The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, April 17, 1959 Page: 1 of 8
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Volume Forty-Six—Number 27
HOUSTON, TEXAS
BUGS & FLASH
DISCOVER NEW LABS
SEE PAGE 3
FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1959
Student Council
Election Called
To Choose New
Assistant Editor
By LESLIE ARNOLD
Wednesday night the Council
took action that effectively pre-
vents the present assistant editor
of the Thresher from becoming
editor next year.
The assistant editor is now on
disciplinary probation for the re-
mainder of the spring semester,
due to an incident with a Student
Center official over taking food
from Sammys.
Present by-laws state that no
person on probation from the In-
stitution can hold office or run
for any office. Hence, the Coun-
cil deemed it necessary to hold
a special election for°the office
of Assistant Editor to the Thresh-
Petitions will be due next
er.
Wednesday, and the election will
be nine days later on a Friday.
See page 4 for an editorial com-
ment on the Council's action.
ACTUALLY, the matter came
up because the Council had to
suspend part of a by-law in order
to be able to hold the election
before school is out. In taking
the action which they did the
Council is merely following the
established by-law.
HOWEVER, the circumstances
under which the person in ques-
tion went on pro are rather un-
usual. It was suggested that the
Council take these circumstances
into consideration.
THE MAJORITY of the Coun-
cil felt that they were not to
question why the assistant editor
had been placed on probation, but
only to consider the problem
from a completely objective stand
point without regard to persons
involved or situation. It was
pointed out that if she had gone
on academic pro, she would have
lost the office and a new assist-
ant editor would have been
chosen. •
Photo by Van Orden
500 GIRLS have had Mrs. Dunn as their housemother
during her stay at Rice. She plans to retire after this year.
RICE'S FIRST HOUSEMOTHER
FROM DUTIES THIS YEAR
IN THE FALL of 1951, 24
girls moved into the apartments
on Banks Street. The Banks
apartments were the beginning of
housing for women at Rice, and
Mrs. L. H. Dunn was the first
housemother. The next year there
were 35 girls under her care at
Banks, the year after that there
were 44, and then 60 girls for
the remaining years at the apart-
ments. Then came Jones College,
with 105 girls in the South Wing,
where Mrs. Dunn moved into" the
housemother's apartment.
SINCE 1951, Mrs. Dunn has
Harrison, McCord To Speak
At Graduation Programs
PLANS FOR a week of grad
uation activities, climaxing with
Rice's 46th commencement exer-
cises on May 28, are currently
nearing completion, according to
Senior Class President Eddie
Garrett.
DR. GEORGE R. Harrison,
Dean of the School of Science
at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, will deliver the prin-
cipal address at the commence^«
ment program, which will begin
at 6:30 pm.
THE PRECEDING evening,
Thursday, May 28 the baccalau-
reate exercises will be held at the
same hour, with Dr. James I.
McCord, Dean of the Austin Pres-
byterian Theological Seminary, as
|he principal speaker.
Calendared for May 26 at the
Houston Country Club is the
traditional Senior dance and
breakfast, which will be held
from 9 pm until 1 am, with music
furnished by the Albino Torres
orchestra. Tickets for the dance
will be put on sale early in May.
AN OPEN HOUSE at Jones
College, to be given by the Rice
Alumni, will precede the com-
mencement exercises. Hours have
been set from 4:30 to 6:30 pm.
The faculty, graduates and their
families have been invited to
attend.
FOLLOWING the graduation
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Romanticism Is
Bourgeois' Topic
Dr. A. M. Bourgeois, Professor
of French, will give the next
faculty lecture Tuesday night at
Jones, on the benefits derived
from taking a course in French
Romanticism. The talk will begin
at 6:45 and last until 7:30, and
is open to members of any col-
lege.
been mother, confidante, adviser,
and sometimes nurse to some 500
girls at Rice. She has kept- up
with ther problems, their grades,
their boy friends. She has cheered
them with countless cups of cof-
fee and made jello for them when
they were ill. She has been close
to them all, arid remembers each
one. "Every moment of it has
been interesting," says Mrs.
Dunn, "because each of the 500
was different."
IN THE DAYS at the Banks
apartments, when the girls pre-
pared their own meals, Mrs. Dunn
was often invited for candle-lit
dinners at the various apart-
ments. "We were a happy group,"
says Mrs. Dunn. The 105 girls in
the South Wing of Jones College
are still just as much a part of
"a group" as were the first 24
girls at Banks for Mrs. Dunn.
She has set an example of gra-
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Colleges Elect
New Officers
The mechanical problems of voting machines and num-
erous run-offs rendered Wednesday's college elections
somewhat indecisive.
College presidents with added all-school responsibility
as Student Senate representatives are: Mike Kahn, Baker;
and Mike Lockard, Will
Rice. In run-off elections
were: Danny Barnum and
Joe Christoffel, Hanszen; Mary
Lacey and Charlotte Reeves,
Jones; and Steve Doty and Paul
Key, Wiess.
