Monthly Archives: August 2011

It’s a well established fact that I have a soft spot for decorative ironwork. (See here.) The only thing that stops me from walking around our neighborhood taking pictures of it is that my husband (wisely) won’t let me. When … Continue reading →

Last week when I was talking about the construction and then demolition of the Bonner Lab, I mentioned that I didn’t know much about what the interior looked like. But today I unexpectedly came across a group of photos that … Continue reading →

This one is really tricky–I almost missed it completely. As you might imagine, there are a lot of pictures of yards in the collection of a landscaper. Perhaps one might not be paying total attention at all times when looking at … Continue reading →

This came out of a student scrapbook, circa 1916. The first time I looked at it I was so distracted by the little wood frame building and the cars parked next to it that I failed to notice the scribbled … Continue reading →

The building going up in yesterday’s picture was Rice’s Nuclear Lab (later renamed the Bonner Lab in honor of Professor Tom Bonner), built to house a six-million volt Van de Graaff particle accelerator. Here’s another shot of the construction in … Continue reading →

Recent years have seen the addition of quite a few new buildings on Rice’s campus as well as several significant renovation projects. There were so many projects going on over a period of  years that it began to feel like … Continue reading →

One of the things I like best about this blog is getting emails from readers who know something that I don’t. Here are a couple of things I learned from them recently. First, alert reader Mike Loeb (’63) figured out … Continue reading →

Over the years, a pretty fair number of Rice student humor magazines have sprung to life, bloomed for a season and then faded away. Although I’ve probably laughed at at least one thing in each of them, they are mostly … Continue reading →

I think it would be possible to do a whole series just on campus parking. It’s got it all–comedy, tragedy, revenge, near-murderous fury, occasionally even sex. I have one parking memo that I found in a file at Tulane that … Continue reading →

Today was even weirder than usual. I was sitting on the front porch at our ranch this morning, having a cup of coffee and reading one of the oral history interviews that were done in the wake of the Masterson … Continue reading →