of them shared the same discipline.)

The disciplines claiming Rice's presidents areactually chemistry (Hackerman and Pitzer), mathe-matics (Lovett), physics (Houston) and theology(Rupp), not Zen, groundwater fungi, quilting, fundraising, astrology, phrenology, cosmetology, apoplexyor any of the other guesses made.

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What was the last building added to close the aca-demic quadrangle?

Except for Papuga, who probably knew butinsisted on answering "Port-o-John # 27,568," every-one knew that Cleveland Sewall Hall, opened in 1971,was the final building added to close the quadrangle.

When — and what — was Rice's last bowl victory? Yes,this is a trick question.

The answer we had in mind was the 1966 G.E.College Bowl, which several people answered cor-rectly. On greater reflection, however, we also decidedto credit the Sage/Stewart/Wortham team with a cor-rect answer for "The 1986 Bayou Bucket," as theannual confrontation between Rice and the Universityof Houston is commonly known. Rice won that one,14-13, spoiling the finale of retiring UH Coach BillYeoman.

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What was the approximate population of Houstonwhen Rice Institute opened in 1912?

Though we liked the answer, "Who cares? Rice isthe universe itself," the more correct answer is"around 10,000."

How many academic degrees did Edgar Odell Lovetthold?

Yes, at once. And the number was seven — threebachelors degrees, two master's and two Ph.D.s.

Approximately how much did the AdministrationBuilding cost to build?

Answers such as "one shoestring" and "$24 worthof trinicets" would lead one to assume that alumnibelieve our Rice forefathers were a bit tightfisted, butthe actual cost of around $450,000 for one buildingwas fairly extravagant for the first decade of the 20thcentury.

How many stairs are there leading to PresidentLovett's original office atop the Sallyport?

Though they eventually reach to the same height,there are 77 steps on the south side and 78 on thenorth.

The original Campanile had a "shingled skirt" nearthe top that mimicked the roof of the building below.It was removed in the 1950s. Why?

The answer has nothing to do with bells, fauna,flora or "Archi elites" who wanted eaves. The skirt wasremoved after being struck by lightning and damaged,ending an ongoing campus argument about its aes-thetic value, or lack thereof.

lb what does the Greek inscription on the cornerstoneof Lovett Hall translate?

"Rather," said Democritus, "would I discover thecause of one fact than become King of the Persians."Or than to place signs on buildings that say "NoDeposit, No Return" or "Entrance," as some con-testants would have us believe.

Why did the straitlaced administration allow nobenches to be placed under the shade trees when theoriginal campus plan was devised?

Had it occurred to them, we're sure early admin-istrators would have added "protecting people frombeing deluged with bird droppings" to their list of rea-sons for outlawing benches. Concerning them at thetime, however, was the prevention of any temptationthose benches might provide to men and women —they might actually sit together on them.

In 1916, the Owls beat SMU by the largest margin inRice history. What was the score?

Rice alums of little faith gave answers such as "1-1in overtime" or "1-0," but Rice beat the Mustangs 146-3.And, some might add, they've paid for it ever since.

Who named the Rice mascot "Sammy"?Yes, Sammy's mom might indeed have provided

his moniker, but the only provable story we can find isthat Rice's mascot was named by a private investigatorhired by Rice students to find the owl, which had beenkidnapped by pirating Aggies. The P.I. sent a telegramfrom College Station using "Sammy" as a code namefor the mascot. Whether the P.I. had learned the namefrom Sammy's mom has yet to be determined.

What early administrator was known for his "pink"hair?

Rumors instigated by John Papuga that "Pink"Floyd was an early Rice administrator are not true.What is true is that Samuel G. (Red) McCann wassupposedly known for his "pink" hair. Only his hair-dresser knew for sure, however.

Who started the long tradition of complaining aboutfood in the commons, claiming it was "very monoto-nous and often ill-cooked"?

Contestants apparently decided to use this ques-tion to vent long-subdued frustrations over theircollege food experience, providing answers such as"the first person who ate it" or "the first student whodied from it." The original complaint, however, camefrom Rice's first biology professor, Julian Huxley — tono avail.

All Rice Ph.D.s issued before 1955 except one were inthe same discipline. What was it?

What was a single discipline then — math and sci-ence — is, of course, divided into many different areasnow, so perhaps "general academic area" would havebeen a better way to phrase our question. Nonethe-less, the only Ph.D. issued before 1955 that was not inmath or science was awarded in 1933 to a historystudent, Albert G. Mallison.

Who designed the original Rice diploma (the designstill used today)?

Though some guessed "Uncle Ben" and others,"Picasso," the diploma was designed by first presidentEdgar Odell Lovett.

Julian Huxley caused an uproar throughout Houstonin 1916 when he advocated two "outrageous" beliefsin a public lecture. What were they?

That Julian was always stirring up something. Ifhe wasn't complaining about commons food, he waspublicly advocating radical ideas such as evolutionand equal rights for women.

What is inside the cornerstone of Lovett Hall?A rat skeleton might be in the box that's inside

the Lovett Hall cornerstone, but the only items thereby design are a Bible, the Rice Institute charter, abiography of William Marsh Rice, short biographies ofthe first trustees, a photograph of the site plan andbuildings, a Houston Chronicle dated Jan. 12, 1911 anda Houston Daily Post dated Jan. 18, 1911.

What was "Forestry 100"?"Forestry 100" was an early hazing practice

whereby freshmen "slime" were required to spend anight in heavily wooded Hermann Park. It was not, assome suggest, a prerequisite for Math 100 or the site ofthe football team's pre-game meeting — as far as weknow.

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Rice was refused acceptance as a chapter of Phi BetaRaPpa in 1922. Why?

Though Phi Beta Kappa finally relented a fewYears later, both Rice and MIT were at first refusedadmittance because they were "institutes," nota .universities."

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What is written on Willy's book in the quadranglestatue?

While "The dead have no debts" is a fine senti-ment, it is not written in Willy's book, as onecontestant suggested. And while Mr. Rice might,indeed, have kept a little book of special phone num-b, ers, his statue on the quadrangle is not holding it. AsOr what is really written in the book, the Coxes said ithest:

In sPring 1936, sophomore William Josiah GoodeWas told he could finish the semester but could notreturn to Rice the next fall. Why?

Was poor William really dismissed because Ricewas running short on towels in the dormitory? No, itWas most likely because he offended the delicate sen-!ibilities of the administration by wearing the latesttad, Bermuda shorts, to class.

Which Rice president's style of administration consis-ted of throwing all incoming mail into his top drawer,°Perating on the principle that if he left it there longenough any problem would solve itself?l For some reason, contestants who didn't accuseRice presidents of this practice were convincedKeinat these were the administrative habits of poornneth S. Pitzer. Actually, William V. Houston was

'Lie president known for the storage-drawer style ofmanagement.

What do Anderson Hall and the San Jacinto Monu-ment have in common?

, Yes, both structures are "unfortunate enough toue. in Houston," as one cynic claimed, and they arew.ithin a hundred miles of each other. The Rice-relatedthing the San Jacinto Monument and Anderson Hallshare, however, is the work of sculptor William McVey,a 1927 Rice alumnus.

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What former Owl basketball star is currently playingin the National Basketball Association and for whatteam?

While it is questionable how much Manute Bolplays for the Washington Bullets, there's no questionthat he never played at Rice — nor did Larry Bird or"Lew Owlcindor," though we like the idea. The playerwho did star at Rice is Ricky Pierce, a guard for theMilwaukee Bucks and winner of last year's NBA SixthMan Award.

What unusual method did Coach Jess Neely use inthe late '40s to find out if there was anyone on thepractice field?

Though Coach Neely might, indeed, have clearedthe practice field by announcing that it was time forsteaks at the training table, as one contestant sug-gested, he could more easily lean over and lookthrough the crack in the wall of his Field House office.The crumbling old Field House was finally replacedwith a new, uncracked one in 1951.

One of the most famous plays in college football his-tory occurred during the January 1954 Cotton Bowlgame between Rice and Alabama. What was it?

A few cynical contestants said the play wasfamous because Rice actually scored. More unusualabout the particular play was that a Bama player cameoff the bench to tackle Rice's Dickey Maegle as heraced, otherwise uncontested, for a touchdown. Rice'steam not only scored; it won the game.

The original rug in the Fondren Library lecture roomweighs 3,000 pounds. How was it moved into thebuilding?

Two large coeds had nothing to do with it, nor didsome guy from Harvard who had been to a muscle-building seminar the previous semester. The rug wasactually brought in through the window using a crane.

At the time the Mechanical Engineering lab was built,what world record did it hold?

No, the world record was not a copy of "SonnyBoy." It was the concrete slab upon which the labrested — at that time, the world's largest.

What is the seating capacity of Hamman Hallauditorium?

Though one answer of "350 when the lecturebegins, 25 at its end" could well be correct in manycases, Hamman Hall can seat 500.

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What "nationally known television personality" andfuture politician spoke at Rice in 1961-62?

Though he was president only of the ScreenActors Guild at the time, Ronald Reagan made a col-lege appearance at Rice that year. He also had spokenat Rice a couple of years earlier.

What building was described by the Thresher as "theworld's largest men's room"?

So much for Rice's much-ballyhooed architec-ture. The "correct" answer, according to Thresherfiles, is Rayzor Hall, but contestants speculated thatthe description might also fit Rice Stadium, Ryon Lab,1 iamman Hall and the student union at Texas A&M.

When was beer sold in the Rice Stadium for the firsttime, and how much was sold?

We haven't been able to confirm one contestant'sanswer — that the first beer, a bottle of Pearl for 25cents, was sold on Sept. 18, 1950, by L.J. Louviere toDoyle Koone in the east endzone — but the officialanswer is January 1974, when Super Bowl VIII washeld at the stadium. Fifty-thousand bottles of beerwere sold, and clean-up crews had to dispose of 30tons of garbage.

In 1974, Baker College sponsored a cockroach con-test in the hopes of alerting Buildings & Grounds tothe overabundance of the crawling creatures. Whatwere the three categories in which entrants' cock-roaches were judged?

Baker's cockroach categories were: fastest, wonby Jonathan Livingston Cockroach III; biggest, won byGodzilla; and best-dressed, won by Leonardo the Cos-mic Cockroach. Should current Bakerites ever decideto renew the competition, several of our contestantssuggested a variety of alternate categories, includingsexual appetite, charm, mathematical aptitude, socialawareness, swimsuit, talent and evening gown.

Why could President and Mrs. Hackerman and biol-ogy professor Dan Johnson occasionally be seen inthe mid-'60s banging pot lids together in the yard ofthe President's House?

Johnson, now an associate professor of biologicalsciences at East Tennessee State University, tookexception to this question, laying the pot-bangingblame at Mrs. Hackerman's feet. "Neither I, nor Presi-dent Hackerman (so far as I know) ever banged potlids in the yard of the President's House," Johnsonsays. "That activity, which I did observe on more thanone occasion, was done only by Mrs. Hackerman andher maid. I will admit to having done a lot of strangethings — many of which might rate inclusion in a triviacontest — in efforts to study and/or influence blackbirdroosting behavior, but I categorically deny ever havingbanged a pot lid!"

Though the Thresher article from which we drewthe question claimed otherwise, whoever banged thepot lids did so in an attempt to frighten away the ever-present birds.

When Willy's Pub opened in 1975, it served five kindsof beer—three on tap and two in bottles. What werethey?

"Suds, brew, cool-ones, tap and warm" might verywell have been among the selections at Willy's, but theones we had in mind were Pabst, Pearl, Miller,Lowenbrau and Carta Blanca. The price, incidentally,was $1.75 a pitcher and 40 cents a mug.

When did the Rice Health Service start providing freebirth control?

"Has hell frozen over?" Ron and Susie O'Gormanwrite. If it hasn't frozen over, the ice has at leastcracked. By the late '70s, the health service was issu-ing free samples and prescriptions for birth controlpills and, more recently, provides free condoms onrequest. This answer, we might note, falls contrary toJohn Papuga's claim that free birth control beganbeing issued after health service officials got a look athis own 1951 class as freshmen.

