Carl Sandburg College is saddened by news of the passing of former longtime Board of Trustees member Tom Wilson.
Wilson, who held several other civic positions in Galesburg and was a local historian, died Tuesday in Galesburg. He was 82. Funeral arrangements have yet to be announced.
Wilson first joined the Board in 1970 and never missed a regularly scheduled meeting in his 29 years as a trustee. During that time, he served as Board chairman four times and once as president of the Illinois Community College Trustees Association.
In 1993, he was the second-ever recipient of the ICCTA’s Ray Hartstein Trustee Achievement Award, which recognizes exemplary service by a currently serving community college board member. In 2000, one year after his retirement from the Board, Wilson was honored by having the road that rings Sandburg’s Main Campus in Galesburg renamed Tom L. Wilson Boulevard.
“Tom Wilson’s care and commitment to Sandburg in some of its earliest years helped shape the College into the institution it is today,” President Dr. Seamus Reilly said. “It is fitting that the College’s address bears Tom’s name, given that few people in Sandburg’s history have left as large of a mark on it as he did. On behalf of the Sandburg community, our thoughts are with Tom, his family and his loved ones during this time.”
***Report Courtesy of Carl Sandburg College***
