tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35101505344381599182024-03-14T07:54:43.095-04:00Ethel's ScrapbookA Young Reporter at Rice University (1939-1940).Smadarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09765946753514711483noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510150534438159918.post-6011566075140693832013-10-19T12:43:00.000-04:002013-10-19T12:43:05.102-04:00Matriculation Address: Rice University 1939It's been about three months since I opened Ethel's Scrapbook. This short blogging hiatus blogging was mostly due to my son's Bar Mitzvah. The hard work that went into the Bar Mitzvah was rewarded with a fantastic ceremony and the celebration which followed. With pride for my son and much joy, I can now return genealogy.<br />
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Sitting on the now famous bookshelf ( La Tienda <a href="http://the-past-to-the-present.blogspot.com/2013/05/la-tienda-part-i.html" target="_blank">Part I</a> and <a href="http://the-past-to-the-present.blogspot.com/2013/06/la-tienda-part-ii.html" target="_blank">Part II</a>) collecting dust once again, was the black crumbling scrapbook. Full of excited anticipation, this morning I reopen this treasure my grandmother Ethel left behind to see what the next article had in store. What I discovered, within the yellow crumbling pages, was the inspirational speech Rice's then president, Dr. Edgar Odell Lovett gave at the Matriculation Address. A great speech, perfect to jumpstart this blog once again!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Obey the Neutrality Law in Letter and Spirit, He Advised Them in Matriculation Address. </span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Obey the neutrality law in letter and spirit, Dr. Edgar Odell Lovett, president of Rice Insti</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">tute, advised members of the class of 1943 in his annual matriculation address at the institute Wednesday. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"Now you can serve the high ends of truth, freedom and justice for yourselves, your people, and for all people, in no better way than by setting soberly about the business that has brought you to this place," Doctor Lovett said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Symbolizing life as a race, Doctor Lovett advised the students to make competition, co-operation, conservation and consecration of mind and spirit their watchwords.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHkDPHqVzhY3CO872z5F-vfjYHhcXyQGVzYHKtySlVIhGi9ZfZ8j-HUgx5s2JWZrfyRd1ews0uFhuiglMbD74Q_wE4vElfPFbAQ5Neeqv3qV4tACFUBHt8R5mbdMUxzs0JuqrA3cqsyTOg/s1600/President+of+Rice+Speaks+to+Freshmen1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHkDPHqVzhY3CO872z5F-vfjYHhcXyQGVzYHKtySlVIhGi9ZfZ8j-HUgx5s2JWZrfyRd1ews0uFhuiglMbD74Q_wE4vElfPFbAQ5Neeqv3qV4tACFUBHt8R5mbdMUxzs0JuqrA3cqsyTOg/s640/President+of+Rice+Speaks+to+Freshmen1.jpeg" width="252" /></a><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The day is indelibly stamped for you by the war. You have been brought up to abhor war, and by that token alone you must deplore the present European war. By law and governmental proclamation we are declared neutral with respect to the war. As citizens of the republic you acknowledge the authority of our constituted government, so constituted by the people more than 150 years ago. IN all good faith you will act accordingly, that is to say, you will obey the law in letter and in spirit. If, by will of the people through an act of congress, the law of the land should be changed, then again you will accept the decision of the government, a decision in which you will have participated through your constitutionally appointed representatives. And therefore in all good conscience you will obey the new law, whatever that law may be. But you can not possibly assume and maintain an attitude of indifference to the war. The devastating distractions of its events, whether rumor, confirmation, denial, or anticipation are brought daily, almost hourly to you. In my opinion the best you can possibly do, and this for the present only in thought, is to resolve quietly and calmly that, in so far as you can prepare yourselves for the next 50 years expectation of life, these things of force and violence and injustice shall not recur. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Now you can serve the high end of truth and freedom and justice for yourselves, your people and all people in no better way than by setting soberly about the business that has brought you to this place. IN coming here you are carrying out long-laid plans, either your own long-laid plans or the long-laid plans of your parents for you. With just such plans as yours others have come here before you. Many have succeeded beyond best hopes in them; others have failed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">For your success I very earnestly hope. Indeed, you must not fail. A running start, where permissible, may be half the winning of a footrace. In your first race here I declare a running start legitimate. I therefore wish to help you to a good running start. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There are many kinds of races to be run. Your engagements for the most part will be on a competitive basis. You will be competing not only with others but also with yourself. And you will be all the better for the competition in both kinds. The immediate competition ahead of you is primarily a race of minds. In communities like our own the mind is the man, the heart the other half of him. For us the supreme faculty of mind is a faculty that we call reason. Reason dominates the mind as arbiter and judge. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You have no faculties superior to these faculties of mind. You will derive great satisfaction from carrying your mind about with you and using the facilities of that mind of your own on every possible occasion. When running this kind of race with yourself you win as in other conquests of knowledge, by asking the right question and finding the right answers. You will also do well to carry your unsolved problems about with you in your mind, for you are as likely as not to catch up with solutions in the most unexpected ways and places. And I have found encouragement to effort in the fact that in these racings of the mind it is not always the best mind that wins, and that even under unfavorable conditions your mind, when not at its strongest, can often run a very good race. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Then there is the relay race. Her co-operation is the dominant note. Our civilization has continued and has carried on by the passing on from hand to hand of the torch. Men are despairing of civilization. The history of it justifies some fear for its future. But there is no despair of civilization here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The really inspiring thing in this day, to you, is that you, in turn, right here and now, are taking up the torch to pass it on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It is a flaming torch, but not a firebrand. It is a burning beacon of light and learning; a flaming torch again of reason, of freedom, of humanity, of faith in God and man. The flames of the torch are undying flames. They are fed by the deepest emotions of men and women, but the conscience, courage and conviction of the human heart. You will keep them for ever burning. You will feed them alike in peace and in war. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">One of the most bitter arguments against war is its cost in the youth that go down and to the youth who come back. Pericles likened the loss to taking spring out of the year. What would the year be like without springtime.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">One of the very heartening signs in the recent times of peace has been the almost universal care and concern for preparing and placing the oncoming generation. Such movements you will inevitably support, but I wouldn't sign up too son, nor would I take on too much of the shouting. A good way to make those movements effective is to make of yourselves the very best men and women of your day: for for example, the best architects, bankers, doctors and engineers; the best farmers, journalists, lawyers and merchants; the best ministers, scientists, statesmen and teachers; in a word, the best thinkers and workers of your day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The circumstances of the race are not of his own choosing; he runs at an appointed time, in an appointed place, as often as not on an unknown track, and, more often than not, imperfectly informed of the field against him. Whether he win or lose, he needs either shout nor sympathy, if he knows within him that his character has triumphed in the race. Whether he win or lose, the crowning glory of the race for him is the satisfaction in reward of industry on having run a fair and honest race, with judgement that never flagged and courage that never failed. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKN7HT1IAozLc75kZWrC-yQrOBwSP9LQ0aaWEj51-BvvnAwJShjAnQTWG28cQPElahYE4TVuJzJ8YxdkIhMatEQcaWPJWRwNzFpXiizcRHzVoB4IlxtQLr-hG61YhSvzsyJVlDD49yvJSU/s1600/President+of+Rice+Speaks+to+Freshmen2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKN7HT1IAozLc75kZWrC-yQrOBwSP9LQ0aaWEj51-BvvnAwJShjAnQTWG28cQPElahYE4TVuJzJ8YxdkIhMatEQcaWPJWRwNzFpXiizcRHzVoB4IlxtQLr-hG61YhSvzsyJVlDD49yvJSU/s640/President+of+Rice+Speaks+to+Freshmen2.jpeg" width="217" /></a><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The perfect runner is a perfect machine. The perfect thinker is a perfect machine. Each of them, athlete and academe, may become a perfect machine, each in his own realm. Better still, each of them may become a perfect machine in both realms. Best of all, each of them has with in him possessions far and away superior to the machine. Man has made and will continue to make machines, machines that outrun the wildest imagination, but the greatest inventions man has achieved are in the realm of ideas. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I single out tow of them, the abstract idea of space and the abstract idea of time. The inventor of these ideas, like the discoverers of fire, the wheel and the canoe, were to become benefactors of men for all time. It was the manipulation of such abstract ideas that made man the make and master of machines. His greatest discovery, however transcends, that is to say, traverses and goes beyond these fruitful abstract ideas that made his machines possible. His greatest discovery is the discovery of his own soul. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The several qualities that I have attributed to athlete and academe alike are among the most vital and enduring qualities of the human soul and therefore among the most precious possessions of the human race. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We call them, for short, spiritual values. Your own gentleness, courage and faith are of their texture. Beauty, freedom, goodness and truth are their substance. Their attainment is the goal of all our strivings. May the benign influence in the spiritual beauty and freedom of this place transform you through the years into leaders of men, discoverers in science and creators in art, erudite in learning and ever zealous in the search for truth. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And if you are moved a single pace on that high road of adventure and achievement, your patience in listening to me and my affectionate solicitude for your welfare will have their reward. </span><br />
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Dr. Edgar Odell Lovett left much food for thought. He delivered his speech at a difficult period. Young students were grappling with their role at what turned out to be a turning point in world history. Not three weeks earlier, on September 1, 1939 Germany invaded Poland, a move that would forever mark the beginning of World War II. The first twenty five articles Ethel posted in her scrapbook almost purposefully avoided the subject of the impending war. With the rare mention of professor <a href="http://ethelsscrapbook.blogspot.com/2013/05/casualty-in-rice-family.html" target="_blank">Morad's son</a> dying in battle, most of the articles focused on student life, football, social dances, student registration and the hazing incident. I for one was glad to see that Dr Lovett chose not to avoid the issue but rather tackle it head on. He knew his students were facing a difficult task. How can they concentrate on college when war was looming at hand? What he could not have foretold, was that many of those very students would eventually enlist and take part in this terrible war. I picture Ethel sitting in the crowd, taking notes for her article and like the rest of the student body around her, finding comfort in the president's words. He challenged the students by charting a corse of action for them. Train your minds to be the best they can be and therefore become the best citizens you can.<br />
<br />Smadarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09765946753514711483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510150534438159918.post-88585924428878123332013-07-15T14:48:00.001-04:002013-07-15T14:48:20.942-04:00Full Page of Photos from Rice's Registration Day 1939Special treat! A full page of photographs to go with Ethel's <a href="http://ethelsscrapbook.blogspot.com/2013/06/hazing-injury-stops-practice-for-one.html" target="_blank">article from the same day</a>, with a description of who is in the photos!<div>
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Friday September 15th, 1939<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Top left: Scene of bustling enrollment activity, with professors and department heads assisting the new students to choose their courses. Samuel G. McCann, registrar, is shown at left supervising the enrollment in his office. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Top Right: Frank Cook and R. A. Stamey, Jr., Houston Sophomores, marking their choice of courses as they sat on the ledge at the front of the administration building.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Central left: Martha Ann Picton, at right, a June graduate of rice appeared at the registration desk with her younger sister, Grace, in the center, who is enrolling at Rice as a freshman. At the left is shown Betty Ruth Robbins, another new student.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Center right: A group of pretty Rice undergraduates walking from the parking lot to the registration desk. Left to right are shown Grace Ellen McIntyre, Margie Boyd, Betty Gartner, Jeanette Stephenson and Mary Margaret Raymond. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Bottom left: ONe of the registration groups includes Bill Bryant and Margie Boyd, standing, and Pady Sue Whitecomb and Jeanette Stephenson, seated, from left to right. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Bottom right: Seated on the lawn between academic quadrangle and the cloisters, upperclassmen plan courses. Left to right are shown David Johnston, John Sanders, Joe Baird and Sam Kohen.</span><br />
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Smadarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09765946753514711483noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510150534438159918.post-61155667139557170112013-07-02T11:12:00.001-04:002013-07-02T11:17:11.403-04:00End of Summer 1939Summer of 1939 comes to a close for Rice students. Most college students today, report to school in late August, but in 1939, class began at Rice on September 18th. This article does not provide us with much news, but as always, we do find some interesting tidbits which provide insight to life on campus.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Regular classes at Rice Institute will begin at 8 a.m. Monday, opening the twenty-eight academic year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The annual matriculation address by Dr. Edgar O. Lovett, president of the Institue, is scheduled for 9 a.m. Wednesday in the physics amphitheater. An annual tradition at Rice, Professor Lovett shakes hands with each new student following his welcoming address.</span></div>
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Today, most universities do guarantee housing. I'm not sure what those out of town students who by Saturday found all the dorms filled did. It seems a bit last minute to discover that you will not get housing. My guess is that they boarded with families who rented room near the campus. On another note, it is nice to hear that the Hazing victim, Richard Wier was to leave the hospital I hope we'll hear more about his recovery. Notice that the Thresher did have an opening, but not for the position of assistant editor which Ethel ran for. Too bad!</div>
