Tom, our Annual Giving chairman from 2006 to 2009, died May 6, 2010, at Crestwood Manor, near Toms River, N.J., of complications from a fall in November 2009, when he broke a hip. He was 89.
Tom was raised in Elizabeth, N.J., graduated from Pingry School, and for a year attended Governor Dummer Academy in Newburyport, Mass. He also attended the University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru, before entering Princeton. In college he was on the freshman track squad, manager of The Daily Princetonian business board, and a member of the band, the Spanish Club, and Cloister Inn. He majored in modern languages. During World War II he served in military intelligence with the Third Army in Europe.
His business career was in retailing, with B. Altman & Co. in New York City and
Short Hills, N.J., and also with R.H. Macy in Bridgewater, N.J. His passion was harness racing. In later life he owned horses that raced in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Tom lived most of his life in Westfield, N.J., where he was an elder in the Presbyterian Church.
Tom’s marriage in 1952 to Elinor Ann Ross ended in divorce. He is survived by his daughter, Ann Ross; four grandchildren; and a brother, Richard Killough ’48.