The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, May 4, 1951 Page: 1 of 6
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VOLUME THIRTT«EI6HT — NUMBER TWENTY-EIGHT HOUSTON, TEXAS MAY 4. 1951
Annual Navy Review
To Be Held Monday
The NROTC will hold its annual spring review for presen-
tation of awards Monday afternoon at 4:45.
Midshipman Robert L. Dalton, Jr., will receive the General
Maurice Hirsch Award for attaining the highest academic ave-
rage in Naval Science 201 and 202, the sophomore course in
Naval Ordnance and Gunnery.
General Hirsch will present
this award.
The Colonel Samuel W. Becker
Award for the graduating midship-
man attaining the highest average
in aptitude for the Naval Service
throughout his midshipman career
of four years will be presented to
Midshipman Richard W. Rauch. Col-
onel Becker will make this presen-
tation. Midshipman Rauch is this
year's Battalion Commander.
The Captain Allan Collette Award
will be presented by Captain Collette,
MC, USNR, to Midshipman Charles
H. Noble, Jr., for attaining the high-
est academic average throughout his
four years on the Rice campus. Mid-
shipman Noble will be commission-
ed a second lieutenant in the Ma-
rine Corps upon graduation.
Also to b£ presented is the Colonel
0V. G. Burchfield Award. This award
is to be presented to Midshipman
Richard L. Thomas for attaining
the highest academic average in
Naval Science * 101 and 102, the
freshman course in Naval Orienta-
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a
Marine Platoon
Leaders' Class
Still Open
The Rice quota for the Marine
Platoon Leaders' Class has been
raised, announced Major Shepard,
USMC. There are still openings in
the program which must be filled
soon. Tentative deadline for appli-
cations is now May 15. Anyone in-
terested in applying for the pro-
gram, which makes a student draft
exempt and leads to a commission
in the Marines, should contact Major
Shepard immediately.
Full details of the program will
appear in next week's Thresher.
Soph Picnic Will
Be Held Sunday
Members of the sophomore class
will hold a picnic Sunday at Lyon-
dell Park. Officers state that the
affair promises to be the biggest
"fete" the sophs have held to date.
Plenty of fried chicken, potato
chips, salad, onions, relishes, bread,
ice cream, beer and cold drinks, will
be on hand. All of this is offered for
the price of 60c per person.
The park site includes a swimming
pool, bath house, patio for dancing,
baseball and activity fields and lots
of shady trees.
Tickets for the picnic are on sale
in the Student Lounge.
Mewhinney Is
R & Quill Banquet
Speaker
The R & Quill Society will hold
its annual banquet next Thursday
night at Cohen House. Mr. Hubert
Mewhinney, popular Houston Post
columnist, will be the speaker. Staff
members of the Thresher, RI and
Campanile whose names appear on
the list posted in the Thresher of-
fice are eligible to attend. Starting
time is 6:30.
To Speak Sunday
Sir Richard V. Southwell, dis-
tinguished British scientist, will be
on the campus Sunday to deliver an
address on "Relaxation Methods: A
Mathematics for Engineers." The
lecture is set for 4 p.m. in the Lec-
ture Lounge of the Fondren library
and will be open to the public.
Prospective engineers should find
the talk of particular interest.
Southwell will use lantern slides
to demonstrate technical methods he
has developed and used over a twen-
ty-year period. Although most of his
work has been in the field of aero-
nautics, his findings are of equal
importance in various other fields
of engineering.
Southwell served in the RAF dur-
ing World War I and has been inter-
ested in aviation ever since. He is
a Fellow of the Royal Society and
formerly served on the Aeronautical
Research Commission. His title at
the present time is "Foreign Asso-
ciate of the National Academy of
Sciences and Fellow of the Institute
of Aeronautical Science."
Southwell has been connected
with the University of California
and is now lecturing at various
schools throughout the United
States.
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King Ranch Trip
Set For Foreign
Students
A trip has been arranged to the
King Ranch on the weekend of May
12-13, for foreign students at Rice
and the University of Houston. The
bus has been engaged to leave Hous-
ton May 12 and return on May 13.
Box lunches will be furnished for
the trip down, and a barbecue will
be given at> the ranch on Saturday
night. The only expense involved
will be approximately two dollars
for tourist court accommodations in
Kingsville, a nearby town, and fifty
cents for breakfast Sunday morn-
ing.
