The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, April 21, 1950 Page: 1 of 6
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VOLUME THIRTY-SEVEN
NO. TWENTY-SIX
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HOUSTON, TEXAS, AfRIL 21, 1950
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Choral Club
To Present
Operetta
by Dick Belt
Tonight at 8 the Rice Choral
Club will present an original
operetta titled "Patchwork
Playhouse," Graham Landrum
has directed the three act piece.
The production is to be staged at
A-House.
The story concerns a struggling
light-opera company in its efforts
to produce a show sponsored by a
local socialite, Mrs. Covington Pal-
mer. Mrs. C. P. who insists on noth-
ing less than grand opera in her
town auditorium forms the motiva-
tion for a series of humorous inci-
dents.
The cast is headed by Barbara
Roos as the over-bearing Mrs. C.P.
She is aided by Lee Mary Parker,
John Eisenlohr, Herbie Peters, Shir-
ley Arnold and others in the light
opera group. Rounding out the cast
will be Louellen McBrayer, Alice
Spafford, Bob Warren, Eleanor Allen
and the perennial janitor, Jerry
Stevens.
The music for the operetta ranges
from operatic to popular with a few
purely original numbers from the
Rice composers, Herb Peters and
Jerry Stevens.
Engineer Group Eat Information On
a l *0*11* 9 t j Scntov Activities
At oills luesday
Above, center, is Alice Jan Flack, Rice's Miss Houston beautiful, inaugurating the new
clean-up policy in the Student Lounge. Alice Jan is assisted by Virginia Barber left, and
Beverly Carter, right. j
Lewis Garfield Dies Of Lukemia At Mayo's
Next Tuesday night at 7:00 PM
in the Pioneer Room of Bill Wil-
liams, the Engineering Society will
hold its annual banquet.
The program of the evening will
include Bill's finest steak plate,
plenty of beer, presentation of soci-
ety keys to graduating, three year
members, and generous presents for
the engineering faculty guests.
As in the past, the banquet is the
students' chance to "get back" at
their instructors—with no holds bar-
red. Complimentary, practical, or
useful gifts are frowned upon, and
weak hearted instructors are expect-
ed to remain at home.
The cost will be $1.75 per person
Tickets to the Senior Class Final
Ball and Banquet and to the Senior
Picnic will go on sale next week,
April 27, 28, 29. They will be sold
in the lounge only, between 8 and
12 on Thursday and Friday, and be-
tween 8 and 1 on Saturday.
The Banquet and Ball tickets (50 )
available) cost $4.00 per person. The
affair will be held in the Emerald
Room, Shamrock Hotel, Tuesday,
May 30th, 7 till 12 PM. Seniors only
can purchase these tickets; tickets
for others for the Ball only will be
sold later.
One dollar and fifty cents per
person is the cost of picnic fares.
May 7th is the date; H and H Ranee
the place; 1-11 PM the time; swim-
Garfield Was Rice OKLS to Sponsor
Graduate, Member ^}h01£e* ^ec^ure
s I HP (Ik I X will ctmncnv M
Board of Governors
Mr. Lewis 'Garfield, Rice alumnus,
died of lukemia at Mayo Clinic late
Wednesday night. His sudden death
•>t the age of forty-six followed a
very short illness.
An active member of the Rice en-
gineering alumni society and a mem-
ber of the Rice Institute Board of
governors, Mr. Garfield is well
known around the campus.
Mr. Garfield graduated from Rice
as an electrical engineer in the class
of 1926. He is particularly noted
The OKLS will sponsor Mr5. As-
bury Parks in a lecture on "Spring
Flowers; Their Simple Arrange-
ment" on Tuesday, April 25 at 1:15
in the Fondren Lecture Lounge.
Movies on flower arrangement will
complete the program. The OKLS
is sponsoring this noon meeting and
lecture for the whole school. Every-
one interested in flower arrange-,
merit is cordially invited.
Forum Committee
Seeks Members
By Farrell Fulton
The Forum Committee is scouting
with the" society "making up the dif- f0od dancinS> and cards the for his Participation in the Rice en- for new members for next year's
ference. Members only will be allow-
ed to come. Engineering students
may still join the Society by contact-
ing Steve Siebenhausen, membership
dues are $.3.00 for this year.
New members of the Society are
instructed to wear red ties, no coats,
and to serve beer to the active mem-
bers.
Rice Film Society
Shows "Man of Aran"
The next film in the series pre-
sented by the Rice Film Society will
be the Robert Flaherty movie "Man
of Aran." Flaharty is the producer
of "Louisiana Story" and many oth-
er outstanding documentary * films.
Shown as short subjects will be a
Chaplin comedy and a film made by
the Moscow Ballet Theater.
The films will be presented in the
Physics Amphitheater at 8 PM on
Tuesday, April 25. Seats will be re-
served as usual for members of the
film society, but more seats will be
available for interested guests.
fun. These tickets too will be sold
only on the three days specified.
