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VOLUME THIRTY.SIX — No. FIFTY-NINE
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HOUSTON, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 194
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Freshman Guidance By-Law Approved By Large Majority
Baker, Belstrom Named to Head New
Committee; to Submit Program Later
The by-law establishing the Freshman Guidance Committee
as a subsidiary of the Student Council was approved in its
present wording by a large majority vote in the referendum
held Monday. Acting on the students' approval of the bylaw,
the Council named Gordon Baker, president of the 1949-50
sophomore class, and Betsy Bel-
Senior Ticket Sales End Soon
Thursday Noon Is Deadline;
Houston to Speak at Banquet
by Bob Flagg
Seniors and undergraduates have
another day to buy tickets or make
reservations for the social activities
of the class of '49. Thursday rioon is
the deadline for reservations.
At the booth in the Lounge tick-
ets are on sale for the senior ban-
quet and dance and for the Senior
American. Attendance is limited for
the senior banquet to seniors and
their dates. To be held at 7 p.m. May
28 in Houston Club, the price for sen-
iors is four dollars a plate, which
also includes admission to the
dance.
Underclassmen may purchase
tickets for this formal dance which
will start at 9 p.m. Buddy Brock
will play until 1 a.m. Admission to
the dance is $2.50 a couple or stag.
The ticket committee emphasized
that tickets for the dance must be
bought also by Thursday noon at the
table in the Lounge.
The menu, prepared in the best
manner of the Houston Club's ex-
pert chefs, includes shrimp cocktail,
broiled half of young spring
chicken, fresh buttered psring peas,
vegetable salad with Houston Club
special dressing and Boston cream
pie.
President William V. Houston will
be at the banquet at which Dean
Hugh S. Cameron will be the prin-
cipal speaker. The banquet pro-
grams, prepared by the mellifluous
honeyed-tongues 'of the historical
committee, will be distributed to all
those attending. Also alumni offi-
cers will be elected at the banquet.
The Senior American, last social
event of the '49ers, will be held May
3,0 in the Junior League. Tickets
foij this event, an afternoon tea
dance, are $1.50 a couple.
"Eight bucks, ye gods that's
steep!" said one senior (Ed. Note:
Bob Flagg said it.) It was pointed
out to this recalcitrant reactionary
that the price includes a four dollar
a plate dinner as well as admision
to the dance. "Besides, it's the last
time the class of '49 will ever get
together again." -
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Blanket Tax Photos
Due During Exams
Bishop I. E. Hines
Mr. Hugh S. Cameron announced
Thursday that blanket tax pictures
for next year will be taken during
finals this year. All students now
in school and intending to be back as
blahket-tax payers next year mu*t
.get their pictures taken this year.
The penalty for failure to get the
picture taken this year will be a $1
fine next year. Eddy Soniat and
Dan Daggett, the two student pho-
tographers who are to handle the
blanket tax pictures, will set up
their studio in the. room beneath
the main stairway to the Student
Lounge, around the corner from
the Publications office. Soniat and
Daggett will have their studio open
from 11:00 to 1:00 daily from May
13 to May 19. The, studio will be
open from 12:00 to 2:00 from the
20th to the 28th of May.
Hines Will Address
Graduating Class
Dr. John E. Hines, Bishop Coad-
jutor of the Diocese of Texas, will
deliver the Baccalaureate sermon to
the Class of '49. Bishop Hines stud-
ied at the Virginia Theological Sem-
inary and the University of the
South, receiving his Doctor of Di-
vinity degree from the latter school.
Befor-e becoming Coadjutor in 1945,
he was rector of Christ Church.
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Student Acquitted
The Honor Council this week tried
a student charged with cheating on
an examination. The accused was
unanimously acquitted.
FA Announces New
Rule for Veterans
Mrs. Asbury, secretary of the Vet-
erans Administration at the Rice
Institute, announced that because
many veteran's G.I. Bills will expire
next year, the following policy will
be adopted: All veterans who are
entering or re-entering the Rice In-
stitute this fall (September 1949)
who do not have enough eligible
time under the G.I. Bill to complete
the school year, will have to pay all
fees upon entering. The veterans
will receive as a refund whatever
amount is collected from the Vet-
erans Administration.
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Doctor D. W. Bronk
Dr. and Mrs. William V. Hous--
ton request the honor of the
presence of the graduating sen-
iors and their guests at an open
house—following commencement
exercises in the Senior Commons.
Lost and Found
Attention Students: There is quite
an assortment of lost armies in the
Lost & Found Department. Coats,
Jackets, pens, pencils, and other mis-
cellaneous articles ALL students who
have lost anything please check with
Lost& Found Department in base-
ment of Lovett Hall,
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Committee Asks Help
All Seniors are i-equested to watch
the bulletin boards for announce-
ments concerning the time and place
for the Distribution of Caps and
Gowns. Receipt for payment or ex-
emption is necessary for identifica-
tion.
The caps and gowns must he woi-n
to both Baccalaureate and. Com-
mencement exercises. The Cap and
Gown Committee urges prompt ca-
operation in order to insure earliest
distribution possible.
Bronk to Deliver
Graduation Speech
Dr. Detlev W, Bronk, newly
elected president of Johns Hopkins
University, will be the commence-
rffent speaker for the Class of '49.
