This from the packet of photos sent in by Karl Benson ’63. I just had a positive covid test and when I looked at this I instantly identified with the young woman laid out on the bed. If I felt better and the library were open I’d go figure out which was Betty Sue and which was Nancy. Actually I could probably figure it out from things I have in my office at home but frankly I’d rather someone else tell me.
It looks like bottles of Busch, which first hit the market in 1956.
Bonus: See?
Is there one that checks for pregnancy at the same time?
I won’t be needing that one, thank God.
Hoping your symptoms are mild and your recovery quick.
Thank you! So far, so good.
When I read the comment about Busch, I quickly went back and reread the title and was relieved that it had NOT included the word “good”. A Busch was thrust into my hand at the first informal meeting between Baker and Jones advisor groups in (the late) Baker 362 on the first night of Orientation Week in 1969. Never made that mistake again!
Best wishes for a speedy recovery! Or, better yet, for a false positive.
You made me laugh. I made that decision intentionally.
That looks like a negative Covid test to me; just the control stripe showing. Hope your symptoms turn out not to be Covid related.
No such luck, I’m afraid. It’s hard to see in the picture but the test stripe is definitely showing. Honestly, I’m not very sick, mostly just fatigue and a bit of a cough.
Also I’m already bored.
Looking for “Betty Sue” in the 1963 Campanile (file:///C:/Users/miker/Downloads/campanile1963rice.pdf), it looks like the Busch-pouring lady is Betty Sue Hamner, who in the 1962-63 academic year was Jones College President and an Outstanding Senior.
Ooops. I gave the link to the downloaded copy of the 1963 Campanile, which is only on my computer.
The public file is here — https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/106133 — which you can download to look at.
Mea culpa!
Hope you recover quickly!
That woman isn’t laying on a bed; she’s laying on a table. The bare brick wall suggests a basement and/or a storage area of a public building of some sort. Sorry you’ve got Covid. I hope you feel better soon.
No, that’s a bed. It doesn’t even come up to Betty Sue’s knees. And that’s definitely in a dorm room. Note the messy closet over Betty Sue’s left shoulder. Conditions were rather Spartan those first few years of the college system.
A basement or storage unit? Hey, the walls in our very style-forward dorm rooms in Jones College
in 1959 were bare brick.
almadenmike is correct in identifying Betty Sue Hamner as the pourer. The pouree in Nancy Lynne Jones (BA ’61).
I might add that alcoholic beverages were definitely not allowed in the colleges and neither one of these young ladies had attained the age of twenty-one.