How many volumes are in Fondren Library?The literally-oriented alumni answering these

questions generally skipped this one, claiming theycould not answer unless they knew how many volumeswere checked out at any given time. When everythingis in, however, Fondren boasts 1.5 million volumes anda slightly larger number of microforms.

What year was Rice Stadium built?Guesses ranged from "MCMXXXIII" to 1955, but

Rice Stadium was built in 1950.

What do the letters in I.C.S.A. stand for?Other than John Papuga's highly original "I Can't

Stand Anymore," which we weren't sure referred toICSA or our trivia contest, most contestants agree that1CSA is a nickname for "Institute for Computer Sci-ence Applications." The Institute for ComputerServices and Applications will no doubt be interestedto hear of this.

When did Rice start charging tuition?Maybe dad always got the bills, but the bills

started coming in 1966-67.

Which college hosts an annual Shakespeare festival?A giveaway, the answer to which is, of course,

Baker College.

The late Jake Hess '32 of Fort Worth was the onlyRice athlete to have a campus facility named after him(the Jake Hess lbnnis Stadium). How tall was he?

At 5-foot-6, Jake Hess might have been sensitiveabout his height. If so, he would be horrified to learnthat the tallest our trivia contestants gave him creditfor standing was 5-foot-3, with the average fallingbelow 4-foot-11.

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weenie" or, sometimes, "weanie."

The longest-surviving piece of Rice slang refers to the"weenie" or, sometimes, "weanie." lb what does theterm refer?

This bit of irreverent slang refers, of course, tostudents who study to excess, excluding all semblanceof a social life — though there is some merit to onecontestant's contention that a "weenie" refers to thetype of person who answers all the questions in thiscontest correctly.

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Sports

ACourtlyPresence

by Steve Nations '88

To a sports fan, there is nothing Worse than a boring game. Nothingis quite as bad as getting yourselfWorked into a complete frenzy inanticipation of the big game, and

then having the score be one thou-sand-to-zero. Even if the truesPorts fan's team wins, if it's a bor-ing game it's just not worth thebeer bought for the big contest.

And until this year, that wasthe problem with Rice basketball.

Not only was it not very good(which is not a problem in itself,Contend), but it was boring. That'sright,

boring. B-O-R-I-N-G.But enter Scott Thompson, the

basketball head coach, and suddenly the ,4

uasketball team is exciting again,fun to watch, entertaining. Andone of the players who is largelyresponsible for bringing the funback to Rice basketball is DavidWillie, the man who has helpedbring the slam dunk back to 6100South Main.A Willie, a 6'5" forward fromIustin, was chosen the SouthwestConference player of the week inmid-January after scoring 45Mints in the Owls' two games, in-le3luditIAg the 77-75 victory over theurnt-orange bucketheads ofTexas.

It was the first time a RicePlayer has been chosen SWCPlayer of the week since RickyFierce did it back in 1982.

"Monday (after the UT game)Coach called me into his office andtold me that he had some good

news," Willie says, relating how heheard of the award. "It kind ofshocked me at first. I could see itcoming my sophomore or junioryear, but not my freshman year."

Well, things like that happenwhen you're not only a very goodplayer, but a very exciting player,and even though he's out there towin, he's certainly not unawarethat the fans come to watch thisteam play. "When I have a fast-break opportunity, the first thingI'm thinking about is putting theball in the hole," he says. "The sec-ond thing is getting the crowd intothe game."

"Getting the crowd into thegame" can be pronounced "Slam

Dunk," and Willie and guardRon Robertson both like to

say those two words."Last year we just

walked the ball up thecourt, and if some-

thing happened,great," saidRobertsonafter Rice's74-69 win overTCU in whichhe scored acareer-high 29points. "Thisyear we'repushing the ballup the court andmaking thingshappen." "Makingthings happen"can be pronounced"Slam Dunk," andDavid Willie hasbeen able to saythose two wordssince he was a5'11", 15-year-old freshman inhigh school.

But the slamhas not alwaysbeen so kind toWillie. In a gameduring his junior year,he had the ball, andhis team was ahead bytwo late in the game.But he missed thedunk, and the otherteam was able to takethe ball down courtand score, sending thegame into overtime.Luckily, his team pulledout the victory in over-time, but the memoryof that miss still hangswith him.

The fact that David Willie is atRice right now can be directly at-tributed to the fact that formercoach Tommy Suitts is not. "Ricewas one of the schools recruitingme my junior year," Willie says. "Isaw them play against UT that year,and I just marked them off my list."It seems he wasn't too thrilled bySuitts' style of basketball.

But after his senior season hewas still unsure of where he wantedto go to college. And with the hiringlast March of Scott Thompson asthe new Rice basketball coach,Willie figured that maybe this wasthe place to be after all. "I thoughtmaybe I could go in there and helpchange things around," he says, al-though he adds that he didn'texpect to break into the startinglineup so soon.

So the energy and excitementof Coach Thompson helped bringWillie to Rice, and the coach's en-ergy and excitement on thesidelines continue to help theteam. Let's face facts here, folks:Coach Thompson can be almost asfun to watch during the game asthe team is, with the way he jumps,screams and generally flails hisarms in an attempt to get his teamto win.

"When I'm on the court and Ilook over there and see CoachThompson getting excited it pumpsme up, too," Willie says, and surelythe same could be said for histeammates.

Willie's goals are very simplefor now: to be the best he can be,both academically and physically.Those are certainly worthy goals,and many of us could do very wellto have such simple, yet difficult,goals.

But in the back of his mind,somewhere even David Willie isn'tquite sure about, there must be onemore goal:

To have the crowd stand andcheer after another slam dunk.

Article reprinted courtesy of theRice Thresher.

Owls on the MoundWith five of eight starters returningfrom last year's club, led by all-America outfielder Jay Knoblauhand all-SWC second baseman BenMathews, the Rice Owls should bebetter than last year's edition,which posted a 24-23 slate. Tradi-tionally, Coach David Hall's Owlshave enjoyed great success in SWCplay, and this season promises tobe better than ever. "We will scoreruns," Hall says. "Potentially, thisclub can hit .300 as a team." Theseason is already under way, with60 games slated —39 at CameronField and 21 on the road. For moreinformation on Owls baseball, call(713) 527-6022.

Netters Stumbleat RivieraAfter a successful fall season, headcoach Paul Blankenship's women'stennis team stumbled at theRiviera Tennis Club IntercollegiateInvitational, held Jan. 19-24 atPacific Palisades, Calif. The pres-tigious 30-team tournament hostedmany of the nation's top-25 squads,and was composed of a 64-playermain draw and a 64-player qualify-ing draw.

Losing in the main draw wasEmily Cates, while the other sin-gles players, Liz Sulzberger andAlice Vodicka, were thwarted inthe qualifying rounds.

Track SeasonSets Opening PaceThe Rice men's track and field sea-son opened recently with SteveStraub's harriers visiting LakeCharles, La., for the McNeese Invi-tational. The Owls recorded a winin the 3200 meter run as seniorTony Martinez negotiated the dis-tance in 9:04.37, while junior JohnBrattlof won the pole vault compe-tition as he cleared 15'0". Also withimpressive early season showingswere senior Alfredo Gomez andsophomore Bill Barrett in the 1600meter run as the pair turned intimes of 4:15.31 and 4:16.91, re-spectively, good for second andthird place. Senior Wayland Masonposted a :7.47 in the 55 meter hur-dles, good for a second place, whilethe 3200 meter relay team finishedsecond in a time of 7:47.15.

Women's track and field, justunder way, finds the return of sixall-Americas, featuring senior mid-dle distance runner Pam Klassen,and the heart of the indoor 4-x-400meter relay team, which finishedin third place at the NCAA indoormeet last March.

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ForRice'sHonor

Meeting theChallenge

Accepting the challenge of makingits educational offerings as rele-vant, internally coherent andintellectually exciting as possible,Rice University is in the process ofestablishing the President's Discre-tionary Fund for UndergraduateEducation at a cost of $1.2 million.

The William and Flora HewlettFoundation has awarded Rice a$300,000 challenge grant pledging$100,000 for each $300,000 raisedby July 31, 1988. To date, Rice hasraised all but $106,000. Gifts havebeen received from corporations,foundations and from deeded be-quests. Among the majorcontributors are the New York-based Booth-Ferris Foundation,$100,000; the Houston law firm ofBaker & Botts, $75,000; andHouston-based Conoco Inc.,$50,000.

"In our efforts to embody evermore fully the Founder's intentionsthat Rice be an institution of thefirst rank, we are very grateful forthese major gifts as well as thewidespread enthusiasm among allRice's family — parents, friends andalumni. We remain optimistic thatRice will successfully meet theterms of the Hewlett challenge,"says Rice University PresidentGeorge Rupp.

"The President's DiscretionaryFund is invaluable because it will

support revision and innovation inthe undergraduate curriculum onan ongoing basis," Rupp says. Theendowed fund will meet immediateconcerns about the undergraduatecurriculum by focusing on theneed to balance students' spe-cialization in their academicmajors with increased cross-disci-plinary and cross-cultural studiesand to improve writing abilitiesacross the curriculum.

Establishing such a fund en-ables the university to seek newways to ensure that students learnbroadly and well throughout theiryears at Rice, studying many disci-plines and learning from manycultures, Rupp says.

In essence, the President's Dis-cretionary Fund will provide seedmoney to develop and test pro-grams that might not otherwise bepossible. If successful, funding forthese revisions and innovationswould become part of the univer-sity's budget.

Already, a faculty committeehas formulated proposals for initialprograms in three areas: improvingwriting skills across all academicdisciplines; increasing undergradu-ates' exposure to other, especiallynon-Western, cultures; and coun-tering excessive specializationthrough heightened emphasis oncross-curricular studies.

"Dissecting, rethinking and of-fering new solutions will help toensure that the curriculum consis-tently advances the goal ofproducing well-educated, versatilegraduates who can think and com-municate well," Rupp says.

One program, "Writing in theDisciplines," is now being de-veloped, not to counteract awriting deficiency among Rice stu-dents, but rather to providestudents with more opportunitiesto achieve excellence in their writ-ing. Loosely modeled on otherprograms generally called "writingacross the curriculum," now inplace at more than 200 collegesand universities nationwide, Rice'sprogram would attempt to teachstudents to think objectively aboutthe concerns and assumptions ofdifferent disciplines, and about theways of writing appropriate tothem.

A second thrust of the Presi-dent's Discretionary Fund, Ruppsays, is to facilitate increasedawareness of other cultures.Course offerings in the area of

Asian Studies are seen by the fac-ulty as too few and too scattered,for example. While Rice is recruit-ing faculty in specialty areas suchas Asian art and religion, offeringgood courses requires more thanexcellent faculty. Income from theDiscretionary Fund could be usedto acquire collections of books andslides necessary for undergraduatepurposes. Income from this fundcould also provide, on an experi-mental basis, enhanced study-abroad opportunities for Ricestudents.

Interdisciplinary undergradu-ate courses on topics approachablefrom a variety of scholarly direc-tions are seen as one way toaddress concern about the frag-mentation of the undergraduatecurriculum. The committee pro-poses that a faculty seminar, heldthe semester before the course, beused by the faculty members whowill teach the course to discuss rel-evant books, formulate commonpurposes and determine teachingstrategies. Contributions of otherfaculty members with special inter-est in the subject would also besolicited. Funding for the facultyseminars to test the effectivenessof the concept over a two-yearperiod could be obtained from thePresident's Discretionary Fund.

Another proposed use of thePresident's Discretionary Fund in-come takes the form of a visitingfellows program, Rupp says. Such aprogram would enable students tomeet and learn from noted schol-ars, writers, artists and politicalfigures.

"These examples represent thekinds of uses this endowment in-come will support," Rupp notes."Undoubtedly, the fund will seeother uses and new experiments ascurricular concerns change. Andwhile some of these programs willfail, others will enhance the Riceundergraduate program immea-surably. In the years to come, thePresident's Discretionary Fund willprovide a healthy corrective to cur-ricular inertia and a ready vehiclefor instigating needed change."

