Recently we learned that Tom died Oct. 15, 2021, in Kittery, Maine.
Tom came to Princeton from Niagara Falls (N.Y.) High School, where he was an outstanding athlete. Continuing to show his athleticism at college, he was a well-performing member of the freshman football team. He left Princeton after freshman year and transferred to the College of Wooster in Ohio, where he became a member of its Athletic Hall of Fame.
After college, Tom attended Augustana Theological Seminary and earned an M.A. in English literature from Boston University. He then embarked on a career in education, teaching and coaching at a Wolfeboro, N.H., high school, studying in England at the Education Development Center, and then teaching elementary school in Waltham, Mass. He married his high school sweetheart, Marilyn Brown, and they had four children, David, Ann, Jane, and Ian. After a divorce he married Carol Justice and settled in Dunstable, Mass., and eventually Damariscotta, Maine. Later he had a long relationship with a Wooster classmate, Alice “Kris” Cunningham.
He was a lover of nature, owned a landscaping company, and continued his athletic career by playing pickup basketball, running in the Boston Marathon, and skiing, sailing, and canoeing in various parts of New England. He is survived by his four children and their families.