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Lois Ann Dickson Fitt Rice (February 28, 1933 – January 4, 2017) was an American corporate executive, scholar, and education policy expert. [1] Known as the "mother of the Pell Grant " [ 2 ] because of her work lobbying for its creation, [ 1 ] [ 3 ] she was national vice president of the College Board from 1973 until 1981. [ 4 ]
Emmett John Rice (December 21, 1919 – March 10, 2011) was an American economist, academic, bank executive, and member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. He served with the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II , taught at Cornell University during the 1950s, and was a noted expert in the monetary systems of developing countries.
His second wife, Lois Dickson Rice (1933–2017), married Fitt in 1977, four years after her divorce from Emmett J. Rice, making Fitt the stepfather of Susan Rice. [6] Fitt died on July 7, 1992, at the age of 69.
Rice was born in Washington D.C., [5] to education policy scholar Lois Rice (née Dickson) (1933–2017), who helped design the federal Pell Grant subsidy system and who joined the Brookings Institution in 1992; [6] and Emmett J. Rice (1919–2011), a Cornell University economics professor and the second black governor of the Federal Reserve ...
C.J. Rice could soon be a free man. ... Dr. Theodore S. Tapper, who was Rice’s pediatrician and testified that he did not believe Rice would have been physically capable of carrying out the 2011 ...
The festival gave city kids an opportunity to be both participants and performers in the arts, while interacting with Black professionals who exposed them to a variety of career paths. One such professional was Emmett J. Rice, future head of the Federal Reserve, and his wife Lois Rice, who served on the College Board and helped create the Pell ...
Jackson James Rice’s death made headlines — and rocked the kite foil racing community — in June after he passed away at the age of 18. The late athlete’s father, Darren Rice, confirmed his ...
Alexander Hamilton Rice Jr. (August 29, 1875 – July 23, 1956) was an American physician, geographer, and explorer of the Amazon Basin. He was a professor of geography at Harvard University from 1929 to 1952.