—Andre Fox

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Alumni

Saluting theBestWhat do writer John A. Graves,businessman M. Kenneth Oshman,Ophthalmologist Louis J. Girard,architect John M. McGinty andeconomist/educator Gloria Shattohave in common?

Each is a Rice graduate, ofcourse. But they have also beenformally designated DistinguishedAlumni of Rice University.

The award for DistinguishedAlumni is presented annually to asmall number of individuals whohave "advanced the interest and standards of excellence of Rice Uni-versity through distinctiveProfessional or volunteer careers."Such an award covers an almostendless list of fields in which high-caliber people have attained signifi-cant recognition, says Associationof Rice Alumni Director SusanBaker. Their giving something valu-able to society is yet anothercommon denominator among therecipients of this once-a-yearaward.

The first recipient, TracyYerkes Thomas '21, a mathemati-cian, was honored in 1976. Since'nen, at least one person has beenhonored each year. More the ex-cePtion than the rule, four personsreceived the award in both 1985and 1986. There is no firmly fixedUpper limit, Baker notes.

Distinguished Alumni awardrecipients are selected by the hon-ors

committee, whose structureincludes subcommittees that inves-tigate the caliber of the peoplenominated for the awards, sayscommittee member Catherine

Hannah. To them also falls the taskof choosing between several, oftenall well-qualified, candidates.

"We have a little bit of a prob-lem," Hannah says. "There are somany exceptional Rice graduatesin so many fields. Everything elsebeing equal between two excellentwriters whose names have beensubmitted for consideration, for ex-ample, the vote will likely go to theperson 65 or older (where applica-ble) since the award cannot begiven posthumously. The onlyother condition: the recipient mustbe present to receive it."

Vice President for StudentAffairs and honors committeemember Ronald Stebbings says thecommittee tries to keep a balanceby not honoring four engineers orthree scientists in the same year.However, since each of the threescientists or four engineers mightbe a worthy nominee, it is custom-ary that their nomination remainactive for several years.

"This is an imminently sensi-ble procedure that ensures thatthese individuals are not forgottenby the committee," Stebbings says.

Distinguished Alumni awardsare not the only honors Riceawards each spring. Three yearsago the Association of Rice AlumniMeritorious Service Award was be-gun to periodically recognizepeople who have made significant,

sustained, voluntary contributionsof energy, time and creativity to-ward the advancement of RiceUniversity. Alumni, faculty, staffand friends of Rice are eligible.This award differs from the Dis-tinguished Alumni Awards in thatrecipients have made their impactthrough direct service to theuniversity.

"It is desirable for the univer-sity to reward these individuals'lifetimes of service to Rice,"Stebbing says.

In the case of the service

award, the honors committee(which includes administratorsand members of the developmentand alumni staffs, as well as fac-ulty) reviews the nominees andrecommends up to 12 candidates tothe alumni executive board. Thecommittee chooses the winners ofthe awards by vote.

In terms of organization, it iscustomary that the former alumniassociation president becomeschair of the honors committee. Toavoid stagnation, Hannah says,about half new members are addedevery few years. As a result, thecommittee is never left with onlynew members who are unfamiliarwith the guidelines,standards andprocedures.

Both the awards for Distin-guished Alumni and MeritoriousService are presented at commen-cement — with a purpose. NotesHannah: "Graduates receivingtheir diplomas might be inspiredby these individuals, thinking'!can do this. I can go out in mychosen field and do well, too."

Each year the university re-quests nominations from themembers of the alumni boards, theuniversity officers and trustees andthe university deans and depart-ment heads. Nominations are alsorequested from students, alumniand community members.

To nominate an individual foreither of these awards, please sub-mit the following information

about the personyou wish to nomi-nate: 1) Degrees,majors, years,

institutions; 2) Ad-dress and phonenumber; 3) Oc-cupations/Profes-sional field;4) Current title;5) Honors andawards; 6) Publica-

tions/Inventions/In-novations; 7) Professional activities/Boards/Affiliations; 8) Rice involve-ment; 9) Civic/Religious Activities/Boards/ Affiliations; and 10) Ad-ditional information. Be sure toinclude your name (as the personmaking the nomination), class yearand telephone number as well.

—Andre Fox

It's Beer-Bike Time AgainBeer-Bike 1988 is scheduled forSaturday, March 26, with alumniraces beginning at 1 p.m.(The "raindate" is March 27.)

Watch for alumni and YoungAlumni tents, and plan to bring apicnic lunch.

For more information, or tosign up for the alumni team, callthe alumni office at (713)527-4057.

Nominees NamedThe Association of Rice Alumni isin the process of sending out bal-lots for alumni voting on newmembers to the association's ex-ecutive board and for a new alumnigovernor.

Nominees for the alumni gov-ernor's position are Robert B. Goff'47 and Carolyn Douglas Devine'52.

Nominees for each of the sixexecutive board positions are:Cornelius Ryan '37 and HarveySenturia '45 (Position I); C.H.Siebenhausen '50 and JaquelinYellin '69 (Position II); Jim Lomax'67 and Karen Hess Rogers '68(Position III); Frank W. DonnellyJr. '75 and Paul Hlavinka '73 (Posi-tion IV); Kent Killion '81 and JimMustacchia '86 (Position V); andMatt Gorges '58 and Harry Hoover'50 (Position VI).

Biographical information andcandidate statements are con-tained on the ballot. All alumni areurged to participate in voting.

Fondren Auction PlannedThe Friends of Fondren Eighth An-nual Saturday Night Auction andCasino Party is scheduled forMarch 5. Benefits from the eveninggo to the Friends' EndowmentFund.

The Auction/Casino will beheld in the Grand Hall of the RiceMemorial Center. The price of ad-mission is $30.

Among the items that will beput up for bidding is a tour ofBayou Bend with a picnic in thegardens, a Blimp ride, a weekend atthe Westin Galleria, the VictorianInn in Galveston or the WoodlandsInn, a ticket on Continental Air-lines, an individually designeddress of antique laces, and a set oflead soldiers.

From dancing with Sammy theOwl to beating the house at gamesof chance, the evening should bean exciting one. For information, tobuy tickets or to donate an item forthe auction, call Betty Charles at(713) 527-4022.

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Classnotes'22Hugh R. McKean wrote to let usknow how much he enjoyed hisRice Homecoming 1987 visit.Hugh was the oldest of six Ricegraduates in his family—Anna G.'24, James P. '24, Edith E. '27,Jerome G. '32 and Charles V. '35.The youngest, Charles, and hiswife, Marjorie Hinzie McKean'37, and their daughter, MarthaMcKean Wright '64, and her hus-band, Richard Wright '62, wereable to celebrate homecomingtogether. Their son, CharlesWright, is a Rice freshman thisyear and plays in the MOB. "Ialmost missed the tribute to me onthe scoreboard at the half, whichwent something like WelcomeHugh McKean '22, fullback in the'21 Rice-A&M seven-to-seven tieand captain of the basketballteam.' I and my company reallyappreciated it."

'29Class Recorder:Beverly Van Zandt218 Shoreacres Blvd.La Porte, TX 77571(713) 571-0827

'30Class Recorder:Mildred Ogg Fisher2910 BraeburnBryan, TX(409) 774-7217

Class Recorder Mildred OggFisher writes, "Since we haven'tused any space for a while, I hopewe are entitled to a bit extra to'catch up.'

"I mailed 60 cards to class-mates requesting news. Unfor-tunately, I mailed just beforeThanksgiving so I am sure manyof the recipients thought, 'I'll dosomething about this after theChristmas hullabaloo is over.' Ihave received two answers.

"Pauline Meadows Bourdonwrites about her family on aChristmas card as follows: 'Lynn'27 and I were married 55 yearsago in June of this year. He is stillpracticing medicine, even thoughhe celebrated his 83rd in July! Wehave three children, as you proba-bly remember, and 12 grandchil-dren. Five of the grandchildren aremarried, but there is only onegreat-grandchild so far. Four ofthem (including one of the mar-rieds) are in college, one is in theArmy and two are in high school.Only one of the grandchildren, outof all those people, lives in Hous-

ton. We keep Ma Bell in businessjust "keeping in touch" with all ofthem.'

"She says that she doubtsmany members of our class wouldbe interested. Wrong!

"Margaret Toler Edberg(Phi Beta Kappa) writes from Bal-timore, 'I'm mostly just learning.One year I became so disgustedbecause I could not find clothesthat I decided I would learn tosew. I was 60 at the time. Mymother had learned to drive at 60,so I thought I could surely learn tosew at that age. I enrolled in anadult education class, and I'vebeen sewing ever since.

"Another day I go to a Biblestudy class conducted by the min-ister, a woman, at my church. Sheis an excellent Bible student andis at present working on herdoctorate.

"For the last 22 years I havebeen a volunteer counselor oneday a week at an employmentoffice that tries to place people 60and over who either need to sup-plement their income or find theyare bored with retirement andneed the stimulus of a job. It is afree service. I've enjoyed my asso-ciation with them as well as thesatisfaction of helping people tofind work.'

"I do hope others will respondbecause I enjoy reading about ourclassmates.

"I have received other Christ-mas cards from Isabel BeckerWillis, who lives in Conroe, andfrom Helen Starkey Johnson inSpring Branch, Texas. Her hus-band is a retired Presbyterianminister and they live veryactive lives.

"There has been a great dealof excitement in my life ever sincePresident Reagan called my son-in-law, James Parker '59, andasked if he would accept anappointment as a federal judge,District of New Mexico. Jim, mar-ried to my daughter, FlorenceFisher Parker '62, had practicedlaw in Albuquerque for 25 years.In September I flew to Washing-ton, D.C., (along with 13 other rel-atives and friends from six states)to attend his hearing before theSenate Judiciary Committee. Hewas approved unanimously afterrather brief questioning. We cele-brated with two elegant dinners.

"On Nov. 22, I flew to Albu-querque for the 'swearing in' cere-mony, which was most impres-sive. It was followed by a receptiongiven by the New Mexico Bar Asso-ciation. On Nov. 25, all of the fam-ily flew to Boulder, Colo., to spendThanksgiving with my grandson,Roger Parker. It snowed all day!

"Please write to me, one andall, and tell us what you aredoing."

'31Class Recorder:George Blocher9478 Briar ForestHouston, TX 77063(713) 780-0566

Harold Hensley was recently fea-tured in an article in the Midland(Texas) Reporter-Telegram, whichdescribed his 32-year career in theoil business, from Humble Oil toExxon.

'33Class RecordersWillie Mae Chapman Cole2414 Chimney RockHouston, TX 77056(713) 782-9509

'34Class Recorder:Elliott Flowers3330 Del MonteHouston, TX 77019(713) 524-4404

'36Class Recorder:Mary B. Arnold10714 Del MonteHouston, TX 77042

'37Class Recorder:Jane Rommel504 Fairway Drive, RiverhillKerrville, TX 78028(512) 896-4310

'38Class Recorder:Jane Stockton-Dunaway415 Blalock DriveHouston, TX 77024(713) 465-7332

Class Recorder Jane Stockton-Dunaway writes, "A note fromDon Feehan '71 about hismother: 'Eleanor SullivanFeehan is still grieving the loss ofher husband, Hugh, who died in1986 after a sudden illness. She ispresently living in a condo insouthwest Houston and looks for-ward to visits from her son, Don,and his family from their homeoutside San Francisco. Eleanorwould like to hear from all herformer classmates.' Don, who iswith Chevron Oil, and his wifehave two children and enjoy livingin California.

"Many of us know thatCharles Moore coached at Ricefor 35 years. But not many of usknow that as a \VW II Navy Recog-nition Officer aboard a destroyer,he was decorated for work identi-fying enemy planes in the Iran-Africa theater in preparation forthe invasion of Sicily. After WW II,Charles was coach and teacher atCorpus Christi High School beforehe came to Rice as freshmancoach. He was varsity line coachfor Neely and Joe Davis for 15

years and was assistant athleticdirector until he retired in 1983.His family regrets he was unable toattend the 50th anniversary lastyear of the Southwest Champion-ship Team of 1937 of which hewas captain. Charles recentlyentered a nursing home, a victimof Alzheimer's disease. His wife,Rebecca Perry Moore, graduatedfrom Rice in 1976 with a degree inEnglish and Religion. They havetwo daughters — Margaret, who isa language teacher at Cypress-Fairbanks, and Charlie Sartwelle,who is achieving recognition as ascuptress.