It is possible that the former
charge can be eliminated, if arrange-
ments can be made to use dormi-
tories at Texas A&M College. If
you are interested in the trip, please
report to the President's office not
later than Friday morning, May 4.
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Lapin Elected
Hillel President
Officers of the Hillel Society for
the '51-'52 school year were elected
at the Society's last meeting April
26.
The officers are: Jack Lapin,
President; Norma Jean Stein, Vice-
President; Bernice Davis, Florence
Kessler, Secretaries; Frances Las-
ser, Treasurer; James Beck, Publi-
city Director; A. D. Rosenberg,
Chairman, New Members Commit-
tee; Jack Lapin, Representative to
the Student Religious Council.
Ellis Rudy, outgoing President,
was given a voMj of thanks.
Shakespeare Exhibit
To Be in Fondren
Until May 15
by James Longino
Shakespeare has taken over the
exhibit area on the second floor of
the Fondren Library.
Helen Chillman, making use of
material loaned to the library by
H. R. Maresh, has set up a first
rate display of rare Shakespearean
texts. The idea is that Shakespeare
was born in and died in the month
of April, so the Shakespeare theme
should be carried out.
Technically the whole thing is
illegal because it's not April any-
more. But Miss Chillman, never one
to worry too much over trivialities,
feels a few days one way or the
other shouldn't make a great deal of
difference. After all, Shakespeare
is still Shakespeare . . . the mere
fact that it happens to be May does
not lessen the merit of his dramatic
compositions.
Students wishing to get a look
at original Shakespearean manu-
scripts will have an opportunity to
look at carefully reproduced fac-
similies. Of particular interest are
the many fine prints and illustra-
tions included in the texts, showing
how Shakespeare has been inter-
preted in various ages on the Eng-
lish stage.
David Garrick, as King Richard,
is featured on the back wall along
with "the play's the thing scene"
from Hamlet. Also included are
scenes from Othello and Macbeth.
The books themselves are of var-
ious sizes and shapes, ranging all
the way from the postage stamp
size edition of King Richard II to
a massive leather bound copy of
Merry Wives of Windsor.
The Shakespeare exhibit will be
on display until May 15.
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Sigma Xi Will
Initiate New
Members Tuesday
Undergraduate and graduate stu-
dents who have recently been elect-
ed to associate or full membership
in Sigma XI, will be initiated in
a ceremony Tuesday, May 8, at
6:15 in the Fondren Library Lecture
Lounge.
The ceremony will be followed at
7:00 by a banquet in the Faculty
Club, and at 8:15 by an address to
members by Dr. B. D. Hudson on
the "Psychology of Panic," in the
F. L. Lecture Lounge.
Newly-elected undergraduates in-
clude Robert Neil Baker, Joan Marie
Bruning, John Howard Burns, Bar-
bara Elsa Clark, Horace Perry Flatt,
Doralyn Joanne Hickey, William
Ralph Meador, William Raymond
Mills, Jr., William Frederick Ossen-
fort, Jr., Dwayne Lee Sargent, Thom-
as Stone Teasdale.
Graduate students elected to as-
sociate membership include Joseph
Jackson Dodson, Griff Calicutt Lee,
Sei Shuen Tang, George Morosow,
Horace Daniel Sullivan, Charles
Eugene Boozer, Holland Cleveland
Filgo, Yuen Chu Leung, Louis Reed
Roberts, James Richard Smith, John
Lytle Scales, Nelson Mark Duller,
Rolf Malcolm Sinclair, Jay Edwin
Hammel, Eugene Kay McLachlan,
Earl Reginald Beck, Jr.
Graduate students elected to or
promoted to full membership include
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Student Council
New Student Council
Holds First Meeting
The new Rice Student Council took over its first meeting
Wednesday night, after preliminary business of this year's
Council was concluded. Three new by-laws to the Student As-
sociation constitution were passed during the evening, and an
important committee report on
Reading Of Chekov
Play 'Uncle Vanya'
Will Be Tuesday
A reading of the Chekov play tce the ri«ht U u8e itB diacrimina-
"Uncle Vanya" will be presented ^on decisions concerning the
Tuesday night at 7:30 in Sallyport cl°sing of voting polls. The by-law
Stage by a group of players from aU°ws the committee to set up polls
the Alley Academy. Sponsored by on the campus as long as the com-
the Rice Dramatic Club, the reading mittee deems it advisable until three-
is primarily for the purpose of aid- fourths of the student body has vot-
ing members of freshman English ed on questions involving student
classes to interpret this play, which opinion, which refers to all voting
is one of the most difficult assign- except for the purpose of electing
ments on the frosh reading list, officers.
