Thomas W. Herzberg, 9/19/1931 -7/08/2018. Tom loved and was proud of his family. He leaves Georgiana, his spouse of 47 years, a retired university professor of occupational therapy; daughter, Laura an artist; son, Steven an architect; and grandchildren, Sophie and Evren. He had two sisters, Jean and (deceased) Kay, “I was lucky to have them as family.”
Tom served in the USAF for four years as a psychiatric medic. He earned a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Wayne State University (MI) and did undergraduate work at Hofstra University (NY). Part of his work history included part-time therapy and university teaching. The bulk of his career was as a community mental health agency director. He co-owned a commercial sailplane school with Georgiana during which time he functioned as a flight instructor. He sometimes played drums in a rehearsal big band and in community orchestras. Tom also loved studying jazz piano. He organized and co-directed the first National Conference on Human Rights and Psychiatric Oppression in 1973 in Detroit, MI. Philosophically, he viewed himself as a humanist and pacifist who did not believe in any religion.
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