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I'm Julie Gianelloni Connor, class of 73. My residential college was Jones back in the day when there was only a women's college. So the first question is to tell us about a rice tradition which has been most meaningful to you. To tell you the truth. I

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can't think of a tradition that has been meaningful to me. But I will say I, my rice ring has been very dear to me all these years. I actually was living overseas when my house was broken into and I lost my rice ring. So it took

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a bit of work. But I put in the effort to get a replacement ring which I'm wearing today. Uh And when I spot anybody else with the rice ring or they see my rice ring, it's an immediate connection and a bridge to different people that you

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wouldn't get in any other way. So I think the tradition of getting your ring, your senior year is very much worthwhile. And the second question is, what traditions or advice would you most like to share with the next generation of owls? I would say I have

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found Rice through the years. Very important and valuable to me. And I've always made an effort to reach out to other alumni in the area in which I was living. And I've lived all around the world. So, for example, one year I hosted a Rice Traveling

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Owl group that came through Chile, which is where I was living at the time. And I had them over to my house for dinner and to meet some other people from Chileans who I invited. And it's been the same thing. And when I was in Washington

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DC, I hooked up with the local chapter there. And when I, I travel with the traveling owls now and then it's just great to have an automatic community that you can connect with basically no matter where you are in the world or what you're doing. So

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I strongly encourage new owls to try to keep up your rice connections, make an effort to go out and connect with your rice community.