Thomas L Glass

Remembering the life of Thomas Leroy Glass

Thomas Glass was born on February 20, 1947, to Maxwell and Jane (Crusey) Glass in Dayton, Ohio. He graduated from Fairmont West High School, Kettering, Ohio. He attended Wright State University in Fairborn, Ohio, and received a B.S. in Biology in 1969. Thomas continued his studies at West Virginia University, in Morgantown, West Virginia, obtaining a master’s in microbiology in 1975. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in Microbiology in 1975. He moved to California to do post-doctoral work at the Department of Medicine at the UCLA Veterans Hospital, Los Angeles, and on campus at UCLA from 1975 to 1977. He accepted a post-doctoral appointment in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University from 1977 to 1982. He then became an Assistant Professor at North Dakota State University in Veterinary and Microbiology Sciences. He taught until 2003 and, in retirement, started working at Aldevron, LLC in Fargo, North Dakota, as a Production Scientist.
Thomas has been a member of the American Society of Microbiology since 1969.
Thomas is preceded in death by his parents and sisters.
Thomas will be missed greatly by everyone who knew him; he will be remembered throughout the community and by his friends.