Norman Thomas Gilroy ’48

Tom died suddenly May 2, 2015, of a heart attack in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. He was 88.

Tom, who was known to many of us as Norman, was born in San Francisco in January 1927. He graduated from Princeton in 1949 and earned a law degree at Columbia in 1952. Tom spent his entire professional career with the New York firm of Hughes Hubbard (now Hughes Hubbard & Reed). A longtime senior partner in the firm and an eminent specialist in securities law, he was a prolific writer and a well-known lecturer and teacher in that legal field.

Tom and Margaret, his wife of 35 years, met when she was on the staff of the consulate of the Netherlands in New York — in the nick of time, just before she was about to be transferred to the Dutch consulate in Trinidad.

Margaret survives him, as do his children from a previous marriage, James T. and Catherine Eby, and a grandson.