The flyleaf, 1984

RICE UNIVERSITY
FONDREN LIBRARY

Founded under the charter of the univer-
sity dated May 18, 1891, the library was
established in 1913. Its present facility
was dedicated November 4, 1949, and
rededicated in 1969 after a substantial
addition, both made possible by gifts of
Ella F. Fondren, her children, and the
Fondren Foundation and Trust as a tribute
to Walter William Fondren. TTie library
recorded its half-millionth volume in
1965; its one millionth volume was cele-
brated April il, 1979.

FRIENDS OF FONDREN LIBRARY
Board o/ Direacrrs, 1984-85

Mr. John B. Baird III, President

Mrs. J. Thomas Eubank, Vice-President, Membership

Mr. Karl Doerner Jr., Vice-President, Programs

Mr. Richard Lilliott III, Vice-President, Special Event

Mr. John F. Heard, Treasurer

Mrs. Ray Simpson Jr., Secretary

Mr. John T. Cabaniss, Immediate Past President

E>r. Samuel M. Carrington Jr., University Librarian (ex-officio)

Dr. William E. Gordon, University Provost (ex-officio)

Dr. C. R. O'Dell, Chairman, University Committee on the Library

(ex-officio)
Elizabeth V. Dabney, Executive Director (ex-officio)

THE FRIENDS OF
FONDREN LIBRARY

The Friends of Fondren Library was
founded in 1950 as an association of
library supporters interested in increasing
and making better known the resources
of the Fondren Library at Rice University.
The Friends, through members' dues and
sponsorship of a memorial and honor gift
program, secure gifts and bequests and
provide funds for the purchase of rare
books, manuscripts, and other materials
which could not otherwise be acquired by
the library.

Members at Large

Mr. Frank Bay

Mrs. Joe D. Clegg

Mrs. Katherine B. Dobelman

Mr. Robert J. Garlington

Mrs. William P. Hobby Jr.

Mr. David D. Itz

Mr. Robert E. Moore
Ms. Mary Lou Rapson
Mrs. Shirley Redwine
Dr. F. Douglas Tuggle
Mrs. Bruce W. Wallace

COVER: Mrs. Edward W. Kelley (Allie May Autry), Queen of the
May, 1925

THE

FLYLEAF

Founded October 1950 and published
quarterly by The Friends of Fondren
Library, Rice University, P. O. Box 1892,
Houston, Texas 77251, as a record of
Fondren Library and Friends' activities,
and of the generosity of the library's
supporters.

Editor, Elizabeth Dabney; Editorial Com-
mittee, Samuel Carrington, Diana Hobby,
Feme Hyman, Bob O'Dell.

Photographs by Elizabeth Dabney and Malcolm Todd

LETTER TO THE FRIENDS

CONTENTS

Dear Friends:

For as long as I can remember, the Board of Directors has been
endeavoring to increase membership and to heighten participation
at activities. We have discovered a complementary effect of these
two objectives. In only one year, membership is up an overall 50%
as a surge of interest has been generated from within the
membership itself. A greater portion of you are renewing member-
ships. Many others are upgrading dues to a more generous level of
contribution.

Your increased interest has been most gratifying to the Board
— we thank each of you. Appropriately, Karl Doener has planned
our most ambitious year of activities. Similarly, Rick Lilliott has
restructured the (now infamous) Monte Carlo party to include
dancing. Nancy Eubank will have enrolled 1000 members by the
time we celebrate our fifth annual Saturday Night at Fondren
Library on March 2, 1985.

It is fun to belong to the Friends. Every month brings something
different as we enjoy lectures, drama, art and music. Members are
always welcome to refreshment and fellowship afterwards. Join us
for dancing and games this year at the Monte Carlo Party. Bring
someone else along and plan to stay for our live auction. Mark it on
your calendar now - March 2, 1985.

Very truly yours.

The Edward W. Kelley Family
Lee Harrington

The Future, As Seen From The Past
James Thompson

Friends of Fondren Library

A Caribbean Library Cruse
Feme B. Hyman

Maconda and Ralph O'Connor
Center for Business Information

Mary Barnard

10

Homecoming Brunch 1984

12

The Fondren Library

Building Hours

John Baird
President

13

Financial Summary

14

Gifts to the Fondren Library

19
Calendar

THE EDWARD W. KELLEY FAMILY

Lee Harrington

Mrs. Edward W. Kelley (Allie May Autry), the 1984
recipient of the Friends of Fondren Award, has long
had a strong heritage of support to Rice University. She
is a member of the 1925 graduating class. Her mother,
Mrs. James L. Autry, donated Autry house in memory
of her husband. This structure has served as a com-
munity center for Rice students and faculty for more
than thirty years.

A second such contribution to Rice by the Kelleys is
Autry Court. Donated in 1950 by Mrs. Kelley, the
building is dedicated in honor of her mother, Mrs.
James L. Autry. Mr. Edward Kelley, Jr. explained that
the need for a new basketball court at Rice became
evident in the late 1940's. Since its completion, Autry
Court has been the permanent seat of the Rice Owls
basketball team.

A third contribution to Rice University by the Kelley
family is the Autry papers, donated to the Fondren
Library in 1959. These papers, the product of Edward
W. Kelley Jr.'s grandfather. Judge James L. Autry,
contain, among other things, a letter written by Micajah
Autry to his family on his journey to the Alamo, and
correspondence of Lt. Colonel James L. Autry, who
was killed in the Civil War. Judge Autry himself helped
to establish the legal framework for the nascent oil
industry in Texas. So the Autry family has played a
significant part in the making of Texas and American
history!