"Ortrud Lefevre Muchattended the wedding of herdaughter, Kathleen Much '63in Palo Alto, Calif., on Jan. 1.Kathleen, a staff member of theInstitute of Advanced Studies ofBehavioral Science, married Stan-ley Peters, Ph.D. graduate of MITand professor at Stanford Univer-sity. Stanley is the son of MaryBeth Morris Peters '39 andnephew of Seth Morris '35.Think of all those good genes!

"1988 is the banner year forour class — our 50th reunionand fulfilling our pledge to raise$250,000 for our 1938 GoldenAnniversary Scholarship Fund toendow four merit scholarshipsannually for future Rice students.We need approximately $55,000to reach our goal, but we haveuntil June 30 to accomplish this.And we will if we all participate. Iam confident that we will. HappyNew Year!"

'41Mary Johnston retired after 32years as Fortune's chief ofreporters. According to the man-aging editor, she has been theguardian of the magazine's stand-ards and has played a host of otherroles such as the staffs chief men-tor, confidante, confessor andmodel of civilized behavior. Sixty-two members of the magazine'scurrent staff were hired by her —they are her legacy, whom shecalls "my children."

'42Class Recorder:Oscar N. Hibler Jr.5667 Piping RockHouston, TX 77056(713) 621-7272

Class Recorder Oscar Hiblerwrites, "Our 45th Reunion on Oct.24, 1987 was a big success with 64persons in attendance. Dr. andMrs. Rupp were present to wel-come us back to the campus.

"Everyone had a fine timerenewing old friendships andrecalling events from our collegedays. Of particular note was a spir-ited conversation between BuzzyBaird and Bill Jacobe on the finerpoints of A-House bridge.

"In addition to those who reg-ularly attend our reunions we hadseveral persons attend who wereback on the campus for the firsttime since graduation. Out-of-town attendance was good. Tomention only a few, Bob Knoxcame in from Tyler, Texas,Vernon Baird from Fort Worthand Doris '42 and David Wes-theimer '37 from Los Angeles.(It was a big event for the West-heimers, as David was here forhis 50th reunion while Doris wasattending her 45th.)

"Many worked hard to make

the event a success and I cannotbegin to name all of them, but I dowish to express our thanks to thefollowing: Nell Wood, who han-dled the decorations and music,Henri Paul Siesic of the ShepherdSchool of Music, who played thepiano throughout the evening,Robert Kegg, who showed hismovies of our graduation, seniorpicnic and 25th reunion, Neal andBilly Heaps, who provided theclever name tags, Joyce and EarlWylie, who handled all the finan-cial details and, finally, GwenMurphree, who supervised thepreparations and put all of thepieces together to make thereunion a success. We are nowlooking forward to our 50th.

"In the honors department Iam pleased to pass on to you theinformation that Moody Jacksonhas been elected president of theInternational Transmission PowerDistributors Association and thatPat Nicholson is now president ofthe Ophthalmological Foundation.

"May each of you have aHappy New Year. Let me hearfrom you."

'44Class Recorder:Larry Hermes2028 Albans RoadHouston, TX 77005(713) 529-2009

Betty Fagan Burr writes, "My latehusband, Jesse H. Burr, was acredit to Rice University; a prod-uct of the fine education that hereceived there. He particularlyadmired Dr. Joseph I. Davies,whom he worked under at thegraduate level. He taught in the

biology department of Stephen F.Austin State University for 32years, serving as chair of thedepartment for several years untilill health forced him to give up thechair. He was selected as PiperProfessor in 1978 and honored byhis colleagues on his retirement in1983 with an endowed biology lec-ture series in his name. He wasalso honored by one of his formerstudents, now a physician, whoendowed a scholarship chairin his name at Stephen F. AustinState University."

'47Jim Brown retired from the "fastlane" a year ago in January, hav-ing worked the past 20 or so forthe Metropolitan Water Districtof Southern California — sevenworking in the water tunnels andground water studies and the last13 doing environmental impactreports on various projects. Heand his wife, who is still working,used up the remainder of her vaca-tion on a fall trip to visit areas innortheast Utah, northwest Colo-rado and southwest Wyoming.

'49Class Recorder:Mary Lou Douglas5331 S. KimbackChicago, IL 60637(312) 752-1186

'53Jerry Wiener has been namedpresident of the American Acad-emy of Child and Adolescent Psy-chiatry; he will serve a two-yearterm. He is currently a professorand chairman of psychiatry andsocial sciences and of child healthand development at the GeorgeWashington University MedicalCenter in Washington, D.C.

'54Richard A. Chapman receivedthe 1987 Jack A. Morton Awardfrom the Institute of Electrical andElectronics Engineers Inc. atIEEE's international electrondevices meeting in Washington,D.C., on Dec. 8, 1987. As one ofthree co-recipients of this award,Chapman was honored "for thedemonstration and developmentof mercury cadmium telluridemonolithically-integrated charge-couple device focal plane arrays.'He is a research fellow on thetechnical staff assigned to theSemiconductor Process Labora-tory of Texas Instruments inDallas.

'56Class Recorder:Maureen Bybee3800 Chevy ChaseHouston, TX 77019(713) 522-3705

'57Class Recorder:Dixie Sick Leggett13411 KingsrideHouston, TX 77079(713) 468-5929

Class Recorder Dixie Leggettwrites, "During homecoming,classmates gathered on campusfor two memorable 30th reunionparties. Traveling farthest wereJim Alexander from Oregon; Pat

and David Watkins from New Jer-sey; Angela and Hugh Miller froni

Pennsylvania and Dorothy andTony Watkin, Jim Jurecka and

Sharon Bintliff from California.

At Friday's BBQ dinner in JonesCommons, 120 people thoroughlYenjoyed 'catching up' on each oth-

er's lives. Following Saturday'sdinner in the RMC Grand Hall,an even larger group was treated

to a production directed by PhilShannon, titled "Not Necessarily

the Follies." At the microphone,

LaNelle McReynolds and HomerBorgstedte guided us, via mem-ory, through our years and antics

at Rice, evoking much laughter aswell as unmistakable sentimental

response. Through humorousmonologue, Joy Clark McCown/1Wdescribed the 'distinctive' life amarriage to the Rice engineer.Among the many contributions ot

Reunion Chair Anne Brown weretwo delightful class songs, which

she wrote and led us in singing.Phil Shannon, still pianistextraordinaire, entertained uswith his Fifties piano medley.

"The reunion could not have

succeeded without the followingadditional committee membersElaine England, Ray Gorman,Elaine Davis, Rita Fason, Fred

Russell, Mary Lou Sindersoa,

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Naomi Cogan and Helen Havensand Jim Alexander, who deliv-ered our dinner invocations.

"It would seem impossible totop this 30th reunion, but let's tryin '92!"

'58Class Recorder:Phyllis Walton4233 Harpers Ferry RoadBirmingham, AL 35213(205) 870-0332

Dixie Louis is active in GirlScouts, Junior League and WeedN Wish Corp., a board responsi-ble for managing and directing theoPeration of two 1900 railroad sta-tions. Louis has spent the lastthree years on the board of Hugsinc., a group planning the buildingof a Ronald McDonald House inGalveston. She began medicalauxiliary work in 1970. By 1976She became involved in state-levelmedical auxiliary work. Recently,She was elected president ofthe Texas Medical AssociationAuxiliary.

'59ClALS8 Recorder:Tommie Lu Maulsby2256 ShakespeareHouston, TX 77030(713) 664-5042Peter F. Hackley (will Rice)recently left Kaiser Engineers after23 Years and accepted the positionas vice president of engineeringfor LS Transit Systems, headquar-tered in Bloomfield, N.J. He isresPonsible for directing and over-seeing all engineering and designefforts undertaken by the firm andthe further development of thefirm's automated design and sys-tems analysis capabilities. Prior toJoining LSTS, Hackley served on aWide variety of engineering andL., designassignments for Kaiser'''ogineers, including the HoustonTra

nsitt'rogram, design of main-tenance facilities for the MiamiMetro, BART Daly City rail trackand

expansion of three yards,design of MARTA's Avondale Main-tenance Shop and preliminarydesign for the Istanbul metrosYstern.

'60Class Recorder:Barbie McKittrick111 Guinea DriveHouston, TX 77055(713) 465-4827C'errY Plreenan (Baker) retiredfrom the Navy last July as a cap-

and went to work for E-BYstems, Garland Division. HeWrites, "It's nice to be back inTexas!”

'61Class R_eeo rden33.1oicystuotrhnous Stone Brook

7 ton, TX 77063k 13) 781-3634

'62Richard Viebig was named one ofthe country's best tax accountantsin a fall issue of Money magazine.He was one of four Houstoniansmentioned.

'63Class Recorder:Kathleen Much1065 Greenwood Ave.Palo Alto, CA 94301(415) 328-9779(415) 321-2052

Gary A. Ratkin (Baker) is prac-ticing medicine in St. Louis, Mo.,specializing in hematology andmedical oncology. In addition toserving on the clinical faculty ofWashington University, he is chairof the clinical practice committeeof the American Society of Clini-cal Oncolgy. He is married and hastwo children.

Jim Treybig (Baker), the co-founder, CEO and only presidentto date of Tandem ComputersInc., was featured on the cover ofthe Nov. 9 issue of InformationWeek magazine. According to thearticle, Tandem Computers Inc.has broken from its mold asmerely a leading vendor of fault-tolerant computers, indisputablybecoming a full-range computersupplier and a major force in themarketplace.

'64Alvin H. Lane Jr. has relocatedhis firm, Lane & Associates, toDouglas Avenue in Dallas.

Dale Content (Will Rice) writes,"I am now captain with Delta Air-lines, flying out of Atlanta, Ga. Ihave been with Delta for 18 years,the last 10 years living in BocaRaton, Fla., with my wife, Dawn."

Charles Redmon (Baker), manag-ing principal of Cambridge SevenAssociates Inc., has been electedpresident of the Boston Society ofArchitects.

'65Ed Red is now on the faculty ofBrigham Young University, wherehe serves as information systemsofficer and associate professor ofmechanical engineering.

'66Jim Campbell (Baker) writes:"Twenty-one years is enoughtime, I suppose, to generate thematerial for my first note to theSallyport. I have been in the Navy

'62 Alum Names Reunion 'Winners'Obviously inspired by the revelry that occurred during the Class of '62reunion during homecoming weekend a few months back, a '62 alumnatook it upon herself to honor her classmates with a number of awards.

The Awarder, who prefers to remain anonymous, honors the follow-ing '62 Awardees:

Most Generous: Susie Morris and Mel Glasscock;Most Courageous: Nancy Bullard and Doug Schlatter;Most Inspiring Family Snapshot: John Fallon;Most Athletic Female: Pat Yale Hogan, winner of the alumni tennis

tournament;Most Artistic Contribution: Barry Moore;Best Preserved Male: Robert Johnston;Most Huggable: Syd Nathans;Loveliest Skin: Leslie Cummings Berry;"My Dear, You Haven't Changed A Bit" Award: Three-way tie among

Evelyn Thomas Nolen, Barry Moore and Bill Pannill;Highest Enjoyment Quotient: Mary Ann Calkins Pilain;John Daly Award for the Most Interesting Profession: Renee Lipman;Best-looking Trio of Daughters: Tie between Bill Pannill and Bob and

Ann Shamblin Baillio;Marcus Welby Award: Milton Nirken;Bing Crosby Award for the Widest Gap in Children: Joel Hochman;Most Distinguished-looking Spouse: Roy Nolen;Art Buchwald Emcee Award: Barry Moore;Pride of the Pampas: Tie between Pat Jones Teed and Robert Collett;History Major with the Most Dates: Bill Pannill;Lindbergh Award for the Most Exotic Hobby by a Class Beauty: Suzy

Rhodes Henney;Forty-six Going on Eighteen Award: Jim McCullar;Garrison Keillor Award for the Most Magnetic Unemployed Shy Per-

son: Kenny Oshman;Dumbest Smart Person Awards go to to everyone who missed this

great event.

since graduation in 1966, and theexperience has been full andrewarding. After Officer CandidateSchool I spent my first four yearsas a math instructor at NavyNuclear Power School. Then, fol-lowing a three-year assignment inOkinawa, I attended the NavalPostgraduate School in Monterey,Calif., where I earned an MSEE.Aside from a three-year tour inRota, Spain, I have been stationedin the Washington, D.C., area eversince, in various program manage-ment jobs, developing electronicsystems for ship- and shore-basedapplications. In July I began athree-year tour as commandingofficer of the Naval Security GroupSupport Activity here in Washing-ton. I met my wife, Karen, in Cali-

fornia during my first tour of duty.She is the business manager forour local church. We have twochildren, Brian, 15, and Susan,10."

