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Jerry Harris Wins
Top Sports Award
Jerry Harris, center on the
1956 Rice Owls, received the
George Martin award as the most
valuable member of the team
Tuesday night at the R Associa-
tion banquet at the Rice Hotel.
Voted by his teammates to re-
ceive the award, this year a val-
uable hunting gun, Harris told
the audience, "I can't tell you
how grateful I am."
Twenty-six lettermen were
named, only four of whom are
graduating seniors. The others
will return to what is expected
to be a powerful 1957 team.
Lettermen were: James Briggs,
John Held, Albert Johnston, and
Harris, the seniors.
Juniors: David Mantor, Larry
Whitmire, Matt Gorges, Charles
Thompson, King Hill, Frank Ry-
an, Ken Williams, David Kelley
and Howard Hoelscher.
Sophomores: Buddy Dial, Twy-
man Ash, Gene Jones', J. D.
Smith, Don Phillips, Claude
White, Charles Knight, Hart
Peebles, Bruce Hendrickson, Bob-
by Williams, Dan Shuford, G. F.
Alsbrook, and Raymond Chilton.
Coach Jess Neely spoke briefly.
He told the team he was grataful
for their efforts and said he wks
"indebted there were no hangings
on South Main St."
President William V. Houston
praised the team and Coach
Neely.
Morris Frank of the Houston
Chronicle was emcee, and R.
Association president Charles
Mehr presided. The program was
opened with two songs by Soph
end Buddy Dial.
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Pogo 'Possum
Strikes Again
Pogo strikes again! The prodi-
gious 'possom bursts not only in-
to print but sound witll his new-
est releases, the SONGS OF THE
POGO book and its companion
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Both of these will be available
to devotees of Okefenokeeana in
the Houston area before Christ-
mas.
Fencers Pick
Speed in Meets
After a somewhat slow start,
the Rice Fencing Team is pick-
ing up' speed, as recent scores
show. At the Texas City Novice
Meet, on December 1, first place
in epee was taken by Dave Dille-
hay, 4th place by Dick Betts.
At the same meet, first place in
Saber was taken by Dave Dille-
hay.
At the University of Houston
Open Meet, December 8 and 9,
Dave Dillehay copped second
place in foil, third place in
saber, and first place in epee.
Fifth place in saber went to
Mike Simmons, and fifth place in
epee went to Paul Moomaw, a
freshman.
Teams represented at these
meets were University of Hous-
ton, A & M, the Houston Fen-
cers' Club, the Galveston Buc-
caneers, and Rice.
The next meet will be Decem-
ber 15 in the Rice gymnasium, at
2:00 p.m.
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BULLETIN—The new cars are
now rolling off the assembly line.
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keep them on the assembly line
we will be in full production.
Meet Dick Foster
Western Electric development engineer
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Dick Foster joined Western F.lcetric, the manufacturing and supply
unit of the Hell System, in February 1952, shortly alter earning his
B. S. in mechanical engineering at the University of Illinois. Asa
development engineer on a new automation pi mess Dick first
worked at the Hawthorne Works in Chicago. Later, he mo\ed to
the Montgomery plant at Aurora, Illinois where he is pictured
above driving into the pat king area.
Dick's day may begin in one of several ways: an informal
office chat with his boss, a department "brain session" to
tackle a particularly tough engineering problem (above);
working with skilled machine builders in the mechanical
development laboratory: or "on the line" (below) where
he checks performance and quality and looks for new
ways to do things.
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Here Dick and a set-up man check over the automatic production line
used to manufacture a wire spring relay part for complex telephone
switching equipment. This automatic line carries a component of the
relay on a reciprocating conveyor through as main as nine different
and very precise operations — such as percussive welding in which
small block contacts of palladium are attached to the tips of wires to
within a tolerance of — .002".
Examining the plastic molded "comb" components of
the wire spring relay Dick recalls his early work
when he Was involved in working-up forming and
coining tools for the pilot model of the automation
line for fabrication of wire spring sub-assemblies for
relays. At present he is associated with the expansion
of these automation lines at the Montgomery Plant.
Dick finds time for tpany Western Electric employee activ-
ities. there he is scoring up a spare while tuning up for
the engineers' bowling league. He is active also in the golf
club, camera clmb, and a professional engineering society.
Dick, an Army veteran, keeps bachelor quarters in sub-
urban Chicago where he is able to enjoy the outdoor life
as well as the advantages of the city.
Western Electric offers a variety of interesting and
important career opportunities for engineers in all
fields of specialization in both our day-to-day job as
the manufacturing and supply unit of the Bell System
and in our Armed Forces job. T
If you'ef 4ike to know more about us, we'll be glad to
send you a copy of "Your Opportunity at Western
Electric" which outlines the Company operations and
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Co., 195 Broadway, New York 7, N. Y.
Western Elcctric
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Tucker, g 4 2 8
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Griffin, f 3 4 4
Woods, f 10 8
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Tucker, c 4 2 3
Preston, c 0 4 1
Higgins, g 114
Mcllvain, g 17 4
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Rice's hot and cold basketball
team takes on Stanford Satur-
day at Palo Alto, Calif., in the
first game of a week-long road
trip that will see the Owls also
engage Oregon, Oregon State,
and Oklahoma.
The Blue cagers take a 4-1 rec-
ord with them to the Coast.
This past week the Owls play-
ed two good ball games and one
poor one in defeating Minnesota
and LSU and losing to Auburn.
The Golden Gophers, suffering
somewhat in the muggy Houston
heat, were nipped 79-74 as fisti-
cuffs nearly erupted on the court
at the finish.
Game Tight
The game was tight all the
way. Rice owned a 43-31 lead at
the half, but fell behind, only to
tie it up at 69-69 and go on to
win. Temple Tucker was high-
point man with 22 and guard
Gerry Thomas hit 16.
It was a different story against
Auburn Saturday night, as the
Plainsmen led all the way and
far out-rebounded the taller
Owls to gain an 88-68 triumph.
Tucker and soph Gary Griffin
were high with ten points apiece.
Rice Took Backboards
Monday Rice took the back-
boards and the game, easily
dumping LSU 87-72. The Blue
led at halftime 37-30 and were
ahead by 25 markers at one point
in the second half.
Tucker sunk 23, 6-9 soph Tom
Robitaille had 20, and Thomas
garnered 17 to lead the Owl scor-
ing.
The box scores:
FIGHTING FINISH
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Thomas, g 6 4 2 16
Higgins, g 3 3 2 9
Woods, f 3 0 0 6
Preston, f 0 111
Wilson, c 0 0 0 0
Mcllvain, g 1 3 0' 5
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The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, December 14, 1956, newspaper, December 14, 1956; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth231044/m1/6/: accessed March 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.