The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 10, 1968 Page: 7 of 8
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Rice parachute club still a 'jumpin'
By DAVID NORMAN
"There I sat with a chilled feeling- in the pit of
my stomach, and when he said 'Jump,' I really
surprised myself—I jumped." Brown senior Ann
Chamberlain is not describing her latest romance,
she's talking about her first plunge into the
Rice Parachute Club.
Ann and the Parachute Club have come a long
way since those first hesitant moments last Jan-
uary. She continued steadfastly as the club's
solitary coed member, making the weekly trek
each Sunday to Hearne, Texas, for her post-chill
thrills, and this year serves as club president.
The Parachute Club has gone on to entertain
some sixty members, and at present hosts en-
rollment of perhaps thirty-five skydivers.
The rapid turnover in membership is not in-
dicative of safety conditions. Participants pack
their own chutes—with infinite care, it might be
added—and are bolstered by a reserve chute pre-
pai-ed by Bob Richardson, an instructor licensed
by the United States Parachuters' Association.
Richardson is also along on the flight as jump
master. He assists the pilot of the plane in
maneuvering over the jumping site; he drops a
convenient little appliance (which resembles
those rolls of toilet paper that freshmen throw
at football games) to ascertain wind drift. Then
he signals the diver to jump, and watches his
protege plummet some 3000 feet onto a patch of
pea gravel 30 yards wide. Ann emphasizes that
no novice is forced to take this last step, even if
he is hanging from a strut before he has second
thoughts.
This is not to say that Rice's paratroopers
have no interest in converts; on the contrary,
Ann asks interested students to get in touch
with her and schedule a preliminary training
session. A session crops up whenever venturous
students do, and covers the basic mechanics of
dismounting, falling, steering, and landing.
The future holds a real breakthrough for the
Parachute Club, when it sends three teams of
three to the National Collegiate Parachute
League Tournament in Zephyrhills, Florida,
Thanksgiving weekend. This is the first compe-
tition entered by our skydivers, as they attempt
to land closest to the center of that pea gravel
target after a free fall of ten seconds. But the
measure of footage from the target is anti-
climactic; the sport of parachuting lies in those
ten solitary seconds.
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SCENE
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Gifts to promote
civil, bio-medica!
engineers' work
" Rice University has received
a $10,000 gift from the Halli-
burton Education Foundation,
Inc., to be used to enhance
teaching in the Civil Engineer-
ing Department.
Di\ Anestis S. Veletsos.
Brown and Root Professor of
Engineering and Chairman of
the Civil Engineering Depart-
ment, said the Halliburton gift
will be used to improve the
quality of training in his de-
partment.
Rice University has also re-
ceived a $5,000 grant from Gen-
eral Electric Company to be
used in graduate research and
study in bio-engineering.
The grant will be used in i-e-
search. on an artificial lung,
Dr. William W. Akers, Profes-
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said.
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(and tie into the best reason in the world to drink beer)
IPick up a half-barrel of Bud®
(good for about 245 12-ounce cups
... with foam) and the tapping equip-
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set the beer in a tub of ice to keep
it cold.
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2 Just before the party begins, tap
your beer. First, make sure the
beer faucet is closed (you wouldn't
want to waste a drop of Beech wood
Aged Bud!). Then, insert the faucet-
and-pump unit into the upper valve
of the keg, give it a quarter turn
clockwise, and lock it in place by
tightening the lower wing nut.
3 Next, insert the lager tap
in the lower valve of the
keg and g^ive it a quarter turn.
Now, set the keg upright in a
tub and pack ice around it.
4 You're now ready to draw
beer. Pump pressure to the
proper point for good draw,
usually about 15 lbs. That's all
there is to it, but there's no rule
against sampling just to make
sure everything is perfect.
Ahhhhh! It's no wonder you'll
find more taverns with the
famous "Bud on Draught" sign
than any other!
Budweiser.
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Bahler, Dennis. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 10, 1968, newspaper, October 10, 1968; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245038/m1/7/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.