Thomas A. Boyan Jr. ’66

Thomas A. Boyan Jr. ’66 died in Winnabow, North Carolina, on September 24, 2012, the College has recently learned. Born on October 12, 1944, in Jacksonville, North Carolina, Tom participated in football, track, and cross country at Dartmouth and was a member of Phi Delta Alpha. Tom also served in the U.S. Army Reserves and later worked with Coastal Development and Realty. His father, Thomas Sr., was a member of the class of ’38. He is survived by his wife, Donna. “Tom was a big teddy bear—physically powerful and incredibly soft on the inside,” recalls Albie Macdonald ’66. “He won the intrafraternity wrestling championship in the heavy-weight class and he was a defensive tackle on the football team. His big moment came in the Princeton game in Hanover our junior year, when he tackled Cosmo Iacavazzi for a loss when Cosmo was Mr. Everything for Princeton. Tom relished that moment as a highlight of his days at Dartmouth. Tom worked hard on the weekends delivering kegs to all the fraternities. We always gave Tom big applause as he arrived with a half-keg on his shoulder (not a quarter-keg, which was hard enough for most of us to even think about lifting), and he’d give a big smile and head right off to deliver the next one.”