The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 28, 1962 Page: 4 of 10
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THE THRESHER
WED, NOVEMBER 28,1962
Chem. Building; To Be Remodeled
With $300,000 N.S.F. Assistance
By BOB HAYES
Dr. Kenneth S. Pitzer an-
nounced recently that Rice Uni-
versity has received a grant from
the National Science Foundation
in^e amount of $300,000. .These
funds have been granted express-
ly for the strengthening of re-
search and graduate studies in
chemistry at Rice.
IN PARTICULAR, the Univer-
sity intends to match the grant
in equal amount and to then
apply the resulting capital to-
ward ^renovation and expansion
of research facilities in chemistry.
At the same time, the under-
graduate chemistry laboratories
Dr. Marcus Bloch, L-Hy.
President
EASTERN MAGICAL
SOCIETY
240 Rivington Street
New York 2, N. Y.
are being improved to a consid-
erable degree, the cost of which
will be borne entirely by Rice.
THIS NEW expansion pro-
gram is to be under the direction
of Dr. Richard B. Turner, Chair-
man of the Department of Chem-
istry, and will take approximately
two years to complete. It is to be
the most extensive program of
its kind since the Chemistry
Building was constructed in
1924-25.
Dr. Pitzer explained that while
over the years continuous modi-
fications have been made in both
facilities and laboratory instruc-
tion programs to keep pace with
advances in chemistry, the Uni-
versity had reached the point
where a major renovation was
necessary in order to employ the
use of the most modern instru-
ments in the teaching programs.
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FIFTEEN VOLUMES
Chicago Press To Publish
Semicentennial Proceedings
By LYN MARTIN
Through an agreement with
the University of Chicago Press,
Rice University will make avail-
able this year approximately fif-
teen volumes covering Semicen-
tennial proceedings.
Although plans are still some-
what fluid, it is certain that the
volumes will include one of Presi-
dent Pitzer's inauguration and
other Semicentennial ceremonies,
a volume of the lectures given
during the Academic Festival,
and individual volumes on the
various symposiums and series of
lectures being sponsored by the
different departments.
ALSO INCLUDED in the Sem-
icentennial publications will be a
commemorative volume dedicated
to Dr. Alan McKillop of the Eng-
lish department. This particular
book will be made up of contribu-
tions written by Dr. McKillop's
colleagues.
Chancellor Carey *C r o n e i s
stated, "These Semicentennial
publications will make a very sub-
stantial contribution of Rice Uni-
versity to these fields of study.
We confidently expect that they
will redound to our credit and to
the credit of the editors and auth-
ors involved."
THE JACKET of the books has
been designed in blue and gray
with the Rice emblem and title
of the book on the spine. With
the exception of the architecture
volume, the books will be of
standard format and style.
Dean of Students S. W. Hig-
ginbotham explains that the
books can thus be used as a set,
although each will stand on its
own and involve an individual
contract. The volume on Semicen-
tennial ceremonies will be pri-
marily for distribution to the
delegates and speakers who at-
tended. Rice expects to buy all of
these volumes.
Other volumes, however, such
THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANIES
SALUTE: BILL TYLER
Bill Tyler (B.S.E.E., 1958) is an Engineer with Southern
Bell in Louisville. His specialty is telephone power equip-
ment. Recently he engineered power plant replacements
valued at nearly $300,000.
Previously, Bill was an Equipment Engineer. In that job
he prepared specs for power, carrier and repeater, tele-
typewriter and other equipment. On a special assignment,
he taught a magnetics theory course to high school science
teachers. After hours, Bill j oins othej telephone people in
fixing "Talking Machines" for the blind.
Bill Tyler and other young engineers like him in Bell
Telephone Companies throughout the country help bring
the finest communications service in the world to the homes
and businesses of a growing America.
BELL TELEPHONE COMPANIES
TELEPHONE MAN-OF-THE-MONTH
as the one growing out of the
Fast Neutron Conference, the
anthropology symposium, and
the series of economics lectures,
will unquetionably support them-
selves. Both Dr. Croneis and Dr.
Higginbotham pointed out that
the University of Chicago Press
was extremely excited at the
prospect of publishing Semicen-
tennial proceedings.
AS CHAIRMAN of the inaugu-
ral committee, Dr. Higginbotham
is editor of the Semicentennial
ceremonies volume and of the
speeches of the Academic Festi-
val. These two volumes along
with Prehistoric Man in the New
World, edited by Dr. Edward Nor-
beck, will be among the first to
appear, possibly at the beginning
of next year.
Other volumes involving timely
scientific information will be
published within 90 days after the
symposium. The volume on envir-
onmental radiation will be a vol-
ume of this type. It will be jointly
edited by Dr. Adams and the
Atomic Energy Commission.
"The possibility of what can be
done with these volumes is enor-
mous," said Dr. Croneis. "It is
very likely that many of them
will be used as textbooks not only
in the United States but through-
out the World."
Play<
Hancock Directs,
ers Present
Brecht's 'Galileo1
Tickets for the Rice Players'
production of Bertolt Brecht's
"Galileo" are now on sale for
$1.00 in the Memorial Center.
Performances will be given
from Thursday, December 6
thru Sunday, December 9 with
matinees at 2:30 pm Saturday
and Sunday, and evening per-
formances Thursday, Friday and
Saturday at 8:15 pm and Sunday
at 7:30 pm.
DIRECTING the production
will be New York director John
Hancock, who has made a career
of staging the works of Bertolt
Bi;echt. A Harvard graduate, Mr.
Hancock recently directed the
production of Brecht's "A Man is
a Man" in New York.
In the title- role oi Galileo will
be Rice graduate Jim Bernhard,
who is now assistant city editor
of the Houston Press.
Several members of the faculty
will also participate, including
Dr. Hugh Duncan of the Sociology
Department, Dr. Joseph I. Davies
of the Biology Department, Mr.
Jim Heath, Classics Instructor,
and Dr. John E. Parrish of the
English Department.
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