The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 26, 1973 Page: 1 of 16
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Vandiver takes leave of absence; Cooper acting provost
Dr. Frank E. Vandiver, Pro-
vost of Rice University and one
of the nation's outstanding mil-
itary historians, has been ap-
pointed Visiting: Professor of
Military History at the United
States Military Academy at
West Point for the 1973-1974
academic year, it was announc-
ed today by President Norman
Hackerman.
Dr. Joseph Cooper, Professor
of Political Science and a rec-
ognized authority on the Unit-
ed States Congress, has been
appointed acting provost by
President Hackerman.
Dr. A. J. Dessler, Professor
of Space Science, will replace
Dr. Vandiver as Chairman of
the Steering Committee of the
University's current institution-
al self - evaluation, President
Hackerman said.
Dr. Vandiver is the first Rice
faculty member to be called to
West Point as- visiting profes-
sor.
Lieutenant General William
A. Knowlton, superintendent of
the Academy, who appointed Dr.
Vandiver was pleased with the
Rice Provost's acceptance of
the visiting professorship. He
called Dr. Vandiver's selection
an expression of the high es-
teem in which he was held as
"teacher and scholar by the ac-
ademic community in general
and by military historians in
particular." General Knowlton
expressed confidence that Dr.
Vandiver would "exert a posi-
tive influence on cadets at the
the Military Academy" and in
turn would gain personal satis-
faction from the knowledge
that he was making "a signifi-
cant contribution to the educa-
tion of these young men who
ultimately maif play a role in
directing the destiny of our
country."
Dr. Vandiver, a member of
the Rice faculty since 1955,
served as the University's ac-
ting pi-esident between 1969
and 1970, the year he was ap-
pointed Provost. President Nix-
on named him in 1972 to a
six-year term on the National
'Good night,
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... good night,
Steve."
volume 60, number 30
thursclay, april 26, 1973
Mcrft/sow receives Brown Teaching Prize
Dr. Allen Matusow, Pi-ofes-
sor of History, is the winner
of the 1973 George R. Brown
Prize for Excellence in Teach-
ing, awarded yearly at Rice.
The Prize for Excellence car-
ries with it a $4000 cash award.
Winners of the six Brown
Awards for Superior Teaching
have also been determined. They
are: Dr. Franz Brotzen, Pro-
fessor of Mechanical and Aero-
space Engineering and Materi-
al Science; Mrs. Katherine
Brown, lecturer in -Fine Arts;
Dr. Charles Garside, Jr., Asso-
ciate Professor History; Dr.
Alan Grob, Associate Profesor
of English; Dr. Frank Jones,
Professor of Mathematics; and
Brown named
dean; McEnany
to aid Self-Study
Katherine Tsanoff Brown,
Lecturer in Fine Arts, will be-
come Dean of Undergraduate
Affairs of Rice University on
July 1, 1973, it was announced
today by President Norman
Hackerman. In addition to her
duties as Dean, Mrs. Brown
will continue to teaech.
Mrs. Brown succeeds M. V.
McEnany, who becomes vice-
chairman of the steering com-
mittee for the University's Self-
Evaluation Study and will direct
the staff work for the study.
Mrs. Brown joined the Rice
faculty in 1963 and in 1971 be-
came the first woman faculty
member to receive the school's
top teaching honor, the George
R. Brown Prize for Excellence
in Teaching. In 1970, 1972, and
1973 she received the Brown
Awards for Superior Teaching.
Her areas of special interest
are late medieval, renaissance
and baroque art.
Mrs. Brown holds a B. A. de-
gree from Rice and an M.F.A.
degree from Cornell. She did
graduate work at the Califor-
nia School of Fine Arts in San
Francisco. She is the daughter
of Dr. Radoslav A. Tsanoff,
holder of the Fred and Carolyn
McManis Chair in Philosophy,
who retires this year after near-
ly 60 y^ars on the Rice faculty.
Dr. Trenton Wann, Professor of
Psychology. These awards each
have a value of $1000.
These awards were establish-
ed in 19G7 by Mr. George R.
Brown, former Rice Trustee
and Chairman of the Board of
Governors, as part of a Pro-
gram for Excellence in Under-
graduate Teaching. This pro-
gram also supports the Com-
mittee on Undergraduate Teach-
ing in encouraging experiment-
al programs and other projects
which promote superior teach-
ing.