Besides the material donations that the Kelleys have
offered to Rice, they have also given generously of their
time. Mrs. Edward Kelley has made many notable
contributions to the Fondren Library. She served as
President of the Friends of Fondren Library from
1 959- 1 966. During her term as President of the Friends
many gifts were donated to the Library. Among these,
besides the Autry Papers, the Carlota and Maximilian
letters and manuscripts given by Fred C. Koch, the Kyle
Morrow Memorial Collection of 18th century English
literature, and Dr. H. L. Bartlett's collection of works
on Beethoven.

In honor of her husband, Mr. Edward W. Kelley,
Mrs. Kelley established a fund for use by the History
Department in the acquisition of rare documents of
scholarly interest.

Mrs. Kelley has also served as a member of the Board
of Alumni Association and is a contributing life
member of the Rice Associates.

Mrs. Kelley's children have continued the tradition,
both in service to the Rice community and to Houston
in general. Her son, Edward W. Kelley Jr., isaTrustee
Rice University, one of the original members of the
Rice University Fund Council, and a community
associate of Baker College.

Mrs. Kelley's daughter-in-law, Mrs. Edward W.
(Ellen) Kelley Jr., of the class of '55, has also been
President of the Friends of Fondren Library. She also
has served on the Alumni Association Board and has
been President and founding member of the Shepherd
Society.

Mrs. Kelley's daughter, Allie Autry Kelley Dittmar,
taught on the History faculty at Rice before her
marriage and subsequent move to Dallas.

As one can see, the efforts and contributions of this
remarkable family over the past four generations have
had a large impact on the Rice community and the city
of Houston as well.

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THE FUTURE, AS SEEN
FROM THE PAST

James Thompson, Associate University Librarian

They pass through whirl-pools, and deep woes
do shun, who the event weigh, 'ere the action's
done.

— Webster, Duchess of Malfi, II. 4

That exhortation to plan ahead is cited at the
commencertient of one of the more intriguing volumes
hidden among the million and a quarter in the Fondren
Library's stacks: A Hundred Years Hence: The Expec-
tations of an Optimist, by "T. Baron Russell, Author of
"A Garden of the Poor,' 'The Mandate,' etc." (Chicago:
A.C. McClurg &L Co., 1906). A Hundred Years Hence
came to the library from the personal collection of
Edgar Odell Lovett, Rice's first president. Its well-
thumbed appearance together with the date of publi-
cation hint that Lovett may have had Russell's views of
the future in mind during the university's most forma-
tive years; anyone wishing to compare Russell's expec-
tations of the world of the year 2000 with present
trends can find the volume on the second floor of the
Fondren, at location CB 160 .R8.

Russell was an unyielding optimist, who reasoned
out solutions to monumental problems, and expected
the world to act reasonably as a result. Many of his
predictions have already come true; others seem as
remote as ever, though they still surface in circles
where the mere possibility of some development is
taken as its guarantee — no economic, political, or
emotional obstacle to the contrary. Primarily, Russell
believed that the evils of the world derive from the
moral weakness of its people, and that this in turn
results from the failure of educators "to make the
work of teaching agreeable to the taught" (p. 148). He
foresaw great improvements coming from educational
technology; for example, better sound recordings
would enable every student of French to develop a
perfect accent. "To say this is not to suggest that
professors of languages will be dispensed with," he
cautions on p. 141 (no doubt to the relief of our
present University Librarian). Coeducation is to be-
come universal at all levels, since the mixing of boys
and girls will keep the boys from thinking about sex
and war and thus needing to be birched (p. 144). Even
doctors can be civilized: "The presence of female
students in medical colleges has had a markedly
reformative influence on the manners and moral tone
of medical student life, not long ago the opprobrium of
civilization" (p. 143).

What would Russell have thought of Rice's recent
controversy over the proper role of football? In the
university of the future, he says, "recreation is at least
as assiduously cultivated as study, and the candidate
for an under-mastership who has a good cricket record
will find employment a good deal more easily than one
with a double-first" (p. 143). Of course, this will be
after the pains of scholarship have been eliminated and
we no longer need "to show them that we regard
cricket as a sort of alleviation of their hard lot, and with
football console them for their French lessons" (p.
150). But lessons will continue, primarily in the
physical sciences, which "will be thought as much an
essential of all education in the future as a really good
training in Latin and Greek used to be considered in
the past" (pp. 161-162).

In this respect Rice is fulfilling Russell's vision, as it
is in terms of coeducation, though he says surprisingly
little about women in other contexts. They will still be
fainting in the year 2000, but will have an easier time
with the housework: "unquestionably all cooking will
be done in hermetically-closed vessels," he predicts,
adding that "it is quite certain that animal food will
have been wholly abandoned before the end of this
century" and "the kitchen sink will cease to be, during
a great part of the day, a place of unapproachable
loathsomeness" (pp. 22-23). But mysteriously, the
pages containing most of Russell's thoughts on women
remain uncut — the only such in the book, leading one
to speculate that Lovett's interest in the future was not
without limit where the opposite sex was concerned.

A Hundred Years Hence deals at length with social
change, foreseeing a Utopian society of which even
H.G. Wells would have been proud: "we may take it as
quite certain that war as an institution will be as
obsolete as gladiators in the year 2000," he writes,
owing to "the enormous development, already clearly
in sight, of the means of destruction [and] the revolt of
the peoples against the stupendous cost, not merely or
chiefly in time of war, but also in time of peace, of
modern armaments" (p. 77). Anticipating a popular
issue of our time, he excoriates the wasteful use of feed
grain to raise meat rather than feed the poor, and looks
forward to the complete but voluntary abanonment of
meat and fish (p. 35) from he world's dinner plates.
Other advances are to be an international agreement
setting absolute limits on personal and corporate
wealth (p. 59), and the absorption of retailing by the
advertising businesss (pp. 87ff.)

