Many ’77ers echoed what Craig Sachson, the University’s director of athletic communications, wrote after Bob died Jan. 27, 2015: that he “stood for the right thing and cared immensely for anybody associated with the orange and black.” He was an enthusiastic classmate who never said “no” to a request from ’77.
He was born in Bryn Mawr, Pa., and attended Episcopal Academy. At Princeton, where he was an economics major and a member of Cottage Club, one of his roommates, Marc Brahaney, remembered, “We threw some great parties, we studied hard, and we supported each other.”
Another roommate, David Bottger, remembered when Bob was looking for a quiet place to concentrate on writing his senior thesis, he checked himself into a motel on Route 1. “It might have worked, but for the presence of a television set,” David said. “It was too much of a distraction, forcing him to abandon the room and return to campus.”
Bob was the captain of the varsity squash team for the Tigers’ undefeated season when we were seniors, and returned as squash coach in 1980. Classmates marveled at Bob’s courage after he was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2012, weeks after his team ended Trinity College’s 13-year reign as national champions.
To his wife, Kristen; their five sons, Greg ’05, Tim ’07, Scott ’09, and Peter and Matt, both ’11; and their daughters-in-law, Alison ’05 and Carol; the class extends its deepest sympathy.