Bob Holliday, a founding directorof the Ducks Unlimited GreggCounty chapter, was recognizedrecently as the chapter's DU Manof the Year and featured in anarticle in the Longview (Texas)News. A chemist at Texas East-man, Holliday carves woodenmodels of waterfowl as a hobby.

Robert Charles Ladner (Baker)has been president of ProteinEngineering Corp. since March.PEC is a biotechnology startupfirm. He says, "We have a year ortwo of basic research and develop-ment ahead of us, but then youwill see important results fromPEC."

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Louis Kronfeld (Ph.D.) has beenappointed vice president andgroup general manager of fine andfunctional chemicals for Akzo.

S. F. Sapontzis (Baker) haswritten a book on animal rights,Morals, Reason, and Animals,published last summer by Tem-ple University Press. He is a pro-fessor of philosophy at CaliforniaState University-Hayward.

Judy Getz Weiser is the directorand training coordinator of thePhotoTherapy Centre in Vancou-ver. She has her M.S.Ed., A.T.R.,is a registered psychologist, a reg-istered art therapist and R.S.W.who specializes in the nonverbaland visual aspects of communica-tion and behavior. Weiser con-ducts workshops and trainingevents worldwide and has contrib-uted to books including Photo-Therapy in Mental Health, Exem-plary Programs Teaching VisualLiteracy Skills, Cross-CulturalPsychology and Nonverbal Behav-ior and Child and AdolescentTherapy Techniques. She hasa full-length book in progress.Weiser has also been featuredin a number of media interviews,including those for Life magazine,Maclean k, The New York Timesand USA Today.

'68Joseph Barnett McReynolds(Will Rice) was promoted togeneral counsel of the TexasDepartment of Human Servicesin September 1987.

Ben Sevier (Wiess) moved to Con-necticut in August 1986 and a yearlater took a job with Southern NewEngland Telephone as a micro-computer consultant. He movedagain, to Madison, Conn., thisSeptember.

'70Linda Faye Williams is a seniorresearch associate at the JointCenter for Political Studies inWashington, D.C., and formerassociate professor at Howard Uni-versity. A native Texan, she holdsa Ph.D. from the University of Chi-cago. Her voice continues to beheard as an expert on the blackvote: the Dallas Morning Newsrecently carried an excerpt of aspeech Williams made on the sub-ject at the Washington JournalismCenter.

'71Ed Emmett (Lovett) is executivedirector of the Texas Associationto Improve Distribution. Theformer four-term state representa-tive is the Republican RailroadConimission candidate. He willspend the first portion of the newyear (prior to the primary elec-tion) traveling extensively, talkingabout specific issues that areaffected by commission decisions.

'72Sarah Cortez (Jones) marriedBernard Pierre Brunon on Nov. 29,1987.

Frank Hamden (Ph.D.) has wonthe Greenhill School Alumni Asso-ciation Distinguished AlumnusAward for 1987. He is currently aresearch physicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astro-physics in Cambridge, Mass.

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Melissa Keane (Jones) writes, "Ihave a new job. (Those who knowme here say, 'Again?') As accountexecutive for KAET Channel 8 —that's the PBS station affiliatedwith Arizona State Universityback on campus, I'll be workingwith corporate underwriters tofund programming and local pro-duction. FYI, this is the most-watched PBS station in the coun-try, per capita, and we do it allwith only one on-air pledge driveper year. We are suburbia-plusthese days. Daniel, 9, is intobraces, basketball and viola; Nora,7, is into Disney movies, balletand cheerleading. This is our sev-enth year in Tempe — but I'm notinto a Jeep Cherokee yet!"

Dorothy Lancaster McCoppin(Brown) was recently promoted tosenior counsel for Enron Inter-state Pipeline Co., which ownsand operates a 37,000-mile natu-ral gas pipeline system. Shewrites: "I really enjoyed visitingwith my classmates at the 15-yearreunion, and am glad to be back inHouston again."

Felix Millhouse (Wiess) has beenelected to fellowship in the Ameri-can College of Cardiology. He iscurrently practicing cardiology inSan Francisco, Calif.

Jane Kominek Petruck (Brown)writes, "My husband, Walter, andI moved to Israel in December1986. We spent our first sixmonths here studying Hebrew.Walter had begun having respira-tory problems in the States, butafter three hospitalizations andthousands of dollars in medicalbills, the only diagnosis wereceived was a possible allergy.In Israel, in the summer of 1987,we were informed that Walterhad asbestosis, from which hedied on Sept. 28, 1987. lamnow in the process of buildinga new life for myself."

'73Ken Campbell (Will Rice) marriedCatherine Carroll last year whiledoing postdoctoral work in brainresearch in North Carolina. He isnow a psychology professor at theUniversity of Delaware.

Susan Carter Gasehen (Brown) isnow living in North Hollywood,Calif., where she works as mana-gerial associate for Columbia Art-ists Festivals Corp.

Denise Reineke Fischer (Brown)was appointed to the Texas Liter-acy Council by Gov. Bill Clem-ents. In 1986 Fischer establishedthe literacy program at SterlingMunicipal Library, where she isassistant city librarian for publicservices. Sterling's literacy pro-gram was recognized as a full affili-ate of the Literacy Volunteers ofAmerica, based in Syracuse, N.Y.,in October 1987. She is recog-nized for pioneering new ways torecruit tutors and to attract stu-dents as well.

Steven Jent (Wiess) writes: "Ihave moved to Houston to beginthe most exciting assignment Ihave had in my 11 years with IBM— designing and writing softwareto support the National SpaceTransportation System, betterknown as the Space Shuttle."

David Upp (Lovett) writes, "It'sgreat to see Old Players & friendsin that Austin picture in the Sally-port! I'm enjoying my time on par-enting leave in Hood River, Ore.,

(10 minutes to wind-surfing, 30 toskiing, 30 to rainforest and 20 tosagebrush). Our wiz-kid Daniel is7-1/2, our Hannah just turned 3.1987 highlights for me includebeing The Foreigner (script byLarry Shue)— my 50th produc-tion, being back in Houston for aJanuary visit, being spiritual direc-tor for a "Walk to Emmaus," a5,000-mile genealogy road tripwith the kids and a long-awaitedjourney through Japan. RiceNorthwest lives!"

'75Patricia Leech Thomas Camp(Brown) writes, "I am currentlymany things, including an entre-preneur, state coordinator for theReligious Coalition for AbortionRights of Illinois and a law studentat the University of Chicago. Mybusiness involves consulting withsmall non-profit corporations,including assistance with fundraising, board development, pro-posal writing, program develop-ment, personnel management andfinancial, tax and constitution/bylaw restructuring. My positionwith RCAR of Illinois is director ofa broad-based coalition of main-line Jewish and Christian religiousgroups around the issue ofabortion."

Peter Fasullo (Will Rice) hasbeen promoted to vice president ofenergy futures and planning atValero Refining and Marketing Co.He will relocate from San Antonioto Houston.

'76David W. Barrow (Sid Rich) hasmoved from Tuba, Ariz., to Flag-staff. He writes: "The only newdevelopment is living with elec-tricity and telephone." (Also see"New Arrivals.")

Dana Adrienne Burch (Jones)recently accepted a position withCITGO Petroleum Corp. in Tulsa,Olda. She writes: "With a specialtyin environmental law, my positioninvolves responsibilities in envi-ronmental and safety matters forthe corporate legal department."She is a 1979 graduate of the Uni-versity of Texas law school.

Susan De Bremaeker (Baker)sums up the past 10 years of herlife: "I was in seminary in Berke-ley, Calif. From there I movedto West Virginia. I married. Idivorced and returned to Houston,but the hills of West Virginia kept

calling me home. I came home inthe fall of 1985, signed a deed tofive acres, a little house and a lotof peace and solitude. I serveda small Presbyterian church,preaching every Sunday for 1-1/2years. I started medical school infall 1987 at the W.Va. School ofOsteopathic Medicine and ampreaching every other Sunday. Ikeep busy. It's a good life, and Istill have the same cat I got whenI lived at Baker!"

Albert Grazioli (Will Rice) hasbeen appointed vice president fordevelopment of The Koll Co., areal estate investment firm inLos Angeles.

'77Lynda Y. de la Vina (M.A. '77,Ph.D. '82) was inducted into theSan Antonio Women's Hall ofFame on Nov. 9. She is director ofthe Institute for Studies in Busi-ness at UT-San Antonio. She hasdone extensive research on His-panic women in the economy, andhas done many studies throughthe San Antonio Labor MarketInformation System and the Ven-ture Capital Network of Texas.

M. Ray Perryman (Ph.D.) wasfeatured in a recent article in theDallas Morning News as the crea-tor of a state ergonometric modelfor analyzing the Texas economy.

'78Jim Beall (Lovett) moved fromSan Antonio to northern Virginiain November 1987 and is nowworking as a project manager forGardon Associates, a consultingengineering firm doing land de-velopment work in the boomingD.C. real estate market. He writes,"Besides moving 1,600 miles east,my other great adventure this yearwas helping Tom Evans '82 (Lov-ett) move from Austin to the WestCoast. I believe I'm the only per-son Tom knew who knew the wayto San Jose. We looked for PhilParker on the trip out, but did not.see him. Evans promises a fullreport to you on his move."Tim Bishop (Sid Rich) graduatedmagna cum laude from the Uni-versity of Colorado School of Den-tistry last May. He writes: "I'mnow a lieutenant in the U.S.National Health Service Corps sta-tioned as a Public Health Servicecommunity dentist in Hatch,N.M., an agricultural communityof 1,200. The green chili here isgreat!"

;Peggy Farnham (Baker) writes,"After completing my Ph.D. inmolecular biophysics and bio-

chemistry at Yale University, Imoved to California for a postdoc-toral fellowship in the biologydepartment at Stanford Univer-sity. Last January I accepted anassistant professor position in thedepartment of oncology at theUniversity of Wisconsin. If you areever in Madison, give me a call."

Michael Goldman (Will Rice)announces his engagement toVeronica Otten (University of Illi-nios '86). He is currently the con-troller of Handy Andy HomeImprovement Centers, the Mid-west's largest home improvementretail chain.

Ellen L. Hahne (Brown) writes,"It's been a big year for me. I fin-ished my Ph.D., moved to NewJersey, married my boyfriend,Orlando Sotomayor-Diaz, boughta house and moved again. Orlandoand I are both electrical engineersfor AT&T Bell Laboratories."

Robert K. Loper (Wiess) recentlyentered the private practice of lawafter 6-1/2 years at the HarrisCounty District Attorney's officein Houston. He is now in generalpractice with emphasis on litiga-tion, civil and criminal. (Also see"New Arrivals.")

Claudia Anderson Verm (Jones)completed her doctorate in clini-cal psychology this August. She isdoing a post-doctoral fellowship atHouston Child GuidanceCenter this year. (Also see "NewArrivals.")

