Thomas Mercer Emory ’32

Tom Emory, who had recently moved to the Valle Verde Retirement Community in Santa Barbara, Calif., died Apr. 27.

After working for a year in the loan department of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of N.Y., Tom took a teaching position at the Morristown Prep School in Morristown, N.J., where he taught math for 10 years. He then took a job in a small plant in Berkley Heights, N.J., making plastic materials for the war effort. This plant later became part of the Koppers Co., and Tom became the plant personnel manager. He spent much of his later career as registrar of Fairleigh Dickinson U. in Madison, N.J., where he was responsible for many innovative business practices.

Active in the Presbyterian Church in New Vernon, N.J., he was a deacon and elder and a member of the choir. He also served on the board of education. After raising three sons and retiring, Tom and his wife moved to Santa Ynez, Calif., in 1981, where he became treasurer of an Episcopal Church and participated in church development work, as well as the Santa Ynez Hospital Auxiliary, Historical Society, and the AARP.

Tom is survived by his wife of 58 years, Marie Louise; three children, Tom, Dennis, and George; seven grandchildren, and a great-grandson. The class sympathizes with all of them in the loss of this fine citizen.

The Class of 1932