Ray Watkin Strange Research Materialsfor William Ward Watkin and the Rice Institute 1917-1985

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Ray Watkin Strange Research Materialsfor William Ward Watkin and the Rice Institute 1917-1985

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This material covers thearchitectural career of the Ms. Strange's father, William Ward Watkin,including his private architecture practice and well as his relationship withRice Institute as Supervising Architect, touching briefly on his personal life.The material was gathered by Ms. Strange and much of it served as research forthe book: by PatrickJames Nicholson (published 1991 by Gulf Pub. Co.). William Ward Watkin and The Rice Institute,

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Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University

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Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University

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Nicholson, Patrick James, 1921-

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Dr. Patrick James Nicholson (1921-1999) is best known as the author of In Time: An Anecdotal History of the First Fifty Years of the University of Houston . He received a BA from Rice University in 1942, an MBA from Harvard in 1946, and a Ph.D., from the University of Houston in 1959. Nicholson came to the University of Houston as a lecturer in Management in 1951. He continued until 1956, when he became Executive Director of Development and Assistant to the President. He was named Vice President...

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Annie Ray Watkin, eldest of three children of William Ward Watkin and Annie Ray Townsend, was born May 11, 1915 in Houston, TX at the Watkin residence, 5009 Caroline. She was home schooled through second grade by her mother and then entered the Kinkaid School (San Jacinto @ Elgin) where she graduated from the tenth grade. The family traveled to France in 1928-29 for her father to study architecture. In 1930 she entered Chatham Hall, an Episcopal Preparatory School in Chatham, VA and...

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