The Woodson has a pretty thorough collection of commencement materials and over time the individual folders have become a sort of catch-all for all kinds of things relating to each class. Tucked in the back of a file I found this letter from Roy Lively ’60, who describes an intriguing freshman class party activity. (Interestingly, I can’t tell who this was sent to. My best guess is Mary Bixby, who was the director of Friends of Fondren at the time, but I really don’t know.)
I had to dig around a bit but the list was there too. (Things don’t always go this smoothly, by the way. Maybe I’ll post an example tomorrow . . .) Anyway, here are the first couple of pages. The comments are charming. I’m especially fond of “indifferent.”
Bonus: This is the front page of the first issue of the 1957 Thresher. The 1956 issue lacks the neat map that shows how to get to the H&H Ranch for the picnic.
That’s my class, but I did not attend the picnic. The two week freshman math review was optional back then, and I did not arrive on campus until registration day. I was still required to get those signatures, though. I don’t think I ever caught up from missing that review.
I was there, but I didn’t make the list. But I do see the names of some classmates I remember well.
Those are only the first two pages. I’ll see if I can find you on the rest of them.
I wonder how long “Peanuts” was carried by the Thresher.
Bill – It looks like the May 11, 1962, edition was the final Thresher with a Peanuts cartoon. (https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/handle/1911/66327/thr19620511.pdf?sequence=1)
There was none in the next issue (May 28), a 4-page edition that was the first post-finals Thresher in 20 years … or at the beginning papers of the next academic year. (Beginning with the Sept. 19, 1962, Thresher, “gort” cartoons were printed on page 2, however.)
FTR, Doonesbury’s first Thresher appearance was in the March 14, 1974, issue (https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/handle/1911/66656/thr19740314.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y)