The Murray Legacy continues into its fourth USU generation BY CHANCE MURR AY
The Murrays, clockwise from top: Bob, Chance and Pepper.
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HUNTSMAN ALUMNI MAGAZINE • SPRING 2011
Legacies are woven into our lives. We are surrounded by them. They exist in sports, politics, education and business. They live and they breathe, and, just as we do, they grow old and they die. Legacies are being forged and forgotten each and every day. My family’s story began decades ago when my great grandfather, David Parker Murray, enrolled in what was then the Utah State Agricultural College. David worked for endless months as a sheep herder in Cache Valley to earn enough money to fund his education. In 1916, David’s tenacity and hard work were rewarded when he earned his college degree and graduated. Due to heart complications, David became unable to work, and his wife, Mabel, and four sons were charged with providing for the family. My grandfather, Bob Murray, recalls: “Life was tough. We woke up before the crack of dawn to fight the canyon wind and deliver newspapers as we were assigned.” Bob survived the biting wind and eventually enrolled at Utah State as well. His education was filled with activities on and off campus: skiing at Beaver Mountain, participating in the Blue Key Honor Society and starting the “lighting of the A” tradition with his fraternity, among other notable experiences. Bob graduated with a degree in Finance in the spring of 1951. huntsman.usu.edu
