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Celebrating Rice's Semicentennial Year
Volume 50—Number 2
HOUSTON, TEXAS
WED., SEPTEMBER 26, 1962
m
Rice Trustee Newton Rayzor
Opens A-House Lecture Series
J. Newton Rayzor, member of
the Rice Board of Trustees, will
speak tonight at 8 pm in Autry
House, 6565 South Main. He will
be the initial speaker in an ex-
tensive program of lecture dis-
cussions featuring ten high-rank-
ing Rice professors and adminis-
trators.
The programs centering on the
theme "The University and Its
Work" will be sponsored by the
Autry House, a service institution
for Rice operated since 1920 by
the Episcopal Diocese of Texas.
THORPE BUTLER, senior
English major, and chairman of
the group, said in announcing the
program, "We have planned this
series as a service to the whole
academic community and have
been met by enthusiastic accep-
tance from those we have invited
to be our speakers.
"WE PARTICULARLY hope,"
Days
Faculty Council
Adds Two
To Easter Holiday
Easter vacation for Rice Uni-
versity students has been extend-
ed two days from its previous
length by action of the Faculty
Council at the request of the Stu-
dent Senate.
According to the new vacation
schedule, classes will be recessed
next spring on Saturday, April
6 at noon and will be resumed
on Tuesday, April 16.
DURING its meeting of Sep-
tember 20, the council also agreed
that it would be the policy of the
University to begin Easter vaca-
tion at Saturday noorrof the week
preceding Good Friday and to
end it at 8 am on the Tuesday
morning following Easter.
Modifications may be made
necessary when Easter comes
very early or very late in the
semester.
"Since this is our only real va-
cation during the second semes-
ter," Clarke said, "I am pleased
that the Faculty Council has cho-
sen to extend it both this year
and in the future."
Butler added, "that the program
will be of help to all new stu-
dents and faculty as they engage
their lives in the Rice community."
Each speaker has been asked
to address the general theme
from his own viewpoint and place
in the administration of Rice.
OTHER SPEAKERS in addi-
tion to Mr. Rayzor include Dr.
Street Fulton, Master of Will
Rice College, Mr. Jess Neely, Di-
rector of Athletics, Mr. Howard
Thompson, head of the Develop-
ment Office, and Dr. S. W. Hig-
ginbotham, Dean of Students.
Appearing in November and
New Handbook
Given To Frosh
For Orientation
Rice's new freshmen receive^,
part of their summer orientation
this yea^ through a new edition
of the Student Handbook of Rice
University prepared by a com-
mittee from the Class of 1965.
Under the editorship of Doug-
las Harlan, the sophomore staff
kept the familiar format but
brought up to date such items
as administrative changes, new
student organizations, and re-
vised freshman guidance pro-
grams. The handbook is published
bi-annually by Rice students and
was last revised two years ago
by Jack Calfee and a committee
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School Given Land
The Shepherd School of Mu-
sic at Rice was recently pre-
'sented a gift which will double
its present endowment by Mrs.
Sallie Shepherd Perkins and her
husband,' Malcolm W. Perkins,
of Ashville, N. C.
25,000 square feet of land in
the Houston business district
were deeded Rice by Mr. and
Mrs. Perkins. This gift brings
the total endowment to an es-
timated $1,350,000.
December will be Mr. Michael
McEnany, Registrar, Dr. Franz
Brotzen, Dean of Engineering,
Dr. W. H. Masterson, Dean of
Humanities, Dr. Frank Vandiver
of the graduate school committee
and Dr. Carey Croneis, Chan-
cellor.
REV. LANE DENSON, Direct-
or of Autry House, described the
lectures as "one of ministry to
the whole university community.
It is a ministry which stems out
of a theological idea of the uni-
versity.
"If there is to be service," he
continued, "there must be open,
honest dialogue leading to know-
ledge. If men are responsibly to
love their neighbors, they
must know about them as well as
know them."
"It is in this spirit and con-
cern that these lectures are of-
fered."
The series will meet each Wed-
nesday evening at 8 pm with the
exception of Inauguration and
Thanksgiving weeks, through De-
cember 12. The campus and the
general public are invited to at-
tend.
BATON ROUGE OPENER
tr.jra
a
Owls Fear Fowl Play
In Tussle With Tigers
By PAUL BURKA
Rice's embattled Owls, losers in their own intrasquad
game, venture bravely into the Valley of Death—Baton
Rouge's cavernous Tiger Stadium, where 68,000 fanatics
will watch them tackle football's roughest assignment
Saturday night.
THE OWLS OPEN their football season at 8 p.m.
against Louisiana State University, better known to the
AP and UPI polls as LSU. The casual onlooker can spot
them in a hurry by looking through the top five teams
in the nation.
This week is no exception. Riding the momentum of
a ludicrously easy win over Texas A&M, (never allowing
the Aggies to cross their 20 yard
line), LSU rates high in the na-
tion again. National champs in
'58, runners-up in '59, and third
last year, the Tigers remain a
perpetual power.
SPARKING the solid Tiger at-
tack is all-Southeast Conference
halfback Jerry Stovall. LSU's re-
nowned three team squad fea-
tures the "Go Team" on offense,
with 10 of 11 returning from the
'61 lineup.
