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VOLUME THIRTY-SEVEN —N UMBER EIGHTEEN HOUSTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1950
Entered as second class mailing matter, October 17,1916, at the Post Office, Houston, under the act of March 3,1879.
Mr. George Brown
Heads Rice Board
George R. Brown, vice presi-
dent of Brown & Root, Inc., and
once a student at Rice Institute,
has been named chairman of
the board of trustees of Rice.
Mr. Brown, who had been vice
chairman, succeeds Harry C. Hans-
zen, oil man who resigned last week.
"It is an awfull big responsibil-
ity," Mr. Brown said Sunday, "to
take the place of Harry Hanszen. I
don't see how anybody can do for
Rice what he has done in the past
eight years."
Mr. Brown brings to the board a
long record of leadership in indus-
try and commerce.
He is a director of the First Na-
tional Bank, the Southland Paper
Mills and the International Tele-
phone and Telegraph Corporation.
He is chairman of the board of
the Texas Eastern Transmission
Corporation.
Mr. Brown is vice president of
the Highland Oil Company, the Es-
pardo Mining Company and the
Texas Railway Equipment Company.
He was a general partner in the
Film Society Presents First Program
. „ ~ 7~ Tentative Film Schedule Announced
iv™ Suggestions, New Members Welcomed
George Brown
ing World War II. This firm's con-
tribution to the war effort was about
350 combat ships for the Navy, a
record that brought it an "E"
award.
A member of the Marine Corps
in World War I, Mr. Brown was
given the certificate of merit by the
Brown Shipbuilding Company dur- President for his service.
Everyone Urged To Attend Rice
Religious Emphasis Week Services;
Various Clubs Schedule Observances
by Farrell Fulton
The keystone of brotherhood, whether religious or racial,
New Lit Societies
To Be Next Week
Approximately sixty girls had
registered for membership in the
new literary societies by Wednesday
afternoon. Registration continued
through Thursday for all girls in-
terested in joining the new organ-
izations.
Two bases of choice were provided
for each of the new societies: the
names of the town sponsors and the
names of the girls on the steering
committees. The steering committees
were selected by the advisory com-
mittee from the old literary societies
in order to form a nucleus for each
of the new groups. The girls on the
committees have elected a tempor-
ary chairman, who will preside until
the officers are elected.
When the girls registered, they
listed their preferences of societies,
so that if a merger must be effected,
their choice can be used as the basis
for combining one or more of the
groups.
The gffls will be notified early
this week as to which organization
they will be members of, and their
first meetings will be held Tuesday
and Wednesday afternoons, when
the members of each group will be
entertained by Mrs. Houston with
a tea at Cohen House, at 2:30 and
4:30.
At-a meeting of the Student Ac-
tivities Committee, Tuesday after-
noon, it was decided to allow girls
who are on probation to join one of
either the old or new societies
Wallace, Le Blanc
Chosen Advisers
To Honor Council
Oliver H. LeBlanc, freshman en-
gineering student from Beaumont,
and Bruce Wallace from Houston
were appointed freshmen advisors
to the Honor Council in a meeting
Monday noon. The Honor System
Constitution provides that two
freshmen will be appointed at the
beginning of the second semester
of each year to act as advisors, at-
tend all business meetings and help
with the general work of the Coun-
cil. These advisors are not author-
ized to participate in trials or in
hearings.
All freshmen students who have
any problems connected with the
Honor System should consult either
these or any other members of the
Council.
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Seniors Can Now
Order Invitations
Orders will be taken for senior
graduation invitations and personal
cards next Monday and Tuesday,
Feb. 27 and 28 from 8:30 to 1:00
is friendship. And the best way to make friends among the probationary "members. They~"wM in the exam room next to the loun&e-
members of other denominations is to visit their campus reli- register their choices on Saturday Mr. Blaney of the Star Engrav-
gious groups. Let's be sincere about it: we live in a Cathode- morning and invitations will be sent ing Company will take the orders.
