Name: Thomas* Clarence** Rice

Born: August 21, 1939

At: Port Gamble, Washington

Parents: Edith and Frank Rice

Brothers: Frank Stephen (Steve) [b.: 1942] Raymond Sinclair [b: 1948]

Bit of family history: maternal great-grandparents came to Hood Canal (Seabeck ; Duckabush) area in 1858 from East Machias, Maine

Education: graduated North Kitsap High School (1957) attended Olympic Junior College & the University of Washington

Occupation: employed from 1961-1999 by the Washington State Department of Transportation on the Hood Canal Floating Bridge (1961-1986), the Blair Waterway, Hylebos Waterway and City Waterway Bridges (Tacoma) (1986-1997), First Avenue South Bridge (Seattle) (1997-1999)

Preoccupation (Hobby): Conchology (the study of mollusks – shells)
Founder: The Pacific Northwest Shell Club
Founding member: The Western Society of Malacologists, The Conchologists of America, The Marine Science Society of the Pacific Northwest and regular member of shell clubs in the U.K., South Africa, Japan, Australia, etc.
Editor & Publisher: Of Sea and Shore Magazine (1970-2008; 108 issues)
Editor or Author: A Sheller’s Directory of Clubs, Books, Periodicals & Dealers (1966-2005; 27 editions)
The Catalog of Dealers’ Prices for Shells: Marine, Freshwater & Land (1965-2007; 23 editions)
Checklist of the Marine Gastropods from the Puget Sound Region (1968)
Additions & Corrections to A. Myra Keen’s: Seashells of Tropical West America (1968)
Marine Shells of the Pacific Northwest (1972)
What is a Shell? (1972)
Beach Banquet (1993)
A Checklist of the Shelled Marine Molluscs of the Oregonian Faunal Province (2000)
Checklist of Mollusks on Postage Stamps (6 editions)
Directory of Conchologists/Malacologists (6 editions)

Currently: Retired and living on the shore of The Andaman Sea (Indian Ocean) in Rawai Beach, Phuket, Thailand (Retired 1999; living on Phuket 2003-----)

* named after my mother’s brother who was killed in an accident at the sawmill in Port Gamble
** named after my father’s dead brother