Brigadier General Jim Throwe

Happy Birthday
and
Thank You
for all you have done for the

Friends of Wood Memorial Library and Museum!

 
Left to right, Shirley Petersen, President, Ann Borden, board member, Atty James Throwe - legal consultant for Wood, 1985

"In 1971...the people that were associated with Wood Library decided to form their own private library, so I became an expert by buying a book on the 501c3 corporations, and we formed a tax-exempt 501c3 corporation and re-established Wood Library as a library and also as a place where collections of various artifacts and other things were made and Wood continued to fill a necessary need in the town of South Windsor, particularly at this end of town...Friends of Wood Memorial Library—that was the beginning, yes, and I think it was Edith Vibert who was very instrumental in that." - Jim Throwe, oral history, (2013-03-03), (record 2014.18) 

James H. Throwe was born in Norwich, Connecticut, on May 22, 1930 and moved to South Windsor in 1959. He attended the University of Connecticut for his undergraduate education and for law school. Throwe served in the National Guard, including stints on active duty from 1950-1952 and as commander of the 43rd Infantry Brigade in a NATO force in West Germany during the 1980s. He eventually reached the rank of major general. Throwe worked in the military legal field as a member of the JAG Corps and in the civilian legal field as a law clerk for a federal judge in Hartford and later in private practice in East Hartford. Throwe was active in South Windsor Democratic Party politics, including serving as mayor from 1965-1967 and service on the town Planning and Zoning Commission and the town Sewer Commission. With his wife, Virginia Tucker Throwe, he raised three children in South Windsor.