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Monthly Archives: November 2015
Lovett Hall, Entrance 1
Looking through some of William Ward Watkin’s things I became fascinated with photos of construction work being done on the quad side of the Administration Building in 1911. They look to me almost like ruins, more like something falling down … Continue reading
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The Tipmost Top of the Morning from President Lovett, Thanksgiving 1925
From back in the day when the annual Homecoming Reunion was still held on Thanksgiving: (I’m sure everyone remembers Heavy Underwood from my struggles with a scrapbook that involved two guys with the same name. The one here is Wash … Continue reading
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Memorial Service in the Chapel, November 25, 1963
It was, of course, for President Kennedy: Here is Paul Pfeiffer’s (’38) Prayer of Commemoration: I can’t add anything to that.
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Up on the Roof
I was up on the roof of the architecture building earlier this week and it got me thinking about the large number of pictures we’ve seen that were taken by people up on the roof of one campus building or … Continue reading
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Harper Leiper Aerials, 1950
I was looking through a box from the Campus Photographer Collection, one near the end that was full of relatively recent material. Then I noticed a folder labeled “Harper Leiper Order Book.” I was surprised because Harper Leiper was a … Continue reading
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Friday Follies: Low Bid BBQ
This undated picture looks to be a team from Rice F&E at a sandcastle building competition down in Galveston: This caught me by surprise, though: A&E must be an earlier iteration of F&E (now called FE&P) but I’m embarrassed to … Continue reading
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“Konnie would have none of it.”
I have so much to do and so many questions coming all the time from all different directions that I generally just keep plowing forward no matter what. It’s a rare day when I go back to something I’ve already … Continue reading
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Inside the Navy ROTC Building
I’ve written about this building a couple of times before but mostly to bemoan the lack of information about it. We do know that it was built in a big hurry in the spring and summer of 1941 and designed … Continue reading
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49 Years Ago Today: Freshman Initiation
November 17, 1966. The times they were a’changing. Bonus:
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Konstantin Kolenda, ’50, A Free Man in a Free Country
For the past couple of weeks we’ve had a patron in the Woodson working in the papers of long time Rice philosophy professor Konstantin Kolenda, ’50. Kolenda, who died at age 68 in 1991, was known to me only in … Continue reading
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