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Fondren Library’s Woodson Research Center / Special Collections has made these materials available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any uses beyond the spirit of Fair Use require permission from owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns. See http://library.rice.edu/guides/publishing-wrc-materials"]},{"label":"Date","value":"D:15 M:02 Y:2022"},{"label":"Publisher","value":["Rice University"]},{"label":"Language","value":["eng"]},{"label":"Identifier","value":"wrc17204_transcript"},{"label":"Description","value":"Rochella Cooper was born in South Africa in 1933. In her formative years as a musician she acquired a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Capetown (Dist. Hon.) and in 1956 left South Africa for further study at the Royal Academy of Music. Soon thereafter she moved to Paris where she continued her flute studies with Renee Rateau, (Boston Symphony 1944) and attended the salon in Nadia Boulanger's studio 1956-1958. Subsequently she accepted the position of First Flute in the Haifa Symphony Orchestra. In 1959 Rochella met and married Dr. Ben Cooper and they moved to Houston TX. where he joined the Dept. of Neurology at Baylor College of Medicine. In 1962 Rochella discovered The School of the Woods Montessori School and over the ensuing seven years served as Music Teacher, Principal, and President of the Board. She left to pursue a career as a Fiber Artist. She participated in art gallery exhibitions, received corporate commissions and exhibited in the Houston Contemporary Arts Museum. In 1979 she accepted the position of President of The Houston Festival Foundation culminating in the 1986 light and sound show \"Rendezvous Houston - a City in Concert,\" celebrating the Sesquicentennial of Texas, Houston and the 25th anniversary of NASA. In 1987 the call of the sea beckoned and Rochella launched her first commercial business Women at the Helm Sailing School followed by Transitions at the Helm, a program of Leadership and Team Building for corporations. 1998 She created The Artfull Garden Gallery, an outdoor sculpture gallery and also launched a non-profit organization Texans for Alternative to Pesticides TAP addressing the prolific use of pesticides by County, City and Independent School Districts. In the interview, Rochella Cooper describes her childhood growing up in Johannesburg during the apartheid era, and her early exposure to Judaism. She recounts how she met her husband and their journey from South Africa to Houston. She also talks about her first impressions of Houston and her experiences within the Houston arts community. Cooper chronicles her family's involvement in the Jewish community and the houses she designed throughout Houston. She concludes with a discussion of her upcoming piano concert and her 35 year participation in The Houston Masterworks Chorus as singer and board director."},{"label":"Abstract","value":"This recording and transcript form part of a collection of oral history interviews conducted as part of the Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives."},{"label":"People and Organizations","value":["Cooper, Rochella"]},{"label":"Accessibility","value":["This item may have accessibility enhancements created by AI, which means there might be misspellings and/or grammatical errors. 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