Russell's most fascinating predictions concern
technological change, though here he is often on weak
ground. He accepts the imminence of air travel, for
example, but predicts that it will be via individual air
cars, powered from a distance by radio waves, and
evolving from one-wheeled family carts, so designed to

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save the weight of the other three wheels. While
improvements in sound and image reproduction (see
'French professors,' above) will make travel unnec-
essary, "young men and maidens will [still] love travel
. . . when it is possible, wrapped in warm woolens and
provided with portable heating applicances, to pay a
short visit to the Arctic circle and enjoy the matchless
spectacle of the Aurora Borealis amid the awe-
compelling obscurities of the polar night" (p. 57). The
use of radio transmission of energy will be required to
eliminate the dangerous use of high-tension wires: "it
is indeed a public scandal that cables carrying an
electrical charge capable of killing or paralysing at a
touch should be suspended over the heads of the
citizens" (p. 1 10). Underground cables must also be
banned, lest sparks cause explosions in the pipes which
deliver hydrogen and oxygen gases to the home (p.
111). Oxygen, of course, will be liquified and will
constitute "our sole disinfectant" (p. 102), but the
main use of these gases will be to provide the energy to
run the energy transmitters. All of Russell's scientific

marvels depend on the availability of limitless amounts
of energy, and to provide this he proposes an ingenious
system by which, pending merely "the discovery of
new and cheap methods of analysing water into its
component gases (p. 106), the hydrogen and oxygen
would then be recombined to produce cheap energy.
This is, of course, a classic perpetual motion scheme
with all the attendant thermodynamic difficulties, but
no less reasonable than his main thesis about society in
general: "all social institutions will be governed with
ever-increasing intelligence and rationality as time goes
on, and . . . they could not possibly be tolerated
otherwise" (pp. 141-142).

Books like A Hundred Years Hence may seem quaint
today, but the study of the history of expectation is as
useful as any other, and the stacks of a research library
like the Fondren are a mine of treasures like this book
of Russell's — seldom noticed, someday to crumble
away into dust, but waiting now for someone's
rediscovery.

FRIENDS OF
FONDREN LIBRARY

Contributors

New Members

September 1, 1984 —
November 30, 1984

Patrons

Mrs. Edward A. Blackburn, Jr.
Mrs. Homer Ley

Sponsors

Mr. &. Mrs. Sheng-Yi Chuang
Dr. &. Mrs. Edmond E. Doak
Mr. Chris M. Kravits
Mr. & Mrs. Joe D. McDonald
Ms. Loretta P. Myers

Mr. Mark Ball

Ms. Bonnie Bassis

Theresa Blackburn, M.D.

Scott A. Brister

Mr. &. Mrs. Charles R. Burns

Terrance H. Chamness

Mr. & Mrs. Chen-Fee Chang

Walter E. Cubberly, Jr.

Ms. Nanine R. Ewing

Jane B. Gajewski

Nina A. Giambalvo

Mr. &- Mrs. John M. Hardy

Richard B. Holt

Dr. &. Mrs. Edwin Hill Johnson

Robert A. Koch

Mr. &- Mrs. Walter Liljestrand

Mr. William C. Lipscomb

Ms. Margaret M. Novak

Mr. &. Mrs. Lloyd L. Piper

Mr. &. Mrs. Joel R. Tigett

Ms. Merrianne Timko

Mr. Thomas C. Williams

Miss Nell Willmann

Mr. &. Mrs. James W. Woodruff

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A CARIBBEAN LIBRARY CRUISE

Feme B. Hyman,

Assistant University Librarian for

Collection Management

Planning a trip into the Caribbean rarely includes
preparation to visit libraries and archives, unless, that
is, you happen to be a librarian married to a historian.

During a recent tour through several of the "sugar
islands" in the West Indies, my husband and I spent
many hours in the public and university libraries on
Nevis, Martinique, St. Lucia, Barbados, as well as the
archives of Barabados.

These beautiful volcanic Caribbean islands, known
for scenery, clear water and wonderful beaches, deli-
cious rum, and relaxing life maintain libraries of
varying size and with different levels of support.

Many of these islands of the Caribbean were dis-
covered by Columbus in the 15th century and were
settled by the British in the 17th century although the
French did claim ownership of several islands in the
17th century. Two of the Lesser Antilles are today
French.

Because they are volcanic, the central section of
most of them are mountainous and fertile, making
them excellent for growing sugar cane. The natural
deep water ports made these islands favorites of pirates
who could pounce upon ships from strategic bays and
lagoons around the islands.

In addition to the pirates, the slave trade was an
important part of the history of these islands. Slaves
were used on the sugar plantations which became
training grounds before the slaves were sent to the
slave states. Slaves and rum were the major economic
base in the islands.

The twentieth century brought self-government and
independence to many (the French islands are the
exception). The current population is mainly black,
descendents for the most part, of the slaves who were
not sent on to other places.

One of the island nations we visited was St. Kitts (St.
Christopher)- Nevis, an Associated State of the United
Kingdom with its own self-government. The present
population of these islands is under 50,000 with most
of the work force engaged in the sugar industry.
Tourism, however, does play a large part in the
economy.