'79Paul Boone (Hanszen) marriedBeth Garrison in 1985 andreceived his Master of Divinitydegree from Duke University thisMay; he was ordained a few weekslater. This September they movedfrom North Carolina to Austin,where Paul works as a clergy-counselor in the adolescent pro-gram at Parkside Lodge/FaulknerCenter. Beth is starting privatepractice in psychology in Austin.

Catherine "Cat" Bracken(Jones) is now practicing bank-ruptcy law with Jones, Day,Reavis & Pogue in Dallas. Shesays, "Not much time for anythingelse, although we are planning toremodel our house this year."

Kurt H. Geodeeke (Wiess) mar-ried Constance Garrison, a UT lawgraduate, in April, 1986. MikeArden, Sam Booren, ThomKobayashi, Mark Whitney andChris Peddie were among theRice grads who attended. (See alsoNew Arrivals)

Lee Hochberg (Will Rice) is work-ing as senior producer for theMacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour on PBS;friends can see him on MacNeil/Lehrer once or twice a month. Heis also producing and hostinghour-long special programs onpublic station KCTS in Seattle.(Also see "New Arrivals.")

Richard Talbot (Lovett) gradu-ated from UT-Austin with an MSEdegree and accepted a job withIBM in the fall of 1984. He and hiswife, Nancy Lea, now live in southFlorida. (Also see "New Arrivals.")

'80Class Recorder:Richard Morris9555 CloverdaleSan Antonio, TX 78250(512) 523-1820(512) 342-6063

Melissa Skolfield (Hanszen)recently accepted a position aspress secretary to Sen. DaleBumpers of Arkansas after work-ing as press secretary to Congress-man Mike Andrews for two years.

Mark Pacheco (Will Rice) mar-ried Nancy Dunkley in the RiceMemorial Chapel on Nov. 14,1987. Also in attendance wasRobert Lyman (Sid Rich), who isnow a psychiatrist in San Antonio.Pacheco is a project manager withNeedham Wright Laskey Engi-neers in Dallas, and spends all thefree time he can scuba diving inthe Caribbean or teaching scubain Dallas.

'81Class Recorder:Kevin Honnell1421 Geneva St.Raleigh,. NC 27606(919) 737-34615(919) 851-2550

Melissa Martin Greene (Hans-zen) married Steven S. Greene onNov. 2, 1986 in Atlanta. She isnow working as a music therapiston an adult psychiatric unit atCharter Peachford Hospital, andwill receive her M.A. in musictherapy from SMU in December.

Sam Friedman (Will Rice) gotmarried last June; he and his wife,Jane, are expecting a baby at theend of April. He is in the third yearof a four-year residency in diag-nostic radiology at the Universityof Alabama-Birmingham. He plansto stay there an additional year fora fellowship in nuclear medicine.

Susan Rhymes (Jones) writes,"Did I miss the announcement?Kathleen and Chris Pool '81(Lovett) have a "baby Pool," Caro-line Elizabeth, born Aug. 12, 1987.I haven't heard from them sincethe announcement, but I assumethey're still keeping house in NewOrleans."

'82Pat Krieger (Will Rice) completedher M.Ed. from the University ofHouston in August. She coachesgirls' high school volleyball, bas-ketball and softball at St. John'sSchool in Houston, where her vol-leyball team has won the confer-ence championship two yearsrunning.

'83George Brooks has moved fromFlorida to the Boston area to pur-sue new job opportunities in realestate.

Sarah J. Brown (Baker) spentChristmas 1986 moving to Monte-rey, missing out on a tree. Christ-mas cards eventually caught upwith her at her new address. Shewrites, "Those of you who owe meletters — what's taking you solong?"

Mark Calkin (Ph.D. '83) hasjoined Houston Area ResearchCenter as manager of its seismicprocessing center. The center has

access to NEC's SX-2 supercompu-ter, which is the world's fastestsingle processor. HARC is a con-sortium involving Rice, UT, TexasA&M and theUniversityof Houston.

Patrick G. Carrick (Ph.D. '83)began 1988 as a research scientistat the Air Force Astronautics Lab,Edwards AFB, Calif. He is workingon the development of improvedrocket fuels.

Sharon Cutler (Hanszen) marriedScott Skoll on Aug. 9, 1987.Guests included Ruth KearleyLiu '83 (Hanszen), MarjorieLane '84 (Hanszen), JonathanJordan '83 (Hanszen) andBrinkley Sprout '83 (Hanszen).Cutler is currently completing herinternship for her Ph.D. in clinicalchild psychology at St. John'sUniversity.

Ruth Mills (Brown) is studyingclinical psychology in the doctoralprogram at Fuller TheologicalSeminary. This is her second yearof a six-year program.

'84Russell S. Buhite (Baker)recently graduated from Washing-ton University's law school in St.Louis and is now practicing law atAndrew, Davis et al in OklahomaCity.

Julie Robbins Campbell (Brown)writes: "I'm back in school, buthave switched from architectureto — believe it or not — elemen-tary education. I'm workingtowards a master's degree andcertification, and I'm really en-joying it — so far." (Also see"New Arrivals.")

Sue Eicher (Hanszen) receivedthe 1987 DeBakey Scholar Awardin July. The award is given to thestudent who has achieved the bestacademic record during the firstthree years of medical school atBaylor. This award is one of thehighest honors Baylor confersupon its students. Eicher wasthe 16th recipient of the award.

Janelle Freeman (Brown) isworking as a design engineer forGE in Utica, N.Y.

Wsuma Hadnot (Will Rice) wasfeatured in the October issue ofBlack Elegance magazine; thearticle focused on her career sincegraduation, through businessschool at the University of Texas,to her current position as an audi-tor for ARCO.

Paige Hershey (Brown) has beenpromoted to varsity basketballcoach at Spring Woods HighSchool, where she has been the JVcoach the past two seasons. Shealso is part of the coaching stafffor the volleyball team, whichrecently finished second in thestate in 5A competition.

Lee Ellen Johnson has marriedRichard Bell '82. He is a captainin the Marines and a fighter pilotstationed at Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii.She is an engineer for a firm inHonolulu.

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ii*hut Marek (Sid Rich) corn-Meted his law degree at the Uni-versity of Houston, took the barand moved to Dallas. He writes,-"tstarted working at the law firm

of Jenkins & Gilchrist in mid-September, after spending threeweeks in Africa. To all my oldfriends: please give me a call whenyou are in Dallas."

Gretchen Martinez (Wiess) hasrecently taken a position as comp-troller of First Mortgage ServicesInc., located in Easton on Mary-land's beautiful eastern shore. Shewrites, "Living on a peninsula withChesapeake Bay on one side andthe Atlantic Ocean on the other isthis water-lover's dream. And it'sgreat being so close to our nation'scapital!"

Elif Sebrill (Brown) writes, "I gotmarried to Robert Voiles, but I'mkeeping my own unpronouncablename. We have two beautiful chil-dren (of the furry kind — cats):Miyav and Canavar! If anybody isplanning to pass through L.A.,please give me a call."

Moonlighting

Pleasant strains of country melody and good ol' blue-grass echoing a bygone era beckon the passerby toenter and enjoy.

Half expecting a woeful saga of yet anotherContingent of near-starving musicians eking out aliving, one finds quite the opposite in the membersof the Blue Moon Quartet.

The group might have been named "The FlyingBiscuit" but, "We went with Blue Moon. Almoste. veryone has been to a place called 'Blue Moon' soit brings back fond memories for lots of our listen-ers," says Lewis Case, a lawyer who plays a combi-nation of banjo and violin in the group.

Three of the group's members have played,t(lether off and on since high school. They met the'Enurth, Scot Stevens, a salesperson whose wife is alawyer, at a party., The Rice connection is a double one for Bar-bara Shreffler (violin and mandolin) and RachelDvoretzky (bass and cello). Shreffler, who noww°rks in Fondren Library in the music unit, earneda master's degree in music from the ShepherdSe,11001 in 1984. Dvoretzky, a 1982 Rice graduaten0 also studied at the Shepherd School, works at

'1‘lee as assistant slide curator in the Department ofArt & Art History.

The Blue Moon Quartet is the outgrowth of a4,.Lesc'd time and a pleasurable experience that makes"r effort part almost effortless. After two monthsc't getting together for grins, the members were

8/ue Moonies Barbara Shreiner, Rachel Dvoretzky,Scot Stevens and Lewis Case.

Brian Watson (Baker) graduatedfirst in his class from the NavalHospital Corpsman A School onOct. 1,1987. He is preparing toundertake dual degrees in geologyand petroleum engineering at UT-Austin in spring of 1988. He writesthat he is enjoying the NavalReserve.

'85Class RecorderDavid M. Phillips6013 Ridge View Dr.Alexandria, VA 22310

Class Recorder David M. Phillipswrites, "There have been a fewdevelopments to report. The firstwas Kathleen Broussard's reloca-tion to the D.C. area, but sheinformed me of her intent to tellyou the news herself. Second,

Stephen Heinrich Baker (SidRich) now inhabits Alexandriaalong with the former KelleyMegllligan (Brown), who has nowsome two months past acquiredhis surname. Then there's thehappy couple of Darren and AmyArnold Cofer (Sid Rich/Brown),who dwell in the grand urbanmasterpiece named Crystal City,wherein Darren works for the U.S.Navy with Clifford Dorman (SidRich). Oh, and please do not letme forget Tracey Harrison '85(Hanszen), who is applying herknowledge of Central America inthe federal work force in the samedepartment as Lynne Thomas(Jones). I do find it tragic that noother Wiesspersons of our classhave made nothern Virginia theirnesting ground.

"I know my little news on theaforementioned individuals from

feeling pretty encouraged by their ensemble.Agreeing with Stevens' suggestion that perhapsthey ought to take it more seriously, the groupbegan to play informally at local establishments inMay 1987.

For Shreffler, who had always entertained theidea of learning to play mandolin, the quartet pro-vided the perfect impetus. Her new adventure alsoafforded her the opportunity to play mandolin withthe Houston Ballet in their recent production ofRomeo and Juliet.

Her first trials with the instrument were heard— from the library's staff lounge during lunch —and encouraged by fellow workers. In fact, she saysthat many coworkers have come to hear the groupplay on Sunday evenings at the nearby Black Lab-rador Restaurant and Pub.

"They are always expressing an interest inwhat I do. And contrary to the situation with manyjobs, they are very supportive of my outsideendeavors," says Shreffler.

About the same time the group was getting offthe ground, Case decided to take banjo lessons.Dvoretzky, who has been intrigued by bluegrass formore than a decade, found the invitation to join theband a perfect opportunity to pick up the bass. Inone way or another, the quartet has been and con-tinues to be a positive growth experience for eachof its members.

Typical of the '80s, people don't just do onething for a lifetime. In fact, they might not neces-sarily be limited to one thing at a time and the dis-tinctions between what is vocation and avocationare often blurred.

However, the group has a clear focus on itsfuture plans. As one member commented, "We goto hear lots of bands at festivals. Some of them haveplayed together 10 years or more and are reallytight. We hope this group does more and more. Wewant to play more music and improve as a whole."

And who knows? From the sounds of it, thesky's the limit.

—Andre Fox

having had brunch with them onOct. 14 in Alexandria. Back whenthe alumni directory presenteditself to me, I immediately wentfor the geographical listings, asone had for so long bemoaned theperceived dearth of Ricelings inthis area. Much to my welcomesurprise, roughly 30 percent of1982-86 alums live in northernVirginia. I decided to attempt tobring them together over a brunchwith a Mexican slant. As thingsturned out, eight of us pigged outtogether, with several others indi-cating previous commitments.Our table consisted of CeciliaCalaby, Lynne Thomas, Davidand Majorie Varner, Darren andAmy Cofer, Kathleen Broussardand me: nearly one-third partici-pation (almost one-half, if onecounted those there in spirit)seemed pretty encouraging byRice standards. Buoyed by thisexperience and the enthusiasm Isensed in all those with whom Ispoke in trying to organize a tinyevent, a proposition made to meby Bertha Salsburg '79 (WillRice) was irresistable: just a tadbit on the late side, the Associa-tion of Rice Alumni and I gotworking on a gala evening (let'sexaggerate) surrounding the Rice-Georgetown basketball game atthe Capital Centre on Dec. 21.

