The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 51, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 20, 1949 Page: 1 of 4
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THE MCE
HOUSTON, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, APR. 20, 1949
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VOLUME THIRTY-SIX — NUMBER FIFTY-ONE
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New Administrative Post Created
Dean Cameron Will Speak
At Publications Banquet
The annual R and Quill Association Banquet will hear
Dean Hugh S. Cameron tomorrow night, it was announced by-
Hugh Howard, Secretary of the Association. The Banquet
will be in the Varsity room of Ye Old College Inn.
The R and Quill Association is composed of all regular
staff members of the Thresher,
Campanile and RI magazine. It
has been the custom in past
years to present the Thresher
and Campanile awards to mem-
bers of the staff at the banquet.
However, this year the awards will
be presented later in the year. The
Executive committee of the R and
Quill Association, composed of the
President, Vice-President, and Sec-
retary-Treasurer, decided .ihat it
would be best to make the ban-
quets looking forward, with the
emphasis always on next year, ra-
ther than orgies of self-congratula-
tion. Mr. Cameron is expected to set
the keynote for the evening, by
emphasizing the responsibilities of
Student publications, and the tasks
they could undertake to aid Rice
in approaching the true university
ideal.
Following the main speaker the
Editor of the Carppanile will in-
troduce the Assistant Editor of the
Campanile, who will outline her
plans for next year's Campanile.
The Business Staff wil 1 do the
same. The Editor of RI will outline
the future of that magazine. (Next
year's Editor has not yet been
chosen). Then the Editor of the
Thresher will introduce next year's
Editor, who will outline his tent-
ative plans. The Business Manager
will introduce her Assistant to the
group.
The last event of the evening will
he the election of new officers for
the Association.
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'Patterns of Interest'
Tests Available; Cards
Should Be Handed In
Dr. B. B. Hudson, assistant pro-
fessor of psychology, announced re-
cently that students interested in-
terested in taking tests to determine
their "patterns of interest" can indi-
cate their interest by dropping a
self-addressed post card in the mail
box outside the Thresher office. If
the tests can be made available the
students will be notified through
these cards as well as announce-
ments in the Thresher.
The tests are not designed as
placement or aptitude examinations,
Dr. Hudson .warned, but are merely
interests surveys and a method of
classifying interests. He said that
he had only a few of the blanks
available now but he has written
for several more types.
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E. B. Bay Party
The E.B.'s held a bay party dur-
ing the holidays at the home of Dr.
and Mrs. 4. Z. Gaston, at Webster
Texas. The girls went down Thursr
day after school and came back Sat*
urday. Dates were invited down for
Saturday evening.
"Review" Officers
To Be Chosen This
Week Says Wroten
Leo Wroten, newly elected Gen-
eral Manager of the all-school show,
said Tuesday that plans for the
"Review'' were progressing rapidly.
"However," he added, "it will take
a great deal of cooperation and
hard work right away to get the
management of the show set up."
Wroten said officers for the show
would be an Assistant Manager, a
Financial Manager, a Program Man-
ager, and a-Publicity Manager in
addition to the General Manager.
Also there will be managers to
handle utilities, display, and traffic.
None of these positions have been
filled yet, but Wroten said there
would be students named to them
by the end of the week. These offi-
cers will serve in a general capacity
over all departments, and the man-
agement of each of the departments
will be handled through depart-
ment managers. Department heads
will name the department managers
either by election of nomination.
Student clubs and organizations
dre invited to take part in the show,
Wroten said, and asked that they
contact him as soon as possible. In
particular he said that he wanted
the A.S.M.E., the Architectural So-
ciety, the Pre-Med Society, and the
R.I.Ch.E. group to elect their man-
agers and contact him, either at
school or at his home, 1949 Santa
Rosa,' W-6-6797.
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Caps and Gowns
Any senior who has not been
measured for his cap and gown
please contact Ernest Maas, J-8-
7505, immediately. The ordefr for
them most be in by Thursday Of
this week.
