I’m Too Lazy To Say Much Today, But . . .

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Melissa Kean

I never get tired of this pot. That’s Hattie Lel Red, the first woman to enroll and the first to graduate from Rice, posing with it in 1914.

Hattie Lel Red with pot 1914 Knapp

Bonus: Either this tree is about to fall over or I am.

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7 Responses to I’m Too Lazy To Say Much Today, But . . .

  1. Deborah Gronke Bennett says:
    January 21, 2013 at 11:59 pm

    Aren’t those two pictures taken in nearly the same area?
    By the way, if you go back and look at the pictures from 1969 from last week, all the trees were standing up straight!

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  2. loki_the_bubba says:
    January 22, 2013 at 1:46 am

    Why don’t they ever plant small cypress and let the roots develop properly?

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  3. marmer01 says:
    January 22, 2013 at 4:54 am

    Hattie Lel Red? Did she have a riding hood?

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  4. Tommy LaVergne says:
    January 22, 2013 at 2:11 pm

    Marty gets bonus points for his comment!

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  5. Grungy says:
    January 23, 2013 at 5:02 am

    Marty, do remember Bill Red (William S. Red III), who ran the Campus Store?
    Hattie is his ancestor.

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  6. ed summers, Baker, 1959 says:
    January 28, 2013 at 1:51 pm

    Lel Red taught math at Lamar High School until the 1960s. There is some disagreement over who the first woman graduate of Rice was; I can share the substance of it with you privately if you are interested.

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