Thomas Burns Fifield ’37 *40

Tom died in Janesville, Wis., Feb. 9, 2007.

Before Princeton, he graduated from Northwestern Military and Naval Academy, where he was a class officer and on the Rifle Team. At Princeton he majored in English and was on the crew and wrestling teams. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

After graduation, Tom took graduate English courses at Princeton, attended the Sorbonne in Paris, and in 1941, entered law school at the University of Wisconsin. In 1942 he joined the Army and was a captain in the artillery. After the war, he served as an advocate with the War Crimes Commission. He later returned to Wisconsin to complete law school.

He moved to Milwaukee and joined the law firm of Foley & Lardner. In 1950, as a member of the National Guard, he was called to serve in Korea, after which he formed his own law firm.

In 1949 he married Marilyn Jean Kieckhefer, who predeceased him. They were both involved in a number of businesses in the Yucatan Peninsula and in Mexico, where they helped a number of pre-Columbian archaeologists. Tom served as president of the Zoological Society of Milwaukee and of the Milwaukee Public Museum.

He is survived by their children, George, John, and Virginia Fifield, and grandchildren Ben and Jocie Fifield. To his family and friends, we express loving sympathy and fond remembrances.