The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 6, 1978 Page: 4 of 12
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Texas Digital Newspaper Program and was provided to The Portal to Texas History by the Rice University Woodson Research Center.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
Former powderpuff star to lecture in sports class
by Lee Hochburg
and Steven Hickman
One of America's foremost
sports writers will be watching
every gulp and pedal when the
1978 Beer-Bike festivities
begin Saturday afternoon.
Le Anne Schreiber, assis-
tant sports editor for the New
York Times, will join
Houston television stations
and Post and Chronicle
reporters at the stadium
parking lot for the women's
race at 2:00, and the men's
battle at 3:30.
Schreiber, a Rice graduate
and former editor of women-
Sports magazine, is in
Houston to address the Will
Rice college course "Sports
and Society" on the subject of
women in sports. That lecture
will be held this Monday
evening at 7 in the Chemistry
Lecture Hall, and Rice
students are encouraged to
attend.
Rice women who have
participated in powderpuff
football ought to find
Schreiber particularly
interesting. While at Rice, she
was an avid powderpuff
football fan and a star
running back for the 1967
championship team from
Jones College. Schreiber, in
fact, credits her participation
in powderpuff football for her
successful career as a sports
journalist; when women-
Sports sought an editor with
both writing ability and talent
as a sportswoman, they noted
her experience as a leader of
the Jones powderpuff squad
and selected her for the job.
She had previously logged
HAROLD'S GARAGE
HENRY J. EN GEL, Owner
Automatic Transmission — Air Conditioning
Brakes — Engine Tune-Ups — Front End
Rebuilding — Wheel Aligning
2431 Dunstan 528-5323
Free Pregnancy Testing
Pregnancy Termination
2909 West Loop South
West Loop Clinic
622-2170
ENGINEERS
Federal Government agencies are involved in
some of the most important technological work
being done today ....in energy fields, communi-
cation, transportation, consumer protection, de-
fense, exploring inner and outer space and the
environment.
Some of our jobs are unique, with projects
and facilities found nowhere else. Salaries are
good, the work is interesting and there are ex-
cellent opportunities for advancement.
Our nationwide network can get your name
referred to agencies in every part of the country.
For information about best opportunities by
specialty and location, send a coupon or your
resume to : Engineering Recruitment, Room
6A11.
U.S. Civil Service Commission
Washington, D.C. 20415
An Equal Opportunity Employer
I
■
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
Name.
Address.
City.
.State.
-Zip-
Degree level and
Engineering Speciality.
Univ. Col
Yr. Grad._
Geographic Preference(s)_
three years as an interna-
tional affairs correspondent
for Time magazine and had
written three cover-length
articles for Time on Nadia
Comanechi and the 1976
Montreal Olympics. Two
months later, she was hired by
womenSports.
Schreiber was in Houston
last November for the Jones-
Brown championship powder-
puff final and watched her old
team suffer a defeat at the
hands of Brown. "It seemed
pretty much the same as I
remember, except for the
snazzy uniforms," she
remarked afterwards. "I must
admit they caused a pang of
envy."
Schreiber graduated from
Rice in 1967 with a degree in
English and a Woodrow
Wilson Fellowship. After
earning a master's degree at
Stanford and putting in five
years of doctoral research at
Harvard, she left the academic
life and opted for a career in
journalism.
In addition to her political
writing at Time, ahe authored
book reviews and won the
Hancock award for a cover
story named the outstanding
business piece of 1976. The
article, entitled "Upstairs,
Downstairs at the Factory,"
discussed Britain's labor
problems.
The highlights of her sports
career came during her years
at Rice. Although there had
been no organized women's
sports teams in her grammar
school or high school, she
developed into a premier
football, baseball, basketball,
ans Softball player through
sandlot competition.
As a ten year old in
Evanston, 111., she tucked her
hair under a stocking cap and
tried out for the halfback
position at her Catholic
grammar school, and nearly
had made the team until a
teammate pulled off her cap.
"The priest who was coaching
the team shrieked 'It's a girl!'
and ordered me off the field,"
Schreiber recalled in Time.
Things at Rice were easier
and "Swivel Hips" Schreiber's
50 yard near-touchdown run
(she slipped at the three yard
line) was pictured on the front
page of the next day's
Houston Chronicle. She
also broke the unofficial Texas
state record when she ran the
50 yard dash in 6.5 seconds.
Schreiber will be brought to
Rice through the combined
efforts of Will Rice and Jones
Colleges, the RPC, and the
Alumni Association.
Exxon head to speak on constraints
Randall Meyer, president of
Exxon USA, will talk on "The
Private Sector in an Era of
Increasing Constraints," at
8pm Wednesday, April 12, in
the Chemistry Lecture Hall.
Meyer's talk is part of the
1977-78 President's Lecture
Series at Rice. He will be
introduced by Robert Sterling,
dean of the Jones Graduate
School of Administration.
A native of Mount Union,
Iowa, Meyer received his
bachelor of science degree
in mechanical engineering
from the University of Iowa in
1948 and began his Exxon
career upon graduation.
Starting as a mechanical
engineer in the company's
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
refinery, Meyer moved to
Houston in 1961 in the
company's Supply and
Transportation Department.
He was named manager of
that department in May 1964.
In July 1966, Meyer went to
New York City as executive
assistant to the president of
Exxon Corporation. He
returned to Houston in 1967 as
senior vice president of Exxon
USA and became president in
1972.
Winningham honored
° O
Geoff Winningham, asso-
ciate professor of art, was
recently honored by the John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation as a Guggenheim
^ Fellow for 1978. He is among
O 8Cholars, scientists and
Jeff 522 8931 artists selected from over three
"Restores the word epic to
its original force. A
masterpiece of cinema art."
Judy Stone. San Francisco Chronicle
Irene Papas n Michael Cacoyannis's
IPHIGENIA
•RE-
VALIDATED
PARKING
Green way Plaza
Underground
Highway 59 at
buffalo Speed wav
626-3339
Music by Mikis Theodorakis
From Cinema 5 in Color
thousand applicants and one
of only six award winners
from Texas.
Next semester, Winning-
ham plans to complete a book
of photos and text on high
school football in Texas. "It's
a project that I've been
working on for seven years,
although I started to do it
seriously only two years ago,"
he explains.
Winningham has completed
two other photographic
studies of Texas athletes. In
1971, he published Friday
Night at the Coliseum, a
look at professional wrestling,
and in 1972 he completed
Going Texan, a book about
the Houston Livestock Show.
Graduating from Rice in
1965, he also received a MS
from Illinois Institute of
Technology in 1968. His
photos have also appeared in
Texas Monthly, Esquire,
People and numerous other
publications.
Green way Theaters
now accepting
applications for
part-time cashiers
and concessionists
Call 626-7942
the rice thresher, april 6, 1978—page 4
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Parker, Philip. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 6, 1978, newspaper, April 6, 1978; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245369/m1/4/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.