Marshall T. Rice ’56

Marshall died peacefully Dec. 14, 2013, at home in Rhode Island.

Born and raised in South Orange, N.J., he graduated from Kent (Conn.) School. A politics major at Princeton, he was a member of Cap and Gown. His senior roommates were Dick Clark and Collins Denny III.

He went on to graduate from General Theological Seminary in New York City as an Episcopal priest and served in several New Jersey parishes. In the 1980s and 1990s, he founded Marshall Rice Associates, an executive-search consulting firm specializing in not-for-profit organizations. Retiring to Rhode Island, he served as deployment officer for the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island, interim rector of Trinity Church in Newport, and as retired associate clergy at Christ Church in Westerly.

Active in the 1960s civil-rights movement, he was proud to have been with Dr. Martin Luther King in the 1963 March on Washington as president of the New Jersey Chapter of the Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity.

One Princeton classmate wrote: “He was a person who had the less fortunate, the ostracized, the disaffected, and the poor close to his heart, and his career reflected this passion.”

Marshall was a devoted husband to his beloved wife, Betsey, who survives him along with his three children, two stepchildren, six grandchildren, and three step-grandchildren.