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In a speech at Howard University's 145th Convocation Rice gave insight into her family's history. "With little formal education, my grandfather took the best job he could get-as a janitor. My grandmother was a maid and a seamstress", she stated. "But my grandparents managed to sc**** and save to send all five of their children to college -four sons to Bowdoin and my mom, Lois, to Harvard-Radcliffe where she was student government president," she further stated. Her mother, in turn, devoted her distinguished career to making higher education more accessible to all.

An example of hard-working Jamaicans at their finest. Salute!!!