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The Distribution and Origin of Bottom Sediments in Timbalier Bay, Louisiana, and the Adjacent Offshore Area
No full textPaper by James I. Jones and Sam E. William
Honest to God Author Speaks to Rice Audience next Wednesday
No full textFrom the Rice Thresher Archive, a collection of newspaper articles published in the student newspaper for Rice University. Genre: New
Rice Associates Dinner - James Michener
No full textSpeaker: James MichenerContents include: Speaking at the Rice Associates Dinner, author James Michener discusses Texas, more specifically the arts, higher education, business, politics, public education, sports, and Houston
Rice Institute Owls tennis player Sam Match
No full textBlack and white photograph of Rice University Owls tennis player Sam Match, headlining his achievement into the Rice Athletic Hall of Fame.Caption reads: There have been a number of great tennis players in the history of Rice Athletics, but there’s never been a better ‘Match’ player than Sam Match. Now, some 44 years after his heroics on the courts of the Big Blue, Sam goes into the Rice Athletic Hall of Fame. A few Owls had preceded Match in winning NCAA titles, such as Wilbur Hess and Frank Guernsey in tennis and Fred Wolcott in track. But when Match and Houstonian Bobby Curtis teamed up to win the NCAA doubles title in 1947, it was a major happening on the Houston and Southwest Conference sports scene. College athletes of today often go far away from home to compete, but not many did so in the 1940’s. That’s the way it was back in 1946 when Sam trekked down to Houston from California, bringing along fellow Californian Ken McCarthy for the ride. As Sam says, “I found myself after World War II on a train from California to Rice in Houston in April, 1946.” That spring, McCarthy and Match won the SWC doubles title, and then in 1947, Match teamed up with Bobby Curtis to win the SWC and NCAA championships in doubles. Unfortunately for Rice, after that sophomore year here, Match left Texas to finish his college career at the University of San Francisco in his home state of California. Sam now says, “Looking back some 44 years, the first thing that comes to mind is if I had known then what I know now, I may have never left for the old home state. As the years past, more and more I realized how good a school Rice really was, and how I left a great bunch of friends.” You have to admit, though, he made the most of his switch. At USF, he teamed with a phenomenal player named Art Larsen and the Dons finished national team runners-up in 1948 before capturing the NCAA team title in 1949. That championship title in 1949 came in Austin in a tournament hosted by the University of Texas. He and Larsen led USF to the national team title, but they lost in the doubles final and Match lost a five-set heartbreaker in the singles final to a “Tulane fighter in Jack Tiero who just wore me down after I led 6 – 2, 6 – 0 and 5 – 2 in the third set.” Match was named to the USF Athletic Hall of Fame 15 years ago, and now he’s thrilled to make it a daily double at Rice, too. He had five years on the famed amateur circuit while in college at Rice and USF, and was nationally ranked 8, 10, 10 and 11 in four of those years. A memorable match for Match was beating the great Pancho Gonzales at the famous River Oaks CC tournament here 6 – 1, 6 – 2, in just 35 minutes when Pancho was the U.S. champion. Sam currently is a loan officer with the Jon Douglas Company in Beverly Hills, specializing in home loans. He first went to that famous home locale for many movie stars as a newlywed right out of college, leaving the tour to become a teaching pro. As you would figure, he was pro to many stars, such as Charlton Heston, Barbara Streisand, Dan Rowan (of Rowan and Martin’s Laugh—In), and more. Match still plays a lot of social tennis, and in senior tournaments – including four trips to Wimbledon to compete in the senior doubles competition. After all these years, he still has great memories of his stay at Rice. One special tennis memory for Match however stands out over the rest. “I was a radio operator for three years in the Air corps while in Guam, and I got to play a lot of tennis with Bobby Riggs when we weren’t flying to Iwo Jima. Riggs taught me an enormous amount about the psychology of tennis and how other players think. He and I played in the finals of the Army-Navy Championships in 1945, and I was only two points away from winning, but I guess I just couldn’t beat my idol because he came back to win. But what I learned from him paid off in 1946 after leaving the service.” Later that year, Riggs became the world’s professional champion.Rice Athletic Hall of Fam
Hospital Author Jan De Hartog to Speak at Will Rice Tomorrow
No full textFrom the Rice Thresher Archive, a collection of newspaper articles published in the student newspaper for Rice University. Genre: New
The Rice Chorale
No full textWondrous Cool, Thou Woodland Quiet, Johannes Brahms -- Here is Thy Footstool, Paul Creston -- Sure on This Shining Night, Samuel Barber -- Let Down the Bars, O Death, Samuel Barber -- sam was a man, Vincent Persichetti -- Mass in E Minor, Anton Bruckne
Handwriting on wall - Sam and Gerry talk
No full textFrom the Rice Thresher Archive, a collection of newspaper articles published in the student newspaper for Rice University. Genre: New
College Capers At Sam Houston; Prizes Offered
No full textFrom the Rice Thresher Archive, a collection of newspaper articles published in the student newspaper for Rice University. Genre: New
Baptist Minister, Author
No full textFrom the Rice Thresher Archive, a collection of newspaper articles published in the student newspaper for Rice University. Genre: New
Sockalingam (Sam) Kannappan oral history
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of oral history interviews conducted by the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University. This collection includes audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with Asian Americans native to or living in Houston.Mr. Sockalingam (Sam) Kannappan was born in Nattarasankottai in southern Tamil Nadu, India. He grew up in a small community and. learned to follow what the elderly say, among other Indian traditions he was raised with. He immigrated to the University of Texas at Austin to get a degree in mechanical engineering. He got involved in starting the Sri Meenakshi Temple and started to raise funds for the temple in 1977. Amidst the Hare Krishna movement, the surrounding community misunderstood the temple and thought its purpose was to convert their children. However, the then Pearland mayor, Thomas Reid, assisted in helping the surrounding community accept and understand the temple. The temple has grown in providing services (youth center and library) to the community not only in Houston, but in Texas and beyond. Mr. Kannappan has served on the board and the advisory council of the Sri Meenakshi Temple. In this interview, he details the beginnings of the temple and the challenges it has faced along the way
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