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golf, bridge, and community groups. Jerry was a natural leader, known for his punctuality and his ability to organize and make things happen, always with a smile and a willingness to lend a hand. He loved to sing. Music was a part of his family life, and he sang in barbershop quartets, in church choirs, and in the Rusty Chords at Timber Ridge, the retirement home he lived in.

Alice died a few months prior to Jerry, who is survived by his three daughters, Carol Hibbard, Diana Taylor, and Julie Churchill.

Alexandra Arnold Lynch ’56

October 6, 2022, in Portland.

Alexandra attended St. Helen’s Hall in Portland, followed by Brimmer and May School in Massachusetts. Returning to Portland to attend Reed, she married noted Portland artist Douglas Lynch in 1955. They made their home in Northwest Portland and had two sons, John and Jason.

In the ’80s, Doug and Alix opened the Design Source on the fifth floor of the Galleria in downtown Portland. Doug’s studio was in the back of the space, and Alix operated an import boutique in the front. With an eye for beauty, she curated the work of artisans from around the world in a boutique featuring delicate Mexican straw Christmas ornaments, exquisitely woven fabrics from Ethiopia and India, colorful tapestries from Peru, and jewelry from nearly every country on the globe. To step inside was to enter a treasured world of art and beauty.

Preceded in death by Douglas, her husband of 54 years, and her son Jason, she is survived by her son John.

Glen Howard Wilcox ’56

November 30, 2019, in Portland, Oregon.

Glen was born in Heppner, Oregon, the youngest of three brothers and two sisters. When he was in the second grade, the family moved to Hermiston, Oregon, where he excelled in high school sports and served as student body president his senior year.

After he graduated in 1945, most of his friends were drafted into the army to fight in World War II. Glen wanted to join the navy, but he was only 17. He talked his mother into signing for him to join the U. S. Navy Air Corps, which had a program called the “Kiddie Cruise” that allowed men to sign up at age 17 and serve a three-year enlistment instead of four. Glen finished boot camp in San Diego just after the United States dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. Many sailors who had been fighting were shipped back to the States, and the newly enlisted sailors were sent to sea to replace them. Glen was disappointed to discover he wasn’t going to sea. Instead, having discovered that Glen excelled at teaching, the navy sent him to Jacksonville, Florida, to teach electronics at a new school they had established.

After being discharged from the navy, Glen entered the University of Florida, intent on following his passion for education. He married his first wife, Gwen, and welcomed his daughter, Cynthia, into the world. When he and Gwen divorced, Glen moved back to Oregon and began working in his brother’s machine shop. He intended to enroll at Oregon State University until friends told him about Reed. He came into Reed as a junior, and the following summer lived in the boiler building, in charge of maintenance and the summer recreation program, which included the swimming pool and day camps using the athletic facilities. During his senior year, he was asked to be assistant athletic director when the athletic director quit. Glen accepted the position, knowing it meant it would take two years to finish his senior year.

While lifeguarding, he met a woman named Joan, who had once taught swimming and came to swim in Reed’s pool with friends. Glen asked her out, insisted she learn to play bridge, and coached her brother’s high school basketball team. Joan and Glen married and spent the next 65 years together.

Glen wrote his thesis, “Neutron Radiography,” advised by Prof. William Parker [physics 1948–79]. After graduating, he purchased 40 acres of land on Mt. Scott in Southeast Portland, where he built a gunite swimming pool, intending to operate a summer day camp where he would teach swimming during the summer and then teach public school the rest of the year. Their plans changed and Glen and Joan decided to cover the pool, and provide year-round swim lessons. In addition to the swimming lessons, Play Haven provided such activities as trampoline, archery, hiking, fort building, horseback riding, singing, and sports for the thousands of local children who came to the facility for 26 years.

During the first years of Play Haven, Glen and Joan welcomed the 4Ks to their family: Kim, Kari, Kylie, and Kristi, all of whom eventually became employees and managers.

Glen’s passion for education led him to become a David Douglas School District budget committee member and then a school board member. He spent several years as a teacher’s aide in the classroom and was involved in leading 4-H groups for Kim and Kari in poultry, electronics, and outdoor cooking.

