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>> The first time I came to Rice, I was about 4 years old, riding on my father's shoulders
when he got his degree from Rice.
So I'm probably the youngest person that ever came to graduation.
No, I may be, there were some other babies.
But I enjoyed Rice.
It was a challenge in the first -- when I went for my undergraduate work.
It was a challenge 'cause I was told that every other student would be gone by the end
of the first year, and it was true.
From my 500 and so freshmen, there were only about 250 sophomores left.
So it was a challenge, and it just meant that you didn't come just
to have fun at Rice, you came to work.
You came to learn, you came to share experiences with others, and I had the privilege
of being able to work at the Rice athletic program my sophomore year,
my junior year, and part of my senior year.
So I was not only a student, I was already employed teaching athletics.
So -- and then the master's program I had wonderful teachers who really --
it was in Spanish literature, and so I really celebrate not only the students' past,
all of them, but also the future, because we really have a wonderful institution --
university, and I look forward to seeing some more people here, such as my son,
who came to Rice, and a granddaughter.
So he -- I have four generations, at least, in my family, five of us who've come to Rice.
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