Thomas Browning Irwin ’42

Tom, our athletic, gregarious, and loyal classmate, died on Nov. 15, 2002, of cancer, in Westwood, Mass. Tom was born in Philadelphia and came to Princeton from Germantown Academy, where he excelled in athletics and was president of student government. He majored in classics and was a member of Ivy Club. Tom distinguished himself as an outstanding member of the varsity football squad and was a lifelong booster of Princeton football. His devoted services to Princeton included vice president of the Princeton Club of New Haven, district chair for AG, and an invaluable role on the committee of our Boston mini-reunion in 1997.

After his WWII assignment to Philadelphia Army Ordnance, most of Tom's business life was in sales with North American Smelting Co., following several years as sales manager at US Pipe and Foundry. He retired as a manufacturer's representative in 1997 to spend more time with his 14 grandchildren.

Tom was a member of the Society of Diecast Engineers and American Foundrymen and of the Dedham Country and Polo Club; he was past president of the Old Lyme Country Club.

To his wife, Elizabeth (Cooke), brother Henry '47, his two sisters, four children, stepchildren, and grandchildren, the class expresses its profound condolences.

The Class of 1942