Bob died July 20, 2014, five months after his wife, Betty Jane, passed away.

He entered Princeton from the Peddie School, following in the footsteps of his father William H. Heisler Jr. 1905. At Princeton, he joined Tower Club and played 150-pound football. Accelerating, he received a degree in chemistry in 1944 and then served as an officer with the Naval Amphibious Forces. Upon returning he entered the University of Kansas, where he received a Ph.D. in organic chemistry.

He then joined Texaco, where he worked for more than three decades as a research chemist. He and Betty Jane next returned to their roots in New Jersey, splitting time between Vincentown and their seaside home in Surf City.

Until the very end, when Bob moved to a retirement home in Ohio, they remained active in community and church programs. In addition to a lifelong involvement with the Boy Scouts, he was involved in church choirs, barbershop quartets, and other singing groups.

Betty Jane predeceased Bob. He is survived by his children, Barbara Kitts, Bob Jr., and Thomas; five grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. The class expresses its sympathy to the family.

Undergraduate Class of 1945