The HistoryMakers video oral history with Adine Ray.

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 23 min., 41 sec.)) : sound, color.

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Videographer, Matthew Hickey.

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Educator Adine Ray was born on July 4, 1908, in Chicago, Illinois. Her mother was a homemaker, and her father, a Pullman Porter. Ray attended the University of Chicago until the Great Depression interrupted her studies, but still earned her B.S. degree in education in 1935. She spent twenty-five-years teaching seventh grade math, English, and social studies in Chicago. Ray and her two children joined her husband, Colonel Marcus H. Ray, who was stationed in Europe during World War II. After retiring from teaching in 1967, Ray and her husband lived in Switzerland for seven years before moving to Washington, D.C. in 1976. In the D.C. area, Ray continued to volunteer as a teacher and worked with the Red Cross. She belonged to several literary clubs, and volunteered at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C. well into her nineties. Ray passed away on February 7, 2008, at age 99.

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February 04, 2021

Videographer, Matthew Hickey.

Larry Crowe, interviewer.