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Smadarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09765946753514711483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510150534438159918.post-48985064394592345882013-06-26T20:12:00.000-04:002013-06-26T20:12:40.910-04:00Hazing Injury Stops Practice for One Week<a href="http://ethelsscrapbook.blogspot.com/2013/06/longstanding-hazing-tradition-at-rice.html?showComment=1372289821848#c9012852603250759968" target="_blank">We last left the Rice campus with a hazing injury.</a> The next day, immediate action was taken by the administration.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Richard Wier, 17, of Dallas was the injured freshman. Wier suffered a broken ankle when a cartload of sophomores rolled over his left ankle. He had fallen in front of the gardener's cart filled with about 20 sophomores, which the freshmen "slimes" were forced to drag around the campus. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Girl students are never initiated until the first Friday of regular classes termed on campus "Fish Friday." Plans are still under way for the annual make snake dance through downtown Main Street, scheduled for Friday night of next week, Robert Knox, sophomore class secretary-treasurer said. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The pajama parade, for which slimes will again receive a coat of "war paint," procedes the first home football game each year. The parade will be climaxed in a giant pep rally at Main and Texas preceding the Rice-Vanderbilt football game the following night, according to present plans. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Social life has a head start on academic work this year, with the first college danced slated for 9 p.m. Saturday. The dance formally opening the college season at Rice is the first of the regular Saturday night affairs sponsored by students. It will be held at the Arabia Temple, with Fay Godfrey's Orchestra playing. </span></div>
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Today, hazing is illegal in most states including Texas. It certainly wasn't illegal in 1939. It seems the Institue did take immediate action and suspended some of the hazing, but only for a week. It will be interesting to see how this hazing incident affected practice at Rice that year. Sadly, despite strict hazing laws, hazing continues and at least one college student dies every year as a result of hazing. Hazing practices have escalated in severity, as the nature of hazing each year to out due the hazing done to them. The practice continues to be at the center of university greek life and sports teams and clubs throughout the country. Sadly, injuries continue to make headlines with little change in effect on behavior. </div>
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After much anticipation, built up by the first fifteen articles in Ethel's scrapbook, we reach the moments where the student body enters the Rice campus. Apparently, things didn't go as well as expected. On the first day of registration, the is a hazing induced injury.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The injured student was Richard Wier, 17, or Dallas, who suffered a broken ankle while helping drag a cart load of sophomores around the campus. Wier was taken to Herman Hospital, where he was admitted for treatment. his foot was being X-rayed Thursday to determine the extent of his injuries. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Hazing of freshmen by sophomores at Rice has taken place during the first week of the fall term for more than 20 years, and has been featured by such antics as forcing freshmen to roll pingpong balls around the campus with their noses, forcing castor oil and soap down the throats of the freshman "slimes," and other hazing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"There has been hazing at Rice since the foundation fo the institute," Dean Weiser said. "As to the future, we're not going to cross that bridge before we come to it. We want to prevent any more accidents like the one that happend today, however."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Wier's left ankle was broken, it was revealed at the hospital, but he planned to attend classes next Monday. His father, Austin S. Wier, Dallas lawyer, was reported to be on his way to Wier's bedside. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Wier said that his ankle was broken while he was helping a crowd of other freshmen drag a large gardener's cart loaded with "about 20" sophomores around the driveway leading from Main Street to the administration building. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Under the direction of Harry Albaugh, sophomore class president, and J. P. Woods, president of last year's sophomore class, the freshmen were captured on emerging from the administration building as they finished registering. Shoe polish, grease paint and ink were used by zealous sophomores to inscribe on the initiates the numbers "43" along with decorative stripes and swirls in brilliant colors covering backs, chests and faces. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Camera fans enjoyed the pranks of the undergraduates and snapped numerous candid shots for family albums. Peanut races and pingpong ball "blos" drew most attention. Mothers watching from the cloisters showed disman, however, over the paint that covered their sons' clothes. Stained coats, shirts and piles of shoes discarded early in the day adorned the usually prim hedges of the academic quadrangle. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Unsavory odors of strong-smelling chemicals sprayed by soph chemists added to the repugnance of the freshmen parading through the sallyport during the activity of registration of upperclassmen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But the ceremonies were not entirely distasteful. After long sessions of rolling in the gravel and salaaming in praise of Allah, the slimes were allowed to make love to beautiful literary society co-eds enjoying initiation from the sidelines. The proposals of marriage were met with giggles and cold snubs.</span></div>
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Freshmen class of 1925. (Click to enlarge)</td><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://hdl.handle.net/1911/68445" target="_blank">Source: Rice University Archives, photo files, Event-Slime Parade, <br />Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University</a></span></td></tr>
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What do you think? I found this article, though unusually long, full of amazing information. The hazing tradition was engrained at Rice since it's inception. I found a photo of the slime parade from 1921. Even tough it does seem tame, compared to what hazing has evolved into these days, students were getting injured back then as well. What stood out to me was that this was not a fraternity related hazing, but a university wide event. Sophomores hazing freshmen in full view of mothers and faculty, and city crowds (see parade photo). The green class of "43" caps, bow ties and matching hair bows on the girls did sound entertaining and a long standing tradition as well (see 1921 photo) ! Jewish students must have been pleased that Rosh Hashanah fell during registration in 1939! I wonder if they got hazed by the Jewish sophomores when the arrived for registration the next day?</div>
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How about the registration process itself? Things have changed. Try to image today's college students standing in line, registration card at hand, waiting to meet with their professors and workout their schedule—a far cry from current computerized lottery registrations. I bet many a college student today would enjoy some old fashioned personalized attention, though I'm not sure they would be willing to submit to the hazing which follows. </div>
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It's going to be interesting to see when and how the two stranded professors will return from Europe, and if we will learn what happen to <a href="http://ethelsscrapbook.blogspot.com/2013/05/casualty-in-rice-family.html" target="_blank">Dr. Moraud's son</a>. </div>
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Smadarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09765946753514711483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510150534438159918.post-14122183454728470632013-06-13T22:20:00.000-04:002013-06-13T22:20:34.719-04:00Freshmen Women Rush Week 1939Rush week finally began at Rice! It seems the freshmen girls were approached to rush, even before classes even began. I'm not completely up-to-date as to how things are done now, but at most colleges I visited with my son and we were told freshmen are not rush for least the first semester. Things have changed I guess.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The theme followed was that of the Taj Mahal, a large reproduction of which was reflected in the pool under a spotlight. Small pictures of the Taj Mahal were used as place cards. Fruit and purple candles decorated the tables. Virginia Cashman and Charlotte Carr were in charge of decorations. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Elizabeth Knapp, general chairman for the affair, was assisted by Betty Butler, Rosemary McKinney, Judy Biossat, Emily Montgomery, Demaris Delange, Margie Parsons, and Margie Boyd in arranging the affair. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Honorees were Misses <u>Betty Adams</u>, <u>Nancy Allen Blakemore</u>, <u>Katharine Cameron</u>, <u>Flora Clarke</u>, <u>Helen Eads</u>, <u>Eugenia Gantt</u>, Stelloise Godbold, Elizabeht Philbrook, <u>Betty Hall</u>, <u>Barbara Kirkland</u>, Dorothy Herring, <u>Janet Houstoun</u>, Sue Kurth, Marguerite Lane, <u>Hancel Langham</u>, Hortense Manning, Laura Loise Peden, <u>Grace Picton,</u> <u>Betty Ruth Robbins</u>, <u>Evelyn Smith</u>, <u>Virginia Stevens,</u> <u>Hester Stewart</u>, <u>Margaret Ann Sullivan</u>, <u>Ann Tuck</u>, Pady Sue Whitecomb, and Katherine Coburn. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The Pallas Athene Literary Society dinner at River Oaks Country Club entered the series of rush parties at Rice Institute las week. Twenty five freshmen girls were honored at the dinner, followed by the first of the regular Rice Saturday night dances at Arabia Temple. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Maryellen Snyder president of the society, was assisted in arrangements by Celeste McAshan, Evelyn Williams, Frances Bishop, Lucille Bertin, Marian Smedes, and Mildred Dattner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Honorees at the dinner were <u>Betty Adams</u>, <u>Nancy Allen Blakemore</u>, <u>Katharine Cameron</u>, Barbara Clark, <u>Flora Clarke</u>, Katherine Coburn, <u>Helen Eads</u>, Barbara Frankl, Mary Olivia Fuller, <u>Eugenia Gantt</u>, <u>Betty Hall</u>, <u>Janet Houstoun</u>, Maisie Jones, Joanne Keith, <u>Barbara Kirkland</u>, <u>Hancel Langham</u>, Cordelia Lynn, Frances Moran, <u>Grace Picton,</u> <u>Betty Ruth Robbins</u>, <u>Evelyn Smith</u>, <u>Virginia Stevens</u>, <u>Hester Stewart</u>, <u>Margie Ann Sullivan</u>, and <u>Ann Tuck</u>. </span></div>
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Does anyone know something about literary societies? Are these predecessors to sororities? They sure sound like sororities. The history, is actually quite interesting. They provided a way for women students at Rice, who were not able to live on campus until 1957, to organize and socialize. Not only were there no female dorms, but women had to be off the camps by 5:00 p.m., late into the 1930s. These societies began mostly to promote academic. Over time, they evolved and became purely social and quite exclusive. The societies reached their peak popularity in the fifties and then began a decline and eventually disbanded in the eighties. The Elizabeth Baldwin Society Literary, the first literary society at Rice, was founded in 1914. It's focus was to provide a social space for women to discuss politics and academics. In 1914, women's suffrage was at the top of women's political issues and at the root of the literary society. Together with a short lived male counterpart, The Owl Literary Society, the two groups started The Thresher, the student newspaper. About 75% of women were members of the society as the original idea was universal and for all women. As the demand for the society grew, an offshoot was started in 1919, the Pallas Athene Literary Society, to accommodate more women. This group focused on Literature. Together the two societies helped launched a third group, the Owen Wister Literary Society in 1924. This groups strove to buy library books and band uniforms. There is a wonderful online exhibit about the history of these societies at the <a href="http://exhibits.library.rice.edu/exhibits/show/literary-societies-at-rice/introduction" target="_blank">Woodson Research Center</a>, complete with scrapbook and photos. The Cornerstone, the Newspaper of the Rice Historical Society, has a nice <a href="http://ricehistoricalsociety.org/images/cornerstones/RiceCornerstoneSummer2000.pdf" target="_blank">article reviewing the history of the Literary Societies</a> available online.</div>
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What do you think about the Taj Mahal theme? Sounds like it was hard to beat. The other groups didn't have any decorations worth mentioning so I guess the Elizabeth Baldwin Society Literary took the lead on that! Not surprising since they were the oldest society and probably the most popular. </div>
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I found it interesting that 17 of the 26 freshmen girls, rushed both societies (I've underlined the names which appear in both lists of honorees). It seems there was intense competition between the groups. I also couldn't help but notice that none of the names of the girls mentioned sounded Jewish. I'm pretty sure if you were Jewish, you couldn't get into these groups, that by the 1930's were quite exclusive. Ethel who reported on these societies, and certainly liked literature, did not belong to any of the literary societies. She belong to the Menorah Society instead. I wonder if she went to the various country clubs in order to report on the events, or rather she met with a representative who described the affair instead.</div>
Smadarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09765946753514711483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510150534438159918.post-2949111050746884462013-06-11T13:57:00.002-04:002013-06-11T13:57:20.073-04:00Ethel Fights A Bitter ElectionAs promised, we are taking a small detour from Ethel's scrapbook, in order to peak at The Thresher, the Rice Student publication and learn more about why in 1939, Ethel took a backseat at the student publication where she had been since her freshmen year.<br />
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On April 15th, The Thresher staff endorses Ethel as Staff Nominee for assistant editor. Here is the fabulous endorsement they gave her:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Ethel Bloomfield present associate editor, and Claude Maer, present sales promoter have been nominated staff candidates for assistant editor and business manager of the Thresher in the general Student Association election April 25th. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Unanimously chosen by the 24 members of the editorial staff, and endorsed by the heads of the business staff. Ethel has worked consistently on the Thresher since September. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">During the Thursday afternoon sessions before publications, when routine work piles up, she has been invaluable as a technical assistant, correcting copy writing headlines, and reading proof. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But besides being well trained in the mechanical details of issuing a newspaper, Ethel also has an original touch in composing her own copy. Her special "Ethyl" feature stories with a punch occasionally signed, appear regularly in these columns, and there is not a type of newspaper article she cannot write well. </span><br />
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As a granddaughter, I particularly enjoyed this clip which left me feeling very proud of my grandmother. As a researcher, I found it rewarding that my hunch was true. Many of Ethel's articles are not signed. I feel lucky she did signed several, but I now know for sure, that if I want to find all her writing, I need to become familiarized with her special "Ethyl" punch and try to identify her unsigned articles.<br />
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This article fails to mention that Ethel was nominated over classmate and the current assistant editor, Bill Ballew, whom she worked under as an associate editor. The staff must have been really pushing for Ethel since the following week, only three days before the election, this small blurb with Ethel's photo appears on the second page of The Thresher.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>ETHEL BLOOMFIELD</b> Present associate editor of The Thresher, has been unanimously chosen by the staff members as their nominee for assistant editor in the general election Monday.</span><br />
