Thomas B. Trumpy ’60

Tom came to us from St. Paul’s School, where he was active in dramatic activities and chaired The Record. At Princeton, he studied in the Special Program in European Civilization (French) and wrote his thesis on French Renaissance Architecture. He remarked on its manifestations in Princeton’s Gothic architecture, beginning his identity as the class iconoclast. Tom was a keen and critical observer of Princeton’s ways and often dwelled on aspects that others didn’t care to.

Tom earned a law degree at Columbia, spent a year at The Hague Academy, Netherlands, and the Institute for Higher Studies (IUHEI) in Geneva, Switzerland, before returning to New York to begin his law career. He worked as legal counsel for several U.S.-based companies in New York, moved on to Paris and then Brussells in the 1970s and ’80s, and established his own firm in the latter.

Tom and his wife, Flore Pol Roger, were avid travelers. He was keen to visit the Renaissance structures he had studied, but they visited more than a dozen countries outside Europe and most there, too. They collected art, visited exhibitions, attended concerts and the theater, and visited friends. His motto was “Never Under-Do.”

Tom is survived by Flore; their son, Paul; daughter-in-law, Carolina; and three grandchildren.