Andrew Eliot Rice (29 August 1922 – 1 June 2010) was an American academic from American University. He founded the

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in 1957, and at Colorado State University he undertook research leading to the formation of the

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immediately prior to the

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administration. Later in life he was a lecturer at American University.

Biography

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

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of the Eliot family.Edmund Rice (1638) Association, 2015. Descendants of Edmund Rice: The First Nine Generations
(CD-ROM)
/ref> His father William Gorham Rice, Jr. was a law professor at

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, 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

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, Rice attended

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, graduating with an S.B. degree in government in 1943. He served in U.S. Army Intelligence from 1943 to 1945 Rice earned an

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degree in

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at Harvard in 1948 and his

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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

(SID). As one of the SID founders in 1957, he served as the first Executive Secretary of the organization. While working with Maurice L. Albertson at Colorado State University in January 1961, Rice co-authored the study used by U.S. President

as a blueprint for the formation of the U.S.

.Lihosit, Lawrence F. 2011. Peace Corps Chronology, 1961–2011. Universe Press. 107 pp. . In the 1970s, Rice was a member and chairman of the board of directors of the

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, 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

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Selected publications

* Albertson, Maurice L., Pauline E. Birky, and Andrew E. Rice. 1961. ''The Peace Corps Final Report.'' Colorado State University Research Foundation, Fort Collins. January, 1961. *Rice, Andrew Eliot. 1963. ''Building a Constituency for the Foreign Aid Program: The Record of the Eisenhower Years.'' Syracuse University, Ph.D. Dissertation. *Rice, Andrew E. 1982. ''The First Quarter-Century of the Society for International Development: A Personal Reflection.'' In Society for International Development, 25th Anniversary World Conference: The Emerging Global Village, Baltimore, MD, USA. *Rice, Andrew E., and Cyril Ritchie. 1995. ''Relationships between International Non-governmental Organizations and the United Nations.'' Union of International Associations, Washington, D.C. *Alloo, Fatma,

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, Robert J. Berg, Louis Emmerij, Arturo Escobar, Gustavo Esteva,

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, Joanna Kerr, Smitu Kothari, Afaf Mahfouz, Stephen F. Moseley, Khawar Mumtaz, Juma Mwapachu, Duncan Okello, Shobha Raghuram, Andrew E. Rice, Wolfgang Sachs,

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, and Jos Van Gennip. 2007. ''Reflections on 50 Years of Development.'' Development 50:4–32.

References

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