Thomas Duckworth ’57

Tom died June 3, 2017.

At Princeton, Tom was a wrestler and member of the Triangle stage crew. Before Princeton, he attended the Taft School. His father, George Duckworth, was a renowned professor of classics at Princeton.

A Yankees fan, Tom was employed at Yankee Stadium the past 30 years as a part-time guard for Burns International Security Service. A few years ago, he said he had worked his way up to the right-field wall, the best spot for watching the game. Of the players, whom he came to know, he remarked, “They seem to be getting younger and younger.”

Before he worked at Burns, Tom was a technical writer of group-insurance policies for two insurance companies in Connecticut and New York. The first moved to another state while Tom was caring for his ill mother in Princeton, and at the second, he feared a layoff, which led him to Burns. He loved the Burns job, working out with weights to stay fit for it.

Tom collected stamps, specializing in those of the Italian colonies prior to World War II.

Tom is survived by his wife, Veronica, of New York City and sister Dorothy Brown, of Hattiesburg, Miss. He is interred in the Duckworth family plot in Mount Pleasant, N.J.