Thomas Henry Jones ’35

Born in Harrisburg, Pa., Tom died in his sleep in Tarpon Springs, Fla., on Dec. 11, 1999. He was 87. He prepared for Princeton at Harrisburg Academy, where he was valedictorian, a track team member, and played basketball. At Princeton, his interest shifted to geology. After graduation, he was a petroleum geologist in Egypt until Rommel "kicked him out." The next five years were spent, courtesy of the US Navy, as radar officer on the USS Yorktown. Then, he turned back to oil exploration for several decades, first for the Sacony Oil Co. and Standard Oil Co. in the Near East and Egypt, then as senior geologist for the Carter Oil Co., in Tulsa.

Tom suffered his first stroke in 1965 and in the following years lived in and out of military hospitals. His first wife, Elizabeth Ann Hopkins, whom he married in 1945, died in 1960. In 1963, he then married Julie, who also predeceased him. By the early 1990s, his health had improved to the point that he was able to move back and forth between Oregon and the East Coast of Florida, near Indian Harbour, where a sister, Elizabeth Bohrman, resides. She, two children, Ann Jones Holmes and Richard, and a grandson survive.

The Class of 1935