Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ray was born in 1924 in Havana, and educated in that city's public schools. In 1946 he completed a five-year civil engineering program at Havana University, in the course of which he achieved what he considers his proudest moment: the gold cup for national sports championship. He played football and ran cross country for three years. "I was not," he explains, "at all active in politics, although I took what you might call a 'general interest...
From the outset Manuel Ray was an idealist. He was instrumental in setting up the University's first honor system for exams, and in requiring physical examinations for all students. "You can say I was active in student activities...
After graduation Senor Ray went to work for the Ministry of Public Works, as a draftsman "working on ditches." Then he got a scholarship for graduate work at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City. "I was working toward my Master's; it is the only thing in my life I have never finish." He returned to Havana to teach Structural Science at the University. At the same time he became chief of the Structural Department in the National Development Commission...
...engineer Ray built his first bridge, then he built the first vehicular tunnel in Cuba. After that he was Project Manager for the Havana Hilton Hotel. "The first job cost a million dollars; the tunnel was $6 1/2 million job; the Hilton project was $20 million. I say this so you see the progress...
...about this time that two important things happened to Ray: he was elected president of the Civil Engineers Association of Havana, and he became involved in anti-Batista activities. "There was no single reason. I had never been active before. I had just had enough of what was going on." "What was going on" included at that time a particularly violent purge of Batista's political enemies, including the mayor of Havana. Ray resigned in protest from the Development Commission, but he continued to teach at the University...