Residence Cabin John, Maryland Nationality American | Name Andrew Rice Alma mater Harvard University | |
Born 29 August 1922 ( 1922-08-29 ) Boston, Massachusetts Known for Founder of the Society for International Development (US Peace Corps forerunner) Spouse(s) Constance Marie Bergfors (b. 1931) Children Peter Rice
William Rice
Stefan Rice
Brandt Rice Discipline International Development Died 2010, Cabin John, Maryland, United States | ||
Andrew Eliot Rice (1922 - 2010) was an American academic from American University. 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.
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Andrew Eliot Rice was born 29 August 1922 in Boston, Massachusetts to William Gorham Rice, Jr. (1891-1964) and Rosamond (Eliot) Rice, the daughter of Samuel Atkins Eliot II, and granddaughter of Charles William Eliot of the Eliot family. His father William Gorham Rice, Jr. was a law professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison, and his grandfather, William Gorham Rice, Sr. was active in civil service reform. Rice was a direct patrilineal descendant of Edmund Rice, an early English immigrant to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. After attending public schools in Madison, Wisconsin, Rice attended Harvard University, graduating with an S.B. degree in Government in 1943. He served in U.S. Army Intelligence from 1943-45 Rice earned an M.A. degree in Political Science at Harvard in 1948 and his doctoral degree in International Development at Syracuse University in 1963. Rice was married to his first wife, Margaret (Peggy) Goodwin, in Brookville, IN in 1954, and they had two children prior to their divorce. 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 U.S. non-governmental organizations that led to the founding of the Society for International Development (SID). As one of the SID 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 U.S. President John F. Kennedy as a blueprint for the formation of the U.S. 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.