The library we saw there is located on Nevis — the
small, lovely island. It is in the center of the port town
Basseterre. The building is a barn-like structure made
of stucco with wooden shutters. The openings, I
hesitate to call them windows, have no glass — only
shutters to close in order to keep out the elements.
There is a small staff who really did not understand our
English very well, but had no objection to our visiting
the "stacks."

Though there were shelves and tables and even a
desk for checking materials out, there was very little
organization to the collection. The room was large and
divided into sections. What had begun as organization,
it seems, deteriorated to books being shelved wherever.
There was one case containing "reference" books —
that is, a 1968 World Almanac, an incomplete set of
encyclopedias, some items on the Caribbean, dic-
tionaries, and a few other items. There was one case
nearby with a sign on it indicating "Books for Sale."
There were some history, some fiction, some child-
ren's materials.

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The books in this library as well as the others we
visited are bothered by deterioration from the en-
vironments. Preservation is certainly a problem in this
part of the world.

The next island we touched where the library was
accessible was St. Lucia with a population of 1 16,000.
Independent since 1979, tourism is an important part
of the economy. The library building is only a few
blocks from the dock where our ship landed. This is a
larger, better organized library with a sign on the
building designating it as a Carnegie Library. 1 dis-
covered that this was one of six West Indian libraries
that received Carnegie money.

For the library in the capital, Castries, on St. Lucia,
Carnegie donated $ 1 0,400 in May of 1 9 1 6. Today, it is
a well kept library with a very small collection. It is
organized so that there is a separate active section for
children. In the adult area, a few archival materials are
found — island records. The library is used, we noticed,
since there were quite a few people in the room when
we were there.

The other Carnegie-supported library we visited is
in Bridgetown, Barbados. In 1903, Carnegie sent
$23,300 to start this library. Barbados is an inde-
pendent state within the British Commonwealth with a
population of 250,000. In 1981, 9,500 of its people
worked in agriculture (mostly sugar) and 10,000 in the
tourist industry. The capital city of Bridgetown is the
deep harbor port and is always crowded with people.
The large two story library with massive pillars in front
is located in the city near the center of government.
The courts operated within the same city block.

The front of the library building is very open. The
control is a circulation desk which fills the center of the
entrance and the users must enter on one side and exit
oil the other either to check out materials or show that
no library books are leaving the building without
authorization.

This library was larger than any other we saw with a
collection not only bigger, but more current than the
others. Exhibits of newly arrived books were in
evidence and there were also displays of local art work
on the walls of the rooms. This library was also
crowded with users.

Barbados also had a university library which we
visited. A campus of the regional University of the
West Indies is on top of a hill just outside of
Bridgetown. It is a relatively new campus with ap-
proximately 1200 students.

Although the University and the library support is
on a small scale, the library staff works hard in
attempting to support the faculty and students. The
staff includes librarians trained in England and the
United States who are bringing more advanced tech-
nology to the library. The University has a separate law
library to serve a law school.

Barbados has an active archives that can support
research into the areas of island history, law and
genealogy. It is an interesting and busy place to spend
time. The staff is very helpful and cooperative. They
certainly made us feel welcome and helped us find
some useful research materials. Some of the staff want
to study archival management or professional librari-
anship either in England or the United States. The
head archivist is London trained.

The last library we were able to visit was in a
beautiful building on the French island of Martinique.
The pink and blue ornate building easily seen in the
main area of the city holds very few books. Rather, it is
a showplace with an exhibit and a few novels. The
collection, about 250,000 volumes, is in a more
modern steel and glass building nearby.

A brief discussion with the librarian brought to our
attention the international quality of librarianship.
The librarian in charge in Martinique told us of the
frustrations of being overworked and understaffed. I
felt right at home.

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MACONDA AND RALPH O'CONNOR

CENTER FOR

BUSINESS INFORMATION

Mary Barnard

Construction of Herring Hall, the building which
now houses the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of
Administration at Rice University, was completed in
August, 1984. Designed by noted architect Cesar Pelli,
former dean of architecture at Yale University,
Herring Hall combines the graceful archs and attractive
brickwork of other Rice campus buildings with color-
ful glass and tile accents — a distinctive addition to the
campus. It provides the Jones Graduate School with
much-needed space for classrooms, offices for faculty,
administration, and staff, a modern computer lab,
separate area for the Executive Development pro-
grams, career planning and interviewing activities, and
a spacious Business Information Center.

The Maconda and Ralph O'Connor Center for
Business Information is an unusual arrangement for
Rice. It is a special unit providing library and infor-
mation retrieval services to the Jones Graduate School,
administered by Fondren Library in cooperation with
the Jones Graduate School. With a convenient first
floor location and an elegant vaulted ceiling in a two-
story wing of Herring Hall, the Business Information
Center provides easy access to business research
materials needed by Jones School faculty and students.
Since it is only a short walk from Fondren Library to
nearby Herring Hall, other interested library users will
find it convenient to locate all business-related ma-
terials in one area.

This is Fondren Library's first experience with
providing library services from a separate facility.
More than a year of preparation has contributed to the
development of policies, procedures, and admini-
strative arrangements to accommodate this new en-
deavor. The Business Information Center will serve as
the primary location for all current business periodi-
cals, a core collection of monographs, and a variety of
business reference sources. Materials in accounting,
finance, general management, marketing, public ad-
ministration, and strategic planning will be available.
Other sources will provide information on companies
and industries. Older titles and economics will con-
tinue to be located in Fondren Library's collections.
Some materials have been transferred out of Fondren
Library and added to the small collection of titles that
had been housed in the previous Jones School Reading
Room on the third floor of Herman Brown Hall. An
extensive study was undertaken to determine what
titles needed to be transferred and what procedures
would most efficiently effect these changes.