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AIEE Names Manager,
Elects New Officers
Jimmy Campise was named chair-
man for next year of the Rice stu-
dent branch of the American Society
of Electrical Engineers at a special
meeting April 14th. Alva Carlton
was named vice-chairman, and Char-
lie Cernik was elected Secretary-
Treasurer. Arthur Beck was named
as the E.E. department manager
for- the coming All-School Show.
Hunt McKinley, retiring chairman
of the student E.E.'s, and Campise
will represent the Society at the
state convention meeting in Dallas
on April 19 and 20.
McKinley and Joe Vogt are pre-
senting a paper on measuring the
properties of magnetic fluids at this
convention.
Morehead Chosen
To Assist Houston;
Takes Post May 1st
It was announced Tuesday
that Mr. James Cadall More-
head, Jr. has been appointed
Assistant to the President of
the Rice Institute. He will enter
on his new duties May 1. Mr. More-
head has been associated with the
department of architecture since
1940. He is a graduate of Princeton
University and of Carnegie Institute
of Technology.
From 1942 to 1945 he served
with the Army in the Pacific area
and was commissioned lieutenant
colonel. After returning to Houston
in January, 1946 he was appointed
Professor and later Associate Pro-
fessor of Architecture.
The new position of Assistant to
the President has been established
in view of the increasing variety of
activities of the Rice fnstitute, and
it is expected to make the adminis-
trative office^ more accessible to
students, as well as to others. Mr.
Morehead also plans to continue
some of his teaching in architecture.
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Juniors Plan Prom;
Witt Elect Queen
Next Saturday night, the 23rd,
the Class of '50 will hold their
Junior Prom at the Crystal Ball-
room of the Rice Hotel. The dance,
which will last from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.,
is open to the entire student body,
and will feature the election of the
Queen of the Junior Class, from a
list of candidates already chosen
by the class itself.
There will be five honorees se-
lected by a vote at the door by
each ticket holder. From this court,
the queen* will be the one with the
greatest number of votes, while the
others will be the Duchesses of the
Court. The floor show will feature
a novelty routine by a Fred Astaire
Dance Studio team.
The queen will receive, as a prize,
a course of dance lessons from the
Fred Astaire Dance Studio.
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Navy to Interview
Officer Prospects
The Navy announced that two of-
ficers would be on the campus Tues-
day and Wednesday of next week,
April 26 and 27, to interview stu-
dents interested in obtaining com-
missions in either the regular Navy
or Naval Reserve. The officers will
be in room 205 Lovett Hall, and all
interviews will be handled through
the Placement service. Students will
be requested to sign up for the in-
terviews in advance.
Taff Will Speak At
Rockwell Lectures
"Democracy in Politics and Economics" will be the subject
for the Rockwell Lecture series, Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday evenings. Students, faculty members, and alumni are
invited tp attend the lectures, which will be held in the Lecture
Lounge of the Fondren Library, beginning at 8:15 each night.
Because of limited space in the
RI Positions Open
Applications for the positions of
RI Editor and Business Manager
will be accepted until Wednesday,
May 9, George G. Williams, Secre-
tary of the RI Publications Com-
mittee, announced last week. All per-
sons interested in either of these
positions should submit notes of ap-
plication to Mr. Williams by that
time, at his office in the English De«
partment, on the second floor of An-
derson Hall.
Ex-Boy Scouts Meet
Today at Noon; Will
Form APO Chapter
All ex-Boy Scouts are invited to
attend a meeting today at noon to
consider a proposed constitution and
by-laws for a campus chapter ef
APO, national Boy Scout service
fraternity. The meeting will be in
A.H. 108.
All ex-Boy Scouts, regardless of
length of time in Scouts or rank at-
tained, are eligible for membership
in this organization.
