D. Jeffrey Rice ’75

Jeff died of colon cancer Oct. 23, 2013.

He came from Gilman School to Princeton, where he majored in economics and was a member of Cottage Club. Jeff’s lifetime career was in the financial-services industry in Baltimore. He worked for Alex. Brown & Sons, for Paine Webber, and independently as a venture consultant. Devoted to the University, he served as our fifth reunion chair and as a special-gifts solicitor. Friends remember his irrepressible enthusiasm and his love of everything Princeton.

Among Jeff’s legacies are his children, Drummond Shipley Rice ’08 and Elizabeth Burgess Rice, successful in the fields of finance and design, both areas of interest to Jeff. Another is Jeff’s art, much of which conveys a profusion of colorful, flowering life. As Jeff painted many of these garden scenes just months before his passing, there is an unspoken but visually vibrant message of his search for “a better place.”

In addition to his children, Jeff is survived by his father, Romney Wilbur Rice; his brother and sister-in-law, Bruce Shipley Rice and Susan McFadden Rice; his wife, Margaret Hudson Rice; and his partner, Paul Etzel Kustes.