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?