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The Rice Thresher
Volume LXVI, Number 5
Rice University, Houston, Texas
Thursday, September 7, 1978
Watson Fellowship
All seniors graduating this
May who might be interested
in living and travelling abroad
for a year after graduation on
a project of their devising
should attend the Thomas J.
Watson Fellowship Program
on Friday to learn more about
these fellowships, each of
which carries a stipend of
$7,000 for single students, and
$9,500 for married students.
Three former Watson Fellows
from Rice will speak at the
program Friday, September 8,
at 2 pm.
Information sheets on the
Fellowships and the procedure
for applying will be available
at the program-. Beth Glasser
and Elaine Bonilla, the two
Watsort Fellows from Rice for
1977-78, will be talking about
their projects and experiences
in Europe as well as those of
other Watson Fellows this
past year. Bob Anderson a
former Rice Graduate in
Architecture and a Watson
Fellow of a few years earlier,
will describe his project and
the long-term rewards which
his experience as a Watson
Fellow have had for him.
Rice is one of fifty colleges
and universities who are
invited to submit nominees to
the representative of the
Watson Foundation. From one
hundred and seventy-six nom-
inees, seventy Watson Fel-
lows are chosen on the basis of
personal interviews and a
careful evaluation of the
candidate's proposal and his
or her ability to carry it out.
Awards of fellowships for
1979-80 will be announced
around March 15,1979.
The student's project pro-
posal and the supporting
letters on the proper forms
must be in the office of the
Dean of Undergraduate Af-
fairs, 101 Lovett Hall, not later
than Monday, October 2,
1978. The four Rice nominees
will be selected by the
University Committee on
SCHOLARSHIPS AND
Awards, and all applicants will
be notified by the end of
October.
Rice Professor Dies at 89
By Allen Reed
Dr. Hubert Evelyn Bray, 89
years old, Trustee and
Distinguished Professor
Emeritus of Mathematics,died
Wednesday, August 30,1978.
A memorial service,conducted
by Dr. Paul E. Pfeiffer
Professor of Mathematical
Sciences and of Electrical
Engineering, was held for him
at 4pm last Friday in the
Memorial Chapel on the Rice
University campus.
A Rice University Professor
for more than 60 years, Dr.
Bray received many civic and
academic honors, including the
publication of one of his
mathematical notes in the June
issue of the Comptes Rendus of
the Paris Academy of Sciences,
a Rice University Medal of
Honor presented to him on the
inauguration of President
Pitzer and simultaneous
observance of Rice University's
50th anniversary and his being
named an honored guest at the
1959 homecoming dinner.
Dr. Bray became a close,
personal friend of Dr. Odell
Lovett, the man who brought
him 'to Rice.
In summing up the one
criterion of being a great
mathematician, Bray once
said,"A great mathematician is
one who opens up a new field of
mathematics for lesser
mathematicians to work
in."
Mathias Opens Lecture Series
U.S. Senator Charles
McCurdy Mathias Jr. (R-Md.)
will open the 1978-79
President's Lecture Series at 8
p.m. Friday, Sept. 15 in the
Chemistry Lecture Hall. Sen.
Mathias' topic will be "The
Fourth Amendment Under
Siege."
The event is open to the
public free of charge.
Mathias is now in his second
term in the U.S. Senate.
Including previous service of
eight years in the House of
Representatives, Mathias has
been in Congress for the past 17
years. In those years, he has
been active in civil rights,
Congressional war and peace
decisions and in election
reform. He is currently a
reform.
He is currently a member of
the Senate Appropriations.
Judiciary, Governmental
Affairs, Intelligence and Ethics
Committees.
Senator Charles Mathias of Maryland
Professorships Awarded
Campaniles are Here
1978 Campaniles are being
distributed from the Campan-
ile office on the second floor of
the RMC every afternoon from
1:00 p.m. on. Students must
bring their '78 or '79' ID cards
with them or no book will be
issued. Please pick up your
book before the end of the
month.
Engineering Career Nights
All Engineering Students are
invited to participate in a series
of four discussions on
engineering careers organized
by the Rice Engineering
Alumni and the George R.
Brown School of Engineering.
A panel consisting of practicing
engineers and faculty members
will briefly discuss what its
really like to be an engineer.
Then the meeting will be
opened to a general question
and answer session with
refreshments served.
Career Night for Mechanical
Engineering and Material
Science will be held on
Wednesday, September 13 at
7:30 in the RMC. Coordinator
for the Alumni group is Mr.
Thomas Smith of Mega
Construction Company.
Faculty participants will be Dr.
William F. Walker and Dr.
Rex McLellan.
One week later onSeptem-
ber 20, Career Night for
Electrical Engineering will
meet at the same time and
location. Coordinator for the
Alumni is Dr. Algy Badger of
Geosource, Inc. and Dr. Sidney
Burrus will participate for the
faculty.
Career Night for Civil
Engineering will follow on
September 27. The Alumni
Coordinator will be Dr. Walter
Moore, Jr. of Walter Moore
and Associates and Dr. Walter
Austin will represent the
faculty.
The Chemical Engineering
Career Night will be held on
October 4. Mr. Julian Ward
of Brown and Root is the
Alumni Coordinator and Dr.
Harry Deans will speak for the
faculty.
The Alumni Coordinator for
Career Night, Mr. Frank
Sheldon of the J.T. Thorpe
Co., and Dean Alan
Chapoman of the George R.
Brown School of Engineering
both expressed the hope that all
students majoring in engi-
neering as well as those who are
considering such a major will
take advantage of this
opportunity to discover more
about the practice of
Engineering.
Two members of the Rice
University faculty, Mrs. Elinor
Evans and Mr. Anderson todd,
have been named to endowed
professorships in the
■University's School of
Architecture; she becomes the
Harry K. and Albert K. Smith
Professor of Architecture, he,
the Gus Sessions Wortham
Professor of Architecture.
Professor Todd has been on the
Rice University faculty since
1949, and Professor Evans has
been on it since 1964.
Professor Todd received his
Bachelor of Arts degree with
Honors in Architecture from
Princeton in 1943; he returned
in 1949 to receive his
professional degree of Master
of Arts in Architecture.
Having served as member of
the Board of Trustees of both
the Museum of Fine Arts and
the Contemporary Arts
Museum, Professor Todd is
active in community affairs.
He also serves on the Building
Committee that supervised
construction of Cullinan Hall,
Brown Pavilion, and the two
additions to the MFA.
Professor Evans, whose
award-winning skills have
brought her invitations to teach
at a dozen schools of
architecture, was awarded a
year's research grant by the
National Endowment for the
Arts in 1976. While on this
grant, she spent the year away
from Rice working in northern
New Mexico and at Peabodv
Museum, Harvard University.
Professor Evans received her
Bachelor of Arts degree with
honors from Oklahoma State
University and her Master of
Fine Arts with honors from
Yale University, where she
studied in part under
Buckminster Fuller.
Her work, both highly
disciplined and individualistic,
is now on display at an
exhibition of Texas crait
artists, which was organized by
the Sarah Campbell Blaffer
Gallery.
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Heard, Michelle Leigh. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 7, 1978, newspaper, September 7, 1978; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245377/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.