Thomas Henry Swift ’29

TOM DIED Apr. 3, 1992. He had prepared for college at Mercersburg. At Princeton he rowed on the freshman crew and was on the rifle team, Ile roomed with Bud Whitehouse. Because so many of us had grown Lip with the Tom Swift books, there was quite a bit of kidding about Tom's name, but he took it goodnaturedly. He left us during sophomore year for a securities job at Dillon Read, but in 1932 he went to Harvard Dental School, starting his distinguished career in dentistry, which included officerships in many dental associations and on the Dean's Advisory Council of the Harvard Dental School. Ile received the medal of honor of the American Dental Assn. His war service included serving as brigade dental surgeon in the Canal Zone and as chief prosthetic dentist at West Point. He married Margaret Elizabeth Muirhead in 1946, and she survives, as does their son Thomas M. '76, to whom the Class extends its sincere sympathy.

The Class of 1929