Remarks at the funeral service for Thomas Hume, St. Clement’s Church, Stamford, Connecticut, November 6, 2003
We were all of us, in the Yale Class of 1950, asked to give a few sentences of biographical information for the 50th anniversary yearbook. Tom Hume wrote: “My life changed on November 16, 1981, when I suffered a stroke at age 53. After a difficult recovery, stretching over two years, I have limited ability to read, write, or converse.” But he did manage, with appropriate contrivances, to drive a car, and to captain a Dyer 29, frequenting Long Island Sound, which, as he put it, “I know well and find endlessly fascinating.” And he cruised in the waterways of Europe, and spent happy days with his ten grandchildren. He cultivated, also, his artistic skills and painted in watercolor.
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