(05-26-2023 10:40 AM)Grungy Wrote:  Anyone know what these were made for who how they were earned?
4.25" high and 3.5" wide

I see a few 100 Clubs mentioned on Rice web domains, but the only one that seems to be related to women's athletics is for women tennis players who won more than 100 games in their careers. The first member was Tracie Blumentritt (115 wins in four years... https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/h...no01.pdf), Susan Rudd was inducted in 1984 (with 108 doubles victories and 107 singles wins: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/...1/m1/16/), and the third was Wendy Wood Yang (147 wins ... https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/64577).

The figure in the plaque could be a stylized woman tennis player in the act of serving the ball.

(05-26-2023 06:12 PM)Almadenmike Wrote:  

(05-26-2023 10:40 AM)Grungy Wrote:  Anyone know what these were made for who how they were earned?
4.25" high and 3.5" wide

I see a few 100 Clubs mentioned on Rice web domains, but the only one that seems to be related to women's athletics is for women tennis players who won more than 100 games in their careers. The first member was Tracie Blumentritt (115 wins in four years... https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/h...no01.pdf), Susan Rudd was inducted in 1984 (with 108 doubles victories and 107 singles wins: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/...1/m1/16/), and the third was Wendy Wood Yang (147 wins ... https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/64577).

The figure in the plaque could be a stylized woman tennis player in the act of serving the ball.

There are dozens of these.
It would take decades to award them to 100-winner athletes.
I see that alignment as unlikely.
A worthy search, though.

I was hoping someone would actually have witnessed the award.

(05-26-2023 09:20 PM)Grungy Wrote:  

(05-26-2023 06:12 PM)Almadenmike Wrote:  

(05-26-2023 10:40 AM)Grungy Wrote:  Anyone know what these were made for who how they were earned?
4.25" high and 3.5" wide

I see a few 100 Clubs mentioned on Rice web domains, but the only one that seems to be related to women's athletics is for women tennis players who won more than 100 games in their careers. The first member was Tracie Blumentritt (115 wins in four years... https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/h...no01.pdf), Susan Rudd was inducted in 1984 (with 108 doubles victories and 107 singles wins: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/...1/m1/16/), and the third was Wendy Wood Yang (147 wins ... https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/64577).

The figure in the plaque could be a stylized woman tennis player in the act of serving the ball.

There are dozens of these.
It would take decades to award them to 100-winner athletes.
I see that alignment as unlikely.
A worthy search, though.

I was hoping someone would actually have witnessed the award.

Grungy, You are amazing! If it were possible, I would nominate you for an honorary Rice "Doctorate in Doing Things That Always Should Have Been Done But Never Were".

Thank you for all your efforts in all you do and have done for the benefit of the University, its athletes, and band members.

(05-26-2023 09:30 PM)grOWLer Wrote:  

(05-26-2023 09:20 PM)Grungy Wrote:  

(05-26-2023 06:12 PM)Almadenmike Wrote:  

(05-26-2023 10:40 AM)Grungy Wrote:  Anyone know what these were made for who how they were earned?
4.25" high and 3.5" wide

I see a few 100 Clubs mentioned on Rice web domains, but the only one that seems to be related to women's athletics is for women tennis players who won more than 100 games in their careers. The first member was Tracie Blumentritt (115 wins in four years... https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/h...no01.pdf), Susan Rudd was inducted in 1984 (with 108 doubles victories and 107 singles wins: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/...1/m1/16/), and the third was Wendy Wood Yang (147 wins ... https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/64577).

The figure in the plaque could be a stylized woman tennis player in the act of serving the ball.

There are dozens of these.
It would take decades to award them to 100-winner athletes.
I see that alignment as unlikely.
A worthy search, though.

I was hoping someone would actually have witnessed the award.

Grungy, You are amazing! If it were possible, I would nominate you for an honorary Rice "Doctorate in Doing Things That Always Should Have Been Done But Never Were".

Thank you for all your efforts in all you do and have done for the benefit of the University, its athletes, and band members.

I’ll second that!

(05-26-2023 09:20 PM)Grungy Wrote:  

(05-26-2023 06:12 PM)Almadenmike Wrote:  

(05-26-2023 10:40 AM)Grungy Wrote:  Anyone know what these were made for who how they were earned?
4.25" high and 3.5" wide

I see a few 100 Clubs mentioned on Rice web domains, but the only one that seems to be related to women's athletics is for women tennis players who won more than 100 games in their careers. The first member was Tracie Blumentritt (115 wins in four years... https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/h...no01.pdf), Susan Rudd was inducted in 1984 (with 108 doubles victories and 107 singles wins: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/...1/m1/16/), and the third was Wendy Wood Yang (147 wins ... https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/64577).