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The elections on April 25th, were too close to call. Here is a clip from April 29th, describing what happened with assistant editor position:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Neither Thresher positions were decided. Bill Ballew and Ethel Bloomfield staff nominee, are run-off candidates for assistant editor. Ballew led the race with 384 votes to 267 for Miss Bloomfield and 189 for Robert Murphy.</span><br />
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It looks like, the student body voted more on popularity, while the staff felt strongly about Ethel. They took out a nice size add endorsing Ethel once more.<br />
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On Friday, May 6th, in one small line, it was announced that Bill Ballew defeated Ethel in the election. <div>
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I have a feeling she must have been crushed. The scrapbook, a collection of the articles she wrote as the Rice correspondent to the Houston Chronicle, show the pride she took in this job. I would like to think this defeat was bitter sweet. She lost the position at her beloved student publication, but remained as on staff as a contributor. Out of the defeat, came the even better, paying position in much larger local paper. I certainly would not have liked to be in Bill's shoes. He won a close race where he was unanimously un-endorsed by the staff he worked with. I hope that the fact Ethel chose to work for the Chronicle but continued to contribute to the Thresher, helped bridge a peace.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Source: The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), 1938, Newspaper, University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University: Woodson Research Center, Houston, Texas.</span></div>
Smadarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09765946753514711483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510150534438159918.post-92016341380140683502013-06-06T14:01:00.000-04:002013-06-07T13:08:21.276-04:00Extra-Curricular Activities Begin!I bring the next article from the scrapbook, with a small improvement which I believe will help orient the reader, the day of the week, the article was published. I realized that I have been posting the articles with the date Ethel scribbled on them, but I had no idea what day of the week these dates represent in 1939. Thanks to the <a href="http://www.searchforancestors.com/utility/dayofweek.html" target="_blank">Date Calculator</a> at <a href="http://www.searchforancestors.com/" target="_blank">Ancestor Search</a>, I know can quickly calculate the appropriate date of the week. In this article for example, Ethel is referring to class enrollment beginning Thursday, but it's difficult to know how far away Thursday was. Turns out, September 13th was a Wednesday, and therefore the article was published the day before enrollment began. I plan to go back and add the date of the week to earlier posts as well.<br />
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At first glance, this article is almost identical to the one published a day earlier, <a href="http://ethelsscrapbook.blogspot.com/2013/06/registration-at-rice-1939.html" target="_blank">Registration at Rice Begins on Thursday</a>. The first section, is basically a recap of the September 12th article. I've included it here for completeness purposes but feel free to skip ahead to the Lovett's Address section.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">More than 1300 students are expected to begin enrollment at Rice INstitute at 8:00 a.m. Thursday in the Administration Building, opening the institute's twenty-eight academic session.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">About 400 new students will enter Rice this year. Those in the academic course will register between 8 and 10:30 a.m. Thursday. Freshmen engineering and architecture students will register Friday between 8 and 10:30 a.m.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Old undergraduates and graduate students numbering more than 900 will begin to enroll at 10:30 a.m. Thursday in the academic course and at 10:30 a.m. Friday in engineering and architecture courses, continuing through the afternoon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The annual matriculation address by Dr. Edgar Odell Lovett, president of the institute, welcoming members of the freshman class, will be delivered at 9:00 a.m, September 20. All freshman classes will be dismissed for the address, to be given in the physics amphitheater. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Extra-curricular activities are already under way on the campus in an early start this year. The first of the "rush week" parties will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday when Elizabeth Baldwin Literary Society honors rushees with a dinner dance at the Houston Country Club. The Owen Wister Society will entertain Friday night at the Houston Country Club, and the Pallas Athene group will hold a dinner at River Oaks Country Club Saturday night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">College social life at Rice will formally begin at 9 p.m. Saturday when the first official Rice dance this season will be held at Arabia Temple. Fahy Godfrey's orchestra will furnish the music, Gene Flewellen, president of the student association, announcer and hosts will be present to introduce new students to the upper classmen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The first issue of the Thresher, weekly student newspaper, will be ready for students at registration Thursday morning. Bill Ballew is editor. Carey Kind and David Barg, editor and business manager of the Owl, student humor magazine, have began work on the first issue of the publication, to be ready by the end of September. Barg was appointed business manager of the magazine during the summer to replace David Sanders, chosen last spring. Saunders will not return to Rice this fall. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Dramatic Club workers have already begun rehearsals for the first work-shop play of the season, a one act play to be presented at the opening reception, September 27. The production will be done penthouse style, with the players performing in the center of the Autry House auditorium and guests seated in a circle around the actors. Elna Birath, betty Jane Sims, and Jess Bessinger are cast in the production, with Jimmy Terflinger directing. Joseph Kopriva of the Rice English department will be assistant director under Terflinger this year, Wanda Hoencke, president of the club, announced. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The first of the series of rush week parties will be held Thursday at 8 p.m. when the Elizabeth Baldwin Literary Society entertains with a dinner dance at the Houston Country Club. Elizabeth Knapp is general chairman, and Rosemary McKinney and Betty Butler are in charge of dinner arrangements. Other committees are: Decorations, Virginia Cashman and Charlotte Carr; dates, Judy Biossat, Emily Montgomery and Demaris DeLange; orchestra, Margie Parsons and Margie Boyd; place, Neely Proctor and Marian Frost. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The Owen Wiser Literary Society will give a dinner-dance at the Houston Country Club Friday at 7 p.m. The Pallas Athene Society has reserved Saturday night at the River Oak Country Club for a dinner preceding the regular Saturday night dance at Arabia Temple.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Maryellen Snyder is president of the Pallas Athene group, Mary Margaret Raymond is head of the Owen Wiser Society, and Rosemary Yeager is president of the Elizabeth Baldwin Society. </span></div>
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School has not started, but I love the fact that there is already a lot of student activities going. Clearly the various social clubs, through committees have been working all summer to kick of the year with a bang and enticing students to join with various parties and dance! Ethel, a member of the dramatic club herself had an inside view to this organization. I got a kick out of the description of the penthouse style, as I was not familiar with the term. This type of performance, also known as theater in the round, is often seen in blackbox theaters today. The term penthouse theater actually comes from the <a href="http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3710" target="_blank">Penthouse Theater at the University of Seattle Washington</a>, the first of its kind in the United States. Glenn Hughes, director of theater at the University of Washington imported the concept to America in 1932 when, his troop practiced at a friend's drawing room in an unfinished penthouse of the Edmond Meany Hotel, hence the name. The Penthouse Theater at the University of Seattle did not open it's doors until 1940, making this early production of the Rice drama department quite avant-garde for it's time.<br />
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I'm not sure if the last section was part of this article. It's pasted immediate after this article in the scrapbook and has no date or title. It seems to repeat some of the information about the various dinner/dances, so it may have come from another newspaper or just a different date. I did enjoy the extra details the section provides about the planning that went into the various social events. There was even a dates committee! This could mean one of two things, either helping people get a date for the party or schedule the various parties during the year—I'm not sure which.<br />
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The Arabia Temple, was the shriners temple, where Ethel's father was a member. I have a great picture of him standing infront of an unidentified building with a group of fellow shriners. Perhaps they are standing infront of the Arabia Temple.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">William Bloomfield (Top Right) Ethel's father with his Shriner's buddies.<br />
This photo has won the title <a href="http://the-past-to-the-present.blogspot.com/2013/02/fridays-faces-from-past-most.html" target="_blank">Most Entertaining</a> in my collection! </td></tr>
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One other worthwhile note, the Thresher. Ethel mentions the first issue of the Thresher, the Rice weekly student paper and it's editor Bill Ballew. As you may recall, Ethel was on the staff at the Thresher during the four years at Rice. In my next post, I will make a small deviation from the scrapbook and discuss some interesting findings related to internal politics at the Thresher.<br />
<br />Smadarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09765946753514711483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510150534438159918.post-61938081688898655052013-06-04T14:46:00.001-04:002013-06-04T14:58:13.226-04:00Meet the New Instructors and FellowsBefore I continue with Ethel's Scrapbook, I'd like to direct you to an interview I gave which was featured on Geneartistry.com today. Sarah Ashley, founder of Geneartistry genealogist believes, genealogist present their research in an artistic way! After hearing how my work inspired my husband to create an art installation called "Our Ancestors," she contacted me for an interview. Today, she published the complete interview on her website/blog <a href="http://geneartistry.com/smadarbelkindgersoninterview/" target="_blank">www.geneartistry.com</a>. It might not be the Houston Chronicle, but I think my grandmother Ethel would be proud! I invite you to read the interview and visit her <a href="http://geneartistry.com/smadarbelkindgersoninterview/" target="_blank">blog!</a><br />
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Now, back the scrapbook and more pre-registration period articles. On September 13th, 1939 Ethel introduced to her Chronicle readers the new faculty hired at Rice for the upcoming academic year. The instructors mentioned briefly at the end of the article form the previous day, take center stage in this article, though we don't learn very much more about them except who they replaced.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Dr. Edward S. Deevey, Jr., Walter F. Scofield and Carl R. Wischmeyer Join Faculty.</span></h4>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Fz-ueyZEGvfJfR1LKq4Sw3WcJYnFOpkiGN9g1uKV3wgviEI7RThRmQRBOnueuBe__p5NYJQT5QsKXPg7LBGJY-GGHfk5zF1Yibr3n_CMVCNzmqZi8LI0zf10GtNfD4JgNRdibXDTF_Fr/s1600/014+Nine+Fellows,3+Instructos+Named+at+Rice.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Fz-ueyZEGvfJfR1LKq4Sw3WcJYnFOpkiGN9g1uKV3wgviEI7RThRmQRBOnueuBe__p5NYJQT5QsKXPg7LBGJY-GGHfk5zF1Yibr3n_CMVCNzmqZi8LI0zf10GtNfD4JgNRdibXDTF_Fr/s640/014+Nine+Fellows,3+Instructos+Named+at+Rice.jpeg" width="145" /></a><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Appointment of three new men as instructors at Rice Institute and creation of nine new fellowships was announced this week in the new Rice catalog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Dr. Edward S. Deevy, Jr., formerly of the biology department at Yale University is the newly appointed instructor in biology. Prior to his appointment at Rice, Doctor Deevey was limnologist for the Connecticut state board of fisheries and game. He replaces <a href="http://ethelsscrapbook.blogspot.com/2013/04/loss-for-rice-gain-for-university-north.html" target="_blank">Dr. Irwin C. Kitchen at Rice</a>, who left this year to take the position of assistant professor of zoology at the University of North Carolina. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Walter F Scofield will replace W. Greeley as instructor in civil engineering. Scofield was formerly assistant instructor in civil engineering at the University of Kansas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">New in electrical engineering department, Carl R. Wischmeyer will be an instructor this year. He holds a B.S from Rose Polytechnic Institute, and a master's degree from Yale University where he served as laboratory assistant. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Absent from the faculty this year is Dr. Grover Leon Bridger, former instructor in chemical engineering. Bridger resigned to take over a position with the Tennessee Valley Authority.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Nine New Fellows were appointed this year. Percy Arthur, former Rice football star, will serve as fellow in the physical education department. Sam Bethea of Rice and Ervon J. Eggeman of Iowa State University will hold fellowships in chemical engineering department, and James Holmes of the Georgia School of Technology are new fellows in chemistry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The physics department will have Henry Dunlap of Rice and Hugh T. Richards of Park University, the biology department will have Donald V. Moore of the University of Nebraska, and the electrical engineering department will have Paul E Pfeiffer of Rice as new assistants and fellows.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Both women members of the chemistry faculty are leaving Rice this year. Miss Eby Nell McElrath, who received her PH.D. from Rice last June, leaves to take over an instructorship in chemistry department at the University of Houston this fall. Miss Mary Emily Miller, the only other woman in the chemistry department will also leave Rice after having received her M.A. last June. </span><br />
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In this article, we learn who replaces the professor from North Carolina, whom we read about in an earlier article, <a href="http://ethelsscrapbook.blogspot.com/2013/04/loss-for-rice-gain-for-university-north.html" target="_blank">Loss for Rice gain for University North</a>. Like the rest of the country, Rice was pulling out of the great depression, and though we see some signes of that in the construction projects, we don't see much in terms of new hiring of instructors. It is nice to see, that Rice support it's graduates providing them with fellowships.<br />
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I loved hearing about the football star receiving a fellowship in the physical education department. Does that mean an assistant coaching position? I looked it up, and indeed he did become coach. Percy Arthur was quite the celebrity at Rice. He was captain of the famous 1934 Rice Owls team, the first to win the Southwest Conference football championship over Notre Dame. No wonder he got the fellowship. Even after he left Rice and football to become a successful insurance agent, he continues to support the sport and the university.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Percy Arthur makes Thresher headlines as he leads the team to another victory.<br />
Source: The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, October 5, 1934, Newspaper, October 5, 1934; digital images, (http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth230306/ : accessed June 04, 2013), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University: Woodson Research Center, Houston, Texas.</td></tr>