"My pictures of the festivitiesbefore the game did not comeout, but my memory and note-gathering should prove sufficientto provide a flavor of the evening.Prior to Georgetown's 20-some-odd-point defeat of our team (thetrauma has erased the score frommy mind), many alumni (plusnumerous spouses and offspring)gathered in the Showcase Loungeof the Capital Centre to mingleand receive words from JimHarris, Jerry Berndt and ScottThompson. Attending the game inour group were: Bertha Salsburg'79 (Will Rice), George Hall '81(Wiess), Edward J. Kelley Jr.'54, Robert Clarke '63 (Hans-zen), Stanley "Larry" Marple '69(Lovett), Theodore Andrews '78(Wiess), Hugh South '70 (WillRice), Kathleen Broussard '85(Brown), James '83 and KristineBell '85 (both Will Rice), CeciliaCalaby '82 (Will Rice), Darrenand Amy Cofer '85 (Sid Rich/Brown), Rita Cortes '87 (Jones),Clifford Dorman '85 (Sid Rich),Gonzalo Garcia '84 (Lovett),Steven '69 and Candace Guthier'70 (Wiess/Jones), Michael Jaffe'64, Nicholas Keith '80 (M.A.,M.S.), Janice Rudd and "Trish"Powell '87 (Brown), AnnetteReilly '69 (Jones), Thomas Rode-heaver '68, Kenneth '83 andTamara Taura '84, Richard '80and Karen Whitney '79 (Sid Rich/Jones), Thomas Evans '71,Willaim T. Free Jr. '65, Flor-ence Ruhlen Johns '66, JohnNorvell '63, Matthew Petersen,Randa Radwan '82, Stuart Scott'63, Sandra Tirey '74, JanVanLohuizen '77, Lewis Waters'61, Scheleen Johnson '86(Jones), Paul Moomaw '87 (WillRice), Norman Gods '83, Tommy

Huie '87 (Hanszen), KayhanParsi '87 (Will Rice) and TraceyHarrison '88 (Hanszen). OtherRice folk in attendance (much tomy suprise) but not with ourgroup were Jonathan Propp '87(Wiess), Richard Reidy '83(Wiess) and David Golimowski'86 (Wiess).

"What happens next to thealumni of the D.C. area, collec-tively speaking, is as-yet unre-solved; however, there are manyalumni who are eager to organizea regional alumni club and wouldlike to hear from fellow alumniconcerning the direction of saidgroup. Any interested individualsmay direct their inquiries to eitherme(addressabove)or(Mrs.)BerthaSalsburg, 700 New HampshireAve. NW, Washington, D.C.20037."

Jooyong Ahn is now an assistantprofessor and conductor of thesymphony orchestra at SlipperyRock University in Slippery Rock,Pa., after serving as music directorof the Bay Area Youth SymphonyOrchestra until August 1987.

Gary Butler (Wiess) has beennamed senior credit analyst andofficer of MBank Odessa.

Todd Cornett (Baker), FeliciaPorter (Jones), and ColetteBrown (Lovett) write: "Afterspending the past winter in Chi-cago working for Arthur Andersen& Co., we QUIT and headed forthe beach: Colette and Felicia tothose of Europe and Todd to those

of South America and the Carib-bean. Now they have returned tothe drudgeries of school. Todd isstill at the beach contemplatingthe Body Human while attend-ing medical school at UTMB-Galveston. Felicia is contemplat-ing Olympic majesties from thebeaches of Puget Sound whileattending the University of Wash-ington Law School. Colette iscontemplating Beauty at theUniversity of Virginia School ofArchitecture.

Boris Jezic (Wiess) will start inthe MBA program at ColumbiaUniversity in January. Also atColumbia, in the architecture pro-gram, is OsamaJume'an. Jezicwrites of seeing other 1985 class-mates living in New York City,including Don Mango and FredGradin. Eric Hotung '84 and hiswife, Catalina, are expecting theirfirst child in January. Before head-ing north, he saw several class-mates, including Rich Hooperand Randy Swartz at the Ginger-man bar in the village.

Chris Kreidler (Lovett) receivedhis MBA from Rice in May 1987.He writes: "I now work on the six-man merger and acquisition teamof T. Boone Pickens, based inAmarillo. Love the job: lots ofwork but lots of travel as well. Riceseems to be gaining respect andrecognition everywhere."

Thomas Little recently received amaster's of music degree from theUniversity of Texas-Austin.

Selena Munoz (Jones) is cur-rently studying at the Universityof Birmingham in England, afterone year of study at UT-Austin.

Nancy Sitowitz (Brown) recentlyco-purchased a new home inWindsor Locks, Conn. She alsorecently spoke to Holden Shan-non '815, who is attending Harvardbusiness school. Jody Barron '86,whom she recently visited, is in

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medical school at Yale in NewHaven, Conn.

William B. Stockton (Lovett)recently graduated from PrincetonUniversity with an M.S. in chemi-cal engineering, and has taken ajob in Washington, D.C., with aresearch company, Geo-Centers.

'86Karen Ashby and Jeff Flack '85(both Lovett) were married inAlbuquerque, N.M., on Jan. 17,1988. Jeff is a Navy pilot stationedat Moffett Field, Calif., whileKaren is co-oping at NASA Ameswhile attending graduate school.They will be residing in MountainView, Calif.

Ken Colima is gaining hands-onresearch training in biomedicalsciences through the HowardHughes Medical Institute and theNational Institutes of Health. Heis one of two Baylor medicalstudents to participate and wasselected from 130 applicantsnationwide. The year-longresearch program enables thescholars to work with leading NIHscientists in their laboratoriesat Bethesda, Md. Colina plans tointegrate his interests — research,clinical medicine and teaching —into a rewarding career in aca-demic medicine.

Clifford E. Dorman and MiceHope Lippincott Dorman (SidRich/Will Rice) were married Nov.21, 1987 at the Fort Myer PostChapel in Arlington, Va. FellowRice graduates that attended wereLarry Wright '87, Rob Lain '85,Dan Lutes '85 and Ben McIntosh'84.

Caroline Field (Hanszen) wasmarried Jan. 31, 1988 to Alan R.Levander, assistant professor ofgeophysics at Rice, Ph.D. fromStanford. She writes, "We'll live inHouston at 1719 Bolsover afterour honeymoon in England. Funlife together planned."

Carlos Herrera (Will Rice) mar-ried Coral Josefina Helm in Mis-souri City; they have moved toMexico City, where Carlos is start-ing medical school. (Also see "NewArrivals.")

Sarah Jordan (Jones) marriedMan Painter '86 (Hanszen) onSept. 5, 1987. They moved toBoston in October, where Alanis working for a company calledProphecy Development and Sarahfor the Museum of Fine Art whileshe dreams of grad school.

Paolo Sant'Ambrogio (Hanszen)has started an architecturefirm, "Architecture Sine Urban"(A.S.U.) with partner Paul Casey.

Jeff Steele (Wiess) writes: "Aftera year of Rand R in the ColoradoRockies, I've started graduatestudy at Caltech. I'm workingtoward a Ph.D. in high energy the-oretical physics. Also in the phys-ics department are Garrett Biehle'85 (Lovett), Roxanne Springer'85 (Baker) and Stinson Gibner'83. L.A. is not so bad after all. Myfirst quake was a big one —6.1 —but what really rocks this place isVince Hu '85 (Wiess). Other peo-ple I've seen around town are DanWebb '86 (Wiess), who lives in

Santa Barbara, and Lauren Potre'86 (Will Rice), who is moving upfrom Orange County.

Chappell Temple (M.A.) is cur-rently senior minister at LindaleUnited Methodist Church, wherehe has been since 1985. He is pur-suing a doctoral degree at Rice onthe thesis topic: Church and State.Temple is a former short-termmissionary to Eastern Europe.

'87Man Ainsworth has been selectedan Outstanding Young Man ofAmerica for 1987.

Christopher J. Check graduatedfrom The Basic School, located atthe Marine Corps Developmentand Education Command, Quan-tico, Va., in November. A secondlieutenant, Check was assigned tothe Fleet Marine Force and giventhe responsibility of a rifle platooncommander.

Paul Moomaw (Will Rice) writes,"After several months of globe-trotting, I am now working for theNational Restaurant Associationin Washington, D.C., as a writer. Iwrite magazine articles, speechesand news releases. Frequently, Irun into Seymour Beaker '87(Sid Rich), who is currently con-ducting a research project inWashington, D.C."

New ArrivalsJ. Peter Johnson '67 (Wiess) andhis wife announce the birth of adaughter, Erica Jane Alexandra,on April 28, 1987. The Johnsonslive in Oak Ridge, Tenn.

Paula Noelke Starche '72 (Jones)and Nick Starche '71 (Will Rice)announce the birth of their secondson, Christopher, on July 13,1987. The family lives in Austin.

Bruce Gadd '73 and Linda Gadd'76 announce the birth of theirfirst child, Sam Foster, on Oct. 28,1987. The family lives in Dallas.

Jane Dingus Hildebrandt '74(Baker) and her husband, John,announce the birth of their firstchild, Katherine Nancy, on Nov.22, 1986. Jane and her husband,both cell biologists, conductresearch at the Worcester Founda-tion in Shrewsbury, Mass. Jane isinvestigating the structural pro-teins of brain cells.

Anne Dingus Redman '75(Brown) and her husband, PatrickRedman '76 (Baker) announcethe birth of their second son,Parker Robert, on Feb. 3, 1987.He joined Philip David, then 21months. Anne, a free-lance writerand editor in the Austin area,writes, "All three Dingus daugh-ters had babies within six monthsof each other, to their parents'delight. The fourth member of theDingus dynasty, Bill Dingus '81(Baker), has not yet seen fit tocontribute to the gene pool, butperhaps it's just as well, as he hasnot yet married."

David Barrow '76 (Sid Rich) andhis wife, Irene, announce the birth

of their son, Henry Galahad, onJune 24, 1987. The Barrows live inFlagstaff, Ariz., where David worksin a small, private law practice.

Ward Turner '76 (Wiess) andDenise Buchanan Turner '76(Brown) write, "Martha Turnerwas born on July 16, 1987 andjoins our other children, Andrew,4, and Debbie, 2." The Turnerslive in Houston.

Bevans Welder '76 (Hanszen)writes, "Anne and I now havethree children. Our newest arrivedNov. 28, 1987 and her name isCatherine." The Welders live inBeerville, Texas.

Robert Loper '78 (Wiess)announces the birth of his thirdchild, Maggi Rose, on April 3,1987. His sons are now Sand 8years old. The Lopers live inHouston.

Richard 0. Moore Jr. '78 (WillRice) and Susan Dufficy Moore'80 (Brown) announce the birth oftheir daughter, Kelly Elizabeth, onAug. 5, 1987. She joins RichardOwen III, who is 4 years old. TheMoores live in San Rafael, Calif.

Bruce Richards '78 (Baker) andhis wife, Sherrie, announce thebirth of their second daughter,Kin i Marie, on Sept. 4, 1987. TheRichards live in Nashville, Tenn.

David J. Rodd '78 (Lovett) andCathryn Lankford Rodd '78(Jones) announce the birth oftheir first child, Joseph Lankford,on Nov. 14, 1987. Living in Fair-field, Conn., David is an associatewith a nearby architectural firmand Cathryn is a senior financialanalyst for Exxon Chemical Co.

Claudia Anderson Venn '78(Jones) and her husband, RichardVerm '75 (Sid Rich), announcethe birth of their first child,Rebecca Nicole, in June 1987.The family lives in Houston.

Nancy Dingus Crites '78 (Baker)and Joe Crites '75 (Lovett)announce the birth of their seconddaughter, Margaret, on Aug. 13,1986. The Crites now have threechildren, Joseph Dayton, now 6,and Caroline, who is almost 3.Nancy teaches Bible study (non-Mormon) in Salt Lake City, whereJoe is an electrical engineer withEastman Christensen.Jeff Baron '79 (Will Rice) and hiswife, Patty, announce the birth oftheir second son, Daniel Nathan,on Aug. 21, 1987. Their first child,Matthew, is almost 3. The Baronslive in Rockville, Md.

