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Left to right: Bill Barnett, chairman of the Rice Board of Trustees, President David Leebron, former Rice president Malcolm Gillis, and Trustee James Crownover, chairman of the Rice Presidential Search Committee.
 
1956
Who says Houston doesn’t have Snowy Owls? A sighting right here on the Rice campus sometime in the ’70s proves that stranger things have happened, like enough snow to actually build an owlman. (date is approx.)
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The Cornerstone

Summer 2005
Vol.10, No.2

 
In the year 1921
Autry House is built under the auspices of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas. Located on Main Street, it is built with a donation from Mrs. James Autry in honor of her husband, Judge James L. Autry. It quickly becomes the "fireside of Rice" by serving as Rice's first cultural, religious, and recreational student center.
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