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The lack of women fellows is apparent, a fact I had noticed when I surveyed the year book. It's interesting that Ethel notes the departure of two women from her own chemistry department, which clearly she saw as a loss.<br />
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Many of these faculty members when on to have illustrious careers:<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.nap.edu/html/biomems/edeevey.html" target="_blank">Dr. Edward S. Deevy, Jr.</a> remained at rice until 1943 and then returned to Yale where he became a leader in his field.</li>
<li><a href="http://timeline.centennial.rice.edu/entry/313/" target="_blank">Carl R. Wischmeyer</a> goes on to head the electrical engineering department at Rice.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-author=Grover%20Leon%20Bridger&page=1&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AGrover%20Leon%20Bridger" target="_blank">Grover Leon Bridger</a> published several book in the field of fertilizers.</li>
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<br />Smadarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09765946753514711483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510150534438159918.post-41675101015345432342013-06-01T08:30:00.001-04:002013-06-01T08:32:07.616-04:00Registration at Rice, 1939Finally, on the third double page of Ethel's scrapbook, registration! . On this next page we continue to find clippings dated September 12th -15th (1939). The first article, indicates Rice has yet to open it’s doors and remains in preparation for the new academic year.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Registration for Rice Institute's twenty-eighth year will begin at 8 a.m. Thursday when approximately 1300 students will begin to enroll in the sally port on the first floor of the Administration Building.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">New students in the academic course will register until 10:30 a.m., when sophomore, junior and senior academic students will begin to enroll, continuing through the afternoon. New architecture and engineering students will enroll from 8:00 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. Friday, and old engineering and architecture students will register from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Old academic students may register at any time Friday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Jewish students will be excused from registration Thursday for the observance of the Jewish religious holiday, Rosh Hashanah Samuel G. McCann, registrar, has arranged that Jewish students register on Friday if possible, or on the following Monday, the first day of regular classes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The traditional initiation of freshmen will start Thursday as soon as the first freshmen complete registration. Crowds gather in the sally port each year to watch sophomore men initiate the new men students. Freshmen girls will be initiated the first Friday of regular classes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><a href="http://ethelsscrapbook.blogspot.com/2013/03/this-is-fifth-and-final-article-ethel.html" target="_blank">Tho construction jobs</a> being completed for the opening of the new semester. The dining hall in the men's dormitories is being enlarged, and a new laboratory is being built onto the Chemistry Building.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWHcx-PkW7Mjekd9wc7NpHfXNF8dX3DYR0rThz2z2DAJOd6-Kh9YUEmJOaG-V-qVzKtYMDbjxoH1KRWSRI_b9k_M9iF-a9lj0yk3gK8wtHs1mtobLjnAv24Pde27P9KkHZ4iA9-n9p-eyj/s1600/013+Registration+at+Rice+Begins+on+Thursday+part+II.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWHcx-PkW7Mjekd9wc7NpHfXNF8dX3DYR0rThz2z2DAJOd6-Kh9YUEmJOaG-V-qVzKtYMDbjxoH1KRWSRI_b9k_M9iF-a9lj0yk3gK8wtHs1mtobLjnAv24Pde27P9KkHZ4iA9-n9p-eyj/s320/013+Registration+at+Rice+Begins+on+Thursday+part+II.jpeg" width="202" /></a><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The mess hall has been enlarged to almost twice its original capacity. The additional 200 feet of floor space will allow facilities for the accommodation of about 650 men. The dining hall formerly accommodated around 350 men.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The new laboratory space will be used by senior and graduate chemical engineering students for the study of unit operations. The two-story annex provides about 1600 feet of floor space. Dr. Arthur Hartsook is in complete charge of construction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Two new scholarships are being offered for the first time this year for Rice students. The Samuel S. Ashe Scholarship endowed by Mrs. Sailie Ashe Fitch, the late Mr. Ashe's daughter, will be awarded annually to a deserving and necessitous freshman students who completes his first year's work with highest grades. The first award has been made to George W. Krog, class of 1943 of Houston.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Mr. Mabel Franklin Austen has endowed the Thomas Richard and Julia Hadley Franklin scholarship in memory of her parents. The first winner of the scholarship, to be awarded on the basis of scholarship standing and financial necessity, have not yet been announced.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Three new instructors have been appointed to the faculty this year. Dr. Edward S. Deevy, Jr. who received his Ph. D. from Yale University, has been appointed instructor in biology. Walter F. Scofield, new instructor in civil engineering, holds a B.S from the University of Kansas, where he previously held an assistant instructorship. Carl R. Wischmeyer, new engineering instructor received his bachelor degree from Rose Polytechnic Institute and his master degree from Yale University.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiarA-rjhQ2PZGgcFLgoyo7EQMDs9KZpsYfRpzRX1zyuGt9t-5tyhdEVFIFIV2zuuSj4wqdK4hSZTGoUybsEJb2PnIQoiQOTRYfHFUEKv7Z8b5CQHgwhAq72J2gsmwm1N-EO0OgnAHE4BnX/s1600/013+Registration+at+Rice+Begins+on+Thursday+part+III.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiarA-rjhQ2PZGgcFLgoyo7EQMDs9KZpsYfRpzRX1zyuGt9t-5tyhdEVFIFIV2zuuSj4wqdK4hSZTGoUybsEJb2PnIQoiQOTRYfHFUEKv7Z8b5CQHgwhAq72J2gsmwm1N-EO0OgnAHE4BnX/s200/013+Registration+at+Rice+Begins+on+Thursday+part+III.jpeg" width="150" /></a><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Several curriculum changes have been made this year. New English courses are being offered in the late romantic and Victorian literature and in old English, including a special study of Beowulf. Two new math courses are open to graduate students this year, one in modern algebra, the other in continued fractions. New senior courses in physical chemistry and inorganic qualitative analysis are being offered, as well as graduate course in adsorption, heterogeneous equilibrium, and heterocyclic chemistry. </span><br />
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This article surprised me on initial read. I wondered why would the Houston Chronicle print such detail information about the registration schedule at Rice? I guess, without email, Rice could best reach it's student body by posting this kind of information in the paper. We do learn from this article, that Rice has been in existence for 28 years and that they were expecting 1300 students in 1939! I love the mention of the Jewish High Holidays and the exception made for the Jewish students. It's nice to know that the university was sensitive to Jewish minority. I can’t wait to hear about the Freshmen initiation ceremony!Smadarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09765946753514711483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510150534438159918.post-38995282400334351792013-05-28T11:37:00.000-04:002013-05-28T13:33:33.228-04:00Casualty in the Rice FamilyEthel's Scrapbook is now back online after a short pause. I took some time off from blog writing during and after the Boston Marathon Bombings which affect my community deeply. My family and I were all safe, but it was a powerful experience which required some time and reflection. To read more about my experience visit my other blog Past-Present-Future's post <a href="http://the-past-to-the-present.blogspot.com/2013/05/living-history-boston-strong.html?showComment=1369747330973#c3623618777131736555" target="_blank">Living History-Boston Strong</a>.<br />
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It seems appropriate to return to my grandmother's scrapbook, which this next article, which happens to be chronologically the next entry on the page I left off. Timed perfectly with Memorial day, this article tells the story of a WWII young soldier who lost his life.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">John Moraud, second son of Dr. Marcel Moraud, professor of French at Rice Institute, was killed in France, presumably in military service, it was learned in Houston Friday. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Doctor Moraud cabled Rice Institute that his son had been killed and that his sailing for home to resume his duties at the institute would be delayed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Jon, about 19, who formerly lived in Houston, was going to school in France. He had looked forward to joining the French navy, said friends here, but after studying to enter the navy he was not selected, because native French citizens were the first taken. John then turned to other military studies, the friends said. They did not know what branch of military he entered.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Chose French Citizenship.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">His father was in the French intelligence service during the world war, stationed in Washington. John was born in the United States and, under the law of France, had the choice of being a French citizen if he so chose. He decided to become a French citizen when he selected a military career, the friends here said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Before going to France to attend military school, John was a member of Boy Scout troop No. 11. under Scoutmaster C. W. Gribble. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The youth spoke both French and English fluently and was called a brilliant student. His older brother, Marcel, Jr., is studying to be a professor of French and English, so that he can alternate between the two countries, as his father had done. Besides the two boys, Doctor Moraud has two daughters, the oldest May Elise having attended Rice for a time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Doctor and Mrs. Moraud and their younger daughter had gone to France early in the summer to visit the other children, the Houston friends said. Their Houston residence is at 1216 Bartlett Street.</span><br />
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This article, seems to have been published immediately after Rice received the cable from Professor Moraud, and missing information. It will be interesting to see if Ethel wrote about the fallen soldier, later on.<br />
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Five days earlier, on September 10th, Ethel published an article listing various Rice professors and their summer trips to Europe titled:<b> </b><a href="http://ethelsscrapbook.blogspot.com/2013/03/summer-1939.html" target="_blank">Professors at Rice End Europe Trip</a>. There she mentions,<b> </b>professor Moraud's expected return that same week. I attached a photo of Dr. Moraud on that post, but thought to repost it here as well.<br />
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This is the first article in the scrapbook, dealing with WWII. I found it interesting to note that World War II was not known as a world war as of yet and therefore when Ethel refers to WWI and professor Moraud's role as a French intelligence officer, she only refers to the great war as "the World War". Life at Rice, like in most of the United States, was very sheltered from the events in Europe, but slowly, even as early as 1939, incidents like this one are testament to the trickling effect the war had across the ocean.<br />
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<br />Smadarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09765946753514711483noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510150534438159918.post-60099971803961256722013-04-09T14:40:00.001-04:002013-04-09T14:55:56.878-04:00First Night Football Game at Rice!<br />
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Ethel was not a big sports fan as far as I can recall, but my sons will be pleased to discover that she did know a bit about college football. She may have never set foot at the newly remodeled football stadium, on campus, but here is an article she wrote about Rice's promising 1939 team and their upcoming schedule.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">September 12th, 1939</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The eyes of football fans all over the nation will turn toward Houston on September 30, where one of the major early season games will be played between Rice Institute and Vanderbilt University.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The game will also initiate night football at Rice Stadium. Lights have been installed at the new stadium, which has been put in readiness for the 1939 schedule. The Owls opened training last week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Owls have been touted by sports writers throughout the Southwest inference as one of outstanding teams s of the conference. Besides a wealth of material held over from last year's squad, including Ernie Lain and Olie Cordell, the varsity is enlarged by a great freshman squad of last year.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Ernie Lain and Olie Cordill <br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Source:U.S.School Yearbooks>Texas>Houston>Rice>1938>p.216. <br />Provo, UT, USA: <a href="http://ancestry.com/">Ancestry.com</a> <br />Operations, Inc., 2010.p.216 </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The four games of the season three of them at Rice Stadium will be played at night. After Vanderbilt, the Owls on October 7 played Centenary at Houston then on October 14 play Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge and return home to meet Sam Houston State Teachers College on October 21. All night games start at 8 o'clock.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The Owls will then go to Austin to swing into action action in conference competition, meeting the University of Texas on October 28. This, and the remainder of games on the schedule, will be afternoon game, starting at 2:30 p.m.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">On November 4 the Owls will travel to New York to meet Fordham University Rams in the last intersectional game on the schedule. They then resume Southwest Conference play, meeting the University of Arkansas Razorbacks here on November 11 and then Teas Aggies here on November 18. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Rice will play Texas Christian University Horned Frogs in Fort Worth on November 25, will return home to meet Baylor University’’s Bears on December 2 and will close the season in Dallas, playing Southern Methodist University on December 9. </span><br />
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Campanile Yearbook 1938<br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: xx-small;">Source:U.S.School Yearbooks</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: xx-small;">>Texas>Houston>Rice>1938>p.210</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: xx-small;">. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: xx-small;">Provo, UT, USA: </span><a href="http://ancestry.com/" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">Ancestry.com</a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: xx-small;">Operations, Inc., 2010. </span></td></tr>
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The 1938 squad Ethel mentioned, indeed had a great year. They were the first Rice team to reach the Cotton Bowl where they defeated Colorado 28-14 (<a href="http://ricehistoricalsociety.org/timeline_30.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Rice Historical Society Timeline</span></a>). This championship team surely benefited from a newly remodeled stadium. On <a href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth230426/m1/4/zoom/?q=football&zoom=1&lat=3619&lon=2742.5&layers=BT" target="_blank">September 23rd, 1938</a>, the Thresher reported that the construction cost of $160,000 was raised by Rice fans in exchange for ticket options. Clearly, Texas was pulling out of the Great Depression! In 1939, the lights were turned on for the returning championship team, who were to hold the first game of the season at night!</div>
