The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 13, 1944 Page: 4 of 4
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By Tommy Gould
The Navy's physical training pro-
gram for the coming semester will
be carried out in four groups in-
stead of two as has been done for
the past semester, according to G.
L. Hermance, physical training in-
structor.
■Principle change in the program
will tbe the addition of two morning
classes, both at 11:15, one on Mon-
day, Wednesday, and .Friday,, the
other on Tuesday, Thursday, and
Saturday. The afternoon groups will
meet at 1515 and 1650 Tuesday
through Friday. All battalions will
drill on Monday afternoon. There
will be one swimming class each
week according to Commander Rath-
bun.
No plans have been completed as
.vet for intramurals, Hermance said.
It is expected that when tourna-
ments are arranged, teams will be
formed from battalion classes, that
is, all the men of a given battalion
in a given P.T. section will make
up one team. Competition in the
classes will be held during the reg-
ular P.T. sectionls and between
classes on Saturdays. Tentative
plans have been made for softball
and i ible tennis tuornaments,
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Hay foot: "That's that guy Wolfe,
the worm.
Strawfoot: "Yeh, I just saw a
liieken pick him up!
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A.s the Navy Men were about to
lake their leaves we overheard a
certain Rice coed praying, "Please
God, send him back safe, sound, and
single."
Hamburgers. Sandwiches
and
Cold Drinks
Lawson's Drugs
1708 Sunset Blvd.
Ladies Ready to Wear
and almost if not the last of his col-
lege class, an unusually hardy class
of 123 members, of whom 104, in-
cluding a dozen educators, survived
their first generation out of college.
He attributed his length of days to
the vitality of his forebears and
to his own outdoor life. And by the
same tokens his friends found the
secret of unimpaired intellectual
vigor in the fact that he exposed
his mind, no less than his body, to
the searching sun, electric storms,
and conflicting winds, of the great
outdoors.
Mr. Rice was born in Houston on
October 26, 1857, and he died at his
home in this city on June 25, 1944.
His parents came to Houston in 1850
from Springfield, Massachusetts.
His father was Capt. Frederick Al-
len Rice, and the maiden name of
his mother was Charlotte Baldwin.
The son never married. He was
named for his father's brother, Wil-
liam M. Rice, who thirty-four years
later was to found the Rice Insti-
tute. The founder chose this brother,
Capt. F. A. Rice, as one of his six
associates as charter trustees of the
new institution in 1891, and eight
years later his nephew and name-
sake was elected a trustee in 1899 to
fill the first vacancy on the original
board which was occasioned by the
death of Mr. A. S. Richardson. Thus,
had the younger William M. Rice
lived a few months longer, he would
not only have attained the age of
eighty-seven, but also have complet-
ed forty-five years of service as a
trustee of the Rice Institute. At the
; time of his death he was the senior
: member, and, as already noted,
chairman of the board, having suc-
| ceeded to the charimanship in 1941
j on the death of Capt. James A. Bak-
i er, who had served continuously in
that capacity from the inception and
| incorporation of the Institute in
\1891.
It was as a co-defender and co-
| executor of the founder's last will
and testament that Mr. Rice's long
period of conspicuous service to the
institution really began, and on the
conclusion of the litigation he con-
tinued as active in matters of in-
vestment and conversion of resourc-
es, and indeed in every aspect of the
planning, building, maintenance, and
development of the new institution.
He was very happy over some of the
initial successes of the architects
and overjoyed by the early progress
of the students not only in scholar-
ship but in outdoor sports as well.
He gave the Institute its most hand-
some piece of furniture, the Rice
trophy cabinet. As administrator of
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AT THE
HI-HAT CLUB
(MAIN AND BELLAIRE)
IT'S RICE'S FAVORITE NIGHT SPOT
Robert D. Palmer was elected
president of the Rice Student
Branch of the AIEE, following the
former presidents induction into the
service. Palmer replaces Stuart
Nut. Hershel Rich was elected vice-
president of the organization.
As a result of his election, Bob
Palmer attended the AIEE Summer
Technical Meeting at St. Louis, Mo.,
from June 26-30, with all expenses
paid.
Bob Palmer's report on the St.
Louis meeting was presented July
10, and entertainment plans were
discussed. On July 25 a talk on the
Electrical Engineer's Problems in
connection with the Construction of
the Big Inch Pipe Line, is scheduled.
All M. E.'s and C. E.'s are invited
to attend.
the estate of his lifelong friend, Mr.
