By Sean Arresto This was written in 2003 on the occasion of Jack Rice’s retirement: Close your eyes and think back on your most vivid childhood memories. What comes to mind? Cook-outs with the family? Playing freeze-tag with your closest friends? All the cool toys you used to get for for your birthday? Going to the local bowling alley with your English teacher? Wait, your English teacher never took you bowling? Well my teacher did, and to this day it is one of the fondest, and most lucid, childhood memories that I have left (college erased a good portion of everything pre-’95). I had the good fortune of having Jack…