Extraordinary, ordinary people: a memoir of family

Starting early

The Rays and the Rices

Married at last

"Johnny, it's a girl"

"I need a piano!"

My parents were teachers

Something in the water

School days

Summer respite

Turning up the heat in Birmingham

1963

Integration?

Tuscaloosa

Denver again

Leaving the South behind

Cancer intrudes

Starting early (again)

College years

A change of direction

"Rally, sons (and daughters) of Notre Dame"

A new start

A lost year

Senator Stanford's farm

My rookie season

The darkest moment of my life

"The moving van is here"

Inside the Pentagon

Back to Stanford

D.C. again

"I don't think this is what Karl Marx had in mind"

Back in California

Learning compassion

Finding a new president for Stanford

Provost of the university

Tough decisions

The governor's campaign

Florida

"The Saints Go Marching In."