Property taxes, insurance, and operating expenses caused Glen and Joan to make the difficult decision to close Play Haven and sell the property in 1983, and their journey took a new course. Joan went from teaching swimming to accounting and computer education, and because of his extensive background in math and science, Glen was a natural for the emerging computer world. He played an integral part in helping his son, Kim, get his CPA/accounting business up and running by developing accounting software for the company. Kim’s business, Wilcox & Company, PC, became a success, due in part to Glen’s dedication, and Glen continued working with Kim into his 80s.

Glen loved the outdoors, bridge, pinochle, and gardening. He and Joan moved into a Gresham, Oregon, senior living community in 2018. Glen is survived by his wife, Joan; son, Kim Wilcox; and daughters, Kari Rohr, Kylie Holstrom, and Kristi Wilcox Wilson.

Johanna Anderson Ghei ’57

October 23, 2022, in Madison, Wisconsin, at home.

Johanna grew up in the Cannon Valley of rural Minnesota, near the bluffs of the Mississippi River. Her brother and cousins were her companions and she went to Red Wing public schools, participated in 4-H, and developed skills as a baker and seamstress.

Her mother was appointed ambassador to Denmark, and the family moved to Copenhagen, where Johanna became fluent in the language, attained her diploma at Aurehøj Gymnasium, and made lifelong friends.

Johanna studied at Reed and then the University of Minnesota, where she completed both a BA and an MA in psychology. During her studies in Minnesota, she met and married Som Ghei, a psychologist from India pursuing a PhD with a Fulbright Scholarship. They lived in New Delhi with his family, and she taught mathematics and science at the American School. Returning to the U.S., they lived in Vermont and New Hampshire, and then settled with their children in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

Johanna developed a long and varied career in the field of psychology, first specializing in child psychology, including working to establish the effectiveness of the Head Start program and evaluating mental health in children and adolescents. She later expanded her involvement in the field, completing her PhD at the University of Wisconsin with a study of Karen Horney’s concept of the real self. As a licensed psychologist, Johanna focused in the areas of grief and loss, women’s self-esteem, and trauma. She established a private practice working with her colleague and close friend, Bonnie Gunnon.

Johanna achieved her goal of placing the family’s rural Red Wing land into the protection of the Minnesota Land Trust for conservation of the land in perpetuity. She was a devoted cinema fan, a perennial flower gardener, an avid bird watcher, and a longtime member of Wisconsin Public Radio.

She is survived by her children, Kiren, Raman, and Gita Ghei ’88, and grandchildren, including Rajni Schulz ’23

Timothy E. Rice ’57

September 14, 2022, in Manlius, New York, after a short illness.

At Reed, Timothy wrote his thesis, “The Changing Pattern of Soviet Foreign Economic Policy,” advised by Prof. Carl Stevens [economics 1954–90]. He went on to receive a master’s degree in economics from Yale University. Settling in Syracuse, New York, with his wife, Susan, he worked as a consultant in development economics and became a fixture in the local political scene as an outspoken advocate for social and civil rights. Timothy served 24 years as the 18th District Onondaga County legislator, during which time he held respected positions as majority and minority leaders of the Democratic legislative party. He loved serving his constituents in the Syracuse University area and, up until his death, was heavily involved with the Thornden Park Association. He enjoyed grant writing for multiple projects and organizations, including the Syracuse Housing Division.

Predeceased by his first wife, Susan Rice ’57, and his second wife, Joanne Kaplan, Timothy is survived by his children from his first marriage, Ethan Rice, Jason Rice, Aaron Rice, Jessica Rice, and Malaika Rice, and his stepchildren from his second marriage, Craig Kaplan, Cheryle Kaplan, and Wendy Kaplan-Emmons.

Donald (Donangelo)

Robert Schuman ’57

October 19, 2022, in Bend, Oregon.

Born Donangelo Schuman in Chicago, Illinois, Don spent his childhood in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where his father was a political science professor.

After being admitted at Reed, he drove from Massachusetts and arrived on campus with 56 cents in his pocket and a half tank of gas. “The only reason I got here at all is that I had a hitchhiker I’d picked up so I could buy another tank of gas,” he recalled. He needed some cash, and the Reed maintenance crew hired him that first week, giving him enough money on which to live.

Don wrote his thesis, “An Epistemological Enquiry into Whitehead’s The Concept of Nature,” advised by Profs. Edwin Garlan [philosophy

1946–73] and David French [anthropology and linguistics 1947–88], graduating with degrees in philosophy and anthropology.

