Monthly Archives: October 2017

Staff Orange Decals and Visitors, 1991

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

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Campus, c1991

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

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Friday Follies: Ozymandias

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

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“the sap of youth still flows,” 1967

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

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“Poor drainage, bag worms, and wind damage”

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

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Girls Sports, 1930: “a gala day in Huntsville”

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

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Shepherd School, Round Two

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

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Friday Follies: Torches, c1970

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.

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Helicopter Landing + Liftoff

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

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Time Passes, 1969 and 2017

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

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