George Boyd Thomas ’56

George Thomas died of lymphoma at Boston U. Medical Center on July 1, 1996. He had planned to attend our 40th, but his illness prevented him. George was a longtime resident of Boston's South End, moving there well before it was fashionable.

George attended Princeton H.S. and at Princeton received his degree in English, bridging that department and religion (in 1940 his father, George F. Thomas, had been appointed the university's first professor of religious thought). George played freshman soccer, was a keyceptor and chapel deacon, president of the Student Christian Assn., manager of the Chapel Choir, and was a member of the Tigertones, the Undergraduate Council, Theater Intime, Brica

Brac, and Quadrangle Club. He served in the Navy, and earned a master's from Stanford and Harvard, where he also earned his PhD in education.

George considered himself to be an "organization consultant." He was a principal in the Synapse Group and a senior consultant to the North Carolina Manpower Development Corp., Inc., and advised UNICEF, Lilly Endowment, and other organizations. George served on numerous committees and boards including those of the Boston YMCA and the Beau Jeste Moving Theatre.

George is survived by his daughters, Christie '88 and Megan, his mother, Dorothy, his brother, Robert '58, and his close companion for many years, Barbara Rodriguez. The class extends its sincere sympathy to each of them.

The Class of 1956