The obituary notice of James Alan TICE

Remembering Alan Tice! On the day St. Mary's School opened in January 1954, we had to sit on the desks because the chairs had not yet been delivered. It was Miss McCarthy's Class. Alan quickly became the dominant personality of the class, always ready with a merry quip and an answer to everything! Never disrespectful to teachers, except perhaps once when fiddling with a piece of paper whilst Miss was expounding at the front of class. Exasperated , she told him to hand her the paper. Supposedly on a sudden impulse, he tossed the now rolled up paper to her instead of handing to her. Well, when the horrified gasp from all subsided, you could have heard a pin drop! I cannot remember what happened next. Once when the whole school plus parents decanted to St. Annes-on-Sea as it did every June on the feast day of Sts. Peter and Paul,
( must have been up to nine coaches, each class to a coach), some one asked if anyone had seen the Mam's coach. Alan replied that he had. It had crashed 'back there' and the Mams were hanging out the windows. Some of us became very distressed!
When my younger brother went to Cardinal Langley School he was telling us about the Cross Country run they'd done that day. The PE teacher told them to run round 'Tice's Bush' and back. Apparently when the school first opened the PE teacher was taking the Cross Country class and said the first one to that bush will have it named after him. And that is how it became 'Tice's Bush'. After leaving school I heard Alan joined the De La Salle Brothers and went to Cambridge. I think he left the Brothers after Cambridge at some time. Gosh, what memories!