Thomas Chase Homan ’34

Tom Homan, a stalwart for the past 23 years of the '34 contingent in Ponte Vedra, Fla. (Bill Cosby, John Searles, and the late John Gurney), died in his sleep Dec. 23, 1998. "Tom was prepared to die," a friend writes, "knowing that his health wouldn't permit an operation on his bladder last spring. He has been tenderly cared for since then by his lovely wife, Eleanor."

For the last two decades Tom served as a director of the Navy League of Mayport, a nearby Naval base, and as an honorary director of the Florida Council on Economic Education. "Conversely," Tom wrote not long ago, "have had to utilize, more and more for the same time period, the services of the nearby Mayo Clinic."

An active Princetonian, interviewing applicants for admission and working for Annual Giving, Tom had a business career in the oil industry. He met Eleanor when she was in charge of the Presidential Fellows and he was with Exxon. They married in 1975.

To Eleanor (Forth) and to Tom's three sons, William, Robert, and Richard, his daughter, Catharine, and grandchildren, we offer our deep sympathies.

The Class of 1934