Michael Rice ’60

Mike came to Princeton from Georgetown Preparatory School. He majored in engineering, worked at WPRB, joined Cannon Club, and managed for the basketball team. He left briefly, married Dorothy in 1959, and came back to graduate in 1961. He joined a mechanical engineering firm in Philadelphia but also began studying law at night at Temple University, where he graduated in 1970.

He began his law career in New York with Cravath, Swain & Moore in 1970. Eventually he specialized in railroad equipment lease financing, which his engineering background complemented. He authored several books on the highly specialized field.

On retirement, Mike returned to his favorite pastime of working with his hands on cars and houses. No job was too large or small and some of them contributed to his repertory of travel, camping, and mechanical mishaps. Mike was active in public affairs, too. While living in Southport, N.C., he became a founder of the successful Save The Cape effort to protect the Cape Fear region from industrial development and a mega port there.

Mike was particularly proud of his seven daughters with Dot. She and one of the daughters predeceased him. He is survived by six daughters; 17 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. Our sympathies to them all.