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THE THRESHER
Letters of Thanks From France 9rJ' S?ort
Hit With Guidance
Skit Wednesday
The following letters were received by President Houston
in thanks to Rice students for the money sent,to the University
of Caen in 1949. The letters are reprinted here in their original
form since translation would destroy the sincere feeling con-
veyed in French. . . the Editor.
Universite de Caen
Faculte des Sciences
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Institut Botanique
(Jardin des Plantes)
A Monsieur le President de l'As-
sociation des DEtudiants du
Caen, 13 3b juin 1950
Rice Institute, Houston, Texas, USA
Monsieur le President,
Monsieur le Doyen de la Faculte
des Sciences de Caen vient de me
remettre pour mon laboratoire le
Microscope d'etudiant que vous avez
bien voulu acquerir grace a une
souscription faite par parmi les
etudiants du Rice Institute et que
vous destiniez a notre Institute Bo-
tanique.
Nos etudiants sauront apprecier
votre genereux et en leur nom, je
vous remercie, ainsi que vos cara-
arades, pour cette marque de soli-
darite.
J'ai plaisir a vous informer que
notre Univerwite, presque entiere-
ment detruite pendant la bataille
de Caen, a pu reprendre ses travaux,
ses enseingements, ses recherches;
de nouveaux batiments sont en voie
ile construction.
Le microscope que vous offrez y
prendra place et le souvenir de votre
Institute y restera attache.
Veuillez recevoir, avec mes nouv-
eaux remericements, mes sentiments
bien cordiaux.
F. Moreau
M. F. Moreau, Professeur de Botani-
que a la Faculte des Sciences de
Caen (Calvados) France.
Caen, 13 26 juin 1950
Le Doyen de la Faculte des Sciences
de Caen,
a Monsieur le President des Etudi-
ants de The Rice Institute
HOUSTON, (Texas)
Mou cher President,
Nous venons de recevoir les in-
struments (6 microscopes, 2 pompes
a vide et 2 loupes) que vous et vos
camaradeg avez eu la delicate et gen-
ereuse pensee de vous envoyer.
Ce geste nous touche beaucoup et
if revet pour nous en plus de l'im-
portance materielle, un symbole
d'amitie et de fratenite des Etats-
Unis d'Amerique, Nation que la
France a toujours aimee; tant de
souvenirs et d'aspirations communs
nous unissent! Aussi c'est avec une
profonde emotion que je vous ad-
resse mes vifs remerciements en
nom et en celui des Professeurs
de la Faculte des Sciences de Caen.
Nous n'oublierons pas ce don qui
nous rappellera longtemps le Col-
lege de Houston.
Veuillez transmettre a tous vos
camarades Pexpression de notre re-
connaissance et en leur adressant
aussi le salut fraternel des etudiants
de notre Faculte.
Je vous prie de croire, mon cher
president, a l'assurance de mes sen-
timents les meilleurs et tres recon-
naissants.
Ed. Chauvenet
Doyen de la Faculte
des Sciences de Caen
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by Shirley Armstrong
The regular Wednesday night A-
House dance was the scene of the
Freshman girls' guidance skit. The
theme of the play was a parody on
Little Red Riding Hood, starring
Dorothy le Nicholl as the wolf (of
the Rice upperclass male type) Car-
ol Smith, Little Red Riding Hood
(the sweet and innocent female
freshman variety) and Sharon Camp
as the grandmother, complete with
cigar and beer bottle. The climax
of the plot came when Nancy Brels-
ford, the all-wise sophomore boy,
came in to claim Little Red Riding
Hood and leave the upperclassman
wolf with only 124 freshman girls
to go.
Julie Walker amused the audience
with her constant interruption, tell-
ing them how she shot an arrow in
the sky. The chorus line, composed
of lovely freshman co-eds, complete
with white shorts and sweaters, en-
tertained the boys with a can-can
routine to "There's No Business
Like Show Business". Several mus-
ical numbers provided more humor
and variety, including ukeleles and
the usual hillbilly numbers. Ann
Nicholl, fi*om Lamar, provided the
competent piano accompaniment.
Credits came at the end of the
show with the freshman girls thank-
ing the sophomore guidance com-
mittee who had helped produce the
skit. Among the hard workers were
Eleanor Allen, Erminie Chambers,
and soph vice president Dorothy
Kelly who worked hard to make the
show a success. Most spectators
willingly agreed that the show was
a huge success.
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Fondren Friends
Organize Group
An organization of those interest-
ed in Fondren Library has been
formed; known as the Friends of
Fondren Library. The organization,
formed last year under the chair-
manship of Mr. James L. Whitcomb,
hopes to secure gifts and donations
for the library.
