Author Archives: Melissa Kean

I had a very busy day today, full of fun but exhausting. I’m going to turn in. Catch y’all in the morning. Bonus: From the printmaking studio.

The Woodson recently received a painting by Peter Sartorius ’68. We are very grateful to him. It’s a lovely little work and it’s notable because it depicts an important and almost completely forgotten piece of Rice history: This is the … Continue reading →

Regular readers will surely recall that from time to time I will whine about how people take the same pictures over and over again. Through ten decades there’s been an uninterrupted stream of images of students and their relatives posing … Continue reading →

When I arrived at Rice in 1991 the old Tidelands Motel had been the Graduate House for some time already. A grim, ill-lighted building, it also had a weird, scruffy sort of charm. I’ve heard people talk about its early … Continue reading →

I was quite tickled when I came across this little invitation to a needlepoint exhibition and a tea in the faculty club to meet the artist. What, I thought, could possibly be sweeter, or more old fashioned? Knowing Mrs. Owen, … Continue reading →

No identifications either. And it doesn’t seem right that such good looking horn players should be without names. I’m hoping someone will know who they are and when this was taken: Bonus: Faithful reader Alan Shelby sends this great picture … Continue reading →

One afternoon about a year and half or so ago I was prowling the back corners of Fondren, just looking around to see what there was to be seen. I noticed for the first time that there’s a plaque on … Continue reading →