Thomas M. Regan

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Age:
43
Place of Residence:
Cranford, NJ
Location on 9/11:
Two WTC
Thomas M. Regan
Occupation:
AON Corporation | Managing Director, Sector Leader
Dedicated Memorial Sites:
Echo Lake Park 9/11 Memorial
Thomas M. Regan 9/11 Memorial
New Jersey Living Memorial, A Grove of Remembrance
Empty Sky: NJ State 9/11 Memorial
Cranford 9/11 Memorial
Conseleya 9/11 Memorial
Dewitt 9/11 Memorial
Montclair State University 9/11 Memorial
East Newark 9/11 Memorial
Fair Haven 9/11 Memorial
Reflections:
The New York Times Portraits of Grief
Thomas M. Regan Memorial Scholarship
Education:
Rider College
Columbia University
St. Mary's High School
Hobbies and Special Interests:
Golf
Biography:

The sleepless nights, the bottles, the diapers — none of it bothered him. He would go off to work glowing. Thomas M. Regan and his wife, Gayle, had been married for seven years, intent on having children, but frustrated. Then, they were rewarded with twins, Allaistar and Connor.

The twins were born prematurely, so there was a cascade of extra work. The parents shared the duties as equitably as possible. Awakened in the middle of the night, each would feed one twin. "It was a case of who's on first, who's on second," Mrs. Regan said.

Mr. Regan, 43, commuted from Cranford, N.J., to the World Trade Center, where he was managing director and sector leader of the pharmaceutical and chemical division of Aon, and even in the aftermath of a sleepless night, he would be smiling and bursting with energy.

How proud was he of the twins? Within the first five minutes of any conversation, he would digress into how much they were sleeping, what they were eating, how they were growing. Co-workers knew to check the screen saver on his computer, because he constantly updated it with the latest picture of the twins. One day his boss came across him intently reading a book and highlighting sentences. He sneaked a look. It was a book about how to become a better father.