Even Houston’s Political Leaders Were Young Once

Last weekend the Friends of Fondren Library honored two Rice graduates, Mayor Annise Parker, ’78 and Harris County Judge Ed Emmett, ’71 at their annual gala. I wasn’t there but I heard that the evening was a lot of fun and a big success.

By pure happenstance I have recently come across photos of both honorees in their bright-eyed youth. Here’s Judge Emmett in front of Lovett College, sporting a tie wide enough to land a plane on:

And here’s the Mayor, in what may well have been her high school graduation picture attached to a Jones College id card:

Bonus: Some people think that it’s all straight laced and uptight in the archives. Those people have never been here on Girl Scout cookie distribution day.