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Rice salutes its veterans in annual ceremony

by Katharine Shilcutt

The 18th annual Veterans Day ceremony Nov. 11 honored three veterans and one active-duty service member among the Rice community: Terry Graham, manager of learning spaces in the Office of Information Technology, who served in the Marines; alumnus William Pannill ’62, who served in the Army Reserve and Marines; Matthew Manriquez, a student in the Jones Graduate School of Business who served in the Army; and Jones College senior Charlie Wannall, a midshipman in the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps.

The full ceremony, which took place on the Central Quad outside the Rice Memorial Center, can be viewed online at Rice’s YouTube page

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