Tom Remembers his Early Marriage Years and Son

Excerpt from Thomas A. Sullivan's Memories, March 4, 1994.

"Margaret and her mother bought about $1,000 worth of furniture for our home.  Laura paid cash for half of it and my mother paid off her half in installments.  I was making $135 per month so we had little money.  The money we got for our wedding was spent entertaining.  When Tommy was born we used the $150 accident money to pay the doctor, I don't know how we paid the hospital.

"In 1932 I went back to LaSalle Street from the fire department job and stared to study accounting by mail order and night school.  In 1935 I got a job as office manager and I was on my way.  When the WWII started I had parlayed my jobs until I was plant manager for Johnson & Johnson. (Classed 4F.)  Tommy was born in 1930 and by high school he developed an interest in theology and we discussed many things at the dinner table, including getting me to quite smoking.  At the end of his second year of college he joined the Dominicans and got a degree in philosophy. The seminary life didn't work out so he went to Loyola for a year and was drafted into the army.  After the army he went back to Loyola and eventually married Elayne [Bergin].  Margaret stayed home and kept us out of trouble."