Rice University

Overview This collection includes a variety of files that reflect the daily affairs of the Vice President for Resource Development’s office, Rice University Office of Resource Development.

Abstract This record group includes correspondence and event planning documents from the Student Center Board, as well as the daily business, publicity, meeting minutes, and memorabilia of the Rice Program Council (RPC).

Overview Photographs featured in the Rice University alumni magazine, the Sallyport, 1987-2003. The Sallyport was first published in 1945 and is still published today as Rice Magazine.

Overview The collections includes a series of scrapbooks of the activities of Rice alumni and a series of scrapbooks from Rice University departments, Rice-related events, and other materials related to the life of the university.

Abstract Included are Council minutes and other college business, associate and orientation correspondence and documents, social events, dedication and anniversary files, news clippings, publications, theatrical files, correspondence, and photographs, as well as audio/visual media, posters, and T-shirts. (20 boxes)

Overview Photographs, newsclippings, departmental booklets and scrapbooks conveying the history of the Space Science Department at Rice University, 1960s-2020s. (1 box)

Overview This collection contains correspondence, departmental records, course preparation materials, and course assistant records relating to Thomas A. Rabson’s career as professor of electrical engineering at Rice University. Also included are conference materials, reference materials, energy research studies and reports, and information concerning Dr. Rabson’s grant proposals, consultation with energy and electronics corporations, and expertise in lasers and ferroelectric thin films.

Abstract Papers of Thomas Lindsey Blayney, a founding member of the faculty of Rice Institute (now University) and Professor of German there from 1912- 1924; materials include records of his military service during World War I (1917-1919), and later appointments as president of Texas State Women’s College (1924-26) and dean of Carleton College (1926-46); also included are family memoirs, correspondence, photographs, news clippings, and memorabilia.

Abstract: The records of the Twenty-Six Literary Club document the activities of this women’s social and philanthropic club established in 1909 by a group of Houston women residing in the Woodland Heights neighborhood. Some members’ daughters became students at the Rice Institute (later University) after it opened in 1912 and continued the Club, expanding its membership over the years and engaging in various community projects, including providing scholarships for young women entering Rice.

Abstract The collection contains one series of Masterson's academic papers and one series related to his wife, Orvetta Masterson. Correspondence, newsclips, photographs, certificates, Rice-related brochures and information on the Masterson Fund are included.