Thomas S. Fisher ’50

Tom died Nov. 25, 2015, in West Chester, Pa., after suffering a stroke. He was a dedicated teacher with an adventurous spirit. At Princeton he played varsity soccer, belonged to Key and Seal, and majored in economics.

Tom served in the Army for three years, two of them as a lieutenant on the Korean front line. As a Quaker, he could have been a conscientious objector, but felt deeply that he could not leave the fight against tyranny to others. Following Korea, he earned an MBA from Columbia Business School.

After several jobs, he embarked on his teaching career. Tom focused on economics and world cultures at Harriton High School in Rosemont, Pa. He also taught English as a second language in China and Slovakia and was an adjunct professor at the Philadelphia Textile College. He spent 1975 in England on a Fulbright teacher exchange.

For many years he taught an adult-education course in economics at Rosemont College, where in 1996 he met his wife, Evelyn, his student at the time. As she wrote, they “fell in love at first sight.”

Tom is survived by Evelyn; children Rebecca, Ebon, and Elizabeth; and four grandchildren. His first wife, Anna, whom he married in 1957, died in 1993.