Thomas H. Wolf

Tom Wolf was an outstanding photojournalist, war correspondent and documentary filmmaker. He came to Princeton from Hotchkiss. He majored in politics, earning high honors. He won numerous prizes, was on the JV soccer team, a member of Theatre Intime, and the secretary of Whig Hall. He worked for the "Daily Princetonian." After graduation he worked for Life and Time magazines, was NBC news correspondent in London and Paris, was European manager of ScrippsHoward from 1940-46 and of Pathe News from 1951-59. He was president of Information Productions. At CBS he produced two hour early morning programs. He won the American Institute of Architects special citation in 1961 for the TV report "Big City" and in 1980 for "Tomorrow." He was v.p. of documentary and public affairs at ABC for almost two decades, and he consulted for the Smithsonian Institute before he retired to write. During WWII, he reported on the invasion of Normandy, the liberation of Paris, the Battle of the Bulge, and the surrender of the Germans at Rheims. He won many awards for his work, which covered a wide ranging variety of subjects.