Protestant, Hebrew-Christian world
arise. The problem is, how to
resolve these tensions with the
least friction. The solution to
this problem will be found in the
principles of brotherhood and friend-
ship. And it is these principles
which we must apply to the Rice
campus by certain specific tech-
niques. One of those, especially dur-
ing a Religious Emphasis Week, is
to visit the groups of other denom-
inations. The more different the
other denomination, the more need
there is for you to make friends
there; and also, the more inter-
esting you should find its meeting
to be. The friendships we make to-
day can help relieve the denomina-
tional tensions of the future. Tol-
erance is dead! Long live friendship!
Those who belong to no church
Tensions are bound to
at Autry House; next meeting, Mon-
day, Feb. 27.
Baptist Student Union—noon, ev-
ery Thursday at Autry House; plus
daily programs same £ime and place.
Canterbury Club — every other
Sunday, Autry House, 6 PM; next
program, Sunday, Feb. 26.
Corporate Communion every Wed-
nesday morning during Lent at 7
AM, Palmer Memorial Chapel.
Christian Science Organization—
second and fourth Thursdays of each
month', at Autry House, 7:30 PM.
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out as soon as possible.
Members of the four steering
committees for the new groups in-
clude: eJan Upshaw (temp, chair-
man), Betty Edworthy, Norma Jean
Rodgers, Ann Gossman, Mary Ida
Hubbard, Eleanor Cox and Alice
Spafford, Group I; Neysia Cum-
mings (temp, chairman), Bridget
Rote, Nina Lee Kraft, Lillian Hoff-
man, Edwina Blankenship, Jean
Donaldson, Ann Jean Sheppard,
Group II; Shirley Arnold (temp,
chairman), Lillian Stuessy, Doris
Jaffe, Gloria Wilson, Dorothy Alex-
ander, Patsie Ballou, Patsy Cunyus,
Group III; Nancy Branan (temp.
Costs are as follows: 27 cents
for cardboard and 75 cents for leath-
er invitations. Personal cards range
from 1 dollar to 3.50 per 100.
Deposit is optional.
chairman), Nancy Condon, Geneva
Saxton, Barbara Hall, Laura Jo Lee,
Bernice Davis, Peggy Hall, Group
IV.
The sponsors of the new organ-
izations will include Mrs. William
Stamps Farish, Mrs. Harry C. Weiss,
Mrs. B. B. Rice, Mrs. Wirt Paddock,
Miss Ima Hogg, Mrs. A. S. Cleve-
land, and Mrs. James O. Winston.
Werner Objects!
From Berlioz To Bango - Bango
group are urged above all to take
part in Rice's Religious Emphasis
Week; for you may find in one of
the groups an addition to your life
that may well prove decisive. For
religion is not only a comforter to
the sad and lonely; it is also an in-
spiration to moral living surpassed
by none.
The religious organizations of
Rice Institute meet at the times and
places noted below. This information
is printed, not to remind the 'faith-
ful' when their particular group
meets, but to encourage the whole
student body to visit as many pf
the religious groups as they have
time to, during Religious Emphasis
Week.
Ave Maria Club—noon, biweekly
By Farrell Fulton
A wag once defined a committee
as "a body that keeps minutes and
wastes hours." If this is true, then
The Forum Committee is not really
a committee, for only seldom do we
have a secretary to take minutes
The Forum Committee will pre-
sent a program in connection with
Brotherhood Week, Thursday
night, in the Lecture Lounge at
8:00.
The speakers will be a Jewish
rabbi, a Catholic priest and a
Protestant minister from three
Houston churches. They will talk
'on inter-faith brotherhood. The
names of the speakers will be an-
nounced next week.
and otfr meetings could never waste
hours, for one of our energetic fac-
ulty members has a chronic case
of adjournitis after 35 minutes of
discussion.
Our committee is a well-knit little
clique of 12 students and 4 profs.
