Greetings from the class of ’40 and me (we seem to be one and the same). I am very proud of my name so finding it used to name a terrible fire didn’t thrill me!!!! The best to all. Robert “Shovel” Thomas CdeP 1940
Archives: 1940
Robert Thomas ’40 “Shovel”
Age 95. Think I am last member of 1940. live with my lovely wife of 74 ys in our retirement complex in Bellevue wash. and our children are nearby. our sports and travel are over but we work on keeping alert. At retirement I took up the hobby of cross stitching which is a little […]
Robert W. Thomas, Jr. ’40
The great northwest had a lovely summer. This September, Marion and I celebrated our 70th wedding anniversary and the birth of our first great grandchild. We both are blessed with good heath and do as much as we can to be physically and mentally active at our age. At retirement, I took up a somewhat […]
Bob “Shovel” Thomas ’40
First just a bit of history! In the class of 1940 there were four members who had been there for 5 years!! Dick Bard, Herb Lyttle, Murray Smitheram and Bob Thomas (better known as Shovel). Of the other three, my relationship was closest with Herb. He was sure that the funniest thing that happened in […]