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Do you venture to guess when the first ever college football game was played under the lights? I did a little research and the answer surprised me. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_game" target="_blank">September 28th 1892</a>! The game was held in Mansfield, Pennsylvania between Mansfield State Normal and Wyoming Seminary. Professional football did not hold a night game until twenty years later in 1902!</div>
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I can not help but conjure the popular TV series Friday Night Lights which aired a few years ago, based on a Texas high school football team. Today, the popularity of college football, has soared to unimaginable heights, and even high school football is played under the lights, in almost American towns. As reflected in Ethel's article, the Texan football tradition is deeply rooted. I bet she would have related to this highly acclaimed football tv drama. </div>
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If you are a football fan and want to read more about the old stadium, here are several links to great posts, photos of the stadium and it's construction from the <a href="http://ricehistorycorner.com/" target="_blank">Rice History Corner</a> Blog by Melissa Kean:</div>
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<li><a href="http://ricehistorycorner.com/2012/01/26/the-old-old-football-stadium/" target="_blank">The Old Old Football Stadium</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ricehistorycorner.com/2011/12/13/the-1937-campus-map-and-the-new-rice-stadium/" target="_blank">The 1937 Campus Map and the “New” Rice Stadium</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ricehistorycorner.com/2011/12/14/the-view-from-inside-the-old-stadium/" target="_blank">The View from Inside the Old Stadium</a></li>
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Following the 1939 Football season promises to be an exciting! Let's hope the Owls won their first night game against Vanderbilt University! I hope the scrapbook has more articles about the game!Smadarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09765946753514711483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510150534438159918.post-33071433955387021942013-04-03T13:33:00.001-04:002013-04-03T13:39:56.630-04:00Loss for Rice, Gain for University North CarolinaOn the second page of the scrapbook, I found this article dated July, 1939. It was published during Ethel's summer break, and prior to all the previous articles, which were also published before Rice opened it's door for the academic year of 1939-1940. In this particular article she pays homage to a distinguished biology instructor who was leaving Rice. Dr. Kitchin, had strong roots in North Carolina where he was taking an assistant professor position at UNC. I think fellow genealogist and story teller extraordinaire, <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/104894497150454056152" target="_blank">+Mariann Regan</a> of <a href="http://mariannsregan.com/" target="_blank">Into the Briar Patch, A Memoir</a> will appreciate this story as she also has deep roots in the state of North Carolina. Who knows, maybe Ethel's Scrapbook and the Briar Patch will cross paths?<br />
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DR. IRWIN C. KITCHIN</h4>
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<span class="s1">KITCHIN LEAVING RICE FOR POST IN N. CAROLINA</span></h4>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: x-small;">July, 1939</span></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Dr. Irwin C. Kitchin, for the last three years instructor in biology at Rice Institute, is leaving </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Houston August 1 to take over his new duties as assistant professor, of zoology at the University of North Carolina.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Doctor Kitchin is the only American to have received a degree from Prof. Hans Spemann at famed German embryologist and winner of the Nobel prize in medicine.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Doctor Kitchin worked for four years, with Professor Spemann at Freiburg. Germany, and in the marine biological station at Naples. After receiving his Ph. D. degree from the University of Freiburg, Doctor Kitchin held the Session research fellowship at Yale University.<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Working as an experimental embryologist, Doctor Kitchin has produced twins and Siamese twins from single eggs of salamanders. He explains at by studying the conditions y which his double‑headed monsters are produced, fundamental embryological principles are brought to light which are presumably as applicable to man and the higher animals as to salamanders.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Explaining this method of study he says, "If we know exactly the conditions necessary for producing our second and extra head, we are lead to believe that similar but naturally occurring causes bring about the development of the single head in normal animals.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"When properly cared for, these two-headed animals are capable of living a normal span of life like any side-show freak.”</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">At Rice, Doctor Kitchin has also carried on a series of is investigations on the development of both the pituitary gland-end the backbone.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Doctor Kitchin, at 27, is returning to North Carolina, where his family name has become distinguished in the public life of that state. His father, Dr. Thurman D. Kitchin. is president of Wake Forest College. Two of his uncles have represented North Carolina as congressmen. One of his uncles has served as governor of the state. His grandfather was a congressman and his great-grandfather a North Carolina governor.</span></span><br />
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">With such an esteemed background, and distinguished credential, at such a young age, I am not surprised he was called back home. Rice certainly lost a great educator!</span></div>
Smadarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09765946753514711483noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510150534438159918.post-13892218379315599092013-04-01T15:44:00.000-04:002013-04-01T15:44:39.501-04:00Social Butterfly? Very Fishy! Revisited<br />
A couple of weeks ago I published a post on my other Blog, <a href="http://the-past-to-the-present.blogspot.com/2013/03/day-17-fearless-females-social.html" target="_blank">Past Present Future</a>, as part of the Fearless Females series (<a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/101817326277916487317" target="_blank">+Lisa Alzo</a>'s, <a href="http://www.theaccidentalgenealogist.com/2013/02/back-for-fourth-year-fearless-females.html" target="_blank">The Accidental Genealogist</a>', 31 inspirational writing prompts in celebration of Women's History Month). In case some of you missed it, I thought it would be fun to republish it here today as it features an article about Ethel (not by Ethel) from exactly seventy-five years ago today. Here is the post titled: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/Day%2017:%20Fearless%20Females:%20Social%20Butterfly?%20Very%20Fishy!" target="_blank">Social Butterfly? Very Fishy!</a><br />
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<b>March 17th prompt— Social Butterfly? What social organizations or groups did your mother or grandmother belong to? Sewing circle, church group, fraternal benefit society or lodge? Describe her role in the group.</b><br />As most of you know, I have been reading many newspaper articles from 1939-1940 for my new blog <a href="http://ethelsscrapbook.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ethel's Scrapbook</a>. The blog is centered around my grandmother Ethel and the articles she published as a Rice Institute correspondent for the Houston, Chronicle all of which she collected in her scrapbook. While researching for the new blog, came across scores of additional articles she published in the Thresher, the Rice Weekly Student publication from the same time period. So far, I'm amazed at home much I've learned about my beloved grandmother in only one week since I launched Ethel's scrapbook.<br />Growing up, I mostly heard that her time at rice was difficult because she was so young. "Socially, it was difficult to fit into college when you are three or four years younger than everyone else," I remember her explaining. She discouraged all of her children and grandchildren from getting ahead in school, because of her experience of skipping second and third grade. Therefore, when I came across this write up about my grandmother in the Thresher, I was surprised. None of the Thresher articles made the scrapbook. Maybe there is another scrapbook that hasn't surfaced yet, but thanks to <a href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/" target="_blank">The Portal to Texas History</a>, see learn quite a bit more about my grandmother's years in college.<br />It seems she was quite the social butterfly after all!</blockquote>
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Bloomfield Gives Backyard Beach Part for Club</h3>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">"Ethel Bloomfield more or less entertained the Rice Writing Club with a bay party in her back yard, fully equipped with a gold-fish aquarium. Membres of the club waded to the tune of "We Must Go Down to the Sea again," by J Masefield.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">Catastrophe of the escapade: ex-member Flossie Albrecht sat on one of Ethel's pet cacti and in revenge stabbed the cactus back with a dagger off the Spanish dagger plant. </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">Joke of the escapade: W. C. Marlone dunked a telephone in the pond, taking it for more or less half a donut. </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">Love affair of the escapade: Clyde Terry got it bad for Hellen Norris.</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">Revolt of the escapade: The president refuses to call the meeting to order. She was heckled, it seems, at not being allowed to parachute-jump from the top of the telephone pole.</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">Explosion of the escapade: Mary Emily Miller wanting to be alone got into Ethel's newly-remodeled servant house and, lighting a cigar blew the place up. It was a stick of dynamite.</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">Refreshments of the escapade: Ethel served eggs more or less to the tune of "Break, Break, Break." Mr. Williams, sponsor of the Writing Club, and ever the individualist, dangled his neck over the edge of the pond until he managed to catch skin, and swallow two of Ethel's prize goldfish.</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">Miss Bloomfield's bay party was a great success, enjoyed by everyone. She is cordially invited to have another one some time soon."</span></blockquote>
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What....<br />I made a double take and reread the article which didn't make a lot of sense. Especially, knowing my serious, overachiever grandmother and the very serious image her scrapbook articles portray? <b>A backyard beach party? Goldfish? Really?</b><b><br /></b>I went back to the <a href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/" target="_blank">The Portal to Texas History</a> website to find the full page from where I clipped this particular article. <b>Something was very fishy</b>! This was page three of the edition, but instead it resembled a front page.</blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">The Thresher, April 1st, 1938<br />
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The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, April 1, 1938, Newspaper, April 1, 1938; digital images, (<a href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth230417">http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth230417</a>/ : accessed March 18, 2013), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University: Woodson Research Center, Houston, Texas.</td></tr>
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<br />This was an April Fools edition!<br />Ethel may have taken part in writing this article as she was an associate editor. The joke may have been played on her, but I'd like to imagine she took it well. After all, she did continue on at the publication and was even the Staff Nominee for Assistant Editor later on that year. In truth, Ethel did host the Writing Club at her home, but the meetings were not half as much fun as this imaginary beach party. The true report of the meeting she hosted on May 2nd of that year reads as follows:</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">"At the last meeting, held Monday, May 2nd, at the home of Ethel Bloomfield, Mary Bethany and Helen Saba read short stories and Harry Hold and Clyde Terry read poems. All works read at the meetings of the Writing Club are written either by Rice Institute students or graduates."</span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, May 13, 1938, Newspaper, May 13, 1938; digital images, (http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth230423/: accessed March 18, 2013),<br />
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University: Woodson Research Center, Houston, Texas.</td></tr>
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<br />Thankfully, my grandmother's image was restored from party animal, to serious aspiring writer!</blockquote>
Smadarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09765946753514711483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510150534438159918.post-60262869014907597632013-04-01T12:03:00.005-04:002013-04-01T12:07:26.564-04:00Back to School<br />
The next section of the scrapbook is also packed with articles. Two more pages of the Ethel's scrapbook are pack with articles spanning only four days: September 12-15. This first article is noted as Back-to-School and had not one, but two large photos. In this article, Ethel chose to celebrate Rice's advancements into modernity by examining Rice's History!<br />
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Rice Grows From Four Buildings On Prairie to Modern Institute </h3>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">September 12, 1939 back-to-school</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"Rice Institute which begins its twenty-seventh academic session with classes Monday, started an education infant in 1912 and has grown to one of the nation’s outstanding seats of learning. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Some 1350 students will register at Rice Institute this year, it was announced, about 400 of them freshmen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But the students who go to Rice Institute this year to begin another year of study will meet a far different scene than did the comparative handful of students who were on deck to begin their college education when Rice first open it’s doors on September 23, 1912. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Today beautiful landscaped grounds and buildings of conforming architecture greet the new students. In 1912 Rice Institute was just four buildings on plowed prairie land with no tree or shrub in sight. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But the 59 students who registered for the first classes saw that the foundations of a great institution had been laid, and the opening exercises gave notice to the world that nothing but the best was aspired to, that the new institution proposed to take its place among the greatest in the world. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">William March Rice<br />
Source: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/E.G.%20Williams%20&%20Bro.,%20WRC,%20http://www.rice.edu/fondren/woodson/founder.html" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The story of Rice Institute is a colorful-one. This beginning, with high aspirations, had been made possible by a New Englander who came to Texas a youth, became rich and left $15,000,000 of his fortune for the building and maintenance of a large educational plant for Houston Texas. That New Englander was William Marsh Rice, for whom the institute is named.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Dr. Edgar Odell Lovett, who has been president of Rice since its inception, and other heads of the college have brought to Houston many distinguished individuals as lecturers and about as many able scholars are resident members of the institute itself. It has gained steadily in national recognition both for its scholastic standing and its athletic teams.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Edgar Odell Lovett<br />
