Floyd “Tuffy” Chambers was Tom’s roommate at the Sigma Nu Fraternity house at Northwestern University in 1941.

Tom writes on September 16, 1941:

My room-mate is Tuffy Chambers he’s the captain of the football team this year so you can see that I’m going to have to be good. If you can’t see that you would if you saw Tuffy. I don’t know how long he is going to be here, The Orington Hotel has offered him a job that if he sweeps the snow off the walk every morning that it snows that he can stay in one of the guest rooms.

From the Herald and Review (Decatur, Illinois) Obituary of June 1, 1996:

Floyd A. “Tuffy” Chambers, 77, died May 26, 1996.

Mr. Chambers was born in Florence, Colo., on Jan. 24, 1919. He attended high school in Salida, Colo., where he was captain of the football team. He was awarded an athletic scholarship to Northwestern University, where he was captain of the football team his senior year. He was also a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity.

He signed with the Detroit Lions and played briefly before he was called into World War II. Tuffy went on to serve three years as a lieutenant commander in the South Pacific as a part of the Navy.

He was owner of numerous businesses including Allied Restoration and Murray Manfacturing in Dallas. After his retirement, he and his wife, Eleanor, enjoyed traveling abroad and to their house in Westcliffe, Colo., and their farm in East Texas.

Tuffy belonged to Rotary and was very active at the YMCA in Dallas. He will be greatly missed for his sense of humor, honesty, kindness, and his wonderful stories. Tuffy is surived by his wife, of 44 years, Eleanor Christison Chambers; mother, Bess Chambers; daughter and son-in-law, Gloria and John Ayres; grandchildren, Melynda, John and Christopher; brothers, Robert, Bill, Carl and Gary; numerous nieces and nephews; great-nieces and great-nephews, including Todd Windels and Cecily Ketter. He was preceded in death by his father, Floyd G. Chambers, and one brother, Jack.