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Events


Overview:

This section describes the events that HOOTS will be involved in.


Contents:

HOOTS Cookbook
(Submit a Recipe)

As it's annual fund raiser, HOOTS will be creating the HOOTS "Good Times, Great Friends" Cookbook and we need your help! Submit your favorite family recipe in many categories, share it with the Rice community, and help raise money for the HOOTS scholarship.

HOOTS General Meeting
Oct 13 or 14, 2003

This is the meeting for every member of H&D, PM&P, and F&E. Come see what HOOTS has accomplished, who we've helped, and what the plans for the future are.

Recognition

HOOTS was recognized at two events recently.
First was the recognition of HOOTS by Rice Athletics at midfield during halftime of the Oct 26 Rice home game.
AFP Award Presentation The second was an award presented by the Houston Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals for the Outstanding Fundraising Program less than $250,000, recognized at a banquet in the Westin Galleria on November 13, 2002.

HOOTS T-shirts

HOOTS has many nice HOOTS T-shirts. T-shirts are available for $10 each from LouAnn Risseeuw or Veronica Sellers. Money raised from the T-shirts will go towards funding the scholarship and activities of HOOTS.

Tailgate Parties

 

Football Season

 

HOOTS hosted tailgate parties this past 2002 football season at home games.

  • Aug 31, 5pm: Classic Tailgate
  • Sept 28, 5pm: Steve's Almost Famous Chicken
    Featuring Feighl and the Fumigators
  • Oct 5, 5pm: Bulldog Gumbo
  • Oct 26, noon: Surfin' the Bayou
    Featuring The El Toros
  • Nov 16, noon: The Carnival (family fun)
 

HOOTS hosts a tailgate party before each home football game of the Rice Owls Football team that is open to the members of HOOTS and their families. We set up a tent and a barbeque pit, and have some good cookin'!

stadium map

The tailgate parties are hosted just outside the northeast corner of the stadium. Look for a tent and fun.

Baseball Season

 
 

Bands

The following are local bands have played or will play at HOOTS Tailgate parties. See their websites to catch their next show!

 

PV

(ska/rock/other) PV, a band made up of Rice students and alumni plays a wide variety of songs to please even the pickiest audience.

website

Feighl and the Fumigators

(rock drinkin' songs) If you think "Beer Ain't Drinkin'" and "Louie, Louie" has a special place in your heart, then Fieghl and the Fumigators is for you!

The El Toros

(surf rock) Brought their surf rock standards and originals to the HOOTS crowd.

website

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Last updated 3/18/03