The Same Lounge Today

Posted on May 10, 2017 by Melissa Kean

I had fifteen minutes between meetings so I wasted them looking for these pictures, which I had failed to label, buried deep in my laptop. This is what that lounge area looks like now–much less cool and not super conducive to relaxation:

 

 

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7 Responses to The Same Lounge Today

  1. L. Galloy says:
    May 10, 2017 at 4:01 pm

    Is President Leebron the only one not wearing regalia?

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  2. almadenmike says:
    May 10, 2017 at 4:04 pm

    I wonder why Dr. Leebron’s picture is (or appears to be) a photograph (and a very dark one at that), while his predecessors’ were paintings (with discernable backgrounds).

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  3. marmer01 says:
    May 10, 2017 at 5:03 pm

    I’m reasonably willing to believe that it’s a photorealistic oil painting. I’m also willing to believe that Rice no longer wants to spend the money for a formal portrait.

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  4. pmontgom1 says:
    May 10, 2017 at 5:10 pm

    Melissa, this is awesome. This looks like the president portraits that used to hang in the lobby of Hamman Hall. For a while they disappeared, and I used to ask people where the paintings had gone too. I wish I could remember when the paintings were last hanging at Hamman but the year escapes me. I suspect I noticed them during a matriculation event. Of course, maybe these are not the same. All of those stiff images do not make a relaxing room.
    Philip Montgomery

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    • Sandy Havens says:
      May 11, 2017 at 9:49 am

      Philip, I was Director of Rice Players and the manager of Hamman Hall. I retired in May, 2000. I think those portraits were still in Hamman when I retired.

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