Thomas Drew, 83 Worked on Manhattan Project
PETERBOROUGH, N.H. - A - private service for retired Massachusetts Institute of Technology Prof. Emeritus Thomas B. Drew,' 83, of Peterborough, who during World War II was connected with the Manhattan Project, which produced the atomic bomb, were held last week in his home here. He died last Sunday in Monadnock Community Hospital here after a long Illness. Born in Medford, Mass., he graduated from MIT with a master of science degree in 1924 and later became the first chemical engineer on the Drexel Institute of Technology staff In Philadelphia. He joined the Columbia University chemical engineering faculty in 1940, and was department chairman from 1948 to 1957. He remained on the staff until 1965, when he Joined MIT's faculty. Prof. Drew was a consultant to the Brookhaven National Laboratories and to the Atomic Energy Division of the Du Pont Co. He was a consultant to the Ford Foundation in New Delhi and program specialist for the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India. While living in Temple. N.H., he was was a school board member and was former Peterborough Unitarian Church president, trustee and finance committee member. He leaves his wife, Alice (Wait); three daughters, Mary of Cambridge, Mass., Emilie Cavanagh of Manlius, N.Y., and Sarah Cokelet of Rochester. N.Y.; a sister, Eleanor Hooper of Vershlre, Vt and four grandchildren.