The constitution and by-laws that
will be presented have been prepared
by a temporary steering committee,
with Bill Malseed as chairman. Mal-
seed was named by down-town Scout
officials to see if enough interest ex-
isted on the campus to warrant a
Rice chapter of APO. Other mem-
bers of the committee, named by
Malseed, are Orville Gaither, Frank
Bryan, Leonard Attwell, Jerry Jax,
Phil Wright, and Milton Savage.
Further information concerning
membership and purposes may be
obtained by contacting any of the
above named students, or by attend-
ing the meeting today.
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Returning Vets
Must Fill Out Form
Mrs. Asbury, Veterans Adminis-
tration secretary for Rice, announc-
ed last week that all veterans who
are returning to the Institute (or
even think they are returning) and
all veterans who desire certificates
of eligibility should come to her
desk in Lovett Hall to fill out the
necessary forms. She said that in
the past she has been able to fill
them out but a new* ruling requires
the veterans to sign the forms. She
stressed the fact that signing them
now would save time during regis-
tration next year.
It was also announced that Mr.
Topperwein, who has taken Mr. An-
derson's place, wants to contact all
Part VII men on April 25 and 26
from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. at his desk
in Lovett Hall.
SAACS Plan Field Trip
The next meeting of the Student
Affiliate of the American Chemical
Society will take the form of a field
trip to the Humble Refinery in Bay-
town. The group will leave from in
front of the Chemistry Building at
12:30 Friday. All members . of, the
SAACS, as well as all faculty mem-
bers and graduate students are in-
vited to participate in this trip.
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No Quorum — No Meet
The Student Council did not hold
its usual Thursday noon meeting
last week because a quorum failed
to materialize.
space in
lecture room, reserved seat tickets
will be made available to 3000 stu-
dents and professors. Anyone who
is interested may obtain tickets, as
long as they last, from Miss Whee-
ler, 214 Anderson Hall (phone 252).
Those coming without tickets will
have to take a chance on getting one
of the remaining seats. The 300
seats will be reserved until 8:10.
Charles P. Taft, son of the late
President Taft and brother of Sen-
ator Robert Taft, will deliver this,
the eleventh annual series of Rock-
well Lectures. Mr. Taft is a re-
nowned lawyer, public servant and
churchman. In addition'to his earned
degrees from Yale, he has been
awarded the honorary degree of
LL.D. from six other institutions.
At the present time he is a mem-
ber of the Cincinnati law firm of
Taft and Headley.
He has been appointed to several
governmental positions including
the President's War Relief Board,
as director of wartime economic af-
fairs in the State Department, as
chairman of the federal steel medi-
ation board and as director of com-
munity war services for the federal
security board.
An active worker in lay circles,
Mr. Taft is a member of the central
committee of the Work Council of
Churches, and president of the Fed-
eral Council of Churches of Christ
in Amreica and a trustee of the
Twentieth Century Fund.
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Alumni Association
To Sponsor 'Rice Day'
Celebration Tomorrow
Rice alumni will return to the In-
stitute tomorrow for their annual
spring get-together, "Rice Day." The
program for the alums will begin at
3 p.m. in the stadium-and end with
movies and a dance in the Field
House at 10 p.m.
The Physical Education depart-
ment has made the soft ball dia-
mond, the archery range, the tennis
court, and the golf-greens available
for the returning Riceties use dur-
ing the afternoon. A barbecue will
be h$ld in the stadium at 5:30 p.m.
and various alumni groups plan to
set up carnival booths for amuse-
ments. Prizes will also be given in
a ticket stub drawing to add to the
fun.
After the barbecue, Coach Neely
will show a football picture in one
of the gyms while a dance will be
held in the other one.
The Alumni Association has ex-
tended special invitations to Dr. and
Mrs. Houston, Dr. and Mrs. Lovett,
members of the Board of Trustees,
and the coaching staff.
Arrangements for Rice Day have
been handled by Willoughby Wil-
liams, Cape DeWitt, B. B. Smith,
George Pierce, Herbert Bollfrass,
Walter Murphy, and Pat Quin.
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The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 51, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 20, 1949, newspaper, April 20, 1949; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth230806/m1/1/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.