Monthly Archives: October 2017

As I worked my way through the stack of pictures that I talked about yesterday, I realized with some excitement that they were more or less all concerned with traffic patterns and parking on campus. Some showed entrances: Quite a … Continue reading →

I found a batch of photos today that must have been taken right around the time I arrived at Rice in late 1991. It was only as I worked my way through the stack that I understood what they were … Continue reading →

The late, lamented Jim Kinsey ’56, ’59, former dean of the Wiess School of Natural Sciences, was one of the people at Rice who could made me laugh until I couldn’t breathe. Even now, every time I look at the … Continue reading →

We have a nice collection of commencement materials for each graduating class–programs, invitations, awards, and so forth. For the earliest classes, though, these folders also became sort of a catch-all that hold other, sometimes quite odder things. One of the most … Continue reading →

This picture is undated but it captures a very specific moment in Academic Quad history: What you instantly see is the short (maybe recently replanted?) hedges but also note two other things: the hedges still close off part of the … Continue reading →

It’s too hard to explain how I happened upon this today. I just don’t have the strength. But it’s awfully interesting to see how women playing sports were viewed in this era. I was especially taken with the notion that … Continue reading →

It looks like they’re getting very close to starting work on the new building for the Shepherd School. (This building is called by a long acronym that I can’t recall right now, but it’s something that sounds like one of … Continue reading →

I’m pretty sure we aren’t allowed to do this anymore. Bonus: It took every wisp of discipline I possess to leave it alone. I did buy a day-old bagel, though.

This caught my eye when I pulled into the parking lot this morning: It’s nice to have some warning, I suppose, as opposed to the day in 1968 when President Johnson arrived by helicopter in the same parking lot unannounced: … Continue reading →

Sometimes the small changes have the biggest impact. From my perspective the most important change to the Rice campus in the last twenty years has been the addition of a back door to Fondren Library. Here’s another big one–finally, a … Continue reading →