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Brice remained on the Lexington until January 1933. In June 1933, after six months at San Diego, he returned to Quantico. There, during the next three years, he served on aviation duty, completed the Junior Course and was a member of the War Plans Section. He entered the Army Air Corps Tactical School at Maxwell Field, Montgomery, Alabama in August 1936, and upon graduation in June of the following year, returned to Quantico to serve as executive officer and later, commander, of Scouting Squadron 1. After that he was an instructor at Pensacola from June 1939 to August 1941, when he returned to Quantico, this time as Operations Officer of Marine Aircraft Group 11 (MAG-11). William Ball Rice was born 1 April 1840 in Hudson, Massachusetts to Obed Rice (1810-1890) and Sarah Maria (Ball) Rice (1816-1895). Rice was educated in the public schools in Massachusetts and apprenticed as a shoemaker in Marlborough, Massachusetts until he reached 21 years of age. Rice married Emma Louise Cunningham of Marlborough on 25 October 1860, and they had four children. From 1861 to 1864 he served in the Union Army as a second lieutenant in Company E, 5th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, serving in Baltimore, Washington D.C. and North Carolina. [3] Between 1865 and 1866, he served as a sales agent to the U.S. military for the L.T. Jefts shoe manufacturer in Marlborough. [1] [2] Business career [ ]

During his career Rice was engaged in a number of civic and philanthropic pursuits. In 1894, Governor Frederic T. Greenhalge appointed him to the governor's council of business advisers and he was a major benefactor of the Quincy City Hospital. [1] When Rice's wife, Mrs. Emma Louise Rice died in 1934 she left the family home and grounds at 215 Adams St. in Quincy to the William B. Rice Eventide Home, a non-profit, nursing home corporation. [6] The Rice family and genealogy [ edit ]

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From 1948 until 1952, he taught at the Jepson Art Institute in Los Angeles, and the following year began his long tenure at UCLA, continuing until his retirement in 1991, where he was a beloved teacher, and mentored generations of artists, for whom he "offered a connection to European Modernism." The stadium is considered one of the loudest venues in the country by both opposing players and college football pundits, with Josh Pate of 247Sports noting that "when it's 3rd down and three in Williams-Brice Stadium, you can't hear anything [...] South Carolina fans more than do their part on game day to make that place a really, really intimidating environment". [12] During a game against Florida in 2001, ESPN announcers indicated that they had to shout to hear each other's comments inside the press box. [ attribution needed] a b c p. 1237 in: Leonard, J.W. (ed.) Volume 3: Who's Who in America 1903–1905 (3rd edition), Marquis Publishing Company, Chicago. At age 86, he suffered injuries in a fall and never regained consciousness before dying at the UCLA Medical Center on March 3, 2008. [1] He was survived by his wife, Shirley Bardeen, whom he had married in 1942, their son, John, and two grandsons. Gillespie, Bob (September 19, 2009). "History Runs Deep at Williams–Brice Stadium". The State . Retrieved August 9, 2012.

William B. Rice had four children. His eldest sons Harry Lee Rice and Fred Ball Rice ran the family shoe manufacturing business after his death until they retired and sold the business in 1929. Harry Rice was born July 28, 1862, in Hudson, MA, and was married to Frances Austin Manson in 1900. They had three children: William Ball Rice II (1901–1964), Benjamin Manson Rice (1902–1978), and Edmund Rice (1905–1961). Harry Rice died March 5, 1951, in Quincy. [7] Fred B. Rice was born July 14, 1866, in Hudson, and was unmarried. He died February 11, 1933, at the family home in Quincy. [8] Rice's third son William Ball Rice Jr. died in infancy in 1872. His daughter Mary Sanborn Rice was born February 12, 1874, in Quincy, and was married to portrait painter Homer Lane Bigelow (1868–1955) in 1896. They resided at 37 Old Orchard Road in the Chestnut Hill section of Newton, MA, and had three children – Priscilla Rice (Bigelow) Trainer (b. 1898), [9] Homer Lane Bigelow, Jr. (1899–1967), and Malcolm R. Bigelow (1906–1945). [10] a b A Retrospect 1866-1916: Rice & Hutchins, Inc. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. 1916. p.17 . Retrieved June 10, 2022– via Google Books. During his career Rice was engaged in a number of civic and philanthropic pursuits. In 1894, Governor Frederic T. Greenhalge appointed him to the governor's council of business advisers and he was a major benefactor of the Quincy City Hospital. [1] When Rice's wife, Mrs. Emma Louise Rice died in 1934 she left the family home and grounds at 275 Adams St. in Quincy to the William B. Rice Eventide Home, a non-profit, nursing home corporation. [4] The Rice family and genealogy [ ] Brice moved with MAG-11 to San Diego in December 1941, and there, in March 1942, he assumed command of Marine Aircraft Group 12. He headed that unit until September 1942, when he rejoined Marine Aircraft Group 11 as its commander, and the following month he sailed with it (via New Caledonia) for the New Hebrides Islands, where the group began feeding planes and pilots into Guadalcanal. In December 1942, he moved to Guadalcanal to take command of Marine Aircraft Group 14 and all the search, bombing and torpedo planes based there, remaining until April 1943, when he departed for New Zealand with the group.

Leader in Boot and Shoe Trade". The Boston Globe. Quincy. May 21, 1909. p.8 . Retrieved June 10, 2022– via Newspapers.com. William Ball Rice was a direct descendant of Edmund Rice, an English immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony, as follows: [9] [10]