Thomas Cedric Morgan – 50th Reunion Essay

Thomas Cedric Morgan

11 Westminster Way

Westborough, MA 01581-3409

tomteck@aol.com

508-439-3030

Spouse(s): Donna Kathleen (Nyiri) Morgan (1970)

Child(ren): Dale Thomas Morgan (1975), Meredith Grace Morgan (1979), Glen Davis Morgan (1982)

Grandchild(ren): Luke Robert Morgan (5/3/2013); Caroline Jane Morgan (2/26/2015)

Education: Yale University, BS E&AS, 1969; Babson College, MBA, 1986

National Service: SP4 US Army, 1971–1973

Career: Engineering and management: application development and system integration for computers from Digital PDP-8’s to IBM zSeries

Avocations: Home gardening; Video productions for Public Access

College: Morse

“I’m determined that one of my students is going to be a president, even if he has to be a Republican.” With these words, pulling me out of a class during my senior year in high school, my eighth-grade teacher insisted I apply to Yale—weeks past the application deadline for the Class of ’69.

Spoiler alert: I’m now a Democrat.

I have come to suspect that her close association with the Symingtons, then a noted Missouri family with Yale ties and prominent in both state and national politics, coupled with the push for geographic distribution in the incoming Yale class, led to an acceptance letter. At that point, I pulled out a map to see where New Haven was.

Twenty-five years ago I wrote that I’ve been blessed with “great good fortune.” I cannot but feel the same way today.

Donna and I managed somehow to raise Dale, Meredith, and Glen to become individualistic, talented, and resourceful adults. I retired five years ago, following work in a series of roles with Data General and its merger with EMC, spanning an almost unheard-of (these days) 39 years with the same high-tech enterprise. Over time, my areas ranged from direct customer support to high-level engineering management, and from dealing with mini-computers to mainframes.

We’ve continued to make Westborough, Massachusetts, our home, and have remained very active in the local Congregational Church: she, applying her artistic talents and managing many charitable projects; I, focusing on organization and upgrading church technology.

I think it was Art Buchwald who reported that at his college reunion everyone had changed so much they didn’t recognize him. Hopefully we’ll all see if that’s the case for us.