\

The first step in the process of developing 'the
Business Information Center was an analysis of the
information needs of the Jones Graduate School's
faculty members. What materials are needed to sup-
port current course offerings? What are plans for
future courses and what will be needed to support
those? What are each faculty member's research
interests and needs? Faculty members were inter-
viewed to determine what resources would be re-
quired, and students were also surveyed to identify
what they would need in a business collection. They
expressed an interest in several types of information:
library resources to help preparations for classroom
work, papers, and study, and a wide range of materials
to assist with company and industry research related to
career planning, compilation of a list of potential
employers, and preparation for job interviews with
company representatives. The Houston-area business
community frequently needs access to business data.
Sources are also considered which will assist in this
research, too.

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These information needs were compiled and ana-
lyzed in order to understand what resources were
needed immediately. A number of specific titles were
transferred out of Fondren Library's collection; many
others were acquired for the first time. There were
some gaps in the collection of available business
materials, but the process of developing this collection
is well underway. Since there are many other library
users interested in business information, it was also
decided that the Business Information Center should
become a predictable location for all current business-
related sources at Rice University. This way, library
users will not have to guess whether certain titles are
still in Fondren Library or have been transferred. All
business-related reference sources and current busi-
ness periodicals have been relocated. Since usage
studies reveal that business periodicals are used most
heavily within the five years after publication, it was
decided to conserve space in the Business Information
Center and house the current issues and most recent
five year backfile in the stacks there. Previous volumes
which will be used less heavily will be in the Fondren
Library's collections. The resources available in the
Business Information Center will expand as the in-
formation needs of the Jones Graduate School evolve
and as important new titles become available.

Business information is greatly enhanced by the
developing role of computers and electronic access to
data. There are many commercial data bases that
provide citations and summaries of articles on business

topics. These data bases can be searched by keywords
or phrases which permit very flexible and precise
subject searching of the prolific business periodical
literature. The number of statistical and numeric data
bases is expanding rapidly. The Business Information
Center was designed with the connections needed to
access commercial data bases through telecommunica-
tions networks and to tie into the mainframe computer
at Rice University's Institute for Computer Services
and Applications. As the University and Jones Grad-
uate School explore the use of computers in academic
research and education, the Business Information
Center will be equipped to provide a wide range of
computer connections. And since business research
frequently requires very current data and the ability to
manipulate that data, the Business Information Center
will be able to accommodate many kinds of computing
needs related to information retrieval and analysis.

The staff of the Business Information Center
consists of the Business Librarian, Mary Barnard, and a
a full-time assistant, Virginia Varteressian. Several
students work part-time to assist with the many
clerical tasks, and to help staff the center during the
evening and weekend hours that it is open. The staff
will be available to assist with research questions, help
library users locate materials, and direct users to
resources that might be located in Fondren Library
when necessary. The Business Information Center is
open hours similar to Fondren Library's schedule. All
library users are welcome!

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HOMECOMING BRUNCH

1984

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THE FONDREN LIBRARY

BUILDING HOURS
1985

REGULAR HOURS

Monday - Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

January 10, 1985 - April 25, 1985

7:45 AM - 1:00 AM
7:45 AM - 8:00 PM
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
1:00 PM - 1:00 AM

MID TERM RECESS

Saturday - Sunday
Monday - Friday
Saturday
Sunday

March 2 - 3
March 4-8
March 9
March 10

CLOSED

7:45 AM - 8:00 PM

CLOSED

Regular Hours Resume

EASTER

Thursday - Friday
Saturday
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April 4 - 5
April 6
Arpil 7
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7:45 AM - 8:00 PM

10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

CLOSED

Regular Hours Resume

HNALS, SPRING SEMESTER

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1:00 PM -

1:00 AM

7:45 AM -

1:00 AM

7:45 AM -

8:00 PM

10:00 AM

- 6:00 PM

CLOSED

SUMMER HOURS

Monday - Friday

Saturday

Sunday

(Closed May 25 - 27 for Memorial Day)

8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
CLOSED

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HNANCIAL SUMMARY

MEMBERSHIP ACCOUNT

Receipt of membership dues

Less expenditures:

Staff and student salaries

Printing

Programs

Professional services

Postage

Contemporary Literature

Woodson Workroom

Miscellaneous

Total receipts

Account balance, June 30, 1983

Account balance, June 30, 1984

GIFTS AND MEMORIALS

Receipt of gifts

Less expenditures and commitments:
Book purchases authorized by

Librarian
Woodson Research Center
Memorials transferred to
endowed funds

Total receipts

Account balance, June 30, 1983

Account balance, June 30, 1984

FRIENDS OF FONDREN ENDOWMENT FUND
Balance, June 30, 1984

$ 33,051

;i0,558
12,492
1,257
179
1,607
3,143
1,985
1,493

27,535
12

5,557

32,714

337

6,992

7,328

$ 60,179

33,104

27,075

$ 29,616

$ 46,692

$140,000

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GIFTS TO THE
FONDREN LIBRARY

September 1, 1984
November 30, 1984

The Friends sponsor a gifts and mem-
orials program for the Fondren Library
which provides their members and the
community at large a way to remember
or honor friends and relatives. It also
provides the Fondren the means to ac-
quire books and collections beyond the
reach of its regular budget. All gifts to the
Fondren through the Friends' gift pro-
gram complement the library's university
subsidy.