After teaching for a while, he left the field. But his brother’s death in 1962 shocked Don into wanting to do something meaningful. Three years later, he received a master’s in teaching from Portland State University and returned to education, teaching English and media studies at Sunset High School in Beaverton, Oregon.

Don’s brother introduced him to books on raja, hatha, and bhakti yoga when he was in his teens, setting him on a spiritual course. In the ’70s, he discovered Guru Maharaji, who inspired him to meditate extensively and helped him begin his “path of love.” Don wrote six novels girded by his spiritual philosophy and was a passionate environmentalist.

His first wife was Bette Brown (now Bette Rice), who survives him, as do their three children, Dieter Stargard, Karl Schuman, and Allison Suran.

Patricia Yeager Washburn ’58

September 18, 2022, in Northglenn, Colorado. Though she was born in California, Pat was proud of her family’s connections to Colorado. Her mother, Eleanor, was the daughter of Ethel and Joe Mills, who built and ran the historic Crags Lodge in Estes Park. Her father, Dorr, was one of Rocky Mountain National Park’s first rangers. They instilled their daughter with a love of nature, which Pat passed on to her children and thousands of visitors who came to Rocky Mountain National Park, where she served as an enthusiastic part-time docent at the Rocky Mountain Conservancy into her late 70s.

She studied at Reed College, where she met her first husband, Arthur Washburn ’57. Pat finished her bachelor’s degree at Colorado College and received an MA in religion from Iliff School of Theology. She became an adjunct faculty member in the justice and peace studies program at Iliff and said, “I credit Reed with ‘radicalizing’ me to have a heart for the marginalized, and leading me to be a peace educator.”

In the ’70s, Pat was the director of religious education, both at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Denver and later at Denver’s First Unitarian Church. She cofounded the Shalom Community, a residential support community in Denver, which continues to this day as the Karis Community. In her later years, she served as a lay pastoral associate at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in Estes Park, and as chaplain at Good Samaritan Retirement Village in Estes Park. She served on the board of the Estes Park Museum and was awarded its Pioneer Award in

2018 for her passionate efforts to keep Estes Park history alive.

Pat worked for the National Peace Academy Campaign in Washington, D.C., and developed and taught a conflict resolution and peace studies program at Earlham School of Religion. She developed peace, conflict resolution, and social justice materials for the Episcopal Church and the American Friends Service Committee, and traveled the world to work with other peacemakers. Her work for peace was not just theoretical. In 1990, she wrote the Department of the Treasury to inform them that she would no longer be paying taxes as a form of protest to the size of the military budget. A formal peace tax resister, she testified before Congress in support of a peace tax fund that would allow citizens to designate their taxes to nonmilitary purposes. As a result, the IRS seized her car and attempted to garnish her wages. For the rest of her career, she worked part-time hours to attempt to keep her salary below a taxable level. She was supported by her employers and friends, who helped her find creative ways to continue to live in Estes Park, where she had a wide social circle. With their assistance, she was able to live in and serve her beloved mountain town until the penultimate year of her life.

Pat loved music and singing, and performed in choirs and as a soloist. Married three times (Arthur Washburn, Thomas Washburn, Bryan Michener), she is survived by her sister, Sally; her sons, Christopher and Peter Orbison Washburn ’87; and her daughters, Polly and Coretta.

Gayle Rood Burnett ’59

October 3, 2022, in Portland.

Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, Gayle moved with her family to Portland, where she attended Lincoln High School and Reed. She married K. Philip Horine Jr., and they raised two children, Daniel and Annette. A devout Christian, Gayle was a longtime member of Cedar Mill Bible Church. She loved plants, was certified as a Master Gardener, and was known for her quick wit and infectious laugh. Gayle was preceded in death by her husband, Loy James Burnett, and son, Daniel Horine. She is survived by her daughter, Annette Coyle, and her sister, Peggy Horine.

Judith Michie Sakurai

Yamauchi ’60

July 12, 2022, in Portland.

Judy was born in Portland, the last of six children of Chiyoko and Masaru Sakurai. Since her mother was induced one month early so that the doctor could go on vacation, Judy was quite small (5 lb.) and slept most of her first year. When she was three years old, she and her family were sent to the Portland Assembly Center (Pacific International Livestock Exposition Pavilion) until the permanent concentration camps could be set up in south central Idaho. She spent ages four to six at the Minidoka Relocation Center in Idaho.

