Exhibit A, from the Thresher photo files. I should be able to date this from the scaffolding but I’m at home hiding from the rain and cold:
Exhibit B, which I took myself last Friday:
I can think of buildings on campus that have changed names, but not any other names that have changed buildings. Am I forgetting something?
Bonus: I had to think about this one for a long time.
This is undated, but maybe late ’60s?
This is a very early photo, I’d guess 1914 or 1915. I found it in the scrapbook of a 1916 grad and the band, which had been started on the initiative of my old friend W.T. Betts, had uniforms by 1916. There’s a certain Mob-like vibe, isn’t there?
Bonus:
Here’s another one from the Thresher photo files, a very unusual and undated image taken from inside the doors of what must have been a fairly new Baker Institute building. It’s a great view of my late, lamented favorite parking lot, right across from the entrance to the Ley Student Center:
Sigh.
Bonus: It was a beautiful day today and I managed nearly a complete circuit of campus. There’s lots of activity right now, much of it involving guys working off the ground.
Here’s a classic–the overhead projector–wielded by Chemistry Professor (and current Dean of Undergraduates) John Hutchinson in 1994. (Incidentally, were you aware that 1994 was twenty years ago?? I don’t know how that slipped by me.)
“Yeah, you.”
These photos came from the Thresher files I mentioned earlier and they are labeled on the back, which is how I know they were taken in 1994. I also know the name of the photographer: Ryan McMullan.
Obsolete Technology Bonus: Here are the sports photo files that came over with the old Thresher stuff.
Bonus points and adulation to anyone who can identify the machine sitting next to the disk.
For some reason, I had in mind that today I would post the Campus Calendar for this week in 1955. I find these things endlessly fascinating, especially as I’ve come to understand them better, and these days I slowly dole them out to myself as a special treat. When I went to pull this one out of the box, though, I was immediately distracted by the events of the week of May 2, a couple of weeks out:
Zoom in for a look–there’s quite a bit of interest there. What caught my attention in particular, though, were all the events on Friday and Saturday in honor of the visiting duchesses. I quickly discovered that these were Rondelet duchesses, not, as I had fervently hoped, European royalty. I believe, although with no firm degree of certainty, that a dance called Rondelet still exists at Rice, but I would guess that it has little or nothing in common with this grand event. A bit of digging turned up the program for the 1955 dance, which was held at Lakeside Country Club. This too is well worth your time, as several very familiar names turn up:
And the Thresher had a full page of photos of both visiting and local Rondelet royalty. This was a very big deal.
When I laid this glass negative down on the light table, look who jumped out at me:
You’d like to think it was spring, but I suspect it was right around matriculation in the fall of 1929.
My colleague Norie returned from a visit to the Thresher offices with a box of old photos that had been stashed away for quite some time. After a quick perusal, it looks like a bit of a grab bag, mostly images from the mid-’80s through the mid-’90s, and oddly enough it seems to include some pictures that were taken for the Campanile as well.
This was easily the most eye-catching set, as Willie gets put securely back where he came from:
I’m guessing that this event may have been a predecessor to what we now call Alumni College, but I freely admit that I’m not at all certain about this. I can say, though, that it looks like a fantastic program:
(Slightly off topic: When I cleaned out Professor Brotzen’s office after his death, I came across his notes for this talk on “The Greening of America.” He wasn’t especially impressed with it.)
Another thing I can say is that I would leap without hesitation at the opportunity to drink beer and watch W.C. Fields movies. How utterly civilized!
Can anyone tell me if that’s history professor Charles Garside gesturing at left?
This afternoon I was leafing through one of the enormous scrapbooks compiled by devoted alumni for many years, just waiting for something to catch my eye. Inevitably, something did: a fantastic Houston Post article from May, 1956 about loyal reader John Wolda.
That’s pretty darned good stuff. I also managed to dig out of the R Association files this unlabeled picture that I think shows the 1956 baseball team. I know that’s Coach Del Morgan and the guy second from the left in the first row has to be John Wolda–look at those ears.
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