The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 16, 1963 Page: 6 of 10
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THE THRESHER
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 16, 1963
IMPROVEMENTS PLANNED
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Colleges Developing
Expanded Facilities
By RALPH PARKS
"We're optimistic!" said Jones
President Nancy Stookesbury as
she described the plans for the
Jones development program. Dur-
ing' the coming year, with funds
set aside from last year's budget
and more from this yeai% Jones
hopes to finish the basement area
of the South Wing.
The plans for a study room-li-
brary area and a music room are
with the architects now. The
Jones library is rapidly outgrow-
ing available space so the library
room will be a badly needed ad-
dition.
Jones is blessed with several
attractive study rooms and areas
already, facilities which the men's
colleges have had to develop on
their own.
BAKER COLLEGE has, at pres-
ent, a pool-ping-pong area and a
T.V. room, as well as the college
office in their basement. The
rooms (including the office) are
unfinished but after the up-com-
ing meeting with University of-
ficials, plans should begin to take
shape. Because it is severely lim-
ited by the poor physical layout
of its basement, Baker has under
consideration now a project to
convert a vacant resident asso-
ciate's room into a library-music
room.
The University is going to build
a new wing for Wiess College
which should be ready for occu-
pancy by the fall of 1964. The
physical layout of the college has,
until now, limited Wiess's possi-
bilities for development; but in
this new wing every opportunity
will be utilized.
THERE WILL be a basement
of approximately 1800 square feet
which will be broken up into four
rooms; study room with carrels,
librai'y area, TV room (with color
TV, no less!) and a large (750
square feet) game room.
On the third floor there will be
a conference room-music room
room complete with wall-to-wall
carpets, conference (table, and
stereo. In the future, Wiess looks
to the possibility of enclosing a
courtyard to provide an outdoor
center for spontaneous sports and
college life.
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Cool And Bright
Chem Building Is
Nearly Complete
By EDWARD BLOCHER
Chemistry students may at last
breathe a sigh of relief. Exter-
nally unchanged, the Chemistry
building and lecture hall are now
in the final stages of what
amounts to a complete rebuild-
ing job.
The undergraduate labs on the
first floor of the building have
already been completed. They in-
clude such improvements as bet-
ter distilled water facilities, high-
er desk partitions for safety,
new desks and cupboards, and
more individual smoke hoods.
TWO NEW ORGANIC labs
and one large, inorganic, physical
lab on the upper floor will be
used principally for research. Be-
cause of the size and complicated
nature of the project, it is hard
as yet to determine when it will
be completed or how much it will
cost.
Its financing has been aided
by grants; from the National
Science Foundation (NSF). The
present project should be com-
pleted by the end of the academic
year, but it may eventually be
expanded to include the entire
Chemistry Building.
THE LECTURE HALL, long
known as the hottest and gloom
iest place on campus, was com-
pletely gutted, and rebuilt over
the summer. The hall was strip
ped to bai*e concrete, steel and
brick, and was l'ebuilt from
there.
Now virtually finished, the
place has pushbutton drapes and
movie screen, new floors, walls
and ceiling. And air conditioning.
The only vestiges of the old hall
than can be seen are the big
carved corbells which hold up the
beams across the ceiling.
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CBS To Aim 'Twentieth Century'
At Houston Area, Rice, NASA
Rice University will be seen on
nationwide television as part of a
CBS-television production on the
city of Houston. Filming for the
program will be taking place on
campus within the next two
weeks.
Rice will be seen on "The Twen-
tieth Century," a half-hour pro-
gram seen weekly on Sunday af-
ternoons and sponsored by the
Prudential Insurance Co. The nar-
rator will be Houstonian Walter
Cronlcite, who will be in the area
at a later date to work on the
program.
THE DATE for the show is not
yet definite, but it will probably
be telecast in January or Feb-
ruary.
The program will report on the
city of Houston as a booming,
growing, economic community.
Dan Rather, former KHOU-TV
news director, now chief of the
Southwestern Bureau for CBS-
news, has already been on cam-
pus with a camera team.
CBS has been filming in Hous-
ton for the past three weeks.
THE INTEREST in Rice cen-
ters on the influence of the uni-
versity in bringing the NASA
Manned Spacecraft Center to
Houston. The presence of a good
school with the subsequent avail-
ability of excellent graduates is
considered one of the many fac-
tors leading to NASA's decision
to locate here.
Some scenes have been shot at
the old West mansion at Clear
Lake, on property owned by the
University and adjacent to the
NASA site.
PART OF the program will
consist of an interview with Uni-
versity President K. S. Pitzer,
which has already been filmed.
Some emphasis will be placed on
the research being conducted at
Rice, and the influence the Uni-
versity has had on the chang-
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"A MASTERPIECE
OF FILM MAKING.
A WOW
OF A SHOW,"
Time Magazine
KUROSAWA'S
Yojimbo
This Ad Admits One Rice Stu
dent Free With One Paid Ad-
mission
(Sunday, October 20 only)
Next — 'David & Lisa
ing character of the scientific
community.
Some time will also be given to
the factors which attracted a man
of President Pitzer's standing in
the academic world to come to
Rice.
CBS IS ALSO interested in
Rice as a university, so the team
will be filming silent shots of the
campus. They were present at
last week's football game to study
the layout, actual film will be
shot at the SMU game.
At the present time it appears
that Rice will play a significant
role in the program, but the
script has of course not yet been
written. The real nature of the
program cannot be known until
the excess film footage has been
edited.
Nadler Collection
To Be Incorporated
Into Main Library
By MIMI MUNSON
The S. S. Reva West docked to-
day at the Port of Houston, car-
rying in her hold seventy-two
crates destined for the Rice Li-
brary. These crates contain the
eagerly awaited Nadler collec-
tion, purchased by Rice this sum-
mer.
The collection's journey began
in Vienna, where it was crated,
insured against any possible dam-
age, and sent by freight to Brem-
enhafen. There it was put on the
Bloomfield Steamship Company's
ship', which carried it to Houston.
ON THE books' arrival at Rice,
they will be catalogued, and a
complete list made. The entire
collection will then be placed in
the library, where its volumes will
be available to all Library pa-
trons. The Nadler Library will be
of special interest to German stu-
dents, as the books are in Ger-
man, and their subject is Ger-
man literature.
Various libraries in this area
have shown interest in any dupli-
cates which may be found in the
collection. After a careful cata-
loguing has been made the pos-
sibilty of the sale of these dupli-
cates will be looked into.
DR. ROBERT L. Kahn, Rice's
representative in Vienna at the
bidding for the Nadler Library,
praises the cooperation which re-
sulted in the acquisition of the
books. "In my opinion, based on
experience at several large state
universities, the successful pur-
chase of this library represents
the best type of teamwork by
all divisions, departments, and in-
dividuals connected with it."
Some of the people who had a
part in the steps leading to the
purchase are President K. S. Pit-
zer; Chancellor Carey Croneis;
Rice's lawyer, Mr. Ewell E. Mur-
phy, Jr.; and Dean W. H. Master-
son. Others are Dr. Hardin Craig
and Mrs. E. K. Zingler of the Li-
brai-y, Dr. J. R. Sims and his as-
sociates, Dr. R. J. Rath, and Dr.
H. H. Lehnert.
WHEN MONEY MATTERS
SEE
TNB
Texas National
Bank.
OP HOUSTON
Member Federal Deposit insurance Corporation
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Keilin, Eugene. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 16, 1963, newspaper, October 16, 1963; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth244895/m1/6/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.