Source: <a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/campanile1917rice#page/n9/mode/1up" target="_blank">Rice Campanile Yearbook 1917</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">On Rice’s faculty are several internationally noted scientist, among them Dr. Harry Boyer Weiser, professor of chemistry; Dr. Asa Crawford Chandler, professor of biology, and Dr. Edgar A Altenberg assistant professor of biology.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The institute offers a liberal education in arts, as well as in sciences and engineering, for which it is particularly noted."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The first publication of the student newspaper at Rice, the Threser, was published Thursday, September 14th, in anticipation of the first day of class, Monday September 18th. All of the articles we have reviewed so far, were published prior to the first day of school. She continues to review the changes at Rice in preparation for the new academic year. I don't know about you, but I'm excited for the academic year of 1939-1940 to finally begin!</span>Smadarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09765946753514711483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510150534438159918.post-72047240254856241562013-03-29T09:15:00.000-04:002013-03-29T09:24:21.615-04:00Summer 1939The last article Ethel published in the August 31- September 10th period was a "meet the professor" type article. Many of the mentioned professors appear in the Rice yearbook from 1938. I added their pictures as well as highlighted their names in red to help us get acquainted with them. Looks like the mustache was "in" during the summer of 1939!!<br />
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From the article, it is apparent that many of the professors traveled within the US and abroad. Historically, 1939 was the end of the Great Depression. According to the Rice Historical Society, the Great Depression was felt across the board at Rice. In 1932, salaries were cut by 5-10% and the registration fee for students rose from $10 to $25 a year. Students were also required to live on campus for at least one year and pay an additional $18 fee to support various student associations.<br />
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It must have been nice to have a professor's job and be able to travel, while many people were barely recovering from loosing their livelihood. These summer travels are an indication of improving economic times at the Institute and in the country.<br />
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At the same time the US was emerging out of the Depression, Europe was heading into War. On September 1st, only days prior to the publication of this particular article, Germany invaded Poland. The Rice professors returned from quieter parts of Europe and there is no mention in the article of the tentions overseas.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Marcel Moraud<br />
Professor of French</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM-hIVFdt5uPuC4olgVMrmtdDiTaQBAUnbH_jLW1jv-Q1jyb6n-fl9iXmzmn0hFUItiwUtZ4Van8PvuKE0m4srmXVJCtcvWlzNcR2_4T8xfZBWPpPgLc-97QOW17jZ4oVO0ff9erwklOUk/s1600/Bourgeois+1938.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM-hIVFdt5uPuC4olgVMrmtdDiTaQBAUnbH_jLW1jv-Q1jyb6n-fl9iXmzmn0hFUItiwUtZ4Van8PvuKE0m4srmXVJCtcvWlzNcR2_4T8xfZBWPpPgLc-97QOW17jZ4oVO0ff9erwklOUk/s200/Bourgeois+1938.png" width="144" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Andre Bourgeois<br />
Instructor in French</td></tr>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_jLK5R3I-p8eUVxdJmpZaWAMqWJv9jTtH-P2A4hmAE9XaPB7LC5iC8nHWZUdoWBakkElgtIourDBhbV1NPS-V8hhQxBDAii4JDgZ-qOLg96LTgz0jrMA_9jcPSfVyIzecnQH4dQuRa7BN/s1600/008+Professors+At+Rice+End+Europe+Trip+Watermark.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_jLK5R3I-p8eUVxdJmpZaWAMqWJv9jTtH-P2A4hmAE9XaPB7LC5iC8nHWZUdoWBakkElgtIourDBhbV1NPS-V8hhQxBDAii4JDgZ-qOLg96LTgz0jrMA_9jcPSfVyIzecnQH4dQuRa7BN/s1600/008+Professors+At+Rice+End+Europe+Trip+Watermark.jpeg" /></a><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Registration for the new semester at Rice Institute Thursday and Friday is calling back professors and instructors from travels in American and Europe, and from study in libraries and research laboratories.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Four Rice faculty members spent the summer in Europe. </span><i style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: red;">Dr. Thomas W. Bonner</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">, assistant professor of physics, has returned from England, where be was studying at Oxford University on a Guggenheim Fellowship in physic's. </span><i style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: red;">Dr. Marcel Moraud</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">, professor of French, and </span><i style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: red;">Andre Bourgeois</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">, instructor in French, are expected back from France this week, and </span><i style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: red;">Fred V. Shelton</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">, French instructor, will arrive in New Orleans Monday after a summer in Antwerp, Belgium.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">H. E. Bray<br />Professor of Mathematics</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Colorado was chosen by three Rice professors this summer. </span><a href="http://ethelsscrapbook.blogspot.com/2013/03/hot-off-press.html" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: red;">Dr. Harry B. Weiser</span></i>, dean and professor of chemistry, stayed at his summer home in Estes Park, where he completed work on his latest book</a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">, "Colloid Chemistry," published last month. </span><span style="color: red; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i>Dr. H. E. Bray</i></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">, professor of mathematics, was in Eldora, Colo. Dr. </span><i style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: red;">Arthur J. Hartsook</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> returned from Estes Park last week to supervise the construction of a </span><a href="http://ethelsscrapbook.blogspot.com/2013/03/this-is-fifth-and-final-article-ethel.html" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;" target="_blank">new annex to the Rice chemistry building</a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Other members of the chemistry department have had short vacations, but spending most of the summer at work. </span><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">Dr. George H. Richter</span></i><span style="text-align: center;">, assistant professor of organic chemistry, has just completed a laboratory manual for pre-medical students, on which he worked all summer.</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Dr. Allen D. Garrison<br />Assistant Professor of<br />Chemical Engineering</span></td></tr>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: red;">Dr. <i>Frank H. Hurley</i></span>, instructor in analytical chemistry, has just returned from a two-week stay in New York City, and <i><span style="color: red;">Dr. Allen D. Garrison</span></i>, assistant professor of chemical engineering, left last week for a short stay in New York and Boston. Both have spent most of the summer doing chemical research in the Rice laboratories. <span style="color: red;">Dr. <i>Grover L. Bridger</i></span> and <span style="color: red;">Doctor <i>Garrison</i></span> took summer courses in chemical engineering at Pennsylvania State College.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i><span style="color: red;">Dr. George Whiting</span></i> of the English department completed his "Literary Milieu of Milton," on which he has been working for several years. It is being published this fall by the North Carolina Press. <i><span style="color: red;">Dr. Max Freund,</span></i> professor of German, has completed the translating and annotating of a detailed journal on Texas written by Gustav Bresel, young German who visited Texas between 1838 and 1840.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Professor of German</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Harold A. Wilson<br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i><span style="color: red;">Dr. Harold A. Wilson</span></i>, professor of physics, visited Monterrey and Saltillo, Mexico, for a short while. He spent most of the summer working on new high voltage apparatus to be used by the physics a, department to bombard atoms. <i><span style="color: red;">Dr. Claude W. Heaps</span></i>, professor of physics, visited Springfield, Mass., and the New York World Fair.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><a href="http://ethelsscrapbook.blogspot.com/2013/03/fridays-faces-from-past-professor-c.html" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: red;">Dr. Asa C. Chandler</span></i></a>, professor of biology, is in New York at the third international congress of microbiology, and <a href="http://ethelsscrapbook.blogspot.com/2013/03/what-to-make-of-two-almost-identical.html" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: red;">Dr. W. 0. Milligan</span></i></a> is in <a href="http://ethelsscrapbook.blogspot.com/2013/03/rice-institute-to-be-represented-at-meet.html" target="_blank">Boston at the ninety-eighth national congress of the </a></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><a href="http://ethelsscrapbook.blogspot.com/2013/03/rice-institute-to-be-represented-at-meet.html" target="_blank">American Chemical Society</a>, which Doctor Garrison will also attend.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">W. O. Milligan<br />Research Assistant in Chemistry</span></td></tr>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Only three of the instructors will not return to Rice when<br />
classes open September 18. <i><span style="color: red;">Dr, Irwin C. Kitchin</span></i>, instructor in biology for three years, will become assistant professor of zoology the University of North Carolina.</span></span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i><span style="color: red;">Doctor Bridger</span></i> is now with the TVA, and <i><span style="color: red;">Dr. James Greely</span></i>, formerly with the civil engineering department left the faculty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Spanning this eleven day period, Ethel published a total of eight articles, four of which were published on September 10th. They provide a view into the university as it readies itself for a new academic year. </span><br />
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Smadarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09765946753514711483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510150534438159918.post-53889583381352180072013-03-28T12:48:00.000-04:002013-03-28T20:27:23.997-04:00Hot Off the PressAccording to the Encyclopedia <b id="internal-source-marker_0.09481568960472941" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Britannica</span></b> "A colloid is a substance microscopically dispersed throughout another substance." Rice university was blessed with a world expert on the subject, it's very own Dean and professor, Dr. Harry Boyer Weiser. We've met Dr. Weiser several times already as he was mentioned in various other articles. See <a href="http://ethelsscrapbook.blogspot.com/2013/03/rice-institute-to-be-represented-at-meet.html" target="_blank">Rice Institute to Be Represented at Meet</a>, for a photo of Ethel receiving her diploma from Dr. Weiser. Here, in another article from the first ten days of September, Ethel continues to report on the Chemistry department and her professor's new textbook.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">First copies of a textbook, <b>just off the press</b>, entitled "Colloid Chemistry," have been received at Rice Institute by the author, Dr. Harry B. Weiser, professor of chemistry and dean of the institute.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Giving numerous applications of colloid chemistry in agriculture, industry and home economics, Doctor Weiser has tried to provide a textbook that will keep the students interested in the technical study through practical applications. Examples of this are the including of a method of manufacturing ammonia, the theory of why Jello and other gelatin desserts jell, a process for making petroleum drilling muds, and even a recipe for making mayonnaise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Gall stones and agate both come from colloidal materials, he points out in another section of the book. Insect sprays are made to cover a larger area, wet the surface more thoroughly and last longer due to the addition of proper colloids.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This is the sixth book Professor Weiser has published. The text is intended to give the student a thorough grounding in colloid chemistry, with special attention to the modern theories and developments, and also to acquaint him,with the wide applications of science to industrial arts, biology land agriculture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Applications to lubrication, adhesives and soaps are made in the first section of the book, in which absorption is taken up. Bentonite, the material which prevents the hardening of clay in the earth's strata around the drill in drilling for petroleum, is discussed in the division on colloidal gelatins.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Dyes and dyestuffs are discussed in a later section, in which technical methods of keeping cloth from spotting when dyed brilliant colors are pointed out. The section also presents the best methods of preparing blueprints.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The book, to be used this year in Professor 'Weiser's courses at Rice in colloidal chemistry for senior and graduate students, is an outgrowth of his 25 years of experience as an instructor and professor in the science at Cornell University, the University of Tennessee. and Rice Institute.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Doctor Weiser is a member of the executive committee of Sigma Xi, national honorary science fraternity; chairman of the National Colloid Symposium, and chapter councillor of the Rice Chapter a Phi Lambda Upsilon, national honorary chemistry association. He is one of the foremost American authorities on colloid chemistry."<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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The book is now out of print, though a few used copies are available on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Colloid-Chemistry-Harry-Boyer-Weiser/dp/B002IXFH9Q" target="_blank">amazon for about $3.00</a>. My hunch is that Ethel, a senior in 1939, would have signed up for this class and was the first of Chemistry students around the country to use the textbook, written by the renown professor. Dr. Weiser seemed ahead of his time in trying to make Chemistry more attractive to students by focusing on it's practical implications.<br />
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Smadarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09765946753514711483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510150534438159918.post-78580967099589687202013-03-22T18:20:00.000-04:002013-03-28T12:38:51.603-04:00What to Make of Two Almost Identical Scrapbook Articles?Just when I was feeling pretty confident that Ethel's articles were all most likely clipped from the Houston Chronicle where she worked her senior year, I turned to the second page of the scrapbook and found the following article. You may recognize the content from last weeks post: <a href="http://ethelsscrapbook.blogspot.com/2013/03/rice-institute-to-be-represented-at-meet.html" target="_blank">Rice Institute to Be Represented at Meet</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Dr. W. O. Milligan of the chemistry department at Rice Institute will address the ninety-eighth national meeting of the American Chemical Society at Boston, </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">September 10. Doctor Milligan will speak before the division of colloid chemistry on "Electron Diffraction Studies on the Hydrous Oxides Amorphous to X-Rays." This address will be a report of recent research work carried out in the Rice Institute chemical laboratories by Prof. Harry B. Weiser, dean, and Doctor Milligan. The results of this work will be published later in a chemical journal.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The technique of electron diffraction is being used by these two Rice scientists to study the structure and constitution of colloidal materials, such as the hydrous oxides of iron and aluminum. Professor Weiser and Doctor Milligan have applied the method of X-ray diffraction to the problem of the constitution of the hydrous oxides :for 10 years. A fine beam of high speed electrons is allowed to pass through a very thin film of the oxide being examined. If the oxide is crystalline, a pattern of concentric rings will be recorded on a photographic plate. The entire apparatus is within a high vacuum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Doctor Milligan will attend a meeting of the national research council committee on the application of X-rays to chemistry and chemical technology in Boston, September 13.</span><br />
