Thomas Hamilton:
CLASS OF 1956
Eastern Military AcademyClass of 1956
Cold spring harbor, NY
Columbia CollegeClass of 1960
New york, NY
Barnard School for BoysClass of 1956
New york, NY
Thomas's Story
Life
Careerwise, probably my greatest moments were being invited to the first flyby of Mercury and Saturn, and the first shuttle launch, as well as a Mars launch and landing. I've also had pride in seeing former students go to work for NASA and a variety of planetariums around the country. I was the first to note that pairs of large craters on Earth, Moon and elsewhere provide evidence of some asteroids having moons. Now retired after 32 years of college teaching.
In 1983 the Navy announced plans to build a nuclear-armed base very near my home (which I had just purchased). This got me into politics. We stopped the Navy, and I became the elected county chair and state committeeman of a political party! The best thing I've accomplished there is probably getting elected the first-ever woman elected judge on Staten Island (and she beat someone regarded as a shoo in) in my first general election as Chair. We've also raised some hell in getting various idiotic election laws declared unconstitutional, knocked one bad judge out of office, and just this past November (2002) helped elect a new member of the state assembly.
There is an EMA alumni association functioning. Message me or call at 718-727-1967 for info on it. Its webpage has past issues of the Guidon, faculty & class lists, etc.
Had a couple books published in the computer field in the late 1960s. My first novel, "Time for Patriots", came out ...Expand for more
August 28, 2008, published by Strategic Book Publishing, ISBN 978-1-60693-224-7. It is time travel/alternate history, and was nominated for an award as best alternate history novel of 2008. There is a military academy in it, very thinly disguised from one you may know!
I followed the novel with an anthology of SF, fantasy and satire, "The Mountain of Long Eyes". Other SF are "Weird Thoughts", "Scam Artists of the Galaxy", and "Altered Times". My sixth SF book and third novel (out in 2022) is "Election Matters: Life on Universityworld".
My fifth book on astronomy was out September 2014, "Impact Craters of Earth" (we have a couple hundred). The earlier astronomy books were "Useful Star Names" (2011); "Our Neighbor Stars" (2012); "Moons of the Solar System" (second edition 2017); and "Dwarf Planets and Asteroids" (2014). The International Astronomical Union named an asteroid (#4897) for me, and the International Planetarium Society named me a Fellow of the Society at its 2010 convention in Alexandria, Egypt.
Created a scholarship fund for students interested in entering the planetarium field in 2011, and created a tax exempt fund to care for stray cats on Staten Island.
As of 2020 I've had six books published in the astronomy field, and my fourth science fiction book, "Scam Artists of the Galaxy" is just out.
Health-wise I've had three cancer operations in the last 13 months, plus a pacemaker.
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