Winners of the Brown awards
are determined from a poll of
those four-year bachelor's de-
gree recipients who graduated
three and eight years before
the year of the awards. Bal-
loting is preferential; the eight-
year class' votes are also
weighted half again ^s much as
the three-year class'. The win-
ners are selected to cover a
variety of academic areas. Each
year, about 150 faculty mem-
bers are named in the ballot-
ing; this is one-third of the
entire Rice faculty.
Of the six winners of the
Awards for Superior Teaching,
four (Brotzen, Brown, Jones
and Warner) also received these
awards last year. A fifth, Dr.
Grob, was the 1972 winner of
the "Prize for Excellence.
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Council on the Humanities, the
policy-making arm of the Na-
tional Endowment for the Hu-
manities.
In January 1973, the Secre-
tary of the Army appointed
Dr. Vandiver to a five-year
term as chairman of the United
States Army Military History
Research Collection Advisory
Committee which oversees one
of the nation's most important
military history collection ef-
forts.
Since 1969 he has also served
on the Department of the Army
Historical Advisory Committee;
in 1971 he was named to the
Fort Leavenworth Hall of
Fame Selection Committee.
Dr. Cooper has been on the
Rice faculty since 1967. He is
a 1955 graduate (summa cum
laude) of Harvard University
where he also received his mas-
ter's and Ph.D. degrees. Tie
served on the Harvard faculty
as assistant professor in gov-
ernment before coming to Rice.
Dr. Cooper was chairman of the
Department of Political Science
at Rice from 1967 to 1972. He
is now working- under a senior
fellowship from the National
Endowment for the Humanities
on a study of party leadership
in the House of Representa-
tives.
Dr. Cooper currently serves
on a panel of distinguished poli-
tical scientists advising the
U.S. Congress Select Commit-
tee on Committees on possible
reforms of the congressional
committee system. He has also
served as a consultant to the
Rules Committee of the U.S.
Senate and has advised the Sen-
ate's Subcommittee on the
Separation of Powers.
In addition to serving as act-
ing provost, Dr. Cooper will
teach a freshman course and
head a graduate seminar in
political science.
Wiener to study
anti-technology
Martin J. Wiener, associate
professor of history at Rice
University, is a recipient of a
National Endowment for the
Humanities Fellowship for 1973-
74. Wiener will use the fellow-
ship to pursue his study of
attitudes hostile to technology
and economic growth in 20th
century Britain. He leaves in
June for England and will carry
f>n his investigation chiefly in
London. Ultimately W icne r
n'ans to publish a hook from
his finding's.
"I will be looking for an in-
crease in attitudes critical of
'progress' as reflected in the
political writings, popular
periodicals and contemporary
literature of England," says
Wiener. "Also, I shall examine
expressions of nostalgia for
lire-urban, pre-industrial socie-
ty — the idealization of the
countryside."
Wiener, who holds his Ph.D.
from Harvard, joined the Rice
faculty in 1967. He has taught
courses on the history of Eng-
land, modernization and prob-
lems in 19th century and"20th
century Britain—areas in which
he has published and presented
papers.
73 graduating class will be Rice's 60th
Approximately 950 degrees
will be conferred at Rice Uni-
versity's Sixtieth Commence-
ment on Saturday, May 12.
The ceremonies begin at 10
a.m. with the Annual Presenta-
tion of Prizes and Awards in
Cohen House. Between 11:30am
and 1:30 pm a buffet luncheon
for graduating seniors and
their parents will be served in
the homes of the college mas-
ters.
R.O.T.C. Commissioning cere-
monies begin at 2pm in Ham-
man Hall. Rear Admiral James
Ferris, Chief of Naval Air
Training at the U.S. Naval Air
Station, Corpus Christi, will
speak. Seventeen cadets will be
commissioned into the Army
and 13 midshipmen into the
Navy.
Commencement exerciscs be-
gin at 7 p.m. on the east lawn
of Lovett Hall and will be fol-
lowed with a reception for grad-
uates and their guests hosted
by President and Mrs. Norman
Hackerman in Cohen House.
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Jackson, Steve. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 26, 1973, newspaper, April 26, 1973; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245165/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.