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say in the article are true he did indeed understand and personify the spirit that animated rice in those days and he did combine the qualities of a police officer and a priest and he did what he did while carrying the enormous burden of keeping the institution running this was hard and time consuming and frequently thankless carl was often the maker of difficult calls the bearer of bad new the voice of reason in an environment that was all too frequently unreasonable as most universities are he was utterly trustworthy and willing to admit it when he made a mistake i was young enough when i first met him to think that he was sometimes unduly pessimistic more time in the archives and a bit of experience and that ended quick enough he was in fact a very well informed realist i still hear his voice in my ear whenever big plans are announced i will say one other thing the day he retired he gave me one of those old timey door keys a big iron thing and told me all his papers were locked in a store room in the basement of lovett hall they are now the carl macdowell assistant to the president papers in the woodson 206 boxes that cover nearly forty years of rice s history an invaluable collection for understanding the real story of the place the guts of how it ran and also in there if you spend enough time with all those file folders you ll find that carl macdowell frequently did good in secret carl macdowell rest in peace sallyport vol 56 no01 44 1 sallyport vol 56 no01 45 bonus another true thing in that article is that there are almost no pictures of him to be found i ve been searching and only came up with this one taken at the groundbreaking for the humanities building in 1998 i love seeing these guys that s hackerman of course at right and king walters at left extra bonus me and carl 2011 share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest more share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like this like loading posted in uncategorized 2 comments to forge ahead on the opportunities of the present 1932 posted on august 22 2024 by melissa kean there are a lot of things i could say about this welcome to campus written by dr lovett during the hard times of the great depression i will bite my tongue about the dismal physical state of the campus today and note instead that i fully subscribe to his belief that adversity has its uses and that fear for the future is a waste of time it s work the slavery of your schedules and the bondage of routine that is the order of the day bonus a loyal but forgetful reader sends another piece from 1932 rice but he can t remember where he found it it s so tiny i can hardly believe he found it at all share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest more share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like this like loading posted in uncategorized 2 comments construction rain posted on july 25 2024 by melissa kean it s been raining on and off for a week and today it has rained all day it is in fact still raining this evening the result lots of mud lots of deep water and a post that combines two of my long running interests drainage and dead trees i knew this could not possibly have been the first time we ve seen such a scene and sure enough five minutes of poking around in my laptop turned up two more images the first one is clearly very early possibly even part of the aftermath of the flood of 1911 lots more about the 1911 1912 era attempts to control the flow of water on campus here and here the second although possibly less muddy somehow seems even more melancholy it was 1946 and i bet they had to pump all that water out of the hole they dug for the anderson building foundation bonus an old familiar feeling share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest more share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like this like loading posted in uncategorized 8 comments rise up rice 1950 posted on july 24 2024 by melissa kean although i admit that there have been days when i was ready to hoist the black flag i m not advocating insurrection here just this morning i was given a full box of things that had belonged to holmes mcneely director of the rice band from 1951 to 1967 a guide to his papers in the woodson is here and they re fairly extensive but i was very surprised by something in today s box a rice song that i ve never encountered before i was initially fooled by the date at top right and spent quite a bit of time looking for mr shannon in the years around 1950 thwarted i turned to an old alumni directory where i found richard shannon class of 1934 president of the band his senior year his place of employment was listed as dick shannon music productions i think this is our man if anyone is familiar with this song please let me know bonus graciously sent in by loyal reader betsy wittenmyer mls 2018 it s pretty and it also makes me think of campus in the olden days share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest more share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like this like loading posted in uncategorized 6 comments neal heaps 1921 2024 posted on july 23 2024 by melissa kean neal heaps 42 passed away a couple of weeks at the age of 102 i had missed the chronicle obituary during the chaos after hurricane beryl but am thankful that grungy took the time to send it to me i wouldn t have wanted to miss this neal s father was claude heaps who arrived at rice in 1914 to teach physics and remained on staff for forty three years and neal i believe was the very last of that generation of children who were raised in the closely knit campus community during the early years of the institute this community truly was a large extended family for the young faculty members recruited by lovett most of whom left families and institutions back east to pioneer the new university in houston katherine tsanoff brown marjorie bray chapman joan wilson sherred ray watkin hoagland strange george and griffy evans and many others spent their early lives entwined with rice and each other many remaining good friends their entire lives