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Michael Maher ’75, ’79, ‘80 is the 2026 ARA Laureates Award recipient who enjoyed a thirty-four year career at Exxon Mobil. The 2026 ARA Awards Dinner will take place on Thursday, May 7 at The Revaire (7122 Old Katy Road). Click here for a list of the 2026 Laureates Awards Honorees. (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst!)
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Name the 2026 ARA Laureates Award recipient who enjoyed a thirty-four year career at Exxon Mobil. Email your answer here.
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Edgar Odell Lovett earned his B.A. at Bethany College in 1890 at age 19. (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst and Mike Ross!)
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Name the Rice president with a BA from Bethany College. Email your answer here.
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Goliard Travel Scholar Caroline Shaw ‘04 is the 2026 ARA Laureates Award recipient with a Pulitzer Prize and four Grammy Awards. The 2026 ARA Awards Dinner will take place on Thursday, May 7 at The Revaire (7122 Old Katy Road). Click here for a list of the 2026 Laureates Awards Honorees. (Thanks, Mike Ross!)
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Name the 2026 ARA Laureates Award recipient who was won a Pulitzer Prize as well as four Grammy Awards. Email your answer here.
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Current freshman hurdler and sprinter Max Bacon is the great grandson of the legendary Eddie Dyer Sr., a three-sport athlete at Rice for baseball, football and track. Click here for the Rice History Corner by Melissa Kean blog entry dated June 24, 2019 about him. (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst and Mike Ross!)
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Name the current freshman member of the Rice track and field team whose great grandfather was a three-sport athlete at Rice for baseball, football and track. Email your answer here.
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Rachel Shoemaker, the sister of freshman distance runner Amelia Shoemaker, was a four-year member of the Rice track and field team (2019-23). (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst and Mike Ross!)
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Name the current freshman member of the Rice track and field team whose sister was a four-year member of the Rice track and field team. Email your answer here.
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Hanna Huston ’19, the daughter of head Swimming coach at Rice Seth Huston, is head Swimming coach at St. Thomas. (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst and Mike Ross!)
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Name the current Rice head coach whose daughter, a Rice alum, is also a head coach in the same sport at another NCAA school. For a bonus point, name the school. Email your answer(s) here.