Robert Newton Cunningham ’25

Bob Cunningham was born in Fargo, N.D., and came to us by way of Mercersburg. He played on the football and track squads, was the Princetonian's photograph editor, was a member of Cloister Inn and Phi Beta Kappa, and graduated with highest honors. One of our six Rhodes Scholars, he attended Queens College, where he earned two advanced degrees and a lacrosse "blue."

A teacher and school administrator, Bob was a dean at Exeter and headmaster of St. Louis Country Day School and Moses Brown School, in Providence, R.I. He also taught English at Princeton and served as director of admissions and the tennis coach at Vanderbilt. He was a member of the Headmasters Assn. Bob served as a lieutenant commander in Naval Air Combat Intelligence. He later joined the staff of O.S.R.D., where he assisted James Phinney Baxter (the president of Williams College) in writing Scientists Against Time. He organized the Smithsonian's bicentennial celebration.

After he retired in 1969, Bob lived in Reston, Va., and then Delray Beach, Fla., where he died on June 7, 1989. The class extends sympathy to his widow, the former Lou Carter; a son by a previous marriage, Robert III; three stepchildren; and his sister Catherine Rice.

The Class of 1925