Thomas W. Goas ’33

TOM GOAS, who lived in Livingston, NJ. for 51 years, died in the Mountainside Hospital, Glen Ridge, on April 20, 1990. Curly Marsh attended the funeral.

Tom was born March 9, 1911 in Orange, NJ. He prepared at Orange High School. In college he was a member of Cloister inn.

After college Tom worked for Prudential Life. Later he joined Wah Chung Trading Corp., and then the Culson Corp., both in N.Y.C. Still later he changed careers, becoming an English teacher and chairman of the English department in the Livingston public school system. He earned a master's degree from Montclair State College. Tom was a founding member and a session member of the Presbyterian Church of Livingston.

On June 12, 1937, Tom married Elizabeth N. Swift, who died in 1966. They had two children, T. Barry and Mrs. Sally G. West. There are two grandchildren. Tom's father, the late Horace Goas, was in the Class of'06, and his late uncles, Harry and Howard Goas, were in'07 and '08, respectively.

To Tom's children, the Class extends its sympathy.

The Class of 1933