University of Arizona - Desert Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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WILLIAM BRAY IS THE HELPING HAND BEHIND THE SCENE FOR HIS 35 YEARS OF CONSCIENCIOUS SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY, WE PROUDLY DEDICATE THE DESERT TO BILL BRAY IDDLE-AGED BILL BRAY has Watched, more proudly than El anyone else, Arizona's growth from a ragged, ambitious little sandlot college to a state university with one of the most beautiful and most striking campuses of the country. For Wil- liam Bray, better known as Bill , has been superintendent ot grounds and buildings since l905, a long, busy service of 35 years. Many are the nervous, hopeful lads and lassies who have come to Bill Bray, looking for a part-time job to help them through school, and many are the times that Bill Bray has gone out ot his Way to see a friend or speak a kind Word for those hopeful students. Mr. Bray is a friend to youth-has a grandson who holds an unchallenged place in his heart. Mr. Bray, blue-eyed and slightly grayed, has a big job on his hands. He hires and tires mechanics, gardeners, janitors-oven sees all Work and repairs on buildings, directs irrigation and land- scaping of grounds: and all appropriations for school Works and bills for campus upkeep go through his hands. A thousand times a day he jumps up from his work-littered desk to supervise per- sonally the planting of a palm or repairs on a building. His Work day usually begins at eight-often lasts until six or seven. His fine personality and sense of humor has tor 35 years made him a popular character, respected and admired by the University of Arizona. I Q A CLOSE-UP of Mr. Bray reveals a fine character in a weather-beaten face. He had charge ot all the new side walks built on the campus during the year. A FAMILIAR SIGHT to all Arizona students is this picture of Mr. Bray at the wheel of a university truck flower leftl. AS A TREE GOES IN-Mr. Bray supervises. The trees planted on the campus number in the hundreds, and he has supervised them all, as he does this latest one tlower rightl. IN HIS OFFICE-Mr. Bray takes care of numerous duties. ' Here one finds him working on anything from a blue print for the new campus sidewalks to the weekly pay-roll. t3J I , ,K .Il v , .4 7' F'f'ff: -' .1 .', rib. ' Ek.. - . x:'..3 A I .f ..,,.:i!'1..fgtT ' ' 'Mi-r--,s. 'tif' ln- ...J!.,.,f ,,,g- . , Y, , ,-, J 'r':1 ' - 5' .gh im: ?4-:milf ffl'-9 .'5 ',',' . . ,., ...,, 5? I - ill 'ff-5,9 . , , ..',4 'f' .

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