Freshman Year at Rice

Pat and I arrived at Wiess College in September 1964 for Freshman week. At the time there were four men’s colleges (Baker, Hansen, Wiess and Will Rice) and one women’s college (Jones). I think this 4:1 ratio indicated the gender bias of the times. Freshman week was a ‘get to know you’ time with some serious stuff and some fun and games - we actually attended a Colt ’45 baseball game (the Colt ’45’s morphed into the Houston Astros when the Astrodome was completed.). There was some mild hazing, e. g. sitting on a block of ice in our skivvies as it was slid across a tennis court.

This is a photo of Wiess College that I found on the internet. The room Pat and I shared was behind the volleyball net. The building was demolished in 2003.