July/August 2016 | Page 37

PDA PROFILE Dr. William Trice By Dr. Stephen T. Radack III, Editor Spending a couple hours with any person who has lived for 90+ years can be enlightening, but spending those two hours with a person who has lived the life – both professionally and personally – Dr. William B. Trice has, can seem like time is going at the speed of light. I had the opportunity to spend that enriching time with Bill back on a cold Friday last December. It had taken some back and forth with his daughter Dr. Angela Trice-Borgia to make that time possible. Bill is now in a nursing home facility spending his time getting his legs working again and ready to dance at his grandson’s wedding later this year. Being from Erie, I have been fortunate enough to have spent many hours over the past 30 years talking to Bill and his wife Dr. Mildred Trice. I feel like I could have written about Bill without even sitting down for those two hours in December, but as always there were new details I learned about him that I had not heard before. William Trice was born on January 28, 1924 in Newton, Ga. He was raised in Weirton, W.Va., when his father came north to work in the steel mill in Weirton. After high school, Bill matriculated to Georgia State College and it was there that he met his be