After World War II was over, Judy and her family moved back to the family farm in Troutdale, Oregon; but, due to prejudicial words and comments indicating that they weren’t welcome there, they decided to leave and sold the land. Judy’s father started work as a landscape gardener and moved into the only place that would accept many Japanese American families in Portland—the Federal Public Housing Administration’s Vanport (the country’s largest public housing project). During the 1948 Vanport flood, the entire housing project was destroyed in less than a day, and more than 18,000 residents were displaced. After her family was flooded out of Vanport, they lived for a while in Fairview, and then in downtown Portland; she attended Lincoln High School.

Following the example of her two brothers, Richard Sakurai ’53 and Edward Sakurai ’58 , Judy came to Reed, where she majored in organic chemistry and wrote her thesis, “The Synthesis of Hippurylglycine using N, N, N¹-Triphenylformanidyl Chloride,” advised by Prof. Marshall Cronyn [chemistry 1952–89]. She went to graduate school at the University of Oregon and was recruited by Shell Development Corporation in Emeryville, California, to work as a chemist in the patent section doing international literature searches because of her language abilities in German and French. Shortly thereafter, she was sent by Shell to go back to graduate school at Stanford University to learn the Japanese language.

Hiroshi Yamauchi (originally from Maui, Hawaii) was living in the San Francisco Bay Area, working for the competing Ortho Chemical Company, when he met and married Judy. After earning his PhD at UC Berkeley, he accepted a position at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and the couple moved to Hawaii. Hiroshi remained a professor of natural resource conservation economics at UH until his retirement 30 years later.

Hiroshi and Judy had one child, a daughter, Kara Mie, who was born in Honolulu. For a time, Judy was a stay-at-home mom. After her daughter was in school, Judy went to work as the director of the Japan-America Society of Hawaii until the family went to Japan for Hiroshi’s two Fulbright Fellowships, at Kyoto University and at Tokyo University. While in Japan, she worked for Suntory in Akasaka-Mitsuke, Tokyo. After returning to Honolulu, Judy worked for many years at the Japanese consulate as a speechwriter for the consul general. Eventually she and Hiroshi left Hawaii to relocate back to Portland to help their daughter care for their granddaughter, Nicole.

Judy had a lifelong interest in the fine arts, particularly in drawing and lithography, and studied at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Bishop Museum, and the University of Hawaii. She painted commissioned portraits while she was in Honolulu, and studied calligraphy for 15 years in Portland under Fujii sensei. She worked to paint and illustrate more than 500 haiku poems written by her late mother that had been published throughout the course of 50 years in the Japanese literary magazine Hototogisu

To keep herself busy during the pandemic, Judy took it upon herself to make and deliver Japanese bentos every Friday to more than 15 shut-ins in five different retirement homes. She enjoyed doing volunteer work and throughout her retirement years was involved in many volunteer projects.

She is survived by her daughter, Kara Mie Williams, and granddaughter, Nicole McGraw.

Thomas Swanson ’62

July 12, 2022, in Portland, from peritonitis. With the exception of two years he spent in the Peace Corps, Tom lived most of his life in Portland, where he was born. At Reed, he wrote his thesis, “Theory of Equations for Polynomials in One Indeterminate,” advised by Prof. Dorothy Christensen [math 1959–65], and the following year received his MAT. He went on to earn a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Oregon.

In the Peace Corps, he was sent to West Cameroon, where he worked for the government as a road surveyor. He loved both his time there and the people he met, and was able to travel throughout West Cameroon and to nearby countries. While surveying, he sometimes had to spend the night in a rural village— much different from the house he shared with other Peace Corps volunteers in Kumba. One of the highlights of his stay was a visit to the hospital run by Albert Schweitzer in Gabon.

Tom’s professional life was as a high school teacher in the Portland Public Schools. His first assignment was at Adams High School, a nationally celebrated alternative program, where he met many innovative and dedicated teachers who influenced the rest of his career. After Adams was closed, Tom taught at Jefferson High School, leaving in 1987 to join the staff at the Grant Night School (GNS), an alternative program for nontraditional students. He worked primarily as a math teacher, but was also given the opportunity to teach other subjects, such as current events, astronomy, origami, and puzzle making. His excitement for the subjects he taught and his love of teaching made Tom a very successful teacher. Able to think outside the box, he reached students who had never succeeded in or enjoyed math.