Patricia Cronkright Dalheim '79(Baker) and her husband, WilliamDalheim, announce the arrival oftheir first child, William Kirk, onSept. 15, 1987. She gave birth inSt. Luke's Episcopal Hospital inHouston, where she works as aneditor.

Kurt Goedecke'79 (Wiess) andhis wife, Constance, announce thebirth of their daughter, Amelie(Amy) Haydel, on Sept. 22, 1987.They live in Houston.

David M. Judd '79 (Ph.D.) andhis wife, Sarah, announce thebirth of their second daughter andsecond child, Joann Sarah, onOct. 27, 1987. Their first child,Maryann, is 5. The family lives inSelah, Wash.

Richard Talbot '79 (Lovett) andhis wife, Nancy Lea, announce the

Ill MemoriamEdmund D. Middleton '18 onNov. 6, 1987.

John K. James '20 in June 1987.

Bentley T. Barnes '23 of Cleve-land, Ohio, on Aug. 27, 1987.

Millie L. Kochan '23 of Liberty,Texas, on Nov. 10, 1987.

Arthur Field Heard '24 of SanAngelo, Texas, on Nov. 2, 1987.

Myra Weldon Shackktt '24 ofHouston in September 1987.

Fred Fox Benton '26 of Houstonon Dec. 8, 1987.

Robert W. Hall '26 of Houston onNov. 4, 1987.

Walter Lee Porter '27 on June16, 1973.

Anna Helen Koch Trube '27 ofHouston on Oct. 16, 1987.

Cecil Waugh '27 of Houston onOct. 9, 1987.

John H. Sheehan '28 on Feb. 4,1987.

Charles Ritchie !fucker '30 ofllouston on Dec. 12, 1987.

Robert Foster Cherry '30 on Jan.2, 1988.

Edgar W. Surles '30 of Kerrville,Texas, on Nov. 25, 1987.

C. David Williams '30 of MissouriCity, Texas, on Nov. 14, 1987.

Edgar Alfred Farris Jr. '33 ofEast Brunswick, N.J., on Nov. 1,1987.

Alyda Harris Cohen '35 of Hous-ton on Nov. 7, 1987.

Joe Lyndon Boyd '37 of Houstonon Jan. 1,1988.

Margaret Lynn Dumenil '37 ofSugar Land, Texas, on March 12,1987.

Lola M. Branum '38 of Houstonon Oct. 25, 1987.

Margaret P. Wheeler '38 ofGalveston on May 24, 1987.

John Lee Marshall '39 of Sher-man, Texas, on Oct. 15, 1987.

Richard Hanna Jr.'40 on Aug.23, 1987.

Eda F. Cope '43 of Houston onOct. 22, 1987.

Samuel 0. Criehfield '43 ofHouston on Oct. 26, 1987.

Neil Robinson Burch '44 ofHouston on Dec. 17, 1987.

Rushton Calhoun Greer '44 ofFort Worth on Sept. 5, 1987.

Irene M. Gusman '44 of NewOrleans, La., on Nov. 25, 1987.

Kenneth M. Wood '44 ofHuntingdon Valley, Pa., onDec. 29, 1987.

Margaret Powell Mackey '44 ofBastrop, Texas, on Dec. 4, 1987.

Jack II. Sybert '45 of Algiers onOct. 11, 1987.

Alphonse A. Arnold Jr. '46 ofHouston on Dec. 22, 1987.

Jesse Herndon Burr Jr. '47 (M.A.'49, Ph.D. '51) of Nacogdoches,Texas, on Oct. 6, 1987.

Robert W. Calvert '47 of Houstonon May 3, 1987.

Hiram E. Bond '48 on Dec. 22.1987.

Raphael J. Silberman '49 ofHouston on Nov. 16, 1987.

Truett Peaehey '50 of Houston onDec. 3, 1987.

James R. Webb '51.

Jesse M. Chipman III '56 onMarch 23, 1987.

Phil 0. Dyer liarris '57.

Eugene Lee Swilley '61 of Seattleon Nov. 17, 1987.

Debora Ayr '67 of Greenwich,Conn., on Sept. 11, 1987.

Randall C. Clack '79 of Houstonon November 3, 1987.

Scott W. MacDonald '82 of NewYork, N.Y., on Oct. 19, 1987.

birth of their first child, JoshuaWarner, on Sept. 2, 1987. Hewrites: "Being a parent has beenmore fun than we ever antici-pated." The Talbots live in BocaRaton, Fla.David Black'80 (Will Rice) andhis wife, Pamela, announce thebirth of their second child, LorettaEileen, on Oct. 29, Their daughterChristina is now 3-1/2. Davidworks for ROLM Telephone Prod-ucts Division in Austin as anadvisory engineer.

Sherry Tseng Hill '80 (Jones)and Howard M. Hill '79 (WillRice) announce the birth of theirsecond son, Nicholas Lihway, onNov. 10, 1987. Their first son,Nathaniel Liedsen, celebrated his

second birthday on Sept. 1, 1987.The Hills live in Houston.

Keith Rind '80 (Will Rice) and hiswife, Linda, announce the birth oftheir daughter, Nicole LindseyRind, on Oct. 6, 1987.

Debbie Ramos Barrientos '81(Brown) and Carlo Barrientos'80 (Sid Rich) announce the birthof their first child, AlexandraNicole, on Oct. 9, 1987, in Austin.

David W. Green '81 and his wife,Betty Lou, announce the birth oftheir first child, Rebecca Eliza-beth, on Aug. 15, 1987. TheGreens live in Dunellen, N.J.

David C. Scheinerman '81(Lovett) and his wife, Karen, an-nounce the birth of their twinsons, Matthew Eric and ZacharyPaul, on Aug. 10, 1987. The familylives in West Hartford, Conn.

Brian Mica '83 (Wiess) and hiswife, Michelle, announce the birthof their first child, Brent Joseph,on Oct. 13, 1987. The family livesin Sugar Land, Texas.

Julie Robbins Campbell '84(Brown) announces the birth ofher second child, Kirke Bonham,on Feb. 20, 1987. They live inHouston.

David Davenport '84 (Wiess) andLaura Allen Davenport '84(Brown) announce the birth oftheir son, Austin Matthew, onSept. 24, 1987. The family lives in

Vista, Calif.

Mary Kramer Flagg '84 (Brown)and her husband, Jim, announcethe birth of their first child,Joshua Adam. They report, "He'sperfect, beautiful baby!" The fam-ily lives in Sugar Land, Texas.

Carlos Herrera '86 (Will Rice)and his wife, Coral Josefina,announce the birth of a son,Joseph Carlos, on Easter of 1987.The Herreras live in Mexico city.

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For heaven's sake. As if it weren't badenough that the venerable Saturday Reviewnow features pop stars and swimsuit-cladmodels on its cover, the Sallyport has nowdecided that the best cover-story choice forits flashy new format is the "fashion scene"at Rice.

Of course, fashion is important to mostRice students, as it is to college students allover the country. But one of the aspects ofRice that I valued most as a student was thatOne did not have to dress in a particularStyle to be accepted, even well received, byfellow students. This was particularly com-forting for those of us who did not have themeans to own the "hot" labels such as thosementioned in your article.

I am now a graduate student at theUniversity of California-Berkeley, andsometimes when I am standing in front ofthe English class I teach, I wonder whethermy students have anything more on theirminds than fashion. Surely that could not bethe case at Rice, but that was the impres-sion that the prominence of your coverstory gave. Please don't be seduced by thebrilliance of an all-color format into ignor-ing topics worthier of such emphasis. (Thissame issue offered several — particularly thetribute to Charles Garside, who despite hisComplete disregard of fashion contributedmore to Rice than Ralph Lauren or GeorgesMarciano ever will.)

Katherine Eggert '84Berkeley, Calif

I was pleased to find my P.O. Box so full. Ipulled my new GQ from the box and...wait!I don't subscribe to GQ! This must beEsquire. No, it's a Sallyport — a Sallyportwith a fashionably surly young man of theCalvin Klein school on the cover.

The old tabloid Sallyport was dis-tinctive, fun and full of information. Thenew pretender is slick and shallow. Eightpages of "Hoot Couture"? Cute.

It's a fund-raising gimmick, right? Ourold Sallyport is being held hostage until acertain sum is raised for the Alumni Fund.We'll pay, we'll pay.

Scott Gregory '63Kansas City, Mo.

Remembering GarsideGary Hornberger's valedictory to CharlesGarside was an eloquent tribute to a re-markable gentleman and scholar. AlthoughCharles came to Rice after I graduated, sothat I was never able to study with him, hisoffice was next door to mine while I wasediting Rice University Studies during mostof the 1970s, and we often shared advice andideas. I also thank him for persuading me tobecome a Baker College associate and toparticipate actively in the life of the college.

Charles' devotion to absolutely preciselanguage and clear exposition slowed hispublication rate, so that his painstakingscholarship received less notice than it mer-ited. Nevertheless, the articles I wasprivileged to read were models of cogentreasoning and elegant style.

Charles' delightful wit and his gener-ous, affectionate concern for his studentsand colleagues made him a friend to cher-ish. We shall miss him.

Kathleen Much '63Palo Alto, Calif

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Sailing into Spring

What better way to usher in spring 1988 than with a luxury cruise exploringvarious South America ports of call? Perhaps sailing across the Black Sea anddown the Danube, experiencing the "untouched" cities of Europe? Thesecruises are just two of the trips currently being offered by the Association ofRice Alumni. For information on these and other 1988-89 alumni travel/studyprograms, call the alumni office at (713) 527-4057 or write the Association ofRice Alumni, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251. Prices are approximate.

A number of trips are also being offered by the Rice Office of ContinuingStudies and Special Programs. For more information about these travel oppor-tunities, call (713) 527-6022.

(Before calling for information, please note which organization is sponsor-ing the trip and use the appropriate number listed above.)

South America aboard the Sea Goddess IIFeb. 26-March 6Enjoy the exotic Sea Goddess life, combining the ambience of a deluxe club oran intimate coastal hideaway with the drama of the high seas and the lure ofexotic ports of call. With a limited number of people (no more than 116 passen-gers on a single sailing) and a crew of 80, the Sea Goddess will offer the ultimatein elegant accommodations as you travel to ports of call at Buenos Aires, Monte-video, Punta del Este, Florianopolis, Angra dos Reis and Rio de Janeiro. At eachport, you will have ready access to tours, clubs and events. $5,200-7,800,depending on occupancy. Air/sea fares include roundtrip economy airfarebetween Miami and Sea Goddess II, special shore arrangements, accommoda-tions and meals aboard Sea Goddess II. Sponsored by the Association of RiceAlumni.

A Tour of Mexico: The Colonial Cities and the Copper CanyonMarch 5-13Join John Coffman, author of the North American section of the World BookEncyclopedia, and television's Ray Miller on a nine-day bus and train tour ofMexico. You will visit cities known for their colonial history and will explorethe huge Copper Canyon, famous for its copper, gold and silver. The itineraryincludes Mexico City, San Jose Purrua, Morelia, Salamanca, Queretaro, SanMiguel de Allende, Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato, Aguascalientes, Durango,Mazatlan, Los Mochis and Chihuahua. Cost to be determined. Sponsored bythe Office of Continuing Studies.

Cruise the Danube River and the Black SeaMay 14-28See the "uncommon Europe" others miss. This travel experience with very lim-ited membership will take you on a Danube River adventure and across theBlack Sea, beginning in Istanbul and ending in Vienna. Along the way, you'llenjoy the sights of Bratislava, Czechoslovakia; Budapest, Hungary; Belgrade,Yugoslavia; Nikopol, Bulgaria; and Giurgiu/Bucharest, Romania. The charteredship M.S. Ukraina, among the finest cruise vessels of Europe, will also featurethe best in dining and a number of special on-board events. Approximately$3,149-4,349. Accompanied by Katherine Fischer Drew, professor of historyat Rice. Sponsored by the Association of Rice Alumni.

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