Monthly Archives: September 2013

Another batch of materials from the Masterson family arrived at the Woodson recently and contained within are the most remarkable artifacts of the early college system that I have ever seen. For each of their first four years in the master’s house, … Continue reading →

I love this picture. I’d also like to have one of those mugs. Bonus: We have the meeting minutes for the Rally Club going back to it’s inception. I’ve had some pretty good laughs reading them.

I’m still trying to narrow down the location of the set building for the 1947 Archi-arts ball that we saw in Tuesday’s post. My initial hunch was that it must have taken place in the Chemistry Building because that’s where … Continue reading →

Someone mentioned in the comments to the last Obsolete Technology post that Norman Hackerman wouldn’t have needed a word processor because he had a secretary to take care of his correspondence. That is absolutely true. He certainly did have an … Continue reading →

We’ve got a beautiful scrapbook in the Woodson that came in Anderson Todd’s papers. Todd came to Rice in 1949 and taught architecture here until his retirement.(Here’s a great article about him by Mike Williams, complete with a video and … Continue reading →

There must have been a lot of fairly rapid technological changes in the 1970s and it looks like Norman got in on all of them. Over the years I’ve run across many images of him using equipment the likes of … Continue reading →

I think this academic procession took place during the Semi-Centennial in 1962, probably for Pitzer’s inauguration. I freely confess that I’m not sure about this.

Here’s a second set of images from the box of campus construction negatives I ran across a few weeks ago. These show what was originally called “Math Sciences” going up beginning in the summer of 1967 and continuing through the … Continue reading →

I mentioned a little while ago that we recently received a box of Rice related materials from the Masterson family. Included were quite a few newspaper clippings that mention Dr. Masterson (’35), many dating back to the ’40s and ’50s. … Continue reading →

Here’s the picture of the band that I used on Friday: Grungy pointed out in the comments that this band is much too large to have been Rice’s and was probably the A&M band politely acknowledging the day’s opponent. He … Continue reading →