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Houstonian to Back
ASCE Delegate
An anonymous Houston business
man has donated $175 to cover the
^expenses of a delegate to the spring
meeting of the American Society of
Civil Engineers, with the stipulation
that the man be a senior Chemical
Engineer.
T. S. Graham was selected to at-
tend the meeting which is to be held
in Los Angeles, on April 25-29. High-
light of the convention will be a
field inspection trip to Morris Dam
and the Underwater Ordinance Tor-
pedo Range at Morris Reservoir.
gineering alumni in which organiza-
tion he has held various offices.
Shortly after his garduation from
Rice Mr. Garfield went to work for
Hughes Tool Company where he
has been employed ever since. In
1943 he was appointed to the posi-
tion of Chief Engineer, in which
capacity he has served ever since.
Mr. McCann said: "We were ter-
ribly shocked to hear of Mr. Gar-
field's death. We consider him as
one of the main-stays of the Insti-
tute."
Funeral arrangements have not
yet been announced.
All women students on the
campus are asked to attend a
very important meeting in the
Fondren Lecture Lounge at 12
noon, tomorrow, to discus and
vote on the suggestion for merg-
ing the Women's Council and the
Literary Council.
Mr. Fred Weiner of the Jewish
Vocational Service will speak to
the B'nai B'rith Hillel Councilor-
ship of Rice on Sunday afternoon
April 16 at 2:00 in the lecture
lounge. He will talk on job possi-
bilities in the Houston area for
full time and part-time appli-
cants.
committee. Though thei*e are sev-
eral hold-overs, hang-overs, and left-
overs from this year's committee,
there are at least six positions for
new members. The method of ad-
mittance is by means of a letter
handed to an old member; the let-
ters should state the applicant's in-
terest, qualifications, and ideas for
future programs. Old members are
Joe Elkins, Don Eddy, Raymond
O'Keefe, Finis Cowan, Dewey Gon-
solin, Rtiey Boone, Jack Lapin, Wer-
ner Grunbaum, D.an Bloxsom, Far-
roll Fulton, Nancy Markle, Drs.
Craig and Fulton, and Mr. Chap-
man.
The Forum Committee meets for
about 40 minutes once a waek, so
will consume little of a person's
time. Yet it is an excellent way
to serve the student body by pre-
senting interesting discussions, lec-
tures. and musical programs to edify
student life and clarify, or stir up
controversy. The Committee is di-
rectly under the sponsorship of The
Student Government. The letters are
due by April 22.
Chem Show
Stands Out
In Review
by Betty McGeever
Rice held its traditional Re-
view of Arts and Sciences last
Friday and Saturday after a
lapse of ten years. Students
who had worked all year on
their exhibits were rewarded by a
large appreciative audience.
Among the most interesting of
the exhibits were the Psychology
Exhibit, the Electrical Engineering
Exhibit, the Chemistry Exhibit, and
the Biology Exhibit.
The Psychology Exhibit included
a series of exhibits on visual per-
ception. Especially amazing among
these were WHAT IS IT? This con-
sisted of a common object partially
concealed in a box under brilliant
illumination. Carroll Camden's box
containing the piece of coal that
looked like a piece of tinfoil from
the outside, was one of the best of
these. The Judgement of Character
from photographs stumped many of
the visitors who were asked to pick
out three morons from a group of
six children's pictures and three
criminals from a group of six men's
pictures. Hanover House, consisting
of some of the research work done
at Hanover, was, however, the best
of the Psychology Exhibits. But the
most amusing to the spectators and
to the students was the Ball Spiral
which, as well as testing the techni-
cal ability of the contestants, served
to reveal their individual character
traits to the audience.
The Engineers lured the visitors in
by dangling Hot Dogs (cooked in 45
seconds) and marshmellow cookies in
front of their noses. Once inside,
they were greeted by the Welcome
Sign, a punched tape moving past
350 individual contacts energizing
the lamps necessary to spell out the
visitors' welcome to the Department
of Electrical Engineering. This was
the work of Jimmy Campise.
Next, there was the Colored Light
Fountain, the work of C harlie Cern-
nik and Art Beck. The Aircraft Gun
Turret, a B-29 remotely-operated
gun turret provided a fine example
of control equipment. Bob Meury
was in charge of the Electronic De-
flection Gauge, a steel beam which
will deflect only a small amount un-
der the weight of a person. However,
if this ^deflection is electronically-
amplified, a method of determining
weights may be had.
(Continued on Page 6)
Juniors Will Pick
Queen on Saturday
Nominations for the queen of the
Junior Prom were held on Monday,
April 17. Virginia Barber, Joan Ben-
nett, Etta Colish, Camille Coulter,
Alice Jan Flack, Bertha Gray, and
Gay Schneider are the nominees.
On the night of the dance, April
22. at the Crystal Ballroom, every-
one attending will be eligible to vote
for one of the seven nominees for
Queen of the Junior Prom. The
Queen will be officially crowned dur-
ing the floor show.
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