neal was a lovely man always curious and kind fun to be with and deeply grateful for rice and the childhood spent here here he is at a galveston outing with the math department sometime in the 1930s and explaining his project for the engineering show in 1940 and finally during the centennial in 2012 describing some of his time here during the early days neal heaps rest in peace share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest more share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like this like loading posted in uncategorized 9 comments one mystery solved as another appears posted on july 17 2024 by melissa kean first a hearty thanks to the inquisitive leonard lane who commented in yesterday s post about my puzzlement over the purpose of the pipes astutely suggesting that the pipe columns are supporting the structure added above the existing roof i was skeptical because they look sort of flimsy but then he did what i should have done myself and walked around looking at the other sides case closed but i would note that they don t look very nice next let s go charging off in a wildly different direction another loyal reader sends this photo of two small pieces of jewelry that were found among a relative s possessions i m fairly sure but not absolutely certain that they aren t just generic rice but instead are related to the owen wister literary society my reader is wondering more or less the same things i am other than the fact that they were in a box together i believe these pieces functioned together because there is a very short delicate chain hanging from the larger piece the pin on the back of the smaller one will go through the links of that chain i suppose i have a 50 chance of being correct about the fact that they were worn together it would be interesting to know the symbolism of the elements on the larger piece i can t figure out whether that s a book in the center or something else if anyone can shed light on this it would be most welcome i know there are still owls alumnae around so if you are or know one please chime in if nobody knows i ll have to turn to the owls scrapbooks bonus when decades collide share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest more share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like this like loading posted in uncategorized 4 comments the west side of anderson architecture 2024 posted on july 15 2024 by melissa kean while i was out surveying the damage on campus the other day i noticed this pretty view amidst the wreckage a couple of years ago i got interested in that round window in anderson architecture and why i d never noticed it it was trees of course that blocked the view but the construction of cannady hall took out several of them leaving the window much more visible it s a small thing but i think it looks nice and speaking of cannady hall i can t say i love it but i also don t hate it it looks like something architects would come up with i do wonder what is going on with these pipes any thoughts bonus yet another grandchild arrived yesterday he already has a whole vibe going share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest more share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like this like loading posted in uncategorized 15 comments hurricane beryl hits campus 2024 posted on july 12 2024 by melissa kean i was gone all of june for our annual trip to washington state and got back to houston just in time for beryl i m happy to be home but in hindsight i probably should have stayed an extra week i made it over to campus yesterday and was impressed by the amount of storm damage it s some of the worst i ve seen here almost as bad as ike i took this picture from the cohen house parking lot near entrance 2 thinking well it could have been worse but when i started walking around i saw that in places it actually was worse these trees between the back door of fondren and the brochstein have always had a propensity to lean but this is something else again i don t know if you can read the words on the tape but it says do not enter life hazard i wouldn t mind having a roll of that to carry around with me bonus here s a look at the trees near entrance 2 circa 1918 extra bonus this summer s golf was as usual erratic but erratic in a very pretty spot share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest more share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like this like loading posted in uncategorized 6 comments last dance at the rice hotel posted on may 21 2024 by melissa kean a while back i got an unexpected phone call from a family member of j sayles leach who served as a rice trustees in the 1950s and 60s i ve written about mr leach here in a post about this courtyard which is named for him i was delighted to learn that she had some rice related materials including the july 1975 issue of the smithsonian magazine which contains a long article about the history of the rice hotel it s possible that there s a copy 0f this somewhere in the archives but i d certainly never seen it before so i was eager to read it as soon as i opened the page a small piece of paper fell out a quick glance revealed it to contain one of the most arresting sentences i ve come across in years i have never seen the charleston done with greater precision and believe me i know what i m talking about if anything ever begged for explanation this is it daisy is mrs leach and collette ray the wife of another rice trustee robert ray who i ve written about here and here ray has a courtyard named for him too here s the article which is both accurate and interesting and which includes a photo of mrs leach in mid dance don t miss this or the picture of percy foreman being served the last cup of coffee at the hotel last dance july 1975 bonus i was getting into my car in the cohen house lot when a friend called my name as i turned around i was struck again by the genius of this building share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest more share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like this like loading posted in 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