Dr. Bronk is an outstanding scientist
as well as an educator. He studied
at Swarthmore and the University
of Pennsylvania, and received his
Ph.D. at Michigan in 1922. Before
assuming the presdiency of Johns
Hopkins, he taught at the Universi-
ties of Pennsylvania and Michigan,
and Cornell and Swarthmore. The
subjects ?.(.• has taught, physics,
physiology, and biophysics, demon-
strate his familiarity with both the
physical and medical sciences.
strom, vice - president of the
class, as chairman and vice-
chairman of the Guidance Commit-
tee. The Council will meet Thursday
to approve the guidance program
they will submit.
A total of 572 students cast their
votes in the referendum. Of these
152 elected to disapprove the bylaw
in its present wording, while 415
voted in favor of it. There were four
no-votes cast in the election. The
majority vote represents about a 7.'!
percent approval by-the voting stu-
dents. One ballot was unaccounted
fos in the tabulation.
The freshman class cast the larg-
est number of ballots with a total
of 213. One student accounted for
the large turn-out by declaring that
some 54 students from West Hall
were taken to the polls in six cars
to vote as a bloc against rescinding
the bylaw.
The sophomore class cast 157 bal-
lots, while the junior and senior
classes were represented by 123 and
78 votes respectively.
At deadline the remaining mem-
V-ers of the Guidance Committee bad
not been named, but the expected
appointments of Baker and Belstrom
were confirmed by the Student
Council. There was no indication as
to whom the other students would
be who will complete the committee.
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"Review" Progress Reviewed
This year fRe foundation has been
laid for the revival of the equivalent
of the renowned Rice Engineering
Show of pre-war days. In a letter to
the Engineering Society early in
this semester, Dr. Houston gave the
go ahead signal to the desire to
start again the Rice tradition of a
display to be enjoyed by the people
of Houston and the Southwest.
The Engineering Society elected
in April the general manager of the
show, Leo Wroten, Junior Civil En-
gineer. Wroten has appointed nearly
all of the department managers and
the general show officers. Aiding
Wroten as assistant manager will
be C. H. (Steve) Siebenhausen, Jun-
ior Mechanical Engineer. The gen-
eral officers of the show, which is to
be-talled "The Rice Institute Review
${ Science and Arts," are: Program
Manager, Emmett McGeever; Pub-
licity Manager, Finis Cowan; Dis-
play Manager, Bob Bradbury; Traf-
fic Manager, Phil Wright; Power
Manager, Ray Franks; Photog-
raphy, Nelson Miller.
The department managers which
have been appointed to date, are:
Arhtur Beck, E.E.; George Hanson,
C.E.; Sanford Edquist, M.E.;
Thomas Lipscomb, Ch.E.; Gene
Page, Physics; Stewart Riggs, Psy-
chology; Hal Davis; Architecture.
APO, newly formed Boy Scout or-
ganization, will handle traffic and
parking problems.
The Electrical Engineering De-
partment, under the direction of
Arthur Beck, has made the most
extensive plans of any department
thus far. Among other things the
EE's are to build a remote radio
controlled car which will be able to
roam around the Engineering Quad-
rangle. There is a plat afoot to
cook hot dogs on a block of cie by
either induction or electrostatic
heating at the Same time that the
ice is-cooling soft drinks.
The EE's also plan a display of
seismograph equipment, used in de-
tecting vibrations in the earth's
crust. This equipment is used in oil
prospecting and in detecting earth-
quakes.
There will be a representation of
a power distribution and transmis-
sion system and model of the distrib-
utive system used in the Engineer-
ing labs and perhaps in the entire
school. Most of the motors and gen-
erators of the department will be
in operation in various setups, illus-
trating certain principles of elec-
trical engineering in practical appli-
cation.
In the electronics lab there will
be some illumination experiments.
One of the most interesting of these
which has been suggested is a
strip-tease act performde entirely
with lights and as an engineer said
"varying proportion of the primary
colors."
Several-experiments will be con-
ducted in regard to telephones with
several private branch exchanges
located on the campus.
The plans of Radio Club, under
the direction of Director Bob
Schwartz and club chairman Lewis
Stevenson, have also been developed
extensively. These plans were out-
lined in detail in the last issue of
the Thresher.
The Mechanical Engineering dis-
play will center around the labora-
tory work of that department.
Rand Quill Awards
Given for Year
Thresher staff members and con-
tributors have been awarded their
R and Quill pins arid keys for this
year. Brady Tyson and Nancy Hood,
as editor and business manager of
the paper, were given gold keys by
Mr Scardino, while Finis Cowen and
Bob Mcllhenny were awarded silver
keys by the paper for their work
this year.
Gold pins were presented to Ken-
neth Reed, who served as managing
editor before he withdrew from Rice
at mid-term, Emmett McGeever,
w ho took his place, Tom Smith for
his service as assistant business
manager, Ruev Boone, Werner
Grunbaum, David Miller, and How-
ard Martin. The bronze R and Quill
pins were given to Eleanor Stickle-
ber, Etta Colish, Bill Collins, Clarke
Foster, Ted Cornelia, Jeanne Lewis.
Georgia Hink, Camilla Grobe, Da-
vid Braden, and Dewey Gonsoulin.
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Staff Meeting Today
There will be. a special meeting
of the prospective Threshei; Staff
members and contributors in the
office in the basement of Fondren
Library today at noon. Anyone in-
terested in working -for the paper
next year is requested to attend the
meeting to meet the editors of the
pnper and express a desire for the
type of work for which he feels
capable. There are still a few un-
assigned positions for which exper-
ience is expedient, but former work
is not necessarily a requirement for
contributors.
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The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 59, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 18, 1949, newspaper, May 18, 1949; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth230814/m1/1/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.