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I've included a photo of the first article here again for comparison and closer examination. The information is similar but not identical. Interestingly, the date handwritten on the first post was September 10th, while on the post from the second page, September 1st. The second post (though from an earlier date) is a bit longer and more technical in it's description of Dr. W. O. Milligan's research. This article is marked by lines, an making we already observed last week on an earlier article. The headline on the second article written in all Capital letters while on the earlier clipping, it's written in title format with only the first letter of each word capitalized.<br />
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This new finding leads me to question the theory that all of these articles originated from one newspaper. It's unlikely the Houston Chronicle posted two articles discussing the same Rice professor travelling to the same conference in a span of ten days.<br />
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I double checked the Threser and could not find this articles in any of the September publications. As far as I can tell, there wasn't a September first publication. The Thresher was published on Friday. The September 1st, would have been a Sunday. Therefore I believe one of these articles must have been published in the Houston Press while the other in the Houston Chronicle. A theory I will have to prove by examining these two publications on Microfilm, hopefully in the near future!<br />
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I found a picture of Dr. Milligan and his later achievements from a Southwest Resort article in 1950.<br />
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<br />Smadarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09765946753514711483noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510150534438159918.post-88376701171907060772013-03-20T14:06:00.004-04:002013-03-20T14:51:46.472-04:00Workday Wednesday Downtown Houston c1940<span style="font-family: inherit;">A couple of weeks ago, as I was finalizing the idea for this blog, I pulled out a photo of my grandmother Ethel, and placed it, front and center on my desk.This is my system of raising a photo high up on the priority lists of photos to investigate. After my experience with the Guenard Speed & Clemens building from another mystery photo (see: <a href="http://the-past-to-the-present.blogspot.com/2013/01/where-was-this-picture-taken.html" target="_blank">Where Was This Picture Taken?</a>) I knew, the writing on the awning behind Ethel, was a huge bonus and should help me discover the story behind this photograph.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgetaaEVEtHYjjptf51Y4SbCCI3tOQVBfLUUBEPJIGW-EVAeTAD-p0l-eNwTSDSe5EOPLFtAgRZO4zFbLmTOw9TGGluN7D4nPZoYJ1kJI-K-VQO-phOiOZSnWWJmq4Lv-q5Fynv3SKr06Cm/s1600/Ethel+infront+of+Houston+Optical+Co.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgetaaEVEtHYjjptf51Y4SbCCI3tOQVBfLUUBEPJIGW-EVAeTAD-p0l-eNwTSDSe5EOPLFtAgRZO4zFbLmTOw9TGGluN7D4nPZoYJ1kJI-K-VQO-phOiOZSnWWJmq4Lv-q5Fynv3SKr06Cm/s400/Ethel+infront+of+Houston+Optical+Co.jpeg" width="248" /></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">Last January, via <a href="https://twitter.com/StoredTreasures" target="_blank">twitter</a>, I met Lorraine Arnold (@<a href="https://twitter.com/LegacyRoots" target="_blank">LegacyRoots</a>) who specializes in the history of buildings and business. Lorraine, was able to identify the location of a building in a photo of Ethel's father, William Bloomfield from around 1920. She featured this amazing photo detective tale in her blog <a href="http://www.legacyroots.com/1/post/2013/01/where-was-this-picture-taken.html" target="_blank">Legacy Roots</a>. I hope Lorraine will be proud of the photographic detective work I was able to do with Ethel's photo today!<br />Though the writing on the awning behind Ethel is obstructed by her head, thanks in part to the glasses, it's pretty obvious the sign says Houston Optical Co.</span><br />
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The crowds and tall buildings indicate a busy Downtown Houston street. Her outfit, the fitted blazer, sharp skirt and high heeled pumps suggest Ethel was dressed for work. She looks pretty young, so I am estimating the photo to be from around the early 1940s. Maybe heading to her first job as a secretary after college.<br />
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My next step was to look for information on the Houston Optical Co. Google was unhelpful so I turned to the US Ci Directory on <a href="http://ancestry.com/">Ancestry.com</a>. I went to the 1940 City of Houston Directory and BINGO!<br />
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The Houston Optical Co., owned by Ronald M Chamberlin, was located on 1006 Texas Avenue, Houston, Texas.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989 (Beta) [database on-line].</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Then I had another thought. Maybe this was next to the Houston Chronicle offices. I flipped back one page and found the entry for the daily paper where Ethel was a Rice Correspondent, during her senior year (1939-1940). The Houston Chronicle was housed in the Chronicle Building, 512-520 Travis Street, Houston, Texas.</span><br />
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Next, I need to figure out how far apart were these two locations. I returned to google, this time, entering the two locations on google maps. This is a crude estimation of the 1940s location, but hoping the lots haven't been renumbered to many times since 1940, it should give me a good idea of the proximity of where this photo was taken and Ethel's stomping grounds, The Houston Chronicle. (Note: I did also check on the address of the Houston Press, where Ethel worked during her junior year, 2001-2019 Rusk Avenue, which was much further away from the Houston Optical Co. location).<br />
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Point A is 1006 Texas Avenue, the location of the 1940 Houston Optical shop. Point B is 512-520 the location of the Houston Chronicle building (which today takes up the whole block). As you can see, Travis Street and Texas Avenue intersect. If you click a street view at the Texas Avenue location, this is what you see:<br />
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The building today is the Historic Rice Hotel Building which houses the Post Lofts, and spans from Travis to Main Street on Texas Avenue.<br />
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If you follow the virtual tour around the historic building and onto Travis Street, you find yourself in this spot:<br />
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Your view from the Travis Street corner of the expanded Chronicle building is:<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">You can zoom in and see the historic street lamps the city of Houston preserved for the district, almost identical to the ones from Ethel's photo (take another look). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">The Rice Hotel, according to the Houston's City Directory, spanned from 917-925 Texas Avenue. The Houston Optical Co. at 1006 Texas Avenue was at the Main Street intersection, literally across the street from the Hotel. There is not enough detail in the buildings in Ethel's photos, to pinpoint which direction of the street the picture was taken from. What is clear, she was standing on the corner of 1006 Texas Avenue between main street and Travis Street where the old Chronicle building stood. I'm pretty sure the building to her left (to the right side of the photograph) must be the Rice Hotel. Here are some old postcards of the old Houstonian landmarks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">What precisely was my stylish grandmother doing in the hip part of Houston that day, I can only guess, so I'll put my best guest forward. I think she was either dropping off an article, going to a staff meeting or maybe picking up her $15 paycheck from the Houston Chronicle. Maybe in her bag she had a copy of that day's edition to take home and cut out her article for the scrapbook?</span></span></div>
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This is the fifth and final article Ethel posted on the first page of her scrapbook. They were published in a period of 11 days, from August 31st-September 10th. And again, the Chemistry department makes news. Three of the articles feature the department where Ethel studied. We'll have to see if this is a trend, or just a coincidence.<br />
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As the country was pulling out of the great-depression which lasted from 1929-1939, Rice was investing in the sciences, particularly the Chemistry department, buying new equipment and building new labs. The new fall semester was just underway and Ethel was about to enjoy both the new Mess hall and the extra space in the Chemistry building (her major), just in time for her senior year.<br />
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"Construction is Speeded on Rice’s Campus September 11th, 1939.</h3>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Size of Mess Hall Almost Doubled and Annex to Chemistry Building is Being Completed.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Nearness of the new school semester is speeding the completion of two construction projects begun this summer on the Rice Institute campus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The mess hall, between South Hall and East Hall in the men's dormitories, has been enlarged to almost double the former capacity and the chemistry building has a new annex to be used by the chemical engineering department.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The addition to the mess hall will accommodate about 300 students, bringing the total capacity of the dining room to around 650.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">About 2000 square feet of floor space has been added, Albert Meyerson, contractor, said.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Chemistry Building Annex.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The chemistry building annex contain equipment for senior chemical engineering students. Several large pieces of apparatus bought recently by the department will be moved from the basement laboratories into the new section immediately. A 100-plate copper fractionating still, installed last winter, will be the first piece of equipment to be moved into the laboratory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The annex will provide space to complete the demonstration of every unit process in chemical engineering, Dr. Arthur J. Hartsook, assistant professor of chemical engineering at Rice, believes. Blueprints for several new pieces of equipment to illustrate each of these processes are being made by Dr. Hartsook. He is in charge of designing and will supervise construction.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> Apparatus Included.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Apparatus to be placed in the annex for use in advanced courses includes a fractionating tower, a temperature control column, rotary dryer, humidifier, small steam boiler for heat material balance, and equipment to illustrate absorption and adsorption, rectification, thickening, hydraulic<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>classification, crystallization extraction, and water softening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The laboratory, 55 feet long and 30 feet wide, is two floors high with an iron tap-walk at the mid story level. A scientifically designed skylight will give illumination much better than that found in laboratories of most large Eastern colleges. The annex was built to alleviate the crowding in the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">original laboratories when the department acquired several new pieces of apparatus last year."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">When I launched this blog last week, I was unsure which newspaper the articles in the scrapbook came from, the Thresher—the Rice weekly student publication, the Houston Press or the Houston Chronicle. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have now, confirmed that they did not come from the Thresher. See if you reach the same conclusion:</span><br />
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"Chemistry Building Increased To Hold Special Apparatus</h3>
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New Laboratory Offers Seniors Method For Unit Operation</h4>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Added space has been given the senior chemical engineering students, said Arthur J. Hartsook, assistant professor of chemical engineering, this summer by the construction of new wing to the north side of the Chemistry building. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This addition was needed to place special apparatus which has been designed for "chemical engineering student operations, experience and knowledge."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The continuation from this article was practically illegible and I did not attach it here. There was a separate article in this same publication about the Mess Hall expansion titled, <b>Mess Hall Grows, Seniors Floored</b>, which went into more detail of how it affected the student body especially which dorm. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Surprisingly, these Thresher articles do not credit the author. In previous years, the student paper listed the reporter at the top of most articles. In 1939 they must have changed their policy, so it's unclear who wrote these matching articles. My guess is that Ethel first submitted her work to the Chronicle and then tailored the same articles for the Rice student body. She most likely wrote both set of articles, though she was not listed as a contributor to this particular issue dated Sep 14th, 1939. It's possible another student wrote the Rice articles, we'll never know for sure. One thing is sure. The scrapbook articles are not from the Thresher! </span><br />
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For the second time in a week, the chemistry department at Rice makes news! This time, faculty members will be heading to Boston, while their college Professor Chandler from the Biology department will be in NY.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">From Rice Yearbook 1938</span><br />
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profesor Harry B. Weiser at graduation, June 1940.</td></tr>
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The scrapbook articles so far, portray Ethel as a serious aspiring reporter. Today, on my other blog, <a href="http://the-past-to-the-present.blogspot.com/2013/03/day-17-fearless-females-social.html" target="_blank">Past-Present-Future</a>, I shared a lighter side of Ethel. As part of an ongoing series commemorating Women's History Month spearheaded by <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/101817326277916487317" target="_blank">+Lisa Alzo</a>'s. Today's prompt was: Social Butterflies, and I couldn't resist including the story about Ethel under that prompt, although it really should have been posted as part of Ethel's Scrapbook. Do make sure to check out! <a href="http://the-past-to-the-present.blogspot.com/2013/03/day-17-fearless-females-social.html" target="_blank">Day 17: Fearless Females: Social Butterfly? Very Fishy! </a></div>
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Smadarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09765946753514711483noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510150534438159918.post-77477086938865438092013-03-17T16:18:00.001-04:002013-03-17T16:20:29.061-04:00Yearbook 1937-1938Ethel's pasted her articles into her scrapbook during her senior year at Rice Institute. It was the academic year of 1939-1940. While most of her classmates at Rice were twenty-one years old or so, Ethel, had just turned seventeen. She was young, and female. The first three clippings hinted at the difficulties of women on campus. The discrimination felt by women was not unique to Rice. Since, this is Women's History Month, I thought it would be interesting to look at some of the statistics regarding women at Rice during my grandmother's stay and see how far women have come in a span of three generations!<br />
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Rice, founded in 1912, was unusual amongst institutions of higher learning, as it accepted women from the get-go. The class of 1912, made up of 48 young men and 29 young women, was taught by twelve member faculty (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_University" target="_blank">Rice University</a>). Today, there are more than six thousands students, close to four thousand undergraduates, 48% of whom are female, <a href="http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rice-university-3604" target="_blank">according to US News college ranking</a>.<br />