The figure in the plaque could be a stylized woman tennis player in the act of serving the ball.

There are dozens of these.
It would take decades to award them to 100-winner athletes.
I see that alignment as unlikely.
A worthy search, though.

I was hoping someone would actually have witnessed the award.

This would appear to be the program that the award was once given for...
From the date built into the URL, the page is five years old.
The link to register is no longer active, and the person whose email is given no longer works at Rice.
Tanner Gardner says that the logo is no longer in use.

https://riceowls.com/sports/2018/7/17/ow...e-100-html

Grungy for 2024 commencement speaker!!

(05-30-2023 09:44 AM)Hambone10 Wrote:  Grungy for 2024 commencement speaker!!

Ack! Nooooo!!

If nominated I shall not run.
If elected I shall not speak.

I am a poster-child for how not to do things (that are important to the Institute - study skills, ambition, graduate in four years, leadership, give buckets of money no-strings-attached).

(05-30-2023 09:57 AM)Grungy Wrote:  

(05-30-2023 09:44 AM)Hambone10 Wrote:  Grungy for 2024 commencement speaker!!

Ack! Nooooo!!

If nominated I shall not run.
If elected I shall not speak.

Hey... YOU guys asked ME to speak... I think it only fair!

Quote:I am a poster-child for how not to do things (that are important to the Institute - study skills, ambition, graduate in four years, leadership, give buckets of money no-strings-attached).

This is why you should do it. You are absolutely also a poster-child for 'doing what needs to be done, even and sometimes especially if they are not important to the Institute, but ultimately benefit the Institute and ALL of its members'

Seriously... although I absolutely respect your lack of desire to do it... your passion for 'doing the right thing, even with nobody else helping' is a TRULY admirable quality... even 'buckets of no-strings money' couldn't do what your passion and effort has done. Budgets would have required simply throwing all of those items away.... and of course this is only one of dozens of similar things that you've done.

The Rice Historical Society, the R Association and numerous other groups SHOULD have done what you have... and none of them have... but YOU did.

(05-30-2023 09:57 AM)Grungy Wrote:  

(05-30-2023 09:44 AM)Hambone10 Wrote:  Grungy for 2024 commencement speaker!!

Ack! Nooooo!!

If nominated I shall not run.
If elected I shall not speak.

I am a poster-child for how not to do things (that are important to the Institute - study skills, ambition, graduate in four years, leadership, give buckets of money no-strings-attached).

Maybe we can share a poster.

(05-30-2023 09:57 AM)Grungy Wrote:  

(05-30-2023 09:44 AM)Hambone10 Wrote:  Grungy for 2024 commencement speaker!!

Ack! Nooooo!!

If nominated I shall not run.
If elected I shall not speak.

I am a poster-child for how not to do things (that are important to the Institute - study skills, ambition, graduate in four years, leadership, give buckets of money no-strings-attached).

Well, that would speed things up at Commencement!

I don't know about the "how not to do things" part. Hard-working, determined, stick-to-it-ness are all excellent qualities for how to get things done!

(05-30-2023 10:06 AM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(05-30-2023 09:57 AM)Grungy Wrote:  

(05-30-2023 09:44 AM)Hambone10 Wrote:  Grungy for 2024 commencement speaker!!

Ack! Nooooo!!

If nominated I shall not run.
If elected I shall not speak.

Hey... YOU guys asked ME to speak... I think it only fair!

Quote:I am a poster-child for how not to do things (that are important to the Institute - study skills, ambition, graduate in four years, leadership, give buckets of money no-strings-attached).

This is why you should do it. You are absolutely also a poster-child for 'doing what needs to be done, even and sometimes especially if they are not important to the Institute, but ultimately benefit the Institute and ALL of its members'

Seriously... although I absolutely respect your lack of desire to do it... your passion for 'doing the right thing, even with nobody else helping' is a TRULY admirable quality... even 'buckets of no-strings money' couldn't do what your passion and effort has done. Budgets would have required simply throwing all of those items away.... and of course this is only one of dozens of similar things that you've done.

The Rice Historical Society, the R Association and numerous other groups SHOULD have done what you have... and none of them have... but YOU did.

ain't that right!!!

