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.)
Dr Hackerman arrived at Rice the same year I did: 1970.
We always called him “Normal” Hackerman.
Just a goofy nickname, nothing negative as I recall.
BTW he does look young in the photo.
I’m in my late 50’s now and I hope that in 40 years someone will say the same thing about me!