Lionel Hohenthal, he established the
Hohenthal Scholarships for necessi-
tous students. In the midst of the
depression following the first world
war he made to the Institute a gift
of stock valued at $300,000, the
largest outside gift the Institute had
received up to that time. He was a
liberal contributor to campaigns,
and in particular to the campaign
that brought the Stadium. As re-
cently as December 1941 he made
another outright gift of $6,000. And
now he crowns this unique record of
benefaction in the history of Rice
by bequeathing to the Institute his
residuary estate which is estimated
as approximating something like
$2,000,000 in present value!
Mr. Rice was devoted to the stu-
dents and graduates of the Institute
and they were devoted to him. Fol-
lowing his Christmas gift in 1936 of
a third of a million, the Association
of Rice Alumni made to him the
first award of their commemorative
gold medal. He was deeply touched
by that action. And they in turn
were resolved to emulate in time his
example that had inspired their ac-
tion. May the physical and moral
courage that never failed him, the
tireless energy and indomitable
cheerfulness that never failed him,
never fail us, or his insistence on
fairness and justice, or his conscien-
tious devotion to the obligations of
trusteeship and to the responsibilies
of citizenship, or his belief that a
sense of academic responsibility
quite as much as of academic free-
dom, that love of learning and the
search for thuth, and that the good
will of friends wijthin and without,
constitute the very heart of a uni-
versity—may these convictions that
sustained his long life of service,
never fail to sustain us.
—EDGAR ODELL LOVETT
THE TIKIIH1I
V-12, NROTC LOSE
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(Continued from page 1)
have completed eight Semesters of
college, and these have been trans-
ferred to Midshipmen's School
Thomas M. A. Payne has left for the
U.S.N. Training School, Camp Mac
Donough, Plattaburg, New York for
Indoctrination and Midshipman
Training. 'Raleigh Delong, Jr., and
John Truhan have been transferred
to the U.S. Naval Reserve Pre-Mid-
shipmen's School, Asibury Park, New
Jersey. iL. E. Brooks and R. H.
Crocker, Jr., have been transferred
to Naval Construction Training
Center, Camp Endicott, Davisville,
Rhode Island. C. A. Gunn has been
transferred to the Navy V-12 unit,
the University of Texas, Austin,.
Texas.
Due to failure to maintain,an ade
quate scholastic standing, thirty
boys have left Rice for the U.S.
Naval Training Center, Great
Lakes, 111., and six of the men who
came to Rice from the Fleet have
now departed for the U.S. Naval Re-
ceiving Station, Algiers, Louisiana.
These two lists are herewith printed
in alphabetical order:
First List
Arbuckle, P. H.
Blazek, H. E.
Blount, B. B.
Howell, F.
McArthur, E. N., Jr.
Wakeman, J. J.
/Barrett, C. E.
Blackwood, R. H.
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NAVY OFFICE—
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Fourth Company Staff
Kilgore, L. L., Company Commander
Bowen, F. J., Company Q. P. O.
Fietcher, C. B., Company Guidon
The new officers for the Third
Battalion are as follows:
Third Battalion Officers
Lewis, P. J., Commander
Wallace, J. H., Sub-Commander
Morey, E. F., Adjutant
Roy, V. A., Commissary
Watson, W. G., C. P. O.
Fifth Company Staff
Magness, J. F., Commander
Nash, F. N., C. P. O.
Love, W. F., Guidon Bearer
Sixth Company Staff
Swasey, R. A., Commander
Rogers, F. H., C. P. O.
Le Breton, G. J., Guidon Bearer
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Other items we heard on the cam-
pus:
An old salt exclaimed as he spied
a freshman girl, "Just my type—a
woman."
And, a gal related to her gal
friend, "I don't go for sailors, but
I can twust a mawween."
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Cele, H.
Collabo, M. R.
Crawford, D. 8.
Crutchfield, L. O.
Davis, P. W.
Day, M. A.
DeLoach, R. R.
Day, M. A.
DeLoach, R. R.
EUand, A. Z.
Gallaspy, C. M.
Keelen, T. L., Jr.
McTaggart, J. L.
Parker, C. L.
Parkman, C. H.
Peden, O. D.
Pound, J. H.
Shandinger, C. D.
Simonton, W. H.
Sterrett, S. L., Jr.
Talley, J. R.
Thorpe, W. C.
Whatley, T.
Watt, C. B.
Second List
Cary, F. B.
Baker, R. J.
Downs, C. M.
Drouilht, S. J.
Greer, J. L.
Stuart, W. H.
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A sailor is a person who matured
slowly. He spends his hitch in the
Navy making up for lost time.
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The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 13, 1944, newspaper, July 13, 1944; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth230620/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.