BATON ROUGE MEMORY 1955 / degruy paris dna / marian and i

+LIFE IS AMAZING+

>june 4th 1955 was when marian and i<

>left for a mexican honeymoon after<

+(GOOGLE : EUGENE RAY+

+/ MARIAN OLSEN RAY)+

>our marriage in sacred heart church<

>i was 23 & marian was >19yrs old<

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+OUR INNOCENT >SPIRIT WAS+
+PRECIOUS AT THAT >TIME IN+
>(we had rented our first apt<
>& i built our first furniture)<

+A LIFE THAT >TOOK US TO+

+PARIS & TO >CALIFORNIA+

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>as i look back i regret that i was<

>not as >transcendent a persona<

+(MARIAN'S GRACE+

+WAS FABULOUS)+ !

>as marian was in her >grace<

>beauty & >shear innocence<

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 >to our marriage i brought a passion for<
>french culture and history w/ the arts<
+(GOOGLE : EUGENE RAY+
+>/ PARIS SURREALISTS)+
>a fabulous light in my >heart & soul<
>(marian's >oslo beauty a great light)<
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>the best i could offer marian besides my love<
>was to take her to paris, london, rome, oslo<
+(GOOGLE : EUGENE RAY+
+>>> / PARIS , FRANCE)+
>& her favorite the radiant polynesian isles<
>(above is our beloved paris hotel, chopin)<
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 >it was the talented >french chanson singer<
>francoise hardy who touched our heart w/<
+(GOOGLE : EUGENE RAY+
+> / FRANCOISE HARDY)+
>her very lyrical renditions of >paris linked<
>soft folk singing / >(hear her on youtube)<
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 >a "silver ship" late 1980s visit w/ marian<
>bronwen, lesley & bafut our voracious<
+(GOOGLE : EUGENE RAY+
+>> / SILVER SHIP, 1987)+
>beagle, who knew how to open the<
>fridge and meat drawer >secretly<
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 >thirty years earlier, marian poses in our<
>baton rouge apartment of 1957 w/ the<
+(GOOGLE : EUGENE RAY /+
+HIGHLAND ROAD 1957)+
>cabinet i built to display our mexican<
>artifacts from >teoteaucan & taxco<
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 >i have created graphic archival books w/<
>collage pages to document our life over<
>many years and this page reflects our<
+(GOOGLE : EUGENE RAY+
+/ JANE & BOB COLLINS)+
>neighbors jane & bob collins…( bob<
>was the >1st lsu phd geoligist grad)<
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 >i am proud that in 1953 this >drawing of my<
>design of a chapel for the e. la. state hospital<
+(GOOGLE : EUGENE RAY+
+>> / TWO CHAPELS 1953)+
>at jackson was published in the >b.r. paper<
>(bosses oivanki & chaison believed in me)<
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 >ten years later my design for a huge nola<
>housing project for >curtis & davis was<
+(GOOGLE : EUGENE RAY+
+>>> / CURTIS & DAVIS)+
>published in the new orleans picayune<
>(design made one afternoon 1 to 5 pm)<
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 >the curtis & davis office on canal boulevard<
>where i worked, was only a short distance<
>from the >creole abode of james verloin<
+GOOGLE :> EUGENE RAY /+
+ / JAMES VERLOIN deGRUY+
>degruy my >grandmother's father who<
>was a son of >francois verloin de gruy<
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 >james daughter, lucy verloin degruy, our grand<
>mother married >eugene ray (1) the son of john<
+(GOOGLE :> EUGENE RAY /+
+LUCY VERLOIN DEGRUY)+
>ray & >catherine bresse ray ( her sister being<
>famed nola artist >salina bresse gregory)< !
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 >gratitude to cousin neal pendleton for email<
>about my simultaneous interest in jesus and<
+(GOOGLE : EUGENE RAY+
+ / VATICAN UFO STUDY)+
>UFO history..(one will notice recent popes<
>having deep UFO & cosmic space interest)<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 >this overview of >degruy related plantations<
>on the map of new orleans >stars< the sugar<
>plantation of pierre couturier (napoleon ave)<
+(GOOGLE :> EUGENE RAY /+
+ / MARIANNE COUTURIER)+
>(marianne couturier was wife of joseph v.<
>degruy whose brother built the domed mill)<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 >organic architecture as practiced by frank<
>lloyd wright was always an inspiration to<
+(GOOGLE :>> EUGENE RAY /+
+RADIANT ARCHITECTURE)+
>my radiant architecture as documented in<
>this concept for a resort in tropic mexico<
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+FRENCH >TROPIC< SYNDROME+
+IN NEW ORLEANS FUELED and+
>(radiant ambience on the gruy<
>plantations was >fantabulous)<
+IGNITED my MEXICAN DESIGN+
+(GRATITUDE FOR GRUY DNA)+
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
eugene ray, mfa, architect
professor emeritus, sdsu