but I was wrong about that.
This turned up in a recently received box from the General Counsel’s office:
I like to think about someone in the office filling out the paperwork for this. We kept the brand for a long time and it didn’t change when our name changed from Institute to University. It’s not clear, though, that we ever actually owned any cattle. Still, good to be prepared I guess.
Bonus:
I found a news article from DeQuincey, LA, in March 1952 which refers to a Rice reforestation project in Louisiana (perhaps what became the Rice Land and Lumber Co.?) and mentioning that sometimes cattle were raised in the newly forested land. It’s suggestive that perhaps Rice dabbled in that or wanted to be prepared to.
I still miss the old Blue Curtain of Death at Autry Court
When the curtain came down, then Athletic Director, Chris Del Conte used a portion of it to have a tailored 3-piece suit made.
That explains why everyone in my Hanszen freshman class in 1972 still carries a permanent Rice Institute scar or tattoo on the equivalent area on our backside. I’m going to try to get a tattoo specialist to update it to” RU”. That of course happened before Stephen Baker outlawed hazing.
Bonus taken in the early part of the day, with sunlight through the now-hidden windows lighting the college banners.
The brand is the same design as the brass handles on the main RMC doors. Did Rice use that RI design a lot?
The huge swinging doors were replaced by automated sliding doors and the handles went away. Didn’t find any of the old handles.
The RI monogram appears several places on campus on buildings built before the early 1960s.