Noel Ice

Profile Updated: May 7, 2024

Residing In:	Fort Worth, TX USA

Homepage:	View Website

Profession:	Retired. Call me a recovering lawyer.

Spouse/Partner:	Lissa Prater

Children:	Jason, born 1974 Rachel, born 1977 Charlotte, born 1981 Amanda, born 1983

"Name" I prefer to use now-a-days:

Noel C. Ice

email address:

noelcice@gmail.com

Mailing Address:

3257 Wabash Ave
Fort Worth, TX 76109

Birthplace:

San Diego, CA

How I prefer to spend my time:

Listening to classical music, especially Mahler, Bartok and Shostakovich, and, still, and always, listening to CSN&Y, and the Grateful Dead. I also like outdoor photography, particularly birds. I read a lot of nonfiction books on foreign affairs, politics, history and the human condition, which I am still trying to figure out. Lately I have been reading quite a bit of stuff by timeless writers like Karl Popper, Richard Hofstader, and Hannah Arendt, who are as relevant now as they were in the last century. My favorite fiction writers include Dickens, Conrad, Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, and above all else, Faulkner.

Also, I am spending a lot of time searching for a new kidney. Living donors and prayers are both readily accepted here.

Grandchildren:

Ashwani, Osric, Kasper, Jacob, Eli, Ruby, and Juno

Pet(s):

Cissy and Bubba, our cats.

Best PHS Memory, Teacher, Activity or Event:

Merry-Go-Round,
Kossack Parties,
Girlfriends
Camping over 100 nights with Jack Boyd's famous Troop 52, the Paschal Boy Scout Troop that was all about primitive camping, self-reliance, and learning leadership and survival skills, with no emphasis whatsoever on merit badges and the like. No Eagle Scouts in this group, just camping.

Which Elementary School(s) did you attend?

Tangelwood

Which Junior High School(s) did you attend?

McLean

Did you go to Pre-school, Dance, Music, Art, Theatre, Sports or other activities?

Leto's

Did you go to Summer Camp?

Camp Carter, Worth Ranch, Apishapa Colorado w/Troop 52

Did you have a summer job or volunteer while at Paschal?

Always. My brother and I had paper routes variously with The Press, The Star Telegram, and the Dallas Morning News. On weekends, it was easier just to stay up all night, since we had to start about 4:30 am.

What might we never guess about you?

You probably wouldn't know that I could really use a kidney transplant from a living donor, although, on the other hand, I am obviously not keeping the secret to myself, as too much is at stake to be shy about it.

Habits you might still have?

Obsessive (but not compulsive)

Favorite Books:

Infinite Jest
In Search of Lost Time
Light in August, and everything else by Faulkner
Everything by Chas. Bukowski
Old Testament
Everything by Dickens and Thos. Pynchon
Thucydides, Gibbon, Toynbee (uncle and nephew), Coetzee, Denis Johnson, Hume
Works by Karl Popper, Hannah Arendt, Jakob Burkhart, and Richard Hofstader.

Favorite Movies:

Lonesome Dove. Pulp Fiction.

Favorite Music:

Classical (Indian & Western), Grateful Dead, Widespread Panic, Bob Dylan

Favorite Ice Cream:

Vanilla Bean

Favorite Destination(s):

San Francisco CA, where I went to law school. Paris, France, where I have been three times and love. And Geneva, Switzerland, where Kay Nash and I studied French one summer.

Ever since I became joyfully obsessed with outdoor photography, following retirement from my hated profession as a trust and estates lawyer, I have regularly traveled to various photography venues up and down the Texas coast, all over South Texas and West Texas, particularly Fort Davis and the Davis Mountains, and to SE Arizona, particularly, Portal, Cave Creek Ranch and the Chiricahua Mountains, and even went to Costa Rica, in each case to photograph landscapes, hummingbirds and other bird species.

Since our 50th Reunion, tell us where you’ve traveled, what you’re doing, how do you like to spend your time?

Since our 50th, I am spending more time than I would prefer trying to find a selfless soul healthy and crazy enough to donate a kidney to me, in my recent quest to "beat the reaper," as the Fire Sign Theatre used to phrase it. To my astonishment, almost a dozen friends and relatives, alas mostly my age, have offered to help me over the last year, but so far none has been a qualifying match. To be an organ donor, there is a screening process that few older people can pass. Among those who do qualify, there is virtually no health risk, but it is still not something anyone would undertake to do lightly. Even though it is a longshot, I am very upbeat and hopeful I will get lucky and find a qualifying donor before it is too late. For that to happen, I have to embarrass myself by making my need known, but as it can't be helped, I have to gut up and admit the situation. Bless you for indulging me.

On my "Bucket List"...

Find a kidney donor! That is job one. I actually love my life, and would like a little more time to live it.

Print, frame and sell more of my pictures, and put together another book of them. If I am lucky enough to get a kidney transplant, or if can figure out how to leave home overnight while on dialysis, I want to resume my photography travels.

Write my memoirs. I have a thought of two I would like to record before I kick the bucket list.

Spend more time with my five grandsons and precious granddaughter.