The remainder of the Baker
College Cabinet includes: Bill
Nixon, vice-pres.; Bruce Hen-
drickson and Charles Giraud, sen-
ators; class B representative,
Jack Hollon; and senior non-resi-
dent, Clarence Miller. A run-off
election today will decide between
Roy Reid and Joe Richards for
secretary, Mike Beldon and Jack
Henderson for treasurer. The
resident class representatives will
also be elected today.
Hanszen College officers are:
Art Foust, vice-pres.; Ed Massin,
secretary; Syn Nathans, senator;
Glenn Jarvis, councilman; Tom
Mcintosh, class B representative;
Billy Bucek, senior; Benlly Gib-
son, junior resident; David Car-
penter, sophomore non-resident.
In run-offs are Jim Hirshfield
and John Touhey, chief justice;
and Brooke Hamilton, David
Lemon, and Ed Meador, sopho-
more resident representative.
STUDENTS TO
RATE PROFS
Faculty rating sheets are be-
ing mailed to professors this
week to be handed out to their
classes next week. These sheets,
which will be in the same form
as last year, include questions
on how the professor lectures,
fairness of his assignments, and
suggestions on how he cauld im-
prove.
Due to some unconstructive
comments in past years, some
professors choose ignore this an-
nual ritual. However, some stu-
dents will be given an opportunity
to criticize their professors.
Students To
Ex-Students
Perform For
At Rice Day
"At Home ... At Last!" is
the program theme for the Rice
Day meeting of alumnae on
Tuesday, April 21 in the Rice
Memorial Center. Rice students
will be performing* for ex-Rice
students in an informal style and
talent show. Headlining the pro-
gram of talent will be Buddy
Dial, Tom Evans and Beverly
montgomery and Tommie Lu
Storm.
The style "show is being ar-
ranged by Marilyn Kinzer. Bob
Seiler is responsible for the
musical background. Frank Dent
is acting as narrator. The pro-
grain is also featuring several
Rice alumnae and Rice faculty
members Gallegly, Davies and
Bray as narrators and singers.
Rice day begins officially at
four o'clock. Concession "booths
and game activities will last until
six o'clock. At six, a fried chick-
en dinner will be served. The
Variety show will begin at 7 pm
after "dinner music" by the Rice
band. Rice students are invited
to the entire afternoon's activi-
ties . . . tickets are $2. There will
be a smaller admission fee at the
door for those who wish to attend
the show only.
For Jones College, Sandy
Smith was elected secretary, and
Barbara Long, senator. A run-off
Thursday decided between: Mar-
gie Moore and Ann Schudy, vice-
pres.; Pat Hills and Gail Roem-
held, treasurer; Susan Briggs,
Kathy P i c k a r d, and Evelyn
Thomas, councilman.
Jones College Cabinet mem-
bers are: senior, Carol Mcintosh,
Dee Owsley, Mary Claire Peden,
Kitty Redmond, Barbie Scott, and
Patty Sparling; junior, Sandy
Boatman, Barbara Davis, Jody
Hanke, Ann Hebert, Ann Kriegel,
and, decided in the run-off, Nan-
cy Jones or Judy Walser; sopho-
more, Toni Berrong, Flo Hunt,
Ann McNab, and Sally Smyser.
Elected to the Wiess College
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debaters
To Vanderbilt
Four Rice students are partici-
pating in the Southern Universi-
ties Forensic Conference today
and tomorrow, April 17 and 18,
at Vanderbilt University, Nash-
ville, Tennessee.
Rice has sen two debate teams,
Charles Parnell and Gerald Dans-
by, and Neil Anderson and Jim
Bernhard to the conference. Par-
nell is also entered in extempor-
aneous speaking. Professor and
Mrs. T. N. Marsh are accompany-
ing the group to Nashville.
The Southern Universities for-
ensic Conference is a league be-
tween Rice, Texas, Vanderbilt,
North Carolina, Emory Univer-
sity, Tulane, Davidson College,
and William and Mary College.
SIGMA TAU
ACCEPTS TEN
Sigma Tau. honorary engin-
eering fraternity, has announced
the selection of members. The
new members, chosen from the
senior engineering class, are Da-
vid Bogy, Paul Engelbert, Steve
Emmons, Russell Gibbs, George
Hobgood, Paul Key, Ray Lucas,
John Porter, Jim Walzel, and
Noel Willis.
Three members of Sigma. Tau
recently took part in Career Day
activities at Stephen F. Austin
High School. They spoke to stu-
dents interested in various phases
of enginering, outlining the op-
portunities in the profession and
the educational requirements for
obtaining an engineering degree,
as well as answering questions of
the students. Bob Murray, Frank
Emery, and Gene Dworsky spoke
to groups interested in mechan-
ical, electrical, and chemical en-
gineering, respectively.
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