But it is in the line where the
Bengals have made their legend.
Defensively the Chinese Bandits
have captured the imagination of
the nation, but the first-team
line is where the Tigers defend
their honor and their goal line.
Such familiar names as Dennis
Gaubatz, Gene Sykes, and Rodney
Guillot anchor a defensive line
which held the Aggies to a mere
ninety-seven yards rushing.
IN ADDITION to their clien-
tel screaming for blood, the Ti-
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Garrett Re-Elected
Margo Garrett, Houston sen-
ior, was elected to fill the va-
cancy on the Rice cheerleading
contingent in a special balloting
last Friday.
The vote was, Garrett, 364;
Ann Pierce, 201; Carolyn Ol-
iver, 108.
The vacancy arose when Car-
ole Riggs, one of four students
chosen in the March general
elections, resigned during the
summer.
Miss Garrett will be serving
her second term as a Rice
cheerleader.
RMC SOUND SYSTEM
Higginbotham Resolves Fund Conflict
By FRYAR CALHOUN
A Monday afternoon meeting
between student and administra-
tion leaders finally cleared up a
summer-1 o n g misunderstanding
about financing of the new sound
system in the Rice Memorial
Center.
Dr. S. W. Higginbotham, Dean
of Students, and Bob Clarke, SA
President, reached a mutually
satisfactory agreement concern-
ing responsibility for the FM
system installed by order of the
Student Center Board last spring.
THE ADMINISTRATION will
make up a deficit of about $200
in Student Senate funds since
this deficit was occasioned by a
common misunderstanding.
The controversy arose during
the summer when Dean Higgin-
botham held the Senate re-
sponsible for the, balance of the
sound system bill when it appear-
ed that the funds available to
the Student Center Board were
mot sufficient • to * meet the debt.
The balance of the bill, $769,
was. paid from the general Sen-
at fund this summer.
THE MONDAY MEETING
determined that the Senate had,
through a general misunder-
standing, been given a fund of
about $750 earmarked for RMC
improvements. The Senate had
placed this $750 in its general
fund, designated it for general
improvements for the SA, and
bought a $225 typewriter for the
Senate office last spring.
The first $1000 of the total
$1769 sound system bill had been
paid by a Student Center Board
fund; the board had approved
the purchase because Kennedy
advised them that the $750 Senate
fund was available.
Since the Senate had bought
the typewriter, a deficit of about
$200 appeared. It is this deficit
Alum Committee Exhibits Trophies,
'Parchments' In 'Bizarre' Cabinet
Showcase Looms In Lobby
By ALFRED LOWEY-BALL
Students entering the Library
these last few days cannat have
missed the extravagently gold-
painted, multi-spired trophy cab-
inet that is sitting smack-dab in
the center of the foyer. It had
been brought out of the obscurity
of the RMC basement to arouse
interest in Rice history and tra-
ditions.
In the special' semi-eentenial
exhibit now being prepared for
the library by an' alumni commit-
tee, the cabinet will house some
important papers and parchments
from Rice's past.
BACK IN 1916 W4J1 Rice,
nephew of the founder and ar-
dent Institute supporter, became
so enthusiastic over this school's
first football conquest of A&M
that he subsequently presented
Rice with this expressly-made
trophy cabinet. Its style had been
inspired by the architecture of
Lovett Hall and the Physics
building; hence, so far as trophy
cabinets go, it possesses a rather
bizarre appearance.
It was supposed to find it's
"appropriate and permanent place
in the exhibition room of the
future gymnasium of the univer-
sity." It never quite got there for
when it was removed from Lovett
Hall, its original home, about
three years ago, it was ignomin-
iously abandoned in the basement
of the Student Center. Until Oc-
tober 12, it will remain in full
view at Fondren.
which the administration will
cover; thus the $750 fund will
have been used for RMC prob-
lems.
The misunderstanding a rose
over the intended purpose of a
$750 account which was trans-
ferred early last year to the
Student Association general fund.
"The Senate and Mr. Kennedy
are now trying to spend the same
fund," Clarke explained, "and it
was not clear until last Monday
that the expenditure of the money
on Memorial Center improve-
ments was constitutionally re-
quired."
This Week
In The Colleges
Thursday, September 27: Baker
College will hear Coach Jess Nee-
ly at College Night.
Jones College's speaker for the
evening will be Floyd Martin of
the Houston Chamber of Com-
merce. He will give his lecture
after dinner in the South Wing
lobby.
Will Rice will also present a
College Night, at which Chancel-
lor Croneis will discuss plans for
the Semicentennial celebrations.
Friday, September 28: Jones
Introductions at 8:00 in the com-
mons. All the men's colleges are
invited.
Saturday, September 29: Wiess
College- will hold their second
"Casino 21" at the Shamrock Ho-
tel from 9:00 until 1:00.
Sunday, September 30: Baker
College beach party.
Jones College will have Open
House from 2 unti 5 in the after-
noon.
Monday, October 1: Jones Col-
lege will sponsor a College Night
and meeting.
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The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 26, 1962, newspaper, September 26, 1962; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth231212/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.