Saturday, February 16, 2019
Please accept my condolences and sympathy. My father, William Black (also a teacher at PHS) sent me the obituary for Mr. Noice and it brought back many good memories of his German and French classes. He and Mrs. Noice, from whom I also took (...or perhaps struggled with) French, were wonderful teachers. I particularly recall Mr. Noice sharing their travel stories, which so expanded our horizons. I have many fond memories of his classes, but two in particular stand out. The first was studying Erich Kastner’s “Emil und die Detektiv” in Fractur script....a wonderful story and fascinating to read in that script (which stood me in good stead when I took a calligraphy class in university), the second was studying a French novel (sadly the title escapes me) of a woman in Morocco who questioned the traditional role of women and sought her independence through education and literacy. Again, please accept my condolences. Sincerely, Nancy E. Black
