University of Rochester
Athletic Hall of Fame
Thomas Hoffman
'50
At Rochester:
- Four-year letterwinner for football from 1946-49, playing 34 consecutive games
- Most Improved Player, 1946, Outstanding Lineman, 1947
- Team Captain, 1949
- Three letters in track and field, throwing the discus and shot put
- Learned downhill skiing at the University and was a co-founder of the UR Outing Club in 1948
- Enrollment at the University delayed when he enlisted in the Army Air Corps Aviation Cadet Program in 1944
- Elected Phi Beta Kappa and awarded a Tau Beta Pi scholarship for graduate school
- Graduated in the Centennial Class of 1950 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Post-Graduate:
- Earned his M.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951
- Earned Professional Engineer degree from MIT in 1954
- Played two seasons of semipro football while at MIT
- Played six years of club rugby while at MIT
- Worked at the DAC Laboratory at MIT
- Accepted a position with Arthur D. Little, Inc. in Cambridge, MA in 1956 and stayed there until his retirement in 1986, except for a 15-year hiatus as Chief Engineer for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge
- Presently a self-employed consulting engineer and living in Marblehead, MA with wife Jill since 1956
- One child, daughter Betsy, who also lives in Marblehead with her husband and our two grandsons
