Box 2
Container
Contains 4 Collections and/or Records:
Engineering at Rice, history notes from Rice Thresher and Rice Engineer articles, through 1976
File — Box: 2, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers contain documents, photographs and printed material which document the career of James R. Sims, who taught civil engineering at Rice Institute (later Rice University) beginning in 1942 as an instructor, to becoming the Herman and George R. Brown Chair of Civil Engineering until his retirement in 1987. He then served as the Herman and George R. Brown Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering from 1987 until his death in 2009.
Dates:
1924 - 2002
Notecard drawers (2) of handwritten Abercrombie building and School of Engineering history
File — Box: 2, drawer: 1-2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers contain documents, photographs and printed material which document the career of James R. Sims, who taught civil engineering at Rice Institute (later Rice University) beginning in 1942 as an instructor, to becoming the Herman and George R. Brown Chair of Civil Engineering until his retirement in 1987. He then served as the Herman and George R. Brown Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering from 1987 until his death in 2009.
Dates:
1924 - 2002
Engineering at Rice, history notes from Rice Thresher articles, 1913 through 1970
File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers contain documents, photographs and printed material which document the career of James R. Sims, who taught civil engineering at Rice Institute (later Rice University) beginning in 1942 as an instructor, to becoming the Herman and George R. Brown Chair of Civil Engineering until his retirement in 1987. He then served as the Herman and George R. Brown Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering from 1987 until his death in 2009.
Dates:
1924 - 2002
Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico, dedication activities and press releases scrapbook, 1963 - 1964
File — Box: 2, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers contain documents, photographs and printed material which document the career of James R. Sims, who taught civil engineering at Rice Institute (later Rice University) beginning in 1942 as an instructor, to becoming the Herman and George R. Brown Chair of Civil Engineering until his retirement in 1987. He then served as the Herman and George R. Brown Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering from 1987 until his death in 2009.
Dates:
1963 - 1964