Howard Clark Thomas Jr. ’43


Howard Clark Thomas Jr. ’43 died July 23 in Tucson, Arizona. Howie graduated from Newton (Massachusetts) High School, where he was a member of the National Honor Society, worked on the yearbook and participated in dramatics and football. At Dartmouth he was a history major and a member of KKK. Howie served as a second lieutenant in the Army Air Force and as a sergeant in the field artillery in WW II. After the war Howie received an M.A. from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins and graduated from the Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, and the Columbia University School of Public Law and Government. “Between 1947 and 1987 I spent 30 years abroad, most of it on various Foreign Service assignments,” to quote Howie. He served in France, North Vietnam, Tunisia, Upper Volta, Sierra Leone and Yemen. Except for a few years in the early 1970s his wife, Jacqueline, whom he married in 1958, and his three children were able to be with him. In later years he did extensive lecturing at Dartmouth, Harvard, the University of New Hampshire and the Foreign Service Institute. Howie is survived by his wife, his children Christopher, Andrew and Alexandra and three grandsons.