Here’s another startling discovery from the Baker College scrapbooks, circa 1975:
Clearly a retreat of some sort, at someone’s ranch. It’s hard to believe that intelligent Rice students would be brandishing cow patties for the camera but this seems to be the case.
Bonus: I had a tiny little distraction today. My granddaughter Ann had her first visit to campus. She visited the library where she enjoyed the Dorothy Hood painting, “Nebula at the Edge of Time:”
While there, she stopped in at the Woodson Research Center to see the exhibit about William Ward Watkin:
A snack at the Brochstein Pavilion:
And finally a visit to the Italian cypresses on the quad:
Like generations of students before her, she slept through a lot of it.
Can we have a tour of that lovely cabinet in the Woodson in a later post? I am intrigued at what you have on display.
I believe that is Charlie Pau at the right end of the back row.
The older adult sitting second from the left is William V. (Bill) Ballew, Jr., a notable attorney with Baker Botts and an active Baker College community associate in the late 60s/70s.
(I’m surprised not to find much information on the web about about his many activities, except for a description of two boxes of papers relating to his work with the Houston-Harris County Economic Opportunity Organization that are in the Woodson Research Center (MS 254: http://fondrenlibrary.rice.edu/collections/WRC/finding-aids/manuscripts/0254#ref3) . )
Are you sure it’s safe to let Ann get so close to the tree? It could fall over at any time.
Just saying.
Made me spit my drink out.
That’s Mike Parmet in the front row, with the cowboy hat on.
It’s a Baker College Board Retreat.
Held at Community associates ranch about 50 miles out of town, near Hempstead in 1975.
Mike says that 5 of the people in the picture were from the original Baker 13.
The guy in the back on the far right looks
To be Charlie Pau. I think it’s Ann Brooks in the middle. I recognize other faces but it’s been too long for the names to
Pop up
Ann was in Jones – these are all Bakerites.
Mike Parmet sent this list, along with a note about how embarrassing it is to not be able to remember all of their names.
Front Row:
Cheryl Hein
?
Bill (Ballew) – Attorney/Community associate – deceased
Danny ?
Nancy ?
Front – Mike Parmet (with hat – me)
?
Ann S
Tom Fornoff
Bill Lee – attorney somewhere in Dallas
Second Row
?
Steve Dawe – deceased
?
Bill ? (Just below in dead center)
Joan Kelhoff
Kevin Allen
?
Charlie (Pau)
Any idea when/where Steve Dawe died?
Are you the Bob Gibson who worked for MKSAC at KKMC with Steve Dawe? I remember you needing surgery and leaving after that. The last time I saw Steve was in the Fall of 1980 in Netherlands. I lost touch with him.
Stephen F. DAWE [Citation Only]
Houston Chronicle (TX) Death Notice
July 2, 1987
https://digitalcollections.rice.edu/Documents/Detail/sallyport-volume-44-no.-1-september-1987-october-1987/298337?item=301677
Sallyport Magazine: Volume 44, No. 1, September 1987 – October 1987
In Memorium
Rice University 1976 (Baker)
of Tomball, Texas
June 30, 1987
Steve died 6 weeks after graduating from UPENN.
https://archives.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/commencement-program-1987.pdf
May 18, 1987
UPENN, MBA, MS
Steve thanks for taking time with update. Yep Steve and I were roommates at KKMC and worked together in Columbia Maryland. Did you work for MKSAC?
Thanks
Bob Gibson
Dover Delaware
Hi Bob,
Yes, I worked in Columbia, KKMC, and the Delft Office. I met you at KKMC, and I became friends with Steve. He was a gentle soul. The last time I saw him was in the Fall of 1980 when he visited me in Delft, Holland. I returned to the USA shortly after that and I lost touch. In the age of the internet I search for people, names from the past, and I found this string. I reached out the the Houston Public Library and they send me the Houston Chronicle obituary from July 2, 1987. It listed his wife as Marguerita Dawe. I didn’t know he got married. After MKSAC I was offered a job with MK to go to their new project in Colombia, South America (CONUS office based in Burlingame, CA, but I declined. I wondered if Steve had gone back to work for MK. If you want me to send it to you reply to my e-mail address: smichaluk@hotmail.com. So many years ago. Steve was 34 when he passed away at home according to the obit. Best wishes, Steve Michaluk