The variety of personalities is
amazing: we have everything (if
you'll pardon the expression) from
physicists who can discourse on the
idefixes of Berlioz to noisy history
majors who demand programs on
Pseudo-Mercantilism in Southern
Bango-Bango.
Presiding over our little coterie
is our chairman, Elkins, a very
efficient person, totally devoted
to the committee. One, however,
has the sneaking suspicion that
once he has seduced the committee
to have a program at an Engi-
neers Beer Bust, he will feel he
has fulfilled his highest aspir-
ations, then resign.
There are two kinds of Forum
members: first, the kind that comes
to the meetings; second, the kind
that doesn't. I couldn't really say
which type predominates, but which-
ever it is, the ratio between types
is 4:1. I remember at one meeting,
about half-way through the proceed-
ings (we were discussing Russian
movies, religion, and Rice girls sim-
ultaneously)—that suddenly there
appeared an apparition of bygone
days, with tattered rags drooling
about an old, hairy, bearded man—
Zounds and Gad Zukes! it was none
other than Erner Runbomb! the
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Rice's new Film Society Will pre-
sent its first scheduled program,
Tuesday night at 8:00, in the Fon-
dren Library Lecture Lounge. Ralph
Sinclair, president of the new organ-
ization, announced that the fairly
recent movie, "Of Mice and Men,"
adapted from the Steinbeck novel,
and starring Burgess Meredith, will
be shown.
Monday night, the French mov-
ie, "Grande Illusion" was shown
to both members of the French
classes and society members, at
two separate showings. The flim,
starring Jean de Gabin and Erich
von Stroheim, deals with the
changing ideas of class society,
suppressing the illusion of any
class superiority. The story cen-
ters around prisoner of war camps
in Germany.
A tentative schedule of the pro-
grams to be presented for the rest
of the semester has been announced.
The films include: "La Marseillaise"
(French film), on March 6 at 9:00;
an Alexander Nevsky film, directed
by Sergei Eisenstein, March 14 at
8:00; "Voyage Surprise" (French
film), March 20 at 9:00; "The Four
Horsemen of the Apocalypse," with
Rudolph Valentino, March 28 at
8:00; "Thtl Navigator," with Buster
Keaton, and short films by Harold
Lloyd and Robert Benchley, April
11 ^t 8:00; a French film to be an-
nounced, April 17 at 9:00; "Man of
Aran," a documentary film by Rob-
ert Flaherty, and a short film by
the Moscow Ballet Theater, April
25 at 8:00; a program of experimen-
tal films, May 9 at 8:00. The pro-
gram for May 2 will be either "The
Kid" or "The Circus," with Charles
Chaplin.
The deadline, for suggestions for
possible films has been set for to-
day. Membership is still open for
any interested students. Applica-
tions and two-dollar membership
fees should be turned in to Miss
Helen Chillman in the Music Room
of Fondren Library.
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Open Houses Scheduled
For Sunday Night
To Honor Lit Societies
New members of the four old lit-
erary societies will be honored at
open houses, Sunday night from 7:00
to 9:00. All men students are in-
vited to attend. The open houses
will be held at the following places:
EBLS at the home of Vickie
Schwarting, 2203 Watts Road;
OWLS at 411 Lovett St.; PALS at
the home of Ermine Chambers, 1609
Kirby Drive; SLLS at the home of
Beverly Hawkins.
The new members include:
EBLS: Carolyn Coy, Dorothy Hall,
Jeanne Hall, Martha Hodge, Pat
Lyford, Margaret Minahen, Shirley
Lockwood, Ann McLaren, Betty Sil-
vus, Beverly Ward and Avanelle Mc-
Daniel. Parties for the girls were
held Thursday night at Marty Gib-
son's and a slumber party Saturday
at Avanelle McDaniel's.
OWLS: Eleanor Allen, Ruth Mc-
Mahon, Marjorie Kinghom, Betty
McGeever, Patti Ambrose, Geralyn
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