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.