Thomas Bickle '32

Thomas Henry Bickle was born on March 11, 1916 in St. Louis, USA. He attended Trinity College School from 1928-1932. On July 5, 1937 Thomas drowned in a boating accident in Gananoque, Ontario. He was 21 years old and a student at the University of Toronto. In the mid-1950s his parents funded the construction of a new boarding house at TCS, named Bickle House, in memory of their son.

Recently, Thomas Bickle's niece Martha Wilder donated a number of family photographs to TCS, along with his diary and many awards for swimming. These photographs document Thomas's childhood, and tell the story of a short life animated by love for the water.