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Comment on Friday Afternoon Follies: Sooey! by Deborah Gronke Bennett (BSEE Hanszen '82)

Deborah Gronke Bennett (BSEE Hanszen '82) — Sat, 18 May 2013 18:09:37 +0000

Does your collection have any photos of the bicycle show? I think that was in 1977? I was in that show. Riding a bicycle on Astroturf was a unique experience. As was seeing someone trailer their string bass lashed onto a hand truck.

Comment on Friday Afternoon Follies: Sooey! by Grungy

Grungy — Sat, 18 May 2013 07:02:28 +0000

The other way around, I believe. I think that’s Phildo with the glasses and the “15″ shirt, and Ed touching the piglet.
The twirler on the left is Suzan McCorkle (Hindman)(Jones 1977), whose daughter Melissa was a recent Rice cheerleader (Lovett 2005).
The drummer with the beard who is partially obscured by Susan’s left arm is Dana Blankenhorn.
The drum major, with the white pants (recently donated that uniform to the Woodson), who is between the bass drummer and the tri-tom player is Paul Reinhardt (most likely) or Mike Fowler. His hair looks blonder, so I’m thinking it’s Paul.
The drummer with the white hat on, toward the left, is Becky Smith, who was a UH student (and her mother was my high school junior-year history teacher).
I believe the trumpet player two to the right of Ed’s butt is Roger Dannenberg, now a professor at Carnegie-Mellon.
The trumpet player who is a head taller than the rest of the line (and we can only see his head) is Kip Daniel, who is now an architect in Dallas.
The trumpet player with the white hat that’s between Ed and Roger is Gary (something).
He was a student of Kim Soo in karate, had a black belt, was a member of the Rice karate club, and was one of the few people who walked out of the stadium by himself, right after the end of the ’73 A&M game. He didn’t feel a need to wait for the Food Service trucks.
I don’t believe I’ve ever seen this picture before.
This show is special in my memory as quite possibly the worst we ever did, in terms of the jokes and the audience reception.
James M. – you’ve nailed this.
The piglet was colored blue for the show, and was lead onto the field, where it froze in terror.
There was an attendant with a broom and a dust-pan-on-a-stick to clean up any messes, and said attendant nudged the pig on the butt with the broom to try to get it to move, at which point the pig squealed very loudly in protest (and still didn’t move).
The audience booed mightily, and the booing included the Rice fans.
Many memorable things were said about this response, which I cannot repeat in this public forum, but they are cherished memories.

Comment on Friday Afternoon Follies: Sooey! by almadenmike

almadenmike — Sat, 18 May 2013 06:10:52 +0000

I doubt it. The LSU Golden Girls were iconic.

Comment on Friday Afternoon Follies: Sooey! by Richard A. Schafer

Richard A. Schafer — Sat, 18 May 2013 01:01:36 +0000

Wouldn’t that have been the Baylor Golden Girls?

Comment on Friday Afternoon Follies: Sooey! by Keith Cooper

Keith Cooper — Fri, 17 May 2013 23:18:04 +0000

and Phil Rosegrant petting it …

Comment on Friday Afternoon Follies: Sooey! by mattnoall

mattnoall — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:43:59 +0000

That should be Ed Pierce with the piglet. It squealed all the time if I remember properly.

Comment on Friday Afternoon Follies: Sooey! by James Medford

James Medford — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:58:42 +0000

I’m curious whether that 1975 show at the Arkansas game is the one where the MOB got loudly booed by the Razorback fans when the pig panicked and began squealing loudly.

Comment on Friday Afternoon Follies: Sooey! by Marty Merritt

Marty Merritt — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:32:06 +0000

Grungy probably has that and many more. Not to be outdone, the 1980 SMU game mocking SMU’s “Best Dressed Band In The Land.” The entire band, men and women, wore dresses. Since I’m kind of a big guy, it was sort of a challenge finding a dress. I had to identify a female friend who seemed to be about the right height (above average for a woman) and then ask to borrow a dress. Because it seemed like it might fit _me_. Thank you, Lynn Broady Abramson, for being a good sport. I guess band guys all over Rice were doing the same thing.

Comment on Friday Afternoon Follies: Sooey! by Sandy Havens

Sandy Havens — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:41:21 +0000

Somewhere there must be photos taken in that same period of Rice girls mocking the LSU Golden Girls drill team during a half-time. The Rice girls wore saddle oxfords, dark rimmed glasses, hair in pigtails, slide rules dangling from their belts. During their routine the MOB formed various mathematical curves: sine, cosine, etc

Comment on Another Commencement Come and Gone Plus Summer Hours by Kathy

Kathy — Fri, 17 May 2013 00:18:39 +0000

I believe I recognize one of the grads in the first of the old pix and that would make it 1972.