Monthly Archives: November 2012

I’m sure that this is some kind of Important Science, but the photo is hilarious.

Well, that didn’t take long. Several commenters knew the piece and its creator quite well. This from Sandy Havens, a member of the Fine Arts Department along with Parsons for many years: Definitely David Parsons. I think the piece shown is … Continue reading →

This morning I was looking around in an old Shepherd School file and I found two unexpected things, one of them interesting and the other both interesting and mysterious. The just plain interesting thing was a folder of letters, drawing … Continue reading →

I had to go back for Round 2 at the dentist today–a different one, this time a specialist– and I’m kind of zonked on painkillers. I feel great but a bit fuzzy headed so I’ll be brief again. Here’s the … Continue reading →

I had dental work all afternoon. It actually wasn’t as bad as I feared but I’m not in any shape to write anything. Just so you have something to look forward to: I had a good idea this morning (I … Continue reading →

At Hanszen, apparently.

The first Rice Homecoming was held on Thanksgiving day in 1919. I’d been assuming that the scheduling was a one time affair, revolving as it did around a very sober commemoration of the end of the Great War. I was … Continue reading →

I’m feeling kind of directionless today, so what better than a drum major to march me right out of my pre-Thanksgiving funk? I came across a huge collection of band materials from the Holmes McNeely era (1951-67) a while back … Continue reading →

For reasons that I won’t go into right now I found myself this afternoon in the back freight elevator in the old Physics Building. It actually wasn’t in bad shape and it had clearly had some recent work done on … Continue reading →

I felt reasonably confident that I had seen a picture somewhere of two young women traversing a wooden boardwalk that was meant to provide a dry path over the ditches between campus and the trolley stop on the other side … Continue reading →