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A Snow Owl and A Scrapbook

Loyal reader John Wolda sent me this image the other day, noting that he didn’t know when it was taken. I don’t know when it was taken either. But I bet one of you does.

And speaking of John Wolda, one of my highlights of 2014 in the archives was a visit this summer from John and his wife, Harriet. They brought us some things, most notably a beautiful blanket from the 1957 Cotton Bowl:

But the best part was when he sort of casually asked if I had any idea what had become of a scrapbook about the Rice football team that he had kept as a kid. When he mentioned that he’d left in in the R Association room out in the stadium many years ago, it rang a bell. We had it off the shelf in under a minute:

I don’t care who you are, that’s just a lot of fun.

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