One gift to the library has al-
ready been made through the
Friends. A collection of thirty re-
cent French scientific publications
was given to the library by M. Hen-
ri Jean Job, the French Consul Gen-
eral, on behalf of the French gov-
ernment. •
The group has begun a quarterly
publication known as "The Flyleaf,"
containing news of the library. The
first issue came out this month. The
publication is edited by Dr. Alan
D. McKillop, head of the English
Department.
Charity Drive to Back Foster Parent
Plan for War Children, Nov. 4-11
Donations to Rice's Charity Drive November 4-11 this
year will go to the Foster Parent Plan for War Children, Inc.
This decision was reached by the Charity Committee this week.
The Foster Parent Plan has been established for twelve
years, giving shelter, clothing, medical care, and schooling to
the war-blasted children of Belgium, —
Hillel Plans Series
Of Talks On Three
Jewish Beliefs
The Rice Hillel group will devote
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Rice Delegates At
Austin Meet Today
Three Rice delegates to the South-
w e s t Conference Sportsmanship
Committee are attending a meeting
in Austin today. Tom Eubank, Stu-
dent Association president, Bill
Hobby, managing editor of the
Thresher, and Willie Moreno, cheer-
leader are the representatives at
this meeting.
The program, which begins at 9:00
this morning, will include the setting
up of the mechanism for selection
of the trophy winner this year.
Presentation of the award will be
made at the Cotton Bowl in Janu-
ary.
New ideas for the committee will
be discussed, and plans from each
conference member for solving such
problems as booing at the basketball
„ games.
China, Czechoslovakia, England,
France Greece, Holland and Italy.
Relief is given to individual child-
ren not on a mass scale.
Each child is thoi-oughly investi-
gated to determine what he or she
needs most. Some are placed in
private homes with careful check
kept by staff members to determine -t8 next few meetings to a series of
that the money is spent on the child; discussj0ns on the various religious
some are placed in colonies of or- 1)hUos0phies 0f the Reform, Con-
phaned children specially establish- servative, and Orthodox branches
ed by the Foster Parent Plan. of jU(ja}am) beginning this Sunday
In its twelve years of service, aid with a meeting at Temple Emanuel,
has been given to 60,000 children Three noted rabbig> Rabbi Robert
and at the present date more than gchur> Rabbi William S. Malev, and
7000 of 14 different nationalities Rabbi Rolzerj will speak
on respec-
are under care. tive Sundays to give individual
$15 a month, $180 per year cares views on sucb perplexing philosophi-
for one child. $500 endows a dormi- caji problems as the Jewish concep-
tory, $50 endows a bed. Funds are tion of life after death and immor.
needed also for plastic surgery, arti- tality of the soul> A short h|story
of the development of the various
Orthodox, Reform, and Conserva-
tive movements will precede each
discussion, after which the meeting
will be conducted in a round table
fashion.
Rabbi Schur, junior rabbi of Con-
gregation Beth Israel, will begin
the series with a discussion of Re-
ficial limbs, and artifical eyes.
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Jean Gordon Joins
In YWCA Panel
Jean Gordon, Rice junior, will be
on a panel discussion sponsored by
the YWCA committee on Public Af- . „ , . „ „ , , _ ,, .
fail's, at the YW on October 24, UN ,orra Judalsm> followed b>' Rabbl
day, at 8 p.m. The discussion will be Malev of Congregation Beth Yeshur-
"The Values of International Ex- m' 8 very
speaker, who will present the Con-
servative side of the series, and Rab-
bi Holzer of Congregation Adath
Emeth will conclude the programs
with a discussion on the Orthodox
view.
Meetings will be held in the Lec-
ture Lounge of the Fondren Library.
0—. a
change."
The panel will include Van Ho, a
University of Houston Chinese stu-
dent; Mrs. Ruth S. Wills, an instruc-
tor in English at the University of
Houston who has been an exchange
teacher in Wales, and Miss Gordon
who spent last summer in Europe.
Miss Rita Zache was to be included
as the fourth member of the panel
but due to her recent operation is
unable to speak.
The sub committee in charge in-
cludes Mrs. McBride, Mrs. William
Dix, Mrs. Carol Wschmeyer, and
Mrs. J. Perry Hunnicutt, Dean of
Women at the University of Hous-
ton. The first three ladies are Rice
faculty wives. Mrs. Gilbert Her-
mance is chairman of the public jCorner Rice & Kirby Drive!
Affairs committee. | '
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THE
GLASS HAT
Lounge
Caters to Rice Students
Little Man On Campus
By Biblef)
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"They hist about manage to break even."
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