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