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My name is Connie Sampson. My maiden name is Rhodes. Um So Constance Rhodes Sampson graduated in 1988. Um I was a Brown woman at the time and um the most the rice tradition that I think that is the most meaningful to me today after having been

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gone for 35 years is homecoming. Um I cannot tell you how important it is to me to have felt so welcomed on campus all these years later and I came several years ago and made some new friends out on the quad one afternoon, ran into them

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the next day and I felt like I was at home. Rice has not forgotten. We older owls. And um it's really, it's so much fun to come back and see everyone and meet new people. Hear new and different professors than were here when I was here.

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Um It's really very welcoming and wonderfully warm. That is all.