Thomas R. Hoffman, former professor of electrical engineering, died May 8 at his home in Daytona Beach, Fla. He was seventy-eight.
Hoffman, a native of White Plains, N.Y., served in the Navy during World War II and graduated from Union in 1945. He joined the Union faculty in 1946, left in 1950, and returned in 1954, retiring in 1979. He then moved to Florida and worked for the General Electric Co. for ten years. While at Union he taught at foreign universities three times-University of Alexandria, Egypt; Chiao Tung University, Taiwan; and University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
He also worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories, was an electronics advisor for Daytona Beach Community College, and was a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Survivors include two sons, Thomas, Pittsburgh, and William, Clifton Park, N.Y.; two daughters, Elisabeth Hoffman, Clarksville, Md., and Debora Hoffman, Swarthmore, Pa.; a sister, Mary Pearce, Daytona Beach; and eight grandchildren.