Thomas J. Connors ’71, ’78 AM

Thomas J. Connors ’71, ’78 AM, of Montreal, Canada; Sept. 9, after a brief illness. Tom spent his career as an archivist. He held positions at Yale and the University of Vermont prior to being named assistant archivist of the AFL-CIO Archives in Washington, D.C. In 1991, he received a grant to educate Pakistani archivists and records managers. In 1993, he was named archivist for the National Public Broadcasting Archives at the University of Maryland, where he managed the archives associated with public broadcasting in the U.S., including National Public Radio. In 2008, he was named George Washington University’s Labor Archivist for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. He retired in 2018. He was a member of the Society of American Archivists and published numerous articles and presented papers on labor and government archives in the U.S. and worldwide. He is survived by his wife, Michelle Dolbec; three sisters; two brothers; and many nieces and nephews.