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The 1938 Rice Yearbook, the Campanile, is available on <a href="http://ancestry.com/">ancestry.com</a> as part of their US School Yearbooks online database. Ethel was a member of the sophomore class.<br />
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<b>Statistics gathered from the 1938 Yearbook:</b><br />
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<li>Board of trustees members: 7 members. All men</li>
<li>Administration Offices: President, Dean, Registrar, Bursar and Advisor to Women. All male, except the Advisor to Women, Sarah L. Lane.</li>
<li>Professors: 13, all men.</li>
<li>Assistant professors: 8, all men.</li>
<li>Instructors: 22, all men.</li>
<li>Assistance and Fellows: 23, (22 men, 1 woman).</li>
<li>Graduate Students: 6, all men.</li>
<li>Student Council: 6, (4, men, 2 women).</li>
<li>Class Representatives 9 (5, men, 4 women).</li>
<li>Women's Council: 12 women.</li>
<li>Honor Council: 9 (4 men, 5 women).</li>
<li>Sophomore Class: 362 students, (98 women about 27%)</li>
<li>Pre-Med and Pre-Law and Engineering Societies. All male. </li>
<li>Band: All male.</li>
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The faculty, was just about all male, but the university, sensitive to the women students, established an administrative position, the Advisor to Women to help the female students. The picture in the student body was quite different, and the women were well represented in the Student Council. They also advocated for themselves with the Women's Council. Careers like Medicine, Law and Engineering were completely male dominated. It would be interesting to see how many women compared to men, reached graduation. I bet, many, like Miss Whatley mentioned in the August 31st, 1939 article: <a href="http://ethelsscrapbook.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2013-03-15T01:10:00-04:00&max-results=1&start=1&by-date=false" target="_blank">Psychology Teacher And Rice Student Wed in New Mexico</a>. The article only mentions that her husband, Professor Pattie, continued his professorship. It's unlikely the new Mrs. Pattie, continued her studies. For those of you curious to see what Miss Whatley looked like, I finally was discovered her photograph in the yearbook (I was looking in the wrong year).<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Source: Ancestry.com. U.S. School Yearbooks [database on-line].<br />Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.<br />Original data: Various school yearbooks from across the United States.</span><br />
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Smadarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09765946753514711483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510150534438159918.post-54011333572036946862013-03-16T10:42:00.001-04:002013-03-16T12:32:15.624-04:00Rice Opens New Courses in Chemistry<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Today's article interestingly is about the Chemistry department. Ethel would have been a Junior in 1939 and a student of chemistry so this subject close to her heart. Noteworthy is the last section when she mentions which of the students were awarded fellowships. All four were men. In her unfinished memoir did describe the discrimination she felt applying for jobs in chemistry once she graduated. I wonder if she began noticing this kind of discrimination within the department as well. It will be interesting to see future articles about the chemistry department in the future. </span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This is the second article dated September 3rd (<a href="http://ethelsscrapbook.blogspot.com/2013/03/fridays-faces-from-past-professor-c.html" target="_blank">yesterday's post, </a></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://ethelsscrapbook.blogspot.com/2013/03/fridays-faces-from-past-professor-c.html" target="_blank">Professor A. C. Chandler</a>, was about a Biology professor). There seems to be a science theme to day. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I doubt new courses in any department at Rice would make the local newspapers today. It's interesting to think that type of information was worth of a newspaper article back then. Today, we may hear about new innovative programs at universities, but not a minor expansion</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> of courses in a small department nor a trip to a conference by a conference by one professor. </span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Remember Professor Pattie from the psychology department? The one Ethel wrote about in an article earlier the same week which <a href="http://ethelsscrapbook.blogspot.com/2013/03/welcome-to-ethels-scrapbook.html" target="_blank">I shared on the debout of this blog</a>? Yes, the assistant professor who ran off to marry a student? Well, I was curious about him, and decided to look up the "scandalous" couple in the Rice Yearbook, the Campanile. There he sits at the bottom of the page. His bride, Miss Whatley is conspicuously missing from the Sophomore class where she reportedly belonged. I hope to find her in the future!</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A page from Campanile, Rice Institute Yearbook 1938<br />
Assistant Professor Dr. Frank A Pattie, Jr. bottom right.<br />
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Ancestry.com. U.S. School Yearbooks [database on-line].<br />
Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.<br />
Original data: Various school yearbooks from across the United States.</td></tr>
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Smadarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09765946753514711483noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510150534438159918.post-62214803831711495532013-03-15T01:10:00.003-04:002013-03-28T12:44:20.813-04:00Friday's Faces from the Past: Professor A. C. ChandlerYesterday's launch of Ethel's Scrapbook was quite successful! The blog enjoyed 100 visitors! <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/115494511402954896342" target="_blank">+Jana Last</a> was the first to join! Thanks <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/115494511402954896342" target="_blank">+Jana Last</a> and welcome to all my new members and readers!<br />
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One of mysteries posed by Ethel's scrapbook is which publication the articles came from. By process of elimination, I believe I have narrowed down the possibilities from three to two. After studying the Thresher weekly online, on the <a href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/" target="_blank">The Portal to Texas History</a> website, I am convince these clippings do not come from the Rice student newspaper. The Thresher articles, for the most part, list the author. My grandmother is credited to quite a few articles. Therefore, I believe the articles in the scrapbook come from her job as the Rice correspondent for the two local Houston papers, the Houston Chronicle and the Houston Press.<br />
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Today's article is titled <b>Rice Professor Leaves To Talk at Biology Meeting. </b>Interestingly, the article is crossed out (see image below). Several other articles throughout the scrapbook are crossed out as well. I am hoping to discover a pattern that might explain why she chose to draw a line through some of these articles. I present to you, article #2 from Ethel's scrapbook:<br />
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Rice Professor Leaves To Talk at Biology Meeting 9/3/1939</h3>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Dr. A. C. Chandler, professor of biology at Rice Institute, left Saturday for a three-week visit to New York, where he will give a paper on "Investigation of Immunity in Tape Worm Infections" before the Third International Congress of Microbiology.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The congress will be held from September 4 to 9, and will feature talks by leading biologist from many nations. Doctor Chandler is corresponding member from the section on parasitology, and is the only Texan who will be on the program. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"In experiments I found that tape worms absorb the food from nourishment a person takes into his body, and that if there is only one tape worm its growth is successful and long lived. But if more than one are found in a person , all die except for one. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"There might be two reasons for such results. Either the person is immune from tape worm or the other can not grow because they are crowded.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"In the experiment, I fed rats already infected with tape worms with larve worms from beetles. After observing the rats for several days an operation was performed and all but one of the worms removed. The result was that the worm continued to grow after the others were removed. This proved that the person was not immune, but that worms could not grow because they were crowded. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"Experiments with vaccine were not successful A vaccine had no effect on the worm in the infected rat. Even when the vaccine was given by mouth the tape worm was not harmed. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"Premunition was the conclusion of the experiments," Doctor Chandler said. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Premunition means protection against infection while the patient is infected. In other words if a person is the victim of tape worm disease, no other tape worm can become dangerous until the infectious one is destroyed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The Summary of his address was given by the doctor before he left.</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Now what scientist today goes to a three week conference? Times have changed! This article spoke to me in several ways. My husband is a scientist who uses rats and mice in his experiments. Apart from the length of the leave, I notice a few other major differences in the evolution of scientific research since my grandmother roamed the Rice campus. For one, no one would draw conclusions on humans directly from a mouse experiment. Mice are a good model, but one can not conclude the same result in human with human trials. Secondly, I had a difficult time reaching the conclusion he drew from the experiment of surgically removing the worms. I read the paragraph several times and I'm still not sure of the conclusion. If it wasn't a direct quote from his report, I would think my grandmother might have misunderstood his experiment. Finally, I'm curious if his results hold true today (I've made a note to look this up). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Since today is Friday Face's From the Past day, I thought I would try to find a picture the renown parasitologist. I did even better. I found a great blog post about him on the <a href="http://centennial.rice.edu/blogs.aspx?blogmonth=3&blogyear=2013&blogid=107" target="_blank">Rice's Historian's Blog</a> by <a href="http://ricehistorycorner.com/author/melissakean/" target="_blank">Melissa Kean</a>. Melissa wrote about a series of coincidences which lead her to learn about professor Chandler. Ethel's article will continue the stings of serendipitous events.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Professor Chandler c1940 from <a href="http://centennial.rice.edu/blogs.aspx?blogmonth=3&blogyear=2013&blogid=107" target="_blank">Historian's Blog</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">One of <a href="http://ricehistorycorner.com/author/melissakean/" target="_blank">Melissa Kean's</a> readers, relayed a rumor that Dr. Chandler smuggled a tapeworm inside himself. Another recalled that he named a tapeworm Homer and provided the<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Yd1HIsRC3gQC&pg=PA293&lpg=PA293&amp#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank"> bibliography</a> to support his claim. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The good news is, this professor did not run off and marry a student like his colleague <a href="http://ethelsscrapbook.blogspot.com/2013/03/welcome-to-ethels-scrapbook.html" target="_blank">Dr. Frank Pattie from the psychology department</a> (see <a href="http://ethelsscrapbook.blogspot.com/2013/03/welcome-to-ethels-scrapbook.html" target="_blank">yesterday's post</a>).</span>Smadarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09765946753514711483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510150534438159918.post-76028541066827873252013-03-14T01:50:00.000-04:002013-03-28T12:43:38.088-04:00Welcome to Ethel's Scrapbook!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ethel, 1936, graduating from <br />
Sam Houston High School. She was a top<br />
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Welcome to Ethel's Scrapbook! I invite you to join me on a remarkable journey. Each day, I will post another articles from the hundreds of articles I discovered in my grandmother's scrapbook.<br />
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Ethel worked as a reporter and associate editor for the Thresher, the weekly student publication at Rice University. She also was the Rice correspondent at The Houston Press (a Scripps Howard paper) and The Houston Chronicle. Her prolific career as a young reporter is even more impressive, when you take into account that she enrolled at Rice, at the age of fourteen.<br />
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Today, as an inauguration post, I would like to start with a picture of the scrapbook, a photograph of Ethel and at her High School graduation, and the first article in the scrapbook. Do check the <a href="http://ethelsscrapbook.blogspot.com/p/about-ethel.html" target="_blank">About page</a>, and the <a href="http://ethelsscrapbook.blogspot.com/p/the-scrapbook.html" target="_blank">scrapbook page</a> of this blog for more information about Ethel the scrapbook. I will be posting everyday, so do check often!<br />
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Rice University</td></tr>
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The inside cover has the following sticker identifying the owner of the scrapbook. From the married names on label, it's clear Ethel pasted this label much later than 1940.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This label must have been pasted after <br />
1970 when she married Fred Alzofon.<br />
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And now...the first article from the scrapbook.<br />
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Psychology Teacher And Rice Student Wed in New Mexico 8/31/1939</h3>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A campus romance between professor and student was climaxed in Roswell, N.M. when Dr. Frank A Pattie, Jr., and Miss Billie Bess Whatley were married there, it was learned here Thursday. </span><br />
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The marriage, according to an Associated Press dispatch Thursday, was performed last Thursday at St. Andrew's Episcopal church of Roswell by Rev. Frederick B. Howden, Jr., rector. It said that after a wedding trip to Mexico City, the couple will return to Houston. </span><br />
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Dr. Pattie, assistant professor of psychology at Rice Institute and Miss Whatley, who finished her sophomore year at Rice last June, became acquainted two years ago when she entered the institute as a freshman taking a pre-medical course, friends here said. </span><br />
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The romance, which was not generally known on the campus, began last fall when Miss Whatley enrolled in Doctor Pattie's introductory psychology course at Rice. </span><br />
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During her year's study of psychology, the young student had helped Profesor Pattie with several of his experimental research projects by serving as a subject. </span><br />
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The young professor, a former instructor at Harvard University, holding degrees from Vanderbilt, Harvard and Princeton, and his bride will make their home in Houston. Doctor Pattie will continue his professorship.</span><br />
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Mrs. Pattie is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.William Whatley of Roswell, N.M. </span><br />
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Well, there you have it! Seems like this matrimony wasn't quite as scandalous then as it might be today. The professor was involved with a student and didn't lose his job!<br />
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Looking forward to hearing your comments!Smadarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09765946753514711483noreply@blogger.com7