(05-30-2023 10:06 AM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(05-30-2023 09:57 AM)Grungy Wrote:  

(05-30-2023 09:44 AM)Hambone10 Wrote:  Grungy for 2024 commencement speaker!!

Ack! Nooooo!!

If nominated I shall not run.
If elected I shall not speak.

Hey... YOU guys asked ME to speak... I think it only fair!

Hambone is referring to The MOB asking him to speak at our annual banquet.
He did a nice job.
(Yes, that's fair.)

Imagine doing that in front of an entire graduating class, with parents (extended families, really), the faculty, and local and national press.

No thank you.

The current me might have been able to address the undergraduate me's contemporaries - they were smart enough to be accepted, and weren't necessarily ambitious and driven, as today's incoming freshlings, and eventual graduates need to be.
How many of you have stated that you probably couldn't be accepted to one of today's incoming classes?
I don't want to discount those who were ambitious and driven back in the Seventies - there were plenty.
But there were also the slackers who just got by, and they are my tribe.
I'm not even in the management structure of that tribe (is anyone?).
Nope.
Someone else can speak to the future captains of industry and leaders of the free world.
I'll play second trumpet in the band at the ceremony, and watch the members of my extended family graduate.

Rice Sports Hall of Fame 2017 inductee banners.
(roughly 5' tall)

Missing from this gathering - Jim Bevan, Bob and Betty Bixby (Honorary R), Shaquandra Roberson, and Joe Savery.

(05-30-2023 01:51 PM)Grungy Wrote:  

(05-30-2023 10:06 AM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(05-30-2023 09:57 AM)Grungy Wrote:  

(05-30-2023 09:44 AM)Hambone10 Wrote:  Grungy for 2024 commencement speaker!!

Ack! Nooooo!!

If nominated I shall not run.
If elected I shall not speak.

Hey... YOU guys asked ME to speak... I think it only fair!

Hambone is referring to The MOB asking him to speak at our annual banquet.
He did a nice job.
(Yes, that's fair.)

Imagine doing that in front of an entire graduating class, with parents (extended families, really), the faculty, and local and national press.

No thank you.

The current me might have been able to address the undergraduate me's contemporaries - they were smart enough to be accepted, and weren't necessarily ambitious and driven, as today's incoming freshlings, and eventual graduates need to be.
How many of you have stated that you probably couldn't be accepted to one of today's incoming classes?
I don't want to discount those who were ambitious and driven back in the Seventies - there were plenty.
But there were also the slackers who just got by, and they are my tribe.
I'm not even in the management structure of that tribe (is anyone?).
Nope.
Someone else can speak to the future captains of industry and leaders of the free world.
I'll play second trumpet in the band at the ceremony, and watch the members of my extended family graduate.

I think a trumpet solo would be better than some recent commencement speakers.

(05-31-2023 08:33 AM)Grungy Wrote:  Rice Sports Hall of Fame 2017 inductee banners.
(roughly 5' tall)

Missing from this gathering - Jim Bevan, Bob and Betty Bixby (Honorary R), Shaquandra Roberson, and Joe Savery.

I'd assume the photo of Savery was well outside the frame?

(06-01-2023 01:08 AM)YOwl Ming Wrote:  I'd assume the photo of Savery was well outside the frame?

lol.... yep... by about 6 inches.

If such a display is recreated, that should be done!

(06-01-2023 01:08 AM)YOwl Ming Wrote:  

(05-31-2023 08:33 AM)Grungy Wrote:  Rice Sports Hall of Fame 2017 inductee banners.
(roughly 5' tall)

Missing from this gathering - Jim Bevan, Bob and Betty Bixby (Honorary R), Shaquandra Roberson, and Joe Savery.

I'd assume the photo of Savery was well outside the frame?

(06-01-2023 01:08 AM)YOwl Ming Wrote:  I'd assume the photo of Savery was well outside the frame?

A+ reference btw

2015 Rice Athletics Hall of Fame inductee posters.
Each one is mounted on 48x36 foam core.

Not in the box with the others - Jarett Dillard and Funmilayo Jimoh.



2019 Rice Athletics Hall of Fame inductee (only one from that year)

(06-01-2023 08:37 PM)Seventyniner Wrote:  

(06-01-2023 01:08 AM)YOwl Ming Wrote:  I'd assume the photo of Savery was well outside the frame?

A+ reference btw

At least in that meme, the pitch was called correctly.