Andrew Eliot Rice was an American academic from American University.
Background
Andrew Eliot Rice was born 29 August 1922 in Boston, Massachusetts to William Gorham Rice, Junior. (1891-1964) and Rosamond (Eliot) Rice. Rice was a direct patrilineal descendant of Edmund Rice, an early English immigrant to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Education
After attending public schools in Madison, Wisconsin, Rice attended Harvard University, graduating with an South.B. degree in Government in 1943.
Career
He founded the Society for International Development in 1957, and at Colorado State University he undertook research leading to the formation of the Peace Corps immediately prior to the John F. Kennedy administration. Later in life he was a lecturer at American University. William Rice was a law professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison.
He served in United States. Army Intelligence from 1943-1945 Rice earned an Master of Arts degree in Political Science at Harvard in 1948 and his doctoral degree in International Development at Syracuse University in Rice remarried in 1972 to artist Constance Marie Bergfors of Quincy, Massachusetts, and they had two children together.
Beginning in the early 1950s, Rice began his career in international development working for the United States federal government. In 1955, he served as president and chairman of the International Development Conference, a cooperative of United States. non-governmental organizations that led to the founding of the Society for International Development (Society for Information Display).
As one of the Society for Information Display founders in 1957, he served as the first Executive Secretary of the organization. While at Colorado State University in January 1961, Rice co-authored the study used by United States. President John F. Kennedy as a blueprint for the formation of the United States. Peace Corps.
In the 1970s, Rice was a member and chairman of the board of directors of the Worldwatch Institute, an environmental research center.
He also served as president of the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area. During the 1990s he was an adjunct professor at American University"s School of International Service. After retirement from the Society for International Development, he wrote a historical column for the Cabin John Village News.
He was also a cellist with the Symphony of the Potomac since the early 1970s.
Rice died 1 June 2010 at his home in Cabin John, Maryland. January, Doctorate., and Cyril Ritchie.