Funds donated through the Friends
are acknowledged by the library to the
donor and to whomever the donor indi-
cates. Gifts can be designated in honor or
memory of someone or on the occasion
of some signal event such as birthdays,
graduation or promotion. Bookplates are
placed in volumes before they become
part of the library's permanent collection.

For more information about the
Friend's gift program, you may call Gifts
and Memorials or the Friends' office
(527-4022 ). Gifts may be sent to Friends
of Fondren, Rice University, P.O. Box
1892, Houston, Texas 7725 1, and qualify
as charitable donations.

The Friends and the Fondren Library
are grateful to acknowledge the following
gifts, donations to the Friends' fund and
donations of books, periodicals, and
other materials to the Fondren. All gifts
enhance the quality of the library's col-
lections and enable the Fondren Library
to serve more fully an ever-expanding
university and Houston community.

GIFTS IN KIND

Gifts of books, journals, manuscripts and
records were received from

Mrs. Henry W. Hoagland

Mr. &. Mrs. H. Malcolm Lovett

Kathy Madole

Mayola F. Patton

Dr. Richard J. Sommers

Standard Oil Co. (Indiana)

Gifts were received in memory of

Mrs. Alice Pratt Brown

by The Brazos Bookstore

GIFTS FOR THE PURCHASE OF
BOOKS

Unrestricted gifts

Mr. &L Mrs. Edwin P. Neilan
Mrs. Rex Shanks Jr.

Restricted gifts

Exxon Education Foundation, to be
used for purchase of books in
Geo-physics.

Miss Mary E. Johnston, to be used
for the Winifred Graham Johnston
Endowment for English Literature.

Dr. John N. Loomis, to be used,
for the Andrew Louis Endowed
Fund for Germanic Studies.

Dr. &L Mrs. Frederick D. Rossini,
to be used for purchase of books
in Chemical Sciences.

Gifts in honor of /given try

Dr. & Mrs. Robert Kendrick Blair

on the occasion of their 50th Wedding

Anniversary, by

Mr. &. Mrs. Robert Simonds

Dr. & Mrs. Edmund O. Fitch

on the occasion of their 60th Wedding

Anniversary, by

Mr. &L Mrs. H. Malcolm Lovett

Mrs. Catharine Davis Gauss

on the occasion of her 80th Birthday,

by

Mr. &. Mrs. Jeremy S. Davis

Katherine Edwards &
Robert Gordon Gooch

on the occasion of their Marriage, by
Doris &. Wiley Anderson

Martha Johnson &
Robert Malcolm Green

on the occasion of their Marriage, by
Doris &. Wiley Anderson

Dr. & Mrs. Charles H. Hallson

on the occasion of their 25th Wedding
Anniversary, by
David Farnsworth

Mr. & Mrs. Neal B. Heaps

on the occasion of their 40th Wedding

Anniversary, by

Sarah S. Daily

Mr. &. Mrs. Robert Simonds

Mrs. Edward W. Kelley

1984 Recipient of Friends of Fondren

Award, by

Dr. & Mrs. Arthur L. Glassman

Miss Sarah L. Lane

on the occasion of the Dedication ofc—
the Sarah Lane Lounge, by
Joe D. Luna &. J. Richard Luna

Robert F. Lent

on the occasion of his 80th birthday,

by

Mr. &. Mrs. John C. Boehm

Mrs. Rorick Cravens

Mr. Si Mrs. Tom Davis

Mr. & Mrs. Dudley Sharp

Mr. & Mrs. Anderson Todd &

Emily and David
Mrs. A. J. Wray

Mr. & Mrs. Earl Lister Jr.

on the occasion of their 50th Wedding

Anniversary, by

Mr. &L Mrs. John E. Joiner

Raymond H. Moers

on the occasion of his Birthday, by
Alberta B. Taylor

Paige Marie Murphy

chosen Baby Daughter, by
Mr. &. Mrs. John E. Joiner

J. E. Niland

on the occasion of his 88th Birthday,

by

Mr. &. Mrs. James Chandler

Mr. & Mrs. John Schuhmacher

on the occasion of their 50th Wedding

Anniversary, by

Mr. & Mrs. Ward N. Adkins

Mr. & Mrs. John Sellingsloh

on the occasion of their Wedding, by
Doris & Wiley Anderson
J. H. Freeman

Mary Settegast

in honor of their friendship, by
Mr. &. Mrs. Neal Lacey

Mr. & Mrs. Frank Zumwah Jr.

on the occasion of their 40th Wedding

Anniversary, by

Mr. &. Mrs. Robert Simonds

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Gifts in memory of /given by

Harry William Anderson

Mr. &. Mrs. Edwin H. Dyer Jr.

J. Kenneth S. Arthur

Mr. & Mrs. Claude T. Fuqua Jr.

John Averill

Mrs. W. H. Keenan

Mrs. Rubalee Hankamer Ball

David Farnsworth
Beverly Maurice
Tas C. Thornhill Jr.

