I had kind of a rough day today–plumbing issues at home and a class to get to tonight–so I don’t have a whole lot to say. But it gives me a chance to put up another picture of my beloved decorative ironwork! I was looking for a good picture of Norman Hackerman a couple days ago. It happens that for whatever reason we have a lot of photos of Norman and Gene, his wife, to choose from. I easily found one that suited my purposes and then kept looking. I came across this, which must have been taken just as he arrived at Rice:

Click on it a couple of times to get a good look at both the beautiful ironwork and at Norman. As I said, it had to have been taken quite soon after his arrival in 1970, because that ironwork was removed in the renovation that began almost immediately. I had to zoom in myself to be sure it was him. He looks so young!  (He must have been in his late 50s.)