John Winter Rice

Background

Rice, John Winter was born on July 4, 1891 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William and Margaret Christiana (Winter) Rice.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Bucknell University, 1914, Master of Science, 1915. Master of Arts, Columbia, 1918, Doctor of Philosophy, 1922.

Career

Teacher of biology, high school, Hazleton, Pennsylvania, 1915-1916. Instructor of biology, Bucknell University, 1916-1918, assistant professor, 1918-1923, associate professor, 1923-1924, professor of bacteriology 1924-1959, professor emeritus 1959-1971. Department chairman biology, 1939-1942, 44-58.

Director Health Service, from 1950.

Instructor bacteriology, Yale Army Laboratory School, 1918, Columbia, summer 1922. Special investigator on bacteriology of paper milk containers, New York State Agricultural Exp.

Station, Geneva, New York, summers 1938 and 39. Consultant bacteriologist, Geisinger Memorial Hospital President Lewisburg, Board of Health, 1924-1947.

President Milk Control District 4 of Pennsylvania since 1927.

President Pennsylvania Association of Dairy and Milk Inspectors, 1927-1928. Chairman committee of Pennsylvania Department of Health to study York plate pasteurizer, 1931, Union County (Pennsylvania) Nutrition Council, 1942-1943.

Achievements

• John Winter Rice has been listed as a noteworthy bacteriologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served as Second lieutenant Sanitary corpus, United States army, during World War. Member American Public Health Association, American Social Hygiene Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society American Bacteriologists (president Central Pennsylvania branch 1935-1936), Institute Food Technologists, American Forestry Association, American Society Quality Control, Delta Upsilon, Omicron Delta Kappa.

Connections

Married Edna Amelia Miller, August 21, 1918 (died 1921). Married second, Ruth Miriam (Hoffa) Frantz August 6, 1922. Children: John Miller, Martha Jane.

Father:

William Rice

Mother:

Margaret Christiana (Winter) Rice

Spouse:

Ruth Miriam

Spouse:

Edna Amelia Miller

child:

Martha Jane Rice

child:

John Miller Rice