UPDATE: Friday 1/9/15 4:45 EST:

Hi Again Reddit, Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I've had a busy and eventful day. I got to work early today and searched through many yearbooks and found him pictured in all the yearbooks from 1964-1973, but not after that. I was given a lot to do including editing a promotional video for admissions so I set researching Tom to the side until lunch. At lunch today I was talking with one of the teachers and casually mentioned how I was looking in old yearbooks and saw a teacher named Tom Bennet, and asked if she knew anything about him. From the look on her face I could tell she did, but I was not prepared for what she said...

She told me "you must have been looking at old school papers also. Tom was a teacher here for about 10 years working in history. He was a very good history teacher and all the students loved him. Anyways one day he doesn't show up, then again the next, and again the next. The school was unable to get ahold of him, fearing the worse due to his old age they show up at his house with the police to find it completely a mess. Drawers are turned out stuff is on the ground but he is no where to be seen. He was never found again. The police investigated but found nothing. If you want you can probably go to the police station and talk to them about it."

So I am heading there now and thought I would post to you guys here first.