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Hi, my name is Kathy. I graduated from Rice in 1978 with biochemistry degree. I was in Hanszen College and from there I went to med school and became a psychiatrist and there are several things that led me to Rice. One of them is the fact that

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I was born and raised in Houston and I was kind of the homebody in my family. And so I didn't want to go very far and, but I still lived in a dorm uh because my twin sister had decided to go to MIT. And if she

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got to live in a dorm, I didn't have to live at home. Uh The I, I liked Rice because it was kind of the first place. I felt normal a lot of times in middle school and high school when you're smart and make real good grades

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without a whole lot of effort. Uh It's hard to have colleagues and peers that aren't stressed out by uh have trying to compete with somebody that happened to be blessed with a lot of intellect. But I loved being at Rice because this was where I felt

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normal. This was where I had a much easier time making friends. We were not particularly competitive with each other and it was just a great place to start off the possible learning uh, of about life before you actually had to go out and deal with all

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of life. Now, just for grins. The other, the other thing that I didn't realize until much later is that we have a building on campus called the Dell Butcher Hall. And I doubt that I ever met Dell Butcher. But my mother lived with Dell Butcher's mother

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when my dad was in Korea. And so I wound up named for Dell Butcher's mother. And it was sort of like, I didn't know it at the time, but I think that was, uh, uh that was one of those little connections that got into my brain

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and I wound up going to Rice and I love Rice. I had a great time while I was here. It helped me enormously to survive medical school and to continue on in my career. And I love coming back to reunions to see my people.