December 17, 2020

James Bommarito '88:
Q&A with restaurateur James Bommarito (St. Louis)

Sasha Cooke '04:
HGO Presents LIVE FROM THE CULLEN With Sasha Cooke (Broadway World)

Camilla Wicks (1928-2020):
Camilla Wicks, a child prodigy who became a pioneering and world-renowned concert violin soloist in the 1940s-50s and later taught at 10 universities and music conservatories, died November 25.  She was a professor of violin at the Shepherd School from 1988-91.  Click here for the New York Times obituary and here for a violinist.com memorial article and comments.

Recordings of her first and final recitals at Rice can be heard here and here.

Rice HIstory Corner:
Click here for Melissa Kean's latest blog entry entilted "Is This Rice's First Black Coach?"

December 16, 2020

Rice Architecture:
Dogtrot dwelling divides to conquer energy bills (Rice News)

Justice and Cinema:
It's lights, camera, gavel for Cinema and Media Studies minors (Rice News)

Cele Keeper (1927-2020):
On December 3, Cele Keeper passed away.  A native Houstonian, she graduated from Rice in 1946 at age 19.  In addition to raising two children with her husband Sam, she was a department store employee, a lab technician at Baylor College of Medicine and co-owned and ran The House of Books on Stella Link before earning a Masters in social work from UH after the age 49.   Then, she became a therapist, an adjunct professor at Baylor College of Medicine and an author.

She is predeceased by, among others, Sam (he passed away in 2016 after 67 “mostly delicious years together”) and their son Gary (who passed away in 1990 at age 39).   Click here for the Chronicle obituary

December 16, 2020

Rice M Basketball:
Rice Uses Second Half Surge to Defeat HBU (RIce Owls)

Rice W Basketball:
Owls Return to Action Today vs. Ragin' Cajuns (Rice Owls)

Mariah Riddlesprigger '14 (Thanks, Russell Shelby!):
Giannis Antetokounmpo, the NBA’s reigning two-time MVP, has signed a multi-year contract extension with the Milwaukee Bucks worth an estimated $228 million.  He and his girlfriend, former Rice volleyball player Mariah Riddlesprigger ’14, are in a live-in relationship in Milwaukee and are parents to Liam.  Read more.