The class of semi-experienced
readers from the Alley, has been Suggestions for improvement of
studying "Uncle Vanya" under the traffic conditions on the campus
instructorship of Gerry Hiken for were presented by Gorden Redd,
about four "frionths, and should be chairman of the traffic committee,
able to give spectators an enlighten- The suggestions are as follows:
campus parking difficulties was
made.
Included under business of the
old council was the passing of a
by-law giving the election commit-
ing interpretation of the play.
There should be no traffic court or
Several freshman professors have student appeal board on the campus;
delayed assignment of "Uncle Van-
ya" until after the reading. All stu-
dents are urged to attend.
Members of the Dramatic Club
will elect officers for next year
at their meeting Monday at 12:30
in Sallyport Stage. The previous-
ly scheduled meeting was post-
poned until this time.
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Blanket Tax Pics
Taken Next Week
the present system of imposing fines
should remain, with the amount of
the fines changed to a warning for
the first offense, $2 for the second
offense and $5 for all fines there-
after; lists of parking offenders
should be posted on bulletin boards;
fines shall be paid before the end
of each current semester, with the
present practice continuing of not
allowing offenders to take their final
exams until fines have been paid;
offenders should be sent re-
minders of their fines due; all park-
ing rules and regulations should
Photographs of all present stu- b(, dra„ in detai, and blished
dents (including fellows and their ,n th(j frcshman orientation bullet.
wives and graduate students) who . . , , . „ ,. , . ,,
, n. . ins, m posted bulletins and in the
expect to attend Rice next year ,. ... , ..
.„ , j ,n 11 j 1 o • Thresher; a full-time officer should
will be made May 10, 11, and 12 in
the RI office, which is just outside.
the student lounge and next to the _ .... . , . , •
. , . „ , .. ... campus to eliminate night parking
main stair well of the library. These 1 , ®
be hired to issue tickets; illuminat-
ed signs should be placed on the
pictures, which will be used on next
difficulties; parking facilities should
year's blanket taxes, will be taken > to fl lo's P""
allel to the road behind East Hall,
adjacent to the tennis courts and
from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday
and Friday, May 10 and 11, and from
8 a.m. to 12 noon on Saturday, May next to the ^nasium facing Weiss
Hail, and student permission to park
on the shoulders behind the library;
and fines outstanding at the pres-
ent time shall be collected but at
a maximum of $10 for each offend-
12.
It is necessary to make these
photographs this spring to insure
that the blanket taxes will be ready
for the first football game next fall. -• ,. ,,
. .. j. , ,, .„ er. Definite action on these propos-
Therefore, a fine of one dollar will , , , f t
. . , . j;'i *. als was postponed until student
be imposed on anyone who fails to . . ,
, .. opinion could be obtained.
have his blanket tax picture taken M
at one of these times.
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After the new council took over,
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Experimental Film
Program Slated
The next attraction on the Film
Society's program will be a special
treat to those interested in film
techniques. Maya Deren, a success-
ful filming experimentalist, will be
here to show and lecture on four of
her short films. In her lecture, the
non-commercial producer will ex-
plain and interpret her films and
the techniques she used in them.
Miss Deren was unavailable for
a Tuesday engagement so the lec-
ture will take place at 8 p.m. only,
on Thursday, May 10. Watch the
bulletin board for an announcement
of the place the lecture will be held.
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Only Seniors
To Attend Senior
Dance May 30
Attention has been called to the
fact that only seniors may attend
the senior dance, which will be held
Wednesday, May 30 beginning at
6:30, at the Houston Country Club.
There are not sufficient facilities
to handle underclassmen at the
dance, and the senior class regrets
that it is forced to make this limi-
tation.
Non-senior dates of members of
the class will be the only exception
to this limitation.
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