About Raymond Watson
Raymond "Ray" L. Watson was the former president of the Irvine Company, and served as chief planner during the 1960s and 1970s. He was also chairman of Walt Disney Productions from 1983 to 1984, and served on the Disney board from 1972 until March 2004. In 2006, Raymond Watson was awarded The Medal by the University of California, Irvine. You've created and run an outstanding recreation program that used the open space, parks and lakes (William) Pereira visualized and we built. Her death and the Great Depression created a "period of instability" within the Watson family as they became dependent on relatives while his father looked for work, eventually getting a job constructing state park buildings in Oakland, California. After moving to Oakland in 1934, Watson was raised by his grandmother, spending his summers at the state beaches and parks where his father worked as a carpenter.
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