Mrs. Lil Freeman Barbour

Chris &. Edwin Anderson

Mrs. Ray Bastianello

David L. Stirton

Mr. Pierre Bayle

Dr. & Mrs. Andre Bourgeois

Mrs. Norman A. Binz

Rice University Associates

Mrs. Margaret Thompson Bleil

Mrs. Laura T. Barrow
Mrs. William O. Blenkarn
Mr. &. Mrs. A. C. Fennekohl
Charles W. Giraud
Mrs. Marion H. Hiller
Mr. &. Mrs. John H. McCulley
Mr. &. Mrs. David P. Walsh
Alice &. Tripp Walter

Mrs. Frank C. Bolton

Mr. &. Mrs. Carl lUig

James Carter Boone

Mrs. Sam Dunnam
David Farnsworth
Mrs. W. H. Keenan
Mr. &. Mrs. George B. Kitchel
Rice University Associates
Mr. &L Mrs. John C. Ridley
Dr. &L Mrs. Edward T. Smith
Mr. &. Mrs. Paul Strong
Mrs. Willoughby C. Williams

Mr. Sandford H. Brown

Mrs. Rorick Cravens

Dorothy Fields Burns

Mr. & Mrs. J. Thomas Eubank

Meredith H. James Jr.

Mr. &L Mrs. H. Malcolm Lovett

Mrs. J. C. McWhirter

Mr. &L Mrs. Clinton F. Morse

Delton M. Childs Jr.

Mr. &. Mrs. Edwin H. Dyer Jr.

Mrs. Nell Streetman Clark

Dr. &. Mrs. Ed F. Heyne III

Mr. Alden Clarke

Mr. & Mrs. A. Gordon Jones

Mrs. Fay Collins

Dr. &. Mrs. Edward F. Heyne III

L. M. Commander

Fondren Library Serials Dept.

John H. Cooper Jr.

David L. Stirton

Walter O. Cox

Mr. &. Mrs. E. H. Deininger

J. S. CuUinan II

Homoiselle & Albert Fay Foundation

J. Brown Cutbirth

Mr. &. Mrs. H. Malcolm Lovett
Mr. &. Mrs. Ralph S. O'Connor
Mrs. John M. Vetter

Mrs. Nancy Daugherty

Homosielle &l Albert Fay Foundation

Walter Y. Davidson

Mr. &. Mrs. Andrew W. Ladner

Winifred Freeman Davis

Margaret Elkins Carl

Mrs. J. C. McWhirter

Mr. &L Mrs. Robert N. Ross

Mrs. Elizabeth Neathery Smith

Mrs. Ruth De Lancey

Mr. &. Mrs. Charles M. Hickey

Mrs. Selonge M. Dean

Mrs. Elizabeth Summers

Mrs. Allie Kelley Dittmar

Mrs. Rorick Cravens

Dr. Frederick Dorsey

Dr. &. Mrs. Homer Leifeste &
Beth and Molly

Addie May Earthman

Mr. & Mrs. T. Philip Scott

Mrs. Mary O. Edwards

Sylvia &. Don Collins

Mrs. Myrtie H. Fischer

Doris &. Wiley Anderson Jr.

Ray C. Fish

The Ray C. Fish Foundation

Elizabeth S. Fling

Homoiselle & Albert Fay Foundation

Mrs. Anna Kowalski Fowler

Mr. &L Mrs. John M. Payne

Frances Smith Gammill

Mr. & Mrs. Harold E. Mortimer

Mrs. Irma Fonville Garrett

Mr. & Mrs. J. Griffith Lawhon
Mr. &. Mrs. Richard W. LiUiott
Mrs. Owen R. Mulkey

Mrs. Rob Lee Gerner

Mrs. Rorick Cravens
Stephen Fox

Major James A. Gibbs U

Grady Gibbs

Patrick R. Gleason

William Condon

Dorothy Vicknair Graves

Eretha Turner

Miss Harriet Gray

J. Emmet Niland

Gene Greenwell

Mr. & Mrs. Howard Tenney

Willaim Tarrant Hancock Jr.

Mr. Si. Mrs. H. Malcolm Lovett

Dr. Tom Charles Hardy

Dr. & Mrs. William K. Brown
David Farnsworth

Jeanne Behm Harris

Anita L. Craig

Claude & Amy-Belle Heaps

Porter &. Dorothy Heaps

Mrs. Lillian Hopper Hermance

Ernst &. Whinney
The Revis Family

Walter Eugene Hightower

Rice University Chemical
Engineering Dept.

Lisbeth Dreaper Hild

Mr. &. Mrs. George B. Kitchel
Mrs. Mark Liverman
Annita &. Newton Schwartz
Dr. &. Mrs. Edward T. Smith

Thomas W. Hines

Mrs. C. Fred Much

Mrs. Nellie Hohl

David Farnsworth
Mrs. George V. Miller

Dr. John Hood

Dr. & Mrs. Ed F. Heyne

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Caroline Brownlee Hutcheson

Mrs. Rex Shanks Jr.

Tas. C. Thornhill Jr.

Mr. &. Mrs. Anderson Todd

Mrs. A. J. Wray

Dunlop Johnson

Ms. Beverly Maurice

Roderick M. Jones

R. L. Cook

Jack P. HoUe

Gary Poole

Anna &. Magruder.Wingfield

Royce M. Jones

Mrs. Ralph Cooley Jr. &. Family
David Farnsworth

Kimberly Karsikas

Rita Robinron

William Howard Key Sr.

Mr. &. Mrs. Carl lUig

Joel T. Krog

Austin Steel Co., Inc.

