Jerome Thier ’58

Jerome Thier ’58, of Dalton, Pa.; Jan. 20. While at Brown, he joined the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity and served as president of the Faunce House Student Union Board of Governors. After graduating he moved to Pennsylvania and became an executive at the International Salt Company, but he transitioned to a life of entrepreneurship, building and operating several businesses across the food and medical products industries. He went on to found the mergers and acquisitions firm PMJ Mergers and Acquisitions, representing sellers of successful businesses throughout northeastern Pennsylvania for more than 32 years. An avid skier, he was a professional ski instructor at Elk Mountain for 15 years and a member of the Professional Ski Instructors of America for four decades. He is survived by wife Deborah Thier; three children, including son J. Alexander Thier ’92; five grandchildren; and a brother.