THOMAS PEPPER

PEPPER--Thomas M., age 81, of New York City and Palm Beach Gardens, FL, passed away peacefully on February 6, 2021. Born in New York City and raised in Atlanta, GA, Tom graduated from Harvard University in 1961 and earned a Master of Public Administration degree at Harvard's Kennedy School in 1965. He served as a 1st Lieutenant in the United States Army in Okinawa, Japan. Tom had a successful career as a journalist, as the Tokyo correspondent and later as a Washington correspondent covering Watergate for the Baltimore Sun. From 1977-1981, Tom ran the Asia-Pacific Office of the Hudson Institute in Tokyo, and, after returning to the United States in 1981, he served as a member of Hudson Institute's Senior staff. In 1984, he founded Wave Hill Associates, Inc., an advisory firm specializing in business development in Asia. Patient, witty, worldly, and warm, Tom will be missed by friends across the world. Tom's memory is cherished by his wife, Lois, his stepdaughters, Lauren and Julie, his nieces and nephew, Meredith, Hilary, and Keith, and his grandson Nathaniel.