Twice chosen as the state nominee for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics Teaching, he won the Excellence in Education award from Portland Public Schools in 1998, and then retired from teaching.

Tom was active in the Oregon Council of Teachers of Mathematics (OCTM), serving on the board of directors both as an area representative and as vice president. He helped organize and was a presenter at many northwest math conferences, coedited the OCTM publication, TOMT, and was recognized with the Oscar Schaaf Secondary Mathematics Education Award. Tom continued his involvement with OCTM until his death.

Tom had a lifelong love for math and puzzles. In his last months he spent hours with his eightyear-old grandson, Miles, working on Rubik’s Cube solutions and math problems. Tom began playing volleyball as a teenager and didn’t stop until his health issues made it impossible to continue. He played on several teams, including the Oregon Rustys, and competed at the National Volleyball Championships for many years. In graduate school, he spent several summers coaching at a girls’ volleyball camp in Canada, and at Adams High School, he coached the girls’ team that won the city championship in 1974 and 1975. Tom was admitted to the Portland Interscholastic League Hall of Fame in 2007, and for many years he also coached the teams on which he played.

In 1978, he married Erica Rubin, and they adopted their daughter, Thea, in 1980. After a cross-country trip following Erica’s retirement, the couple moved to the Oregon coast, living for eight years just outside Cape Lookout State Park near Tillamook. After their grandson was born, they returned to Portland to join the ranks of doting grandparents.

In the ’80s, Tom discovered that he had inherited a kidney disease, which he was able to hold at bay until 2016, when he began dialysis. He continued to travel, play volleyball, and enjoy an active life until he was 80, when he began a series of hospitalizations. Sadly, he caught COVID while in the hospital and spent the last 10 days of his life in isolation. He is survived by his wife, Erica; his daughter, Thea; and his sister, Georgia.

Kaori Hopkins O’Connor

October 4, 2022, at St. John’s Hospice, London, following a brief illness.

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A social anthropologist whose writings fused history with archeology, Kaori studied material culture, including the commodities of empire, fashion, and the anthropology of food.

Born in Hawaii, she grew up on Waikiki Beach during the idyllic era before statehood, when the Aloha Spirit still prevailed. Part Japanese, part Hawaiian, part Native American, her ancestors included a New England whaling captain turned island sugar planter and one of Hawaii’s first Japanese immigrant entrepreneurs.

Rather than write an academic essay while applying to Reed, Kaori submitted a poem in which she portrayed herself as a child of the sun, sea, and sand of Hawaii. The admissions committee was sufficiently impressed to offer a spot in the group that enrolled in the fall of 1963.

As a freshman, Kaori plunged eagerly into the freewheeling social scene at Reed and became known for her exotic looks, fashion sense, and exuberant and generous personality. She did her best to avoid the scrutiny of her strict father, an officer in the Honolulu Police Department, whom she once described as an “Irish cop.”

At Reed, she wrote her thesis, “An Essay on the Nyakyusa of Tanganyika,” advised by Professor Gail Kelly [anthropology 1960–2000]. “Being at Reed was the formative experience of my life,” she wrote.

After earning two degrees in social anthropology at St. Anne’s College in Oxford, Kaori realized, “The only thing I had to look forward to was doing fieldwork up the Sepik in New Guinea where there were no fashion shops and no plumbing.” Instead, she entered and won a talent contest at London Vogue magazine and went to work for the magazine, wandering around the fashion jungle with a notebook, studying the anthropology of fashion, and writing five guides to style and shopping in London. She wrote a number of books on fashion, including the bestselling Creative Dressing

But she came to the decision that there was more to life than style and fashion, and took a job as the editorial director of Kegal Paul International, a London-based publishing company specializing in academic books on Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and the Pacific. Kaori was responsible for an acclaimed series, Pacific Basin Books, reflecting the cultural complexities of the Pacific in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Eventually she returned to the academy and received a PhD in anthropology from University

College in London. Her dissertation on Lycra won doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships.

