Thomas Howard Otway PHD

I have often thought of Howard in the more than 50 years since I last saw Howard. We were classmates at Jefferson Elementary School in New Rochelle and became good friends when we found out we were born on the same day, in the same place as it must have been destiny.

I'll always remember him for his desire to be a composer, and was saddened when he told me he was moving to the city where his parents had bought a theater.

Today I thought of him once again and with the power of...

I think I attended Downtown community School with him in the Village. My condolences to the family.

There were not many occasions for scientists and humanities scholars to get to know each other on the Yeshiva faculty. Tom was one of the few scientists I did know and I was very lucky. We served on at least one committee together and often chatted in the hall when we encountered each other. He was a wonderful colleague smart, kind, funny, quirky, and always unwilling to put up with the hot air that accompanies so much academic business. I can remember that at one point he was I think...

Thomas was a great friend to me for 40 years and to lose him is indescribable. May God's love and protection fall like sunshine on Thomas's loved ones, today and forever.

One of the most appreciated aspects of my having served as Dean of Yeshiva College for six years has been the opportunity for meaningful interactions with so many faculty members and having had unique opportunities to get to know so many of my colleagues in diverse fields of scholarship.

While unfortunately I cannot attest to the brilliance of Tom's mathematical mind, I can well attest to the expanse of his humanity and the depth of his soul. Tom's passionate concern for, and...

I had the privilege of working with Dr. Otway at Stern College for several years. For a couple of years we had our offices next to each other and I looked forward to the days that he was on our campus.
Dr. Otway was always a pleasure to work with. He was dedicated to Yeshiva University, committed and available to our students, always willing to step up to help when we needed him, and always doing so with his pleasant, warm, humorous personality.
His passing is a great loss to our...

Thomas was a great man. He did a lot of good to my family. He was a friend, a colleague, a research collaborator, a personal, career, and family counselor. He had a unique humanity. My family and I will miss him always.

Dr Thomas Otway, or Tom as I called him in our conversations, was a great mathematician and a wonderful human being, and he had understanding and insight of others. I will certainly miss my friend, and may he rest in peace.
Donald Taylor-Bruce

I am very shocked and saddened to learn the passing of my great friend Tom. It gives me real pain to realize that Tom has left us.

We had always been in touch on many things and shared a lot of common interests over the years since early 1990. During 2008-2009 I worked at the math department of Yeshiva University where Tom was the chairman. To me, Tom was a person full of energy, intellectual power, passion for mathematics and its applications, and honesty. In summer 2009, we spent...