Mrs. Sallie West Lancaster

Mrs. Hugh Patterson

Cecil R. Lewis

Fondren Library Staff Association

Mrs. Janie Westmoreland Luna

Mr. &. Mrs. J. Richard Luna &.
Nielon Luna

Mr. Harry W. McCormick

Mrs. Franklin Devine

Mr. &. Mrs. H. Malcolm Lovett

Mr. &. Mrs. Ralph S. O'Connor

Dr. Alan D. McKillop

Doris Lee Schild

William A. McLaughlin

Mr. &. Mrs. John T. Smith

Holmes McNeely

Brown & Associates Medical

Laboratories
Mrs. Ne Cochran
William J. Jackson
Mrs. George V. Miller

Mrs. Cora Bryan McRae

Tas C. Thornhill Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Anderson Todd

Margaret C. Wray

Elizabeth H. Millis

Mrs. Owen R. Mulkey

Frances Black Moers

Alberta B. Taylor

Mrs. Ellen A. Molish

Mr. & Mrs. Ralph S. O'Connor

George Payne Montgomery

Mrs. Margaret L. Gibbon

Edgar Nirken

Dr. &. Mrs. A. A. Mintz

Mrs. Lucille Nowlin

Mrs. Elda P. Brewer

Mrs. Clarette Patterson

Mrs. George V. Miller

John E. Pearson

David L. Stirton

Marie Boettcher Peckinpaugh

David Farnsworth

Joseph A. Read

Mr. & Mrs. Hugh E. McGee Jr.

Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Boone Rees

Raymond H. Moers

Curtis Roxwell Richards, Sr.

Tas C. Thornhill Jr.

Ethel Mae Robertson

Dr. &. Mrs. A. A. Mintz

A. Ross Rommel

Mr. &. Mrs. David S. Howard Jr.

Mrs. Beulah Ferguson Schill

Mr. & Mrs. Frank B. Davis
Mr. St. Mrs. J. Thomas Eubank
David Farnsworth
Mr. &. Mrs. Carl Illig
Mr. &. Mrs. Ted C. Litton
Carolyn &. Everett Marley
Mr. &. Mrs. Ralph S. O'Connor
Mr. &. Mrs. Joseph F. Reilly Jr.

Mr. Edward J. Sears

Mr. & Mrs. A. Gordon Jones

Mrs. Kenneth Shepherd

Mr. Sl Mrs. William J. Hudspeth

Mrs. Elizabeth Wiess Smith

David Farnsworth

Mr. &. Mrs. H. Malcolm Lovett

Mrs. A. C. Muller

Mrs. Hubert Roussel

Rice University Associates

Mrs. Rex Shanks Jr.

Mr. &. Mrs. Anderson Todd

Mrs. A. J. Wray

Vernon V. Stockbridge

Mr. &. Mrs. Phillip B. Costa

Anna Marie Stockholm

Mr. & Mrs. E. J. Madsen
Mr. &. Mrs. Jon E. Madsen

Charles Swain

Mr. &. Mrs. Frank Zumwalt

Audrey Taylor

Ann &. Dan Wise

Margaret Underwood Thompson

Mrs. Newton Rayzor

Mrs. Raymond Trammel

Mrs. A. C. Muller

Mr. Ruben D. Tye

Mary Dimataris

Dr. Aliyah W.M. von Nussbaumer

Dr. Victoria Urbano

Dr. & Mrs. Jack S. Brannon

Mrs. Rita S. Werner

Dr. Aliyah W.M. von Nussbaumer

Wesley West

Mr. & Mrs. Edwin A. Anderson
Mr. &. Mrs. James D. Harmon
Mr. &L Mrs. H. Malcolm Lovett
Rice University Associates

Ida Hankamer Westbrook

Dr. &. Mrs. Carroll Camden

James L. Whitcomb

Mrs. W. H. Keenan

Mrs. Vivien White

Beverly Maurice
Mrs. A. C. Muller
Mrs. Rex Shanks Jr.

Tilman B. White

Mrs. Elmer L. Summers

Jatnes A. Whitson

Ben E. Brewer Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Allen Kinghorn

Dr. &. Mrs. Homer Leifeste &

Beth and Molly
Mr. &. Mrs. Phillip B. Sherwood

George Wray

Mr. &. Mrs. Anderson Todd
Mrs. A. J. Wray

H. B. Zachry Sr.

Fondren Library Circulation Dept.
Mrs. Ruth M. Van Steenbergh

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FRIENDS OF FONDREN LIBRARY

CALENDAR

1984 — 1985

Saturday, March 2 FONDREN SATURDAY NIGHT V, Monte Carlo
Party and Auction. Fondren Library, 7:00 P.M.

Tuesday, April 23 PREVIEW OF STUDENT ART EXHIBITION spon-
sored by the Friends and the Arts Committee of the Association of Rice
Alumni. Sewall Gallery, Rice University, 7:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M.

Wednesday, May 8 THOMAS MOORE'S IRISH MELODIES;
ARTISTRY IN THE SONG LYRIC, Wilfred S. Dowden, professor of English,
Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library, 7:30 P.M.

MEMBERSHIP

Membership in the Friends of Fondren Library is open to all. The
membership year usually follows the academic year — beginning in
September — and is arranged on a rotating basis. Membership dues are as
follows:

Contributor $25

Sponsor $50

Patron $100

Benefactor $500

Rice University Student $10

Rice University Staff/Faculty $20

Members of the Friends will receive The Flyleaf And invitations to special
programs and events sponsored by the Friends. In addition, members who
are not already students, faculty, or staff of the university will receive
library circulation privileges.

Checks for membership dues should be made out to the Friends of
Fondren Library and should be mailed to Friends of Fondren, Rice
University, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, Texas 77251, along with your
preferred name and address listing and home and business phone
numbers. Dues qualify as charitable donations. Dues, like donations to the
gift fund, also help meet the Brown Foundation Challenge Grant which last
year, in response to gifts to the university for current operating exjjenses,
added nearly $2.5 million to the university's permanent endowment. The
same opportunity exists this year.

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