She worked as a freelance journalist and broadcaster in television and radio and was a frequent guest on radio and television programs, including Creative Knitting , The Great British Bake Off, and The Great British Sewing Bee. Kaori won the Sophie Coe Prize for food history for her study on the Hawaiian luau. She organized a conference that was the first to look at children’s clothing in the modern period, and was awarded a Pasold Prize for Textile History for her study of the Ladybird children’s dressing gown in the context of the post–World War II baby boom. That paper exemplified a key anthropological principle—that social forms are mirrored in material culture.

Perhaps her most prized accomplishment was the birth of her daughter, Kira Eva Tokiko Kalihiokekaiokanaloa Fion, born in 1991 to Kaori and Peter Hopkins.

Kaori’s books included Lycra: How a Fiber Shaped America (2011), Pineapple: A Global History (2013), The Never-Ending Feast: The Archaeology and Anthropology of Feasting (2015), and Seaweed: A Global History (2017).

“I can’t imagine life without Reed,” she wrote. “I wish I could do it all again, and the only thing more significant was the birth of my daughter. As the years have gone by, Reed has drawn closer rather than receded, and I miss everyone like mad.”

Myron Seth Yorra ’67 recalled, “Kaori and I met on our first day at Reed and talked through the night about British mysticism. We remained friends for the next 59 years. When I was in London, Kaori became my social director. Whether it was her suggestion of lunch at the Ivy to negotiate German rights for the musical Rent, or a wonderful Chinese restaurant across from my hotel to charm a reticent author, London kept no secrets from Kaori, whose facile navigation of the city’s possibilities repeatedly rescued me from desolation. I treasured our friendship.”

Birck Cox ’67 remembered, “I liked her, either because of or in spite of her brash exterior, I’m not sure which. Talking to her, I remember, was sort of like trying to carry on a conversation with Bette Midler, in that her side of it was not always informative, but it was always entertaining.”

“Kaori’s gentle clarity and courteous obedience to cultural norms blew me away,” said Martha Holden ’67. “She was a gentlewoman, a revelation of how a contemporary could be. Such a gift to a craggy New Englander.”

Although Kaori adapted to the damp cold of England over the decades—as well as to the mordant wit and reserve of the British—she held her love for Hawaii deep in her heart. She was expanding her treatise on the Hawaiian luau into a book when she died. Kaori is survived by her daughter, Kira Eva Hopkins.

Thomas McIntyre ’73

November 3, 2022, in Sheridan, Wyoming, of natural causes.

Renowned as one of America’s great outdoor writers, Thomas was born in Downey, California, and educated by the Jesuits at Loyola High School. Wildly curious and well read, Tom came to Reed. Few things on this mortal coil failed to interest him.

As a writer, he focused on hunting and the outdoors. At age 19, he made his first trip to Africa and developed a lifelong affection for the continent, returning numerous times. He visited every continent in the world with the exception of Antarctica, writing story after story. HIs stories numbered in the hundreds, gracing the pages of nearly every outdoor magazine imaginable, including Field and Stream , Sports Afield , Petersen’s Hunting , Outdoor Life , Bugle, Garden and Gun, and The Field. He was a contributing editor for both Sports Afield and Field and Stream. Sporting News and Carl Zeiss Optics awarded him prizes for his work.

Tom also wrote prolifically for the screen, creating 750 episodes of outdoor television programs for Orion Entertainment, including Buccaneers and Bones, narrated by Tom Brokaw, and the documentary Wyoming: Predators, Prey, and People for the Wyoming Fish and Game Department. He was probably best known for his books, including Days Afield, The Way of the Hunter, Dreaming the Lion, Seasons and Days, and Augusts in Africa. In 2012, he published his only work of fiction, The Snow Leopard’s Tale, which critics hailed as a minor masterpiece. Shortly before his death, he completed what he considered his magnum opus, Thunder without Rain, a history of the cape buffalo. Five years in the making, it is scheduled for publication in February of 2023.

Possessing both a wicked sense of humor and a generous heart, Tom was more than merely an “outdoor writer.” He possessed knowledge on an astounding range of subjects, able to wax on the vagaries of African big game rifles and then delve into interpretations of a passage from James Joyce’s Ulysses. He had an encyclopedic knowledge of film and relished a dry martini (no olives, please) and good food. In his travels, he sampled unorthodox fare, including musk ox bile in Greenland. He is survived by his wife, Elaine; son, Bryan; and brother, Robert.

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