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>> My father was Hubert Bray, a math professor at Rice who got the first Ph.D. Rice ever gave.
He was born in England in Great Yarmouth, came to this country for college
when he was 16 years old; went to Tufts and Harvard for a masters and Dr. Lovett was
up east snooping around finding faculty for Rice and he invited my dad to just come.
And of course, he was feeling adventuresome.
He'd never heard of the place.
It was just opening anyway.
So he took a train as far as he could and then he had to get on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico
and landed in Galveston, Texas and took a little train to Houston.
And then he said, then his life began.
He enjoyed Rice so much.
And my father called out the names always at commencement and my sister was two years ahead
of me and she got "with distinction" from daddy's mouth when she walked across
and when I walked across he whispered "with difficulty."
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I've been a member of the faculty Women's Club since 1950 when I married Alan Chapman.
And I was lucky to be able to carry on the lifestyle
of Rice people which I was very fond of.
And I graduated from Rice in the same year that I got married,
so there was no space there, three days.
Alan Jesse Chapman was born in California but came to Houston as a small child
and his family moved into South Hampton so it was natural that he should go to Rice
since he was a good student and he loved Rice and actually never left it.
He got his master's in the summer times in the University of Colorado
and came back and taught at Rice.
And then he got his doctorate in Illinois and had to take one year's leave to finish it.
But by then we were married and so he loved Rice more than anything in the world.
It was part of his body and he adored my daddy and came to see him in our house in Colorado.
And there I was.
And I hooked him.
Of course he thought he hooked me but anyway we made a match.
And we were very lucky to have such a happy marriage and two lovely children.
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